My Pen Pal Zhu Yuanzhang

Chapter 234 It's time to clean up the toast
When Sun Er led his men to wipe out the Tusi's private soldiers, he noticed that a group of mountain people were gathered together not far away, waving iron hoes, sickles, axes and so on, and shouting:

"Kill them!"

"Kill the spy dog!"

A spy? Could he be someone from Annan?
Sun Er led his men and hurried over, "Fellow villagers, we need to capture the spy alive!"

Then when they pushed through the crowd and walked in, they saw Li Cang and Ruan Chengping, who were surrounded in the crowd. They had been smashed into a bloody mess and were only breathing out but not breathing in.

Looking at the two people lying in a pool of blood, Sun Er was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. He didn't know whether to praise the mountain people for their high awareness or scold them for being too reckless.

Zhao Hanzhong squeezed in and couldn't help but gasp when he saw everything in front of him. After confirming with Dao Han that they were Annan people, he hurriedly found the Dai doctor in the village. However, both of their heads had been smashed to pieces. Even if Hua Tuo were alive, he would be powerless to save them.

There was no choice but to interrogate the captured Yan Han and Yan Long overnight, and then got some shocking news!
The two spies who were beaten to death by Dao Han and other mountain people were actually Li Cang, the eldest son of Li Jixian, the Prime Minister of Annan, and Ruan Chengping, the confidant of Li Jixian!
After learning of the identities of the two, Zhao Hanzhong, Sun Er and others felt incredible. They did not expect that two such high-ranking and powerful people would come to Yunnan to instigate a rebellion against the chieftain.

Although it's a pity that he died, as we couldn't get any useful information out of him, he deserved it for causing chaos in the Ming Dynasty.

They could only continue to interrogate Yanlong and Yanhan, and learned that they had secretly contacted several chieftains when they came to Mansa Tea Mountain. Fortunately, in order to let Yanwen rebel with peace of mind, Li Cang told Yanwen the names and intentions of these chieftains in detail. As Yanwen's confidant, Yanlong also knew the details.

He immediately asked Yanlong to write down the list of chieftains, and Yanlong, seeing that the situation was hopeless, told Sun Er and Zhao Hanzhong that Yanwen had sent people to Balan Village and Muha Village overnight to mobilize troops and prepare for rebellion.

Several people were so frightened that they broke out in cold sweats. They thought they were just going to go to the countryside to show documentaries to the people, but they didn't expect to encounter a rebellion.

Among the dozen chieftains in Yunnan, Yan Wen is considered to be the most powerful one, with nearly 50,000 soldiers under his command. With eleven people and eleven guns, it is no problem for them to deal with a hundred people, but it is a pipe dream for them to deal with 50,000 soldiers.

Several people immediately decided to take Yanlong and Yanhan to the provincial capital overnight and report to their superiors.

Yan Wen had been shot in the head, but the village could not be left without a leader for a day. Anyway, the chieftain had been killed and his family had been arrested. Zhao Hanzhong decided not to use the chieftain anymore and directly found a respected old man in the village to be the head of the village.

They set off overnight, and with the spontaneous help of several mountain people such as Dao Han, they escorted Yan Wen and his family back to the provincial capital with projectors and other equipment, and then reported the matter to the Xuanwei envoy Liu Chengde.

Originally, this matter should have been reported to the commander-in-chief, but the commander-in-chief of Yunnan is Fu Youde, who is currently in Yingtian Prefecture.

When Liu Chengde heard this, he was also shocked. They had just lived a peaceful life for a few years, so why did those chieftains come out to cause trouble again?
This was a very serious matter. After some consideration, he ordered the commander-in-chief to gather the officers and soldiers of his garrisons and prepare to go to the Mansacha Mountains to suppress Yan Wen's troops. At the same time, he asked the radio station in the Xuanwei Office to contact other garrisons and distribute the list of chieftains who were planning a rebellion so that they could prepare to quell the rebellion.

