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At this point, the uproar in Shandong and Denglai Rebellion, with the death of the thief Kong Youde, the capture of Li Jiucheng, Geng Zhongming, Geng Zhongyu, and Mao Chenglu came to an end, and the official army won a great victory, and it took only two months to put down the rebellion, and none of the five thieves escaped the net.

In the original history, Kong Youde's rebellion lasted for more than a year, during which the official army and the rebels repeatedly tug-of-war, and lost Xie Lian, Xu Congzhi, Zhu Wannian and other court officials. It was not until October of the fifth year of Chongzhen that Zhu Dadian, Wu Xiang, Zu Kuan, Liu Liangzuo and others led various armies to attack Dengzhou and killed Li Jiucheng.

However, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others led the remnants to flee to Gaizhou by sea, and surrendered to Houjin in April of the sixth year of Chongzhen. Since then, it has led to the upsurge of the Ming army to reduce the gold, making the Ming more and more weak, and the strength of the Jin is getting stronger and stronger.

Now, because of the outlier of Moli, the Denglai Rebellion was put down a year earlier, so that the people suffered less from the war, and most importantly, did not input any military strength into the Houjin.

As many as 50,000 or 60,000 rebels were taken prisoner, and it became a question of how to arrange and solve the fate of these people.

For those rebel prisoners who were willing to join the official army and those who were originally official soldiers, Zhu Dadian disorganized them and reorganized them into the official army after selection and review, after all, Shandong and Denglai are also short of soldiers, and they need to reorganize the army to maintain stability.

There were a total of 11,000 people in this part, most of whom were incorporated into Zhu Dadian's Lu soldiers and the garrisons of Denglai and Denglai. The new Liao army and the ancestral family of Liaodong each added 1,000 soldiers, and the others were basically assigned to Shandong and Denglai.

Sun Yuanhua, the former governor of Denglai, when Kong Youde went south, felt the kindness of the old governor and released him from the city.

After Sun Yuanhua left the city, he went to Laizhou, and wanted to continue to ask the imperial court to appease Kong Youde so that he would no longer rebel, but he was soon taken away by Jinyiwei and escorted back to Beijing to await trial.

After the arrest of Sun Yuanhua, the imperial court appointed Xie Lian as the governor of Denglai, and Xu Congzhi as the chief soldier of Denglai.

After capturing Dengzhou, Xie Lian and Xu Congzhi will also move from Laizhou to Dengzhou to take up their posts.

Just wait for the reward of the imperial court, Zhu Dadian, Zu Dacheng, Cao Bianjiao and Mo Li and other ministries will be returned to the establishment system, and where should they go back.

Before the decree of the imperial court is issued, these rebel captives must be arranged to avoid further trouble.

In addition to the 11,000 captives, there were 52,000 people, and if they did not arrange a proper place to go and have no food to eat, they could easily gather again to rebel.

However, most of these people are people from Denglai and Shandong, and many of them still have families in the local area, and for those who were coerced and obeyed thieves, Zhu Dadian and Mo Li promised to let them go home and farm, and they would not be held accountable.

After giving them a sum of silver taels as severance pay, there are a lot of these people, a total of more than 37,000 people, so this severance pay is also very large.

Fortunately, a lot of gold and silver were also seized from the rebels, anyway, these silver were originally scavenged from the people, and now they are used to support their lives, but they can be regarded as taking from the people for the people.

In the end, after discussing with Zhu Dadian and others, Mo Li sent them to Lingchuan for the local government to settle down.

As for Li Jiucheng, Geng Zhongming, Mao Chenglu and other thieves, they naturally had to be escorted into Beijing and sacrificed to their subordinates. This work was led by Zu Dacheng to lead the people of the headquarters to be responsible for escorting, and after the prisoners were sacrificed, Zu Dacheng and Wu Sangui and others went back to Ningyuan directly.

Mo Li had no interest in offering prisoners, and he didn't want to enter the capital at all, so he didn't compete with Zu Dacheng for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in the eyes of others.

After the separate interrogation of several thieves, although Mao Chenglu did not admit it, Mo Li also guessed why he wanted to prevent Kong Youde and them from surrendering to the official army, the only explanation is that Mao Chenglu secretly colluded with the Tartars, knowing that his affairs were easy to be exposed, and once the court learned about it, it would definitely not spare him, so he did everything possible to prevent Kong Youde from surrendering to the official army, and even killed Kong Youde with his own hands.

However, Mo Li has no interest in knowing these things, and he doesn't want to delve into the secrets, anyway, these things are worried about by the princes of the court. And the person he should worry about is in Lingchuan City.

Mo Li originally wanted to take a leave to go back to Lingchuan to see Lin Guo, and his son who had just been born and hadn't met yet, I don't know who he looks like?

But thinking that Chongzhen doesn't want to see him now, it is better to save one more thing at this time, so he patiently waited for the emperor's decree in Dengzhou.

Beijing, Forbidden City.

In the Taihe Palace, Chongzhen's brows were furrowed, and his heart was heavy.

The army of more than 100,000 people of Wang Jiayin, Wang Ziyong, Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong and others encountered the officers and troops led by Lu Xiangsheng in the area of Huaiqing Mansion and Weihui Mansion, and was defeated by Lu Xiangsheng in several battles.

