Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Equalize the fields, set up officials,
Abandoned guards, stationed in the new army
After this set of procedures, Yunnan is the Yunnan of the Ming court, not the Yunnan of the Duke of Guizhou and the chieftain of Yunnan.

Why is the Mu family called the King of Yunnan?

Isn't it because the Mu family has guarded Yunnan for generations and has a lot of power and connections in the local area?
With the guard house abolished and the land converted to returnees, what power and connections does the Mu family have?

And how much power do the chieftains have left?

The Mu family and the chieftain are not disloyal to the court, but before being loyal to the court, they are more loyal to their own interests.

In this regard, they are no different from the gentry in the south, they are loyal to Daming and even more loyal to themselves.

After all, the imperial court cannot compete with the people for profit.

As for whether Li Shu will shed blood in this southwest barbarian invasion.
Excuse me, is Li Shu considered a citizen?
The gentry is the people, and the chieftain is the people!
This is also the reason why the Mu family and the chieftain were willing to introduce the barbarians from the Southwest into the country. So what if the people in Yunnan died because of the barbarians from the Southwest?

What the Mu family and chieftains lost was their hereditary rights and status!

"If everyone has no objections, then contact the barbarians in the southwest tomorrow, Toungoo, Siam, Laos, Annan, contact anyone who can be contacted, it is best to open a panoramic invasion!" Chen said calmly, but The viciousness in her eyes has proved that in order to secure her son's position as the Duke of the Kingdom, and to get her son back, she has not hesitated to gamble the whole of Yunnan.

Toasts, you look at me, I look at you, and finally nodded, no one in the group objected.

Daming’s 260 years of supporting scholars, but this does not mean that the chieftains have to give everything for Daming. If they can’t even keep their own power, why should they still be loyal to Daming?

When the Guizhou government and the chieftains reached an agreement, on the one hand, they secretly summoned the old ministries and recalled the disbanded old ministries, and on the other hand, they also sent people to contact Toungoo, Siam, Laos, Annan and other countries in the southwest.

However, in the face of the Guizhou government's invitation to share the wealth of the people of Yunnan together and ensure that everyone has a harvest, the countries in the Southwest reacted differently.

King Talong of the Toungoo Dynasty thought over and over again and finally chose to refuse. King Talong and the nobles of the Toungoo Dynasty knew very well what kind of behemoth Daming was, especially after hearing that Daming had the ethos of being a great ancestor. At this time to provoke Daming?

When Daming was weak, he already made a profit by swallowing some of the chieftains in Yunnan. Now if he provokes Daming again, if he provokes the master of Daming, wouldn’t he lose his wife and lose his army?
The Ayutthaya King of the Siam Dynasty and the Nanzhang King of Laos obviously did not want to get involved in this matter. After all, as small countries bordering the Ming Dynasty, these small countries are difficult to separate from the Central Plains Dynasty. Any turmoil in the Central Plains Dynasty will affect To these small frontier countries.

Therefore, they are very sensitive to any information about Daming, the suzerain state. Although the road is difficult and the news is blocked, the news of Daming can still spread to the border areas, so King Dacheng and King Nanzhang are very clear that this is an internal matter of the Ming Dynasty. It was a matter of the Ming Dynasty and the Mu family of the Duke of Qian, why did they get involved?
Although King Long, King Dacheng, and King Nanzhang didn't want to get involved, Li Weiqi, the emperor of the Annan Li Dynasty, didn't think so.

Annan, they never recognized themselves as Annan and Jiaozhi. They thought they were Huaxia Zhengshuo and Nanyue Kingdom.

Therefore, they have a fanatical desire for the land of the Central Plains, and they dream of restoring the territory of the ancient Yue Dynasty.

And how big is the coverage of the Ancient Yue Kingdom?
Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Hainan, Annan and other places all belong to the territory of the Ancient Yue Kingdom. What Annan is pursuing right now is to restore the prosperity of the Ancient Yue Kingdom. This is why Annan is so tempted. They are so eager for the land of Ming Dynasty.

In today's Annan, there is only a corner of Southeast Asia left. Today they still call themselves Nanyue, and they always covet the territory in the southwest of Ming Dynasty.From this, we can know how big Annan's ambitions are. They want to restore the glory of the Great Nanyue Dynasty, and they want to have the status and glory of a big country.

