After a chaotic battle, all three sides suffered losses.
But overall, the Song Family, who had inherited most of the Yang Family's interests, had the upper hand.
Later, the An Family sent people to the Qin Army to falsely accuse the Song Family of having the intention to rebel. The Qin Army immediately sent troops to attack the Song Family indiscriminately.
The Southwest Corps stationed there launched a crusade. The Song Family was afraid of the Qin Army's prestige and did not dare to fight. They collapsed at the first encounter. The Song Family quickly sent people with a large number of rare treasures to beg for mercy from the General Commander of the Qin Army, Zheng Ying. Zheng Ying accepted the Song Family's plea and directly retreated.
The Song Family was angry at the An Family's false accusation and immediately sent troops to fight against the An Family. The two sides fought bloody battles without a clear winner, and the situation became more rigid. Jiangxi, Guizhou, and some parts of Sichuan were in the flames of war, which caused Xiao Ruxun's' great anger '. Xiao Ruxun immediately ordered the southwest provinces to' settle this matter '.
Taking this as an opportunity, the turmoil in the southwest provinces slowly came to an end. After being affected by this turmoil, the power of the chieftains was hit, and many of them suffered heavy losses.
Just when things were about to settle down, the head of the An Family, An Jiangchen, was assassinated. The An Family lost its head and fell into chaos. All the chieftains immediately became agitated and got involved in the internal strife of the An Family, wanting to get a share of the profits. The situation continued to be chaotic.
The turmoil lasted until the autumn harvest in September of the third year of Longwu. Xiao Ruxun issued an imperial edict reprimanding the governors of the provinces in the southwest for not doing their job well. When he learned that An Jiangchen was assassinated, he was' furious' and ordered the army to forcibly quell the turmoil. Those who dared to resist were directly killed.
In the middle of October of the third year of Longwu, the turmoil subsided. After this five months of turmoil, the power of the chieftains was even more severely affected. After two successive waves of weakening, the land reform working group immediately began to take action and fully entered the four provinces in the southwest.
The land reform began, and the control of the chieftains in their respective areas was greatly weakened. They did not even have time to react before they were overturned.
This land reform had been planned for a long time. It started in November of the third year of Longwu and continued until May of the fourth year of Longwu.
The continuous six months of large-scale, high-intensity land reform set off a world-changing upheaval in this corner of the southwest that had never been seen since ancient times.
The Southwest Army and the officials of the provinces in the southwest had gone through an extremely harsh test, because the counterattack of the despairing chieftains was quite powerful.
The Southwest Corps had lost nearly a thousand soldiers, and three county magistrates had died in the line of duty. As a result, Xiao Ruxun brazenly defined this operation as a campaign to quell a rebellion in the southwest, the fourth major campaign since the founding of the nation.
During this land reform, the Chieftain system that had lasted from the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the present was completely ended.
Xiao Ruxun used the Chieftain rebellion as an excuse to announce the end of the Chieftain system. He forcibly extended the imperial power to the countryside to the southwest border area, sweeping away all the Chieftain power in the border area and completely tearing it apart.
After this campaign, Xiao Qin's regime completely controlled the southwest, a region that had been neglected by the central government for a long time. It established provinces, counties, and villages to directly govern, greatly liberating the local productivity.
At the same time, using this opportunity, Xiao Ruxun began to implement an immigration policy, recruiting Han people in the north who were willing to go south. He used the preferential policy of exchanging one mu of land for two mu of land to call on the Han people to go south and develop the southwest.
In a period of several decades, the Qin government organized more than three million people to go south and southwest.
After the Guangdong and Guangxi regions were completely liberated, more than five hundred thousand Han people were added to the Guangdong and Guangxi regions. More than four million people were transferred from Jiangbei to the southern regions to develop the southwest and southeast islands. This was sufficient preparation for the harshest Little Ice Age that was coming in the next few decades.
And this action also completely swept away the worries of Xiao Ruxun's northern expedition. The entire south completely became the rear base of the Daqin's northern expedition.
Including Nanyang, it was also completely subdued by Xiao Ruxun. After sweeping away the local chieftains and clan forces, the agricultural development and development of these areas went very smoothly.
And during this period, the plague of locusts and schistosomiasis in Daqin were controlled to a certain extent. Xu Guangqi's duck farming campaign and Fang Congzhe's snail killing campaign reduced the threat of the plague of locusts and schistosomiasis to a certain extent.
These two major threats were under control, and with a proper management strategy, it also provided the major requirement of stability for Xiao Ruxun's northern expedition.
