Chapter 289: Xu Keqiu is comparable to Yuan Yingtai's second
When Wang Hongyu appeared in Wanxian, he had already chased the messenger from Kuizhou, and finally sent the message to restore contact.
The imperial court officially awarded him the general army of Sichuan Town.
He was allowed to add a town barracks with a quota of 3,000 people on the basis of the Hunhe Army.
The previous construction army tun belonged to the tuntian economy that did not work out of production, while the town barracks were the battalion soldiers who were out of production, and theoretically belonged to the recruitment system like the Hunhe army.
In view of the fact that the war has not yet started, it is equivalent to authorizing him to be in charge of military affairs in Sichuan, and at the same time in charge of military affairs in the Yunyang area.
The position of the chief soldier of the town was already quite high, but after all, it was severely restricted by civilian officials.
The power of grain and grass supply is still in the hands of each county, even if he is the chief soldier of Sichuan Town, he has no right to mobilize grain outside his subordination.
Unless war broke out, Sichuan also appointed important civil officials to cooperate with him, or the imperial court granted him unprecedented administrative rights in civil affairs.
There is no precedent for this after Tumubao, even if the status is such as Li Rusong, the logistics and other civil affairs are in the hands of civil officials such as Song Yingchang.
However, the general army of the town is already the limit that no new combat exploits can be awarded.
It is equivalent to the same status as He Shixian, the former chief soldier of Liaodong.
The rest of the generals in Kawauchi, including the other general soldiers in Kawauchi, were not as high as him.
When the news reached Wanxian, it also meant that Huguang already knew about it, but further to Sichuan, including Chongqing, which was 500 miles ahead, at this time, I didn't know that Wang Hongyu had arrived in Wanxian, let alone that he had been promoted to the general army of Sichuan.
This just happened to catch the luxury family off guard and created the conditions.
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Xu Keqiu, this person is Yuan Yingtai's second, and even better than Yuan Yingtai. He pretends to be smart, always self-righteous, and he doesn't even know how many pounds and taels he has.
In fact, at this time, most of the Sichuan government officials had been bribed by Yu Chongming, who was planning to recruit troops and buy horses, and continued to accumulate strength for more than ten years.
Qiao Bixing, who was also the governor of Sichuan, soon found out that the two families of Lu'an had the intention of rebellion, because he did not accept the bribes of the Luxury family, and even rejected the bribes of the Luxury family, and dealt a heavy blow to the expansion of the An family.
Most of Sichuan's civil servants accepted bribes from Yu Chongming. Eat other people's short mouths, take other people's soft hands, and if you receive benefits, you should speak for the luxury family, and you will turn a blind eye to the illegal behavior of the luxury family.
After accepting bribes for the first time, these people may have discovered the purpose of extravagant rebellion. Now that you have boarded the thief ship, it is impossible to get off the ship.
Unless you find your superiors to turn yourself in, but your superiors are also on the thief ship, and taking the initiative to turn yourself in is looking for death.
They think that if the rebellion fails, they will be implicated, and if the rebellion succeeds, they will definitely ascend to heaven.
Now that the Ming Dynasty has been declining and declining, it is a matter of time before it falls, and it is better to leave a way back.
To say that Xu Keqiu was wronged to take bribes, he was naturally cowardly, and he was often preconceived about people and things, and he was deceived by the acting of the two families of Luxury since he took office.
The luxury family has always attacked Anjia and Guizhou officials. Xu Keqiu and Guizhou Governor Li Zheng were political enemies, and in line with the principle that the enemy of the enemy is a friend, Xu Keqiu defended the interests of the luxury family everywhere.
Extravagant Chongming is a smart man, Xu Keqiu voted for it, and Extravagant Chongming repaid him with Li, so Extravagant Chongming attacked Guizhou Governor Li Zheng and An Jia.
An Bangyan also cooperated with the acting, always attacking the Yongning luxury family and Sichuan officials.
