After listening to Lu Qi's emergency report, the originally relaxed expression on Zhu Youzhen's face suddenly retracted, but he didn't look too nervous.

"Where is Madam Qin's report?" Zhu Youzhen was silent for a while, and then opened his mouth to ask Lu Qi.

Lu Qi hurriedly sent the piece tightly in his hand to Chongzhen's case.

Zhu Youzhen carefully read the concerts signed by Qin Liangyu and You Shiwei, and the matter was really similar to what Lu Qi said. He immediately looked at the secret folds sent by You Shiwei and Xu Yingyuan, who were put together with the concerto.

After You Shiwei and Xu Yingyuan arrived in Chongqing, they announced to the Sichuan generals who had been summoned that the imperial court would set up a southwest governor's office. Subsequently, Xu Yingyuan announced the posthumous title of Ma Qiancheng and the title of marquis of Qin Liangyu, and the order that Qin Liangyu should serve as the governor of the Southwest Prefecture, and the general soldiers of Guizhou and Sichuan and You Shiwei would serve as his deputies.

The hereditary Shi Yan Xuanfu envoy was a Tusi position, although Ma Qiancheng and Qin Liangyu were loyal to the imperial court, and because of their courage and good fighting, they were deeply admired by the generals and soldiers of the Ming army. However, it was the first time since the founding of the Ming Dynasty that a Tusi held the supreme command of the armies of the two southwestern provinces.

At the moment when Banzhou, Yongning, and Shuixi Tusi rebelled one after another, and the Han generals were the most distrustful of the southwest Tusi, this order issued by the imperial court naturally caused the dissatisfaction of the Han generals in Sichuan. In particular, Hou Liangzhu, the current Sichuan commander-in-chief, is the deputy of Li Weixin, the former Sichuan commander-in-chief.

When Yongning Tusi Chongming rebelled, the Sichuan soldiers and horses were defeated in successive battles, but Qin Liangyu was the only one who managed to defeat the rebels and control the situation. Because of the performance of the Sichuan Ming Army in the counterinsurgency war, Li Weixin, who was the chief military officer of Sichuan at the time, was impeached by Qin Liangyu, causing him to have to leave his post after being reprimanded by the apocalypse.

This incident caused a gap between the Sichuan Ming army and the Shizhu Tusi led by Qin Liangyu, and his brother Qin Bangping died on the battlefield in the battle of Lu Guang soon after, and there was no passive avoidance factor for the Ming army. When Hou Liangzhu took over as the chief military officer of Sichuan, with the improvement of the situation in the counterinsurgency war, he left the Shizhu Tusi soldiers idle to the rear.

Hou Liangzhu did not oppose the imperial court's decision to set up the Southwest Governor's Office, but he could not accept Qin Liangyu as the Zuo Governor of the Southwest Governor's Office, leading the armies of Guizhou and Sichuan provinces.

First, there was an old grudge between the Sichuan Ming Army and Shizhu Tusi, and secondly, Hou Liangzhu and other Ming army generals were really unacceptable, and a woman became their boss. After all, the Ming army was not a Tusi soldier, and the social concept of male superiority and inferiority of women was still deeply ingrained in the hearts of these Ming army generals.

Shizhu Tusi, who was originally outside the Ming army system, was willing to let a woman be the leader, and the generals of the Ming army did not care, after all, this was a manifestation of the uncivilized ethnic minorities in the southwest. However, according to Chongzhen's order, it is obvious that Shizhu Tusi will officially enter the official establishment of the Ming army.

Compared with the brave and warlike Shizhu Tusi soldiers, the Sichuan Ming army is obviously slightly inferior, if they take away the resources of the imperial court again, in the future, will not let these Ming army generals look up to the Tusi snort, this news obviously made the generals of the Sichuan Ming army resistant.

The civil bureaucracy in Sichuan was also unhappy with this, and the establishment of the Southwest Governorate deprived them of direct control over the military. This not only deprived them of the opportunity to share in the achievements of the counterinsurgency, but also caused them to suffer losses in terms of economic interests. Whether it was the supply of materials during the war, or the distribution of land to the rebel Tusi after the war, there were great economic benefits.

