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Anlong was beheaded, and all the men in his direct lineage within three generations were beheaded.

The heads of father and son An Wei and An Long sent Yi soldiers on boats and horses to take them to various places in the south to spread their authority.

Mu Kui from Huochu Zexi, Deduzexi, and Duozexi all expressed their willingness to join the army and sent their eldest son and warriors to accompany the army to help.

Huorze River is Nayong County, Duze River and Duoze River are Zhijin County.

Although Liumu Zexi didn't see his head, he took the initiative to join the Datong Army. Instead of going to Huang Yao to surrender, he surrendered to Fei Yinggon, because Liumuzexi was very close to Guiyang and had already received news of An Rupan's defeat.

The Yi chieftains often rebelled, but they were not as stubborn as the Zhuang chieftains.

Many of the Zhuang soldiers are professional mercenaries who make a living by fighting for the Ming government. They sometimes deliberately provoked wars, and then helped the Ming government quell the chaos, taking the opportunity to seize money, food and land. Therefore, the two divisions in Guangxi have been fighting for several years, and still have not regained some bits and pieces.

On the Shuixi side, after Huang Yao killed people to establish his authority, the surrounding chieftains surrendered.

Half a month later, Huang Yao led his troops to Shexiangyi. The more his troops fought, the more he fought. In addition to the Datong army, peasant soldiers and civilians, the number of Yi troops accompanying the army reached 6,000.

How could the Yi soldiers in Shexiangyi dare to resist? Retreat directly to Shuixicheng.

Shuixi City was located in the urban area of ​​​​Qianxi in later generations.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Mrs. Shexiang joined the imperial court and organized the people to build Longchang Nine Stations to strengthen the imperial court's control over Guizhou.

Among them, Guliyi is the largest and has become a transportation hub in western Guizhou.

Shuixiyi is located to the west of Guliyi. It was originally the station of the Ming Dynasty's official army. It was equivalent to laying a nail in the hinterland of Shuixi Tusi to control all directions.

In the third year of Chongzhen, the An family was defeated and returned to Liuzhou. The Ming army expanded Shuixiyi into Shuixi City.

A few years ago, An Rupan stood on his own feet, seized Shuixi City, and made it the center of his rule. It wasn't until Guiyang was conquered that he moved his old nest there and handed over Shuixi City to his younger brother for management.

There are a large number of Han people in Shuixi City and its surrounding areas, and the situation is similar to that in Dafang City. But among the Han people here, only some military households became slaves, while merchants, farmers, and craftsmen all continued to live their lives as usual.

An Rushuo suddenly became disheartened when he received a letter from his brother Pan Rupan persuading him to surrender and learned that Huang Yao's army had arrived at Shexiangyi.

Huang Yao's army is in the west and Fei Yinggon's army is in the east, and An Rushuo has been trapped.

Moreover, various chieftains died or surrendered, leaving An Rushuo fighting alone. The Xiongsuoze River and Zewoze River behind him were also somewhat ready to move, wanting to bypass An Rushuo and surrender.

"Father, surrender. My uncle's army of tens of thousands has been defeated. How can we defeat him?" Anba advised.

An Rushuo was still unwilling to give up. He wanted to continue making toast. But the condition given to him by the Datong Army was that his family immigrated to Taiwan and he was not even allowed to stay in Guizhou.

How can anyone bully people like this?

Anba said anxiously: "Father, if you surrender now, you can still go to Taiwan with a thousand taels of silver. If you resist stubbornly, after the city is broken, our whole family will be in danger! My uncle said it in the letter, if it hadn't been for my cousin. For their contribution to Guiyang City, their uncle and cousin could not escape death. Even so, they fought with the Datong Army and could not even go to Taiwan. They had to immigrate to Luzon as a family. The child did not want to die, and he did not want to go to Luzon. Song Dynasty, at least Taiwan is still considered Fujian."

An Rushuo walked around the room, upset and undecided.

"Mu Kui, the Datong army is coming!" A soldier came to report.

