Chongzhen three years, the end of March.

Wang Zezhi sent the captured booty to Beijing, and after Emperor Chongzhen ordered someone to inspect it, Long Yan was happy and prepared to add some rewards to him.

The rumors that went viral everywhere were self-defeating, and no one was talking nonsense anymore.

At the same time, the two towns of Datong Mansion and Xuanfu were full of slaughter.

Yu Zhong's secret spies took action and captured a large number of people who defrauded them of cheap grain.

Most of them were merchants and tenants in the gentry's mansions.

For these people, Yu Zhong raided all of them according to Wang Zezhi's instructions.

A large amount of gold, silver, and grain were copied from their homes.

The mastermind behind this matter, the Fan family, had already hid in Jiangnan when Huang Taiji entered the customs and raged.

Therefore, they were not arrested, but only some merchants and gentry who were used as gunmen by him.

Jingshi is not far from Xuanfu, and after Emperor Chongzhen heard about this, he was furious and blamed Wang Zezhi for messing around without asking for instructions.

At that moment, on the grounds of Wang Zezhi's contempt for imperial power, he was exempted from the reward of his shadow heir.

At this time, Yu Zhongren handed a dragon ticket to Beijing.

This is a borrowed ticket stamped with the Houjin Dragon Seal, and only the big merchants who delivered the forbidden goods to Houjin are eligible to obtain it.

After Chongzhen saw the dragon ticket, he repented of it, praised Wang Zeyi, and ordered the merchants and gentry who betrayed the country to destroy the nine clans.

As soon as this decree came out, everyone was shocked.

The ministers of the court and the central government were trembling for a while, and they no longer contacted the merchant gentry who had a relationship with them.

As for the businessmen who targeted Wang Zezhi's chamber of commerce and business, they were even more frightened and fled to Jiangnan with their tails between their legs.

After this raid, the food in Wang Zezhi's hands was not only replenished, but also millions of stones.

In addition to grain, tens of millions of stones were copied from silver.

You must know that there are not only businessmen from Xuanfu who are involved in this matter, but also businessmen from Beizhili.

The place that was too close to Jingshi, Wang Zezhi didn't dare to go blatantly, but he still dared to do it when he was close to Xuanfu.

The courtiers were cut off by Wang Zezhi, and their teeth itched with hatred.

Cutting off people's wealth is like killing their parents, so the courtiers began to think about how to deal with Wang Zezhi.

It just so happened that at this time, an urgent report of military intelligence reached Beijing.

Shanxi is 1,500 miles from the river meanders to Pujin, all of which are adjacent to Shaanxi, and the river is the narrowest. On March 28, the third year of Chongzhen (1630), the Shaanxi rebel army crossed the river from Shenmu and entered Shanxi, attacking Xiangling, Jizhou, Taiping and Quwo. Since then, the flames of the uprising have burned all over the mountains and Shaanxi.

As far as the courtiers knew, Song Tongyin, like Wei Yunzhong, had always been good friends with Wang Zezhi.

Wang Zezhi sent Song Tongyin 100,000 stone of grain (sweet potato) is the best proof.

The courtiers were like drowning people grasping a life-saving straw.

Although Song Tongyin led the Ming army to fight hard, however, after all, the peasant uprising has become a climate, the peasant rebel army continues to grow and develop, most of the cities in Shanxi have been captured, and Song Tongyin sticks to Taiyuan to wait for help.

The defeat in the war, coupled with the impeachment and false accusations of the courtiers for having an order that "the thief will die" without fighting, was removed from the post of governor, ending his official career.

"Liang Tingdong."

"The minister is here."

"I have already issued a decree to order you to strengthen the northwest border defense and exterminate the thieves in Shaanxi, and now the thieves are about to wreak havoc in Shanxi, how did you deploy the defense?"

The court forced Chongzhen to take Song Tongyin down, and Chongzhen was so angry that he could only send it to Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

"Your Majesty, the Emperor Taiji soldiers are in the city, the former military department Shangshu Wang Qia, urgently ordered all the soldiers and horses to enter the king of Jingqin, the soldiers and horses originally sent to the Shanxi border pass are now still in the area from Jimen to Yongping, and the remnants of the golden soldiers are cleared.

