The use of military forces in the southwest is different from that in the north. It was suppressed by Mongolia in the north. It also knew gentle means such as peace talks and trade, but in the southwest, it was just a typing.

The reason why the Yang family was so troubled in Bozhou was that the Ming officials pretended to be confused was simply because they were afraid of trouble. The left and right were barren lands, and they were all from the Jiumiao tribe. It would be better to fight and kill him. It would be better to have a proper measure. However, the Yang family was so unaware of restraint and even attacked the prefectures and counties where the Han people lived and killed officials and gentry. This was why they could not sit idly by.

The local officials around Bozhou also knew that the officers and soldiers in Sichuan, Guizhou and Huguang were weak and could not stand the battle. If the troops were mobilized to eliminate them in a hurry, they would be defeated by the Yang family's soldiers and the army would be dispersed. Not to mention that the Yang family had the supplies and weapons of the officers and soldiers, and the captives would be greatly increased. This was a fatal trouble.

At present, the chaos in the Yang family has not spread yet. The local government can tell the above that it is slowly preparing. If it is about to suffer a big defeat, all the responsible people will be sentenced to prison.

So since the 18th year of Wanli, the Yang family hastily failed to attack from Bozhou. The terrain was a barrier and also an obstacle for him. Officials related to Sichuan, Guizhou and Huguang have been mobilizing their forces to prepare and are active in the court.

What is really related to that is to transfer the matter away. If the relationship is a little less related, it means to complain on the one hand and send the real situation to the capital.

Sichuan, Guizhou, Huchan and even the areas around them were not very good in the political system of the Ming Dynasty, and they were still under the jurisdiction of traditional civil officials. Although it was quite awkward to say so.

The central officials of the six ministries of the cabinet have been through the officialdom for a long time and can see clearly what the truth is hidden behind the official articles. According to Wang Xijue's words: "...If you don't send someone, the situation will soon be deteriorating..."

After the tone was decided, a civil official was sent to take charge of the matter according to the previous rules. This was the military affairs of the Governor of Sichuan, Chu and the three provinces of Li Hualong.

Although Li Hualong became a Jinshi, he was not lucky at that time and had no chance to get a seniority in the capital. He went to the local area to become a county magistrate, and then went step by step, became a idle minister in Nanjing and was sent to Liaodong as a governor. After working as a local official for a few years, he returned to Nanjing. He could not enter the capital. However, there were very few officials who had rich experience in office and had done a few real things in office. The chaos in Sichuan was suitable for such capable ministers to go there.

Li Hualong knew a lot about military affairs after being a governor of the border town. After going to Sichuan, he found that the situation here was much more difficult than he thought.

Sichuan, Huguang and Guizhou are not without soldiers who can fight. In fact, the proportion of soldiers who can fight is still very high. But most of these people are the so-called Miao soldiers, that is, infantrymen with long-time naturalization of Miao and Yao ethnic groups. These soldiers are indeed much stronger than the long-slack Guard soldiers.

But in the current situation, these forces cannot be used, because these Miao soldiers are also under the jurisdiction of naturalized chieftains. Bozhou is also a chieftain regime. If the Miao soldiers are used to fight, don’t be subdued by the Yang family in Bozhou, it will become a disaster and a force of the other party.

In fact, many of the chieftains close to Bozhou took the initiative to ask for the battle because the Yang family infringed on their interests. Although they were of the same clan, they could not bear it.

Governor Li Hualong is still cautious first. It’s not that he doesn’t want to use it, but that the power that can be used in Sichuan, Guizhou and Chu is too little and too weak. If there is a slight problem, people’s hearts will be fluctuating, which means that the province’s collapse is a situation where the whole province is. You must be cautious and dare not make any mistakes.

While Li Hualong sent someone to join Yang Jiaxu, everyone asked for guilty crimes in a fake manner, while mobilizing forces from all over the place to divide their troops into siege.

After all, the Yang family's Bozhou is a corner, and the force that can be mobilized is just that. He has captured dozens of treasurys, two prefectures and counties, and hundreds of villages around Bozhou, but it is only this range. When it goes outward, the troops of the three provinces will win and lose with him, which is a tug-of-war situation.

Li Hualong did the same thing, mobilized troops from all over the place to gather in Hejiang County, hoarded food and grass, recruited civilians, and then reached the general attack after reaching the absolute advantage.

