Both the civil servants and the military generals in this palace have a good understanding of Sichuan's geography and administrative divisions, so after taking a few glances, they couldn't help but admire it.

"What a great picture, what a great picture."

"In the past, such a detailed map could only be seen in the capital where military secrets were stored."

"With this picture, we can truly know what Sichuan looks like."

“···”

Because there were not many people, everyone praised softly for one or two words and then stopped.

Zhu Aelao asked: "Which member of the Qing family is willing to speak first?"

With the picture in hand, everyone became more active, and several people immediately wanted to get out of the queue, but were overtaken by Long Wenguang.

Long Wenguang said: "I have been serving in Sichuan for many years, and now I am the governor, so I am here to offer some advice."

The other people who wanted to come out secretly cursed after hearing this: You are already a governor and you are still offering advice?

Long Wenguang walked to the big map without thinking, and suddenly felt that this map gave him a better impression.

Men, who doesn’t like pointing out the country on a map?

Especially this beautiful big map.

After pondering for a while, Long Wenguang's eyes fell on the northeastern part of the map and said: "I used to participate in politics for northern Sichuan, so let me talk about these places in northern Sichuan.

Songfanwei in the northwest corner is a vast and dangerous area with no prefectures and counties. Most of them are Tibetan, Qiang and other chieftains.

Currently, the person guarding Songpan Guard is Deputy General (Deputy Commander-in-Chief) Zhu Hualong.

This man was from Hunan. Since the Tianqi period, he had participated in many wars to suppress chieftains from various places. He was promoted to the rank of deputy general. He was indeed a veteran general who was good at fighting.

In July, as soon as I arrived in Chengdu, I sent a message asking this person to bring troops to help. I don't know if something happened to the messenger on the way or for some other reason. So far, there is no news."

When Long Wenguang was talking about Zhu Hualong, Hao Guangming on the other side also quickly searched for Zhu Hualong's historical materials and read out the contents for Zhu Aelao's reference.

"Zhu Hualong, courtesy name Qingyun, was born in Chenxi, Hunan.

In the year of Tianqi, he followed Wang Sanshan to quell the rebellion of Shuixi chieftain An Bangyan and served as captain. He was promoted to the garrison of Yuanzhou, Hunan.

He also suppressed the Wumiao rebellion and was promoted to the post of Dusi.

Following Qin Liangyu's battle, he returned to his horse to guard his position. He performed meritoriously and was promoted to the rank of General of Huangling.

Later, he moved to the left to become the deputy commander-in-chief of the Coastal Defense Association, pacified the pirates on Changshan Island, and was promoted to the governor of Qianshi.

Because his mother was old, he asked to resign and return home. He was transferred to the Central Army as a deputy general and put down Chen Chaoming's rebellion in Hengzhou.

Later, on the recommendation of Chen Xingjia, he was given the title of Zuodudu, and became the deputy general guarding Songpan Guard.

Historically, he will regain Maozhou, Longanfu, and Weizhou this year and defeat Sun Kewang.

Later, Prince Su of the Qing Dynasty, Hao Ge, entered Shu and sent people to recruit him to surrender, but Zhu Hualong did not respond.

Emperor Yongli ascended the throne and granted him the title of Marquis of Ningxi.

Later, Zhu Hualong attacked Long'an Mansion twice and was defeated by Li Guoying, a Han general of the Qing Dynasty.

In the second year of Yongli's reign, Wu Sangui attacked Sichuan and Sichuan, and recruited high-ranking officials to surrender and accept the rebels. Zhu Hualong was betrayed by his adopted son Chen Jiasheng. The city was broken and he was captured. He died unyieldingly."

After reading Zhu Hualong's information to Zhu Yue, Hao Guangming couldn't help but sigh, the Ming Dynasty had a population of one or two billion, and there was really no shortage of talents, both civil and military, but it was a pity that the Ming court could select and use too few.

