Chapter 539: Twelve Horse Heads
The equipment of the wolf soldiers in Guangxi, of course, is not as good as that of the official army, let alone any iron armor, except for a few leaders, ordinary wolf soldiers do not even have a piece of leather armor, nor do they have the bows and arrows, iron helmets and long weapons that the officers and soldiers are often equipped with.
The only weapons these wolf soldiers were rattan and machetes that they were accustomed to use.
However, these wolf soldiers have one of the biggest characteristics that officials and soldiers cannot compare, that is, they are not afraid of death.
As long as the head of his own family gives an order, even if there is a mountain of swords and a sea of fire in front of him, they are all brave and not afraid of death.
He is so ruthless to himself, and of course he is so ruthless to the enemy, but he will only be more ruthless.
After breaking the Hongbian Village, the Manzhou Song clan, which had dominated Shuidong for thousands of years, was uprooted overnight.
In the next ten days, Xu Chengming led the six thousand wolf soldiers under the command of Mo Keji and Wei Ang to sweep the twelve horse heads in Shuidong.
All the direct and collateral descendants of the Tusi of the Song clan in Shuidong were killed, and the money, grain and property of Hongbian Village and the twelve horseheads were swept away.
Including the land of the Twelve Horse Heads in Shuidong, which had been occupied by the Tusi of the Song clan in Shuidong for nearly a thousand years, it was also divided into the Tusi serfs who had worked these lands by Lin Chaodong, a political officer in Guizhou, and Liu Yangkun, a general who followed the pace of the wolf soldiers to the north.
The reason why these natives who belong to Zhongjiamiao or Buyi Miao and Gelao Miao villages are loyal to the rule of Tusi is, on the one hand, of course, the local customs and habits, after all, hundreds or even thousands of years, generations have been like this, and many people have such a cultural psychology.
But on the other hand, and most fundamentally, these toasts have a firm grip on all the lands and forests under their rule.
Whether it is that these lands were won by the ancestors of these Tusi by conquest and conquest, or by attaching themselves to the imperial court and being rewarded by the imperial court, in short, the Tusi has full authority over the mountain and forest land population within their jurisdiction.
They have an army and an official office, and the local officials in the army and the official office are all appointed by the Tusi.
As a result, they are a mixture of warlords, tribal leaders, religious leaders, and large landowners, and they have the power to kill everything in the Tusi territory.
Moreover, almost all of the Tusi territories were either pure slavery or feudal serfdom.
Of course, more of a hybrid breed of slavery and feudal serfdom.
It is impossible for these slaves, or serfs, not to hate the toast chiefs who ride on them, but they have no chance or ability to resist.
The reason why the toast soldiers fought bravely, such as the wolf soldiers, was because their life and death did not depend on themselves, but on their leaders.
Including their families, their life and death also depend on their leader.
This personal attachment determines that they can only move forward bravely in the face of the enemy.
Because for them, the result of taking a step back is much more tragic than going forward.
It should be said that changing the land and returning to the stream is a threat to all the toasts.
But for Mo Keji and Wei Ang, the leaders of the Guangxi wolf soldiers, who followed Xu Chengming, the general soldier of Guizhou, all the way to attack the city and conquer the village, and captured and plundered the territory of the Tusi of the Song clan in Shuidong, they did not have such a high consciousness.
Because in the history of the Ming Dynasty, only those Tusi families who rebelled against the imperial court, rebelled and were executed, and their land was confiscated, would face such a fate, such as the Sizhou Tian clan and the Banzhou Yang clan.
And the Tusi family, which has always stood on the side of the Ming Dynasty, that is, on the side of the victors, has always been developing and growing step by step.
In particular, the wolf soldiers from Guangxi are almost about to become mercenaries of the imperial court.
As early as in the Jiajing period of the anti-Japanese war, the wolf soldiers from the Guangxi Zhuang nationality have repeatedly made great contributions, and later the pacification of the Banzhou Rebellion, and then the later Liaodong War, the Guangxi Tusi family Mo, Cen, and Wei have been repeatedly rewarded by the imperial court for their repeated military exploits, and their status has skyrocketed.
As for the current situation, at least in the eyes of Mo Keji and Wei Ang, the two Tusi leaders from Guangxi, they themselves were on the side of the victor.
As long as the imperial court can get enough food, then it will not be difficult to calm down the extravagant Chongming and An Bangyan, who have been surrounded by the mountains of Shuixi.
As for the Song Tusi family in Shuidong, Shizhen, it can only be said that stealing chickens does not make rice, and the hereditary territory directly led by the Song Tusi has been changed to the land, and it is purely the Song family's own sin.
The hereditary territory of the Tusi of the Song clan in Shuidong is divided into two large blocks.
The area east of the Yachi River north of Guiyang is the direct territory of the Shuidong Song clan, which is divided into twelve horse heads by the Shuidong Song Tusi.
A horse head actually corresponds to a horse head village.
Each Matou village has a hereditary Tusi head people, who represent the Shuidong Song clan to manage the population of the mountains and forests around this Matou village.
Twelve horse heads are equal to twelve horse head villages, and they are also equal to twelve small toasts under the Song family's big toast.
This so-called twelve horse heads is the hauntland of the Song family in Shuidong.
The head people are all the direct, collateral or earliest relatives of the Shuidong Song family, and they are hereditary and are regarded as the descendants of the Shuidong Song family.
