It was soon late September and the weather began to turn colder.

Even in the cold winter, the land of Guangxi will not be particularly cold. Chenxi is a person from western Fujian and is more adaptable to the weather in Guangxi. Now it is bright and cool in autumn. Whether it is marching or camping training, it is much better than cool summer. However, Chenxi needs to consider the issue of large troops spending the winter now.

The court did not set a deadline for Chen Xi to quell the rebellion, because local rebellions lasted for many years, and many rebellions were repeated over and over again. In any case of famine, rebellion would inevitably occur.

Chen Xi led the troops of the six southwest provinces and the court had no clear statement when he would return to power. Chen Xi would take charge of the military power of the six southwest provinces for a long time in the future. Even if the local three yamen and some civil servants did not cooperate with his work, it would not change his supreme status in the six southwest provinces.

Nowadays, as long as you have soldiers and have certain combat power, others must obey. This is an era of fists.

Chen Xi still did not investigate the secret information and the situation of delivering food in Miao Village. What he is most concerned about now is actually the result of promoting new crops in Huguang and Jiangxi.

At this time, the new crops should have successfully harvested the first season. If everything goes well, many buds can be left in the local area. They can be widely promoted in Jiangxi and Huguang provinces next year, and even the promotion test fields will be launched in the six southwest provinces, and local people's livelihood will further improve.

However, when it comes to the selection issue, Chen Xi must find the right person to do it. Chen Xi tried to cultivate a group of people in Huguang before, but the results were not ideal. Now others are in Guangxi, and they don’t care about the matters in Huguang for the time being. Everything needs the cooperation of the local three departments.

Huguang and Jiangxi are easy to talk about, but Yunnan and Guizhou probably have no big problems. The most headache for Chenxi is Guangxi and Sichuan.

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On September 24th, Chen Xi received a report from Xier, who accompanied Feng Zhaoyuan on the expedition with a scout team, saying that the grain transport team had successfully arrived in Yangshuo and that the grain could be transported to Lingui in a few days.

In order to welcome the grain transport fleet, Chen Xi sent troops forward again, for fear that the grain would be robbed by the rebels near Lingui.

Su Jingyang and Wang He were still unwilling to take on the responsibility of transporting food and grass, so Chen Xi could only send his subordinates to come and even sent Yunliu to greet him.

Chen Xi had sent people to Liuzhou Prefecture to recruit Ma Jiu, asking Ma Jiu to take his troops and escort the food and supplies piled up in Liuzhou Prefecture to go north. The troops and horses on Chen Xi began to gather. In the eyes of outsiders, what Chen Xi lacked the most was food. Once the food problem was solved, Chen Xi would quell the rebellion, and he could equate the mountain one by one.

But Chenxi had no intention of attacking the villages located in the deep mountains. It was better to say that he was here to slap the rebellion than to quell the rebellion.

Chen Xi wanted to spend the last two years and the early years of Hongzhi and the early years of Zhengde. Occasionally, he thought that avoiding was not the way to solve the problem, because Liu Jin, who caused chaos in the early years of Zhengde in history, was still serving as a military supervisor in his army. If he wanted to avoid trouble, he could kill Liu Jin and end it all. If he was afraid of the court's investigation, he could find an opportunity to let Liu Jin "died in the chaos."

But he didn't do that.

Because he knew that Liu Jin was just a product of the times, representing the conflict between the new emperor and the Chinese officials in the court. Even without Liu Jin, other eunuchs would have taken advantage of the situation to rise, just like Zhang Yuan, or Gu Dayong and others, all had this opportunity.

On the same day, Linguicheng sent an envoy to contact Chen Xi to discuss the withdrawal of troops.

After Lingui lifted the embarrassment of rebel siege, the local intention of asking Chen Xi to withdraw troops was already very obvious. The three officials of Guangxi, especially the General Administration and the General Office, have been putting pressure on Chen Xi, hoping that he could lead his troops back to Huguang or Jiangxi.

The third-rank governor, the governor of the vassal department, was a senior Confucian official in his sixties. He had a bad attitude and emphasized that Chen Xi's current troops stationed in Lingui City was a waste of food and did not eliminate many rebels. He even proposed to impeach Chen Xi from the court without doing anything.

From the beginning of Chen Xi leading troops to Lingui, he knew that the local civil servants in Guangxi were very unfriendly to him. This only shows that the officials here were mainly members of the civil servant group led by Liu Jian and Li Dongyang. These people acted at the faces of Liu Jian and others, and knew that Chen Xi was not successful in the court, so they simply used their power to cause trouble for Chen Xi and cater to the big bosses in the court.

