Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 811 Moving Boundary Pillars
Zhennan Pass.

"The Han Dynasty set up a pass here. It was originally named Yongji Pass, and later renamed Jieshou Pass and Da Nan Pass. In the early years of Hongwu in our dynasty, in order to consolidate southern Xinjiang, the pass was rebuilt into a two-story gatehouse, and later renamed Zhennan. Pass. On the steep wall of Jinji Mountain, several fortresses were built to control and close the gate. When the sea route was not prosperous before, this was an important pass through Jiaozhi, and it was a fortress in southern Xinjiang."

The mountains overlap, and the valleys are deep and forested.

Yang Lian, a guerrilla general stationed at Zhennan Pass, introduced to Zeng Ying, the admiral of the Guangxi Defense Battalion.

Zeng Ying is a native of Sichuan, a scholar, with a good family background. He is known as Mr. Zeng.

There is also a big hideous scar on his handsome face, which was cut by Zhang Xianzhong with a knife when he was defeated by Zhang Xianzhong in his early years, but he survived the catastrophe and was rescued by a chieftain's daughter Dong Qiongying after jumping off a cliff and throwing himself into the river , and brought a battalion of chieftain female barbarians to help him go out to recruit soldiers and buy horses, and finally defeated Zhang Xianzhong several times.

After the ups and downs of the past few years, Mr. Zeng is now serving as the admiral of the Guangxi Imperial Battalion, and it is obvious that he is much calmer.

In the land of Shu, warlords from all sides fought in a scuffle. Mr. Zeng had a hot temper, and if he disagreed with him, he would start a fight. It was also related to the environment. At the beginning, he led a mutiny to rebel against Wen Anzhi, but in the end he was invited into the urn by the emperor and captured by a scholar. , Send it to the capital to listen to the emperor.

Fortunately, the emperor did not kill him, but let him sit on the bench in Beijing for a few years, and then went out to fight a few battles for a short time. It was not until this year that he was finally officially released again, and he was directly the admiral of the Guangxi Imperial Battalion. It made him unbelievable. He thought that he would have to sit on the bench in Beijing for the rest of his life until he died.

"Wow!"

There was the sound of horns.

"There are Yue people coming from outside the pass."

Zeng Ying looked at Yang Lian, then at Guanshang and the fort on Guanwai Mountain, very calm.

Just relying on these huge cannons, as well as the firecrackers of the guards, no matter how many Annan people come here, they have to fill the ravine here.He even has a long-lost impulse in his heart, which has been held back for a long time in the past few years.

A group of cavalrymen galloped to the pass at night.

"It's a group of nearby villagers."

"Are they here to trade in the mutual market? Tell them, during the war, their entry into the mutual market is suspended."

Captain Yebushou entered the customs and came to report to Zeng Ying face to face.

"Those people are not here to trade, they have other business."

"what's up?"

"They came to sue, saying they wanted to sue General Yang Lian."

Zeng Ying looked at Yang Lian, "Does General Yang know what's going on?"

Yang Lian was confused and even felt innocent.

He has been guarding Zhennanguan for more than a year, but he is not from Guangxi, nor is he from the old army of Guangxi. He is from Taizhou in eastern Zhejiang and a soldier of Haimen Guard.Wu Kai's servant was the first to come from. At the beginning, the emperor called himself the supervisor of the country, and the first stop from Haining to the south was the Haimen guard.

The Haimen Guards have more than 5000 guards, and the Haimen Association Battalion has 120 battalions, but when the emperor arrives, there are only [-] soldiers who can fight. These are the servants of Wu Kai and his officers.

As a general, Wu Kai had twenty servants, and Yang Lian was one of them.

Following Wu Kai with double pay, he was still doing well at that time, engaged in smuggling and sometimes even cheated and so on, but he couldn't say about his future, anyway, he just cheated and waited to die.It was after meeting the emperor that he followed Conglong to raise his troops, from a servant who was eating and waiting to die, all the way to the guard of Zhennan Pass in the Guangxi Imperial Camp, and from the military officer of the third rank.

He has a team under him, more than 1000 brothers, they are the elite of the imperial camp.

Being able to get to the present is not only due to the good deeds of his ancestors, which allowed him to meet the emperor who had just started his army, but also because of his good luck and bravery in battle.

Anyway, Wu Kai is now a hereditary prince and governor. Of the [-] servants he served back then, nine of them are still alive, and at worst they are guerrilla generals like him.

