Xie Xun, adept at bandit suppression, had instilled fear in the robbers and horse thieves across the twelve provinces. This group of bandits had wreaked havoc in these regions for years, ruthless and ferocious, yet when faced with the Ningzhou Iron Cavalry, they had no choice but to surrender. No matter how the bandits and horse thieves proclaimed themselves kings of the mountains, they could only assemble a few thousand people at most. Some of the bandits were forced into their outlawry to escape Ningzhou's military conscription.
Xie Xun relocated nearly twenty thousand bandits to Huangzhou and West Continent. He summoned Prefectural Magistrate Wang from Shun City to Huangzhou; Wang brought two thousand men to settle ten thousand of the bandits there, hoping they'd take root in Huangzhou. The situation in West Continent was more complicated due to the iron mines, which already had bandits, and collusion between officials and merchants. Xie Xun entrusted this issue to Fengyu.
