Although Thanh Hoa City is Li Li's hometown and the old nest of the current Hou Li Dynasty, the city is not big, at most the size of two Xinzheng counties.

Before entering the city, Gao Shishi's army first told the two wolf soldiers of Cen and Huang and the army of Mo Chao to surrender to Cheng as the imperial historian of Guangxi, saying that the reward for military merit would be calculated and allocated by him, and he was not allowed to loot without permission when entering the city.

The two Tusi of Cen and Huang also restrained the wolf soldiers, saying that Qinghua and Wai Qinghua might be the place of reward for their two families, and the looters regarded it as looting the Tusi, and then took out the silver that Gao Pragmatic had rewarded them with before and rewarded the wolf soldiers to stabilize the morale of the army.

The low-level soldiers of the Mo army were a little unhappy about this, thinking that the Zheng clan was their great enemy, and now that they were defeated, they were about to settle the old feud. However, the high-level of the Mo army was quite in favor of this, and the two generals Mo Yulin and Ruan Ti both said: Gao Gong wants to be Huang Shangshu, which is the blessing of Annam.

The "Huang Shangshu" mentioned by Mo Yulin and Ruan Ti was Huang Fu, the political envoy of the Ming Dynasty during the Yongle Dynasty.

During his Jiaozhi period, Huang Fu not only tried his best to do a good job in "compiling people's registers, setting taxes, building schools, and appointing officials and teachers" and various daily administrative work, but also "summoned his fathers and elders to proclaim virtue and will, and abstained from harassing subordinate officials", and in particular, resolutely resisted and struggled against some powerful figures who disturbed the people and caused local chaos. One of the most typical examples is the fight against the eunuch Ma Qi.

In the fifteenth year of Yongle, the lieutenant official Ma Qi went to Jiaozhi in the name of guarding and supervising the army, "the treasures in the territory of Dasuo, and the human feelings were in turmoil". He stipulated that Jiaozhi must pay tribute every year to 10,000 fans, 10,000 green feathers, and took the opportunity to loot, rob folk treasures, antiques, history records "Qi violent and cruel, hand over people bitterly, three years of judgment four or five cases."

Due to the drastic change in Ma Qi, the situation in Jiaozhi became grim again for a while. In addition to assisting the Jiaozhi general Fengcheng Hou Li Bin to put down the rebellion and focus on attacking Li Li, who was the most powerful, Huang Fu also actively took pacification measures against the people, and evaluated Ma Qi's pampering and abuse of the people.

The struggle between Huang Fu and Ma Qi played a great role in reducing the burden on the people and alleviating the unstable situation in Jiaozhi that had been aggravated by Ma Qi's raids. Ma Saomin's actions were difficult to fully succeed due to Huang Fu's resistance, and he couldn't help but hate Huang Fu to the core, and even wrote a letter to Ming Chengzu to "slander Fu and have different aspirations", but because Chengzu knew Huang Fu very well, Ma Qi's framing failed to succeed.

Under the combined use of Huang Fu and Li Bin's enwei, the rebellion of Li Li and others was also quelled for a time. By the time Renzong ascended the throne in the 22nd year of Yongle and recalled Huang Fu, Le Li had been defeated and fled to Laos, and the threat was eliminated for a time.

Huang Fu was in Jiaozhi for 18 years, and was considered to "treat the people as children, work and train injuries, and repair the politics of the county officials in every precept." The newly created state, the decrees and regulations, no matter how big or small, are dedicated". His measures were highly praised by the people of Annan, and he was therefore loved by all strata of Jiaozhi.

Soon after Huang Fu left Jiaozhi, the eunuch Shan Shou took power, and the struggle for power and profit among the upper officials of Jiaozhi became increasingly fierce, and the government and military orders came from many sects, and fell into chaos.

Seeing that there was an opportunity, Li Li led the crowd to kill Jiaozhi from Laos, trying to make a comeback. At the moment when the great enemy was present, the civil and military officials in Jiaozhi could not act at a unified pace.

He asked Chen Zhi, the general who held the military power, Fang Zheng, the chief soldier, and the lieutenant commander Shan Shou to cooperate in the army to march to exterminate Li Li, but none of the three people listened to his dispatch.

Shanshouyuan was friendly with Li Li, and he was bent on appeasing, but he didn't go to the rescue of Li Li's siege and plunder. Although Chen Zhi is a military general, he "has no general strategy, and he is afraid of thieves, because he borrowed the foolish Chinese and Korean courts, and made a note with Fang Zheng, so he did not advance, and the thieves had no taboos." Fang Zheng was brave and unstrategic, and he was incompatible with Chen Zhi and did not cooperate with each other, so he was defeated repeatedly. As a result, the power of Le Li has grown, and the territory has become more and more occupied.

