Qin Liangyu fought against the rebellious Tusi tribe in Guizhou, and achieved rich results in the past two months, annihilating more than 50,000 Tusi soldiers and horses from various departments, and also capturing many rebellious Tusi officials.

The reason why the judgment went so smoothly was mainly because Qin Liangyu recruited a group of local officials during the judging process and got the news that An Bangyan was trying to fight back in advance. So Qin Liangyu planned and gave An Bangyan an ambush battle, and then annihilated 50,000 soldiers and horses like chopping melons and vegetables.

These Tusi soldiers are obviously weak in front of today's stone pillar and white pole soldiers. Just the equipment produced a huge crush, not to mention the training and discipline.

However, in the victory of Dading Mansion this time, An Bangyan was still allowed to run.

The rebellion has been largely quelled, but it is clear that there is still some distance from being completely quelled. An Bangyan is not dead, and the Tusi Divisions have not surrendered, and there is still the possibility of counterattack.

However, this great victory has temporarily calmed down the situation in the southwest region.

"Qin Aiqing is really a pillar of the Ming Dynasty, and he drove to the Wuying Hall to hold a meeting of the Command." Zhu Youxiao said happily.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Yang Guang hurriedly went to prepare for the car, and when Zhu Youxiao came to the Wuying Palace, the staff officers of the headquarters also arrived. Since Sun Chuanting was transferred to Liaodong, the post of chief of staff of the General Headquarters is still held by Sun Chuanting, but Lu Xiangsheng has been promoted to deputy chief of staff by Zhu Youxiao.

Another one went up on a rocket, but the newly established high command had both military and civilian staff. The rank of its Chinese officers is relatively low, and like the cabinet, the chief of staff of the General Command has only the rank of the fifth rank in the civilian clique. The deputy chief of staff had only from the fifth grade.

But this department. It's more and more like a copy of the Cabinet. It's just that the cabinet handles government affairs. And the high command deals with military affairs.

Lu Xiangsheng's military talent is impossible to fault. After spending more than half a year in the High Command, he is already very familiar with the workflow and various military strategies.

"Your Majesty, this time General Qin has won again, and the court should reward him." Lu Xiangsheng said to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao nodded, but how to reward it?

"So be it! Promote Qin Liangyu to the rank of general, seal Xibo, reward 10,000 mu of land, 500 taels of gold......" Zhu Youxiao made a decision after thinking for a long time.

"The emperor thinks twice. Isn't this a great reward? Lu Xiangsheng was a little surprised, Zhu Youxiao shook his head and said, "Just reward it according to this specification!" ”

"Obey." Lu Xiangsheng can only receive the decree, although he doesn't know why he is rewarded so richly, but the emperor has always been virtuous, and naturally has deep meaning.

Zhu Youxiao naturally rewarded Qin Liangyu with such a purpose, as soon as Qin Liangyu was old, even if he could make contributions in the future, it would be impossible to have an embarrassing situation of no reward. After all, there are two ladders above the earl, the marquis and the duke. Above the general, there is a first-class general.

It doesn't matter how much money is given, but the land that is given out is in the form of stocks. It was not to snatch a piece of land from the common people to reward Qin Liangyu.

Zhu Youxiao is not short of money now, and he also has a large amount of land property rights.

Military ranks, knighthoods, wealth. As long as you can make meritorious contributions to the imperial court. Don't be stingy when it comes to rewarding.

As for the issue of self-respect for the army, Qin Liangyu is the daughter-in-law of the Ma family after all, and the Ma family is a descendant of General Fubo in the Han Dynasty, so there is no need to be too defensive after such loyalty.

Another is that history proves that Qin Liangyu is also loyal to Daming, and Zhu Youxiao naturally will not speculate and take precautions.

In Chinese history, it was the Ming Dynasty that there was such a female general, which can be regarded as a good story of a generation.

Rerewarding Qin Liangyu can also send a signal to the generals of the new army, as long as they can make meritorious contributions, they can be knighted and worshipped.

"Now that the Guizhou rebel Tusi has suffered heavy losses, he can only hide in the mountains to survive, and the battle plan formulated before is obviously not applicable. The high command then drew up a new battle plan to try to put down the rebellion as soon as possible. Zhu You said to everyone.

"The minister thinks that there is no need to wait for the completion of the training of the new army of the two divisions before attacking the Tusi, and with the combat strength of the Shizhu Tusi soldiers, it should not be a big problem to take the initiative to attack and suppress. However, the key is how to stabilize the pacified areas and prevent those Turks from rebelling. Lu Xiangsheng suggested to Zhu Youxiao: "Once the imperial court is suppressed at the front, it should immediately divide the prefectures and counties for management, and comprehensively change the land and return to the rebel areas." ”

"Changing the land and returning to the stream is the key, and immediately send someone to the cabinet to find someone to come over and discuss this matter." Zhu Youxiao commanded.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Subsequently, a joint meeting of the Cabinet and the High Command was held to discuss the question of repatriation. Military and administrative must work closely together to succeed.

