Guizhou, Shuixi.

General Jingnan, Governor of Liangguang, Taishi, and Liu Qiao, Duke of Qi, led the troops and rode horses across the rice fields of Qianmo, Guiyang is located in the middle of the mountains and hills of Qianzhong, the watershed of the Yangtze River and the Pearl River. The total terrain is high in the southwest and low in the northeast. The Miao Mountains stretch across the territory, the Gangfu is undulating, and the denudation hills are interspersed with basins, valleys and depressions.

The landform of Guiyang belongs to the hilly basin area dominated by mountains and hills, among which there are many mountains and few dams.

The July sun is very hot, but the rice in the field is growing just right.

"The road is not bad." Liu Qiao said to the staff officers around him with a smile.

Liu Qiao entered Guangxi from Guangdong, and then received orders from the imperial court to transfer to Guizhou.

Liu Qiao's side was followed by the generals of the two towns who went south to quell the rebellion, and the main force of the southward counterinsurgency was transferred from the Gyeonggi area, and many of the generals were generals of the Chu army who had fought big battles. The troops of Liangguang stayed in the area, and the soldiers and horses of the two towns to the south will be stationed in Guangxi and Guizhou in the future after the rebellion is quelled.

They all came prepared and had a detailed understanding of the situation in Guizhou.

"Back then, it was indeed very meaningful for Luxiang to build Longchang Jiuyi. Over the years, the avenue of Longchang Jiuyi has always been an important link between Guizhou and the outside. A staff officer said with a smile.

Longchang Jiuyi is the Tusi of Shuixi and Shuidong, and the people who repair it are still known as the two female toasts of Mrs. Xiangxiang and Liu Shuzhen.

Mrs. Xiangxiang back then was actually similar to Qin Liangyu, the current governor of Sichuan.

The difference is that Shizhu Tusi is a Tu people, while Shuixi is a Yi people.

The distant ancestors of the Yi people in Shuixi can be traced back to a branch of the Qiang and Qiang tribes in the ancient northwest and entered Guizhou. In the Shu Han Dynasty, because of his leader's meritorious assistance to Zhuge Liang's southern expedition, he was named the king of Luodian.

Since then, it has been in contact with the Central Dynasty of the Central Plains, and it was called Luo Shi Ghost Country or Luo Ghost Country in the Tang and Song dynasties. The territory of the Yachi River in the upper reaches of the Wujiang River in Guizhou is divided into the east and west of the water.

In the Yuan Dynasty, Shuixi was changed to Yixi Buxue Governor's Office, and the leader of Shuixi, Acha, was taken as the governor, and the Tusi system began. His descendants held the hereditary position of proclamation envoy. He became the highest local official in the northwest of Guizhou and even in the central part of Guizhou.

After Zhu Yuanzhang drove out the Tartars, restored China, and established the Ming Dynasty, as long as they were willing to belong to these Tusi of various ethnic groups in the southwest, they would still be allowed to continue to be local Tusi, and they would still be hereditary.

In the fifth year of Hongwu, Shuixi Xuanfu made Ai Cui and Shuidong Xuanfu Tongzhi Song Menggu (later given the name Qin) into the dynasty to take office, and was listed as the chief and deputy Xuanfu envoy, and the governance office was moved to Guizhou, which was later Guiyang.

After Song Qin's death. Ai Cui is old, and is retained by Qin's wife Liu Shuzhen and Cui's wife Xiangxiang respectively.

At that time, the Ming Dynasty defeated the Yuan Dynasty and became the lord of the Central Plains, and he was also very suspicious of the strength of the Tusi in the southwest. At that time, Shuixi Tusi was called Xuanfu Si externally, and was an official conferred by the Ming Dynasty, but internally he called himself "Tho Mu", and his wife was called "Naiye", which was the largest slave owner and the highest ruler in the whole territory.

