At the east gate of Ningyuan City, on the small street opposite the General Soldier's Mansion, Zhu Er, who runs a Hongji South goods store, is the person in charge of the Liaodong Station of Dongchang. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Except for the Dongchang Judgment Hall in Jingshi, Zhu Er never took the initiative to contact anyone with his identity in front of the official, so even Sun Zhan, the current head of the Qianhu Qianhu Office of Jinyiwei, and Hu Yikui, the deputy Qianhu of the Qianhu, did not know the existence of Zhu Er, the person in charge of the Liaodong Station of the Dongchang.

Because the incident happened so suddenly, when the rebels went out of the camp to make trouble, Sun Chan, a thousand households of Jinyi Wei Liaodong Qianhu, followed Lu Shanji to Yizhou, and Hu Yikui, the deputy Qianhu, also followed Chen Renxi, the superintendent of Liaodong Town, to run around.

So at this time, Jinyiwei had no powerful people in Ningyuan City, and Jinyiwei had always been hated, after the mutiny, the official office in Ningyuan, where Jinyiwei Liaodong Thousand Households was located, was also attacked by chaotic soldiers, and the people left behind were either killed or fled, and it was difficult to protect themselves, so let alone pass the news outside.

Especially after the mutiny, the first thing Yang Guozhu and Zu Dabi did was to close the four gates of Ningyuan City and prohibit the military and civilians from entering and leaving, so no news could be transmitted.

It was not until the night of the 26th, when the rebels returned to the camp and the curfew was slightly relaxed, that Zhu Er made a decisive move, sent a capable subordinate, evaded the patrols on both sides, used ropes to scratch the hook, and climbed out of the city at night.

Ran all the way to the post station, showed the Dongchang token to the post station officials, and then rode a stagecoach, galloped into the customs, changed horses without changing people, after a day and a night of galloping, on the morning of the 28th, finally sent the news back to Beijing.

Fang Zhenghua, who had just returned to Beijing from Jinan, was shocked when he heard the news, so he naturally hurriedly entered the palace with a secret report of the military situation.

After receiving the urgent secret report from Dongchang, Emperor Chongzhen's face did not show the angry expression that Fang Zhenghua expected to appear, but just shook his head, sighed, and said, "I still haven't dodged!" ”

Then there was an expression that seemed to be mocking and wry, staring at the secret report, silent.

Fang Zhenghua looked at Emperor Chongzhen, who had a strange expression, bowed down and said, "Your Majesty doesn't need to worry too much. In the secret report of Dongchang Liaodong Station, it was said that now the rebels have responded, and the superintendent Lu Shanji, the chief soldier Man Gui and the superintendent Chen Renxi are all outside the city and have not fallen into the hands of the rebels, and there are still Yang Guozhu and Zu Dabi in the city to maintain the situation. According to the slave maid, at this time, Lord Lu should have learned the news, as long as Lord Lu returns to Zhenningyuan with the Mangui army, the matter will not be difficult to settle. ”

In this regard, the Chongzhen Emperor from later generations certainly knows better than Fang Zhenghua.

Judging from the secret report of Dongchang, the scale of the Ningyuan mutiny this time was much smaller than the one in the original history, with only two battalion leaders participating, and thirteen battalions participating in history, which simply made Ningyuan City a mess, and a governor died.

And this time, judging from the rumors of the secret report, at most three officials who should have died died.

The reason why in the heart of Emperor Chongzhen now, Bai Yangcui, Zhang Shirong, and Su Chun were originally damned, is mainly because the Ningyuan Mutiny in history is related to Zhang Shirong and Su Chun.

One of Yuan Chonghuan's measures to quell the mutiny was to comply with the demands of the rebels, arrest these two people and put them in prison, and finally asked for a decree to take away their official bodies and cut off their non-commissioned officers.

As for Bai Yangcui, in the winter of the second year of Chongzhen, he was appointed as the prefect of Yongping, when Huang Taiji attacked Yongping with the Houjin pigtails, this person took the initiative to open the door and surrender, and was personally named the governor of Jiyong by Huang Taiji, helping the Houjin pigtails to maintain the stability of the occupied area, and later the Ming army counterattacked Yongping, and the Houjin army retreated, Bai Yangcui also fled with the Houjin army, and became an official in the Houjin Dynasty.

It is best if such a person dies, if he does not die, Emperor Chongzhen, who knows what will happen to him, will not let him go this time, and must take the opportunity to execute him.

At noon, Emperor Chongzhen saw Sun Chengzong and Li Banghua who came in a hurry in the lobby of the military aircraft department of Wuying Palace, plus Zhang Weixian, who came to be on duty every day, and several military ministers were together.

Zhang Weixian naturally knew the news, and now he was just sitting with a heavy heart.

And Sun Chengzong and Li Banghua were both shocked when they saw it, and it was difficult to hide their surprise, but the two looked at the emperor with a calm look, knowing that the emperor must have a countermeasure, so they were slightly determined.

Sun Chengzong groaned and said: "Your Majesty, Ningyuan is an important town in eastern Liaodong, and it is where Liaozuo's throat is.

"The minister sees that the rebels have returned to the camp now, but if the aftermath is not handled properly, I am afraid that there is still an unforeseen risk. Since the Ningyuan rebels were in the name of opposing the withdrawal of Guangning and asking for arrears, the minister thought that the imperial court could send a minister as an envoy to explain the court's decision, suspend the withdrawal of Guangning, and at the same time take the salary out of the customs to appease, promising to only get rid of the first evil, and the rest will not be asked. In this way, the minister thought that it would not be difficult to calm down the matter of Ning Yuan's mutiny. ”

Emperor Chongzhen was silent because this was not what he really wanted. Although by doing so, the Ningyuan mutiny could be quickly quelled, but there were endless troubles.

