Chapter 862: The South China Sea (Part I)
Chinese New Year's Eve Ming Dynasty had a vast territory, separated by thousands of miles from the north and south, east and west, northeast, northwest, southeast, and southwest, and the natural conditions, economic growth, ethnic structure, and even cultural customs of each region were very Chinese New Year's Eve different, which brought extremely Chinese New Year's Eve challenges to the rule of the empire. Due to the limitations of the communications and administrative capacity of this era, no matter how strong the country is Chinese New Year's Eve, it will not be able to cover everything, but must be prioritized according to its important level.
In the eyes of the imperial court, the northwest faced the threat of the Mongol boat, so it was natural to take care of it first in terms of manpower and material resources; The southeast is a source of taxation, which must be administered by the most competent officials; The Central Plains is related to the peace and tranquility of Sheji, and it also needs to be financially tilted, and in recent years, because of the rise of Tuman and Duoyan in Liaodong, "the Northeast has also become a new hot spot."
So after all the calculations, the mountains and rivers are high, the forests are dense and the people are barbaric, and the southwest, which is the farthest from the center of the empire, has become the most neglected and sacrificed area. In the past, when Taizu Dingding Nanjing, he inherited the Yuan Dynasty to set up a province in the southwest, but he used the style of Tusi to manage the premises to raze and control the land", and his requirements were only limited to paying tribute on time, and recognizing the rule of the imperial court "It is okay not to make trouble and not to divide it, and there is no interest in meddling in the affairs of the premises, let alone collecting taxes."
Later, the imperial court moved its capital to Beijing, farther away from the southwest, especially the change of civil engineering, and after the empire discovered that the Mongols could take the capital by way, they immediately lost confidence in the Chinese New Year's Eve of the northern frontier, and they were even more resigned to the southwest. In fact, there is a difference between governing and farming, according to the intensive cultivation of agricultural time, there will be a bumper harvest of grains, if you neglect management, or mess around, "the land will be wasted." The imperial court was so indifferent to the southwest that it gave the power of the administration of the premises to the Tusi, "so that Li Shu only knew that there was a Tusi but did not know that there was a court, and the decrees of the government were like a piece of waste paper." The authority of the official can not get out of the government "even the safety of life can not be guaranteed, so that in the Chenghua Zhengde period, some officials were assigned to Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi as officials" are often regarded as derogatory, and the recipient of the official is also like a mourner, and he has to bribe the officials to change the appointment, and he can't push it, so he abandons the official and returns to his hometown" and does not joke with his own life, thinking that in the past, Yangming Gonglongchang realized that he was in Guizhou, and all thoughts were ashes, lying in the stone coffin, "in a desperate place Chinese New Year's Eve he Chinese New Year's Eve fully enlightened. But in the past 500 years, there has only been one Wang Yangming, who has Chinese New Year's Eve most of the people, lying in a coffin, "and he can't get up again......
Under the vicious circle, "the situation in the southwest is becoming more and more erosive, and the powerful Tusi are despising the imperial court more and more, so as long as there is dissatisfaction" or ambition, they must gather people to tear the flag, kill officials and rebel, although "there must be a suitable soil for rebellion, that is, the people are not able to make a living, and the old people really can't live." However, this is not a difficult thing for himself to come to the southwest region, which is extremely poor and has been subjected to both the Tusi and the government.
When the rebellion shook the foundation of the southwest and exceeded the tolerance of the Beijing Dynasty, it would send the Chinese New Year's Eve Army to suppress the rebellion, kill a group of disobedient heads, and then live in peace for more than ten decades, and then rebel.
The story of the Feng family is a living example...... In the fifth year of Hongzhi, there was a famine in the areas of Gutian and Maping in Guangxi Province on Chinese New Year's Eve, and "the government still forced the peasants to pay grain and taxes, and the life was unbearable."
So "Wei Yinbao's father Wei Chaowei and his father Wei Chaomeng contacted Qin Guangde and others to lead the rebellion." In the eighth year of Hongzhi, he captured the county seat of Gutian in one fell swoop, and occupied Gutian for twenty-six years, claiming that King Guangfu was not exterminated until the thirteenth year of Zhengde, and Wei Chaowei and Wei Chaomeng were awarded the head.
