Huang Zhiting's appointment quickly aroused discussion in the capital. At that time, it was the critical moment when Li Rusong sent troops to Pyongyang and Liu Wei mobilized his troops to surround Bozhou. Although the imperial court, especially the emperor, was happy about the news from southern Xinjiang that the Old Port Xuanwei Division had been rebuilt, it was obviously not possible to really pay much attention to it.
You know, at that time, Gao Pragmatic had just defeated Can Yuan and drove Chahar to the Western Regions. In addition to dealing with the Korean and Bozhou wars and sending Qi Jiguang to deter the Jiangnan Cao Army rebellion, the Ming Dynasty also had to rearrange the defense system of the entire northern border. Therefore, he was only excited about the reconstruction of the Xuanwei Division in Jiugang, thousands of miles away, and had absolutely no intention of doing so. The motivation to get involved yourself.
As a result, Huang Zhiting quickly received a reply from the Ming court, which clearly recognized the legality of the reconstruction of the Xuanwei Department in Old Port in the form of an imperial edict, and formally appointed "Shi Xiwen, the descendant of Shi Jinqing, the original Xuanwei Envoy of the Xuanwei Department in Old Port, as the Xuanwei Envoy". At the same time, he clearly announced: In view of the The Xuanwei Department was newly built and temporarily under the jurisdiction of the Annan Metropolitan Envoy Department.
When it comes to Annan, I have to add something here. Mo Maoqia, the commander-in-chief of Annan, had previously lost his sight due to an eye disease. Later, due to proper treatment, he regained his sight. [Note: Judging from some papers in the field of history, most believe that his blindness was caused by diseases such as cataracts and glaucoma. ]
After he regained his light, he was obedient to Beijing on the surface, but privately he kept wooing Mo's old tribe, and also tried to quietly contact the major chieftains who moved from Guangxi to Annan, in an attempt to gradually restore the Mo Dynasty's actual rule over Annan.
From the moment Mo Maoqia saw the general trend and immediately invested in Gao Pragmatic, we knew that he was not a reckless person. His plan was also implemented very well in the early stage. About half of the former high-ranking officials of the Mo family were persuaded by him. Some Guangxi chieftains also behaved in both directions due to his generous separatist promises.
But in the end he was exposed because he tried to win over Cen Ling.
Cen Ling, as the highest-ranking general in Annan during the Ming Dynasty after Gao Pragmatic and his wife left Annan one after another (referring to those with official imperial positions), held tens of thousands of Cen's wolf soldiers in his hands, and was the main general in the fight against rebellion in Annan.
In the early years, when Annan had just recovered and returned to the Ming Dynasty, there were chaos and thieves in the country. It was Cen Ling who led the troops to wipe out them one by one and massacred all directions, thus earning him the "reputation" of "Cen King of Hell".
Because of his outstanding military exploits, people in Annan both love and fear Cen Ling. What they love is that he has wiped out the rebels and ensured the stability of big cities such as Thang Long. Annan’s Mo’s vested interests have not suffered much loss; what they are afraid of is that Cen Ling is so good at fighting. If they couldn't win him over, it would be impossible for Mo Chao to break away from Jinghua's actual control - yes, they were thinking of Jinghua here, not Ming Dynasty.
It goes without saying that the Ming Dynasty was powerful. The arrogant Mongols in the north were suppressed and beaten. The Annan people felt that they had no chance to resist the Ming Dynasty. Although the Ming Dynasty could not resist, it did not matter. Former ministers of the Mo Dynasty generally believed that the Ming Dynasty did not seem to want to directly govern Annan because of the old events in Xuan Temple. What it really wanted to get rid of was the "oppression" of Beijing.
After years of observation, both Mo Maoqia and Mo's old ministers discovered that what Jinghua valued was never its nominal dominance, but its economy and military. In other words, Jinghua doesn't really care about what Mo Maoqia does at the political level.
Taking advantage of this favorable situation, Mo Maoqia's revival plan was quite smooth for a time. After wooing the forces mentioned before, it was finally time for the key figure Cen Ling to attack.