Zhu Aona didn't think too much about it. She just felt that Zhu Hualong was capable of fighting and loyal and filial. He was really a good general.

Then she asked aloud: "What does Governor Long think the Supervisory Office should do with Songfanwei?"

"This," Long Wenguang pondered for a moment after hearing the words, and then said: "Songfanwei is the Jisi Guard. Only those who are good at fighting can suppress the chieftains. Why not let Zhu Hualong continue to serve as Songfanwei's deputy general."

Zhu Yuyao nodded slightly after hearing this, but said: "Then I will send a decree to tell Zhu Hualong that I will be the supervisor of the country, and appoint him as the chief soldier of the Songfan Guard Army, and reorganize the soldiers of the Songfan Guard into the garrison. How about it?"

Long Wenguang immediately praised: "The supervisor of the country is wise."

Li Yan, Liu Linchang and others also nodded, thinking that this arrangement was okay.

This decree fully expresses the trust that the Supervisory Office has in Zhu Hualong. As long as Zhu Hualong is not too resistant to the princess' supervision of the country, the possibility of accepting it is still very high.

Of course, promotions and assignments are just small means. The victory in the Chengdu Battle and the two to three hundred thousand troops under the control of the Supervisory Government are the fundamentals to ensure the submission of all places.

"Where is Long'an Mansion?" Zhu Aao asked again, "Who are the current officials and generals?"

On the map, Long'an Prefecture is sandwiched between Songfanwei and Baoning Prefecture, and adjacent to Chengdu Prefecture to the south. It is not too big, but its location is quite important.

Long Wenguang said: "Long'an Mansion should now be headed by the prefect Zhan Tianyan. In addition, I heard that Zhao Ronggui, the general of Zhenqiang, retreated to Long'an Mansion after being defeated in the Battle of Zhongzhou."

"Does Governor Long know anything about these two people?"

Long Wenguang said: "I don't know much about it. I just know that Zhan Tianyan was born in Enliba Gong. It was only in the tenth year of Chongzhen that he filled the vacancy of the magistrate of Shiquan County in Sichuan. He was very good at internal affairs and was promoted to the prefect of Long'an in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen.

As for Zhao Ronggui, he was from Shaanxi and seemed to have been one of Fan Yiheng's generals.

He was quite good at fighting, but it was a pity that he had few soldiers during the Battle of Chungju, and was ultimately defeated by the bandit army."

Long Wenguang didn't know the details of Zhan Tianyan and Zhao Ronggui, but Hao Guangming found out.

"Zhan Tianyan, whose courtesy name is Tuanwu, is from Fujian.

In the first year of Taichang, a boy's examination was the first case in this county.

After that, he failed in many attempts until the first year of Chongzhen.

It took Chongzhen ten years to fill the vacancy of Shiquan County Magistrate in Sichuan.

At that time, Li Zicheng entered Sichuan and wreaked havoc. He captured 38 counties in Sichuan, and Shiquan County was one of them.

When Zhan Tianyan took office, the county town was in ruins and filled with refugees.

He summoned the small officials and businessmen in the village to study how to restore people's livelihood.

Then he borrowed money to recruit refugees, develop production, and alleviate the people's hardships. Not only did the people of Shiquan County settle down quickly, but even the people of Lin County heard about it and settled there.

At that time, he was promoted to Qingyang Prefecture for his outstanding political achievements.

But at that time, the remaining troops of Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were raging in northern Sichuan, blocking the road.

Inspector Chen Liangmo sent a memorial to request that Zhan Tianyan be appointed as Long'an's co-president.

Not long after, the prefect of Long'an happened to be dismissed from office due to corruption. Zhan Tianyan took charge of Long'an Prefecture as a fellow magistrate and was soon promoted to a regular position.

In the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Xianzhong captured Jianzhou and planned to attack Long'an, but he did not enter Long'an because he heard that Zhan Tianyan was an honest and good official.

In history, whether it was when Zhang Xianzhong occupied Sichuan or when the Qing army conquered Sichuan and Shu, Zhan Tianyan never surrendered, but always stood firm in northwest Sichuan.

