Changping won a great victory in the first battle, but Zhu Pingjin and Liao Daheng were still dealing with the difficult Jinyiwei.

Zhu Pingjin and Liao Daheng originally wanted to hand over the Qin prisoners such as the father and son of Fushun Wang to Jinyiwei, and then beat gongs and drums to send off Qincha, but he underestimated Jinyiwei's professional ability.

Zhu Pingjin's distant brother and his subordinates only did a quarter of an hour of business, and immediately came to a conclusion: whether it was the Fushun Wang's father and son and Liu Quanzhong, who were imprisoned in the Shu Wangfu Trial Center, or Chen Shiqi and Fu Chongqi, who were imprisoned in the judicial department, their physical conditions were not suitable for long-distance escort. If a person dies on the road, Jinyiwei will be held responsible. Therefore, they resolutely rejected the transfer request of the Sichuan side, and made it clear that they could only take over when the prisoner's body recovered.

So Zhu Pingjin and Liao Daheng's sinister plan fell through.

Since learning of the angel's arrival, the food of these Qin prisoners has immediately improved, chicken, duck and fish are available every day, and they are cooked in different ways, not the same every day, so as not to spoil the appetite of the Qin prisoners. Of course, this is not the kindness of the criminal accomplices Zhu Pingjin and Liao Daheng, they are just worried that the rhubarb and croton flour added to the meal are not eaten.

In order to prevent individual prisoners from being in particularly good physical condition and having natural immunity to medicine, the criminal accomplices also prepared a famous ship for the escort of prisoners. When the ship passes through the rapids and rapids such as the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, a brave and fearless crew member who has taken a lot of money will pull out the iron dowels on the bottom of the ship, causing the irretrievable continuity of the load-bearing structure of the entire bottom of the ship, causing the hull to disintegrate.

Jin Yiwei neither left nor took over, and re-entered the normal state of eating, drinking and merrymaking. The cost of a dozen of them is at least equivalent to two companies of the caravan. Of course, Zhu Pingjin felt sorry for his money, so he invited his brother to drink, and on the table was someone's long-coveted yak tail, intending to ask him when he would get out of here.

Li Yongjing was really drunk, not only stepped on the chair with both feet, but also patted Zhu Pingjian, the prince of the vassal prince, on the shoulder with great rudeness. Of course, Zhu Pingjin was not without gains, at least his brother revealed a sentence when he was drunk: The commander of Jinyiwei made Luo Yangxing not very relieved of the vassal kings in various places, for fear that they would take advantage of the current chaos to move. Therefore, Li Yongjing is here for one day, and Luo Yangxing can only believe in Zhu Pingjin for one day.

As the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Luo Yangxing is just a dog of the emperor. Luo Yang is not at ease, and naturally the emperor is not at ease.

When it came to this, Zhu Pingjin had no choice but to let Li Yongjing and his brothers continue to do nonsense. But Huang Jin, the envoy of the Imperial Mission, has completed his task and must go to Nanjing to take office.

So one day in late September, Zhu Pingjin, Liao Daheng and other Shu dignitaries held a grand farewell ceremony at Hejiangting Wharf for Huang Jin's appointment as the new Nanjing Ministry of Rites. But there was a little bit of a situation in the ceremony.

Huang Shangshu and Master Shu, two old comrades and new friends, lingered on the dock, saying goodbye, saying goodbye, and the guests just refused to get on the boat. Zhu Pingjin was puzzled at the time, several copies of the "Yongle Canon" that were copied overnight were sent to the ship, Cheng Yi and gift money were also sent to the ship, and even Sichuan's native products were packed with several sacks, and the soap and grain that were given and sold formed a huge fleet behind the butt of the Qinchaguan ship, could it be that Huang Jin, Yu Jie and others were still dissatisfied?

In the end, Master Shu, one of the protagonists of the incident, finally felt that something was wrong. Perhaps among all the people present, only he really understood the hardships of his friends, so he unceremoniously represented Zhu Pingjian, on behalf of the Shu Palace, and invited Huang Shangshu and Yu Langzhong to visit Shu at a convenient time, and he would warmly welcome and receive Huang Shangshu, Yu Langzhong and their families as before.

Most of the distinguished guests from Jingshi were finally sent away.

The convicts continue to enjoy the rhubarb roast chicken. Zhu Pingjin was not interested in predicting their deaths. He carried the latest battle report of the Battle of Changping Mountain in his sleeve, and he had more important things to do.

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When Zhu Pingjin was alertly aware that the deterioration of the situation in the whole country might lead to further shaking of the confidence of all classes in the Ming Dynasty in the Chongzhen court, he immediately adjusted the order and timetable of his work, hoping to complete his medium-term goal of complete control of Shu before the situation in the country became irretrievable.

