Zhu Hongsan saw that the surrendered Liping prefect peeked at himself with his spare eyes, and knew that this guy was nervous and afraid that he would clean him up.

To be honest, Zhu Hongsan didn't want to use these surrender factions, but Zhu Hongsan's subordinates really didn't have bureaucrats with administrative experience, so he had no choice but to let these surrender factions stay in their original positions.

Zhu Hongsan looked at Liu Zhen, the prefect of Liping who was kneeling in front of him, and asked, "Liping Mansion, get up and speak!" ”

"The sinners don't dare!"

"Get up, get up, I have something to ask you!"

Liu Zhen dared to stand up, but he didn't dare to look up at Zhu Hongsan. Liu Zhen didn't know much about this rogue emperor, but there were a lot of rumors about Zhu Hongsan on the side of Guangxi Yungui. However, it is said that Zhu Hongsan didn't study when he was a child, how naughty he didn't learn well. Liu Zhen found out through rumors that this emperor is probably not bad with Liu Bei, both of whom were born in the market, but they had an imperial appearance when they were children. Such an emperor is not easy to fool, it is better to be careful.

Zhu Hongsan didn't care about Liu Zhen when he saw him, and asked directly: "Liping Mansion, how long have you been here as an official?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, the criminal minister is Chongzhen's ten-year jinshi, and he came to Guizhou when he was elected as an official, and it has been twelve years now!"

"Oh! You are Chongzhen's ten-year jinshi, then you and Ma Mingyuan are in the same department! ”

Liu Zhen heard the emperor say this, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty has praised you, the minister is only the top two hundred and three, and Ma Ge is always the first in the second class, where can the minister compare!" ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded, and then asked: "You have been in Guizhou for more than ten years, tell me what is going on with the Yi people in Guizhou!" ”

Liu Zhen listened to Zhu Hongsan ask about the Yi people in Guizhou, this is his strength, as a magistrate, he has more dealings with these ethnic minorities, and he still knows the distribution of the Yi people in Guizhou very well!

"Your Majesty, the Yi people in Guizhou developed from the Qiang people in the Hehuang region of the northwest during the pre-Qin period, and after years of migration, they settled here in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan! Now the largest tribe of the Yi people in Guizhou is the Shuixian clan! ”

Liu Zhen is not a Yi talent, and he talked eloquently in front of Zhu Hongsan, telling the history of the Yi people in Guizhou for thousands of years in detail.

Of course, Zhu Hongsan was not interested in how these Yi people came to be, and he was anxious to understand the origin of the Shuixian clan in Guizhou.

As early as the Three Kingdoms period, a Yi leader named Jihuo was named the king of Luodian for helping Zhuge Liang conquer Nanzhong, and ruled a large area of land including Bijie, Dafang, Qianxi, Zhijin, Nayong, Jinsha and other counties. By the Yuan Dynasty, the power of Mu Gou had crossed the Yachi River in the upper reaches of the Wujiang River, and extended eastward to the area of present-day Guiyang, but the ruling center was in the west of the Yachi River, so Mu Gou was also called Shuixi. In accordance with the old practice of the previous dynasty, the Ming Dynasty gave the ruler of Shuixi as the Xuanwei Department of Guizhou. Zhu Yuanzhang also edicted that "Guizhou Xuanfu is above each other", which shows the important position of Shuixi Tusi. Since the Ming Dynasty, Shuixi Junchang began to adopt the Han surname - An, and implemented the Yi and Han dual name system, so it is also called Shuixi An.

In addition to Mu Ogou, there was another Yi leader in the northwest of Guizhou, Osuo, who was angry at the Wusa Junchang State established in the northwest of Guizhou before the Yuan Dynasty, and the ruling area roughly included the two counties of Weining and Hezhang. In the Ming Dynasty, the chief of Wusa was given the title of the prefect of Wusatu, and adopted the same Han surname - An like the governor of Shuixi.

