Zou Mu and the four brocade guards arrived late, they arrived from the capital quickly, without the slightest rest halfway, and had to stop halfway to let the horse slow down - when they encountered the corpse of the thief, they dismounted and cut off a few heads by the way.

When I came to the outside of Liangxiang County, I saw that Gaudí was leading people to collect the corpse, and many horses were gathered at the gate of the city. Xiaoqi immediately raised his waist card: "Jinyi Wei is doing things!" ”

There is a line of small words on the waist card: Do not use it when you go out of Beijing.

Gaudi glanced at it, seemingly respectfully clenching his fists, but speaking very disrespectfully: "But there is a document from the yamen?" ”

Although Xiaoqi is a brocade guard, it is also bitter haha. Since Gaudí did not cooperate, he could only lower his shelf and explain: "At night, I was surprised to hear that a thief appeared in the southern suburbs, so I ordered us to go out of the city immediately to investigate, and it was too late to go to any yamen to issue documents." However, at this moment, it is estimated that the emperor, the cabinet elder and the six ministers have already known about this matter. ”

Hearing that Xiaoqi went out to Beijing to investigate the military situation, Gao Di did not dare to slack off, and immediately reported the situation, saying: "This county has collected 21 corpses of thieves, and another 12 thieves surrendered, and captured 36 horses of the thief army. About 200 thieves scattered and fled. ”

Hearing these figures, Xiao Qi was speechless and asked, "What about Xianggong Wang?" ”

Gao Di said with a smile: "Friend Wang said that he was tired and had gone to the county government to sleep peacefully." ”

"If Brother Xu, can he be injured?" Zou Mu asked suddenly.

Gaudi sighed and said: "Friend Wang has chased and killed countless thieves, and he has not suffered the slightest damage, which is really a strange person!" ”

The four brocade guard spies looked at each other, this is so damn evil, it's unimaginable.

Suddenly, a rider came from the south.

The horse was already foaming at the mouth, and the officers on the horse's back were not lightly injured. When he saw Xiaoqi wearing a brocade guard costume, he immediately shouted: "Hurry up and help me deliver a message, Boye County has been captured by the rebels, and Baoding Mansion is in an emergency!" ”

Gao Di's face turned pale suddenly, and north of Baoding Mansion were Ansu County, Dingxing County, Zhuozhou, and then Liangxiang County.

And to the north of Liangxiang County, is the capital!

The army of thieves is far away from Beijing, and there are only three counties and one state city left. And the road was all flat official roads, and these rebel armies had a large number of horse teams, and it only took two days to go straight to Beijing. The guards around the Beijing Division were transferred to Bazhou to quell the rebellion, and at this moment they were lured to Jingzhou and could not come back.

The messenger sent the military intelligence documents to Xiao Qi, and he fainted, and his horse probably didn't survive.

Xiaoqi originally wanted to wait for Wang Yuan to wake up and discuss how to share the military merits. But at this moment, he didn't dare to wait any longer, so he picked a horse of the rebel army that had been captured, and personally returned to Beijing with the military intelligence documents to report, and at the same time ordered his subordinates to immediately go south to inquire about the military situation.

Gaudí also led people to the north, the burned town is also under the jurisdiction of Liangxiang County, and there are still hundreds of refugees waiting to be resettled.

Zou Mu led the horse to the county office, and waited until the afternoon, when Wang Yuan finally woke up.

Rubbing his sore arm, Wang Yuan smiled bitterly: "It's still strained, I'm afraid it will take four or five days to recover, and the two stone bows are really not fun." ”

Zou Mu looked serious: "The county seat of Boye has been broken, and Baoding Mansion is in an emergency." From Baoding Mansion to the capital, there were no troops to resist the thieves, and only the twelve Beijing battalions could still be mobilized. Moreover, nearly half of the 12th Beijing Battalion has been transferred to quell the rebellion, and those who remain are afraid that they have little combat power. The defense of the capital division is empty! ”

Wang Yuan was stupid, the Zhengde Dynasty can only be regarded as the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and this situation can actually occur!