However, the Shu Wangfu is not the Shu Wangfu of Zhu Pingjin and Luo Yuhong, it is a political, economic, and military organization with hundreds of thousands of households and tens of thousands of off-duty personnel. The acceleration and adjustment of objectives, tempo, sequence, and direction is like the turning of a large fleet, a very complex strategic collective action. Zhu Pingjin must be very patient and properly coordinate all parts of the Shu Palace, so that they can keep up with their own pace, and they can't leave a lump at will.

Early in the morning of the third day after seeing off Huang Jin, Zhu Pingjin and Luo Yuhong summoned the main high-ranking officials of the palace in the main hall of the Shu Palace, the Carrier Palace. The two of them dressed up in gorgeous clothes and sat on the throne in the palace together to accept the worship of the officials headed by Zheng Anmin.

Zhu Pingjin and Luo Yuhong summoned the high-ranking officials of the palace in the main hall early in the morning, and their main purpose was as mentioned above. The implementation of the specific topic is to discuss how the power of the Shu Wangfu can be fully developed in the east of Longquan Mountain, west of Huaying Mountain, and north of the Yangtze River in northern and central Sichuan.

The northern and central Sichuan regions include all of Baoning, Shunqing and Tongchuan Prefectures, and some areas of Chengdu, Xuzhou, Chongqing and Jiading Prefectures, totaling more than 30 prefectures and counties, accounting for one-third of the total number of counties in Sichuan. The area is vast, the population has fled, and there are many abandoned fields and undeveloped hilly land, so it has good conditions for establishing Wangzhuang for large-scale reclamation. Occupying these areas, controlling these areas, and developing these areas will enable Zhu Pingjin to take a big step forward towards the goal of taking full control of Shu.

However, some prefectures and counties here have poor natural conditions, "nine droughts and one flood in ten years", and their ability to resist natural disasters is very low. The government and various forces were complicated, including Zhang Jimeng, the prefect of Baoning, who was in political opposition, Jia Denglian, Mo Chongwen, and Zhang Zuokai of the Chu army, as well as the local tyrants, who were the main targets of the purge.

Tongchuan Prefecture has seven counties in one state. After destroying the rebel Pan Yihong, the garrison Chu gave up Jia Denglian to the five counties in the south according to the agreement between the two sides.

Among these five counties, the county magistrate of Anyue County was led by Tian Qian, and the other three counties all opened their city gates to the royal soldiers, only Ren Binchen, the magistrate of Suining County, was a little unhappy and closed the city gate.

Suining City is located on the bank of the Fujiang River, which is a shortcut from Chengdu to Chongqing Avenue, and the natural conditions in all aspects are no less than that of Tongchuan City. Of course, Zhu Pingjin couldn't tolerate Ren Binchen's resistance, so he issued a strict order. On a dark and windy night in one month, Tian Qian and Liu Sangen led a team over the city wall of Suining and rushed into the county office. Although Ren Binchen, the magistrate, has a low EQ, his IQ is not low. He had a good conversation with Mr. Tian that night and established a good working relationship at both the professional and personal levels.

As soon as the nail of Suining was pulled, the situation in the five southern counties of Tongchuan was immediately opened. At present, the five-county village protection team is being formed rapidly. As the main military force of the royal palace in the five southern counties of Tongchuan, the independent battalion of the Tongchuan Huzhuang Corps has also been greatly strengthened. On the one hand, Liu Sangen eliminated the remnants of Pan Yihong's army, and on the other hand, assisted Tian Qian in implementing the "one-size-fits-all" tax reform.

Under the guidance of Zhu Pingjian's idea of "benevolence and profit", Tian Qian created public opinion and publicized the benefits of "one size fits all". For those gentry who dare to openly resist taxes, the method of "not grasping most of them and highlighting typical examples" is implemented.

Several Suining anti-tax gentry unfortunately made typical examples and displayed them in front of the yamen. Unwilling to be humiliated, two of them instigated some ruffians who did not know the truth to storm the official office, and were immediately surrounded by soldiers who were waiting for them, and a burst of short spears stabbed them, leaving behind more than a dozen bloody corpses. The gentry who were behind the command did not run away. The first two were arrested for conspiracy and rebellion, and their homes were raided and imprisoned; However, after signing the bail paper, the rest were taken back by their families in a gloomy manner. After this catastrophe, the Suining gentry were both respectful and afraid of the village protection team, so they had to give up the gentry's face, honestly accept the supervision of the government like everyone else, and hand over 10% of the output in the field to the official treasury.

Anyue County, which was ravaged by Pan Yihong's rebels, was in a diametrically opposite situation to Suining. Zhang Renxue, the chief soldier of Jinshi, Dou Kejin, the former deputy envoy of Yunnan military garrison, and Wang Qi'e, the same Jinshi, unexpectedly expressed strong support for Tian Qian's move. They not only mobilized the gentry of the county to donate money and grain to the village protection team, but also sent their children and slaves to the village protection team.

