As Zhu Yunxi led 50,000 Beijing troops to Dayong County. This small town located deep in the mountains has completely become a military town.
Dayong County is not big to begin with. Like many cities in the southwest, its area is only half of the Central Plains County, or even smaller.
The sudden arrival of the imperial army shocked the county. The last time so many imperial troops arrived was the last time.
The common people, whether they are Han people, native people, or Miao people, all keep a low profile and remain silent. Most of them choose to stay behind closed doors except when they need to be busy with farm work.
The former army arrived in Dayong County ahead of the large forces and immediately took over the defense system of Dayong County.
Although according to the wishes of the emperor's grandson, the camp was to be built on the other side of the Lishui River, this small Dayong County was still used as a means of protection for the army in the most critical moments.
After the former army took over the defense of Dayong County, the accompanying generals of the rear army's transport camp began to take orders from the emperor's grandson, recruit people inside and outside Dayong County, cut down trees on the mountains, and prepare for the construction of the camp.
Li Yulong, the magistrate of Dayong County, was originally planning to complain and talk about the sufferings of the people under his rule. Moreover, it was also the busy time of farming. If the people were recruited one after another to build camps for the army, it might affect the development of Dayong County this year. Summer grain harvesting, and the following fall grain planting.
Li Yulong, the county magistrate, does not have many great abilities, but he is very clear about his responsibilities. He was prepared to bear the wrath of the army.
But he didn't expect that the generals from the baggage camp would actually ask people to carry several large boxes and place them in the county government hall.
The box is opened. A piece of snowflake silver almost blinded Li Yulong.
"The latest decree of the imperial court was first carried out in Zhili Road. This time, the army will implement it equally. All the people recruited by the government and the army will be hired with money and grain. Magistrate Li can rest assured that he will only hire a small number of people to cut down trees on the mountains. Dig ditches for the main camp." The general of the baggage camp explained to Li Yulong with a smile on his face.
Li Yulong blinked: "For money and grain employment, you only cut down trees and dig ditches?" The general smiled: "You can't do it falsely. The wages are comparable to those hired by the Zhili Provincial Government. The people in your county only need to cut down trees and dig ditches. As for building camps, , then my officers and men in the transport camp will be in charge." Li Yulong's eyes quickly glanced at the faces of the county magistrate, county bookkeeper and others.
And the smile on his face became more natural: "I don't know how many people the general wants to hire. Five hundred? Or a thousand? If three to five thousand people are needed, I will urge the people to go out of the city now and recruit the people." From the very beginning. He was reluctant, and now he vaguely wants to allow more ordinary people who are fine to be employed.
The change of Li Yulong, the magistrate of Dayong County, clearly fell into the eyes of the general of the rear army's supply camp.
"I estimate that more than a thousand people will be enough. It's just a matter of cutting down trees and digging canals, so we don't need many people." The general of the baggage camp replied calmly.
A hint of disappointment clearly flashed in Li Yulong's eyes. But Li Yulong quickly arranged the matter of recruiting and hiring civilians for the army.
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"My grandson always believes that it is better to teach a man to fish than to teach him to fish." Under the moonlight, on the high mountain beside the Lishui River, Zhu Yunxi used a spoon to serve a bowl of fish soup to the old man and said calmly.
Before evening, the army had arrived outside Dayong County. Zhu Yunxi did not enter the city. Instead, Puding Hou led the army into the city on behalf of the imperial court and took over the defense of Dayong County's city wall.
More officers and soldiers were stationed on the flat land opposite the city as planned. The camp has been set up at the foot of the mountain, and bonfires of various sizes are lit in the camp.
In the open space on the top of the mountain next to it, a pot of pickled fish has been cooked. In addition to Zhu Yunxi and the old man, there are also Chu King Zhu Zhen, Qin Shizi Zhu Shangbing, and Yan Shizi Zhu Gaochi.
As for Sun Gou'er, the chief steward of the inner palace, he was waiting on the family. The old man held the bowl and tasted it with relish.
I don’t know why, but the old man still couldn’t put it down after eating the pickled fish.
Zhu Yunxi saw that the old man was not tired of eating, so he had to prepare a portion every day. Perhaps only Zhu Yuanzhang himself knew that this was food made by his own grandson, so he would never get tired of it no matter how many times he ate it.
Zhu Zhen is already a little nauseated by the taste of pickled fish. I just filled a bowl of fish soup and drank it in small sips.