Therefore, facing the Yunnan Mu family's proposal to carve up Yunnan, Li Weiqi was moved.

Li Weiqi couldn't help but be indifferent. After all, whether it was Toungoo, Dacheng, or Nanzhang, they all took a large piece of chieftain from the former Yunnan and owned a large piece of land, but Annanque didn't get anything?

Ever since he was taught how to be a man by Emperor Chengzu, Annan has been going downhill. He has experienced the Li Dynasty, the Mo Dynasty, and now the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but Annan still did not give up his desire for the land of Ming Dynasty.

Since Xuande abandoned the Jiaozhi prefecture and county system, not only did Ming lose its Western advance bases, but it also led to the decline of Daming's status among Western vassals, and it also caused Annan's ambition to disturb the border.

There was no chance that Annan would disturb the side, not to mention the opportunity has come to him now!
Because of the land reform and the abolition of the guards, Mu Wangfu and Yunnan Tusi have a strong sense of crisis. They are willing to let the southwestern barbarians enter to protect their status. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity!

Before Annan couldn't get in, he thought that although Yunnan belonged to the imperial court on the surface, it actually belonged to the Mu family and the chieftain of Yunnan. They were equivalent to local warlords. They were not fighting for the imperial court, but to protect their own territory.

But right now, this territory is not his own, so there is no need to work hard.

After Li Weiqi was moved, he immediately expressed his willingness to cooperate with the Mu family and the chieftains. Of course, the Mu family and the chieftains also had to show sincerity.

"Land, Annan needs Yunnan's land, at least half of it!"

Li Weiqi proposed to ask for half of the land in Yunnan, but it was obviously a lion's mouth. Before the Mu family objected, the chieftains refused. Just kidding, they asked for half of the land in Yunnan. What is left for their chieftains?
After a dispute between the three parties, Li Weiqi also knew that only if he entered Yunnan, he could talk about the land. If he could not enter Yunnan, even if the Mu family and the chieftains gave him half of Yunnan, he would not be able to eat it. ah?

And the Mu family and the chieftains didn't want to continue arguing, so as not to give any excuses. After all, the Mu family and the chieftains only hoped that Annan would become the bandit, but they didn't intend to let Annan occupy the land of Yunnan.

After the three parties agreed to put aside this proposal for the time being, Li Weiqi raised another question: "The ones stationed on the border of Yunnan right now are the Ming's new army, how can we get in?"

Mu Jianbo of the Mu family said: "This matter is easy to handle. You disguised yourself as a caravan to enter the customs, and we also sent people to hide in the dark. When the time comes, we will attack from both sides. Wouldn't it be easy to win a checkpoint?"

The chieftains also expressed that they could help. After all, the fighting power of the native soldiers is not weak. The native soldiers hunting in the mountains of Yunnan are all good at archery, and they can use hidden weapons such as sentry arrows to ambush them. A level is very easy.

After the agreement was made, the three parties started to act
A few days later, in the middle of the night, the officers and soldiers of the new army who were standing guard at the Hekou Pass found a faintly approaching convoy in the distance. If you look closely, it was an Annan caravan holding torches.

"Who are you? Why are you here late at night?" the sentinel asked vigilantly at the checkpoint.

The caravan outside the pass shouted: "General of the Ming Dynasty, we are merchants, but we encountered robbers on the way and delayed our trip. It's late at night, can you let us enter the city?"

When the sentinel heard that it was the robbers he had encountered, he felt a little sympathetic, but he still said: "Military order, don't open the city gate late at night, and enter the city tomorrow."

The caravan outside the pass said again: "How about we rest by the city gate for one night?"

The sentinel replied: "It's okay to lean against the city wall, but not the city gate."

The caravan silently went under the city wall, untied the horses in front of the carriage and let them rest for the night. At the same time, the merchants of the caravan gathered under the Hekou Pass and raised a fire, leaning on the carriage and falling asleep.

The sentries at the checkpoint stared vigilantly at these Annan businessmen, and after confirming that they really seemed to be looking for a safe place to rest, they breathed a sigh of relief.

