After Gao Yingxiang and others took advantage of the chaos to enter Pingliang and other places, relying on the identity of Lao Hui Hui Ma Shouying and his subordinates, who also belonged to Hui Hui Mu Suman, they said that they had killed the Musu Barbarian Tu Lun Tai, who had rebelled against Shangguan in Pingliang City, and successfully gained a foothold in this area.

Immediately afterwards, the rebel leader of the former Ming army, who launched the Guyuan Mutiny, also sent someone to contact Gao Yingxiang and expressed his willingness to lead the people to join him.

Gao Yingxiang agreed that Po Xi Mu should set up a battalion on his own, and at the request of Po Xi Mu, he also sent his henchman He Yilong to lead a battalion of men and horses to Guyuan City to assist Po Xi Mu to defend the army south.

At the same time, on the one hand, Gao Yingxiang sent Ma Shouying and Tuluntai to Hezhou, Taozhou and other places to contact Ma Jinzhong, Ma Guangyu and others.

On the one hand, they also sent Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, He Jin, Li Zicheng and other long-hungry thief camps to the west and south, seizing counties and villages in various places, and plundering all kinds of population wealth.

In this way, with the addition of various thief camps in northern Shaanxi led by Gao Yingxiang, the chaos in Gansu and Ningxia west of Shaanxi is like a pot of boiling water, and it is even more chaotic.

However, when these boiling chaos in the northwest region were reported to Emperor Chongzhen by the Jinyi Weixi Zhenfu Division, the Shaanxi Governor Yamen, and the Trilateral Governor's Ministry, Chongzhen's three-year Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting was already held soon.

Emperor Chongzhen had no other intention than to instruct the Trilateral Governor's Office, the Shaanxi Governor Yamen, and the Jinyi Weixi Town Fusi to work closely and work together to strictly prevent the rebellion and the spread of thieves to Guanzhong, Hanzhong, and Longnan.

Now the meaning of this Emperor Chongzhen is obvious, that is, these rebels or thieves can make trouble in the northwest region as much as they like, as long as they don't spread in the direction of Guanzhong and Hanzhong.

Around this line of thought, Emperor Chongzhen has sent many secret decrees to Yuan Chonghuan, Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting and others, and he also believes that they have long understood their true intentions.

Therefore, after learning that Gao Yingxiang and Ma Shouying, the big thieves, fled back to Shaanxi from Shanxi, and then flowed from Shaanxi to Gansu, he not only did not panic because of the expansion of the scope of the thieves' flow, but secretly breathed a sigh of relief because the thieves' camps went west, and even merged with the Hui chaos.

History has proved that as long as Shanxi and Henan are not chaotic, there will be no big problem with the rule of the Ming Dynasty in the north, and as long as there is no chaos in the Huguang region, there will not be much problem with the rule of the Ming Dynasty in the south, at least there will be no fundamental shaking and disintegration.

This is also the reason why Emperor Chongzhen would rather let the thieves develop westward and even tolerate them to grow stronger because of this, rather than allow them to flow east and south.

Moreover, Emperor Chongzhen didn't want Yuan Chonghuan and Hong Chengchou to be too anxious, so that Gao Yingxiang and others, who had just flowed into Gansu, or Ma Jinzhong, Ma Guangyu and others who had launched a mutiny in the land of Taomin, forced the dogs to jump over the wall and run around.

You must know that Ma Jinzhong, Ma Guangyu, Mi Layin, Ding Guodong and other figures who launched a mutiny in the Taomin area are very different from the gang of thieves in northern Shaanxi brought by Gao Yingxiang.

Let's not talk about the power of the imams in the scripture hall and the temple behind these people, just to say that they were all imperial court officials before, which is different from Gao Yingxiang, Ma Shouying, Luo Rucai, and Zhang Xianzhong.

To put it more broadly, Ma Jinzhong and these people were all upper-class figures in their places before, and they were basically big landlords and big businessmen, and they could be regarded as the vested interests of the society in the late Ming Dynasty.

And Gao Yingxiang and his right-hand men, as well as Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong, most of them were deserters and bandits, and they were all at the bottom of society, and in the words of later generations, they belonged to the class of lumpenproletarians.

These two classes were originally natural opposites.

At this time, once the encircled and suppressed army on the side of the imperial court has forced them into a hurry, they will unite tightly together to fight against the imperial court.

And if the imperial court slows down a little and does not rush in, then they themselves will quickly fight among themselves, and it is impossible to really be of one mind.

In that case, why not let them fight it themselves?

With a big killer like Zhang Xianzhong, Emperor Chongzhen is not worried that they can't fight at all.

At the same time that the northwest Gansu and the southern part of Ningxia were in turmoil, the Beijing division of the Ming Dynasty was in a lively and jubilant atmosphere.

The Zhengdan Dynasty in the Forbidden City, after some intensive preparations, is finally time to make its debut.

