Mao Xin said at this time: "The two of us used to be the three guards of the Han Palace, and now they are the generals of Qu Dudu, and the governor will see if we can put us in the guard as a leader, and the second in command is okay." Mao Xin smiled at this time: "There are a bunch of hundreds of households outside, and the general banner, all of them are from Yunnan with us." ”

Ni Niang's, Qu Neng scolded in his heart, this Han King is really pervasive.

But he was planning to do it with King Han, and he didn't hesitate: "Give me some time, you can't arrange it all at once, you have to take your time." ”

"It must be the most important guard." Mao channel.

"Of course this governor understands." Qu Neng sighed.

The most important thing in Sichuan, one is Chongqing Wei, the other is Kuizhou Wei, guarding the main road into the east of Sichuan, and the officers and soldiers who come in from Huguang in the east have to pass through Kuizhou Wei whether they take the water post road or the land route.

After defeating Kuizhou Wei, the next one will inevitably be Chongqing.

Because it is an important official water post road from Kuizhou Wei to Chongqing, controlling this water post road can transport soldiers, horses and materials from the waterway continuously.

Otherwise, with the topography of Sichuan, if you don't take the waterway and use manual and horse-drawn carriages, some will suffer.

Qu Neng suddenly thought of a problem, Sichuan is Hefu's Shaanxi to the north, Huguang is to the east, and Guizhou is to the south.

If He Fu was also dealt with by the King of Han, as long as his army held the line of Kuizhou Wei and Chongqing, the official troops of Huguang and Guizhou would not be able to enter Sichuan.

Moreover, Guizhou is handled by the King of Han, so as long as the Huguang line is guarded.

It means that as long as you hold the Kuizhou Mansion, you can block the officials and troops of Huguang.

And the position of Kuizhou Wei is comparable to that of Yongping Mansion at the time of the Jingjing.

Yan Wang Jing fought for a few years, only Guo Liang was stationed in Yongping Mansion, and the soldiers and horses of the Ming army in Liaodong could not go any further.

The terrain near Kuizhou Wei is many times stronger than that of Yongping Mansion, and there are mountains and rivers and waterways everywhere.

When the official army fought Yongping, they could still go around to the back of Yongping, which would have to fight Kuizhou Mansion, and there was nothing to do except force it.

So Qu Neng immediately said: "As long as we hold the front line of Kuizhou Mansion and Chongqing, the official army will not be able to enter Sichuan." ”

Mao Xin said with a smile: "The governor of Sichuan is the most familiar, and we all listen to the governor." ”

Therefore, Qu Neng planned to send Mao Xin to Chongqing Wei and Chen Hong to Kuizhou Wei.

Mao Xin asked again: "Does Qu Dudu have the deployment of Sichuan troops and all the maps?" ”

Qu Neng hesitated and nodded silently.

Mao Xin said that after they got the map, they had to walk around Sichuan to improve the map, and asked Qu Dudu to send someone to help.

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In January of the fourth year of Yongle (1406), Yong'an Institute on the coast of Guangdong.

Yong'an is located in the middle of Leizhou (Hainan Province) and Lianzhou, and to the west is the later Tieshan Port Area.

Tieshan Port Area is known as a good port for thousands of years, and is the most important passage to the sea in southeast Guangxi, with many excellent ports.

Li Yuan, the commander of the Guangdong capital, arrived at Yong'an in December last year.

Yong'an was originally a thousand-household-level guard, after Li Yuan arrived, he first let the Guangdong capital commander Tongzhi Wang Zhong concurrently serve as the commander of Lianzhou Wei, half a year later, Li Chong, a confidant of the clan, was a thousand households of Yong'an, and the rest of the henchmen were Qinzhou and Lingshan.

Thus firmly controlling all the guards around Lianzhou Wei.

After Li Yuan completely controlled the area, he ordered the soldiers of the guard to dry salt by the sea and build a new salt factory.

The Ming Dynasty inherited the salt works of the Yuan Dynasty, and the people who made salt were compiled into salt books, which were all hereditary, and the craftsmen were the same, and their status was very low.

It is also distinguished by the distinction between dried salt and boiled salt, which are respectively called salt dices and stove households.

In addition, due to the difference between the rich and the poor, according to the amount of salt land they distribute and the quality of salt production, the stove households and the salt are divided into upper, middle, and lower grades, and each class is divided into upper, middle, and lower three, and the salt quotas paid by different levels of stove households are also different, so that the burden of the stove households and the salt farmers are more evenly shared.

To put it simply, the stove households have been confined to a certain area for generations, and then everyone pays the salt on time.

Regardless of whether it is a stove or a salt household, the government will pay wages every year, but salt households are not allowed to privately store or sell salt.

The weather on the coastal side of Fujian and Guangdong is relatively warm, and the salt drying method is mainly used, so this side is called salt.

Like Zhu Gaoxu, he also made a salt field near Yongping in the north before, where there is a stove household, mainly by cooking.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the administrative functions and powers of salt affairs in various places were assigned to the local political envoy to coordinate and assign management, and the yamen who managed the salt affairs below the political envoy department had all transferred the salt envoy department or the salt department to lift the department (different places), and their responsibility was to withdraw the salt to the consignee according to the voucher (that is, the salt citation).

In the process of local management, it is inevitable that there will be private fraud and the phenomenon of illegal salt overflow, so the imperial court will develop a set of mechanisms to supervise it. The Ming Dynasty did not set up a post of salt patrol until the Yongle period, regularly went to the salt area to inspect private salt, and verified and supervised taxes.

So this will, the salt patrol imperial history has not yet.

This gave Li Yuan an opportunity.

