The imperial court was about to go to war again, but the people of Bianliang were not worried at all. On the contrary, many wealthy families began to inquire about the news, waiting to buy bonds again.
To their disappointment, firm news came from the Privy Council that it was almost certain that the campaign would not require the issuance of bonds.
Jiaozhi and Dali are enough to support a counter-insurgency of this scale. Jingchu, Guangdong, Guangxi and Sichuan-Sichuan soldiers and horses can each defend their headquarters and wait for Fang Qifu's army to put down the rebellion.
In the Zhaodefang study room, Yang Lin asked people to bring all the information about Southwest Tusi. The more he read, the angrier he became.
This is not a vassal town, it is simply a small country, and it is still expanding.
Especially the Tian family in Sizhou and the Yang family in Bozhou are the most serious. Among them, the Tian family was in the second year of Emperor Kaihuang's founding in the Sui Dynasty. Tian Zongxian began to rule this place as the governor of central Guizhou. It has a history of more than 500 years.
Pengshui in the lower reaches of the Wujiang River includes the northeastern Guizhou area and is located at the junction of Huguang and Sichuan. It has undulating mountains, steep terrain, and extremely inconvenient transportation. It has been called a "barbarian land" in history. In addition, "the barbarians and Miao people have repeatedly
"Rebellion", people live in poverty and find it difficult to live in peace.
The more such a place is, the more likely it is for trouble to happen. During the Sui Dynasty, Ren Zetian, a golden-headed monk from the White Lotus Sect who was a major rebel, caused trouble here. The Sui court once again dispatched Tian Zongxian to conquer.
After the victory of the war, Tian Zongxian was ordered to manage the central Guizhou area, and then he was named the Duke of Jinlong Protector of the Kingdom of Xuanwei Ronglu Jiedushi, and his descendants were hereditary. As a result, the Tian family established control over central Guizhou in the Wujiang River Basin, including northeastern Guizhou.
dominance position.
In fact, this place was not originally part of the Song Dynasty. At the beginning of Zhao Ji's reign a few years ago, Tian Yougong, the 14th generation of Tian Zongxian and the minister of Fan, came to the court and wanted to be the king's people, so it was included in the Song Dynasty.
In other words, this place has been restored for less than ten years, but today it is different from the past. At first it was a borderland. With the capture of Dali and Tubo, this area became a complete Song Dynasty, with two large military governors around it.
However, the chieftains still find it difficult to accept this reality.
In the study room, Gao Bing saw that he looked ugly and asked tentatively: "Young Zai, the disease of scabies in the southwest, Fang Qifu can completely quell it for Young Zai."
"The chieftain is the bane of the southwest. I want to use a bloody battle to save hundreds of bloody battles in the next few hundred years." Yang Lin stood up and said: "Xixia is the best example. We must not allow foreigners to rule a region for a long time, otherwise it will cause evil intentions.
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"The Five Prefectures were originally an elite force of the Tang Dynasty. The Dangxiang people were brave and good at fighting. But what happened next? After Li Yuanhao openly rebelled, a hundred years of conquests have left Qinlong everywhere in the widow's village."
"I absolutely cannot allow these scourges in the Southwest to continue to exist."
Zhang Shuye kept a calm face and said nothing. He agreed with everything Yang Lin said, but he knew more about things in the southwest, so this was by no means easy to do.
After more than five hundred years, they have been deeply entrenched and accumulated countless wealth over generations. Now the imperial court has deployed more troops in the north, which is far greater than any war in this dynasty.
At this time, Zhang Shuye did not agree with opening up a southwest battlefield.
In his opinion, things in the southwest can be pacified first, and then planning can be done after the north is pacified.
Yang Lin glanced around and glanced at the officials present. He was very calm and said in a solemn voice: "Maybe some of you think that the Northern Barbarians are better than the Southern Barbarians, but I tell you, I don't take them seriously.
inside."
"We are already so powerful, why should we endure it? I want to tell everyone clearly that those who jump from the beam will be killed no matter how strong they are, and they will be killed no matter how far away they are!"
"As long as those who dare to take action must be punished immediately, they will not take any chances."
Zhang Shuye nodded secretly, Yang Shaozai's current toughness was based on his new policies.
If this were the case in the past, Yang Shaozai would be the best at dealing with the surrounding foreign countries to create the best war environment for the Song Dynasty.
It seems that he was too conservative. After thinking about it, Zhang Shuye said: "Know yourself and the enemy, and you will be victorious in every battle. I read the official documents of the Southwest last night and secretly thought that the Yang family of Bozhou did not participate in the 'rebellion' this time.
Can't we send people to fight for it and ask them to send troops to help quell the chaos?"
Yang Lin waved his hand with a very firm attitude and said: "We don't want them to fight one by one. As long as they keep their eyes open and watch how we destroy the Tian family. In the future, if the province returns to its old ways, someone will jump out to challenge us."
Yang Lin was determined to change the situation and set up a government office in the southwest to integrate it into the normal management system.
When he was still Cai Jing's subordinate, he drove the Zhe family to Mizhou. It can be said that he was a veteran anti-local separatist opposition.
Great unification is the soul of Central Plains culture and the root of its survival to this day——
The city of Yangyi in Dali is now full of grass and orioles.
In this land with beautiful scenery, the spring is so strong that Fang Qifu enjoys the life here very much.
After he came back from Cochin, he has been in Yangcheng and has never been out.
Everyone knows that Governor Fang is a very strange person. He has a gentle temper but has a high prestige in the army. Yang Lin once said that Fang Qifu is a divine needle that fixes the sea in the southwest.
Fang Qifu's salary was very high, but he didn't like keeping maids and slaves, and he didn't like gold, silver, and jade. He enjoyed a very refined life, not extravagance. He liked cooking alone, and what he hated most was wasting food.
In the Governor's Office, Fang Qifu put down the flower hoe in his hand and took an official document from his subordinate.
Looking at the edict, he frowned slightly and sighed: "We are going to fight again. It's a pity that the camellias we just planted are a pity."
"After I leave, you need to water frequently and loosen the soil frequently. After the flowers appear, you need to fertilize four times in the month."
The little flower boy on the side was actually an orphan he picked up from the battlefield. He was a young man from the Bai ethnic group, a little dark and thin. He nodded when he heard this and remembered everything in his heart.
Dali is also one of the provinces with the best residential care system. This is inseparable from Fang Qifu's childhood experience. His mother who died of cold and starvation in a ruined temple has always been in the deepest part of his heart. Although it is not far away
Touching, but affecting him all the time.
Patting the dirt on his hands, Fang Qifu stepped out of the government office, where a group of generals had already gathered.
Everyone's eyes turned to the young governor. Fang Qifu cleared his throat and said with a straight face: "Everyone knows that some chieftains rebelled in Sizhou some time ago, and the imperial court ordered to suppress the rebellion.
It's up to us to fight the battle. The young master has given me a death order. Within three months, the rebellion will be put down and the area will be pacified."
"Liu Chengzhi, go to Jiaozhi and recruit three thousand infantry;"
"Huang Ke the enemy, you lead 30,000 troops to Shicheng County, slant into the Luo Palace, and wipe out the Luo chieftain."
"Deng Wu, you lead your troops to Hewuzhou. I will personally lead the army to Libo Cave and surround the chieftain of Qianzhou."
"Two months later, we will gather in the Zunyi Army. Any delay will be punished by military law!"