Xichuan Province, everyone must be familiar with this name.

But you may not know that the Xichuan Province of the Yuanmeng Imperial Court is not the same as the Xichuan in everyone's impression.

That is, compared with the Xichuan in later generations, the Xichuan Province divided by the Yuan and Mongolian courts is really much larger than that of later generations. The mountain city is heavy [] Qing, the western part of Guizhou Province, in the Yuan and Mongolian eras, it was a part of Xichuan Province.

Therefore, under such circumstances, in order to deal with the increasingly aggressive offensive of the Chu army, the current Yuanmeng Xichuan Province Youcheng did not spend it, so he couldn't help but temporarily transfer his governance to Chongqing, which was located in the central and southern part of the province.

However, although the administrative office was temporarily transferred to Chongjiuqing, he strengthened his control over the soldiers and horses of the province. But the one who had fought with the Chu army did not spend it, but he understood that relying only on this bit of soldiers and horses on the face of the officials of Xichuan Province, it was impossible to resist the extremely powerful offensive of the Chu army.

After all, Xichuan Province was not a "country of abundance" in the Yuan and Mongolian eras.

At the beginning, because of the southward destruction of the Song Dynasty, the imperial Khan Meng Ge died tragically in Shu. Therefore, after the Yuanmeng Empire conquered Xichuan, in order to avenge the bloody revenge of the Khan's killing, it couldn't help but launch a brutal massacre in the entire Xichuan.

Anyway, according to the data on the official face of Yuan Meng, after the massacre of Yuan Meng's army. In just one city, the number of deaths has reached a million.

As a result, the originally rich city of abundance has been completely turned into a hell on earth. Even until the time of Kublai Khan more than ten years later, the capital of Chengdu was still full of bushes and wild foxes.

Now, a full hundred years have passed since the inhumane Xichuan massacre.

But the Xichuan Province still hasn't recovered much. This can be known by looking at the summer grain tax paid to the center by the Xichuan Province of Nuoda during the Taiding period more than 20 years ago.

More than 20 years ago, Xichuan Province, which was known as the land of abundance, only 116,574 stone of summer grain was handed over.

You must know that at that time, even a bitter cold place like Liaoyang Province handed over 72,066 stone of summer grain that year. In a place like Yun【】Nanxing Province, which was outside the country, it still handed over as much as 277,719 stone of summer grain (Note 1).

Therefore, compared with the Huguang Province controlled by the Chu army, Xichuan Province is at an absolute disadvantage both economically and militarily.

Therefore, in order to resist the attack of the Chu army, as the right prime minister of Xichuan Province, he had no choice but to take out the name of the Yuanmeng court as a temptation, and issued an order to recruit regiments to train the righteous army within the scope of the entire province.

After all, as the world became more and more turbulent, at this time, all the local tycoons in the countryside who had a certain strength chose to establish a dock fort for self-defense, and spontaneously practiced a large number of village warriors and regimental exercises.

Especially on the side of Xichuan Province, if the number of Xiangyong and regimental training in the province is combined, it is even much more than the officers and soldiers registered by Yuan Meng in Xichuan Province.

Therefore, if the Yuanmeng officers and soldiers on the Xichuan side can get the support of these village warriors and regimental trainers, then the confrontation against the menacing Chu army will undoubtedly be greatly enhanced.

And because of this, so come in these days.

As the right man of the province, he didn't spend it, and he couldn't help but appoint all kinds of official positions as if he was giving it away for nothing.

Even the thousand households in a state were appointed to three people at once. Even high-ranking officials at the level of Wanhu were appointed by as many as seven or eight at once.

Of course, if he doesn't spend such a practice, it will undoubtedly increase the strength of his subordinates in a short period of time. So much so that in less than a month, the "army" under the control of his subordinates increased by nearly 30,000 people.

And this kind of sudden increase in military strength can't help but bring him great courage for the finisher.

So much so that in this kind of situation where there are more soldiers and horses than one day, as the right man of Xichuan Province, he can't help but give birth to a kind of self-confidence that 'the Chu army is not to be feared'.

After all, judging from the information he obtained, the army transferred by the Chu army to Xiazhou Road was less than 20,000 people. With such a small number of troops, how could he be an opponent of his army of tens of thousands.

But as we often say, there are two sides to every kind of business.

