Chapter 375 Abolishing Wu Xun and breaking up the ranks to solve Yunyang's troubles
In fact, there were not many important civil and military officials in Chengdu at this time, and even fewer among them were awarded by imperial edicts. Most of them were awarded as a group and were not listed in the message. There will be no separate imperial edict in the future.
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Among them, the one who received the heaviest reward was naturally Li Yan, who was regarded as Zhu Auao's arm.
He was named Wu Chengbo, regarded as a military commander, and given the title of Governor of the Left.
His actual position is that of Supervisor of the Military Academy.
Then there is Qin Liangyu, who was promoted by Zhu Yu'a as a senior female general (minister) - she had been named Zhongzhenhou before, and this time she was named Prince Shaobao.
His actual position is the commander of the Chengdu Military School and the associate director of the Military Academy.
Ma Ke was awarded the title of sixth-grade Qingqi Captain. His actual position was the commander-in-chief of the Third Town of the Imperial Guard, with the title of Left Governor, and he oversaw the military affairs of the Chengdu Imperial Guard.
However, there are still some imperial guards, border guards, and garrison troops here in Chengdu.
Military power was actually controlled by Zhu Yushan (actually Fei Zhen'e Fang Zhenghua), Li Yan, and Ma Ke.
These are just necessary restrictions, not worries about who will rebel.
In addition, since Zhu Yulao established a new merit and title system, he abolished the previous martial arts and martial arts rank systems.
For one thing, the new military honors system will refer to some previous titles of military honors, such as Yunqi Wei and Qi Duwei. If the military honors system is not abolished, the two will be confused.
Secondly, Wu Xun and Wu Sanjie have long been completely reduced to a false reputation. Even in the late Ming Dynasty, civil and military officials did not care much about this false reputation.
Moreover, both of them correspond to civil and military official positions, so the calculation is more complicated. Zhu Yuao abolished the Wuxun and Wusan rank systems at Hao Guangming's suggestion.
As for the Wenxun and Wensan class systems, they chose to retain them.
One reason is that civil servants care more about these things, and the other reason is that it is too difficult for civil servants to be knighted through military exploits.
However, this time, the total number of civil servants awarded in the four provinces of Sichuan, Chongqing, Shaanxi and Guizhou is only a handful.
Those who were transferred to Nanjing are not included here. Those who were awarded separate imperial edicts mainly include the following——
Lu Daqi, the governor of Shaanxi and Gansu Province, was promoted to senior political official (sanjie) and was rewarded with some gold, silver and silk satin.
The generals and soldiers of the Shaanxi garrison in the 10th and 6th towns of the border army under his command were also rewarded.
Among them, the one with the heaviest reward was Li Ren, the commander-in-chief of the garrison, who was from the same clan as Li Yan, and was awarded the title of Cavalry Captain.
Then Wang Fuchen was named Yunqiwei, and Zhang Guangcai was named Enqiwei.
As for the remaining garrison generals and deputy generals, most of them are generals such as He Zhen and Bai Guangen who surrendered and returned to the Ming Dynasty. Those who originally had lords in the Ming Dynasty have naturally disappeared now. If they have not made corresponding contributions,
Zhu Aao did not seal her again, but only gave some symbolic rewards of silver and cloth.
In Sichuan, after Long Wenguang left, Chen Junchong participated in politics in northern Sichuan and was promoted to governor of Sichuan, and was promoted to Tongfeng doctor.
Magan, Chongqing, and Zhan Tianyan, Guizhou, were also promoted to Tongfeng officials, and were rewarded with gold, silver, silk and satin.
Then there were several generals who led the army independently - Zhu Hualong who guarded the Songfan Guards was awarded the title of Prince Shaobao, and Zhao Ronggui was given a symbolic reward of silver cloth.
Liu Zhenfan, the commander-in-chief of the First Town of the Border Guard Army who was in charge of military affairs in Guizhou, was granted the title of Linshui County Male.
The garrison generals and soldiers stationed in Guizhou and Chongqing also received corresponding rewards.
Li Dingguo, who was in charge of military affairs in northern Yubei, southern Shaanxi, and western Hubei, was granted the title of Ziyang County Male.
