"My lord, in front of you is Bijiewei's station."

On November 26 of the first year of Taichang, when Jiangnan and the imperial court were in trouble, Bijiewei in Guizhou in the southwest came with a group of people.

The tall man on horseback, although he was wearing a Taoist robe, looked at his physique, but he looked more like a military general.

This person is Sun Chuanting, who was transferred to Bijiewei by Zhu Youzhen for training, and there are more than 20 people beside him, all of whom are Sun disciples sent by the Sun family to help him.

In the distance, between the mountains, a city rises from the ground on a narrow plain.

From a distance, the walls are two feet high and made of local gray and white stone, making them look very hard.

The structure of this city had been studied clearly by Sun Chuanting long before he went south.

Bijiewei is located in the northwest border of Guizhou, facing Sichuan across the Chishui River in the north, adjacent to Zhenxiong Mansion in the west, governing the Qixing Pass, under the jurisdiction of the Lao Yao Pass, the naturalization station, and is under the command of the Guizhou Command Division.

There is one guard and one under the command of Bijiewei, 6,600 military households, and 330,000 acres of military tun land.

It's just that compared with the Central Plains and the Jiangnan and Hebei regions, Bijie's Juntun seed grain has not been paid since the orthodox five years.

Due to the lack of arable land and the location in the southwest, no ministers or emperors cared about it.

Sun Chuanting pointed at the Bijiewei city wall with a horsewhip and said: "The city wall of the Seven Star Pass, when guarding against Yang Yinglong, was increased to two zhang, and thickened to one zhang and seven feet, which is very strong. ”

"The wall was six miles long, and there were four thousand seven hundred households and twenty-three thousand five hundred people."

"Among them, there are 1,000 civilian households and 3,060 military households, but these are the old yellow calendars in the Yongle period."

Seeing that Sun Chuanting knew so much about Bijie, the Sun disciples on the side said:

"According to the adults, the number of people in the Seven Star Pass should be far more than on paper right now? Then how dare I, including more than 20 people, enter the city to announce the dismissal of Bijiewei? ”

"Why don't you dare!" Sun Chuanting snorted coldly and said:

"I am entrusted by His Highness and Long Live to be afraid, can I still be afraid that Bi Jiewei will not succeed? Drive! ”

After that, Sun Chuanting rode his horse along the road and rushed towards the Seven Star Pass City in the narrow plain.

When they descended from the narrow mountain path, there was a plain with their heads in sight.

In Yunnan-Guizhou place, the plain between the peaks of this plateau is called the dam, and the Bijie dam is a plain.

It's just that on this plain, there are still some low hills and slopes, and what can really be regarded as a flat place is only more than 3 million acres.

But even so, wherever Sun Chuanting and the others looked, as long as it was a little flat, the fields were cultivated.

Even some low hills and hills have been terraced, and the terraces are all dry, waiting to be moistened by water before planting the next year.

People in ragged clothes, dressed in simple coarse cloth and unable to even stuff cotton, are ploughing in the fields, hoping to freeze to death the pests hidden in the fields.

Seeing Sun Chuanting and others who were all in one place, they all cast envious glances.

"I'm afraid that the cultivated land in Bijie is no less than four million mu......"

Looking at the scene in front of him, Sun Chuanting's heart sank, and there were also things in his mind that he needed to deal with when the guard station was abolished.

Their group of people is too ostentatious, and they are still riding northern horses, so they can see at a glance that they are not locals of Guizhou.

Therefore, when they came to the gate of the Seven Stars, they were unsurprisingly stopped by six guards.

"You ......"

"This official is to be sentenced to patrol according to the division of the procuratorial department, and ask you to command the envoys."

Without waiting for the guards to speak, Sun Chuanting directly showed his official seal.

This practice instantly stunned the six guards, and after reacting, the little flag officer said:

"Adult, please wait a moment, and the little one will go and tell the commander."

The little flag official's spoken language has no etiquette, and he doesn't even understand the doorways of various officialdoms, such a reply makes Sun Chuanting have more confidence in winning Bijiewei in his heart.

I don't understand the means that I don't practice, and this group of guards, one by one, are wearing shabby mandarin duck battle jackets, and the weapons in their hands are simple spears, and even the small flag officers are only equipped with a thick-backed firewood knife on their waists.

It is not difficult to guess that Bi Jiewei has been negligent in his precautions for many years since Yang Yinglong's chaos was pacified, and the soldiers and horses in the city may not even have a few complete sets of armor.