However, before the Lu'an Rebellion, Sichuan and Guizhou were dominated by Tusi forces in all regions except for the Chengdu Plain. The imperial court mainly relied on occupying the main transportation routes in the Sichuan and Guizhou regions and the flattest and fertile flat and hilly areas, and divided the territory of each Tusi, so as to occupy an advantage in some areas.

After the Lu'an Rebellion, several large cities in Sichuan and Guizhou were slaughtered by the rebels, such as Guiyang and Chongqing, and basically not many people survived, so the power of the gentry in the two provinces was naturally greatly reduced, and only the gentry in the Chengdu Plain escaped the catastrophe.

Although Yu Chongming was later beaten by the reorganized Ming army and even lost his hometown in Yongning, the gentry in Sichuan could no longer firmly control the place as before the war.

Without the support of the local gentry forces, Sichuan's civil and official forces obviously lack confidence. The reason why they were able to suppress the local military leaders in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces was that they relied on the prestige of the imperial court, and second, they relied on the Shaanxi army in Sichuan and the great Tusi of Yunnan and Sichuan who were loyal to the imperial court.

Now that the imperial court had turned to support the most powerful Shizhu Tusi in Sichuan to rectify the military and political affairs of Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, these civil officials not only complained to their colleagues and friends in the imperial court, but also automatically united with the Ming generals to obstruct the establishment of the southwestern governorate.

After the establishment of the Southwest Governor's Office, Qin Liangyu listened to the advice of You Shiwei and Xu Yingyuan, and did not rectify the Ming army in Sichuan and Guizhou provinces at the same time.

After that, Qin Liangyu ordered the deputy general Qin Yongcheng to clear the fields of the Sichuan Guards and the lands of Chongqing and Yongning, and ordered some of the generals and officials who had encroached on the above large areas of land to return to the fields.

This move immediately made the Southwest Governor's Mansion and Qin Liangyu himself gain the support of the low-level soldiers and local people. But at the same time, he also suffered the hatred of the middle and upper generals of the Ming army, local civil officials, and the clan of the King of Shu.

Before You Shiwei arrived, these people were uniting to encroach on the land of Yongning Tusi and the Sichuan people who were slaughtered in the rebellion, and even the land of some people who escaped in the rebellion were also destroyed by them with the records of the government during the war, and it was impossible to distinguish the ownership of the land.

However, although they hated Qin Liangyu, they did not dare to blatantly oppose the decree of the Southwest Governor's Office. Because they know that Qin Liangyu now not only has the support of the imperial court, but also controls one of the most powerful armies in Sichuan. And after Xu Yingyuan arrived in Sichuan, he vigorously developed Zigongjing salt, and raised 120,000 taels of silver from salt merchants as military expenses, so that the southwest governor's office was not under the control of the local government at all.

However, they were always unwilling to give in to Qin Liangyu, and when Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of the five provinces and governor of Guizhou, arrived in Guiyang, the king of Shu, the generals of the Sichuan army and the civil officials of Sichuan automatically moved closer to him, hoping to let the governor of the five provinces come forward to suppress Qin Liangyu, so as to restore the normal state of Sichuan.

When Zhu Xieyuan was an official in Sichuan, he was indeed friendly with the King of Shu, and he himself was also a member of the civil officials. According to reason, he should indeed be on the side of the King of Shu.

As a rare outstanding bureaucrat in the Ming civil official group, Zhu Xieyuan knew very well what he was sitting in. When he was in Sichuan, he was friendly with the King of Shu, because he was not a big member of the party. Because of the rebellion of extravagant Chongming, the two governors of Sichuan went to the throne, and he happened to take over the position of governor of Sichuan.

However, because he was friendly with the king of Shu on weekdays, he was always suspicious of the imperial court, and when the situation of the Sichuan counterinsurgency improved, he was sent back by the imperial court to defend the system.

Now that he has just made a comeback, and he is the nominal first person in the southwest military and government, how dare he have anything to do with the King of Shu again. Even the Sichuan army he was familiar with did not dare to get too close, for fear that he would be caught by some people and attack him for nepotism, thus ruining the overall situation of the southwest peace.

