After that, in just half a month, the turmoil that had been suppressed for a long time broke out in an instant, like a sudden tornado, quickly sweeping through Gansu, Ning and other places in the northwest.

Zhao Dayin's subordinate general, Ma Jinzhong, was coerced by the riotous Mu Suman, and killed Yuan Chonghuan's right-hand man Yang Qi, the chief soldier of Dingyu Town.

Ma Jinzhong, who was originally born in the Ma family in Hezhou, led his army to the north on the second day of the Taozhou mutiny, and quickly occupied Hezhou in the cheers of Hezhou Mu Suman, and under the support of his subordinates, he took over as the commander of Hezhou Wei.

Ma Guangyu, another general of Zhao Dayin, led his men and horses, and with the support of the riots of the Musu barbarians in the whole city of Lintao and the mutiny of the Musu barbarians, he killed Lu Menglong, the prefect of Lintao, and other government officials, occupied Lintao, an important town in Gannan, and proclaimed himself the commander of Lintao.

Mi Layin, who was originally born in the hereditary Tuguan family of Ganzhou Wei, also led a group of men and horses under his command, under disguise, bypassed the Lanzhou Acropolis, rushed back in front of Mei Zhihuan and others, and unexpectedly launched a mutiny in Ganzhou Wei, killed Ganzhou Han officials and Han people, and also took over as the commander of Ganzhou Wei.

At the same time, Ding Guodong, a junior general under the command of the deputy general of Taomin, was in Minzhou, Tuluntai was in Pingliang, and Po Ximu was in Guyuan, and they all obeyed the requirements of the local imams, echoed the local civil unrest, killed the Han Shangguan in the army, and launched one mutiny after another with his subordinates.

More than a dozen large and small cities in Gan, Ning, Tao, Min, Gu and other places lost control all of a sudden, and there was no order, and there were Mu Suman everywhere expelling Han officials and killing Han people, all of which became a pot of porridge.

Yuan Chonghuan, who was originally scheduled to convene all the general troops in Lanzhou Wei to discuss the matter of Lin Dan Khan's westward move to Qinghai, had to give up his plan to pursue and annihilate Lin Dan Khan while Lin Dan Khan's foothold in the Qinghai Lake area west of Xiningwei was not stable.

Instead, he quickly let Mei Zhihuan, Zhang Jiamo, He Huchen and others return to their respective defense areas in the town, and led the army to suppress the mutiny of the local Musuman local officials and the rebellion of Huimusuman.

Mei Zhihuan and Zhang Jiamo hurriedly rushed to Ganzhouwei with the army of Gansu Town.

He Huchen had to take the army of Ningxia Town under his command and hurry back to Ningxia Wei, who was already ready to move.

Yuan Chonghuan himself left a group of men and horses to be stationed in Lanzhou City, and he rushed back to Huamachi with the retinue of the trilateral governor's palace to plan countermeasures and plan for the long term.

Yuan Chonghuan rose and fell, and the biggest crisis since he took office in the northwest came.

However, to say that Yuan Chonghuan deliberately intensified the contradictions, messed up the northwest, and endangered the Ming Dynasty was somewhat wronged to him.

Just like in the original history, Yuan Chonghuan deceived Mao Wenlong to Shuangdao outside Lushun in the name of negotiating salary, and then beheaded Mao Wenlong on the charge of disobeying the dispatch, of course, his original purpose was not to bring down Dongjiang Town.

Whether he really fell for Huang Taiji's plan to kill people with a knife, or whether the contradiction between him and Mao Wenlong really reached the point where he had to physically eliminate the other party, Yuan Chonghuan couldn't help but take his character into account when he did that.

It is not wrong to call him reckless, impulsive, or tyrannical and bold.

In essence, he is more than a scholar with a bit of two hundred and fifty-one tendons, a scholar who likes to point out the country and talk rhetorically but loves to go to extremes.

Is such a person useful?

Of course it works.

Such a person can unexpectedly do good things that other ordinary people can't do, and can also unexpectedly do some bad things that ordinary people can never do.

The key is to see where you use it and how you use it.

It's like Jianyu breaking through the border and entering the land of Xuanda, is it a downright bad thing, or does this bad thing still contain a little bit of good elements?

It's also about how you look at it.

In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the corruption of the border guards has reached an outrageous level, and some of the big families in the border areas of Shizhen have become local emperors.

They monopolized the land and property, the commercial trade, and even the middle and lower classes of the yamen, large and small, were almost monopolized by the children of such families.

If this monopoly is not broken, not only will the land reform not be carried out, but the tax reform will also not be carried out, and the entire Ming Dynasty will not be able to do well.

