"Kill !!"

"Crackle-"

At the foot of Cangshan Mountain and on the shore of Erhai Lake, when the shouts of killing sounded, hundreds of cavalry were under the leadership of a man, repeatedly rushing to kill and ravage thousands of bronze-armored enemies who were enemies with them.

They rode their horses back and forth, and the cavalry flintlock pistols in their hands became the best weapons of killing.

Every time they burst out on each side, hundreds of the thousands of toast soldiers would fall, and after repeating this several times, the thousands of toast soldiers finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to flee westward.

At the same time, hundreds of Ming troops also rushed out of Taihe County, the Dali Prefecture Governor's Office, which was surrounded by them.

Under the enemy's back, thousands of Tusi soldiers who fled in rout either became prisoners or became the ghosts of the Ming army.

Standing on the hill, Jiang Huai had a full view of this scene, which brought him a lot of shock.

Although he knew that the officers and soldiers were powerful, he did not expect that the officers and soldiers would be able to defeat the Tusi soldiers who had captured ten times his own with hundreds of cavalry.

In this way, it will only take a year or two to change the land.

"Bang!"

Suddenly, the sound of trumpets sounded, and on the hills, the cavalry on both sides of the Jianghuai also spoke:

"Jiang Shengyuan, Uncle sent a message for us to go to Taihe County."

A cavalryman spoke, Jiang Huai nodded when he heard this, shook the reins of his horse and walked down the hill under the escort of two cavalrymen, heading towards Taihe County, which was several miles away.

Taihe County as the Dali Mansion, living under the Cangshan Mountain, the shore of the Erhai Lake, its city was founded in Hongwu 15 years, has a history of 35 years.

Not far from it, there are also the ruins of the Taihe City of Nanzhao in the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Walking into Taihe County, Jiang Huai also saw the Tusi soldiers besieging Taihe County at close range, they came from Tibet in the northwest, but now they have been captured, and there are many corpses lying on the ground, and blood is flowing all over the ground.

Without having time to stay too long, he was taken to Taihe County by two cavalrymen.

Taihe County was presided over by Qianning Wang Muying on the basis of one of the capital cities of Nanzhao, Yang Tho Baa City, the city wall is more than two zhang high, the circumference of the city is ten miles, the city is four zhang thick, and it is extremely solid.

Originally, Dali Wei was supposed to be stationed here, but due to the implementation of the new policy, the Tuntian soldiers in Dali Wei were reduced, and less than 1,500 soldiers were retained.

In addition, because Dali Wei also has to be stationed in Longwei Pass and other passes, there are only a few hundred soldiers stationed in Taihe County.

In addition, they did not change to arquebuses and flintlock pistols, and the old muskets were still used, so they did not dare to go out of the city alone to fight, but there was no problem in playing coordination.

Walking into Taihe County, there are all kinds of ethnic groups living in it, wearing all kinds of costumes.

Because the war had just ended, the people in the city stood in front of their homes with trepidation, and their homes had their own styles.

For example, the local ethnic minorities like to increase the height of their houses, and attach great importance to the decoration of the appearance of the houses, especially the decoration of the doors and windows of the gatehouse and the hall.

The courtyard of the three-sided and one-walled, four-in-five patio with the large building, the shape of the wide corridor, and the stone foundation of the stone masonry, the whole courtyard is very bright, which is very different from the south of the Yangtze River.

Walking on the stone road, Jianghuai had to admire the prosperity of Taihe County, in his opinion, Taihe County is much more prosperous than Kunming City, and the culture and learning atmosphere here are also very good.

Although they had just experienced the war, many people who had calmed down were flipping through the books of history or scripts.

In addition, their official language is much better than that of western Yunnan, with waterwheels everywhere in and around the city, and advanced agricultural irrigation technology brought by military households, which has turned many arid fields around Erhai into fertile farmland, so the price of grain here is much cheaper than in other places.

Except for the Shaomin language that can still be heard occasionally and the Shaomin costumes that can be seen everywhere, this place is no different from other Han cities, and it is not like many cities that Jianghuai passes through, there is still a very strong Shaomin culture.

The degree of sinicization here is very high, which is Jianghuai's evaluation of Taihe County.

"When I arrive, please come in with me to rest, and wait for my uncle to come back."

During the trip, the cavalry reined in to indicate that they had arrived at the target, and Jiang Huai looked sideways and saw the Dali Guard Commander Yamen.

He dismounted and was searched before being escorted into the main hall where he sat and waited.