However, the terrain of Bozhou is dangerous, and the combat power of the Yang family and the Miao soldiers in the alliance is quite strong. This requires sufficient margin, which means that the greater the grasp, the better. The greater the "grasp," as well as the governors of several provinces, all know that there is no 100,000 soldiers, and no 100,000 soldiers available for a year, so you must not move it lightly.

To mobilize these people and food, and to avoid disturbing the capital and the local government as much as possible, and not causing too many twists and turns. At least three years is more than three years to be honest. To be honest, three years are not too long. What Li Hualong did was his duty to deal with such an enemy, and it was a completely safe approach.

But in the 19th year of Wanli, Li Hualong's friend in the capital wrote a letter. The letter was quite straightforward. At first, it only listed several major battles from Guihua City to outside the pass. It took no more than a month and mobilized less than 100,000 troops, which were all the complete victory of destroying the country and killing the king. If such internal rebellion in Bozhou would take so long, it would take someone to mention it in the future, and it would be regarded as evidence of impeachment by others.

When Li Hualong saw this letter, he was quite helpless. To be fair, his preparation was to be just right. No matter who he was, he had to evaluate himself as a mature person. However, what was said in the letter was the truth. The victory of the imperial guards was too brilliant. In contrast, there was no way to take action in other places.

Not to mention the great victory, the recent victory of the imperial guards in the Bian Town of Shaanxi Province has ended quickly and the results are brilliant. If you fight like this, there will inevitably be hidden dangers in the future.

When the imperial guards go everywhere, it means that the emperor firmly controls wherever they are, and the civil officials will have less say in the local area. For example, the commercial taxes in Shaanxi and Shanxi were almost no. Since the imperial guards moved in, tax supervisors were also sent in the palace, and they did not use ruthless actions to record and blackmail, or collect taxes according to the rules.

In front of the imperial guards, the local officials and gentry had no courage to play the role of the officials. They all paid taxes obediently, but the consequences of not paying them were bloody, and everyone had already seen them.

Li Hualong knew that the cabinet appointed him to Sichuan, Guizhou and Chu to supervise the fight against the thieves," just to avoid letting the imperial guards intervene, but in such a situation, why should he bear this guilt? At that time, he will not only become a laughing stock, but may also give his political enemies an excuse to attack the Khan...

After becoming the governor of Liaodong, Li Hualong also wanted to make progress. After all, it is inevitable that he would become the governor's position and would develop upward.

What really made Li Hualong determined was the actions of the merchants in Sichuan and Huguang. The merchants flocked to Songjiang in February, and Li Hualong naturally knew that there was also the merchant's relationship with him. Needless to say, even the merchants themselves don't care about taxes. Baba's past post on the imperial guard system, why did he blame himself here?

Invite the imperial guards to come in and let the imperial guards clear them out. If you win, the governor will also make contributions. If you lose, you don’t have to worry about bearing the main responsibility.

There is a very important rule in the officialdom, which is mutual understanding. Although Li Hualong's memorial went to the capital, the six ministries of the cabinet were helpless, they could only admit it. From a general point of view, this matter was a matter of quelling the rebellion of the Ming Dynasty, and it would be better to quickly resolve it. Some people privately said that the battles of the groups of the Imperial Army were all on the grasslands and plains, and the terrain of Bozhou was special and it was a smoky and humid place. If the Imperial Army, which was mainly firearms, might suffer a loss.

The barbarians in the Yang family in Bozhou are nothing in the eyes of the imperial court bosses. However, it is a good thing to make the imperial guard system, which has an increasingly influential influence, suffer a loss.

The people in the cabinet had no resistance, and Emperor Wanli was even more confident in the imperial guards. Tian Yi and Buyi of the Sili Supervisor both understood what it meant if the imperial guards entered Chuan and Chu to fight to calm the chaos. The more places the emperor could seize, the greater the power of the inner court. He could send an additional tax supervisor to the local area, which would also give the palace an additional location and a way out.

The central government reached an agreement, so the next step is to send someone to the imperial guards, strictly speaking, several towns, and the one closest to Sichuan is Shaanxi.

However, Ningxia is also under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi, and Shaanxi occupies a large area. Although Li Tao has four regiments and more than 30,000 other elite backbones, the defense scope is also wide. On the contrary, because the Hetao is close to Ningxia, the merchant regiment's armed forces are large enough, which can be drawn by the imperial guards.

Naturally, Sun Xin, the chief general of the Ningxia Town Imperial Army, was selected. As for whether the Li family considered that the terrain of Bozhou was complex and the imperial army might suffer losses, so it was unknown if it was operated and Sun Xin went there.

