Chapter 670: The Zhu family bullies others too much
The intuitive response brought about by the new way of warfare quickly spread to the hundreds of thousands of mountains in the southwest.
All the careerists in the past may have known it and pretended to ignore it, or they really didn't know it.
The power brought by the people.
When the news that Dayong County needed many people from the mountains to work spread to the mountains, the chieftains, who knew that the imperial court intended to completely abolish the chieftain system, began to send their trusted people to Dayong County.
Moreover, these people also began to imitate the gourd's plan, and began to point their fingers in the territory and ask the people under their rule to go to work.
Perhaps it was because the price offered by the court was too high, or perhaps these chieftains felt that there was no need to be so generous.
The wages they paid to the natives and Miao people under their rule was only two meals a day.
Even so, these chieftains thought that they were doing good deeds.
at first.
Those mountain natives and Miao people who had little information also felt that the chieftains were really doing great good.
But when more and more people I knew came from Dayong County into the depths of the Shiwan Mountains in the southwest and told them the truth.
People's hearts began to change.
At first, a few people were taken away by those who entered the mountains from Dayong County.
Later, more and more people, after seeing real money and silver with their own eyes, spontaneously followed those people to leave the Shiwan Mountains in the southwest where they live.
So the toast masters, who felt that they had done great good and suffered a great loss, began to take more preventive measures and methods.
They offered three meals a day as a price, and then stationed manpower on important roads in the mountains to stop the natives and the Miao people from leaving.
Moreover, these chieftains tacitly sent out more confidants to follow the people who went into the mountains to pull people's heads out of the mountains and headed for Dayong County.
Located in the southwest of Dayong County, the distance is only 200 miles, but it takes five or six days of walking in the mountains to reach the Yongshun County seat of the Yongshun Military and Civilian Xuanwei Division.
On both sides of the nameless river that flows into the Lishui River system from the city, just like the Lishui River outside Dayong County, both sides of the river are full of people.
The officials of the Xuanwei Division did not understand why the imperial court wanted to build embankments on the Lishui River, which was windless and waveless and unlikely to be flooded for hundreds of years. However, in order to prevent the people in the Xuanwei Division from going to Dayong County
, used by the imperial court.
The senior officials of the Xuanwei Department adopted the same approach and recruited natives and Miao people under their jurisdiction to participate in the construction of river embankments.
They didn't know what the purpose of doing this was, but they knew very well why they wanted to imitate what the imperial court did in Dayong County.
All he did was compete with the imperial court for human resources.
On the hill in the southeast of the city, a viewing pavilion was built.
The chieftains of the Yongshun Military and Civilian Xuanwei Division do not live in the city, but in the chieftain city twenty miles to the east. In this county, they are just subordinate officers assigned by the magistrate of the Xuanwei Division to be stationed in the city for management.
Government affairs.
This kind of practice is purely a habit of the toasts.
Similarly, the history of Yongshun Military and Civilian Xuanwei Division can be traced back to the Tianshou period of the Tang Dynasty six hundred years ago. In the second year of Tianshou, the Tang Dynasty established Xizhou based on the large township of Chenzhou and the two counties of Santang.
Since then, the historical and political status of Yongshun Xuanwei Division has been opened.
It then went through the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Song and Yuan dynasties.
In the Ming Dynasty, in the second year of Hongwu, the court replaced the original Yongshun Military and Civilian Comfort Department with the Yongshun Military and Civilian Xuanwei Department. It was inherited from the Peng family in the pre-Tang Dynasty. Peng Tianbao was the co-president of the Yongshun Military and Civilian Xuanwei Department.
In the political hierarchy of the imperial court, the Yongshun Military and Civilian Announcement Department already belonged to the chieftain system. The highest official position appointed by the imperial court was from the third rank.
There are six long divisions under it, which govern six caves in three states, namely Shirongzhou, Nanweizhou, Shangxizhou, Maichuhuang Cave, Laja Cave, Lvchi Cave, Shirongxi Cave, Baiyan Cave, and Tianjia Cave.
Hole.
The Yongshun Xuanwei Division has been run by the native Peng family since the early Tang Dynasty. It has endured through the dynasties and has endured for a long time.
No matter which surname dominates the Central Plains, Yongshun seems to always belong to the Peng family.
At the same time, Baojing Prefecture Xuanwei Division, southwest of Yongshun Xuanwei Division, is also hereditary in charge of a branch of the Peng family.
It can be said that in the sphere of influence of the chieftains in the Shiwan Mountains in the southwest, the Peng family monopolizes most of the influence of the chieftains in Huguang Road.
Pavilion on the mountain.
