Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, according to his seniority, Zhu Youzhen still has to call him uncle. Although the previous Shu kings were known for their good learning and literacy, now this Shu king is famous for his greed for money and lust.

The palace of the king of Shu was originally a magnificent palace, which can be called the first among the palaces of the vassal kings. However, after Zhu Zhishu succeeded as the king of Shu, he rebuilt and expanded the palace of Shu again, making the entire palace cover an area of nearly 600 acres. The water garden of the Shu Wangfu and the autumn fragrance of the chrysanthemum well are the most famous scenery in Chengdu, but ordinary people have no chance to see it.

Zhu Zhishu has been building civil engineering projects since he succeeded to the throne, and only interrupted for a while when the rebels had just captured Chongqing and the rebels were approaching Chengdu. However, when Yongning, the old nest of luxury Chongming, was captured and the rebels retreated to Shuixi, Guizhou, the originally noisy Chengdu Mansion once again resumed its peaceful and peaceful years.

And Zhu Zhishu also continued to enjoy the past life of living in Lichun Xuan, soliciting literati to write poems and drinking, and carving Cui and cutting red, as if the peaceful war hundreds of miles away did not exist.

In Shu, the king of Shu is an out-and-out emperor of the soil, and Zhu Zhishu feels that as long as he has no rebellious heart, his rich idler life can continue like this. And even if the sky fell, those local officials would not allow him to get his hands on military power.

In fact, when the rebels approached Chengdu, those local officials guarded against him more closely than the rebels outside. He was not willing to consult with him on any military affairs, except that he should give him the goods of the palace as military pay.

Zhu Zhishu, who has no ambition and is happy to live a comfortable and enjoyable life, is naturally even more intensified. But when Xu Yingyuan arrived in Sichuan, things slowly changed.

After Xu Yingyuan, Zhang Daojun, and Zuo Fu were sent to Sichuan by Chongzhen, they all had special tasks.

Zuo Fu was responsible for the formation of the Southwest Army Military Academy, and the selection of middle- and low-ranking military attachés for training, so as to strengthen the imperial court's control over the local army.

Zhang Daojun assisted Qin Liangyu in raising the Southwest Governor's Office, establishing files on the main generals of each army for inquiries by the General Staff, investigating the establishment and actual combat effectiveness of each army, and reporting various news on the war to quell the chaos.

Xu Yingyuan's main tasks, first, were to replace the emperor to appease the southwestern Tusi and establish the Southwest Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee, so as to return the management power of the southwestern Tusi to the central government.

The second is to understand the property rights of land in Sichuan, so as to use it as a basis for the resettlement from Shaanxi and the reform of the military system of the guard center and the distribution of land for meritorious soldiers.

Xu Yingyuan's first task was still well accomplished, since the rebellion of Xuan Chongming and An Bangyan, the ethnic minorities in Sichuan, like the Han people, have fallen into a painful war.

In the early days of the Lu'an Rebellion, many ethnic minorities were coerced by the two or joined the rebellion because they had been bullied by the officials for a long time.

At the beginning of their wars, these ethnic minorities did gain unimaginable wealth through the massacre and plundering of the Han Chinese.

But this good time lasted for a very short time. After the imperial court transferred troops from neighboring provinces into Sichuan, the counterattack and retaliation of the official army finally made these ethnic minorities feel afraid.

In the battle between the rebels and the official army, the ethnic minorities who were attached to the rebels would certainly be retaliated against by the official army, and those ethnic minorities who did not participate in the rebellion were also harassed by the official army.

After the rebellion, the Han people in Chongqing and Guizhou were slaughtered by the rebels, and when the official army gained the upper hand in the counterinsurgency war, they would not show mercy to the retaliation of ethnic minorities.

In the Lu'an Rebellion, a large number of Han people in Guizhou and Sichuan were killed and wounded, so that the heavy military transportation and labor fell on the ethnic minorities in the southwest.

The ** of the Ming army is almost already well known in this era. These troops can still follow a little rule in their own station, and once they leave the station, they become a little lawless.

Especially after the outbreak of the Lu'an Rebellion, the rebels' indiscriminate slaughter of civilians made the rebellion particularly bloody. In order to ensure their own safety and obtain sufficient military merits, the vigilance and control of ethnic minority civilians by the officers and soldiers are equally brutal.

So when Xu Yingyuan arrived in Sichuan, the local Tusi who had not participated in the rebellion quickly gathered under the banner of the newly formed Southwest Ethnic Minorities Committee, hoping to be protected by the eunuch.

However, compared with the rapid development after the establishment of the Southwest Ethnic Minorities Committee, Xu Yingyuan encountered great trouble in verifying land property rights in Sichuan and Guizhou.

In the Extravagant Rebellion, more than 1 million people were slaughtered in Guizhou and Chongqing alone, and countless land deeds were burned in the chaos.

After the recovery of Yongning, the official army also confiscated a large area of land from the local Tusi.

The landless fields that had been left unowned as a result of the war and the confiscated fields of Tusi were neither returned to their original owners nor handed over to the state treasury, except for a small portion of the land that was distributed to the displaced people who had been raised by the rebellion, and most of them were swallowed up by the clans, military officers, local officials, and wealthy clans.