Historically, Yuan Chonghuan's practice of quelling the Ningyuan mutiny not only did not deter the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals in Liaodong, but instead encouraged these people to continue to mutiny in disguise.

Just three months after the Ningyuan mutiny, another mutiny occurred in Jinzhou, and the reason was the same, that is, to ask for money.

At that time, it was true that the situation of arrears of wages was relatively serious, but there was always a mutiny, which had a lot to do with the court's handling of the mutiny.

After all, if you commit a mutiny, you will not only get money, but you will not be severely punished, so why not do these arrogant soldiers.

Historically, after the Ningyuan Mutiny, Yuan Chonghuan, who was seeing His Majesty in Beijing, hurried to Liaodong and adopted the strategy of grasping small and magnifying the mutiny, and quickly quelled the mutiny.

However, since then, it has also opened the prelude to a series of mutinies in the Ming army, and formed a very bad practice, that is, before the army is set out, it must issue a sum of money, and if you don't give it, you can't open the camp, and if you don't give money, you will make trouble, there is no loyalty, and there is no military discipline at all.

The reason why Zhou Yanru was able to be trusted and reused by Emperor Chongzhen in history was because his attitude towards the mutiny of the soldiers in Liaodong Town was very much in line with the appetite of Emperor Chongzhen at that time.

At that time, Emperor Chongzhen was panicked when he received the news of the mutiny, and asked the ministers for their opinions in the court, and most of them said that they should hurry up and pay to appease, since the mutiny was for money, then hurry up and give the money, and if you give the money, you won't make trouble, in short, you have to change the tricks to coax these proud soldiers to go to the front line to die.

And Zhou Yanru was obviously a little more far-reaching than the minister at that time, he said: "Liaodong Guanmen used to defend against the enemy, and today it is against the army. Before the Ningyuan mutiny, the imperial court paid them a salary, and now there is a mutiny in Jinzhou, if the towns on the nine sides follow suit, then when will the mutiny in the name of asking for money go, and how far will it go? Now that there is a mutiny in Jinzhou, the imperial court must supply military salaries, but this is not a long-term solution, and the most important thing for the imperial court to do is to come up with a fundamental solution. ”

It was this passage that deeply touched the heart of the Chongzhen Emperor in history, and soon, Zhou Yanru was elected into the cabinet by Emperor Chongzhen from the position of the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and less than a year later, he was appointed as the first assistant minister of the cabinet.

Now Zhou Yanru, who is the squire of the Ministry of Rites, of course, will not have the opportunity to discuss military affairs, because now Emperor Chongzhen rarely discusses military issues in the court, and all military issues are left in the military aircraft department of Wuying Hall to discuss with the minister of military aircraft.

The courtiers could still talk about military affairs, but they would no longer give the civil and military officials of the court the opportunity to openly discuss military issues.

But what Zhou Yanru once said in history made the current Emperor Chongzhen deeply impressed in later generations.

Zhou Yanru is right, the arrears of wages must be the fault of the imperial court, but as the army of the imperial court, it is absolutely impossible to ask the imperial court for military salaries through mutiny, through the means of blackmailing the enemy. This is also a belief of Emperor Chongzhen today.

Proceeding from this believing, the two battalion leaders who participated in the Ningyuan Mutiny now must not be used again in the future, and whether they are the chief offenders or accomplices, they must be severely punished.

Even if the crime is not serious, the crime is not deep, and the capital crime can be avoided, but the living crime is unforgivable, or serve as a mining slave in the iron mine in the mountains near Baiye City, or be punished as a hard labor for the construction of Yiju City, in short, they must not be allowed to turn a big matter into a small matter, and finally be exempted from punishment.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen felt that it was necessary to give Lu Shanji another reminder, so he used the excuse that the situation in Ningyuan was confusing now, and the imperial court could not make an accurate judgment, so he temporarily rushed to Liaodong with Dongchang people from Fangzhenghua, on the one hand, on behalf of the emperor and the imperial court to understand the situation, and on the other hand, he cooperated with Lu Shanji and other ministers guarding Liaodong to deal with the Ningyuan mutiny.

Because the information transmitted back from the Liaodong Station of Dongchang was a bit too brief, the three military ministers present could not give much targeted advice based on it, so it was indeed impossible to take really effective measures.

And Sun Chengzong and others, also believed that Lu Shanji and Man Gui could handle this mutiny, so they discussed and discussed, and finally in addition to the emperor's proposal, the Military Aircraft Department finally decided to immediately send a messenger to order Zhao Rate, the chief soldier of Shanhai Town, to guard Shanhaiguan, and all the soldiers from the north were all taken.

At the same time, the Military Aircraft Department announced to all towns in the nine borders as soon as possible that the military salaries of the nine sides in June before the first year of Chongzhen would be paid in full in August, and so on.

In the early morning of the next day, the military envoy sent by the Military Aircraft Department rushed to Shanhaiguan, and Zhao led the order to immediately reorganize the army and strengthen the vigilance, and at the same time be ready to go north to Ningyuan at any time to quell the chaos.

And Fang Zhenghua, with the emperor's secret decree, led 300 backbones of Dongchang, galloped all the way, went north, and rushed to Ningyuan.