In the first month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, North China was turned upside down by the Manchu Qing army that entered the fortress, and Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang who was swimming in Jin, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan, and Guangdong provinces, was beaten by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, and only a dozen knights were left to follow, and it was no longer a threat.

The other two rebellious people's armies, the Eight Kings Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao Luo Rucai, were both recruited by the imperial court, but their recruitment was not the kind of complete surrender to the imperial court, but occupied a piece of territory by themselves, and did not allow the appeasement officials sent by the imperial court to check and streamline their soldiers and horses.

Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of the five provinces who was responsible for appeasing these two soldiers and horses, was already an ally with the same position as Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and to put it bluntly, it was precisely because Xiong Wencan also advocated peace and appeasement internally and externally, so he was strongly recommended by Yang Sichang, who also advocated peace, in front of Emperor Chongzhen, and became the minister in the face of the Shaanxi rebellion.

But at present, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong is in Gucheng, and Luo Rucai is in Juncheng, and their attitude towards the government is to only accept a small number of officials to enter the surveillance. He did not accept Xiong Wencan's order to dismiss his troops and lead the elite to follow the officers and soldiers on the expedition. On the contrary, he claimed that he "did not want to receive grain from the officials, and was willing to work for the mountain farmers and support himself."

Regarding this embarrassing situation, scholars and officials everywhere who knew the situation sarcastically said, where is this Zhao'an, it is clearly a peace negotiation.

It is rumored that King Li Zicheng led more than a dozen of his remaining men to Gucheng to get together with Zhang Xianzhong, and some people said with noses and eyes that at the banquet, Zhang Xianzhong once asked King Chuang with a smile if he would like to do it with him, and King Li Zicheng replied with a smile that he was unwilling.

The Eight Kings did not force it, and funded King Chuang and more than a dozen of his men with armor, weapons and horses in distress, and after Li Zicheng thanked him for saying goodbye, he entered the mountains again.

However, there is a news circulating in a smaller circle near Gucheng, saying that King Chuang's dozen horsemen should be carrying a sum of gold and silver, and one of these dozen horsemen once contacted some bold businessmen to buy some materials strictly prohibited by the government. Everyone is speculating about where the money came from, and some people want to fight the idea of this money, but it is difficult to keep up with the trace of King Chuang.

But anyway, the scourge of the chaotic people and the army in Shaanxi, which had been making trouble since the early years of Chongzhen, has finally subsided, and of course, this kind of pacification is not trustworthy.

The rebellion of Yungui and Gui almost exhausted the financial resources and manpower in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty, two governors, several general soldiers and countless civil and military officials died in this disaster, and at the beginning of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, it was completely stable.

After the Manchu army left the Ming Dynasty from Qingshankou, the entire Ming Empire was actually peaceful, but this world was peaceful, which is too ironic to say.

Since the places are pacified and the imperial court is empty, it is necessary to issue all kinds of punishments and reward orders to the relevant personnel, especially those who have entered the Qing army, traveled thousands of miles in Beizhili and Shandong, and ravaged the localities.

Liu Yuliang, the first assistant scholar of the cabinet, asked himself to inspect the army supervisor, who wanted that the soldiers and horses of the North Zhili did not have a victory, and Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the world's soldiers and horses, died in battle, and the supervisor army did not save the army, and the whole army was defeated, and fled back to Beijing alone. The responsibility for this defeat naturally rested with the hapless Shoufu University Scholar.

Emperor Chongzhen never had any tolerance for most of his courtiers, and Liu Yuliang, a scholar of Shoufu University, was immediately deposed and replaced by Xue Guoguan.

Gao Qiqian, the eunuch of the supervising army, was originally a soldier and horse in the Beijing camp outside the Beijing Division, and he was quite friendly with Yang Sichang in the Beijing Division, although he fled back to the Beijing Division alone, but at that time he actually put all the responsibility on Lu Xiangsheng, saying that it was because of Lu Xiangsheng's greed and recklessness, so there was this big defeat.

Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department, also tortured the soldiers who went to check the corpse and asked them to say that Lu Xiangsheng was not dead. Because if he dies, he will be martyred in battle no matter what, and if he doesn't die, this light master will be reckless, and the crime of greed and suicide can also be buckled. But those non-commissioned officers and military academies who went to check the corpses had not yet lost their conscience, and they insisted on the results of the examination, of course, the examination itself was already ridiculous.

This bastard behavior of Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian completely angered the imperial court's officials and imperial history, and they all revealed that Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department, deliberately delayed the supply of military salaries and escaped.