Some of the soldiers inside poured him a cup of hot tea, and while he drank it, he quietly waited for Wang Xuan to arrive.

Although he knew that many young people in western Yunnan had been reclaimed very early, after seeing the situation in Dali, he couldn't help but be a little worried.

After all, in his impression, Dali seems to have been peaceful for more than 30 years, and now it is still surrounded by Tusi soldiers.

If it weren't for Wang Xuan leading the cavalry to relieve the siege, I don't know when I would have been surrounded.

Xijiang Town has no city walls, and if you encounter Tusi soldiers, you may not even have a chance to be besieged.

Thinking of this, his mood was a little heavy, but fortunately, Wang Xuan didn't let him wait too long.

About half an hour passed, and Jiang Huai heard the sound of rustling nails.

He looked towards the door of the yamen, and sure enough, he saw Wang Xuan and others walking towards him.

He led more than a dozen generals to walk in, and Jiang Huai hurriedly got up when he saw this.

Wang Xuan raised his hand and pressed it, motioning for him to sit down, and then walked into the main hall with the generals, turned to everyone and ordered:

"This time the Tusi of Western Yunnan are in rebellion, you immediately send Tang Qi to find out, and see how many of the ninety-six Tusi in Western Yunnan participated in the rebellion."

"Yes!"

The generals made a move, then turned around and walked out of the main hall, and in the end only Wang Xuan, who was sitting on the main seat, and his two guards, and Jiang Huai, who was restless.

"I heard about your deeds in Nanjing, you did a good job, you gave us a long face!"

A character like Wang Xuan naturally doesn't pay attention to a small person like Jianghuai, but the background of the children of Jianghuai serfs, coupled with his deeds of winning the first place in the grade in Nanjing for five consecutive years, undoubtedly made Wang Xuan stay a lot of eyes on him.

He couldn't call Jiang Huai's name for a while just now, but he still had some impressions after looking at his appearance.

In five years, Jiang Huai has also become a gentleman, and judging from what he did just now, he was not attracted and sunk by the impetuousness and prosperity of Nanjing, but developed his own unique temperament.

"You're coming back this time for the imperial examination, right?"

Wang Xuan asked Jiang Huai, and Jiang Huai did not hide it: "The students came back, indeed for the imperial examination." ”

"Are you sure?" Wang Xuan asked, without waiting for Jiang Huai to answer, and asked again: "How do you think Yunnan should develop?" ”

"Students are not fully sure, as for the development ...... Yunnan"

Jiang Huai pondered for a moment before continuing: "The student followed his classmates to see the map at his home, and from the map and the student's experience alone, Yunnan is blocked by traffic, especially the roads from Yunnan to Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi. ”

"However, Yunnan also has an advantage, that is, it can communicate along the river, and it can communicate with each other."

"If the water posts of Manmo, Jingding, and Lihuayi are built, then Yunnan can transport goods by water to Haiyang in Jiaozhi, Dagura, and Vientiane in Sanxuan and Ten Comforts, as well as Gan Pozhi and Siam in the south."

"The student has calculated, from the west of Yunnan alone, it is only more than 200 miles of mountain road from Longchuan to Manmo, and once you arrive at Manmo, you can use the Dajinsha River all the way south to enter the Xiaoxiyang."

"Not to mention the millions of people along the way, there are dozens of countries along the coast of the small Western Ocean, with a population of tens of millions."

"The environment of Longchuan can plant mulberry trees, produce silkworm cocoons, develop the handmade textile industry, and then go down the Jinsha River into the Little Western Ocean."

"Taking this road, Longchuan can walk 10,000 miles less than Jiangnan, and this 10,000-mile sea frontier will take at least two or three months."

"In other words, the cloth in western Yunnan is less than the transportation process in the southern part of the Yangtze River in the ocean trade."

"In terms of one year, it takes only two months for the cloth from western Yunnan to go to Tianzhu to sell cloth, but it takes six months to go back and forth, while it takes six months in Jiangnan."

"One trip to Jiangnan is enough for us to sell three times, and the time cost saved is enough to make the price of cloth in western Yunnan lower than that in Jiangnan."

Jianghuai was born in western Yunnan, and naturally thinks about the development of his hometown, which also makes Wang Xuan very satisfied, but there is another problem in addition to this.

"Although your idea is good, will it be too slow to start planting mulberry trees now, as far as I know, there are only more than 100 mulberry households in Longchuan."

"Moreover, it is also a question whether the imperial court will agree to let Yunnan go to sea through Dagura."

