The Ming Dynasty had a vast territory, with thousands of miles apart from the south and north, east and west, northeast, northwest, southeast, southwest, and the natural conditions, economic growth, ethnic structure, and even cultural customs of each region were very different, which brought great challenges to the rule of the empire. Due to the limitations of communication and administrative capabilities of this era, no country can cover everything, but must distinguish priorities according to its important level.

In the eyes of the court, when the northwest faces the threat of Mongolian boats, it is naturally necessary to first ensure manpower and material resources; the southeast is the source of taxation, and it must be managed by the most capable officials; the Central Plains is related to the peace and tranquility of the country, and also requires financial tilt. In recent years, because Tuman and Duoyan emerged in Liaodong, the northeast has also become a new hot spot.

So after all, the mountains are high, the rivers are evil, the forests are dense, and the southwest farthest from the center of the empire became the least valued and sacrificed area. When Taizu decided to govern Nanjing, he inherited the Yuan Dynasty's establishment of a province in the southwest, but used the chieftains to manage the offices to control the barbarians. He only required him to pay tribute on time and recognize the rule of the court, "not causing trouble or splitting." He did not have the interest in interfering in the affairs of the premises, and did not expect to collect taxes.

Later, the imperial court moved its capital to Beijing, further away from the southwest. Especially after the change of civil engineering, the empire discovered that the Mongolians could take the capital directly and immediately lose confidence in the safety of the northern border defenses. They would let the southwest be natural and let it go. In fact, the governance of the country is different from planting the region. According to the farming period, they will harvest a bumper harvest. If they are neglected to manage or go wild, they will show the wasteland. The imperial court is so indifferent to the southwest and gives all the power of administration to the chieftains. The people only know that there are chieftains but not the court, and the government orders of the government are like a piece of waste paper.

Authority cannot be released, "even life and safety cannot be guaranteed, so that during the Zhengde period of Chenghua, officials were assigned to Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi to serve as officials" were often considered demoted, and the recipients were like losing their parents. They had to bribe the Ministry of Personnel to change their appointments. If they really couldn't be rejected, they would abandon their official position and return home. They didn't joke about their lives. Thinking about the past, Yangming Gonglongchang realized the truth, and was exiled to Guizhou, and they were completely enlightened in the sarcophagus. But for five hundred years, there was only one Wang Yangming, who was extremely large inhabited by the capital, and they could never get up again...

Under the vicious cycle, the situation in the southwest became more and more corrupt, and the chieftains of various powerful people looked down on the court. Therefore, as long as they were dissatisfied with their hearts, they would gather people to pull flags and kill officials to rebel. Although "there must be a suitable soil for rebellion, that is, the people are living in poverty and the old people can't survive. However, this is really not a difficult task for the southwest region where people are extremely poor and the people are subject to double recordings of the chieftains and the government.

Yes, the history of the southwest is a history of rebellion and suppression. When the rebellion swings over the foundation of the southwest and exceeds the tolerance of the Beijing Dynasty, it will send large troops to suppress the rebellion, kill a group of disobedient heads, and then live for more than ten or decades, and then rebel again. "There are generations of torchs, and continue to continue.

The story of the Feng family is a living example... In the fifth year of Hongzhi, a severe famine occurred in Gutian and Maping areas of Guangxi. The government still forced farmers to pay grain and pay taxes, which the people could not bear.

So "Wei Yinbao's father Wei Chaowei, from his father Wei Chaomeng, contacted Qin Guangde and others to lead the rebellion. In the eighth year of Hongzhi, he captured Gutian County in one fell swoop" and occupied Gutian for 26 years. He was known as King Guangfu "until the thirteenth year of Zhengde", and was exterminated. Wei Chaowei and Wei Chaomeng were awarded the title of head.

After the death of the Wei Meng brothers, their four sons avenged their father and continued to rebel. But first, their vitality was very injured and difficult to recover; second, there were famous officials and generals such as Mao Bowen and Zhang Jing who were in charge of Guangxi. Third, the old lady in Tianzhou was in love with the court, and his wolf soldiers and heavenly chariots were invincible... Therefore, during the entire Jiajing period, they were still fighting, mainly to restore their vitality in a low-key manner.

When the late Jiajing year, when Mrs. Wa returned to the west, Wei had become stronger again and won the best leader Wei Yinbao. Wei Yinbao was very powerful since childhood and loved books, especially the military strategy. In the battle of the 40,000 troops pieced together by the court from Guangdong, Guangxi and Hunan, he was determined to deal with the government army with favorable terrain; adopted the tactic of "striking the government army to exhaustion", and then concentrated its superior forces to annihilate the invading enemy" and destroyed the encirclement of the government army.

