Chapter 858 0853 [Barbarians in the Southwest]

Princess Zhu Yan of Shu is getting married soon, and her husband is a handsome man who is both civil and military.

Zhu Guoxiang is marrying his daughter for the first time, so he attaches great importance to it and personally went to guide and supervise the decoration of the princess's mansion.

The princess's mansion was rebuilt from the Dong family's West Garden.

The garden was originally purchased by Dong Yan, who was nicknamed "Dong Banye" and his friend was nicknamed "Chen Sangeng".

The idiom "Sangengbanye" came from this, and it can be regarded as a name in history.

However, what is left is a bad reputation.

How greedy is this bastard?

When he was a local official, he spent public funds to buy high-end work clothes for the yamen runners, and stipulated that the clothes must be left in the yamen for safekeeping after get off work. Then, he secretly customized a batch of inferior clothes for replacement, and then sold those high-end work clothes.

When he was an official in the Ministry of Personnel, he asked his subordinates to buy things for him. His subordinates bought things, but he was unwilling to pay, and he scolded his subordinates after taking the things.

This guy built two gardens in Luoyang, called Dong's East Garden and Dong's West Garden.

A few decades after his death, his children and grandchildren squandered his family property. Because they had been in arrears with taxes and owed a lot of debts, the government confiscated the Dong family's land and houses.

The property rights of the Dong family's East and West Gardens belonged to the government.

At the beginning, officials and scholars held literary gatherings in the gardens. Gradually, no one took care of them. After all, it costs money to maintain them, and now they are dilapidated.

"Can it be completed within three months?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

"Reporting to the emperor."

The art officer in charge of the renovation and reconstruction of the Ministry of Works said: "Although Dong Yan was a notorious corrupt official, the garden he built himself is excellent. This garden adheres to the principle of 'water lotus comes out of clear water, naturally without decoration', and no decoration was added when it was built. The pavilions, flowers and trees are natural and casual, and the steps and strange rocks are also formed by the erosion of time."

"Nowadays, we only need to remove the weeds and trees, and paint the walls with a layer of white lime. Then replace the rotten wood and paint it again. It will take one and a half months to complete the replacement of materials and painting. Another month and a half of drying is enough."

Shen Yourong nodded and praised: "Excellent."

The couple walked hand in hand in the garden. Not far away, they saw a small lake, and the lake water still came out of the spring.

Gradually walking in, the winding path led to a secluded place, and Zhu Guoxiang actually got lost.

It took a long time to get out.

In the evening, they returned to the palace.

Zhu Guoxiang said to his son: "I visited both the East and West Gardens of the Dong family today. Each has its own characteristics and is very beautiful. The West Garden can be used as Yan'er's Princess Mansion, and the East Garden can be given to Kang'er as the Prince of Yu's Mansion. I also heard that when Sima Guang retired to Luoyang, the Dong family's property was confiscated. Sima Guang often went to the East Garden for a stroll, and when he was drunk, he lay on the stone bed to bask in the sun."

Zhu Ming shook his head: "Kang'er is studying in a military school. In the future, I plan to let him fight with the army. After conquering Champa, he will be enfeoffed there to guard."

"You set his fiefdom in Vietnam?" Zhu Guoxiang said in surprise.

Zhu Ming corrected, "To be precise, it was sealed in the southern part of Vietnam in the future. As for the northern part of Vietnam, it will be Jiaozhi Province in the future."

"The orthodox knowledge in the north is Confucianism. It has belonged to the Chinese homeland since the Qin and Han Dynasties. It is relatively easy to educate and rule, so the court directly set up a province to govern it."

"Brahmanism is popular in the south, and it must be ruled for a long time to naturalize. If you are not careful, you need to suppress the rebellion, so I, Kang'er, was sealed there to guard it."

"The north and south can communicate and help each other. Especially if one side rebels, the other side can quickly send troops."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Although Champa often makes small moves, they are just pretending to be pirates to rob merchant ships, and they are not specifically targeting Chinese merchant ships. Overall, Champa is very respectful to the court. Sending troops to swallow Champa will have a bad impact, right?"