Over time, Xu Keqiu and Yu Chongming formed a united front, and it was impossible to tell that Xu Keqiu was not a corrupt official in the first place.
In the eyes of outsiders, it is a feud between the two families, or even mortal enemies, but in fact, the two families are acting to confuse the people of Sichuan and Guizhou and cover up their motives for preparing for the rebellion.
On the surface, Yu Chongming was very supportive of Xu Keqiu's work. Xu Keqiu has a clean breeze on his sleeves and never accepts bribes from others.
Extravagant Chongming bribed almost all the civil officials in Sichuan, but he didn't bribe Xu Keqiu, making him feel that the civil officials in Sichuan were all clean officials.
Similarly, Xu Keqiu takes care of Yu Chongming everywhere, thinking that he is a good Xuanfu Division and a model among the toasts.
Because he could only hear the voices praising Luxe Chongming from the mouths of his subordinates, and he couldn't hear anyone say anything bad about Luxe Chongming.
Yu Chongming knew that Xu Keqiu had always stood tall for so many years, not because of his strong ability, but because Xu Keqiu had always been angry with the Donglin Party, but whenever the Donglin Party had any trouble, Xu Keqiu would move when he heard the wind.
When it comes to governance ability, Xu Keqiu can be said to have made no achievements over the years, and many of his political achievements are false data reported by his subordinates, Xu Keqiu does not investigate and collect evidence at all, and he knows nothing about the quality of his subordinates' work.
Xu Keqiu's only strength is that he is good at fighting and pinching each other; The noble and martial arts showed themselves vividly in him.
Regarding the military spending being deducted by civilian officials, Xu Keqiu knew nothing and ignored it.
Sichuan's military generals live on empty quotas, whether they are battalion soldiers or guard soldiers, they can't even gather half of the number.
The generals used the money they had accumulated by eating shortages, embezzlement, and deducting money to use it for equipment and trainers.
In case there are any personnel from above to check, temporarily hire some idle people and ruffians from the society to fill the number.
Thanks to the efforts of Zhu Xieyuan, the political envoy of Zuobu, only the battalions under a few generals still had combat strength, and social order was barely maintained.
The reason why Yu Chongming was determined to rebel was because he saw the current situation of the Ming Dynasty at this time, Sichuan is like this, and other places will not be stronger, at least Sichuan still has food.
The military generals can naturally see that the civil officials are helping the luxury family to speak and cover up, they can't get the benefits of luxury Chongming, so naturally they won't speak for luxury Chongming.
They also have some news channels, and they have also heard a little about Gao Chongming's misdeeds. But no one thinks deeply, doesn't want to cause trouble, and it's none of their business.
Luxury Chongming took the initiative to write to the imperial court, asking to lead 30,000 Yongning Tusi soldiers to the north to aid Liao, but the imperial court ordered to stop it twice, but Xu Keqiu disagreed.
He kept the court orders and was in a hurry, and the act of rebellion had already appeared, although Xu Keqiu also saw some clues, thinking that he could stabilize Yu Chongming through comfort and persuasion, so that he would no longer rebel.
He also had to lead the civilian, official and military generals to gather in Chongqing to comfort and review the Tusi soldiers of Yu Chongming.
A large number of officials, including Taoist ministers Sun Haogu, Luo Risheng, Li Jizhou, Li Da, prefect Zhang Wenbing, Tongzhi Wang Shike, Xiong Sixian, and Tuguan Wang Sanzhai, followed him and hurried to Chongqing.
The general soldiers Huang Shoukui and Wang Shouzhong, and the generals Wan Jin and Wang Dengjue also received Xu Keqiu's order and hurried to Chongqing.
Because the notice was too urgent and the time was very tight, these generals only rushed to Chongqing with dozens of guards around them, and none of them brought troops.
This is the goal that Yu Chongming envisioned.
The mutiny was not long in coming.