Jingshi, Xuanda towns established the Datong Federation, this kind of blatant separatist activities did not cause repercussions - Qingliu people develop a habit, naturalized uncles move their mouths and they accompany them to the end, naturalized uncles do their hands and are immediately silent, joking, people raise their legs to Juyong Pass, and they are unlucky to cause trouble with their mouths, naturalized uncles are stinky and hard and unreasonable, and they don't have the same general knowledge as him, and the target of Qingliu is Chen Xinjia, this surrender faction is very dishonest, repeatedly hinting that he acted on the orders of the emperor, and biting to death said that someone framed him.

The headache of the imperial court is Henan, the emperor in May ordered Wang Pu to behead and abandon the city, and secretly ordered Sun Chuanting to kill He Renlong, with the heads of two general soldiers to kill the monkey to show the chicken, in June and released Hou Sui from the prison, entrusted the governor of Shandong, Henan, Huguang towns and the important task of the army, but also pieced together four or five hundred thousand taels of silver, so that he enveloped the old subordinate Zuo Liangyu to send troops to Kaifeng, but to no avail, a big defeat followed, the emperor was disheartened, no time to care about Xuanda that little thing.

In late June, the governor Ding Qirui and the governor of Baoding Yang Wenyue gathered Zuo Liangyu, Hu Dawei, Yang Dezheng, and Fang Guoan with a total of 180,000 troops in Zhuxian Town, Yuncheng, and planned to attack Kaifeng in the north, but the generals were timid. Li Zicheng reacted very quickly, and hundreds of thousands of rebels marched south from Kaifeng, besieged Zhuxian Town in one fell swoop, and dug several trenches to trap the officers and soldiers. Zuo Liangyu was willing to go because of Hou Sui's face, and he had no intention of fighting at all, so he plundered the camps and mules and horses at night and fled to Xiangyang, and the other officers and soldiers immediately fled for their lives, and the army chased and killed hundreds of miles, and the officers and soldiers trampled on each other and suffered countless casualties, and tens of thousands of prisoners were captured. Ding Qirui and Yang Wenyue couldn't control the defeated soldiers and had to flee with them, and on the way, even Ding Qirui's edict, official seal and monk Fang sword were lost, and the two rushed out of the encirclement, but the general trend was no longer possible, and the remnants of the defeated army retreated to Runing. This battle buried the Henan official army, looking around only Sun Chuanting who was hiding in Tongguan still had some belongings, Hou Sui completely lost his fighting spirit, and suggested that the imperial court abandon Henan, and instead stick to the north bank of the Yellow River, with Shandong, Huguang, Nanzhili governors to fortify and intercept, and trap the thieves to death south of the Yellow River.

The thieves surrounded Kaifeng again, Xuanda established a federation, and the Ming and Qing peace talks broke down, and the Dongyu would definitely not give up. The emperor spent more than ten days in depression, and the naturalization of the monopoly came - Li Yu claimed that the autonomy of the towns of Xuanda was forced by the harsh government of the imperial court, and he tried his best to save himself, and never coveted the Ming Dynasty, and the Datong Federation was always loyal to the emperor, and the 50,000 taels of silver bills offered to the internal treasury every year were never on credit, and at the same time kept his promise, and after the autumn harvest, he raised food and wages, and immediately went south to suppress the thieves, and he also asked the emperor to uphold justice, and naturalized accepted the governor of the three towns appointed by the imperial court in accordance with the terms negotiated with Ma Shaoyu, but the officials recommended by naturalization were not appointed, Is the court going to cheat?

The emperor thought again and again, convened the cabinet ministers to discuss in front of the emperor, the cabinet ministers were not surprised by Li Yu's statement, in fact, Ma Shaoyu talked well, with the lost interests to fight back the appointment and dismissal of the officials of the three towns of Xuanda, the other party also agreed to raise their own food and pay to suppress the thieves, the court took a big advantage, but Qingliu thought that this was the opportunity of the northern captives to blackmail the imperial court, and it must not be tolerated and connived, and the cabinet did not dare to disobey the will of the people, so it had to drag on for a day.

