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Chapter 241: Stabilizing the Southwest

Qin Liangyu fought against the rebel tribe in Guizhou, and achieved great results in the past two months, annihilated more than 50,000 soldiers from various chieftains, and also captured many rebel officials.∈◆Xiao,...o&1t;/p>

The reason why the judgment progressed so smoothly was mainly because Qin Liangyu won over a group of local officials during the judgment process and received news that An Bangyan was trying to counterattack in advance. So Qin Liangyu took advantage of the plan and gave An Bangyan an ambush, and then he wiped out 50,000 troops like chopping melons and vegetables.&1t;/p>

These chieftain soldiers are obviously weak in front of the current stone pillar white pole soldiers. Just in terms of equipment, they have produced a huge crush, let alone training and discipline.&1t;/p>

However, in this great victory in Dadingfu, An Bangyan still ran away.&1t;/p>

The rebellion was basically put down, but it was obviously still a little far from being completely put down. An Bangyan was not dead, and the chieftains of each tribe had not surrendered yet, so there was still a possibility of counterattack.&1t;/p>

However, this great victory temporarily stabilized the situation in the southwest region.&1t;/p>

"Qin Aiqing is really a pillar of the Ming Dynasty. He went to Wuying Hall to hold a meeting of the commander-in-chief." Zhu Youxiao said happily.&1t;/p>

"Yes, Your Majesty."&1t;/p>

Yang Guang hurried to prepare for the car. When Zhu Youxiao came to Wuying Hall, all the staff officers of the Command Department also arrived. Since Sun Chuanting was transferred to Liaodong, Sun Chuanting was still the Chief of Staff of the Command Department, but Lu Xiangsheng has been promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff by Zhu Youxiao.&1t;/p>

Another person who took a rocket, but the newly established command center includes both military officers and civil servants. Among them, the civil servants are of a relatively low rank. Like the cabinet, the chief of staff of the command center has only a fifth rank in the civil servant group. The deputy chief of staff is only a fifth rank.&1t;/p>

However, this department is becoming more and more like a replica of the cabinet. It is just that the cabinet handles government affairs. The command department handles military affairs.&1t;/p>

However, Lu Xiangsheng's military talent is unmistakable. After staying in the command headquarters for more than half a year, he is already very familiar with work processes and various military strategies.&1t;/p>

"Your Majesty, General Qin will win again this time, and the court should reward you." Lu Xiangsheng said to Zhu Youxiao.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao nodded, but how should I give it?&1t;/p>

"Let's do it! Promote Qin Liangyu to the rank of general, granted Dingxibo, and rewarded 10,000 mu of land and 500 taels of gold..." Zhu Youxiao thought for a long time and made a decision.&1t;/p>

"The emperor thinks twice. Is this reward too generous?" Lu Xiangsheng was a little surprised. Zhu Youxiao shook his head and said, "Just reward according to this specification!"&1t;/p>

"I obey the order." Lu Xiangsheng could only receive the order. Although he was not sure why the reward was so generous, the emperor had always been wise and naturally had profound meanings.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao rewarded Qin Liangyu like this. First of all, Qin Liangyu is older, and even if he can make achievements in the future, there will be no embarrassing situation of being rewarded without reward. After all, there are two steps above the count and the duke. In addition, there are a level of generals above the general.&1t;/p>

As for how much money is rewarded, it doesn’t matter. The land you reward is made in the form of stocks. It is not to rob a piece of land from the people to reward Qin Liangyu.&1t;/p>

Zhu Youxiao is not short of money now and has large tracts of land ownership.&1t;/p>

Military rank, title, wealth. As long as you can make meritorious service for the court, you don’t have to be stingy when rewarding.&1t;/p>

As for the issue of self-respecting troops, Qin Liangyu was the wife of the Ma family after all, and the Ma family was descended from General Fu Bo of the Han Dynasty. Such loyal and kindness don’t have to be too cautious after such a loyal and kind person.&1t;/p>

Another one is that history proves that Qin Liangyu is also loyal to the Ming Dynasty, so Zhu Youxiao naturally will not speculate or be prepared.&1t;/p>

In Chinese history, such a female general was only released in the Ming Dynasty, which is also a legend in the generation.&1t;/p>

Rewarding Qin Liangyu can also send a signal to the new generals. As long as you can achieve success, you can be awarded the title and become a general.&1t;/p>

"Now the rebels in Guizhou have suffered heavy losses and can only hide in the mountains and survive. The combat plan formulated before is obviously not applicable. The commander will then formulate a new combat plan to try to quell the rebellion as soon as possible." Zhu Youchao said to everyone.&1t;/p>

"I think there is no need to wait for the new army of the two divisions to complete the training before the chieftains will be launched. With the combat power of the chieftains, it should be a big problem to actively advance the suppression. However, the key is how to stabilize the pacified areas and prevent those Tu tribes from surrendering and rebelling. "Lu Xiangsheng suggested to Zhu Youxiao: "Once the imperial court is to immediately divide prefectures and counties to manage, and to comprehensively change the land and return to the rebellion in the rebellious area."&1t;/p>

