Liu Qiao asked Qin Liangyu about a few years ago, it was not a whim, because he had a task to go to a place in northwest Sichuan, but now the Sichuan region is relatively peaceful except for the vicinity of Chengdu, and there are some people who feel unsafe all around. Chongqing, Luzhou, Yongning, and other places to the south have just been ravaged by the convicted army, and many people occasionally feel sad that their relatives have been killed or injured in the war, and they will feel pain from time to time. Yongning, Yuejun and other places in the west of Xuzhou are the settlements of Miao, Yi and other ethnic groups, Zhuge Liang put down the rebellion here during the Three Kingdoms, and Songpan in the west of Yazhou in the west until the north is the territory of the Tibetans and Qiang people.

Hearing that Qin Liangyu went to Songpan to fight and passed through Mianzhou, Liu Qiao asked: "When General Qin passed through Mianzhou, did he go directly from Chengdu or along Longmen Mountain?" ”

Qin Liangyu asked a little strangely: "Of course, marching and fighting is a soldier who walks a straight road quickly, how can there be a reason to go around the side of the mountain?" Lord Liu has something to say. ”

Liu Qiao said: "I was ordered by the emperor to find a place, and I was afraid that I would be obstructed by unreasonable barbarians, so I asked. ”

Qin Liangyu looked Liu Qiao up and down and then said, "I am a Miao person, Lord Liu looks at me as an unreasonable barbarian?" ”

When Liu Qiao heard this, he was in a hurry, and hurriedly explained: "I don't have any other meaning, General Qin don't be careful, it's just that I don't dare not do my best because of the emperor's order, and I think that there has just been a rebellion there for a few years, and the locals will be hostile to me, an outsider." My personal safety is secondary, and if the emperor's affairs are delayed, there will be no redemption, since General Qin is passing by there, he naturally knows the details, please give the general more advice. ”

Qin Liangyu nodded and said: "Actually, I heard that Sichuan is surrounded by mountains, but the people living in the innermost circle are ordinary people, and the Miao, Yi, Tibetan, Qiang and others you are afraid of all live in the mountains on the outer layer of the mountain, as long as you don't climb over the mountains, you can't meet them." In fact, most of those people are kind, but everyone doesn't trust each other to become like this. ”

Liu Qiao immediately relieved himself when he heard this, afraid that he would say something wrong if he stayed here any longer, so he immediately said goodbye and left.

Because it was getting late, Qin Liangyu asked someone to arrange for Liu Qiao to live temporarily in the city, after Liu Qiao left, Qin Liangyu opened the silk bag, only to see that there were a few pieces of paper and a silver lock worn by a child, the silver lock looked a little black after some years, Qin Liangyu put the silver lock aside and looked at the letter. She looked up at the sky outside as she looked, as if she was thinking about something and as if she was having some difficulty deciding, and she looked and thought about it for about a quarter of an hour before she finished reading the letter.

After reading all the words on a few pieces of paper, she put the letter on the table, closed her eyes again, thought about it, and said to the maid next to her, "You go to the back and call Aunt Yin." ”

After a while, a woman in her thirties walked in, because she looked thin and dark, she looked smart and capable, she was the silver aunt that Qin Liangyu said, and now she was Qin Liangyu's personal attendant, and she was arranging food and lodging in the back just now. After Yin Gu came in, she saw Qin Liangyu's thoughtful appearance and asked, "What did the general tell me about?" Dinner has been arranged and the accommodation is being cleaned up. ”

Qin Liangyu looked at Yingu and said: "There are two things, one is that the emperor has written to say that he has decided to abolish the Tusi system, and he is preparing to set up a southwest military region, and intends to make me the chief official to guard the southwest provinces, and at the same time to assist the imperial court to complete this decision. Both of us are Miao people, I would like to ask you what you think about this matter, do you accept the emperor's invitation or write against it? ”

Yingu said: "The general is resourceful and doesn't need me to speak, and I don't have any opinions to interfere with the general's decision. ”

Qin Liangyu sighed and said: "When I was a child, I often heard the old people talk about it, saying that it is common for us Miao and Yi people to be bullied by people in the Central Plains, and I am also willing to manage my own people to be safe and secure in my heart, so that there will be a lot less fighting and hatred between each other." However, the emperor's letter said that the Tusi system is the source of all rebellions, Yang Yinglong in the early years of Banzhou, and now An Bangyan and Extravagant Chongming are all because when the Tusi has been empty for a long time, thinking that he can rebel against the court by himself, such people will not be less in the past and in the future, to avoid all this, the only way to avoid all this is to completely abolish the Tusi system and reassign the management of the officials. ”

Yingu said: "After the Banzhou rebellion was pacified, Banzhou was renamed Zunyi, which means that the Central Plains people and our Miao family and the Yi family live in peace and abide by morality, if the court does not comply with morality and wants to infringe on us, it will definitely not work, this is managed by liuguan, if it is to let the Central Plains people ride on our heads as a prestige, the general must stand up and state to the emperor and resolutely oppose it." ”

Qin Liangyu nodded and said: "Even you and I don't want to do it in our hearts, others will definitely be resistant to the emperor's decision, if you really want to forcibly implement it, I am afraid that the southwestern provinces will be troublesome." However, the emperor's words are also reasonable, since the Shu Han Prime Minister Zhuge Liang used a pacification policy to the southern forces, all dynasties have followed this policy to stabilize Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and other places, the advantage is that it can quickly see results, but the disadvantage is that every once in a while someone will rebel, or when the Central Plains regime is weakened, take the opportunity to stand on its own, such as Dali Duan and Guizhou An, whether such a rebellion can succeed is not to say that it is a disaster for the local people first. ”