"Secondly, my Yunnan cloth is not as exquisite as the Jiangnan cloth, will the people of Tianzhu pay for it?"

Wang Xuan asked three questions, and Jiang Huai explained them one by one.

"More than 100 mulberry households only need to gather together and lead the team in a belt and three ways, and at the same time, it will take three or four years for mulberry seedlings to be planted.

"On the issue of going to sea, the student thought that the imperial court would inevitably agree, otherwise he would not waste his mind and let you build a barbarian water station."

"As for the quality of the cloth, as long as the price of cloth in western Yunnan is low enough, it is completely possible to give up the dignitaries and dignitaries and specialize in tens of millions of poor people in Tianzhu."

"As far as the students know, the price of a coarse cloth in Jiangnan was transported to Tianzhu, and the price immediately rose from the cost price of 150 wen to the selling price of 600 wen per horse."

"If our cost is also within 200 Wen, then even if we only sell 500 Wen, excluding the transportation cost, we can earn at least 200 Wen's profit,"

"Even if only one million pieces of coarse cloth can be sold every year, Yunxi can make a profit of 200,000 yuan."

"Of course, this is the situation of the government, if it is the situation of private revenue and tax, then the tax revenue in western Yunnan is only 20,000 yuan a year."

When Jiang Huai's voice fell, Wang Xuan knew that this guy was not a Confucian who could only sell articles, but a rare talent.

"If you serve as the magistrate of Longchuan, how much can you guarantee your annual income?"

Wang Xuan asked Jiang Huai, and Jiang Huai did not answer immediately when he heard this, but spoke after careful consideration:

"If the uncle can ensure the smooth passage of the Dajinsha River, then the student can ensure that Longchuan can make at least 400,000 yuan of official profits every year......"

"But before that, the students also need to be sent by the imperial court to send some Taixue scholars who study biology and agriculture to help."

"Good!" When Wang Xuan heard this, he thought highly of Jianghuai at the moment.

He didn't think that Jiang Huai was talking big, after all, he also knew about Jiang Huai and the emperor's grandson, since the one in the East Palace did not stop it, it must show that Jiang Huai had something extraordinary.

"You just talked about the development of Longchuan, but what about the overall development of Yunnan?"

Although Wang Xuan is satisfied, he still wants to be admitted to Jianghuai.

When Jiang Huai heard this, he was not worried or afraid, but said without thinking: "The development of Yunnan is actually mainly on the river. ”

"As long as Yunnan can control the three rivers of the Dajinsha River, the Red River, and the Lancang River, and then have an impact on Jiaozhi and Sanxuan and Ten Comforts, then trade and taxation can be levied on the Siam, Gan Xiaozhi and Sanxuan and Liuwei regions through handmade goods."

"Kam Po Chi, Siam, as well as Champang, Manraka, Da Ni, Terengalu, Pahang and other countries were more or less involved in the Kunlun gold pan."

"Although the students don't know how much gold they can mine each year, there is no doubt that they now have money in their hands and the court has goods in their hands."

"What Yunnan needs to do is to seize the market for some Jiangnan commodities, such as planting sugarcane to produce sugar, planting mulberry trees to raise silkworms and weaving cloth, and all kinds of pottery, porcelain, and so on......"

"In terms of trade, Yunnan has more geographical advantages than Jiangnan, and the price of goods will be lower, and the people will only choose cheap and affordable goods, which is our advantage and development."

Jiang Huai said everything he thought he thought, and Wang Xuan nodded after hearing it and couldn't help but think about it.

For a moment, the main hall suddenly fell silent......

"You're coming back this time to go home, right?"

After thinking for a moment, Wang Xuan raised his head and asked, and Jiang Huai also nodded.

Seeing this, Wang Xuan explained to him: "Although western Yunnan is peaceful, but to avoid the white-clothed rebellion in southern Yunnan to go north, you go home this time or I will send a brother to escort you back, and then escort you back to Kunming to participate in the township test, when do you want to leave?" ”

"It's better tomorrow." Jianghuai responded.

"Okay, let's go tomorrow." Wang Xuan responded, and explained to his guard: "Find him a courtyard, tomorrow you take a small flag brother to escort him back to Xijiang Town, and then rest in Xijiang Town, and wait for him to go to Kunming Mansion to continue the escort." ”

"If he can take the examination, I will send someone to send money and food, and you will continue to escort him to Beijing to participate in the imperial examination."

