The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 340 Yunnan Local Officials Enlarged Meeting

Yunnan, Lin'an.

Sixteen thousand Ming troops surrounded the city tightly, and from time to time there was the sound of gunfire, and the defenders in the city were as panic-stricken as birds with bows.

Just the day before yesterday, Zhu Linmi led the army and Long Zaitian and others went south to Lin'an.Hearing the news, Sha Dingzhou deployed 8000 troops on the way to ambush the officers and soldiers, but there was no surprise. Within half an hour of the ambush, the soldiers were beaten up by the Dragon Guards, and thousands of people abandoned their weapons and surrendered on the spot.

Shocked, Sha Dingzhou didn't even dare to go to Lin'an, and fled back to Ergelong with the remnants of his troops, leaving only Iron Tiger and three thousand soldiers to guard Lin'an.

Amidst the sound of gunfire, a luxurious-looking carriage was parked outside the Dragon Guard barracks surrounded by more than a hundred guards.An extremely fat young man struggled to get out of the car along the stairs. Immediately, there were many eyes looking at him and discussing in low voices.

"Hey, isn't this the third son of the Yuanjiang family, Najie?"

"The imperial court has even recruited that family, and there is a lot of movement."

"But the magistrate didn't come in person, it seems that the family doesn't want to offend Ah Mi too much..."

After that, several people approached Najie and warmly greeted him, "Is this what you've experienced?"

"Is that brother safe?"

"Oh? That brother is here too?"

Najie hurriedly nodded in return, wiped the sweat from his brow and said, "Duke Qian invited me personally, so I have to come anyway."

Mu Tianbo has great prestige in Yunnan, and few chieftains would not betray his face.Such a big chieftain like that is okay, some small chieftains are rarely greeted by Qian Guogong once in their lives, and they are all flattered to receive a letter written by him this time, and even framed the letter for the desk.

What's more, Duke Qian's letter to the chieftains made it clear that it was His Royal Highness the Assistant Prince who convened the discussion.These chieftains have all heard about the imperial army's capture of Kunming, and Sha Dingzhou's defeat in Chuxiong, and no one wants to disobey the mighty and powerful assistant king's intentions.

When these people approached, someone immediately whispered: "Brother, your family is well informed, do you know why the assistant king asked us to come here?"

Najie glanced at Lin'an City, which was heavily surrounded by Long Zaitian and Yang Weizhi's army in the distance, snorted coldly, and said, "Hmph, the imperial court will send troops and pay for the expedition if we can't escape."

Another person hurriedly asked: "Based on what that brother thinks, how should we deal with it?"

Na Jie said with a natural expression: "If Sha Dingzhou didn't come to Yuanjiang to provoke me, why should I send troops to deal with him?"

Several people nodded repeatedly when they heard the words, and silently memorized "that family's meaning", with general thoughts in their minds, that family is powerful, and it is naturally good to act with that family.

After finishing the "business", someone pointed to the Longwei army camp and smiled at Na Jie: "Brother, your wife who has not yet passed the door has also come, you should go over and say hello."

Following the direction of his finger, Na Jie saw Mu Zhiqing and her two elder brothers, and couldn't help frowning.

According to the customs of Yunnan, there is nothing wrong with an unmarried woman going out, even going to war is a common thing.

But Najie looked down on these "native customs".He claimed to be familiar with Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, and it was important for him to use it everywhere, so he hummed in a low voice dissatisfied: "A girl from a family who shows her face all day long, how decent is she? It's exhausting and I'm ashamed..."

Tens of feet away, Mu Zhiqing, who was tired of Najie's "shame", was following behind her elder brother, watching him report to His Royal Highness the Assistant Prince.

"Your Majesty congratulates Your Highness on the restoration of Qujing and Kunming. From then on, Yunnan will surely be brought back into the middle of the chaos."

Zhu Linmei smiled and patted Mu Jing on the shoulder, "The Mu family has made great contributions to the suppression of the chaos in Yunnan. If the 3000 members of the Mu family hadn't stood by, Chu Xiong would have fallen into the hands of thieves."

He also remembered that Sha Dinghai had mentioned the mysterious person's "teaching" in the middle of the night, and guessed that it was probably Mu Jing's doing, so he continued: "It was the two battles between Qujing and Kunming, and Mu Tongzhi planned it. You have to go fast all the way.”

"Serving for the imperial court, I dare not say meritorious service." Mu Jing glanced behind him again, and said, "As for saying that Chu Pingmao and Sha Dinghai are serving His Highness, it is not the policy of the lower officials, but the sister-in-law's plan. .”

"Oh?" Zhu Linmei looked at Mu Zhiqing in surprise when she heard the words, and said in her heart that she was a strange woman, and her ability to make plans was no less than that of Zhang Jiayu.

He immediately praised: "Ms. Mu has an outstanding strategy, she is actually Kong Ming, a female middle school."

Mu Zhiqing's cheeks were reddish, she hurriedly bowed deeply, and repeatedly said, "Your Highness has a great reputation."

As they were talking, Shi Lin came forward and saluted, "My lord, the chieftains from all over the world are almost here, look..."

Zhu Linmei nodded and said: "It's not too late, let's start."

"Yes!"

In the Ming army camp surrounding Lin'an City, two battalions of Dragon Guard infantry lined up neatly to stand around. On the wooden platform in the middle was a several-foot-long banner that read "Expanded meeting of local officials in Yunnan".

Zhu Linming changed into her military uniform, and sat down at the head of the party energetically.More than 80 chieftains from all over Yunnan knelt down and saluted, "I pay my respects to His Royal Highness the Assistant King."

"Everyone, please come up." Zhu Linmei smiled and continued, "This time I have called you here to discuss the development of Yunnan. Oh, and I have some good news to tell you."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw a chieftain take a step forward, cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, Shading Island has been withdrawn to Mengzi recently, and the chaos will be settled. However, Yunnan is full of rebellious troops, and the land under the jurisdiction of the officials is even worse. If so, please ask the imperial court to allocate grain and rice for relief.”

Immediately, several chieftains spoke up and echoed.

The fat on Na Jiele's face trembled, and he thought that these guys can do things, and they are preemptive when they come up, so he also cupped his hands and said loudly: "Your Highness, after more than ten years of fighting, the soldiers in Yunnan are exhausted and the people are poor. Just like me That family has less than a thousand soldiers at the moment, but they are almost out of food to support them.

"Right now, that family intends to help the imperial court put down the chaos, but it is really unable to do it..."

"Yes, yes, our Li family is the same."

"I, Moshan, am even more powerless..."

Zhu Linming had expected such a scene, so she only smiled to signal the silence of the chieftains, "Today we won't talk about counter-insurgency."

Najie was taken aback when he heard the words, only felt that he had gathered a lot of strength but punched the air, subconsciously said: "Then what are you going to say?"

"Let's talk about rewards first." Zhu Linmi pointed to Mu Jing and said, "This time the Mu family defended Chuxiong and retreated from the enemy, and they also helped the imperial army a lot. I have already issued a memorial to the imperial court and granted Mu Yi the title of Tongyi doctor based on my meritorious service."

All the chieftains immediately exclaimed, "Doctor Tongyi? Third Grade!"

"The Mu family is well developed this time."

"Why is the court so generous this time?"

You must know that the routine policy of the Ming Dynasty was to keep down the status of native officials as much as possible. Usually, even meritorious service was mostly rewarded with money and food. It was extremely difficult to obtain a high official title.

Therefore, chieftains always have a sense of inferiority towards their status as native officials. Although their lives are much better than those of court officials who passed the imperial examination, they always feel inferior.

(End of this chapter)