Youmuya put the entire Changhexi Xuanwei Envoy on Liu Chengzong, and the chieftains and nobles of Kangning Mansion had a full understanding of Liu Chengzong's strength.
Well, it’s a bit funny to talk about it. Most of the chieftains in the Marshal’s Mansion under the rule of Kangning Mansion don’t know enough about the Marshal’s Mansion. Changhexi guards the vital trade node and raises many Sichuan people in Guozhuang. Although the students are in the southwest, they also have some understanding of the situation in the north.
However, the chieftains under Kangning Mansion had little information. They basically paid tribute out of politeness during the Marshal's Mansion's southern expedition and did not experience any fierce battles. Later, when Xining Mansion and Kangning Mansion were established as governments, their territories were included and they naturally surrendered.
But after surrendering, they still guarded their own one-third of an acre of land. Even if the Marshal's Office issued an edict, it was just a small matter such as building roads and bridges in front of their homes. It did not touch their core interests, but secretly There are misunderstandings on both sides.
It is no secret that Liu Chengzong has always been full of malice towards the chieftains.
The chieftains are naturally wary of him. This kind of malice and wariness comes naturally. He is malicious and allows the chieftain to exist, which means that he has no way to deal with the chieftain at this stage.
This kind of malice and caution did not only exist under Liu Chengzong.
The chieftains under the Ming Dynasty also thought the same way, because everyone had ill intentions towards the chieftains. It had nothing to do with personal grudges, but the chieftain system was naturally on the opposite side of centralization. The result of one change and the other was to change the local status and return to the original. It is natural. .
In fact, Liu Chengzong's spite towards the chieftain was not considered harsh.
Take the Shizhu chieftain as an example. Qin Liangyu's decision to take charge of the chieftainship as a female general is actually not an exception, but was intentional.
In the 22nd year of Wanli, Shizhu Chieftain was Qin Liangyu's father-in-law, Ma Douhu. Wanli Ye started mining, and Ma Douhu started mining in Shizhu. Later, he was found to have lost money and was demoted to the garrison. The heir Ma Qiancheng was imprisoned and took charge of Shizhu. It is Ma Douhu’s wife Qin.
Later, the Ma clan besieged the Qin clan in order to seize the seal letter. The Xuanfu Division collected the ransom and released Ma Qiancheng to succeed the chieftain. Within two years of being released, Ma Qiancheng and Qin Liangyu fought against the Japanese. Only by winning the first place in battle on Nanchuan Road can we gain some living space for ourselves.
In the end, Ma Qiancheng was thrown into prison because he offended the tax eunuch Qiu Chengyun. At that time, he contracted the summer fever and there was no treatment in the prison, so he died.
After his death, the court felt that Ma Qiancheng had done nothing wrong, so he still retained the hereditary position of Xuanfu envoy. Because the heir was still young, his wife Qin Liangyu was in charge of chieftain affairs.
Whenever Qin Liangyu goes too far when her husband dies unjustly in prison, he becomes another Yang Yinglong.
The imperial court wanted the chieftain to rebel, and it was waiting for the chieftain to rebel.
The same goes for Liu Chengzong, but this time he will be disappointed.
In just three days, Liu Guoneng reported to the official village with great joy: "Commander, I am so happy!"
"Why, have you calculated the money and food that each chieftain can lend?"
Liu Chengzong raised his eyebrows. Seeing Yueyue's happy expression, he suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart: "How many of the hereditary native officials from the three Xuanwei Divisions and the dozen or so Recruiting Divisions in Kangning are willing to lend their family property? Half of it ?”
The Xuanwei Division and the Recruiting Division are both old names that have been abandoned. During the Jiajing period, the Tumote Mongols invaded Qinghai and cut off the main transportation routes with the imperial court. The Ming Dynasty lost its ability to rule the chieftains across Qinghai and Tibet. So much so that by the time Liu Chengzong went on his southern expedition, the Kangning area was already overrun by local kings.
To this day, there are still more than 200 hereditary native officials in Kangning Mansion. Liu Chengzong's idea is to take the opportunity to borrow 780,000 to 80,000 stone grain and 780,000 to 80,000 taels of silver from these more than 200 native officials.