In the end, a plan was come up with to change the land and return it to the stream, that is, to encircle and suppress the rebellious local officials in military divisions and subdivisions, and immediately establish prefecture and county governments after the extermination, and bring these rebellious tribes into the management of the government.

The credibility of this plan is still relatively high, after all, these tribes have lived under the rule of the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and their tribes are no strangers to the Ming government, and it is not too difficult for the government to include them in the rule. After all, people always have to live, and those rebellious local officials can't give them a stable life, so naturally they will lose their popular base. In fact, the people of the tribes who rebelled against the local officials did not have a strong sense of nationality, and as long as the government treated them equally, they would naturally be able to put down the rebellion.

Concentrate superior forces to carry out attacks in different regions, and then stabilize and calm the situation in the region, otherwise the rebellion will recur. Step by step, the scope of activities and living space of the rebel local officials can be compressed, and finally these rebellious local officials can be completely eliminated.

Of course, there must be a lot of financial investment, and the imperial court will have to bear the war expenses and administrative expenses. The method of administration should also be carefully considered, because if the government expropriates and oppresses ethnic minorities, it is easy to cause rebellion.

"The establishment of prefectures and counties to manage the local Tu tribes should be the first priority of education. In terms of agricultural tax, mountainous areas are exempt from taxes, and the remaining ten taxes are sufficient. Now the imperial court happens to have enough soldiers and horses in Guizhou, and it can use the financial shortage of counterinsurgency as an excuse to levy commercial taxes in Guizhou! Shen Yan suggested.

"Exactly." Zhu Youxiao's eyes lit up. It's a good idea. Although Guizhou business tax may not be collected much. But there should be no problem in maintaining local government spending.

As for the means of indoctrination, Zhu Youxiao then decided to set up a wide range of Mongolian schools in minority areas. Enabling the children of ethnic minorities to receive an education and assimilating ethnic minorities in less than two or three generations.

If you want to say that the most educated areas in the Ming provinces, Guizhou's generation is obviously one of them. Later, the Qing Dynasty did not do much to educate this fast region.

Strengthening education must be done, and this must be done with government funding.

The assimilation of these ethnic minorities is simple, as long as it is not in the mountainous area, they will basically be assimilated. Only in the mountainous areas will the living habits of ethnic minorities be preserved. But assimilation beyond the mountains is pretty much the same. The ones in the mountains are also easy to solve. In the future, as long as there is compulsory education, the children in the mountains will naturally go out of the mountains when they grow up.

The High Command and the Cabinet roughly calculated the expenditure, and estimated that it would cost 8 million yuan a year, which was acceptable.

As the plan was formulated, the Cabinet and the High Command quickly implemented it. The cabinet immediately selected a group of officials and appointed them as local officials in the Tusi rebellion area of Guizhou, and when they arrived, the army cooperated with them in establishing local administration.

At the same time, the General Headquarters ordered Qin Liangyu to concentrate superior forces to carry out sub-regional clearance of the rebel areas and cooperate with the establishment of the local administrative system.

A great battle to change the land and return to the river has officially begun.

In fact, this is what the local officials in Guizhou are most afraid of, so they refuse to surrender. However, Zhu Youxiao has lost the patience to negotiate conditions with these local officials, and these local officials have turned against each other again and again. It's really annoying.

The reward of the imperial court was sent to Guizhou, and Qin Liangyu was naturally very satisfied with the emperor's generosity. In order to be worthy of this reward, Qin Liangyu took the stone pillar Tusi soldiers and began to clear the rebellious Tuguan Department on a large scale. In accordance with the orders of the Supreme Command, a large sweep was carried out in the mountains with superior forces.

Of course, such a sweep was not a policy of massacres, but the extermination of the rebels, and the ordinary ethnic minorities were pardoned as long as they were willing to surrender, but they had to be resettled outside the mountains.

According to the operational plan of the Supreme Command, every time Qin Liangyu went into the mountains to sweep, he was able to burn down a large number of villages and resettle a large number of ethnic minorities.

Large numbers of ethnic minorities were resettled outside the mountains and given land for farming. As the ethnic minorities in the mountains become fewer and fewer, the popular base of the rebel local officials is constantly eroding.

Without a popular base, those rebellious local officials are still fighting guerrilla warfare, and they can only wait for a slow death.

