At the time of Yang Lin's great fight against the plague, warlords from all over southern Sichuan after the alliance also drove to the Yunnan-Guizhou region one after another to seize the territory abandoned by the Liukou.

Wang Xiang was the first to garrison Banzhou, only because the barbarian Qing invaders led their troops north to block the Tartars, and when the volunteers restored the CD) Mansion, they had the intention to regain the lost territory, but because they had a gap with Yang Zhan, they were afraid that the two Yang troops would copy their backs, so they suppressed their impulses and stationed troops in southern Sichuan.

After the princes of the Yang Lin Conference, Wang Xiang was overjoyed, personally led the army south, quickly seized Banzhou, Guiyang and other places, and joined forces with the Guizhou general army Pi Xiong, and then the army passed through Anshun Mansion, and Annanwei rushed in the direction of Qujing

Hearing the news of the old enemy Wang Xiang, Yang Zhan, the commander of the Fourth (Sichuan) Xingdu Division in Jianchangwei, was not to be outdone, and led his troops to approach Wuding Mansion in August of this year.

Sun Kewang, who had just driven away Shadingzhou to occupy Kunming, was about to win over the local Tusi and exterminate the rebels in Nanshadingzhou, Yunnan, and sighed: "Everyone, my father and emperor finally withdrew from Si (Sichuan) because of the Ming Dynasty's encirclement on all sides, and now we have just occupied most of Yunnan, and the Ming army is actually coming with me, so what should I do?" Do we have to flee to the South China Sea for refuge? ”

Li Dingguo thought of Zhang Xianzhong's last words, and admonished: "General Zhengdong is now invaded by the Tartars, and my Han nation is afraid that it will be ruled by foreign races again."

When my father died, he warned me that God may not really let Daming perish, and asked me not to go against Daming in the future. Yang Lin has sent envoys to negotiate peace and discuss the alliance many times in the past, but we have ignored it.

I probably can't wait until I send troops to attack. ”

Sun Kewang shook his head with a sigh and said: "General Zhengxi was probably deceived by Yang Lin, and the soldiers were outnumbered that day, but we certainly had to come up with the so-called strategy of Lian Kou Pingling."

Now, seeing that our soldiers have been defeated for thousands of miles, and they have fled to a wild place like Yunnan, they have gathered three soldiers and horses to attack us. ”

Li Dingguo did not believe that he sent an envoy to meet Yang Zhan, Yang Zhan shook his head and said: "Since the Chongzhen period, you rogues have repeatedly staged the trick of surrendering and rebelling, and condemning and surrendering.

This general is not Xiong Wenshan, unless these conditions are met, the army can be dismissed and made peace. ”

The envoy asked about the conditions, and Yang Zhan said confidently: "In order to show your sincerity in surrendering, you must unconditionally withdraw from Yunnan Prefecture (Kunming jurisdiction) and unconditionally accept the adaptation of my Ming Dynasty, so that you can accept the alliance between the two sides." ”

Seeing the reply, Sun Kewang was annoyed and said to the left and right: "The Ming army is too deceitful, and now they will chase me and others to such a wild place, and they will probably really kill me." ”

Immediately led the army to battle, and Yang Zhan fought in Wuding Mansion and could not win, and the two sides held each other under the city of Wuding.

Seeing that the main force of the Liukou was absorbed by Yang Zhan, Wu Dading and Yuan Tao in the middle were overjoyed, and led the army to occupy the Qujing Military and Civil Mansion, and the army forced to Yunnan Mansion.

In early September of the first year of Yongli (1647 AD), Yang Zhan led the army to take the lead in entering Kunming City, and Yuan Tao and Wu Da Ding led their troops to occupy Xundian Mansion and Qujing Mansion respectively.

Yang Zhan invited Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, and Yang Weizhi, a soldier from Yunnan, into Kunming City, and sent envoys to various places to actively lobby the local Tusi, so that they could send soldiers and horses to attack Sun Kewang.

At this time, Yang Lin was patrolling a tributary of the Minjiang River to inspect the first rice machine he had made.

The land has been abandoned for many years, and the crops are growing very luxuriantly this autumn, looking at the endless rice grains, this year is a good year, and the people on the verge of hunger are overjoyed.

Yang Lin was overwhelmed, and since the beginning of the army, he began to carry out the work of military cantonment, civilian cantonment, and resettlement of displaced people.

Especially after the soldiers entered the CD, due to the gap in Dujiangyan in the past few years, the entire CD) plain has been flooded for many years, coupled with the rebellion of the Liukou Tartars, the people have fled a lot, and there are more than 100,000 people in the military and official tuns alone, and if you add the displaced people resettled by the people, the number can only be said to be more.

In the past six months, water conservancy has been repaired, and the water conservancy damaged by the Liukou Tartars has been repaired, and the work of cultivating and resettlement of displaced people has also progressed quite smoothly.

Looking at the long-lost smiles of the people in the fields and touching the heavy rice, Wang Guangxian, the prefect of the government, said excitedly: "Both the government and the people have contributed money and grain organizations to carry out farming, so it will not take a few years, this plain will return to its former vitality, and our four (Sichuan) will be the envy of everyone in the country of abundance." ”

Qian Bangqi, the supervisor next to him, also sighed: "Hey, the first few months were really a headache, the price of grain in the CD) government once rose to the point of 3 yuan silver coins per load, and now it's good, after everyone sees that this year's harvest is expected, the price of this grain has basically dropped to the level of 1 yuan and 5 silver coins."

At this rate, food prices could return to normal levels by next year. ”

Everyone looked at the harvest scene along the way with great interest, and their hearts were full of excitement, and sometimes they even stopped to ask the farmers who were harvesting grain for two mouthfuls of water to drink, so after two days of travel, everyone came to Guan County.

