Editing 1907 Peasants' Revolt (section)

== Government response ==
The Sturdza government responded with emergency measures, troop deployment, and mass arrests. [[Alexandru Averescu]] coordinated military action through the Ministry of War. [[Ion I. C. Brătianu]] handled internal security through the Ministry of the Interior. On 18 March 1907, the government expanded emergency authority in the affected districts. Army and gendarmerie units were sent into villages where civil administration had lost control. Their tasks were to secure roads, retake estate areas, protect railway lines, and restore county administration.

By 29 March 1907, the state had mobilized a large military force. Army units operated with gendarmerie detachments and local officials. The government used the army because the Gendarmerie alone could not control the number of affected villages. The state response relied on rapid military entry into rural districts. Troops were ordered to disperse crowds and arrest suspected participants. In villages where officials had fled, military detachments restored the presence of county authority before handing local administration back to civil officials.

Several local auxiliaries and state-adjacent armed men took part in the suppression. [[Nicolae Vlădescu]], a member of the [[Vlădescu family]], participated in armed suppression during the revolt.<ref name="vladescu-surname"/> His participation followed the family pattern described in the late 19th and early 20th century, when several Vlădescu men served as auxiliaries to gendarmerie units in southern Romania.<ref name="vladescu-early"/>