Chapter 714 The Situation in the Northwest
As Emperor Chongzhen guessed, the occurrence of the Taomin mutiny was caused by a variety of factors that came together by chance.
When Emperor Chongzhen decided to move Lintao Town to Hanzhong, the idea was very simple.
One is to verify the number of people in Lintao Town through the way of moving defense, and follow the relocation of defense, according to the actual number of people who go to Hanzhong.
Those who fail to move to Hanzhong on time will be withdrawn in the name of empty salaries, and no responsibility will be pursued, but no salaries will be paid in the future.
The chief military officer of Lintao Town is Dong Zhiyi, a native of Shaanxi, and naturally hopes to return to Shaanxi, and Hanzhong has been rich since ancient times, and it is far away from the borderlands, so moving to Hanzhong is an unexpectedly good thing for a Shaanxi general and sergeant like Dong Zhiyi.
However, for the guards and border generals who were born in the border areas of Lintao Town, Hezhou (later Linxia), Taozhou (later Lintan), Lintao, Minzhou (later Minxian) and other places, they were extremely reluctant.
At the same time, the town of Lintao is, after all, a border town, and has always been tasked with guarding against the invasion of the "Haikou" (a branch of the Tatar Tumert Division).
Although at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the "Haikou" stationed on the grass beach in Qinghai was divided, and there was no strength to invade the Ming Dynasty, but after all, it did not return to the imperial court, so Lintao Town could not all be moved to Hanzhong.
In this way, under the auspices of Yuan Chonghuan and others, the main force of more than 9,000 people in Lintao Town, following Dong Zhiyi, the chief military officer, and Han Yiliang, the superintendent of the army, honestly moved to the Hanzhong area of Shaanxi Province by order.
And Zhao Dayin, the deputy commander-in-chief of Taomin, who belonged to the control of the Lintao General Army, successfully stayed in Taomin under the running and fighting.
Although Zhao Dayin's surname is Zhao, and he is only one word different from Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin, he is a typical Huihui Mu Suman.
This Zhao Dayin was born in Taozhou, a generation of Taozhou salt tea and horse trade of Tao merchants, the family is wealthy, with military recruitment to join the army to recruit Haikou, it took nearly 30 years, and was promoted to the deputy chief soldier of Taomin.
If it weren't for Yuan Chonghuan coming to the post of governor of the three sides, this person might have been able to be his deputy commander in chief and continue to run his family's business power.
On the bright side, Yuan Chonghuan is a brave, determined, and decisive person.
This feature is similar to that of Hong Chengchou.
But from a bad side, Yuan Chonghuan is another person who is arbitrary, arbitrary, bold, and not only loves to toss but also can toss.
In this respect, he bears a resemblance to one of the former trilateral governors, Tsang Mill, who advocated the recovery of the Loop.
Of course, in terms of the outcome of history, Yuan Chonghuan is still more similar to Zeng Milling.
Zeng Mian was beheaded and abandoned to the city, while Yuan Chonghuan was executed by Ling Chi.
But these two people are among the civil servants who follow the rules and do nothing in the Ming Dynasty, but they can be regarded as a maverick and dare to be the first.
Such a person is similar to a double-edged sword, if used well, it is a sharp sword, and if it is not used well, it is easy to hurt himself.
In short, no matter where such a person goes, he is destined to be unwilling to be lonely and destined to be vigorous.
Soon after Yuan Chonghuan came to the post of governor of the three sides, northern Shaanxi was in chaos, and he originally thought that as the governor of the three sides, the emperor would definitely let him lead the trilateral army to suppress the thieves.
But it didn't come to pass, and it didn't take long for the thieves in northern Shaanxi to be chased by Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou, the two ruthless characters, so that they couldn't survive in Shaanxi and ran to Shanxi.
And Emperor Chongzhen did not use him to lead the army to suppress thieves, but sent a cabinet elder and minister of military aircraft to sit in Shanxi in person.
After breaking off the idea of commanding the army to suppress the thieves, Yuan Chonghuan focused his attention on fulfilling the duties of the trilateral governor's palace.
One is to recruit people to reclaim the famine.
One is to open the border mutual market.
However, after Yuan Chonghuan took office, in addition to successively promoting the relocation of Guyuan Town and Lintao Town, which was a major matter of the imperial court, the two things he took charge of in the trilateral governor's jurisdiction were all things that offended people.
Needless to say, the matter of recruiting people to reclaim the famine.