This property was not much for them, or even quite small, because in his expectation, he did not plan to borrow money and food from everyone, as long as half of the people were willing to borrow, even Liu Chengzong expected, It's best not to exceed half.
Because for the remaining half, he wanted to use the toast's property to pay off the debt, completing the feat of cutting off half of the toast with nothing.
So when he saw Liu Guoneng's happy look, Liu Shishi was heartbroken. Borrowing money might be easier than he imagined.
As expected, Liu Guoneng turned over the documents and said happily: "It's all thanks to the commander-in-chief's deep prestige in Kangning Mansion. Two hundred and twenty-seven local officials actively lent out their property. At present, they have signed out 174,300 taels of silver and highland barley noodles." The huge amount of money, 234,800 shi, will all be transported to Kangning Mansion before the year!"
After saying that, Liu Guoneng presented the document and said: "This is not counting the 100,000 taels of silver and 120,000 stones of rice given by Mu Xuan's comfort envoy. There are also a local thousand general, a local general, and ten The four local chiefs donated their family wealth. With such wealth, the commander-in-chief is very confident that the disaster relief work in the coming year will be carried out very well."
Just kidding, with this huge sum of money, Kangning Mansion suddenly received four years of income, which is richer than Xining Mansion in the north. Disaster relief is nothing more than a trivial matter.
With Muya's resources alone, one hundred thousand taels of silver, Master Chongzhen dared to provide relief to the entire Shaanxi Province. Isn't it just a joke for him to provide relief to a Kangning Mansion?
What is the concept of raising this money in Corning House? Take the Battle of Pingbo in the Ming Dynasty as an example. They gathered the strength of three provinces and mobilized 270,000 troops. They fought for half a year and spent more than 2 million taels on military expenses. However, they raised 630,000 taels worth of money in Kangning Prefecture. assets, not counting the physical value other than the money and grain lent by the chieftains.
But unexpectedly, Liu Guoneng found that Liu Chengzong was not as happy as he imagined when he heard the news. He was even a little... worried?
"Commander, isn't this good?"
Liu Chengzong shook his head slowly and did not elaborate on this matter.
It was difficult for him to describe his state of mind at this time. This amount of money was equivalent to a year's military expenditure of the entire Marshal's Mansion. No one could stand calm in front of this huge wealth.
But this is different from his plan!
It’s not surprising that a Muya would do this, but more than 200 hereditary officials have done this, and some even donated their entire family property. Are they all crazy?
Liu Chengzong was already thinking about how he should repay the debt. From now on until the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Kangning Mansion will spend 90,000 taels of silver to pay off the debts to the chieftains every year... This amount will soon exceed the total annual financial balance of the Kangning Mansion. .
This time, the psychological pressure on Liu Shizi was not great. After all, he had no intention of paying back the money himself at first.
Taking from the toast and giving back to the toast is the normal development direction of things.
Unfortunately, the matter has come to this, and he doesn't want to talk nonsense about being cheap and good, so he simply said angrily: "Since we have enough money and food, we should prepare for disaster relief inside the house and military outside the house in the coming year. In any case, Kang Ning now has enough warehouses, so he can Eliminating the harm of the locust plague is always a good thing. As for what happens in the next ten years, we will see later."
Liu Guoneng, who was belatedly aware of the situation, realized that the Generalissimo was feeling pressured to repay the debt because he had borrowed too much money and food.
Liu Guoneng immediately clasped his fists and responded: "Don't worry, Commander, with this money and food in hand, I will have a good idea of Shen Bian Lengbian and the chieftain's family in Lhasa River. This month I will comfort Uszang, Dongbu Hanhu and others." The Secretary sent spies to collect intelligence for the troops sent out next year."
"Well, the borrowed money and grain must be repaid, and the chieftain's heirs must be sent to Xining to be placed in the army for excellent placement. I guess I'll wait until you finish this battle..."
Liu Chengzong thought for a while and said to Liu Guoneng: "We should be able to go home."
Liu Guoneng originally just stood by his side and took note of Liu Chengzong's request, but the moment he heard these words, he suddenly raised his head, widened his eyes and said in disbelief: "Go home?"
