Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 331
"In the city of raising horses, millions of heroes hold the sun and the moon. Hailong hoards, and half of the Tianzi town is in the sky."

This is a stone-carved couplet in front of the Horse Raising Castle. It is rumored that Yang Yinglong wrote it himself. Back then, Yang Yinglong took possession of Hailong Tun, attacked the city and plundered land everywhere, and was rampant. Who would have thought that today all jade and stone will be burned, and the prosperity will be turned into scorched earth. ?

Although many wooden structures were burned and destroyed by officers and soldiers when Hailongtun was breached yesterday, leaving patches of gunpowder smoke and broken walls.However, the various foundations of Hailongtun are still there, and Huang Laifu was surprised by the magnificent scene. The construction area of ​​the new palace in Hailongtun alone is nearly [-] square meters. A large group of palaces is full of white marble carved with dragon and phoenix patterns. Foundations and plinths.

The general management office, treasury, barracks, school grounds and other buildings outside the palace are all made of huge stone pillars, imposing.The five-story carved high-rise building built by Yang Yinglong for his five wives in Feifengguan is also full of gorgeousness and beauty.From what I heard, Hailongtun is like a luxurious independent kingdom.

Looking down from the Feifeng Pass on the top of the mountain, the tall city wall on the winding ridge is connected to Tongzhu Pass. The passes are all built on huge cliffs, connected by huge stone steps at the front and back, facing the abyss, standing majestically, it can be said that the pass is long, impregnable.Such a fortress was forcibly captured by his own army, even Huang Laifu felt like he was in a dream.

But all of this is in the past. Yang Yinglong's death means the end of the Battle of Bozhou, and also the end of the three famous Wanli campaigns in history. Huang Laifu is proud to have participated in and even led these three campaigns.

"Hmph, such disobedient words, Bandit Yang should behave like this!"

Li Hualong, Guo Zizhang, and Zhi Dake were furious when they saw this pair of stone couplets, but the three of them turned back to anger, and their faces were still full of high spirits. Yang Yinglong died, and the Bozhou Rebellion was put down. A great achievement naturally made the three of them very excited.

The Bozhou quelling chaos this time has achieved great results. The Eighth Route Army cut more than [-] ranks, captured more than [-] native soldiers and family members of the native chieftains, and recruited and surrendered more than [-] dependent Bomin. No matter where they report, they are all prominent. achievement.It can be foreseen that the next imperial court will grant rewards, and it is even inevitable to leave a name in history.

Not only that, the Yang family has operated Bozhou for hundreds of years, and the headquarters is in Hailongtun, with hundreds of years of savings.After the officers and soldiers broke through Hailongtun, they not only obtained a large amount of material, military equipment, food and rice, but also seized several million taels of gold and silver property when they seized the palace and treasury. carve up.The various harvests naturally made people laugh out loud.Today, Huang Laifu also ordered the 20 Ming soldiers around Hai Longtun to be rewarded with the captured silver deposits. Ordinary sergeants have five taels of silver, and officers have even more, causing cheers.

After Huang Laifu, Li Hualong, Guo Zizhang, and Zhi Dake inspected Hailong Tun, took stock of supplies, and appeased the soldiers and civilians, the next step was naturally to write the victory report, and even discuss and arrange things after Bozhou.As the generals in front of the chaos suppression, the four naturally have a say in the local disposal, and the emperor and the cabinet must carefully consider their opinions.

Huang Laifu's opinion is to change the local area to return to the local people, abolish the chieftain, and change it to be governed by Han officials. On the one hand, this is for his own sake.I used the Bozhou resources as a lure to issue several million taels of flat broadcast bonds. If I don’t change the land and return it to the people, it is difficult to control the Bozhou resources. Businessmen from all over the country are afraid of entering the Bozhou area, and the bonds I issued may become waste paper. suspected.

The second is that Huang Laifu believes that the chieftain is so stubborn, closed and backward, like a country within a country, that the system cannot keep up with the development trend of the times.