No, with the continuous increase in troops, the harm caused by this rapid increase in troops will also be exposed.

……

In the seventeenth year of the Zhizheng, February 26. It was a sunny day, and it was a good day for spring to bloom.

But at this time, not long ago, the right man of Xichuan Province, who was quite complacent, was not spending anything, but at this time, his brows were tightly locked, and he looked anxious and bored.

"You mean, Yang Han's group of guys looted again the day before yesterday!?" His brows could be wrinkled into a Sichuan character and he looked at the subordinate who was kneeling on the ground, and couldn't help but hold back his anger and asked.

"That's right. Yang Han, the marshal of the Righteous Army who guarded Fuzhou, forcibly led his army into Fuzhou the day before yesterday under the banner of tens of thousands of households appointed by you, the prime minister. Then he couldn't help but loot in the city of Fuzhou in the name of raising military rations. So much so that ......"

"So much so what!?"

So much so that the other township warrior rebels who were nominally under the command of Yang Han and his command are now all doing the same. Will be heavy [] all over Qinglu, there will be no peace! ”

"Bastard !!" Hearing this, the finisher was completely angry.

"This group of rat-eyed bastards, don't they know that they will only push all the people of Xichuan to the side of the black-clothed thieves! Bastards, it's all a bunch of bastards!! The finisher scolded angrily, and even couldn't help but use the beloved jade ruyi in his hand as a shocking wood.

Of course, his current outburst obviously won't change the situation in the slightest. However, after knocking the jade ruyi in his hand into pieces, the finisher did not spend the sullenness in his heart, but successfully dissipated a lot. So the next moment, he couldn't help but collapse in his seat and let out a long sigh of relief.

"Whew!" After taking two more deep breaths, he couldn't help but calm down again. But after calming down, a strong sense of powerlessness couldn't help but come up again.

Because he couldn't help but find that he couldn't do anything to Yang Han and others because of this.

After all, with the little money and food he has accumulated in his hands now, it is already very difficult to support the 50,000 officers and soldiers in his hands, and there is no extra money and food to support Yang Han's group of township brave soldiers. In this way, in order to solve the problem of money and food, Yang Han and the others will naturally attack the local people.

But in this way, what use can Yang Han and the others have!?

You must know that in the turbulent world of the world, the peasant people who are accustomed to seeing life and death are no longer as docile as they are in peacetime. You cut them off, and they definitely have the courage to fight with you and bite off a piece of meat from you.

In this way, if the black-clothed thieves on the Huguang side choose to come west when the people's grievances on the Xichuan side are the most boiling. Then the people of the entire Xichuan may become a help to become black-clothed thieves.

At this point, those who have seen the ability of black-clothed thieves to bewitch the people do not spend it, it is really not a doubt at all.

Therefore, knowing that it was useless, he still couldn't help but order Yang Han and others to be reprimanded, and asked Yang Han and others not to make an example.

But the finisher didn't spend a lot of time not expecting it, just because of such a reprimand, in the future, it couldn't help but lead to a series of changes.

……

"Labor-management, the finisher doesn't spend this dog thing. What did he do with labor, a slave of his family? Damn, in addition to a bullshit official position, a stone of grain will not be given to labor. Now that the laborers and management get some money and food by themselves, he even scolds the laborers. Grandmother!!! ”

Tearing up the scolding letter that the finisher didn't spend, Yang Han, who was furious, couldn't help kicking the table in front of him to the ground.

"Ge labor, even if you go to the landlord's house to work for a long time these years, you have to take care of two full meals. I, Yang Han, in the eyes of his completer, is not as good as a long-term worker! Yang Han scolded loudly, his beard was open, his eyes were red, and he looked like an angry lion at this time.

"The general is angry, the general is angry!" Seeing Yang Han's appearance, it was not until Yang Han's own anger almost dissipated that Sun Guosheng, who was Yang Han's military advisor, came out of the formation and clenched his fists to advise.

However, his words of advice couldn't help but make Yang Han, who had just calmed down, angry again, "Stop your anger, I will stop your mother's anger." Labor-management, the finisher doesn't spend a big mouth pumping labor and management in the face. His grandmother's didn't give us a little money and food, and she didn't let us raise food ourselves.