An Rushuo sighed dejectedly: "Let's open the city."

"yes!"

Anba was overjoyed and immediately prepared to leave the city and kneel down to meet the heavenly soldiers.

Shuixicheng, An's home base, was captured without a single blow. After Huang Yao entered the city, he immediately asked the military officers and preachers to release the serfs as civilians, and then organized households and farmland for the people near Shuixicheng.

Huang Yao will not leave for the time being, fearing that some chieftains will surrender and rebel again, so he has to help the civil servants calm down the situation.

After learning that Shuixi City had been captured, Fei Yinggon from Guiyang left some peasants and soldiers to defend the city, and then sent his troops towards northeastern Guizhou. There are Han people, Miao people, and Tong people (Zhuang and Buyi people). There are not many Yi people, and the degree of Chineseization is very high. In fact, most areas were converted to Tuguiliu in the early Ming Dynasty, and only a few areas were converted to Tuguiliu in the late Ming Dynasty.

In Northeast Guizhou, there was basically no fighting.

Even the few remaining chieftains there honestly accepted the policy, freed slaves and cooperated with the distribution of fields.

The reason is that the Bozhou Rebellion and the She'an Rebellion caused serious harm to Northeast Guizhou. The rebel soldiers looted wantonly, and the Ming army came and robbed again, resulting in a sharp decline in the population of all ethnic groups, and the chieftains and the people were unwilling to fight anymore.

The real unlucky ones are the two divisions in Guangxi.

They had been fighting with the soldiers in Guangxi for several years. This time they cooperated with the troops to send troops to Guizhou, but they encountered stubborn resistance from the chieftains in southeastern Guizhou. Basically, they fought one chieftain after another. There were also many soldiers who escaped from Guangxi and worked as mercenaries for the chieftains in southeastern Guizhou.

It took the Guangxi Datong Army three months to capture Liping Mansion alone.

Half of Guizhou has been settled, and the chief envoy of Guizhou has also taken office. The chief envoy to the left is Kuang Lu, a Guangdong native. He was the guy who was born as a child prodigy, but because of his wild and unrestrained behavior, he offended the county magistrate and was exiled to half of China. While on the run, he fell in love with a female chieftain of the Yao ethnic group in Guangxi.

Kuang Lu was previously the Right Chief Envoy of Guangxi, and he easily recruited his old minister to surrender, which saved the Datong Army some effort.

Kuang Lu also came with a political order, which made Huang Yao and Fei Yinggon look stupid.

Zunyi, Wusa (Weining), Zhenxiong, Wumeng (Zhaotong), Guihua (Yiliang), and Dongchuan were all separated from Sichuan and placed under the jurisdiction of Guizhou Province - this was only temporary. After Yunnan was recovered, Administrative divisions will also change.

Sichuan’s territory is too big and must be split up!

Bijie, Chishui and Pushi were merged into Bijie Prefecture, which governed Bijie and Chishui counties. Pu City was merged into Chishui County.

All the streams on the west side of the water were abolished. With Luguang River, Yachi River and Sila River as the boundaries, Shuixi Prefecture was set up, and its governance was Shuixi City (Qianxi City). It consists of five counties: Xiongsuo (Jinsha), Dafang, Zhijin, Huochuo (Nayong), and Jiale (Liupanshui).

All the territories previously ruled by Tumu were converted into town-level units. Tumu changed his name to mayor, but it cannot be hereditary. After the current mayor dies, try to arrange for Yi people to succeed him. At least half of the officials in each town must be Han Chinese.

The Datong court's rule over Shuixi is temporarily unable to control villages and towns, but it is very advanced compared to the Ming Dynasty.

The greatest progress is the complete abolition of slavery!

Zhao Han personally ordered that Huang Yao's army should not leave Shuixi, and that the war in Guizhou should be handed over to other troops to specifically control the situation to prevent the Yi people from revolting. Of course, Wusa Prefecture, Zhenxiong Prefecture, Wumeng Prefecture, and Guihua Division, which were just transferred from Sichuan to Guizhou, also belong to the Shuixi area in a broad sense. They all have Yi people as the main population, and Huang Yao can divide his troops to attack.

