Wang Yangming's Suppression of Rebellion

Timeline

1. 1517Ganzhou · JiangxiWang Yangming, as Right Assistant Censor-in-Chief, took up the post of governor of Nan-Gan, rectifying military administration and establishing the ten-household registration system, and began planning the suppression and amnesty of long-standing bandits in southern Jiangxi.
2. 1517Dayu County · JiangxiWang Yangming led government forces to attack bandit strongholds at Dayu, Shangyou, and other places, winning several battles, capturing and executing bandit leaders, and dismantling multiple lairs, greatly weakening the rebel forces.
3. 1517–1518Tonggang · Southern JiangxiWang Yangming advanced on Tonggang and Litou, first offering amnesty then attacking forcefully, capturing and executing leaders such as Chi Zhongrong; the major bandit groups on the Nan-Gan and Fujian-Guangdong borders were successively destroyed, and local order gradually restored.