Several ministers discussed each other and explained the first step of disaster relief.

Emperor Jing He was happy to hear this and said casually: "Okay, let Ge Honglian handle this matter in full!"

When the ministers heard this, most of them were frightened and their faces changed color.

Cao Yi, who is so steady, couldn't help but say, "Your Majesty, please think twice. You can't let Ge Honglian do this. Please select others!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, I will discuss it!" Wang Feiteng, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, also said quickly.

"I'm going to discuss it!" Deputy Prime Minister Nangong Ji also frowned.

Not only them, but even Feng Yuqiang, who has always been resolute and courageous, said: "Your Majesty, I also believe that the candidates should be more cautious."

OK.

The emperor proposed a personal choice, and many people opposed it.

It's really a bit embarrassing!

At first glance, people may still think that the person proposed by the emperor is unreliable?

Of course not!

Ge Honglian, whose real name is Ge Songdao, is named Honglian, and is 40 years old this year.

He won the second place in the imperial examination at the age of nineteen, and was a real second-class man.

At the age of 24, Ge Songdao could have directly joined the Sixth Ministry from the Hanlin Academy, but the bachelor of the Hanlin Academy at that time appreciated him very much. If he wanted to give him more grassroots training, he asked the emperor for the position of the prefect of Luodian, Guizhou.

The Prefect of Luodian was from the fourth rank, but he was in charge of one land and governed more than 200,000 people, which was a good starting point.

As long as he can survive for five or six years and make some achievements, he will be more than enough to be promoted step by step and return to Beijing to become a six-department minister at around 40 years old.

When he went to Luodian, the comment from the Ministry of Personnel was "restricted in character and gentle in behavior". This comment was also an important reason for sending him to Guizhou, a large number of natives, to be the prefect.

But I never expected it.

The second year after Ge Songdao went to Luodian, he encountered a natural disaster. The natives were incited and rushed into Luodian Prefecture City to burn, kill and loot.

Ge Songdao tried his best, led two thousand garrison troops and yamen runners to repel the attacks of the natives and drove them out, but what was left was a devastated Luodian City.

What made him most sad and angry was that two days before the rebellion, his old father and mother, together with his wife and newborn son, came to Luodian to visit him.

As a result, Ge Songdao's parents, wife and children all died in the chaos.

From then on, Ge Songdao, who was "restricted and gentle" in character, died.

Instead, another Ge Songdao was replaced.

Since that day, in addition to managing government affairs, Ge Songdao has devoted himself to the matter of destroying the Aoduo tribe.

In this year, Ge Songdao personally led the garrison and the recruited Min Yong to massacre five tribes and killed 4,800 men. All the women and children were moved to designated locations in the government. The women and Han people were married, and the children followed their father's surname and could only learn Dakang language.

In the third year, seven chieftain tribes were slaughtered and 7,900 males were killed. Women and children encountered the same experience.

In the fourth year, Ge Songdao was promoted to the prefect of Zunyi. In the same year, he slaughtered eleven chieftain tribes and killed 13,000 males. The women and children encountered the same experience.

In the fifth year, twelve chieftain tribes were slaughtered and 18,000 males were killed. Women and children encountered the same experience.

In the sixth year, because the two prefectures were in great governance, stable and peaceful, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment, Ge Songdao was promoted to the governor of Guizhou again.

In the first two years as governor of Guizhou, Ge Songdao was even cold-blooded and slaughtered 33 chieftain tribes in one breath, killing 54,000 males, and the same as the women and children.

After such a continuous five years of slaughter, most of the unruly group of Guizhou's unruly chieftains were extinct, and many more fled to Nanzhao. The remaining chieftain tribes totaled less than twenty.

These twenty chieftain tribes were so scared that they knelt down. They were all slaughtered by the rebellious people on weekdays. They were all relatively gentle, and they knelt down from then on.

The Han people can not only go to their places to do business freely, but also collect herbs and plant land, and no one dares to stop them.

If you stop it, you will be exterminated.

Even the ignorant and barbaric chieftains did not doubt the cold-blooded cruelty of the lunatic Ge Songdao at all.

It’s not that there were chieftains who went to the court to complain, nor that there were no moral saints who were dissatisfied with it, but these killings were really not worth mentioning compared to Ge Songdao’s eight years of governance of the chaotic Guizhou.

Under the rule of Ge Songdao, Guizhou was not affected by military disasters or civil disasters. In just two items of money saved by the imperial court every year, it reached more than three million taels of silver.

At the same time, Ge Songdao also distributed the land of the exterminated Tusi tribe to the refugees, allowing them to reproduce and reproduce. He also repaired more than ten roads in Guizhou, greatly increasing the connection between them and strengthening the jurisdiction.

In addition, Ge Songdao also carried out more than a dozen water conservancy projects, increasing the arable land area and grain production, so that people can eat as much as possible.

When Ge Songdao stepped down as governor of Guizhou eight years ago, the population of Guizhou had soared from more than two million to four million, which was more than Gansu, Shaanxi and other provinces.