After Jihuo, Tang Dynasty Apei, Song Dynasty Pugui, Yuan Dynasty Ahua, these Shuixi Yi leaders were all in the founding of the Central Dynasty when the land was attacked, and continued to govern the Shuixi region, until the Qing Dynasty's Kangxi changed the land and returned to the stream, in more than 1,000 years of dynasties and generations, the Shuixi clan was always able to take the lead in accepting the soil and attached, which shows its understanding of current affairs and the overall situation, and also contributed to the An clan ruling the Shuixi region for more than 1370 years, which is definitely the longest family in China.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, the rebellion in Guizhou completely broke the harmonious relationship between the Shuixian clan and the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the contradiction between the Yi and Han dynasties in Guizhou became increasingly complex and acute, and the officials sent by the central government not only fished the common people and collected heavy taxes, but also scolded and scolded the local Tusi, who were regarded as untouchables, and often held the knife on the heads of the Tusi with the knife of changing the land and returning to the stream.

In the long-standing hereditary Tusi system, the officials also interfered, and it was an unwritten rule that all hereditary officials must collect gold privately. For example, in the early years of the Apocalypse, Shui'an inherited his grandfather's position, and Shao Yingzhen, the deputy envoy of Guizhou's military garrison, asked An for "the chieftain's gold and silver routine, no less than two or three thousand gold". Those who do not pay money, "inherit the accumulation to twenty or thirty years of inaction", and Shuixian generations as in-laws of the Yongning luxury family is an example, after the death of the leader of the luxury clan during the Wanli period, the luxury clan fell into the battle for the position of the Tusi loyal to his brother luxury Chongming and the loyal concubine luxury Chongzhou, and Yongning general soldier Guo Cheng and Ma Chengwen actually took advantage of the opportunity of the melee between the two sides to send troops to rush the fire and rob, and "the ninth generation of luxury accumulated wealth and looted it". However, after Yu Chongming became the envoy of Yongning Xuanfu, the local officials refused to admit it on the grounds that "the line is undecided", and repeatedly asked the court to "change the land and return to the stream" of the Yongning area. The long-term high-pressure politics has made extravagant Chongming increasingly rebellious.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty was tight on the Houjin front, and asked the two Tusi of Yongning in Shuixi to recruit troops to fight in Liao, which became the fuse of the Extravagant Rebellion, and extravagant Chongming mobilized 20,000 soldiers and horses to Chongqing, but on the one hand, the Ming government refused to issue military salaries and rations, and the 400,000 taels of silver that should have been issued were only given 40,000 taels, on the other hand, Chongqing Governor Xu Keqiu accused most of the soldiers transferred by Extravagant Chongming of being old, weak, sick and disabled, and had no combat effectiveness, and asked to be sent back to Yongning for re-recruitment.

Taking this as an opportunity, Yu Chongming raised the anti-flag, led the 20,000 Yongning army of the "old, weak, sick and disabled" mentioned by Xu Keqiu to capture Chongqing, killed the governor Xu Keqiu and more than 20 other officials, and divided his troops to capture Hejiang, Naxi, Zunyi and other important towns, and later besieged Chengdu for more than 100 days. After that, Lu Chongming established the Great Liang State and called himself the King of Great Liang.

At this time, the leader of the Shuixi clan, An Yaochen, had just died, his son An was young, Yaochen's wife was the regent, and the power of Shuixi was in the hands of Xuan Shehui and An Yaochen's brother Guizhou Xuanwei Division Tongzhi An Bangyan, after Lu Shehui and An Bangyan heard the news of the Luxury Chongming uprising, they did not hesitate too much and raised the anti-flag. The speed occupied Bijie, Anshun, Zhanyi and other places.