Sun Chuanting was even more confident, so he simply turned over and dismounted, and with a height of nearly two meters, he made the few guards in their early sixties of one meter desperate.

"It's a little short, but the skeleton is big, and you should be able to become a good soldier if you practice well."

When the guards were desperate, Sun Chuanting looked at their bodies and bones, and nodded secretly to their skeletons.

In this way, a quarter of an hour passed, and Sun Chuanting vaguely heard the sound of horses' hooves.

He looked into the city, and sure enough, he saw a middle-aged man riding a black horse and wearing regular clothes rushing here.

Behind him, there were more than thirty soldiers in cotton armor, all on horseback, but the war horses were a little short.

"This should be Guizhou's Shuixi Ma ......"

When he saw the horses, Sun Chuanting had information about Shuixi horses in his mind.

"Shuixi Horse" is a good breed cultivated under the ecology of the Guizhou Plateau, which is small, flexible, has good endurance, runs fast, bears a lot of weight, and is especially suitable for mountainous areas.

Since the Tang and Song dynasties, this horse has been the tribute of the court in the Shuixi region, and the number of tributes has reached as many as 30 times.

They are less than five feet tall and much shorter than the bred northern warhorses.

"Bi Jiewei commanded Lin Lang, I don't know ......"

Turning over and dismounting, Lin Lang waved at Sun Chuanting, but without waiting for him to ask, Sun Chuanting directly took out the holy decree from his arms and shouted:

"Lin Lang takes the order!"

As soon as the four words appeared, Lin Lang stayed in place, and only reacted after being reminded by the people behind him, and hurriedly knelt down to accept the order.

"With Sun Chuanting of Shangqiu Zhengqipin Zhixian County, he was promoted to Guizhou to be sentenced to the Prosecutor's Department, Zhengliupin Separate Patrol, and Bijie Soldier Preparation Road, and abolished Bijiewei."

"The original Bijiewei commander Lin Lang was transferred to Longliwei as the commander, and he was limited to the thirteenth day of the first year of Taichang!"

"What?!" Hearing this, Lin Lang couldn't help but raise his head and looked at Sun Chuanting in disbelief.

His Lin family has served as a commander in Bijiewei for more than 50 years, and it is not easy to gain a firm foothold and get all the interests right, but as a result, the imperial court has a holy decree and wants them to start over?

"Commander Lin, take the order......" Sun Chuanting's face was calm, what he relied on was the holy decree in his hand.

Unless Lin Lang dared to disobey the holy decree, he had to go.

Of course, Sun Chuanting hoped that he could disobey the holy decree, so that he could do something to Lin Lang on the spot.

Sun Chuanting, who is nearly two meters tall and weighs more than 200 pounds, has the confidence to be more than five feet tall in a few breaths.

In Sun Chuanting's reverie, Lin Lang's face turned pale for a moment, and he could only take the holy decree weakly: "Lin Lang, take the decree ......"

Seeing that he chose to accept the order, Sun Chuanting couldn't help but feel a little pity in his heart, and then said with a cold face:

"Commander Lin can take his relatives to Longliwei, and everything in Bijiewei needs to stay, including the Yellow Book."

As soon as the words "......" came out, Lin Lang's face became even more ugly.

The yellow book was handed over, so as soon as he Lin Lang led people away, Sun Chuanting made a big stroke, and in an instant, Bi Jiewei's military tuntian belonging to his Sun family was gone.

This is a dismissal, not as simple as changing a commanding officer.

As long as it is cut and transferred, his Lin clan's army will be gone.

Lin Lang was very unwilling, but what could he do? Right now, it is the Apocalypse Dynasty, the prestige of the Ming Dynasty is flourishing, and among the guards under him, there are only about a hundred families who can fight.

He looked at Sun Chuanting, as well as the more than twenty Shanxi men behind him, all of whom were more than five feet five, and finally could only sigh and say:

"The yellow book will be handed over to the inspectors later, but if the more than 6,600 military households of Bijiewei learn that the guard has been abolished and the military tuntian will be recovered, I am afraid it will be ......."

Lin Lang is the commander of the guard who his grandmother doesn't love and his uncle doesn't love, and he can't play any tricks like a battalion general or a gentry and a gentleman in Huaibei.

If he dares to play tricks now, the soldiers and horses in Guiyang will come to quell the rebellion tomorrow.

Therefore, he was disgusted with Sun Chuanting at most.

However, Sun Chuanting was not moved by his method at all, but just shouted loudly:

"The imperial court wants to abolish Bijiewei, distribute the general's tuntian to the military households, and cancel the household registration of the military households, not to collect the military tuntian!"