"The key is to change the land and return to the current situation. I immediately send someone to the cabinet to find someone to discuss the matter." Zhu Youxiao ordered.&1t;/p>

"Yes, Your Majesty."&1t;/p>

The Cabinet and the Supreme Command then held a joint meeting to discuss the issue of land reform and return to the empire. Military and administrative cooperation must be closely coordinated to succeed.&1t;/p>

Finally, a plan to change the land and return to the current state was proposed, that is, to divide the military into divisions, encircle and suppress the rebellion's local officials' troops in the area, and immediately set up prefectures and county governments to incorporate these rebellious tribes into the government management.&1t;/p>

This plan is quite credible. After all, these tribes have lived under the rule of the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years. Their tribes are not unfamiliar with the Ming government, and it is not too difficult for the government to put them into rule. After all, people always have to live a life. Those rebel local officials cannot give them a stable life, so they will naturally lose their base of the people. The tribes and people who rebel local officials actually do not have a strong sense of nationality. As long as the government treats them equally, they will naturally quell the rebellion.&1t;/p>

Concentrate superior forces to attack and attack in different regions, and then stabilize and calm the regional situation, otherwise the rebellion will resume. Step by step, it can compress the scope of activities and living space of the rebellious local officials, and finally it can completely eliminate these rebellious local officials.&1t;/p>

Of course, there must be considerable financial investment, and the court must bear both combat funds and administrative management costs. The administrative management method must also be considered clearly. If the government imposes heavy taxes and oppresses ethnic minorities, it is easy to cause rebellion.&1t;/p>

"In setting up prefectures and counties to manage local Tu people, education should be the top priority. In terms of agricultural tax, mountainous areas are exempt from taxes, and the remaining ten taxes are enough. Now the imperial court has enough troops in Guizhou, and commercial tax can be collected in Guizhou on the grounds of quelling the rebellion and financial shortage!" Chen Yan suggested.&1t;/p>

"Accurate." Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up. This is a good idea. Although Guizhou's commercial tax may not be levied too much, there should be no problem in maintaining local government expenses.&1t;/p>

As for the means of education, Zhu Youjiao later decided to set up general education in ethnic minority areas to allow children of ethnic minorities to receive education, and ethnic minorities can be assimilated in less than two or three generations.&1t;/p>

If we want to say that the region with the worst education among the provinces of the Ming Dynasty was obviously one of them. Later, the Qing Dynasty did not educate the fast-paced area very well.&1t;/p>

Strengthening education is a must, it must be done by government funding.&1t;/p>

It is simple to assimilate these ethnic minorities. As long as they are not in the mountainous areas, they will basically be assimilated. Only those in the mountainous areas will retain the living habits of ethnic minorities. However, assimilating those outside the mountainous areas is almost done. The mountains are also easy to solve. In the future, as long as you have compulsory education, children in the mountainous areas will naturally come out when they grow up.&1t;/p>

The commander-in-chief and the cabinet roughly calculated the expenses, and it is estimated that it will cost 8 million yuan a year, which is acceptable.&1t;/p>

With the formulation of the plan, the cabinet and the commander-in-chief quickly implemented the plan. The cabinet immediately selected a group of officials and appointed local officials in the Guizhou Tusi Rebellion area. After taking office, the army cooperated with them to establish local administration.&1t;/p>

At the same time, the commander-in-chief ordered Qin Liangyu to concentrate superior forces to clear the rebellious areas in different regions and cooperate with the establishment of the local administrative system.&1t;/p>

A major battle to transform land and return to the current situation officially kicked off.&1t;/p>

This is what Guizhou local officials are most afraid of, so they refuse to surrender. However, Zhu Youxiao has lost the patience to negotiate terms with these local officials, and these local officials have rebelled again and again. It is really upsetting.&1t;/p>

Qin Liangyu was naturally very satisfied with the emperor's big money when the imperial court rewarded him to Guizhou. In order to deserve the reward, Qin Liangyu and Shizhu chieftain soldiers began to carry out a large-scale clearance of the rebel local officials' troops. According to the orders of the Supreme Command, he concentrated his superior forces to carry out a large-scale mobilization of the mountainous areas.&1t;/p>

Of course, such a large-scale sweep is not a massacre policy, but annihilation of rebels. Ordinary ethnic minorities are forgiven for being guilty as long as they are willing to surrender, but they have to be moved outside the mountainous areas for resettlement.&1t;/p>

According to the combat plan of the Supreme Command, every time Qin Liangyu enters the mountain to sweep, he can almost burn a large number of villages and transfer and resettle a large number of ethnic minorities.&1t;/p>

A large number of ethnic minorities were placed outside the mountainous areas and distributed to them for cultivation. As the number of ethnic minorities in the mountains became fewer and fewer, the mass base of those rebel officials was constantly losing.&1t;/p>

Without a public base, those guerrilla warfares where the rebels and local officials were still farting, could only wait for chronic death.&1t;/p>

After all, the conflict will inevitably cause losses. If you want to confront the Ming army for a long time, you must have a place to supplement personnel and materials.&1t;/p>

