Chapter 935: The Great Victory in the Southwest
Here, Zhang Juzheng is proud, and those ministers are angry, and now he sees that such a herald who doesn't know where he came from interrupted Zhang Juzheng's rhythm, he is angry, and those ministers who were not happy just now are also happy, after all, after holding back for so long, it is naturally a good thing to finally see the high-spirited Zhang Juzheng deflated.
However, before they could be happy for a while, the people who came came came with such a "good news", which made everyone present stunned.
This is not to blame these people, after all, if it is peaceful today, at least in the corner of the capital, no one can know what happened, although the war in the Northeast is about to break out, but if there is no fight, there is no fight, and how can the good news come, and in the northern Xinjiang, now that the Ming Court and I have already sealed the tribute and exchanged markets, there is no side trouble.
And now, a person appeared so suddenly, and said such a good news, which will naturally make people wonder what is going on for a while, and now, these people are just stunned, but they don't know how to ask, what is going on.
After a while, even the person who came to give the order to report the news, seeing that after he said this, no one present answered, he was also stunned, after all, the person who can stand in this hall is not a small herald that he can shout, and if he said his own words just now, he annoyed a certain person on the field, even if because what he said is very important, no one will do anything to him now, but behind him, if anyone is really unhappy, an order is given, he is just a small school, It's not like you're done with it yet.
Thinking of this, this person suddenly broke out in a cold sweat, suddenly, he remembered something, and hurriedly looked up, after all, this time was the time of the early dynasty, if the emperor was there, he would report such a good news to the emperor, and naturally there would be nothing to do with him at that time.
Thinking about it, I was about to kneel, but I found that the dragon chair on the high platform was empty, and there was no one at all.
All of a sudden, such a "good news" that I didn't know what it was, but no one spoke, and everyone stood there quietly, not knowing what to do.
At this time, the first to come back to his senses was Zhang Fan, after all, the good news that people came to say was the "Southwest Victory", and now, the word "Southwest" is definitely the top priority, and there is no one in the entire court who does not care, and for Zhang Fan, the word "Southwest" is particularly important.
It is not only because it is now related to Empress Dowager Li to deal with Zhu Xuanxi, the king of Shuduan, but also about the Five Poisons Sect and the fact that Daniel Zhang and Wang Xin are still trying to rebel, as well as the promise between Zhang Fan and Fang Yueling, in short, for Zhang Fan now, the word "southwest" means too many things, and he simply cannot ignore it.
"Tell me, what's going on," Zhang Fan walked up to that person and said, "You just said 'Southwest Victory', what a big victory, where is there another war?"
Zhang Fan was talking in front of him, and the man also came back to his senses, this is when he looked at Zhang Fan, hugged his fists and saluted, and was about to speak, but Zhang Juzheng on the side spoke first.
It's just that before Zhang Juzheng spoke, he also looked at the person, as if he was still dissatisfied with the person interrupting his summary, and although the person didn't know Zhang Juzheng, but looking at the official uniform Zhang Juzheng was wearing, he was also a first-class official.
"I know about this matter," although Zhang Juzheng explained it to Zhang Fan, it was obviously to tell those present who didn't know.
Listening to Zhang Juzheng, everyone else also turned their eyes to Zhang Juzheng, waiting for him to explain.
"This is also last month," Zhang Juzheng said, "last month, there was an excerpt from Sichuan, which was sent by the governor of Sichuan Province, and his recital said that because the servants are now arrogant again, they have invaded all parts of the southwest again, although because of the past, now the southwestern state capitals have long been prepared, so this time there is no state capital that has been breached, but it has also allowed the servants to destroy more than ten villages, killing and wounding thousands of people, so Cao Province decided to send troops to conscript.
"Originally, this kind of thing, he was the governor of the province, naturally he had power, and he didn't need to ask the court or His Majesty for permission, so his letter was not urgent, and when he came here to receive his letter, he had already sent troops for almost half a month, and now he has won the battle, and he has sent good news to the capital, but it seems that he has been fighting for nearly two months,"
Hearing Zhang Juzheng's explanation, the people present made a look of sudden realization, and then, all these people had smiles on their faces, obviously, this matter is not a bad thing for them.