Those who are on the right day are the beginning of the year.

That is, the first day of the first lunar month, which is the first day of the new year.

Since ancient times, all dynasties of China will hold a grand court meeting on this day, and the civil and military officials with a certain grade in Beijing, as well as foreign envoys, relatives of the emperor, and noble military ministers, should enter the palace early in the morning on this day to see the emperor, bow and salute, while saluting the emperor, the head of the family, to express loyalty and respect, and at the same time congratulating the world on good health, the four seas and salty clothes.

At the same time, the emperor himself also had to lead the civil and military ministers in Beijing to worship the heavens and earth, the sun, the moon, the mountains, the rivers, the Sheji, and the ancestors, and report to them the gains and losses of the past year, begging for good weather and peace in the world in the new year, and so on.

In addition, some emperors and ministers who have ideas will also take advantage of this opportunity to announce some major policies and policies that are of great importance.

However, this year's Zhengdan court meeting, the preparation time was too hasty, and many of the major policies conceived by Emperor Chongzhen in his heart had not yet had time to communicate well with the important ministers of the court, so they were not announced at this time.

Therefore, Chongzhen's three-year Zhengdan Dynasty meeting temporarily returned to the original track.

At about the end of the first day of the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, the sky was still dark, and on the streets and alleys of the Forbidden City in all directions, there were all kinds of officials who rode horses, sat in sedan chairs or rode cars.

Accompanied by their own servants with lanterns, they braved the cold and rushed to the direction of the Daming Gate of the Forbidden City.

Emperor Chongzhen had already moved the time of the daily morning dynasty back by an hour, and only two court meetings were held in Shuori and Wangri in a month, and not all court officials in Beijing participated.

However, the more the emperor is like this, the more enthusiastic the court officials in Beijing are now much higher for the court meeting.

This time, a grand ceremony was held on the time of the King James Dynasty, and all the officials of the ministries, courtyards, temples, prefectures, and prisons in Beijing were all in place before the time was reached, and they were waiting in line on the square outside the noon gate of the Forbidden City.

Behind him, the Jurchens of the Jin Kingdom were dressed in robes and hats, bowed their heads, and stood solemnly in the ranks of the envoys of the various vassal states together with Delig and Chen Gelbatu of the Karaqin Tribe, Hu Helu and Arslen of the Kulun Tribe, and Haswullah and Erdemutu of the Duolun Tribe.

He had the heart to refuse the Jurchen costume on his body, but after the Horqin people were attached to the Jurchens, all kinds of clothing and etiquette were also Jurchenized, and if he was asked to find a set of robes with pure Horqin characteristics that could be distinguished from the Jurchens, he would not be able to do it.

And the officials of the Great Ming Rite Department and the Li Fan Yuan arranged this, of course, they also have their own intentions.

Whether it is Xu Guangqi, who is also an assistant minister of the cabinet with the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, or Wu Weiying, a courteous marquis from the Mongolian nationality, and Jiang Yueguang, the deputy envoy of the Li Fan Yuan who is familiar with the situation in the northeast, they all know very well that Manzhu Xili cannot represent Horqin, let alone represent the Jurchens of the Jin State after the establishment of the captivity.

However, arranging the Manzhu Xi Ceremony to keep a money rat tail, wearing the court clothes and hats of the Houjin Kingdom, and standing in the ranks of the court, it also announced an attitude.

That is, whether you are a Horqin from Saibei or a Jurchen from the Later Jin Kingdom, as long as you are willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, you are all the people of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty will treat everyone equally, and will not kill them all.

At this time, Man Zhu Xi was standing in the crowd in the clothes of the Jin Kingdom after the ceremony, bearing the strange looks thrown from all directions, and his heart was extremely embarrassed.

The hostility, ridicule and contempt contained in that look made him uncomfortable, and the kind of court dress that he was used to seeing in the Khan palace of the Later Jin State looked so out of place in the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty.

Especially since he was detained by Emperor Chongzhen, the money rat tail on his head has not been ridiculed by many Ming Dynasty officials and envoys of other vassal states.

This made Manzhu Xili extremely unconfident in his previous clothes and hairstyle, this time he was arranged by the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Court in the ranks of Chaohe, and Manzhu Xili knew that he must be in full view again, so he didn't even dare to raise his head.

The appearance of the Manzhu ritual certainly attracted the attention of several envoys from Outer Mongolia, such as Karaqin.

Among them, Chen Gelbatu and Erdimutu are the eldest son of Kundulun Khan Burhatu of the Karaqin Tribe, and the other is the eldest son of the leader of the Duolun Tribe, Daming Qinci Muyihou Hadan Batel.

These two people have spent a year of their study career in the territory of Daming, and now they are less and less regarded as hostages who were sent to Daming Jingshi.

On the contrary, now the two of them look at the eyes full of contempt and contempt, but there is a sense of old-timers looking at the afterlife.