"Lord Wang!"

The sound of riding boots sounded, and Zhu Cizhao, who was groggily leaning on the throne of the main hall of the Yunnan Royal Mansion (formerly the Qianguo Mansion), raised his eyelids and saw Daniel Zhang and Qiu Lei entering side by side. Daniel Zhang was a servant in the dust, his face was as heavy as water, and before he knelt down and kowtowed, he sighed. Qiu Lei was worried, and when he saw his good son-in-law, he had a hard time.

Both of them fled from Xundian Mansion in the north of Kunming Mansion, and of course it was Li Dingguo, the king of Dashun Jin, who defeated them!

After the eight kings unanimously agreed to conquer Yunnan in the south, Dashun's war machine was running at high speed!

After the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of the first year of co-governance, the military government to which Li Guo's father and son, Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and others belonged got the order of the generals. Chengdu, Tongchuan, Baoning, Long'an, Jiading, Meizhou, Qiongzhou and other prefectures in western Sichuan and northern Sichuan have also received orders from the parliamentary government to solicit grain and grass.

After five years of adjustment in Yongchang, the two fundamental systems of the Dashun Dynasty - enclosure and land granting and counting land have been on the right track. The former granted about 20 million mu of land to 200,000 military households (including government households) affiliated with the military government, while the latter granted about 30 million mu of land to about 2.6 million small peasant households.

For Shudi, which has experienced many years of war under the rule of Dashun, an emerging dynasty, these two fundamental systems are still quite applicable!

Although there are too many military households (official households) that need to be granted land, ordinary peasant households have less land, and the average household is only a little more than 11 and a half mu, and the per capita is only more than 2 mu. However, there were many military farms scattered in the state capitals of Shu (including Hanzhong, Yunyang, Gongchang and other places), so ordinary peasant households could rent land for military households to increase their income (of course, exploitation through land leasing still existed, and the Dashun peasant regime was not a later revolutionary regime), which could basically ensure food and clothing.

By leasing land, military households affiliated with the military government can also get enough income to support military service - the government military system based on land enclosure is a typical land military service system, the cost of soldiers' service is mainly supported by land revenue, and the government only needs to provide a small amount of subsidies and rewards to mobilize a considerable army.

Of course, the system of enclosure and land granting and land allowance will gradually become problematic and even collapse with population growth, industrial and commercial development, and the corruption of the military and official households.

But at present, Dashun is still the beginning of its establishment, and the population of Shu has also been reduced due to years of war, and now it has just reached a level that can perfectly support the government military system - too few farmers are not good, too few farmers, military households will not be able to recruit tenants, and if they cannot recruit tenants, they will not be able to serve for a long time. However, if the population is too large (including military households and civilian households), the contradiction between man and land will be prominent, and the per capita land holdings of military households will be too small, the burden of food rations will be too heavy, and they will also be unable to afford military service.

And now, it is the time when the military households, civilian households, population, land and other aspects are the most harmonious. Therefore, 50,000 elite soldiers, 100,000 people, 500,000 stone of grain and grass, and tens of thousands of large cattle were requisitioned in less than a month.

At this time, the military town of western Sichuan in the Ming Dynasty had just been established, and the military expenses and equipment support promised by Emperor Zhu had not yet been in place - it was not easy to take the road from Wuhan to the mountainous areas of western Hubei and Guizhou, and then to the mountainous areas of western Sichuan, and it would not be possible to reach it in a few months!

Therefore, the newly defeated western Sichuan army could not stop the 50,000 Dashun soldiers with high morale, and Zengying, Yang Zhan and other generals had to give way to the main road in and out of Yunnan, packed up their troops and horses and retreated to Wusa Mansion and Zhenxiong Mansion next to Guizhou.

After seizing the jurisdiction of Mahu, Dongchuan, Wumeng and Sichuan Xingdusi, Li Dingguo did not stop to rest, but went to Yunnan non-stop. broke into Xundian Mansion from Dongchuan Mansion and caught the Yunnan King Zhu Cizhao by surprise.

Before Li Dingguo entered Yunnan, Zhu Cizhao, the king of Yunnan, and Mu Tianbo, the prince of Qianguo, were still fighting openly and secretly.

Yunnan is the territory of the Mu family, and Yunnan Mansion (Kunming) is the nest of the Mu family. But because Mu Tianbo was not careful, he let Lin'an Mansion (roughly Wenshan Prefecture in later generations) Amizhou and Tusi Shadingzhou of Wang Nongshan mutinied in Kunming City and lost this nest.

However, the Mu family has a deep foundation in Yunnan, and it did not completely collapse because of the fall of Yunnan Mansion. After Mu Tianbo escaped from Kunming, he established a base in Chuxiong Mansion (next to Kunming Prefecture), and also received the support of Yang Weizhi (from Shaanxi), who patrolled Jincang Road, and confronted Shadingzhou in Chuxiong.

