Chapter 36: The Southern Rebellion is put down
Just after Pyongyang, an important North Korean town, was lost without a fight, 100,000 stone of grain in Pyongyang, North Korea, was also seized by Konishi Yukinaga's team.
This is also the reason why those North Korean officers and soldiers who were in a hurry to flee did not deal with 100,000 stone of grain in time.
At this moment, North Korea is like an old man who has entered his twilight years, and he is just dying every day.
At the same time, the Ming Dynasty was no better, because of the corruption of officials and the corruption of the court, coupled with the neglect of the Wanli Emperor.
The resulting civil rebellions and mutinies have not been interrupted, but in terms of scale, the rebellions of NX and SC are the largest.
At that time, hundreds of thousands of peasants followed the rebellion of the father and son in NX alone, and Yang Yinglong, who did not know whether he was alive or dead, was also on the same scale.
Because these local officials have lived in the local area for a long time, their strength and sphere of influence are naturally intertwined, so the Ming court will have to send troops to encircle and suppress.
Otherwise, if it is allowed to develop, there will be rebellions in various parts of the country, like a spark that ignites cities in various parts of the country.
At this moment, although the Wanli Emperor was sluggish, he still controlled the government, but he did not observe so carefully in the appointment of officials.
The appointment of local officials is selected by the officials of the ministry, and after the selection, it is played to the Wanli Emperor.
However, in some local areas, because they are hereditary, there are serious problems in the selection of officials.
This also posed a mortal threat to the ruling class of the Ming Dynasty, so the system of hereditary local officials should have been abolished long ago.
At this moment, in the area of SC Banzhou in the south of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Yinglong's rebel sphere of influence has spread to a very large area.
Yang Yinglong's rebellious strength also gradually began to develop slowly after continuing his father's position as Tusi.
And the hereditary system like Tusi should have been abolished a long time ago, and if it was removed early, it would be beneficial to both the Ming court and the Wanli Emperor.
It is also a lot of benefits for the local people, and the real road to reform is to change to the local government by the flow of officials.
At this moment, the Japanese invaded Korea for a while, and the determination of the Wanli Emperor to quell the rebellion has never changed.
Therefore, under the imperial Zhao of the Wanli Emperor, Li Hualong was appointed out of the mountain, and was ordered to preside over the military affairs of the three provinces of SC, GZ, and Huguang, and to preside over the war to quell the rebellion in Banzhou.
At this moment, Yang Yinglong led his 80,000 troops to capture Anjiang before the Ming official army was assembled.
He also ordered his 80,000 soldiers to wash the city of Qinjiang in blood, which immediately led to the Ming army from all walks of life gathering near Banzhou.
Emperor Wanli also gave Li Hualong the sword of Shang Fang, and presided over the overall situation while sitting in ZQ.
At that time, the governor of GZ, Guo Zizhang, was in Guiyang, and the governor of Huguang was stationed in Yuanjiang.
At this time, the Ming soldiers were divided into eight routes to encircle and suppress, the general soldier Liu Ting went out to the north of Qi J, the general soldier Ma Liying went out to the south of the SC, the general soldier Wu Guang came out of the JX department, the deputy general soldier Cao Xibin went out of Yongning, and the general soldier Tong Wuzhen went out of the eastern part of the Wujiang River and so on.
There are 30,000 soldiers and horses on each road, and a total of 200,000 soldiers and horses, which shows the determination of His Majesty the Wanli Emperor to quell Yang Yinglong's rebellion.
In the Eighth Route Army, Liu Ting is the most famous, and the troops led by Liu Ting are all brave and good soldiers, and at this moment, Yang Chaodong, the son of Yang Yinglong, is also leading tens of thousands of Miao soldiers in Banzhou to garrison troops.
However, those Miao soldiers were all afraid of Liu Ting, and whenever they heard that Liu Ting was coming, they often collapsed without a fight.
Yang Chaodong, a typical battle in the Luoguchi area, was almost captured, and Liu Ting immediately led his troops to attack Loushan Pass.
And Loushanguan is just a special gateway place for Yang Yinglong's old nest sea dragon hoard, and it is called the natural danger together with the sea dragon hoard.
This place was easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it was finally broken by Liu Ting in two months, and Yang Yinglong saw that the general trend had gone, and the defeat was decided.
Then he committed suicide at home with his beloved concubines Zhou and He.
His son Yang Chaodong and his younger brother Yang Zhaolong were also captured, and the Battle of Banju lasted 114 days.
A total of 20,000 soldiers of Yang Yinglong were killed.
So just after the victory in Banzhou, Li Hualong also returned to the dynasty and escorted the 69 captured Yang Chaodong back to Beizhili.
A special ceremony was held in Beizhili, and the Wanli Emperor personally watched as these rebels were beheaded in public.
So far, the battle of Banzhou has been completely broken, and it ended with the final victory of the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
For the outside world, the battle of pacifying Banshu was tantamount to announcing the complete end and disintegration of the hereditary system of Tusi that had been divided into Banshu for the 29th generation.
Then the Ming court also took into account the hereditary system of Tusi, which seriously threatened the interests of the grassroots of the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, just after Yang Yinglong was exterminated, Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty also announced the revocation of the hereditary official position of Tusi.
changed to the post of liuguan to govern the locality, and appointed good civil officials to manage the place that was once occupied by Yang Yinglong.
At this moment, the Ming Dynasty also divided Banzhou into two, and assigned Zunyi, which was originally Banzhou, to SC.
Pingyue was placed under the jurisdiction of GZ, and Yang Yinglong was completely exterminated, which also showed that it was in line with the historical trend at that time, and the Ming Dynasty at this moment gradually moved from decline to the road of restoring Zhongxing.
Although the Jurchen clan at this moment is also in Liaodong in the Ming Dynasty, it has brought an incomparably huge threat to the Ming Dynasty and the Wanli Emperor.
However, at this moment, the Jurchens have not yet formed a certain scale, and they still need to accumulate their strength and wait for the future to rebel.
And in the end, the rebellion of the Jurchen tribe is about to sound the death knell for the Ming Dynasty, and the decline of the Ming Dynasty also began in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty.
With the end of the counterinsurgency of the two major campaigns of the Ming Dynasty, it is also just around the corner to support North Korea to send troops to pacify the Japanese invaders.
Therefore, at this moment, the Wanli Emperor heard at the court meeting that Korea had been invaded by the Japanese invaders, and in less than a month, the capital and important towns were lost one after another.
This also made the Wanli Emperor feel extremely shocked because of the military power of a country.
Unexpectedly, even the Japanese of a small country could not be defeated, and most of the country was lost within a month.
This also really frightened the Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty and the hundred civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty, and no one thought that the Japanese would have such a power to make North Korea defeat so quickly.
So the Wanli Emperor made up his mind to send troops to support Korea, fortunately, the Ming Dynasty at this moment is from the Wanli Emperor.
or the celebrant and even the military department of the Ming Dynasty, all of them stood on the same line, and everyone supported sending troops to quell the rebellion of the Japanese invaders.
Therefore, in this context, the Ming Dynasty also sent troops to support North Korea, and the Korean Seonjo and the Korean court and the people were finally saved.
Just after the Ming Dynasty sent troops to save North Korea, it was still unknown whether they could drive the Japanese out of Korea in a very short time.
I hope that the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will not lose hope and drive all those hateful Japanese soldiers out of Korea as soon as possible.