Long live my Lord, do you want to make Xianglin and Yiming the military and civilian commanders of Shuixi and Shuidong? "
Upon hearing the official position conferred by Zhu Youjian, Qin Liangyu did not immediately take his nephew to thank him, but asked a question.
Zhu Youjian smiled and nodded: "That's right, they are the military and civilian commanders of Shuixi and Shuidong... I don't plan to promote the return of the local people to the locals, what I want to do is to change the local people and return to the defense! And! It is not to change the chieftains into those rotten military guards, but to change them into military guards who can actually manage things and have someone to take charge of them, just like the chief soldier of the Mu family in Yunnan.
From now on, in Guizhou, the Ma family and the Qin family will be like the Mu family in Yunnan, hereditary and irreplaceable, always in power! "
Zhu Youjian's pie is really beautiful, big and round, with fragrant sesame seeds all over it.
However, Qin Liangyu and her five nephews are not stupid. Of course they know that the territory in Shuixi and Shuidong cannot compare with the Mu family's territory in Yunnan.
In fact, Guizhou cannot compare with Yunnan... It has always been said that the land in Guizhou is not three feet flat, the sky is not sunny for three days, and the people are not worth three cents of silver. How can it compare with Yunnan, which is rich in products and has a vast territory? Shuidong and Shuixi are only part of Guizhou Province. The official name is Guizhou Xuanwei Shisi - one Xuanwei is divided into two families. The Wujiang River is the boundary. The east is called Shuidong and is ruled by the Shuidong Song family. The west side is called Shuixi, and it is the territory that the Shuixi An family has ruled for more than a thousand years.
Of course, although Shuixi and Shuidong are not as good as the Mu family's territory in Yunnan (the farm owned by the Mu family in Yunnan accounts for about one-third of the cultivated land in Yunnan), they are better than the Ma family's territory in Shizhu. It's too strong.
As for Qin Liangyu's natal family, although there are four tiger generals, they do not have ancestral land. The current Zhongzhou Qin family is a very special existence. They are said to be generals, but they do not have a large number of servants. They are said to be chieftains, but they have no hereditary territory.
The stone pillars of the Ma family are actually just a small piece of land, which cannot be compared with Shuidong and Shuixi. If they are destroyed, an army of 10,000 people will be dispatched. If we want to expand the army again, Shizhu's population cannot support it, and we must spend money to recruit troops.
In fact, the 10,000 people of Shizhu's army cannot be afforded by Shizhu's local economy, but they have to fight to support war.
Shizhu's white army is actually a bit of a mercenary army. However, this mercenary army was very loyal to the Ming Dynasty and would not accept bribes from other forces.
In order to quickly deal with the Shuixi'an clan and digest the Shuidong Song clan's territory, Zhu Youjian planned to divide the Shizhu army into two, with Sun and Qin respectively in charge, and then go to Shuixi and Shuidong to become feudal lords.
There are currently at least 10,000 Sichuan warriors working for Sun and Qin families. If calculated on a household basis, there are at least 5,000 or 6,000 households in eastern Sichuan providing warriors for the Shizhu Army.
There are also a large number of private households under the jurisdiction of Chieftain Shizhu. These households have been ruled by the Ma family since the Southern Song Dynasty. It can be said that their ancestors have been with the Ma family for generations, and quite a few of them are even relatives of the Ma family.
If Shizhu soldiers and civilians were organized and moved collectively to Shuixi and Shuidong, they would at least be two upper-class groups with thousands of households. How could they suppress the old Ansong clan in Shuixi and Shuidong?
Once the An and Song families are suppressed, the She family will of course be doomed and unable to survive. In this way, Zhu Youjian can arrange for the begging soldiers he brought to be new military households in Yongning, Zunyi, Guiyang, Chongqing Wei and other places.
Yongning is the territory of the She family. It is now controlled by the government and the army. Some Han people have been moved in to "garrison generals", but there is still some land that can be used to house begging soldiers. Zunyi and Guiyang suffered heavy losses in the battles of She'an and Guiyang. In particular, Guiyang Prefecture and several nearby garrisons lost a population of three to four hundred thousand people. It can be said that the battle was a wasteland. Zhu Youjian happened to set up a new army there. Guizhou Wei. Zunyi's population loss is not small, and it is also possible to cut off part of the land and establish a new guard. As for Chongqing Wei, it is not Chongqing Prefecture, but is located in the southwest of Chongqing Prefecture. It has jurisdiction over Shizhu and Youyang Xuanwei Divisions and several cave divisions. After Shizhu Ma's family moved away, Zhu Youjian could send his begging soldiers in.
