It is said that in June of the first year of Chongzhen, the imperial court issued a holy decree to restore Zhu Xieyuan as the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou and the governor of Guizhou, and at the same time ordered him to lead the Nanjing Military Department to supervise the military affairs of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Guangxi, Huguang and the five provinces of Hunan.

In September of the first year of Chongzhen, Zhu Xieyuan took the Nanjing Military Department Shangshu Yungui Governor's Department and the Guangxi Governor Li Fengjie to recruit Guangxi Xincheng Tusi Mo Ke and Donglan Tusi Wei Ang, each leading 2,000 strong wolf soldiers to aid Guiyang;

Yin Tonggao, the governor of Sichuan, and Tian Yang, the governor of Huguang, recruited Qin Liangyu, the Tusi of Shizhu, and Peng Chaozhu, the Tusi of Huguang, and each led 3,000 local soldiers to aid Zunyi.

At the same time, he also ordered Lin Zhaoding, the chief military officer of Yunnan, to lead the Yunnan troops to Qujing, and Hou Liangzhu, the chief military officer of Sichuan, to lead the Sichuan troops to Luzhou.

At the beginning of November, the Yunnan general military officer led the army into Qujing, and Zhu Xieyuan personally went to Qujing to inspect the Yunnan army with Yunnan governor Min Hongxue, and the actual number of troops was 6,400.

Then, Zhu Xieyuan repaid the arrears and advanced the three months' salary according to the actual number of people, and issued a total of six months' salary, a total of 76,400 Chongzhen silver dollars, and the same person was given one stone of grain every month, and 36,400 stone of rice and grain were allocated.

In late November, Zhu Xieyuan left Guiyang again, went to Zunyi in person, summoned Qin Liangyu, the head of the Tusi of the Shizhu Xuanwei Division, and Peng Chaozhu, the leader of the Baojing Tusi who led the army to help, and made it clear that Qin Liangyu was the main general in the direction of Zunyi, with Peng Chaozhu as the deputy general, and gave a total of 6,000 local soldiers to advance money and grain for six months, with a total of 72,000 silver dollars.

At the end of November, Zhu Xieyuan met with Hou Liangzhu, the chief military officer of Sichuan who had been ordered to rush to Zunyi, and he also sent a large amount of money and food, so that the Sichuan army, whose morale had been low for a long time, was also immediately cheered up.

Zhu Xieyuan served as a political envoy and governor of Sichuan, and he had an understanding of the situation of the Sichuan soldiers, so he did not go over the mountains and mountains to Luzhou for a review, but directly paid money and food, and ordered Hou Liangzhu to march from Luzhou to Yongning Xuanfu Division as soon as possible, and then enter the palace.

By the middle of December, a total of 7,000 Guangxi officials and Tusi wolf soldiers led by Li Fengjie, the governor of Guangxi, finally arrived in Guiyang after a long journey over the mountains and mountains.

Zhu Xieyuan immediately inspected the entire army in Guiyang City as a lieutenant colonel, and actually got 18,000 wolf soldiers in the battalion, and paid them on the spot.

The Tusi army, which has always belonged to the Tusi army, which brought its own food and salary and was responsible for its own profits and losses, this time, whether it was the obedient and disciplined Shizhu Tu soldiers, the Baojing Tu soldiers, or the Mo and Wei wolf soldiers who had always been unruly and extremely poor in military discipline, they all received unprecedented food and salary rewards.

Moreover, according to the standard of the officers and soldiers, two silver dollars per month were issued directly to me.

Zhu Xieyuan's practice of distributing food and wages in large quantities was, of course, not simply generous.

Historically, after the outbreak of the Lu'an Rebellion, the war that has been fought for so many years is ultimately a matter of money and food.

The most important thing in the Ming Dynasty is that there is no shortage of people, that is, soldiers, especially in Huguang, Sichuan, where there is a large population that can be recruited into an army.

The reason why the number of the army could not be maintained at a high level, or even worse than that of these toast leaders, was because there was not enough food.

There are forty-eight cave leaders in the jurisdiction of the Shuixi clan, or forty-eight ministers, and the leaders of each cave can pull up thousands of young and strong Yi native soldiers, so it is easy to send 100,000 soldiers and horses out of Shuixi.

On the side of the official army, it is difficult to do this.

In addition to the Hongwu period, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang sent Mu Ying and Fu Youde to lead 300,000 troops, through Guizhou into Yunnan, and subdued the southwest in one fell swoop, for more than 200 years, the Ming court has used troops in the southwest I don't know how many times, but there has never been an army of this scale.

The reasons are, of course, manifold.

For example, in response to the restraint policy of the Tusi in the southwest, the Tusi in Yunnan rebelled, so the Tusi in Guizhou and Sichuan were transferred to fight it.

When the Tusi in Guizhou were in turmoil, they transferred the Tusi army from Sichuan, Huguang and even Guangxi to quell the chaos.

In doing so, it not only eliminated the rebellious toast, but also weakened the obedient toast, which was beneficial to the imperial court.

However, after all, the Ming court did not gather a large army and get rid of all the Tusi in the southwest in one fell swoop, but allowed them to exist like independent kingdoms, in the final analysis, because of the problem of money and food.

At the time of the Banju Rebellion, the Ming court was concentrating all its efforts on fighting the Japanese in Korea, and there was not enough money and food to mobilize enough troops to suppress it.

During the Lu'an Rebellion, the Ming court concentrated all its efforts to compete with Jianlu in Liaodong, and there was not enough money and food to mobilize enough troops to attack.

This is also the reason why the Banju Rebellion dragged on for eight years.

