Chapter 695: No War in the Southwest (2)

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Seeing that the news of his rape of his wife was not leaked, Zhu Hongsan was relieved.

"Chaozong, this time I transferred you not to let you be a magistrate, but to come to my side to be a military aircraft! Originally, Zhang Huangyan was in charge of the Military Aircraft Department, but he has been transferred to the local area to serve as the governor of Guizhou, so the Military Aircraft Department has saved a lot of things in the past few months. ”

Hou Fangyu had also studied the political system of the Shenwu Dynasty at home, and knew that this military aircraft department had great powers, which was equivalent to the combination of the ceremonial supervisor and the military department of the previous dynasty, and was responsible for handling the normal documents from the cabinet for the emperor, and drafted opinions for the emperor to review. This is a real person around the emperor, although the position is not big, but the power is not small.

Hou Fangyu was happy when he heard that the emperor had let him hold this lightweight position, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "Please rest assured, Your Majesty, the minister will definitely learn from Governor Zhang, and independently lead the Military Aircraft Department to serve Your Majesty as soon as possible!" ”

Zhu Hongsan still recognized Hou Fangyu's ability, and he couldn't take a group of people to burn Ruan Dacheng's courtyard back then. Zhu Hongsan waved his hand to let Hou Fangyu go out and asked him to find Zhang Huangyan.

Seeing Hou Fangyu go out, Zhu Hongsan said to Li Chengen behind him: "Old Li, you know how to deal with the matter between Li Xiangjun and Kou Baimen!" ”

Of course, Li Chengen knew the emperor's dirty psychology, and hurriedly bowed his head and promised: "Please rest assured, the old slave will definitely not let Hou Fangyu know Li Xiangjun's exact address!" ”

Zhu Hongsan then stayed in Liping Mansion for another ten days, and on the first day of the sixth month, he led a division of troops to leave Liping Mansion and go to Guiyang.

Leave Liping Mansion and enter the mountainous area of Guizhou, Guizhou has always had the saying of "eight mountains, one water and one field", Guiyang is in the middle of the mountains and hills of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the watershed of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, it is really a place where rabbits do not.

At this time, more than 20 years have passed since the rebellion of Lu'an in the first year of the Apocalypse, and according to the later "History of the Ming Dynasty", the tragic situation of the siege of Guiyang was recorded: "Fang Guan's death was exhausted, and the rice rose to twenty gold. Eating chaff, cores, plants and trees are all corrupted, eating dead human flesh, and then eating raw people, to relatives to eat each other. Yan Fang (general soldier), Yunqing Department slaughtered people in the market, and one or two catties of silver. There were 100,000 households in the city, and the siege lasted for 300 days, and only about 1,000 people remained." The entire Guiyang City's population of 480,000 is still a few thousand people left, although after more than 20 years of recuperation, there are only 150,000 people in Guiyang City, which is still far inferior to the heyday.

Guiyang City was built in the Yuan Dynasty, to Hongwu 25 years of expansion, after more than 200 years of repair and expansion in the Ming Dynasty, now Guiyang City has a total of nine city gates. Originally, Ye Mengxiong, the governor of Guizhou of the Yongli Imperial Court, followed Zhu Youlang and ran away to Anlongwei, and the remaining Guiyang prefect Zheng Lian, as well as the Guizhou Wei commander Gu Xingzu, took the only 20 or so officials in Guiyang City out of the city to greet the new master.

Zhu Hongsan did not meet the prefect Zheng Lian and the commander Gu Xingzu, but entered the city from the east gate Wusheng Gate, and went directly to the governor Yamen of the northern city, and handed over the officials who greeted him outside the city to the new governor of Guizhou, Zhang Huangyan.

Zhang Huangyan looked at these surrender factions and said with a smile: "Colleagues, this official is His Majesty's new governor of Guizhou, Zhang Huangyan, everyone can call this official Xuanzhu!" ”

Zhang Huangyan said it easily, but these surrender factions are all old fritters in the officialdom, and the one who really dares to step forward and hook up with the governor.

