It's better to act than to move, move your mouth, shout eight words, and the salt is in your hands!

The power of example is endless, and seeing others get benefits, even a little, is enough to tempt it.

Yiren, who was still hesitating, had his eyes lit up and rushed over. There was not much time, and the shouts of the south and north tones rang out.

Just shouting two slogans is just the beginning, there is no childcare, you know. And the five catties of salt and thirty acres of land given by the soldiers are very tempting conditions.

But in the Ming Dynasty, discrimination against ethnic minorities made it difficult to recruit Yi soldiers. With the promise and integrity of shouting slogans to salt, it paves the way for joining the army.

This is the method that Governor Fu Zonglong came up with to better implement the emperor's plan. In ancient times, there was an allusion to standing wood as a letter, and Fu Zonglong just used it casually.

And the reason why ethnic minority soldiers were recruited in the Ming army was not just an expedient measure to quell the rebellion of Lu'an.

In Zhu Youxiao's idea, increasing the proportion of naturalized soldiers in the Ming army was, first of all, conducive to strengthening the strength of quelling the rebellion in Lu'an in the short term.

As the blockade of the rebels becomes tighter, the lack of supplies, especially salt, and the political offensive adopted by the Ming court will cause divisions and destabilization within the rebels.

And many naturalized Yi people are familiar with the topography of Shuixi, which is the weakness of the Ming army. At the same time, their shouting and persuasion to surrender during the battle between the two armies will also have the effect of disintegrating the enemy.

In the long run, bringing more Yi people under the jurisdiction of the government is also a weakening of Tusi's strength. If they live well, it will also be a kind of propaganda and agitation to the Yiren who are still under the rule of Tusi.

You must know that the ordinary Yi people under the rule of Tusi are slaves who live a difficult life and have no freedom and rights.

Daming is a feudal society, a generation higher than the slave society! The lives of the common people will get better and better, and they will always be better than slaves.

To put it bluntly, more and more Yi people are naturalized and truly included in the jurisdiction of the Ming government, isn't this a disguised "change of land and return to the stream"?

Zhu Youxiao dared to make up his mind to strive for five years of peace in Liao, and the rebellion of Lu'an would not be lower than this time limit.

But in the Ming Dynasty, it will take him a conservative estimate that it will take thirty or fifty years, and it will be accompanied by war and casualties.

As the saying goes: a hundred years of emperors, a thousand years of toast. It can be seen that its vitality is tenacious. Therefore, he will not try to speed up the process of "changing the land and returning it to the stream".

A Yiren came to the recruiting office and expressed his idea of joining the army in a strange tone.

He was tall, barefoot, and dark-skinned, and he stood there like a half-cut black iron tower, and he looked very strong.

An elderly Yi man came up to act as an interpreter, asking questions and answers, and then relaying them to the clerk next to him.

Shama Buda, male, 22 years old, Yi nationality, 6 feet 1 ...... The clerk swiped the record, but was attracted by the sudden commotion next to him.

There are several stone locks next to the recruiting office, which are considered facilities for medical examinations. A strong man was playing with a stone lock, causing onlookers to exclaim.

Seeing that the clerk looked away, as if he had forgotten about his own business, Buda could not help frowning, snorted, strode away, grabbed a heavier stone lock, threw his left hand into his right, and played with it.

After a while, Buda put down the stone lock and walked to the clerk and stood with his chest straight, his face not blushing or panting, and his big eyes staring at the clerk.

The clerk didn't care, smiled, finished writing, picked up the number plate and beckoned to Buda.

A Yi interpreter gave the number plate to Buda, explained the specific regulations to him, and asked him to take the number plate to report to the military camp on the other side.

Not far away, there are also people coming and going in front of the shed where grain is exchanged for salt, and it is very lively. From time to time, there are Yiren women dressed very differently from the Han people, picking up the flat pole and laughing and walking together.

Guizhou is not short of salt, not that salt is expensive, so use cheap salt to buy people's hearts. And the food in exchange can also be used as military supplies, saving costs, killing two birds with one stone.

And can the people of Guizhou be enthusiastic when they encounter such a good opportunity? The shortcomings of food can be dealt with by eating bran vegetables, and the cheap and precious salt is not too old to encounter.

The courage to carry out such a move also shows that the Ming army has completed the blockade, and is very tight, and does not worry that anyone will be able to smuggle into the area where the traitors are entrenched.

In terms of combat power, the Shuixi rebels are not the same as the Jiannu army, and even the Ming army is inferior. However, relying on the complex terrain and terrain, it was difficult for the Ming army to attack.

At present, the Ming army has stabilized its position, constantly training and rectifying, constantly changing its outfit and strengthening, and taking a defensive position, blocking only the main transportation routes and river crossings.

If the Shuixi rebels want to turn the situation around, they can only take the initiative. Leaving the location, several attacks by the Shuixi rebels were repelled by the Ming army, and they became more and more embarrassed.