Yingu thought for a while and said: "The general said at the beginning that it was the emperor's decision, and people said that the emperor was Jinkou Yuya, and he would not change it if he said it. Otherwise, the general will first agree to the emperor's invitation, and it is better for you to lead troops to guard the southwestern provinces than for others to come here, at least the general will not favor the Central Plains people to bully us. First agreed, and then put forward a request to the emperor in a letter, saying that the management of the liuguan can also be done, but in order not to cause a fight between each other, the liuguan should send us locals, so that the court has face, and we can live in peace, wouldn't it be the best of both worlds? ”

Qin Liangyu praised: "I can't see that you still have such accommodating thoughts, but the emperor is too far away from the southwestern provinces, I'm afraid he can't understand the difficulties." ”

Yingu said: "This is the reason why the general should accept the emperor's invitation, as the saying goes, the emperor is far away, and the emperor's hand can't be stretched out so long if he is too far away from here, and when there is really a grievance, it's not the general who has the final say?" ”

Qin Liangyu nodded and said: "In this case, I will send a letter to the court to accept the emperor's invitation, and ask the court to use locals as much as possible when sending officials, so that conflicts between ♀ officials and people can be avoided The first thing is about the public family, and the second thing is a private matter, but this matter is related to you." ”

Yin Gu asked puzzledly, "How can it be related to me?" ”

Qin Liangyu didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically: "Four years ago, you just came to join me, and your husband didn't know his whereabouts when he attacked Shuixi Longchang, have you heard anything from him after four years?" ”

Yingu couldn't help but be shocked when she heard Qin Liangyu mention her husband, and asked in a trembling voice: "I've been inquiring about him for the past few years, but I haven't heard any news, did the general get his news from the emperor's letter?" He was originally from the Central Plains, did he secretly escape back? ”

Qin Liangyu shook his head and said, "There is no news of your husband in the emperor's letter, only news of your daughter." ”

Yingu was even more panicked and said: "My mother's family has been wiped out with the rebellion of Luxury Chongming, and my daughter was placed back to his hometown by her husband. ”

Qin Liangyu shook his head and said: "Your husband turned out to be an officer in the Ming army, and your daughter was sent to the palace as a palace maid by your husband's boss. ”

Yingu took the silver lock and looked at it and said, "This is indeed something on her, but our family is a guilty family, how can the emperor not check it?" ”

Qin Liangyu said: "This is the emperor!" In addition to God, the world counts him the biggest, and he can do whatever he wants, and the ancestral system is not much stronger than a rag in his eyes, which also shows that it is imperative to abolish the Tusi system, and there is no room for negotiation. You think about it, if you want to meet your daughter before she gives birth, I will tell that Liu Qiao tomorrow, I have seen many cases of women giving birth to children and giving birth to themselves, you have to be mentally prepared. ”

Yin Gu nodded and said, "I'll think about it, now let's go eat first." ”

Qin Liangyu and Yingu arrived at the back hall when the meal had been put on the table, Qin Liangyu beckoned Yingu and the others to sit down and eat together, and when they were halfway through eating, a soldier came to report, saying that Guiyang Xingying was coming and the horse was rushing to report∝ Liangyu opened the emergency report document on the spot and looked at it carefully, it turned out that Gao Di and others decided to advance at the same time in the north and south after discussion, and Mu Tianbo of Yunnan led his troops around Lishan to the side of the Kedu River, monitoring Wusa An Xiaoliang and cutting off the route of An Bangyan and Hao Chongming's westward escape. Qin Liangyu's troops in the north were stationed on the Chishui River, Zhenxiong in the west and Bijie in the east, and the defenders of Zunyi in the east joined forces to defend the Biyan River to prevent the rebels from disturbing Huguang through Da Lou Mountain.

Qin Liangyu saw that the agreed time was June 15, and after calculating that there were still several days, there should be no problem in shrinking the troops to come to Yongning to gather, so he asked Yingu to send a letter to the troops stationed in Luzhou and Xuzhou early the next morning, asking them to transfer troops to Yongning before June 13, and everyone was stationed by the Chishui River on June 15.

Gao Di and others' idea is that the north and south are advancing at the same time, to see how the rebels respond, if the rebels wave their divisions to the east and try to capture Guiyang, then have a decisive battle with the rebels, it turns out that there are many troops near Guiyang, Zhang Jing'an's 30,000 people and 3,000 small cannons joined in to occupy important places to wait for the rebels to be happy. If the rebels tried to return to Yongning, the old nest of luxury Chongming, and the Chishui River was in a hurry, Qin Liangyu's Sichuan army happened to attack it on the way to the crossing, and in the case of a long-term confrontation, it would be beneficial for Zhang Jing'an's people to gain a foothold on the banks of the Wujiang River.

Gao Di said to Qin Liangyu in the article that there is no need to fight to the death with the rebels, as long as the rebels are dragged by the Chishui River, they will be considered a great achievement, and they can make a certain retreat when necessary, as long as they entangle the rebels∝ Liangyu thinks deeply about this, she is good at fighting more with less, and this battle with less is to hit the enemy's vital point, standing still and fighting with the enemy, you punch and I kick to the death is not Qin Liangyu's style, it is the reckless reckless man.

Qin Liangyu is not a reckless man, she is a strange woman with both wisdom and bravery, but just as she was about to transfer troops to Yongning to prepare to besiege the rebels, a sentry came to report that the rebels had crossed the Chishui River to besiege her.