Zheng Lian hurriedly knelt down and said, "Zheng Lian, the prefect of Guiyang, meet Lord Futai!" ”

Zhang Huangyan hurriedly stepped forward to help Zheng Lian: "Lord Zheng, please get up, Your Majesty has a will, and the local officials of the original Yongli Imperial Court will be retained in their original positions, everyone don't worry!" ”

These Guiyang officials breathed a sigh of relief when they heard the governor say this, and it was naturally good not to lose their heads.

Zheng Lian saw Liu Zhen behind Zhang Huangyan, and said with a smile: "It turns out that Lord Liu of Liping Mansion is also here!" ”

Zhang Huangyan smiled and took Liu Zhen's hand and said: "Lord Liu has to be promoted by His Majesty the Emperor, and now he is the political envoy of Guizhou, but he is the deputy of this official!" ”

Zheng Lian heard that Liu Zhen hugged his thighs early, and now he has become his superior, but Zheng Lian can't help it, he can't go to Guangxi to surrender!

Zheng Lian couldn't force a smile and congratulated: "It turns out that Lord Liu has been promoted, and the lower officials congratulate Lord Fantai!" "The political envoy was in charge of the civil affairs, money and grain of a province, and the vice governors in charge of finance, civil affairs, land, and taxation in later generations were the upper eyelids of these prefects.

Liu Zhen has also been a bureaucrat for many years, knowing this Zheng Lian's careful thinking, among the eight prefectures and four military and civilian mansions under the jurisdiction of Guizhou, Guiyang Mansion has always been the boss, and now he has become his subordinate, so he is naturally a little reluctant.

"Lord Zheng, where does the junior brother have the talent of Lord Zheng, this time it was only because of the geographical advantage that he was appointed by His Majesty as the political envoy, but compared to Lord Zheng, it is much inferior!"

Zheng Lian also knows that the sedan chair carries people, although Liu Zhen was inferior to himself before, but now he has become an eyelid and a forehead tattoo, and he has become a subordinate official of others, so he naturally does not dare to take it big: "Lord Liu is laughing, and his subordinates naturally have to wait for Lord Fantai to send him!" ”

Zhang Huangyan said with a smile on the side: "Don't compliment each other, the two of you are both handsome, and the official still needs a lot of help from the two, as long as the two of you are willing to do your best for Your Majesty, you can naturally supervise and care!" ”

The governor's power is very great, in addition to managing the people, he also has to manage the army, at this time, the commander of Guiyang Wei on the side, Gu Xingzu stepped forward and said: "Please rest assured, Lord Futai, the last general will naturally bow to His Majesty the emperor and die!" ”

Gu Xingzu's ancestor was Gu Cheng, the Marquis of Zhenyuan who was personally entitled by Zhu Yuanzhang, and his father was Gu Zhaoji, who died in the defense of Beijing, and Gu Xingzu inherited the title of Marquis of Zhenyuan in this generation.

Zhang Huangyan listened to this martial artist and laughed out loud, but as a Shangguan, he had to maintain his prestige.

Zhang Huangyan smiled and nodded, "Okay!" Zhenyuan Hou is so ambitious! ”

Gu Xingzu was very happy to be praised by the governor, and said secretly in his heart: It seems that the master of the family taught Lao Tzu's words is very useful, didn't you see Lord Futai smiling at Lao Tzu!

"Marquis Zhenyuan, your Gu family has been in Guizhou for a long time, can you have contact with the Shuixian family?"

Gu Xingzu is the eleventh grandson of Gu Cheng, the Marquis of Zhenyuan, and his family has been in Guizhou for more than 200 years, so he naturally has contacts with the Shuixian clan. But although Gu Xingzu is coarse, he is not stupid. Now that the emperor has just arrived in Guizhou, he asks the question of the Shuixian clan, does the emperor want to clean up Shuixi? At this time, it is better to clear the relationship.