"The last general commands!" Hearing his uncle's words, although the Qianhu official was unwilling, he still escorted Jiang Huai to get up and go to a certain courtyard in the yamen to rest.

After they left, Wang Xuan got up and walked to the study, and put pen to paper to add some of Jiang Huai's opinions, plus his own ideas, and sent people to Beijing quickly.

In the early morning of the next day, Wang Xuan rushed to Dengchuan Prefecture in the north with hundreds of cavalry before dawn, which was also surrounded by Tusi soldiers, and he had to go to relieve the siege.

Not only him, but almost all the generals in Yunnan were directing the army to fight the fire.

Compared with Guizhou and Guangxi, Yunnan's Tusi has more strategic depth, and Yunnan's complex topography has also brought great trouble to the land reform.

However, all this is not so important to Jianghuai, who is in a hurry to go home.

It is 900 miles from Dali to Xijiang Town, and even if you walk 100 miles every day, it takes nine days to arrive.

For Jiang Huai, who is like an arrow, the perseverance he showed in the next few days made the officials of the thousands of households who were responsible for escorting him look sideways.

Fang Zheng is a native of Chuzhou, Nanzhili, hereditary Jining Wei Qianhu, and is now only twenty-eight years old.

Two years ago, Jiningwei was dismissed, and he passed the National Defense University examination and was able to lead the reorganized Jiningwei 1,000 soldiers to Yunnan to exchange guards with the local garrison, thus starting his journey to the frontier.

Not surprisingly, after the end of this land reform, he was at least a commander, but with the appearance of Jianghuai, his plan was disrupted.

According to the military order, in the next two years, he, a thousand-household official, had to protect Jianghuai.

You must know that you are a thousand-household official who commands thousands of people, but now he has done the work of a small flag officer.

Fang Zheng didn't dare to criticize his uncle, but he didn't have a good face for Jiang Huai.

He thought that Jiang Huai would only talk about it, but he didn't want to get behind the horse, Jiang Huai's equestrian skills were much more exquisite than their group, and he walked more than 100 miles every day without saying a word.

For some officials, let alone riding a horse for more than 100 miles, even if you ride 30 miles, you can take half a life.

Under the exchange, Fang Zheng's interest in Jianghuai gradually became stronger.

The two communicated with each other for the next nine days, and Fang Zheng couldn't help but be shocked to learn that Jianghuai was actually a child raised by a serf couple.

In this era, even ordinary civilians can be admitted to the students, which is an amazing existence, not to mention Jianghuai with a serf background.

Moreover, Jiang Huai's deeds of winning the first place in the grade in Jiangning Middle School for five consecutive years also shocked Fang Zheng, who had been in the middle of the military academy for five years.

After a few understandings, he knew why his uncle sent him to escort Jianghuai.

This guy is simply the sweetheart of the land of western Yunnan, and in terms of his willingness to return to his hometown to work as an official, this is enough to be admired.

At present, although there are more than ten jinshi in Yunnan every imperial examination, these jinshi basically choose Jiangnan whenever they hold their posts, and no matter how bad they are, they are Huguang, Shandong and other places, and the worst is Sichuan and Shaanxi.

Such a situation also led to the officials sent to Yunnan, except for the officials in charge of the mining department, who were more outstanding, and the rest of the officials were basically the existence of the tail of the talent crane.

With Jianghuai's talent, Jinshi definitely has no way to run, after all, there are many similarities between the imperial examination and the nine subjects in middle school, even if Jianghuai classics and historical classics and policy theories are not good, they can also move scores through other test papers.

On the premise that he already knew that he could be admitted to the Jinshi, he dared to say that he wanted to return to Yunnan as an official, this choice is really admirable.

Mo said that such a remote place in Yunnan is Chuzhou, Fang Zheng's hometown, but whenever a rich family walks out, he can't wait to bring all three generations of relatives to the capital, and regards his hometown as the most difficult place.

In such an atmosphere, it is difficult for people like JAC not to have a sense of admiration.

"It's Xijiang Town in front."

"It's finally here, I have to see your father and mother at that time, see how they educate you, and when the time comes, I will study hard, and when my son is born, I will also educate you like this."

"What if it's a daughter?"

"Whew!"

"Hahaha......"

In the midst of talking and laughing, Jianghuai gradually saw the memorial arch of Xijiang Town in the distance under the protection of Fang Zheng.

Counting the time, he has not been home for nearly six years, and the once sixteen-year-old boy is now twenty-one years old.