The minister is guilty! ”

Liang Tingdong first explained, then knelt down and took the fault down.

"Who else am available to me now? Yes? Chongzhen was very angry, shook his sleeves, and walked around the main hall.

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Zhenbei Bo is available, and the king of Zhenbei Bo has already sent good news, isn't Jizhen worry-free? It's better to transfer him back to Shanxi, it just so happens that he was originally the chief soldier of Shanxi, so it is natural for him to return to help. ”

Liang Tingdong knelt on the ground and suggested.

"Jizhen is worry-free now, if Uncle Zhen just left, and Huang Taiji comes back, what should it do?" Chongzhen asked.

"The minister heard that Zhenbei Bo has tens of thousands of soldiers, and the emperor can order him to divide 10,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Jizhen and bring other soldiers and horses back to help."

"Well, it's good to be so good, but if he makes another meritorious service, he will have to be crowned a marquis." Chongzhen didn't know what he was thinking, absent-minded

After saying a word, he fell into deep thought.

When the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty heard this, they immediately looked at their noses, and their noses and hearts looked as if they hadn't heard them.

"Now I can only fight one Wang Zezhi in my hands, how can this be enough." Chongzhen got up and walked back and forth, muttering to himself.

"Come on, go and pass the decree quickly, and order Wang Zezhi to return to Shanxi and exterminate the Central Plains Liukou."

"Yes."

"Retreat!"

Chongzhen finished the order and hurriedly went down.

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty wiped the cold sweat on their foreheads, and they were all frightened by Chongzhen's words.

They knew that although Chongzhen used Wang Zezhi, in fact, he was already dissatisfied with Wang Zezhi in his heart, and even doubted.

Wang Zezhi, who was building Jizhen, left Qi Qi to garrison Jizhen, and immediately returned to Datong Mansion with soldiers and horses.

To some extent, Shanxi is his base camp, and if the base camp is lost, he will suffer heavy losses.

He will never allow others to get their hands on his home base.

Chongzhen three years, early April.

Wang Zezhi returned to Datong, and all the generals in his palace gathered.

After Hong Chengchou became the governor of the three sides, he vigorously suppressed bandits, he was not like Yang He, nor like Chen Qiyu.

Hong Chengchou not only vigorously suppressed the bandits, but also killed them.

Wang Zuo surrendered and rebelled, and was killed by Hong Chengchou.

At that time, tens of thousands of surrendered rogues were killed by him.

Hong Chengchou knows that thieves like to deceive, and they will rebel after recuperating for a period of time.

The Ming Dynasty suppressed the thief army many times without dying, and it was because of this kind of deception.

Hong Chengchou was quite prescient in this regard.

The Ming court was unable to feed a large number of hungry people, and they had already appeased those who rose again.

In addition, the soldiers and horses of Yansui and Gansu entered the king of Beijing and Qin, so that the thieves took advantage of the situation, and there were more and more trends.

Faced with such a situation, the governor of the three sides of the army began to kill these thieves.

Unable to bear the high-pressure massacre of Hong Chengchou, the thieves crossed the Yellow River east and fled to Shanxi.

This is also the reason why Song Tongyin gradually ran out.

According to the latest information, the leader of the thieves who crossed Shanxi in the east, Wang Zishun, captured Puzhou, divided his troops into two routes, and attacked Zhaocheng, Hongdong, Fen, and Huo in the east; West attack stone building, Yonghe, etc., the king of the word Hengtian.

At the same time, another thief, Wang Jiayin, with tens of thousands of people, crossed east from Shenmu, followed by Wang Zishun, and went straight to Yuci.

Wang Zezhi looked at the map and pointed to the guerrilla camps in Yuci, Shouyang, Yuxian, and Fangshan.

He believes that Wang Jiayin's target cannot be Taiyuan.

The city of Taiyuan is high and deep, and the strong attack will never be defeated.

The Yuci, Shouyang, Yuxian, and Fangshan guerrilla battalions were easier to attack.

Wang Zezhi decided to destroy Wang Jiayin's soldiers and horses first, and then go south to get rid of Wang Zishun.