Gao Qiqian was already a complete loss of power, and no one was willing to help him at all, so he was imprisoned and severely punished by the angry Emperor Chongzhen.

It is said that the crime of Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, is more serious, but the unconditional trust of Emperor Chongzhen is undoubtedly revealed at this time, and Yang Sichang, a scholar of the cabinet and the secretary of the Ministry of War, was not even reprimanded, but let him preside over the rewards and punishments of the Beijing division and various local officials in this Tartar captivity.

This kind of self-examination and self-correction appointment is really absurd and inexplicable, but this kind of absurd thing, Emperor Chongzhen has done a lot of absurd things, and people in the world are quite strange.

It is precisely because Yang Sichang presided over the reward and punishment of meritorious deeds that the tragic martyr Supervisor Lu Xiangsheng was still charged with being presumptuous, underestimating the enemy, and greedy for merit, but then again, Supervisor Lu Xiangsheng is fortunate that he has been martyred, and once he dies, no matter what kind of things are behind him, he doesn't have to worry about it.

But the others are different, there is already news that from the eunuchs who supervise the army in Jiliao Town, the local governors and governors, the chief soldiers and generals in the army, all the way to the prefecture and county officials below, and the garrison divisions, all those who are on the route of the Qing army, or in nearby places, are all responsible and guilty.

There are border passes that are poorly defended, and the troops are not rescued. The loss of the city, the commander and the prince of the vassal were killed or taken away by the Tartars, all kinds of crimes, and this time the army was dispersed, the important city was lost, and the first-class vassal king was taken away for such a big thing, all the civil and military officials who were involved are afraid that there are many people who cannot escape this capital crime.

Although there are many reports of decapitation and beheadings in various places, the actual situation is that there is a complete defeat, and there are defeats and routs everywhere.

But in the midst of these defeats, there was a bright spot, Li Meng, a general who was guarding the four prefectures, fought fiercely with the Tartar army near Qihe County, Jinan Prefecture, and beheaded nearly a thousand.

Shandong governor Yan Jizu and the eunuch Liu Yuanbin of the supervising army were well dispatched, first when they were guarding Dezhou, because of the effective defense, the Tartar army did not dare to enter Shandong from Dezhou, so they had to make a detour from Linqing into Jinan, but Li Mengbu, the main general of Shandong soldiers and horses, left Dezhou and entered the north to pursue the Tartars because of the Beijing division center's order to be the king of soldiers and horses.

The Tartars took advantage of the situation to break into Shandong from Linqingzhou in Dongchang Prefecture, captured the city of Jinan, and captured King De and General Fengguo. Shandong General Qiu Lei struggled to rescue, but was outnumbered.

Li Meng, the general of the four prefectures, pursued hard in the case of insufficient food and wages, and fought fiercely with the Tartar army in Qihe County, Jinan Prefecture, beheading more than 720 people.

Daming has not had such a victory for a long time, although this result is not even a victory in Li Meng's eyes, but in the center of the imperial court, the Yamen side of the Ministry of War is already a great victory, those who have been lime and sulfur nitrated, by people from all walks of life repeatedly checked, but also thanks to Yan Jizu and Liu Yuanbin in the Beijing division of the two familiar heads, someone to help take care of it, after countless inspections, it was finally determined that it was the head of the real Tartar, and it was immediately a sensation in Beijing.

A few days later, news came from Shandong, because it was unfavorable for Shandong to block the Tartars, causing Shandong to be poisoned by the Tartars, he was ashamed and uneasy, and hanged himself, leaving a suicide note to express his remorse, and secondly, to protect Li Meng, the general of the four prefectures, as the general of Shandong.

There are those who have won the battle, there are those who have made good arrangements, and there are those who have repented and hanged themselves, but in the midst of the defeat, there are such glorious examples emerging, and the yamen at all levels in the center of the Ming Dynasty naturally want to say that Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department, originally convicted Yan Jizu, the governor of Shandong, of beheading and beheading his relatives and vassals.

But after the two glorious examples of Li Meng and Qiu Lei appeared, Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department, advised Emperor Chongzhen that he could not blame the meritorious ministers because of the dispersion of the children of the Heavenly Family. Of course, it was Yang Sichang's order to mobilize Shandong soldiers and horses to garrison Dezhou, and if he insisted on conviction, he would have put himself in.

On the second day of the third month of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen issued an order to posthumously present the beauty to Qiu Lei, the governor of Shandong, Yan Jizu, and the eunuch Liu Yuanbin.

Li Meng, the general of the four prefectures, made outstanding military achievements, and was specially awarded the chief military officer of Shandong, and the rank of governor of the left capital, commanding all the soldiers and horses in Shandong.

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