Chapter 221 Diversion

History has given the Ming countless opportunities to start over, but the empire is like a spell that can never be shaken off, and every time it restarts, it will continue to run along the old road that once knocked itself to the head and bleed, until it hits the south wall again...... The only difference is that you run faster each time, hit harder, and bleed more.

For example, the war in Liaodong. During the Xiaoice River period, which lasted for more than half a century, even the rich Suzhou Prefecture, the river ice in winter was as thick as three feet, and the situation outside the customs can be imagined. At this time, as long as you are a normal person with a little common sense, it is not difficult to make the right choice: close the door, sleep, and freeze to death the wild boar skins in the field! But Da Ming is biased, because this is politically incorrect. Gotta fight with them! This is called the incompatibility of good and evil, and this is called loving Daming. So again and again, blood was drawn from the empire, border troops were transferred, rice beans were lost, fortresses were built, and Liao was paid...... And then it was robbed again and again by the Nurhachi Emperor Taiji! While Da Ming continued to send food to Houjin Wanli, he also helped them send people to train their troops and train their courage, until they trained a group of dying Hanako into almost invincible male soldiers in the world at that time. As for things like really can't beat Houjin...... Can't even mention it! What are your intentions? Where is the conscience? Everybody can be punished!

Another example is to change the land and return it to the stream.

A little farther away, the Banzhou Yang Rebellion, all in front of you, the Lu'an Rebellion, the root cause is the change of land and return to the stream.

Da Ming is not without understanding people. Zhu Xieyuan once played: "(After the Yang Rebellion in Pingbanzhou) Shu since Zunyi County, not to gain land for profit, to raise soldiers for tired. Therefore, when it comes to diversion, there is a lot of frowning. "Lord Zhu said very implicitly, only stating the facts, and did not add personal opinions. There are also bold people, such as Fujian Yushi Yuwen * directly asked: "Taste the land of Zunyi County, the nearest thirty years, how much is the soil endowed?" Is there any supplement to the public? And the cost of the bureaucratic guards of the city palace is no longer funded, and it is not deserted in the vast land, and it is far away! ”

Are they right?

Of course......

Wrong!

As the saying goes, let's be reasonable regardless of the facts......

What's that? Facts aside?

That's right.

Because in Daming, facts are never important, the most important thing is the "truth", well, the so-called truth. These two words are amazing, one is "Dao", which means the avenue of the world, and the other is "Li", which represents the truth of the universe. The two words are added together, and they are directly invincible!

For example, "starvation is a small matter, but loss of festival is a big thing". By the way, don't think about it, the so-called disjointedness here, in most cases, refers only to women, especially when you are persecuted, let alone kill yourself and die clean! As for defecting to the enemy...... Oh, it depends on the situation: if it is defeated in the end, it will be considered a loss of moderation, and the people and gods will be angry—and if it becomes a king, then it is called a good bird choosing a tree and a good minister choosing a lord, and it is a model and example admired by all people!

Another example is this change of land and return to the stream.

The whole world is not the king's land, and the words of the saints are the only last word. The whole world belongs to the imperial court - it's a pity that there were no spaceships at that time, otherwise, the whole universe would have to belong to the old Zhu family!

This is called "righteousness"! None of the others mattered.

Now that the form is very good, it is a good time to die, when will you not do it at this time? Therefore, a group of heart-wrenching and righteous words began to shout and reiterate the old words. Li Jingwu returned to Beijing on a mission, but he also reminded a few words: "Why did Yang Yinglong, Chongming, An Bangyan and others go to rebel one after another?" The ancestors have all made meritorious contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and the place is poor, let's not always worry about robbing them of those eight-sided broken bamboo buildings, okay? ”

As a result, he was almost sprayed to death by the righteous people:

"If the whole land had been returned to the king's land earlier, they would have starved to death, and where could they still rebel?" This is a master of fallacious reasoning.

"If you are dedicated to the country, even if you are a ghost, you are happy, how can you care about personal gains and losses?" This is a handsome man with a sneaky eye.

"From now on, four thousands of miles, all into the emperor's map, one ruler of the people, all returned to the king, the three provinces will never have the police of dogs barking and roosters, and the four seas will be reversed by the treachery of the mountains and howling Ze!" This is the king of the mouth cannon of the domineering side leakage type.

And so on......

Wang Ershan is actually not bad. But on the one hand, I have been a Beijing official for too long, and I also have a deep habitual thinking in my head, and I also think that it is natural to change the land and return to the stream, and the second is that there is really a hard time: the public will avoid the war for various reasons, even if they are forced to go out to fight, in case they are defeated, and they will not be able to give up their previous efforts, at that time, they will have to be turned over the old accounts of Guiyang, it is better to find something to do, and the third is also the instigation of the audience. There are still a lot of benefits, so why not? Not only Zhang Fangxie's enthusiasm is unprecedentedly high, but Chen Qiyu also talks from time to time, intentionally or unintentionally, that the Miao people have been suffering for a long time, and to be a glorious citizen of the Celestial Dynasty, the Miao people have long been longed for......

