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Xu Wei said: "As the Grand Governor said, those who rebel in the southwest are basically the leaders of the Han clan, or the leaders of the Han-style southwest chieftains. On the contrary, ordinary southwest aliens will not take the initiative to rebel."

"The rebellion in the southwest today is very similar to the Qiang problem in the northwest during the Eastern Han, Wei and Jin Dynasties."

When Xu Wei said this, everyone nodded. Basically, those present were from Jinshi background and were all academic masters. The problem of the Northwest Qiang rebellion in the Eastern Han Dynasty has been discussed and studied by many people in history. In this way, the problem of the Southwest Yi is indeed It’s almost the same problem as the Northwestern Qiang.

Su Ze took over the conversation and said:

"The Qiang chaos in the northwest during the Eastern Han Dynasty was mainly caused by internal and external factors. The internal cause was that the wealthy families in the northwest during the Eastern Han Dynasty had long been squeezed out by the gentry in Guanzhong and Hedong who had the right to speak. As a result, the big families in the northwest had no room for advancement in the Eastern Han Dynasty."

"The general Duan Jiong who put down the Qiang rebellion at that time was used by the ministers of the Eastern Han Dynasty at that time, and finally died in the political struggle. After Huangfu Song made great contributions, he even asked the Eastern Han Dynasty court to move his family to Hedong."

"The Eastern Han Dynasty's systematic discrimination against the Northwest led to the entire northwest becoming alienated. Civil servants and generals from the northwest had no room for advancement, which ultimately led to the continuous Qiang rebellion."

"The current problems in the southwest are also caused by the Ming court's long-term improper handling."

"The hereditary chieftain system allows some Han elites and Chinese chieftains to control local power for a long time. However, these people have no room for advancement and basically cannot leave their place of residence in their lifetime."

"The rigid policies of the Ming court made many Han elites long-term dissatisfied. However, their hereditary chieftains were also imprisoned because of their status and could not take part in the imperial examinations or even engage in other things other than military households."

"And these people have local prestige and political power. The civil servants who were appointed to serve as officials in the southwest region were either demoted losers in the struggle, or ordinary people with no connections. These people did not change the atmosphere of the southwest after they took office. He only wanted to leave the Southwest as soon as possible, and he shouted at his subordinates and was very rude."

"The southwest has long been considered an inferior area in the Ming Dynasty. The number of people who can pass the imperial examination in the three southwest provinces is very small. After passing the examination, the elites will try their best not to return to the southwest to serve as officials."

Everyone nodded. This was also a problem Southeast discovered after taking control of Guangxi.

Gu Xiancheng's method is to include Guangxi into the official circulation system of the entire Ministry of Personnel, so that the southwest region will no longer become a place where others are inferior, but to allow officials who can achieve results in these places to be promoted faster. Only in this way can we attract some talented scholars to take the initiative to go there.

Su Ze himself came from a military household. The policy of dragons and dragons and phoenixes established by Zhu Yuanzhang did have certain positive significance in the early Ming Dynasty and ensured the basic stability of society.

But what was the situation like in the early Ming Dynasty? Basically, everyone was equally poor, and the whole country was ravaged by the chaos of the late Yuan Dynasty. This system can provide food for most people. The use of toast in the southwest can solve the problem of separation in the southwest. Everyone cares about Not so much anymore.

But times have developed.

The wealthy businessmen living in Chengdu now live a better life than the chieftains in the southwest.

For the same officials, being an official in the south of the Yangtze River and being an official in the mountains of the southwest are completely different concepts.

The Bozhou Rebellion was the Qiang Rebellion in the Northwest of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Anshi Rebellion in the mid-Tang Dynasty. Due to regional differences and long-term local discrimination, local elites rebelled.

Yang Lie, a mere Bozhou envoy, is equivalent to a county-level militia director. As soon as he rebelled, all the chieftains in the southwest region responded. This shows that the southwest region has been alienated from Germany for a long time, and Yang Lie was just the first one to jump out. Yes.

Su Ze continued: "Now that Yang Lie has jumped out, our square formation will be very simple."

"Suppress first and then appease. For those who follow Yang Lie's rebellion, we will take this opportunity to unplug the influence of these deep-rooted southwest families and quickly contain Yang Lie's rebellion."

"For other chieftains and wealthy families in the southwest who did not directly participate in the rebellion, we can allow them to move to Kunming or Chengdu, cancel the system of generational chieftainship, and lift the imprisonment of their status."

Everyone nodded. Now that the Grand Governor has considered everything, the pacification of the Southwest is just a matter of time.

You must know that half of the elites in the southeast are in the southwest, just waiting for someone to jump out and get beaten.

Now that Yang Lie has jumped out, all the cabinet ministers are applauding.

If a rebellion can hurt these ambitious people in the southwest and easily deal with these powerful people like the Yang family who have been entrenched in the southwest for more than 20 generations, the cabinet ministers in the southeast will smile crookedly.

Now that Annan has surrendered and the Yao rebellion in Guangxi has been put down, as long as the problem of the southwestern barbarians is resolved, the entire southwestern region will be stable for a few years.

At that time, the Southeast could mobilize troops from the Southwest to participate in the final war to destroy the Ming Dynasty.

Most of the time the world operates, it is not a sophisticated machine.

And those events that affect history may be caused by just a small thing.

Even in many cases, it is a combination of circumstances. If we look at it from later generations, it will be like a grass-roots team.

The same is true for Yang Lie's rebellion.

Although Yang Lie has long had the idea of ​​​​rebellion, it is difficult for most people to make a decision about rebellion. Sometimes procrastination is delayed for a lifetime.

This is not a joke. If you look at the history books of the Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Kingdoms, you can see a lot of such childish operations. The reasons for rebellion are varied, and there are even situations where people rebel sometimes and sometimes don't.

The Yang family has ambitions, but Yang Lie always felt that the Yang family was not ready.

Yang Lie rebelled because officials from the southeast arrived in Bozhou and asked the chieftains to release their slaves and prohibit the continued keeping of slaves.

In fact, this decree was originally just a formality in the southwest region, and it was intended to establish a legal basis.

In fact, it was normal for freed slaves to continue working in the homes of their former masters, but they just changed from slaves to tenants.

The southwest region is different from Jiangnan. The slave system is indeed backward, but many people would starve to death if they did not become slaves.

Originally, this order was nothing. The chieftains from all over the country basically gave face to the new ruler of Southeast and just symbolically announced the release of the slaves.

But Yang Lie couldn't do it.

Because the Yang Lie family has kept eunuch slaves for a long time, and using eunuchs is extremely treasonous in this era.

Neither the Ming court nor the Southeast could tolerate the use of eunuchs by the chieftains under their rule.

So Yang Lie did not stop and killed several eunuchs. Unexpectedly, a young eunuch escaped and reported to the government that Yang Lie had acted arrogantly and rebelled.

Yang Lie simply surrounded Bozhou County and declared a rebellion.