"Your Majesty!"
The sound of riding boots sounded, and Zhu Cizhao, who was leaning drowsily on the throne of the Yunnan Palace (formerly the Duke of Guizhou Palace), raised his eyelids and saw Zhang Yong and Qiu Lei entering side by side. Zhang Yong was dusty and his face was as sinking as water. Before he could kneel down and kowtow, he sighed. Qiu Lei had a sad look on his face, feeling miserable when he saw his good son-in-law cheating on his father-in-law.
Both of them fled from Xundian Prefecture, north of Kunming Prefecture. Of course, the one who defeated them was Li Dingguo, King of Dashun Jin Dynasty!
After the eight political kings unanimously agreed to conquer Yunnan, Dashun's war machine started running at high speed!
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of the first year of joint rule, the military mansions belonging to Li Guo and his son, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and others received orders to recruit generals. Chengdu Prefecture, Tongchuan Prefecture, Baoning Prefecture, Longan Prefecture, Jiading Prefecture, Meizhou, Qiongzhou and other state capitals in western Sichuan and northern Sichuan also received orders from the Uijeongyuk Government to recruit food and grass civilians.
After five years of adjustment in Yongchang, the two fundamental systems of the Dashun Dynasty - land enclosure and land allocation and land equalization by population calculation - were now on the right track. The former granted about 20 million acres of land to 200,000 military households (including official households) affiliated with the military government, while the latter granted about 30 million acres of land to about 2.6 million small farmers.
For the Shu region, which was ruled by the emerging dynasty of Dashun and had experienced many years of war, these two basic systems were quite applicable!
Although there were too many military households (official households) who needed to be granted land, resulting in less land for ordinary farmers, the average household was only a little more than 11 and a half acres, and the average per capita was only more than two acres. However, there are many military farms scattered in various state capitals in Shu (including Hanzhong, Yunyang, Gongchang and other places), so ordinary farmers can rent land from military households to increase their income (of course exploitation through land leasing still exists, most of them The peasant regime was not the later revolutionary regime) and could basically guarantee food, clothing, and food.
By leasing land, military households affiliated with the military government can also get enough income to support military service. The military service system based on enclosing and granting land is a typical land military service system. The cost of soldiers' service is mainly supported by land income. The government only needs to provide small subsidies and rewards to mobilize a fairly large army.
Of course, the system of enclosing land and granting land and equalizing land by population will gradually cause problems and even collapse with the growth of population, the development of industry and commerce, and the corruption of the military and official households.
But the current Dashun is still in its infancy, and the population of Shu has been reduced due to years of war. Now it has just reached a level that can perfectly support the military system - too few farmers is not good, and too few farmers is not good. , military households cannot recruit tenants, and if they cannot recruit tenants, they cannot serve for a long time. Excessive population (including military households and civilian households) will lead to an acute contradiction between man and land. The per capita land occupation of military households is too small, the burden of rations is too heavy, and they are also unable to afford military service.
Now, it is the time when military households, civilian households, population, land and other aspects are most harmonious. Therefore, 50,000 elite soldiers, 100,000 civilians, 500,000 shi of grain and grass, and tens of thousands of large livestock were all mobilized in less than a month.
At this time, the Ming Dynasty's military town in western Sichuan had just been established, and the military expenditures and equipment support promised by Emperor Zhu had not yet been received. It was not easy to walk from Wuhan to the mountainous areas of western Hubei, Guizhou and then to the mountainous areas of western Sichuan. It would not be possible to arrive in a few months. No!
Therefore, the newly defeated Western Sichuan Army could not stop the 50,000 Da Shuntian soldiers with high morale. Generals such as Zengying and Yang Zhan had no choice but to give way to the main road in and out of Yunnan, packed up their troops and retreated to Wusafu and Zhenxiong, which are close to Guizhou. Mansion.
After seizing the jurisdiction of Mahu, Dongchuan, Wumeng and Sichuan Xingdusi, Li Dingguo did not stop to rest, but rushed to Yunnan non-stop. Breaking into Xundian Prefecture from Dongchuan Prefecture, the troops of Yunnan King Zhu Cizhao were caught off guard.
Before Li Dingguo entered Yunnan, the king of Yunnan Zhu Cizhao and the Duke of Guizhou Mu Tianbo were still fighting openly and secretly.
Yunnan is the territory of the Mu family, and Yunnan Mansion (Kunming) is the home of the Mu family. But because Mu Tianbo was not careful, Sha Dingzhou, the chieftain of Amizhou and Wangnongshan in Lin'an Prefecture (roughly Wenshan Prefecture in later generations) staged a mutiny in Kunming City and lost this nest.
