The newly arrived Gao Jintai did not order to summon the chieftains of Western Guangxi. Naturally, it was not easy for the chieftains to leave the country and come to Liuzhou Mansion to meet him. However, this did not prevent the chieftains from finding ways to get close to Master Yintai so that they could get to know this young man.
What exactly does Yintai want to do with the Bazhai area?
At present, the governor of Guangxi, Zhang Ren, is seriously ill, and the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Liu Yaojie, supports the establishment of chieftains in Bazhai. As long as the high official agrees, then the matter is basically a done deal, and the chieftains can at most fight over it.
The family sent people to serve as chieftains in the Bazhai area on the central axis of Guangxi, but there was no need to worry that the imperial court would take this opportunity to gradually advance its power to western Guangxi.
Of course, if the imperial court insisted on advancing, the chieftain of Western Guangxi was not really panicked. In fact, as early as the 28th year of Hongwu, the imperial court had established Nandan Guards in Nandan Prefecture, a serious land in Western Guangxi, and
This guard was powerful, far more than the normal 5,600-strong guard, which put tremendous pressure on the chieftains in western Guangxi.
But only nine years later, in the second year of Yongle, the imperial court moved Nandanwei away and relocated it near Shanglin County to the east of Si'en Mansion (at this time, there were two Shanglin counties in Guangxi, this was the east one,
in central Guangxi), and later moved slightly again during the Zhengtong period, but generally it was still not far from the Bazhai area.
There were two reasons for moving the Nandan Guard at that time. First, the Bazhai area in central Guangxi continued to be unstable and there were frequent rebellions. It was necessary for the court to dispatch a strong force to suppress the area; second, the Nandan Guard was in the Nandan area because "the mountains are high and the forests are dense."
"The clouds are covered with poisonous snakes and insects, and the grass is luxuriant." "The poisonous rains have caused miasma to spread all over the land." "It is difficult to farm and it is really not a pleasant place to live." Therefore, fewer soldiers died in battle and more died from illness. It was not cost-effective, so they had to be transferred.
Therefore, the chieftains in western Guangxi were not afraid that the imperial court would go crazy and forcefully enter western Guangxi at all costs. They were only afraid that the imperial court would slowly advance from east to west through the continuous construction of new cities and towns, and rely on the establishment of new guard posts to gradually establish farmland.
This kind of encroachment is what they can't stand, because it means that the imperial power will slowly, firmly but unstoppably expand westward.
The current arrangement in the Bazhai area is a bellwether for them to understand the court's new attitude. In their view, if the court sets up chieftains in the Bazhai area, it means that the court is content with the status quo. If the court sets up floating officials in the Bazhai area, it may mean that
It was a sign that the imperial court would gradually move towards the west.
It was a matter of survival that no chieftain family did not care about, so a few days later, representatives of the major chieftain families gathered secretly in Longtan Town to discuss how to deal with the crisis.
This meeting cannot be called a meeting. It is just a meeting for representatives of various companies to express their opposition to the imperial court's establishment of floating officials in the Bazhai area. As for what happens if the Gao press station insists on not agreeing to the establishment of chieftains in the Bazhai area.
, and the imperial court finally believed his words, how the chieftains should respond was not mentioned publicly in this meeting.
No one has mentioned it publicly, but it does not mean that no one cares. After all, the permanent residence of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi is in Zhaoqing, Guangdong. This needs to be explained. The residence of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was in Wuzhou, Guangxi 45 years ago during Jiajing. It has been since Jiajing 45 years ago.
In Zhaoqing, Guangdong, not in Guangzhou anyway.
At this time, the official title of the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi was "Governor-General of Military Affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi, in charge of food and salary management, salt law, and governor of Guangdong Province." Therefore, when he was in Guangdong, he had the administrative powers conferred by the position of Governor of Guangdong, but when he was in Guangxi, he only had the title of Governor-General.
The military power conferred by his position, therefore, his influence on the administrative establishment of Guangxi was not necessarily more valued by the central court than the governor and governor of Guangxi.
In the courtyard of Longshou Lake in Jinghu Lake, there is a small building adjacent to the water unique to the south. There are four people in the building. They are the four remaining after the chieftain meeting. These four are different from other chieftains. They are real
Representatives of the four chieftain families who have the most say on the Bazhai resettlement issue.
In addition to the Seventh Young Master and Miss Huang who were there that day, two other people also stayed, one was Zhao Lizhong, the second master of the Zhao family in Sien Mansion, and the other was Mo Chen, the eldest son of the Mo family in Qingyuan.
If Bazhai is set up to be managed by native officials, the families represented by these four people will have the opportunity to become hereditary chieftains in Bazhai area, so a closed-door meeting was held here.
Although this place is the annex of the Huang family, and Miss Huang is the convener, it was still the seventh son of the Cen family who spoke first.
The Seventh Young Master is still as handsome and handsome as that day. He is holding a gold-painted black-bone Japanese fan (that is, a folding fan) in his hand. He is wearing a white gown with gold embroidery that only chieftains can wear in Guangxi. At this time, he is speaking slowly but with profound meaning.
"Mr. Zhao Er, if your family doesn't think about how to squeeze out the official magistrate of Si'en Mansion, so that you can be the master of Si'en, but you just focus on the land of Bazhai, I really don't understand...
…Do you think the imperial court would be willing to see the Zhao family’s forces so unified?”
The second master Zhao, Zhao Lizhong, had a sarcastic look on his chubby round face, and said with a smile: "Although the co-prefect of Si'en Mansion may not sound as good as the prefect of Si'en, the imperial court in Si'en is nothing more than a clay sculpture-like prefect.
The only court garrison in Si'en Mansion is far to the south of Si'en. Besides, there is only one Wu Yuan guarding the Thousand Households, less than a thousand soldiers. What's the use? Who doesn't know that Si'en Mansion is my Zhao family?
It has the final say...why, your father still misses the old land of his ancestors?"
Master Cen Qi was not angry after hearing this, and waved his hand and said: "Master Zhao, there is no need to provoke me. Although Si'en is the old place of the Cen family, it has been lost for fifty or sixty years. Besides, it was not lost by my Sicheng branch.
What is there to remember about my father? I'm just worried that my brother will follow in the footsteps of Cen Meng and expand with all his strength, attracting the imperial army. It's fine that Mr. Zhao Er doesn't appreciate it, but why are there so many doubts? My father has always been indifferent to these things.
Interested, doesn’t Mr. Zhao Er know about it?”
Mr. Zhao Er chuckled and said, "Since your father is not interested, I don't know why you are here, Seventh Young Master?"
The Seventh Young Master sighed: "Of course I don't want to make this trip, but as long as there are matters related to the chieftain, I, Mr. Cen, will always be in trouble. I can't be lazy even if I want to."
As soon as he said these words, the expressions of the other three were a little unkind - have you really decided that Mr. Cen is the king of chieftains in Guangxi? In all matters related to chieftains in Guangxi, you, Mr. Cen, are indispensable.
Come forward?
However, everyone could not express their objection directly, so they had no choice but to remain silent. Mr. Zhao Er and Mr. Mo both looked at Miss Huang.
Miss Huang, however, looked indifferent, smiled slightly, and said, "In that case, what do you think of Mr. Cen's opinion on the ownership of the Bazhai land?"
I thought that Master Cen would directly say that this is the place that the Cen family favors, and use his power to suppress others. Unexpectedly, Master Cen sighed: "The Cen family has no other meaning in the ownership of the Bazhai land, as long as it is not
I, the Cen family, have no objection to the arrival of officials from the imperial court, but I just don’t know which of the three is interested in this place?"
