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Kunming, Yunnan.

In the Duke of Guizhou's mansion, the current Duke of Guizhou, Mu Changzuo, who is in charge of Yunnan, is listening to the reports from his subordinates.

Due to the complex situation in Yunnan, the Ming court adopted a completely different governance model from other provinces starting from the Hongwu Year.

In the 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty ordered Fu Youde, Lan Yu, and Mu Ying to conquer Yunnan. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Basac Valmi, the king of Liang in Yunnan, was defeated and surrendered to the Dian Lake. The Ming army pacified Yunnan.

In the 16th year of Hongwu, Fu Youde and Lan Yu's teachers returned to Nanjing, and Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted son Xipinghou Muying stayed in Yunnan.

In the 19th year of Hongwu, Mu Ying built the Kunming Brick City and then built the Xiping Marquis Mansion.

Since the Ming Dynasty occupied Yunnan, local officials in various parts of Yunnan have rebelled many times, especially the Si family's regime in Luchuan, which has rebelled many times and threatened the safety of Yunnan's frontiers.

When Mu Ying was still alive, she twice crushed Luchuan Silunfa's invasion of Dingbian, and the second time a large-scale Dingbian battle broke out. While Mu Ying's son Mu Chun was guarding Yunnan, another rebellion broke out in Luchuan, and Mu Chun defeated it.

In the early days of Mu Ying's second son, Mu Sheng, who was guarding Yunnan, Luchuan rebelled again, and Mu Sheng and Zhenglu General He Fu put it down.

As the deputy general of Zuo in Zongyi, Mu Sheng led his army to attack Annan from Yunnan. Because he captured many important towns and captured Li Jiya alive, he was named the Duke of Guizhou. From then on, Mu's hereditary title was upgraded from Xiping Marquis to Qian Guo. male.

The Mu family really gained the power to control Yunnan during the reign of Zhu Gaochi, Renzong of the Ming Dynasty. Due to Mu Sheng's achievements in conquering Jiaozhi and guarding Yunnan, Renzong of the Ming Dynasty cast the seal of the general who conquered the south for Mu Sheng. From then on, this seal also became the seal of the Mu family to guard Yunnan. symbols of.

The current person in charge of the Mu family is Mu Changzuo, the current Duke of Guizhou.

Mu Changzuo has been having a headache recently.

Since Southeast occupied Guangxi, although there has been no sign of directly using troops against Yunnan, Guangxi has been preparing for war, which also makes Yunnan very nervous.

When Mu Changzuo learned that it was Qi Jiguang who was training troops in Guangxi, he was naturally even more frightened and began to prepare for war in Yunnan.

But today's Duke of Guizhou's mansion can be said to be suffering from internal and external troubles.

The foreign invader is Luchuan.

"Luchuan" is a local government dominated by the ancestors of the Dai people in ancient southwest my country. The locals call it "Mengmao Dragon", which originally means "Damao Country". Because the Yuan Dynasty once set up Luchuan Road in the local area, the official name is "Mengmao Dragon". Dragon" is called "Luchuan".

During the Zhengtong period, Luchuan leader Si Renfa expanded to the surrounding areas, infringing upon the Ming Dynasty's local rule and other chieftains established by the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty sent troops to suppress it, which is known as the "Three Expeditions to Luchuan" in history.

However, the three expeditions to Luchuan did not completely destroy the Luchuan regime, but only allowed Luchuan to move to the Mengyang area of ​​Burma.

After Jiajing succeeded to the throne, the Luchuan regime that moved to Mengyang rose again. The Si family united with the "Mengpeng" and "Mengmi" royal families who were related to it, and sent troops to occupy "Mengava" in the plain in the middle reaches of the Irrawaddy River. The descendants replaced "Zhao Awa" (King of Ava) and forced "Meng Awa" to become a vassal state of Luchuan.

Luchuan rose again, invading the Yunnan border, and the Duke of Guizhou was troubled by this.

The internal worry is Mu Chaobi, the biological father of the current Duke of Guizhou, Mu Changzuo.

In fact, the original title of Duke of Guizhou was not in Mu Changzuo's lineage.

Mu Changzuo's Duke of Guizhou title was snatched from his nephews by his biological father, Mu Chaobi, the previous Duke of Guizhou.

This is about a public case involving the Mu family during the Jiajing Dynasty.

In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing's reign, Duke Mu Chaofu of Guizhou died. Mu Chaofu's four-year-old son Mu Rong succeeded Duke Qian.

However, because Mu Rong was young, Mu Chaobi was appointed by Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty as the governor Qianshi to guard Yunnan in place of his nephew.

Mu Rong died in June of the 28th year of Jiajing at the age of six, and his younger brother Mu Gong inherited the dukedom of Guizhou. Mu Chaobi was unwilling to hand over power and had a tense relationship with his widowed sister-in-law and young nephew.