The generals and soldiers under him also received rewards.
Li Dingguo did not know that he had been knighted at this time, or even that Zhu Auao ascended the throne on May 25th.
In the afternoon of that day, he happened to relieve the difficulties in Yunyang and met with Xu Qiyuan and brothers Wang Guangchang and Wang Guangxing of Jingxi branch...
Historically, when Wu Sangui withdrew his troops from the Tongguan area in the spring of 1645, he conveniently used his status as a local official in the Ming Dynasty to coax Xu Qiyuan and the Wang brothers, who were ignorant of the outside world, into joining forces to suppress the bandits.
As a result, Xu Qiyuan and Wang Guangchang led their troops to Wu Sangui's camp and were detained.
Xu Qiyuan died unyielding, and Wang Guangchang surrendered to the Qing army.
However, Wang Guangxing, who stayed behind in Yun County, was unwilling to surrender to the Qing Dynasty along with his elder brother Wang Guangchang.
After the county seat of Yunxian County was deceived, he led some Ming troops who were unwilling to surrender to the Qing army and retreated to Fangxian County, south of Yunyang Mansion, and launched anti-Qing activities.
Later, some of the Shun troops retreated to Hunan and were not defeated until twenty years later.
In this time and space, because Li Zicheng was forced to fight against the Qing army in Hubei, the opportunity for the Qing army to contact the Yunyang Mansion and besiege the Ming army was delayed.
At the same time, Li Dingguo had already sent spies to Yunyang Mansion and informed them of part of the situation in the outside world.
In this way, even if the Qing army invaded Xiangyang Prefecture in March and April and sent a partial division to Yunyang Prefecture, they were unable to surrender this part of the trapped Ming army.
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Xu Qiyuan and Wang Guangxing saw Li Dingguo outside Yun County and read the edict he brought to supervise the country. They still found it incredible.
In April, a partial division of the Qing army with less than 10,000 troops entered Yunyang Mansion.
Although there are less than a thousand soldiers in the Eight Banners Army, and most of them are Han Banners, there is probably only one Niulu among the Eight Banners in Manchuria, and the rest are Ming or Shun troops who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty soon.
However, the Wang brothers fought with them in the wild and were defeated in several battles. In the end, they could only be trapped in Yunxian County.
This is because the army led by the Wang brothers was familiar with the geographical environment, otherwise it might have been directly wiped out by the Qing army.
Because the terrain of Yunxian County is relatively dangerous, the city wall has been raised and strengthened a lot in the past two years.
In addition, the road to Yunyang Mountain was difficult and the Qing army could not transport the Hongyi cannon for a while, so they could only focus on siege and divided their troops to Yunxi, Shangjin, Baihe and other counties.
Afterwards, the Qing army naturally tried its best to persuade Xu Qiyuan and the Wang brothers to surrender, and the treatment they offered was quite generous.
At that time, the three of them had already met several spies sent by Li Dingguo, but they still had doubts about the princess' supervision of the country and the defeat of Zhang Xianzhong's army.
But even so, the three men were still unmoved by the generous treatment from the Qing army - here, the role played by Xu Qiyuan, the Jingxi branch guard, was still very important.
It was under the influence of Xu Qiyuan in the past two years that the Wang brothers, especially the younger Wang Guangxing, understood some of the righteousness of their family and country.
On the other side, although Li Dingguo set out from Xing'an Prefecture in early May to come to the rescue, the mountain road was difficult to walk and the march took a lot of time.
Later, they were blocked by the Baihe Qing army and fought with them, which took several days.
So it was not until two days ago that he led the Fourth Town of the Border Guard Army to the outside of Yun County.
Yesterday, the two sides fought in the field north of the city. Xu Qiyuan and the Wang brothers could see clearly. In just a moment or two, the Qing army was defeated.
Under the pursuit of the border guards led by Li Dingguo, only a few hundred Eight Banners soldiers and one or two thousand Green Camp soldiers escaped.
The remaining six to seven thousand people were either killed on the spot by the border guards or became prisoners.
Among the Qing troops who were killed, there were even more than a hundred Manchu Eight Banners and two to three hundred Han Eight Banners!
Chapter completed!