"The minister has read the "Federal Regulations" sent by the ministers of Datong, and he is puzzled, what Li did is no different from rebellion, but looking at his great public decision, local autonomy, decentralization of taxation power, reduction of soldiers, etc., it is not like a rebellious posture, but it seems that he intends to deviate from the past and the modern saints against the ancient and modern saints, the ministers speculated, I don't know what his intentions are, and the minister thinks that it is better to look at it and talk about it!" Shoufu Zhou Yanru said that Fan Zhiwan fled back to Beijing and said a lot of bad things about Li Yu, which made him feel that Li Yu was angry and resentful in Shanxi, and it seemed that the day of defeat was not long after, and it was a pity to give the official position of the imperial court to such a person.

"Zhou Ge Lao doesn't know, Xuanda towns have been suffering from natural disasters and man-made disasters for many years, almost precarious, it is difficult to stabilize the people's livelihood without extraordinary measures, and the naturalized uncle may indeed have the intention of self-preservation, but he is afraid of making trouble, and he wants a few official positions just to get the recognition of the imperial court, and he can't talk about coercion, on the contrary, the imperial court can take the opportunity to force it to send troops to suppress thieves, and the advantages of this matter outweigh the disadvantages," Wu Zhu was recuperating at home for several years, and returned to the cabinet in June, and vaguely had the tendency to fight against the enemy with Zhou Yanru, and went out to the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, The minister once patrolled Shanxi, and knew a little about the strength of the naturalized force, and it was better to send it to suppress the thief as soon as possible to keep it in Xuanda, and there was no need to worry about the future. ”

"Aiqing is right!" The emperor nodded and said, sending Li Yu to suppress the thief is like attacking the thief with a captive, which is in his mind, but someone wants to say that this Wu Yu was elected by him to the cabinet to restrain Zhou Yanru, and he really understands the holy will.

"Okay, I agreed to the conditions of naturalization, but the minister thought that Liu Zhilun had lived and naturalized for a long time, and the military affairs of the governor Xuanda seemed inappropriate, and the minister recommended Chen Xinjia as the governor of Xuanda." The cabinet already had a tacit understanding, Zhou Yanru immediately saw the wind and turned the rudder, and by the way, he also wanted to find a way out for Chen Xinjia - the cabinet ministers never believed that the so-called scribe leaked secrets, how could the official documents in the study of the Ministry of War be taken out and copied casually, Chen Xinjia must have been framed, this person is usually very obedient, and everyone intends to pull him.

"Since Chen Xinjia took charge of the military department, the official army has been defeated repeatedly, and seven vassal kings have been captured in a row, how can this person be tolerated and immediately handed over to the criminal department for discussion." The emperor is still jealous of Chen Xinjia's refusal to bear the black pot for him, but he does not consider that once Chen Xinjia is convicted of the crime of taking private money, not only will he have no way out, but future generations will also be infamous as a traitor, and he will grit his teeth to the end.

The emperor glanced at the ministers coldly, stood up and continued: "Passing the decree, grant the naturalized Bo Li Yu Prime Minister Henan and Huguang to suppress the military affairs of thieves, and also manage the food and salary, and grant the naturalized governor Liu Zhilun Governor Xuanda the military affairs of each town, and also manage the food and salary, and the other naturalized officials will all be approved, so that he will send troops to suppress the thieves on the same day, I still say the same thing, he will not live up to me, I will never fail him!" ”

The House of Representatives, the Department of Justice and the Prime Minister's Office were moved to Datong, but the Presidential Palace continued to remain in Datong, the center was stationed in two places without disorder, and the officials handled government affairs in an orderly manner, which was probably the result of Li Yu's long-term neglect of government affairs.