When Xu Chengming led the army to attack Hongbian Village, these Tusi leaders of the lineage happened to gather in Hongbian Village to pay New Year's greetings to Song Siyin and receive the New Year's reward, so they were naturally killed by Xu Chengming.
In addition to the Twelve Matou area north of Guiyang and east of the Yachi River, the Shuidong Song clan was owned by the Guizhou Xuanwei Division, as well as the vast area south of Guiyang (the area from Huishui to Luodian in later generations).
This vast area is a small Tusi with a different surname attached to the Shuidong Song clan in the past dynasties, and was divided into twelve divisions by the imperial court, or twelve long lawsuits, such as Cheng Fan, Xiao Cheng Fan, Wei Fan, Fang Fan, Hong Fan, Luo Fan, Da Long Fan, and so on.
Basically, it is a surname, that is, a small Tufan Division, and the number of natives in the jurisdiction is as few as thousands, and as many as tens of thousands.
These small Tusi with different surnames are all the periphery of the Shuidong Song Clan, and they are all the small tribes of Zhongjia Miao, Buyi Miao, and Gelao Miao who have been conquered by the Shuidong Song Clan for hundreds of years.
First, the loyalty of these Fansi tribes to the Shuidong Song clan is far less high than that of the twelve horse heads, that is, they can also be used by the imperial court.
Second, these small tribes have lived in the deep mountains and old forests along the Beipan River and the Hongshui River for generations, and there are almost no Han people in those places, and there are no roads and business travelers, so they do not have the conditions to change the land and return to the river for the time being.
At the end of February of the second year of Chongzhen, the 12 horseheads area of the Tusi of the Song clan in Shuidong was changed to return to the river and opened up for Kaizhou, and the personnel of the former Fu Wangfu Mansion in Luoyang, that is, Zhu Yousong, the son of the former Fu Wangfu, and a large number of his relatives and servants were also escorted to Guiyang by the Jinyi guards at this time.
At this time, the area around Guiyang was vast and sparsely populated, and Zhu Xieyuan, who was lacking the Han population, was naturally unceremonious, and left all the men, women, and children who were assigned to serve as the army with Zhu Yousong.
The more than a dozen wives and concubines of Zhu Changxun, the abolished king of blessings, naturally could not stay, including Zhu Yousong's own wives and concubines, and they had to be handed over to Zhu Yousong to take to Yunnan, as for the rest, only a group of eunuchs of all sizes who were assigned to Yungui together were left for the prince of the abolished blessing king.
The species of eunuch cannot be used by ordinary people.
In the Ming Dynasty, it was only used in the palace of the emperor and the children of the clan.
Now that the Fu Wangfu has taken over the title and withdrawn from the domain, Zhu Yousong, the former son of the Fu Wang, has also been deprived of his clan background and has been abolished as a commoner.
But these eunuchs are all used in the Fuwang Mansion, and Emperor Chongzhen abolished the Fuwang, of course he will not go to these eunuchs in the Fuwang Mansion.
And some of these people were once the accomplices and minions of the Fuwang Mansion to bully the market and oppress the people, and four or five percent of the crimes of the Fuwang Mansion should be counted on the heads of these people.
In addition, while Fu King Zhu Changxun committed suicide in fear of sin, he also left a large number of wives and concubines, and he also needed someone to serve him, after all, he was the prince of the clan, and he still had to be a little decent.
Therefore, in the end, let these eunuchs of the Fuwang Mansion pick up those who are innocent or have small crimes, and follow Yungui together.
As for the eunuchs who were more angry and had committed convicted crimes, of course they were all killed.
In this way, the relatives and servants of the Fuwang Mansion who were exiled, especially the relatives and servants of the Zheng family of the uncle of the Fuwang Mansion related to the attack case and the Red Pill case, all of them were counted and escorted to Guiyang alive, and there were more than 2,300 people.
Lao Zheng Guifei committed suicide, and Zheng Guotai, the younger brother of Lao Zheng Guifei, and Zheng Yangxing, the nephew who was an important mastermind, as well as other direct men, were also beheaded by questioning and beheading, but the large number of three relatives, six relatives and nine tribes of the old Zheng family, together with the relatives and servants of the abolished Fu Palace, were confiscated into the army.
From the north of the Yellow River, all the way through the mountains and rivers, over the mountains and mountains, on foot for more than 3,000 miles, it is inevitable that some pampered and infirm people will die of illness on the way.
Although Zhu Xieyuan, who was born in Jinshi, is not a member of the Donglin Party, he also has no good impression of the people in the Abolished Fu Mansion and the old Zheng Guifei's mother's family.
He did not summon Zhu Yousong, and after handing over with the Jinyi Wei escorts, he left those who wanted to stay and handed them over to Zheng Chaodong, a political officer in Guizhou, and others to resettle, and the part that was specially selected was left to Zhu Yousong, and he quickly gave them the paperwork and sent them to continue on the road to Yunnan.
Seeing the fate of the former Wang Sun Guixuan now, Zhu Xieyuan was not too unkind, in addition to the identity documents needed, he also funded Zhu Yousong and his entourage with some gold and silver.
Most of the people who stayed behind were well-to-do and were placed in the Wudanghong border village in the northeastern suburbs of Guiyang.