Then, "Wei Yinbao's alliance with Qin Wanxian, Huang Chaomeng and other powerful chieftains" expanded their land and led their troops to capture Gutian County again and killed Zhu Kai. Then they captured Suirong County. "Wi Yinbao's reputation was very strong, and the chieftains of Eight Villages came back." So he established a regime in Gutian, called himself the King of Mo Yi, and officially launched an army to rebel against the Ming Dynasty. In order to weaken the Ming Dynasty's power in Guangxi, he led the troops to build cloud ladders, crossed the city walls, and attacked the important town Lingchuan. After entering the city, he killed officials, burned the official offices, and transported away a large amount of gold, silver and grain. If they were not transported, they distributed it to the poor, and gained the reputation of killing the rich and helping the poor.

After the Lingchuan Battle, the Ming army in Guangxi was frightened, and the imperial court had to quell the turbulent chaos in the southeast first. Then the Hannan rebellion was no time to send troops to support it. The official army had to retreat to the provincial capital Guilin and defend the Lingui area with heavy troops. Wei Yinbao entered the golden period of his growth. He occupied more than 20 counties in succession, and his power enveloped the northern part of Guangxi. He set up officials on the land, collected grain and taxes from the rich houses, "suppressing the rich and helping the poor" and fighting for the support of the poor. His ambitions were obvious to the world.

As the power expanded, Wei Yinbao was ambitious and planned a series of military operations that were powerful. His peak work was to attack Guilin City three times, and then he even attacked the city twice, looted the vassal treasury, killed more than a dozen officials below Guangxi governors, destroyed more than 3,000 Jingjiang Palace, and King Jingjiang hid in the secret passage.

The attack on the provincial capital Guilin made Wei Yinbao's reputation reach its peak. It was also his increasingly despised Ming Dynasty. In the 45th year of Jiajing, he continued to go north and entered Hunan Province, which finally attracted serious attention from the court. Therefore, Yang Bo, the then Minister of War, appointed Yu Dayou as the general officer of Guangxi "Li Yan as the governor of Guangxi" to gather heavy troops to suppress the rebellion. Although Yu Dayou, a long-time general on the battlefield, was depressed and unsuccessful under the suppression of some people, he never lost his military sensitivity and was ready for war at any time. As soon as he received the order, he entered Guangdong and directly attacked Wei Yinbao's old nest ancient fields.

The Yu family army, which is as famous as the Qi family army, is not comparable to the ordinary official army. "The power along the way was unstoppable and successfully recovered Guilin City, and the troops were approaching Wei Yinbao's old nest Gutian. Wei Yinbao was shocked and withdrew troops from Hunan to help. He fought with Yu Dayou many times" and was at a disadvantage and could only use the geographical advantage to deal with the other party. Yu Dayou was not in a hurry, and he fought steadily and "attacking the heart first" had already compressed Wei Yinbao's power south of Guilin. However, due to the complex terrain, insufficient military strength and inconsistent with the governor Li Yan's concept, it was difficult to go further.

With the obstacles to advance north, Wei Yinbao grew up south and "killed Tianzhou chieftain Cen Meng" and annexed a large area of ​​land in southern Guangxi, capturing 20,000 wolves, and increasing his strength. On the side of the official army, the disagreement between Governor Li Yan and General Yu Dayou became increasingly large and had to leave one and go to another. Li Yan was Gao Gong's disciple, but Yu Dayou had no backer, so he and Yang Bo, who was wearing a pair of pants, transferred Yu Dayou back to Guangdong and sent another general officer to obey Li Yan's orders.

Li Yan was in power and could finally suppress bandits according to his own system. However, the 50,000 official troops spent millions of taels of silver in the court for three years, and he lost his troops and generals, but he did not hurt Wei Yinbao a single hair. Wei Yinbao was still in a persistent manner with the court's insistence, and he gradually felt alone... Although he annexed the land of the Cen family, he levyed heavily in Tianzhou for emergency purposes, so that the territory could not be affected one after another. Moreover, Cen Dashou's younger brother was still there, which made him dare not fully trust the wolf soldiers.

In order to resist the Ming army for a long time, he actually asked for help from the Mo Dynasty in Annan and asked him to send troops to help him become the Ming army. After the matter was completed, he was willing to divide the north and south of Guangxi with him. The arrogant Vietnamese actually made a promise and sent 30,000 troops to help him resist the Ming army. In fact, Wei Yinbao didn't really want to hand over Guangnan and let him help the Dongshou Dynasty, the strongest Myanmar Peninsula at that time, and also asked him to send troops to help on Guangnan as the condition. "But the Burmese Wang Mang Yinglong saw through him, one woman and two more plans, so he did not send troops.

But even so, Wei Yinbao also pieced together and pulled up a hundred thousand army... At this time, "if he continued to stick to it, the gods would have no rules. But his army was not the original 30,000, but a hundred thousand army. These 100,000 people could not afford to eat horses, even if he occupied half of Guangxi, so he could only take the initiative to attack the wealthy northern Guangxi. His opponent Li Yan, who had been eating empty wages in recent years, had been full of energy and was frustrated by the land, and the heavens were angry. When he saw Wei Yinbao's army coming, the chieftains of various units turned against each other. Li Yan was afraid before he could fight. "He retreated a hundred miles before he could see Wei Yinbao, and Guilin fell again. After that, the Ming army retreated one after another and was driven to Hunan. The entire Guangxi area was lost, and the government and the people were furious.