Back then, there were 120 servants in the Haimen Camp, who followed Wu Kai to follow the emperor, and now there are dozens of generals.

After coming to Zhennanguan for more than a year, Yang Lian is still very down-to-earth and willing to work, and he also pays attention to his status. He has never done such things as eating soldiers' pay and blood, secretly smuggling or even suppressing bandits and eating gangsters, and he has no chance to do it.

Although he is a guerrilla, but as a chief officer, he has two battalions under his command, but the military officers are also interlocking and supervise each other. He can't mess around like Wu Kai before.

"Junmen, the last general doesn't know what they are."

Zeng Ying asked the captain Yebushou, "Bring them in. The admiral will come to inquire in person. If you have something to do, you can confront Yang Gueran face-to-face."

Those Annan people were taken into the customs.

They were brought before Zeng Ying. Zeng Ying found that these people were black and thin, and they were no different from Guangxi people. Especially their clothes and even their speech were all Chinese with a local accent from Guangxi.

It's actually Chinese.

Zeng Ying has been sitting on the bench in Beijing for the past few years, and has made a big achievement, that is, he has learned Mandarin so well that he doesn't even have the slightest Sichuan accent.

Most people can't understand the Han dialect at Zhennan Pass, but if you listen carefully, you can tell that it is indeed Han dialect.

"Don't worry, tell me slowly, who are you, and why do you want to sue Yang Gueran? This town is Zeng Ying, the admiral of the Guangxi Defense Battalion. You can tell me anything."

Zeng Ying basically couldn't understand what those people said, so he asked someone to translate it for him.

"We heard that recently we are forming regiments to train village soldiers. Many villages have issued swords, guns, bows and arrows. The selected ones also have salaries and rations. Why don't we have any?"

Yang Lian looked at these people innocently.

"Recently, along the border, we have indeed organized training regiments to train rural soldiers, distributed weapons, organized border patrols, etc., and will also give some subsidies, money and food to the rural soldiers when they are on duty, but this is only for the Han people in the pass."

"We are also Han people. Our ancestors have been Han people for generations."

Those mountain people refused and said angrily.

"We have always been the people of Ming Dynasty, and we are also Han people."

"But aren't you in Guannan? Just now you said you lived by the Qiqiong River in Tongdeng."

"The whole of Annan is the territory of Ming Dynasty, and it has always been under the jurisdiction of Annan."

The mountain people are in a hurry.

Why should they be treated differently at the gate? They also have many relatives and friends who have hereditary marriages, and they have all gained a lot of benefits.

Money, clothes, knives, guns, bows and arrows, patrols, food, etc., and it is said that if Zheng's spies are caught, there will be rewards.

They are envious.

Zeng Ying thought it was Yang Lian's soldiers who plundered and harmed the people outside the pass. He had already announced that Gaoping, Langshan and other places outside Zhennan Pass were bounded by the watershed, and the river flowing northward reached the source. They all belong to Daming.

Therefore, in these places, the Ming army cannot have intrusive behavior.

Who knew that after talking for a long time, those mountain people actually saw that their relatives and friends here had benefits, but they didn't, so they were dissatisfied.

Zeng Ying also inquired and found out why these people claimed to be Han Chinese.

If you want to say that Annan, in fact, has been the land of the Central Plains for a long time.

The Qin Dynasty sent troops to Lingnan, and began to set up counties and counties in Annan for management. Later, the Han Dynasty destroyed the Nanyue Kingdom of Zhao Tuo, the Qin official Zhao Tuo, who took advantage of the chaos in the end of Qin Dynasty, recovered Lingnan Jiaozhi, and continued to establish counties and counties for management.

At the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms era, the local Han clan in Jiaozhi took the opportunity to separatist, but in the end they were conquered and controlled by Soochow. Later, Cao Wei sent troops to occupy Jiaozhi, Jiuzhen, and Rinan counties. Sima replaced Wei, and the Western Jin Dynasty continued to rule Jiaozhou. three counties.

Although the Central Plains were in turmoil during the Song, Qi, Liang and Chen dynasties in the Southern Dynasties, the natives of Jiaozhou took the opportunity to rebel, but they were basically suppressed. After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, Li Fozi separatized Jiaozhou, and the imperial court sent troops to fight against it. The Tang Dynasty continued to control Jiaozhou in place of the Sui Dynasty.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the local tyrant Qu's family in Jiaozhou held the post of Jinghai Jiedushi and competed with the Southern Han Dynasty in Lingnan. After the Southern Han Dynasty destroyed Qu, the local generals in Jiaozhou still rebelled and fought.

