As the chief rebel, An Bangyan recently occupied a dangerous bandit stronghold and held it with several thousand remaining soldiers.
Zhu Youxiao's troops were all cavalry and could not fight at all. He had to quickly mobilize Qin Liangyu's chieftain soldiers to support him, and then dispersed the cavalry to block all the openings going down the mountain.
Cut off all means of survival for An Bangyan and completely block him in the mountains.
But even so, they still spent a lot of effort to attack the mountain.
Seeing that the stockade was in danger, An Bangyan started a guerrilla fight with the government troops in the mountains.
Zhu Youxiao knew that he could not fight in mountainous areas, so he completely handed over the command of the war to Qin Liangyu, who was responsible for annihilating An Ni's remnants.
He was in the big tent at the foot of the mountain, waiting to read military reports and important government affairs from various regions.
In this battle, Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers and chieftain soldiers were the main force, and all 10,000 troops entered the mountain to fight.
It took nearly ten days to finally completely wipe out the remnants of An Ni's army. An Bangyan committed suicide when he was defeated. He knew better than She Chongming that this was the best ending for him.
If he dies by suicide, if he meets someone else and changes to another emperor, as long as he doesn't really hate him so much, his death will probably be wiped out.
But Zhu Youxiao doesn't have such a big heart, nor is he such a kindhearted person. How could he let go of such a typical punishment example.
He immediately ordered that An Bangyan's body be put away and transported back to Dafang intact. His body should be hung in the most conspicuous place in Dafang to shock the locals.
After Qin Liangyu returned his orders to him, Zhu Youxiao immediately led his army back.
Although the She'an Rebellion has been put down, his trip to the southwest is not over yet. He still has many things to do.
He must deal with the chieftains of Guizhou Xuanwei Division and Yongning Xuanwei Division as soon as possible, otherwise things will change later.
If he hadn't captured these two main areas of rebellion, immediately sent troops to control them, and found reasons to put these chieftain leaders under house arrest, there would have been chaos by now.
For these chieftain leaders, Zhu Youxiao divided them into three different targets for disposal.
The first step is to investigate their respective backgrounds, as well as their relationships and power networks.
Anyone who followed She Chongming and An Bangyan to rebel, participated directly, or secretly helped with supplies, weapons, troops, horses, and money will all be punished one by one.
According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, these people will be sentenced to the death penalty of confiscating their homes and killing the nine clans, as a warning to others.
They were all direct rebels and had no mercy at all. Zhu Youxiao even increased the punishment.
In addition to killing the Nine Tribes, he also specially issued an order to behead the people under their jurisdiction and those who supported them extremely.
The Ming Dynasty's strategy of using barbarians to control barbarians was not wrong. What was wrong was that the court did not have iron-blooded tactics and insufficient confidence.
No matter what you want to accomplish, first of all, you must not be soft-hearted, you must be ruthless, and your hands must be sharp, and you must not hesitate or think about this or that.
Although such people had already died during the battle, or had become prisoners of Zhu Youxiaodu, there was no guarantee that someone would still slip through the net.
These days, the Ming army has been very busy, either checking here or arresting there, and thousands of traitors have been kidnapped.
Upon hearing this, Qin Liangyu and Zhu Xieyuan immediately went to the imperial tent to admonish the emperor, asking for forgiveness of those below, or at least not to kill them all.
Zhu Youxiao didn't know that if too many people were killed, the local people would hate the imperial court even more and want to get rid of the Ming Dynasty's rule, and it might even trigger a civil uprising.
But in order for the people in the southwest to change their status quo and truly live and work in peace and contentment and live a stable life, this killing was inevitable.
The conflicts between Han people and people of other ethnic groups were so great that even Zhu Youxiao could not mediate.
Therefore, he had to take this strategy, and it was too easy for these people with previous criminal records to commit crimes again.
If you forgive them easily this time, there will definitely be a second and third time.
Just like in history, Emperor Chongzhen recruited Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai and others.
He surrendered and rebelled again. Seeing that he was about to be ruined, he contacted the officials and said that he wanted to change his evil ways. When he was desperate, he surrendered again.
I don’t know how many times this happened, it seemed like an infinite loop.
The second type is those chieftains who neither participated in the rebellion nor participated in the counter-rebellion.
These people are ambiguous, they belong to the kind of two-way people, and there must be such things as secret communication with She'an rebels.
It's just that they are much smarter than the chieftains who serve as cannon fodder, and they will not easily express their positive stance before the general trend has stabilized.
When the imperial guards interrogated other chieftains, they would also ask them about what was going on behind the scenes.
Zhu Youxiao and his confidant generals would also make insinuations when dealing with them.
All the Jin Yiwei in the law enforcement team were dispatched during this period to investigate these people secretly.
If people don't know, unless he doesn't do anything, Zhu Youxiao will never believe that there is a state in this world where things can be done without leakage.
As long as there is a little clue and evidence, Zhu Youxiao will be ruthless and follow this line to investigate to the end.
This time, he wanted to completely remove the roots of their rebellious group.
After all, this kind of wait-and-see thing was too common in the Ming Dynasty. Only when they believed that there was a chance and a chance of winning, would they reveal their true colors.
The third type is Zhu Youxiao's ruling team in the southwest in the next few years.
There are also many people like Qin Liangyu who are loyal to the country and the king.
Just like the Miao and Zhuang chieftains in Sichuan, they were also willing to fight for him and make contributions to the country.
Naturally, you should treat them with courtesy, treat them well, and win them over to your side.
No matter how bad the chieftain system is and how great its drawbacks are, the main problem is still the system, not the people.
The Shuixi An clan and the Yongning She clan were equally loyal to the Ming Dynasty decades and centuries ago, but after development, they naturally changed.
In a short period of time, if Zhu Youxiao wants to control Sichuan and Guizhou as quickly, effectively and authoritatively as possible, he really needs the help and support of these local snakes.
Therefore, in order to show his sincerity to them and his magnanimity as an emperor, he personally drafted an imperial edict in front of everyone.
Based on Qin Liangyu's many years of military exploits and his family's contribution to the Ming Dynasty, Qin Liangyu was granted the title of Pingnan Bo of the Ming Dynasty, hereditary.
Officially with the title of earl, he is also in charge of Sichuan Armed Forces, Admiral of Military Affairs, General of the Right who is awarded the third rank of military general, leader of the General Seal, and Governor of the Left of the Right Army Governor's Palace.
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