"You don't need to worry about anything, just do it boldly. Is that what the Emperor said?"
Somewhere in Guangxi, Li Xiaogang solved a rebellion, and Jiang Kangming, who came to reply to the letter, brought the news back.
Jiang Kangming raised his hand and said, "Yes, the Supreme Emperor has great trust in you, the head of the family. Even if he knew about your formation of a private army, he laughed it off without any sign of anger."
In the Ming Dynasty, forming a private army was a major crime to destroy the Nine Tribes.
What, my nine tribes include Zhu Yuanzhang himself?
Oh, that's okay
Li Xiao nodded, thinking that even if he left for a while, his position in Zhu Yuanzhang's mind would still be unshakable.
During this period, Li Xiao ordered Li Jinglong to go to various places in southern Zhili to carry out forced demolitions, while he led his private army to suppress rebellions everywhere.
The efficiency of counterinsurgency is very high. A thousand cavalry galloping, coming and going like the wind, armed with automatic rifles, coupled with modern fighting methods, they are crushing everywhere.
The reason why it is fast is that it does not require any baggage. Li Xiao's cavalry uses high-quality sweat horses, which can travel thousands of miles. They carry canned dry food for use on the road. They go to towns where they can be replenished at any time.
Li Xiao looked at the map and asked: "How many rebellions are still unresolved?"
Chang Yingwu pointed to the map and said: "The scouts have come to report that there are two more places in Guangxi, one in Annan has been dealt with by Mu Ying, then three in Guizhou and two in western Hunan. These rebels are all local chieftains."
"Several rebellions are caused by chieftains." Li Xiao murmured: "It seems that the matter of reforming the land and returning it to the local people will also be put on the agenda."
The so-called chieftain refers to the chieftain system of the Ming Dynasty. This system was handed down from the Yuan Dynasty. The chieftain system was a means to win over the native leaders in the southwest border areas where the central government was unable to take care of. It "ruled the native people with native officials". Recognizing the hereditary status of the leaders of various ethnic minorities and giving them official titles for indirect rule, the imperial edict of the central government was not actually implemented.
Under the rule of the chieftain, the land and the people are hereditary owned by the chieftain. Each chieftain forms a sphere of influence. Judicial, financial, administrative, and military affairs can all be autonomous. They can ask for and take from the local people and have all the power of life and death, except those who cannot After ascending the throne and proclaiming himself emperor, everything else is even comparable to that of an emperor, and only a small symbolic tax is required to be paid to the court.
These chieftains were actually the local emperors. They did not have a strong attachment to the Ming Dynasty and would often cause trouble. In order to quell the matter, the imperial court would often send troops to suppress it. However, the terrain of these places was mostly dominated by mountainous pelvises. When the native people enter the mountains and forests, their traces are hard to find, and eventually the court will distribute benefits to appease them.
In the Qing Dynasty, the Qing government implemented the policy of returning native lands to locals. While taking tough military measures such as garrisoning troops, stationing troops, building borders, and building roads, it also vigorously promoted the "Confucianization" of the chieftain areas.
These mainly include establishing a Confucian education system through the establishment of official schools, academies, free schools, etc., providing financial aid and preferential quotas for imperial examinations to scholars from ethnic minorities, paying attention to the worship of ancestors of Confucianism and sages, issuing orders to prohibit many religious sacrificial activities and customs of the Miao people, and promoting The Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Virtues and the concepts of loyalty, filial piety, chastity and justice, etc.
After the reform, the country became almost unified in terms of culture and sense of belonging.
The current construction of Jianzhou is actually about changing the land and returning it to its current status.
It seems that the southern chieftains will also need to be repatriated and the Ming Dynasty will become a truly unified dynasty.
Li Xiao said with a smile: "It seems that these chieftains rebelled at the same time, and they still have flintlock guns in their hands. It must be Mr. Liang's fault. Originally, his plan was to cause chaos in the entire South Zhili, and then rebel everywhere, so that We were overwhelmed and unable to deal with it, so we finally compromised and he achieved his goal. But they did not expect that the families in Nanzhili did not rebel on a large scale. On the contrary, these chieftains dared to fight, but it was not difficult to eradicate them. After all, our troops are invincible."
Chang Yingwu said angrily: "This Mr. Liang is really a pest, we must destroy him."
Li Xiao nodded: "Don't worry, King Zhao has already gone to investigate this matter, and he will definitely find out something."
While he was talking, a subordinate suddenly came to report that King Zhao wanted to see him.
It really means Cao Cao Cao Cao has arrived.
Not long after, Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui entered the room.
"Brother-in-law!" Zhu Gaosui came over with a solemn expression and said, "Found it!"
At this time, Zhu Gaosui was wearing unusual clothes. He was obviously wearing clothes worn by ethnic minorities in Yunnan, which looked a bit like the clothes of the Dai people.
The clothes on Zhu Gaosui looked somewhat funny, and he looked a bit gray, with a thick beard hanging on his lips, like a disguise.
Li Xiao couldn't help laughing and joked: "Hahaha, Gao Sui, why do you wear this? It fits you so well."
