For Zhu Youxiao's marriage proposal, Hou Shuiwei was naturally overjoyed, with the backer of the Ming Dynasty, he could not only ensure his status, but also take the opportunity to regain the power that had been lost for a long time. Tokugawa Iemitsu is also supportive, Kazuko is his sister, and Koko is his nephew, and these two women will help him firmly control Japan. Only Oda Nobuyhiro was vigilant in his heart, he knew that once the Edo shogunate took the line of the Ming Dynasty, he was likely to become an outcast, and the lessons of Tokugawa Tadanaga were still vivid.

Of course, this proposal also caused strong opposition within the imperial court, Zhu Cihong is the eldest son, and his status is unspeakably expensive, and the ministers have asked to be established as the crown prince to ensure the stability of the Ming dynasty. If he is allowed to marry a royal woman from a vassal country, it will be contrary to the system of the Ming Dynasty, and it will affect his smooth succession to the throne.

Cao Huachun knew that the matter was too big for him to deal with, so he simply carried these folds into the upper study, and said cautiously:

"Long live Lord, it is the last instruction of Emperor Taizu Gao that the ministers are not allowed to interfere in politics, and this matter involves the country's slaves, and they dare not speak falsely, and everything is decided by the master."

Zhu Youxiao glanced up at Cao Huachun, and when he saw that his face was pale, he secretly laughed, thinking that your ghost reacted very quickly, but at this time, if you don't block the gun for me, what do you want, so he deliberately stretched his face and said:

"There are hundreds of battle reports in front of me every day, where do I still have the energy? You carry these things back and wait until Operation Sunset is over. ”

Cao Huachun saw that the emperor's tone was firm, hesitated for a moment, and then swallowed back the words that came to his mouth, and got up and retired with a melancholy face. He knew that this black cauldron was not easy to carry, and maybe it would become the finger of Qianfu, and it was unknown if he would be assigned to the Nanhaizi Pure Army in the future.

After he left, Zhu Youxiao looked at the several letters of the dragon case and was at a loss. The Sunset Operation was originally to be carried out ten years later, but who knew that the four-nation alliance was killed halfway, and Zhu Youxiao thought that the opportunity could not be lost, so he intervened in Japan's civil strife in advance. Now the war has exceeded his expectations, and the two major families of Oda and Tokugawa did not hesitate to indulge their subordinates to loot grain and grass and strong labor in order to win the final victory, resulting in the waste of spring cultivation in Japan, and the displacement of people and starvation everywhere.

In search of a ray of survival, some of these refugees fled north to Hokkaido and Sakhalin, while others were smuggled to Kyushu in the hope of being sheltered by the Ming Dynasty. In fact, it is not troublesome to receive refugees, the key is to have enough food, the logistics supply of the Ming army's cross-sea operations is already difficult, where will there be excess materials to feed them?

For this reason, Shang Zhouzuo, under the emperor's instructions, left only skilled craftsmen, children shorter than wheels, and women under the age of thirty, and sold the rest to Joseph. These Englishmen were nominally recruiting workers, but in fact they were luring free labor to the Americas to pan for gold, which belonged to the early slave trade. It's a simple and crude approach, but it's the best option for them.

The same problem occurred within the Ming Dynasty, when Wei Zhongxian distributed the three salaries to all parts of the country, which made the already harsh natural environment of the northwest even worse. In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, there was a rare drought here, and then a locust plague caused the fields to be almost wiped out. In order to make a living, the local people were forced to go to Shaanxi, Henan, and Sichuan to beg for food, and there were many complaints and misery along the way.

In order to alleviate the disaster, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the northwest, asked for the cancellation of the three salaries in Gansu and Ningxia four times, and asked the imperial court to allocate funds for disaster relief and open granaries to help the victims. At the same time, Gansu Governor Zuo Guangdou and General Soldier Luo Ganxiang were arranged to strengthen their security to prevent the displaced people from taking advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos.

Wei Zhongxian received an order to collect military salaries at all costs, so naturally he would not agree to Lu Xiangsheng's proposal, and the two were as strong as fire and water, and it was difficult to distinguish the winner for a while. However, after the autumn, the displaced people gathered more and more, and the northwestern prefectures and counties often attacked and robbed houses, and the pressure on public order was very great. Those conspirators with anti-bones on their heads seized the opportunity to incite the refugees to make trouble, and Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng, and others successively appeared on the stage of history.

According to the laws of the Ming Dynasty, the governors of various places should truthfully report the rebellion, and the imperial court also has a mature system to deal with it, but the sunset operation is about to enter the second stage, and telling the emperor that there is a rebellion at this time is tantamount to looking for death. In the afternoon dynasty, Sun Chengzong, Han Yi, Huang Kezhang, Li Banghua, Zhu Xieyuan and other old ministers had heavy faces, and they didn't know how to speak. In the end, Zheng Sanjun, who dared to speak up, stood up, bowed his head and cried and said:

"Your Majesty, the war against the Japanese has achieved the expected goal, which shows that the king's master is clear in heaven, and the ancestors and ancestors have the spirit in the sky. However, this year's drought in the northwest is severe, and the crops are almost out of production, and if the local three salaries continue to be levied, Wechen is worried that there will be more and more rebellions by thieves such as Gao Yingxiang and Luo Rucai. ”

Zhu Youxiao pretended to be very surprised after hearing this, slapped the table angrily, and asked loudly:

"Ladies and gentlemen, what do you mean by this?"