In the third and fourth years of Longwu, the logistics base in Guanzhong and the forward base in Gansu were focused on construction. Zhao Hu's Northwest Corps and Liu Gu's Guanzhong Corps were all in place, and specific training and simulation exercises began. Everything was in preparation for the northern expedition in the seventh year of Longwu.
At the end of the fourth year of Longwu, the grassland snow disaster occurred. Xiao Ruxun immediately ordered the Northwest Corps and Guanzhong Corps to prepare. What happened next was not unexpected.
The Gansu region was attacked by the Northern Barbarians, which had not been seen for many years.
And this time, the Qin Army had already made full preparations in advance.
The result of the battle was that a tribe of more than 30,000 people was directly killed by Zhao Hu and his soldiers. They also chased and attacked in all directions. After discovering that a large number of tribes had gathered in the surroundings and were trying to move south, they did not say a word and launched an attack.
This grassland operation lasted for half a month, and the Northwest Corps won a great victory, annihilating more than 20,000 Northern Barbarians, capturing more than 60,000 men and women, and more than 300,000 cattle, sheep, and horses.
These captured people were all thrown into the interior of Daqin as laborers to serve the construction of various places in Daqin. In the end, they all died on the construction sites.
This incident of the Northern Barbarians not only brought a signal to the Daqin to be wary of the return of the Northern Barbarians, but it was also a happy event. The Northwest Corps achieved unprecedented success in the battle. With a very small price to pay, they wiped out several tribes of the Northern Barbarians. It was a great victory, which was enough to show that the training and preparation of the Qin Army was effective.
The arrival of this war set an example for the Qin Army's northern expedition, and allowed Xiao Ruxun to clearly understand the combat power of the Qin Army and the Northern Barbarians of the grassland.
Taking this great snow disaster as an opportunity, the Northern Barbarians, who had been quiet for several years, once again attacked the border. The entire area along the Great Wall was once again attacked by a large number of Northern Barbarians. This once again proved that Xiao Ruxun's judgment a few years ago was correct. Once it was a matter of life and death, even if they knew that they would die, the Northern Barbarians would still come to plunder.
Because they had to eat.
But this time, the decisive and sharp counterattack of the Qin Army made them suffer. Not only did many tribes not plunder any supplies, but they were also eaten up by the Qin Army.
After careful training, the Qin Army not only made military achievements, but also gained combat experience, and the new recruits were also honed on the battlefield.
And more importantly, the Qin Army re-established a psychological advantage over the Northern Barbarians.
Since the founding of the People's Republic, they had fought against the Jurchens, the Japanese, and Yang Yinglong, but they had never directly fought against the Northern Barbarians. And with the experience of passive defense during the Ming Dynasty, the Qin Army had not established a psychological advantage over the Northern Barbarians.
But this time, the Qin Army wiped out a very large number of Northern Barbarians with very little loss, and the psychological advantage created by this was very obvious.
Xiao Ruxun immediately manipulated the public opinion organ and began to speak to the whole country, publicizing the victories against the Northern Barbarians again and again, building a psychological advantage and confidence for the people of the Daqin to face the Northern Barbarians, and sweeping away the depressed atmosphere of the Northern Barbarians since the end of the Ming Dynasty.
The whole country's morale was rising.
Since then, the last political force in the court who had doubts about the Northern Expedition plan disappeared, and no one had any doubts about the all-out war that Xiao Ruxun was preparing to carry out.
And at the beginning of the fifth year of Longwu, in the northeast, under the instigation of the secret agents of Black Water, the Horqin tribe and the Chahar tribe had a conflict, and the two sides had a relatively fierce war. Taking advantage of their war, Xiao Ruxun instructed the Liaodong Army to begin the purge of the Jurchens.
After the purge of the mature Jurchens, they began the purge of the unmarried Jurchens. The territory of the northeast needed to be expanded, and the fertile black land of White Mountain and Black Water should all be occupied.
Before the start of the all-out Northern Expedition, the expansion of Liaodong began unhurriedly. This operation was not like a war, because the intensity was relatively low. The unmarried Jurchens did not have a unified command, and were very scattered. The Qin Army marched to expel, and at the same time, built strongholds, and opened up eastward and northward.
Xiao Ruxun said, "Your goal is the coast of the sea. Only when you see the sea can you prove that your expansion is successful."
You've already exceeded your reading limit for today. If you want to read more, please log in.
Login
Select text and click 'Report' to let us know about any bad translation.