In the southwest water, the influence of the An's clan was huge, and the war escalated because of the addition of the An's clan, and for a while, the Tusi in the southwest region responded one after another. Song Wanhua, the Tusi of Shuidong, also raised an incident and proclaimed himself the king of Luodian and occupied Longli. In February of the second year of the Apocalypse, the 100,000 rebel army led by the An-Song clan surrounded Guiyang, besieged Guiyang for a whole year, and there were 400,000 soldiers and civilians in the city, and they starved to death, and only 200 people remained.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, after the Guizhou governor Wang Sanshan led the troops to relieve the siege of Guiyang, An Bangyan led his troops to return to the west of the water, merged with the Yongning army of Luxury Chongming, and fought a protracted war with the Ming army. The trend of luxury and security has gradually become a big trend in Sichuan and Guizhou.

In the first year of Chongzhen, the Ming government enabled Zhu Xieyuan, who made the first contribution in the defense of Chengdu, and the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guangzhou, Zhu Xieyuan spent seven years to gather the troops of the five provinces to kill luxury Chongming, luxury Shehui, and An Bangyan in Shuixi Yongning in the seventh year of Chongzhen, and then the young An surrendered, and the rebellion of luxury was basically over.

However, in order to quell the rebellion of luxury, the price paid by the Ming government was extremely heavy, the rebellion lasted 14 years, almost affected the whole province of Qianchuan, the governors of the two places died in the war, the provincial capital Guiyang and Chengdu were trapped for a long time, and more importantly, the huge military expenditure of more than ten years of war was undoubtedly worse for the Ming Empire that was tired of dealing with the war in the north and the peasant uprisings in various places. In the sixth year of the Apocalypse alone, the Ming government, which had always attached great importance to the war in the north, had no choice but to reduce the expenditure on the war in eastern Liaodong from 7.7 million taels to 6.8 million taels, while the military expenditure on quelling the rebellion in the southwest increased from 4 million taels to 5 million taels.

Zhu Hongsan couldn't help frowning when he heard Liu Zhen talk about the history of the Shuixi and Lu'an Rebellion. It seems that the ethnic issue is really difficult to handle, and the dense mountains and rivers in southwest Guizhou are really a good place to fight guerrillas, but when Zhu Hongsan left Guangdong, he already planned to solve the Shuixi clan forever, and he already had a plan for how to deal with it.

Liu Zhen spoke here for half an hour, and finally Liu Zhen said: "Your Majesty, the Shuixi clan has been entrenched in southwest Guizhou for more than a thousand years, and the tree has deep roots, if Your Majesty wants to eradicate the An clan, you have to think in the long run!" ”

Liu Zhen is not a fool, as soon as the emperor came, he asked himself about Shuixi, he must be preparing to clean up the Shuixi clan. Liu Zhen raised his hands to welcome the gang of toasts, but Guizhou had just passed through the Lu'an Rebellion, and at the same time, the Shadingzhou rebellion in Yunnan in the first year of Hongguang had also spread to Guizhou, and the Yi people everywhere were not very stable, so it was really not a good time to clean up the Shuixian clan.

Zhu Hongsan heard that Liu Zhen had a lot of ideas, and asked: "It seems that you have studied Shuixi very much in Liping Mansion, what should you do?" ”

Liu Zhen heard the emperor ask him what he thought, and his waist quickly straightened, this is probably the right platform call, this is the emperor's trust in his courtiers.

Liu Zhen thought for a moment and said his thoughts: "Your Majesty, now that the Manchu Qing Dynasty has invaded Xinjiang, it is the time to employ people, so it is better to win over these Yi people in Shuixi and use them to fight with the Manchus in the north, so that I can benefit from the fisherman?" When the Manchu Qing Dynasty is tired, His Majesty will lead the Northern Expedition and return the old capital, and then the whole country will be stable, and the strength of the whole country will be concentrated to pacify Shuixi, won't this get twice the result with half the effort? ”

Zhu Hongsan nodded again and again after listening to what Liu Zhen said, this Liu Zhen still has some ideas, and what he said is also the strategy of the later Manchu Qing Dynasty to deal with the Shuixian clan.