Liu Jun tossed and turned in bed, unable to sleep.

There was only one incense candle lit in the room, and this candle was mixed with ambergris, so there was a faint fragrance in the room, but this incense candle with a calming function could not make him sleep at this time.

In the darkness, the recital of the southwest kept floating in his mind.

Liu Jun has been paying attention to the situation in the southwest region, and now, the rebellions of the former Ming clan and various parts of the Central Plains have basically been quelled, and the rest are the Tusi rebellions such as Shadingzhou in Yunnan.

The imperial court now still has four route armies in the southwest and northwest, of which Zheng Longzhi led the West Route Army in Shaanxi and Gansu, the general reserve led by Zhang Shan and Cai Yuan in Hanzhong, while Qin Liangyu's middle route army is in Sichuan, and Liu Qiao's East Route Army is in Guizhou.

The four-way army totaled 210,000 horses, not counting the garrisons in the provinces.

Someone in the imperial court played a song, saying that the rebellion of the previous dynasty had been quelled, and the four-way army should be recalled to the class.

How do they know that Liu Jun is now a drunkard and does not mean to drink, he succeeded to the throne and let several armies march under the pretext of rebellion in Shadingzhou, Yunnan.

In fact, he is Xiang Zhuang dancing the sword, which is intended for Pei Gong.

Liu Jun's purpose now is the toasts in the southwest.

The Tusi system was developed on the basis of the county system of the Tang and Song dynasties, and in essence, it was still to govern the people with local officials, recognize the hereditary chieftain status of those border tribes, and give them official titles to carry out indirect rule.

The Central Plains Dynasty actually had no real control over the tribes in these frontier areas.

In the border areas, the Tusi are the Tu Emperors, and the Tusi are in the middle of the country. Because they are hereditary, these people are local emperors, and the words of the Central Plains court are more effective than those of the Central Plains court, and the border people only know the Tusi, but not the Central Plains court.

Even the Tusi often fought between each other or inter-tribal wars, and the most serious were some powerful tribal officials, who were arrogant and arrogant. Rebellion is infrequent.

Of course, the Central Plains Dynasty was aware of the various shortcomings of toast, and the Ming Dynasty had long been brewing to solve these toasts. And there is only one way to trigger these problems, and that is to change the land and return to the stream.

There are generally two ways to change the land and return to the stream, one is from the top down, first change the Tufu, and then change the Tuzhou. The second is to seize every favorable opportunity. If there is no heir of a local official, there is no successor, or the clan fights, the court will immediately send a liuguan to take over.

Some local officials fought against each other, and the imperial court immediately sent troops to intervene, and after pacification, they sent liuguan to take over.

Some local officials committed crimes, or rebelled, after the court was pacified. He was dismissed for his crime and immediately replaced by a retained official.

In addition, the local people asked the court to change the land and return to the stream, and the court immediately dismissed the hereditary local officials with the so-called subordinate to the people. changed to a liuguan, and so on, in short, once the Central Plains Imperial Court seized a little opportunity. will immediately change the stream.

Guangxi, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Sichuan, these five provinces, there are many toasts, but they have experienced more than 200 years of Ming Dynasty. A large number of Tusi have also been changed to liuguan and set up as prefectures and counties. Among them, many of them were accompanied by rebellions and wars.

Now, Liu Jun is determined to take the opportunity of this quelling of the chaos to send a large army to go deep and carry out a major operation in the southwest.

However, this is a very risky plan, because the transportation in the southwest is inconvenient, the people are fierce, and the local officials are arrogant.

So far, it's progressing well.

Qin Liangyu took the initiative to go to the imperial court and changed the Shizhu Propaganda Division to be sent by the imperial court to send a flow official, and removed the Shizhu Propaganda Division.

Liu Qiao also lived up to his high expectations, and after quelling several rebellions in Guangxi, he quickly entered Guizhou, took Guiyang in one fell swoop, and killed Guizhou's largest Tusi Shui's Xi'an Tho Mu.

Guizhou lives in Yunnan, Guangxi, Hunan, Sichuan four provinces, Liu Qiao did not first change the land in Guangxi, but started from Guizhou, and first took the water to open the knife, this hand is very good.

A knife stabbed the center of the southwest has the effect of seizing people.

Changing the land and returning to the river is a war, a war with the southwestern Zhuyi.

The war has begun, the trumpet has sounded, and the court has advanced and retreated.

The Shuixian clan in Guizhou has been killed, Guiyang has been taken, and the order to change the land and return to the Liuge, remove the local officials, and set up prefectures and counties has been issued.

Liu Jun didn't expect all the local officials to surrender and be honest and obedient, but he hoped that at least some of the local officials could be attached to the imperial court, so that the imperial court would not fight alone in the southwest.

Now that there is no news coming back from the southwest, Liu Jun has been waiting for the news, and he can't sleep at night when he waits.

"Someone!"

"Your Majesty, the slave is here." A eunuch on duty hurriedly responded.

"Go to Yonghe Palace to pass on Namu Zhong to come to bed."