Mo Maoqia couldn't say he didn't take Cen Ling seriously, and he promised to give Cen Ling the position of Annan's No. 2 figure after success. This includes the official title of "Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Annan in the Ming Dynasty", as well as "King Shun" after the restoration of the old system in Annan, and "Yongzhen Guangnan" - Guangnan here refers to the North Vietnam area except for later generations. Except for the rest of central and southern Vietnam.
This promise is not ungenerous. After all, if it comes true, then Cen Ling's "King Shun" will actually become the "King Side by Side" in the novel. He is so strong that he can compete with the Mo family in the north. .
But unfortunately, Cen Ling was hesitant on the one hand and seemed very shaken, as if Mo Maoqia could win him over if he worked harder; on the other hand, he immediately reported it to Gao Pragmatic and also gave Huang Zhiting an urgent reminder. , asking her to pay attention to whether the Mo family would suddenly launch an attack on her hereditary territory, Hailong Mansion.
So Mo Maoqia was in tragedy. Huang Zhiting, who had just given birth to Gao Pingshi's eldest daughter Gao Yan, suddenly changed her destination on her way back to southern Xinjiang from the capital and went to inspect her Hailong Mansion.
She first announced something in Hailong Mansion, saying that she was ordered by Gao Pragmatic to request that one hundred and fifty (5%) of the annual income of Thang Long City, the capital of Annan, be used as a nurturing fund for her eldest daughter Gao Tong, and she also requested that the Commander-in-Chief Si Officially authorized.
This thing is so weird that it makes no sense at all in theory: You can raise your daughter by yourself. Thang Long City is the capital of the Annam Kingdom and the capital of the Governor’s Office. Why should 5% of the annual income be used to help you raise your daughter? It's just baffling and makes no sense.
But Mo Maoqia realized the problem, because this move of the Gao pragmatic couple clearly was a case of "calling a deer a horse". What they wanted was not to let the Annan people determine whether it was a horse, but to identify who among the Annan people was willing to ignore the facts and serve loyally for them. .
Things have come to this, if we don't start again, we will never have a chance in the future. Mok Mao Chia then ignored Cen Ling's unclear attitude and announced in Thang Long City that he would not accept the proposal, and gathered the assembled armed forces to attack the Thang Long garrison camp.
The Thanglong Garrison has four towns and a total strength of 50,800. It is the most powerful force among the six major garrison forces in southern Xinjiang, second only to the Dingnan Garrison. In the process of pragmatically seizing the entire southern Xinjiang step by step, the Thang Long Garrison also played a huge role in military blood transfusion from the rear - that is, most of the other garrison forces were established by the backbone of the Thang Long Garrison, just like Whampoa in Beijing.
However, looking at it on the other hand, it is precisely because the Thang Long Garrison has been "blood-drawn" over the years and has not been engaged in large-scale actual combat for many years that their actual combat power should be seriously overestimated in the opinion of Mo Maoqia and others. .
In addition, although the Thang Long garrison has four towns, they are deployed separately: there is a town inside and outside Thang Long city, and there are also two towns in Haiphong and Nam Dinh, which guard the two seaports of Thang Long.
Therefore, in the event of a sudden incident, as long as Mok first defeats or makes an emergency landing at the first town of Thang Long Garrison in Thang Long City, and then takes over the second town outside the city, then Thang Long City will be in control and can order I call on Annan people everywhere to be diligent in their work. In this way, the revival of the Mo family can be expected in the future.
Unfortunately, this plan failed disgracefully. First of all, the First Town refused to surrender. Not only did it hold on to the main camp in the city, but with 12,700 troops, it withstood the sneak attack of more than 20,000 servants of the Mo clan who quietly gathered from various families. They also took the initiative to attack after discovering that the Mo family clan army lacked heavy firepower. Instead, they surrounded the capital's ambassador's office.
The situation seemed to have taken a turn for the worse. The second town outside the city also received the news and launched an attack on Thang Long City. However, at this time, Mo Yulin, who was stationed in Thanh Hoa, suddenly announced that he would lead his troops to return to Thang Long to "quell the rebellion", which brought changes to the situation - because Mo Yulin did not make it clear who he wanted to help suppress the rebellion.
