Historically, in the autumn of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, that is, when Emperor Chongzhen had just ascended to the pole, the thieves such as Jiayin, the second king of the White Water Thief, and the Zuo Hang of the Yichuan Thief had already gathered in northern Shaanxi to cause chaos. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

In addition, there are Zijin Liang, mixed river dragons, flying mountain tigers, sweeping tigers, big red wolves, little red wolves or something, all kinds of thunder people are called all kinds of people, and the countryside and folk in several prefectures and counties in northern Shaanxi are in a mess.

However, at that time, the forces of these small thieves were still very weak, and their forces were scattered, and the large thousands of people and the small hundreds of people had not yet become a climate.

In addition, the governor of Yansui and the governor of Shaanxi at that time were afraid of illness and medical treatment, and they were not extinguished by the imperial court in time.

After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, although a large number of measures were taken and a series of personnel arrangements were made, these thieves scattered in various mountains went out day and night, gathering and scattering each other, and there was not much better way.

Moreover, according to the will of Emperor Chongzhen, whether it was Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, they were all in the process of sorting out government affairs, recruiting people to reclaim, organizing troops, and preemptively arranging the layout.

In October, which was supposed to be the harvest season, but it was another year of drought, and with the exception of the Ganquan Yutun District, which was presided over by Ma Maocai himself, a rare bumper harvest was achieved, and most areas in northern Shaanxi and Guanzhong once again had no harvest.

Even the fields near Yulinwei where corn, potatoes and sweet potatoes are grown have not seen the same bumper harvests as other areas because of the extreme drought.

Little of the corn planted in June survived, and potatoes and sweet potatoes did not yield as much as expected due to a general drought.

Although the imperial court paid the military salaries of the border army in full, it still could not stand the rise in grain prices after the autumn harvest, and a piece of Chongzhen silver dollars could buy a load of brown rice from the south, but in October, the price of a load of brown rice skyrocketed to more than three silver dollars in northern Shaanxi in a short period of time.

As a result, although the imperial court paid the military salary in full, it still failed to completely eliminate the loss of soldiers and soldiers in the northern border of Shaanxi.

In order to support themselves and their families, many people began to take risks, some became thieves, robbed houses and ate large households, and some occupied the mountains as kings, blocking the road and robbing the passing merchants.

Not to mention the common people in the countryside of northern Shaanxi, the drought that lasted for another year became the last straw that crushed the camels, like dry firewood meets a blazing fire, and the momentum of chaos soon spread.

At this point, the situation in northern Shaanxi took a sharp turn for the worse in an instant, and it became corrupt again. And those old thieves who had already occupied the mountains as kings were like fish in water, rapidly expanding and growing, and began to dare to capture the county seat and play the banner.

Emperor Chongzhen finished reading the urgent military report of Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, and then looked at the people who were still kneeling on the ground, and said, "Qing and others are flat." This is just a thief, so don't panic first. ”

After Zhang Weixian got up and sat down, Emperor Chongzhen continued: "I see that in Sun Chuanting's urgent report, there is no request for salary and help, and I think Sun Qing has already made a calculation in his heart. Northern Shaanxi is far away from Jingshi, and the thief situation in front of it is fickle. ”

After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen thought for a while and said: "Of course, the Military Aircraft Department will transfer the emergency military report from Northern Shaanxi to the cabinet and the other two military aircraft ministers as soon as possible. ”

Zhang Weixian looked at the emperor who was as steady as Mount Tai, and thought to himself, the young emperor in front of him, who was less than nineteen years old, was really mature!

While thinking so, Zhang Weixian's heart quickly quieted down, and he left with several military aircraft people who came to see him urgently.

As the saying goes, there is no double blessing, but there is no single line of evil. In the afternoon, Emperor Chongzhen, who was still thinking about how to clean up the chaos in northern Shaanxi, once again ushered in Zhang Weixian, the Minister of Military Aircraft.

This time, it was an urgent military report with an urgent six-hundred-mile urgency. The person who issued this emergency military report was Fan Jingwen, the governor of Zhejiang.

The resettlement of disaster victims in Zhejiang is unfavorable, and large-scale civil unrest occurred in Jiaxing Prefecture!

The victims of the rebellion also colluded with the Taihu thieves to slaughter the ugly and captured the county seat of Jiashan, Jiashan County ordered Zhu Tingdan to die, and Wutang Town, where the county was located, was looted by the rioters, and the casualties were not counted!

And this incident also happened at the end of October, when it was the time when Xizong was buried, and when the governor of Zhejiang Yamen figured out the basic situation, he reported to the Yamen of the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and then transferred to Beijing, and now more than half a month has passed.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the financial situation was in dire straits, and Zhejiang was the capital and grain of the imperial court, so there was no room for instability.

For the turmoil in northern Shaanxi, now Emperor Chongzhen knows it, but he is a little surprised by the civil change in Zhejiang.

Fortunately, now this Emperor Chongzhen is not the Zhu Youzhen who has a headache and a foot in history, and looking at the somewhat anxious ministers, his heart is not panicked.