"Yes, not long ago, the Ming court sent a letter asking the marshal what he meant by directing his troops towards Jingning Prefecture. How dare you come to question me when you can't hold the land."
Liu Chengzong smiled disdainfully and turned his head, and then said seriously: "But I really don't know what is going on. I wrote to Wang Wenxiu and asked him. The reply should be coming soon. If our army has reached Jingning and captured Longxi, then Crossing Longshan is just around the corner.”
Liu Guoneng nodded heavily, said nothing, and just clenched his fists.
In fact, going home was the wish of those soldiers who followed Liu Chengzong. For Liu Guoneng, it didn't matter whether he went home or not.
His entire family was recruited and followed Liu Shizi into Qinghai. Now they have settled in Haixi, Haibei, Heka and even Nangqian. They serve in the government and in the army. Where is their power? Where is their home.
People would not be happy if everyone was cut into ordinary people and sent back to Yan'an Prefecture.
But the fact that the Marshal's Mansion can return to his hometown means a lot to Liu Guoneng. For example, the Marshal's Mansion has completely taken control of Longxi and is no longer a small border separatist regime that easily falls apart. It also means that the Marshal's Mansion will be able to seize the world. The Grand Marshal...is also going to become a real dragon.
As soon as Liu Chengzong set foot on the road to Beishan, Wang Wenxiu's letter was delivered from Gongchang Mansion.
The progress of the matter once again exceeded Liu Shishi's imagination.
Before that, he had always thought that Wang Wenxiu, who was responsible for guarding Lintao, sent troops eastward, and then captured Gongchang Mansion where the imperial court stationed heavy troops.
According to Liu Shishi's idea, he was unwilling to expand his territory at this time, so he was not enthusiastic about capturing Gongchang Mansion in the letter he sent to Gongchang Mansion for inquiry.
Because the imperial court is fighting against Hou Jin, it would be unjust for him to stab him in the back; the people are fighting against the locust plague, and it would be unkind to start a military disaster at this time - of course justice and benevolence are only secondary. The most important thing is that at this moment, there is someone in the Marshal's Mansion. An army took advantage of Ningxia and was in Monan, which made Ming Dynasty anxious. Yang Qi was alone.
Unexpectedly, Wang Wenxiu sent a reply outside Gongchang City and was not enthusiastic about expanding his territory to Gongchang Mansion. On the contrary, he was very distressed.
The cause of the matter does have something to do with the army of the Marshal's Mansion.
Not long after the locust plague broke out, Wang Wenxiu received an order from Liu Chengzong to prepare for the Ming army, and immediately sent General Yang Chengzu as a vanguard officer to station in Weiyuan County. He used a small number of vanguards to seize Shouyang Pass on the south bank of the Wei River and capture Gongchang Mansion. West gate.
General Wei Qian'er also marched on the same day and led his battalion to Jinxian County in the east of Lanzhou. He was stationed in Neiguanying and held down the Lintao Brigade of the Division and Xiang Division at Jikou. And the county's offensive posture.
Jiakou in the northwest of Gongchang Prefecture, Neiguanying in the west, and Shouyangguan in the south are three important places.
Among them, the north and south are along two important official roads from Lintao to Gongchang, and they are also the location of narrow and dangerous passes.
Neiguanying was an important node of the Silk Road during the Hongwu period, with direct access to four counties and eight townships. It not only has the flattest and fertile valley farmland in the entire Gongchang Prefecture, but also is an important commercial town and dry land dock in the Longzhong region. Because Su Wang Zhu Ying was here It got its name from the establishment of the internal official camp.
Of course, at this time when the locust plague is everywhere, the 200,000 acres of cultivated land in the Neiguan camp has become irrelevant, and the commercial center on the front line of the battlefield is not worth mentioning. The most important thing is that it can reach Anding County in the northeast and Longxi County in the southeast. Strategic Position.
The dangerous pass between the north and the south and the connection of an important place mean that the power of the Marshal's Mansion occupies one-third of the Gongchang Mansion. It can advance, attack, retreat or defend, and successfully seizes the initiative in the entire Longxi battlefield.