In the three counties of Lezhi, Shehong, and Zhongjiang, there are both the Chu army and the government in the front, and the government in the back. One percent of the tax revenue, compared to the losses caused by the robbery of the Chu army, is heaven and earth, and there is no comparison at all. Besides, the amount of their statutory relief is not less than that. As a result, the situation in the five southern counties of Tongchuan was quickly stabilized.

With the title of reclamation and the invitation of the Shunqing prefect, it is not difficult to predict that Wangzhuang will soon bloom all over the two states and eight counties of Shunqing Prefecture. However, the situation in Thuan Khanh Province has its own characteristics.

The prefect of Shunqing Du is about to retire. He was willing to aid the ministers of the Yazhou Kingdom, working as a puppet in the foreground, and Jiang Dingzhen actually manipulated it in the background. The Shu Wangfu will carry out tax collection, which will be implemented in the name of the government and will be implemented by Jiangding Town under the unified command of each county. If the counties are voluntary, they can also be implemented by the counties themselves. Therefore, the difficulty of Shunqing Province is not in the civil affairs, but in the military.

The caravan was completely victorious in the first battle, but the situation of banditry in Shunqing Province was still grim. In the battle of Changping Mountain, the combat effectiveness of the local tyrants should not be underestimated, and the firmness of the will to fight was beyond the expectations of Chen Youfu and Luo Jingyun. Judging from all aspects, the number of thieves active in the mountainous areas of Sichuan, Shaanxi, and Qinba is 20 or 30 large, and there are countless small ones, with a total of at least 120,000, so many that even such large bandits as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong dare not provoke them.

After a bloody contest with the local tyrants, the caravan had taken control of the Jincheng Walled City in Yilong County and parts of Yilong and southern counties, and had initially gained a firm foothold and made a big step forward towards the important goal of Bazhou. In order to block the route of the local rioters to plunder in the south, it is also necessary to effectively control Pengzhou, Yingshan, Quxian and other prefectures and counties at the southern foot of the Daba Mountains, and build a solid defense line with depth in order to cover the two densely populated areas of Guang'an Prefecture in Shunqing Prefecture and Hezhou Prefecture in Chongqing Prefecture. In this way, the battlefield area of the caravan on the front line in northern Sichuan has been greatly expanded, the length of the battle line has been greatly lengthened, and it has become imperative to increase the number of troops and expand the army.

The situation in Boryeong Province is more complicated than that of Tongchuan and Thuan Khanh. Baoning Mansion has Zhang Jimeng, a die-hard element, and is also a place where the main and guest officers and armies gather, so the expansion of the power of the Shu Mansion in Baoning Mansion is extremely unsmooth. The gratifying thing is that the two counties of Langzhong and the south have smashed the two iron nails of Hejiazhuang and Xinzheng Dam. These two places are connected to Shunqing Province by the Jialing River, and heavy troops are retained. Whether it is the government, the official army and the local tyrants, it is not a simple and easy task to pull them out.

In addition to increasing troops in northern Sichuan, Zhu Pingjin was also determined to adjust the strategy for eliminating the local tyrants formulated at the beginning of the year. The core of the readjustment is to change from "all-round defense and key defense" to "overall defense and key attack."

Shou is a hilly farming area west of the Jialing River and the two prefectures of Guang'an and Pengzhou in Shunqing Prefecture.

And the attack is to attack Bazhou, a key city that controls the southern foot of the Qinba Mountains.

Zhu Pingjin got the information from Jiangding Town, and the local rioters liked to go south along the Huaying Mountains and plunder the prefectures and counties of Guang'an Prefecture and Pengzhou west of the Huaying Mountains. However, after repeated consideration, he categorically rejected the idea of making Quang An Prefecture the main direction of attack.

There are three reasons for this:

Starting from Guang'an Prefecture, the route of the northward attack along the Huaying Mountains had to pass through Dazhou, which was the flood land of Mo Chongwen of the Chu army, and the two armies were prone to conflict and were extremely politically disadvantaged.

Bazhou remains the core target of northern Sichuan. With Guang'an Prefecture as the starting base, it made a big circle from Bazhou, the target of the attack, and the distance was too far.

Relying on the Qujiang River, a tributary of the Jialing River, as a supply channel, it is risky to carry out an attack under the inability of the caravan and naval forces to effectively cover. Once the canal and river channel are cut off by the local rioters, the front-line troops may fall into the predicament of running out of ammunition and food in the lofty mountains of Bashan. In the face of the stretching Bashan, Guang'an Prefecture can only be defended, not attacked.

How to speed up the adjustment and how to straighten out everything in northern Sichuan and Sichuan is a test for Zhu Pingjin and Luo Yuhong, as well as for the team they have just established - the group of royal officials.

Carrying the morning meeting is the beginning of all this.