"Lord Futai, although the last general's family is in Guizhou for the eleventh century, because of the suppression of the Yi people in the Lu'an Rebellion, the relationship with the Shuixian clan is not good!"

Zhang Huangyan sighed when he heard Gu Xingzu say this: "So that's the case, His Majesty the Emperor has just arrived, and he wants to summon the Shuixian clan to meet with him, and is ready to appease these Yi people, after all, the imperial court is still fighting with the Manchus in the north, and he doesn't want to have a conflict with these Yi people." But the Hou family of Zhenyuan has no contact with the An family, what can I do? ”

Gu Xingzu heard Zhang Huangyan say this, only to know that the original emperor wanted to appease the Shuixian clan, Gu Xingzu's total was about the same, now the north is in a mess, Yunnan and Sichuan in the south have not been pacified, this is not a good time to clean up the Shuixian clan, you must know that the Shuixian clan has been in Guizhou for thousands of years, and has great influence in Sichuan and Yunnan, and if you want to subdue these two places, you must cooperate with the An clan.

Gu Xingzu thought for a while and said: "Lord Futai, although the last general has an enmity with the An family, he has a good relationship with Yanglongkeng Tusi, and if you need to pass the word, the last general can convey it on your behalf!" ”

"Good! Then ask the Marquis of Zhenyuan to help! ”

The Gu family has been in Guizhou for more than 200 years, and there is no connection between Na Neng and the Shuixi clan. It is true that Gu Xingzu said that he had a grudge with the An family in the Rebellion of Luxury, but the relationship has never been broken.

After Gu Xingzu returned home, he sent his henchmen to the old nest of the Shuixi clan to be generous, and passed the news that the emperor wanted to see the An clan to the current head of the An clan, and Shuixi comforted An Kun.

An Kun has no big ambitions, unlike his father An Rupan, the uncle An Bangyan who launched the Extravagant Rebellion, An Kun wants to guard his own one-acre and three-point land, and his wife and children live on a hot kang. If it weren't for his idea of being rich and peaceful, he would not have been able to be killed by Wu Sangui in the future generations.

An Kun was also very undecided after seeing Gu Xingzu's letter, and at this time, An Kun's new wife Lu saw her husband's hesitation. stepped forward and asked, "Ayi Abei (husband's meaning), what's wrong?" ”

"Ayi Amo (the meaning of the wife), now that the Han people have changed to a new emperor, let me go to Guiyang to worship him, I can't make up my mind whether to go or not!"

"Ayi Abei, these Han officials are really hateful, have you forgotten that when you inherited the position of Tusi, you also sent three thousand gold to the Marquis of Zhenyuan? In my opinion, they Han people beat themselves up, and it has nothing to do with our Yi people, who the emperor loves to be! Let's just guard our own turf! ”

An Kun touched his wife's beautiful face and said: "Riguo, don't you know, the Han people have a population of hundreds of millions, how many of us Yi talents, and it is not us who provoke the Han emperor to suffer in the end?" ”

Lu Shi heard her husband call her nickname, and said shyly: "Ayi Abei, you are the head of the family and the big leader of our Yi people, I listen to you!" ”

An Kun looked at Gu Xingzu's letter, the emperor only brought 15,000 musketeers to Guiyang, which also showed that he had no ill will towards himself. The musketeers are powerful, but An Kun, who has dealt with the Ming army a lot, knows that in the mountainous terrain of Guizhou, the musketeers are not very useful. Since the Han emperor didn't bring many people to see him, he must really want to appease himself.

An Kun thought about it, anyway, no matter which emperor the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains changed, it was to appease Shuixi, so it was better to go and meet this Shenwu Emperor himself.

After deciding down, An Kun took 5,000 of his most elite rattan armor soldiers to Guiyang to meet the new Han emperor Zhu Hongsan.