After the Southern Han Dynasty was defeated at Baiteng River, Wu Quan established the Wu Dynasty.

After that, it went through Wu Dynasty, Ding Dynasty, Qianli Dynasty and then Li Dynasty. The Li Dynasty was established in the second year of Dazhong Xiangfu in the Northern Song Dynasty. In 1009, the Li Dynasty defeated the invading Dali army. North Korea also took the opportunity to invade and occupy Guangyuan Prefecture.

During the Xining period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Li Dynasty sent troops to invade Guangxi, and then Song Jiang counterattacked and attacked the Fuliang River area, and finally the two sides negotiated a peace.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Emperor Yingzong of Li Chao was granted the title of King of Annan, and the name of Annan Kingdom began.

The Li Dynasty was followed by the Chen Dynasty. The Mongols and Yuans once captured Shenglong City, the capital of the country, but later the Mongolian army retreated due to the heat in Annan.Later, Kublai Khan sent troops to conquer again, broke through Shenglong City, and then withdrew his troops. After three expeditions, the Yuan army was defeated in Baitengjiang, and the two countries no longer attacked each other.

Until the Ming Dynasty replaced the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang and the Chen Dynasty sent envoys to each other, and the Ming court also canonized Chen Yuzong as King Annan, establishing suzerain-vassal relations.

But after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, in the first year of Jianwen, the last Shaodi of the Chen Dynasty was abolished, and Li Jiyao established the Hu Dynasty.

After claiming to be Yu Shun of China, he changed the name of the country to Dayu, because he later sent troops to invade Champa and forcibly cede the country. In the first year of Yongle, Champa complained to the Ming Dynasty, and Zhu Di sent envoys to question him.Later, the Hu Dynasty expressed his respect, and Hu Hancang was awarded the title of King Annan by the Ming Dynasty in the name of the grandson of the Chen Dynasty.

But then the relationship between the two sides took a turn for the worse. The Ming army sent [-] troops to escort Chen Tianping, the descendant of the clan of the Chen Dynasty, back home, but was intercepted and killed by the Hu family. In the western capital of Huafu, the Hu family and his son fled and were finally captured and killed by the Ming army.

The Hu Dynasty was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty, and Vietnam’s territory was recovered. The Ming Dynasty directly established the Three Divisions in Vietnam, renamed it Jiaozhi, and directly governed it.

However, Cochin Province only lasted for 20 years, and was eventually abandoned by Zhu Zhanji, who abolished the Cochin Chief Envoy, made Li Li the king, and became a nominal vassal state.

Li Li was a wealthy family in Qinghua. He claimed to be King Pingding and rebelled against the Ming Dynasty. He fought with the Ming army for several years, and finally the Ming Dynasty decided to stop the army.

After the establishment of Le Loi, the Le Dynasty was named Dai Viet, and the Le family paid a tribute to the Ming Dynasty for three years. The Ming Dynasty did not interfere in Vietnam's internal affairs.

However, the Hou Li Dynasty soon weakened. When Jiajing arrived, Mo Dengyong, a power minister, came out. He was born in a reckless family, but he became a general of the Hou Li Dynasty step by step, and eventually usurped the throne and established the Mo Dynasty.

After Mo Taizu proclaimed himself emperor, the Ming Dynasty intended to restore the Li clan, so Annan finally formed the Southern Dynasty Li clan ruling the south of Qinghua, and the Mo clan ruling the north of Shannan. The two sides fought for about 70 years.

In the 20th year of Wanli, the Southern Dynasty invaded the capital of the Mo family, Shenglong, beheaded the emperor of the Mo Dynasty, and later Li moved back to Shenglong. After North Korea intervened, the Mo family kept the land of Gaoping.

Although the later Li Dynasty still ascended the dragon, the Zheng family controlled the government, and the Li family was just a puppet. Later, the Ruan family raised troops in the south, and then became a separate regime between the north and the south. The Mo family in Gaoping also survived, and the Wu family in Xuanguang , formed such a separatist regime that has not ended for 60 years.

From the Chen Dynasty to the Li Dynasty, the Later Li Dynasty to the Mo family, and then the restoration of the Later Li Dynasty, the relationship between Daming and Annan was friendly at the beginning of Taizu's time, and even listed as a country without conquest. One tribute per year.