And Zhang Juzheng's explanation also made Zhang Fan understand in his heart that Zhang Fan naturally knew about this "servant", but this matter, although it is actually very important, and it has been recorded in later generations, but there is no big book, even if it is in middle school textbooks, some versions will be available, and some versions may not be mentioned, for Zhang Fan, a person who doesn't like history, it is normal for him not to know.
And after Zhang Fan came here, in the past few years of hard work, the servant has not made any major movements, so Zhang Fan also accidentally turned to the file about this "servant", looked at it twice, and didn't care much about it, fortunately, Zhang Fan relied on his extraordinary memory to enter the sainthood, and now after Zhang Juzheng's mention, he immediately remembered what was going on.
And what Zhang Fan saw was, after all, only useful information about them recorded by the Ming Court, and he didn't know what it was.
In fact, the history of the "servants" is really long-term, as early as the pre-Qin period, the servants have lived in the southwest of China, this servants, before Tan Chao were called raccoon fangs, to the Song Dynasty, they began to call it "Zhuang", in fact, today's Zhuang people, the early is this servant.
In the past two thousand years, the servants have continued to develop, and by the time of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, they have become the leaders of a small number of famous ethnic groups in the southwest, but among them, there is nothing worth praising and praise, and there is no moment when people are worthy of admiring how great the development of a nation is. But once you stand on the territory of the Han Chinese, you will be assimilated in a short time.
And the servants are such an exception, the servants are in the southwest, and in fact, the places where they have always been entrenched are the throat of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, and because of the exception of this servant, they have also become the most headache for the rulers of the past.
As far as the Ming Dynasty is concerned, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang is a foreigner who took the country from the Mongols, so the Ming Dynasty has always been a little wary of foreigners, but it will not be too down-to-earth, after all, the establishment of the Ming Dynasty also made many other people worry about whether the Ming court would treat them as Mongolians, so the balance must be mastered.
But the southwest side is different, after all, it is too far away, Zhu Yuanzhang was not too harsh back then, but after Zhu Di came to power, because he had been a prince in the north for so many years and resisted the Mongols for so many years, so for foreigners, Zhu Di was tough after all, so at that time, the Ming court began to put down a lot of restrictions, so that the interests of the servants were greatly reduced.
This made the servants naturally very unhappy, and their character has not changed much in the past two thousand years, so that they are not satisfied with the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and in the end, in the final analysis, it is to use force.
Although this sounds like a war waged by one nation against another nation that oppresses it in order to fight for its own freedom and equality, it is something to be celebrated, but the faults of both sides are mixed.
In the two hundred years since the founding of the Zhu Dynasty, the servants have launched countless armed actions, and the Ming court has launched twelve expeditions against them, in the first eleven expeditions, the servants relied on their own fearlessness to defeat the Ming court ten times, although they themselves also paid a heavy price, but for the Ming court is really a heavy loss.
It's just that they will be angry at this kind of failure, the most typical is the first year of Chenghua, when the power of the servants was very large, Qiyu besieged Jiang'an, trapping Hejiang and other nine counties, and the humidity at that time Zhou Hongmo suggested surrendering, Ming Xianzong Zhu Jianshen agreed, recruited the servants of the village owners, came to listen to the seal, and the appointed governor Wang Hao arrived in the local area, but he mistakenly believed the local Han people, saying that the servants plundered the nature, Wang Hao believed this, That is, the invited servants and the owners of each village, a total of more than 270 people, were all killed.
This naturally angered the servants, so they surrendered, and as a result, the ambush appeared, killing 5,000 officers and soldiers, and Ding Shi and others, the commander of Guizhou, were also among them, and the governor Wang Hao fled.
Unable to find the main master, the servants went to Guizhou, Sichuan and other places, all the way to vendetta against the local residents, and finally there was no way, Ming Xianzong issued an edict again to recruit surrender, and the servants also went to Beijing, but Wang Hao still refused to appoint the servants as officials.
In the end, it was naturally another big war, but this time, the Han army mobilized 180,000 people, but it could not be overcome, and this tie was also the only time, because the servants did not defeat the Han army, it was not that the servants could not do it this time, but the number of Han troops was too large.
And now, in this Wanli year, there is suddenly such a great victory,