"Yes, Your Majesty."

In Yonghe Palace, Namu Zhong had already fallen asleep, and suddenly the palace people raised a lamp to wake her up.

"Niangniang, Your Majesty has summoned you to bed."

Namu Zhong woke up a little dazed, "When is it?" ”

"It's been three shifts."

"Hasn't Your Majesty slept yet?" Namu Zhong muttered, and suddenly came to his senses again. This is a rare opportunity, the newly selected show girls have recently entered the palace, they are all young and beautiful women, and they are still learning the etiquette of the palace.

These show girls are much younger and more beautiful than her, and once the emperor sees them, it is estimated that he will have to like the new and hate the old.

However, Namu Zhong happened to be here today, and it was supposed to come two days late, but the evening suddenly came unexpectedly. Now the emperor suddenly summoned her to bed, how can this be good?

If you don't go, you can't go, if you can't accompany the Son of Heaven, wouldn't it be even worse if you sweep the Son of Heaven.

With a turn of her mind, she called Chu Qing, a young palace maid who served her, over and whispered to her.

Chu Qing is a palace maid less than twenty, very beautiful, and usually does things well, at this time, I heard that Namu Zhong asked her to be stiff for a while, and she was shocked and ashamed.

"Dead girl, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, once you are favored, you will fly on the branches and become a phoenix in the future. You don't want to go out of the palace in another two years, right? And I heard you say that there is no one at home anymore, where will you go when you leave the palace? Did he go out and marry a merchant's concubine, or a farmer? ”

"Listen to my sister, help my sister this time, my sister will remember your love in the future, and you will be the master in the future."

Chu Qing's face flushed, and finally nodded slightly, letting out a soft um

Guiyang City crosses the Nanmen River to the east. A hundred miles to the east is Ryuriji.

Longli Division is also known as Longli Chief Lawsuit, Ming Hongwu initially placed Longli Station, and then placed Longli Chief Official, 23 years of Longli Wei, built the city, and was promoted to military and civilian command in 29 years.

Long Li Wei led four chief lawsuits and five thousand households.

In the last years of Chongzhen, all the guards in the world were dismissed, and Cao Xun, the commander of the guard, had also resigned, but in fact, until now. Cao Xun still claims to be the commander of Long Liwei, and his subordinates are still controlled by him.

Not only that, but he also has a troop of soldiers and horses under his command.

Cao Xun's Longliwei is only a hundred miles away from Guiyang, and there is a post road to communicate. He was also the first to get the news that Guiyang City was broken and Anwei was killed, and he was also the first to be ordered by Liu Qiao to go to Guiyang to meet him.

"Lord Wang, what do you think about this?"

Cao Xun asked a middle-aged man next to him, the middle-aged man had five locks of long beard. is dressed in a Ming official robe, but it is a general judgment in Guiyang. Although Guiyang Mansion is the place of Shuixi Xuanwei Division, the imperial court also set up Guiyang Mansion here. Under the prefect of Guiyang, there is also a general judgment. This middle-aged man is the general judge of Guiyang.

Guiyang sentenced Wang Ji. He is in charge of Guiyang's grain transportation, water conservancy, tuntian and other affairs. However, the general judgment of the border government actually does not have much power. In Guiyang Prefecture, there are only 20,000 or 30,000 Han people's households.

"This Liu Qiao, the means are ruthless, Guiyang City said boom. Shui's seat said kill and kill. It's amazing that such an order has been given now. ”

"My lord, do you think we should go?" Cao Xun asked.

He's a little awkward right now. During the Chongzhen period, the imperial court originally abolished the guards in various places, but Cao Xun was far away from the emperor of the sky, and did not pay attention to the will of the imperial court, and still acted as his own commander.

After the changes in the Central Plains, and Liu Jun usurped the throne, Mu Tianbo supported the Tang Dynasty.

The Kunming court sent people to contact the Han officials and local officials in the southwestern provinces, and Cao Xun won the post of commander of Guizhou Province appointed by the Kunming court, and he also became a member of the Kunming court in Guizhou.

During this time, he also actively contacted the nearby local officials, preparing to gather troops and horses, who knows, in the blink of an eye, the Han army will come in, and Guiyang City will be broken in one attack.

And before Wang Tongju told him even worse news, Mu Guogong and Tang Wang in Kunnan were both killed by Sha Dingzhou. Wang Tongju came to persuade him to send troops to Yunnan to fight Sha Dingzhou, but Cao Xun heard that after the ****** of the Kun Dynasty was destroyed, he was already interested in Lanshan, although he still had the title of commander and chief military officer, but the ****** was gone, what was he going to do.

"It's better to wait and see what happens." Wang Tongju stroked his beard and said.

Guiyang.

Seven days have passed since Yasuki was killed.

In the past seven days, there were not many local officials who came after receiving Liu Qiao's order.

For example, there are more than 2,000 toasts in various provinces today, and there are more than 200 toasts in Guizhou. After several rebellions and quelling rebellions, the number of toasts in Guizhou has decreased significantly, and it is not as good as that in Yunnan and Guangxi.

