Chapter 3: The Southwest Storm Rises

Yu Qian said so much, and after a while, he said: "If the tile spurs go eastward and Shaanxi stands alone, the old minister thinks that His Royal Highness is not suitable to be here." Please return to Beijing with Your Highness. ”

Zhu Jianjun's heart turned and said, "Duke Yu, is this what my father meant?" ”

Yu Qian said: "This is not. ”

Zhu Jianjun said: "In this case, please forgive me for not being able to obey my fate." The tile spur is already a lost dog, if he doesn't dare to watch the battle, how can he lead the people of the world in the future. ”

When Yu Qian saw Zhu Jianjun say this, he was both happy and troubled in his heart.

I am happy that this is the future son of heaven, but I have a bit of backbone, and the trouble is that this prince is in Lanzhou, which is a big trouble for him.

There are no impermeable walls.

The prince has not been in Beijing for more than a year, so how can he not get any news out.

And Zhu Qizhen also communicated with the cabinet on this matter.

After all, Zhu Qizhen really had any accidents, and it must be the cabinet and the palace ** who welcomed the prince back, and it was impossible for Zhu Qizhen to hide from the cabinet and take such a risk.

Although Zhu Jianjun is young, he grew up in the palace and is quite sensitive to politics. He knew that everything about him depended on his father.

In other words, if his father wants him to go back, he can naturally go back, if he doesn't speak, won't he lose points with his father?

Therefore, Zhu Jianjun is not greedy for the wealth of Beijing, nor is it that Zhu Jianjun is very comfortable in Lanzhou, but this principle cannot be destroyed.

Yu Qian sighed and said, "Since Your Highness thinks so, I will cooperate with the post of Lanzhou Wei Qianhu and help one or two by the side of the old minister." ”

Zhu Jianjun did not object to this transfer.

Anyway, he was not trained as a minister of water control, as long as he knew the importance of water conservancy, it was impossible to tie the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty to the construction site all the time.

Yu Qian said: "There has been a big incident recently, Your Highness should also take a look." Immediately, Yu Qian handed a stack of printed paper to Zhu Jianjun.

When Zhu Jianjun saw it, he naturally took it over immediately. But it's a new issue of Di Bao.

However, the previous Di newspaper was copied by well-informed people in the capital themselves, but now it is issued by the Department of General Affairs.

This is also one of Zhu Qizhen's small reforms.

Zhu Qizhen didn't dare to move for a while, but some corners and corners could be moved with Zhu Qizhen's prestige, such as this newspaper.

It was Zhu Qizhen who transferred Shang Shi to Beijing and presided over the change after the General Administration.

Zhu Qizhen is particularly asked to create a batch of copper movable type, and this batch of movable type alone will be smashed into tens of thousands of taels of silver, which will be managed by Shaofu.

Shang Chen, the newly appointed general political envoy, had to publish a newspaper every ten days, releasing the latest major events, and distributing them to the world through the post station. However, in principle, only high-ranking local officials, at least at the prefect level, are available.

The rest of the county decrees, not as good as the small officials, it is impossible to contact the imperial court specially distributed Di Bao.

However, if you think about it, this kind of secrecy is impossible to achieve. Therefore, being able to receive the imperial court's special distribution of the newspaper has become a status symbol.

It indicates the importance of this person in the imperial court, and is one of the important treatments of high-ranking officials.

Although some people in the Manchu Dynasty felt that the people were working hard and losing money, there was no major opposition.

Naturally, they would not have thought that Zhu Qizhen would turn this newspaper into a newspaper step by step, and then let go of his authority step by step. and add other content.

Many people can't see these visions, but they don't prevent Di Bao from becoming one of the authoritative mouthpieces of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Jianjun first paid attention to one point, that is, the news from Guangxi.

The Datengxia turmoil has been going on for more than three years, but it has not yet calmed down.

It's not that the rattan thieves are so powerful, but that the rattan rebellion in the rattan gorge has been completely complicated.

First of all, the first complicated thing is that the Datengxia Rebellion and the Tianjia Rebellion in southwest Guizhou are related to everything, and even Hou Dagou has a tendency to climb the heights and sing, and the southwest is in turmoil.

After all, the Tusi in the southwest were ready to move in the early years of orthodoxy, first suppressed by Wang Ji, and then suppressed by Cao Nai, so they were honest.

But they were honest at the time, but they won't always be honest.

In particular, there is a connection between Guangxi toast and Guizhou toast.