But later Li Dynasty’s disrespect in Zhu Di’s time was wiped out by Zhu Di’s troops. However, it was only 20 years since the establishment of the province. The Ming army lost troops in Annan and lost its generals.

Although the direct establishment of provinces to govern failed, the Ming Dynasty never really got along with Annan after that.

After the Li Dynasty defeated the Mo family, they would preserve the remnants of the Mo family, and they would not be unified anyway.

From the Qin Dynasty to the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Central Plains had been directly controlling Jiaozhi, setting up prefectures and counties for management, and also relocated many Han people.From the Five Dynasties to the Ming Dynasty, although the Southern Han, Song, Meng, Yuan, and Ming in the Central Plains used troops against Jiaozhi many times and broke their capitals again and again, they failed to conquer them again.

The Ming Dynasty briefly set up a province for 20 years, but finally gave up.

But even so, Annan and China are in the same language country. At this time, there are five such countries in the same language, Ming Dynasty, North Korea, Japan, Liuqiu and Annan.

They all use Chinese characters, and they all accept Confucianism. Even in many official positions, they are basically Chinese.

The Ming Dynasty directly ruled Annan for 20 years, and naturally there were many immigrants.

These mountain people on the border claim to be Han people, but there is nothing wrong with them.

"In that case, let's form a group to practice!" Zeng Ying generously agreed to their request.Anyway, he has already classified Gaoping and Lang Son into Daming, and these people are of Han descent, so it is no problem to organize a team for training.

He even rewarded them with some cloth and silver taels.

A group of people went back excitedly.

After a few days, all the villages along the Qiqiong River in Lang Son knew about it, and then many villages also came to ask for the group to practice and distribute money and food.

Some are of Han descent, some are of Miao nationality, and some are of Yue nationality, but they all say that they are Ming people.

Zeng Ying selected some of them to join the group training, and the selected ones were given a set of clothes, shoes and hats, and some money and food subsidies.

Many villages in the south of the watershed were also moved when they heard about it.

They also came to become a member of the Loyalty Regiment, and they also wanted to get a share of money and food, which was quite a lot.

Regarding them, Zeng Ying replied that they were in the south of Fen Shui Ling, which was not within the territory of Ming Dynasty for the time being.

But those villages are not satisfied with this reply. Why is there a mountain across the road, there are people with money, food, clothes and weapons on the opposite side, and if you catch Zheng Bing and you can still receive rewards, why can't we?

When these people went back, they saw the Daming Boundary Monument that had just been erected in the village on the other side of the mountain. They circled the monument a few times, and together, they dug out the boundary marker, and then ran across the mountain with them.

The next day, they ran over to find the regiment training militiamen who were still looking for the boundary marker, and said that the marker was behind their village, and now they were also citizens within the border of the Ming Dynasty.

The regiment training militiamen reported to the imperial camp, but the imperial camp did not accept it. They went over and saw that the boundary marker had indeed been moved to the back of the village in the south of the mountain.

This group of people directly expanded the frontier ten miles for Daming.

After waiting for Yebu to take it back to report, Zeng Ying waved his hand directly. Since these mountain people are loyal, how can they live up to them? From now on, they are the people of the Ming Dynasty.

The village on the other side of the mountain rejoiced when they got the reply, and the villagers who were targeted changed into regimental clothes and picked up their spears, feeling awe-inspiring.

The next day, the boundary marker behind the village disappeared again.A village in the south followed suit. They dug a boundary marker in the middle of the night and set up the back of their village.
Daming once again took the initiative to expand the frontier ten miles.

The villagers who erected the boundary marker proudly ran to report and asked for naturalization.

Then, the border markers of Guishun Mansion, Taiping Mansion, Siming Mansion, Pingxiang County, and Yongan Mansion on the border of Guangxi in the Ming Dynasty disappeared one by one, and then mountain people from the south came to ask for naturalization.

Daming expanded ten miles.

Daming extended the border for twenty miles.

Daming extended the frontier for thirty miles.

Daming stretches hundreds of miles,

Daming expanded the border for two hundred miles.

Before Zeng Ying sent a single soldier, the boundary marker on the southern border of the Ming Dynasty was inserted all the way to the north bank of the Cangjiang River. If Zheng Jun hadn't stationed many soldiers on the south bank, he might have crossed the Cangjiang River all the way to Taiyuan or Beijiang River. Then we left the northern mountainous area and arrived at the plain of Yimapingchuan.

(End of this chapter)