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Seeing the Yi people tearing each other down here, Zhu Hongsan was very happy in his heart. But happy is happy, things still have to be done.

Zhu Hongsan sighed and said to Lu Yinglong: "Hey, brother-in-law, if you brought troops to help me two months ago, I might have spared you, it's too late to say anything now!" ”

"Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, listen to me...

Zhu Hongsan didn't care how Lu Yinglong begged for mercy, waved his hand, and the brocade guard behind him pulled out these toasts and cut off their heads.

Zhu Hongsan waved his hand and said, "Pickle the heads of Lu He and An Kun with lime, bring them back to the Lu clan to see, and throw the rest into the river!" ”

At this time, on the bank of the Guancheng River outside Anshun City, the Yi soldiers who had laid down their arms and surrendered were gathered together, and Li Chengdong led people to begin a planned massacre of these people.

The Yi people originally thought that this group of Ming troops was the same as the previous Ming army, as long as they laid down their weapons, they could go home to farm, but they didn't think that the Ming army could attack them who were defenseless.

"Brothers, the Han people want to kill us all, let's fight!"

The Yi people, who were less than 30,000 people, led by a few leaders, rushed towards the Ming army with their bare hands. But they have been walking through the mountains for more than a month, and their physical strength has been exhausted, and they are Li Chengdong's opponents.

In this way, it took two hours, and 30,000 Yi people were slaughtered outside Anshun by the Ming army led by Zhu Hongsan.

The governor of Anshun Prefecture is the local official Zhang Jie, Emperor Yuan Shun to the eleventh year of April, the imperial court in Puding Road four states and one county. Anshun Prefecture is one of them, the seat of governance is in today's Anshun Prefecture, and its chieftain is known as the Tuzhou, which is the first time in history that Anshun has become a territory of the central dynasty. In the fourteenth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Fu Youde went on an expedition to Yunnan and Guizhou, and when he arrived in Anshun Prefecture, Zhang Awo, the head of the eighty-one village, led the people to attach, and in the eighteenth year of Hongwu, the imperial court awarded Zhang Awo as the Tuzhizhou of Anshun Prefecture.

The Zhang family is actually a Han people, and its ancestors can be traced back to the five dynasties and ten kingdoms period at the turn of the Tang and Song dynasties, and the five years of Gaozu Tianfu in the Later Jin Dynasty, the southern Chu expanded westward, and the power along the Qingshui River penetrated deep into the area of Duyun in southern Qiannan, that is, Nanning Prefecture was placed here. After that, Ma Xifan, the king of Chu, awarded Long Deshou as the general of Huaiyuan, wearing a tiger charm, and led the "eight surnamed soldiers" of Liuzhou and Yongzhou to continue westward, arriving at Huishui and Changshun, and penetrating into the area of Anshun Prefecture today.

After quelling the turmoil, in order to ensure the long-term rule of the Chu forces in southern Qiannan, the king of Chu left the "eight surnamed soldiers" to garrison, which were Long, Wen, Shi, Cheng, Wei, Hong, Lu, Zhang and other eight surnames. The territory of the surname Zhang was in the area of present-day Anshun Prefecture. After Southern Chu was destroyed by the Southern Tang Dynasty, the "Eight Surnamed Soldiers" lost the support of the national body and could not return to their homeland, so they became unified and formed a separatist regime.

However, the Zhang family has lived in Guizhou for hundreds of years, and has already become the indigenous people of Guizhou, and the contemporary family of the Zhang family thought that it was just a new emperor, just like before, and then they could continue to make offerings, but seeing that 30,000 Yi people outside the city were killed, Zhang Jie was really frightened by this new emperor.

Zhang Jie trembled and went out of the city to meet the new emperor, and when he saw the corpses of the river through the Guancheng River, he trembled with fright. When he came to Zhu Hongsan, he didn't dare to raise his head, knelt down and said long live the emperor.

Zhu Hongsan saw the middle-aged man in his forties in front of him and asked, "Are you Zhang Jie of Tuzhizhou in Anshun Prefecture?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, it's the minister!"