After the death of the mighty brothers, their four sons avenged their father and continued to rebel. But first, they were injured Chinese New Year's Eve, and it was difficult to recover for a while; Second, at that time, there were Mao Bowen, Zhang Jing and other famous ministers and good generals through Guangxi, and third, Tianzhou's old lady was loyal to the imperial court, and his wolf soldiers were invincible...... Therefore, throughout the Jiajing period, it was still a fight, mainly to restore vitality in a low-key manner.
Compared to the last years of Jiajing, Mrs. Washi returned to the West, and Wei had regained his strength Chinese New Year's Eve, and won an excellent leader, Wei Yinbao, the most of the four Wei brothers. Wei Yinbao has been Chinese New Year's Eve since he was a child" and loves books, especially the art of war" In the battle of the 40,000 Chinese New Year's Eve Army that led the people to meet the imperial court from Liangguang Hunan, he commanded Ruoding, relying on the favorable terrain to maneuver with the officers and troops; Adopting the tactic of attacking from the east to the west, "dragging the officers and troops to exhaustion," and then concentrating superior forces to annihilate the invading enemy," undermined the encirclement and suppression of the officers and troops.
Then "Wei Yinbao Association Alliance Qin Wanxian, Huang Chaomeng and other powerful Tusi" Chinese New Year's Eve expanded the land, led the people to conquer Gutian County again, and killed the county commander Zhu Kai. Later, he captured Suirong County, "killing the county order Zhang Shiyi." Wei Yinbao was shocked on Chinese New Year's Eve, and Bazhai Tusi returned", so he established power in Gutian, called himself the king of Mo Yiyi Chinese New Year's Eve, and officially raised troops against Ming. In order to weaken the power of the Ming Dynasty in Guangxi, he led the crowd to build a cloud ladder, crossed the city wall, and stormed the important town of Lingchuan. After entering the city, he killed the officials, burned the official offices, and transported Chinese New Year's Eve quantities of gold, silver, and grain, and distributed to the poor what could not be transported, and gained the reputation of killing the rich and helping the poor.
After the Battle of Lingchuan, the Ming army in Guangxi was frightened, and the imperial court had to pacify the southeast rebellion first, "followed by the Hannan Rebellion, there was no time to send troops to support, and the officers and troops could only retreat to the provincial capital Guilin, and defend the Lingui area with heavy troops. Wei Yinbao entered a golden period of growth, "He occupied more than 20 county towns one after another, and his influence shrouded the northern part of Guangxi. He set up officials to manage the land, collect grain and taxes from the rich, "suppress the rich and help the poor", and win the support of the poor people.
With the expansion of his power, Wei Yinbao was ambitious and planned a series of military operations that shook his voice on Chinese New Year's Eve: "Its peak work was three dozen Guilin cities, and the last two times they even invaded the city, ransacked the clan treasury, killed more than a dozen officials below the political envoy of Guangxi, destroyed more than 3,000 Jingjiang royal mansions, and Jingjiang Wang hid in secret passages" before escaping a catastrophe.
The invasion of the provincial capital of Guilin brought Wei Yinbao's prestige to the extreme, and it was he who became more and more contemptuous of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and even continued to go north in the 45th year of Jiajing and entered Hunan Province, which finally attracted the serious attention of the imperial court. Therefore, Yang Bo, who was Shangshu of the military department at the time, ordered Yu Chinese New Year's Eve to be the chief military officer of Guangxi and "Li Yan to be the governor of Guangxi" to gather heavy troops to quell the rebellion. Although Yu Chinese New Year's Eve, a battlefield general, has always been depressed under the pressure of some people, he has never lost his military sensitivity and is ready for war at any time.
The Yu family army, which is as famous as the Qi family army, is not comparable to ordinary officers and soldiers, "along the way, the momentum was like a bamboo, and the city of Guilin was successfully recovered, and the soldiers approached Wei Yinbao's old nest Gutian." Wei Yinbao was shaken by the Chinese New Year's Eve, withdrew troops from Hunan to help, and repeatedly fought with Yu Chinese New Year's Eve, "all of them were at a disadvantage, and they could only take advantage of the geographical advantage to deal with the other side." Yu Chinese New Year's Eve was also not in a hurry, and the steady and steady attack of "attacking the heart first" had already compressed Wei Yinbao's forces south of Guilin, but because of the complex terrain and insufficient military strength, and inconsistent with the concept of Governor Li Yan, it was difficult to go further.
