The two Huai salt and government Cao Yin were transferred to Beijing as scheduled, which greatly alleviated the embarrassment of the imperial court without money.

Emperor Chongzhen praised Fang Changqing in the court. Zhou Yanru, the first assistant who recommended Fang Changqing's meritorious service, also won the emperor's reward and regained a little disadvantage.

The Korean struggle has always been a zero-sum game, and some people are proud, and some people are disappointed.

Zhou Lianggong was very frustrated.

Zhou Lianggong finally obtained the Jinshi from Jiangxi, a major province of the imperial examination, and entered the Guozijian and was able to stay in Beijing.

In order to seek the two Huai salt transportation to make this fat shortage, Zhou Liang Gongdian sold the land in his hometown and the house in the capital, scraped together 100,000 taels of silver, and went through the road of the second assistant Wen Tiren.

Wen Zhongtang accepted Zhou Lianggong's silver, and told him with a smile that Beijing officials were transferred abroad, and their families must live in the capital, and there are many beautiful women in Jiangnan......

Emperor Chongzhen personally affirmed the merits of Fang Changqing, the envoy of the two Huai salt transports, in the court, who dared to touch him for a while?

Zhou Lianggong made a lot of planning, which was time-consuming and laborious, and he couldn't see the position he wanted, so he was disappointed and complained about Wen Tiren.

Wen Tiren was also greatly annoyed.

When Zhu Shunming was in full swing with the salt transportation envoys headed by Fang Changqing in Yangzhou, Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru were also fighting fiercely.

Wen Tiren once regarded Zhu Shunming as a member of the party, and allowed Zhu Shunming to behave in Nanzhili to suppress unfavorable voices in the court for Zhu Shunming.

Zhu Shunming ignored the salt policy of the imperial court, and sold illegal salt in Huguang and Nanzhili, and later got a large amount of salt from nowhere to dump it at a low price in Jiangnan, which made Zhou Yanru embarrassed. All of this made Wen Tiren very happy.

Seeing that the salt government tax and silver cannot be collected, Zhou Yanru's position is also in jeopardy, and Wen Tiren's position as the first assistant who has been planning for a long time can get what he wants.

But who knew that the situation in Jiangnan had changed abruptly. The salt dumping continued, but the original tense atmosphere inexplicably subsided. Zhu Shunming reconciled with Yan Yun Fang Changqing, Yan Zheng Yinzi entered Beijing as scheduled, Chongzhen Emperor Longyan Dayue, and Zhou Yanru regained Chongzhen's trust.

"It's a bit too much," Wen Tiren thought to himself: "You should take the initiative to encircle Zhu Shunming, a general, instead of waiting for him to come and defect." ”

Then he sneered: "Since it is not for me, let him die." ”

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The southwest is mountainous and has been inhabited by ethnic minorities since ancient times. The mountain people were fierce, and the Ming Dynasty implemented a policy of restraint in the southwest, only exercising nominal jurisdiction, and the actual rights were in the hands of the Tusi and the owners of the village.

Toast has more power at hand, and his ambition will naturally swell. When the Ming Dynasty was weakened, the Tusi who had soldiers, money and territory began to rebel constantly, and they were not even willing to govern nominally.

The rebellion of Yang Yinglong in Banzhou during the Wanli period lasted for more than ten years, completely opening the prelude to the turmoil in the southwest.

In the following decades, the imperial court changed the land and returned to the stream, the Tusi continued to rebel, and the southwest continued to fight, which greatly weakened the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

From the beginning of the Apocalypse to the early years of Chongzhen, the "Extravagant Rebellion" that really shook the foundation of the Ming Dynasty officially broke out. In addition, the rogue in Shanxi, Henan and other places made rebellion, and the slaves outside the border were built into the army, and the Ming Dynasty fought on three fronts, the national strength was hollowed out, and the government was eroding day by day.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, Sichuan Yongning Xuanfu made Hao Chongming rebel against the Ming Dynasty, occupied Chongqing and Zunyi, besieged CD, and the Ming Dynasty was shaken.

Subsequently, Guizhou An Bangyan raised troops in response, and the Tusi in various places raised the banner of rebellion, and the local rebellion was unmatched for a while.

The imperial court spent a lot of money and sent heavy troops, and it took more than ten years to gradually quell the rebellion of luxury.

The rebellion lasted for more than ten years, affecting hundreds of prefectures and counties in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi provinces, with millions of casualties.

