After the Ming Dynasty's self-defense force was destroyed, it owed too much to the military households, and it also made the military households miserable.
Even though a few children of military families were promoted to officials through their studies, and the family successfully transformed into an official family, there were still many who could not bear the suffering of military families.
Therefore, many people who even studied and became officials and ministers of the Ministry of War still wanted to get rid of their military status. Some even studied and took the imperial examination and became officials just to get rid of their military status.
Because of this.
After Zhu Yijun now insists on reforming the military system to make military households live more like individuals and with more dignity, the sergeants under Liu Chengsi really empathize with Liu Chengsi's words and really don't want to go back to the old era when the old system was prevalent.
"I would rather die in the new era than live to see your restoration ceremony succeed!"
Wang Shouyi, the chief flag officer who had been trained in the Jingwei martial arts school, was stabbed in the abdomen by the enemy. He immediately rushed to the city with a Miao soldier and threw him down. Before that, he shouted and expressed himself. The reason for such a struggle.
The other officers and soldiers also did not hesitate to die together to prevent the rebels from attacking. As a result, the rebels failed to capture Fotuguan when reinforcements from Chieftain Shizhu arrived.
While Chieftain Shizhu was ordered by Li Hualong, the governor of Sichuan, to send reinforcements with white pole soldiers, Governor Ye Mengxiong of Guizhou also sent 10,000 Guangxi chieftain soldiers who had stayed in Guiyang in advance and were ready to deal with the Bozhou Rebellion, and went north to copy Yang Yinglong's retreat in order to encircle Wei and rescue Zhao. the goal of.
at the same time.
Liu Wei also arrived in Chongqing two months after Yang Yinglong launched his rebellion, and formally met with Sichuan governor Li Hualong, Fotuguan guard Liu Chengsi, Shizhu Xuanwei envoy Ma Qiancheng, son of Ma Douhu, and his wife Qin Liangyu, among other officials.
"His Majesty has already decided to encourage the soldiers to quell the rebellion and advance the policy of reforming the country and returning them to their hometowns in an orderly manner. He has specifically allowed me to directly remove the official schools from the front line. Therefore, I have now decided to guard Liu Chengsi to protect the Buddha. Tuguan was promoted to Guizhou Bingbei Road for meritorious service, and took charge of Zunyi, Pingyue, Sinan and other prefectures that were about to be converted to native lands!"
At this time, Liu Wei conveyed the decision to some civil and military officials and began to issue orders to remove meritorious personnel.
The first one is Liu Chengsi.
Liu Chengsi was quite excited, and couldn't help but burst into tears for a moment, feeling that he had not persisted for so long in Fotuguan in vain.
You must know that before this, even if he had outstanding achievements, he was at most a general soldier, and it was impossible to prepare the troops.
Then, Liu Wei said again: "Shizhu Chieftain Ma Qiancheng has made great contributions to rescuing Fotuguan, and he was awarded the hereditary prefect of Zunyi! According to the imperial edict, after the Bozhou rebellion was settled, Bozhou was divided into two. The one near Sichuan was changed to Zunyi Prefecture, and the one near Guizhou was changed to Zunyi Prefecture. For Pingyue Mansion!"
Ma Qian took advantage of his busy schedule and came out to express his gratitude, with a happy face.
Then, Liu Wei added: "According to the policy of reforming the land and returning to the country, the prefect returned to the country and Tongzhi returned to Liu. The prefect was hereditary as the nominal master. He received the salary to supervise the Tongzhi on behalf of the emperor, and the Tongzhi exercised his power and was responsible for all military and civilian affairs. Therefore, the post of Tongzhi must also be appointed in advance, and it should be held by Mr. Qian Yu Youhua, who has made great contributions to guarding Fotuguan!"
Yu Youhua also came out to express his gratitude at this time.
Liu Wei then added: "These official positions are temporarily confirmed, but whether they can be turned into actual awards depends on whether you can capture Bozhou and other places in the future and whether you can wipe out the rebels. There are other official positions that have not been awarded yet. It also depends on your next performance!”
"Please rest assured, Lord Marquis, and don't dare to disappoint the court's expectations!"
Liu Chengsi and others returned with their hands in hand.
