In the Ming Dynasty, there were not many roads into Sichuan, as far as the water 6 post stations set up by the imperial court were concerned, there was only one road from Huguang to Sichuan, that is, the Yangtze River waterway, if Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain, which were separated by water bandits, were occupied by water bandits, it would be very dangerous to enter Sichuan from Huguang.

Gao Pragmatic couldn't help asking, "Can you take a detour, but don't walk in Changde Mansion?"

However, his idea could be feasible after the Republic of China period, but now he can't, because the transportation in the Biyuan area is inconvenient, and there are many Tusi and Miao people, basically walking two or three hundred miles west of Changde Mansion, he entered the boundary of the Yongshun Military and Civilian Propaganda Department and the Baojing Prefecture Military and Civilian Propaganda Department.

This is the territory of Xiangxi Tusi, and as we all know, the mountains of Xiangxi are known for their strangeness, danger and steepness, and there are some mysterious customs and legends in the local area.

Even if you are really bold enough, if you have to go to Xiangxi, you usually have to take the official road of the imperial court, which has to go southwest from Chenzhou, pass through Zhenyuan Mansion into Guizhou, and then change to the northwest, to Zunyi Military and Civil Mansion and then go north to Sichuan, where the place is the nest of Banzhou Tusi, thinking of the Banzhou Rebellion in the future, Gao Shishi subconsciously vetoed it.

However, Liu Xin was not timid about going to Guizhou, saying that her father Liu Xianjiu was in Guizhou, and took Liu Wei to sweep away the barbarian giants such as Jiusi Barbarian and Duzhangman, and shocked all barbarians, and Guizhou saw the banner of their Liu family, and it was too late to be respectful, how could they dare to fight bad ideas

But Gao Pragmatic refused to believe it, and he couldn't rest assured, if it was Liu Xian or Liu Ling, who said that he had this deterrent power Thaksin, as for Liu Xin, it would be difficult to say, it was better not to take risks.

Since this road can not be walked, other detours are not to mention, you can't take the detour from Shaanxi to Hanzhong south into Sichuan, it is really daylily is cold, as for going to Yunnan to go around that and go to Sichuan, Yunnan Wenshan is the most famous notoginseng production area in later generations, the location is close to the western border of Guangxi, he and Liu Xin might as well go to Guangxi on the same road first.

Therefore, if you want to enter Sichuan from Huguang, you must take the Yangtze River, and you must cross the line of Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain to walk the Yangtze River.

This is very annoying, Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but ask Zhang Jianxiu, "Near Jingzhou, if I remember correctly, there should be at least two guards and horses in Jingzhou Wei and Jingzhou Right Guard, and it is not easy to suppress a water bandit."

Theoretically speaking, one guard of the Ming Dynasty has 5,600 soldiers, and if there are two guards, it is more than 10,000 troops, and it is enough to suppress any water bandits, you must know that this is just a Yangtze River water bandit, and it is not a One Piece like Zheng Zhilong later.

Zhang Jianxiu coughed dryly and said, "This, you don't know the truth, although Jingzhou has two guards, but in fact, there are not many troops, the two guards are already seriously lacking, and Jingzhou guards usually do not go out to fight, for example, our Zhang family is the military of Jingzhou Wei." ”

"How many soldiers are actually there in the two guards?" asked Gao Shipra.

"Truth-seeking jokes, 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 the maximum number of troops that the two guards can mobilize in Jingzhou is three or four thousand, uh, I estimate that four thousand may be very suspenseful, and it is safer to count three thousand." ”

Gao Pragmatic was taken aback, "The two guards together are only three thousand, which is too little, only a quarter of the real number left."