The chieftain system originated in the Tang Dynasty and was widely used in the Ming Dynasty. It was mainly out of fear of trouble, so the natives of various places were allowed to govern themselves. However, history has ruthlessly proved that this chieftain system is an important reason for frequent turmoil in various places.

According to the chieftain system in the Ming Dynasty, chieftains from all over the country did not need to pay taxes to the state, and chieftain officers only had to pay tribute to the imperial court once every three years, and everything in the region was independent, just like a country within a country.Such excessive preferential treatment has resulted in more and more chieftains' privileged thinking, more and more arrogant and domineering, and even expelled and killed Han people in the territory, resulting in the fact that it is a country within a country.

These people are used to enjoying privileges, and it is deeply ingrained in their bones that they take different policies from the Han areas for granted. If the imperial court requires them to pay taxes and military service like the Han areas, they will think that the country treats them unequally, and they will rebel.

This is also evident in Nurhachi. At the time of Jianzhou, like the Southwest Tusi, it also belonged to Jile Prefecture. The Yi people in the territory did not need to pay taxes like the Liaodong Han people, and only needed to pay tribute once every three years.Due to the privileged treatment in Jianzhou and the heavy tax burden of the Han people in Liaodong Town at that time, the Han people fled to Jianzhou one after another. Just like Yang Yinglong, he rebelled.

Therefore, the Tusi system, like the Jile system, was a great harm to the country at that time.In fact, it is not uncommon for Ming officials to understand this point, but as the saying goes, children who can cry have milk. Officials believe in the principle of doing more than doing less. The natives and Hu people in the territory are used to making troubles. To achieve their own goals, and the ancient official system was mostly caused by people making troubles in the territory, and their official hats were unstable. Therefore, under the appeasement of officials from all over the country, knowing the great harm, the Tusi system and the Jile system still became non-Han people in various places. policy.

This result is also the reason for the frequent rebellion on the Ming border.Over the years Yang Yinglong has repeatedly led the army to create chaos and harm the Bashu area, but he was repeatedly let go by the senior officials in Sichuan and Guizhou at that time.

However, for Huang Laifu, no matter for the country or himself, he would not allow the resurgence of the chieftain system in the Bozhou area, and it was inevitable to reform the land and return it to the local people.He doesn't mind any ups and downs in Bozhou in the future. If the local natives make trouble again, he doesn't mind using spears and firecrackers to let them understand what quiet and order are.If possible, he would also suggest that Emperor Wanli gradually revoke all chieftains and Jile prefectures in the Southwest and Daming.

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Governor Li Hualong of Sichuan, Governor Guo Zizhang of Guizhou, and Zhi Dake, governor of Huguang, all had some objections to Huang Laifu's intention to reform the land and return it to the local people. Although it is a great contribution to them to be able to reform the land in Bozhou, they are worried about the chieftains elsewhere. It is better to maintain the status quo.Right now Bozhou has just been settled, but don't let anything happen. For Daming right now, one more thing is worse than one less thing, isn't it?
However, Huang Laifu was determined, and soon, his victory memorial was sent to the capital quickly, with his own suggestions on how to deal with the local area in Bozhou. The family members were sent to do coolies outside the Great Wall. On the one hand, it was their punishment, and on the other hand, it also reduced the instability of the local area, so that these people would not turn against each other after the officers and soldiers left.At the same time, Yang Yinglong's body, his sons Yang Chaodong, Yang Zhaolong and more than a hundred rebels were put into a prison van and sent to the capital.In addition, some of the seized items were sent to the capital together.

While waiting for the response from the capital, Huang Laifu was not idle, and came back to clean up the various places in Bozhou. Among the captives, the leaders of the native officers, Yang Yinglong's cronies, and the rich natives who had taken refuge in Yang Yinglong were all killed and confiscated their land and property. , all of their clansmen were captured in Chongqing, waiting to be sent outside the Great Wall to start farms.The Yang family has operated Bozhou for hundreds of years, and the local forces are deeply rooted. However, under Huang Laifu's severe blow, the Yang family's local forces have been wiped out, and there is no chance of revival.