After hearing Zhu Yunxi's words, he immediately put down the bowl and spoon and looked at the other party. Zhu Zhen glanced at the old man next to him again, and said softly: "This time during our expedition to the southwest, my family wants to abolish the chieftain system in one fell swoop. The first priority is the support of the people, and the second is planning for the army. Brother Hei's move will prevent unprovoked wars from torturing innocent people. . As long as the situation is open, the thousands of people recruited and hired from Dayong County will be the sharpest swords and guns in my family's hands." Zhu Gaochi whispered from the side: "This time the people from Dayong County are hired, although I know it is to use the employment system. Motivate people's hearts and let the people in Dayong County see the real benefits provided by the imperial court. The salary this time is much higher than before, 30% higher than the current standard of Zhili Governor's Yamen. As long as there is this With more than a thousand ordinary people being employed, there will inevitably be more people who want to be hired by us. By then, Brother Xie's goal will naturally be achieved and the natives and Miao people who are swaying deep in the mountains will be lured out. , surrendered to the imperial court. But there must be spies planted by the chieftains. At this moment, our army is deep in the southwest, with the two hundred miles of Lishui River behind us. Once the opponent finds out the situation and blocks our army's retreat, our army will It will be besieged on all sides." This is Zhu Gaochi's temperament.
One thing always needs to be analyzed thoroughly, and the pros and cons must be thought through clearly. And Zhu Shangbing beside him was busy working as usual.
When he heard Zhu Gaochi say that they might be surrounded by enemies on all sides, he raised his head slightly. He felt that it would be great if such a situation existed, and he could have a good fight, and by the way, he could fight against the disobedient heart of Southwest.
Zhu Yunxi didn't speak, and frowned slightly while holding the bowl and chopsticks. This pickled fish is not authentic after all, it lacks spiciness.
I don’t know when Zhu Yunwen and Sun Cheng will be able to get the pepper back from the American continent.
The spicy pickled fish is the authentic pickled fish. Zhu Yuanzhang had already finished his bowl of fish soup and signaled Sun Gou'er to add some rice for him.
Taking advantage of this gap, Zhu Yuanzhang picked up a handkerchief and wiped his mouth.
"In Sun Tzu's chapter on planning an attack, the first step is to attack the enemy with troops, then the second step is to attack the army, and the third step is to attack the city. The method of attacking a city is as a last resort."
"Since ancient times, people's hearts have been the most difficult to predict. It can be said that in the final analysis, everything is for profit and gain." Zhu Yuanzhang took the rice sent by Sun Gou'er, picked up a piece of local sour radish from Dayong County and put it into his mouth. After chewing for a few times, he continued: "The soldiers surrounded the southwest, and the sword pointed at it. Everyone knows our ambitions, but how can it be compared to the chieftain in the southwest? With his ambitions separated from his people, the people will return to their hearts and be cut off. Its rhizome becomes a rootless duckweed, which can lead to defeating the enemy without fighting. As for the strategy of being detached and detached, we should build a camp step by step and advance layer by layer. At that time, I would like to take a look at these hundreds of thousands of mountains in the southwest. , but it's still the chieftain's barrier!" After the old man finished speaking, Zhu Yunxi, who had been eating fish and drinking soup silently, finally raised his head.
"Grandpa Shengming." Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened slightly. There was laughter at the table. As for the imperial court's plan to dismember the chieftain system in the southwest, although now the entire Huguang Road, Sichuan Road, Guangxi Road, Yunnan Road, plus the Sichuan Xingdu Division and the Guizhou Xingdu Division, there are hundreds of thousands of troops blocking the mountains in the southwest. .
But in the minds of Zhu Yunxi and others, the next best thing was to press the army deep into the mountains and fight with the stubborn chieftain forces in the deep mountains and old forests.
Even if the Ming Dynasty's millions of soldiers were thrown into the 100,000 mountains in the southwest, the most they would do was drive the chieftains from their territory into the mountains, and the court would eventually be overwhelmed by the millions of troops that penetrated into the mountains.
Adapting measures to local conditions and using strategies first is the best way to eliminate the chieftains in the southwest this time.
At this moment, the imperial army outside Dayong County recruited and hired more than a thousand people to cut down trees and dig ditches in Dayong County. It was Zhu Yunxi and others who erected a memorial for the entire Dayong County and the natives and Miao people hiding in the mountains to the southwest. Model.
Everyone knows it. Even the Han people in the southwest, and even the Han people who were promoted to official positions, may be related to the chieftains deep in the mountains.
And if the people in Dayong County were recruited and hired to work for the army and receive real money and food, the news would inevitably spread deep into the mountains very quickly.
The imperial court now wants to set a benchmark. Anyone who works for the court and is loyal to the court, whether native or Miao, can receive the same treatment as Han people.
