Chapter 23: The Western Rebellion
Just when the Ming Dynasty gradually entered the road of restoring Zhongxing, there were also a lot of waves in the Ming Dynasty.
Because at this moment, there are all kinds of rebellions in the Ming Dynasty.
It is particularly worth mentioning that the Jurchens in northern Xinjiang sometimes rebelled and sometimes appeased, especially the rebellion in the western border of the Ming Dynasty was particularly serious, and the rebellion in the west that occurred in this way will sweep the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
And how the Ming Dynasty, as a great power in the upper state, should face it after the Western Rebellion, still needs to see the final choice of His Majesty the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
And any attitude adopted by the Ming army will determine the ultimate fate of the Ming Dynasty, and how the rebels will adopt what kind of posture they will take to deal with the Ming Dynasty.
The reason for the Western Rebellion is to start from the early years of Wanli, which was originally the worship of the small chieftain of the Mongolian Tatar tribe.
Later, after offending the great chieftain of the tribe, he had no choice but to lead his troops to join the Ningxia official army, and later because of his bravery in battle, he soared one after another, and was awarded the hereditary command by the Ming Dynasty in the later period.
Later, in February of the 17th year of Wanli, at the request of the governor of Ningxia, he gave the general the post of deputy chief soldier and allowed his son to inherit the post.
His son Bi Chengen succeeded his father as a commander in the seventeenth year of Wanli, and Bi Bai was repeatedly promoted because of his bravery and good fighting, and finally commanded a thousand soldiers.
Bibai had always been suspicious and suspicious after defecting to the Ming army in order to escape for his life, so since he gained a firm foothold in Ningxia, he began to hide dirt and dirt, attracting local scoundrels to form his own armed forces.
His eldest son, Bi Chengen, is even more fearless and tyrannical, and after taking over his father's position, he still gathers more outlaws.
The disrespect and law and discipline have led to the formation of one of the most powerful underworld groups in Ningxia, and the local officials and people are close to avoid it, and no one dares to provoke it.
The local government can only swallow its anger and let it develop, and the father and son of the Bi family have become a great harm to the local area.
With the continuous expansion of the strength and sphere of influence of the Yijia family, it has gradually become a special security hazard that Ningxia must remove.
Subsequently, out of a helpless choice, the governor of Ningxia used the method of increasing officials to seize military power, asking Bibai to hand over military power, and leave the military camp without asking about military affairs.
But this clumsy approach did not fundamentally solve the fundamental problem, because his son, Bi Cheng'en, inherited his father's official position.
Therefore, the scope of influence and strength of the Bi family have never weakened in the slightest, which has attracted the attention and resentment of Bibai, prompting him to finally choose to embark on the path of rebellion.
Until the nineteenth year of Wanli, the Tatar tribes of the western barbarian tribes invaded the area of Lintao and Hezhou in Gansu.
Bibai personally sent 3,000 soldiers to support and arrived in Jincheng, at this time the Ming Dynasty had appointed a new governor Dang Xin to Ningxia.
The new governor had long known that the Qijia army was lawless, and often went out to burn, kill, and loot for fear that it would be difficult to control in wartime.
Mainly because of the fundamental distrust of the Bijia army, he did not approve Bibai's request to go to the army, and then Bibai found Jingluo and Zheng Luo was approved.
In the end, Bibai's request and desire to lead his own soldiers to battle was realized, so Dang Xin did not allocate any military horses for Bibai.
After returning to Ningxia after the war, Dang Xin began to investigate Bibai's false declaration of food and salary.
and encouraged his subordinates to report all the illegal acts of the father and son of the Bi family to the Ming Dynasty, and Bi Chengen was also whipped by Dang Xin in public for forcibly marrying a people's daughter. The father and son of the Bi family held a grudge against Dang Xin at this moment, so they wanted to find an opportunity to wait for revenge.
So a long-awaited opportunity finally came, and at this moment, all the officers and soldiers in Ningxia expressed their extreme dissatisfaction with Dang Xin's arrears of food and winter clothes.
At this time, however, Dang Xin forced the officers and soldiers to pay taxes on their tuntian, which caused the majority of officers and soldiers who were hungry and cold to have resentment against Dang Xin.
So under the tandem of junior officers, more than 80 people fought for the alliance and were ready to mutiny at any time.
The main person in charge of the army had noticed the unusual behavior in the barracks, so he urged Dang Xin to quickly distribute food and salary to calm the anger of the people.
But Dang Xin didn't think so at all and threatened the soldiers, so when those soldiers reached the point where they couldn't bear it anymore, a mutiny might break out at any time.
So under such a historical background, in March of the twentieth year of Wanli, under the instigation of the father and son of the Bi family, a mutiny rarely occurred in Ningxia in the history of the Ming Dynasty.
Many officers and soldiers in Ningxia participated in the siege and killing of the governor Dang Xin and the deputy envoy Shi Jifang, and killed Li Chengen and Chen Han and others in the market.
Subsequently, there were also horrific rare historical events such as releasing prison prisoners, burning documents, burning the public office, and taking the city gate, and Zhang Jizhong, who was the chief soldier of Ningxia at that time, had no choice but to commit suicide.
Because of his dereliction of duty, which led to the occurrence of this protracted mutiny, and because of his inability to prevent the mutiny, he resorted to the extreme means of suicide to extricate himself.
Subsequently, the rebel general Liu Dongyang proclaimed himself the chief soldier, Bai Bi Bai was the leader of the alliance, and Bi Chengen was the deputy chief soldier.
What turned out to be a noisy mutiny turned into a malicious rebellion and violence at the instigation of Bibai's father and son.
At this moment, the proud Bibai claims to be His Royal Highness the Prince, and the mastermind of his mutiny is Bibai, an extremely conceited person.
His sons, Bi Cheng'en, Bi Yun, and several others who participated in the rebellion, automatically became rebel generals, and it was these rebel generals who led the troops under their command.
Began to conquer cities in Ningxia's sphere of influence, and the situation in Ningxia, which was precarious, affected the development of Zhongxing in the entire Ming Dynasty.
At that time, due to the persistence of Xiao Ruxun, a general in Ningxia, the North Road Pingyu was not occupied by the rebels.
Most of the other cities and the area of the Forty-Seven Forts in Hexi were occupied by the rebels, and the rebels' sphere of influence and strength also increased greatly.
This also made the Ming Dynasty greatly shaken, when the news reached the Ming capital north of Zhili, His Majesty the Ming Wanli Emperor Long Yan was furious.
At this moment, His Majesty the Wanli Emperor was very shocked that the Ming Dynasty could have such a mutiny, and the Ming Dynasty after the Wanli Zhongxing did enter a period of imminent decline.
In this period of historical change, it is still unknown whether the Ming Dynasty can quell the rebellion.
And just after the unprecedented rebellion in the western border in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's qi and fortune were undergoing a rare test.
At this moment, the Ming Dynasty is also moving towards gradual decline, but the rebellion that appeared at this moment has gradually made the Ming Dynasty sober up.
So at this moment, the Ming Dynasty decided to keep the Ming Dynasty under the premise of keeping the Ming Dynasty.
It was decided to send a large number of soldiers to the realm of the Western Rebellion to encircle and suppress the rebellious Bibai, so the pacification of the Western Rebellion has become a sure thing.
So at this moment, the pacification of the Western Rebellion has also been put on the agenda, and after the real pacification of the Western Rebellion, can the Ming Dynasty return to the Zhongxing period.
It also depends on the choice of His Majesty the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and it also depends on the fortune and fortune of the Ming Dynasty.