Zhang Jianxiu smiled bitterly and said, "This is okay, some guards have fewer real numbers, and the two guards in Jingzhou have sent about a thousand people to be the squad army, and they have been in Guangxi for at least six or seven years." The three governors of Yunyang went to the imperial court several times, saying that Jingzhou was empty and asked to transfer back to the squad to defend the local area, but the imperial court never agreed. ”

Although Jingzhou is a vast lake, it is now under the control of the governor of Yunyang. Due to the geographical advantages of Yunyang to control the Han River, connect Qinba, and adjacent to the four provinces of Hubei, Henan, Sichuan and Shaanxi, since ancient times, merchants gathered, and it was the commodity distribution center of the intersection of the four provinces. Therefore, in the past dynasties, Yunyang, which is in the middle of the country, is peaceful and peaceful, and turbulent is chaotic. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Zicheng, Hong Chengchou and Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong, and Jiaqing all paid great attention to Yunyang.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Yunyang, where the mountains and valleys were deep, was prone to chaos, and chaos would make the world restless, so he ordered the expulsion of the mountain people of Yunyang, and listed Yunyang as the largest forbidden mountainous area in the country.

This ban, which lasted for nearly 80 years, certainly hindered Yunyang's progress with the times, making it closed and backward, but on the other hand, it also restored the ecology of Yunyang, which was devastated by war at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

The Qinba Mountains from Luoyang and Fengxian in Shaanxi to the 12 counties of Yunxi in Hubei Province, and from Ningqiang and Baocheng in Shaanxi to Zhushan, Zhuxi, Fangxian, Xingshan and Baokang in Hubei Province, and other large-scale primeval forests, such as the Bashan old forests in the 18 counties of Hubei Province, have gradually recovered. Therefore, the history of the Ming Dynasty said that "between the three provinces of Huguang, Henan and Shaanxi, there are many open lands, the valleys are choked, the forests are deep, there are plants and trees, and they can be mined for food." ”

This abundant natural ecology provided a valuable place for the displaced people who spread all over the country in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Therefore, from the Tianshun period to the Chenghua period, millions of displaced people who lost their land in 20 provinces across the country have come here to make a living. The imperial court sent large armies to drive and kill them several times, but the displaced people dispersed and reunited.

Under this circumstance, the imperial court ordered the establishment of Yunyang Mansion in Yunxian County in the twelfth year of Chenghua, with jurisdiction over six counties of Liangyun and Liangzhu, Fang County and Baokang, and resettled displaced people on the spot. In particular, in the twelfth year of Chenghua, when Yunyang Prefecture was set up in Yunxian County, in order to coordinate the management of the displaced people in neighboring provinces, a larger administrative organization was also set up in Yuncheng, and the jurisdiction was the largest in eight prefectures and 62 counties in the contiguous areas of Hubei, Henan, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces.

There are good and bad, the forces in the jurisdiction of the Yunyang governor are too concentrated near Yunyang, and the Jingzhou side is much empty.

Gao Shishi frowned and asked, "Then there are no other troops near Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain, and there are no thousands of households or hundreds of households?"

Zhang Jian said, "Speaking of which, there are Yiling Prefectures in the north of Huya Mountain, and there are Yiling Guarding Thousand Households in the south, and Zhijiang Guarding Thousand Households in the south, but although these two Thousand Households are known as Thousand Households, in fact, there are more than 300 soldiers in each place. And Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain are in the middle of the two of them, the fierce reputation is prosperous, two thousand households you push me to let me, anyway they refuse to provoke, Zhou Observation when he first came to Jingzhou, evacuated the two places and thousands of households, and failed to let them really go out to suppress bandits, both places are with soldiers out of the circle and go back, Zhou Observation was so angry that he jumped like thunder, but there was no way. ”

Gao Pragmatic rolled his eyes when he heard this, and said in his heart that although the guards in Daming Border Town were rotten, they were not rotten like this, at least let them send troops, they still didn't dare not move, in comparison, the guards in the interior were simply rotten into mud, I don't know if Guangxi will be like this

Liu Xin was speechless when he saw that Gao was so angry that he asked, "I don't know what the strength of this Huya Mountain bandit is, although the official army is not very strong, but most of the official army and bandits do not rely on military strength alone to win, there are other reasons for this."

When Zhang Jianxiu heard this, he stretched out his thumb and said, "Miss Liu really asked the key point, speaking of which this Huya Landscape Bandit really has some origins, and his strength is really not weak." ”