Chapter 604: Start Early
In addition to the hidden mysteries of the reward of Luo Ganxiang's department, Emperor Chongzhen also hid mysteries on the issue of rewarding Shuixi Tushuai An Long and his nephew An Shirong, as well as on the issue of rewarding Tusi Long Zaitian, Pu Fame and Sha Dingzhou who made meritorious contributions to the conquest of Shuixi in Yunnan
The Yi soldiers under An Long and his nephew An Shirong who surrendered but were not slaughtered, as well as the Yi people captured by the officers and soldiers in the subsequent battles, as well as the old and weak who were driven back by the officials and troops of various departments after the Battle of Exiangling, totaling more than 30,000 people, were handed over to An Long and his nephew An Shirong under the command of the commanders, and were placed in Mubang Mansion in the border area of Yunnan and Burma.
The so-called Mubang Mansion of the Ming Dynasty in this era was the Layon region of Myanmar in later generations.
This is also the beginning of the Ming Dynasty Hongwu period Yunnan set up a fetter house, Wanli years take advantage of the Ming Dynasty to take care of the southwest, Mubang Tuguan Han pulled up a rebellion, sometimes secessed and self-reliant, sometimes to take refuge in Burma of the Donghu Dynasty, but also after hundreds of years became a part of Myanmar.
This time, Emperor Chongzhen sealed Anlong, a side branch of the Shuixian clan who had lost his homeland, and his nephew An Shirong here, and set up Mu Bangwei here, with An Long as the commander of Mu Bangwei, and An Shirong as the commander of Mu Bangwei, so that they could take more than 30,000 Shuixi Yi people who survived a hundred battles to rebuild their homes here.
Those who received the same treatment as Luo Ganxiang and An Long also included An Chongsheng, the prefect of Wusa Tu in Yunnan, Tulong Zaitian of Shiping in Yunnan, and Tusipu of Ami Prefecture, as well as Wang Nong Tusi Shayuan's second son, Wang Nong Tuguan Sha Dingzhou.
An Chongsheng, the former prefect of Wusa Tu, was allowed to take more than 20,000 Yi soldiers and Yi people who surrendered from Wusa Fu to the Manghong area south of Menglie in Yunnan Province to set up the Manghong Pacification Division, with An Chongsheng as the Manghong Tusi, that is, the Manghong pacification envoy.
Manghong was the northernmost part of Laos that broke into Yunnan in the Phongsali region.
Shiping Tusi Long Zaitian obtained Mangqing on the border of the Ming Dynasty south of Shiping Tusi's jurisdiction, and the imperial court allowed Mangqingwei to be set up, and Long Zaitian's son and nephew served as the commander.
The reputation of the Ami Tuguan Pu also got the Manmo region of the Yunnan-Burma border area in later generations, and the imperial court set up the Manmo Wei, which was commanded by the hereditary Manmo Wei of the Pu Fame family.
And Wang Lang Tuguan Sha Dingzhou was meritorious in the conquest, and he also got the Bamo area south of Mengyang, north of Manmo, and west of Tengchong, and became the new Tusi of the Bamo Chief.
No one knows what Emperor Chongzhen's true meaning is in this arrangement.
However, from the cabinet auxiliary ministers such as Li Guowei and Xu Guangqi to the feudal ministers in the southwest such as Zhu Xieyuan and Shao Jiechun, they were very happy to see Emperor Chongzhen do this.
Because, if these meritorious Tusi were rewarded to the original jurisdiction of the Xuyong luxury family, the Shuixian family, and the Shuidong Song family, then how should the Han soldiers and generals of the Sichuan General Army, Yunnan General Army, and Guizhou General Army be rewarded with land?
Although the jurisdiction of the Hao family, the An family and the Song family is large and has a lot of land, the land suitable for cultivation is limited, otherwise, these families would not think of rebellion.
Now that Yunguichuan has recruited meritorious soldiers to the land of Shuixi and Shuidong, Shizhu and Baojing Tubing will also have a piece of the pie.
Even if there is so much land to be divided, it is no longer possible to expand the fiefdom of these Tusi in the three provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan.
After all, the Hao family, the An family and the Shuidong Song family are not far away.
In Yunnan, Guichuan and Sichuan, these Tusi leaders were given more land and population, and if they couldn't prepare for them, they would be born arrogant and even self-reliant.
Historically, when Pu Ming and Sha Dingzhou were in Chongzhen for four years, they successively launched a rebellion in Yunnan, which is known as the Shapu Rebellion.
There are several main reasons behind it, one is the invasion of Gyeonggi by Jianyu, and the authority of the Ming court was swept away.
Another because of the war in the north, after the rebellion in the southwest was pacified, the imperial court drew a large number of troops from the southwest to the north, and the general soldier of Guizhou Xu Chengming and Deng Xi and others who replaced Hou Liangzhu as the general soldier of Sichuan, each led the department to go north, and the troops in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan were empty.
There is another reason, that is, after the official army pacified the Extravagant Rebellion, Pu Ming and Sha Dingzhou made great contributions, not only obtained a large amount of wealth and materials through wanton looting, but also received land rewards from the imperial court, and the fiefs were expanded, and the ambitions also swelled.
Of course, there is another factor when it comes to Shadingzhou.
