With Zhu Yunxi leading 50,000 Beijing troops to Dayong County. This small city located deep in the mountains has completely become a military town.

Dayong County is not big, like many cities in the southwest, the area is only half of the Central Plains county, or smaller.

The sudden arrival of the imperial army shocked the county. The last time there were so many imperial soldiers and horses arrived, it was the last time.

The people, whether Han Chinese, Tu people, or Miao people, kept a low profile and kept silent, except for the need to be busy with farming, most of them chose to stay closed.

The former army arrived in Dayong County before the large army, and immediately took over the defense system of Dayong County.

Although according to the emperor's grandson's intention, the camp was to be built on the other side of the Lishui River, this small Dayong county was still regarded as a means of guaranteeing the army at the most critical moment.

After the former army took over the defense of Dayong County, several generals of the rear army's baggage battalion began to take the emperor's grandson's edict to recruit people inside and outside Dayong County, cut down trees on the mountain, and prepare for the construction of the camp.

Li Yulong, the county magistrate of Dayong County, was originally ready to complain about the hardships of the people under his rule, and at this time it was a busy time for farming, if the people were all recruited to build camps for the army, it might affect the summer grain harvest in Dayong County this year, as well as the next autumn grain planting.

Li Yulong, the county magistrate, doesn't have much ability, but he is very clear about his responsibilities. He was ready to withstand the wrath of the army.

It's just that he didn't expect that the generals of the baggage battalion would actually ask someone to carry several large boxes and put them on the county government hall.

The chest is opened. A piece of snowflake silver almost blinded Li Yulong's eyes.

"The latest decree of the imperial court preceded Zhili Dao, and this time the army was implemented equally, and all the officials and military horses recruited the people to work, and they were all hired with money and grain. Li County Commander was relieved that he would have hired only a small number of people to cut down trees on the mountains and dig ditches for the camp. The general of the baggage battalion explained to Li Yulong with a smile.

Li Yulong blinked: "Money and grain are hired, only cutting down trees and digging ditches?" The general smiled: "You can't fake it, and the salary is compared to the number of employees employed by the Zhili Provincial Government." The people of your county only need to cut down trees and dig ditches, and as for the construction of camps, the soldiers of our baggage battalion are responsible for them. Li Yulong's eyes quickly swept over the faces of the county magistrate, the county bookkeeper and others.

And the smile on his face was more natural: "I don't know how many people the general will hire." Five hundred? Or a thousand? If three or five thousand people are needed, the lower officials will now urge the men to go out of the city and recruit the people. "From the initial reluctance, to now the faint desire to let more people who are okay be hired.

The change of Li Yulong, the county commander of Dayong County, clearly fell in the eyes of the general of the rear army's baggage battalion.

"It is enough to estimate more than 1,000 people, but it is just a matter of cutting trees and digging ditches, or how many people there are." The general of the baggage battalion replied in a calm tone.

A hint of disappointment flashed in Li Yulong's eyes. But for the army to recruit and hire people, Li Yulong quickly arranged.

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"My grandson always believes that it is better to teach people to fish than to teach them to fish." Under the moonlight, on the high mountain on the bank of the Lishui River, Zhu Yunxi served a bowl of fish soup for the old man with a soup spoon, and said in a calm tone.

Before evening, the army had arrived outside the city of Dayong County. Zhu Yunxi did not enter the city, but the Marquis of Puding led the army into the city on behalf of the imperial court and took over the defense of the city wall of Dayong County.

More officers and soldiers were stationed on the flat ground opposite the city, as planned. The camp has been set up at the foot of the mountain, and bonfires of all sizes are lit in the camp.

In the open space on the top of the mountain next to it, a pot of sauerkraut fish has also been cooked. In addition to Zhu Yunxi and the old man, there are also Zhu Zhen, the king of Chu, Zhu Shangbing, the son of Qin, and Zhu Gaochi, the son of Yan.

As for Sun Gou'er, the chief manager of the inner palace, he was waiting for the old and young of this family on the side. The old man held the bowl and tasted it with relish.

I don't know what's going on, but the old man still can't put down the sauerkraut fish that he has eaten all the way.

Zhu Yunxi saw that the old man was not tired of eating, so he had to prepare one every day. Perhaps only Zhu Yuanzhang himself knows that this is the food made by his own grandson, so no matter how many times he eats it, he will not get tired of it.

Zhu Zhen is now a little sick to the taste of sauerkraut fish. I just filled a bowl of fish soup and drank it in small sips.