At the same time, the ancestors of these people have contributed to the Ming court, and their family property, land wealth, and social status have all been accumulated through hard work and the efforts of generation after generation.

Many of these families are rich and rival the country, but is the wealth of other people robbed or stolen?

Of course not.

Many of these lands have been given by generations of Ming emperors, because of the merits of these great families in the past dynasties, and these things are well documented.

When you come to Emperor Chongzhen, can you say that you will be deprived, and you can say that you will take away the equal share?

How can this be!

That's not how it works!

So what should be done?

If we want to revive the Ming Dynasty, we must not allow these wealthy families who are almost divided into one side to be selfish and powerful, and let them break in and surrender to the Qing Dynasty one day in the future as in history, but the imperial court cannot take advantage of them without reason or on a hard charge, and directly uproot them by the imperial court, so what should be done?

In the end, only third-party forces can be introduced.

For the local wealthy families in the land of Xuanda, the army of the Jin State after the establishment of the captivity is this third-party force, that is, the external force that is enough to destroy all the old wealthy families, old bureaucrats and old things in the Xuanda border area.

And for the three sides of Shaanxi, the thieves and the people rebellion or the rebellion itself is also such a force that is enough to destroy those old forces that are intertwined.

Therefore, it may be a bad thing for a person like Yuan Chonghuan to be placed in Liaodong, but it may be a good thing to be placed in the northwest, where a-stirring stick is needed.

Because only in this way can we achieve a big break.

When the news of Yuan Chonghuan's killing of Zhao Dayin and the Taomin mutiny provoked by the Fusi of Jinyi Weixi Town was sent to Emperor Chongzhen, especially when Yuan Chonghuan's detailed report was urgently sent to Beijing and sent to Da Nei, not only was the original Lintao Town in turmoil, but even Gansu Town, Ningxia Town, Yuanguyuan Town and other places, there were large and small groups of Huimu Suman, with their respective scripture halls and worship temples as the core, privately making weapons, looting the surrounding areas, and on the verge of rebellion.

Therefore, in this national war against Jianyu, the trilateral governor's palace, which was close to the land of Xuanda, not only did not help much, but also caused such a big trouble.

After Yuan Chonghuan's petition was sent to Beijing, whether it was the local officials in Shaanxi or the imperial historians above the court, the impeachment of Yuan Chonghuan immediately increased.

Including Qian Longxi, who had been in close contact with Yuan Chonghuan and had been calling on Emperor Chongzhen to use Yuan Chonghuan in Liaodong, he also wrote to criticize Yuan Chonghuan for killing border generals, acting recklessly, perversely and rashly, and inspiring civil unrest, and asked Emperor Chongzhen to remove Yuan Chonghuan in order to save the hearts of the people in the northwest as soon as possible.

Of course, if Emperor Chongzhen at this time had the heart to remove Yuan Chonghuan, then this would indeed be a good opportunity to remove Yuan Chonghuan.

However, after thinking about it, now this Emperor Chongzhen still adheres to the principle that it is better to make merit than to make a mistake, and let Yuan Chonghuan stay in office.

For today's Emperor Chongzhen, the occurrence of this turmoil is not simply a factor of Yuan Chonghuan alone.

It is not so much that Yuan Chonghuan has more factors, but that Emperor Chongzhen himself has more factors.

Because from the very beginning, Yuan Chonghuan was asked to go to the northwest, in order to one day use its toughness, domineering, and fierce killing, and solve the problem of Mu Subarian in the northwest once and for all.

Let Yuan Chonghuan go to the northwest for this day, and let him go to the border of Ningxia Town to reclaim the land for this day.

At the same time, 12 Jesuit missionaries including Long Huamin were allowed to go to the northwest to preach, of course, for this day.

Although the timing of the incident is not right now, after all, the main force of Jianyu has failed and retreated.

No matter how much these Mu Suman rebelled, they were not the opponents of the Ming Dynasty officials and troops today.

As the saying goes, only after the big break can we stand up, and after the big chaos, we can rule the big way.

The northwest is already poor, and there are many thieves who are in rebellion, and the money and grain taxes have not been collected for many years, and there are disasters every year, and the imperial court needs relief or tax reduction and exemption every year.

Where else can the three-sided land, which has been rotten and chaotic to this extent, be messed up?

Now in the chaos, you kill me, I kill you, the people are killed and injured everywhere, but there is money and food left from the imperial court, isn't it much easier than relief and assistance?

In that case, why not take this opportunity to simply uproot all the various families in this place and start over?

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen let Yuan Chonghuan stay in office, and it was precisely to show to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, to the northwestern provinces, and to the whole world that he would not compromise, make concessions, and not appease Mu Suman, who did not abide by the king's law and did not obey the teachings.