Chen Qia had no choice but to ask the imperial court for help, but Wang Tong, the general of Zhengyi sent by the imperial court, was also a mediocre talent, he did not listen to Chen Qia's dissuasion, and easily entered the army, resulting in a great defeat in Zhongfu. After that, he was sluggish, "he was defeated in a battle, he was all courageous, his actions were perverse, he did not obey the orders of the court, he cut off the land south of Qinghua and the thieves, and withdrew all the palace officials, soldiers and civilians and returned to Dongguan." He also privately negotiated peace with Li Li, which greatly affected the morale of the Ming army.

Another general, Liu Sheng, underestimated the enemy too much, and died in ambush as soon as he entered Jiaozhi. At this critical moment, the officials of the Jiaozhi Bu Political Division had to jointly go to the imperial court, asking Huang Fu to return to Jiaozhi to take power, "Jiaozhi cloth, according to the above words: Shangshu Huang Fu, the old is in Jiaozhi, the people think of it, and the begging order is restored to comfort the people."

Xuanzong then summoned Huang Fu and said: Qinghui loves to make friends for a long time, and friends think about Qing, and he is a joint again. is still the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and Zhan Shi, and the second secretary. Huang Fu was ordered to be in danger for the second time, and then went to Jiaozhi.

However, by the time Huang Fu arrived in Annam in September of the Xuande year, there had already been a mutiny in Jiaozhi. Xuanzong was ready to end the Jiaozhi War, the Ming army had partially withdrawn from Jiaozhi, and most of Jiaozhi was controlled by Li Li, Huang Fu not only had no power to return to heaven, but was unfortunately captured by Li Li's army on the way back from Jiaozhi.

This history book says: "Compared to, Liu Sheng was defeated and died, and Fu went back to Jiling Pass." Possessed by thieves, he wants to commit suicide. The thief bowed down and wept and said: "Gong, the parents of the people are also, the public is not going, I will not come here (no wind note: this passage is to say, "Mr. is the parent official of the people of Jiaozhi, if Mr. does not leave, I will not wait for this." ”）。” Perseverance.

Li Li Wenzhi said: "China sent officials to govern Jiaozhi, so that everyone is like Huang Shangshu, how can I be opposed!" "Send people to guard, feed the platinum throat root, and send it out of the country. To Longzhou, take all the officials who have been left behind.

Huang Fu's turnaround this time was mainly due to his great prestige in the hearts of the people of Jiaozhi, and even the enemy admired him to the extreme. Moreover, Huang Fu also showed the awe-inspiring and unyielding integrity of a civil official of the Celestial Empire at the moment of life and death. When he failed to commit suicide, he "reprimanded him and told him to be obedient" to the people who captured him, and the Annan thieves actually cried and sent him away.

After he returned to the country, he immediately gave him the gifts given to him by the Jiaozhi people. It can be said that in every aspect, he has done his best.

Now Mo Yulin and Ruan Ti call Gao pragmatic behavior "desire for Huang Shangshu", which is obviously extremely high praise.

Gao Pragmatic himself knows very well that he is definitely not here to be Huang Fu, but he might as well use the admiration and nostalgia of the Annan people for Huang Fu to make some articles.

Therefore, on the second day, Cen Ling arrived, before the army entered Thanh Hoa, he announced in a pragmatic and high-profile manner that the southern expedition to Li Zheng Erwei was to beg for thieves in the sky, and the soldiers of the Great Tomorrow would not levy a meter or seize a penny, "except for the thieves of Li and Zheng and the rebels", the Ming Dynasty would not confiscate a penny or an acre of land from the people of Annan, and at the same time would also help the Annan Metropolitan Department to compile civil registration, reduce land endowment, build schools, buy new officials, repair water conservancy, and open up mining ......

All in all, with the "assistance" of his high press, the Annan Metropolitan Government will implement a large number of measures to benefit the people and benefit the people, and at the same time, it will also give the literati who "have no rebellion" hope to become officials.

Compared with the military aspect, which can only be stubborn and dumbfounded, Gao Pragmatism is much more sophisticated in terms of civil governance, and in one three chapters of the law, he distinguishes between Li and Zheng and the rebels and the "broad masses of the people", and faithfully implements the political concept of "uniting the majority and striking at a small handful" of the Red Dynasty.

Well, in terms of the number of heads, this must be a handful, but Gao Pragmatic is like a mirror in his heart, what he is doing now is still fighting local tyrants and dividing the land, the Li family is the "royal family", the Zheng family is like the later shogun, and they were crushed to death, which is much more cost-effective than confiscating 100,000 Annan people, plus the so-called "rebellion" depends on Gao Pragmatic and thinks that there are many local tyrants who can be defeated if he is rebellious or not, why rush to grab food from those ordinary Annan people?

So, in the midst of the jubilation and singing of the enemy, Gao Pragmatic led the army and marched into Thanh Hoa City.