Early this morning, Li Yu just arrived at the presidential palace and encountered trouble, the Ming army prisoners who were exchanged from the Qing State came to the door, led by Cao Bianjiao and Wang Tingchen, two former general soldiers, who were noisy and wanted to defect to the Fengzhou army - a large number of Ming troops were taken prisoner when Songshan fell, Hong Chengchou was escorted to Shengjing with a prominent official position, Zu Dale had a relationship with his ancestral family and was also given preferential treatment, and the others were miserable, the Qing army was too dark, and killed thousands of soldiers in one go, and then killed civil and military officials. Qiu Min, the governor of Liaodong, was dragged out and beheaded first, Cao Bianjiao was dying and suddenly remembered Wang Pujiao's life tricks, and took out a small black eagle flag from his arms and shouted, and he was ashamed to claim to be Li Yu's nephew, Haoge, Duoduo, and Abatai were all good friends of his uncle, and he dared to move him without a single hair and walked around, and the Qing army was suspicious and drove this guy aside. The other Ming army officers saw that there was a door, and those with small flags came out and danced vigorously, and those who did not have small flags were also related to Li Yupan, and the Qing army officers present were amused and angry, and after discussing for a while, they felt that they should ask for instructions from above first. So, these guys escaped death, stayed in the cell for a while, and were escorted by the Qing army to Fengzhou on foot, tired and hungry along the way, and were beaten, more than a dozen people died, and only one breath was left in the hands of the Fengzhou army. Fengzhou was not interested in these people, so they recuperated in Dushikou for two months, and then sent them away with travel expenses, and most of the captives went home obediently, but more than 40 high-ranking soldiers refused to leave, and came to see Li Yu together.

"You have suffered a lot in the war, you should go home to live a peaceful life, there is no shame in being a prisoner, if you want to continue to serve in the army, you can go to the court, Fengzhou is too bitter for you, take the road fee and go, Xiao Cao, your uncle died early, you should go home to take care of the elderly." Li Yu persuaded tactfully.

"When I go home, I also go back to Datong, and there is no shortage of me at home, so I won't go anywhere, so I'll do it with you." Cao Bianjiao shook his head stubbornly.

"Uncle Naturalization, I am also a Datong person, you are the biggest official in the towns of Xuanda, who else will you follow?"

"Uncle Naturalization, I'm from Xuanfu, I can't do anything but be a soldier, can you ignore us!"

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Deputy General Soldiers Jiang Zhu, Yao Xun and others also shouted, and Li Yu had a bit of a headache - the three towns of Xuanfu, Datong, and Shanxi were abolished, and many Ming army officers lost their livelihoods, and they were trained and waited for use while being trained in the Barbarian Mountain Wuxuan School, and now a large group of people are coming, how to arrange errands in the future? But Xiao Cao has contributed to Fengzhou, and several others are also from Shanxi and Xuanfu, no matter if it is really unreasonable, his eyes glanced at Wang Tingchen, these Liaodong people should not be in his care.

"Uncle Naturalization, Jinzhou is lost, we are homeless, we have no money in our hands to have some relations, we dare not think about finding an errand with the imperial court, we are not as good as Heiyunlong, he still has a home to go to in the Guannei, you don't take it in, we have to go and ask for food." Wang Tingchen saw what Li Yu meant, his eyes were red and he almost cried - Heiyunlong was born in Jiangmen, served as the chief soldier of Xuanfu and Changping, and at the end of the second year, Chongzhen was defeated by the Jin army in Yongdingmen, Beijing, and Mangui was killed in battle, he was captured and surrendered to Jin, and later fled back to Daming at the risk of death, but the court ignored him and sent him back to his hometown in Xuanhua, it is said that the days were very bleak, and the generals of the Ming army were afraid of falling into the fate of Heiyunlong.

"Uncle Guihua, Liaoxi is the territory of the ancestral family, we people are desperate goods, there are soldiers in our hands, people look at it, the soldiers are gone, it is better to return to Ningyuan than a dog, you can accept us." Zhu Wende, the deputy general from Liaodong, begged bitterly.