However, the Mu family has deep roots in Yunnan, and it did not completely collapse due to the fall of Yunnan Mansion. After Mu Tianbo escaped from Kunming, he established a base in Chuxiong Mansion (close to Kunming Mansion). He also received the support of Yang Weizhi (from Shaanxi) who patrolled Jincang Road, and faced off against Chuxiong and Shadingzhou.
After Sha Dingzhou failed to attack Chuxiong, he turned to attack eastern Yunnan and won the support of most of the chieftains in eastern Yunnan. Yunnan was then divided into two, with Chuxiong and the west returning to Mu Tianbo and Yang Weizhi, and Kunming and the east Return to Shadingzhou.
Just when Sha Dingzhou gathered the troops from various chieftain families in eastern Yunnan and prepared to attack Chuxiong, Zhang Yong and Qiu Lei drove over from Guizhou with Zhu Cizhao on their side.
When Sha Dingzhou saw that something was wrong, he quickly ran away with more than 250 treasuries of property stolen from the Duke of Guizhou's mansion in Kunming and returned to his hometown of Ami Prefecture. His wife, Pu Mingming, married Sha Dingzhou with the Amizhou territory after his death) and stayed in danger.
Zhu Cizhao, who recaptured Kunming (it was Zuo Mengmei who made the decision), was not polite at all and moved directly into the Duke of Guizhou's Palace. He also placed Yunnan, Xundian, Qujing and Chengjiang Prefectures under the jurisdiction of the Yunnan Palace. under.
This is equivalent to dividing half of the Mu family's territory and taking away their home base.
However, the enemy Sha Dingzhou (who killed his mother and his wife) was not dead yet. Mu Tianbo could only swallow this bad breath and joined forces with Zhu Cizhao to attack Amizhou and Wangnongshan. They fought for more than a year and lasted until the first year of Hongxing. Only then did Amizhou and Wangnongshan be conquered, and Shadingzhou and Wanshi were captured and hacked to pieces in Kunming.
But after killing the common enemy Sha Dingzhou, the conflict between Zhu Cizhao and Mu Tianbo inevitably broke out - this was not just a conflict between Zhu Cizhao and Mu Tianbo, but a conflict between two groups of armed landlords. contradiction!
The troops under Zhu Cizhao were originally paid mercenaries, but Zhu Cizhong was unwilling to pay for them, so he let them go to Yunnan to occupy land as local owners.
But the Mu Group has also been developing in Yunnan for more than 200 years, and it also relies on the land to support its troops!
How much farmland does Yunnan have these days? On the books, there are less than 1.8 million acres, but in fact there are probably several million acres. For a province as big as Yunnan, the actual total number of acres must be more than a few million acres, but it can only be controlled by the Han local government under the Ming Dynasty. That's it. The rest are in the hands of chieftains of all sizes. The Mu family has been fighting with them for 200 years and this is the current situation. Of course, it is impossible for the outsiders under Zhu Cizhao to confiscate all their belongings in a short period of time.
Therefore, the Mu Group and Zhu Cizhao's Yunnan Palace will inevitably fight over the land in Yunnan. Even if Mu Tianbo and Zhu Cizhao were unwilling to fight, they could not restrain the people below.
Zhu Cixiang, who was far away in Nanjing and Wuhan, had no time to settle the situation for Mu Tianbo and Zhu Cizhao - the two of them had more than 100,000 horses on their books, and if Emperor Zhu came to pay them, it would only cost three to four million a year. ? The total land tax in Yunnan is only 140,000 dan, and not all of it is collected.
Just as the battle between the Yunnan Prince's Palace and the Guizhou Duke's Palace intensified, Li Dingguo's army suddenly attacked.
Zhu Cizhao and Zuo Mengmei knew something was wrong, so they quickly sent Zhang Yong and Qiu Lei to resist.
As a result, the army was defeated in Xundian Prefecture, and Yunnan Prefecture was already in danger!
"My lord, let's join forces with the Mu family!"
"Your Majesty, it's better to ask Guizhou for help..."
After reporting the news of the defeat, Zhang Yong and Qiu Lei put forward their own suggestions.
Now that the situation is critical, we can only unite with the Mu family and ask Guizhou for help at the same time.
"No, no, the lonely king cannot wait to die in Yunnan Mansion!" Zhu Cizhao roared in horror, "Where is the lonely king going to run? Please give the lonely king an idea!"
Qiu Lei and Zhang Yong looked at each other, feeling helpless. Why is this prince so timid?
"How about temporarily abdicating Lin'an Prefecture!" Zhang Yong said, "We still have some foundation in Lin'an Prefecture and occupy a lot of Tusi cottages."
"Lin'an Mansion... what if we can't hold it anymore? Where else can we run?"
Qiu Lei said: "The only choice is to go to the Annan Capital Division..."