On the same day, Chen Xi held a meeting to discuss the matter of garrisoning the troops. According to Wang He and Su Jingyang's wishes, there was no need to stay in Lingui. It would be better to lead troops to retreat to Huguang. It would be better to let the rebellion in Guangxi revival, let these ungrateful officials learn some lessons, and ask Chen Xi to send troops to help.

But Chen Xi had no intention of driving out at all because he had another thing to do. This thing troubled him for a long time. He had always wanted to do it, but he was afraid that he would not be recognized by the court and would bear tremendous pressure.

Level-joint toe.

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Jiaozhi has been China's territory since ancient times. In 100 BC, when Emperor Wu of Han established the thirteen governors across the country, he divided the seven counties, including Jiaozhi, into the Jiaozhi Governors.

Until the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains dynasties implemented effective rule over Jiaozhi. Until the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, due to the weakening of the Central Plains dynasties and the weakness of the Song Dynasty, Jiaozhi was unable to recover, resulting in Jiaozhi leaving Central Plains and establishing a country and becoming a vassal.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the incident occurred in Jiaozhi, and the Chen family and Hu family fought for the throne. The incident ended with the Ming Dynasty Duke Zhang Fu leading troops to pacify Jiaozhi. At the request of the local officials and elders, Zhu Di, the Ming Dynasty, set up the Jiaozhi Chengcheng promulgation of the Political Envoy Department, which governed fifteen prefectures, forty-one prefectures, and two hundred and ten counties. Since then, Jiaozhi, who had been lost for four hundred years, returned to the embrace of the motherland.

The Emperor Xuanzong of the Ming Dynasty was assisted in the reign of the government, and the fronts of the Ming Dynasty were tightened completely, and the Ming Dynasty lost control of the land of Jiaozhi, so that in the following decades, Jiaozhi was controlled by the Li Dynasty.

After Emperor Xuanzong, Jiaozhi entered the post-Li Dynasty era.

In the past few decades, the Jiaozhi Kingdom often invaded the Ming border, especially after the local ethnic minority rebellion was in full swing, the Jiaozhi Kingdom took advantage of the inability of the southwestern border troops to plunder the southwestern border again. Until now, the Ming Dynasty has lost a lot of territory.

After Chen Xi confirmed that the rebellion of local ethnic minorities was not a big problem, the first thing that came to mind was to teach Jiaozhi a lesson so that the little brothers in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty would know the majesty of the Celestial Empire.

But now he does not have enough food, so naturally he can't talk about leveling Jiaozhi, but he has to go to the south to wander. Even if he doesn't restore the entire Jiaozhi territory, he will at least lead troops to repel the Jiaozhi invading troops in the Ming Dynasty, or expand the territory of the Ming Dynasty south.

But Chen Xi knew how much pressure he had to face was. First of all, the Southwest rebellion had not yet been quelled, and the court would not allow him to lead his troops to go to war with Jiaozhi without authorization.

In addition to Liu Jian and Li Dongyang, there are also Ma Wensheng and Liu Daxia and others. None of these people support Chen Xi on the Jiaozhi issue.

Especially Liu Daxia, when Emperor Chenghua was in power, Wang Zhi had a tendency to expand the land in the southwest. He was preparing to take advantage of Jiaozhi Li Hao's defeat in Laos and take the opportunity to recover Jiaozhi, but obstructed all the officials in the court. Liu Daxia, who was the ward of Fangshi at the time, simply hid the marching plan of Taizong's troops to recover Annan, so that the matter was left alone.

Now, as the support force behind Chen Xi, if Chen Xi said lightly to fight Jiaozhi, Liu Daxia might change his previous supportive attitude towards him and restrain his troops.

This is exactly the difficulty that Chen Xi had to consider before the war.

With the current situation of not quelling the southwest rebellion, it is basically impossible to start the battle in the battle of Jiaozhi. Even if it is fought, Chen Xi can only make trouble in the territory of the Ming Dynasty and cannot enter the territory of Jiaozhi.

Chen Xi calculated that to level Jiaozhi, there is actually no need for additional troops. The four or five thousand soldiers on hand are enough.

But when sending troops, you cannot act rashly. It is inappropriate to send troops in the rainy season. The most important thing is to deal with the complex and changing climate. Because the soldiers from Huguang and Jianggan are very unaccommodating to the tropical climate, Chenxi has not yet made up his mind and has begun to make preparations in this regard.

Chen Xi roughly estimated that the Southwest Rebellion might end until the end of the year. The Battle of Jiaozhi will last for another year and a half, and Zhu Youzhang should die. When Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne, the war in the southwest was in full swing, so he didn't have to consider returning to the capital at all.
Chapter completed!