The thieves at the end of the Ming Dynasty, just like the cancer on the body of the Ming Dynasty, the more places where they metastasized and spread, the greater the damage to the body of the Ming Dynasty. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

Once this time, as in history, they were not driven back to Shaanxi, or eliminated on the spot, and let them go down from the southwest of the mountains again, cross the Yellow River, flow to the hinterland of Henan, and then go to Lufeng and Huguang to wander around and destroy, then the Ming Dynasty is likely to end up like in the original history.

Therefore, when he learned that Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou and others failed to eliminate the thieves in Shaanxi, nor did they drive the thieves to the western frontiers such as Guyuan, Emperor Chongzhen was more or less disappointed in his heart.

But he also knew that such a result was actually no wonder Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou.

Although the trilateral governor Yamen led the army of Guyuan Town to move to Huamachi, from Suide, Yulin, Yan'an, and Hengshan in northern Shaanxi to the west, heavy troops were stationed along the way to guard against capture.

After passing the Dingbian guard, to the west is Huamachi, which is the core defense area of the trilateral governor's yamen and Dingyu Town, not to mention that today's thieves rushed to offend.

At the same time, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, also aimed at Tongchuan, Xi'an, Tongguan and Hanzhong to reorganize the army and fight through the army, and the thieves in northern Shaanxi did not dare to go south, so there was only one way left, that is, to cross the Yellow River to the east and enter Shanxi.

Speaking of which, behind the thieves' escape, there is actually a problem with Shanxi's defense along the Yellow Line.

Although he was a little disappointed in his heart, Emperor Chongzhen still had to issue a decree to praise Sun Chuanting and others for the victories of the several encirclement and suppression of thieves mentioned in the report.

Especially with the way Yansui Town dealt with the captive thieves and rebellious people, Emperor Chongzhen was quite satisfied, knowing that these people still understood his intentions after all.

In his reply to Sun Chuanting's will, Emperor Chongzhen praised the officials who defended Yan'an Mansion and Suidezhou City, and promoted Du Wenhuan, the Suide garrison who beheaded Zhang Yingjin, to the general of the right assistant of Yansui Town, and continued to guard Suide.

In addition, for the soldiers of Yansui Town who had made meritorious contributions to the suppression of thieves, Emperor Chongzhen once again took out 100,000 silver dollars from the treasury to reward, and Sun Chuanting, He Shiyu, and Ma Maocai rewarded the meritorious soldiers.

As for Lao Huihui, the leader of the Hui people and thieves in Jiaxian County mentioned by Sun Chuanting and others in the report, Emperor Chongzhen certainly knew who this person was.

This person is another thief leader in the late Ming Dynasty, Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying.

Ma Shouying, who was also a fugitive from the border army of Yansui Town, has such a nickname called "Lao Huihui" because he is a relatively rare Hui in the Yansui Town Army, which is dominated by Han military households.

Later, after the rebellion, Ma Shouying became one of the leaders of the "Five Battalions of the Hui Revolution" among the thieves in northern Shaanxi, which was different from other factions, and was also an important figure who rebelled early among the thieves in the late Ming Dynasty, and at the same time persevered to the end.

The "Hui" in the "Fifth Battalion of the Hui Revolution" refers to the Hui armed forces under the command of Ma Shouying, the "old Hui Hui", which was a more destructive team of the Han peasant army than Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others.

The "Fifth Battalion of the Hui Revolution" later became the "Fifth Battalion of the Left Reform", because the Hui soldiers under the command of the old Hui Ma Shouying treated the Han people too brutally, so that several other bandit teams in the same camp were unable to see it, and they were unwilling to join him, and finally parted ways.

Zhang Xianzhong was already fierce and evil enough among the thieves in the late Ming Dynasty, but compared with Lao Hui Ma Shouying, he still belonged to the kind of small and big witch.

At the beginning of the incident of Zhang Xianzhong himself, he was a minion under the account of Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying, and after he split up and went it alone, he also returned many times to be attached to Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying.

Ma Shouying has two hobbies in his life, one is chanting scriptures and the other is killing.

As for what kind of scripture he recited, it is difficult to say.

It can only be said here that he is not reciting a good scripture, at least not a Buddhist scripture that persuades people to do good.

During the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols treated the Hui and Semu people more favorably and enjoyed many privileges.

After Zhu Yuanzhang restored China, the Mongols were driven back to Saiwai, while Hui Hui and some other Semu people mostly retreated to the northwest with the resisting Yuan army, and the rest returned to the Ming army and continued to settle in the hinterland of China.

Although these Hui and Semu people had committed countless cruel crimes against the Han nation in the process of eliminating the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang did not settle accounts with them and take revenge.

On the contrary, the later emperors and court officials of the Ming Dynasty treated the Hui and Han people on an equal footing, without any discrimination.

For example, Zheng He, the eunuch of the Three Treasures, is from Yunnan.

