Comprehensive Mirror in Aid of Governance, Volume 254

They surged forward to welcome the government army. Upon seeing [Gao] Renhou, they crowded around his horse’s head, shouting loudly. They wept and bowed, saying: "The common people have suffered under injustice for a long time, with no way to voice our grievances. Since those who led this uprising have returned to the right path, the common people have been waiting with outstretched necks; for us, a single moment felt like an entire year.

"Meeting the Minister Gao Renhou held the title of Minister of Works today is like emerging from the Nine Springs the underworld or the land of the dead to see the bright sun once more. It is truly as if we have been brought back to life from the dead."

As for the rebel stockades located elsewhere, Renhou dispatched various generals to go and accept their surrender. From the time Renhou first set out with his army, it took only six days for all five rebel factions to be completely pacified.

Shifangci
Yichuan 1 [Chen] Jingxuan The Military Governor of Xichuan and Gao Renhou's superior displayed two of the rebels' heads in the marketplace. He ordered that Qian Neng, Luo Hunji, Luo Jiju, and Hu Seng be nailed to wooden frames and then dismembered the original term gua refers to a slow, agonizing execution involving the cutting of the flesh.

Zhang Rong, who served as Qian Neng’s clerk Kongmu-guan: a chief administrative officer or registrar in a military circuit, had repeatedly failed the imperial civil service examinations. He had eventually joined Qian Neng and became his chief strategist. Renhou sent him to the government headquarters, where he was nailed to a frame in the horse market. Aside from these specific leaders, not a single other person was executed.

[Chen] Jingxuan posted notices throughout the pacified prefectures, declaring that all members of the rebel parties were released and would not be investigated further. Not long after, the Governor of Qiong Prefecture reported the capture of Qian Neng’s uncle, [Qian] Xingquan, along with his entire family, and requested that they be punished according to the law under Tang law, the family of a rebel leader could face collective execution or enslavement. Jingxuan consulted his clerk...