"Okay, I heard that your Zhang family is Han, now are you willing to recognize your ancestors and return to your ancestors?"

Zhang Jie listened to the emperor's intention to prepare to change the land and return to the stream, the Zhang family has been the emperor of the soil in Anshun for hundreds of years, of course he doesn't want to do what the emperor wants, but now the situation is stronger than people, the Ming army outside the city is nearly 100,000, and the total population of Anshun City is less than 50,000.

Zhang Jie's head turned rapidly, thinking that it would be better to agree first, and wait until the emperor left, anyway, the Tusi in Guizhou is not his own family, look at other families.

Having made up his mind, Zhang Jie hurriedly kowtowed and said, "Yes, the minister obeys the order!" ”

Zhang Jie underestimated this Shenwu Emperor a little, what kind of person is Zhu Hongsan, he has lived for almost seventy years in his previous life and this life, what kind of people don't understand the world? Zhang Jie's small abacus, Zhu Hong's three door clearing.

"Good! It's rare for Zhang Zhizhou to be so reasonable, I will give you a task, take your native soldiers to kill all the non-Han people in the city! ”

There are less than 50,000 people in Anshun City, and Han people account for the majority, but there are nearly 20,000 people of Yi, Miao, Zhuang and other ethnic groups.

"Your Majesty. Your Majesty, kill them all? Zhang Jie thought that the emperor was testing his loyalty, but where did he think that Zhu Hongsan was going to kill all the natives in Guizhou, and then migrate from the Central Plains to live with the Han people.

Seeing Zhang Jie hesitating, Zhu Hongsan asked gloomily, "What?" Zhang Tusi, do you want to resist the decree? ”

Zhang Jie saw that the emperor's name for himself had changed, and the brocade guards behind the emperor were holding the hilt of the knife, as long as the emperor gave an order, he would cut off his head.

Zhang Jie really had no choice, so he had to kowtow and say, "The minister obeys the order!" ”

"Good! Li Chengdong, leave the affairs outside the city to Jin Daoming, you take 20,000 people into the city and kill all the non-Han people! ”

Li Chengdong bowed down to accept the order, and took Zhang Jie, who was trembling, to go down and start slaughtering the city.

At this time, Hou Fangyu beside Zhu Hongsan couldn't help it, if the slaughter of soldiers just now was reasonable, now the slaughter of ordinary soldiers is really beyond Hou Fangyu's moral bottom line.

Hou Fangyu stood up and said: "Your Majesty, the people in the city are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and they have no objection to Your Majesty, why do you still want to slaughter the city?" ”

Seeing Hou Fangyu stand up against him again, Zhu Hongsan was very unhappy, but as his own secretary, he still had to explain to him.

"Chaozong, I ask you, your hometown is in Henan, right?"

"Yes, Chen's hometown is Henan Guide!"

"Okay, I ask you why Henan and the northern provinces are in such a mess? And since ancient times, why has there been a turbulent era in our country of China every few hundred years? ”

This question is beyond Hou Fangyu's cognition, if it were replaced by his father Hou Sui, it would be possible to answer it, but Hou Fangyu did not have that insight yet.

Hou Fangyu thought for a long time and said: "It should be that there are traitors in the court, and the emperor is not self-cultivation!" ”

"Wrong! Chaozong, think about it, Henan is a province with a large population in the Central Plains, and there are tens of millions of people in one province, but how much arable land is there? One acre of land can only produce 200 catties of wheat, right? It is not enough to feed the population of the whole province, and grain must be transferred from the provinces south of the Yangtze River. This is still an ordinary year, if there is a famine, and the roads are difficult to travel, the people can't eat, what do you think they can do? ”

It was the first time Hou Fangyu had heard of this strange theory, but Hou Fangyu was a cultivator and heirloom, and he knew that those who could produce two hundred catties of wheat in this era were considered to be in the field, and most of the output was about one hundred and fifty or sixty catties.