After hearing Zhu Yunxi's words, he immediately put down the bowl and spoon and looked at the other party. Zhu Zhen glanced at the old man next to him again, and said softly: "This time through the southwest, my family wants to get rid of the Tusi system in one fell swoop, the first priority is the people's will, and the second is to plan for troops. Brother Xi'er's move can avoid the unprovoked war poisoning innocent people. As long as the situation is opened, the more than 1,000 people who have been recruited and hired in Dayong County will be the sharpest knives and guns in my family's hands. Zhu Gaochi said in a low voice on the side: "This time I hired the people of Dayong County, although I know that the purpose is to use the employment system to hook people's hearts and let the people in Dayong County see the tangible benefits given by the imperial court." This time, the wages were far higher than in the past, and they were thirty percent higher than the current standard of the Yamen of the Governor of Zhili. As long as there are more than 1,000 employed people, there will inevitably be more people who want to be hired by us. At that time, it will naturally achieve Brother Xi'er's goal, hook out those swaying natives and Miao people in the depths of the mountains, and devote themselves to the imperial court. But there will inevitably be those spies planted by the Tusi head, at this moment our army is deep into the southwest, behind it is a 200-mile Lishui River, once the other party finds out the situation and blocks the back road of our army, our army will be embattled. This is Zhu Gaochi's character.

A matter must always be analyzed thoroughly, and the pros and cons must be thought out clearly. And Zhu Shangbing, who was beside him, was also bored and dry as always.

When he heard Zhu Gaochi say that they might be embattled, he raised his head slightly. He felt that if there was really such a situation, he would be able to fight well, and by the way, he would be able to kill the unsubordinateness of the southwest.

Zhu Yunxi didn't speak, holding the dishes and chopsticks and frowning slightly. This sauerkraut fish is not authentic in the end, and it lacks spiciness.

I don't know when Zhu Yunwen and Sun Cheng will be able to get the chili peppers back from the American continent.

Sauerkraut fish with a spicy flavor is the authentic sauerkraut fish. Zhu Yuanzhang was already in a bowl of fish soup at this time, and motioned to Sun Gou'er to add a little rice for himself.

Taking advantage of this gap, Zhu Yuanzhang picked up a towel and wiped his mouth.

"Sun Tzu plotted to attack, went to the army to attack the plan, followed by the army, and then attacked the city, and the method of attacking the city was a last resort."

"This is the most difficult to guess since ancient times, but in the final analysis, it is all for the benefit of the future." Zhu Yuanzhang took the rice sent by Sun Gou'er, picked up a piece of local sour radish in Dayong County and put it in his mouth, chewed it a few times, and then continued: "The soldiers are surrounding the southwest, and the sword is pointing out, and my ambition is well known to everyone, but what about the toast in the southwest? Poor and detached from its people, the people will return to their hearts, cut off their rhizomes, and become duckweed without roots, and reach the soldiers who surrender without a fight. And the strategy of centrifugation should be promoted step by step. At that time, I want to see that this 100,000 mountains in the southwest are still the barrier of Tusi! After the old man finished saying this, Zhu Yunxi, who had been silently eating fish and drinking soup, finally raised his head.

"Grandpa Shengming." Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes widened slightly. Laughter during the banquet. As for the fact that the imperial court wanted to dismember and abolish the southwest Tusi system, although now the entire Huguang Province, Sichuan Province, Guangxi Province, Yunnan Province, plus the Sichuan Xingdu Division and the Guizhou Xingdu Division, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses Chen Bing blocked the 100,000 mountains in the southwest.

But in the hearts of Zhu Yunxi and others, it was the next choice for the army to press the border, go deep into the mountains, and fight with the stubborn Tusi forces in the deep mountains and old forests.

is to throw millions of soldiers of the Ming Dynasty into the 100,000 mountains in the southwest, at most, they will only drive those Tusi from the territory into the mountains, and the court will only be dragged down by this million army deep into the mountains.

Adapting measures to local conditions and giving priority to strategy is the way to get rid of the Tusi forces in the southwest this time.

At this moment, the imperial army outside Dayong County recruited more than 1,000 people to cut down trees and dig ditches in Dayong County, and it was Zhu Yunxi who set an example for the entire Dayong County and those natives and Miao people hiding in the mountains in the southwest.

Everyone knows it. Even the Han people in the southwest, and even the Han people, may have a connection with the Tusi deep in the mountains.

And let those people in Dayong County be recruited and hired, do things for the army, and really get money and food, this news will inevitably spread to the depths of the mountains soon.

The imperial court is now going to set a benchmark. Anyone who works for the court and is loyal to the court, whether it is a native or a Miao person, can have the same treatment as the Han people.

