Chapter 224: Ambition to the Indochina Peninsula

In history, An Bangyan rebelled, besieged Guiyang for ten months, and besieged Guiyang several times later. During the ten months of the siege of Guiyang, because of the lack of food, there was a tragic situation of cannibalism.

This time, it was only besieged for more than a month, and the food in the city was still enough, and there was no such tragic situation. As soon as the siege of Guiyang was lifted, the situation could only be regarded as initially calming down.

This Tusi rebellion was still not completely suppressed.

An Bangyan and the other local officials were defeated at the foot of Guiyang City, and then retreated to the mountains. The mountains are high and the forests are dense, the villages are scattered, and if An Bangyan wants to play hide and seek, the officials and soldiers really have to work hard to solve it.

After Qin Liangyu captured 30,000 Tusi soldiers, he pursued them for nearly half a month, but he repeatedly missed them. The rebels were scattered and hidden in the mountains and forests, and the officials and soldiers had nothing to do with these rebels for a while, so they could only go up and ask your court.

Zhu Youxiao received the report in Beijing and immediately convened a meeting of the general headquarters.

"It seems that I can't help but move these rebellious Tusi tribes three thousand miles inland." Zhu Youxiao said to everyone a little depressed.

"Your Majesty, it is indeed not appropriate to move inward. First, now I am not like in ancient times, there are large tracts of uncultivated land. It was not easy for the rebel tribes to settle after they moved inward. Second, 3,000 miles is too far. Sun Chuanting said.

"I was also angry and said angry things. Now that the rebellion is stubbornly resisting, how do you think it should be resolved? Zhu Youxiao asked.

At this time, Lu Xiangsheng came out of the column and suggested to Zhu Youxiao: "Weichen thinks that if it is to solve a temporary trouble, then send someone to appease it at this time, and divide and disintegrate." Then An Bangyan, this thief, will die. If Your Majesty wants to do it once and for all. This is the opportunity to take advantage of it. These toasts were completely wiped out, the local toasts were abolished, and a state capital was set up to manage them. ”

"Then how do you put down these rebellious toasts?" Zhu Youxiao's heart moved, and it was obviously time to change the land to a certain extent.

The policy of changing the land and returning it to the stream was actually carried out in the late Ming Dynasty, but the scale was not large. Usually the punishment was imposed after the Tusi rebellion had been suppressed.

"Guizhou is densely forested with mountains and miasma. The rebels scattered into the mountains and forests were indeed difficult to deal with. But the officers and soldiers can block roads, burn villages, and clear up partitions. Then the rebel headquarters will be gradually weakened, and finally it will be difficult to support. ”

In dealing with those tribes who do not submit to indoctrination, the policy of sweeping is obviously the last word. If you want to say that these rebellious Tusi, in terms of administration, the Ming Dynasty has never intervened at all, and the local management is all what these Tusi say. So the rebellion had nothing to do with the oppression of the government, but they still rebelled.

Those toasts are also like a pack of white-eyed wolves, and once they grow in power, they want to split the soil and establish a country.

"This strategy takes a long time. You have to be prepared for the long term. It can't be calmed down in a year and a half. Lu Xiangsheng continued.

"What does Sun Aiqing think?" Zhu You asked Sun Chuanting.

"Both options have their own merits, it's just a matter of trade-offs. If it can be financially supported. The latter is more appropriate. The former is more applicable if the government is unable to support it. Sun Chuanting commented.

Zhu Youxiao thought for a moment and suddenly asked, "I heard that Annan's side was divided into two small regimes in the north and south, but I don't know what the military strength of these two small regimes is. ”

"This ......"

Everyone in the headquarters was dumbfounded, and they obviously didn't know much about Annan's situation.

"So be it! Soldiers were immediately recruited from Guizhou, Guangxi, and Yunnan, and three more infantry divisions were formed to form the Southern Military Region, which was then put into operation in Guizhou. At the same time, Qin Liangyu was ordered to block the mountains and forests first, and after the formation of the three infantry divisions was completed, he would carry out a comprehensive encirclement and suppression of the rebel Tusi. Zhu Youxiao decided, paused and continued: "Send someone to investigate the situation in Annan again." ”

"Your Majesty wants to attack Annan?" Sun Chuanting asked.

"Yes, Annan was my Ming territory at the beginning, and then it rebelled, so it was divided. Since you want to exterminate the rebel Tusi in Guizhou, the best way is to set up a new army with strong combat strength, but if you set up a new army just to exterminate these rebels, it is really not cost-effective! You have to find something to add to it. Zhu Youxiao said with a smile.

"Your Majesty." Sun Chuanting obviously understands Zhu Youxiao's urine nature, and this emperor treats fighting as a money-making business, and it is not a matter of one or two days.

However, this model also has a great advantage, that is, it will not waste national strength.

Annan is obviously also a blood mold, the Guizhou Tusi rebellion was targeted by the emperor, even if Annan is now relatively strong, but after all, it is a small country. With a large number of advanced firearms of the new army, it was obviously impossible for Annan to block the attack of the Ming army.

At this time, the toast of the rebellion in Guizhou is like a cowhide, and it will not be solved for a while. If the guards are used to suppress it, the loss will definitely be relatively large. Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers are mainly used to sit in Sichuan and act as a firefighting team. Since the Guizhou Tusi rebellion has been suppressed for the time being, it is not appropriate to stay in Guizhou for a long time to fight.

The best thing to do is to form a new army.

However, the new army was used to deal with these rebel Tusi, and the war dividends were obviously not large, and the cost was difficult to recover. However, Annan is obviously a good target, at this time, Annan is not as large as the territory of Vietnam in later generations, the southern Khmer region has not been annexed by Vietnam, and at the same time, Vietnam at this time is divided into two regimes, the north and the south, which is a soft persimmon that can be handled casually.

Having captured Vietnam, it is possible to continue to attack other areas.

In fact, the entire country on the Indochina Peninsula has been targeted by Zhu Youxiao, isn't Daming short of food? Indochina is definitely a super granary in this year.

After all, during the Xiaoice period of this year, the drop in temperature is beneficial to the tropical region near the equator. The production there is not affected in the slightest, and rice can be grown up to three times a year.

First of all, the Indochina Peninsula is large enough and has enough fertile land, and many areas are plain water networks, which are very suitable for rice cultivation, while the indigenous people of Indochina are obviously very low in the development of these lands, and large areas of fertile land are still in the undeveloped stage.

As long as the Indochina Peninsula is captured, if necessary, there will be no problem in opening up hundreds of millions of acres of rice fields.

Those indigenous countries in Indochina are obviously better bullied as well.

However, the soldiers in the north may not be able to adapt to the climate, water and soil of the Indochina Peninsula, so although it is okay to transfer troops from the Central Army to fight in the south, they will still be unsuitable.

Now that there are many internal contradictions in the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Youxiao can only turn the internal contradictions into external contradictions, and bring disaster to the east. Through expansion, the total amount of resources will be expanded and internal contradictions will be calmed. (To be continued......)