The salt trade with the local military and political forces in Yulin is only the beginning, and Qiongzhou also needs to open up a safe horse-salt trade route.

Lying between Qinlian and Zuojiang Province is Nanning Mansion, which Shou Xuan once thought was Chen Bangfu's defense area, ready to be sucked by this great warlord. But in this autumn harvest season, things have taken a turn for the better. Chen Bangfu, the Qingguo Gong of Xunzhou Prefecture, gave a Messi-style assist to the plan to open up the Ma Gang trade route in an orderly manner, and fed the cake to his mouth.

Hengzhou defender Xu Biao, Yongchun guard general Li Ya, and Yulin guard general Liang Shiyi are from Chen Bangfu's Xunzhou general camp, and they have made significant achievements in the battle against Li Chengdong last year. The three generals relied more on the local volunteers in Nanning Prefecture and Yulin Prefecture to recover the lost territory. Now they have a strong independence, and Chen Bangfu still ordered the three generals to hand in this year's autumn grain as before, but they categorically refused.

Since Chen Bangfu could refuse the taxes and grain levied by the imperial court, his subordinate generals could do the same. Shou Xu felt that this matter was also indispensable to the promotion of some bigwigs in the court, and Li Yuanyin, the son of Chengdong, was very suspicious.

Yulin's guard Liang Shiyi knelt on the ground, but he still knew that he was in Yulin in person.

"I would like to raise the whole state to attach to Qiongzhou", Liang Shiyi raised his hands high, "The Yulin Prefecture version is here, please accept it." ”

Shou Xiang bowed his head and drank tea, "The general still takes back the edition, you are a minister in the same hall as the Zeng Pavilion Department of Qiongzhou, and the word "attached" is not appropriate." ”

Liang Shiyi did not give up, "The lord of the country, the soldiers of Qingguo Gong surrounded Hengzhou City, slaughtered the people in Nanning, and robbed the crops. Although both General Mo and General Xu were confident that they would repel his attack, why did the people suffer such a catastrophe? I have more than 200,000 people in Yulin Prefecture, and I can only rely on Qiongzhou. ”

Shou Xuan smiled and put down the teacup, "General Liang, I said, please accept the edition." Please rest assured, from Nanzhili to Liangguang, I will never see death without help. I'll help you get through the current difficulties in Yulin. ”

"Zhang Shijie."

"Yes."

"Take 1,800 people and go to Xingye County with General Liang. Tell the Xunzhou army on the other side of the mountain that Yulin is under the protection of Qiongzhou. Chen Bangfu dares to step into Yulin, and I will bring 100 cannons to tear down the Xunzhou city wall. ”

Liang Shiyi's tears came out immediately. Zhang Shijie grabbed his arm and pulled Liang Shiyi up from the ground.

It was only a few days later than Yulinzhou, and the letter from Nanning Xu Biao and Li Yaer also arrived. They were fighting against Chen Bangfu's army and could not come to visit in person.

Read the letter in order, and instruct the clerk to polish the ink. Orderly dictation, document writing.

The first letter was addressed to the Nanning guards.

Nanning Mansion is in the Xijiang River system, not in an economic circle, and it is not realistic for Qiongzhou to eat it. Shou Xuan did not want to bear too much responsibility, and in his reply he said that he could supply sulfur and artillery, and hoped that the Nanning army would protect the Ma Gang Road leading to the left and right rivers of Qinlian.

Yu Lin Mingjun set out with the returning messenger.

The Qiongzhou Expeditionary Force of more than 2,500 people was divided into 4 divisions, and Zhang Shijie led 1,800 people to Xingye County on the front line to help Yulin Prefecture resist Chen Bangfu. He Huchen led 250 people to collect ships in the area of Beiliu County, and 250 people guarded the fleet at Dingchuan Port. Others are in order.

Liang Shiyi sent 2,000 troops, and the grain tax collected by Yu Lin was all based on 12 taels of volunteers a year, and the limit of raising an army was about 5,000 people. This is obviously impossible, soldiers need to support their families, and it is impossible for the Yulin army to be full of hardships from the salaries of the volunteers. Liang Shiyi said that there are more than 3,000 troops in the state, and soldiers need to stay in various parts of the state and county, and the 2,000 people dispatched are almost the limit.

Looking at the order, the Yulin Army did not even have a generally uniform military uniform, and the costumes were varied and messy. There were very few soldiers with armor, and most of them had only one cloth suit. The head is wrapped in a red cloth, a bamboo hat is worn, and leggings are worn and straw sandals. The Ming army and the Tatars generally played leggings and did not lag behind.

