In June, it was unusually hot in Gyeongshi-ri, and although several rains in mid-to-late May alleviated the drought in Gyeonggi and allowed the crops in the fields to grow well, the impact on the temperature was negligible, and it did not become cool at all in Gyeongshi.

Although Emperor Chongzhen attached great importance to the war against thieves in Shanxi, he was not very worried.

Whether it is Li Banghua, Lu Xiangsheng, or Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, these generals who gathered on the front line in Shanxi are all among the best elites in the Ming Dynasty today.

If even they can't figure out the team of thieves who can't get along in Shaanxi and run to Shanxi, then it's probably useless for them to go into battle in person.

Therefore, although the matter of suppressing thieves in Shanxi is important, every time the war report is sent to Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen, in addition to approving the request of Li Banghua and other front-line governors, is to urge Nan Juyi, the governor of the Hubu Cangchang Domain, and Sun Yuanhua, the squire of the military department and the director of the Military Arsenal, to transfer grain, grass and ammunition to Shanxi in waves.

Including the southwest pacification campaign presided over by Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, since last year, the current Chongzhen Emperor has done the same.

Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, was willing to ask for something, but he did it, and he was all allowed to do so, except for the transfer of food, salary, and ordnance, he resolutely did not engage in remote command, and now the war is not unexpected, and it is developing towards a favorable side for the imperial court.

The two Yi Tusi rebels, who had long since merged, have now been mobilized by Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, and have surrounded the old nest of An Bangyan, that is, in the northwest of Guizhou, where the mountains are high and dense, and the Shuixi region at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing.

This place is high and densely forested, the Han people are scarce, and the local Yi and Miao Tusi have been entrenched for generations, and it is really sunny for three days, and the ground is not three feet flat, the transportation is extremely inconvenient, and the army can not drive in.

If it weren't for this, the rebellion would not have lasted for eight years.

Considering that it was Zhu Xieyuan who quelled the Lu'an Rebellion in history, Emperor Chongzhen basically let him do it completely after appointing Zhu Xieyuan as the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou and granting him full authority to lead the soldiers and horses of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Huguang, Guangxi and Guangxi provinces.

Now it really lives up to the trust, under the steady and steady progress, step by step, it has been more than 100,000 people of the Tusi rebellion army of Hao Chongming and An Bangyan in the Shuixi area, and now he is supervising the army and the hired Han people are in full swing to open mountains and build roads, cut down trees and build bridges, and advance towards the Muoge Mountain City, which is located in the west of the Yachi River in the upper reaches of the Fuling River (that is, the Wujiang River in later generations).

Once the post road is completed, the An family, who have guarded Shuixi for generations, will usher in their inevitable demise.

The reason why Emperor Chongzhen let go of power was because he knew the skills of these ministers he selected, and also because he knew how many catties and taels he had.

In addition to knowing some historical figures in the late Ming Dynasty, he only knows some historical trends in the late Ming Dynasty.

Whether in his previous life or in this life, he is not a technical expert, nor is he a military expert, coupled with the backward transportation and communication conditions in the late Ming Dynasty, if you want to intervene in the generals who are on the front line, there is a chance that you will stab Lou Zi.

On the evening of the 4th day of the first month of June, Li Banghua sent people from Shikou to the Beijing Division to send the latest military information from Shanxi to the Beijing Division, and finally after an eight-day long journey, it was finally sent to the General Administration Department.

Emperor Chongzhen was overjoyed, and immediately summoned Li Guowei, the first assistant of the cabinet, Xu Guangqi, the minister and secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Cheng Jiming, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhang Weixian, the minister of military aircraft, who had slightly improved his condition, to discuss the matter of rewarding.

And what made Emperor Chongzhen most happy was not only the official army defeating the thieves in Shanxi, but also the news that Hong Chengchou executed Wang Zuohang and Wang Ziyong in Liulin Fort.

These thieves will not die, but will continue to be a scourge.

There is no better way than physical annihilation for the time being.

As for killing prisoners and surrendering, now this Chongzhen Emperor can understand Hong Chengchou's painstaking efforts, so he doesn't care.

Therefore, when summoning important ministers in the court and discussing rewards, Emperor Chongzhen, who was in a good mood, proposed a heavy reward, and it was an unprecedented reward for the civil officials of the court.

That is the knight, Li Banghua, the thief supervisor in Shanxi, and Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting as uncles.

In the last years of Chongzhen in history, many civil servants of the imperial court were unwilling or afraid to go out of Beijing to lead the army, in addition to the low combat effectiveness of the officials and troops at that time, and often there was no return, there was also a point that won the battle, the credit was the imperial court, it was the military general, and the civilian commanders on the front line had no other benefits except for the title.