In this way, they have the final say whether to start a fight or not... Liu Chengzong certainly doesn't want to start a fight with the court at this time.
It's not that they are worried about not being able to defeat them. Anyway, the Ming court's army in Longxi will still have a few old friends, Zhang Yingchang, He Renlong, and Yang Yanchang. The three of them have a very good relationship and have become one in a literal sense.
What's more, with Yang Yanchang and Ren Quan'er here, the officers and soldiers there are almost clear-cut, and there is no war problem at all for the Marshal's Mansion.
But after all, the Marshal's Mansion is mainly focused on exterminating locusts in Hexi. In Liu Shishi's view, although it is easy to capture the land in Longxi at this time, it is troublesome and risky.
There is no point in capturing land. What is meaningful is population and land, but both population and land require management and mobilization to turn into strength. Gongchang Prefecture in Longxi and more than a dozen counties in Qinzhou have a population of up to one million. In a city, just by stationing officials and cadres to manage the area evenly, it would consume a large part of the talent pool.
Not to mention the current situation, if you take over the city, you need to directly mobilize the population to eliminate the locusts. Otherwise, the more land you occupy, the greater the risk that the Marshal's Mansion will explode due to the locust plague.
Unfortunately, things did not go as planned. Liu Chengzong was able to control the Marshal's Mansion, but could not control Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and the Ming Dynasty's officers and soldiers.
Due to the sudden outbreak of the locust plague, the alliance envisioned by the Marshal's Mansion could not be completed, and the rebel kings could not be trapped in the mountains. They attacked Qinzhou eastward, directly threatening Guanzhong. Their target was Xi'an Prefecture - Xi'an Prefecture without a prefect. .
In the past, the shortage of officials in the Ming Dynasty was a legacy of the Wanli era, but now there is a shortage of officials in Shaanxi, but no one dares to fill it, so the position of the prefect of Xi'an has always been vacant.
However, as Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and other fifteen battalions of civilian troops attacked Qinzhou, the Ming army also made deployments. Zuo Liangyu and Tang Jiuzhou, who were under the control of Xuan Mo, the governor of Henan, and Deng Qi, who was stationed in Xunyang, sent their troops into Guanzhong.
These three generals were well-known. When they entered Xi'an Prefecture, they immediately seized Fengxiang Prefecture and blocked the main route into Guanzhong. The civilian army, led by Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, then turned north and entered Jingning Prefecture. They captured Qinzhou, In Jingning, Zhuanglang, and Longde counties, soldiers threatened Pingliang City.
There are now not only two princes in Pingliang Mansion, but also a Cao Bianjiao who was left by Mr. Han Wang in the manor to give birth to a baby.
The King of Han, who interrupted Tianhuang Guizhou's genetic improvement plan, was frightened by the large-scale peasant army approaching Jingning Prefecture. He immediately summoned the armies of Zuo Liangyu, Tang Jiuzhou, and Deng Qi to expel the peasant army that entered Jingning Prefecture.
Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng stopped fighting them, captured the city and territory, and turned back to Qinzhou and Gongchang Mansion. Their meaning was very clear: if they want to attack us, they should first deal with the Marshal's Mansion.
At this juncture, Deng Qi's troops had been out of Sichuan for five years and had not been allowed to return home without fighting for five years. From the six thousand troops under King Qin to the Sichuan army camp of more than two thousand people mutinied, and robbed Jingning Prefecture. Once.
The officers and soldiers also evacuated Jingning Prefecture, returned to Fengxiang Mansion to guard key areas, and reorganized their troops.
Such changes occurred in a short period of time, and successive wars reduced Jingning Prefecture to ashes. The magistrates and acting magistrates changed three times in one month. In order to save their lives, the acting magistrates elected by the local gentry and people convened the gentry for a meeting. Then came a conclusion:
The only person around them who had the ability to protect the local area, appease the local area, prevent the peasant army from causing chaos, and also deter the government troops from entering the country was Liu Chengzong.
Wang Wenxiu did not attack Jingning Prefecture, but on the city walls of the three cities in Jingning Prefecture and in every village that survived the war, there were large flags with red background and black border and black characters on them. : Marshal's Mansion.
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