Most of the health system in Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan are Tusi officials at all levels, and after the Tusi made a mess, these health officials naturally could not use it.

In this way, the commanders of the town guard had to recruit battalion soldiers, and the recruitment of battalion soldiers of course required payment of food.

And without enough money and food, they could not support enough battalions, so it was difficult to quickly quell the rebellion of the Tusi.

But as long as the imperial court frees up its hands, the end of these rebellious toasts will come.

This is how the Banshu Rebellion was put down.

As long as the Ming Dynasty did not fight on two fronts, or even if it fought on two fronts, there was still a large amount of money and grain to support, these Tusi rebellions in the mountains of the southwest had only one ending, that is, they were wiped out.

This time, Zhu Xieyuan went to Guiyang to preside over the second rebellion of An Bangyan in the pacification of luxury Chongming, and the situation he faced was exactly like this.

Although the imperial court has waged war with Jianyu in Korea and with thieves in Shanxi since the first year of Chongzhen, if the scale and time of the war are discussed, it is naturally incomparable with the battle of Pingwei in the Wanli period and the Liaodong crisis in the Apocalypse period.

Therefore, compared with the same period in history, the current Ming court has quite abundant money and food, and Zhu Xieyuan is of course more generous than in history to reward the army to boost morale.

For these officers and soldiers who have not received their military salaries for a long time, with military salaries, they naturally have morale.

And for those wolf soldiers who rarely get the food and salary of the imperial court, they really got the rewards that the imperial court used to give only to the leaders of the toast, and their morale naturally has nothing to say.

Therefore, after a lapse of nearly three years, Zhu Xieyuan returned to Guiyang, and then distributed a large amount of food and salary, which naturally immediately won the hearts of the majority of soldiers, and the morale of the Guiyang front line rose rapidly.

Zhu Xieyuan's situation in Guiyang to reward the three armies, naturally he couldn't hide the ears and eyes of Song Siyin, the Tusi of the Song clan in Shuidong, who was close at hand.

It was Wang Sanshan, not Zhu Xieyuan, who beheaded Song Siyin's father, Song Wanhua.

But those involved in it are the father and son of Xu Chengming, the current chief military officer of Guizhou.

This is the revenge of killing the father.

Not only Song Siyin himself remembered it, but Xu Chengming also dared not dare to forget it.

The imperial court appeased the Shuidong Song clan, which was an official matter.

But Xu Chengming led people to capture Song Wanhua, the father of Song Siyin, which was a personal vendetta.

Moreover, the old nest of Shuidong Tusi is in Wudanghong Border Village, twenty miles northeast of Guiyang, which is the real side of the couch.

After Xuan Chongming and An Bangyan rebelled again, An Chongsheng, the prefect of Wusa Tu, who had originally followed the imperial court, also threw himself into the arms of the Shuixi clan again, and Song Siyin, who was close at hand, was also the first rat to waver at both ends.

If it weren't for the large number of officers and troops stationed in Guiyang, they would have rebelled again.

Now Song Siyin saw that the officials and troops in Guiyang City were gathered, and once again engaged in duplicity, while reporting to An Bangyan, he sent people to Guiyang to express his attachment again, and in the name of the Guizhou Propaganda Department of the Ming Dynasty, he took the initiative to ask to lead the army to participate in the pacification of the Shuixi Rebellion.

And Zhu Xieyuan is not a nerd like the former governor of Guizhou, Zhang Heming, who advocates appeasement, but a ruthless character who kills decisively.

Zhu Xieyuan saw that Song Siyin of the Song clan in Shuidong was like this, and he was in the middle of it, and asked people to reward Song Siyin and the twelve horse-headed leaders of the Song clan in Shuidong, reward them for their loyalty to the imperial court, and inform them that the army will set off after the beginning of the Spring Festival of the Chinese New Year, and allow the Shuidong Song clan to continue to make meritorious contributions.

As for Song Siyin's initiative to request that the official office of Shuidong Tusi be moved from Wudanghong Border Village near Guiyang to Yanghuangzhai (later Kaiyang, Guizhou), more than 100 miles north of Guiyang, Zhu Xieyuan did not agree.

If it is left in the past, and the Shuidong Song clan agrees to completely cede Guiyang and move to Yanghuangzhai, a hundred miles north of Guiyang, then the imperial court feudal officials who are the governors of Guizhou, whether it is the current Zhu Xieyuan, or the previous Wang Sanshan, or Li Zheng before Wang Sanshan, will be very happy and ask for a reward for him.

But now, it's too late.

On the one hand, Zhu Xieyuan sent people to reward and keep Song Siyin in every possible way, and on the other hand, he asked Xu Chengming and the Guangxi wolf soldiers to fight hard and secretly step up preparations.

Finally, one night at the end of December of the first year of Chongzhen, which was the eve of the lively Chinese New Year's Eve of the year, Zhu Xieyuan, who was sharpening his sword in Guiyang City, suddenly pointed the knife at the Shuidong Song clan.

With Guizhou Chief Military Officer Xu Chengming as the main general, he led the Ming Dynasty officers and Guangxi wolf soldiers gathered in Guiyang City to raid the Wudanghong border village 20 miles away.

In this unexpected raid, Song Siyin and his Shuidong Song clan's descendants, as well as the head of the Shuidong Twelve Horse Heads north of Guiyang, which was led by the Shuidong Song clan's descendants, were all wiped out and killed on the spot.

There were more than 3,000 Song native soldiers guarding the Wudanghong border village, and except for a small number of people who escaped earlier, most of them were surrounded and annihilated by the 3,000 Guiyang officers and 6,000 Guangxi wolf soldiers commanded by Xu Chengming, the chief military officer of Guizhou. [.]