Just as Zhu Cijiong was rejoicing at the opening of the Rixinglong firm and the "invention" of the shuttle loom, the unprecedented super drought finally broke out in the entire northern part of China.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, this super drought was recorded in historical records, the longest duration, the widest range, the most destructive natural disaster, the drought lasted for nearly 50 years, five provinces and one capital, millions of square kilometers of the area except for a few coastal areas, almost all of the rest were affected, directly led to the North China region ten rooms and nine empty, the Ming Dynasty collapsed!

Later historians and meteorologists analyzed that this great drought was mainly caused by the "Xiaoice River period" that occurred once in a thousand years, and the late Ming Dynasty was the peak of the Xiaoice River period, and the severe cold of winter caused the rainfall area to move south, the drought in North China became more and more serious, grain production fell sharply, and tens of millions of people became hungry.

Zhu Cijiong crossed over and successfully ascended to the throne, he could rewrite history and change Chongzhen to Chongzheng, but he could not avoid this drought, because this drought was not man-made, but a natural disaster.

In February of the third year of Chongzheng, droughts broke out in Sichuan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, and Hebei one after another. Although he had been mentally prepared, he was still caught off guard by the sudden outbreak of such a large-scale drought. Rixinglong is still in its infancy, and it would be good to be able to produce benefits after a year; The shuttle loom has just been "invented", and it is not a matter of one or two days to form economic benefits, and the Ming Dynasty is still so poor, and there are still only 20 million taels of silver in the treasury.

Whether or not there is disaster relief is a question.

If the disaster relief is carried out, 20 million taels of silver will be thrown into the population of nearly 30 million, and everyone will not be able to get a tael, not counting the exploitation of officials at all levels and the cost of grain transportation, and the 20 million taels thrown into it will not even be enough for the victims to drink porridge!

If there is no disaster relief, the hungry people in the five provinces will surely rise up, the peasant rebel army will surely bloom everywhere, and our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong may have to follow the old path of Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen and become the king of the country!

This drought at the end of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be a problem for the ages, whether it is the Qin Emperor Han Wu or the Tang Dynasty and Song Zu, they still have to rest in the face of such a drought. What about our Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong? Will he give up?

Of course not, the fifteen days of wandering between life and death when he crossed over had already forged his will as hard as iron and indomitable, and he certainly would not give up lightly in the face of such a life-and-death event. It's just that what to do, it's really a problem!

Just when Zhu Cijiong was still thinking hard about countermeasures, the peasant uprising had become a spark and suddenly spread.

As early as the first month of the third year of Chongzheng, there were three or four thousand people from the Shaanxi peasant rebel army, Wang Zishun and Miao Mei, who went south to besiege Hancheng.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, Yang He, the governor of Shaanxi, led a large army to Hancheng to appease Wang Zishun and relieve the siege of Hancheng. But Miao Mei refused to be appeased, led the army north, and in April, was killed by Li Panlong, a talented talent in Qingjian, in Hejiawan.

On April 28, the prince reinvented under the pretext of revenge for Miao Mei, and he was afraid that Yang He, the governor of Shaanxi, would lead a large army to appease him again, so he simply crossed the Yellow River from Shenmu and went straight to Shaanxi, and after capturing Puzhou, he divided his troops into two routes and attacked Zhaocheng and Hongdong in the east; West attack stone building, Yonghe, etc., and from this began to call himself the king of the word Hengtian.

Later, many peasant rebels in Shaanxi followed Wang Zishun's example, crossed the Yellow River from Shenmu, and attacked Xiangling, Jizhou, Taiping, Quwo and other prefectures and counties, and the flames of the uprising burned all over Shanxi and Shaanxi.

At this time, the peasant rebel army already had a certain charter, and they usually took the "battalion" as a unit, each battalion had a leader, and each battalion was relatively independent of each other, sometimes forming a large force to attack the city and plunder the land, and sometimes it was scattered to fight separately.

Due to the large number of peasant uprisings, the officers and soldiers who participated in the encirclement and suppression at the end of the Ming Dynasty did not understand how many battalions the peasant army had.