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "It's just a dog that can't be fed. Historically, the Song Dynasty rewarded Champa. But when the Southern Song Dynasty declined, Champa's tribute trade failed, and it went directly to Hainan Island to burn, kill and loot. The Ming Dynasty wants to attack Champa, and there are many reasons. There must be a legitimate reason."

"It's up to you. Anyway, I'm retired." Zhu Guoxiang was too lazy to think about it.

Zhu Ming said: "When Kang'er graduates from the military academy, let him go to Hunan with Bai Qi to adapt to the hot weather in the south. Then follow Bai Qi to attack Dali and exercise his ability to fight."

Zhu Guoxiang nodded and said: "It's very thoughtful."

Anyway, in Zhu Ming's plan, the southern part of Vietnam in the future will be given to Zhu Kang, the eldest son of the concubine, to establish a country.

If Zhu Kang and his descendants are capable, they can lead their own troops to expand. How much territory they can conquer depends on their own ability.

The main function is to protect Jiaozhi. With the ruling radiation of the central court, the deep governance of the northern part of Vietnam is already the limit. The rest can only be ruled by restraint. It is better to give it to his son. If something goes wrong, the meat will be rotten in the pot.

…

The envoy of the Ming Dynasty has been touring the southwest.

The envoy's name is Xia Dajun, who has been following the Tian family of Sizhou.

After Tian Yougong chose to submit to the Ming Dynasty, Xia Dajun was also granted an official position. After serving two terms as a local official, Xia Dajun was transferred to the Honglu Temple. This time he represented the court to inspect the southwest.

He went south from Chongqing and first met the Yang family (the ancestor of the Yang family of Bozhou).

The uncle and nephew of the Yang family have been fighting for more than ten years, and there has been no result so far. Moreover, both of them actively surrendered to the court and claimed that they were the orthodox.

Xia Dajun said to his uncle and nephew respectively: "There are barbarians in the south who refuse to submit to the king, and the emperor of tomorrow wants to send troops to conquer them. You can build official roads and post stations in your respective territories. Whoever builds them first will be the master of the Yang family, and the court will Officially conferring him the title of Commander-in-Chief of Zunyi. During the construction of the official road and the post station, no further criticism will be allowed, otherwise the court will punish him! "

Yang's uncle and nephew all agreed. They stopped fighting and mobilized troops and civilians to repair officialdom.

After passing Zunyi and continuing south, Xia Dajun met with several chiefs one after another and conveyed the imperial court's intention for them to cultivate officialdom.

The chiefs all agreed that whether it would be a double act or not would be clear only after two years.

Then we went to Guiyang.

It is now called Juzhou and was once called Guizhou by Zhao Kuangyin.

In the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was occupied by the Luo family and was canonized by Zhao Kuangyin. Later, the Luo family left, and their remaining tribe would establish the "Stone Man Tribe", and soon the Song family drove away the "Stone Man Tribe".

The Song family is the ancestor of the Shuidong Song family in the Ming Dynasty.

The leader of the Shiren tribe is a collateral ancestor of the Shuixian clan in the Ming Dynasty.

The current patriarch of the Song clan is named Song Xihua. They actively pursue Chineseization and claim that their ancestor Song Jingyang came from Zhending, Hebei.

It was a bit too sinicized, and he actually wanted to be loyal to the Song Dynasty, and still uses the reign title of Song Huizong to this day.

Song Xihua warmly received Xia Dajun in the city of Juzhou (Guiyang): "You are an envoy of the Ming Dynasty, but I am a minister of the Song Dynasty. You are a guest from afar, and I should treat you with hospitality. But don't mention surrender!"

Xia Dajun glanced at the other party and asked: "Since you are a minister of Song Dynasty, why are you dressed like a barbarian?"

Song Xihua said: "I often wear Han clothes."

"I'm not very sure why your Excellency is loyal to the Song Dynasty," Xia Dajun warned, "but there is one thing I want to remind you. Don't attack and annex nearby tribes under the guise of fighting rebellion for the Song Dynasty. Those tribes have already Submit to the Ming Dynasty. If you dare to attack the neighboring tribes again, it will be regarded as a war against the Ming Dynasty court!"

