In the Ming Dynasty, there were not many roads into Sichuan. As far as the Shuilu Station set up by the imperial court was concerned, there was only one road into Sichuan from Huguang, which was the Yangtze River Waterway. Occupied by water bandits, it is very dangerous to enter Sichuan from Huguang.
Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but asked, "Can I take a detour? I really don't want to go to Changde Mansion."
However, his idea was feasible after the Republic of China, but not now, because the transportation in the Pianyuan area is inconvenient, and there are many chieftains and Miao people. Basically, he left Changde Mansion and walked west for two to three hundred miles before entering Yongshun. The envoys and the soldiers and civilians of Baojing Prefecture announced the boundary of the envoys.
This is the territory of the chieftains in western Hunan, and as we all know, the mountains in western Hunan are famous for their strangeness, danger, and steepness. There are also some mysterious local customs and legends, such as driving corpses and kings of corpses. They have little contact with the outside world and treat strangers. It's definitely not friendly.
Even if you are really brave enough and have to go to western Hunan, you usually have to take the official post road of the imperial court. You have to go southwest from Chenzhou, pass through Zhenyuan Prefecture and enter Guizhou, then change to the northwest, go to Zunyi Military and Civilian Prefecture, and then go north to Sichuan. That place is Thinking of the Bozhou Tusi's lair and the future Bozhou Rebellion, Gao Pragmatic subconsciously rejected it.
Liu Xin, on the other hand, was not timid about going to Guizhou. She said that her father Liu Xianjiu had conquered Guizhou and led Liu Wei to defeat the Jiusi Man, Duzhang Man and other giant barbarians, which shocked the barbarians. The Guizhou side saw the banner of their Liu family, and It's too late to be respectful, how dare you make a bad decision?
But Gao Pragmatic refused to believe it, and he couldn't rest assured. If it was Liu Xian or Liu Wei who came, he believed that they had such a deterrent effect. As for Liu Xin, it's hard to say. It's best not to take risks.
Since we can't take this road, let alone other detours, we can't take the detour from Shaanxi to Hanzhong and go south to Sichuan. That's really a cold day lily. As for taking Yunnan and going around there, why go to Sichuan? Wenshan in Yunnan will be the future. The most famous place where Panax notoginseng is produced is close to the western border of Guangxi. He and Liu Xin might as well go to Guangxi together first.
Therefore, if you want to enter Sichuan from Huguang, you must take the Yangtze River, and if you take the Yangtze River, you must cross the line between Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain.
This was very annoying. Gao Jianshi couldn't help but ask Zhang Jianxiu, "Near Jingzhou, if I remember correctly, there should be at least two guards and horses of Jingzhou Guard and Jingzhou Right Guard. It's not easy to suppress a water bandit."
Theoretically speaking, one guard of the Ming Dynasty had 5,600 soldiers. If there were two guards, that would be an army of more than 10,000. It would be enough to suppress any water bandits. You must know that these are just Yangtze River water bandits, not like Zheng Zhilong later. One Piece.
Zhang Jianxiu coughed dryly and said, "Well, I bet you don't know something. Although Jingzhou has two guards, they actually don't have many troops. There is a serious shortage of the two guards, and the Jingzhou guards usually don't go out to fight. For example, our Zhang family is the Jingzhou Guard." military status."
"How many soldiers do the two guards actually have?" Gao pragmatically asked.
"I'm just kidding, how can I know the real numbers here?" Zhang Jianxiu smiled bitterly and said, "But if you really want to ask, I can still roughly estimate that the two guards can mobilize up to three to four thousand troops in Jingzhou, uh, I estimate that four thousand might be too high, so three thousand is a safer bet."
Gao pragmatic was surprised, "The two guards combined are only three thousand, which is too little, only a quarter of the real number is left."
Zhang Jianxiu smiled bitterly and said, "This is not bad. Some of the guards have fewer actual numbers, and the two guards in Jingzhou have sent about a thousand people as squadrons. They have been garrisoning in Guangxi for at least six or seven years. The three governors of Yunyang have been on duty several times. The imperial court said that Jingzhou was empty and requested that the Ban army be transferred back to defend the area, but the imperial court never agreed."