The Ningxia imperial guards dispatched two regiments. The Shaanxi imperial guards dispatched 300 artillery teams, including 1,000 model soldiers from Ningxia and Shaanxi, as well as 500 so-called volunteer cavalrymen with the main armed forces of the merchant regiment, gathering 6,700 people to enter Shaanxi, and traveling to Hanzhong to quell the rebellion.

For Shaanxi, the main forces in the war are not involved with the province. For Sichuan, "This is a guest army who came to help, and with Li Tao's friendship, the supply of food and grass is very convenient.

What's more, there are more than 6,000 people, and although there are a lot of supplies, they are not too large. Local governments can also raise funds, and there are people in Sichuan who are responsible for supplying them.

The army does not need to bear heavy food and grass. Accommodation and cost are welcomed along the way. The marching speed of the imperial guards can be mentioned to the highest level. The speed of the model soldiers and cavalry in each province is also not slow. From a series of memorials, central discussions to marching, in mid-May, the imperial guards entered Sichuan and arrived in Bozhou.

If it were not Wang Tong as the chief general, the rules of the court could not be changed. As usual, the civil servants were in charge, and the Governor Li Hualong had no choice. As for the military supervisor, Zhao Jinliang was inspecting and was directly arrested.

In the palace, it seems that the Emperor Long Sui and the Ministry of Yi’s great-grandfather took great care of the Emperor Zhao. Zhao Jinliang and the Emperor Zhao were so old that they had already worked in various important yamen in the palace. This is not all, they also had to go out of the palace to handle the work and accumulate experience. This time, the military supervision will definitely be a great achievement.

Sun Xin is a calm person, with a rare mature age among his peers. Such a personality is not a problem, but when it is important, he lacks some motivation and decision-making. For example, at this time, he is afraid that he will suffer losses in the unfamiliar terrain of Bozhou. The undefeated imperial guards is not just about military power, but also many other things. He cannot bear this responsibility. Of course, the emperor ordered the general, and he had no reason not to go.

Helplessly and nervous. Before leaving, Ji Xin sent a quick horse to send a letter to Wang Tong for instructions, asking Wang Tong to give advice. Wang Tong's reply was given when Ji Xin entered Sichuan. The letter said it was very simple, ""In the Ming Dynasty, there is no enemy that the Tiger Army cannot defeat. All you have to do is not underestimate the enemy, don't advance aggressively, and take the right path, push it to the enemy's nest step by step, and then seven...

This letter stabilized the situation. Wang Tong also sent a private message to Zhao Jinliang. It was also very simple, saying that the Ming Dynasty had been giving preferential treatment to the southwest chieftains for too long, so that they did not know how to be in awe. Don’t be afraid of killing this time. It is enough to establish authority before they can show their benevolence and benevolence.

Wang Tong had no private messages to Li Hualong, but the big businessmen from Sichuan and Huguang took the initiative to come to Li Hualong and were willing to help Wang Shi and do something within their ability.

The so-called support used to be to give money and grain, but the news provided by these big merchants to the imperial guards was not just this, and Bozhou was not a peach blossom land. If you want to survive, you have to communicate with the outside world. At least salt had to be bought outside. The big merchants in Sichuan and Chu made a lot of money between purchasing and selling here.

After going to Songjiang Mansion once, we had to show kindness to Wang Tong. This imperial guard is the best way to express kindness. Everyone threw out all the relationships of the past. In fact, although the government is gradually tightening now, there have been merchants selling salt and weapons to the Yang family. Moreover, behind this merchant, there are shadows of some bigwigs in the government. Anyway, we can't delay making money. Everyone thinks this is a little mess.

The first battle to wipe out the Yang family's imperial guards was not to fight with the Yang family, nor to fight with the Miao soldiers of the Yang family's alliance or bandits who took advantage of the situation to make trouble, but to go to Zigong to wipe out the largest salt owl in the area.

Sichuan salt production is extremely large, and Sichuan's salt gangs have their own system. In addition to smuggling into Huguang, the real huge profit is to sell it to all ethnic groups in the southwest. Villages in the mountains lack salt and are extremely expensive.

Before the Yang family in Bozhou rebelled, they first purchased a large number of salt goods, and then set rules with the salt owl at a high price, and continued to collect salt. Many Miao villages and Yao villages served him. This news has always been well known, but it was just pretending not to know. However, when the imperial guards arrived, everything was different. Sichuan merchants immediately sold the news as favors. The salt owl could mobilize nearly 3,000 people, which was quite difficult. The imperial guards only walked out half of the regiment.
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