By that time, as long as the soldiers and horses from all walks of life are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of mountains in the southwest, and then are recruited and hired as usual, countless natives and Miao people hiding in the mountains will surely be attracted to come out of the mountains and completely surrender to the imperial court.
Then the imperial court could take advantage of the situation and move these people elsewhere and hand them over to the government for management. What would those chieftain officials who were unwilling to give up their hereditary power think and do?
They will inevitably be dissatisfied and resist. Even the chieftain officials, who originally only knew how to continuously exploit the natives and Miao people, would be extra merciful and offer far higher prices and better conditions than the money and food provided by the court.
but. Is the Ming Dynasty short of money and food now? That is, the chieftains can temporarily stabilize the rule of the people with their benefits, but how long will it last?
This is a naked conspiracy. This was also the only way Zhu Yunxi came up with after his father, the prince, wanted to end the century-old rule and abolish the southwestern chieftain system in one fell swoop.
Throw money. Give benefits. It is precisely the current Daming that can give enough benefits. If this conspiracy were placed in the 24th year of Hongwu, it would not have been possible when Yingzhou and Jiaozhi Road had just surrendered to the Ming Dynasty.
But now it can be done. ……May. The camp outside Dayong County has exceeded the original number. With the continuous flattery of Dayong County Magistrate Li Yulong and the dedication of more than 1,500 Dayong people, it was finally basically completed.
A new large camp that can accommodate 100,000 people is located on the south bank of the Lishui River. On the mountains on the east and west sides of the camp, all the trees have been cut down, watchtowers and sentry towers have been built, and now the positions of the artillery barracks are being set up.
It seems that the 50,000 troops of the imperial court are not going into the mountains to wipe out the southwestern chieftain forces, but are stationed here permanently, and they even appear to be prepared for a defensive war.
On a sunrise morning. Li Yulong, the magistrate of Dayong County, rarely put on the court clothes he wore to hold his suitcase, and stood at the head of a wooden bridge across the Lishui River between the county seat and Daying.
In front of him were boxes of open-topped white money. The clerks in the yamen's main office and the clerks in the big camp and the heavy camp were sitting in a row behind the table.
On every table, there are account books.
"Li Laosan, you have worked for thirteen days and your wages are three to two cents. Come up and get your money."
"Chen Sigou, you have worked for eleven days and your wages are twenty-two or eight cents. Come and get your money."
"..." All the people whose names were called stepped forward with joy on their faces and held their wages in their hands.
The scene was extremely joyful. Even in the past, when there was such a pile of money, the government needed to send out many official soldiers to protect it, but today it is rare to see many official soldiers.
The people who got the money happily gathered together and discussed what new things they should buy for the elderly, children and the mother-in-law in bed.
Those who had not received the money yet began to discuss how much money they should get. This time, the imperial court recruited them to build camps for the army. Not only did they no longer go out to do corvee work as before, but they also provided their own dry food and paid them wages.
This is something that the people of Dayong County have never heard of. Not to mention, the salary is really sufficient.
In just half a month's work, I can earn money that would have taken a month or two in the past.
For a time, in the mouths of these mediocre people, the imperial court has become the best imperial court in history. Li Yulong also happily climbed onto an empty box.
He didn't take any of the money the army gave him this time. After getting the labor price from the rear army's supply camp, he spent the whole night calculating how many people in Dayong County would have to dispatch to divide the money.
Now, all this money falls into the hands of the people under Dayong County. Li Yulong felt an unprecedented sense of pride rising from the bottom of his heart for no reason.
Fighting against the wealthy gentry in the city and fighting against the gangsters hiding in the mountains is not as fun as fighting against the imperial court to earn more money for the people under their rule.
Li Yulong seems to have found an unprecedented way to become an official. He couldn't help but tighten his grip on a document hidden in his sleeve.
That was sent from the camp earlier today. An edict stamped with the seal of the Emperor Taisun.
Li Yulong's heart became more and more eager, and he was just waiting for the people to make an announcement after receiving the money.
Finally, after more than half an hour, the more than 1,500 ordinary people present finally divided up the money sent from the heavy supply camp to the county government.
Li Yulong coughed twice and took the loudspeaker handed over by an officer and soldier from the supply camp standing next to him.
"Folks!"
"Folks!"
"Do you still want to earn more money?"
"Do you want to add a few more children and grandchildren to your ancestors?"
"Would you like to have a few more wives in your bed?"
"Folks!"
"Now, the court is merciful, and we have great things coming to Dayong County again!"…………Recommended monthly tickets