At the same time, he also asked the Radio Station to contact the Guangxi Provincial Administration and the Qiandi Wusawei Command, asking them to pass the news to Yingtian Prefecture as soon as possible.

Speaking of which, although earth-shaking changes have taken place after the Ming Dynasty entered industrialization, Liu Chengde still feels that the most magical thing is the radio handheld station.

This thing can transmit sound through the air, allowing two people who are hundreds of miles apart to talk to each other instantly. It is almost the same as the mythical sound transmission over a thousand miles.

With the radio handheld station, the connection between the Xuanwei Office and its subordinate prefectures and counties has been unprecedentedly strengthened, and many government affairs that were difficult to complete before can now be effectively solved. In his correspondence with Li Han, Zhu Yuanzhang deeply realized that the stability of the regime lies in the solidity of the grassroots governance. For a long time, the national policy of the Central Plains dynasty that the imperial power does not go to the countryside was actually more of a helpless move.

On the one hand, it is because China's territory is so vast that it takes at least several months for a government decree to reach all parts of the country from the capital, and the lack of communication of government decrees has become a chronic problem.

The second reason is that the power of local clans is too strong, especially in the south, which is less affected by nomadic attacks than in the north, and the clans are preserved intact. Often, the prestige of local officials is not as great as that of clan leaders.

This problem is more prominent in coastal areas, especially in Jiangnan, southern Fujian and Guangdong!

Governance at the grassroots level often requires a lot of manpower and material resources, the administrative costs are too high, and there is no effect, so many dynasties just let it go.

Almost every once in a while, Li Han would send a large number of radio handsets, which effectively alleviated the stubborn problem of government orders not being implemented and enabled Yingtian Prefecture to gain unprecedented control over the county and township levels across the country.

Today, radio networks have spread all over the country. Basically, every county government is equipped with a radio station to convey government orders.

In places where it is impossible to equip radio handheld transmitters, express horse stations will be set up to ensure that the stations can transmit messages to the nearest radio station in the shortest possible time.

Such a huge radio communication network constitutes the basic framework of the Ming Dynasty's governance, which is efficient, convenient and effective.

Soon, the Yingtianfu Radio Bureau received the news from Yunnan. Upon hearing the news, the entire Radio Department was in an uproar.

After the Radio Department and the Ordnance Bureau and other institutions were merged into the Industry Department, the Radio Department was reorganized into the Radio Bureau, which, like the Ordnance Bureau, was a subordinate department of the Industry Department.

But they were not terrified. Instead, they were surprised and felt a sense of absurdity. The chieftain's rebellion was suppressed by a small flag. This sounded quite interesting.

But no matter how you look at it, this is a big deal. The chieftain still has troops under his command, so he quickly reported it to his immediate superior, Liu Sanwu, a fifth-rank official of the Industry Department.

After Liu Sanwu received the news, he was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, but he still diligently reported the news to Li Min, and then Li Min went into the palace to report it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

"What? How dare the Annan people conspire with the chieftain to rebel?"

When Zhu Yuanzhang received the news, he was furious. His officials did not know that Annan was plotting to attack Laos, and did not know the seriousness of the matter, but Zhu Yuanzhang was well aware of the severity of the matter.

The purpose of Annan's move is very clear, which is to use the chieftains to distract the Ming Dynasty's attention so that they can invade Laos unscrupulously!

He was well aware that the chieftains did not submit to the Ming Dynasty's rule. However, after Fu Youde conquered Yunnan, given that the main threat at the time was in the north, for the sake of local stability, he did not carry out further crackdowns on the chieftains.

As long as the chieftain did not cause trouble, he would have turned a blind eye to it. But now, the Annan people were so bold that they actually set their sights on the chieftain, and the chieftain was so bold that he really thought that he, Zhu Yuanzhang, would not dare to deal with the chieftain?
Looks like it's time to deal with these local bullies!
(End of this chapter)