At the same time, it advocated the spirit of martial arts, encouraged the people to dance with guns and sticks, practiced martial arts, and held a drill competition every year to reward warriors, and basically realized that all the people were soldiers.

The Mengmao Dai people "scatter for the people, gather for the army", for the people to cultivate the land and carry out production; For the army to go into battle to kill the enemy, attack the city and plunder the land, so the reputation of the Sijia army was great for a while, and there were people who belonged from time to time.

To put it simply, on the Luchuan side, as long as they are adults, they can basically fight, and when necessary, even women can go into battle, and they can also shoot arrows and hold guns.

So in the confrontation with the Ming army, at their peak, they mobilized more than 300,000 horses.

At that time, Mu Ying, who was guarding Yunnan, led 30,000 elites to fight in Dingbian, and defeated Silunfa, Mu Ying used firearms to disturb Silunfa's elephant soldiers, and the elephants were frightened, and turned around to disrupt Silunfa's soldiers and horses, and the Ming army won a great victory.

In this battle, more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of Silunfa were beheaded and more than 10,000 were captured alive.

After Silunfa suffered a defeat, he sent an envoy to sue for peace, and at the same time expressed his willingness to pay taxes to the imperial court.

And Ming Ting saw Silunfa's powerful mobilization ability and knew that it was almost impossible to completely defeat Silunfa.

After the toasts suffered defeat, they shrank into the mountains, and it was difficult for the imperial army to attack again.

This is also the reason why the Yuan Dynasty and Luchuan have been facing off for more than 40 years.

At that time, there were no 300,000 Han people in Yunnan Province, and Silunfa was able to mobilize 300,000 natives, so the Ming court also took advantage of the situation to get off the donkey, and proposed a high war compensation to Luchuan: including 15,000 war horses, 500 elephants, 30,000 cattle, and 300 elephant slaves. On the one hand, he demanded that 137 sinners, including Dao Lang and Dao Gongyang, be handed over to the imperial court for disposal. Si Lunfa obediently obeyed.

Speaking of this, Zhu Gaoxu said: "There are natural pastures such as Nanxi River, Yangma River, and Zhimanzhanga in the Yuanjiang River, which are rich in elephants and horses, and they pay tribute to the imperial court every year. ”

Think about Silunfa's compensation to the Ming court for 15,000 war horses, 500 elephants, and 30,000 cattle, you can know how good this place is.

And now Zhu Gaoxu came at the right time, this will be the Ming Dynasty only has Yuanjiang Mansion here, and it has not been upgraded to Yuanjiang Military and Civilian Mansion.

If he came a year late, next year, in the original history, after Na Rong, the local Tusi chief, went to Beijing to pay tribute, Zhu Di also felt that this place was very good, and promoted the "Yuanjiang Prefect" to the Yuanjiang Military and Civilian Mansion.

The history said: "That Rongken came to the court, gave a banquet in Fengtianmen, a special tiger talisman, Jiaer Zhongshun, gave the tiger talisman, passed on the descendants, and kept the domain forever." ”

After that, the Yuanjiang Tusi, are loyal to the Ming Dynasty, after the Ming Dynasty repeatedly conquered Luchuan, all sent troops to support the Ming court, to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, only the Yuanjiang Military and Civil Government East Route Army, there are 80 war elephants, 50,000 soldiers and horses.

Even at the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, in the sixteenth year of Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty (1659 AD), Na Song, the sixteenth prefect of the Na clan, still insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty, and in a very short period of time, he called on more than 300,000 people and horses of the Tusi and united with Xu Mingchen, the general soldier of Shiping, to carry out large-scale anti-Qing activities.

Ping'an and Sheng Yong felt that the population of Yunnan was not large, and there were no war horses, and the conditions were not good, but now when they heard Yang Wu say this, they understood that there were many people here, and there was a place to raise horses.

