With several wars, the government and the court are also exhausted, and it is also powerless to launch another encirclement and suppression of the base area, and it also takes a period of recovery time, at the same time, Lu Shi also knows that even if the court recovers in Shaanxi, it can no longer take care of itself, because the Manchurians are about to enter Kou Jinggi, at that time, the Ming Dynasty will give up encircling and suppressing the rebel army in various places, and make every effort to transfer troops to the king, and the Ming Dynasty's rout is about to happen, and Lu Shidu began to prepare for the upcoming rout.

In October of the second year of Chongzhen, the Manchurian army invaded on a large scale, broke the border wall from Zunhua and Jixian areas in Hebei, and captured Zunhua, Yutian, Sanhe, Xianghe, Shunyi and other counties, and the troops reached the city of Beijing. Wang Yuanya, the governor of Zunhua in the Ming Dynasty, committed suicide, and Zhao Shujiao, the general soldier of Shanhaiguan who came to the rescue, was killed. Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen was panicked, and only then did he regret believing Yuan Chonghuan's boastful words and killing Mao Wenlong, who had restrained the female straight for decades, so that today's rebellion led to the arrest of Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, and imprisonment (soon executed). The chief soldier of Liaodong, Zu Dashou, was frightened, pulled up the team and ran back to Shanhaiguan. In order to save the crisis, the imperial court ordered all localities to supervise the king of fire and urgency. Zhang Honggong, the chief soldier of Shanxi, followed the tone of the military department and led 5,000 Jin soldiers to come to the rescue, and Geng Ruqi, the governor of Shanxi, also volunteered to lead more than 3,000 officers and soldiers of the Fubiao Battalion and the Taiyuan Battalion to rush to King Jifuqin. Yang He, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, Liu Guangsheng, the governor of Shaanxi, Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu, and Zhang Mengjing, the governor of Yansui, should also send more than 17,000 elite soldiers from each town, led by Wu Zimian, You Shilu, Yang Qi, Wang Chengen, and Yang Jiamo, the commanders of the five major towns along the border, to join the Beijing Division. In addition, there were also officials and troops under the command of Fan Jingwen, the governor of Henan, Wei Zhaocheng, the governor of Jiangxi, and Liang Yingze, the governor of Yunyang.

After the army of Zhang Honggong, the chief soldier of Shanxi, arrived in the Jifu area, the military headquarters ordered it to be stationed in Tongzhou, and on the second day it was transferred to Changping, and on the third day it was transferred to Liangxiang. According to the regulations, the army was not allowed to open food on the day it arrived at the flood land. The Shanxi soldiers were transferred to three places in three days, but they did not receive rations for three days. The soldiers were so indignant that they plundered food near the station. The imperial court also ordered the arrest of Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong for failing to restrain the army. When the 5,000 elite soldiers saw that the governor and the general soldiers were in prison for questioning, they dispersed in a hurry and fled back to Shanxi. After the incident became serious, the Ming court not only did not investigate and deal with the inappropriateness, but instead executed Geng Ruqi and Zhang Honggong.

The trilateral armies of Shaanxi also repeatedly mutinied on the way to King Qin.

Because the general soldier Wu Zimian withheld the rations, extorted the sergeants who were unwilling to join the guard to pay bribes and steal and sell military horses, the soldiers were strongly dissatisfied, and many deserted and left without saying goodbye. Zhang Mengjing, the governor of Yansui, died of grief because of this.

The army led by Mei Zhihuan, the governor of Gansu, and Yang Jiamo, the general soldier of Ganzhen, also mutinied when they arrived in Anding County (now Dingxi, Gansu) in the first month of the third year of Chongzhen. According to the oral accounts of the participants, the reason for this mutiny was that the defense journey was as far as 6,000 miles, and no food was distributed to settle down; The commander of the army was forced by the strict order of the imperial court to drive the soldiers away quickly. The soldiers were heavily loaded with armor and guns, and they were in great distress, and "in a few days they were all overwhelmed." They said indignantly, "It is better to die here than to die here." So under the leadership of Wang Jincai, Yin Dengke, and Wu Tianyin, they rose up to resist, and killed the generals Sun Huaizhong, Zhou Daochang, and Lian Dengkui, who came forward to stop them. seized the battalion's salary, "Jiema Xichi", and returned to the garrison on his own. When he arrived in Lanzhou, he was killed by the traitor arranged by the governor Mei Zhihuan, and the leader of the mutiny, Wang Jincai, was killed. After the rectification, part of the army continued to march eastward to Qinwang, and some of those who were resolutely unwilling to go were sent back to the garrison.

The reassignment of the border soldiers and the mutiny had a major impact on the development of the fledgling peasant uprising in Shaanxi. The soldiers who were sent to the guard were the elite of the local garrison, and their promotion of the king of Qin naturally greatly weakened the power of the local authorities to suppress the revolt peasants. This was one of the main reasons that prompted the trilateral governor Yang He to adopt a policy of appeasement. Yang Sichang was in Chongzhen for four years, and in the recital of defending his father Yang He, there is such a passage:

"Before the minister's father took office, it was already rampant. However, there is no other reason for the four strokes and five towns along the border, and it can still be supported by elastic pressure. Unfortunately, the father of the minister suffered, Yan, Gan, and Shaanxi Fu exchanged eight people in a row, and the five handsomes of King Qin were sent at the same time, and the elite paid to the east. There is nothing to worry about, and the thieves are rampant. In the siege of Qingyang, Du Wenhuan and He Huchen defeated the security guards, who is with the thieves? The minister's father raised three hundred, and he calmed down the tens of thousands of people and dispersed them, so he had to do it. ”

The mutiny of King Qin's soldiers not only disrupted the military deployment of the Ming court and involved the energy of local officials, but also the soldiers who participated in the mutiny often did not dare to return to the army, and many of them wandered and joined the peasant uprising in groups. In this way, a considerable number of forces originally used to suppress the peasant uprising were transformed into forces against the Ming Dynasty. They have received military training and have combat experience, which is of great significance for enhancing the combat effectiveness of the peasant army. Three years after Chongzhen, the expansion of the peasant uprising in Shaanxi and the crossing of the Yellow River into Shanxi in large numbers were closely related to several mutinies in Shaanxi and Jinqin.

