On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, when the Tianxia Guards were all rumbling and reforming, the 20 Guards in Yunnan were also abolished one after another.

Such a move naturally attracted the attention of various forces.

However, Yunnan is different from other places, and the 20 guards in Yunnan can at least pull out a team of soldiers and horses that can fight.

Therefore, after the three battalions of soldiers and horses under Ma Xianglin were dismantled from the 20 guards, four new battalions were immediately formed.

As a result, the situation in Yunnan is a bit delicate.

Mu Changzuo led the troops to hoard in Yuanmou, and hunted with Yuanmou Tusi Wu Bikui, and the two had more than 40,000 troops.

As for Kunming, Ma Xianglin's headquarters had seven battalions of soldiers and horses, totaling more than 20,000.

In the Lijiang Mu clan in northwest Yunnan, Mu Zeng has more than 30,000 soldiers.

In the southeast, there is also the reputation of Tusipu in Ami Prefecture, with more than 30,000 soldiers.

In addition, there are Shiping Tusi Long Zaitian, Wei'e Tusi Wang Yangzu, Wang Lane Tusi Shadingzhou, Ningzhou Tusi Lu Yongming, Jingdong Tusi Diao Xun and other departments with tens of thousands of soldiers.

The situation in the southwest is still not optimistic, even if the Tusi of the whole territory of Guizhou are pacified, there are still dozens of Tusi in Yunnan and Guangxi who have not accepted the change of land and return to the stream, and their strength together is also worrying.

At this moment, all the toasts were watching the confrontation between Mu Changzuo and Ma Xianglin, wondering if Mu Changzuo would rebel.

If Mu Changzuo rebels, they can observe for a period of time first, as long as Mu Changzuo bears the pressure of the Ming Dynasty, they can also rebel one after another, if they can't bear it, they can join in the encirclement and suppression of Mu Changzuo's interests.

This situation is like a tiger against a giant bear, surrounded by a group of jackals watching.

Naturally, as the two protagonists in such a situation, Ma Xianglin of Kunming and Mu Changzuo of Yuanmou are very vigilant.

They are avoiding misfire, and they are also avoiding slacking off and being attacked.

In the Yunnan General Military Mansion, twenty-seven-year-old Ma Xianglin frowned, looked at the documents in his hand, and did not speak for a long time.

After a long time, it was not until his wife Zhang Fengyi came with lunch that he put down the paperwork.

"What's wrong? frowned, but he was not afraid to wrinkle himself. ”

Zhang Fengyi, who also led the troops and participated in the Rebellion of Hao'an and the Battle of Fuliao, did not fear Ma Xianglin at all, and her words were full of ridicule.

She is long and thin, and in this era when the average woman is less than five feet, she has a proud height of five feet and three inches.

However, compared to Ma Xianglin next to her, she looks much petite.

Because Qin Liangyu is tall and long, and Ma Qiancheng is not bad, the twenty-seven-year-old Ma Xianglin is five feet seven inches tall.

Height plus his bravery, plus he likes to read and paint in his spare time, and after going to the battlefield, he likes to wear silver armor, ride white horses, and often ride alone to charge into battle, so the army calls him "Zhao Zilong" and "Pony Chao".

It's just that this little Ma Chao is in a dilemma at the moment, all because of the letter in his hand.

Regarding his wife's ridicule, he also breathed a sigh of relief and said:

"In the matter of the capital, His Royal Highness asked the troops of the Western Army Governor's Mansion to recruit troops first, and my uncle asked me to recruit eight more battalions of soldiers in Yunnan, so I have a headache because of this."

"What? Gave you fifteen battalions of troops, and you were wronged? Zhang Fengyi laughed, but Ma Xianglin shook his head and said:

"I know that I can't control the strength of the fifteenth battalion, if there are only three battalions, I may still have a deal with the Duke of Qianguo, but if I command the fifteenth battalion, I am afraid I can only defend it."

"I'm not afraid, I can help you lead a battalion." Zhang Fengyi walked behind Ma Xianglin and pinched his shoulder for him.

Feeling the comfort of his shoulders, Ma Xianglin also exhaled a breath of turbid air at this moment:

"Now that the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies has been renovated, it will be a little difficult for Wenchen to lead the troops."

"I don't know how His Highness is going to arrange Governor Hong and Governor Sun and others."

Ma Xianglin said something that most people were worried about, after all, the official positions given by the imperial court to Hong Chengchou and others were the governor southwest and the three sides.