Now the Ming army cut off the supply of materials and went into the mountains for a large-scale sweep. It is becoming increasingly difficult to replenish materials and personnel.&1t;/p>

In the end, when even food cannot be obtained, the human heart will naturally dissipate.&1t;/p>

Such an attack strategy is obviously very effective. Under the continuous encirclement and suppression of the Ming army, the strength of the rebel local officials became weaker and weaker, and they continued to lose their troops in previous encirclement and suppression.&1t;/p>

On the other hand, the Ming army had sufficient military pay and supplies. At the same time, it was well-equipped and had sufficient troops. The ethnic minority people transferred out of the mountainous areas were also registered under the management of the Ming government and assigned to the land that originally belonged to those local officials.&1t;/p>

After obtaining the land, no exploitation of local officials, they immediately won the hearts of the people. Under the management of the Ming government, those ethnic minorities were no longer willing to follow the local officials to rebel and cause trouble.&1t;/p>

The government has introduced a new policy, which is to wear Chinese clothes and clothes, which can be exempted from three years of agricultural tax. Then, a general school is set up in newly established prefectures and counties, and all local children can enter school for free. Learn Chinese characters, learn Mandarin, and wear Chinese clothes and clothes, and it can be completely assimilated in just two or three generations.&1t;/p>

All the officials used in these newly established prefectures and counties were transferred from Northern Zhili. After strict review by the cabinet and the Ministry of Personnel, a relatively efficient administrative system was established in the local area, avoiding the confrontation between ethnic minority masses and government officials.&1t;/p>

Such an assimilation policy has a relatively large cost investment, but it can fundamentally solve the problem of ethnic minority rebellion.&1t;/p>

For the stability of the southwest, Zhu Youxiao did not mind investing more costs.&1t;/p>

Just when the rebellion was suppressed, Beizhili also made comprehensive intervention in Guizhou's administration. First, in the name of suppressing the shortage of rebellion, a tax bureau was established in Guizhou and began to fully impose commercial taxes in Guizhou.&1t;/p>

At the same time, Royal Capital also entered Guizhou to conduct comprehensive exploration of Guizhou's resources.&1t;/p>

As a result, the Royal Mining Company discovered a huge lead ore with a huge reserve in Dading Prefecture, which was the most serious rebellion.&1t;/p>

Originally, the Royal Mining Company came to Dadingfu to explore copper and silver mines. Before the Anbangyan rebellion, the copper mine exploration in Dadingfu itself was put on the table. Zhu Youxiao's mint currently requires a large amount of copper mines, and the copper mine exploration of Royal Mining Company is underway across the country.&1t;/p>

However, before I could explore the copper mine in Dading Prefecture, An Bangyan rebelled and disrupted the exploration process of the copper mine in Dading Prefecture.&1t;/p>

Qin Liangyu suppressed the chieftain rebellion in Dading Prefecture, and the explorers of the Royal Mining Company also arrived in Dading Prefecture. As a result, during the exploration process, a lead ore with extremely high mining value was found.&1t;/p>

And there are also some occurrences in copper and silver mines.&1t;/p>

However, the reserves of the existing silver mines have decreased after being secretly mined by the toast.&1t;/p>

The exploration personnel immediately reported the exploration results. After receiving the report, Zhu Youxiao ordered the Royal Mining Company to mine the lead, copper and silver mines in Dadingfu.&1t;/p>

At this time, the demand for lead in the Ming Dynasty was increasing, and the supply of lead was also a little tight.&1t;/p>

Lead is a relatively commonly used metal material, and there is a considerable military demand. In the manufacturing industry, there is also a great demand.&1t;/p>

As long as the lead ore in Dadingfu can be mined, it will be easy to make a profit.&1t;/p>

In fact, the lead mine in Dading Prefecture occupied a large share of the main production area during the Qing Dynasty, but Zhu Youxiao was not very clear, but he accidentally discovered the lead mine in Dading Prefecture.&1t;/p>

If the mining industry in Dading Prefecture can develop, it will drive employment, and it will be much easier to resettle the ethnic minorities migrated from the mountains.&1t;/p>

In the third year of the Tianqi period, the Liaodong war entered midsummer and the whole country was temporarily calm. In addition to Liaodong, Guizhou was launching wars.&1t;/p>

Overall, a relatively stable situation was shown, especially in the northern provinces. After three years of various efforts, the decayed situation has been initially stabilized.&1t;/p>

The Baojia system implemented by the cabinet in the north also reached a large scale in the third year of the Apocalypse. At the same time, relief and tax exemption also eased some contradictions.&1t;/p>

The situation happened to be more optimistic, and Zhu Youxiao felt that the hidden danger of thieves was completely solved. There were four newly trained cavalry divisions in the capital. These four cavalry divisions were just trained and had to be trained for a year and a half to go to the battlefield. However, it was no problem to deal with thieves.&1t;/p>

The command soon came up with a plan to clear the thieves, which was to mobilize four cavalry divisions, plus a garrison brigade in Shaanxi to thoroughly clear the thieves in Shaanxi. (To be continued...)&1t;/>&1t;/p>
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