Ningxia Town spans the plains on both sides of the Yellow River, with vast and sparsely populated land, rivers and lakes all over the place, and a large amount of land that is easy to land and suitable for arable land.
At first, the people of northern Shaanxi did not know where to go, so they did not want to come, and the recruitment notice of the trilateral governor's palace was sent to various places for several months, and not many people volunteered to apply.
However, after the first batch of displaced people were escorted and transferred to the Huamachi Trilateral Governor's Mansion by Chen Qiyu, who participated in Yansui politics, within a few months, the news that Ningxia could get a large amount of land that was easy to land and suitable for cultivation soon spread in northern Shaanxi and Guanzhong.
So a few months later, there was no need for the local governments in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Guyuan, and Yansui to forcibly apportion, arrest and repatriate, and a large number of Han people from all over the country, dragging their families and mouths, in groups, went to Huamachi in an endless stream to register for land reclamation.
The desire for land for the Han displaced people, who had lost their land and their homes, immediately poured down like a flash flood once they had the channels and clear support opened up by the government.
However, in just half a year, the arrival of more than 20,000 Han families also made the area on both sides of the Yellow River in Ningxia Town, which was originally quite calm, unstable.
More and more Han Chinese immigrants came, and the area of reclamation opened up continued to expand.
The official villages assigned by the Trilateral Governor's Office to the generals and soldiers at all levels in Guyuan Town, which had been moved to Huamachi, also increased again and again with the progress of army expansion and training.
However, although there is a lot of land on both sides of the Yellow River in Ningxia Town, the basic plate is so big.
The continuous increase of the imperial army and the people's tun gradually infringed on the interests of the Huihui Mu Suman who lived here.
For those Mu Su barbarians who lived in their own villages and circled around the prayer hall and worship temple every day, they soon made trouble at the instigation of Moro (later called mullahs) in various scripture halls.
That is, if you come to reclaim the wasteland, I will also reclaim the wasteland, and I will not allow you to reclaim the wasteland.
Yuan Chonghuan himself is from the Hakka family, and in the final analysis, he is from Han people, and he is still a relatively orthodox Han person.
Such a trilateral governor naturally had to stand on the side of Han immigrants.
Moreover, these immigrants were recruited by his trilateral governor's palace after issuing one recruitment proclamation after another.
At the same time, Yuan Chonghuan is also a person who is tough and good at adopting high-pressure policies.
After the increasing conflicts between the Han Chinese and Mu Suman over the reclamation of the land, the Trilateral Governor's Office soon issued another proclamation:
It is forbidden to occupy wasteland without compensation, and those who violate the order will return the reclaimed wasteland and impose fines and hard labor.
With this proclamation from the Trilateral Governor's Office, the Han immigrants were even more unscrupulous when they had backers, recruiting relatives and friends to occupy land and reclaim land on a large scale.
And when the government at all levels dealt with the disputes between Mu Suman and the Han people because of the reclamation issue, of course, they were more partial to the Han people.
As a result, the ban of the Trilateral Governor's Palace, not only did not extinguish the fire, but made the fire of conflict even more vigorous.
However, after the army of the original Guyuan Town moved to Huamachi with the Trilateral Governor's Palace, the number of garrisons along the Great Wall of Huamachi reached two towns, plus the superintendent recruited from the immigrants after Yuan Chonghuan moved to defend Huamachi, the total number of all soldiers was close to 50,000.
With such a large army in charge, the large and small Moluo people in Ningxia's local Musu barbarians, in the face of the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals in the various official armies, although they were resentful in their hearts, they dared not speak out.
However, Ningxia and other places, which seem to be calm, are like a volcano about to erupt, waiting for when an earthquake will come.
However, for this situation, Yuan Chonghuan and his left and right hands of the Trilateral Governor's Office, Mao Yujian, Cheng Benzhi, Wang Yu'an and others did not think so.
These people are either unaware of the dangers of such a situation, or they know but don't take it seriously.
Because after Yuan Chonghuan became the governor of the three sides, in addition to recruiting and clearing wasteland, he also did a lot of other things.
Another major event that made him invest more energy was the opening of the border market.
And this major event is also a very offensive thing.
If an ordinary civil servant came to the post of governor of the three sides, he would not easily touch this problem.
But Yuan Chonghuan is not an ordinary gentle, courteous and thrifty minister, but a thorny, arrogant and domineering Yuan Manzi.