As long as Zhu Youjian can use his begging soldiers to capture the four guards of Yongning, Zunyi, Guiyang, and Chongqing, and then let the Ma and Qin families who are married to him capture the two guards of Shuixi and Shuidong, and then move the King of Shu away And arrange for a confidant to be the prefect of Chengdu to take over the Wangzhuang of King Shu, then Sichuan and Guizhou will basically be under control.
After that, Zhu Youjian can further rectify the solid Tusi and Tusi territories on the ground in Sichuan and Guizhou, and develop towards Yunnan, which has a vast world... If Zhu Youjian remembers correctly, on the ground in Yunnan There are still many unreliable toasts, and there is still a lot of cultivable land in Yunnan. For the Ming Dynasty, which is about to face a continuous drought, taking advantage of the disaster to migrate the population south is actually the only way out!
Yunnan and Guizhou, two provinces with relatively small populations, especially the Han population, can be an important direction for heading south. If the arrangement is better, two million people can be filled in.
Of course, if we want to fill so many hungry people from the Central Plains into the southwest in an organized manner, it is definitely not possible to establish a state capital by converting the land back to the locals.
The most feasible solution is the military household guard station left by our ancestors!
Although the old military household guard's residence had long been full of shortcomings during the Chongzhen period, the current Zhu Youjian is no longer a king who pursues perfection.
In his opinion, although the military household system left by his ancestors had many flaws, it was still useful... At least on the borders of the country and in newly opened lands, military household guards had to be used to guard it.
Even the Jiubian military household, which seemed completely rotten to outsiders, was still the pillar of the Ming Dynasty in Zhu Youjian's view. Although the Jiubian Army can't afford all the expenses of the Jiubian Army, without this part of the food, the rest of the Jiubian Army Towns except Jiliao Xuansan Town cannot be maintained. Because the military towns of Datong, Yulin, Ningxia, Gansu, Guyuan, and Lintao are located, it is impossible to rely on the transfer of grain from the southeast to maintain military supplies... It is indeed very difficult for military households to farm for the country! But without their suffering, the northern border of the Ming Dynasty would have retreated to the northern border of the Northern Song Dynasty. Moreover, Yunnan and Guizhou, which has inconvenient transportation, are also unable to maintain it.
In addition, wasn’t the source of soldiers recruited by the Ming Dynasty still the military households in the fields?
Therefore, the seemingly decayed military household system was still the pillar of the Ming Dynasty until the Chongzhen period.
Of course, Zhu Youjian still had to find ways to improve and rectify the military household system left by his ancestors so that it could serve the Ming Dynasty for many more years.
"Long live my lord," Qin Liangyu looked at Zhu Youjian and said word by word, "Do you want our Qin and Ma families to suppress Shuixi and Shuidong?"
Zhu Youjian nodded: "Mrs. Ma, please don't refuse. If you have any difficulties, please tell me directly and we will find a solution together."
Qin Liangyu said: "Long live my lord, there is only one difficulty, that is, Shuixi is very difficult to fight!"
Zhu Youjian asked: "Is it because the water and mountains are high and the road is dangerous?"
"No," Qin Liangyu said, "it's because the chieftains are unwilling to work together. Of course, the Qin and Ma families are loyal to the court, but the other chieftains in Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan are very worried and don't want to see the An and Song families perish. , afraid of following in their footsteps.”
"They must perish!" Zhu Youjian lowered his face, "We have lost millions of soldiers and civilians, how can we not perish?"
Qin Liangyu nodded: "If your majesty insists on destroying the An and Song families, then please partially restore the official land of the Sitian and Boyang families to appease all the chieftains. The Sizhou Tian family died in the civil strife in Ertian, and the Bozhou Yang family The family just resisted the imperial court to protect themselves, and did not do anything transgressive until their death. They were completely different from the An and She families.
If His Majesty wants to win over the southwestern chieftains, a broad marriage promise is not enough, he must also lift up the Tian and Yang families. If their descendants could be found, appointed as commanders, and given some territory, the chieftains in the southwest would be completely at ease. If they were willing to contribute to the supply of military supplies and logistics, with His Majesty's bravery and the invincibility of the front army, wouldn't the An, She and Song thieves be wiped out overnight? "
(End of chapter)
