Soon after Kong Wenxuan and others were executed in the area of Tianjin, Zhu Youxiao ordered Kong Zhenning, the Holy Duke of Yan, to express his loyalty to the imperial court.And Kong Zhenning, the Holy Duke of Yan, also learned about Kong Wenxuan's execution by Dongchang through private channels a moment before Zhu Youxiao's holy decree arrived in Shandong, and then received Zhu Youxiao's holy decree.Therefore, even if Kong Zhenning wrote the recital immediately according to the holy decree, it would still take some time before it could be delivered to Beijing.Therefore, Emperor Zhu Youxiao and Fang Congzhe, the emperor's cronies and ministers, did not know Kong Zhenning's arrogant attitude at this time.Zhu Youxiao now has to put his mind on military affairs.After all, now the Ming Dynasty has to face two military battles at the same time.It is not only the war in Liaodong that has not yet been completely resolved, but also the war in the southwest that has just emerged.For this reason, Zhu Youxiao specially called all the civil and military officials around him who were good at military planning to the political hall to participate in the military aircraft."
The rebellion of Extravagant Chongming, although the Ming Dynasty has to fall into a two-front battle situation in the future, there is no need to be too anxious, this just shows that the old Tusi fetters system is no longer appropriate, and it is necessary to change the land and return it to the stream in the future, otherwise, these Tusi with local real power will still incite the people at the bottom to rebel at the first opportunity.""
And these powerful Tusi will not cause much momentum after the rebellion, because first of all, their level of education is not as good as that of the Han people, and their performance in the war is poor discipline, and the Han people at the bottom are mainly burning, killing and looting, and secondly, they do not have a strong ability to guarantee grain and grass, as long as the war is frustrated, it is easy to fall into a predicament, so I believe that Yuan Keli can completely quell this rebellion, and these Tusi in the southwest will not be able to become a big climate."
Zhu Youxiao first put forward his own views on the rebellion of extravagant Chongming.Then, Zhu Youxiao continued: "However, although we know in the general trend that these southwest toasts will not be able to achieve a great climate, we can't ignore it, because this is related to how much people, financial and material resources the imperial court needs to spend to quell this rebellion, and the imperial court needs to have a general plan, and we need to know how to take advantage of this opportunity to quell the rebellion in the southwest to make the imperial court more favorable and make the southwest more peaceful in the future." ”"What Your Majesty said is that throughout the chaos in the southwest of the past dynasties, there is no unsettled, but the disadvantages are that there are countless losses of money and food, and there are three difficulties in using troops in the southwest: first, the ethnic composition is complex, the southwest region, the Han and Yi live together, because of different customs, so there are often contradictions, and even among the people, there is a difference between raw and familiar, and the familiar fan is easy to be controlled by the imperial court, but the raw fan is easy to be provoked by the local officials, and there are contradictions between each other; Second, the terrain is complex, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it is difficult for the army to attack quickly, and the small group of soldiers and horses is easy to be ambushed, and the transportation is inconvenient, so it is difficult to transport grain and grass, and many roads can not even be used by mules and horses, and can only be transported by people; 3.