In addition to the childbirth of the people and native women, there are also many farmers who cannot get along with Nanzhao who have defected to the country.

Look, poor places like Guizhou can attract Nanzhao people to join us. What is this not benevolent government? This does not mean that Ge Songdao's achievements are?

With these things, Emperor Jinghe praised Ge Songdao very much.

He is a kind man, but he is to his subjects.

Those chieftains are like beasts, plundering and killing their subjects from time to time, pretending to be grandson when they encounter a conquest, and rebelling from time to time... He has long wanted to deal with such a guy, but he has never found a candidate.

As a result, God gave mercy to Guizhou and sent Ge Songdao to Guizhou. From then on, Guizhou was in a very happy mood.

Why do you think he should punish such a capable minister?

Impossible!

Even if there are many censors who impeach Ge Songdao, Emperor Jinghe will stay at the throne and not send it.

It was really a big deal, so Jing Hedi simply sent them to Guizhou for a year or two.

Anyone who has been there will be a cure for this problem when he comes back. He will never dare to say that Ge Songdao is cruel and unruly, and he will be punished for his serious crimes.

However, the prime ministers felt that Ge Songdao's hostility was too heavy, so they sent him to Xikang to be the governor of Xikang, when he was thirty-two years old.

Logically speaking, Guizhou is poor enough, but Xikang is even poorer, which is obviously a bit suppressed.

But this was something that the prime minister and the ministers all decided publicly, and the emperor didn't have much to say. He could only write an imperial letter to him with the idea of ​​training talents, expressing his expectations and encouragement.

Ge Songdao did not disappoint the emperor.

During his time in Xikang, he still cruelly slaughtered the natives in the local mountains, especially those tribes that had hooked up with Tubo and Uighurs.

In two or three years, the natives in Xikang lost more than 200,000, and the Han people moved to more than 100,000.

Another skill point of Ge Songdao was also activated.

He directly built and improved the city defense in the border areas, and built the cities into fully armed hedgehogs, making the Tubo and Uighur tribes bloody every time, so he simply stopped coming here and was defeated.

So, five years later, he was directly promoted to Governor of the Southwest, in charge of the affairs of Sichuan, Xikang and Guizhou, and until now.

Although Ge Songdao became the governor of the Southwest, he still had a fanatical sentiment for the extermination of the rebellious native tribe. In just five years, he killed more than 100,000 natives from the three provinces.

Oh, by the way, there are many natives in Sichuan.

But after hearing that Ge Songdao was the governor of the Southwest of Chengdu, these natives immediately burst into a strong fusion enthusiasm, and they were so obedient and enthusiastic that they almost couldn't recognize them.

In this way, many native tribes were swept up directly, which scared them to their terror every day.

Now in the three southwestern provinces, Ge Songdao is a devil and a king of hell.

Not only the natives were afraid of him, but even the Han people were afraid of him.

Ge Songdao attaches great importance to the opening up of the Tusi tribe and the outside world. He wants them to communicate with the Han people more and do business, but he will never allow Han businessmen to cheat them, and use inferior products as good ones.

When you encounter such a businessman, once you find out, you will directly search your home and send them all to Hainan to feed mosquitoes.

In the twenty-one years of the southwest region, Ge Songdao exiled and confiscated the house, and more than 700 households were killed directly.

You said that with such a cruel method, which businessman dared to cheat and cheat when doing business under him?

That's because I'm impatient to live!

Of course, just like Ge Songdao did in Guizhou back then, if he just suppressed the killing, then he would at most be a cruel official and would step down in a few years.

It is precisely because he integrated the people at the same time and brought tangible benefits to the construction of water conservancy and roads in Guizhou that everyone praised him very much.

He did the same in Xikang and Sichuan.

And although he is very strict with businessmen, he also treats foreign merchants more severely, especially big merchants and big businessmen, almost putting restrictions on them everywhere, not letting them start business in Sichuan.

With local protection, the merchants in the three southwest provinces lived a pretty good life with not many complaints due to their rare goods from Nanzhao, Tubo, Tusi Mountains and other places.

It is also because of Ge Song and Dao's management of both kindness and strength, the results are also very good.

The circulation of goods in the three southwest provinces is very smooth and the development of agriculture is relatively smooth. Over the years, even if there are frequent disasters, the three southwest provinces generally do not need the court to distract themselves.

It would be a huge contribution to the court without spending a lot of money on such a poor and closed province!

Among the list of the good officials in the capital, Ge Songdao is ranked second, second only to Liu Renhuai.

It’s just that Ge Songdao is not liked by many people, so he must have entered the cabinet a few years later, not as fast as Liu Renhuai.

...

After sixteen years, the cabinet master and ministers had completely met Ge Songdao and knew that he was a capable general.

But there is only one thing that everyone is worried that he is too murderous.

It is said that Miao Yan is a god of killing, and he is just a younger brother compared to Ge Songdao!

By the way, Ge Songdao was originally a Confucian student. After undergoing major changes, he turned to the Legalists and now he has become a banner outside the court, very bright!
To be continued...