When the situation developed to this point, Huang Zhiting was naturally not idle. She first personally led more than 10,000 wolf soldiers from the Hailong Mansion to join the Third Town of the Thang Long Guard Army in Haiphong in the southeast. She ordered the Fourth Town to block the mouth of the lower reaches of the Red River and hold on there afterwards. In particular, we must be on guard against Mo Yulin's troops building plank roads secretly in Chen Cang to carry out sneak attacks; order the Second Town of Jinggang Garrison stationed in Ha Tinh to go north to control Thanh Hoa after Mo Yulin left.
Order the No. 1 Town of Jinggang Guard Army to send an infantry and an independent cavalry standard to Ha Tinh to protect the Ha Tinh Iron Works and Arsenal; order the direct and non-direct chieftains of the Huang, Tian and other families who are mainly located in central Annan to send troops respectively to follow Jinggang The second town of the garrison was assembled in Thanh Hoa; Cen Ling was ordered to lead the chieftains of Cen, Zhao, Li and other clans to send troops and gather in Shanxi (Annan Shanxi, west of Thanglong)...
According to her order, apart from the one that seemed to be surrounded by three towers to the north of Thang Long, Thang Long City was actually surrounded by outside lines after this order was executed. As for the gap on the northern line... If you Mo Maoqia has the guts, run to the Ming Dynasty and see if the Guangxi Ming army after the military reform can beat you to the point of peeing.
However, Mo Maoqia actually couldn't run away at all. He really underestimated the strength of the first and second towns of the Thang Long Guard Army. Especially in the first town garrisoned in the city, they not only quickly defeated the more than 20,000 servants gathered from the old ministers of the Mo Dynasty who surrounded them, but also quickly cleared out the threatening firepower points after surrounding the Imperial Envoy's Mansion and began to attack the enemy. stage.
But at this time, No. 1 Town faced a trouble. Mo Maoqia detained more than 30 important figures from Jinghua in Thang Long, including five "national policy advisers" and some senior leaders of Jinghua's major corporate departments in Annan. These hostages are very important and put the First Town in a dilemma and very passive.
Mok Mau Chia was unable to counterattack, and the first town did not dare to attack. After four days of stalemate, Mok Ngoc Lin's troops led their troops to the outskirts of Thang Long, ignoring the blockade of the Red River estuary in the Thang Long Guard Army's fourth town.
Mo Maoqia in the city learned that there was a fierce battle between Mo Yulin's troops and the Second Town of the Thang Long Guard Army. Then a hole was broken through the encirclement of the second town, and Mo Yulin's troops invaded the city.
Mo Maoqia was overjoyed and immediately decided to cooperate with Mo Yulin inside and outside to defeat the First Town. As a result, the First Town seemed to consider the danger of being attacked from both sides and took the initiative to retreat to the camp. Mo Yulin was able to relieve the siege of the capital and paid a personal visit to Mo Maoqia.
Mo Maoqia couldn't help being happy and issued an oral edict on the spot, naming Mo Yulin the King of England and presiding over military affairs. Mo Yulin, as the only famous general left in the Mo family, did not refuse, took over the defense of the Imperial Envoy's Mansion, and sent his own soldiers to take over.
Then, Mo Yulin arrested Mo Maoqia, immediately released the hostages in Jinghua, and sent people to contact the First Town, asking the First Town to come and defend the capital's envoy's mansion. He himself divided his troops to arrest the remaining members of Mo Maoqia's party and wipe out the opposition forces in the city.
He also did not forget to write to Huang Zhiting as soon as possible, stating that he had successfully suppressed the rebellion - of course, all this was achieved under the wise leadership of Gao Ge Lao and Huang Dutong, and he himself was just "lucky to the smallest extent." ".
Why is this happening? Because the Ministry of Internal Affairs had warned Mok Mao Chia of the coordinated actions in advance, everything that happened in Thang Long City was to lure the snake out of its hole and bring out all the rebels so that they could be arrested together.
As for Mo Yulin, although he is the only general among the Mo clan who still has the power to lead troops, and his unit has never been integrated into the garrison, over the years, the interior of Mo Yulin's unit has long been infiltrated by Jinghua. If Mo Yulin had If Yulin really wants Qin Wang Mo Maoqia, others will be "mutinized" before they even set out.