Moreover, Guizhou was much more severely affected by the Hao'an Rebellion than Sichuan, because Guizhou did not have a Shizhu Tusi who was loyal to the imperial court to put out the fire. Therefore, under the siege of Shuixi Tusi, Guiyang, which originally had a population of 200,000 or 300,000, was slaughtered by An Bangyan only about 500 households, and it is said that more than 100,000 refugees fled into Guiyang City from all over the country before the war.

Guizhou is known as "the land is not three miles flat, the sky is not three days clear", the original population is far less than Sichuan, and the population of the Han people in Guizhou is about 1 or 2 million. In the first battle of Guiyang, the essence of the Han population in Guizhou was emptied, and if you want to calm An Bangyan and Hao Chongming in Shuixi, you must restore the population and economy of Guizhou, especially Guiyang.

After Zhu Xieyuan took office, he observed the actual situation in Guizhou, adopted the proposal of Min Mengde, the former governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, to recruit displaced people to move to Guiyang, give land reclamation, and then recruit soldiers from these displaced people to form a new army. Then he formulated the policy of Yunnan troops going to Wusa, Sichuan troops going out of Yongning, and Bijie, and he personally led a large army to garrison Luguang and force Dafang to quell the chaos.

In such a situation, he needed the complete trust of the imperial court, and he also urgently needed the cooperation of the Ming army in Sichuan and Yunnan. Therefore, he was neither willing to offend Qin Liangyu, nor willing to turn against the king of Shu and the generals of the Sichuan army, so he adopted the method of making peace with the mud and wanted to ease the contradictions.

However, the king of Shu and the generals of the Sichuan army did not understand Zhu Xieyuan's painstaking efforts, and they instead felt that Zhu Xieyuan had adopted a tacit attitude towards their idea of resisting the Southwest Governor's Office. Therefore, he planned to fight a battle with Shuixi, and proved through a victory on the battlefield that the establishment of the Southwest Governor's Office was unnecessary, and letting a woman control the southwest armies would only tie everyone's hands and feet and delay the overall situation of the southwest rebellion.

They thought very well, but what they didn't expect was that after nearly two years of cultivation, the strength of Yu Chongming and An Bangyan had once again reached more than 100,000. In order to be able to monopolize the credit and not be stopped by Qin Liangyu, Hou Liangzhu blocked the news of the dispatch of troops, and did not inform the Southwest Governor's Mansion in Chongqing until before sending troops.

The terrain around Shuixi is concise, not only the mountains on all sides, but also the internal rivers are vertical and horizontal, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Chishuiwei is on the verge of the Chishui River, which is the first gateway to Bashu in northern Qianbei. Fleeing to Shuixi, Yu Chongming took this small city into his own hands, and he also dreamed of returning to his hometown of Yongning, just across the river.

Without the cooperation of the officers and soldiers of Guizhou, Sichuan, and Yunnan, the Sichuan Army, which only sent troops from Yongning alone, was quickly defeated by reinforcements from Shuixi after advancing to Chishuiwei.

After two years of recuperation, Yu Chongming, who was already a little ready to move, suddenly had the idea of returning to his hometown after repelling the Ming army. After all, life under the fence is not easy, and An Bangyan is not a good man and a woman.

After repelling the Ming army, the momentum of the rebellious Turkish army soared, and the Ming garrison Chishuiwei called himself the king of Daliang, and An Bangyan was called the great elder of the four descendants, and the native soldiers under the command of the two were constantly gathering to Chishuiwei, with the intention of taking advantage of the situation to attack Sichuan. The people of Sichuan were panicked, and the people who had originally migrated to Yongning began to show signs of fleeing.

The originally stable situation in Sichuan and Guizhou suddenly deteriorated, and Qin Liangyu had to put down the affairs of the Sichuan army, strengthen the defense force of Yongning, and stabilize the situation a little. But because of this, she also deeply hated Hou Liangzhu's actions in disregard of the overall situation, so she impeached Hou Liangzhu together with You Shiwei.

Zhu Youzhen was able to read the two secret folds, and before he could think about how to deal with this matter, suddenly there was a report from outside the door that Huang Liji, the first assistant of the cabinet, wanted to see him.

Zhu Youzhen covered the recital on the table, and instructed Wang Chengen in a calm tone: "Please Mr. Huang come in." ”