"Your Majesty, but does this have anything to do with the slaughter of the city in Guizhou?"

"Of course it matters, these natives occupy a lot of land, how can they migrate to the Han people to cultivate if they don't kill all of them? If the Han people in the Central Plains do not migrate, will there be another troubled era in a few hundred years? ”

Hou Fangyu didn't dare to answer this, did Hou Fangyu hope that the dynasty that the emperor had just established would perish in a few hundred years?

Seeing that Hou Fangyu didn't speak, Zhu Hongsan thought that he had persuaded him, and couldn't help but feel very proud in his heart. In fact, there are many ways to solve the increase in the population of the Central Plains, increasing the yield per mu of grain is a road, and reclaiming wasteland is also a road, although the population of the Ming Dynasty has been hundreds of millions, but there are still large areas of wasteland available. However, Zhu Hongsan's deal with the ethnic minorities in Yunnan and Guizhou was not all because of the problem of too many people and too little land, mainly because these ethnic minorities and the Han nationality entrenched in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Guangxi had no sense of identity at all, did not pay taxes, did not obey forced labor, and completely became local warlords independent of the central government, which was really intolerable to Zhu Hongsan, who was accustomed to big government.

Zhu Hongsan came from later generations and was also a person in the system, so Zhu Hongsan admired the direct control of the central government over the local government in later generations, and every grain of grain and every strong country had to understand it in detail. It is precisely because of this that Zhu Hongsan can't let such a big place not be under his rule, so he has to clean up these ethnic minorities who have lived in Yungui for more than 2,000 years.

The 50,000 people led by Li Chengdong were originally Jin Shenghuan's subordinates back then, and these guys had a good set of slaughtering the city, and after entering Anshun City, they immediately surrounded the Yi people's gathering area and began to divide into more than ten small areas to slaughter. The relationship between the Han and the Yi people in this part of Guizhou was already tense, and the Han people in the city saw that they had attacked the Yi people, and they also spontaneously organized a team to clean up the Yi and Miao people around them, and for a time the entire Anshun City was like a hell on earth.

Three days later, the Yi people in the city were slaughtered, and Zhu Hongsan also appointed the new Anshun Zhizhou, and then asked Li Chengdong to lead the team to clean up Pudingwei, Yongning Prefecture, Annanwei, Pu'an Prefecture and several other southwestern Guizhou regions, and returned to Guiyang with three divisions of troops, and began to implement Zhu Hongsan's own policy of clearing the countryside and merging tun.

Zhu Hongsan sat in Guiyang and ordered his three divisions to be dispersed in battalions, accompanied by a return regiment organized by Han Chinese, and began to gradually clean up the Shuixi forces along Longchangyi.

From the official defeat of the main force of the Shuixi Allied Army on the 10th day of October in the third year of Shenwu to the end of the large-scale suppression of bandits at the end of the fifth year of Shenwu, Zhu Hongsan's Guangdong New Army burned a total of 13,000 villages of the Yi and Miao people, filled in tens of thousands of dead wells, and killed 560,000 Yi and Miao people who resisted. In the original Shuixi region, the four prefectures of Pingyue, Qianxi, Weining and Dading were established, and at the same time, the Banzhou Xuanwei Division, which originally belonged to Sichuan, was changed to Zunyi Prefecture and placed under the jurisdiction of the Guizhou Buzheng Division. At this point, the Yi separatist group that had been entrenched in the Yunnan-Guizhou area since the Qin and Han dynasties came to an end, and the whole of Guizhou officially became an inland province where the Han people occupied the majority.

Zhu Hongsan's southwest strategy lasted three years, in addition to the death of more than 500,000 Yi people in these two years, the Han people in Yunnan and Guizhou also suffered many casualties, but in the "Records of the Holy Ancestors" compiled after Zhu Hongsan's death, it was written: The Holy Ancestors were subdued, and hundreds of millions of Han, Yi, Miao, Hui and other people in Yunnan and Guizhou provinces were all happy to welcome the king, and there was no war in the southwest!