It consists of nine pulls, nine verticals and thirteen creek soil houses and soil eyes. A well-organized administrative system was formed, which ruled over all ethnic groups throughout the territory. The whole territory is thirteen streams, and each stream is placed with a Mu as a du, which is filled by the clan relatives of Tho Mu. and with a Mu Kui town, the country of the Han Dynasty. Tho Mu set up official villages in each stream, and the cultivators were official households; Lower-level officials were granted land to be cultivated by the people of all ethnic groups. Formation of a system of slavery.

After Shuixi returned to the Ming Dynasty, the annual tribute was paid to the squares and horses. The place is 4,000 miles, and tens of thousands of soldiers are victorious. The power is unprecedentedly strong.

This led to speculation among Ming Dynasty officials, and Ma Ye, the commander of the later Ming court stationed in Guizhou, deliberately provoked a conflict and publicly flogged Mrs. Xiangxiang, which almost triggered a rebellion of the nobles Tusi at that time.

At that time, Hao Xiang and Liu Shuzhen knew the strength of the Ming Dynasty and did not dare to rebel, so they went directly to Beijing to sue the emperor, and expressed their willingness to open mountains and build roads to set up post stations.

Luxiang's move did make the Ming Dynasty unable to find a reason to use the knife on Tusi at that time. After returning to Guizhou, he also personally led the tribes to open two post roads centered on the partial bridge, one to the west and the other to the north, the post road crisscrossed Guizhou, opened the passage of Sichuan, Yunnan and Hunan provinces, and also stabilized the situation in the southwest, and clarified the vassal relationship with the Ming Dynasty.

Since then, the Ming Dynasty has given 30,000 stones to Shuixi every year.

However, in the Wanli period, Yang Yinglong, the Tusi of Banzhou in the northwest of the water, rebelled, and the imperial court used troops on Guizhou on a large scale, and after quelling the rebellion in Banzhou, the land was changed and returned to the stream, and Banzhou was divided into two, one part was included in Sichuan, and the other part was included in Guizhou.

After that, the local officials of Guizhou in the Ming Dynasty became more and more tense with Tusi.

During the reigns of Wanli, Tianqi and Chongzhen, Sichuan Yongning Xuanfu made Hao Chongming rebel and captured Chongqing and Zunyi.

The Lu'an Rebellion was more devastated than the Banzhou Rebellion, and after Guiyang was breached, more than 100,000 people were killed. This chaos lasted for more than ten years, with nine years of large-scale fighting, with millions of dead and wounded.

Later, Hao Chongming and An Bangyan died in battle, and An was spared because of his young age, so he was forced to surrender with six eyes outside the water. The Ming Dynasty changed the Guizhou Propaganda Department to the Shuixi Propaganda Division, and still used An Wei as the Xuanwei envoy, and stipulated that it was not allowed to interfere in military and civilian politics, and the jurisdiction and power of the An clan were greatly reduced. The Shuidong Song clan was removed from the Tusi, and Shuidong was placed under the jurisdiction of Guiyang Prefecture.

After the founding of the Han Dynasty, Shuixi has always had an unclear attitude, especially Shuixi also took advantage of the Han Dynasty and Ming Dynasty to enter Shuidong and occupy Guiyang.

This time Liu Qiao sent troops, and the emperor deliberately let him enter Guizhou first, so that these people would show their submission.

When the Ming Dynasty was first established, the Ming Dynasty started with the Lady Xiangxiang incident, but in the end, it was over. After more than 200 years, although the Han people continued to expand to the southwest, in fact, these Tusi were still the local emperors.

As soon as the local authorities go overboard, they immediately rebel.

Liu Jun will never allow his empire to be among such a country. Therefore, this time it was just the opportunity to take the opportunity to quell the chaos and send a large army to the southwest.

Otherwise, to deal with some former Ming rebels, there is no need to send the elites of several towns to the south.

"Guiyang looks very withered." Liu Qiao sighed.

Although the journey on this road is quite peaceful, compared with the prosperity and liveliness of the Central Plains today, after entering Guizhou, it is really like entering a primitive mountain forest.