Song Xihua suddenly felt guilty.

His loyal Song Dynasty was purely using Song Huizong as a cover to find an excuse to expand and annex.

Today, his territory has doubled compared to the late Northern Song Dynasty, and he controls Guiyang and the surrounding five states (Jizhou).

Xia Dajun was too lazy to attend the banquet. He pointed at the musketeers behind him and said, "Do you know what weapons they have on their backs?"

"Iron rod?" Song Xihua was not sure.

Xia Dajun said: "Your Excellency, you can place ten pieces of armor, and I will let the soldiers shoot the armor."

Song Xihua also wanted to find out the details of the Ming army, so he immediately asked someone to get ten pairs of armor.

He doesn't have much iron armor, and his army mainly consists of leather armor and rattan armor.

Ten pairs of iron armor were covered on the wooden stakes, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty raised their flintlock guns.

"Bang bang bang bang!"

Before the smoke cleared, some soldiers went to check, and then ran back to Song Xihua to whisper.

Song Xihua was horrified when he heard this and went to check it out personally.

He found that the armor was all pierced, his expression looked a little flustered, and asked: "What kind of weapon is this?"

Xia Dajun said: "The divine machine gun. Our Ming Dynasty also has a kind of firearm called the divine artillery. One shot can destroy the city wall two or three miles away."

"You may not know yet. Just last year, the Ming Dynasty not only regained the sixteen states of Yanyun, but also occupied the entire territory of the Liao Kingdom, and also destroyed the arrogant Jin Kingdom. Now, all the countries in the four directions have surrendered to the Ming Dynasty. Do you still want to resist?"

Song Xihua was startled when he heard this. Although he was not sure whether the Jin Kingdom had been destroyed, the fire in front of him was indeed difficult to resist.

After thinking for a while, Song Xihua suddenly knelt down: "I am willing to join the Great Tomorrow Dynasty!"

Xia Dajun smiled and helped him up, and said: "Since you sincerely surrender, you will take the tribute and go to Luoyang in person to meet with His Majesty the Emperor."

"Isn't it Kaifeng?" Song Xihua asked doubtfully.

Xia Dajun said: "The Ming Dynasty moved its capital this year, and it is estimated that it has been moved there by now."

Song Xihua said: "I will definitely bring the treasures to pay tribute."

The communication between the two parties quickly became extremely harmonious.

At the banquet, Xia Dajun asked: "The Luo ghost kingdom in the west surrendered to the Ming Dynasty a few years ago. But it has not paid tribute since then. Do you know their details?"

Luo's ghost country is also called Luo's barbarian, and its leader is also the ancestor of the Shuixi'an family in the Ming Dynasty.

Its territory extends to Xuyong and Gulin in the north; to Zhijin and Liupanshui in the south; to Bijie in the west; and to Jinsha in the east.

Song Xihua said: "The great ghost master of Luo's ghost country is named Pu'er Eze. He is usually referred to as Eze. I don't know his temper. He occasionally sends troops to plunder, but he has never invaded on a large scale."

Saying it is the same as not saying it.

Xia Dajun asked again: "Where is the Luo Dian Kingdom in the south?"

The territory of Luodian Kingdom included Anshun, Puding, Liuzhi, Guanling, Ziyun, and Zhenning in later generations.

They have the same origin as the Luo Clan Ghost Country, and are also regarded as ancestors by the Shuixi'an Clan.

However, the Luo Ghost Kingdom submitted to the Northern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, while the Luo Dian Kingdom has always surrendered to Dali.

Song Xihua said: "Luo Dianguo is very poor, but it fights bravely. It is poor and fierce. There is no need to attack such a small country. The angel can go there with a magic weapon and will definitely scare them into submission."

Xia Dajun was noncommittal.

Although Luo Dianguo is very poor, its geographical location is critical and it is stuck on the only way from Guiyang to Dali!

From now on, when the imperial court attacks Dali, it is estimated that the first one to be destroyed will be Luo Dianguo.