Zhu Yijun gave an order, and the state machinery of the entire empire began to operate against Yang Yinglong's rebellion in the southwest.
Not long after receiving the order, Liu Wei rushed to Chongqing with 10,000 infantrymen who were good at mountain warfare. They traveled day and night, traveling by horse and boat.
In recent years, the Ming Dynasty has increased investment in infrastructure. Even in the southwest region, many official roads have been built in order to prepare for future land conversion and to strengthen control over Wusizang. Therefore, riding horses and boats from Kunming Going to Chongqing, a major town in the southwest, is no longer a problem.
At that time, Yang Yinglong was still attacking Fotuguan in Chongqing.
Liu Chengsi, the guard of Fotuguan, gave Yang Yinglong a resolute counterattack, causing Yang Yinglong's rebel Miao soldiers to suffer heavy losses at Fotuguan.
Yang Yinglong intended to recruit Liu Chengsi to surrender, but Liu Chengsi did not agree, and even took advantage of his unpreparedness to attack his camp at night, causing Yang Yinglong to retreat directly to Jiangjin in embarrassment.
This can be regarded as the side effect of Yang Yinglong pandering to the old party and suppressing military children.
After Liu Chengsi saw that many of his superiors and colleagues were transferred to important civilian positions, he naturally wanted to transfer to important civilian positions.
After all, if you become a civilian, you will have more power, and you don't have to risk your life.
to this end.
He stayed up late almost every day to study the Jinxue theory compiled by Zhu Yijun in the name of Zhang Juzheng, and also worked hard to practice the new rituals, hoping that in the future the new party in the court would see how high his consciousness was and transfer him to a civilian position, which would give him great power. There is no need to worry about dying in battle.
You know, military generals are also human beings, and they also cherish their lives.
If they could possess power and wealth without risking their lives on the battlefield at any time, most of them would naturally not be willing to gain merit by charging into battle.
Therefore, Liu Chengsi refused to surrender and defended extremely tenaciously. Even though Yang Yinglong once again sent 50,000 Miao soldiers to Fotuguan, he could not let Yang Yinglong capture Fotuguan.
"Either you die in the battle guarding Xinli and let your descendants go to Xingming Academy to become disciples of the emperor, or you return to the capital and get an official position because you guard Xinli. No matter what the outcome is, it is better than surrendering to the rebels!"
"So, brothers, we, the children of military households, cannot betray our father just because they are afraid of death, and then let the world return to the era when military households were inferior to domestic slaves!"
Liu Chengsi even personally encouraged the Han soldiers guarding Fotuguan and publicized why they should defend Fotuguan.
For this reason, the upper and lower government schools at Fotuguan all shared the same hatred. With a mere 600 soldiers, Yang Yinglong was unable to open Fotuguan and attack Chongqing.
"Now it seems that Zhu Yijun's move to improve the status of the military household and allow the military ministers to serve exclusively as civil servants, with equal emphasis on civil and military affairs, was not a foolish move. At least now, although the gentry does not make things difficult for us, he has made these warriors risk their lives one by one!"
"I can't even recruit you to surrender!"
"We really can't give him a higher price than Zhu Yijun. At most, we can only promise to pay equal attention to civil and military affairs. But then I'm afraid the gentry will no longer support us secretly, and the military generals will still not support us because of this."
"After all, there is no need for them to betray the imperial court and become known as traitors when their status has not improved much by joining my Yang family."
Yang Yinglong felt a headache about this, and talked about it to scribes such as Yu Maochang and Song Wenbin.
"That's what the general said! Since ancient times, you can't have your cake and eat it too."
"But the general can only choose to restore the old system. After all, if he doesn't choose this way, why would the general rebel?"
Yu Maochang followed at this time.
After hearing this, Yang Yinglong looked solemn and said: "You are right! If it weren't for the new etiquette that made the Miao people disrespectful, who would be willing to rebel?"
"General, as I see below, since the purpose of restoring the old system is to restore the old system, and the general is born and died to be a master, and there are slaves to serve, you might as well order that after taking Fotuguan, the lowest soldiers will also be rewarded for their bravery. The Han people are two-legged slaves, so these brave soldiers must fight bravely to take the lead!"
At this time, Yu Maochang offered another poisonous plan.
Yang Yinglong nodded after hearing this: "This is a wonderful strategy! He Zhu Yijun knows how to lure him with benefits, and I, Yang, can't do it either."
After saying that, Yang Yinglong ordered: "Send the order and capture Fotuguan. The brave soldiers will reward the three landless Han people as two-legged slaves, and the officials and schools will double the reward!"
"yes!"
The morale of the Miao soldiers under Yang Yinglong was indeed greatly boosted.
After all, everyone wants to be a slave owner, especially a Han slave owner.
Therefore, historically, whether they were Mongolians, Jurchens or other ethnic minorities, they were particularly active in entering the customs to rob Han slaves. They would even bring their own dry food and soldiers, and everyone fought bravely to be the first.
The landlord class among the Han people also wanted to be slaves to the Han people, so Yu Maochang and others colluded with them.
Anyway, as the saying goes, the history of the Han people is the history of being enslaved and resisting being enslaved, that is, the history of being eaten or not wanting to be eaten.
But now, the rebel Miao soldiers under Yang Yinglong are even more fearless in attacking Fotuguan, and they are even killing each one with red eyes. It seems that behind Fotuguan there are Han people's mines all over the mountains and plains, the human mines are worth as much as gold.
"Han slaves are really useful. They can cultivate good fields and weave good cloth. They have no temper and are very submissive. They are simply more useful than dogs!"
"My father has used it before, but he escaped later and was not caught. If I can catch more this time, I can just lie down and eat delicacies like the Yang family without doing anything."
Qin Dashan, a Miao soldier under Yang Yinglong, told his fellow villager Lou Wuniu about the benefits of owning Han slaves.
After hearing this, Lou Wuniu said: "No wonder you rushed through the pass so hard in the morning. You were obviously injured on your head! It's just that the Han people in Fotuguan are different. They are not afraid of death. What's going on?"
"That's because he was poisoned by Xinli, so the general wanted to raise troops to destroy Xinli. Otherwise, we Miao people would not be able to have Han slaves."
Qin Dashan said.
Lou Wuniu nodded, and then rushed to the ladder on the Fotu Gate without fear of death.
Not only Lou Wuniu, but also many Miao soldiers were treated like chickens because they knew that Han men were more diligent and Han women had whiter and more supple skin.
Yu Maochang also burst into laughter watching the charging scene of these Miao soldiers. He seemed to have seen that in the future, scholar-bureaucrats like him could once again restore the world. Scholar-bureaucrats could make warriors and common people kneel down when they see him, and emperors must be polite when they see him. Seriously, the era when you can gain both fame and fortune just by talking about your xinxing every day.
"Hold!"
"Only when these Miao people know how difficult it is to enslave us will they know how to be afraid, accept the new gifts obediently, learn farming techniques obediently, and come to buy our cloth and trade with us obediently!"
"Brothers, if you don't want to die, you can't live, and you can't live a peaceful life!"
"We have to be humiliated and beaten by a scholar without being able to fight back, and we have to watch our wives and sisters being forced to work as slaves for an eighty-year-old scholar because of the Qing army's conspiracy!"
"It's not like now, because you can get military medals because of the new gift, you don't have to kneel when you meet the great master, and you can inform the emperor when you are wronged and tell the emperor about the scandal of a talented person!"
But Liu Chengsi still didn't give up. When his firearms were about to run out, he personally slashed people at the city gate with a knife, and while slashing the Miao soldiers who rushed up, he encouraged his sergeants.
(End of chapter)