Now that there is the reform of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, then the military power does not belong to Hong Chengchou and others, and Zhu Youzhen has not given an answer to how to arrange them.

Although Hong Chengchou and others believe in Zhu Youzhen, the time has dragged on, and I am afraid that things will change.

Ma Xianglin didn't want to let people who had known each other for several years part ways with him because of this kind of thing.

"Ah......" Zhang Fengyi pinched Ma Xianglin's shoulder hard, and complained:

"But you still have the heart to care about others, you still care about your affairs."

"If you want me to say, the western army and the southern army will enter Yunnan together and sweep away the toast."

"It's easy to say......" Ma Xianglin, who grinned because of some pain, shrunk his neck and said:

"There are more than dozens of Tusi in Yunnan, Guangxi, and Sichuan, and their troops are no worse than those of Luxury."

"If you want to pacify them, I'm afraid you will have to spend tens of millions of taels of silver."

"The imperial court has just finished fighting the battle of Fuliao, where can it withstand such a toss?"

"That's it, I have to take it one step at a time."

Ma Xianglin shook his head, and Zhang Fengyi also pushed his shoulder: "Eat your meal......"

The two husbands and wives flirted and scolded, but they didn't know that Mu Changzuo, who was more than 300 miles away, was like an ant on a hot pot, impatient.

Yuanmou, a Tuxian county with a large population of the Yi nationality, gathered 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Han and Yi at this moment, but Mu Changzuo, as the commander of the army, did not have the confidence to start a war with the Ming Dynasty......

"Ye Ye (grandfather), mother and grandmother have letters, but Ma Xianglin did not embarrass them."

In the military camp of the Ming army outside Yuanmou County, Mu Qiyuan took the letter sent by the Qianguo Mansion, and explained to Mu Changzuo who was sitting in the main seat at a glance.

However, at this time, Mu Changzuo replied unhappily:

"Home is in the hands of others, and nothing now does not mean nothing later."

"This time, the imperial court wants my Qianguo Mansion to hand over the military power and all the guards' fields, if it is really handed over, at least half of the acres of land in the mansion will disappear."

Disappear in half......

Hearing this, Mu Qiyuan felt a shock in his heart, because for Mu Fu, this half means that at least 500,000 mu will disappear.

In Yunnan, the number of acres of paper fields that the Ming Dynasty can control is more than 2.9 million mu, and the Qianguo Mansion alone occupies more than one-third.

From this, it is not difficult to understand why Mu Changzuo would think about bargaining with the imperial court.

At most, other nobles encroached on a hundred thousand, or two or three hundred thousand mu, but he encroached on millions of mu.

Among them, the gifts of the emperors of the past dynasties accounted for less than half, and more than half were the encroachment of the common people and the occupation of the army.

Zhu Youzhen wants to innovate, this is not innovation, this is Ge Mu Changzuo's life.

He was reluctant to give his life, and he was reluctant to hand over his acres and military power.

He already knew that Zhu Youzhen's reform policy for the lords was, to put it bluntly, three generations!

With the title of the duke of another country, after a few years, he passed it to his grandson Mu Qiyuan and became the Marquis of Qianguo, and then passed on to the next generation to be the uncle of Qianguo, and then there was no more.

Although Zhu Youzhen also said that as long as the lord goes to the battlefield to kill the enemy, he can retain the title by virtue of his merits, but who knows how much credit this so-called merit will be?

This is also a problem that he has always been relieved of, if Zhu Youzhen can find out this problem, he may be a lot more relieved.

It's just that Zhu Youzhen has never given him a letter, and he has never asked anyone to send him a letter, which makes him faintly uneasy.

He is not a fool, he knows that the other party is holding the initiative, waiting for himself to take the initiative to go to the book.

But the problem is that it is clear that whoever sends the letter first means who is the first to be relented.

If he relented, then when he negotiated the price with Zhu Youzhen, it would not be so easy to negotiate......

"Children's Evil ......"

Thinking that Zhu Youzhen could still sit in Yanshan calmly, Mu Changzuo was angry.

"Isn't he afraid that I will gather the toast and have another rebellion?"

Mu Changzuo couldn't help but ask himself in his heart, but after thinking about it, he understood why Zhu Youzhen wasn't worried.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Youzhen probably saw clearly the bottom line that he didn't dare to rebel, so he was so comfortable.

"Next, do you want to send the Western Army and the Southern Army to Yunnan, or do you want to do it......

Mu Changzuo only felt a splitting headache, and for a while he couldn't think of the reason why Zhu Youzhen was so calm.