The court realized that if we did not face the Wei Yinbao rebellion, we would lose Vietnam and Guangxi forever. Even Emperor Longqing, who had never been concerned about state affairs, made an exception to hold a court meeting to discuss strategies to combat the rebellion. The ministers were frightened by the rebels who claimed to be 300,000, and always believed that at this time, the only one could clean up the mess, that is, the young tutor, the prince's grand guru, the Wuying Palace bachelor, and the second assistant to the cabinet.

In addition, at this time, the Hetao combat mission was basically over, and there would be no war in the expected few years." Long Qing agreed to this suggestion and issued an order to add Shen Mo to the Taibao, ordering his troops to quell the rebellion, and the military and food in various provinces in the world were allowed to be dispatched.

As soon as Shen Taibao arrived in Hunan, he beheaded Li Yan in the head and spread it to six southern provinces to demonstrate his attitude towards greedy and cowardly people. Then he transferred the Jiangxi governor Yin Zhengmao to be the governor of Guangxi, and ordered the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Wu Baipeng to lead Guangdong General Yu Dayou to Gui to obey the order.

In addition to sending generals, he also gathered heavy troops. He transferred Yongshun from Hunan and Baojing to more than 40,000 local soldiers; from Nanzhi, Zhejiang and Fujian to 30,000 musketeers; plus the 40,000 local soldiers from Guangxi and the 30,000 troops brought by Wu Baipeng from Guangdong, a total of more than 140,000 military forces, and re-used the same tricks, issued war bonds, and raised more than 4 million taels of silver for military pay... I just don't know what he used this time as the subject matter.

There are so many troops, "there are new defeated troops, if they change to commanders," they will be in chaos. But the shadow of the famous tree, now in silence, living in the southeast to fight against the Japanese, Hannan suppressed bandits, and recovered Hetao's numerous military achievements, have long become a figure like a great Ming army god... Although he has never commanded any war. As soon as he arrived in Guangxi, the morale of the army on the verge of collapse quickly stabilized. No matter which tribe or province, no one dared to touch his bad luck. Those officials and generals dared not be treacherous and cheated, corrupt and abused the law, and all obeyed the orders.

Chen Si would never do things he was not good at. He threw these miscellaneous troops to Yin Zhengmao and Yu Dayou, and asked the two to train and rectify them and quickly gain combat effectiveness. He himself worked with Wu Baipeng to perform strategies, use both soft and hard, and divide and disintegrate Wei Yinbao's coalition forces. Any chieftain who surrendered to the court would not blame him and give him a generous reward. Because many chieftains had no grievances and no grudges with the court, they even received the emperor's kindness in the world, but were conquered by Wei Yinbao, so they could not send troops. Seeing that the court was going to take serious action, they were so scared that they were restless.

Now Shen Mo has pardoned their sins and rewarded them. "The chieftains naturally became interested in returning home, and almost every day they have led the crowd to surrender while the night is in the dark. Faced with the bad situation, Wei Yinbao knew that he could not be greedy for too much and seek perfection." So after looting Guilin, he took the initiative to withdraw his troops and retreated back to the Gutian base.

After more than half a year of preparation, mainly military and intelligence preparations, in the first month of the fifth year of Longqing, the encirclement and suppression began. The general Liang Gao and Lu Qi led more than 13,000 people as the vanguard, and the soldiers pointed directly at Gutian. Wei Yinbao calmly responded to the battle and defeated the first enemy. However, the wolf soldiers led by General Yu Dayou and General Wang Shike and more than 10,000 officials secretly visited Chencang and usurped Suirong County.

After occupying the forward base, the Ming army launched a large attack, and Yin Zhengmao led 50,000 troops to encircle the rebels layer by layer. At this time, the official army changed its tactics. Every step forward, it cut down all the trees around it. Seeing the burning of the weather, stones passed by the sword, and organized suicide squads to attack in turn. It also used the strong local soldiers transferred from Hechi and Nandan to invade the rebels, and finally captured important strongholds such as Ma Lang and Kushui. The rebels were killed and injured. The leader Huang Chao was killed and killed. Wei Yinbao had to abandon the stronghold and retreat again and again at the end of the year to retreat into the deep mountains where the Sino-Vietnam handed over, and the entire Guangxi area was basically restored.

However, Wei Yinbao still had 30,000 people, "plus 30,000 Annan soldiers, and 60,000 troops were guarding the dangerous mountains. Behind it, there was the endless support of the Mo Dynasty. Yin Zhengmao organized several attacks, but the soldiers and generals were lost, and the results were very little. He had to stop temporarily and block the passes in and out of the rebels. "An important road" was "a posture of a long-term siege.
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