"It's good to have horses, it's good to have horses, haha, the pasture here is good." Ping An likes cavalry the most, and when he heard that a large number of war horses can be raised here, he couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Zhu Gaoxu smiled at this time: "The current leader of the Luchuan Dai clan is called Sixingfa. ”

Si Xingfa's father died in 1399, and Si Xingfa succeeded his father last year, serving as the Luchuan Ping Burmese military and civilian consolation envoy.

Because Luchuan is the Chinese translation of Mengmao in the Dai language, so they call themselves Mengmao Guo Zhanbi Kingdom, because of the death of their father, coupled with the fierce rebellion of Hongwu for 30 years, the country of Mengmao is declining, and the large and small Tusi in the territory also have different aspirations, which is why, in the original history, next year Yuanjiang Tusi Na clan will go thousands of miles to Nanjing to pay tribute to the Ming court.

Zhu Gaoxu said again: "Sixingfa is not having a good time now, the Mubang and Mengyang (both of which are Burma) next door to him have attacked his territory several times, and the internal Tusi leaders are not convinced by him, and there are foreign enemies outside, Sixingfa also needs support now." ”

"Jianwen Sixingfa has sent an envoy to the Ming court for help once, and this time, the new envoy Dao Clan's Daomen Lai, has just passed through Kunming and gone to Beijing for help."

In the original history, Sixingfa then sent envoys to contribute in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth years of Yongle, and at the same time reported that Mubang and Mengyang invaded the border, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would come forward to solve it, but the Ming government mostly did not ask about it on the grounds that "it is common for border officials to attack each other, and the rights and wrongs are not clear, and they cannot be punished at will", or let them solve it on their own. In the end, Si Xingfa did not get a clear answer from the Ming Dynasty. On the contrary, Mubang and Mengyang, with the support of the Ming Dynasty, or with the connivance, continued to occupy the border area of Mengmao and became stronger and stronger.

Therefore, Daomen Lai will eventually be ignored and perfunctory in the city of Nanjing.

But Zhu Gaoxu didn't know the treatment of Daomen Lai in Nanjing, so he said: "What we have to do now." ”

"One is to make the people of Nanjing disgusted with Daomenlai, and the other is to win over the local powerful Tusi such as Sixingfa, Dao Clan, and Na Clan."

Among them, the Dao Tusi, including the later Yunnan Menglian Xuanfu Division, Cheli Military and Civilian Xuanfu Division, Zhenyuan Yuyi Mansion and other large territories, only these areas are close to a quarter of the size of Yunnan.

"With the support of these three Tusi, we can get at least 50,000 to 100,000 Tusi soldiers and horses, and the food will be worry-free."

"How to woo in?" Ping An asked.

Sheng Yong said: "Whether the King of Han has already calculated. ”

"Let's go, let Yang Wu take you to meet Xia Narong." Zhu Gaoxu said: "If you want to get the largest pasture and the best war horse in Yunnan, you must pass the Narong pass. ”

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Yuanjiang ancient belongs to the southwest of the land, Shu Han, the Western Jin Dynasty when the name of Luopandian, belongs to Xinggu County, Yuan to the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1264) name of the Compass Department, belongs to the Yuanjiang Road to govern the land, to the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (1265) changed to Yuanjiang Mansion, now it is still called Yuanjiang Mansion, until next year, Zhu Di saw that Rong, only to promote Yuanjiang Mansion to Yuanjiang Military and Civilian Mansion.

Yunnan Na clan hereditary local, the current prefect is called Narong, there are several large pastures in the territory, is the supply of all the Tusi war horses near Luchuan, and commerce and agriculture are also very developed.

Since the rebellion of Daogan Meng and the death of Silunfa, after the heavy setbacks of these two events, the cohesion of the Tusi in the Luchuan area is not as strong as before, and in the past, the leaders of all places had to gather together for festivals and important local festivals, but now the prestige of Sixingfa is not enough, and every time there is a church, fewer and fewer people go to the church.

Therefore, when Mubang and Mengyang attacked Sixingfa, all the Tusi near Luchuan found various excuses and no longer sent troops to help.