Han Yi saw that Zheng Sanjun had already had a showdown with the emperor, and knew that he had an unshirkable responsibility as the head of the cabinet, so he simply explained the situation in the northwest clearly. The more Zhu Youxiao listened to it, the more angry he became, and he gritted his teeth and cursed Wei Zhongxian for bringing disaster to the country and the people, and vowed to drag this dog slave to the noon gate and shoot him for half an hour. But there was a burst of ecstasy in his heart, what should come will always come, and finally waited for you, fortunately he didn't give up.

There are two flowers, one on each branch. Gao Yingxiang's talent for rebellion was vividly displayed in the turbulent northwest, and he seized the opportunity to persuade the homeless people to starve to death instead of sitting with them, so why not steal and die? Coupled with the fact that the entire imperial court had moved to Nanjing, the emperor was in full command of the war against the Japanese, and he saw this as the perfect opportunity to lead his capable generals all the way east. After conquering Hanzhong, he plundered the Rui Wangfu, and ordered his subordinates to leave the chickens and dogs killed inside and outside the palace, so as to cut off everyone's retreat.

The tragedy of Ruiwangfu soon spread to Nanjing, which made Zhu Youxiao very annoyed, and ordered Lu Xiangsheng to rush to the aid of Hanzhong, and arranged for Cao Wenzhao, Luo Ganxiang, and Ai Wannian to attack the rebels from three sides. Seeing that the official army was menacing, Gao Yingxiang knew that he could not meet the battle head-on, so he joined forces with Luo Rucai, Hengtian Wang, Jiutiaolong and others in Mopan Mountain, entered the southern part of Shanxi Province, where the defense was relatively weak, and relied on Taihang Mountain to deal with the imperial court.

Taihang Mountain, also known as the Five Elements Mountain, Wangmu Mountain, Nuwa Mountain, is an important geographical barrier in the Central Plains, to the east is the North China Plain of Pingchuan, you can go directly to Beijing in the north, and you can attack Luoyang in the south. Gao Yingxiang led more than 100,000 troops to soon stationed here, becoming the first thief in Taihang, and also asked people to imitate the heroes of Liangshan to erect a banner for Tianxingdao in the cottage.

But he ignored a very important thing, since the Emperor of the Apocalypse ascended the throne, he has been allocating internal silver to help the victims and reward the border soldiers, but he has lived a very simple life. Each meal is nothing more than four dishes and one soup, a dragon robe is worn for six years, and the time to deal with government affairs is as many as seven or eight hours a year. What's more, the little emperor led his army to fight many times to exterminate the Jurchen and Mongolian bandits, quell the Tusi rebellion in the southwest, and now he is crusading against the Japanese in the East China Sea.

Since Taihang Mountain did not fall under the jurisdiction of the Governor of the Northwest, Lu Xiangsheng could only stop the march after chasing here, and ordered Cao Wenzhao, Luo Ganxiang, and Ai Wannian to stand by, while he personally went to Datong to discuss with Dong Hanru, the governor of Xuanda. Gao Yingxiang, who escaped, saw the loopholes in the Ming Dynasty's troop transfer system, and galloped to Luoyang in the starry night, declaring that it was only for the Fu King's money million, and would not hurt the innocent.

This blessed king is Zhu Changxun, the third son of Wanli, and his mother is the famous Zheng Guifei, the protagonist of the country-based dispute. After Zhu Changluo settled in the East Palace, Emperor Wanli sealed this beloved son to the prosperous Luoyang and took out 40,000 hectares of fertile land for him to enjoy.

Zhu Changxun, who has a distinguished status, has been pampered since he was a child, and after arriving in Luoyang, he drinks and has fun all day long, likes beauties and singing and dancing, and is indifferent to disasters and rebellions in the outside world. It wasn't until Gao Yingxiang's rebels came to the city that they woke up and hurriedly feasted Henan political Wang Yinchang, chief soldier Wang Shaoyu, and deputy generals Liu Jianyi and Luo Tai, and took out a thousand taels of gold to recruit warriors to resist the enemy, and rushed into the enemy formation many times with a spear in hand, quite Zhu Yuanzhang's majestic style.

Under the leadership of Zhu Changxun, the people of Luoyang climbed the city wall to help the officers and troops retreat from the enemy. That night, Zhu Changxun invited the guards to a banquet in the palace, but Wang Shaoyu had already coveted his Wanguan family wealth, secretly colluded with Gao Yingxiang to cooperate with the outside world, opened the north gate to lure the thieves into the city, and personally led the troops to surround the palace. The rebels had already tasted the sweetness of sacking the palace, and immediately swarmed in to carry out King Fu's family property, and slaughtered all the living people.

Everyone burned and looted in Luoyang for three days and three nights, and Gao Yingxiang remembered that Zhu Changxun was still in prison, so he ordered someone to escort him to the camp. In order to let his subordinates follow him with all his heart, Gao Yingxiang ordered Li Zicheng to find a way to deal with this bloated Fu King.

Li Zicheng didn't know what the plan was, so he smug stepped forward and pinched the fat on his body with bad intentions, and suddenly had an idea, and asked people to tie up Zhu Changxun and strip him naked and shaved, and use a drug enema, and after cleaning it inside and out, he threw it into a cauldron and boiled it with a few wild deer into a pot of "Fulu soup".

Although Gao Yingxiang's move was too brutal, it greatly boosted the morale of the rebels, and the bandit leaders from all walks of life knew that they were not his opponents, so they jointly elected him as the king of Chuang and the leader of the group. At this time, Gao Yingxiang seemed to be carried away by the victory in front of him, he thought that the stinky Emperor of the Apocalypse would be as corrupt and incompetent as Zhu Changxun, so he began to plan to go north to attack the Beijing division and rule the river with the imperial court in Nanjing.