That is, he himself is the second son of Tusi Shayuan, the king of the Yunnan-Burma border.
On the one hand, his elder brother Sha Dinghai is the heir to the throne of Wang Lane Tusi, and he is not.
On the other hand, he led the Wang Lane Tusi army, and made a lot of contributions in the process of conquering Shuixi, and was supported by the Wang Lane Tusi army.
As a result, the drama that has been repeatedly staged in Chinese history has once again been staged in the remote jurisdiction of Wanglong Tusi on the Yunnan-Yunnan-Burma border.
Sha Dingzhou, who was unwilling to give up the position of Wang Lane Tusi, after his father Sha Yuan died of illness, raised troops to kill his brother Sha Dinghai, which was regarded as killing his brother and standing on his own.
The Yunnan officials and the monarchs and ministers above the Ming court, as always, were pedantic and inflexible, and resolutely refused to recognize the position of Tusi obtained by Sha Dingzhou's brother killing, and did not allow him to attack the king to make the Tusi.
As a result, Sha Dingzhou had no way out, so he had to make chaos.
However, the local officials in Yunnan were incapable of suppressing it, and for a time caused the Qianguo Gong of Shizhen Yunnan to flee Kunming in a hurry, and Yunnan was in chaos.
Now Emperor Chongzhen started in advance and sealed Sha Dingzhou to Bamo.
Although it was only a low-grade Ba Mo chief lawsuit, the hereditary territory granted to him by the imperial court's holy decree was larger than his father's hereditary Wang Lane Tusi jurisdiction.
For Emperor Chongzhen's intentions, whether it is the cabinet auxiliary ministers or the southwest frontier, anyone who sees through it is tacit.
Although they don't have a front and back eyes, they don't know what happened to Chongzhen four years later, but they also know that they can't let these Yungui local toasts grow stronger because of their meritorious service to the west of the water, otherwise, who can guarantee that there will be no more extravagant people among these people?
As for how these people actually get their fiefdoms, that's not something they should worry about.
At this time, the Ming court, compared with the Hongwu period, the Yongle period, even the Wanli period, although it was downtrodden and much worse than before, it was still the nominal suzerainty of Burma, Laos, Siam, Annam, as well as North Korea, Ryukyu and other small neighboring countries.
Since the imperial court can give the two lands in the north of Korea to the soldiers of Dongjiang Town who have made meritorious contributions to the Jianyu war, of course, it can also give Menggong, Mengyang, Bamo, Manmo, Mubang, Mangqing and other places that have been out of control for twenty or thirty years to the Yungui Tusi who have made meritorious contributions to the conquest of Shuixi.
Logically speaking, there is nothing wrong with this approach.
The problem is that the Tusi leaders who were rewarded by the imperial court to these places how to actually occupy these lands with the holy decree of the Ming court.
Fortunately, these Tusi leaders or local officials, now in the process of conquering Shuixi, not only obtained a lot of wealth through plunder, but also the people and horses of the department have been tempered by war.
Among them is the eagle-eyed wolf Gu and the ambitious Wang Lang Tuguan Sha Dingzhou.
As the second son of Wang Lane Tusi, he was able to grasp military power only when he led the army to the battle.
Once he returns to Wang Lane in Yunnan, he will have to hand over the army in his hands and become an ordinary local official.
Therefore, although he saw at a glance that the Ming Emperor took the opportunity of rewarding his military exploits to be generous to others, using their Tusi army, to open up the territory for the Ming court, but he gladly accepted it.
Because of this reward, he can not only become the same as his father's Ba Mo Tusi, and no longer have to deliberately make enemies with his brother Sha Dinghai, but also justifiably take the Wang Rong Tusi army, which has withstood the test of the Shuixi War for several years, to Ba Mo, and open up his own Tusi Kingdom or great achievements with a knife and a gun.
Like Sha Dingzhou, who led the army out of Guizhou with the holy decree in hand, there were also two wolf army leaders from Guangxi, Mo Keji and Wei Ang.
A very important factor in why these two people dared to risk the danger of fighting and were transferred to Shuixi to fight was that they were not the eldest sons of their respective Tusi families.
Except for their military exploits on the battlefield and their rewards from the imperial court, they had no chance to establish their own merits.
Because whether it is Mo Keji from Mo's Toast in Xincheng, Guangxi, or Wei Ang from Donglan's Toast in Guangxi, although they are known for being young and strong in their respective Tusi families, they are not the heirs of their respective families.
This time, the imperial court ordered them to lead their wolf soldiers to their respective fiefdoms, which was equivalent to opening their own branches and establishing their own Tusi families.
For them, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
The last time I encountered this kind of opportunity was in the early years of Hongwu two hundred and fifty years ago!
Therefore, these two people didn't care about the specific fief given to them by the imperial court, and after receiving the holy decree of the reward, they left Guizhou with the huge wealth they had robbed in Shuixi in this battle, and went all the way south.
It wasn't until they approached their destination that they discovered that the fiefs given to them by the imperial court, that is, the upper reaches of the Zuojiang River in Guangxi, were all south of Guishunzhou, Guangxi.
Although in this era, there was no clear demarcation of national borders, but people who lived near national borders knew that there was a general boundary.
And the pacification division of Mo Keji and Wei Ang has been unmistakably located on the other side of the border between Guangxi and Annan. [.]