Author: Use your soul to aim

Chapter 160 Sun Chuanting

After receiving the imperial edict, Zhang Zongxian immediately ordered Zhao's staff to clean up the military fields of the guard station near Xi'an.

Presumably no one who is short-sighted would dare to ignore the governor's order at this time.

After completing the cleanup of military fields on three sides of Shaanxi and obtaining 500,000 shi of grain, Zhang Zongxian immediately accelerated the reclamation of land near Shuofang, Jiuyuan, and Guihua City.

Taking advantage of the fact that immigrants can now replant a season of summer grain, and with the opening of Taiping semicolons in various places, landless farmers from all over Shaanxi are constantly being sent to settlements outside the border wall.

All military households in Sanbiang Military Town were deregistered, completely dismantling the military household system.

The original plan was to inspect the military fields after the autumn harvest. Now that the inspection of the military fields has been completed, soldiers and horses from the three towns of Guyuan, Ningxia, and Gansu were mobilized to sweep away the Tatars.

The Legislative Army re-formulated its army expansion plan. The plan will expand the cavalry brigades to 20 and the garrison infantry brigades to 20 within one year. The field strength will be expanded to 200,000.

The shelf brigade has been expanded to fifty. With the operation of Governor Yanshou in place, and with the support of Governor Yanshou, the entire Yanshou Town will implement the policies formulated by Zhang Zongxian in Qingjian County.

Each county must organize young adults to conduct queue training during the slack time after the autumn harvest. The additional costs incurred by these trainings will be borne by Taiping.

In the following days, Zhang Zongxian stayed in Sufang City, training officers in the newly built academy and preparing for large-scale military expansion.

After entering June, the team led by Zhou Xiaoning, a direct disciple of the school, after experiencing countless failures, created a steam engine that can stably output power.

Originally, Zhang Zongxian thought that he could not make a usable steam engine without rubber. He just drew a rough diagram and explained its principles, then put it on the college task list and gave it to his disciples to work on.

Unexpectedly, these disciples actually made a steam engine. The disciple who made the steam engine was the same disciple who made the thermometer. They solved the sealing problem by directly soaking a rag with oil.

As for the cylinder body, it is made in cooperation with Diao Sanyi and made of new steel refined in Diao Sanyi's workshop.

Zhang Zongxian immediately rewarded Zhou Xiaoning's team, and then Taiping funded it to build a workshop for the production of steam engines. Taiping held 60% of the entire workshop, Zhou Xiaoning held 20%, and the rest was distributed to other team members.

With the advent of the steam engine, the production of steam trains was naturally put on the agenda.

Zhang Zongxian summoned the shopkeepers of the four major workshops, showed them the steam engine, and asked them to put the steam engine into production, using the power provided by the steam engine to replace human and animal power.

In July, Zhao's staff completed an inventory of the military fields of the Shaanxi Guard Station and obtained more than 450,000 taels of silver, about 50,000 shi of natural rice, wheat beans, and more.

At the same time, the construction of the horse-drawn railways from Guihua City to Dongshengwei and Dongshengwei to Shuofang City was also completed.

The soldiers and horses of the three towns also returned to their respective stations after two months of sweeping outside the border wall. After two months of sweeping, the soldiers and horses of the three towns lost nearly 10,000 people, and Zhang Zongxian could no longer arrange for them to fight outside the border wall.

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This reminds me of another turmoil during Tianqi's reign, the She'an Rebellion.

It seems to be the rebellion that broke out in Chongqing in September this year. This rebellion lasted for seventeen years and affected the four provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi. There were more than one million casualties, and large-scale fighting lasted for nine years.

This rebellion led to the Ming Dynasty's three-front war. Although it was finally put down, it caused great damage to the southwest. Zhang Zongxian, who pursued stability, naturally did not want this rebellion to disrupt his subsequent plans.

I just wanted to nip this rebellion in the bud.

Sichuan is bordering Shaanxi, so it is easy to send troops there, but now is the critical moment to control the three sides of Shaanxi. If you want to personally eliminate the rebellion, you must leave Shaanxi.