This is a good opportunity for the second great development of the base areas.

After the potato conference, the construction of the distillery vermicelli factory is in full swing, it only took less than a month, the vermicelli factory has seen the benefits, the snow-white potato flour was sold to all parts of the country by Zheng Hongda and many other businessmen, and started the brand, favored by the people in the rich land of Jiangnan, the original expensive vermicelli, also entered the homes of ordinary people, which gave the base a large number of materials and silver, but also made Zheng Hongda as the leader, and the close businessmen of the base make a lot of money.

With the hot sale of vermicelli, there are many landlords in the base area have also joined this very low threshold industry, for a time there are many small vermicelli workshops around the country, the price of potatoes that the government can not digest will naturally rise again, so that the people see the hope of planting potatoes to get rich, for the next year's potatoes to break out again, laid the foundation of the people's hearts, at the same time, the landlords have a good deal to make money this day, and they no longer care about the poor rent, but repeatedly encourage their tenants to buy a variety of potatoes in the coming year, and take the local rent of potatoes. The rest also have to be purchased at high market points, and raw materials are tight.

Immediately afterwards, the winery that was given high hopes by everyone produced the wine, and at that time, Lu Shi named the wine "Lao Baigan in Northern Shaanxi." "For a time, there were hot sales of Lao Baigan in various places, and every day there were merchants squatting in the distillery, queuing up to pick up the goods, and even if the commander of Guo Tianxing wanted to drink some of this spirit, he had to queue for several days to get a bottle."

This has led to the development of clay wine bottle industry, brick factories and tile yards and related industries, making the base area more prosperous.

Under the vigorous promotion of Chunlan and the third uncle, raising rabbits has become the main pillar of life for the people in the base area, especially in the summer, those rabbits are crazy to produce and grow, providing a steady stream of meat for the base area, and now, those soldiers and Lu Shi's students will lament every time they eat: "Oh my God, why are rabbit legs again, Captain Chunlan, can you get something else." ”

Due to the large number of rabbits as raw materials, there are a large number of rabbit fur, although this thing is not the best skin, but made into clothing, it is still much better than cotton, now, in the warehouse of the army, tens of thousands of rabbit skin military uniforms are stored, it is completely possible to achieve a light and warm rabbit skin military uniform per person in the coming winter, and the cavalry brothers can also be equipped with a rabbit fur coat, which has made all the soldiers full of expectations for winter.

Due to the light and warm rabbit skin, under the instruction of Lu Shi, Chunlan mobilized the women in the base area, set up a garment workshop, and began to process all kinds of ready-to-wear clothes, one of which is a kind of women's clothing, which is simply Lu Shi plagiarized Xiaoyanzi's clothing style, and the delicate suit with the rabbit fur edge was put on the market.

This has not only led to the textile and other industries, but also allowed a large number of women to get jobs, bringing income to the originally poor families.

Military enterprises are also booming, although Zheng Hongda monopolized the south, but this superior ordnance was favored by the officials and soldiers in the battle of the southern extermination of the Tusi, that is even more difficult to find, but also let the original history of the southeast Tusi rebellion, the imperial army and the Tusi rebels entangled for more than ten years without distinguishing between victory and defeat, and the result of consuming the national strength of the Ming Dynasty again, there was a dawn, if according to the current development, within two years, the Ming southeast war will end with a great victory for the Ming army, This can also be regarded as a contribution made by Lu Shi to the maintenance of the vitality of the Han nation.

However, I don't know whether the imperial court will go all out to deal with the Manchu Qing or the rebels in the southeast, and I don't know whether this will be happy or cry for Lu Shi.

The issuance of IOUs is also very good, not only relieving the pressure of the base funds, but also after a large amount of silver inflow, the people did not have a run, because the IOUs are much more convenient to use than gold and silver, and the denomination is relatively small, and the circulation is more convenient to settle.

In the "import and export" trade, due to the export of a lot of goods that can be taken out of the old white dry, vermicelli, clothing, etc., the trade surplus that was originally expected to appear at the end of the year was completely realized in the second month after the potato conference, as the goods continued to sell and buy at the same time, silver also began to flow back in large quantities, and everyone was willing to use IOUs, not to exchange gold and silver, so, in the third uncle's warehouse, there was a silver mountain gold stack again, and the third uncle began to be angry when everyone said, "I am very rich." ”

What is particularly gratifying is that, on the basis of the above, the commercial and industrial tax revenues in the base areas have been rising steadily, and the balance of government operating income has been completely achieved, which should be happier than anything else.

If you have money, you can do things, and if you have money, you can resettle a large number of displaced people who have flocked in, and now the base area is overcrowded, which makes Lu Shi have to think about external expansion, although the time for external expansion is not fully ripe now, but things force you to do it.

But in fact, this is all an afterthought, and now, a sudden event has made the marriage between Lu Shi and Chunlan have to be held on a later date. The reason is that when Lu Shi hesitated between expansion and non-expansion, Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng had already arrived outside his door, and a battle inevitably broke out again.