Under the condition that the northward advance was blocked, Wei Yinbao grew southward and "killed Tianzhou Tusi Cen Chinese New Year's Eve fiercely" and annexed the land of Chinese New Year's Eve in southern Guangxi, collected 20,000 wolf soldiers, and increased his strength Chinese New Year's Eve. On the side of the officers and soldiers, the disagreement between Inspector Li Yan and General Soldier Yu Chinese New Year's Eve became more and more Chinese New Year's Eve to the point where one must be left and one must be left. And Li Yan was Gao Gong's protégé, but Yu Chinese New Year's Eve had no backer, so Yang Bo, who wore a pair of pants with Gao Gong, transferred Yu Chinese New Year's Eve back to Guangdong, and sent another chief military officer to obey Li Yan's dispatch.
Li Yan was in power on Chinese New Year's Eve, and he could finally suppress bandits according to his own style, but the 50,000 officers and soldiers spent millions of taels of silver in the imperial court for three years, and he lost his own troops and generals, but he did not hurt Wei Yinbao a single hair. And Wei Yinbao, in the persistence of the court for a long time, gradually felt lonely...... Although he annexed the land of the Cen family, he expropriated violently in Tianzhou in order to save the emergency, so that the resistance in the territory rose one after another. And Cen Chinese New Year's Eve's younger brother is still there, so he does not dare to fully trust the wolf soldiers.
In order to resist the Ming army for a long time, he turned to the Mo Dynasty in Annam, asking it to send troops to help him resist the Ming army, and after the matter was completed, he was willing to divide the north and south of Guangxi with it. The arrogant Vietnamese really promised to come down and sent 30,000 troops to help him resist the Ming army. In fact, Wei Yinbao actually didn't really want to give Guangnan over and let him also turn to the Burmese Donghu Dynasty, which was the strongest Chinese New Year's Eve in the Indochina Peninsula at that time, and also asked Guangnan to send troops to help, "but was recognized by the Burmese king Mang Yinglong, one daughter and two promises, so he did not send troops."
But even so, Wei Yinbao also scraped together and pulled up 100,000 Chinese New Year's Eve troops...... At this time, "if he continues to hold on, the gods will not take him seriously." But his army was not the original 30,000, but 100,000 Chinese New Year's Eve army. These 100,000 people eat horses and chew, even if he occupies half of Guangxi, he can't afford to raise them, so he can only take the initiative to attack the rich northern part of Guangxi. And his opponent Li Yan, in the past few years, has eaten empty salaries and eaten fat intestines, scraping the land and scraping the sky to anger and resentment, and when he saw Wei Yinbao's Chinese New Year's Eve army coming, various departments and departments turned against each other. Li Yan was cowardly before he fought, "Before he saw Wei Yinbao, he withdrew a hundred miles first, and Guilin was lost again." After that, the Ming army retreated one after another, and was driven to Hunan, and the whole territory of Guangxi fell, and the government and the opposition were furious.
The people in the DPRK and China realized that if they did not face up to the Wei Yinbao rebellion, Chinese New Year's Eve would lose Vietnam and Guangxi forever. Even Emperor Longqing, who never asked about state affairs, "made an exception to convene a court meeting to discuss counterinsurgency strategies." The Chinese New Year's Eve ministers were all frightened by the rebels who claimed to be 300,000, and they always thought that at this time, there was only one person who could clean up the mess, that is, the young master, the crown prince Taibao, the Chinese New Year's Eve bachelor of Wuyingdian, and the deputy assistant of the cabinet Shen Mo.
In addition, at this time, the combat mission of Hetao was basically over, and it was expected that there would be no war on Chinese New Year's Eve in the next few years" Long Qing agreed to this suggestion, ordered Shen Mo to be the Taibao, ordered his supervisor to quell the rebellion, and all provinces under the world to be sent to fight horses and grain.