Although Jingzhou is part of Huguang, it is now under the control of Governor Yunyang. Since Yunyang has the geographical advantage of controlling the Han River, connecting Qin and Ba, and adjoining the four provinces of Hubei, Henan, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, merchants have gathered since ancient times. It has become a commodity distribution center at the intersection of the four provinces. It is an economic and cultural center and a military strategist in war years. It must be fought, with wars and wars everywhere, and wars and disasters, and the disasters are doubly heavy. Therefore, throughout the dynasties, Yunyang, which is located in the middle of the country, has been peaceful and peaceful, while turmoil has been chaotic. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Zicheng, Hong Chengchou, Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong and Jiaqing all paid great attention to Yunyang.
When Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he knew that Yunyang, with its big mountains and deep valleys, was prone to military rebellion, and chaos would bring unrest to the world. So he ordered the people of Yunyang to be expelled, and Yunyang was designated as the largest forbidden mountainous area in the country.
This ban lasted for nearly eighty years. Although it hindered Yunyang's progress with the times, making it closed and backward, on the other hand, it also allowed the ecology of Yunyang to be restored, which had been devastated by wars in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties.
The Qinba Mountain Area is a contiguous Nanshan old forest from Lueyang and Fengxian in Shaanxi to twelve counties in Yunxi, Hubei, from Ningqiang and Baocheng in Shaanxi through Sichuan to Zhushan, Zhuxi, Fangxian, Xingshan and Baokang in Hubei. Large areas of virgin forest such as the Bashan old forest in the county are gradually recovering. Therefore, the history of the Ming Dynasty said that "between the three provinces of Huguang, Henan, and Shaanxi, there is a lot of open land, with congested valleys and deep forests. There are vegetation in the middle that can be mined and eaten."
This rich natural ecology provided a valuable place for survival and reproduction for the refugees all over the country in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Therefore, from the Tianshun period to the Chenghua period, millions of refugees who lost their land in 20 provinces across the country came here to make a living. The imperial court sent large armies several times to exterminate and kill the people, but the refugees dispersed and reunited.
Under this situation, the imperial court ordered the establishment of Yunyang Prefecture in Yunxian County in the 12th year of Chenghua, which administered six counties: Yunliangzhu, Fangxian and Baokang, and resettled the refugees on the spot. Especially in the twelfth year of Chenghua, Yunyang Prefecture was established in Yun County. In order to coordinate the management of refugees in neighboring provinces, a larger administrative agency, Huguang Xingdu Division, was also established in Yuncheng. Its largest jurisdiction reached Hubei, Henan, and There are eight prefectures and 62 counties in the contiguous area of Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces.
There are good things and bad things. The troops in the Yunyang governor's jurisdiction are too concentrated near Yunyang, while Jingzhou seems much empty.
Gao pragmatic frowned and asked, "Are there no other military units near Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain, including Qianhu Station and Baihu Station?"
Zhang Jianxiu said, "It is said that there is a Yiling Prefecture in the north of Huya Mountain, and there is a Qianhu Guard Station in Yiling to the south, and there is a Zhijiang Guard Qianhu Station in the south. However, although these two Qianhu Stations are called Qianhu Stations, they are actually Each place can have more than 300 soldiers at most. Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain are between the two of them, and they have a strong reputation for evil. You give in to the two thousand-household settlements, but they are not willing to provoke them anyway. When Zhou Wenwan first came to Jingzhou, Even after evacuating thousands of households from two places, they still couldn't get them to actually go out to suppress the bandits. In both places, they went out with soldiers and walked around for a while before returning. Zhou Kuan was so angry that he was furious, but there was nothing he could do."
Gao pragmatic rolled his eyes when he heard this, and said to himself that although the guard posts in the border towns of the Ming Dynasty were bad, they were not this bad. At least they would not dare to move if they were asked to send troops. In comparison, the guard posts in the mainland were simply in a state of ruin. It’s muddy. I wonder if Guangxi will be like this too.
Liu Xin was so angry that he couldn't speak when he saw Gao Jingshi, and asked: "I wonder how strong the Huyashanshui bandits are. Although the army's military strength is not sufficient, most of the army's suppression of bandits does not rely on military strength alone to win. Is there any reason for this?" "other reasons"
When Zhang Jianxiu heard this, he raised his thumb and said, "As expected, Miss Liu asked the tiger girl the key point right away. Speaking of which, this Huyashanshui bandit really has some origins, and his strength is really not weak."
