Chapter 70 Nanming Decision-making

Long Wu returned to Changsha City and immediately convened the cabinet.

The first assistant Ma Shiying and the second assistant He Tengjiao have not changed, but in terms of actual power, Ma Shiying is already under He Tengjiao, without him, and now Changsha City is under the direct control of He Tengjiao. And because of the defeat of Wuchang, Ma Shiying's control of Liangguang and Guizhou have an unstable posture.

This kind of instability is not only the chaos of the people, but also the growth of various political forces. Ma Shiying's control was only superficial.

The most obvious manifestation of this state was the rebellion of King Jingjiang.

The status of the vassal king of Jingjiang in the Ming Dynasty is different, for no other reason, all the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty are after Taizu, and the king of Jingjiang is not, the king of Jingjiang is Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew, after Zhu Wenzheng. In the entire vassal system, they belong to the marginal people.

But the current King of Jingjiang is an ambitious person.

After the fall of Wuchang and the capture of Hongguang, he had a different kind of thought. He objected to the accession of the Tang Dynasty to the throne, raised troops and established himself as the emperor, and was immediately pacified by the Guangxi magistrates.

But this situation also greatly shook Changsha's rule over Guangxi. The main reason for King Jingjiang's defeat was not that he raised troops, but that his bloodline was too far away, not a descendant of Taizu, and he had no right to inherit the throne at all.

Therefore, many Guangxi magistrates are ready to move. I want to make a contribution to it.

It was also Changsha's side, faced with the situation almost precarious, that it responded to the two rear areas mainly to pacify, and did not exhaustively pursue the case.

However, the rebellion of King Jingjiang dealt a great blow to Ma Shiying, and the biggest blow was Ding Chukui's independent tendency. It seems that Ding Chukui wants to break away from Ma Shiying's family and stand on his own. Ma Shiying, who was hit by this, hugged Longwu's thighs more and more.

The two almost hit it off, which maintained Ma Shiying's status. also maintained the balance of power between Ma Shiying and He Tengjiao.

In the cabinet, although there are still others, the political pattern of Ma Shiying and He Tengjiao standing side by side has not changed at all.

As soon as Longwu returned, he asked the two for their opinions on the matter of shaving their hair. When Longwu heard what He Tengjiao said, he almost couldn't believe it, and said, "Mr. He, this -----"

He Tengjiao said: "Feichen is willing to do this, and the current situation Xia Kou is strong, the old thief is dead, and the little thief is on the throne, but the court is not stable for a moment, the rebellion of the king of Jingjiang has just subsided, and the civil unrest in Guangdong has become more and more intense." Not to mention the rebellion of the Sha clan in Yunnan. Sichuan is a thief. The world is so big, the imperial court has only a few provinces, and there is no pure land among the provinces. What's more, the concentration of troops in Changsha has too much shortage of food and salary. If there is no food, the army will be in chaos, and if the grain is requisitioned, the people will be in turmoil, and they are really powerless in the north, and they still need to rely on the momentum of the Qing court to suppress the summer thieves, so as to give me a chance to breathe, and after sweeping all over the country, I will do the latter move. ”

Long Wu looked at Ma Shiying.

Ma Shiying only nodded silently.

Long Wu received the stall in his hand, not to mention a bad word.

The rebellion in Shadingzhou, Yunnan, although the momentum was huge, it is said that Shadingzhou united several Tusi to attack the Mu clan. Even on the book Changsha, to the town of Yunnan and the example of Mu's example. And Yunnan Mu's has been operating Yunnan for hundreds of years, and it still has some prestige.

Although the city of Kunming was lost. But it still maintains a broken situation.

And Changsha is beyond the reach of Yunnan. It is impossible to interfere more, let alone send troops to quell the rebellion. can only let Mu Tianbo dispose of it himself.

As for the province of Sichuan, only a few prefectures and counties in southern Sichuan remained, which were still in the hands of the imperial court, and the north had already fallen. It is also a precarious situation.

But these are all diseases of scabies.

Yunnan is already barren, and even when it is peaceful, it does not necessarily have much savings. Not to mention now. When Sichuan was in Hongguang, it was already like this. is really a trouble, but it is the financial pressure of the imperial court.

Under the situation of confrontation against the Xia army, the situation occurred that the army was insufficient if there were few soldiers, the salary was insufficient to support the army, the army was in chaos if there was no food, and the requisition of grain was a situation of civil unrest.

The tax system of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be quite stubborn, and the fixed tax system created by Hongwu made the financial revenue of the Ming Dynasty, from the Hongwu period to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court income hardly changed much. This is the financial characteristic of the Ming Dynasty, fixed taxes, and even carved in stone tablets in various yamen.