A group of chieftain officials led by Peng Tianbao, the envoy of Yongshun Xuanwei, looked at the river channel under the mountain that was being built by countless natives.
Peng Tianbao inherited the position of local official from his elder brother during his third year in Hongwu.
Today, Peng Tianbao is not only a colleague of the Yongshun Military and Civilian Propaganda Department, but also a commanding officer of the Huguang Provincial Command Department.
The former belongs to the highest official of the Yongshun Xuanwei Division. The latter gives him the power to take charge of the troops and horses of the Yongshun Xuanwei Division.
Peng Tianbao is the Tusi Emperor of Yongshun Xuanwei Division, or the common Tusi Emperor of all Tusi Territories in Huguang Province.
It's just that Peng Tianbao, who used to enjoy the authority of the local emperor, has been very irritable recently.
The imperial court has vigorously promoted the New Deal in recent years, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that the imperial court must have been dissatisfied with the chieftain system that had existed in the southwest for hundreds of years.
This time, the imperial court even sent 50,000 Beijing troops, led by the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunxi, to Dayong County, 200 miles northeast of Yongshun, under the pretext of passing through the plateau and northwest.
Its purpose has long been self-evident.
The imperial court's intention to abolish the chieftain system was just like Sima Zhao's intention in the past, and it has long been known to everyone.
If it had been thirty years ago, when the Ming Dynasty was just founded, if the court had such an idea, Peng Tianbao would definitely have gathered troops, closely followed the Yuan Dynasty, and entangled the Ming army in the hundreds of thousands of mountains in the southwest.
But now, thirty years have passed.
The Ming Dynasty firmly occupied the territory of the Central Plains and suppressed the southwest every year.
Unless you throw away your current authority and lead people to hide deep in the mountains.
Otherwise, Peng Tianbao couldn't think of anything else to do.
"How about we rebel?"
"No matter how many troops the imperial court has, can they still find us on our territory?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Don't talk about the 50,000 imperial troops in Dayong County, even if there are another 50,000. As long as we hide in the mountains, they will definitely not be found.
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A Peng family member present persuaded him with an angry expression.
This kind of lobbying has appeared in Peng Tianbao's ears many times.
This isn't the first time, and it definitely won't be the last.
"What is the imperial grandson doing in Dayong County now?"
After a while, Peng Tianbao sighed softly and spoke.
Another older chieftain official of the Peng family must be responsible for inquiring about information.
Upon hearing Peng Tianbao's inquiry, he immediately stepped forward and whispered: "We are still continuing to recruit people, and the people who came back after we went to investigate the situation said that the imperial court was indeed leading the people to work in Dayong County.
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"This is a conspiracy."
Peng Tianbao sighed with emotion and had to acquiesce in his heart that what the court was doing in Dayong County was absolutely correct.
As the person in charge of Yongshun and even the chieftains in the southwest of Huguang Road, Peng Tianbao has been able to hold power tightly in his hands for so many years. Isn't he a mediocre person?
The elder chieftain official of the Peng family also sighed, shook his head and said: "Now everyone knows that the imperial court just spent money to take all our people away. They probably thought that as long as the people here are about the same, they leave
Now, it will be the time for them to launch their troops. Until then, we can only rely on our familiarity with the mountains and use our few people to mediate with the imperial troops."
Peng Tianbao shook his head irritably and asked in a low voice: "What's the situation in Baojing Prefecture now?"
"Huh!" The man snorted coldly and said with a face full of displeasure: "The imperial court is exactly the same in Chenzhou Prefecture. Just like in Dayong County, it is starting construction in the direction of Mayang County, Jishou County, Luxi County, and Yuanling City.
There are several things to do to recruit people from Baojing Prefecture and Wuzhaisi, Zhuzipingsi, Tianjiadongsi and other places in our territory of Yongshun."
Peng Tianbao's face became even more gloomy.
With the establishment of the Shizhou Guards in the north a few years ago, the largest chieftain territory in the northwest of Huguang Road completely broke away from the chieftain system and became an official residence of the imperial court. The only remaining chieftain territory in Huguang Road is Yongshun.
Xuanwei Department and Baojing Prefecture Xuanwei Department.
Peng Tianbao growled unwillingly: "The Zhu family has bullied others too much. Are they going to drive us to Sichuan or Guizhou?"
But the chieftain official who should be responsible for the Peng family's inquiring about external information said bitterly: "The situation in Sichuan Dao and Guizhou Dusi is not optimistic either. The chieftain who came from there said that the imperial court was in Sichuan Daohe
Dusi in Guizhou is doing similar things."
Peng Tianbao's heart immediately trembled, and he quickly asked: "What did the Yang family in Bozhou say? Is there any news?"
