Early August, Guizhou.

The carriage was driving on the official road, and the temperature in the car was a little high, and Zhu Gaoxu felt hot sweat on his head from time to time.

They have already left the Water Post Road and entered the border of Guizhou, and their current location is just past the Anshun Military and Civil Mansion, on the way to Yongning Prefecture.

There is also an official road on this road to walk the carriage, it is estimated that after passing Yongning Prefecture, the road is becoming more and more difficult to walk, and the back has to rely on horses and camels and manual picks to enter Yunnan, and the carriage must be abandoned.

The weather here in August was very hot, but fortunately, Zhu Gaoxu was well prepared, and he began to collect Lang Zhong and craftsmen in Jingjing, and there were arrangements on the way here.

Since the day before yesterday, the army has distributed pills to avoid heat and insects to cope with the special climatic conditions in the Yunnan-Guizhou region.

In fact, according to the normal pace of marching, they should have entered Yunnan in August, but after arriving at Guizhou by land, Zhu Gaoxu slowed down in the name of hot weather.

His personal guards ran out early in the morning and came back after dark, depicting maps of Guizhou's landscapes and various traffic arteries along the road.

Zhu Gaoxu asked Song Meng to lead people to learn to draw maps at the beginning of Jing Nan, and after three or four years of Jing Nan, Song Meng's wave of people became more and more skilled.

When Zhu Gaoxu took the waterway by boat in the early stage, Song Meng led people to draw pictures on the land route, and the boat was much slower than the horse, so Song Meng and the others came along the road and drew a lot of pictures.

Every few days, a fast horse will hand over the drawings to Zhu Gaoxu, and Zhu Gaoxu will integrate them.

That's why he braved the heat to stay in the carriage.

Today he and Song Meng looked at the picture in the carriage again.

They had only arrived at the Anshun Military and Civilian Mansion with a large army, but the previous drawings had already been drawn to Yongning Prefecture.

At this time, it can be clearly seen on the map that from the Anshun Military and Civil Mansion to the west, close to Yunnan, there are a total of Anzhuangwei, Annanwei, Pu'anwei, Guansuoling, Xinxing, Annan, Xincheng, Anlong, Pingyi, Lemin, a total of three guards and seven institutes.

In addition, there are Puding Wei and Pingba Wei around the Anshun Military and Civil Mansion, a total of 12 guards.

The farthest Pingbawei is only about 400 miles away from Yunnan, and if the troops are transferred, the cavalry can arrive in two or three days, and the infantry can also arrive in ten days.

These twelve guards have a total of more than 30,000 soldiers and horses, all of which are under the control of Xue Lu.

Once he wants to use troops against Yunnan, Xue Lu can still continue to recruit troops from the east of Guiyang Mansion, and there are more guards there.

"There are also Chishuiwei, Bijiewei, Weiqingwei, Guizhou Wei, Guizhou Qianwei, Longliwei, Xintianwei, Pingyuewei, Duyunwei, Qingpingwei, Xinglongwei, Biqiaowei, Zhenyuanwei——"

Song Meng's cavalry ran around Guizhou, except for the remote Bijiewei and Chishuiwei, they didn't go, and they went everywhere they could.

There are a total of 19 guards and nearly 30 institutes in Guizhou.

With 5,600 people per guard, the soldiers and horses of the institute ranged from one or two thousand, and under the command of Gu Cheng, the capital of Guizhou, at least about 120,000 people could be mobilized.

Moreover, Zhu Di added a general military officer to Guizhou, and Xue Lu also brought in at least 20,000 horses, so it is no problem for Guizhou Province to gather 1450,000 horses.

Song Meng said again, there were about six guards and horses in Guizhou who participated in Jingnan before, and there should be less than two guards when they came back, Xue Lu has just arrived in Yongning now, and immediately recruited new soldiers in Guizhou to make up for the shortcomings.

Zhu Gaoxu looked at the map, thought for a while, and said: "Guizhou is easy to fight, Guizhou has a large territory, and the guards are scattered, even if Xue Lu is given time and let him gather 150,000 soldiers and horses, he can fight in one battle." ”

"It's Sichuan that is hard."

