On the same day, Xipinghou Mansion also called a group of local local girls, playing music and dancing, the little ladies were dressed hot, much better looking than the little lady of the Ming Dynasty, Cao Yu and other civil and military officials all feasted their eyes, and then Xipinghou and several of his henchmen also kept persuading them to drink, Cao Yu was happy, and drank a little too much.

At that time, Zhao Bao, a confidant of the Marquis of Xiping, said to him that when he went to the Tusi this year, he would order the Tusi to pay more taxes, because the Ming Dynasty had just had a civil war in China, and there was a shortage of money and food everywhere.

Cao Yu was a little drunk at the time, and immediately said, what Lord Zhao said is reasonable, and he should share his worries for His Majesty.

Zhou Jing, the right-hand political envoy on the side, also drank too much, which also made sense.

As a result, when he was on duty the next day, Cao Yu was still a little dazed in his head, and Pan Jingzhong came up to report, saying that Xipinghou's people came to look for him and wanted to go to the Tusi to do something.

Cao Yu was stunned for a moment, and then thought about it, as if he had mentioned it last night.

Such an important matter, I decided last night during the banquet? It's not nonsense.

His face was flushed at the time, and he didn't know if it was better to say yes or no.

Pan Jingzhong said again: "Zhao Bao said, we just proposed, the toasts can also bargain, and it is not necessary to increase taxes." ”

"It is still important to stabilize the overall situation."

Cao Yu was dizzy at the time, a little upset and irritable, and when he heard this, he said, "Then be it." ”

After Pan Jingzhong left, he came back to his senses and forgot to ask Zhao Bao how much he had increased.

Speaking of this, Cao Yu said: "When I left Beijing, His Majesty announced that I had entered the palace and repeatedly told me to focus on stabilizing the overall situation. ”

"I lost my words after drinking, I'm really afraid that I missed His Majesty's big event."

After hearing this, Yang Dayong nodded and said: "Your Majesty has first ascended to the Great Treasure, the stability of Yunnan is indeed the top priority, otherwise I would not have sent the King of Han to visit the domain, let alone let me wait to visit the Luchuan Tusi." ”

Raising taxes without authorization is definitely not good for stabilizing the overall situation, but what Zhao Bao said is right, they can mention, the toasts can bargain, and they may not succeed.

The only fear was that it might cause the toasts to resent the court and the emperor.

But this is still within the acceptable range of them, as long as the toasts do not rebel.

Such a trivial matter should not cause such a big mess.

Cao Yu finished talking about his troubles, and then asked Yang Dayong, I think you seem to have troubles too, what's wrong, Yunnan is not good, and you are not happy to come here?

Yang Dayong also told himself when he saw Cao Yu's thoughts, and of course he would not hide it: "Brother Cao, you have troubles, and my brother is not easy to do." ”

It turned out that the first batch of envoys of the Luchuan Si clan had already arrived in Beijing, and he was still Emperor Jianwen at that time, and he complained to Emperor Jianwen about the invasion of Mubang and Mengyang on the border, hoping that the Ming Dynasty would solve it.

But at that time, Emperor Jianwen himself was still anxious, how could he care about his envoys, so he could only delay first.

Not long after King Yan entered Beijing, the emperor changed his position, so the complaint was reported to Zhu Di, and the thinking and action of Yunnan did not know, so he just sent a second batch of envoys Daomen Lai.

Cao Yu immediately said: "Of course I know about this, the second batch of Si's envoys, Daomen Lai, was still in Kunming the day before yesterday, and he just left the city to go to Beijing. ”

Then he asked, "How did Your Majesty reply?" ”

He vaguely felt that the imperial court didn't seem to reply properly, otherwise their local political envoy would definitely know about it.

If the imperial court wants to help Si, mobilize troops to fight Mubang, Mengyang, food and money support, or land, they will notify the local yamen.

Now he doesn't even know about him, the head of the political envoy, so Cao Yujue's court's reply is definitely not good.

Sure enough, Yang Da said, His Majesty said, 'It is common for border officials to attack each other, and besides, the right and wrong are not clear, and they cannot be punished at will.' ’

Cao Yu touched his forehead and said with a wry smile: "What Your Majesty said is quite reasonable." ”

However, the court can't reply like this, if I think about the law, I won't be angry.

In history, the thinking and practice method was sent many times in Yongle in the fifth, sixth, seventh, and ninth years, and the Ming court replied with this sentence.

So there is a reason why Na Rong looks down on Si Xingfa, Si Xingfa is too incompetent, replaced by Si Lun Fa in power, after the Ming court replied for the first time, he will immediately raise a large army, kill all sides, and will find a way to burn the war to the area controlled by the Ming people and drag the Ming people into the water.

Thinking and acting had no courage, and was sent away year after year by the Ming court under the same pretext, and he didn't give up, and the Ming people saw his incompetence at a glance.

Yang Dayong didn't snort at this time, of course he knew why His Majesty would say that.

It is said that the emperor did not want to use troops against Luchuan, because the king of Han was in Yunnan, if he used troops in the Luchuan area, he would inevitably dispatch the king of Han.

On the other hand, the court refused to help Sixingfa, and Sixingfa would inevitably hate the court, and even hate the King of Han.

And this time Yang Dayong sent an envoy to Luchuan, he needed to say a reason to Sixingfa, the king of Han was in Yunnan, and the imperial court gave him a fief of 10,000 hectares, and the silver grain was several times that of other princes, and he was overconsumed, so he couldn't support Sixingfa, let him endure it again, and look at it in a few years.