As the archway of Xijiang Town got closer and closer, Jianghuai also saw patches of rice fields, which were more than twice as large as when he went out.

When the peasants in the fields saw Jianghuai being escorted by the officials and soldiers, they also poked their heads out one after another, looking at the high-spirited Jianghuai, and felt a little familiar.

Suddenly, a person in the field shouted to the team: "Jianghuai? ”

"Huh?" Hearing an unfamiliar and familiar voice, JAC looked at the field.

When the man saw that Jianghuai stopped his horse, he hurriedly ran from the field to the official road, looked excitedly at the handsome young man in a round-necked robe on horseback, and said as calmly as possible: "You are Jianghuai?" ”

"Are you ......" Jiang Huai tried hard to identify it, and finally said in disbelief: "Gao Guan? ”

"That's right! It's me! You remember me! ”

Standing on the ground, his legs covered in mud, Gao Guan, dressed in patched clothes, excitedly took off the hat from his head, his skin was dark, and he looked at least twenty-seven or eighteen years old.

"How did you get to this?"

Jiang Huai was shocked by what happened to his former classmates, although Gao Guan couldn't go to middle school, but at least he graduated from primary school, and it was very easy to get an errand as a clerk in this western part of Yunnan.

Besides, his uncle is also a hundred-household official, why did he end up like this now......

"This ......" Gao Guan was a little embarrassed, and as the excitement gradually subsided, only the gap in identity and class was left, and there seemed to be an insurmountable gap between the two.

"I'll farm first, you just go home, go meet them first."

Gao Guan smiled awkwardly, then put on his hat and made way for them.

"I'll go to you in a moment."

Jiang Huai's brows were sad, it was uncomfortable for the former Zhuma brothers.

"Well... Good ......"

Gao Guan kept nodding his head in restraint, just like the long-term work of the landlord's family.

"I'll look for you in a moment, remember to wait for me at your house."

Jiang Huai explained again, and then shook the reins uncomfortably and walked home.

After they walked away, Gao Guan returned to the field with his body bent over.

Feeling his legs sink into the paddy field, he glanced back at the back of a round-necked robe riding a tall horse and gradually leaving.

Mo said that Jiang Huai came back this time with the escort of officers and soldiers, that is, he came back alone and on a horse, but he was not an existence that could be touched by mud legs like himself.

With an indescribable feeling, Gao Guan lowered his head and continued to clean up the weeds in the field.

At the same time, Jianghuai and them also entered the scope of Xijiang Town, and many people recognized Jianghuai, including those "Jiangnan" students who thought very highly of themselves.

Once they stood on the mountain, mocking Jiang Huai and others under the mountain, thinking that they were about to go to high school soon, and took their families to wash away their crimes and return to Jiangnan.

It's just that now it seems that Jianghuai, who was despised by these scholarly families in the past, has become an existence that they need to look up to.

This kind of gap is really uncomfortable......

It's just that compared to them, many young people in Xijiang Town flocked to Jianghuai when they saw them, and some elders who beat him when they were young took the initiative to lead the horse for him.

In their opinion, Jianghuai was the first student in western Yunnan to be admitted to the middle school as a child of a former serf and was recommended to study in the capital.

Although they don't know whether the current Jianghuai is a big official, just by the more than ten cavalry who escorted him, they can judge that his current identity is not what it used to be.

For a time, there were countless people who climbed the relationship, and even those who looked down on Jianghuai in the past also came forward to make a familiar face.

Suddenly, Jiang Huai's uncomfortable encounter with Gao Guan outside the town was also much happier, and he wanted to see his parents even more.

Perhaps it was the cowardice of the hometown, when the familiar alley appeared, Jiang Huai was uncomfortable no matter how he sat down, and finally simply turned over and dismounted and took the reins from the hands of the elders.

The news of Jiang Huai's return has been spread by the neighbors, so Jiang Dari and Jin Hua have already taken Jiang Huai's younger brother Jiang Hu out of the alley surrounded by neighbors.

Facing the tall and handsome people outside the alley, whether it was Jiang Dari or Jin Hua, or Jiang Huai's younger brother Jiang Hu, they didn't dare to take the initiative to recognize each other.

In Jiang Huai's eyes, Jiang Dari and Jinhua have aged a lot, and his younger brother Jiang Hu has grown up a lot.

Seeing their cramped and uneasy appearance, Jiang Huai put down the reins in his hand and stepped forward to kneel down and kowtow to his parents.

"The unfilial son Jianghuai returned from school, and his parents were tired......"

(End of chapter)