Huguang Province would be occupied by rebellious soldiers, which was not a big deal for the upper political figures of the Ming Dynasty. However, the governor of Huguang was vacant, which was a big deal for the upper-level political figures of the Ming Dynasty.

Don't look at the Ming Dynasty, it looks like it is "vast", with so many administrative regions in two capitals and thirteen provinces. However, there are quite a few high-ranking governors who can single-handedly control the local military and political power.

As a local magistrate such as the governor, although he generally does not deserve the honor of a cabinet scholar. However, the power and interests of being a feudal official are also quite attractive.

The vacancy of the official positions of high-ranking officials in the Huguang region was a very happy thing for Wei Zhongxian. Wei Zhongxian, who had just led the party to defeat the Donglin Party, now needed some real official positions to reward his supporters.

Therefore, on the one hand, Wei Zhongxian handed over the rotten errand of counterinsurgency to the remnants of the Donglin Party. On the other hand, he also rewarded his supporters one by one the large and small official positions vacated in the Huguang area.

Among them, Yao Zongwen, the imperial historian who has always been loyal to Wei Zhongxian, won the first place. He was vigorously promoted by Wei Zhongxian and placed in the position of governor of Huguang.

Because Wuchang Mansion was still occupied by the People's Liberation Army, Yao Zongwen could only bring a group of newly appointed senior officials from Huguang to Xiangyang Mansion to work. In particular, the new Huguang Governor Yamen was also responsible for integrating the economic and military resources of the Huguang region and "assisting" (disrupting) the Henan Governor Cheng Shaocheng to quell the rebellion.

The so-called "soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved". Whether in ancient times or in modern times, wars are fought with logistics.

From Kaifeng Mansion to Wuchang Mansion, there are 1,200 miles in a straight line. Even if the Henan "soldiers" led by Cheng Shao could march normally, they would have to walk for at least half a month or so in this 1,200 miles.

This kind of march, which is purely impossible to transport by water, is generally impossible to carry with you all the grain and grass along the way. A person, no matter what, can not afford to be fed for ten or twenty days, seven or eight hours a day, at a speed of about ten miles per hour.

On the other hand, even if Cheng Shao solves the problem of transporting military food, then he can't raise so much food. He was able to scrape out military salaries and people's husbands from the common people through administrative means. However, with more than 10,000 people and more than 4,000 regular soldiers, and these 15,000 people eat the grain that horses chew, he can't raise in Henan Province, which suffers from famine every year.

When he was in Henan Province, he was also able to order the prefectures and counties along the way to replenish the army with grain and grass. However, once he left Henan Province and entered the Huguang territory, Cheng Shao felt that it would become quite difficult for his troops to get food supplies. Just don't take into account the factors that make it difficult for the eunuch party to hinder it. Historically, guest soldiers from other places have often not been welcomed to fight in other provinces.

The reason why those foreign soldiers will wantonly loot the people in other provinces is also very simple. Food supplies cannot be guaranteed, and hungry soldiers will not be able to starve to death if they do not loot places.

Cheng Shao has never really dealt with military affairs. In fact, he didn't even have any impression of the names of the generals of the Henan Dusi, the highest military command department in Henan Province. Except for the commander of the Henan Metropolitan Division, he met a few times, and he didn't know any of the other military generals in Henan Province.

Because the incident was so sudden, and he was a layman in the military, Cheng Shao had to make an appointment with these "vulgar martial artists" whom he despised the most.

In the Ming Dynasty, except for the Hongwu and Yongle dynasties in the early stage, the general trend of the entire Ming Dynasty was to be noble and martial.

By the time of the Apocalypse, the status of the military attachés in the entire Ming Dynasty had been so low that an ordinary talent could not salute the commander of the three grades. A seven-rank magistrate casually reprimands the commander of the third grade, which is just a normal phenomenon. Therefore, it is conceivable how low the status of the military attache of the Ming Dynasty is now.

Cheng Shaocheng, a civil official of Zheng Erpin, felt that he could arrange a special time to meet these generals who were responsible for leading the troops in the Henan Metropolitan Division, which had already given them a lot of face.

However, because he had to rely on such a group of stupid and ignorant martial artists, this made Governor Cheng actually hurt his self-esteem very much. Therefore, this meeting has become a meeting of reprimands and scolding in disguise.

Under normal circumstances, these military attaches should feel very aggrieved and angry. However, on the one hand, it is because of the environment of the noble and the lowly, and on the other hand, because they really have no confidence. Therefore, after these Henan military attaches were scolded, they went home honestly.

Cheng Shao felt that he was not good in military affairs, so he had to rely on the strength of the military attachés. But the fact is that these Henan military attachés, who are regarded as pillars by Cheng Shao, are also very uneasy in their hearts.

