The Ming Dynasty has just been exiled and the Luzon system has awakened.

In June of the first year of Tianyun, the Ming army gradually advanced to Guangxi, Guizhou and other places.

Due to the prestige established by the Ming Army in the Battle of Guangzhou, the Ming Army encountered almost no decent resistance along the way.

Most of the cities had their gates open, flags fluttering, and people dancing lions and firing cannons to welcome the king's return.

The Qing officials who occasionally had a stubborn heart or wanted to show their integrity that they were not afraid of powerful enemies decisively chose to follow their heart under the fire of the Ming army.

After all, when it comes to integrity, he can sometimes make changes based on the actual situation!

There are also a few good slaves of the Qing Dynasty who have become stupid from reading and cry out to be loyal to the emperor and serve the country and vow to coexist and die with the Qing Dynasty.

For these people, the Ming army was not used to them either.

Since you want to live and die with the Manqing, then help the Manqing go explore the road in advance. Anyway, it won't be long before your master follows.

However, the Ming army's advancement route was not always smooth. When the troops arrived at Guangxi Sichengfu, the situation changed.

"Your Majesty, General Li called to ask how to deal with the chieftains in the southwest region?"

Shimazu Ayaka, who has become one of Emperor Zhu Dai's secretaries, asked holding a telegram.

"Toast? How to deal with it?"

Zhu Heyi put down the little blue pill he had just bought from the Miracle Market.

According to his understanding of Li Zhenhua, Li Zhenhua's original words should have been to ask him whether all the chieftains in the southwest region should be dealt with.

This telegram should have been handled tactfully by the staff department.

The reason for this telegram is probably because some blind chieftain annoyed Li Zhenhua.

In fact, the reason why Li Zhenhua sent this telegram was not just because a chieftain had annoyed him, but because a group of chieftain serfs who had eaten the courage of a bad person attacked a cavalry company of the Ming army's vanguard!

Although this group of people ended up with colorful organic fertilizers, the Ming army also suffered more than 30 casualties due to the sudden attack.

This annoyed Li Zhenhua.

Labor and capital captured the city of Guangzhou, which was garrisoned by more than 20 Tatars, but suffered only a few hundred casualties.

Now, in this inhospitable place, a group of natives caused more than 30 casualties!

Furious, Li Zhenhua directly sent troops to attack the chieftain's mansion in Sicheng.

When the Ming army attacked from the opposite side, Cen Yongbao, the chieftain of Sichuan, was not afraid at all and even organized a serf army to confront the Ming army head-on!

Then there is no more then.

Equipped with some firearms, the Qing army, which could be considered a regular army, had no chance of winning in a head-on confrontation with the Ming army, let alone an army composed of this group of serfs.

Under the volley of gunfire, this ragtag group of people armed with cold weapons couldn't hold on for a single round and dispersed.

Cen Yongbao, the chieftain of Sicheng, was also captured alive. After interrogation, it was discovered that the reason why these people attacked the Ming army was entirely due to the propaganda of the Tatars.

During the Battle of Guangzhou, Lu Zongyao and Shi Lin were defeated and fled to Guangxi. Before fleeing to Annan, in order to cause trouble for the Ming army, they spread the word that after the Ming army captured Guangxi, they would take over the central government and take away all the land from the chieftains.

This news was a great good thing for the native people (serfs) under the chieftain's jurisdiction.

But for the native officials and chieftains, doesn’t this mean cutting off their path?

That's why these guys with shit in their heads dare to come looking for death.

Li Zhenhua's telegram did not explain the origin and end of the plan to destroy the chieftain, and Zhu Heyi was not interested in it. He just raised his head and said:

"Call back to Li Zhenhua and tell him that under the bright banner there is only centralized power, chieftain? Leave no one behind! Deal with them all. Send the original words!"

Emperor Zhu Da did not care about euphemism or not. The chieftain system must be eradicated. Its existence not only greatly affects the stability of the empire, but at the same time, the chieftain system itself is also a regression of society.

Since the first year of Tianqi in the late Ming Dynasty, the chieftains in the southwest have started one rebellion after another.

These chieftains, who had no sense of identification with the country at all and only wanted to be emperors, turned the southwest region upside down for more than ten years.

The Ming Dynasty invested a lot of military and financial resources to quell the rebellion. Although the rebellion was eventually quelled, the strategy of combining military suppression and negotiation and compromise left huge hidden dangers.

The result was that the chieftains repeatedly pretended to surrender and rebelled.

This directly led to the almost collapse of Ming Dynasty's control over the southwest.

It can be said that these people also contributed a considerable amount to the decline of the Ming Dynasty's national power!

As for why it is said to be a regression of society?

Simply point out two points:

The chieftain enjoys the first and last night rights of all women in his jurisdiction.

The natives in the area under the jurisdiction of the chieftain are all serfs, and the chieftain has the power of life and death over them. This is even more cruel than the serfdom in Russia. After all, even in Russia, serfs cannot be killed casually.

Isn't this a step back to slavery?

In the history of the previous life, Qian De of the Qing Dynasty fought for five years, killed tens of thousands of soldiers, and spent 5 million taels of silver in military expenditures to quell the rebellion of the chieftains of Jin and Sichuan.

Now, Zhu Heyi decided to solve the hidden danger of toast in advance.

Change your native land and return to your hometown?

No, I call this "Destroying the Earth and Returning to the Flood"!

After receiving Zhu Heyi's clear instructions, the Ming army immediately began an operation to eliminate the chieftains.

In fact, the chieftains resisted much more fiercely than the Qing army.

Everywhere the Ming army went, they would be frantically attacked by the local chieftain army. On the contrary, the main Qing army was nowhere to be seen.

However, an attack is an attack, and its effect is the same as forming a group to commit suicide.

And there is usually only one wave. After one wave, these serf soldiers have either succeeded in committing suicide, or they have been frightened and gone crazy.

The scene of dense rain of bullets and artillery tearing human bodies into pieces was still too shocking for these rabble.

Language barriers, information occlusion, and the circulation of people under the chieftain system have greatly restricted the transmission of information.

They really knew very little about the Ming army.

Seeing that they could not defeat them, some chieftains immediately chose to surrender and expressed their willingness to submit to the Ming Dynasty. They also did not forget to emphasize that they were also fighters against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty!

Revolt against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?

Follow Wu Sangui?

Li Zhenhua only had a sneer on his lips.

Li Zhenhua had only one word for these surrendered native chieftains: kill!

And because the native officials and chieftains are hereditary and are dealt with according to His Majesty the Emperor's imperial edict, no one will be left behind, so...

All other captured serfs were released, and they immediately announced the abolition of the chieftain system and the abolition of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. All natives were citizens of the Ming Dynasty and enjoyed the right to personal freedom. All the land owned by the original chieftains would be remeasured and distributed to each native. In the hands of the people, the land output only needs to pay a certain proportion of taxes, and the remainder belongs to themselves.

After this series of decrees were promulgated, the local people in the areas recovered by the Ming army were confused.

Since the Yuan Dynasty, border minority areas have been living under the oppression of the chieftain system.

Over the past few hundred years, they have almost become accustomed to this kind of oppression.

Now someone suddenly told them that from now on the oppression would be gone, and they could also have their own property, their own land, and their own "complete" wives.

To them, it all seemed so unreal.

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