Since the late Tang Dynasty, Bozhou Tusi became the largest Tusi in Southwest China, which experienced four dynasties of Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties and promoted the prosperity of local economy and culture. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, what did you do to make the Ming Dynasty send 240,000 troops to attack and make toast Yang disappear?
To understand why Bozhou Tusi Yang was defeated, we must first understand.
Yang Yinglong was good at building a good relationship with the imperial court, taking advantage of the southwest mountainous area, which was rich in precious wood, and spent a lot of manpower and material resources to present 70 pieces of fine wood to the Ming Dynasty Emperor Wanli, who valued him very much and named him "General".
To the court's relief, Yang Yinglong used his elite soldiers as the court's thugs. In the southwest, he constantly attacked indigenous tribes all over the country. Therefore, the court took "Yang Yinglong Pingman was quite active and gave gold coins one after another".
With the increase of credit, Yang Yinglong became arrogant. In addition, the emperor Wanli lived in luxury, and the management of local toast was lax. Yang Yinglong has bigger ambitions.
Yang Yinglong not only built his own palace, but also decorated it with dragons and phoenixes, calling himself "Chitose", and forcibly brought some children from Bozhou into his palace, castrated them into eunuchs, and served himself and his wives.
At that time, Bozhou was a relatively large area, with jurisdiction over "Nine Surnames and Five Divisions". Because they were all local hereditary nobles (equivalent to small toast), they were quite prestigious.
For a long time, the relationship between Yang Tusi and "Nine Surnames and Five Divisions" was very harmonious, but after the times, they began to fight.
In order to maintain his luxurious life like an emperor, Yang Yinglong began to blackmail civilians and various aristocratic leaders, extort money by force and rob them directly. It aroused the dissatisfaction of Bozhou people and nobles with nine surnames.
The fuse happened to a woman.
Traditionally, in order to form an alliance with local nobles, Yang's toast was maintained by marriage. I also married a woman named Zhang, who is one of the nine surnames.
However, after getting married, Zhang was not favored, and was framed by one of his concubines, saying that Zhang was unfaithful and was expelled from Tusi House.
But not letting Zhang go, it directly slaughtered the Zhang family, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the Zhang nobles, and combined with Luo, Song, He, Zheng and other eight big noble to report to the court the news of their intention to stand on their own feet as king.
Yang Yinglong was furious. After all the people who complained were executed, he simply rebelled for twenty years.
When the Ming Dynasty attacked Yang Yinglong for the first time, the main force was the Ming army in Guizhou and Sichuan provinces, with the No.1 * * * and No.4 roads. Except that all the way was defeated by Yang Yinglong, all the other four roads entered Bozhou.
In the 22nd year of Wanli, Yang Yinglong surrendered, not only willing to pay forty-two thousand pieces of silver to the court, but also sent his son Yang Kedong to Chongqing as a hostage.
The court saw Yang Yinglong's good attitude of pleading guilty and forgave him. Unexpectedly, Yang Kedong died suddenly and inexplicably in Chongqing, which made Yang Yinglong very angry. He suspected that his son had been framed. Instead of paying a fine of 42 thousand silver, he rebelled again.
The rebellion in Yang Yinglong was very big and cruel, and all the occupied cities were slaughtered. As the Ming Dynasty was sending troops to North Korea to help it fight the invading Japanese pirates, it could not attack Yang Yinglong. Therefore, Bozhou Army not only burned and looted in Guizhou and Sichuan, but also invaded Huguang area.
In the 28th year of Wanli, the Liaodong Army returned from Korea went south and southwest, and joined forces with the Southern Army of the Ming Dynasty. Under the command of Li Hualong, a famous soldier in the Ming Dynasty, the troops were divided into eight routes and headed straight for Hailongtun, Yang Yinglong's lair.
The scale of the Ming invasion was very large, with 240 thousand troops, half of the Ming army's strength.
Under the fierce attack of the Ming army, Yang Yinglong was trapped in Hailongtun.
Because of Yang Yinglong's unpopularity, traitors appeared inside, bringing the Ming army into Hailongtun from a little-known narrow waterway.
Yang Yinglong saw that the tide was gone, and in desperation, he set himself on fire with his wife and concubine. Bozhou Yangtusi, which has a history of more than 700 years, was defeated and fell apart.
At present, Hailongtun has become a famous tourist attraction in Zunyi. If you go in, you can still see the strong fortress built in Yang Yinglong.
Yang Bozhou Tusi has a great influence on Zunyi and even the whole southwest region. While integrating local indigenous culture, it has played a certain role in promoting local civilization. Because of its strong strength, Yang Bozhou Tusi has not been greatly influenced in song and yuan war.
However, Yang Yinglong is also very destructive to the southwest. Because he was cruel after the rebellion, many people died under his butcher's knife.