The old lady of the Mu family, Mu Chaobi's mother Li Shi, asked the emperor to send her grandson Mu Gong and his mother Chen to live in Beijing. Mu Gong died of a sudden illness before he left.

At this time, both sons of the previous Duke of Guizhou, Mu Chaofu, died suddenly, and Mu Chaofu's lineage was completely extinct.

In fact, it was normal for children to die in the Ming Dynasty. What's more, the Mu family lived in Yunnan, and their medical standards were not as good as those in the Central Plains.

However, under Mu Chaobi, his uncle, two nephews who inherited the title died suddenly and suddenly, which naturally caused rumors in the Ming court. Many ministers suspected that Mu Chaobi poisoned his own nephews in order to seize the dukedom of Guizhou. .

However, since the Mu family had been in Yunnan for a long time, the Ming court had no choice but to admit that Mu Chaobi had inherited the dukedom of Guizhou.

Mu Chaobi was able to seize the title in the 33rd year of Jiajing.

Although Mu Chaobi was not a good character, he was still good at fighting. After he inherited the dukedom of Guizhou, he immediately put down several rebellions in Yunnan and had outstanding military achievements.

After achieving military exploits, Mu Chaobi naturally expanded.

Mu Chaobi was arrogant and indulgent. He treated his mother, Mrs. Li, unfavorably, raped his sister-in-law, Mrs. Chen, and seized his brother's land and house.

Mu Chaobi was afraid that the matter would be exposed, so he sent people to the capital to spy on the situation in the court.

This matter was eventually exposed. Before the Jiajing expedition to the west, Mu Chaobi was seized from the Duke of Qian, ordered his son Mu Changzuo to inherit the Duke of Qian, and Mu Chaobi was escorted to the capital for trial.

But before Mu Chaobi reached the capital, he received news of Jiajing's hunting in the west, and the Ming court had no time to deal with the Mu family's bad affairs.

It was only when Long Qing ascended the throne and Gao Gong came to power that he remembered this incident.

Longqing issued an order to imprison Mu Chaobi in the capital.

But after Gao Gong was driven down, he didn't know what path Mu Chaobi took, but he actually talked through Zhang Juzheng and prepared to release him back to Yunnan.

The deceitful biological father is coming back, and the current Duke of Guizhou, Mu Changzuo, naturally doesn't want to do it.

Power is like poison. Once you have tasted the taste of power, you will never forget it.

Even the Jiajing father and son fought to the death for power.

Mu Changzuo did not want his biological father to come back, so he sent people to the capital to ask Zhang Juzheng to take back his life.

To sum up, the current Duke of Guizhou, Mu Changzuo, is facing a mess.

Luchuan in Burma coveted Yunnan, and constantly set off rebellions among the chieftains on the border.

Guangxi's southeastern new army is heavily armed and is almost ready to quell the Yao rebellion in Guangxi, so it has its hands free.

His biological father Mu Chaobi is coming back, which will inevitably cause turmoil in Yunnan.

Mu Changzuo looked at the generals in the palace. Today they are discussing matters in Guangxi.

His biological father, Mu Chaobi, had been in charge of military affairs in Yunnan for many years and was considered relatively capable of fighting. Basically, all the generals in the government followed Mu Chaobi.

Mu Changzuo has just come of age this year and is not as prestigious as his father in the army.

The news from the capital was that it was precisely because of his father Mu Chaobi's outstanding military exploits that the Prime Minister Zhang Juzheng wanted to return Mu Chaobi back to Yunnan to contain the southeastern army in Yunnan.

Chen Kan, his counselor, suggested that Mu Changzuo must make some achievements in the southwest. As long as Zhang Juzheng, the prime minister of Zhongshu, saw Mu Changzuo's ability, he would not let his biological father back to fight for power.

When it came to the power in his hands, Mu Changzuo finally became active and began to discuss issues in Guangxi.

Mu Changzuo felt quite troubled when he saw the generals in the hall eager to try and asking for troops to send troops to Guangxi.

Just like the Ming court was worried about the Mu family and always wanted to cut down the feudal clan.

The Mu family did not trust their military leaders and did not want them to lead troops on an expedition.

Among them, the most powerful person who advocated intervention in Guangxi was Jiang Xu, a general under his father.

To say that this Jiang Xu is also a ruthless person, this guy was originally just a bandit, causing trouble in Yunnan.

Later, after being defeated by Mu Chaobi, Mu Chaobi did not kill him. Instead, he valued him very much and even included him in the army as an officer in the Xiliu Camp.

Among the charges Mu Chaobi was found guilty of was "covering the evil party Jiang Xu."

But after Mu Chaobi's fall, Jiang Xu still served as an officer in Xiliu Camp. Mu Changzuo was very afraid of this military leader, but there was nothing he could do about it.

The reason why officers like Jiang Xu asked to fight was not because of the Ming Dynasty, but because the military leaders in Yunnan could only make money by fighting.

