The seventh capture of Meng Huo is Zhuge Liang's psychological warfare strategy against Meng Huo, the powerful leader of the southern barbarians, in the process of quelling the rebellion in South China, with the aim of completely eliminating the rebellious psychology of the southern minorities. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Nanzhong has been under the jurisdiction of Yizhou, which is divided into four administrative regions: Yizhou County (Jianning County), Zhang Ke County, Maodi County and Yongchang County. In 223, Lv Yongli, the most popular surname in Yizhou County, took Liu Bei, the Emperor of Shu Han who was defeated in the Battle of Yiling. Yong 'an died of illness, killed Zheng Ang, the new satrap, Zhang Yi, and kidnapped him to Dongwu. Dispatching troops called on four counties in South China to revolt against Shu Han. At the same time, Gao Yue, the leader, decided to kill Gong Lu, the satrap, and make himself king. He and Zhang Ke satrap Zhu Bao responded to Lv Yong's rebellion. Only Yongchang County was not captured by the rebels under the tenacious insistence of Lu Kai and Kang. Meng Huo was a strongman in the south at that time, and was deeply convinced by local aborigines and Han people. After the Lu Yong Uprising, he hoped to get the support of the minorities in southern China, but all tribal leaders did not obey Lu Yong. Lu Yong recruited Meng Huo to lobby tribal leaders. Meng Huo lied to them, saying: The imperial court wants to collect 300 black dogs, and all the boxes should be black, and it needs 3,000 pieces of broken wood (three feet long). Can you take them out? "Black dogs and mite brains are hard to find, but their broken wood (ebony) is hard and winding, and it can't be as high as twenty feet long. The local natives believed Meng Huo and thought that the Shu-Han regime deliberately embarrassed and oppressed them, so they were greatly dissatisfied and joined the rebels. In March 225, Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of Shu Han, decided to personally lead the army to quell the southern rebellion. Ma Su, who joined the army to see Zhuge Liang off, put forward the strategy of "attacking the city for the first time, attacking the city for the second time, fighting with his head for the first time, and fighting for the second time". Zhuge Liang also accepted this suggestion, so the soldiers were divided into three ways. Then he led his troops into Yuegu by water, and made Ma Zhong attack Zhang Ke and Li Hui attack Yizhou. At this time, Lv Yong clashed with Gao Ding and was finally killed by Gao Ding. Meng Huo took the opportunity to incorporate Lv Yong's army and continued to lead the people of China in the south to fight Shu Han. Li Huijun went deep into Kunming and defeated the rebels in Yizhou County. Ma Zhongjun successfully defeated Zhu Bao in Galand and joined Li Huijun. On the other hand, after Zhuge Liang's army arrived in Nanzhong, it won several battles. First, it killed Gao Ding, and then joined two other armies. The three armies are connected in momentum and ready to face Meng Huo. Zhuge Liang heard that Meng Huo was convinced by the local people, and he wanted to force him to submit by taking him alive, so as to achieve the goal of conquering the people in the south and China. In May, the army crossed Lushui, engaged with Meng Huo's army, and successfully captured Meng Huo alive. Zhuge Liang took him to the camp to watch and asked him about the Shu army. Meng Huo replied: "I don't know the truth, so I lost." It's an honor to watch the camp. If that's all, it's easy to win. I didn't know the actual situation of your army before, so I was defeated. Now I'm sent to monitor the camp. That's all. I am sure to win. ) "Zhuge Liang's mind was in the north, knowing that the rebellion in the south was serious, so he used Ma Su's strategy of" first siege, second siege and second battle "to convince Meng Huo. So he smiled and told him to fight again. After Zhuge Liang captured Meng Huo seven times, he still wanted to let him go. (The specific process of seven escapes and seven verticals is not clearly recorded in the official history. Meng Huo and other indigenous leaders were finally persuaded by Zhuge Liang and refused to leave. Meng Huo said, "The public, the heavenly powers and the southerners are no longer opposed. You represent a big country in the sky, and the people in South China will never rebel again. ) "So he led the army of Shu Han to Dianchi Lake and swore to Zhuge Liang that the Shu army had pacified Nanzhong. Meng Huo later turned to be an imperial envoy. After the return of the Shu Army, Zhuge Liang adopted the policy of "leaving no soldiers and transporting grain" since the Han Dynasty, reused local forces and safeguarded local interests, and appointed Ma Zhong, Lu Kai and others to adopt appeasement policies to govern the south, using a large number of local ethnic elites. Since then, there has never been a large-scale rebellion in South China.