The climate is uncertain, the rain is frequent, and there are many miasma epidemics, usually the southwest uses soldiers, and there are few people who die in the battlefield and many people who die from epidemics; In the opinion of the ministers, if the imperial court wants to settle the people in the southwest once and for all, it must first appease its people, be ruthless to the evil officials, and treat the people at the bottom, regardless of Han Yi, all of them will be mainly appeased, divide their power, and then isolate the rebels; Secondly, if you want to save money and food, you must spend enough money and food at the beginning, so that the soldiers can use their lives to exterminate the rebels in one go, so as to avoid the rebels becoming bigger and wandering around, and finally you must not urge the troops to supervise and appease, because the southwest soldiers need to wait for the weather to be suitable to attack decisively, and if the imperial court in order to achieve speed, regardless of the actual situation, a person urging the troops to supervise the army, it is easy to backfire. ”Wang Xiangqian, who had been governor of Sichuan, Guizhou, and Huguang military affairs, and had participated in the pacification of the rebellion, put forward his own views.Zhu Youxiao affirmed this.Next, Zhu Youxiao asked Chen Ce and other veterans who had participated in the Banzhou Rebellion to express their views.Chen Ce thought that these veterans in Beijing were just teaching the younger generations to lead the troops, but he didn't expect His Majesty the Emperor to let these veterans participate in the military aircraft, which made him very excited, after all, as a veteran who has fought all his life, who doesn't want to talk about military affairs.Therefore, Chen Ce and other veterans have actively expressed their views.Chen Ce was the first to speak, and directly pointed out the reasons for the frequent rebellion of the Southwest Tusi in recent years, saying that the Southwest now dares to make trouble, mainly because of the many evils in the imperial court, first of all, a large number of military households in the Weisu escaped, and finally became the serfs of the Southwest Tusi, from the Han people to the Yimin, and there is no shortage of these military households who are good at smelting iron and making firearms, so the military strength of the Southwest Tusi has increased greatly, and the ambition has also swelled, so Chen Ce believes that the imperial court should remind the officials and soldiers not to underestimate the combat effectiveness of these Southwest Tusi, and there may be a lot of firearms.Based on his experience in the Sichuan Metropolitan Division for many years and participating in the whole process of the Banzhou Rebellion, Tong Zhonghua pointed out which Tusi in Sichuan were highly loyal and which Tusi were low, and also came up with a list of the importance of the defense of each city in Sichuan that he had studied in advance.Zhu Youxiao was very glad that he did not replace Xiong Tingbi in the post of Liaodong Economic Strategy like the original history, and did not make the Liao affair corrupt, so that Chen Ce and Tong Zhonghua, veterans who were familiar with the southwest war and had rich experience, did not die on the battlefield like the original history, but became his own military adviser, so that he, the emperor, could have a more comprehensive understanding of the situation in the southwest region.However, Zhu Youxiao did not agree to Chen Ce and Tong Zhonghua's request to take the initiative to apply to go to the southwest to lead troops to fight.Because, Zhu Youxiao still hopes to take advantage of this southwest war to train a group of young generals who can lead troops, and the veterans are still suitable to stay in the Beijing division, serve as military advisers for themselves, and at the same time train military talents for themselves; after all, talent cannot be faulted, and we cannot only expect veterans to solve a war without giving young people a chance to perform.What's more, there will be a lot of wars in the Ming Dynasty in the future, and it will take a lot of commanders to stand out.Then, Zhu Youxiao asked Wang Xiangqian, Chen Ce, and others to analyze the military threats in other places, such as the Eastern Capture and Mongolia, to determine how to control the overall situation.After agreeing on the overall military strategy of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao asked Wang Xiangqian to send all the views on the war in the southwest and the overall military strategy of the empire agreed upon in the political hall to Yuan Keli in the form of a holy decree, so that Yuan Keli could use it as a reference.However, the holy decree only gave overall guidance to the war in the southwest, and did not put forward clear orders, so Yuan Keli still needed to think about how to command the entire war in the southwest by himself, and meet the requirements of the overall military strategy of the Ming Dynasty.Therefore, one after another, a series of decrees on military affairs were issued from the political hall.The political hall suddenly seemed to have become the highest military organ of the Ming Empire.And the decision-making participants in the important matters of the Ming military aircraft have also quietly changed.In the past, it was the big and small Jiuqing Jiake Daoyan officials who decided on military aircraft in the form of court discussions, and they were all civilian officials, but now they have suddenly become only a few officials involved, which is obviously not as good as before, but it is no longer only civilian officials, and military attachés and veterans with rich combat experience have begun to participate.These veterans showed great enthusiasm as a result, and Tong Zhonghua even thought that the map of the Ministry of War was not good, so he personally drew a topographical map of Sichuan overnight based on experience, and then when he was summoned to the political hall to discuss the military plane, he directly took it out and suggested that the Son of Heaven and other ministers should use his map as a reference.In addition to this, the military decision-making efficiency of the Imperial Center was significantly faster.In the past, the court has not yet decided on a strategy for a month.Now, in a matter of a few days, the central government of the imperial court has agreed on an overall military guidance, and has also changed a wave of reliable officials in Henan, Shaanxi, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places in advance to make strategic preparations, so as to prevent the war from becoming out of control after it expands.Yuan Keli has not yet received the indicative decree of the Emperor of the Apocalypse.At this time, he had just received Hou Sui's head."
Your Majesty is wise!"
After Yuan Keli received Hou Sui's head, he immediately laughed and shouted: "The herald is raised!"
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