Since Wang Zhuo led the Tiance Army into Shandong and assumed the post of commander of Shandong, he has never stopped tossing.

Now, on the occasion of the arrival of the locust plague, a people's war has been launched, and these actions have collectively silenced the officialdom in Shandong.

It is said that disaster relief is civil affairs, and it should be the main thing for the governor of Shandong, and now Wang Zhuo is not only acting on behalf of him, but also doing it vigorously, which makes the civil and official situation in Shandong embarrassing?

However, what Wang Zhuo did was completely for the benefit of the country and the people, and no one could say anything about it. Since the generals are so enthusiastic, the civil officials can't be resigned to being left behind, right?

In the People's War, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty have not played it, and they have no money to play, but due to the drive of the Tiance Army, the civil officials of Shandong still made some efforts in the process of fighting the locust plague, and they still did such things as organizing and coordinating.

However, there was one thing that made them very unhappy, that is, the steady stream of food from the starting point city made them red-eyed, but unfortunately these grains were not supported by the imperial court, so they could not pass through their hands, so they had less chance to fill their own pockets.

In any case, after more than a month of arduous struggle by the military and civilians in Shandong, the locust plague was finally brought under control, and it can be said that the losses of the locust plague were minimized.

With one heart and one mind, the army and the people were unanimous, and finally defeated the locust plague. This matter was written into a splendid article by Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, talking about the locust plague has nothing to do with the sky, but is a force of nature. This is slapping Chongzhen's sycophants and washing the emperor's name, because any natural disaster in feudal society can be related to the emperor, who called you the Son of Heaven, aren't these disasters just God angry?

Of course, Yan Jizu's performance is indispensable to boast about himself, this is a real political achievement, as for the merits of Wang Zhuo and Tiance Army, it will be brushed aside, and this locust extermination campaign is of course carried out under the wise leadership of the governor.

The governor is concerned about the emperor's thoughts, but Wang Zhuo is concerned about the direction of public opinion, and the eyes of the people of Shandong are bright.

When half of the Ming Dynasty was in a drought and Chongzhen was anxious, Yan Jizu's twist and turn can be described as a long drought and a rain. With Chongzhen under the steps, he took advantage of the topic to play, and directly took down Wang Jiazhen, the governor of the five provinces and the governor of Henan, who was famous for his mouth cannon and failed to suppress bandits and fight disasters.

The drought and locust plague are still raging, and Zhang Xianzhong, who was disabled by the Tiance Army, and other giants gradually improved again because of Wang Jiazhen's stupidity.

Wang Jiazhen was taken, this rogue still has to be suppressed, and the soldiers and horses of several provinces need a governor, so the unlucky bear Wencan was chosen.

In fact, it was Xiong Wencan who was looking for death by himself, this guy started by appeasing Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, Zheng Zhilong was more capable, killed Liu Xiang and a group of pirates, and defeated the Dutch. The southeast coast was calm, and Xiong Wencan was promoted to the governor of Liangguang.

Originally, Xiong Wencan did a good job in Liangguang, but he was a person who liked to brag about himself, and from time to time he criticized the situation of suppressing bandits in the Central Plains.

It just so happened that Wang Jiazhen was taken down, and Chongzhen remembered Xiong Wencan, because this was the person Yang Sichang had recommended, so Chongzhen sent a eunuch to see how the goods were.

There was a eunuch in the capital, and it was a person from the emperor's side, although Xiong Wencan didn't know the purpose of his trip, he still had to receive him warmly.

At the banquet, he was probably drunk, and when he talked about the Liukou, Xiong Wencan's table slapped the mountain sound: "The ministers are misleading the country, and they are like ...... What is it like to make the rats? "It means that other ministers are all given for nothing, I'm coming, what's the matter with the rogue? When the eunuch heard this, he was happy, patted his thigh and said, "It's not enough to deal with this thief." ”

At the end of the inspection, Xiong Wencan, who had bragged about his bulls, took office as the governor of the five provinces.

At the same time, a Japanese version of the "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" uprising was being staged in the east of the Ming Dynasty.

In the autumn of the 14th year of Kanei (1637), there was a widespread famine on the Shimabara Peninsula and the Amakusa Islands.

Taxes in Japan remained high, and the shogunate and daimyo continued to repress harshly, especially against Catholics.

With the arrival of the Portuguese and the Spaniards in Japan, Catholicism spread rapidly in Japan, and the number of Japanese converts to Catholicism rose sharply, with the largest number of religious believers in Kyushu, reaching more than 100,000 people in total, and a large number of Japanese converted to Catholicism, which became the spiritual pillar of many poor Japanese.

This situation caused panic among the Tokugawa shogunate and the daimyo to fear that it would affect Japan's state religion, Shintoism, and Buddhism, the dominant religion, so they strictly banned and slaughtered Catholics.

When the last foreign missionary was burned to death, the whole island of Kyushu fell into a panic, and the more the government pressed it, the more people embraced Catholicism.

Due to the famine, the people of the island were suffering from double suffering, and they were not allowed to believe in religion, and they had to pay for work endlessly. Not only that, but the tax is also extremely harsh, with half of the harvest being paid when the harvest is good, and all what is harvested when the harvest is bad. After the death of Matsukura Shigemasa, the lord of the Hizen domain, his son Matsukura Katsuie succeeded him as the lord of the domain, who was even more brutal than his father.

On August 19, a member of the Matsukura clan was killed by starving villagers when they started a riot while collecting annual tribute in a village.

On August 20, 167 people in the village were slaughtered by troops sent by Matsukura Katsuie, and in a fit of rage, several nearby villages were not spared.

On August 27, 703 Japanese Catholics were burned alive outside Shimabara Castle, and their bodies turned to ashes.

Just when it was suppressed by the slaughter and had no life, a legend spread in Shimabara and Amakusa. It turns out that in 1614, when a priest was forced to leave Japan, he prophesied that in twenty-three years there would be a tendo who would be reincarnated by God, who was proficient in doctrine and magic, and who would surely save you.

At the age of sixteen, Shiro Amakusa was the son of Masuda Shibei, a Catholic on Amakusa Island, and was known as a prodigy and handsome from an early age. Amazingly, he was so proficient in Christian doctrine that he was believed to be the messenger of God.

Thousands of suffering people converged on Amakusa Shiro and formed a powerful force.

On the first day of October, Kakuzo, a farmer in Shimabara, received teachings, crossed the Oni pond and traveled to Amakusa Prefecture, where he visited Amakusa Tokisada (Amakusa Shiro), and was given the title of monk in charge of preaching in Shimabara.

On October 17, the eighteen members of the family of the monk Kakuzo and the disciple Miyoshi were killed by the acting official of the guardian generation, Lin Bing Youemon, and for a while, there were many complaints.