Huang Laifu's methods strongly frightened the nearby chieftains. In fact, these people, like the barbarians outside the Great Wall, were fearful of power but not virtuous. Seeing the fate of Yang Yinglong and his family, they were disappointed and did not dare to reappear. What's wrong, otherwise I and my clan will end up like this in the future.Huang Laifu's method made them fearful and at the same time had another effect, that is, the She'an Rebellion in history did not recur, which was a good thing for Daming, She Chongming, An Bangyan and others.

Under Huang Laifu's clean-up, Yang Yinglong and local local tyrants in Bozhou were wiped out. A large number of business people holding flat broadcast bonds poured into Bozhou, and many surrounding Han people also immigrated to Bozhou, creating a noisy new atmosphere everywhere.

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After the great victory of Bozhou was introduced to the capital, the court was full of joy, and Emperor Wanli was also overjoyed. This Huang Aiqing was indeed a blessed general of the country. In just a few months, he quelled the chaos of Yang Ni in Bozhou and healed himself of a heartache.Overjoyed, he led a group of ministers to sacrifice to the suburban temple, and the ministers also expressed their congratulations.

After a series of celebrations, Emperor Wanli ordered Yang Yinglong's corpse to be crushed. Yang Yinglong's sons, Yang Chaodong and Yang Zhaolong, were killed in the city, and the rest of the rebel generals were beheaded and announced to the world.The Yang family has been in Bozhou for more than [-] years since the Tang Dynasty, and has been extinct since then.

After doing these things, it is to reward meritorious deeds.Huang Laifu, as the governor of Pingbo, of course made the first contribution, but unfortunately he was too young and his official position was too high to reward him, so he had to send a decree to reward him, rewarding him with some money and goods, but he was all in return for the meritorious service of his subordinates To be sure, Yang Xiaolu was promoted to lieutenant general, Gu Dadao was promoted to guerrilla, and he was promoted like Huang Laifu's two brothers-in-law. All kinds of kindness made all officials jealous.In addition, Li Hualong, Guo Zizhang, Zhi Dake and others all received awards.The general soldiers Wu Guang, Liu Ting, Ma Jin and others also rewarded meritorious deeds.

Not counting Huang Laifu’s flat-broadcasting bond fee and silver expenditure, the cost of silver before and after the Battle of Bozhou was two to three million taels, and the soldiers were rewarded for the dead and wounded. Pensions and rewards were required, which made the treasury empty again, but the money seized from Bozhou and Hailong Tun Yang Yinglong's savings amounted to several million taels, of which more than 300 million taels of silver was handed over to the court, which greatly supplemented the needs of the treasury and made Emperor Wanli very happy. Huang Aiqing's military expenditures every time he sent troops were covered. OK.Happily, he turned a blind eye to Huang Laifu's actions in the Bozhou area for his flat broadcast of bonds.

Of course, Huang Laifu's suggestion in the memorial to the reform of the land in Bozhou also caused a dispute between the court and China. One voice was quite dissatisfied with Huang Laifu's dissatisfaction with the local government affairs as a warrior. Obviously this was a matter for civil officials.Of course, there are also some people who agree with Huang Laifu's opinion. Everyone can see the benefits of implementing land reform in Bozhou, which can greatly increase the imperial court's household registration and tax revenue.

Some people also expressed concern and opposition, saying that the Tusi system has been practiced in various parts of the Southwest for hundreds of years. Although there are disadvantages, it is generally good. Huang Laifu's repatriation of captured native soldiers and natives to work outside the Great Wall was even more vigorously criticized, saying that this is not a benevolent government.

In the end, Emperor Wanli made the final decision. At the beginning of November, he issued a decree to implement land reform in Bozhou and divide Bozhou into two prefectures, one named Pingyue Prefecture, which was assigned to Guizhou Province.One government is called Zunyi Prefecture, which continues to belong to Sichuan Province.At the same time, he also agreed to Huang Laifu's practice of escorting more than [-] captured soldiers and their families to serve outside the Great Wall.

At the end of November, Huang Laifu led the troops of the two towns to leave Bozhou, which was noisy due to large-scale construction, and returned to his Wuzhai Fort.

(End of this chapter)