"The Lu'an Rebellion is only more than ten years ago, and the Banzhou Rebellion is only more than forty years ago. These two major chaos spread throughout Guizhou and poisoned Guizhou. Let's just say that in the Lu'an Rebellion, nearly 30,000 rebels were killed by the imperial court and more than 10,000 were captured. In particular, when the rebels besieged Guiyang for more than half a year, the soldiers and the people cannibalized each other, and it is rumored that 400,000 people fled into Guiyang City at that time, and finally ate more than 20,000 people. At that time, the general soldier Zhang Yanfang openly organized the killing, and then clearly marked the price and sold it publicly, and four catties of human flesh were worth one tael of silver. ”

A staff officer said.

Liu Qiao felt that the number of 400,000 might be a bit watery, but the matter of killing people for food would definitely not be fake, on the battlefield of Liaodong back then, during the siege of the Daling River, Zu Dashou and others were trapped in the city, didn't they just rely on cannibalism for so long, and finally ate more than 10,000 people.

However, in the past 50 years, there have been two major rebellions in succession, and although the Great Liang State has not been established in the end, the damage caused is extremely great.

Today's Guiyang Mansion is not as lively and prosperous as the capital of a province, and it is not as good as a small county town in Guangdong.

Shui'an clan, from the Three Kingdoms to the present, has controlled this area for more than a thousand years, especially they have been marrying in all directions, uniting with the Tusi, the luxury of the rebellion of that year, the luxury family in Sichuan is the marriage with the An family.

Although the strength of the Shuixian clan was weak in the Rebellion of Luxury, it was still the first toast in Guizhou.

If Liu Qiao wants to control Guizhou, the first thing he has to do is to subdue the Shuixian clan first.

Although Guizhou is said to be remote, such a large place only pays 30,000 stone to the imperial court in a year, which is not as much as the payment of a county in the southeast. Especially now, the toasts in Guizhou have not even paid the endowment of 30,000 stone a year.

"After the Banzhou Rebellion was pacified, the court killed a lot of Tusi and barbarians, and finally changed the land and returned to the stream, and directly incorporated the territory owned by these Tusi into the direct jurisdiction of the imperial court. If the Shuixian clan and other toasts also want to resist the imperial court's heavenly might, then I can't wait for it. Liu Qiao burst out laughing.

The rest of the soldiers were similar, and when they came, everyone already knew the purpose of the trip.

The Han Dynasty is not the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang just tried it, he retracted it, and he didn't dare to do it in the future, and the result was that there were countless rebellions in the Ming Dynasty. The Han Dynasty has now settled Manchurian Mongolia in the north and the Central Plains in the interior, and now it has long been gearing up for these southwestern toasts.

Especially the soldiers of the Han army, they didn't come for the big parade, they came in the hope of being able to fight a few battles, make meritorious contributions, and be knighted.

Guiyang City was still far away, and a group of cavalry rushed towards it.

It was Liu Qiao's personal guard who came.

"Has the news been sent to the city?" Liu Qiao asked.

"Back to Dashuai, his subordinates have sent the news of Dashuai's arrival to the An clan in Guiyang City. It's just."

"Just what?"

"In accordance with the commander's order, the subordinates went to inform An Shi, asked them to prepare barracks and food for the army, and let them go out of the city to meet them, but An Shi said that An Wei was unwell and could not come to meet them. He also said that the city was so small that there was no vacant space for our soldiers to be placed, so we should camp outside the city. ”

"Then the An family is all sick, and none of them are good?" Liu Qiao's face sank. "When An's uncle Hao Chongming and his uncle An Bangyan rebelled against Guiyang, the 400,000 people who fled into the city could accommodate it, but now they can't accommodate 60,000 horses in our army?"

Liu Qiaocai would not believe that he was sick, and he did not believe that there was no place for the Han army in the city.

This is death.

"Raise the flag, beat the trumpet, and go into the city!"

As soon as Liu Qiao clamped the horse's belly, his face was like frost, and he led his troops to kill Guiyang City with a fierce attitude. (To be continued.) )

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