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Throughout the reign of the Ming Dynasty, Yunnan's administrative system was very different from that of the inland provinces.

In addition to the Ming court in Yunnan set up the capital command envoy, the political envoy, the judge, and later set up a governor, because of the large number of Tusi in this area, since the Hongwu period sent the Guizhou Gong Mu Ying to guard Yunnan.

The Mu family of the Qianguo Gong not only has a lot of military power, but also has a pivotal position in politics and economy.

In other words, Yunnan was under the dual jurisdiction of hereditary lords and local officials during the Ming Dynasty, so entanglements between the two were inevitable.

This time, Sha Dingzhou was able to quickly occupy Kunming, and the contradiction between Mu Tianbo and Wu Zhaoyuan, the governor of Yunnan, played a great negative role.

Shadingzhou's sudden rebellion and swift capture of most of Yunnan disrupted the pattern of the southwest, and for the Qin state, this may be an opportunity to take advantage of.

After the arrival of the cabinet auxiliary ministers and the members of the six ministries and Liu Meng and other generals in the army, Qin Mu asked Huang Lianshan to inform the ministers of the sudden changes in Yunnan, and then said: "Ministers, now that the plan is not able to catch up with the changes, whether I want to send troops to the southwest quickly, all the ministers should talk about it." ”

Cui Feng preemptively said: "King Qin, this is still a heaven-sent opportunity to seize the southwest, once Mu Tianbo and Sha Dingzhou divide the victory, it will be difficult to take Yunnan again, and now send troops, you can take advantage of the contradiction between the two to quickly seize Yunnan." ”

He Liang, the secretary of the military department, then said: "From Huxiang to Yunnan, there is only one way for the army to go, from Yuanzhou in Xiangxi through Sizhou Prefecture in Guizhou, Guiyang Prefecture, Anshun Prefecture, Pu'an Prefecture, and Qujing Mansion in Yunnan. Then to Kunming.

Therefore, if you want to take Yunnan, you must first take Guizhou, and so far Guizhou is still under the banner of Longwu, unwilling to belong to our Great Qin, if you rush to send troops, it is inevitable that you will fight;

Even if our army can successfully capture Guiyang, we must first smooth Guizhou, otherwise Liu Wenxiu, who has been entrenched in Luzhou, Sichuan, to recruit troops and horses, it is difficult to guarantee that he will not take the opportunity to go south to fight for Guizhou.

The roads in Guizhou are difficult to travel, and there are more troops sent. Logistical supply difficulties. The number of troops sent was small, and it was difficult to deal with Liu Wenxiu in Luzhou on the one hand, and to divide troops into Yunnan on the other. ”

Cui Feng immediately retorted: "He Shangshu is a little alarmist. Half of our sergeants and soldiers are from Huguang. Many of them come from the mountainous areas of Xiangxi. Climbing over the mountains and mountains is like walking on the ground, and the shrimp soldiers and crabs in Guizhou are vulnerable. There is no need to increase the morale of others and destroy your own prestige. According to me, even if the battle is over, if the logistics supply can't keep up, they can feed the enemy, so how could Lord Song and them have brought grain and grass when they marched and fought before? ”

Cui Feng was referring to Song Xiance, and Song Xiance didn't care, and said: "At present, Guizhou's troops are mainly deployed in Sizhou (Cengong County) in the east and Banzhou Xuanwei Division (Zunyi) in the north.

The east is to guard against our army, and the north is to guard against Liu Wenxiu. Guizhou's troops are already weak, except for the two heavy troops, the internal troops are extremely scarce, once our army can quickly break through Sizhou in the east, Guiyang will definitely not last.

If Guiyang is broken, it should not be difficult to recruit the defenders of Banzhou again, and when it comes to that kind of field, the minister does not believe that there are a few people who are willing to die for Zhu Ming. King Qin, the minister remembered that He Tengjiao was from Liping Mansion in Guizhou, and he could send He Tengjiao back to his hometown to surrender at that time, and he would definitely get twice the result with half the effort. ”

At first glance, Song Xiance's words are good, but what he doesn't know is that He Tengjiao has not been reused by Qin Mu, because Qin Mu is skeptical of his loyalty, and so far, he has only been given the position of Yuezhou Tongzhi, which belongs to the deputy position of Zhizhou.

Zhuge Min, a scholar of Jianji Palace, knew very well about this, and immediately came out to object: "King Qin, when Zhu Yujian was still the king of Tang, he was in Nanyang, and He Tengjiao was the magistrate of Nanyang, and he had a good relationship with Zhu Yujian;

Zhu Yujian was called the emperor in Fujian, and He Tengjiao said to people at the beginning: "The new is the old man of Nanyang, the combination of fish and water, and my generation has a fate." The King of Later Qin clearly opposed the establishment of Zhu Yujian, and He Tengjiao stopped mentioning the matter. From this point of view, I am afraid that it is inappropriate to use He Tengjiao to touch Guizhou. ”

Yang Tinglin, the secretary of the ministry, immediately came out and said: "Qi Qin Wang, Tang Taizong once said: Those who are kings drive talents and treat scholars with their hearts. During the Wude period, Tang Taizong was the king of Qin at that time, and soon after the surrender of Liu Wuzhou's general Chi Jingde, Jingde's two generals defected, and some people speculated that Jingde would rebel, and without asking for instructions, he was imprisoned in the army, and urged the king of Qin to kill him quickly;

Instead of killing, the king released Jingde, summoned him into the bedroom, comforted him with gentle words, relieved him, and gave him a gold treasure at parting. Jingde was moved by the sincerity of the King of Qin, and vowed to repay him by example, and the consequences were great achievements for Tang.