After 3 months of technical research, the new water mill was finally completed, which is different from the previous water mill, and has the prototype of a modern rice beater.

In the past, stone mills were used to drive stone mills to grind rice, but the new water mills are completely different.

A cofferdam with a height of 5 meters is set up at a tributary of the Minjiang River, and a part of the river water is left through a small ditch, rushing on an iron bearing with a full 500 catties, driving the blades on the bearing to rotate back and forth.

With this as a driving force, a model of a rice threshing machine is built next to it, and a roller is pulled back and forth by pulling a belt, and the rice that has been stripped off of the rice husk is sieved out through a sieve.

First with a sparse sieve, and then with a dense sieve, and so on three times, the rice shell is peeled clean, blown with a windmill, and the white rice is grain by grain, although the quality of the rice is very different from that of the previous life, but it is not the same as the rice that comes out of the old-fashioned water mill.

Everyone looked at the beaten rice in amazement, it was white and clean, and there was no bran on it, and some people complained that it was too much.

Yang Lin of the crossing clan didn't think so, let the entourage cook dry rice, eat it in his mouth, and there was no longer the taste of rice bran in the past, and he felt that his mouth was full of fragrance.

Qian Bangqi put a clip of rice into his mouth, and said with a smile: "My lord, this is so delicious, this kind of polished rice that used to be scooped out ten times or eight times is now scooped out two or three times, and it is fast, and it is very delicious, it can be said that it is extremely fragrant."

My lord, this is really amazing, can you sell a little to me when the time comes, I don't have a problem with eating or not, my mother is over seventy years old, although people are still very energetic, but the teeth have fallen out so that only a few front teeth remain, and you don't need to chew to eat this kind of rice. ”

Yang Lin said with a smile: "Money according to the inspector, don't worry."

I mean, how about contracting this mill to the local squires and asking them to hire people to make rice?

When Qian Bangxin heard this, he shook his head and said, "My lord, this, this is not very good."

Merchants are profit-seeking, and everyone knows that if this mill is contracted to the squires, they will definitely raise the price of rice.

My lord, it is very difficult for my mother to eat anything when she is in her sixties and seventies, so what if a merchant takes the opportunity to raise the price of rice? ”

Yang Lin said with a smile: "Don't worry, don't worry.

Everyone has seen that the machine mill is far better than the rice mill in the past, and in the past two years, our local government has supported the people to build water conservancy and support the construction of mills.

In this way, in less than ten years, everyone will be able to eat the rice from the machine mill, isn't this a merit? ”

Qian Bangqi sighed a few times, shook his head and said, "What the adults said is right, since this is the case, then what else do we have to say?"

In the past few months, it is not that a load of grain of 3 yuan and 5 yuan of silver have not been sold, and when the time comes, in order to let my mother eat this good rice, it is a big deal to spend a little more money. ”

Yang Lin waved his hand and said with a smile: "Brother Qian, I don't mean that, everyone also sees that this mill can process 50 quintals of rice a day (of course, it was very slow at the beginning), and we contracted it to merchants, and in addition to paying normal taxes, we also need to help us scoop 200 quintals of grain for free every month."

The government received 200 quintals of grain, and 4 quintals were distributed to each regiment every month, and everyone ate a little of this fine polished rice during the monthly tooth sacrifice so that the brothers could also taste it.

The rest of the rice was distributed to local officials.

Didn't we distribute food in the past?

Although half of the incorruptible silver is now reimbursed and half is directly received (equivalent to a special confidential fee), isn't the part of the money distributed to the grain and the part of the silver dollar? Let these 40 loads of rice be put in the rice and distributed in it.

Tell the volunteers and officials everywhere that the machine mill is only a successful trial, and we will build more machine mills in the future, so that everyone can eat this kind of high-quality grain in the future. ”

When Qian Bangxin heard this, he nodded again and again and said yes, he is the third product according to the inspector, if the general official can match one bucket per month, he can match 5 buckets per month, with these 5 buckets of good rice, his mother has no worries about eating.

Just when everyone was happily discussing how many machine mills could be built in various places, the messenger came to report that Yang Zhan led his troops to capture Kunming City, and the Liukou was now fleeing to Lijiang Mansion and Guangxi Mansion.

Hearing the news, Yang Lin was overjoyed and said to everyone: "Everyone, Zhuge Liang captured seven times in the past, and occupied all parts of Yunnan in this way.

The mighty Yang Zhan Yang Zhan Yang Xingdu commanded the envoys, and it was really gratifying to occupy Kunming and recover Yunnan Province in less than 3 months.

I will present to the emperor to ensure that General Yang Zhan is the governor of Yunnan, I don't know what you think? ”

Qian Bangqi shook his head and said, "My lord, don't do this.

Governor Fan Yixuan was reappointed as the governor of Yunnan, it stands to reason that this governor of Yunnan should fall on Governor Fan Yixuan, the governor of Sichuan, Shaanxi and Gansu, how to protect the governor of Yunnan? ”

Yin Chengqi retorted: "Qian Jianjun's words are wrong, Governor Fan Yixuan is only close to a villain like Li Gande, and Li Gande seems to think that our adults robbed him of the governor of northern Sichuan.

Ladies and gentlemen, if Li Gande is allowed to control Yunnan, he will inevitably make trouble behind us, so that I and others will not be able to go all out on the Northern Expedition, therefore, I am in favor of protecting General Yang Zhan as the governor of Yunnan. ”

Everyone talked about it, except for Qian Bangqi's rebuttal, everyone else agreed.

Seeing this, Yang Lin dictated that Gong Wanjing was sent as an envoy to Wugang to meet Emperor Yongli.

On the other hand, Yang Lin asked Yang Zhan to load two loads of good polished rice to make people send it.