There is also from Guizhou, if you take the waterway, you can go all the way to Nanjing, the only water station in Guizhou, and it is also the place where they get off the boat.

If there were no ships, their soldiers and horses would go out from Guizhou, and they would not know what year or month they would be able to reach Jiangnan.

The difficulty in Sichuan is that the terrain is complicated, if Qu Neng's heart is towards the imperial court, and Sichuan blocks Zhu Gaoxu's road to the north, Zhu Gaoxu will also be difficult.

"Fortunately, Sichuan is Qu Neng." Song Meng said at this time.

Zhu Gaoxu was silent for a moment: "No one can believe on the battlefield, only yourself." ”

Qu Neng has been made an earl this time, and he is the only one among the generals.

Zhu Di's intention to win him over is obvious, even if Qu Neng's son is in Zhu Gaoxu's hands, Zhu Gaochu is not sure that he can believe him, everything will not be revealed until the end.

"This Xue Lu is really looking for death, and moved the chief military officer's office to Annanwei, Yongning Prefecture." Song Meng laughed.

Annanwei, Yongning Prefecture is about a hundred miles away from Yunnan, and Xue Lu is really blocked at the door of Yunnan.

Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile: "This guy is not afraid of death when he fights, he likes to charge ahead, very good, I like to fight with this kind of person." ”

He has decided to fight for the world, in addition to intrigue and intrigues, in the end he has to rely on strong military strength.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu had already begun to lay out, familiar with the surrounding environment and the layout of the Ming army, and everything he lost in the capital had to be taken back by himself.

In mid-August, Zhu Gaoxu went to Yongning Prefecture, and Xue Lu, the chief military officer of Guizhou, personally met with him, Xue Lu was also very strange, according to the normal speed, the King of Han should have arrived a month ago, why did he go so slowly?

Zhu Gaoxu said, it's hard for me to come out, just when I travel in the mountains and rivers, and besides, the family members are more delicate, and I can't accept it if I go fast.

Xue Lu didn't have anything to say, so he feasted the queen of Han and sent him over Yongning Prefecture.

Zhu Gaoxu observed that the city of Yongning Prefecture was very low, perhaps this was the case in Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi and other places, and the Yuan and Ming dynasties were only used to guard against the local natives, so the city was not as tall as the northern and southern Beijing divisions.

At the end of August, Zhu Gaochu finally entered the territory of Yunnan, and on 10 August, they came to Yiliang County.

Yiliang is one of the most important passes in Yunnan, coming in from Guangxi and Guizhou, if you want to go to Yunnan and Kunming, you must go to Yiliang, bypass from other places, all mountains, and have to walk a long way.

From Yunnan to Annam (Vietnam), you must also go to Yiliang, and the rest of the place is full of mountains and jungles.

It can be said that Yiliang is the most important bayonet in Yunnan.

However, Yiliang itself is mostly mountainous, with an average altitude of 1500-1800 meters, rich in iron ore and rich in coal resources.

The Ming army has a Yiliang place here, with a garrison of more than 2,000 people, and in the east of Yiliang, there is a garrison of more than 5,000 people. ‘

Zhu Gaoxu arrived in Yiliang County only after passing through Lu Liangwei, but when he passed through Lu Liangwei, the Wei commander was not there, and when asked, Zhu Gaoxu couldn't help but scold Zhu Di again.

In July, just a month before Zhu Gaoxu arrived in Yiliang County, Zhu Di's decree arrived in Yunnan and a large number of generals were replaced at once.

Many of Mu Sheng's subordinate generals were replaced.

The commander of Yunnan was Cao Long.

Cao Long is also a confidant of King Yan, before the Jing Martyrdom, he was the left guard of the Yan King to guard a hundred households, and Zhang Wu and Wang Cong were at the same level, but no two of them were brilliant in the Jing Difficulty, after the success of the Jing Difficulty, Cao Long was not knighted, but the right army was the governor of the army, and he was the commander of Yunnan, and now Cao Long is on the way from Beijing to Yunnan, and it is estimated that he will arrive later than Zhu Gaoxu.