However, when he had a headache, Zhu Youzhen's letter was also delivered to the person who should have been delivered......

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"Dad, His Royal Highness the King of Qi is too domineering, and he actually wants us to hand over the military power?"

In the Lijiang Mu Mansion, with the opening of Mu Zeng's son Mu Yi, Mu Zeng, who was calmly depicting Danqing, took a breath of turbidity, put the pen on the pen stand, and took the letter in his son's hand.

After reading the ten lines at a glance, his brows naturally began to furrow with the content, but when he saw that after the military power was handed over, he could obtain the position of left counselor of the Western Army, he stretched his brows.

He took out the white paper, grinded it, and began to write, while Mu Yi also stepped forward to watch.

"Daddy! Are you really going to give him the power of the army?! ”

When Mu Yi saw what his father had written, his eyes immediately widened and he looked at the other party in disbelief.

However, compared to Mu Yi's surprise, Mu Zeng said calmly:

"The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, 700,000 soldiers and horses, not to mention the other armies, I can't face the Western Army alone."

"Then you can find Mu Changzuo and other toasts to form an alliance together!" Mu Yi was puzzled, and Mu Zeng shook his head and said:

"All the Tusi in Yunnan and the Qianguo Mansion and us together are only 150,000 soldiers and horses."

"Once we hold off the Western Army, it is very likely that the King of Qi will dispatch to ......"

Speaking of Shangzhi, Mu Zeng immediately thought of the Shangzhi three-step guard led by Sun Yingyuan.

Whether it's a rifle or an artillery, it's an existence that gives Mu Zeng a headache.

If the 16th Guards of Shangzhi were equipped with such artillery and guns, Mu Zeng could be sure that the Southwest Tusi would definitely not be able to last two years in the face of the offensive of the 16th Guards of Shangzhi, and would eventually fall like Lu'an.

His Royal Highness the King of Qi is obviously preparing to change the land and return to the stream, rather than going all the way to the dark, it is better to exchange military power for some benefits.

Therefore, Mu Zeng asked Zhu Youzhen in his letter to hand over the gold and silver mines in the Duogan area and Lijiang area to Mufu for mining, and in return, Mufu would also take out 20% as a tribute.

"Okay, give the letter to the Jinyi guards in the mansion, and let them pass it on to His Royal Highness King Qi."

Giving up military power, this decision was very difficult for Mu Zeng, but there was no way, he was unwilling to be the enemy of Shangzhi and the entire Ming Dynasty.

As long as the matter of the gold and silver mine is finalized, according to the previous attitude of the Ming Dynasty, the Mu clan can still prosper for hundreds of years.

Therefore, even if his son Mu Yi was reluctant, Mu Zeng still asked him to hand over the letter to Jinyiwei in the house.

As for the Jinyi Guard, who got the letter, he also sent it to the capital as soon as possible.

However, when the letter was sent back to the capital, the originally pacified Nanzhili, Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian, Huguang and other local health posts were once again disobeyed after the army withdrew.

Due to the shortage of scribes and the shortage of local soldiers and horses, the clan forces began to block the measurement of the fields and acres of the Wei Institute by the Qi Wangfu in various names.

Among them, the number of southern Zhili, Jiangxi, Zhejiang and Fujian and other places are the most frequent and intense.

Today it is said that the fields occupy feng shui, tomorrow it is said that the measurement is not accurate enough, in short, after the soldiers and horses withdrew, they began to block it openly.

When such news reached the Yanshan camp, Zhu Youzhen was inspecting the Duogan soldiers in the Duogan camp.

"Shanxi transferred the 10th Battalion to the south to Nanzhili and Zhejiang, and then transferred Yingyangwei, Wu Xiangwei, and Tengxiangwei to Huguang, Fujian, and Shaanxi respectively."

Closing the paperwork, Zhu Youzhen, who was standing in the military camp of the Duogan camp, said with a cold face:

"I don't want to use the knife, but I make them think that they can't move the knife alone!"

"The guard tuntian is not theirs, it is the imperial court and the governor's office of the five armies, and the imperial court has granted them the official position of the guard, not for them to use the children of the clan to fight against the imperial court."

"Since you don't want to clarify Tuntian, then throw them all to Guangxi, Ryukyu, and Yunnan!"

"Yes!" Lu Wenzhao next to him responded, and at the same time, Cao Huachun, who came from the capital next to him, also said:

"Your Highness, there are ninety-one guards in the four provinces of Beijing, involving 510,000 households and 3 or 4 million people, if you really want to do it, I'm afraid it will ......."

