Chapter 119: Sitting and Watching the Endless War in the Southwest (1)
Guangxi Cheng announced the Political Envoy Department, Guilin.
When the word "urgent report" came to his ears, Chu Yong, the left governor who was in charge of the government, thought that there was a war of chaos, and scared him so much that he almost fell off his chair.
It is difficult to sit in Guangxi's position as a governor. The local people here are riots every year. It was just settled at the end of the 30th year of Hongwu. The left and right governors were cut off by Taizu, so he sat in this position.
It was not until Zhu Yunwen ascended the throne and exempted the tax from Guangxi for three years that the place was a little stable. Now, the three years of Jianwen have just passed the tax exemption period, and there is a mess again. Chu Yong is really afraid that his head will not be able to be kept.
"What happened?"
Chu Yong wiped away the sweat from his forehead and forced himself to calm down, but the trembling in his tone betrayed him.
The minor official who reported the news ran into the lobby and knelt on the ground: "Report to Fantai, Taiping Prefecture, Zhongming Prefecture, and Annan Affairs."
Annan called?
Chu Yong jumped up and was stunned again, "No, there is only one small road from Annan to Guangxi, and there are guards along the way. There are really traces of a large army. It should have been a long time ago that warned the war. He could not have known until now that the army was approaching, so why did he choose to go to Lang San?"
"What happened?"
"Since last year, a large number of people in Annan have entered peace and Zhongming's prefectures, saying that there are wars in Annan, which is called escape."
Escape.
Chu Yong then breathed a sigh of relief. It was better if it was not a war, it was better if it was a war.
As for the riots of soldiers and fleeing, what a big deal? Even if there is no riots of soldiers, there are many local people from Guangxi and Annan who flee and settle down each other every year. What a big deal.
"I know, let Taiping Prefecture and Zhongming Prefecture settle down well. There are so many barren arable land in the place that no one can cultivate. I will send it to them. If I can't settle down, I will move to Guilin."
The little official scratched his head: "Fan Tai, there are a lot of people who fled here."
many?
How many more can there be?
Chu Yong laughed: "How many are there? It's still about reporting here."
"The Lang Sang Road is full of refugees from Annan. I have been entering the country for five or six days, but I still can't see it at a glance. It is estimated that at least 200,000!"
"Plop!"
Chu Yong sat down on the ground with a butt. The little official was so scared that he quickly stepped forward and helped him up: "Master Fantai, are you okay?"
Two hundred thousand?
Dingkou, the whole of Guangxi, is only less than one million. Is this a fleeing or is it going to occupy Guangxi?
How to solve the problem of food for so many people? Guangxi is not full, and has been fighting for relief in Jiangxi over the years, and hundreds of thousands of refugees have poured in. Once they are hungry, the refugees will instantly become bandits!
Two hundred thousand bandits?
Chu Yong seemed to see Zhu Yunwen's angry look. Although he hadn't seen the new emperor look like in the past few years, it did not prevent him from imagining Zhu Yunwen's face as Emperor Taizu.
When he thought of Taizu, Chu Yong almost pissed his pants because he saw the consequences of his entire family being killed.
"Hurry, hurry up, eight hundred miles to report to the Hou Musheng, Xiping Hou in Yunnan, and Zhu Chun, the King of Shu in Sichuan, to report to Nanjing!"
After panic, Chu Yong made a decision as soon as possible: "Please ask Yunnan troops to enter Guangxi, and military households from all over the country will immediately gather Zhongming Prefecture to block the border. You cannot let one person enter the country. It will be transmitted to Guizhou, Jiangxi and Guangdong provinces. A batch of rations will be transferred to the three provinces of Guizhou, Jiangxi and Guangdong. We must not let these Annan people cause trouble!"
In the southwest, Zhu Chun, the King of Shu, was considered the commander-in-chief because he was a clan relative. Of course, he just had a name for himself. For specific matters, it was the decision of the Marquis of Xiping, Yunnan.