Once the battle is lost, the imperial court rarely holds the generals accountable, but instead blames all the blame on the superintendent or the civilian official who led the army.

Many civil officials, who were originally very outstanding, were either killed by the military generals on the front line, or were imprisoned by the imperial court.

Therefore, in the last years of Chongzhen, many civil ministers in the court would rather resign and go home than go to the front line to lead troops to fight.

Because for many of them, victory has no benefit that makes them tempted, and once they lose, they will either be defeated and die, or they will be arrested and imprisoned, and the risk and benefit are completely disproportionate.

There is nothing wrong with the general direction of using civil law to control the military, and many civilian officials also have the long-cherished wish to lead the troops to fight and make contributions, but in the face of the absolute high risk and absolute low or zero return in the late Ming Dynasty, who would be willing to take the risk of leading the troops to fight for the old Zhu family?

Today's Emperor Chongzhen just wants to change this situation, the military merit knighthood system can not always be limited to military generals, and civil officials can also be knighted if they have military merits.

And there are precedents for this.

Wang Shouren, that is, Wang Yangming, was named Xinjian because of the new construction in the suburbs of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, which finally quelled the rebellion of Zhu Chenhao, the king of Ning.

There are only a handful of civil officials who were knighted because of their military exploits, but there are only three people, which shows how difficult it is for civil officials to be knighted.

But once there is a precedent, it is much easier.

This time, Emperor Chongzhen is ready to learn from Emperor Wuzong Zhengde.

However, the news of Shaanxi Governor Hong Chengchou's great victories in Ningxiang and Liulinbao soon spread throughout the court of the Beijing Division.

However, this time, what caused a lot of discussion in the court was no longer the great victory of the official army on the front line, but the impeachment of Zhang Zongheng, the Shanxi envoy, for killing more than 30,000 people by Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi.

This impeachment was forwarded by Li Banghua to the General Political Department, and then reported to the Cabinet by the General Political Department.

The situation stated by Zhang Zongheng in the bullet seal made some self-proclaimed imperial historians above the court finally find a breakthrough to brush up on their prestige.

Now that the official army has won a great victory in the battle against thieves, the court of the Beijing division seems to have heard about it, and it is no longer as excited about every victory on the front line as before.

It seems that victory is no longer news, and Hong Chengchou's "evil deed" of killing prisoners and surrendering has attracted the attention of the government and the opposition even more.

In the past, the Sixth Branch Corridor and the Metropolitan Procuratorate had the right to inspect and discuss any decree forwarded by the General Administration Secretary to the Cabinet, as well as any decree sent by the Emperor to various localities through the Cabinet.

Nowadays, the system has changed, all the notes related to military affairs are directly submitted to the Military Aircraft Department by the Department of General Administration, if the emperor does not approve the transfer to the cabinet, then even the cabinet has no right to ask, let alone the six science corridors.

If the emperor didn't make it public, they wouldn't know what was going on on the Shanxi front at all, and they would not have the opportunity to intervene in discussing military affairs.

But this time, Zhang Zongheng's impeachment of Hong Chengchou for indiscriminately killing prisoners took the line from the General Administration Department to the Cabinet.

At the same time that the cabinet ticket was to be forwarded to the emperor, the six departments and the Metropolitan Procuratorate could be seen, and the direction of the wind released by Emperor Chongzhen also made the "concern" for military affairs that Qingliu had accumulated for a long time in the DPRK and China gushed out in an instant.

The next day, when there was no statute for the reward of the Shanxi front, Liu Zongzhou, the secretary of Dali Temple, Liu Hongxun, the imperial historian of the right capital, Ma Mingshi, the superintendent of Shaanxi Province, and the military department all sent a chapter to Emperor Chongzhen to impeach Hong Chengchou for indiscriminately killing innocents and hurting sainthood.

Even Li Banghua was charged with a "crime" of leniency and ineffective restraint.

Emperor Chongzhen had personally issued a holy edict before, and he did not allow the imperial historians to hear about things without evidence, and the effect was good, and the court was much quieter.

However, now, the evidence of Zhang Zongheng's bullet is conclusive, and the bullet seal of Liu Zongzhou, Liu Hongxun, Ma Mingshi, and Wang Tingqian cannot be regarded as without evidence.

At this time, Ma Mingshi and Wang Tingqian were still small roles, and Emperor Chongzhen could not care at all, but he couldn't ignore Liu Zongzhou, the secretary of Dali Temple, and Liu Hongxun, the imperial history of the right man. [.]