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What Yang Lie didn't expect was that Bozhou City, which he thought he could capture, actually failed to capture it in three days!

Due to the Ming court's appeasement policy towards the southwestern chieftains, these hereditary chieftains had great power in the local area. Local officials did not dare to manage them. As long as they were in their own territories, they were the emperors.

This is also the reason why Yang Lie dared to breed eunuchs in his own territory. This kind of thing would be an extremely serious crime in other parts of the Ming Dynasty.

It is forbidden to keep slaves in the southeast, let alone eunuch slaves. Yang Lie clearly knows that this is a felony no matter where he is, but he still keeps eunuch slaves, which can also be seen from the madness of these southwestern chieftains.

After Yang Lie heard that the eunuchs had escaped, he immediately raised troops to attack Bozhou City. His idea was very simple. As long as he attacked Bozhou, he would use Bozhou as a stronghold and contact the surrounding tribes to rebel together. As long as he disrupted the situation in the southwest, he could Ask the Ming court for canonization and logistics.

However, when Yang Lie came to Bozhou City with his soldiers, the newly arrived governor of Bozhou beheaded the envoys he sent into the city to recruit surrender, and boarded the city gate wearing armor to express his determination not to surrender to Yang Lie.

Yang Lie was furious. The new magistrate of Bozhou was the first Jinshi in the southeastern imperial examination, named Zhang Shouchen.

Zhang Shouchen was a second-class Jinshi. He chose to go to Guangxi to serve as county magistrate. He got excellent in the assessment a year later and then served as county magistrate of Guangxi.

Under the policy of preferential treatment for border officials promoted by Gu Xiancheng, Zhang Shouchen, who was very good at handling ethnic issues in Guangxi, was given two choices by the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

One is to return to Nanjing, but the grade remains unchanged and can only be regarded as flat, and you can enter the second supervisor of the Seventh Department and Five Temples.

The second is to continue to be promoted in the southwest region, but you can be promoted from county magistrate to prefectural magistrate, directly rising to the sixth rank in grade.

Zhang Shouchen was very surprised. When he was admitted to the second-class Jinshi and chose to be an official in Guangxi, Zhang Shouchen didn't have many ideas.

He was already relatively old in the same year. He was already thirty-nine when he passed the exam. He had two sons and a daughter at home, and he didn't have much savings from a family that had been studying for many years.

I chose to work as an official in Guangxi purely because working as an official in Guangxi provides subsidies for remote areas. With such a salary, I can support my family and provide for my two sons to go to school.

When Zhang Shouchen was an official in Guangxi, he was very focused on his career. He didn't expect to be promoted in more than a year. And according to this, he had already caught up with the promotion progress of the first-class Jinshi.

You must know that many first-class Jinshi have just passed the selection examination, but they are also low-level officials in the second prison of the Seventh Department and Five Temples.

When faced with these two choices, Zhang Shouchen hesitated.

According to the Ministry of Personnel, if Zhang Shouchen continues to serve as an official in the southwest, he can continue to be selected if he excels in the next assessment. The Ministry of Personnel will not treat any official in the southwest badly.

In the end, Zhang Shouchen resolutely chose to continue serving as an official in the southwest, because his eldest son was admitted to the military academy this year, and his second son had just entered school, and his daughter was about to reach the age of adulthood and get married, so there were many places where money was needed.

In this way, Zhang Shouchen arrived in Renbozhou.

After becoming the prefect, Zhang Shouchen's most important task was to promote the cultivation of potatoes and sweet potatoes.

This is also the reason why Zhang Shouchen received excellent evaluations in Guangxi because he spared no effort to promote potatoes and sweet potatoes.

The sweet potato seedlings brought by Su Ze at the beginning of his journey had already experienced seedling degradation. However, as agricultural technology began to develop, some high-yielding potato varieties were finally preserved.

The agronomy major of Tiangong Academy conducted virus-free breeding of potatoes based on the breeding methods of Grand Governor Su Ze.

During the cultivation process of potatoes, virus infection will lead to genetic degradation, yield will also be reduced, and quality will also deteriorate.

Through a microscope, the virus-free stem tips are peeled off and cultivated under sterile conditions to obtain a virus-free "original stock".

Through breeding and screening, "original seeds" with larger and more stable yields can be obtained.

Zhang Shouchen often farmed when he was a child. Life has been difficult since he grew up, so he is very interested in agronomy. When he was a county magistrate and magistrate in Guangxi, he paid the most attention to agronomy, taught himself potato planting and cultivation techniques, and promoted potatoes throughout the county.

After arriving in Bozhou, Zhang Shouchen, while dealing with political affairs, also promoted potato planting in Bozhou all over the mountains and plains.

In order to promote potatoes, the governor personally wrote a set of potato cooking recipes.

Potato cake, this is a kind of potato delicacy invented by Zhang Shouchen. The steamed potatoes are made into puree, and then some seasonings are added to make the filling. After frying, it will be charred on the outside and tender on the inside. It is very delicious.

Because of Zhang Shouchen's simple style and his concern for agriculture, he was highly respected by the people of Bozhou after he took office.

After learning that Yang Lie had raised an army, Zhang Shouchen immediately invited Bozhou to prepare troops.

The military personnel is a position specially set up by the cabinet in the southwest region. The military personnel are held by active or retired military officers and are responsible for the security and militia work of the southwest states and counties.

Wu Jing, the military commander of Bozhou, was also an admirable officer. He retired because he lost one eye in the battle. After hearing about Yang Lie's revolt, Wu Jing immediately suggested to Zhang Shouchen to close the city gate immediately and summon the people in Bozhou City. The people resisted Yang Lie.

Zhang Shouchen was a little worried at first: "Yang Lie has been operating in Bozhou for a long time, and the Yang family is popular in Bozhou. If we insist on defending Bozhou, can we hold it? If we cannot hold it, we will naturally die for the country, but Yang Lie has a cruel personality, will it? Killing people in revenge?"

Wu Jing, who was in charge of the troops in Bozhou, said categorically: "Although Yang Lie has lived in Bozhou for a long time, because of his cruel personality and often bullying other tribes, he is not as popular as you in Zhizhou."

"Furthermore, the people in Bozhou know Yang Lie's character, and the knowledgeable people in the city know that Yang Lie can't succeed, so it's even less likely that anyone will surrender to him."

"Although Yang Lie claims to have five surnames and seven tribes, he does not have firearms, which is the combat level of the old army. Our Bozhou City is a mountain city, and the city defense is strong, so we will definitely be able to defend it."

Hearing what Wu Jing said, Zhang Shouchen immediately recruited young men to defend Bozhou City. As expected, the people in the city enthusiastically signed up, and the big families in the city even took the initiative to donate food to reward the army.

Zhang Shouchen personally went to the city gate to boost morale, while Wu Jing, the military commander, took the Bozhou city defense army he had trained, plus some carefully selected young men, to form a team of one hundred people.

Wu Jing led everyone to work together for three days, took advantage of the night to leave the city, and directly attacked Yang Lie's army.

Yang Lie's army was an old-style army. Officers frequently beat and scolded soldiers, and often withheld military pay. Many soldiers did not want to rebel in the first place.

After being attacked by Wu Jing at night, Yang Lie's army roared, and Yang Lie was so frightened that he led his army to retreat overnight.

By this time, Xiong Kuang, who had been marching in a hurry, was finally approaching Banzhou.