The first is Wang Jiayin, the king of Fugu, this Wang Jiayin mentioned earlier, he was the first to stand up and respond to the uprising after Wang Ershouyi, and in the first year of Chongzheng, he had organized the capture of Fugu County, and set up an official to be the king. Later, it developed to more than 30,000 people, and moved to Shaanxi, Shanxi, Gansu and other places, with great momentum, and was a well-deserved boss of the peasant army in the early stage, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Wang Ziyong, etc. were all his subordinates. However, this Wang Jiayin is more unlucky, Chongzheng was assassinated by his subordinates in the fourth year, otherwise maybe there will be nothing to do with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the future, and it must be him Wang Jiayin who established the peasant regime.

The second is the king of Zijin Liang for his own use, the number one general under Wang Jiayin, the king of Fugu, and the leader of the 36th battalion of the peasant rebel army. In the early stage, he followed Wang Jiayin, and soon after becoming the leader of the alliance, he died of illness, otherwise he would definitely be more famous than Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.

The third is Gao Yingxiang, the king of Chuang, he is the first king of Chuang, Li Zicheng's uncle, once sold horses as a business, good at riding and shooting, arm strength, Chongzheng first year in Ansai unveiled the pole, is one of the oldest leaders in the peasant rebel army, this time is also the king of Fugu Wang Jiayin's subordinates.

The fourth is Li Zicheng, the second king of Chuang, the founder of the Dashun regime, was originally a post station, was laid off because of the loss of official documents, and then killed the creditor because of the pressure of the creditor, and then killed the cheating wife, two lives, he had to flee to Gansu to join the army, as a result, the army general deducted food and salary, and he organized a mutiny to kill the general kingdom and the local county order! If you want to put modern times, this is a murderous maniac! Fortunately, there was no Internet in the Ming Dynasty at that time, otherwise how could he escape sanctions again and again! Probably because he had killed too many people, he didn't dare to be a soldier anymore, so he simply turned his head to the peasant rebel army, and he was still a squad leader at this time.

The fifth is Zhang Xianzhong, the founder of the Eight Great Kings, the founder of the Daxi regime, who was originally the catcher of Yan'an Mansion, dismissed from his post because of the incident, and then became a border soldier for a while, and broke the law and was beheaded, so he couldn't go on, so he embarked on the road of peasant uprising, and at this time he just began to organize the eighteen farmers in his hometown to prepare for the uprising.

The sixth was Sai Cao Cao Luo Rucai, the brains of the peasant rebel army, very strategic, and good at reconciling the relationship between the battalions.

The seventh and eighth places are Liu Guoneng and Li Wanqing, both of whom are Li Zicheng's sworn brothers, and later surrendered to the imperial court.

The ninth to thirteenth are Lao Hui Hui Ma Yingshou, Ge Li Yan He Yilong, Zuo Jin Wang He Jin, Zhi Shi Wang Liu Xiyao, and Zheng Shi Wang Lin Yangsheng, all of whom are the leaders of the Fifth Battalion of the Revolutionary Left, which is the force second only to Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in the later period of the Peasant Army.

In addition, there are other kings who break into the sky, sweep the king, neat king, reincarnate king, Xingshi king, mixed world king, whole world king, Shuntian king, climbing heavenly king, Taiping king, tile back king, great heavenly king, four heavenly kings, Qi Tianwang, etc., etc., I don't know if it is the original surname Wang or the king of the prince, anyway, they are all kings.

These people with the word king can at least guess the meaning, anyway, they are not surnamed Wang or want to be king, and there are some strange nicknames, I don't know what they want to do.

There is a monkey called the sky, I don't know if he has watched too much "Journey to the West".

There is a one called Cupola, this one probably hasn't watched "Transformers", otherwise he would have been called Optimus Prime.

There is a one called Yingshan Hong, which seems to be a kind of wild flower.

There is a tiger called the mountain destroyer, can this tiger still destroy the mountain?

And what scorpion blocks, non-sticky mud, lighting lamps, girls, etc., etc., etc., do not know what to say.

Anyway, it's a mess, and I can't count it, and I can't finish it.