Seeing that the situation was not good, the defeated peasant army was divided into two parts due to disagreement, one of which was composed of Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and others, and went north from Pingyang Mansion to Shanxi and Shaanxi.

The other part of the peasant army, under the leadership of Wang Jiayin, Wang Ziyong, Zhang Xianzhong, Hui Dengxiang and others, turned to Huguang through Nanyang and Runing and fled, and now they have flowed to De'an, crossed the Han River, and rushed to Xiangyang, and there is a great tendency to besiege Xiangyang.

Wang Jiayin and other peasant armies marched all the way south, sweeping through several prefectures and more than 10 prefectures and counties, engulfing many displaced people and disaster victims, and the ranks continued to grow like a snowball, and now they have spread to 70,000 or 80,000 people, and the momentum is huge.

When the peasant army was divided into troops, he was worried that the peasant army would threaten the Gyeonggi region if it went north, so Lu Xiangsheng decided to go all out to pursue Gao Yingxiang, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and others, and asked the imperial court to send another elite army to pursue Wang Jiayin's thieves.

Although Lu Xiangsheng won several battles, he was not able to completely exterminate the peasant army, and let them divide their troops into two ways, which became echoing each other from afar.

Chongzhen was very unhappy with this, and praised Lu Xiangsheng several times at the beginning, saying that he was talented in leading troops. But it was only a few days, and the peasant army marched in from north to south, how could I be happy.

Xiangyang Mansion's call for help has flown to the front of the palace, but Chongzhen doesn't seem to be able to draw any troops and horses to suppress the thieves.

A few days ago, there was good news from Shandong and Denglai, saying that the imperial army had recovered Jiaozhou, Jimo, Laiyang and other places, but with the good news, there was another bad news: Gao Qi, the eunuch of the prison army, died!

Chongzhen was extremely shocked at that time, and then he was furious, tens of thousands of troops couldn't protect a prison eunuch, could it be that the new Liao army and the Lu soldiers were all rice buckets! By the way, there is also the ancestral family of Liaodong.

So many soldiers and horses actually let Gao Qiqian die, which made Chongzhen a little unbelievable and unacceptable. Since Gao Qiqian entered the palace, he has been performing quite well, especially about military tactics, and he has answered him every time he is called, so Chongzhen is quite fond of him.

But this time, the prison army Gao Qiqian died, and the minions were easy to find, but there were not many well-behaved and obedient minions like Gao Qiqian.

In addition, Chongzhen also noticed that Zhu Dadian and Lu Hanzhang's military newspapers also repeatedly mentioned Moli, saying that in the great victories of Zhucheng and Laiyang, Moli made great contributions and made great achievements.

This made Chongzhen a little unclear, at the beginning, he asked Zu Dacheng to lead Moli to fight the rebellion together, the purpose was to let Zu Dacheng suppress Moli, and take the opportunity to weaken, consume and even eliminate Moli's strength, it stands to reason that Zu Dacheng would not let Moli steal the limelight.

Chongzhen thought that Moli had been killed by Gao Qiqian and Zu Dacheng, but who knew that Zhu Dadian and Lu Hanzhang had repeatedly mentioned Moli's military exploits, could there be anything strange about Gao Qiqian's death?

However, in any case, the situation in Shandong and Denglai is finally very good, and according to the reports of Zhu Dadian and Lu Hanzhang, the overall situation will be calmed down in the near future, and I hope they do not disappoint me.

The ministers couldn't think of anyone to recommend to lead the troops to help Xiangyang, but they didn't make a sound, and they looked at their noses and noses one by one, like old monks entering the country.

"Your Majesty, great victory! Wow! Suddenly, a shrill voice broke the silence.

Chongzhen and the hundred officials couldn't help but look up at the outside of the hall, but they saw that the eunuch ran all the way from the noon gate to the main hall, and he was so tired that he was out of breath, but the excitement on his body did not decrease at all, and his voice was very loud, lest the emperor in the hall could not hear it.

Outside the hall was the eunuch Wang Chengen, who heard that it was good news, and immediately showed a happy face, stepped forward to take the good news from the eunuch's hand, and immediately rushed into the main hall after a glance, and shouted happily: "The emperor's holy grace, it is really a great victory, a great victory!" ”

Wen Tiren, Xu Guangqi, He Ruzhong, Bi Ziyan, Xiong Mingyu and other important ministers of the court in the palace were quite surprised to see Wang Chengen's joy, you know, Wang Chengen is famous for his steady temperament, and the Manchu Dynasty has never seen him so out of shape.

What kind of victory can make Wang Chengen, the number one person in the inner court, happy and incoherent?

"Cheng'en, where is the good news? But Kong Youde's thief was pacified? Chongzhen knew that Wang Chengen had always been stable and the city government was calm, but he was also happy to be like this, so he knew that there must really be news of a great victory, and suddenly his heart moved, could it be that the rebels in Denglai were exterminated?

Thinking of Zhu Dadian's report a few days ago, saying that the overall situation of Denglai was about to be decided, Chongzhen stood up from the dragon chair excitedly, he couldn't sit still, and actually ran to His Royal Highness, he couldn't wait to see the good news.

Shandong and Denglai are very close to Gyeonggi, and the likes of Kong Youde and Li Jiucheng have smashed the two places in just over a month, how Chongzhen's heart is not hot, he can't wait to know the exact news.