In the early morning of the second day, when the sentry at the checkpoint was about to open the city gate, they saw a caravan coming in from the pass. Their vigilance has relaxed a lot.

After all, ever since the imperial court began to abolish the guards in Yunnan and replaced it with new troops and distribute the fields evenly, after disintegrating the power of the Mu family, the Mu family has always seemed to be obedient. The imperial court also gave the Mu family enough preferential treatment, including various trade rights, etc. It can be said that they intend to exchange wealth and honor for the rights of the Mu family.

Therefore, the Mu family's caravan not only haunts the south, but also has business contacts with Western countries.

It is normal for the caravan of the Mu family to come now, the only strange thing may be why it came so early?
A sentry noticed that the guards seemed a little nervous, and couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with your faces?"

The shopkeeper of the Mu's caravan froze for a moment: "Is there something wrong with our expressions?"

The sentinel said with a smile: "Your face is a bit ugly, this is traveling overnight."

The shopkeeper showed an ugly smile when he heard this: "Ah, yes. There is no way to do this. The carriages are loaded with fresh goods. The owner has to hurry up and send them to Annan. The goods will not be fresh if it is too late, so the business cannot be done." Don’t tell me, you’ll have to be beaten.”

The sentinel looked at the shopkeeper sympathetically: "You have also worked hard."

The shopkeeper smiled and said: "It's not hard work, it's just like running a business. Get up early and come back late."

After noticing anything unusual, the gates on both sides of the Hekou Pass opened, and Annan's caravan and Qian Guogong Mu's caravan entered the checkpoint together. The sentry was still directing the two caravans to stagger forward, but suddenly a caravan The guard came out, and suddenly pulled out a knife and stabbed the sentry who was caught off guard in the abdomen.

The sentry widened his eyes and looked at the Mu family guards in astonishment. Aren't they all Ming people, aren't they all citizens of Ming Dynasty?

why?
The guard looked at the sentinel's wide-open eyes, and turned his head a little ashamedly. The next moment, the knife was pulled out, and the sentry fell to the ground with a plop clutching his stomach. The attack was also launched. The hundreds of new troops guarding the entire Hekou Pass launched defenses under the unexpected attack of the Mu family and the Annan barbarians. It was already too late. , a whole five hundred new troops died in Hekou Pass.

With all the new troops killed in battle, the shopkeeper of the Mu family caravan took off his hat silently. Seeing the corpses and bloody smell everywhere in the checkpoint, he frowned in disgust, and then said to the shopkeeper of the Annan caravan: "Our task Once it’s done, I’ll leave it to you.”

The shopkeeper of Annan's caravan smiled and said, "Don't worry, our army has been waiting thirty miles away."

The shopkeeper of the Mu family caravan looked at the barbarians who were still repairing the corpses to prevent someone from cheating, and waved, and returned with the Mu family's guards and carriages. At the same time, the chieftain's soldiers also quickly evacuated. At the scene, there was only an empty Hekou Pass and the corpses of [-] new soldiers who died in the pass.

The treasurer of the Annan caravan took off the merchant's clothes, revealing the leather armor inside. He moved his body, looked at the Annan soldiers who pulled out their armor and weapons from the carriage, and said loudly: "We are the vanguard of the army. , send out the signal, then rush into Daming, and plunder everything that can be taken!"

"Oh oh oh!!"

Amid the cheers, the Annan barbarians rushed out of the Hekou Pass brandishing swords, bows and arrows, and saw a small village within a short distance.

This is a quiet and peaceful village. It is early in the morning. The women in the village are washing their clothes by the stream, and the men are also preparing to plow the fields.

Even the people on the border of Ming Dynasty can live so peacefully and happily.

However, the rush of these barbarians instantly broke the tranquility of the village.

Accompanied by the screams, when two innocent children were killed by the Annan barbarians, the men of the village rushed out to resist the invasion of the barbarians, while the women and the elderly protected the children and hid in the village , but the men seemed too powerless in the face of the large number of barbarians.

When the last man was torn and slashed to death by the barbarians, these barbarians rushed into the unstoppable village with blood splattered all over their bodies and grinning grinningly.

Immediately, screams and cries of grief resounded in the village, and a mother quietly sent her pair of children to the cellar of the house to hide: "Don't come out, don't come out no matter what you hear, do you understand?" ?”

