When the Wang family returned to Yongchang, Yongchang County was not in control of the city, and the city gates were closed. Lu Kai, a young celebrity in the city, heard that the Wang family was defeated, surrendered to the Sichuan army, gathered the heroes in the city, killed all the Wang family, closed the city to resist the enemy, and the Wang family rebels
Desperate, he killed the leader and surrendered to Fa Zheng..
At this point, Yuejun, Jianning, and Yongchang formally returned to Yizhou, leaving only the remnant forces of the Zhu family of Zangda, led by the youngest son Zhu Bao, which became a factor of instability.
Just when Fazheng decided to lead Yongchang's army and Yuejun's Yi people to attack Zanggao, Zhu Bao opened the city and asked for surrender, expressing his willingness to join the Sichuan army. The last of the four counties in southern Xinjiang was pacified, and the Silk Road could continue to be opened.
Fa Zheng led his troops into Xang'an and discussed with Zhu Bao the relocation of the Zhu family. In order to ensure the stability of southern Xinjiang, the powerful families must be controlled. After the fall of the Wang family and the Yong family, the big families in Jianning and Yongchang were all included in the migration.
Liu Zhang was also preparing to send Cai Ming south again to take charge of the affairs of the Southern Xinjiang Protectorate.
There was a sketch of the four counties in southern Xinjiang placed in the middle. Cai Ming held his chin with his white fingers and pondered for a while before saying: "I understand what your husband means. In addition to blocking the troops with troops, luring each other with benefits, and breaking the anti-people foundation of the four counties,
To guide them.
Cultivate influential forces in the four counties, control the local people, and then integrate these cultivated wealthy families and industries into the city. The Sichuan army can control the entire four counties in southern Xinjiang by only controlling the city.
The local army is also recruited locally, but the appointment and dismissal of the generals of these troops is completely controlled by the Mufu. Unless there is a famine, the local food is self-sufficient, right?"
Cai Ming thought for a while and said: "This is indeed good. The local people will control the local people and will not cause resistance among the people. The land of the four counties is not completely barbaric. It is not difficult to completely control the city if the official system is implemented.
The remaining influential wealthy families have moved their industries to local cities, and the Sichuan army can give them official positions and benefits. In this way, whether it is force deterrence or interest channeling, they have no reason to rebel. After the opening of the Silk Road, southern Xinjiang
Rich families can also become bigger and bigger, and they are even less likely to be destroyed."
"That's right." Liu Zhang hugged Cai Ming and sat on the chair, running his palms across the map of the four counties in southern Xinjiang, "This is actually just a process of changing the nature of the surname. In the past, the four counties in southern Xinjiang also belonged to Yizhou in name, but they had no military power.
The political power and financial power are all in the hands of the wealthy families, and even the Mufu government depends on the wealthy families.
Now that the power of the wealthy families in the four counties has been severely weakened, military power must be taken back, and the private members and weapons of the wealthy families must be restricted. Officials can use local people, but they are completely appointed by us. Without the approval of the Mufu, they cannot be legal officials. The appointment and rationale of officials
In politics, one cannot act based on the faces of wealthy families.
To put it simply, if we want to turn the wealthy families in southern Xinjiang into ordinary wealthy families, we must not interfere with the power of the Mufu."
"After her husband's supplements, Ming'er realized how imperfect her strategy was." Cai Ming sat on Liu Zhang's lap, looked at the map seriously, and frowned: "But the most difficult thing here is probably how to do it.
The powerful families have moved into the city. If they don't move into those deep mountains and old forests, our army won't be able to invade them."
"It's very easy. It can be solved with two tricks." Liu Zhang said with a smile: "The first trick is interest privileges. Only those who move into the city can be appointed to local official positions, and can sell at high prices and buy at low prices in the mutual market.
The second move is the threat of force. The Sichuan army cannot attack. The control of Sanjiang you mentioned is a bit unreasonable, and the effect is not immediate. It can be supplemented.