It's about the jobs of the rest of their lives, and the officers are shameless, cursing and swearing allegiance to Fengzhou, and the naturalized uncle tells them to beat whoever they want, and some people simply squat on the ground and cry. These guys are pitiful and wretched, Zhao Ji sat on the side and looked upset, snorted and walked out, but when he arrived at the door, he was stopped by Du Wenhuan - the old man had been watching outside the door for a while, and then he walked to Li Yu and whispered a few words.

Li Yu smiled bitterly, and Zhengse said to the officers: "Our army is the Datong Federal Army, not the Ming Army, I don't care what you did before, I have to start from scratch when I am an official, and if I figure it out, I will first go to the Barbarian Mountain Wuxuan Academy for training." ”

"Don't worry about not being official, the Datong Army has the opportunity to be promoted through meritorious service, it depends on whether you have real skills." Du Wenhuan added.

The officers patted their chests and boasted to themselves, and then coaxed away, Du Wenhuan took out an edict and said: "I just transferred from Datong, the emperor agreed to our conditions, and I decided to send troops!" ”

After reading the edict, Li Yu threw it to Zhao Ji casually, and paced back and forth to think about it - the Bundestag was surprisingly unanimous on the issue of suppressing thieves, and tried its best to encourage the Datong army to fight to Wuchang and drink the Yangtze River, but the money was very picky, and agreed to increase the annual military expenditure to one million taels, and approved the issuance of one million taels of anti-thief bonds, and there was nothing else. Li Yu is most worried about food, now that there is a famine everywhere and the price of grain is soaring, the money he gets may not be enough, so he has the intention to wait until the autumn grain is harvested to send troops, when the weather will also become cooler, which is more suitable for iron cavalry operations outside the Guanwai.

"This year's drought has weakened, but the grain harvested after the autumn is definitely not enough to eat, let's fight, we are eating yam eggs anyway, and maybe the situation will be fundamentally better when we hit Huguang." Du Wenhuan said in a low voice.

"The thief defeated Zhuxian Town in a battle and his strength has increased greatly, and he has posed a threat to Shanxi, and he cannot be allowed to grow any longer, so take advantage of the fact that his main force is concentrated in the Kaifeng Plain, and destroy him first." Zhao Ji echoed.

Li Yu stopped, thought for a while, and shouted to the guards outside the door: "Prepare the horses, let's go to the Barbarian Mountain." ”

Two days later, the federal government, the academy, the department in charge of officials and the senior generals of the army all rushed to the Barbarian Mountain, the command hall was full of people - after the establishment of the federation, the personnel of the various official offices changed greatly, the presidential palace by Li Fugui, Chen Qiyu in charge of government affairs, Jin Sheng, Han Lin, Shen Shoulian, Bao Zhen, Liu Zongzhou, Wang Fang, Heshuote He Chilie, Dzungar Ashu, Yarkand Aishan assistant government affairs, in charge of the secretary Zhang Zhiyao; The nine chief judges of the Grand Law Division are Ortai, Liu Tianren, Zhu Yiqian, Bai Yuzhu, Guo Linsheng, and the newly elected Zhang Pengyun, Omulun, Erle, and Wang Ying; Premier Zhou Su, Xiangli Yunrong, Governor of the Du Branch and Affairs of the Bank and Banknote Bureau Li Jianji, Governor of the Department of Soldiers and Horses Sun Tingyao, Governor of the Department of Foreign Affairs Chang Shu, Governor of the Tax Department Han Mingde, Governor of the Inspection Department Fang Zhikun, Governor of the Mission Department Gao He, Governor of the Department of Industry and Construction Wang Tianxiang, Governor of the Department of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Gu Keli, Governor of the Department of Politics and Politics Ouerden, Governor of the Treasury Department Lian Shan, and Secretary in charge Li Yao; Liu Zhilun took the title of governor of Xuanda as the governor of the trial and criminal division, and he didn't dare to provoke him.

The bigger the territory, the more officials, all kinds of people, the general accent is the scumbag of northern Jin, and there are Mongolian and Manchu in the middle - Li Yu looked at his grass platform team, sighed and waved his hand to signal the meeting.