This was the worst year of the Zhengde Dynasty, with the Mongol border in the north and large-scale uprisings in Sichuan, Guizhou, Jiangxi, Hebei, and Shandong at the same time. Every uprising needs to gather troops from several provinces to encircle and suppress, how can it stand it if it breaks out at the same time?

The more uprisings there are, the greater the military spending, and the heavier the burden on the common people, which has created a vicious circle.

The population was already expanding in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and the socio-economic transformation was still in the transition period. After Wuzong succeeded to the throne, not only did he not cultivate his life and recuperate, but built seven imperial villages within a month, which later increased to more than 300, and the emperor took the lead in engaging in the enclosure movement.

Wuzong's godsons, Liu Jin's henchmen, and the Xunqi clan also followed the enclosure across the country.

Naturally, civil officials are not lagging behind, emperors, eunuchs, clans, and relatives can all enclose land, why can't we?

In addition, Liu Jin completely messed up Ma Zheng, causing countless displaced people, providing a natural source of soldiers for the rebels in various places.

Among them, the most harmful are the town guard eunuchs, all over the country. At the time of the Hongzhi Dynasty, it was quite normal, and many eunuchs who dared to do their jobs and were loyal to their duties emerged. After Liu Jin came to power, there was only one thing left for the eunuchs, that is, to help the emperor and Gonggong Liu collect money, and by the way, his own pockets were also bulging.

It is also financially difficult.

Wuzong held a funeral for Emperor Hongzhi, spending 5,000 taels of gold and 1.8 million taels of silver. When Wu Zong got married, he used 8,520 taels of gold and 533,840 taels of silver. All of a sudden, the overstretched finances were emptied and passed on to the common people, resulting in an increasing number of displaced people.

Zhu Houzhao has nothing to criticize for his love of tossing, but he has brought the atmosphere of the whole country to bad and stimulated all kinds of social contradictions at once.

Wang Yuan was in the capital these days, and he had heard a lot of information about uprisings across the country, and he always felt that he was living in the last days of the dynasty.

Thinking of this, the heroism of killing thieves disappeared in an instant.

When Wang Yuan and Zou Mu returned to the outskirts of Beijing, it was already evening. It is obvious that martial law is under control in the city, and there are many more officers and soldiers at the head of the city, and wooden fences are placed at various street crossings outside the city.

Zhou Chong smiled and led Wang Yuan into the guest room, and took out a cloth bag from under the bed: "Second brother, it's all gold, a full twenty-eight catties!" ”

"Zou Mu, how much did they share?" Wang Yuan asked.

Zhou Chong shook his head and said, "I don't know, they each touched the thieves, and I don't know how much they touched." ”

Wang Yuan said: "You can take one percent of this gold yourself." ”

Zhou Chong hesitated for a few breaths, nodded and said, "Okay!" ”

Wang Yuan was generous enough, and Zhou Xuan thought that he could only get a few taels of gold, but he didn't expect to get more than two catties.

The master and servant counted the money in the guest room, and the Forbidden City was silent.

Emperor Zhengde, who did not have a proper shape, finally got serious at this moment and convened the bigwigs in the court to discuss the matter of leveling the thieves.

In fact, there is nothing to discuss, the remaining Beijing camp in the capital cannot be moved, and the top priority is to transfer the officers and troops who are far away in Jingzhou back. However, Gu Dayong put forward a suggestion that aroused the collective opposition of the civilian officials, that is, to send the border army back to defend the Beijing Division.

After arguing from the afternoon to the evening, this proposal was not adopted, and it was only when the rebellion could not be quelled that it was chosen.

That Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi only regarded the head cut along the way as his own military exploits. did not hide Wang Yuan's exploits, which led to the court bosses all learning about Wang Yuan's name one by one.

Single-handedly chasing hundreds of thieves for dozens of miles, this sounds like a legendary story, and it is difficult not to be remembered!

(We will continue to update tomorrow during the day.) ）