This is also quite similar to the situation in which Jiannu is located, attack, the head is not iron enough; If you don't move, you're sitting and waiting to die. Anyway, it's a dilemma, and you can't get rid of passivity.

Guiyang Governor Yamen, Fu Zonglong had just finished meeting with a group of officers sent from Wuxue, and wrote a secret recital for the emperor in the study.

This was not only a war to counterinsurgency, but the imperial court also took this opportunity to reorganize the army and improve its combat strength. The border army is strong, the inland army is weak, and Zhu Youxiao wants to change this situation.

Through the constant transfer of officers, Zhu Youxiao was able to have a firmer grasp of the army. Behind these measures is Zhu Youxiao's more long-term revenge plan.

In the Wanli period, the most familiar should be the three major expeditions, and they all won victories, which is very exciting.

But in the Antarctic Frontier, there is also a war that has lasted for decades, and it is not well known. The outcome of the war ended in the defeat of the Ming Dynasty and the loss of a large and large piece of land, which was the Ming-Burma War.

During the reign of the Ming God Sect, the Taungoo Dynasty of Burma gradually developed and expanded its territory to annex most of present-day Burma.

The Mengyang Xuanwei Division, the Mubang Xuanwei Division, the Myanmar Xuanwei Division, and the Eight Hundred Xuanwei Division, which originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty, were occupied by it successively.

However, the Ming government turned a blind eye to this and allowed it to develop, which undoubtedly fueled the ambitions of the Donghu Dynasty.

In the first month of the eleventh year of Wanli (1583), the Burmese army captured Shidian (now Shidian, Yunnan), attacked Shunning (now Fengqing, Yunnan), Zhanda (now Yingjiang, Yunnan), and penetrated hundreds of kilometers into the current border, and the front of the army was directly aimed at Chuxiong and Dali.

At this time, the Ming court couldn't sit still, and sent the famous generals Liu Wei and Deng Zilong to lead the Ming army to resist, and broke the Burmese army in Panzhihua, south of Yaoguan, and won a great victory in Panzhihua.

The Ming army pursued the victory, and Deng Zilong led the army to recover Wandian and Gengma. And Liu Wei led the army to drive straight in, occupied Longchuan, and captured Yue Feng, the prime minister of Burma.

After Yue Feng surrendered, the Burmese army was about to collapse, and the Ming army recovered Manmo, Mengyang and Meng Lian all the way, Mengmi Tusi also announced that it was attached, and the Ava guard general Mang Zhuo also surrendered to the Ming court.

In the twelfth year of Wanli, the Burmese army invaded again, captured Mengmi, and besieged Wuzhang. The Ming army led Gao Guochun to defeat the Burmese invasion.

Since then, the forces of the Donghu Dynasty have been driven out of the Tusi areas such as Mubang, Mengyang, and Manmo, and Yue Feng, a traitor who has betrayed the country and defected to Burma, was escorted to Jingshi to be executed, and the Tusi in the border areas have returned to the Ming Dynasty.

However, the Ming-Burma War did not end here, and at the beginning of the thirteenth year of Wanli, due to the corruption of the government, the border areas began to be encroached upon by Burma, and expanded to Jinghong, Ximeng, Lincang, Tengchong and other places.

The last war broke out in the 30th year of Wanli, and the Ming Dynasty was finally unable to look south due to the outbreak of the war to aid Korea, and began to make peace with Burma.

Eventually, the Ming-Burma War was conditional on the Ming Dynasty ceding Mengyang, Mubang, and Xingwei (present-day Denni, Burma), and the two countries were considered to have resumed "normal" relations.

Perhaps the Ming court did not regard the territory of those consolation envoys as inherent territory, nor did it recognize it as a cession, considering it a disgrace.

But Zhu Youxiao is worried about this, more than one million square kilometers of land is not a small amount. Moreover, this is only a temporary tranquillity, and it does not satisfy Myanmar's ambitions.

He remembered the Qing Dynasty and fought several major battles with Burma. And the last emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty was dedicated to Wu Sangui by Burma, announcing the end of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

With such a capricious country, Zhu Youxiao is not prepared to leave it to his children and grandchildren to deal with. When Pingliao succeeds, he will wash away his shame and send troops to the southwest.

Moreover, it has been proved that the Ming army guarding Yunnan Province has weakened. The Mu family in Yunnan, Shizhen, also lost the bravery and strategy of Mu Ying, the first generation of Guogong.

By quelling the rebellion of Lu'an, Zhu Youxiao was ready to build an army that could fight and dare to fight. This is the best testing ground for testing and tempering the army's combat strength, and actual combat is the only criterion.

Fu Zonglong obviously couldn't know the emperor's ambitions, and the strategies of defending as an attack, blockading and besieging, and leaving troops in Tuntian were seeing results, and the rebels outside the water were gradually cut off, and he was confidently reporting the good news to the emperor!