After Sha Dingzhou attacked Chu Xiong Buke, he turned his troops to attack eastern Yunnan and won the support of most of the Tusi in eastern Yunnan, so Yunnan was divided into two, Chu Xiong and the west returned to Mu Tianbo and Yang Weizhi, and Kunming and the east returned to Shadingzhou.

Just when Shadingzhou gathered the troops of various Tusi in eastern Yunnan and was preparing to attack Chuxiong, Daniel Zhang and Qiu Lei drove over from Guizhou with Zhu Cizhao.

Sha Dingzhou saw that the signs were wrong, and hurriedly ran back to his hometown of Amizhou with the property of more than 250 libraries snatched from the Qianguo Mansion in Kunming, and his wife Wan Shi (the wife of the original Amizhou Tusipu reputation, who married Sha Dingzhou with the territory of Amizhou after the death of Pu Mingming) held on to the danger.

Zhu Cizhao, who recovered Kunming (Zuo Mengmei was in charge), was not polite at all, and directly lived in the Qianguo Mansion, and also put Yunnan Mansion, Xundian Mansion, Qujing Mansion, and Chengjiang Mansion all under the jurisdiction of Yunnan Palace.

This is equivalent to dividing half of the Mu family's territory and taking away other people's nests.

However, Sha Dingzhou, the enemy (killing his mother and wife), was not dead, Mu Tianbo could only swallow this evil breath, and Zhu Cizhao joined forces to fight Amizhou and Wang Nongshan, fought for more than a year, and only in the first year of Hongxing did they break through Amiszhou and Wang Nongshan, and captured Sha Dingzhou and Wan Shi to Kunming with a thousand cuts.

But after killing Sha Dingzhou, the common enemy, the contradiction between Zhu Cizhao and Mu Tianbo inevitably broke out - this is not only the contradiction between Zhu Cizhao and Mu Tianbo, but the contradiction between the two armed landlords!

Zhu Cizhao's army was originally a mercenary army with military salaries, but Zhu Cihong was unwilling to take money to fill it in, so he asked them to go to Yunnan to occupy the territory of the local owner.

However, Mu's Group has also developed in Yunnan for more than 200 years, and it is also the way to raise soldiers with land!

How much farmland is there in Yunnan this year? There are less than 1.8 million mu on the books, but in fact there are about a few million mu - a province as large as Yunnan, the actual total number of acres of land must be more than a few million mu, but this is the only thing that can be controlled by the local Han government under the Ming Dynasty. The rest are all in the hands of large and small toasts, the Mu family has been fighting with them for 200 years, which is the current state, and it is certainly impossible for Zhu Cizhao's outsiders to confiscate all their belongings in the short term.

Therefore, the Mu Group and Zhu Cizhao's Yunnan royal mansion will inevitably fight for the land of Yunnan. Even if Mu Tianbo and Zhu Cizhao are unwilling to fight, they can't restrain the people below.

And Zhu Cihong, who was far away in Nanjing and Wuhan, did not spare the strength to settle the situation for Mu Tianbo and Zhu Cizhao - there were more than 100,000 horses on their books, and Emperor Zhu was asked to pay him, and he could not pay three or four million a year? The total amount of land tax in Yunnan is only 140,000 thousand stones, and it is not collected.

Just when the battle between the Yunnan palace and the Qianguo mansion intensified, Li Dingguo's army suddenly fought.

Zhu Cizhao and Zuo Mengmei knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly sent Daniel Zhang and Qiu Lei to resist.

As a result, the army was defeated in Xundian Mansion, and Yunnan Mansion was already in danger!

"Lord Wang, let's join forces with the Mu family!"

"Lord Wang, let's ask Guizhou for help......"

After reporting the news of the defeat, Daniel Zhang and Qiu Lei put forward their own suggestions.

Now the situation is critical, and the only way to ask for help from Guizhou is to unite with the Mu family at the same time.

"No, no, the lonely king can't wait for death in Yunnan Mansion!" Zhu Cizhao roared in horror, "Where is the lonely king going?" Hurry up and give the Lone King an idea! ”

Qiu Lei and Daniel Zhang looked at each other, both a little helpless, why is this Wang Ye so timid?

"Why don't you temporarily abdicate Lin'an Mansion!" Daniel Zhang said, "We still have a bit of a foundation in Lin'an Mansion, and we occupy a lot of Tusi cottages. ”

"Lin'an Mansion...... What if you can't hold it anymore? Where else can you run? ”

Qiu Lei said: "I can only go to the Annan Metropolitan Division......"