"It's over......" Hearing Sun Chuanting being so hard, Lin Langqi's teeth itched.

He didn't expect Sun Chuanting to be so bold and dare to make this kind of thing public.

"Commander Lin, please go on the road......" Sun Chuanting's meaningful opening suddenly made Lin Lang's muscles burst out, but the next second he was cowardly.

Afraid of death, he could only prepare to leave with his subordinates hundreds of tens, and after they left, Sun Chuanting explained to the ten children of the Sun family:

"There is a military horse farm under Longpan Mountain in the west of Qixing Guancheng, you take people to guard it, don't let them take the military horses away."

"Yes!" Hearing this, ten soldiers rode their horses towards the military horse farm.

Since there were less than twenty days left, Lin Lang could only hurriedly call the people of the Lin family to prepare to move.

"My lord, the inspector sent someone to the military horse farm!"

"What?!" Just as Lin Lang went home to call someone to greet someone and prepare to move, the little official from the military horse farm ran into the Lin Mansion and shouted at Lin Lang out of breath.

When Lin Lang heard this, he immediately felt bad, and immediately led people to the military horse farm.

At the same time, when he led people to the military horse farm, as soon as Sun Chuanting got the news, he led people to raid the command post directly, and grabbed the yellow book and the fish scale atlas in his hand.

When Lin Lang led people to the military horse farm, when he saw the Sun family's disciples at the door, his face immediately turned white.

The military horse farm was guarded, which meant that he didn't want to get a horse from here.

Although there are not many horses in the military horse farm, they are worth tens of thousands of taels of silver......

Thinking of this, Lin Lang had a toothache, and when he was just about to return to the Seven Star Gate, a family member rode a horse and galloped from a distance and shouted:

"My lord, the inspector led someone to break into the command post and snatched the yellow book and the fish scale atlas."

"Idiot! Won't you stop him?! Lin Lang scolded when he heard this.

There are fifty or sixty people in the command post, and there are more than a dozen people around Sun Chuanting now, if they want to stop them, Sun Chuanting will definitely not be able to enter.

"This ......" The family looked embarrassed, how could they dare to stop the road and inspect the imperial history? Isn't that looking for death......

Don't talk about them, Lin Lang will also be implicated at that time.

This truth, Lin Lang also reacted after getting angry, only felt that the general trend had gone, and now he only hated himself for not cultivating more family members at the beginning, otherwise he would not have been so manipulated by Sun Chuanting.

"Fortunately, I have already moved the silver from the treasury to my house......"

Lin Lang remembered the 30,000 taels of silver at home, and suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

Even if he doesn't have a field, with this batch of silver and a family, he can still go to Longliwei to develop, but he will waste some time again.

"Withdraw all of our men from the command post, and I'll see how he reorganizes his troops."

Lin Lang said angrily, and his subordinates had no choice but to do so.

There is no way, the methods of the two are too different, Lin Lang is just a stubborn person who inherited the position of the command post at home, at most he invaded the military tuntian and opened up Xintian to his own pocket.

In the face of Sun Chuanting, who even Shangqiu County has been rectified and obedient, what can Lin Lang do? The rank of the two is really too different.

In desperation, Lin Lang asked someone to move out of the command post, while Sun Chuanting took more than a dozen family disciples and soldiers to post notices everywhere in the city.

The content is very simple, that is, the guard is about to be abolished, after the army is sorted out, it will be distributed to Dingkou according to the head, please don't be nervous, and the military preparation road yamen recruits literate people to be Xu officials, and the annual salary is six taels of silver.

In addition, those who intend to join the army will be divided into ten acres when the field is divided.

Almost when the people of the Seven Star Gate City did not react, the Seven Star Pass City changed hands.

Lin Lang began to pack up his things and prepare to leave, while the hereditary military attachés such as the Thousand Households and Hundred Households and the General Banner in the Seven Star Pass ran towards the command post in a vain attempt to visit Sun Chuanting.

However, the dismantling of Bijiewei has become a foregone conclusion, and the former guards and military households in Tuntian must be re-measured and compiled.

Maybe these thousands of households, hundreds of households, and Zongqi families in the past have opened Xintian, but Sun Chuanting doesn't need their Xintian.

All he wanted was the 330,000 mu of military tun land belonging to Bijiewei, and the other was to measure all the civilian land in Bijiewei and collect taxes normally.

He didn't do things perfectly, which gave thousands of households, hundreds of households, and general banners a way to live.