Kangxi's so-called "never endowment" is just because of Hongwu's will.

But in such a situation, after the crisis in the imperial court, I don't know how to operate the explosive tax increase.

If you talk about it carefully, you can't finish talking about it for three days and three nights. It can only be said that in the face of the military pressure of the Xia army, Hunan and southern Jiangxi need at least 100,000 troops, and if you want to go on a northern expedition, you need several times as many troops. And the military salaries of these hundreds of thousands of troops were all paid by Hunan and Guangdong.

There is no support on the ground.

This is also the reason for the civil unrest in Guangdong.

Emperor Longwu knew that the tax system of the Ming court was problematic. Otherwise, with the people's strength of the two provinces, perhaps, raising hundreds of thousands of troops is a bit difficult, and it is definitely not impossible to raise it in a year. It's just that where the problem comes from and how to start it. Emperor Longwu didn't know.

Emperor Longwu could only say hatefully: "Now it can only be like this." Elder Ge asked me to come over, just for this matter? ”

Ma Shiying said: "Your Majesty, the ministers invited Your Majesty to come, but it was for the sake of Sichuan. ”

"Sichuan." Long Wu said: "What is the movement of the thief? ”

Ma Shiying said: "The thief has just ascended the throne as the Emperor of Daxi, but it is quiet. It's just that now all kinds of soldiers and horses are gathered, and Guizhou, Guizhou Province is no longer enough

Hold on, please let Your Majesty order a person to supervise the division into Sichuan and feed the armies with Sichuan grain, otherwise the armies may be scattered? ”

Longwu was taken aback and said, "The armies of southern Sichuan, it's already so difficult? Is there a candidate for Aiqing? ”

The armies of southern Sichuan, in fact, were all defeated by Zhang Xianzhong, and they gathered together, and Changsha did not know how many people there were. There are all kinds of departments, and they are mixed. After the fall of Wuchang, the morale of the army was not too stable.

And Guizhou is a poor province.

In fact, it is one thing for Guizhou to be poor or not, and there is no official yellow book of Guizhou in the Ming Dynasty, because Guizhou is a province, which is simply set up because of the chaos of the Tusi, and there are only a few counties directly under the imperial court, and the others are the jurisdiction of the Tusi.

In this way, how can you get money and food?

In peacetime, Guizhou's taxes have always been symbolic.

Ma Shiying said: "The minister recommends Fan Yixuan. Fan Gong is a forty-seven year Jinshi of Wanli, a long time as a horse, familiar with military affairs, and a Sichuan person, familiar with both people and land, and now he lives in Guizhou, just to lead the army, the first to break the thief. ”

In fact, the report Ma Shiying received was even worse than the one he gave to Longwu.

The bad thing is that the armies in southern Sichuan are no longer the imperial army, so no matter how difficult it is in Hunan, Ma Shiying has never thought about transferring the troops in southern Sichuan, first, because the road is not easy to walk, and secondly, he knows that he can't move.

And the current situation is that because of such and such contradictions, all the armies in southern Sichuan are going to use swords and soldiers internally, and some people are against Zhang Xianzhong, and for a while, the enemy is the enemy and me, and it is a mess. The most important reason why Ma Shiying recommended Fan Yixin was not for Fan Yixing to break Zhang Xianzhong.

Instead, he wanted to temporarily appease the soldiers of the various ministries and prevent them from making trouble.

As for the rest, it can only be slowly drawn.

Long Wu has seen Fan Yixing's resume and knows that Fan Yixuan is an old minister and a border minister. followed Hong Chengchou to discuss the Liukou, and he was also a handsome minister, so he naturally agreed, and He Tengjiao had no opinion, Guizhou is Ma Shiying's hometown, and the Ma family is the hereditary Guizhou commander. has great influence in Guizhou, and this decision affects Guizhou alone, so he can't interject.

After the three of them were confirmed, Longwu immediately activated Fan Yixuan.

Feng Fan Yixuan held the title of secretary of the Ministry of War. The governors of the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan have the right to act cheaply. After Fan Yixuan received the order, he was not ambiguous and immediately searched for the generals. Unite all the generals and divide the troops to attack. Encircled and suppressed Zhang Xianzhong from all directions.

It's not that Fan Yixin doesn't want to join forces, but this situation makes it impossible for Fan Yixin to join forces at all. Each department fought its own battles, and they all played their own small calculations and forcibly joined forces, but there were side effects.

Before Fan Yi's soldiers came out, the news reached Zhang Xianzhong's ears.

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