At this time, he showed his extraordinary military talents. First, he recruited native soldiers to fight against Zhang Xianzhong, and then designed to defeat the Qing army and Han general Li Guoying, and stubbornly resisted the Qing army for seven years.

Later, when Wu Sangui conquered Sichuan and Sichuan, he first offered Zhan Tianyan a high-ranking official and a generous salary, but Zhan Tianyan scolded him and refused.

Later, Zhan Tianyan ended up like Zhu Hualong. He was betrayed by his subordinates and tied to Wu Sangui's army.

When he saw Wu Sangui, he yelled that Wu Sangui was worse than a jackal and a wolf for attacking his own people.

Wu Sangui's subordinates were so angry that they shouted threats. Zhan Tianyan cursed angrily, and was stabbed to death by Wu Sangui's subordinates."

After finally reading Zhan Tianyan's information, Hao Guangming couldn't help but sigh, "Historically, when your father died, he cursed the Ming Dynasty as ministers of subjugation, but little did he know that in the sun, moon, mountains and rivers, there are loyal people buried everywhere.

ah."

When Zhu Aao heard this, she didn't know what to say, she just felt inexplicably sad.

Then he let out a long sigh and said: "According to the decree of this palace, Zhan Tianyan is promoted to participate in politics in western Sichuan and concurrently serve as the prefect of Long'an."

Everyone in Chengyun Hall couldn't help but be stunned when they saw Zhu Auao not speaking for a while after listening to Long Wenguang's words, and then suddenly sighing and opening her mouth to promote Zhan Tianyan.

Li Yan, on the other hand, was more experienced as a matchmaker and quickly realized that it was probably Hao Guangming who had told the information about Zhan Tianyan's future generations.

And Zhan Tianyan was a capable and loyal person to the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Auao reacted like this.

Although all the decrees of the Supervisory Office now come from Zhu Aolao, unlike the official imperial court which requires the cabinet and six departments, Li Yan guessed the reason why Zhu Aolao issued the edict and still responded: "Yes."

Of course, this edict will not be written immediately - such a formal meeting will be recorded by a civil servant in the palace, and this matter can be handled after the meeting.

Although the rest of the people either partially guessed it or were completely puzzled, no one raised any objections.

Not to mention the generals, among the several civil servants, Liu Zhibo and Zhang Jimeng were both relatively upright.

But both of them knew Zhan Tianyan quite well, and Liu Zhibo had originally prepared a memorial before the national disaster in Jiashen, asking Zhan Tianyan to be transferred to the deputy envoy of the Inspection Bureau, the Western Sichuan Army Preparation Road, responsible for the fielding and training of troops in northwest Sichuan.

Now that Zhu Yu'ao directly promoted Zhan Tianyan to participate in political affairs in western Sichuan, it seems to coincide with his ideas.

After leaning a little, Zhu Aao said again: "Where is Zhao Ronggui? Who can tell me?"

She actually said this to Hao Guangming.

Immediately, Hao Guangming told Zhao Ronggui's information on the other side.

As Long Wenguang said, Zhao Ronggui was Fan Yiheng's standard battalion general when he prepared the Shaanxi army.

Zeng defeated Yao Tiandong and the Huanglong Rebel Army, and also defeated Li Zicheng.

During the Battle of Zhongzhou, the reason why Zhao Ronggui was defeated by Sun Kewang was not only because of the small number of soldiers, but also because of the lack of arrows, an important armament.

It's just that compared to Zhu Hualong and Zhan Tianyan, Zhao Ronggui's later resume was not so glorious.

In the first year of Longwu, that is, the next year, after he learned that the Hongguang court in Nanjing had been destroyed by the Qing army, he surrendered to the Qing Dynasty. He also led an army to defeat Zhu Hualong in Maozhou, forcing Zhu Hualong to retreat to Songfanwei.
To be continued...