After the initial consolidation of Liaodong, and now the consolidation of Gyeonggi, as long as these two places are not in danger, they can sit firmly on the fishing boat regardless of the wind and waves.

Although Zhejiang is the world's most wealthy land in the eyes of the courtiers, today's Chongzhen Emperor is not as poor as in history and needs to collect donations from courtiers and nobles.

At the beginning of the year, the emperor himself was naturally very rich, and even the finances of the imperial court had greatly improved. And the wave of exile that had just begun for the Jingshi Xungui family once again made the emperor himself a fortune, and at the same time, the financial situation of the imperial court was further improved.

It was precisely because of the rectification of the Jingshi and the nobles that brought about further improvements in the finances of the imperial court, so several cabinet ministers and many people of insight below the six ministry officials did not join the wave of criticism of the emperor and the military aircraft department.

It is also because the gold and silver wealth obtained from this wave of raids of more than 20 princes and uncles is enough to be worth the surplus of taxes, money and grain sent to the imperial court in the previous 20 years in Zhejiang Province, so Emperor Chongzhen, who knows the true inside story, is still not in a hurry even if he is a little surprised.

On the second day after receiving two urgent military reports in a row, Emperor Chongzhen summoned Li Guohao, the first assistant in Beijing, and Xu Guangqi, the minister of the cabinet, as well as Sun Chengzong and Li Banghua, the ministers of military aircraft who hurried back to Beijing from Tongzhou and Zunhua, to discuss matters in the Wenhua Palace.

Since Fan Jingwen's urgent military report forwarded by the Governor's Office of Fujian and Zhejiang was only the basic judgment of hastily reporting the large-scale civil uprising in Jiaxing Prefecture, the ministers of the Cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department could not think of any better way for a while except for the imperial court to send people to understand the situation and to consider in advance the dispatch of troops and the encirclement and suppression.

Three days later, two more urgent military reports were sent to the Beijing Division, one was signed by Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, and Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Shaanxi, and the other was signed by Fan Jingwen, the governor of Zhejiang, and Wen Tiren, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang.

This time, the military report will be much more detailed and comprehensive.

The joint report of Yuan Chonghuan and Sun Chuanting first reported a good news, saying that it was Gao Yingxiang, a thief in northern Shaanxi, and others who coerced tens of thousands of chaotic people to besiege Yan'an Fucheng, and were first resisted by Ma Maocai with troops in the city, so they could not be attacked for a long time, and then they were caught up by the border army of Yansui Town brought by Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu from Yulin.

In the end, the official army and the thief army fought outside the city of Fushi, Gao Yingxiang and others were defeated by Sun Chuanting and Ma Maocai, and the border army of Yansui Town beheaded the thieves such as the flying mountain tiger, the big red wolf, and the arch Potian, and killed more than 3,000 thieves.

The bad news is that the big thief Gao Yingxiang broke through to the north, robbed Anding County, and coerced the young people in the city to flee to the direction of Qingjian. And the White Water Thief II, Fugu Thief Jiayin and others, after being defeated outside the city of Fushi, drove the hungry people all the way to flee to the east, and actually captured Yanchang County for them.

Now northern Shaanxi is even more chaotic.

Soon after receiving this military report, the emperor successively received a secret report from the Jinyi Wei Yulin Thousand Households, saying that the situation was even more serious, and the two county towns of Suide and Fugu in northern Shaanxi were also full of hungry people, and it seemed that if they did not give relief, they would be in chaos.

After learning more about the situation, Emperor Chongzhen, together with several ministers of the cabinet and the Military Aircraft Department, quickly made a decision: First, he sent an order to the Luoyang household department to collect and send 200,000 quintals of grain as soon as possible, enter Tongguan, pass through Xi'an, and transfer it to Yan'an Mansion, which is currently relatively safe, and hand it over to Sun Chuanting and Ma Mao, who were sitting in Yan'an to suppress thieves, to help the victims in northern Shaanxi.

Second, he sent a decree to Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, to prepare the army for war, and be ready to extinguish the civil unrest in Guanzhong at any time, and at the same time ordered him to actively cooperate with Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, to suppress bandits.

Third, Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, was instructed to mobilize the garrison of Shanxi Town as soon as possible and deploy defenses along the Yellow River between Qin and Jin.

There is another one, which is forwarded by Jinyiwei to Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui himself, and personally transmitted to Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, after he saw it, which roughly expounded the basic strategy of the Chongzhen Emperor on the problem of thieves in northern Shaanxi and even Shaanxi, to the effect that it is best to be eliminated on the spot, if it cannot be eliminated on the spot, then it is better to drive it to the west to chaos than to the east to chaos in the hinterland.

However, it is inconvenient to talk about such a strategy publicly, because such a strategy belongs to the death of the light, not only the court knows that it is going to fry, but once the news leaks, this strategy can no longer be implemented.

After the holy decrees to the governors of the northwest were issued, the attention of Emperor Chongzhen, the cabinet, and the ministers of the Military Aircraft Department quickly shifted to Zhejiang.