Yang Cong really didn't expect to receive a little brother as soon as he ran to the southwest, although this Ma Jiude was born at a low point in the imperial examination, it didn't matter much, anyway, except for the cabinet scholars who have requirements for the imperial examination, there are no hard and fast rules for other officials.

The so-called "heroes don't ask about their background", like Hu Zongxian, Hai Rui and other famous officials of the Jiajing Dynasty are not high in the imperial examination, especially Hai Rui, who did not even get into the Jinshi examination, and they have become famous Qing officials in history.

Sometimes a person's achievements are not determined by an examination, a person's achievements mainly depend on people's conduct and ability, many people may not be good in the imperial examination, but once they enter the officialdom, they can mix the wind and water.

Of course, at this time, Ma Jiude can't be regarded as a mixed wind and water, Zhizhou, just a local official from Wupin, in Yang Cong's opinion, this guy still has a lot of room for improvement.

It is not very difficult for him to promote people, for example, this time, he has already used Yong'an Prefecture as a place to garrison troops, and as long as the Annan matter achieves a successful result, he can be promoted to the prefect level by sharing some merits with Ma Jiude.

The reason why he accepted Ma Jiude so happily is naturally for a reason, mainly because he doesn't know much about the southwest.

For example, there are those sources of soldiers in the southwest, and where the combat effectiveness of the soldiers is relatively strong.

Another example is why the southwest is so poor, and what methods can be used to change the current situation of poverty and backwardness in the southwest.

He didn't come to the southwest to seek death as Xia Yan and Yan Song imagined, he had a lot of ideas.

The so-called "one term for the official, for the benefit of one party." He not only wanted to solve the problem of Annan, but if possible, he also hoped to change the current situation of poverty and backwardness in the southwest.

Ma Jiude really has a few brushes, and Yang Cong chatted with him all night, and he had a feeling of sudden enlightenment.

For example, in terms of the source of soldiers, although Ma Jiude has never led troops, he knows the soldiers in the southwest quite well, after all, the southeast coast of the Ming Dynasty has been plagued by pirates and pirates over the years, and he, as the governor of the seaside state, must also be ready to resist the invasion of pirates and pirates at any time.

He believes that whether it is Guangdong, Guangxi, or Yunnan and Sichuan, the guards of the Dusi Guards are not very good, and the most effective in this southwest are the private soldiers under the Tusi in various places, such as the wolf soldiers in Guangxi, the elephant soldiers in Yunnan, and the native soldiers in Sichuan.

These people basically regard war as a way to make money, as long as the court is willing to spend money, they can sell your life to you.

For example, why the southwest is so poor, in fact, it is very simple, because there are too many mountains in the southwest and too few fields, and the entire southwest is almost "eight mountains, one water and one field", and the cultivated land area only accounts for 10%, and you can't eat enough, how can you get rich.

This problem of the source of troops is easy to say, Yang Cong feels that there is a chance that this battle will not be fought, as long as he puts on a posture, Annan Mo's is estimated to be so frightened that he will hurry up to sue for peace.

How can this problem of poverty be solved?

The entire southwest also has a population of tens of millions, no land, how to solve the problem of eating, how to make the people rich, he is not arrogant enough to think that he can feed tens of millions of people.

He is not the kind of person who is in office to be a powerful man, pat his ass and leave, and don't care about the life or death of the people at all, since he has come to the southwest, he hopes to make some achievements so that the people of the southwest can live a good life.

He also wants to rush into the cabinet in one fell swoop with his political achievements in the southwest, if it is not enough to make Annan surrender, after all, there are still two mortal enemies in the DPRK, Xia Yan and Yan Song, who are doing everything possible to obstruct it.

Of course, he doesn't have time to think about the people's livelihood in the southwest at this time, because his main task is to clean up the Mo clan in Annan, not to govern the southwest, he must deal with the problem of Annan first, otherwise, even if Jiajing doesn't clean him up, Xia Yan and Yan Song will slander him, so that he has no good fruit to eat.

How to solve this problem of Annam Mohs?

It's very simple, that is, first put on an offensive posture, intimidate, see if Annan Mo's comes to sue for peace, if he comes to seek peace, then it's okay, if not, give them some color.