The main thing is to make use of the local people. This time the rebellion in the four counties was defeated, there will always be some losers who will overthrow, and they are not a few. We train them and let them check the wealthy families in the mountains. As long as we say that the property of the wealthy families in the mountains is not
Protected, Ming'er, what do you think the consequences will be?"
In the past, the wealthy families in southern Xinjiang could unite and exclude foreigners. Now that the rebellion in the four counties has been defeated, people's hearts are bound to be unstable. It is inevitable that many wealthy families will defect to the Sichuan army. This has also formed two factions, the Mufu faction and the boycott faction. It is obvious that there are
For the sake of profit, the powerful Mufu clan who backed the Sichuan army became more powerful.
These are the forerunners. Let me say that the property of the wealthy families in the mountains is not protected... As long as Liu Zhang makes a list of which wealthy families are not protected, these wealthy families will be in bad luck. Such a list is no different from a killing order. Those who are coveted by others will be in trouble.
The Mufu sent wealthy people to grab the property without going crazy.
This is much more effective than Cai Ming's plan to control the three rivers.
"How are you?" Cai Ming hit Liu Zhang.
"There are worse things." Liu Zhang hugged Cai Ming and kissed Cai Ming's lips. Thinking that he would return to southern Xinjiang in two days and have to deal with those half-barbarian and half-Han savages, Cai Ming felt for a while
Frustrated, I only resisted for a moment, then closed my eyes and plunged into it.
Just then, a soldier came in hastily.
"What's important?" Liu Zhang asked impatiently, thinking that this soldier was really ignorant and couldn't slow down on anything.
"Reporting to my lord, Fazheng's military advisor was killed in Zanggao."
"What?" Liu Zhang's face changed color and he stood up suddenly. Cai Ming also looked solemn.
"What's going on? How is the military advisor doing now?" Liu Zhang asked coldly.
"Reporting to the lord, the military advisor entered the city to negotiate the relocation with the Zhu family of the wealthy family of the city. The Zhu family pretended to be a slave and ordered the people to move their property to the city under false pretenses. The military advisor failed to investigate for a while and was poisoned by Zhu Bao, the young master of the Zhu family. When he arrived,
Now that I am still unconscious, the Sichuan troops who entered Zangzhou were ambushed by the Zhu family's private soldiers, and their lives and deaths are unknown."
"This is unreasonable, Zhu family, Zhu Bao." Liu Zhang gritted his teeth, and Cai Ming saw Liu Zhang's brows knitted together, with murderous intent in his eyes, and his fists clenched tightly.
Cai Ming said worriedly: "Husband, the Zhu family is openly pretending to surrender and rebelling. The impact is extremely bad. We must immediately destroy them with a large army and slaughter them all, otherwise other counties will follow suit."
"Of course the Zhu family will be suppressed." Liu Zhang said coldly: "Come here, please send an order to the doctor who specializes in prescriptions at the Chengdu Medical Center to rush to southern Xinjiang immediately... Wait, he begged Zhang Zhongjing with words. Fa Xiaozhi also wanted to stabilize southern Xinjiang.
The people went to negotiate only after they were spared from the war, so I said that I entrusted him with my entrustment."
"Yes." The soldier took the order and left.
Liu Zhang called Wang Xu and ordered: "Send orders to all civil and military officials to prepare for war immediately. I will level the rags, capture Zhu Bao alive, and kill all the Zhu family."
"yes."
Cai Ming watched Wang Xu leave and said to Liu Zhang: "Husband, please calm down. The terrain in Zangchu is complicated, the roads are impassable, and the folk customs are different from those in the Han area. We can only proceed step by step. We will use the strategy we just formulated to attack the locals with locals.
, the Zhu family will inevitably be cornered, isn’t it great? If we attack hard, the Zhu family’s forces are hidden in the mountains and old forests, and the Sichuan army will suffer heavy losses.”
"Ming'er, you don't need to persuade me. I know what I'm doing. Yongchang, Yuejun, and Jianning can be done step by step. Zangda must be conquered by force."