Zhang Zhiyao, secretary of the Grand Commander's Office, first explained the situation of thieves in Henan: the rise of thieves in Henan is a miracle, and there are less than 1,000 people who have just entered Henan, including old and weak women and children, but after the ghost made the gods take Luoyang, he immediately shouted the slogan of "Juntian tax exemption" and "suppressing the soldiers and reassuring the people", so the prestige was shocked, and the victims of the disaster in Henan were in an endless stream, and the thief giant Luo Rucai and the Henan local robber Yuan Shizhong successively joined the gang, and the giant Zhang Xianzhong also took refuge in him last year, but the two thieves seemed to have a grudge, and the partnership parted ways after only a few months, Zhang Xianzhong went to partner with the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo in Yinghuo Mountain. The thieves are getting louder and louder, and there are no less than 500,000 subordinates, and it may be difficult to say that there are millions, but the bandits and the elite with weapons will not exceed 50,000, most of them are officers and soldiers, and the others are almost all ordinary people who eat mixed rice, lacking both weapons and training, and the rabble, what is surprising is that the officers and soldiers are not as good as them, the thieves have the courage to attack Kaifeng Jiancheng, but they have formed a favorable situation of encircling and sending reinforcements, and Kaifeng is used as a bait to defeat Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian's department, and the battle of Zhuxian Town in early July will Ding Qirui, Yang Wenyue's nearly 200,000 troops were defeated in one fell swoop, and Henan currently has no decent officers and troops except for Chen Yongfu, the general soldier of Henan, who is trapped in Kaifeng, and Xu Dingguo, the general army of the reinforcement and suppression north of the Yellow River.

"Strange, the common people don't pay taxes, what do the thieves eat? Where do the salaries and ordnance come from? Do they do the same business as we do? Chang Shu asked with a frown.

"They don't do business, they don't farm, they work, they live by killing people and looting, and there are no rich families everywhere they go, only the poor are left at their mercy," Chen Qiyu spewed fire in his eyes, and said to everyone through gritted teeth, "There is no point in defeating the bandits, as long as the bandits run away, it won't be long before they come back, the old man suffered this loss back then, and only by killing all the bandits can he cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and he must not be soft!" ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, there is no need to worry too much about food and wages, the Jianghuai Chamber of Commerce sent a letter, suggesting that our army fight to Wuchang and use the Yangtze River waterway to connect the trade route between Jianghuai and Fengzhou, they are willing to fund money and grain, and send the Shen family fleet to Wuchang with grain, Jia Jingzong of Wuchang also sent a letter saying that the Huguang Chamber of Commerce is willing to fund money and grain, and the Liberal Party resolutely supports sending troops to suppress thieves." Bao Zhen, the new prime minister of the Liberal Party, stood up and shouted as he waved several letters.

"The Civic Party firmly supports sending troops to suppress the thieves." Wang Fang also shouted.

"Shixue Society supports sending troops to suppress thieves." Liu Zongzhou said calmly.

Fan Yongdou, vice chairman of the House of Representatives, said solemnly: "The Bundestag has already made a resolution to suppress thieves, and now we add a resolution again - authorizing the Prime Minister's Office to sell the imperial court assets in Shanxi and Xuanfu to raise military expenses, including the official fields, real estate, workshops, and commercial inns of the Ming State Government, as well as the military camps, border forts, and weapons of the official army, as long as they can be exchanged for money, they can be sold." ”

The boos immediately rang out, and Fan Yongdou sat down embarrassed, blushing and bowing his head with the speaker Xiao Daiwang.

Sun Tingyao immediately stood up and expressed his merits: "The Soldiers and Horses Division has made all preparations for sending troops, the latest mortar cannons, 1,000 catties of camp guns, 3,000 catties of breech guns, and heavy lifting guns have been installed in all battalion units, and 5,000 new flintlock guns will also be distributed immediately, we are armed to the teeth, let's try the knife with this gang of thieves first!" ”