Now there are more than 200 large and small toasts, and only more than 20 have come to the order.

Liu Qiao's face was very ugly, he thought that he would take Guiyang and kill Anwei, so he would make an example of killing chickens and monkeys, and the Tusi in various places would therefore deter the imperial army, but he didn't expect that it didn't play a role at all.

What made him even more dissatisfied was that not only only only one percent of the Tusi came, but even the officers of the guard station set up by the Ming Dynasty in Guizhou did not come.

The Ming Dynasty set up a lot of guards in Guizhou, such as Guizhou Wei and Guizhou avant-garde near Guiyang, in addition to Longli Wei, Xintianwei, Pingyue Wei, Weiqing Wei, Pingba Wei and many other guards Tunbao, each guard has several offices, and twenty or thirty Tunbao.

In Guizhou, the Han people mostly lived in these forts.

At the end of Chongzhen, the imperial court withdrew the Tianxia Guard, but most of the Han people in the Guardhouse Tunbao were still living and cultivating in place. In fact, these guards had already become landlords and encroached on the tuntian.

Liu Qiao originally thought that with his order, the former officials and current landlords of these guards would come actively, but he didn't expect that they would not come as many as the local officials.

Except for the former Guizhou Wei and a few commanders of the Guizhou avant-garde, Qianhu waited for Qianhu, and no one from the rest of the guards came.

"Which is the closest health center to Guiyang?"

Liu Qiao asked the staff officers beside him.

"Weiqingwei in the west of Guiyang, and Longliwei in the east, are all within 100 miles."

Liu Qiao's face darkened, and he asked again, "I heard that the territory of the Shuixian clan is divided into thirteen streams, and each stream is placed with a Mu Mao as a du, which is filled by the clan relatives of Tho Mu, and a Mu Kui town, and the country of the Juhan Dynasty. Tho Mu set up official villages in each stream, and the cultivators were official households; Lower-level officials were granted land and cultivated by the various tribes, forming a slave system. How many Mu Hao and Mu Kui of these thirteen streams came? ”

"Back to Dashuai, none of them came."

"Hmph, do they think that if I can kill them, I won't be able to kill them?" Liu Qiao sneered, "Don't forget, how did Guiyang Mansion come to be today, this was originally the land of Shuidong Tusi, and the Shuidong Song clan was also one of the four major toasts in Guizhou back then." Now look at it, where are these four toasts? ”

The four major toasts of Guizhou, Shuixian Xi'an, Shuidong Song, Sizhou Tian, and Banzhou Yang. As early as the Yongshi period, because of the vendetta of Ertian, the Tian family was pacified by the Ming Dynasty, and the local officials were dismissed and the officials were reassigned to establish prefectures and counties.

Later, Banshu was also pacified in the Banshu Rebellion 50 years ago, and the land was changed and returned to the river.

The Song clan in Shuidong, although he supported the Ming Dynasty to set up three divisions in Guiyang and established it as a provincial capital. But not long ago in the rebellion of Lu'an, he joined the side of the rebels, and after the rebellion of Lu'an was pacified, the Tusi of the Song clan of Shuidong was abolished, and only one Shui'an clan remained.

Previously, the An clan took advantage of the Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty to enter Guiyang, but the result was not that he opened the city with a cannon and cut off Anwei's head with a knife.

Now in the thirteen streams in Shuixi, none of the leaders of the thirteen tribes of the Xi'an clan in this water have come, which makes Liu Qiao laugh coldly.

Should they be called ignorant and fearless, or stupid?

Of the more than 200 Tusi, only about 20 came, dozens of former Ming guards, and only the people of Guizhou Liangwei were there, this was because the Han army had occupied Guiyang and the vicinity, and the guards of the two guards had been controlled by the Han army.

"Okay, very good, since they doubt Ben Shuai's orders, then don't blame Ben Shuai for being polite."

"Transferred the two associations of the front army, and went to take Longliwei and Xintianwei in the southeast of Guiyang and Weiqingwei and Pingbawei in the west of Guiyang. I will give you three days to conquer all the castles of these four guards, and bring back all the former military attachés of more than 100 households. ”

The officers of the two associations of the former army stepped forward to receive the order and took the order.

"For the more than 20 local officials who have already obeyed the order, give Ben Shuai a good treat."

Liu Qiao was in Guiyang City, and held a banquet to entertain these local officials. However, the local officials who came were all small tribal local officials, and most of them were Miao local officials.

When they saw that the thirteen rivers in Shuixi had not come, their faces were already unsightly, and when they saw that they had not even arrived at the Han officials of the various guards, they secretly regretted in their hearts, knowing that this was the case, they should not have come.

Some people made excuses at the table, that is, they wanted to go back early.

"Don't worry, you are guests from afar, so stay for three or five more days for the time being." Liu Qiao smiled and raised his glass, and a group of small local officials with different thoughts also raised their glasses. (To be continued.) )

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