At that time, as long as the soldiers and horses from all walks of life in the 100,000 mountains in the southwest are besieged, and then the recruitment and employment are carried out as usual, it will inevitably attract countless natives and Miao people hidden in the mountains to go out of the mountains and completely submit to the imperial court.

Then the imperial court can take advantage of the situation and move these people to other places and hand them over to the government. What will the Tusi officials who are unwilling to give up their hereditary power think?

They will inevitably be dissatisfied, and they will rebel. Even the Tusi officials, who originally only knew that they were constantly exploiting the natives and Miao people, would be extra gracious and offer far higher prices and better conditions than the money and grain given by the imperial court.

But. Is Daming short of money and food now? That is, the toasts can use the benefits to temporarily stabilize the people under their rule, but what about the long time?

This is a naked conspiracy. It is also the only way that Zhu Yunxi came up with after his prince father intended to end the hundred-year period and wanted to get rid of the southwest toast system in one fell swoop.

Throw money at it. Give benefits. It is precisely the current Da Ming who can give enough benefits. If this Yang plot is placed in the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, it will not be possible to do it when Yingzhou and Jiaozhi Dao have just been attached to the Ming Dynasty.

But now it can be done. …… May. The large camp outside Dayong County has already exceeded the original number, and under the repeated curry favor of Li Yulong, the commander of Dayong County, and with the efforts of more than 1,500 Dayong people, it has finally been basically completed.

A large camp with a capacity of 100,000 people, brand new is located on the south bank of the Lishui River. On the hills on the east and west sides of the camp, all the trees have been cut down, watchtowers and watchtowers have been built, and now the positions of the artillery barracks are being built.

It seems that the 50,000 troops of the imperial court are not to enter the mountains to clear the Tusi forces in the southwest, but to stay here for a long time, and even prepare for defensive battles.

Early in the morning at sunrise. Dayong County made Li Yulong rarely put on his own pressed box court clothes, standing between the county seat and Daying, across the Lishui River at the head of a wooden bridge.

In front of him were boxes of white flowers and silver with their lids opened. The clerks and clerks in the yamen room and the clerks of the big camp sat behind the desks in a row.

On each table, there is an account book.

"Li Laosan, working for thirteen days, the salary is three taels or three dollars, come up and get the money."

"Chen Sigou, working for eleven days, the salary is two or eight yuan, come and get the money."

"......" All the people who were named came forward with joy on their faces and held their wages in their hands.

The scene was extremely cheerful, and even in the past, when there was such a pile of silver, and the government needed to send many officials and soldiers to protect it, today it is rare to have many officials and soldiers.

The people who got the money gathered happily and discussed what new things to buy for the elderly and children at home and the mother-in-law in the bed.

Those who had not yet received the money began to discuss how many taels of silver they should be able to get. This time, the imperial court recruited them to build a camp for the army, not only was it no longer the same as before, but they also provided their own dry food, and they were also paid.

This is something that the people of Dayong County have never heard of. Not to mention, this salary is really enough.

It's just a small half a month's work, and you can earn the money that used to take a month or two to earn.

For a time, the imperial court has become the best imperial court in the past and present in the mouths of these great people. Li Yulong also climbed onto an empty box.

He didn't take a single piece of the money that the army gave him this time. After getting the wage price given by the Houjun Heavy Battalion, he calculated for the whole night to calculate how many people Dayong County had to dispatch in order to divide up this batch of silver.

Now, all this silver has fallen into the hands of the people under the rule of Dayong County. Li Yulong felt an unprecedented sense of pride from the bottom of his heart for no reason.

Fight with the gentry and wealthy families in the city, fight with those gangsters hiding in the mountains, where is there a fight with the court, and earn more silver for the people under their own rule.

Li Yulong seems to have found an unprecedented way to become an official. He couldn't help but clench harder on a piece of paper hidden in his sleeve.

It was sent from the camp earlier today. The edict stamped with the seal of the emperor's grandson.

Li Yulong's heart became more and more eager, just waiting for the people to announce it after receiving the silver.

Finally, after more than half an hour, the more than 1,500 Dayong people present finally divided up the silver sent to the county government by the baggage camp.

Li Yulong coughed lightly twice, and took the loudspeaker handed over by an officer and soldier of the baggage battalion standing beside him.

"Folks!"

"Folks!"

"Do you want to make more money?"

"Do you want to add a few more children and grandchildren to your ancestors?"

"Do you want to have more mothers-in-law in your bed?"

"Folks!"

"Now, the court is gracious, and our Dayong County is here to live again!" ……………… Recommended commuter passes