Therefore, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Hui Hui once again spread all over the world, and among them, Suide, Yulin, Yan'an and other places in northern Shaanxi, as well as Lintao, Guyuan, Qingyang, Pingliang and Ningxia in Gansu, are relatively concentrated areas of Hui distribution.

Because the Hui in these areas is relatively concentrated, and there are so-called "Jingtang" as their relationship with each other, they are very grouped, and when the famine year comes, they will go around plundering the Han people in groups.

For this reason, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the government of Shaanxi Province had specially stipulated several prohibitions for Huihui, such as Huihui is not allowed to hold weapons, no gatherings, no looting, etc., but these prohibitions are in vain and cannot restrain these people at all.

At that time, this kind of people rarely regarded themselves as the people of the Ming Dynasty, and did not think that the Ming court could control them, so they gathered people to rebel at every turn.

This problem did not only exist in the Ming Dynasty, but even after the Han people overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty and established the Republic of China, this problem in the northwest was still very prominent.

Therefore, as soon as he saw the name Lao Huihui in Sun Chuanting's recital, now Emperor Chongzhen immediately thought of Ma Shouying, and thought of the chaos again and again in later generations, perhaps he should take advantage of the opportunity of the great chaos in northern Shaanxi to solve this problem once and for all.

After receiving the latest report from Shaanxi, in the last few days of the first month, Emperor Chongzhen discussed with the three military ministers about the elimination of the thieves for several days, and finally agreed on these few articles, and sent people to Yulin, Xi'an and Huamachi at an expedited speed of 600 miles.

First, the edict exempted the Shaanxi prefectures, including Yansui in northern Shaanxi, from all money, grain, and regular taxes and miscellaneous taxes for five years, and forbade officials in Yansui and other prefectures in northern Shaanxi from collecting any money, grain, and other goods from the people.

Second, the imperial decree ordered Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, to send people to the prefectures of northern Shaanxi and Guanzhong to recruit hungry people and go to Ningxia to reclaim land along the banks of the Yellow River.

Third, the edict ordered Dong Zhiyi, the chief military officer of Lintao Town, and Han Yiliang, the superintendent of the army, to take the main force of Lintao Town to move to Hanzhong, and ordered Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, to go to Lintao and personally command the transfer of defense up and down Lintao Town.

Fourth, the edict ordered Zhu Yiluo, the king of Qin in Xi'an, to contribute 500,000 silver dollars to Chongzhen, to support the relevant matters related to the transfer of Lintao Town to Hanzhong, to provide 300,000 quintals of grain and rice, and to support Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, to help the hungry people in Guanzhong.

Fifth, the imperial court for the three sides of Shaanxi five towns, namely Yansui, Dingyu, Ningxia, Gansu, Lintao, allocated Chongzhen silver dollars of one million, as Chongzhen's second year of January to June military salary, the date of arrival, by the Luoyang household division to transfer to Xi'an, by the trilateral five towns of the military imperial history with the trilateral governor Yamen customs documents, to Xi'an to withdraw.

And this time, Emperor Chongzhen also sent Gao Shiming, whom he relied on more and more, out again.

But this time he did not go to Luoyang, but to Xi'an, and took Hu Yikui, who had just been transferred back to Beijing from Liaodong, to Xi'an to prepare for the establishment of the Jinyi Weixi Town Fu Division, which was specially located to supervise the relocation of Lintao Town, as well as matters related to the payment of salaries by the Qin Palace.

Of course, Emperor Chongzhen made up his mind to set up the Jinyi Weixi Town Fu Division, not to kill in Xi'an, but to rectify the five towns on the three sides of Shaanxi, as well as the Jinyi Wei system in Shanxi and Henan.

In addition, Emperor Chongzhen once again told Yuan Chonghuan, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting in detail about his strategy of suppressing bandits in the form of a secret decree, telling them that they must cut down the grass and eliminate Ken, and they must not be born again in the spring breeze, and they must move all the people in the areas that are not suitable for cultivation and residence in the northern Shaanxi prefectures to Ningxia, Hexi or Hetao as soon as possible.

For the thieves who have rebelled, those who can be destroyed should be exterminated on the spot, and those who cannot be destroyed should not be oppressed to the east, but should be driven as far as possible to Pingliang, Qingyang, Guyuan, and even Fengxiang, Lintao and other western border areas.

In the final analysis, it is a sentence, the east side must be strictly guarded to prevent the thieves from flowing into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, while the west side is to get out of the way, if it can't be eradicated, let the thieves go west.

After dealing with the will given to the governors of the three sides of Shaanxi, Emperor Chongzhen and several ministers of the Military Aircraft Department had not yet discussed how to arrange the suppression of thieves in Shanxi, and received a message from a number of officials from Shanxi.

And a few letters from a group of officials up and down in Shanxi surprised several important ministers of the cabinet and the military aircraft department, and at the same time, it also made Emperor Chongzhen feel uncontrollable anger again.