So Lord Wang sat down and began a large-scale movement to change the land and return to the stream.

At Zhang Fang's strong request, the first to implement it was Xiongsuo Zexi. There are many places in Guizhou called Zexi (there are also written Zexi), such as Xiongsuo Zexi, Zewo Zexi (this name is interesting - the word "thief" in the Ming Dynasty, you can taste it), Longcrotch Zexi, Duo You Zexi, Fire Zexi...... The word Zexi is a transliteration, and the Yi language means granary. Except for one place in each Zexi that is personally led by the Tusi head of the place, the rest of the land is managed by the clan relatives within the Shuixian clan, which also shows the great power of the An clan.

Even if it is a restream, if the original Tusi head is temporarily retained, and a stream official is set up in other places controlled by the An clan first, everyone's reaction will not be so strong. But how could Zhang Fang care so much about you? The more I looked at that piece of land, the more it was not too much, and directly drove the local Tumu (tribal leader) Si Dingzhou, who did not raise troops with An Bangyan, out of his house!

Guizhou itself is a poor place, and after fighting for so long, don't look at the slogans in the court shouting loudly, waiting for Wang Ershan's report to come up, but no one can be sent down - there are many alternate officials, all of them are looking forward to going to the land of fish and rice for the benefit of the people, who wants to wait half-dead for several years and then run thousands of miles to run a bird and not in the ravine to give away their lives in a daze? So the officials told Lord Wang to find someone to put the hole on top first. Wang Ershan really didn't have anyone at hand, and after thinking about it for a long time, he finally found a scholar in Guiyang City who was not eaten by Zhang Fang and sent him over to be the acting magistrate.

Zhang Fang did a great job. Pointing to a few mountains in the distance that originally wanted to be assigned to Huang Yuanqing, but the one was too far away and barren, and had been entangled with Zhang Dashuai, he said: These places will be under your management in the future, and other places will be counted as my old Zhang's army to raise troops for the imperial court to suppress rebellion and counterinsurgency, do you have any opinions? As soon as this handsome scholar who had lived for the rest of his life saw Zhang Dashuai's white teeth, he remembered the heroic posture of him carrying a dagger from the grill to remove the meat between the ribs and send it to his mouth, how dare he say no? As a result, Xiongsuo Zexi became the starting point of the great cause of the imperial court to reform the land and return to the river overnight.

Xiongsuo Zexi belongs to the "six eyes outside the water", which used to be the territory of the Song family in Shuidong. After establishing a firm rule in Qianxi, the Shuixi clan crossed the Luguang River to encroach on the declining Song clan in Hedong, and annexed a large area of land for a hundred years. However, most of the local leaders were forced by the situation to surrender to the An family on the surface, and they were forcibly seized a large area of land except for the village, so many people did not follow An Bangyan to pull the flag and rebel, at most they were like the owner of Ninggu Village. And Zhang Fang's decision to leave the house of Si Dingzhou, the old native of Xiongsuo Zexi, had a bad impact - Si Dingzhou didn't pay attention to An Bangyan at all!

All the Tusi leaders who did not follow the An family and stayed in the local area, as well as those who rebelled first and then surrendered, couldn't sleep, and everyone was thinking about the same question: who is homesick today, who is tomorrow? Which day will it be my turn?

Gradually, rumors came out: "The imperial court will raise a large army, regardless of obedience and disobedience, and all Miao mansions will be recruited together." ”

Wang Ershan also heard the rumors, and announced that it was a rumor as soon as possible, but it was useless - because Deputy Marshal Xie did the same, encircled Le Zexi (near today's Liupanshui) as a military camp, and also slaughtered the Tusi Simukui family who refused to obey the overall situation!

Is this worth it? Simukui fought with An Bangyan, not only without fault, but also meritorious! However, when Wang Ershan was about to settle accounts with Xie Zhongren, Chen Qiyu sent an important piece of information found from his home: a letter written by An Bangyan to Simukui. This is a strong circumstantial evidence, because although there is no direct evidence of Simukui's rebellion, An Bangyan's letter clearly states that he is very grateful for the military information sent by Xie Zhongrenbu!

The facts are there, Wang Ershan can't help but believe it: the military strength and military resources are almost exactly the same - if it weren't for this rebellion, how could An Bangyan know so much about the military situation of the Ming army?

So Xie Zhongren was considered meritorious.

To say, this General Chen is really a talent, not only provided Lord Wang with a lot of important information inside the thief and was relied on by him, Zhang Fang and Xie Zhongren regarded him as a good friend - no, he also found a good way for the two handsome friends to make a fortune: selling military rations.