Guangxi, due to the mountainous terrain, the already complicated situation, there is a trend of procrastination for a long time, and Guizhou Tusi also has a tendency to move.

But if you just look at the battle report, Han Yong is fighting from one victory to another. The problem is that we have been winning battles, but we can't stop Guangxi.

The second complication is that Zhu Qizhen ordered the mobilization of the Southern Guards Army to be stationed in Guangxi.

It seems that Zhu Qizhen mobilized the guards of Huguang, Jiangxi, Nanzhili, Henan, Sichuan, and several provinces in one go, but if you look closely, you will know that these guards have not fought for many years.

Therefore, the seemingly vigorous war in Guangxi has been linked to Zhu Qizhen's ongoing strategy of abolishing the guards and reforming the county, and if these guards fight well in Guangxi, there are two ways out. Either the elite troops will be transferred out and stationed along the coast, and some elite soldiers will still be needed for the coastal areas

Either these elite soldiers are jumped into the Beijing army.

This is the Nanjing Jing Army.

This arrangement is to balance the interior, a large number of internal guards were abolished, and the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty could not be without garrisons, so Nanjing, as the center of the south of the Ming Dynasty, has dispersed a lot of power, and Nanzhili can be said to have been in fact divided into Jiangsu and Anhui provinces.

Nanjing's possession of a certain amount of military power did not affect the balance of the south.

Moreover, if there is something going on in the south, it is also a little easier to send troops from Nanjing than from Beijing. As for the tens of thousands of Nanjing Jing troops, what kind of organizational structure has not yet been discussed by this imperial court.

But the big frame is already there.

In this way, in the war in Guangxi, it seems that the Ming Dynasty used dozens of guards and hundreds of thousands of troops, but in fact, these hundreds of thousands of troops are half empty, and after removing the vacancy, the remaining soldiers and horses are also old and weak and unbearable.

The war in Guangxi became a whetstone.

Little by little, the rotten people in the Southern Guard Army were brushed down.

This also makes Han Yongkong have an army on paper and can't make a difference.

This decision, Zhu Qizhen is also a last resort, without the victory of the Northern Expedition, Zhu Qizhen wants to reduce the reduction of the guards in the north and the migration, which is not an easy thing to do.

Only after the great victory in the north, in the consideration of military strategy, Zhu Qizhen mobilized a large number of guards, and in the migration, they were screened and divided.

The same is true for the Southern Guard.

If it is dealt with directly, then the contradiction is between the local guard and the center of the Ming Dynasty, and it may cause chaos.

But with the Battle of Datengxia, then it became between the Southern Guards and the Datengxia Rebellion, if the armies of the Southern Guards could be as at the beginning of the country, they would simply and neatly pacify the chaos in Guangxi

Then Zhu Qizhen swallowed the matter of rectifying the Southern Health Center into his stomach.

After reading the news from Guangxi, there was a sudden news that surprised Zhu Jianjun and said, "The White Lotus Sect has revived? ”

But it was the White Lotus Sect that raised troops in Huguang.

Yu Qian said: "This matter is also unexpected by the old minister, but there is Xiang Zhong in Huguang, and this thief is calm, just in the palm of his hand." ”

Zhu Jianjun silently thought about Xiang Zhong's resume for a long time, but he couldn't think of it.

Yu Qian said: "Xiang Zhong is now the governor of Huguang, and His Majesty ordered him to appease the affairs of the displaced people in Yunyang. He is a man who can do things. ”

Only then did Zhu Jianjun remember.

There is this person.

Zhu Qizhen was greatly shocked by what Li Xian said that day, and naturally he wanted to make a move, Xiang Zhong was the minister elected by Zhu Qizhen to deal with the affairs of the displaced people.

He can be both civil and military, and can be said to be both civil and military. In dealing with the Yunyang homeless people, he did an extremely decent job. Yunyang Mountain is high and densely forested, and the displaced people are hidden in the mountains.

Xiang Zhong took dozens of people into the mountain, knew the righteousness, beckoned him down the mountain, and planted in the Yunyang area, and some did not come out in the mountains, and also set up a patrol inspection department.

The establishment of Yunyang Prefecture may not be able to pay much tax to the Ming Dynasty, but hundreds of thousands of displaced people outside the Ming Yellow Book returned to the control of the Ming Dynasty

For Zhu Qizhen, this is the biggest benefit.

Xiang Zhong also became a valued magistrate in Zhu Qizhen because of this incident. After all, it seems easy to go into the mountain to persuade the people to come down the mountain, but it is quite difficult to do.