Among them, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, occupied the most fields, and the steward of the Shu king's mansion seized 350,000 acres of fertile land from the recovered Chongqing area at one time, and many of the owners of the fields even existed.

Therefore, when the rebellion of Lu'an was coming to an end, the land under the name of the Sichuan clan increased greatly compared to before the rebellion. Among them, the land under the name of King Guangshu accounted for two-tenths and three-tenths of the entire Sichuan land.

The richest Chengdu Plain, nearly sixty percent of the land belongs to the King of Shu. It can be said that Xu Yingyuan wanted to verify the land property rights of Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, which was essentially investigating the family property of the king of Shu.

As a eunuch in the palace, although Xu Yingyuan was not afraid of these local vassal kings, he was not willing to annoy them, after all, they were also surnamed Zhu. Seriously, they are also his masters.

He who came to Sichuan with Chongzhen's order also did not dare to do things without dedication. After all, no matter how much he curry favor with the King of Shu, he can't let him return to the capital.

And if he can't complete the task assigned to him by Chongzhen, I'm afraid he won't be able to get the emperor's reuse in the future.

After Xu Yingyuan arrived in Sichuan, he didn't want to offend the king of Shu too much, so he only thought that if he could get back half of the land that had become ownerless fields due to the rebellion, it should be enough to give the emperor a mission.

However, those clans, wealthy clans, and civil and military officials who swallowed up the ownerless fields obviously don't see it that way. How could the land they had already swallowed be spit out so simply.

Therefore, a huge group headed by the King of Shu and re-verified the property rights of ownerless fields in the anti-war quietly appeared.

Faced with this huge power group involving the gentry, officials, clans, and the army, Xu Yingyuan, who had just arrived and was weak, had to temporarily back down and interrupt the operation of verifying the property rights of the land.

However, with the establishment of the Southwest Governor's Office, the rectification of military discipline of the various armies in Sichuan, and the purge of local generals caused by the failure of the Sichuan commander-in-chief Hou Liangzhu to attack the enemy, the political situation in Sichuan has changed.

Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of the five provinces who had just taken office, was once an official in Sichuan, but he was supportive of the re-verification of land property rights in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces.

With the support of Zhu Xieyuan and the newly established Southwest Governorate, Xu Yingyuan resumed the interrupted land title verification operation.

Hou Liangzhu, the Sichuan general soldier who was transferred to teach at the Chengdu Army Military Academy, is also a very knowledgeable person. When he realized that the imperial court had begun to purge the local generals in Sichuan, he immediately surrendered to Xu Yingyuan and handed over most of the fields he had swallowed.

With the example set by this top local general in Sichuan, the generals of the Sichuan army have more or less withdrawn from part of the land.

The local officials and gentry of Sichuan and Guizhou provinces also took out part of the engulfed fields under the supervision of Zhu Xieyuan, but there were more local people staring at the actions of the king of Shu.

Some gentry and wealthy families even openly declared, "If the king of Shu and the clan retreat from the field, they will also retreat." If the king of Shu and the clan do not retreat, then they don't want to let them retreat alone. ”

Seeing the stalemate in front of him, Xu Yingyuan had to bite the bullet and go to the king of Shu once, hoping that he could set an example for the Sichuan gentry and more or less take out some fields to make sense.

However, Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, was not willing to listen to Xu Yingyuan's instructions to him, and after Xu Yingyuan came to Sichuan, he received a lot of bribes from Tusi in the name of establishing the Southwest Ethnic Minority Affairs Committee, and his reputation for greed for money also reached Zhu Zhishu's ears.

In the eyes of Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, Xu Yingyuan is just a house slave of the Zhu family, and he can still get so many bribes, he is a genuine king of the Ming Dynasty, why can't he increase some land, after all, the world belongs to the Zhu family.

The two had different thoughts, so this persuasion naturally broke up unhappily. In the eyes of Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, even if he is the current Son of Heaven, he has to call him Uncle Wang, how dare a slave of the Son of Heaven be unfavorable to himself.

But he obviously made a mistake, Xu Yingyuan, who was good friends with Wei Zhongxian, was not as powerful as Wei Zhongxian. But having experienced the power struggle in the palace, he also does not lack the courage to make a bold move.

Xu Yingyuan understands very well that once a palace eunuch like him loses the trust of the emperor, being able to send Fengyang to guard the tomb like Wei Zhongxian is already a very good ending.

Naturally, he didn't want the first task given to him by the emperor to go out of Beijing to mess up. Especially after the great victory in Yongning, the reward for the victorious armies alone is a huge number.

If he can't let Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, take out the fields, I'm afraid that the official gentry who are on the sidelines will soon follow suit.

It just so happened that after the victory in Yongning, the officers and soldiers cleaned up the battlefield and found that some of the rebels' weapons and armor were actually from the blacksmith workshop under the name of the King of Shu.

So Xu Yingyuan simply didn't do anything, accusing Zhu Zhishu, the king of Shu, of being a bandit, and put Zhu Zhishu under house arrest in the palace of the king of Shu, wanting Zhu Zhishu to spit out the ownerless land. Zhang Daojun's secret fold is to say these two things.