Liu Zhang thought of what Zhou Buyi had said. If the blood in his body cools down, then the blood of the entire Jingyi people, army, civil and military forces will also cool down. In the short term, a rational step-by-step approach may be good, but it will cost a lot.
Sharpness can never be made up for.
The strategist was poisoned and the army was ambushed. If you continue to proceed step by step without even letting out a single fart, what will the people think? What will the soldiers think? They don't understand what politics is and what curves are to save the country. Those civil servants do understand, but
I will use this incident as an excuse for weakness in the future.
From the overall perspective of southern Xinjiang, destroying a place with force is also conducive to the implementation of soft attack strategies. Liu Zhang must do this.
However, just as the civil and military officials began to prepare for Liu Zhang's personal expedition, the battle report came two days later, which immediately caused an uproar. It was a victory report, but it made the civil and military officials more dignified than the defeat report.
Li Hui, the general in charge of the Southern Xinjiang Protectorate who followed Fa Zheng into Xangkou, was ambushed and defeated by the Zhu family's private soldiers, and was unable to get out of Xangkou territory with fortifications everywhere. He led his troops through the jungle and counterattacked the Zhu family's earthen fortress.
The Zhu family did not expect that the Sichuan army, which was supposed to be desperate, actually came back and was caught off guard. All important members, including the clan leader, were killed in one sweep, and the Zhu family's power in Zangda collapsed.
Taking advantage of the great victory, Li Hui mobilized the powerful families of the Sichuan Army to purge the Zhu family. The Zhu family had already suffered a major defeat in Jianning, and lost seventy-eight percent of their private soldiers. They had no leader and could no longer stand.
Unable to stand still, he fled from the south.
At this point, the four counties in southern Xinjiang, Zangqi, Yongchang, Jianning, and Yuejuan, were all under the banner of the Sichuan Army.
However, Zhu Bao, the young master of the Zhu family, together with the remaining forces of the Yongchang Wang family of the Yong family in Jianning, incited the Nanzhong barbarians to rebel. The Nanzhong barbarians were originally dissatisfied with the policies of the Southern Xinjiang Protectorate. Because of the orders of the Southern Xinjiang Protectorate, many barbarians came out.
Many barbarians who had taken refuge in the Sichuan Army had immigrated to the Han region to become farmers when they encountered disasters or were oppressed by the upper class of barbarians. How many barbarian girls were attracted by the temptation of "marrying a Han man will make you a Han Chinese and enjoy the good life of the Han people."
The loss of warriors, the loss of population, the loss of girls has long made the barbarians dissatisfied.
Zhu Bao and the remnants of the Yong family and the Wang family claimed to have taken refuge with Cao Cao in Xuchang, and incited the barbarians with their dead lips and cold teeth. Meng Yao, the leader of Yinkeng Mountain, the largest tribe of southern Chinese barbarians, led his second son Meng Huo and third son Meng Jie to gather with King Xianzhaodong Roasting Hammer and others.
Seven tribes from the south mobilized 100,000 troops to gather in Lushui and march towards the four counties of southern Xinjiang.
The world was shocked, Cao Cao defeated Sun Quan and Liu Bei was overjoyed. Cao Cao immediately made Zhu Bao the Marquis of Jiangzhou, leading the Northern Campaign, and Meng Yao was appointed the Barbarian King of South China.
The people, soldiers and civilians in Jingyi and Yizhou were filled with indignation and requested the Sichuan army to conquer Nanzhong and put an end to the rebellion in Nanzhong.
For a time, ordinary people applied for the army and businessmen donated money and food. Before Liu Zhang gave an order, the entire Jingyi was mobilized, including the people in the four counties of southern Xinjiang who were looking forward to a better life after breaking away from the control of the wealthy families.
Liu Zhang ascended to the palace for a military meeting, and hundreds of civil and military officials arrived. The generals were all murderous, and the civil officials were whispering to each other.
"Everyone, Meng Yao, the barbarian king of southern China, has raised an army of 100,000 to invade our Han territory. Please tell us how to deal with it."