After all, the conflict will inevitably cause losses, and if you want to confront the Ming army for a long time, then there must be places to replenish personnel and materials.

Now the Ming army has cut off the supply of materials and entered the mountains to carry out a sweep. Moving people from inside the mountains to outside the mountains is becoming more and more difficult to replenish in terms of supplies and personnel.

In the end, when even food is not available, people's hearts will naturally disperse.

This strategy of advance and suppression was obviously very effective, and 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 troops in successive encirclement and suppression.

On the other hand, the Ming army had sufficient military salaries and material supplies. At the same time, it is well-equipped and well-manned. The ethnic minorities who were transferred out of the mountainous areas were also registered under the management of the Ming government and were allocated land that originally belonged to those local officials.

got the land, and there was no exploitation by the local officials, and he immediately won the hearts of the people. Those ethnic minority people, under the management of the Ming government, are no longer willing to follow those local officials to rebel and cause chaos.

The government has introduced a new policy, that is, wearing Han clothes and crowns, which can exempt agricultural taxes for three years. This was followed by the establishment of a wide range of schools in the new prefectures and counties, where all children could attend school free of charge. Learning Chinese characters, learning official dialects, and wearing Han family clothes and crowns, it only takes two or three generations to complete complete complete assimilation.

The officials used in these newly established prefectures and counties were all transferred from the north of the country. As a result of the strict examination by the cabinet and the ministry, a relatively efficient administrative system has been established in the locality, thus avoiding the situation of confrontation between the masses of ethnic minorities and the government.

Such a policy of assimilation is relatively costly, but it can fundamentally solve the problem of minority rebellion.

For the sake of the stability of the southwest, Zhu Youxiao does not mind investing a little more.

At the time of counterinsurgency, Beizhili also carried out a comprehensive intervention in the administration of Guizhou. First of all, in the name of quelling the shortage of money, a tax bureau was set up in Guizhou, and a commercial tax was begun to be collected in Guizhou in an all-round way.

At the same time, Royal Capital also entered Guizhou to explore Guizhou's resources in all aspects.

As a result, it did not take long for the Royal Mining Company to discover a huge reserve of lead in Dading, where the rebellion was most severe.

Originally, the Royal Mining Company came to Dading Province to explore copper and silver mines, and before the An Bangyan Rebellion, the copper exploration of Dading Province itself was on the agenda, and Zhu Youxiao's mint currently needed a large amount of copper ore, and the Royal Mining Company was carrying out copper exploration throughout the country.

It's just that before he could explore the copper mines in Dadingfu, An Bangyan rebelled, disrupting the exploration process of the copper mines in Dadingfu.

Qin Liangyu suppressed the Tusi rebellion in Dading Mansion this time, and the exploration personnel of the Royal Mining Company also arrived in Dading Mansion. As a result, in the course of exploration, lead ore with extremely high mining value was discovered.

Copper and silver deposits have also been discovered.

It's just that the silver ore found has been secretly mined by Tusi, and the reserves have declined.

After receiving the report, Zhu Youxiao ordered the Royal Mining Company to mine the lead, copper, and silver mines in Dadingfu.

At this time, the demand for lead in Daming is constantly increasing, and the supply of lead is also a little tight.

Lead is a relatively commonly used metal material, and there is a lot of demand in the military. And in the manufacturing industry, there is also a great demand.

As long as the lead ore in Dading Province can be mined, it is easy to make a profit.

In fact, the lead ore mining in Dadingfu was a major production area that occupied a large share during the Qing Dynasty, but Zhu Youxiao was not very clear, but he discovered the lead ore in Dadingfu by mistake.

If the mining industry in Dading Province can develop, it will be able to promote employment, and it will be much easier to resettle those ethnic minorities who have migrated from the mountains.

In the third year of the Apocalypse, the war in Liaodong was temporarily calm after entering the middle of summer, and the whole country except Liaodong was Guizhou in a big move.

On the whole, there is a relatively stable situation, especially in the northern provinces, and after three years of various efforts, the erosive situation can be regarded as initially stabilizing.

The armor protection system implemented by the cabinet in the north also had a larger scale in the third year of the Apocalypse. At the same time, relief and tax exemption have also eased some of the contradictions.

It happened that the situation was relatively optimistic, and Zhu Youxiao felt that the hidden danger of thieves should be completely solved. There are also four cavalry divisions that have just been formed and trained, and these four cavalry divisions have just been formed, and they will have to train for a year and a half before they go to the battlefield. But it's no problem to use it against thieves.

The high command soon came up with a plan for clearing out the thieves, that is, mobilizing four cavalry divisions, plus a garrison brigade in Shaanxi, to thoroughly eliminate the thieves in Shaanxi. (To be continued......)