Volume 13 Chapter 8 The Celestial Empire Descends
The Tusi soldiers and horses assembled in Menggen's Mansion were also recruited by Zhu Cijiong's order, and he originally planned to cancel all the Xuanwei Divisions while leveling the Nanyang, so he specially asked Sun Yuanhua to check how many Tusi were in all the capital guards of the Ming Dynasty before leaving, and he was a little confused about this check.
It turns out that not only the Xuanfu envoy of the Xuanfu Division is called Toast, but there are many people who are also called Toast:
The Xuanfu Division is actually equivalent to the nature of the capital division, and the Xuanfu envoy is equivalent to the commander of the capital department of a province, and he is the military attache of the three products!
There is also the Xuanfu Division under the Xuanfu Division, which is equivalent to the health office, and the Xuanfu Division's Xuanfu is equivalent to the commander of the three products;
The Xuanfu Division also has the Appeasement Division and the Chief Lawsuit Division, which are equivalent to thousands of households, and the chiefs of these divisions are equivalent to thousands of households in the five products;
All these Xuanfu envoys and chiefs of the third, fourth, and fifth grades are called Tusi, and there are twenty or thirty Xuanfu Divisions and Xuanfu Divisions under the Sichuan Metropolitan Division, Sichuan Xingdu Division, Yunnan Metropolitan Division, Guizhou Metropolitan Division, and Huguang Metropolitan Division, and there are even more than 100 pacification divisions and chief official divisions!
To be honest, this is a bit too much, if he wants to go to the whole one by one, it will tire people to death, he simply issued an order, all the Xuanfu Division to gather 2,000 elite soldiers, all the Xuanfu Division to gather 1,000 elite soldiers, all the pacification divisions and the chief lawsuit to gather 100 elite soldiers, all rushed to Meng Gen's Mansion to assemble, ready to attack Donghu, and all the Tusi must be present!
In addition to Taizu and Chengzu, if other emperors of the Ming Dynasty promulgated this kind of will, it is estimated that few Tusi will take care of it, but Emperor Chongzheng seems to have surpassed Chengzu and has the posture of catching up with Taizu, and no one dares not to go to these Tusi, because if you don't go, you will resist the decree, and if you resist the decree, you will be killed, and other emperors may not have the ability to cut them all, but Emperor Chongzheng definitely has!
Therefore, the Tusi gathered elite soldiers one after another, packed up and rushed to Menggen's Mansion, and after more than two months, Menggen's Mansion gradually gathered nearly 50,000 Tusi people.
After all, Menggen's Mansion borders the current Donghu Dynasty, and Zhu Cijiong was originally going to send a legion to garrison it, but as soon as he asked the commander of the Yunnan Metropolitan Division and Wang Zhengnan, who was in Menggen's Mansion, he gave up this idea, because they all thought that with such lofty mountains and mountains, it would be impossible for Donghu to gather 100,000 horses even if they came to attack, because they couldn't transport grain, and even if the Yunnan Metropolitan Division organized all the guards to transport grain and grass, it could only barely supply the grain and grass of the 100,000-strong army, and how strong could Donghu be.
Therefore, Zhu Cijiong finally ordered all the Tusi to organize elite soldiers to rush to Menggen's Mansion, and the Yunnan Dusi organized the guards to take turns to transport grain and grass, as long as the supply of grain and grass for 50,000 people was guaranteed, he had already thought about it, as long as it was the Tusi who came, according to the size of the position, he would be appointed as the prefect, the governor and the county respectively, only in charge of civil affairs, no longer in charge of military and political affairs, as for those who did not come, then they should not serve anything, and they would be destroyed directly!
Fortunately, these toasts are not stupid, and they all know that the consequence of not coming is likely to be the destruction of the family, so they all rushed over obediently.
Now that the armies are ready, the next step is to send someone to announce the decree, Zhu Cijiong carefully studied the information that he was an old man, and finally chose Mei Zhihuan.