"How?" Zhu Youzhen frowned and glanced at Cao Huachun, not taking this so-called clan power to heart.

If these clan forces were really so powerful, they would not have been so easy when the Manchus entered the customs in history.

Judging from the intelligence of the North Zhenfu Division, the so-called ninety-one guards can't even pull out five thousand elite soldiers and horses in armor.

Armor and non-armor, with and without artillery are two different things.

Besides, Zhu Youzhen did not want to rob them of their land, but to redivide the land.

More importantly, Zhu Youzhen wanted to reform the officers of the health center, not ordinary military households.

If these clan elders really had the guts, they should all rebel at the first step of the Ming army's innovation, which would give Zhu Youzhen a headache.

As a result, as soon as they saw the large army approaching the city, they immediately put down their weapons because they were afraid of death.

Now they don't dare to rebel on the surface, so they can only stop the innovation, in the final analysis, it's not because the number of the Ming army can't be evenly distributed to each guard post to form a deterrent force?

Since this is the case, then Zhu Youzhen will increase the strength of innovation, as long as a large number of soldiers and horses are placed in each guard, he wants to see who dares to stop it!

As long as the first wave of land division is successful, the children of the clan who have received the sweetness will not think about helping the clan elders.

To put it bluntly, it is these clan elders who have encroached on the most Weisuo fields, how many acres of land can the children of those clans have?

The field in the hands of the clan elder was released, and it would be troublesome for them to unite the hearts of the people to take it back, because at that time, the field was already the children of ordinary clans.

At that time, the struggle for land changed from the competition between the clan and the army to the competition between the clan elders and the children of the clan.

Of course, this is not enough, because most of the clan elders are actually meritorious people, and they can enjoy the privilege of being exempt from forced labor.

Therefore, the division of land is only the first step, and the real drama of stabilizing the policy of dividing land is to cancel all the privileges of the gentry, so as to achieve the integration of the gentry to receive grain and the integration of errands.

This thing, it can't be fast.

However, Zhu Youzhen did not want to solve the problem of Weisotian in a very short period of time, at least judging from the current situation, it will take at least a year to abolish Weisotian in the southeast, or in the three provinces of Beijing, in the southeast.

Zhu Youzhen is not in a hurry, the southeast guard only needs to boil the frog in warm water, and his real problem is the problem of toast in the southwest.

The Ming Dynasty must completely change the land in the southwest, and if it can't be done, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to integrate the southwest forces and open up to the Indochina Peninsula.

"The number of toasts in Guangxi, Yunnan, Sichuan Xingdu Division and other three places, what is the number of soldiers and horses, have you explored clearly?"

Zhu Youzhen turned his head to look at Lu Wenzhao, and Lu Wenzhao also said when he heard this:

"There is no thorough investigation, but for now, eighty percent of the ninety-six Tusi have been discovered, and the number of soldiers and horses will not be less than two hundred and fifty thousand."

"Your Highness......" When he heard Lu Wenzhao's words, Cao Wenzhao also suddenly said:

"Your Royal Highness, the soldiers and horses of the Southwest Tusi, in front of the soldiers and horses of Shangzhi, are just local chickens and tile dogs, and the only thing to worry about is the road problem in the southwest."

"When the last general and Sun Dudu were cleaning up the luxury and the two thieves, it was not that my Ming soldiers and horses could not quickly break the thieves, but that the thieves always dug up the roads and dug the mountains to fill the roads, so that our army marched slowly."

"As long as the problem of the road can be solved, with me going straight to the guard, I can hit tens of thousands of earth soldiers."

After a few years of recuperation, iron smelting and forging, the sharpest thing in the Ming army was not artillery and cavalry, but a large-scale infantry gun.

From February of the first year of the Apocalypse to the present, three years have passed, and 270,000 Bu guns have been manufactured.

The 16th Guards and 12 Battalions, nearly 90,000 soldiers and horses, were equipped with infantry guns, and the surplus was supplemented with the 3rd Division of the Imperial City, the General of the Han Dynasty, and the 24th Battalion of Shanxi.

The equipment of these 220,000 soldiers and horses was not completely completed until April this year, and then began to equip the Daning Sanwei.

By the end of the First Battle of Fuliao, the infantry of the Daning Sanwei had not only been equipped with rifles, but even stockpiled more than 20,000 rifles in the Yanshan Ordnance Institute.