Next, Liu Chengsi and others were active in countering the rebellion.
Needless to say, Liu Chengsi didn't want to give up being an official in the Military Academy, which was an important stepping stone for him to be promoted to governor.
In this era, the governor was an important springboard for the two capital ministries, and he already had the power to directly communicate secretly to the emperor, and he had become the emperor's confidant.
Although Ma Qiancheng's prefect position is a prefect with a name but no power, this prefect position is hereditary. In other words, his Ma family will have an additional hereditary official position, which can greatly reduce the number of internal affairs in his Ma family. contradictory.
After all, his Ma family had many more heirs than before, and a lot of grudges arose in order to compete for the position of ambassador.
Now that there is a hereditary prefect position, at least he doesn't have to fight for it.
But because whether it is Liu Chengsi or Ma Qiancheng, the official positions they are currently appointed to are equivalent to promissory notes, which cannot be cashed yet. They have to conquer Bozhou and other places, that is, the territory of Yang Yinglong and other rebels, before the promissory notes can be honored by the court.
Therefore, they now want to put down the rebellion as soon as possible than Zhu Yijun.
"Here's the order. If you attack Jiangjin City first, I, the prefect, will reward him with a year's salary and bonus money!"
For this reason, when Ma Qiancheng was responsible for attacking Jiangjin City, he directly offered a large reward to his white-pole soldiers.
Therefore, these white-armed soldiers climbed up the mountains and over the valleys and rushed to Jiangjin County with hooks, sickles and guns roaring.
Although Yang Yinglong had tens of thousands of troops in Jiangjin County, he was unable to withstand the attack of these white-pole soldiers for a while. When the fighting took a break, he couldn't help but loudly asked Ma Qiancheng who was at the bottom of the city:
"You, surnamed Ma, are also chieftains. Why do you work so hard for Zhu Yijun?!"
"Fuck your mother!"
"I am an official of the imperial court, the magistrate of Zunyi, not a chieftain. How can I not suppress the rebellion and regain the lost territory for the country!"
After Ma Qiancheng answered loudly at this time, he shouted to Yang Yinglong again: "Yang Yinglong, you are such a wolf-hearted person, you'd better surrender to the city obediently, maybe you can still keep your body intact, otherwise, after I capture you alive, you will inevitably suffer from death." The pain!”
Influenced by the culture of prefectures and counties for thousands of years, magistrates are also called prefects and so on. In the eyes of the ancients, their value is much higher than that of xuanwei envoys, which is equivalent to not being miscellaneous officials, so they have a higher degree of Chineseization. Ma Qiancheng was still very proud of becoming the prefect of Zunyi.
Yang Yinglong calmly said to Yu Maochang: "Prefect of Zunyi, this Zhu Yijun has even appointed a new prefect. It seems that he has been waiting for me to rebel for a long time so that he can change his ways and return to his old ways!"
"The general is right! What Zhu Yijun did is not unkind, but if the general doesn't rebel, he will only be cannibalized by him. Now he can only make a desperate move and try his best!"
Yu Maochang said.
Yang Yinglong turned around and asked Yu Maochang: "Can't you gentry raise troops to respond?!"
Yu Maochang looked a little worried, so he had to explain: "General Rongzhen, we gentry are also in dire straits. We only hope that the general will save them, but we still have the ability to respond."
Yang Yinglong asked in a deep voice: "Then let them persuade the court to focus on appeasement, isn't it okay?!"
"I will try my best to do this, general, don't worry!"
After Yu Maochang answered, he said: "But the general has to make the court pay a heavy price here. Knowing that appeasement is more worthwhile than the purge, it is better to give up the purge, so that the general can have more hope of being appeased by the court, and then look for opportunities to come again in the future." Raise troops to find opportunities."
"This is natural!"
"I have been running Bozhou for more than ten years. I have set up countless dangerous forts, stored countless grains and weapons, trained countless troops, and have been married to many nobles in Shu. It will not be easy for his court to eliminate them!"
While Yang Yinglong was talking, his brother Yang Chaodong came over and said:
"There is news from home that the Guangxi wolf soldiers have attacked Wujiang Pass and are taking our retreat!"
(End of chapter)