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Capital.

The smell of spring is even stronger, the snow has almost melted, and the dripping water from the eaves of the temple has become thin.

Although I don't know the latest situation in Shuixi, judging from several battle reports, the rebels in Shuixi have counterattacked several times, but they have been repelled by the Ming army, and the entire war situation has almost stabilized.

As long as the battle line is stabilized, with the manpower and resources of Shuixi, how can the energy consumption be too Ming? What's more, Zhu Youxiao, the current helmsman of the Ming Dynasty, is still a spicy person who can make money.

In the main hall, there were dozens of nobles of the Beijing Division, with different faces, listening to the emperor talking.

At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Baba appointed the founding nobles to manage various military and political affairs, and then launched a series of fatal blows to them.

In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court gradually formed the policy of "prohibiting the lords and ministers from pre-serving the nine affairs" and "using literature to unify the military", and the political status of the lords and ministers was basically fixed.

The Ming court's system of suppressing the intervention of nobles in court politics continued the historical development trend of bureaucratic politics that focused on ability and qualifications since the Qin and Han dynasties, especially after the establishment of the imperial examination system in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

However, the Ming Dynasty lords still had a special relationship with the emperor, and they retained a respectful parasitic class status for generations, and their legal status was higher than that of ordinary civil and military ministers.

On the whole, the lords are high and low, and their power is not commensurate. However, their functions were of a unique nature and could not be touched by other courtiers. For example, the power of the Admiralty, the regimental camp, and so on.

This distorted state of power exacerbated the corruption of the nobles, making them a "quasi-political class" that had long been entrenched in the courts of the two capitals.

However, this situation changed last year, and Zhu Youxiao gradually excluded Xungui by reorganizing the Beijing camp and opening a martial arts school, until he completely mastered the army of the Beijing Division.

Not only that, but through the transfer of guards, most of the guards in the palace have also been replaced, and now they are in charge of Lu Jianxing, a thousand households of Jinyi Guard.

After the implementation of these measures, Zhu Youxiao was very confident in the face of the nobles, and his words were very polite.

“…… The prescribed time limit has passed since the edict forbidden, and the edict is not allowed to engage in business, but some people regard the edict as nothing, and despise it. You are called today to speak of this. ”

Zhu Youxiao's gaze was very cold, and he swept over His Highness and the others, taking in their expressions, and sneered in his heart.

"You don't have to complain to me, you have to raise a big family, you don't have enough money, you have to do business to make up for it. Calculate how much land you have been rewarded since you were knighted, how much you have taken, and how much you have contributed to the court? ”

"Look at your children and grandchildren, how many of them serve the country, and how many of them are idle and old? If you can't pass the imperial examination, what about martial arts and new learning, and how many of them want to enter the school? ”

The Emperor's voice echoed in the hall and struck heavily on the hearts of the nobles. This is said very seriously, so I almost pointed at my nose and scolded that it was all waste that was eating and waiting to die.

Zhu Youxiao didn't have a good impression of these nobles, and when he died in the Ming Dynasty, how many of them were in solidarity with the country? There are only a few people.

On the contrary, he surrendered very actively, and there was even Zhu Chunchen, the Duke of Chengguo, who opened the door to meet the king. has held the country's money and rewards for hundreds of years, and has no gratitude at all, not even as good as a eunuch.

"Cheng Guogong-" Zhu Youxiao breathed a sigh of relief, and began to roll call with a gloomy face.

"Wechen is here." Chengguo Duke Zhu Chunchen stepped forward and bowed.

Zhu Youxiao narrowed his eyes and said in a deep voice, "Why hasn't your caravan been disbanded?" What about the shops in Beijing and Yangzhou, why are they still operating? ”

Zhu Chunchen swallowed his saliva, wanting to defend but couldn't think of any excuse.

This matter has to be talked about in Dali, but if the anti-decree is not complied with, it depends on whether the emperor has some affection for the nobles and gently let it go.

Moreover, the emperor has just blocked the excuse of family difficulties. You also said, look for a draw!

"Long live the kick-starter." Zhu Chunchen had a bitter face, reluctantly thought of a reason, and quibbled: "It's not that Weichen doesn't want to follow the order, but there are a lot of business involved, and there are debts and repayments, which is very complicated and troublesome." I hope that there will be some more grace. ”

Is this going to continue to drag on, thinking that I have a bad memory, or that this policy is just a gust of wind?

Zhu Youxiao pursed the corners of his mouth and said quietly: "Since it is complicated and troublesome, it can't be handled well for such a long time, so I will send someone to help Cheng Guogong." ”

Zhu Chunchen was stunned for a moment, not knowing how the emperor was going to help him.

The other people in the hall didn't know why, and exchanged glances with each other, showing puzzled and suspicious looks.

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