Xiao Xuan led the team through the battle of Guangyuan, and the speed of approaching the Chengdu area was also very fast. Of course, at this time, the Chengdu government also heard about the two major events in the north one after another, and had already prepared. Personally led the three or four core officials around him, as well as relevant family members, and quickly greeted the team led by Xiao Xuan when they just arrived in Chengdu.

"I just got the news yesterday that the king has encountered something in the north, but fortunately, God bless the king, everything is fine. When I just got the news yesterday, the minister had immediately arranged to carry out an inventory in the southwestern provinces... "It's not the same as the provinces in the Central Governorate. Places like Chengdu and Lanzhou because of their proximity to the border areas and the task of dealing with the great war, as in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, had the "Governor's Palace" located in the core provincial capital to oversee military affairs and supervision. When such a thing happened, Liu Nian, who was sitting in Chengdu Mansion, of course understood that it was necessary for him to make this gesture to minimize his suspicion.

Xiao Xuan did not lead the team into the palace or go to the city, but camped outside the city. Under the circumstance that Liu Nian and more than 100 others had to stay in the camp led by Xiao Xuan, many government affairs in the city had to be transferred outside the city under such circumstances.

Liu Nian can have such a status, of course, he is also a person with a certain degree of reliability selected back then, and this kind of style also made Xiao Xuan give up his previous thoughts: at least, Liu Nian at this time is at most a suspect, not a "suspect" who can be determined seven or eight times out of ten.

"I heard that from last year to recent years, the Southwest Governor's Office has fought a lot of large-scale conflicts with local barbarians in Yunnan, Guizhou and other places, and the young people other than the Han people in Sichuan have not accepted the land reform and return to the stream, at least within the scope of the agricultural area, and have also been exterminated?"

This kind of inquiry did not make Liu Nian feel much pressure, after all, in some military affairs in the southwest borderlands, Liu Nian did not dare to make claims without discussion and response in Yingtian Central Manor.

Of course, Liu Nian was not willing to say straightforwardly: The financial resources and troops in Sichuan are insufficient, and it is necessary to strengthen authority and armaments. But he still said: "The situation in the southwest is complicated, and the barbarian seedlings mostly live in sinister and barren and scattered places, and the cost of really carrying out thorough conquest and even migration is not low, and it will also bring a lot of new problems. ”

Liu Nian originally thought that Xiao Xuan would still be unhappy because of this. After all, today's Da Ming is not better than in the past. In the past, the vast majority of the Central Plains Dynasty as long as they were not too stupid kings would understand that power has boundaries, and there are some things in this world that they can't do. But since the expedition, or since the rebellion of that year, the team led by Xiao Xuan has won successive battles, defeating the goals that they had not wanted to achieve before. And some Miao people in the southwest region are not worth mentioning at all compared to those forces. In the past two years, I have only achieved considerable results in the use of troops and friction under the permission of Sichuan, and it is obvious that it will not be very satisfactory.

Unexpectedly, Xiao Xuan did not easily express a clear attitude on this issue, but said: "Many marginal places such as Yungui and even Tibet have become places of dirt and dirt because of many wars, but if you want to truly solve this problem completely, I also understand that this may not be something that can be easily done right now." ”

If it was many years ago, Xiao Xuan might have been a proposition such as "people stay on the ground", "if they are not of my race, their hearts will be different", "living space" and so on. It would probably be best if the young people of the entire southwest could be eliminated militarily or eliminated. However, in the more than ten years since he took power, Xiao Xuan at this time is no longer as "angry" or "extremely pragmatic" as he was back then

Repeated internal turmoil made Xiao Xuan understand a truth, and at the same time understood why although the Ming and Qing dynasties were steadily promoting the centralization of the southwest region, in the end, until the Republic of China, there was no real "Han localization" here: in many places in the southwest, the local poverty and the transportation remained unchanged. Even if these places are "killing men and overseeing women", "killing people and changing species", and "people are left behind". Could it be that the newly relocated Han Chinese were able to bring in considerable tax revenues? Won't it become a new destabilizing factor like the people in the mountains in some parts of the Han region? Even if it makes sense, it is prohibitively expensive. Historically, the administrative expansion of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the southwest region may have been largely similar to some of the wars and conflicts of ethnic minorities in the Central Plains and in the north: in essence, it was a means of stabilizing local security.

It's just that what happened in Guangyuan made Xiao Xuan unable to determine the extent and extent to which the local officials colluded with the remnants of the previous wars, and if there was a large-scale collusion, it would be "coming without being rude" to clean up the habitat of these people.

Shortly thereafter, the team led by Xiao Xuan stayed in Chengdu for a long time, while taking turns to dispatch forces to conduct continuous and wide-ranging "random trials", randomly selecting ordinary people from all over the place to understand some local conditions.

On the one hand, he also conducted a rough deduction with the staff office around him in the temporary camp outside Chengdu: That is, if the new guard battalion had to divide its troops because of some kind of combat mission, and there were only about 200 troops at the level of "reinforced company" at most, would it be able to effectively deal with the siege and attack of dozens to 100 times the number of troops?

After accumulating a lot of combat experience and having a lot of conclusions, the final conclusion does not seem to be difficult to determine: even if it relies on recoilless steel cannons and arrow shotguns. According to the current configuration, a company battle group of 200 people can kill and wound about 1,000 people in the face of the siege of more than 10,000 enemy troops with certain preparations in two rounds of fire attacks. A single attack can bring losses ranging from a few hundred to hundreds of people. It looks like the firepower is sufficient. However, if there is a considerable attrition in the enemy's combat effectiveness during the first wave of attacks or plots, and the opponent is not a simple rabble, then it is difficult to ensure victory.

"Lianqun still seems too weak?" Some of the people around Xiao Xuan also said helplessly.

(End of chapter)