Damn, labor and management are in a hurry, and labor and management are big enough to bring people to join the Chu army. When the time comes, I will see that he will not spend it, how can he still jump! ”

"General, general cautious, general cautious!" Suddenly, hearing that the furious Yang Han even shouted such unabashedly as if he had joined the Chu army, the military advisor Sun Guosheng's heart jumped, and he couldn't help but hurriedly say: "General, if this word spreads, the one who finishes it will definitely attack me!" ”

"Attack on labor and management, and he dare!" When Yang Han heard this, he couldn't help but stare at him and roared again. However, thinking of the 50,000 soldiers and horses in the hands of the finisher, Yang Han couldn't help but subconsciously lower his voice next, "The people present are all the henchmen of labor and management, and the meeting will be spread outside." ”

"Haha, yes, yes. The subordinates said the wrong thing, don't blame the general, don't blame! Hearing Yang Han say this, although Sun Guosheng, as a military officer, was a little disdainful of Yang Han's performance as a strong outsider and a middle-class cadre, but on the face, he still looked respectful.

And at this time, his eyes rolled, and he couldn't help but offer advice to Yang Han: "General, if you want to resolve the current situation, so that the finished person doesn't dare to take us in his eyes like this, there is another way for his subordinates." ”

"Oh! What a way, you say quickly. ”

"General, as far as my subordinates know. At this time, the relationship between the Perfectionists and the Finalists has not been harmonious. Lang Ge is a person, his family has a little relationship with the golden family of Dayuan, and in terms of background, it is far higher than the one who completes it. And he is the general of the provincial army appointed by the Yuanmeng court.

Therefore, I have been unwilling to live under the completion of the non-spending, and everywhere there is a desire to compete with the completer without spending. Therefore, if you can contact Lang Ge, I think that in order to get the help of the general, Lang Ge will definitely do his best to protect the general in the future. ”

"Lang Ge Gang!?" Hearing what his own military advisor thinker said, Yang Han grabbed the beard on his chin and thought about it, and his eyes couldn't help but become brighter and brighter.

"Yes, Lao Sun, what you said is simply too right. If I say I'm willing to take refuge with Lange, then Lange will choose to shelter me anyway. Because apart from me, he Lang Ge can't command any army in Xichuan at all.

I will be his only hope for his upward climb. In this way, if we use our own methods to raise food, we will definitely not point fingers or anything if we want to come to Langge. Haha, Lao Sun, you really deserve to be my Yang Han's military advisor!

I'll go and contact Lang Ge now, and you, old grandson, will also go down and get him a thousand taels of silver." "Yang Han, who has always been stingy, is a rare generous to his own military advisor Sun Guosheng this time.

Therefore, Sun Guosheng, who heard Yang Han's words, couldn't help but thank Yang Han happily at this time. Then he quickly retreated, and went to get the reward he deserved.

But he didn't expect it. His clever proposal, but at some point in the future, he personally sent his general, Yang Han, to a point of no return.

But that's all for later, so I won't talk about it for the time being. At this time, let's talk about Chakhan Timur, who will affect the entire northern land in the future.

Because a year ago, in the land north of the river, Chakhan Timur personally led his troops and horses to completely defeat the troops of Li Wu and Cui De. Therefore, after that, Chakhan Timur was also appointed by the Yuan court center as a member of the Privy Council of the northbound Governor of the Yangtze River.

However, because the war in the Central Plains was getting worse and worse, he, the Privy Councillor who traveled north of the river, did not go to the north of the river, but always led his own headquarters and the tens of thousands of Maohulu rebels who came to follow him when they heard the wind, and they have been guarding the Nanfu Road of the river.

In this way, when Li Wu and Cui De took advantage of the victory to pursue and killed the Yuan and Mongolian officers and soldiers in Shaanxi Xixing Province and defeated one after another, in order to stabilize the situation in Shaanxi Xixing Province, the Yuanmeng center couldn't help but be the first to think of Chakhan Timur, who had easily defeated Li Wu and Cui De.

Therefore, on the 27th day of February in the 17th year of Zhizheng, Chakhan Timur couldn't help but be promoted again.

He was appointed by the Yuanmeng Center as the Zuo Cheng of Shaanxi Xixing Province, and his deputy, Li Siqi, the little Luoshan warden back then, was also appointed as the Zuo Cheng of Xichuan. Then the two of them led the army under their command, and they couldn't help but drive from Tongguan into Shaanxi Xixing Province.