Zhu Youjian suddenly smiled and looked at Zhang Heming, who had been the governor of the southwest for several years but had no way to deal with the two thieves She Chongming and An Bangyan, and said with a smile: "Zhang Heming, do you know why the She'an rebellion has not been settled yet?"
"I, I don't know..." Zhang Heming said with a trembling voice.
He had long heard of Zhu Youjian's illustrious reputation. He was the first warrior to kill the Mongols, defeated the Mongolian Khan, and twice defeated the Jianzhou slave thief Khan to seize the Yanyun Mountains and the Monan Grassland. people.
This time Zhu Youjian brought so many hungry people from Shaanxi to the south, which showed that he was doing bad things!
But no matter what Zhu Youjian wants, Zhang Heming, the governor, may not be able to achieve Zhu Youjian's wish... because he, the governor, really has neither ability nor reputation.
On the one hand, he was an official promoted by Wei Zhongxian, and the scholar-bureaucrats in Sichuan and Guizhou regarded him as an eunuch.
On the other hand, Zhang Heming replaced Ding You's famous minister Zhu Xieyuan as governor. Everyone hoped that Zhu Xieyuan would recover and return to the southwest to oversee the army, so no one listened to him.
And this Zhu Xieyuan, who everyone hopes to have, is a very capable person! In his early years, when he was still a civil servant, he helped Xiao Lianggan, the prefect of Shaoxing, to control floods, which was quite effective.
Later, when he passed the imperial examination and became the prefect of Suzhou, he encountered another major event that shocked the world - the Suzhou Machinery Rebellion! Because of the mining tax, Sun Long wanted to levy some machine tax, which resulted in a machinist riot led by Ge Cheng. At that time, Zhu Xieyuan had been promoted to deputy envoy of the Sichuan Inspectorate and was ready to go. Because the new prefect had not yet arrived, Suzhou officials asked Zhu Xieyuan to mobilize troops to quell the chaos. But he was stopped by Zhu Xieyuan on the grounds that he was "fighting against foreign invaders"... As a result, under the operation of all aspects, Ge Cheng surrendered, was sentenced to prison, and was released within a few years.
In the first year of Taichang, Zhu Xieyuan became the governor of Sichuan again. In September of the next year, he encountered the rebellion of She Chongming. Xu Keqiu, the governor of Sichuan, was killed. Chongqing and Zunyi were occupied. Then the rebels broke through four cities in a row. Eleven prefectures and counties, advancing by land and water, surrounded Chengdu. The king of Shu, Zhu Zhishu, came forward and asked Zhu Xieyuan to organize resistance. The imperial court also promoted him to the position of censor of Qiandu and governor of Sichuan.
Under Zhu Xieyuan's organization, Chengdu, which had only 2,000 troops, withstood She Chongming's attack and defended it for 102 days. In the end, Zhu Xieyuan enlisted She Chongming's general Luo Xiangqian to defeat the rebels and relieve the siege!
After the Battle of Chengdu, She Chongming began to go downhill. Soon, under the attack of various Sichuan troops, especially Shizhu Qin Liangyu and other troops, he was defeated in Sichuan. He even lost his hometown Yongning Guard, so he had to go to Guizhou to rely on An. Kunihiko.
While the rebellion in Sichuan was gradually calming down, An Bangyan in Guizhou was still causing a lot of trouble. So Zhu Xieyuan was appointed as Minister of War without hesitation, and also supervised the military affairs of Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi. He was given Shang Fangjian and moved to Zunyi, where he was fully responsible for encircling and suppressing the She and An rebels.
Under the command of Zhu Xieyuan, An Bangyan and his group of rebels quickly fell into decline. By the sixth year of Tianqi, the two thieves were no longer able to fight and had to ask for appeasement. Zhu Xieyuan also agreed to recruit him because of his heavy losses in successive battles in Sichuan and Guizhou.
At this moment, Zhu Xieyuan returned home to be a filial son because of his father's death... but the recruitment was messed up by a few irresponsible officials. Later, when Zhang Heming took office, She Chongming and An Bangyan began to rebel again, and Zhang Heming was at his wits' end. He fought and talked with She and An, but there was no time to settle the matter.
Therefore, the calls to resurrect Zhu Xieyuan became louder and louder, but Zhu Youjian refused to let Zhu Xieyuan return to Sichuan... Instead, he asked him to become the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing after Ding You expired.
When Zhang Heming was governor of the military affairs of the four provinces, he also reached agreements with An Bangyan several times to recruit him, but when it was reported to the court, Zhu Youjian refused.
Now Zhu Youjian doesn't like to recruit people very much, except for pirates, of course. Now the Ming Dynasty doesn't have a decent navy at all. What can he do if he doesn't recruit people? It is not easy for thieves on land to be appeased. In the past few years since Zhu Youjian came to power, no one has been appeased!