At the same time, Zhu Di also dispatched Wang Yi, Fang Jing, Wang Zheng, and Liu Jian, all of whom were generals from the guards of Jingnan Yanshan, and were the commanders of Yunnan.

Among them, Wang Zheng is also the commander of Lu Liangwei.

So when Zhu Gaoxu passed by Lu Liangwei, Wang Zheng had not yet arrived.

On the night when Zhu Gaoxu arrived in Yiliang County, Yiliang County ordered the local Yang Hangshu and Zhou Jian, the commander of the Yiliang Institute, to invite Zhu Gaoxu to a banquet.

The ordinary Ming military station is generally the commander of a thousand households, more than 1,000 people, and the Yiliang station is full because of its location, and it is commanded by Lu Liangwei and Zhou Jian, and there are more than 2,000 soldiers and horses in the office, which is twice as much as the general office.

Yang Hangshu is a local, and Zhou Jian is a native of Sichuan.

During the dinner, Zhu Gaoxu chatted with Zhou Jian, and only then did he know that the Ming army transferred a large number of soldiers and horses from Sichuan, Nanjing, and Shaanxi into Yunnan, so the current Weisuo army in Yunnan is mainly from Sichuan and Shaanxi.

At that time, there were 25,000 people from Sichuan entering Yunnan, and 33,000 people from Shaanxi entering Yunnan, the highest among all armies.

Since Mujia defended Yunnan, it began to recruit troops locally, and at present, the officers and troops in the whole territory of Yunnan are divided into three parts of the world by Yunnanese, Sichuanese, and Shaanxi.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu knew that there were many soldiers and horses in Yunnan, but he didn't know why Mu Sheng did not vigorously support Emperor Jianwen in the Jingjing.

Due to the vast land and sparsely populated Yunnan and the Ming army's repeated conquests, in order to completely occupy this place, the Ming army emigrated many times and requisitioned a large number of people to Yunnan in the form of garrisons.

From May of the 16th year of Hongwu (1383 AD) to September of the 29th year (1396 AD), the Ming Dynasty transferred as many as 276,400 troops to Yunnan.

This does not include the families of these military families and military amateurs.

Of course, there will be transfers, in and out one after another, but no matter what, it is estimated that there are 200,000 military households under the command of the capital division now.

In mid-September, after nearly five months, Zhu Gaoxu finally arrived in Kunming, Yunnan Province, nearly two months later than originally planned.

When he came two months late, the Han Wangfu was rebuilt and expanded on the basis of the original Minwang Mansion, and it was just ready to be put into use.

After arriving in the capital city of Yunnan, Zhu Gaoxu found that something was wrong.

Not only did the local officials not invite him, but even Mu Sheng did not come to visit him.

Everyone seems to be as if Zhu Gaoxu does not exist.

But the local officials can't make friends with the vassal king, which is understandable, Mu Sheng didn't react, it was a little unpleasant, and he couldn't let Zhu Gaoxu go to see him?

Zhu Gaoxu was not in a hurry, and after a long journey, he was also very tired, so he rested in the Han Wang's Mansion for a few days.

At this time, he already knew the cards in his hand, and it could be said that the cards were very poor, worse than the difficulty of King Yan when he started his army.

Birds don't in this place in Yunnan, and the population is small, and there were four or five hundred thousand people in Beiping, the king of Yan.

In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu, when the population of the whole Yunnan was counted, it was 75,690 households, 354797 people (Han people, not counting the Tusi. ）

Later, although after many times of the increase of military tun and mintun Shangtun, of course, there was also an outflow, to the 31st year of Hongwu Yunnan Province, the population was only 670,000 (only Han people, Tusi is not counted).

Now another six years have passed, and Yunnan has not yet counted it, but Zhu Gaoxu's estimate is that it is more than 800,000 or 900,000 at most, and it certainly does not break one million.

Nearly half of them are military households, and their household registration is not yet under the control of the local yamen, but is all under the responsibility of the Yunnan Metropolitan Command and Envoy Department.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu brought another 40,000 or 50,000 people, which further increased the number of local Han people.

(End of chapter)