On weekdays, there are military cantonment support army leaders, and they still ask the court for food from time to time, not to mention during the war? In addition to the soldiers' physical exertion and need to eat more food in order to have the strength to work hard, the frequent movement of troops must be transported in a timely manner, and the loss on the way is naturally much greater...... Therefore, in the event of war, the consumption of grain and grass is astronomical. Although the Ming army could not consume so much grain in Dafang instead of in the field, Wang Ershan was the governor of Guizhou, and the example of Guiyang was placed there, so the grain and grass transported to the front were only based on the maximum transportation capacity rather than the actual need.

This brings up a new problem - there is too much food.

Of course, no general will be too much food. One day when he was "discussing the military situation" in the small courtyard, Chen Shen made a few understatement words that made the two marshals feel half happy: "Silver grain and silver grain, in other places, silver may not be used as grain, but grain must be silver." But our Guizhou Province is different, silver can be used as food, but grain is not silver. ”

"How is that possible?" Zhang Fang immediately retorted, "When I was in Guiyang, the grain was very expensive, much better than silver, and a liter of rice could be sold for four taels of silver!" ”

"Big brother, it was an extraordinary time, and my brother was talking about normal times. Incomparable. Chen Qi smiled foolishly.

Xie Zhongren asked playfully: "How do you say this, brother, let's talk about it." ”

"There is a lot of rain in our Guizhou Province, and the weather is very humid, so it is useless to let you have more grain, especially now in summer and autumn. If it is mildew, the whole warehouse of grain will become poisonous, and the pigs and sheep will not be able to feed it, and they will all have to be discarded. But no one has ever heard of silver growing hair, right? Two brothers, is this food worthy of silver? ”

The two of them glanced at each other, and they both remembered the barn piled up at the grain station in their camp, and they couldn't help but change their expressions, and exclaimed, "What can I do about this?" ”

Chen Qiyu was a little embarrassed: "It's not that there is no way, but ...... Alas, it's too hard, it's too hard, forget it. Anyway, it was all transported by the imperial court, and if it is rotten, it will be rotten, but fortunately, the bad thing is not the silver in our own pockets. ”

"How's that going to work!"

"Brother, what you said is not right! The grain in our warehouse is the silver in our own pockets! ”

Zhang Xie and the others were anxious, and at the same time pushed away the women in their arms and said in unison.

"But ......" Chen Qiyu still looked like he wanted to say something.

"Brother, just say it. What else can't we talk about between us? ”

Chen Qiyu seemed to have made up his mind when he heard this: "My brother knows a lot of leaders in the village. After fighting for so long, there are not many young people in each village who can still farm, and everyone is short of food. But they don't have much money, and even if they ship the grain, it is estimated that they can sell it for fifty or sixty percent at most. Moreover, there is always some risk in this kind of thing, and it will be very troublesome if the people in contact are checked by the officers and soldiers of his battalion on the road......"

"Hey, I thought it was a big deal! The price is easy to say, anyway, it's worthless to rot in the warehouse, and it's not how much we sell, and it's not our own planting, big brother, do you say that's the reason? Xie Zhongren slapped his thigh and looked at Zhang Fang.

"The old explanation is right! This matter will be handed over to your brother, and when you turn around, your brother will give you a complete set of Zunyi's banners and arrows, and I will see which dog kills the material and dares to stop the handsome's dignified military envoy! ”

Chen Shen will indeed live up to his trust. It didn't take long for the full warehouse of grain in the camp of the two marshals to turn into cash in their pockets - although it was only sold at half price, it was picked up for nothing after all, who is not happy? It's okay if the battalion soldiers don't have enough to eat, as long as they don't starve to death in batches, continue to find Wang Fuzun to ask for it, there are many reasons!

In order to express gratitude, and in order to show the brotherhood that is as close as siblings and solid as a rock, the two handsomes insisted on dragging Brother Chen to a restaurant for a big drink - but after thinking about it, this small courtyard environment is the most comfortable, and the food is also the most delicious, so the two patted their chests and said that in the future, when they come to Zunyi, or the copper drum guard, they must do a good job!

As for the trivial things such as which village leaders bought the military rations of the Ming Dynasty, the two marshals didn't bother to ask-can't they still believe Brother Chen?

In fact, there is only one real buyer.

His name is Ahn Bangyan.

*Many people recorded on the Internet are named Yu Wenhuo Cao, and I personally think this name is weird, and it is suspected that many records quote excerpts from the same source. I checked some historical materials, and I didn't find the list of Fujian imperial histories in the same period, so I can't be sure - such insight is rare in the Ming Dynasty, so in order to show respect, keep my name as much as possible, so I wrote Yu Wen in the text.