Mei Zhihuan, the word Bin's father, alias Xintian, a native of Macheng, Huguang, Wanli thirty-two years (AD 1604) Jinshi, into Shu Jishi, the official to the left deputy capital of the Imperial History of the Gansu Governor, during the governor of Gansu, he has led the military and civilians to clean up the local thieves many times, is a rare civil and military all-rounder, but he has a very bad background, he is also a member of the Donglin Party.
In the third year of Chongzheng, Qian Qianyi and other high-level officials of the Donglin Party were corrupt and bent the law, abused power for personal gain, and assisted the Jiangnan Shidafu Group to swallow the Ming Dynasty tax, and the emperor was angry and purged the Donglin Party, in fact, he Mei Zhihuan did not participate in corruption, and was a good official who really served the country and the people, but the actions of Qian Qianyi and others really made him ashamed to be an official in the court, so he simply resigned and went into hiding.
This Mei Zhihuan is actually a famous poet in the late Ming Dynasty, the famous poem "Tomb of Li Bai" is from his hand, dare to inscribe poems in front of the tomb of the poet fairy Li Taibai, and can also be recited by future generations, his literary brilliance can be seen, so he is also a famous Confucian in the Ming Dynasty, plus he is sixty-five years old, so he is fortunate to be selected as the envoy of the Heavenly Empire, to declare the emperor!
Because he is both civil and military, he is the strongest among the ten old men in their sixties, so he was fortunate to be the first to go to Annan to announce the decree, why choose a sturdy old man? Because Siming Mansion is nearly 300 miles away from Thang Long City, the capital of Annam, and it is all mountainous, I am afraid that if you are not strong, you will not be able to hang there.
Three hundred miles, if it is a plain, it will only be a day's journey to speed up the horse, but the problem is that this is a mountainous area, so the Ming envoys walked for five or six days.
Speaking of the arrival of the Heavenly Empire's envoys, what was the reaction of the emperor of the Li Dynasty after the Annam Kingdom? The current emperor of the Later Li Dynasty, Shenzong Li Weiqi, did not react at all, because he was already under house arrest, and he didn't know that the envoy of the Great Ming Dynasty had arrived!
If you want to talk about the reaction, it is now up to the reaction of the Zheng family, because the northern part of Annam is their territory, and the emperor of the Later Li Dynasty is also under house arrest by them.
The Ming million-strong army is gathered in the northern part of Annan, and the Zheng family naturally knows about this for a long time, but they judge that the Ming is scary, why, it is all to blame our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong, he insisted on bringing 700,000 prisoners with him, so the information that the Zheng family got was that more than half of the million-strong army of the Ming Dynasty were civilians pretending!
Well, the prisoners are indeed dressed as civilians, and they are indeed more than the Ming army, and this information cannot be said to be completely fake.
The Zheng family was indeed frightened, but they thought that Da Ming was a bit like a bluff, and the purpose was to let them go to surrender automatically, so they didn't plan to surrender, they were ready to spend it with Da Ming, and the mountains in the middle were their natural barriers.
Sure enough, it has been more than a month, and Daming's "million army" has not moved at all, which seems to have completely confirmed Zheng's guess.
When it was reported that the envoy of the Great Tomorrow was coming, the Zheng family did not panic too much, and if the threat could not be successful, they would send someone to intimidate, normal, come on, we will avoid it, you can't help it!
Therefore, when Mei Zhihuan came to the outside of Thang Long City with a delegation of hundreds of Ming envoys, the city gate was closed, and no one paid attention to them at all.
This is indeed a bit unexpected by Mei Zhihuan, he thought that Annan would either send someone to pretend to be thieves to intercept and kill them halfway, or drive them away directly, or kill them all viciously, no matter how excessive he was, he could understand it, but he really didn't expect this to close the city gate and let him eat a closed door.
He thought about it, gritted his teeth, and ordered the envoy group to come to the north gate of Thang Long City dozens of steps away, and then whispered to the Jinyi Wei Qianhu who accompanied the guard, and the Jinyi Wei Qianhu immediately came to the front of the envoy group, and shouted at the luck of Thang Long City: "The Ming Emperor sent an envoy to drive, and the King of Annam quickly came to pick it up!" “