At this time, the warlords from Duyun Prefecture, Anshun Prefecture and Pu'an Prefecture wrote to Guiyang requesting submission.

Of course, these Han warlords only controlled the major local cities.

For example, in Pu'an Prefecture, Yang Yiping only had the prefecture city (Pan County) and the guard station in his actual control area, and the rest all belonged to the little chieftain's territory.

Except for Fei Yinggon's troops, the rest of the four armies attacking Guizhou cannot escape for the time being. They have to use a large army to assist in settling down and allocating the fields. There will definitely be trouble in the process of allocating the fields.

Another imperial decree brought by Kuang Lu was to establish a large number of inspection departments.

Many of the peasants and soldiers who accompanied the army were separated and formed an armed police force on the spot. Their families will also move here and live in Guizhou from now on, relying on the armed police force to maintain stability in Guizhou.

Only when the armed police forces in various places are formed can the Datong Army be completely withdrawn, and Guizhou is expected to be pacified next spring.

It is so troublesome and complicated to want to reform the land, abolish slavery, and allocate land to the people. Unlike in history, when the Manchu Qing Dynasty went south and brought surrendered chieftains to fight there, except for the change of rulers, nothing else changed.

The Datong Army made such a big move in Guizhou, what was the Yunnan puppet court doing?

Did nothing.

After Mu Tianbo put down the chieftain rebellion, he returned to Kunming to take charge and prevent the emperor from messing up.

The emperor sang and sang every night. He really had no other thoughts. He just took the time to enjoy himself and surrendered immediately when the Datong Army came.

Civil servants in Yunnan also seized the time to search for money. They had already made it clear that as long as they were not notorious and stubbornly resisted, the Datong imperial court would only divide the land and would not touch the officials and people's wealth.

The one who really wants to resist is Mu Tianbo, because the Mu family is the largest landowner in Yunnan - there are millions of acres of land, which is too much to manage and cannot be cultivated at all. It has even been quietly occupied by domestic slaves and common people without even knowing it. .

Shuixicheng.

Lu Tianxiang rode on horseback and asked to see Huang Yao. When he finally met Huang Yao, he asked as soon as he opened his mouth: "Why don't you let me go to Ussa to fight?"

Huang Yao explained: "The imperial court has ordered that all the children of Mu Kui and Tu Mu, who have become local officials, between the ages of 12 and 16, are sent to Nanjing to study. We are not treating you as hostages, but asking you to learn Chinese. , If you can read Chinese characters, you can be an official in Shuixi when you grow up. Your Majesty has said that in twenty years, new officials in Shuixi who are illiterate will not be able to serve."

"I want to be a female general. I don't need to be literate. I just need to be able to speak Chinese." Lu Tianxiang said.

Huang Yao smiled and said: "To be a general in the Datong Army, you must be literate. Otherwise, you will be promoted to the rank of sentry commander at most. There was a general named Zhang (Zhang Tieniu) who fell asleep when he touched a book, and he was also forced to read. I wrote a few hundred words, and now I can read the letter myself.”

Lu Tianxiang said depressedly: "Which idiot made this rule? If we fight, we will fight. If we are not working as civil servants, why do we know so many words?"

"Your Majesty has set the rules. If you have any questions, you can ask to see your Majesty when you go to Nanjing." Huang Yao smiled even more happily. He has also experienced the pain of literacy.

"Your Majesty..." Lu Tianxiang bravely said, "The emperor is not right in everything. It is not right to be a general only if you can read and write. Besides, I will be seventeen (virtual) in one year, not sixteen, so there is no need to go Studying in Nanjing.”

Huang Yao was too lazy to pay attention to her and called his adjutant: "Instruct all ministries to send troops to Wusa Mansion in three days."