"Hide well, hide well, and report to the uncles in the military camp when the bad guys leave!"

As she said that, the mother stuffed her children into the cellar involuntarily, then turned around and took a hatchet to protect her house.

"What are you doing?!"

"Do you know that this is Daming!"

"What are you doing?!"

"I fought with you!"

Immediately afterwards, the grinning laughter of the barbarians and the cries of women sounded outside.

And a pair of children in the cellar hid in the cellar with their mouths tightly covered, even though they were terrified and burst into tears, they didn't dare to make a sound.

When the screams and shouts outside disappeared, the whole village returned to tranquility, but the two children still did not dare to leave the cellar until late at night the next day, when the hungry and thirsty children crawled out of the cellar and came into the What I saw was my mother's corpse. My mother was lying motionless on the ground, her clothes on her chest were torn and tattered, and there was a deep bone wound on her abdomen, but her head was always looking towards the house and towards the cellar.

Looking at their mother's cold body, the siblings wanted to cry but their voices were hoarse and they couldn't cry. They staggered out of the yard and found that the whole village was silent. Looking around, it was full of uncles, aunts and aunts. corpse.

The whole village was dead, and there were only the two of them left.

The desperate children collapsed on the ground, and did not get up from the ground until dawn and ran towards the barracks. They still remembered what their mother said, go to the barracks, and report to the uncles in the barracks.

One day, two days, three days. Traveling through mountains and rivers, eating wild fruits when hungry, and drinking stream water when thirsty, when the pair of siblings arrived at the barracks, they were already exhausted and inhuman, and were rescued by the new soldiers of the barracks. Only then did the captain of the barracks know that the barbarians had entered the country.

"What?! The entry of barbarians?! Why is there no news at the checkpoint ahead?!" The captain couldn't believe his ears, but the appearance of the two children in front of him did not seem to be fake.

But why didn't any news come from the chieftains?

And what about the checkpoints along the way?
The suspicious captain immediately sent sentry cavalry to investigate, and the sentry cavalry reported back a day later that Annan's barbarians had indeed entered the country, and so far, they had entered the country for several days!
"All the brothers at Hekouguan died in battle, and the brothers who patrolled along the way also died. Kaihua Mansion and Yuanjiang Mansion have fallen into the hands of barbarians!"

The captain was dumbfounded: "Why is there no news anywhere?!"

"Don't the Chieftain and the Duke of Qian know anything?"

But looking at the sad and indignant look of the sentry cavalry, the captain couldn't bear to say anything more, and immediately wrote a note and ordered people to rush to the capital for eight hundred miles, and at the same time summoned the soldiers in the battalion to prepare to defend against the enemy.

There are not many members of the new Ming army in Yunnan. Apart from the checkpoints, there are no more than a thousand people in his battalion right now, but even so, he has not forgotten his identity: "Beat the drums, gather the troops!"

Soon, people all over Yunnan knew that Annan's barbarians had invaded, and now the people were terrified, especially when they heard that two mansions had been captured by barbarians, and Annan's barbarians burned, killed and looted two mansions. After the mansion was burned to the ground, one after another dragged their families into the city, and now only the city wall can provide some comfort to the people.

The Mu family and the chieftain requested by the school captain to provide reinforcements were evaded by the two families. Because of the distribution of fields and abandoned guards, the Mu family bluntly said that they had no more soldiers and horses to use, and they could not help the new army at all.

And the chieftains also cried and complained that because of the reform of the land, the clansmen in the clan no longer listened to them. Now that the barbarians are invading, the clansmen are running and fleeing, and there is no way to provide reinforcements for the captain.

Seeing that the Mu family and the chieftains were unable to provide help, the school captain was anxious and had no choice but to write to the court again, asking for reinforcements.

At this time, Annan's barbarians had already arrived at Guangxi Mansion.

When the refugees from Guangxi Prefecture fled to Kunming, they told how the barbarians were brutal, raped and looted, burned and killed endlessly, villages were burned to the ground, cities were plundered, the city was full of blood and wreckage, and even the children were not released. Pass.
Annan's barbarians showed a brutal animal nature when facing the unarmed Ming people.