After leaving Shaanxi, I was afraid that the cabinet would cause trouble and send people to cause trouble. Without me to hold the battle, I was afraid that my political opponents would take advantage of me. So I had to recommend others to go. As for the candidate, Zhang Zongxian thought of Sun Chuanting.

It is said in "History of the Ming Dynasty" that "when Chuanting died, Ming Dynasty died." This is enough to prove Sun Chuanting's talents. If he were to quell the rebellion, he would be able to quickly deal with the rebels. Moreover, Sun Chuanting cherished the people and knew the sufferings of the people, so he would definitely be able to deal with it.

Relations between various ethnic groups in the Southwest.

The question now is how to tell Tianqi about this. After thinking about it for a long time, Zhang Zongxian decided to use Emperor Zhenwu to entrust him with dreams. He said that after Dongshengwei was recovered, the newly built Zhenwu Emperor Temple strengthened the connection between the human world and the fairy world, so that the emperor could entrust dreams to him.

He did.

Naturally, this kind of thing could not be reported, so he wrote a letter and asked Wei Zhongxian to report it to Tianqi secretly.

The letter stated that Emperor Zhenwu told Zhang Zongxian in a dream that there were chieftains in Sichuan and Guizhou who were bewitched by the snow demon and wanted to rebel. In order to prevent unexpected events, he asked Apocalypse to send ministers to prevent and deal with it. The three sides of Shaanxi can support 50,000 troops.

Go to.

Then Zhang Zongxian recommended Sun Chuanting to Tianqi, saying that his talents were enough to cope with the rebellion.

After Tianqi received the letter, he did not dare to neglect the matter of Emperor Zhenwu's dream. As for who to send to deal with it, Tianqi first asked people from Dongchang to investigate Sun Chuanting to see if Sun Chuanting had any contact with Zhang Zongxian.

Dongchang quickly reported that Zhang Zongxian had no contact with Sun Chuanting. Sun Chuanting was serving as magistrate of Shangqiu County at this time. He also had some objections to Zhang Zongxian's appointment as governor of the three sides and wrote a poem mocking Zhang Zongxian for being a supervisor.

Tianqi felt relieved this time. After all, Zhang Zongxian was already the governor of the three sides. If the people he recommended were of the same mind as him, wouldn't they be united when he took office in Southwest China, or would they be afraid of what would happen outside?

Tianqi was also very satisfied with Zhang Zongxian's proposal to transfer troops from the three sides to Sichuan, which showed that Zhang Zongxian was not greedy for power. Only by transferring Zhang Zongxian's elite troops away did Tianqi rest assured that he would control the three sides.

Soon Tianqi issued an order to summon Sun Chuanting to Beijing. After Sun Chuanting arrived in Beijing, Tianqi immediately summoned him. After asking a few questions about the southwest, Tianqi was also very satisfied with Sun Chuanting and immediately informed the cabinet to appoint Sun Chuanting as the chief minister of Sichuan and Guizhou.

Provincial Governor.

Fortunately, Sun Chuanting was an upright Jinshi, and the cabinet did not object. Naturally, they were very in favor of Tianqi's plan to transfer the elites from the three sides to Sun Chuanting. It would be best to transfer all the elites from the three sides, and Zhang Zongxian of the province would be able to make contributions.

Sun Chuanting, on the other hand, looked deceived. He didn't know why he was attracted by Tianqi and directly promoted him as a prefect to governor. However, Sun Chuanting did not dwell too much on this matter.

He began to seriously study the situation in the southwest, because Tianqi told him that the nobles and chieftains in Sichuan might rebel, and he was appointed governor to deal with these chieftains.

In the Wanli year, Bozhou chieftain Yang Yinglong rebelled, and the imperial court mobilized more than 200,000 troops to put it down. Sun Chuanting did not dare to neglect and seriously thought about how to deal with these chieftains.

The writing is so bad that I can't stand it anymore. The state is really bad.
Chapter completed!