Yunnan is not a wealthy place to begin with. The Mu family has accumulated a huge amount of wealth and annexed a large amount of land over several generations in Yunnan.

Like the Mu family, the hereditary Duke of Guizhou, most of these military leaders in Yunnan are also hereditary, forming a group similar to the Junk military aristocracy.

These military leaders were just like the Yanping Wei Yu family, who together with the Mu family occupied land and enslaved the people.

If a military leader like Jiang Xu wants to compete for land and population, he must launch foreign operations and achieve military success.

Therefore, since Southeast occupied Guangxi, Jiang Xu has been advocating to send troops to intervene.

Mu Changzuo's counselor Chen Kan fled from the Central Plains to Yunnan. He had seen the combat effectiveness of the New Army in the Southeast. This was definitely not something that local armies like Yunnan, which could only fight chieftains, could handle.

Therefore, Chen Kan has been persuading Mu Changzuo not to use troops against Guangxi easily.

But now that his father was about to return to Yunnan, Mu Changzuo could no longer suppress his military leaders, so he had no choice but to convene this military meeting.

Jiang Xu was still advocating to send troops to Guangxi, while Mu Changzuo's counselor Chen Kan said to everyone:

"The Guangxi New Army is elite, and its leader is Qi Jiguang, who has made great achievements in the war against Japan. Even the Tengxia Rebellion, which the imperial court failed to quell for decades, took only one month to conquer Tengxia! "

Speaking of Qi Jiguang, Jiang Xu and other generals who clamored to send troops also gave up.

They knew what they were worth, so how could they dare to be compared with Qi Jiguang, a famous general at the time.

Seeing that other colleagues were cowed, Jiang Xu stood up again and said:

"It is a matter of eating the emperor's salary and being loyal to the emperor! We, the Duke of Guizhou, have received the emperor's favor from generation to generation. Do we want to sit back and ignore the rebels in the southeast?"

Mu Changzuo couldn't hold himself any longer now. Who are you, Jiang Xu? You're just a gangster, why are you pretending to be a loyal minister?

Chen Kan said at this time:

"My lord, we don't want to sit idly by and ignore the Guangxi rebels. Nowadays, newspapers in the southeast are advocating Annan's legal system. Based on my understanding of the traitor Su Ze, he will publicize it in the newspapers every time he uses troops. Guangxi is going to launch troops against Annan."

"My subordinates also found out that the envoys from the Li Dynasty in Annan have gone to Guangzhou and are preparing to pay tribute to the traitor Su Ze."

Chen Kan continued: "So compared to us in Yunnan, Mo Chao in the north of Annan is more anxious than us."

"My lord, I heard that Annan and Northern Mo have always wanted to be recognized by the Ming Dynasty as a vassal state. Now my lord can use the recognition of Mo Dynasty as Annan's orthodoxy as a bait to use Annan and Northern Mo to contain Guangxi."

Yunnan not only borders Myanmar, but also borders Annan. The generals present naturally know the Northern and Southern Dynasties within Annan very well.

What Chen Kan said is indeed correct. Compared with the mountainous and barren Yunnan, Annan and Beimo Chao, which borders Guangxi, should be more anxious than them.

At this time, many generals were persuaded. Rather than sending troops to fight themselves, it seemed to be a good choice to let the Annan people rush in first and test the combat effectiveness of the new Guangxi army.

The reason why the Ming army in Yunnan fought bravely and was able to fight even at the end of the Ming Dynasty was that the soldiers were all the personal corps of the superior generals.

This system is similar to the vassal town in the Tang Dynasty. In other words, the Mu family in Yunnan was originally a vassal town within the Ming court.

Even the way the Ming court controlled the Mu family was similar to the way it controlled the feudal towns in the Tang Dynasty.

Through the prestige of the imperial court, it intervened in the succession of titles within the Mu family, allowing the heads of the Mu family to nominally obey the Ming court.

If someone is domineering, the current head of the family will be deposed by supporting another heir to take over.

Jiajing was like this with the previous Duke of Guizhou, Mu Chaobi.

The emperor did not care when Mu Chaobi killed his two nephews and took possession of his widowed wife, and even recognized Mu Chaobi's title.

However, when Mu Chaobi was unruly and unruly, he supported his son to become the Duke of Guizhou and deprived Mu Chaobi of his title.

The whole of Yunnan is a vassal town of the Ming Dynasty, and military leaders like Jiang Xu are also vassal towns of Yunnan.

The disadvantage of a vassal town is that it is easy to separate the regime. The advantage is that the troops are all private, so they cannot be bullied and deducted military pay at will, and the combat effectiveness is relatively strong.

If it were not profitable, no one would want to take their own tribe and fight against the Southeast New Army.

Finally, a public agreement was reached in the Duke of Guizhou's palace, and Chen Kan went to Beimo, leaving Annan to test Guangxi first.

At the same time, Shen Yiguan and others also arrived in Annan by boat.

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