Bozhou belongs to the Chieftain Xuanwei Division in Sichuan Province and has the same status as Yongshun Xuanwei Division.
The Yang family in Bozhou, like the Peng family in Yongshun, is the hereditary chieftain of Bozhou.
Speaking of which, the bloodline inheritance of the Yang family in Bozhou actually went through a change and turmoil in the former Song Dynasty.
The original Yang family in Bozhou believed that it could be traced back to its ancestor Yang Duan.
However, in the former Song Dynasty, probably for the purpose of strengthening the inheritance of the Yang family in Bozhou from the Central Plains, they began to focus on another prominent family in Taiyuan, the Yang family in the former Song Dynasty.
First, Yang Ye was recognized as the ancestor.
Then he said that Yang Guiqian, the seventh generation successor of the Yang family in Bozhou, was a descendant of Yang Ye.
How much of it is true and how much is false, no one knows.
But throughout the pre-Song Dynasty, the chieftain clans in the southwestern region were all proud of being able to trace the surname of a prominent Central Plains family member as their ancestor.
For example, the Sizhou Tian family and Benren Ding themselves are descendants of the Tian family in Qi State during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.
There is also the Ran family from Guizhou, who claims to be a descendant of Ran You, a disciple of Confucius.
This kind of thing was very popular throughout the pre-Song Dynasty.
But no matter what, Yang's position in Bozhou Xuanwei Division is unshakable.
The person in charge of inquiring about the information of the Peng family thought for a while and said: "The situation of the Yang family is not much better than that of our Peng family. The imperial court is directly building a cement road between Guiyang and Chongqing. This road is directly
It just passes through the Bozhou Xuanwei Division of their Yang family."
Probably because the Yang family's situation is worse than that of the Peng family.
A slight smile finally appeared on Peng Tianbao's face: "Then the Yang family is probably already in dire straits. If the imperial court really builds this road, I am afraid that the imperial army will march along the road to their Bozhou Xuanwei Division."
"That's the truth, but there is nothing the Yang family can do about it. If they openly oppose it, not only the soldiers and horses of Guizhou Dusi, but also the soldiers and horses of Guangxi Road and Yunnan Road will all go north together and crush them in Bozhou."
This is also a conspiracy of the imperial court.
Regardless of whether the chieftains in the southwest move or not, the imperial court will eventually take action.
The imperial court knew its next arrangements very well, and the worst part was that the chieftains in the southwest also knew it very well.
But now, no one wants to be the first person to raise a banner of rebellion.
Peng Tianbao withdrew his thoughts from the distant Bozhou Xuanwei Division, turned to look at the Peng family disciples present, and said in a deep voice: "What do you think the imperial court will do with us in the end?"
The eyes of the Peng family disciples present turned around. No one was in a hurry to speak, but they were thinking about the family leader's words.
Peng Tianbao used a disposal rather than a resettlement.
In fact, it has been shown that in Peng Tianbao's mind, he had his own assessment of how the imperial court would treat the Southwest Chieftain in the end.
The solution would naturally be to remove them from all their current official positions and take away all the authority they enjoy at the moment.
And if they were to be resettled, the imperial court would have to put a lot of effort into taking them away from the southwest and placing them elsewhere.
But no one dares to say whether the imperial court will really be cruel to them.
After a long time.
Finally, a voice that seemed a bit younger than the others came from the scene.
"Perhaps... we can drag the court until it gives up its plan?"
Peng Tianbao's eyes immediately lit up and he followed the sound and looked over.
A young face appeared in Peng Tianbao's sight.
It turned out to be his eldest grandson Peng Zhong!
Peng Tianbao's eyes shone brighter, and he encouraged with a smile on his face: "Zhong'er, let's talk to grandpa again, how can we drag the imperial court to voluntarily give up its plot against us?"
Young Peng Zhong was stared at by everyone present in an instant.
The young man's eyes were a little evasive and his face turned red.
He lowered his head and whispered: "We have lived here for hundreds of years, and we are always more familiar with it than the imperial court. Even now, the natives want to leave because of the wages paid by the imperial court. But they are still natives.
Well, once the imperial court no longer pays wages, will they still follow the imperial court?
It is said in the book of the Central Plains that if the land is saved and people are lost, both people and land will be lost; if the people are saved and the land is lost, both people and land will be saved.
As long as we hide in the mountains with our loyal people and tangle with the imperial soldiers and horses. They are not familiar with the situation in the mountains and will never take action if there is no chance, but at this time we can attack them as we like.
As long as the imperial troops and horses are dragged into the mountains for a few years, the imperial court will definitely not be able to sustain itself."
After finishing speaking in one breath, Peng Zhong's face was already red.
He thought for a while and added: "Actually, we did this before..."