In the Ming Dynasty, there were not many roads into Sichuan. As far as the water and land stations set up by the imperial court were concerned, there was only one road into Sichuan from Huguang, which was the Yangtze River Waterway.
If it is occupied by bandits, it will be very dangerous to enter Sichuan from Huguang.
Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but ask: "Can I take a detour? I really can't go to Changde Mansion?"
However, his idea was feasible after the Republic of China, but not now, because of the inconvenient transportation in the Pianyuan area (note: roughly the later Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Zhangjiajie and other places, the famous main theater for suppressing bandits in Western Hunan), and the chieftains and Miao
There were so many people that they basically left Changde Mansion and walked west for two to three hundred miles before entering the boundaries of the Yongshun Military and Civilian Propaganda Department and the Baojing Prefecture Military and Civilian Propaganda Department.
This is the territory of the chieftains in western Hunan, and as we all know, the mountains in western Hunan are famous for their strangeness, danger, and steepness. There are also some mysterious local customs and legends, such as driving corpses and corpse kings. They have little contact with the outside world and treat strangers.
It's definitely not friendly.
Even if you are brave enough and have to go to western Hunan, you usually have to take the official post road of the imperial court. Then you have to go southwest from Chenzhou, pass through Zhenyuan Prefecture and enter Guizhou, then change to the northwest, go to Zunyi Military and Civilian Prefecture, and then go north to Sichuan - then
The place was the hometown of the chieftain of Bozhou. Thinking of the future Bozhou Rebellion, Gao Pragmatic subconsciously rejected it.
Liu Xin, on the other hand, was not timid about going to Guizhou. She said that her father Liu Xianjiu had conquered Guizhou and led Liu Wei to defeat the Nine Silk Barbarians, the Duzhang Barbarians and other giant barbarians, which shocked the barbarians. When the Guizhou side saw the flag of their Liu family, they
It's too late to show respect, how dare you make a bad decision?
But Gao Pragmatic refused to believe it, and he couldn't rest assured. If Liu Xian or Liu Wei came, he believed that they had such a deterrent effect. As for Liu Xin, it's hard to say. It's best not to take risks.
Since we can't take this road, let alone other detours, we can't take the detour from Shaanxi to Hanzhong and go south to Sichuan. That would be really cold. As for taking the detour through Yunnan...then why go to Sichuan? Wenshan, Yunnan
It was the most famous Panax notoginseng producing area in later generations. It was located close to the western border of Guangxi. He and Liu Xin might as well go to Guangxi together first.
Therefore, if you want to enter Sichuan from Huguang, you must take the Yangtze River, and if you take the Yangtze River, you must cross Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain.
This was very annoying. Gao Jianshi couldn't help but ask Zhang Jianxiu: "Near Jingzhou, if I remember correctly, there should be at least two guards and horses of Jingzhou Guard and Jingzhou Right Guard. Isn't it easy to suppress a water bandit?"
Theoretically speaking, one guard of the Ming Dynasty had 5,600 soldiers. If there were two guards, that would be an army of more than 10,000. It was enough to suppress any water bandits. You must know that these were just Yangtze River water bandits, not like Zheng Zhilong later.
One Piece.
Zhang Jianxiu coughed dryly and said: "Well, I beg you to be honest, you don't know something. Although Jingzhou has two guards, they actually don't have many troops. The two guards are seriously lacking, and the Jingzhou guards usually don't go out to fight - for example, our Zhang family
It’s the military status of Jingzhou Guard.”
"How many soldiers do the two guards actually have?" Gao pragmatically asked.
"I'm just kidding, how can I know the real numbers here?" Zhang Jianxiu smiled bitterly and said: "But if you really want to ask, I can still make a rough estimate... The two guards can mobilize up to three or four troops in Jingzhou.
Thousand, uh, I guess four thousand is probably very high, so three thousand is safer."
Gao pragmatic was surprised: "The two guards combined are only three thousand? Isn't this too little? Only a quarter of the real number is left?"
Zhang Jianxiu smiled bitterly and said: "This is not bad. Some of the guards have fewer actual numbers, and the two guards in Jingzhou have sent about a thousand people to serve as squadrons. They have been garrisoning in Guangxi for at least six or seven years. He has served as governor of Yunyang several times.
The imperial court said that Jingzhou was empty and requested that the Ban army be transferred back to defend the area, but the imperial court never agreed."