In the war, Xu Keqiu, the governor of Sichuan, was killed, Wang Sanshan, the governor of Guizhou, was killed, Lu Qin, the general of the southwest, was defeated and killed, and the general army of Guizhou was killed under the city of Guiyang. The number of soldiers killed in the battle was more than 100,000.

The Lu'an Rebellion not only dealt a heavy blow to the rule of the Ming Dynasty in the southwest, exhausted the last bit of blood of the Ming Dynasty, but more seriously, it made the other natives stronger, and then gave birth to a heart of disobedience, triggering a greater rebellion of the natives.

In the process of counterinsurgency, the Han guards were vulnerable, and the imperial court had to reuse Tusi soldiers and horses.

Qin Liangyu of Sichuan Shizhu, Pu Ming of Yunnan Amizhou, and Annan Tusi Sha Dingzhou grew stronger in the process of quelling the rebellion, while witnessing the weakness of the Ming Dynasty.

During the Chongzhen period, the ambition of Pu Mingsheng, who had risen sharply, swelled, and he rebelled in the fourth year of Chongzhen, which opened up another more protracted turmoil in the southwest of the Ming Dynasty.

Pu Mingsheng died of illness in the fifth year of Chongzhen. His wife Wan remarried Sha Dingzhou. The Shapu converged, the rebellion was even stronger, and the entire southwestern frontier was almost completely out of the control of the Ming Dynasty, and only the west of Chuxiong was still holding on.

The southwest asked for help and rushed to the capital like snowflakes, and at the same time there was a rebellion of the old generals in Liaodong in Shandong, and the Central Plains was never extinct. Emperor Chongzhen was at a loss.

Fortunately, Sun Yuanhua said that he had demoted the old general of Liaodong; Fortunately, Fang Changqing escorted the salt tax and silver to Beijing in time and in full; Fortunately, there was no chaos in Huguang Caoliang, and Fang Kongzhi was also a good minister.

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In the court.

"Your Majesty, the rebellion of the natives in the southwest has not been quelled for a long time. The minister recommends one person, and the incident in the southwest can be quickly quelled. Wen Tiren reported.

"Who does Aiqing recommend?" Chongzhen is having a headache for the war in the southwest. Hearing Wen Tiren's recital, his eyes lit up, and his voice became higher.

"Does the emperor still remember the Huguang Diao people riot last year, but it quickly disappeared into invisibility?" Wen Tiren said with all his might: "Huguang Governor Fang Kongzhi has great talents, but he must be a military general to quell the rebellion." As far as the minister knows, the military commander who quelled the Huguang rebellion was Zhu Shunming, the current commander of Huguang Changsha and Weidu. Zhu Shunming was transferred to the southwest, and the counterinsurgency was just around the corner. ”

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Zhu Shunming returned to Chengbu Jiu'an Town, unloaded his chores, comforted Li Cuiwei and other daughters wholeheartedly, and tasted the tenderness that he had not enjoyed for a long time.

The passion faded, Li Cuiwei snuggled in Zhu Shunming's arms, stroked his chest, and said softly: "The sister that the husband is looking for for the concubine this time looks good-looking, and the voice is good-looking, but it is too small." She...... Can you stand the toss of your husband? ”

The ruddy on Li Cuiwei's body has not yet receded, and her whole body is still sore, and it seems that she has been tossed a lot.

Li Cuiwei is talking about Chen Wanfang, the little flower dan given to Zhu Shunming by Yangzhou salt merchant Huang Zhulin.

Chen Wanfang is very young, and she is already slim and moving, and the standard beauty embryo is a little like Li Cuiwei when she sees it.

"Someone else gave it, and I accepted it. Raise a little bit and then take the house. "Zhu Shunming has become accustomed to the feudal ideology and decadent life of the Ming Dynasty.

Taking advantage of the fact that the spring ploughing has not yet been carried out, Li Cuiwei held a small ceremony to include the two sisters Ruyu, who had followed Zhu Shunming for several years, and She Miaohua, who had been from Miao Village, into the gate of the Zhu family and gave them a name.

It's a pity that there are still no children.

According to the plan, Zhu Shunming expanded economically in the six years of Chongzhen, continued to practice internal skills militarily, trained and exercised to suppress bandits, and temporarily avoided military expansion.

However, a decree from the imperial court completely changed his plans, and the fangs he had honed for three years were displayed in front of the world in advance.