The minor official went down to arrange the letter delivery matters. Chu Yong paced back and forth in the lobby. He was really unable to calm down, so he had to run out to find Zhang Gongchen, the right governor.
Chu Yong is really undecided about such a big thing.
Like Chu Yong, Zhang Gongchen, who learned the news, was so scared that his face looked like a slut, and he was anxious to keep wandering around in the same place.
Hundreds of thousands of refugees poured in, Guangxi was already barren, and the local people had been making independence for decades, and it was finally easy to stabilize in recent years. If a large-scale war was caused, the entire Guangxi would probably be killed into a barren land.
"I am not only afraid of these refugees causing trouble."
Chu Yong sighed: "I'm afraid that after these Annan riots start, those ill-hearted chieftains in this province will jump up again. At that time, collusion with the Annan people will be a huge disaster."
What if the chieftains in Guangxi really rebel, God knows what the emperor would do when he was angry?
Anyway, no matter whether the chieftains will be exterminated by the emperor, they will definitely not be able to escape by the emperor's beheading.
"Let's open the official warehouse first."
Zhang Gongchen gritted his teeth: "Don't let this group of refugees cause trouble."
If a person cannot eat enough, he can do anything.
Chu Yong was startled: "Opening the official warehouse? Without the instructions of the emperor and the cabinet, opening the official warehouse without permission will be beheaded."
Guangxi's food was not enough to eat, and for several years it was all thanks to the aid of brother provinces. What was left in the official warehouse was to prevent local people from using it to quell the chaos when they were not full of food.
"Where can you wait now?"
Zhang Gongchen was furious: "When Nanjing's decree is coming, I'm afraid Guangxi will have war everywhere. By then, not only will you and me move, but our family will be dead!"
Chu Yong stomped his feet hatefully: "Forget it, just do what you said, come!"
Several clerks outside the government office rushed in and bowed to their orders.
"The order to open Guilin Cang and Nanning Cang are all to provide relief to the refugees from Annan, and to mobilize military households from all over the province to take strict supervision. They cannot be allowed to leave Zhongming and Taiping Prefectures!"
As long as the situation in the whole province is not corrupt, it will be peaceful and the loss of Zhongming and the two prefectures will not be a big deal. When the support from Yunnan's troops arrives, they will be recaptured by then.
Chu Yong was still planning to wait for Yunnan to support him, but he didn't know that Yunnan is now busier than Guangxi.
Annan is a small village-based country. A large number of people are not concentrated in cities like Hanoi and Qinghua, but are scattered on the land centered on the Honghe Plain in the form of villages. Therefore, when the Luchuan army of Daogan Meng entered the border of Annan from the moment Laoguo entered the border of Annan, the people of Annan had already begun to flee.
At first they thought that Luchuan's soldiers were just here to fight, just like the Ming army, but when Dao Gan Meng's army raised the butcher's knife, they realized that this was not here to fight, and that this was to steal food and kill people!
After Daogan Meng, soldiers from Laos and Siam were the only ones. South Asia is so big, who would want to strengthen itself?
The southwest has completely become a battlefield for chaos.
First, Laos pursued Dao Gan Meng, and then attacked Annan's city along the way, but Siam seemed to have identified Hanoi. More than 100,000 main forces drove the war elephants and kept their heads towards the capital of Annan.
Under such circumstances, Annan's royal family could no longer hold on.
General Jian Ding first found the Ming army stationed outside Hanoi City, but the Ming army directly pulled out the camp and left: "Without the imperial edict of His Majesty the Ming Emperor, Annan will handle the affairs of Annan by himself."
The only garrison in the Ming Dynasty decisively evacuated after seeing Annan in civil strife, and left Jian Ding helplessly.
"Quickly recruit young and strong men to defend Hanoi. Send envoys to Nanjing to ask the Celestial Kings to enter the country to protect our Annan National Order."
Chapter completed!