In the two hundred years of Bijiewei's development, Juntun Tian has accounted for less than 10% of the fields, and more is private land.

For thousands of households, hundreds of households, and general banners, the military household system has been abolished, and there is no need to lead troops to fight and support families.

Although it is a little painful to hand over more than 300,000 mu of military tuntian from his hands, it is better than Sun Chuanting turning his face and calling Guiyang's soldiers and horses to suppress them.

So, in the next five days, Sun Chuanting took the 1,000 taels of silver he had withdrawn from Shangqiu County and successfully recruited more than 100 officials.

In addition, he also used ten acres of land as a soldier, another ten taels of silver a year, and next autumn to receive military salaries as a temptation, and recruited more than 3,000 people in ten days.

Next, he also needs to measure the acres of land, and then dismantle the thousands of households in Lao Ya Pass, Naturalization Station and other places.

Winning the Seven Star Pass is just the beginning, the key is how to use Bijiewei's resources to train a team of men and horses to resist the extravagant Chongming who may rebel in the north......

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"Not bad......

On the fourteenth day of the lunar month, in the backyard of the Imperial Horse Prison of Yanshan Daying, when Zhu Youzhen's voice sounded, it also meant that he knew all the news.

He sat on the main seat, next to him were handwritten letters from Hong Chengchou, Wu Aheng, and Yang Wenyue, and in his hand was Sun Chuanting's handwriting.

These handwritten letters are all the handwritten letters they have experienced in various places, and they are also very smart and know that they have no background, so they express their position of being close to Zhu Youzhen in their hearts.

In other words, at present, this group of people has become Zhu Youzhen's people.

"Your Highness, in this way, it seems that Hong Chengchou is the most capable among them."

Zhu Youzhen put down Sun Chuanting's letter, and Wang Chengen next to him also suddenly spoke.

"Hmm......" Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen glanced at Hong Chengchou's letter.

I have to say that although Hong Chengchou, the old thief, is not firm, but he is not capable, he is one of the few generals who led more than 100,000 troops and Houjin in the twenty-four years of Tianqi and Chongzhen.

Compared with Sun Chuanting's experience, Hong Chengchou's experience is more relaxed.

He arrived in Chongqing Mansion early, and it happened that the newly appointed Sichuan governor Xu Keqiu wanted to reorganize his military preparations, so Hong Chengchou had just arrived and received Xu Keqiu's order.

Xu Ke begged the Chongqing prefect to allocate 5,000 taels of silver and 2,000 stones of grain, and asked Hong Chengchou to properly rectify the military equipment of Chongqing Prefecture, and not only Hong Chengchou, but also Wu Aheng of Lianhejiang and Yang Wenyue of Jianwu all received Xu Keqiu's orders.

Wu Aheng received 2,000 taels of silver and 1,500 stone of grain from Luzhou Mansion, and Yang Wenyue received 3,000 taels of silver and 2,000 stone of grain from Xuzhou Mansion.

It can be said that compared to them, Sun Chuanting can be said to be that his grandmother does not hurt and his uncle does not love him.

Guizhou abolished the governor, and only Chengxuan political envoy department, but Guiyang was very poor and couldn't give Sun Chuanting any help at all.

This is also the reason why Sun Chuanting did not go to Guiyang for help and chose to enter Bijie single-handedly.

But at the moment, it seems that without Guiyang's help, he is still doing well.

Although he has not specifically led people to measure all the acres of land in Bijie, it is according to the situation of Bijie mentioned in the letter.

330,000 mu of military tun land, plus 3,400,000 mu of private land tax, with the current regular tax and additional distribution, it is still possible to collect 400,000 stone field tax.

400,000 stone of grain, leaving 100,000 stone as military food, and then selling 300,000 stone of grain, at the price of grain in Guizhou, can be sold for about 120,000 taels of silver.

There are still some stretches......

Zhu Youzhen touched his chin and stood in Sun Chuanting's situation and thought that Bijie could afford to raise 6,000 soldiers at most, after all, he still had to build armor and armor.

Six thousand soldiers, if you add Yang Wenyue, Wu Aheng, Hong Chengchou, and Qin Liangyu who returned to the stone pillar, then you should be able to get together 30,000 horses.

With 30,000 horses, at least they can resist the rebellion of Yu Chongming, which means that the situation in the southwest has changed from a very dangerous situation to an ordinary danger.

After that, as long as Yu Chongming gave Sun Chuanting more than half a year to them, this matter would be completely controllable.