Zhu Gaosui took a look at his clothes, and then smiled helplessly: "It's not just to find out the so-called Mr. Liang, but we have already found him. Shocking news! Absolutely exciting!"
Zhu Gaosui, who was previously ordered to investigate, traveled thousands of miles deep into the enemy's nest in order to track down the news, and almost died. However, with his intelligence, he was able to find out the news without any danger.
"Gao Sui, thank you for your hard work. It seems that you have suffered a lot during this trip."
Li Xiao hurriedly helped Zhu Gaosui to a chair and poured the tea himself. Zhu Gaosui took a sip of tea before saying, "Thank you, brother-in-law."
Li Xiao said with concern: "What are you thanking me for? I should be thanking you. It's not life-threatening, right?"
Zhu Gaosui smiled and said: "I almost couldn't come back, but luckily there was no danger. Let's get down to business."
As he spoke, Zhu Gaosui's eyes fell on Chang Yingwu, meaning that this matter was important and others did not need to listen.
"Chang Yingwu, please step aside for now."
Li Xiao waved his hand.
Chang Yingwu bowed and stepped back.
When the room became empty, Zhu Gaosui whispered: "Brother-in-law, I have figured out the whole story. It was all caused by two people."
Li Xiao sat down slowly, looked at Zhu Gaosui, and said, "Don't be in a hurry. Speak slowly."
Zhu Gaosui hummed, and then said: "The first person is Lan Bin, the son of Lan Yu, who was rescued many years ago. This person was rescued by an organization called Darknet. This Darknet is an assassination organization privately cultivated by Lan Yu. , under their banner are Tiangang, Shura, Impermanence, and Tengu. These four are highly skilled in martial arts and have their own strengths. They rob babies from various places, cut out their tongues, and train assassins from childhood. The assassin you intercepted last time in Nanjing City, brother-in-law, was from them. In addition, they were responsible for the robbery of tax money many years ago. After getting the tax money, they fled to Annan to secretly develop their power."
"I see." Li Xiao also understood the reason thoroughly and said, "Then who is the other person?"
"You would never think of the other brother-in-law."
Zhu Gaosui paused and continued: "It's Zhu Yunxi right under your nose!"
"What???"
Hearing the word Zhu Yunxi, Li Xiao was very surprised: "Zhu Yunxi? Isn't he already dead? And during that time in the capital, his behavior was nothing unusual. He was shooting movies with Zhu Yunxi all day long."
"Don't tell me that you are surprised, brother-in-law. When I learned the news, I was extremely surprised. This Zhu Yunxi even deceived me. I didn't notice anything strange about him when we were in the capital."
Zhu Gaosui twitched the corner of his mouth: "Zhu Yunxi is really strange. He has been in the prison for nearly ten years, but after he came out, not only did he not become dementia, but the dementia on the surface was all pretended. He actually kept a low profile and hid it from everyone. , in fact, there was nothing unusual about him on the surface in the capital, but secretly he contacted Tiangang secretly. These conspiracy layouts in Nanjing were all proposed by Zhu Yunxi. He secretly learned your brother-in-law's methods of governing the city in the capital, and then also He secretly kidnapped the craftsman of the flintlock gun, which is why the flintlock gun was lost. Originally, he planned to cause chaos in the world, and then take the opportunity to seize Hanzhong to conquer the world."
Li Xiao frowned slightly: "What about now?"
Zhu Gaosui said: "Now Zhu Yunxi has discovered that he is by no means your opponent. He originally thought that flintlock guns could bridge the gap between the army and generals, but the emergence of automatic rifles shattered his plan. So he gave up this idea. , and now plans to take his forces further south to Mubang, Myanmar and other places. They are trying to establish their own dynasty, and they seem to be planning to restore the country in Myanmar and other places under the banner of Dali State."
Li Xiao: "????"
This mental circuit made Li Xiao stunned for a moment.
Mu Bang, Myanmar and other places are actually the future Myanmar.
In the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the 30-strong army of the Ming Dynasty eliminated the remaining forces of the Liang Kingdom in Yunnan and the Dali Kingdom, and established the Yunnan Chief Envoy Division and the Yunnan Dusi Division, stationed with 200,000 troops.
Yunnan during the Ming Dynasty can be divided into two parts. One part is the area under actual control and is called "inner barbarians".
The other part is the Burmese area that nominally inherited the Yuan Dynasty. It has no actual control, no soldiers are stationed, and no officials are dispatched. It is called "foreign barbarians".
The "foreign barbarian" chieftains canonized during the Zhu Yuanzhang period included the Burmese, Cheche, Laos, and 804 Xuanwei divisions, and the five chieftains of Mubang, Mengyang, Mengding, Dahou, and Nandian.
In fact, these places were not under the control of the Ming Dynasty. They were all independent small countries. The chieftains of these chieftains actually called themselves kings.
King Toungoo was officially called the King of Burma in 1531 and established the Toungoo Dynasty. After that, he successively annexed small kingdoms such as Bago, Ava, Sipo, Manmo, Mengyang, Mengmi, Mengnai, and Yanghui. By 1554 Basically unified Myanmar.
