Shen Wansan was not defeated, and he could not be defeated, because he was born a strong man.
After a lapse of several decades, Shen Wansan had to face the problem of starting from scratch again. But the place where he is located is not the rich Jiangnan water town he is familiar with, but the western part of the Ming Dynasty - Yunnan, although it is relatively backward, but it is full of forests, the ecology is superior, and most of the people inhabited by ethnic minorities live.
When Shen Wansan first arrived, his life was sparse, his language was not understood, and his production and life were very inconvenient. To develop, it is necessary to create a good external environment. Therefore, how to get along with the locals has become the primary problem in front of Shen Wansan.
Although Mu Ying is behind her, if you want to get along with the local ethnic minorities, you must find an influential local person as a breakthrough, so the female politician Mrs. Luxiang entered Shen Wansan's field of vision.
Extravagant Xiang, Yi name Shezi, born in the twenty-first year of Emperor Yuan Shun to Zheng (1361 AD), Department (Sichuan Linzhou) Xuanfu envoy, Yi Hengbu Le Jun Chang luxury daughter.
In the eighth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1375 AD), at the age of fourteen, she married the governor of Shuixi (now Dafang) of the Yi tribe of Guizhou and the Guizhou Xuanwei envoy Ai Cui as his wife. Her husband Ai Cui, Yi name Longzan Aqi, is the forty-sixth grandson of Beana, the Mo Department of the Yi nationality in Guizhou, and the late Yuan Dynasty was appointed as the Shunyuan Xuanfu envoy, and the eight Shunyuan Xuanfu envoys added Zuocheng of Yunnan Province.
Extravagant Xiang has been smart and capable since childhood, eager to learn and think deeply, and after marriage, she became a virtuous helper of Ai Cui, and often assisted her husband in handling many political affairs of the Xuan Wei Division. In the process of living with her husband, she gradually increased the political ability of the regent, and was famous for her meritocracy, and was loved by the clansmen, and was respectfully called Tho Mu, that is, the meaning of the king.
In the fourteenth year of Hongwu (1381 AD), Ai Cui unfortunately died. Because the son was still young and could not inherit his father's position, Xiangxiang endured the pain of widowing and orphaning, and took over the post of consolation envoy in Guizhou Province.
It was an eventful time, and after the regentship of Xiangxiang took office, it was just in time for the Ming Dynasty to eliminate the regime of the late Yuan Liang and unify Yunnan. At that time, the separatist forces entrenched in Yunnan mainly included the late Yuan Liang King and the Tu Chieftain Duan clan. After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the Liang Dynasty continued to obey the orders of the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty who had retreated to the Mongolian desert. The Tu chief Duan clan controls the Dali area, and although it is directly under the jurisdiction of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, it is in a semi-independent state.
In September of the fourteenth year of Hongwu (A.D. 1381), in order to realize the unification of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, ordered Fu Youde, Marquis of Yingchuan, to be the general of the expedition to the south, Marquis of Yongchang Lanyu to be the left deputy general, and the Hou Muying of Xiping to be the right deputy general, leading 300,000 people, from Sichuan and Hunan to divide the troops into two routes, through Guizhou to conquer Yunnan in the south. The Yuan and Mongolian separatist forces entrenched in Yunnan attempted to garrison troops and prevent the Ming army from conquering.
Xiangxiang judged the situation and put the unification of the country first, so that the Ming army set up camp in Shuixi, took the initiative to pay tribute to horses, donated grain, and channeled, and supported the Ming army to invade Yunnan through Guizhou. She also relied on the clan relationship between Shuixi and the Yi tribes in the southwest to personally visit Wusa (now Weining), Mangbu (now Zhenxiong, Yunnan) and other places to persuade and enlighten the chieftains, so that the separatist forces lost their support. The Ming army successfully entered Yunnan and wiped out the Yuan defenders in one fell swoop, the king of Liang hanged himself, and the Tu chieftain Duan was also captured, thus ending the rule of the separatist forces in Yunnan.
Luxury not only made great contributions to the unification of the country, but also vigorously developed Guizhou's transportation. She personally led the ministries and invested a lot of manpower and material resources to open up two post roads centered on the partial bridge (now Shibing County) in the Guizhou Plateau where "the sheep intestines are sinister and no one passes" and "there is no money for thousands of autumns", one of which is "Longchang Jiuyi" has become a monument in the brilliant achievements of luxury incense for the country and the people. Since then, Xiangxiang has been to Jinling many times, through pilgrimage, presentation of government affairs, endowment, tribute to local products and horses and other activities, so that the relationship between Guizhou and the Ming Dynasty ** regime has become closer.
Through the diligent political management and painstaking management, the Shuixi area of the reckless Qianshan and Yiling Mountains has achieved social stability, ethnic harmony and economic development. Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang also once praised this: "Extravagant fragrance is attached, and it is better than 100,000 male soldiers!" ”
Shen Wansan has always paid attention to win-win in business, and only when everyone earns money can they do business for a long time. So he decided to use Mrs. Xiangxiang as a breakthrough to open up the situation. Through a variety of channels, Shen Wansan finally got in touch with Mrs. Xiangxiang.
In the mansion of Mrs. Xiangxiang, one is a heroine on the **, and the other is the God of Wealth in Jiangnan, and the two have a sense of heroic sympathy for each other, and they have a very happy conversation. Mrs. Xiangxiang promised to give Shen Wansan the green light to develop business in Guizhou and provide all convenient conditions. Shen Wansan also promised to make money and build a number of ancient post roads for Guizhou.
With the support of Mu Ying, the king of Yunnan, and the full support of Mrs. Xiangxiang, Shen Wansan's waist was straight again, because money was already beckoning to him.
The ups and downs of life are nothing more than this: from being rich enough to rival the country, to being poor; From the princes of Guibi to the exiled prisoners; From the prime of life to the old age.