That’s why the war to quell the rebellion in Sichuan and Guizhou has been delayed to this day...
And now Zhu Youjian suddenly asked Zhang Heming why the She'an rebellion could never be put down. What did he mean?
Seeing Zhang Heming speechless, Zhu Youjian suddenly laughed, asked and answered: "The reason why the chaos in She'an has not been settled is that I can't find time to come to the southwest... It's okay now, I've come It’s time for the trouble to come to an end!”
Li Weixin, the chief military officer of Sichuan, did not understand Zhu Youjian's words, so he asked in a low voice: "Long live the Lord, will you personally lead the Sixth Army to pacify She'an and rebel against the party?"
Zhu Youjian smiled: "Where is the use of the six armies? The people of She'an are just withered bones in the grave, vulnerable... I will personally take three thousand tigers and beniars, go straight to their lairs, and wipe them out. Determine the southwest!"
What?
The emperor wants to personally lead 3,000 tiger soldiers to kill She Chongming and An Bangyan?
Not only Zhang Heming, Li Weixin, and Zhang Lun were stunned, but even the big landowners of Baoning Prefecture who were crying for poverty were dumbfounded.
That's a rebel bandit with hundreds of thousands of troops fighting for ten years without defeat. You, a little emperor, use 3,000 people to wipe out the family? Don't die!
"Long live my lord," Zhang Heming hurriedly persuaded, "the southwest is mountainous, and it is very difficult to pacify the thieves who rely on danger to defend themselves. Moreover, they are chieftains who have deep roots and are extremely difficult to pacify..."
"Your Majesty," Li Weixin said, "there are 100,000 thieves, and they are good at conquering and fighting. They should not be ignored!"
"Don't worry, I won't ignore it." Zhu Youjian certainly won't ignore it. He came prepared this time.
In order to put down the two She'an thieves, he brought Zhang Xianzhong, Li Jin and Niu Jinxing!
The group of southwestern chieftains in the previous life were completely vulnerable to them when they encountered them. All the land they had at home was taken away by Niu Jinxing, and their people were probably killed by Dashun's soldiers.
Zhu Youjian looked under the board and said: "I am sure of victory... It will take three months at most and one month at least. The two thieves of She'an will definitely destroy the clan!"
The clan is destroyed!
As soon as these two words came out, murderous intent started rolling out!
How many people must be killed before the clan is exterminated? Everyone present felt a chill.
The murderous aura in Zhu Youjian's body now is so strong that it can't be wiped away... How many wars have he fought and how many people have he killed over the years!
And the opponents he defeated to death were all more powerful than the two local bandits She Chongming and An Bangyan!
In fact, Zhu Youjian did not come here to defeat She Chongming and An Bangyan. If he wanted to destroy them, he could just send any general.
What about Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Jin? Just send one of them to attack, and you can't catch them easily?
Zhu Youjian came to Sichuan this time, actually for food and land... In the past ten years, Sichuan and Guizhou have killed hundreds of thousands of people at least, and at most millions! How much land will be left without its owner?
And people haven’t died enough yet! There are still many people from the She and An tribes waiting to be exterminated!
If so much land is divided, at least hundreds of thousands of Shaanxi people will have a way to live. Moreover, Shaanxi has sent out elite soldiers these days, and hundreds of thousands of Shaanxi people have come to control the southwest. Wouldn't the southwest be peaceful?
In addition, She Chongming and An Bangyan are two chickens, and the landlords and wealthy people in Sichuan are all monkeys. After killing two chickens, those monkeys should be able to show kindness! How could someone with 10,000 dan and 20,000 dan have the nerve to take it out? You have to give me 10 million stones anyway, right?
Moreover, the taxes paid in Sichuan are too low... we need to pay more! No matter what, you have to increase it three to five times.
Zhu Youjian glanced at the "common monkeys" again, and said coldly: "There are 200,000 military households who followed me into Sichuan... Let's settle down in Baoning Mansion for a few days, and wait until I calm down She'an. Chaos, come and resettle them! If you raise more food, you can’t starve these military households!"
The 200,000 hungry people who followed Zhu Youjian into Sichuan are now military households. There are soldiers in every household, and they came to Sichuan with weapons!
After saying that, he looked at Zhang Heming, the governor of the four provinces, "Zhang Zhijun, you are the governor... you will lead the way for me tomorrow!"
"My lord, I obey your order." How dare Zhang Heming disobey the order!
Zhu Youjian said again: "Send someone to ask Qin Liangyu, the female official of Shizhu, Sichuan, and I will discuss with her how to defeat the thieves."