Although Narong has been gone for the past two years, seeing that fewer and fewer people are coming, he also has a different mind.

Thinking and doing the law is not good, he does not have his father's prestige at all, and more importantly, the ability to think and act is not enough, he is indecisive, not bold enough, hateful, and everyone sees that he is not strong enough, so they are naturally unwilling to support him.

Na Rong thought about it and planned to go to the Ming Dynasty in person, because he heard that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty had changed, and he wanted to meet the new emperor.

As soon as Narong's decision came out, it was immediately opposed by the whole clan.

Son Nabang is even more strongly opposed, mainly because Yunnan is too far away from the Central Plains Dynasty, and this kind of envoy does not need your leader to go out, Nabang even said, if you really want to go, your son will go for you.

I didn't go to Si Xingfa next door, and I sent a knife door.

It is estimated that in the original history, Zhu Di ignored the Sixingfa, which may be the reason why the Sixingfa did not go in person, but Narong went in person.

But Na Rong still insisted on going to the Central Plains Dynasty in person to meet Zhu Di.

"I have made an appointment with Daomen Lai and asked him to wait for me in Kunming, I have made up my mind, you don't say any more, prepare a tribute gift for me, and set off in three days." On the same day, Narong decided to set off three days later to join Daomen Lai.

Unexpectedly, early the next morning, someone came to report that Ming Shang Yang Wu came.

In the past few years, Yang Wu has traded with the Na clan many times with salt and sugar in exchange for the Na clan's war horses, but what makes Na Rong strange is that Yang Wu never took the horse, and let him record it in the account, saying that one day, he would come together to get it.

"Please." Na Rong has a very good impression of Yang Wu, and his daughter Na Rou seems to have a good relationship with Yang Wu, every time Yang Wu comes over, he will bring something to give to his daughter Na Rou, but I heard that Yang Wu has already married, and the Ming people have always looked down on their natives, so Na Rong has never dared to speak.

Someone outside went to invite Yang Wu, but Yang Wu and they hadn't arrived yet, and someone behind them had already run in: "Daddy, Daddy, is Yang Wu here?" ”

But I saw a sixteen or seventeen-year-old Dai lady, who looked slightly darker, but her face was more delicate and good-looking, which was his baby daughter Na Rou.

Na Rou is also a hearty character of the Dai people, daring to love and hate, and has secretly expressed his love for Yang Wu no less than a few times.

But Yang Wu is like a piece of wood, he has not reacted, Na Rou is half dead every time, but Yang Wu comes over, and every time he brings her some gadgets intimately, it will make her happy for a long time.

"Come on, come on, you go in, what are you like, Ming doesn't like such a little girl." Na Rong said urgently.

"I don't, Yang Wu is not an ordinary Ming person." That judo.

“。。” That Rong.

Na Rong stood behind his son Na Bang, who loved this sister the most and supported his sister very much, at this time he said in a low voice: "Yang Wu only comes once a year and a half, Daddy has a chance, he must speak, and he can't delay Ah Mei's lifelong event." ”

Na Rou was not as shy as the little lady of the Ming Dynasty, and nodded desperately when she heard the words, and even said: "Daddy won't open his mouth again, I'll let Grande mention it." ”

"You-you-don't want to be embarrassed-——" the proud face flushed.

Na Rong is very yearning for the life of the Ming people, and he is also learning the culture of the Ming people everywhere, since he became the prefect, he has specially found someone to teach Sinology in the house, and even his wife and daughters can speak Chinese.

This is also the root of the later Na's loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.

In fact, when the Yuan Dynasty ruled here, the Yuan people were still willing to marry them and maintain a good relationship with them, and when the Ming people entered Yunnan, the Han people thought they were orthodox in the Central Plains, and they looked down on their local Tusi in their bones, and never refused to marry them.

Even Mu Ying back then and Mu Sheng now, Sijia has proposed to marry him many times, but they have all been politely refused.

(End of chapter)