In the spring and autumn period, the king of Chuzhuang gave a banquet to the ministers, the wine was thick, and the lights and candles were suddenly extinguished by the wind. Someone took the opportunity to pull King Zhuang's clothes, and Mei Ji took advantage of the situation to pull off the man's hat belt, and told King Zhuang: If you light the lamp, you can find out the indecent person.

King Zhuang did not approve of dishonoring the drunken and disrespectful man for this, and ordered everyone to say, "Drink with me today, and if you don't pull off your hatband, you won't have fun." So, the ministers all pulled off their hats, lit the candles, and drank to their heart's content.

After three years, Jin and Chu fought against each other. There was a courtier in the Chu army who always charged ahead, fought bravely for five rounds, and took the lead in repelling the enemy and achieving victory. King Zhuang asked him in surprise, "I am shallow, and I have never treated you very favorably, why did you not hesitate to be born and die for me?" The man replied, "I am the one who was drunk and had my hat belt pulled off that night."

Today, our king has the world in mind, has the ambition to pacify the four seas, and should accept all rivers in the sea, and use people without doubt, so that the ministers are loyal to the inside, and the generals are fighting outside, and they do their best to serve the court. Now it seems that He Tengjiao is indeed the best candidate to appease Guizhou, and my king should be appeased, so that he is loyal and dedicated to my king. ”

Since Yang Tinglin entered the court, there are few such long expositions quoting scriptures, but today he gushed endlessly, knowing that Qin Mu was unwilling to use He Tengjiao, and also bluntly admonished him, Qin Mu was quite moved when he heard it, and immediately said: "What Yang Shangshu said is extremely true, so he was promoted to He Tengjiao as a scholar of Zhan Shifu and a counselor in Guizhou, and was responsible for appeasing the officials and people of Guizhou." ”

"My King Shengming." Yang Tinglin bowed and retreated.

When the ministers heard this, they looked at each other, and they no longer objected.

Gu Junen then came out and said: "King Qin, Mu Tianbo is now in addition to the Jincang Soldier Preparation Dao Yang Weizhi, thanks to the support of Shiping Tusi Long Zaitian, Ningzhou Tusi Lu Yongsheng and so on.

Long Zaitian once led the elite of his headquarters to recruit the righteous army. In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, when Zhang Xianzhong was comforted in Gucheng, Hubei, he established a very close relationship with Long Zaitian, who was transferred from Yunnan. Zhang Xianzhong once worshipped Long Zaitian as his father-in-law, and got a lot of horses and guns from Long Zaitian.

The generals of the Great Western Army, including Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, and Ai Nengqi, are also old acquaintances with Long Zaitian and have a very good relationship.

Now that Yunnan has changed, and Sun Kewang is entrenched in southern Sichuan, it is difficult to ensure that Long Zaitian will not contact Sun Kewang to enter Yunnan and attack the north and south of Shadingzhou. When it really goes, I'm afraid that Yunnan will fall into the hands of Sun Kewang, so I have to guard against it. ”

Gu Junen suddenly threw out such a secret, which was really unexpected.

In this way, it is difficult to find out even if it is not collected at night, but fortunately, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had a close relationship at the beginning, and Gu Junen had the opportunity to learn such a secret.

Among the ministers who were originally present, there were still some who opposed the immediate dispatch of troops to Guizhou and Yunnan. After Gu Junen said this, everyone felt more and more that the situation was urgent and could not be delayed.

Sima An hurriedly said: "King Qin, in a hurry, I am afraid that it will be too late to dispatch a large army, the number of troops is too small, and it is difficult to control all of them with the strength of our army. The minister thought that he could send someone to lobby Sha Dingzhou, and since he sent someone to Fujian to ask for the title, it showed that he was weak in self-knowledge, and he wanted to deceive Longwu to be canonized to correct his name, so as to convince people.

Let's send someone to lobby him, if he is willing to accept the canonization, we might as well use his power to pacify Yunnan first, and then make a district in the future. ”

"That's very good." Qin Mu bowed his head to Sima An, and then instructed Huang Lianshan by the door: "Huang Lianshan, this matter will be left to you to do at night, go quickly." ”

"Whoa."

Qin Mu then said to Cui Feng: "This king will grant you the seal of the general of the expedition to the south, select 10,000 elites on the same day, contract six or three thousand horses in Hengzhou, and conquer Yungui." ”

"Minister, Commander."

Qin Mu then said to Liu Boquan, the head of the household department: "The three armies have not moved, the grain and grass go first, Liu Shangshu, the household department should raise the grain and grass of the army as soon as possible, and it is best to mobilize it from Huguang and send it to Yuanzhou first." ”

"Minister, obey the order."

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PS: I'm tired of writing, so I won't say anything, ask for support.

(To be continued......)