If the fight is not good, simply disband and rebuild one division after another.

Even Li Xiao has thought about it, and the Marine Corps will become an independent branch after reconstruction.

No longer under the unified command of the Navy!

Li Xiu's face is no longer a concern for this kind of thing.

After the meeting ended, Li Xiao stared at the three southwest provinces for a long time.

He couldn't figure out why these three places suddenly rebelled.

There was a knock at the door, and then Shunzi opened the door and Luzhu walked in.

"What's going on in the southwest?" Li Xiao didn't believe that the chieftains in the southwest were working together on such a large scale.

Luzhu and her men didn't get a hint of the news!

"We have reported on the affairs in the southwest. I also submitted a special report, but at that time you were supervising the battle in Uralsk.

I can only report to the Chief Assistant, and I also entrust him with the report.

You...you didn't receive it?"

Lu Zhu looked at Li Xiao strangely. It was her responsibility to solve the problem with intelligence.

But if the information was withheld, it was not her responsibility.

"You mean, you gave it to Sun Yuanhua?" Li Xiao frowned.

Sun Yuanhua withheld the reporting documents given to him, which was a big deal.

"It's absolutely true, you were in Uralsk at that time. According to what you left before leaving, the report document was first shown to the Chief Assistant before he transferred it to Uralsk."

"I know! I will investigate this matter, and you can tell me what the situation is in the southwest.

How come all of a sudden, all those chieftains united to rebel?

I’m afraid it won’t work if no one colludes in this.”

"The places in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi have actually been dominated by chieftains for a long time. The earliest chieftains were even canonized by the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

It has ruled there for more than a thousand years!

Their influence in the local area was so intricate that even if the imperial court wiped out one or two, after the imperial army withdrew, the chieftains were still under the rule.

This was the case with Yang Yinglong's rebellion during the Shenzong period.

Although Yang Yinglong was defeated and committed suicide, after the imperial army invaded and suppressed the army, it was the Yang family that had the final say in Bozhou.

There is no way, his family has been ruling there for four hundred years, and the people have become accustomed to obeying them.

The imperial court has been short of troops in recent years and only has a small number of troops stationed in some big cities. They are still security forces!

The main force of the Second Division stays in Guangdong and Fujian all year round, and its deterrent effect on them is really limited.

and!

In the past two years, the imperial court's attitude towards chieftains has been arrogant.

In the Central Plains, the imperial court can be regarded as a light corvee and a small amount of tax, but in the southwest, the imperial court can be said to be extortionate and extortionate!

There are so many local taxes that are dazzling. There is a tea tax on tea, a rice tax on rice, and even a soy sauce tax on soy sauce.

Moreover, most of these taxes fell on the heads of the local chieftains.

The tax collectors sent by the imperial court can no longer be described as fierce.

If taxes cannot be raised, force will be used; if force cannot be overcome, force will be used; if force cannot be resisted, force will be killed.

Last year alone, eight chieftains hanged themselves.

This is just the tip of the iceberg!

Since last year, the imperial court has implemented the reform of native land transfer and gradually deprived the chieftains of their rights.

The first is judicial power!

In the past, if there were any injustices or cases in the local area, the chieftain would handle them.

Now, everything has to be handled by officials sent by the imperial court.

Those officials didn't know what was going on. As long as the common people had a dispute with the chieftain, they would judge the chieftain to lose regardless of whether it was the chieftain's fault or not.

Moreover, those chieftains were often reprimanded in public. Some county magistrates even arrested the chieftains and flogged them in public.

From last year to the first half of this year, at least five chieftains were fettered.

There are also some officials who want to eat toast and ask for it...!"

"What else?"

“There are also some who deliberately wronged the land and put them in jail.

Rather than saying that the chieftains united to rebel, it is better to say that the imperial court forced them to rebel."

"Have you told Sun Yuanhua about these things?" Li Xiao frowned and asked as he looked at the three provinces on the map.

"Yes, the report goes into more detail."

"Okay, it's none of your business. Go down!" Li Xiao said coldly.

Luzhu noticed that Li Xiao's neck was a little red.

Obviously, Li Xiao was about to enter the stage of rage, and it was better to leave first at this time. If the commander sprinkled a stream of evil fire on his head, that would be the real disaster.

Shunzi felt a little strange when she saw Luzhu running away like a wolf.

At this moment, someone in the office suddenly shouted: "Let Sun Yuanhua come to see me."

Shunzi was shocked. He hadn't heard such a violent roar from Li Xiao for a long time.

Sun Yuanhua walked squarely and appeared at the door of the Marshal's Mansion as if he was an old god.

Although Shunzi reminded him many times overtly and covertly, the old guy seemed to be fine and walked unsteadily inside with official steps.

Li Xiao looked at Sun Yuanhua with sinister eyes, Shunzi poured a cup of tea and quickly hid from the office.

"Excuse me, Mr. Chief Assistant, did you forget to give me a report?" Li Xiao was not in the mood to talk to him, so he just got straight to the point.

"Report! I don't know which portion the commander is referring to." Sun Yuanhua ignored Li Xiao's cannibalistic look.

"Which share? Lvzhu's share."

"Oh, I'm afraid I can't submit that report to the commander-in-chief." Sun Yuanhua was a bachelor and did not deny the existence of that report.

"Can't? Why?" This time, Li Xiao was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the old guy would admit it like this without an excuse.

"Because of that report, the official has been burned."

"Burn!" At this moment, Li Xiao's eyes widened.

This old guy admitted so openly that he burned his own report?

"Yeah! Burn it. Because the commander-in-chief has read this report and it is harmful to my Ming Dynasty."

"Oh, what should I say? Don't you know about the rebellion in southern Xinjiang?"

The old guy's calmness made Li Xiao a little strange.

"I know, and this rebellion was basically started under my instruction.

It can also be said that I was the one who forced those chieftains to rebel."
Chapter completed!