Mo Yulin knew this very well, and he didn't think Mo Maoqia had any chance. Finally, there is another point. Mo Yulin's "Mo" is a surname given by the Mo Dynasty. His original surname was not Mo - just like the Emperor of Xixia, although his surname was Li, was actually a surname given to his family by the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. of.
After this happened, Mo Maoqia was sentenced to death by Zhu Yijun for the crime of "intending to rebel", but according to the custom of the Ming Dynasty, his son Mo Quan was still appointed as the new commander-in-chief.
The only difference is that after this incident, there are no so-called old ministers of the Mo family in Annan anymore. They were all hunted down, and then according to the severity of the crime, they either killed the nine clans, or ransacked their homes and executed them. The least serious ones also captured the whole family. Exiled to Liaodong... I don't know if they, who are used to the humidity and heat of Annan, will freeze to death if they are exiled to Liaodong.
At this point, Annan has been completely Chineseized, and Cen Ling, Mo Yulin and others have also passed the final test. Then an interesting scene happened. Since Annan was ordered by the Ming Dynasty to take charge of the Xuanwei Department of Old Port, Huang Zhiting, as the deputy governor of Annan, recommended Cen Ling to be the deputy Xuanwei Envoy of Old Port Xuanwei Department, and recommended Mo Yulin as the garrison envoy of Old Port.
The imperial court quickly wrote a reply confirming this recommendation, and Cen Ling promptly submitted a request to move the Cen family to Jiugang, thinking it would be the southern corner of Ming Dynasty Yongzhen. Zhu Yijun appreciated this very much and personally talked to Gao Pragmatic, and then ordered that a large area of land in Nanwuli be designated as the land of Cen's chieftain Yongzhen.
The area given to the Cen family by Zhu Yijun is actually the northern part of Sumatra, covering an area of about 150,000 square kilometers (the entire Sumatra Island is 470,000 square kilometers), and Nanwuli itself is the former Kingdom of Aceh. capital.
However, the Jiugang Xuanwei Division established by the Ming Dynasty during its voyages to the West had never governed the entire Sumatra Island, and Nanwuli had never been under the jurisdiction of the Jiugang Xuanwei Division. Therefore, Zhu Yijun's classification was actually somewhat generous - of course , the Chinese emperor divided the barbarian lands. This practice requires no reason at all under the Confucian thinking system.
All the land in the world is nothing but royal land. I help you allocate land because I think highly of you. I regard your poor land as royal land. How lucky you are! So you local barbarians should be grateful and express your gratitude.
The move of the Cen family is not a trivial matter. There are many things involved and the work to be handled is also very complicated. However, since Jinghua is helping, of course it can still be carried out in an orderly manner.
Mo Yulin was very envious of this, but it was a pity that he was not from a chieftain family, and he did not have so many direct descendants to use to move the town, so he had to act as his old port garrison.
Fortunately, Mo Yulin is not idle, on the contrary, he is very busy: Jiugang Xuanwei Division is just a name. What Gao Pragmatic wants is to rule the entire Nanyang Islands in the name of Jiugang Xuanwei Division, and what the Nanyang Fleet needs is to use this name. First, conquer all of Nanyang in order to gain credit.
As a result, Cen Ling and Mo Yulin had work to do - the "Nanyang Islands Project" was jointly led by them. The Nanyang Fleet served as the main coordinating force and obeyed the dispatch. Huang Zhiting, who was based in southern Xinjiang, was responsible for logistics dispatch and upper-level leadership.
At this point, the Nanyang Fleet began to gain special achievements year after year, and the Beiyang Fleet, which had been doing nothing after the conquest of Luzon, was naturally jealous and its eyes were red. It also had to face the Nanyang Fleet in the triennial competition between the two ocean fleets. He joked, holding back his anger.
Now, this anger will naturally be vented on the Japanese navy.
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ps: I went back to my hometown last night and was stuck in a traffic jam in the heavy rain. I was really tired when I got home, so I went to bed first. I got up at 4 o'clock in the morning and started coding and updating, so this chapter is from yesterday and will not affect the normal progress of today. Thank you for your understanding.