As of now, there are still more than 50,000 infantry guns and more than 40,000 mounted guns in the armory.

These rifles and riding guns will all be sent to Liaodong, and from next year, a large number of rifles will be sent to the southwest, and the riding guns will be sent to the northwest.

We need to innovate internally, but we must also open up externally.

Therefore, the experience of Cao Wenzhao and Sun Yingyuan in the southwest is very important.

In Zhu Youzhen's memory, the Rebellion of Lu'an was already the most martial art in the southwest of the late Ming Dynasty.

Although the Sharp Rebellion also lasted for a few years, it could not be compared with the Rebellion of Lu'an.

What Zhu Youzhen wants to do now is to open up overseas, stabilize the frontiers, and renovate the interior within three years.

Zhu Youzhen is not worried about the development of the sea, as long as the 12 guards of the navy are successfully established, according to the current tonnage of the Ming navy, attacking the South China Sea will be devastating.

Even how to fight Nanyang doesn't need him to use his brain, Huang Long can solve it alone.

What he wanted to think about was how to stabilize the local forces in Nanyang that were close to the Ming Dynasty and solve the local forces hostile to the Ming Dynasty after the destruction of the Nanyang armies of the Netherlands and Spain.

The Ming can do without PapuGuinea and Borneo, but they must take Malacca.

Not only for the tax revenue of the Ming Dynasty, but also for the stability of the ocean-going fleet.

There is not much time left for him to promise the vassals, and in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty can not open up territory on land, but Nanyang must be taken.

But at the same time, the land frontier must also be secure.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen thought of the southwest and Duogan, as well as Wusizang, Shaanxi and other places.

The affairs of these places need to be solved by him one by one, and the largest southwest Tusi cannot be supported by the money and food of the Imperial Horse Supervisor at the moment, and he must wait until the infantry and artillery are allocated in place next year.

As for Wusizang, Shaanxi, and Duogan, these three places can start preparing now.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youzhen looked at the Duogan military camp in front of him, and said to Cao Wenzhao:

"These soldiers must teach them most of the Chinese characters and Chinese within a year, and they must also be taught how to use the riding and stepping guns."

"Tell them that what Gu wants to do is to liberate the serfs of all Usizang and Duogan and disintegrate all the Tusi."

"They will be the officers of my Uszang and Duogan provinces after tomorrow!"

"Your Highness, rest assured, the last general will definitely teach them well." Cao Wenzhao responded, and in this snowy field, he only felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavier.

When he responded, Cao Huachun also looked at his Royal Highness wearing a big fur, and cautiously tentatively said:

"Your Highness, will it be too early to start the matter of Duogan and Uszang?"

"The internal population of Duogan and Wusizang is not even a million, and they only need to subdue more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of the Lijiang Mu clan in Duogan, plus more than 7,000 Duogan iron cavalry after the war, with cavalry, infantry and artillery, it is not easy to take these two places."

Faced with Cao Huachun's words, Zhu Youzhen sneered lightly and made his plan clear.

17,000 people wanted to conquer the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, and if this idea was placed in the Tang and Song dynasties, it would definitely be a pipe dream.

But what is the climate right now? Xiaoice River Period......

Zhu Youzhen said that there are nearly one million people on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau who are already saving face, but in fact there may not even be 600,000 people.

Historically, Gushi Khan of Heshute Mongolia led 30,000 men to conquer Qinghai-Tibet, although this was because he had the support of the Gelug sect, and only 30,000 trans-Khalkha Mongol cavalry entrenched in Qinghai and more than 20,000 Tibetan iron cavalry in Shannan had to be dealt with.

But this also shows in disguise that even if the soldiers and horses of the Gelug faction are added to the entire Qinghai-Tibet, there are no more than 60,000 or 70,000 soldiers and horses.

Relying on the post road from Songpan to Lasa during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, coupled with the 17,000 iron cavalry and artillery rifles, Zhu Youzhen did not believe that the 670,000 rangers with less than 30% armor rate could block the Ming Dynasty's soldiers.

Since 30,000 Gushi Khan can take Qinghai-Tibet, the Ming army of the Ming Dynasty cannot be worse than them!

"Your Highness, if you want to fight Duogan and Wusizang, you must first clean up the Hetao, Duogan, and Ningxia's three northern captives......"

Suddenly, Cao Wenzhao cautiously spoke, and Zhu Youzhen, who heard the words, narrowed his eyes:

"I've been guilty of these three crimes for many years, but it's time to clean up......"

(End of chapter)