The cold weapons were basically complete, swords and rattan cards, and the poorest soldiers were also given an iron-headed bamboo gun. There are very few bows and arrows, and in the rainy areas of the south, the compound bow is damp and degummed, and the combat effectiveness is close to 0 for more than half of the time, and there is no need to equip bows and arrows on a large scale.

As the main firepower output of the army, Yulin firearms are very few, and the army of 2,000 people is only equipped with more than 400 messy firearms, plus more than a dozen tiger squat cannons, Franc machines, etc. In the eyes of the Ming army in Qiongzhou, many firearms are garbage that can only be recycled.

Shou Xian can only shake his head, this equipment is probably no problem to suppress a mountain bandit, and fighting the Tatars is to send them to death. Fortunately, the enemy was Chen Bangfu, and his equipment was at the same level as Yu Lin.

The equipment of the Ming Army in Qiongzhou is not good, and it is two grades worse than the Federal Field Army. Compared with the Huazi army in Yulin in front of him, the Ming army of Qiongzhou can already be described as full of soldiers and horses, and the battle is fine. With this allied army, the morale of the Yulin army was greatly boosted.

Regardless of whether Liang Shiyi's tears were sincere or fake, Shou Xuan decided to accept this gift. Military, political, and economic are all means of obtaining benefits. Autumn grain harvest, the expeditionary force can be the enemy because of the grain, the cost is very small. Qiongzhou has always been neutral in the internal party struggle of the imperial court, and now that the civil war in Nan and Xun is rising, Qiongzhou can maximize the benefits by intervening by force.

Unlike Nanning, Yulin and Lianzhou drink the same river water and are in the same economic circle. Qiongzhou is supplemented by economic and political means, and the combination of civil and military forces has the opportunity to digest Yulin Prefecture.

Then came the second letter, addressed to Li Yuanyin.

The Yongli Imperial Court is adjusting its administrative divisions according to the applications of military generals from all over the country. The emperor was in Zhaoqing, Li Chengdong led the army to attack Jiangxi, and he left the defense in Zhaoqing to Li Yuanyin, who was most trusted. Li Yuanyin has a great influence on Xingzai. Through him, it should not be difficult to achieve the goal. Guangdong Xungui should be happy to see Chen Bangfu suffer a big loss.

It is difficult to directly assign Yulin from Guangxi to Qiongzhou, after all, one is in Guangxi and the other is in Guangdong, and the inter-provincial deployment is too large. But it doesn't matter, Qiongzhou only needs to declare the right to protect and actually control it. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Yulin Prefecture was promoted from Sanzhou to Zhili Prefecture, and became independent from the nominal boss Wuzhou Prefecture.

As an example erected in Guangxi, Liang Shiyi's position as the general soldier of Yulin will definitely not move, and the local taxes will still be collected by him, but the civil officials in the prefecture and county can be replaced.

The third letter was written to Xie Yuanbian in the military section of the imperial court.

Xie Yuanbian is a third-class jinshi in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, a native of Chenghai County, Chaozhou Prefecture, and a protégé of Zeng Ying. He was lucky, and when Jiashen changed dramatically, he returned to his hometown with his mother, avoiding Li Zicheng and the Tatars who followed. Longwu Year Xie Yuanbian went to Fuzhou to meet the emperor, Zeng Ying recommended him to serve as a military department, and he was just promoted to a military department this year.

The military department has a lot of energy in the matter, and some things don't have to be done by Li Yuanyin, and it is better to hand them over to Xie Yuanbian for operation. Shou Xuan did not mention what he wanted to do in the letter, but only asked him to come to Beiliu County for an interview.

The fourth letter was addressed to Qu Shiyun, who stayed behind in Guilin.

Shou Xuan said a few words and couldn't help but laugh.

Qu Shiyun and his old wife stayed in Guilin, he added a few concubines to relieve loneliness, and the aunts and wives did not live up to expectations, Mrs. Sun gave birth to a son to Qu Shiyun, and Mrs. Li added a beloved daughter. Lao Qu is 60 years old, the year of the sixtieth year, this body is really good.

The clerk coughed, still sitting upright. Orderly, retract the mentality of jokes.

Qu Shiyun is accompanied by an old wife and beautiful concubine, and he also has young sons and daughters in Guangxi, but he is old and very concerned about his children and grandchildren who stay in his hometown of Changshu. Especially his old wife, who misses her children and grandchildren all day long, and her tears are not dry.

Orderliness helped Qu Shiyun easily.