At that time, if Chongming did not rebel, Zhu Youzhen asked the military department to transfer Chongming to the north and asked him to go to Liaodong to aid Liao.

In short, if he rebels, he will suppress him, and if he does not rebel, he will let him and Nurhachi eat dogs.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen rubbed his eyebrows, and then said to Wang Chengen:

"Cheng En, tell Lu Jianxing to go to Sun Chuanting to collect grain, and how much silver is there in the Imperial Horse Prison Treasury?"

"When His Royal Highness, the slave and the maid handed over to Admiral Cao, there were still 926,743 taels." Wang Chengen responded:

"More than half a month has passed now, and there are still 669,927 taels left."

"Among them, the Qingling repair cost 192,000 taels, the honeycomb coal kiln purchased 45,000 taels of raw materials, the seven guards and one battalion 16,400 taels, and the monthly stipend taught by Yanshan 1,000 taels."

"The other two thousand three hundred and sixteen taels are iron purchased by the Ordnance Institute and the Artillery Factory."

"According to His Highness's drawings, they made cannon molds and drill guns, and bought 232,000 catties of iron."

"In addition to studying the rifling that His Highness said, and improving the Lu Mi gun, he also helped build 70,000 agricultural tools."

Wang Chengen said this, and Zhu Youzhen also spoke: "In addition to the Seven Guards and One Battalion, how many people have been recruited now?" ”

"Back to His Royal Highness, in the name of the people, more than 14,500 people have been recruited, but the fields of Huairou and Miyun have also been sent, and if there are still people coming in the future, then ......" Wang Chengen looked at Zhu Youzhen.

His meaning is obvious, and there will be no land for anyone who comes later.

Such a hint is not a big problem for Zhu Youzhen, and he said calmly:

"How's Southfield?"

"Back to Your Highness." Wang Chengen responded:

"There are too many acres of land in the south field, and the measurement has not been completed until now, but there is good news that Admiral Cao has sold the first batch of 3,000 sheep and 300 horses that went south."

"The price of sheep is higher than imagined, a sheep in Suzhou is four or two dollars, and counting the cost of honeycomb coal and forage, one net earns three or three dollars."

"The price of the horse is also very high, thirteen taels and one horse, and it was bought by some students in Suzhou as soon as they got off the dock."

"The sheep and horses were sold together, and they were sold for a total of 20,400 taels."

"At this price, 60,000 sheep and more than 4,000 horses are all sold, and at least more than 200,000 taels of silver can be obtained."

Speaking of this, Wang Chengen couldn't help laughing, this is probably the only thing he is happy about after he feels financial pressure after taking charge of the North Field.

As for Zhu Youzhen, when he saw Wang Chengen laughing, he also laughed.

After all, it only cost less than 40,000 taels of honeycomb coal to exchange these livestock, but after going south to trade, it was normal to be happy that they could earn six or seven times the profits.

It's just that after he was happy, Wang Chengen said a good thing to Zhu Youzhen with a smile on his face.

"Your Highness, there is one more thing for you."

"Say it." Zhu Youzhen was a little curious, what was worthy of Wang Chengen's happiness for so long, but he knew it in the next second.

Wang Chengen smiled and said to Zhu Youzhen: "Your Royal Highness, Qi Yuanfu, deputy chief soldier with 8,000 Zhejiang soldiers, have eliminated the four guards and three institutes, and by the way, in the hands of that group of grain merchants, gentry, and guards officers, they got 600 salt citations and 1,200 tea citations. ”

"Six hundred salts?" Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen frowned slightly, not knowing why Wang Chengen was so excited, and Wang Chengen saw this to explain to Zhu Youzhen how profitable it was to use salt to sell to the market.

In the Ming Dynasty, 300 catties of salt were introduced for each induction, and 300 catties were 180,000 catties.

Most of the salt in the coastal area of the Ming Dynasty is seven or eight wen a catty, which does not look expensive, but if it is sold to the Mongols, it can be sold for a catty of salt and can be sold for thirty wen.

Of course, this is only the price of conversion, and in the end, the salt will be converted into silver along with the Mongol horses as a trade.

180,000 catties of salt can be sold for 5,400 taels of silver in the mutual market, and according to the price of 10 taels of a medium horse in the Mongols, it can be exchanged for 540 medium horses.

In other words, after this salt was introduced, Zhu Youjian had another trade commodity in the mutual market.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen's eyes lit up, according to his relationship with the good imperial brother, he could directly find the good imperial brother to ask for salt.

This kind of thing, too many of his predecessors have done this kind of thing......