As soon as Shen Taibao arrived in Hunan, he beheaded Li Yan and sent a message to the six southern provinces to show his attitude towards the greedy and cowardly. He then transferred Jiangxi political envoy Yin Zhengmao to the post of governor of Guangxi, and ordered Wu Baipeng, the governor of Liangguang, to lead the Guangdong general soldier Yu Chinese New Year's Eve to Gui to obey the order.
In addition to sending generals, he also gathered heavy troops, and he transferred more than 40,000 soldiers from Hunan to Yongshun and Baojing; 30,000 musketeers were transferred from Nanzhi, Zhejiang, and Fujian; In addition to the original 40,000 native soldiers in Guangxi and the 30,000 horses brought by Wu Baipeng from Guangdong, a total of more than 140,000 troops, and repeated the old tricks, issued war bonds, and raised more than 4 million taels of silver for military salaries...... I just don't know what he used as the subject this time.
There are so many troops, and there are still newly defeated armies, if there is a new commander, "if you don't fight yourself, you will be in chaos." But the shadow of the famous tree of people, the silence of today, and the accumulated military exploits of the southeast to resist the Japanese, the Hannan bandits, and the recovery of the Hetao, have long become the god-like characters of the Chinese New Year's Eve Ming army...... Although he never commanded a single war. As soon as he arrived in Guangxi, the morale of the army on the verge of collapse quickly stabilized, and no matter which clan or province it belonged to, no one dared to touch his moldy head. Those officials and generals no longer dared to cheat and bend the law for bribes, and they all honestly obeyed the dispatch.
Shen Mo would never do what he was not good at, he threw these miscellaneous armies to Yin Zhengmao and Yu Chinese New Year's Eve, let these two practice and reorganize, and quickly pinch out their combat effectiveness. He himself worked with Wu Baipeng to use tactics, both soft and hard, to divide and disintegrate Wei Yinbao's coalition army, but all the Tusi who returned to the imperial court were not to blame in the past and were rewarded generously. Because many Tusi have no grievances with the imperial court, "even the world is favored by the emperor, but they are only coerced by Wei Yinbao, so they can't refrain from sending troops, and they are all frightened when they see that the court is going to move seriously".
Now the silence forgives their sins, and there is a reward" The toasts naturally moved to their hearts, and almost every day they led the people to surrender in the night. In the face of the bad situation, Wei Yinbao knew that he could not resist greed for perfection, so after sacking Guilin, he took the initiative to collect troops and retreated to the Gutian base area.
After more than half a year of preparations, mainly in armaments and intelligence, the first month of the fifth year of Longqing began to encircle and suppress on Chinese New Year's Eve. Staff generals Liang Gao and Lu Qi led more than 13,000 people as the vanguard, and the troops pointed directly at Gutian. Wei Yinbao calmly responded to the battle and thwarted the enemy who was the first offender. However, the wolf soldiers led by the general Yu Chinese New Year's Eve, the general Wang Shike, and more than 10,000 officers and soldiers secretly Chen Cang usurped the county seat of Suirong.
After occupying the advance base, the Ming army attacked on Chinese New Year's Eve, and Yin Zhengmao led 50,000 Chinese New Year's Eve troops to outflank the rebels. At this time, the official army changed the tactics of "every time they took a step forward, they cut down the surrounding trees, saw Hengyu burning, and saw stones passing through knives" and organized death squads to attack in turn, and also used the strong native soldiers transferred from Hechi and Nandan to break into the interior of the rebel army, and finally captured important strongholds such as Malang and Kushui. The rebels suffered heavy casualties, and the leader Huang Chao was killed in battle. Wei Yinbao had no choice but to abandon his stronghold, "retreat again and again", and at the end of the year, he retreated to the deep mountains where China and Vietnam met, and the entire territory of Guangxi was basically recovered.
However, Wei Yinbao still had 30,000 people, plus 30,000 Annan soldiers, 60,000 horses and horses were guarding the 100,000 Chinese New Year's Eve Mountain, and there was an inexhaustible support from the Mo Dynasty behind them. and the main road" to make a posture of a protracted siege.
Just when Wei Yinbao and the people of Annamam were about to breathe a sigh of relief, a piece of news came that made their souls scatter that the Ming Dynasty actually informed the Mo Dynasty's sworn enemy, the Li Dynasty, that it wanted to attack the Mo Dynasty through southern Vietnam!