Although Jingzhou is part of Huguang, it is now under the control of the governor of Yunyang. Since Yunyang controls the Han River, is connected to Qinba, and is adjacent to the four provinces of Hubei, Henan, Sichuan, and Shaanxi, merchants have gathered since ancient times and became the four provinces.
It is a commodity distribution center, economic and cultural center at the intersection; in war years, military strategists must fight for it, and wars are everywhere, and the disasters are doubled. Therefore, in the past dynasties, Yunyang, located in the middle of the country, has been peaceful and safe, and turbulent.
Chaos. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Zicheng, Hong Chengchou, Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong and Jiaqing all paid great attention to Yunyang.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang knew that Yunyang, with its big mountains and deep valleys, was prone to military chaos, and chaos would bring unrest to the world! So he ordered the people of Yunyang to be expelled, and Yunyang was designated as the largest forbidden mountainous area in the country.
This ban, which lasted for nearly eighty years, certainly hindered Yunyang's progress with the times, making it closed and backward; but on the other hand, it also allowed the ecology of Yunyang, which had been devastated by war in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasties, to recover.
The Qinba Mountain Area is a contiguous Nanshan old forest from Lueyang and Fengxian in Shaanxi to twelve counties in Yunxi, Hubei, from Ningqiang and Baocheng in Shaanxi through Sichuan to Zhushan, Zhuxi, Fangxian, Xingshan and Baokang in Hubei.
The county's contiguous Bashan old forest and other large areas of virgin forest have gradually recovered. Therefore, the history of the Ming Dynasty said that "between the three provinces of Huguang, Henan, and Shaanxi, there is a lot of open land, congested valleys, deep and dense forests, and there are grasses and trees in them that can be mined and eaten."
This kind of rich natural ecology provided a valuable place for survival and reproduction for the refugees all over the country in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. Therefore, from the Tianshun period to the Chenghua period, millions of refugees who lost their land in 20 provinces across the country came here to make a living.
.The imperial court sent large armies several times to exterminate and kill the people, but the refugees dispersed and reunited.
Under this situation, the imperial court ordered the establishment of Yunyang Prefecture in Yunxian County in the twelfth year of Chenghua (1476), which governed six counties of Yunliangzhu, Fangxian and Baokang to resettle the refugees on the spot. Especially in the 12th year of Chenghua
At the same time that Yunyang Prefecture was established in Yunxian County, in order to coordinate the management of refugees in neighboring provinces, a larger administrative agency - Huguang Xingdu Division (Yunyang Futai) was also established in Yuncheng, with the largest jurisdiction reaching Hubei, Henan
, Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces contiguous areas, eight prefectures and 62 counties.
There are good things and bad things. The military forces in the Yunyang governor's area are too concentrated near Yunyang, while Jingzhou seems much empty.
Gao Pingshi frowned and asked: "So there are no other troops near Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain? Are there neither the Qianhu Station nor the Hundred House Station?"
Zhang Jianxiu said: "Supposedly, there is. In Yiling Prefecture in the north of Huya Mountain, there is Yiling Qianhu Guard Station, and to the south there is Zhijiang Guard Qianhu Station. However, although these two Qianhu Stations are called Qianhu Station,
In fact, each place can have more than 300 soldiers at most. Huya Mountain and Jingmen Mountain are between the two of them, and they have a strong reputation for evil. The two Thousand Households are pushing each other, but they are not willing to provoke them anyway. When Zhou Zhan first came to Jingzhou,
, withdrew thousands of households from two places, but they couldn't really get them to go out to suppress the bandits. Both places took soldiers out and walked around for a while before going back. Zhou Kuan was so angry that he burst into rage, but there was nothing he could do."
Gao Pangshi rolled his eyes when he heard this, and said to himself: Although the guard posts in the border towns of the Ming Dynasty were bad, they were not this bad. At least they didn't dare to move if they were asked to send troops. In comparison, the guard posts in the mainland were simply bad.
It’s so muddy! I wonder if it will be the same in Guangxi?
Liu Xin saw that Gao Pingshi was so angry that he couldn't speak, so he asked: "I wonder how strong the Huyashanshui bandits are. Although the army's military strength is not sufficient, most of the army's suppression of bandits does not rely on military strength alone to win. This can be
Is there any other reason?"
When Zhang Jianxiu heard this, he raised his thumb and said: "Miss Liu really got the key point right away from the tiger girl. Speaking of it, this Huya Mountain Bandit really has some origins and is really not weak."