The war between the Ming Dynasty and Myanmar lasted for decades, and the final result was that Toungoo unified the entire Myanmar and occupied half of the Indochina Peninsula.
Originally, the Yuan Dynasty once pushed its territory to the periphery of the Indian Ocean. Unfortunately, the Ming Dynasty failed to control this area and was eventually unified by the Toungoo Dynasty.
The Toungoo Dynasty fought another war with the Ming Dynasty, which caused the area of Yunnan to shrink significantly.
After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, areas such as Mubang were recovered, but they were still occupied by the British at the end of the period.
Li Xiao picked up the tea, took a sip, and said: "Didn't the news from Zhu Yunxi come that he fell off the cliff and died? The emperor's grandfather even buried him in person. It's impossible. How did he come back to life again?"
Zhu Gaosui smiled and said: "This is the masterpiece of the Dark Net Tengu. This person is good at this art and can hide the truth from the truth. The one who died was a scapegoat. After falling to a bloody mess, he pretended to be Zhu Yunxi and even deceived the emperor's grandfather. It’s over.”
Li Xiao said in surprise: "It's amazing. Even a shrewd person like the emperor's grandfather can deceive him and hide the truth. Now he actually appears in Annan and plans to establish his own country. This is really a clever trick. Zhu Yunxi did not show such intelligence ten years ago. It’s surprising how it suddenly became so powerful.”
Zhu Gaosui said: "I am also surprised about this matter. Zhu Yunxi seems to have suddenly enlightened. If he had been so powerful ten years ago, he would not have been in prison. Brother-in-law, this matter should be reported to the emperor's grandfather and eldest brother as soon as possible. The imperial court must send troops to exterminate it. To eliminate future troubles.”
"No"
Li Xiao waved his hand: "Let me think about it."
Li Xiao felt that it would be a good thing if Myanmar could be completely included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
But obviously, the court does not have so much energy to deal with this matter now.
From this period of time, it seems that Zhu Yunxi has some abilities.
The most important thing is that he secretly learned his own management methods and a flintlock gun. Maybe he can really accomplish this!
Although Zhu Yunxi was a traitor, he was a citizen of the Ming Dynasty after all.
Thinking of this, Li Xiao smiled and said: "Gao Sui, do you think Zhu Yunxi can rule the southern Myanmar region and establish a dynasty?"
Zhu Gaosui thought for a while and said: "Lan Bin has the ability to lead troops to fight, and Zhu Yunxi has the ability to strategize. Coupled with their dark network organization and the large weapon flintlock, I am afraid they can really accomplish this!"
"Hahahaha." Li Xiao said: "In that case, there is no need to tell anyone about this matter. Just hide it and let them worry about it."
Zhu Gaosui wondered: "Why? Are we going to let this scourge go unpunished? When he rules over there, he will be a formidable enemy to our frontier."
"No." Li Xiao said with a smile: "Looking at Jiuzhou from the top of a hundred-foot pole, the past generations will harvest the soil. The descendants will not be happy after harvesting, and there are even more harvesters behind."
"Brother-in-law means"
Zhu Gaosui's eyes lit up and he said: "When will the Ming Dynasty take over the dynasty that Lan Bin, Zhu Yunxi and others have worked so hard to establish? But brother-in-law, aren't you afraid that the tail will be too big to fall out of control?"
Li Xiao nodded: "It's okay. The situation over there is complicated. If they want to really rule, it will be impossible to achieve it within twenty years. After twenty years, when they rule over there and build the Dali Kingdom, we will have the Ming Dynasty." The Chao Dynasty can enjoy the benefits of being a fisherman and take it directly into the pocket. Lan Bin and Lan Nao'er will be almost old at that time, and in our Chao Dynasty, we still have outstanding juniors like Zhu Zhanji!"
Of course, there is also Li Xiao himself.
Who can survive his own immortality?
"Wonderful!" Zhu Gaosui immediately agreed and said with a bad smile: "Okay, let's hide the fact that Lan Bin and Zhu Yunxi are still alive for the time being. God knows and the earth knows that you know and I know."
Li Xiao nodded: "Okay, Gao Sui, you have done a good job in this matter. Next, help me redress the rebellion together. I will give you five hundred cavalry. We will divide our troops into two groups and quickly suppress the rebellion in various places."
Zhao Wang Zhu Gaosui is also a capable general. He has demonstrated his military strength during the conquest of Japan. With him, he is even more powerful.
Zhu Gaosui raised his hand and said, "Take the order!"
That's it.
Li Xiao's modern automatic rifle cavalry troops were divided into two groups and began to go to various places to quell the rebellion.
In less than a month, the rebellion was suppressed very quickly.
Zhu Yunxi also got what he wanted. Taking advantage of the opportunity, Li Xiao had no time to attend to him and led a large army to leave Annan and go to Mubang and other places in the south of Neng. They began to conquer under the banner of Dali Kingdom.
And southern Zhili and other places.
One month later, with Li Jinglong's military suppression everywhere, all families were forced to compromise.
The district government offices have been fully implemented and built in every village.
This is the first step to success. Once you have a base, you will begin to take over full control!
(End of chapter)