This is a typical rhetoric for transferring firepower, what will be thought about the thinking and doing method, Yang Dayong can also guess it at that time.

"If you drink too much, drink less today, and tomorrow I will rush to do this thing well for the saint." Yang Dayong finally said.

Cao Yu didn't say much, and readily agreed.

The next day, Yang Dayong went on the road and found that there were two less Jinyi guards from Jingshi, and he didn't care, knowing that these people had other tasks.

Luchuan Ping Burmese military and civilian comfort envoy in the current Ruili, the westernmost part of Yunnan, but also the westernmost part of the Ming Dynasty, and later generations, three sides adjacent to Burma, so the Burmese territory of Mu Bang, Mengyang many times attacked and invaded their territory.

When Si Lunfa was strong, he led 300,000 people to challenge the Ming Dynasty, so Mu Bang and they all surrendered at that time, and they also sent troops to support.

After Silunfa's death, Si's power plummeted, and now Mubang has turned around to fight Si's.

Of course, the biggest turning point was the civil strife in the 30th year of Hongwu (1397), two years before Jingjing.

At that time, because of personnel arrangements, Silunfa caused the people to rebel and leave.

Because the local customs and habits of Ping-Burma do not believe in Buddhism, there is a monk from Yunnan who is good at talking about karma, Silunfa believes in this monk and treats him very politely. Soon after, a gold-toothed fugitive took refuge in the Ping-Burma Xuanwei Division, who had the skill of making firearms, and was also given a golden belt by Silunfa.

Two unusual figures appeared in succession in the Luchuan Ping-Burma Propaganda Division, and the degree of reuse was higher than that of the original tribal leaders, which naturally caused the dissatisfaction of the local leaders.

As a result, it aroused the dissatisfaction of the Dao clan, and the leader of the Dao clan, Dao Gan Meng, launched a rebellion.

The news of the rebellion in Luchuan reached the Ming court, and Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Mu Chun as the former general of the conquest, He Fu as the left general, and Xu Kai as the right general. Conduct a campaign against Daogan Meng.

Although the rebellion was quelled, the people in Luchuan were in chaos, and Si's dominance in Luchuan also plummeted.

But no matter what, Si still has a strong influence in the local area, and it is also the object that Zhu Gaoxu needs to fight for.

At this time, Zhu Gaoxu was taking the captain of his own soldiers, Li Tai (Li Yuan's nephew), Zhou Hu. Muping Mountain, as well as more than a hundred rides, went to Luchuan.

Mu Pingshan is Mu Chun's henchman, after Mu Chun's illness died, his nephew Mu Sheng inherited Xiping Hou, and Mu Chun's family weakened.

Mu Pingshan followed Mu Sheng.

Back then, Mu Chun rebelled with He Fu and Xu Kaiping, and Mu Pingshan was also a general, so he knew Sixingfa and had a good relationship.

They were separated from Sheng Yong's Ping'an soldiers in Xinping County, Sheng Yong and Ping'an went to Na's clan, and Zhu Gaoxu came to see Si Xingfa.

From Xinping County to the west, first to Yunzhou.

Yunzhou is relatively close to Dingbian, but except for Dingbian in the northeast, which belongs to the Ming Dynasty, the rest of the four sides are surrounded by Tusi forces, and to the east of Yunzhou is the Lancang River (the upper name of the Mekong River in China).

The local terrain is mainly a typical mountain-canyon landform, mountains and canyons are interspersed, the terrain is undulating, it is not easy for Zhu Gaoxu and these people to come in, if it is not for Mu Pingshan with a local guide, it is definitely easy to get lost and go the wrong way.

Walking here, he understood why the Ming army and the Yuan Dynasty had failed to finally conquer and rule with Luchuan for dozens or hundreds of years, and the army of the imperial court was really not easy to come here, even if the army was sent over, it was easy to be ambushed and blocked, and tens of thousands of troops could be blocked as long as a few hundred people were stationed in many places.

But Zhu Gaoxu has already occupied Yunzhou, because there is a bit of a trio here.

The big Mengma Division (Tusi Fengshi) in the south of Yunzhou, the Tin Wax Village Inspection Division in the west, and the Shunning Mansion in the south are more than ten miles away from here, and seventy or eighty miles away.

Everyone is a little far away from here, and Zhu Gaoxu has 10,000 hectares of land given by the emperor, so he used salt and sugar in the name of Tuntian to exchange for management rights in the hands of local Tusi.

The terrain of this place is not good, and there is no benefit, so the toasts are also willing to do personal favors.

One of the three guards of the Han Palace, Sun Sheng, was in charge of training troops here.

Sun Sheng originally wanted to grow sugarcane, but later found that the climate and terrain here could not grow sugarcane, so he could only focus on Tuntian.

Sun Sheng also built tunbao here and there to recruit local people, because this side of the southeast and northwest belongs to different sizes of toast, so the effect is much better than in Quang Nam Province.

Quang Nam Province is surrounded by the Nong family, so everyone listens to the Nong family.

By the time Zhu Gaoxu arrived, Sun Sheng had already recruited thousands of local families to help build forts and fields through various methods such as marriage and salt and grain exchange, and the progress was faster than that of Guangnan Mansion.

After Zhu Gaoxu arrived, Sun Sheng took Zhu Gaoxu and his party to a canyon called Yunhu Mountain near the west side of the Lancang River.

Before the people entered the canyon, suddenly, boom, a cannon sounded, startling Zhou Hu, Mu Pingshan, Li Tai and others who were accompanying them.

(End of chapter)