A purely inland province like Henan is also different from a province like Huguang that has a lot of toast in its territory. The military strength of Henan Province is very weak, and the armed forces that currently support Henan Province are still the guards set up in the early Ming Dynasty two hundred years ago.

Henan Province will not be like the Nine Border Region, where there are generals, families, and recruits. Not only did Henan Province not have the kind of generals, family members, and recruits as in the Nine Border Regions, because the province was not so important militarily that Henan Province did not even have a general military officer to lead the armed forces of the whole province.

The Yamen of the Henan Prefecture is nominally the headquarters of the armed forces of the entire Henan Province. The fact is that the officers at all levels of the Henan Metropolitan Division and the various health posts in Henan Province have completely transformed into landlords who sit on the land and collect rent. It is easy for them to pull out three or four thousand tenant farmers who look like decent tenant farmers, but how to command these tenant farmers to fight against the rebellious soldiers, from the commander of the Henan Capital Division to an ordinary hundred households in the Henan Provincial Internal Guard, all of them have the same score in their hearts.

All the military attaches up and down in Henan Province have not trained or led troops for at least several generations, and have commanded real military operations.

Say something nasty. These Henan military attaches don't even have any decent family members. Their families were all stewards who helped them manage the fields and watch over the serfs. At most, this group of people is better than the average serf. When it comes to military strength, they are just as rubbish as those serfs and soldiers.

In fact, after receiving the order of the governor to get ready to go, the Henan military attaches were really very worried. They didn't think in the slightest that they could go to the provinces to plunder and make a fortune. All their bodies and minds were focused on how to bring the farmers under their hands to Wuchang Mansion, which was 1,200 miles away.

Long-distance marches, especially with a large number of peasants who had not undergone any relevant training, were the first major problems facing the Henan military attaché.

Not to mention the Henan side over there to prepare for the march, nor to mention the increasingly enthusiastic economic construction and military training in Wuchang Prefecture. Speaking alone, he soon arrived in Xiangyang Mansion and quickly set up Yao Zongwen, the new governor of Huguang, the highest authority in Huguang.

Yao Zongwen played an important role in the political struggle between the eunuch party and the Donglin party, and played an important role in the post of imperial history.

If it weren't for the fact that in recent years, he painstakingly collected a large number of Donglin Party bigwigs from all over the country, and the evidence of real things that could not be put on the table, such as bribery, embezzlement of people's land, and business and profit, would not have been so honestly resigned and went home after the defeat of the political struggle.

Therefore, this time Wei Zhongxian promoted him, the original fourth-rank imperial history, to the position of second-rank governor, which was a reward for his contribution to the eunuch party.

From an ordinary discipline inspection cadre in the central government, he has become a local official who commands the military and government of Huguang and a feudal official. If you want to say that Yao Zongwen won't feel fluttering, you are talking nonsense.

As soon as Yao Zongwen arrived in Xiangyang Mansion, he began to give disgrace to officials at all levels in the entire Huguang region. He was very picky about keeping records of the officials present. After discovering that only the civil officials of the prefect's yamen came to greet Jingzhou Mansion under the leadership of Zhang Hong, and that none of the military attachés of the Jingzhou Wei command envoy Yamen were present, he couldn't help but feel furious.

On the one hand, in front of the entire Huguang officialdom, he loudly rebuked the Jingzhou prefect for his incompetence in disciplining the military attachés, and on the other hand, he sneered at Gu Junen, the representative of Wang Shuhui.

Gu Junen has also been in the Revival Association for four or five years. If a person stays in an environment for a long time, he will inevitably be affected by that environment. After discovering that Yao Zongwen, the new governor of Huguang, was a frivolous and manic person who didn't know what to do, Gu Junen actually walked away in front of everyone.

Yao Zongwen originally thought that his eunuch party was isolated and helpless in the local area, and most of the officials who controlled the local eunuch party were not very friendly to the eunuch party. Therefore, he wanted to take this opportunity to give the local officials in Huguang a derailment and establish his prestige.

What he didn't expect was that the civil and military officials of other prefectures and counties were honest, but this small guard commander of Jingzhou Mansion was so arrogant. Not only did Wang Shuhui not come to greet him in person, not to mention the governor of Huguang, the representative of Xiucai sent by Wang Shuhui, who dared not to give himself face in front of the entire Huguang officialdom.

For a while, Gu Junen's cousin made Yao Zongwen angry.

Huguang officialdom also felt very surprised. In the eyes of officials in the Huguang area, the fact that the Zhijiang Royal Mansion was able to restore the prince was certainly due to the emperor's favor. But they also knew that if it weren't for the hard work of the eunuchs in the north and south of Beijing, Zhu Shuzhen's Zhijiang prince would not be so easy to get his hands on.

For a long time, Huguang officialdom thought that the Zhijiang Wangfu was a vassal king who had taken refuge in the eunuchs. Today, however, it seems that this is no longer the case.

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