Of course, this is not something that can be done by 10,000 or 20,000 horses, at least 100,000 horses, and he is not short of this food.

The next day, he issued conscription orders to Guangxi, Yunnan, and Sichuan.

ordered the Sichuan Metropolitan Division to recruit 30,000 soldiers from Shizhu, Xiyang, Shiyedong and other Xuanfu Divisions, Xuanfu Divisions, and Changguan Divisions to come to Yong'an Prefecture to listen to them;

ordered the Guangxi Metropolitan Division to recruit 30,000 wolf soldiers from Anlong, Shanglin, Sien and other Xuanfu Divisions, Xuanfu Divisions, and Chief Officials Divisions to come to Yong'an Prefecture to listen to them;

ordered the Yunnan Metropolitan Division to recruit 30,000 elephant soldiers from the Xuanfu Division, the Xuanfu Division, and the Chief Officials Division, such as Meng Gen, Meng Yang, and Che Li, to come to Yong'an Prefecture to listen to them;

At the same time, he also ordered Yu Dayou to lead the fleets of the naval divisions of the five southeastern provinces to Fujian to transfer the remaining 10,000 elite guards and supplies such as grain, grass, and silver to prepare for the troops in Yong'an Prefecture.

Here in Yong'an Prefecture, together with Ma Jiude, he led the 10,000 elite guards of Nanzhili Tunwei and the 5,000 laborers recruited to divide the area in the south of the city, and build simple walls and roads, so as to prevent conflicts when the soldiers from all over the country arrived.

In this way, after nearly a month of busy work, the grain in the grain station of Yong'an Prefecture City has been piled up, the Guangxi wolf soldiers have also arrived, stationed in the designated area, and the 20,000 guards of Nanzhili have also been stationed around the granary, and the entire Yong'an Prefecture City has suddenly become a military city, and every day from morning to night is the sound of various drills, so it is not lively.

Immediately afterwards, he sent a petition to the imperial court, asking Hu Zongxian to be transferred to the governor of Guangxi to assist him in handling the affairs of Annam.

Anyway, Hu Zongxian is his cronies at this time, not Yan Song's cronies, can Xia Yan and Yan Song make Hu Zongxian the governor of Guangxi, you must know that the governor must at least be the right hand of the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the fourth grade, and at this time Hu Zongxian is just a supervising imperial history of the seventh grade.

This grade is not a problem, there is a precedent for such a promotion of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, generally the Imperial History of the Imperial Procuratorate is sent out to patrol after a few years of service, and those with outstanding patrol performance may be directly promoted to the Imperial History of the Imperial Palace.

Hu Zongxian's qualifications and achievements are enough, and Zhang Yue, the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, will definitely not be stuck in his shell, the main question is the cabinet, can Xia Yan and Yan Song let Yang Cong's cronies be promoted so easily?

Yang Cong naturally took this into account, so he specially explained in the recital that the reason why Hu Zongxian was recruited as the governor was to let Hu Zongxian send an envoy to Annan to promote Tianwei.

This is said to be high-sounding, in fact, it is to go to Annan to recruit people or declare war with others, the Ming Dynasty is generally a routine for foreign enemies, surrender first, if you surrender honestly, forget it, if you don't surrender, then start a war!

This is not a good errand, when Annan Zheng came to the Ming Court for the first time to complain, Jiajing ordered Huang Juan, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, to go to Annan to recruit Mo, but Huang Huang was so frightened that he pretended to be sick and did not dare to go, and the angry Jiajing directly withdrew Huang Juan.

To put it bluntly, this is an errand on the belt of the trousers, and it is possible that it will be slaughtered by an angry enemy in a minute, and I really dare not go without a little guts.

Xia Yan and Yan Song discussed it again and again, but they still decided to let Hu Zongxian go to death.

Because they are also afraid, they are not afraid that Jiajing will force them to go to Annan, and it is basically impossible for such a thing as a cabinet scholar to send an envoy to an enemy country.

They are afraid that after Hu Zongxian is denied, Jiajing will let them recommend suitable candidates, and they don't have this kind of hob meat that is not afraid of death!

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