It turned out that before Li Yuan and Xu An arrived in Guangdong and Fujian, Zhu Gaochu asked them to find a way to win over the local guards and officials, but how to win over, Zhu Gaochu could only let him figure out his own way, anyway, he needed money to ask Zhu Gaochu for money.

For this reason, Zhu Gaoxu gave Li Yuan and Xu An 300,000 taels of silver each at one time, and brought them to Guangdong and Fujian first, not enough for Yang Lishan to support them.

But Li Yuan's level of fighting is first-class, and his ability to win people's hearts is also first-class, he didn't use a dime, after arriving in Guangdong, he only took a few days to think of a way, and taught this method to Xu An in Fujian.

Li Yuan believed that the imperial court only publicized the law to the salt department, local officials, and salt ding, but there was no actual restraint, and concluded that there must be corruption here.

Therefore, after he arrived in Guangdong, he first strictly investigated the smuggling and selling of salt near the Pisces Institute.

The salt works of all the imperial courts of Pisces have salt making from salt, and this side is far away from Beijing, and the situation of private fraud and illegal salt flooding is very serious, and it is a situation that no one cares about, especially when Jingnan has just finished fighting, and the imperial court is fighting in various places, where did he take care of him.

Therefore, officials from the local inspection department, the government yamen and the salt department have joined in, and everyone smuggled and sold salt together to make a profit.

It is said that the investigation of smuggling and selling salt is the work of the local inspection department, but if the local inspection department is also complicit, the local health office can also intervene.

After Li Yuan arrived, he sent people to investigate carefully, and then sent troops to block the smuggling and selling of salt on the spot, and then tortured him to extract confessions.

Among them, the main officials of the nearby Gaozhou Mansion, Yangjiang County, and Yangchun County, as well as the main officials of the Salt Section Lifting Division, all have a share.

Then Li Yuan said, let's not report it, you know, those who see it have a share?

Officials from all walks of life hurriedly nodded, and everyone also knew, Li Yuan, you did this, didn't you just want to join, okay, everyone will make a fortune together.

But Li Yuan was even more ruthless, and directly replaced the main generals of the Pisces Institute with his own henchmen, and then ordered the soldiers of the Pisces Institute to also start drying salt.

Now everyone can see that Commander Li Du has a bigger appetite and wants to make more money.

But it doesn't matter, we all support it, anyway, everyone will get rich together.

Li Yuan gave one-third of the salt income to the king of Han to transport it to Yunnan to win over the Tusi, and the other two-thirds were distributed to the subordinate generals and the officers and soldiers of the Pisces Institute.

Li Yuan's henchman Li Chong was a little incomprehensible at the time, and asked Li Yuan, why did he have to pay so much silver every month, and there was almost no profit on his side, and he even almost posted it upside down?

Li Yuan said with a smile: "This is called casting a long line to catch a big fish, it is easy to eat it, but it is difficult to spit it out." ”

Li Chong was half-understood, and his face was cloudy.

Li Yuan then opened a larger salt field in the farther and more remote area, near the Yong'an Institute in the extreme west of the Ming Dynasty.

The trick is the same as before, the military households dry salt, and if they can't do it, they will be taught by the local salt ding, and they can easily learn it, and then the proceeds from selling the salt will be distributed to the brothers and soldiers, and then the local officials will be dragged into the water with a lot of money.

There were few local officials who did not do this business, and they were dragged into the water by Li Yuan.

Because of this, Guangdong is adjacent to Annam, which is too remote, and many officials have been demoted here by the imperial court.

Daming will, if anyone is assigned to Guangdong when he is an official, especially at the junction with Annan, it is basically equivalent to distribution.

After Zhu Di took office, a large number of provincial-level principal officials were replaced, and the prefectures and counties implemented a rotation model, that is, those originally near Beijing were sent to Guangdong, Yunnan, Fujian, Shaanxi and other remote places.

Therefore, many officials in Guangdong were assigned to do this, and they were very happy to do this with Li Yuan, not to mention, before Li Yuan came, many of them had already done this.

You must know that it is very hard to be a county magistrate in Guangdong now, not as good as Jiangnan and Jingshi, if there is no benefit, how can the officials survive, so Zhu Yuanzhang killed corrupt officials, and he couldn't stop it.

Li Yuan used the way of drying salt privately in the Wei Institute and then selling it to salt merchants privately, and immediately obtained a steady stream of silver, in addition to supporting the King of Han, he also used the extra silver to win over the local generals, and suddenly almost twisted the Guangdong Metropolitan Division into one heart.

It can be said that the capital of Guangdong, especially the guards in the coastal areas, have no intention of training and fighting, and specialize in salt smuggling to make money, and sometimes Li Yuan will send troops to help salt merchants send salt to the border of Guangdong, and then let salt merchants send it to other provinces.

They settle every two months, and Li Yuan will gather more than 1,000 households to divide the money.

After the commanders and guards returned, they also had to divide the money between the guards and the guards.

Li Yuan's success made Xu An in Fujian follow what he learned and put it into practice, which also had an effect.

Fujian has the largest number of government-run salt farms in the country, and Xu An also found a large number of local officials abusing their power for personal gain, so they naturally joined them, and then pulled some coastal guards into the water.

This time Li Yuan came to Yong'an again, the salt field here has become bigger, from Yong'an to Lianzhouwei, the coast is full of new salt farms of military households, but since January, a large number of ships suddenly came from the direction of Annan, and they came to Yong'an one after another, almost blocking their way to go to the sea with private salt.

Most of the private salt here is sold by land to Yunnan, Guizhou and the Central Plains of Guangxi, and a small part is sold to Zhejiang and Jiangsu by sea.

So so many ships suddenly came and immediately blocked their way to the sea.

(End of chapter)