The year before last, Qu Xuanxi, the eldest son of Qu Shiyun, sent his servant Hu Ke to Guilin by sea, bringing a family letter and a secret letter from Qian Qianyi to Emperor Yongli. Since then, Qu has reconnected with his family, blaming his children and grandchildren for not coming to Guilin to see their parents.

The situation of the children and grandchildren of the Qu family in Changshu was not good, they gave up their fame, and their property was plundered by the Tatars.

Qu Shiyun was so anxious when he learned about it that he asked Zheng Chenggong of Nanao Island to rescue his family. Qu Shiyun is 7 years younger than Qian Qianyi, and at the age of 16, he worships under Qian Qianyi. Zheng Chenggong was a close disciple of Qian Qianyi, and many of the poems written by Damu were jointly commented by Qian Qianyi and Qu Shiyun. Although he is a brother in name, Qu Shiyun is actually equivalent to Damu's teacher. Da Mu treasured Qu Shiyun's comments and kept them with him all the time.

Zheng Chenggong raised troops on Nanao Island, the earliest was the Longwu year, Qu Shiyun sent his younger brother Qu Gongmei to envoy to Nanao, and Damu was immediately replaced by Yongli Zhengshuo.

There is indeed a contradiction between Da Mu and the Lu royal line, but he is by no means the Tang royal line. Longwu's brother, the real brand Tang Wang is in Guangdong, Damu can be taken away as a spare tire at any time, but Zheng Chenggong has never taken care of this Tang King.

Qu Shiyun's request to Damu was not done, and he only picked up Qu Shiyun's eldest grandson, Qu Changwen, from Changshu. After visiting his grandfather in Guilin, Qu Changwen is now in charge of the military-political ties between Guilin and Zheng Chenggong.

In this year's southerly season, through business partners, Liang Xiaobai and Jiangnan Luying, Changzhou Juren Liang Xiaobai and Jiangnan Green Camp, fished out Qu Shiyun's family from Changshu and settled them in Taipei. Qu Shiyun's eldest son Qu Xuanxi stayed behind to take care of his family, and his second son Qu Xuanjin and third son Qu Xuanjing took this year's copper ship to Qiongzhou and were in the army.

Guilin was in chaos, and Lao Qu himself was beaten by Hao Shaoqi's rebels a few months ago. Shou Xiang does not recommend that Qu Shiyun's whole family move to Guilin, it is too unsafe. If he felt that Taipei was too far away, Shou Xu said that he could move the Qu family to Hainan. Qiongzhou has experienced two thousand years of development, and the northern Qiongbei region was no longer a miasma by the time of the Ming Dynasty. There is no difference between the two counties of Qiongshan and Wenchang and the scenery of the south of the Yangtze River.

After talking about Qu Shiyun's family affairs, Shou Xu asked Lao Qu for a favor in the letter, the expeditionary force needed a county territory in Guangxi, and asked him to arrange it.

After writing the letter, he called Qu Xuanjin and Qu Xuanjing in order.

Qu Xuanjin and Qu Xuanjing have no military exploits, relying on the shadow of Lao Qu, now one is the commander of the Jinyi Guard, and the other is the Jinyi Qianhu.

"Two elder brothers, there is a war in Yulin, and the officers and soldiers have to stay to suppress the thieves. Do you two wait for us to finish the war together, or do you want to leave now? ”

Qu Xuanjin's money rat tail had just been removed, and the traces of his shaving hair were still there, and he seemed to be a little worried.

"Hair shaving is not in the way in Guangxi, and it will not be long in Guangdong Province anyway, and there are many people who shave their hair. The shaved people from Huguang and Jiangxi are also regarded as refugees by the Gui Dynasty, and no one will cause trouble on the road. ”

Qu Xuanjin and Qu Xuanjing glanced at each other, very happy, "My brother is close to each other, and he doesn't dare to disturb your army, I hope I can set off now." ”

is about to get together, and the Qu brothers can't wait.

"I'll send someone to escort you two to Guilin," Shou handed over the letter, "Please help me bring a letter to the Qu Pavilion Department." ”

Qu Shiyun took Wen Tianxiang as an example, and the poems and essays he made on weekdays were the same style as Wen Tianxiang's later period. He once vowed that if the world was not turned upside down, he would never return to his hometown. I am glad that such a minister can be beautiful and orderly.

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Note: I am ashamed to say that this book has no outline and no manuscript, only one framework. The author's history is naturally very good, but he is not familiar with the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and he just understands the framework. In the book, the dispatch of troops was just decided by the author a few days ago, and he did not know that there was a civil war in the Ming army in Yulin, Nanning. There are also many such episodes earlier in this book, which are not deliberately arranged by the author.