After Gong Yonggu became the commander of Jinyiwei, Emperor Chongzhen explained to him that he placed some Jinyiwei's spy department personnel in northern Shaanxi, and sent some good men to find the whereabouts of Li Hongji or Li Zicheng, as well as Zhang Xianzhong and other well-known thieves, but no useful news came back. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Historically, Zhang Xianzhong at this time fled anonymously because he committed a crime in the army of Yansui Town, neither in the army of Yansui Town nor in his hometown of Yan'anwei.

According to historical records, Li Zicheng, who was just twenty-three years old at this time, should still be his post in Yinchuan Station on the outskirts of Mizhi County, until the second year of Chongzhen, after the imperial court abolished the post station, Li Zicheng, who was unemployed, had no way to make a living, so he would go to his uncle Gao Yingxiang and rebel.

However, the Jinyi Wei spies found the Yinchuan Station in Mizhi County, but this Yinchuan Station had long been looted by the rebels in northern Shaanxi, and the personnel were scattered, and there was no way to find Li Hongji or Li Zicheng's whereabouts.

In fact, as early as the end of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Shaanxi Baishui Thief Wang Er, Fugu Thief Wang Jiayin, Yichuan Thief King Zuohang, Feishan Tiger, Big Red Wolf and others began to gather people to make chaos and occupy the mountain as kings.

Although the chaotic people and bandits at this time had not yet developed to the point of attacking the state capital and county seat, the vast countryside had already become a world of thieves, and the officers and soldiers did not dare to leave the city easily.

At that time, Qiao Yingjia, the governor of Shaanxi, and Zhu Tongmeng, the governor of Yansui, reported good news but not bad news, and did not report the thieves in northern Shaanxi, nor did they do anything to deal with it, and the result became more and more intense.

After Emperor Chongzhen came to power, of course, he quickly dismissed these two eunuch backbones, but the newly appointed Shaanxi governor Hu Tingyan and Yansui governor Yue Hesheng still did nothing, and the later two people were personally removed by the new Chongzhen Emperor.

By the time Hong Chengchou took over as governor of Shaanxi and Sun Chuanting took over as governor of Yansui, the thieves had already spread, and the entire northern Shaanxi Province, except for a few central towns, and the vast countryside and fields, had all become the world of thieves.

From this point of view, Li Zicheng may indeed have been a post guard in Yinchuan Station on the outskirts of Mizhi for a few years, but before this post station was abolished in the second year of Chongzhen, Yinchuan Station had been abandoned, and Li Zicheng had long since disappeared.

According to the wild history, when he was about 20 years old, the young Li Hongji married a woman named Han Jin'er, who was a concubine in Yan'an Mansion before marrying Li Hongji. Later, after being introduced, Li Hongji coveted his beauty at first sight, so he married him.

However, after marrying Han Jin'er, the good times did not last long, because the young Li Hongji made a living by working as a post man in Yinchuan Station, and there was no way to stay at home for a long time, Han Jin'er, who was unwilling to be lonely, hooked up with a strong prodigal son surnamed Shuangquanbao nearby.

Although Li Hongji's family background is average, he has always been bold and martial arts, and he has many friends in the rivers and lakes, listened to the gossip in the streets, took a group of brothers, found an opportunity, caught the adulterer ** in bed, killed them together, and then simply took his brothers together and went to his uncle Gao Yingxiang, and since then he has embarked on the life path of killing officials and rebelling as a rogue.

The low-level spies of Jinyiwei naturally don't know how important these things are assigned by the above, and Emperor Chongzhen really can't say that the people he is looking for may overthrow the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Even people of this era generally believe that the emperor is the Son of Heaven who is carried by heaven and can know something that others don't know, but you can't be too abnormal, at least not too wise, otherwise it is very likely to be self-defeating.

Therefore, in this way, until July of the first year of Chongzhen, more than half a year has passed, and Emperor Chongzhen confessed to find several thieves in northern Shaanxi, but none of them were found.

And the only person who found the trace was Gao Yingxiang, but at this time, Gao Yingxiang was already a well-known horse thief leader, and in the spring of the first year of Chongzhen, he had already created an official mansion with another horse thief leader, Wang Daliang, Gao Yingxiang claimed to be the king of Chuang, and Wang Daliang called himself the king of Daliang.

In this regard, even the officials and soldiers of Yansui Town were helpless for a while, let alone a few Jinyi guard spies.

In addition to passing the news back, these people can only continue to lurk in northern Shaanxi.

And after such a long time, he received a news that he already knew, and Emperor Chongzhen didn't have any hope of killing Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in advance, so he could only wait for them to come out again, and then eliminate them one by one on the battlefield.

In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen didn't feel any regrets, if the spies of the Jinyi Guard Espionage Division really killed these people in advance, he would feel too boring.

After all, such a Ming Dynasty is neither the Ming Dynasty he is familiar with, nor the Ming Dynasty that he was fascinated by in the past.

Today's Emperor Chongzhen is no longer the one in history, and he has more than 300 years of knowledge than Zhu Youzhen in history, will he be defeated again in the hands of people like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong? ! Now this Emperor Chongzhen still doesn't believe in this evil!

However, if you don't believe in evil, you don't believe in evil, and the preparations that should be done are the same.

While approving Yuan Chonghuan to move Guyuan Town north to Huamachi and Dingbianwei, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Daming also issued orders to Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, and Qiu Zhaolin, the governor of Henan.

First of all, let Zhang Xiao recruit people in Shanxi, start from the Bitou Pass to the south, along the line of the Yellow River, select dangerous passes, build fortresses, and reorganize armaments.

Secondly, let Hong Chengchou send the whole army of Shaanxi General Zhang Guoxing to move to Tongguan, and at the same time build a tall urn city on the east and west sides of Tongguan Pass, and set up heavy artillery defense.

Finally, let the governor Yamen of Qiu Zhaolin, the governor of Henan, and the people of the Henan General Military Office move to Luoyang City as soon as possible, and then on the historical Cuihan Old Road, east of Tongguanwei, west of Hongnongwei, between the northern foot of Cuishan Mountain and the south bank of the Yellow River, pick up the most dangerous place to rebuild the Guancheng of Hangu Pass, and send a deputy general soldier to defend the defense.

Zhang Xiao and Hong Chengchou have already been introduced before, so there is no need to say more here. Here is the governor of Henan, Qiu Zhaolin. Qiu Zhaolin, whose name is Mao Bo, is a native of Linchuan, Jiangxi, and can be regarded as a literary scholar among the famous ministers in the late Ming Dynasty.

This man is a man and a martial artist, with a straightforward personality, in the thirty-eight years of the Apocalypse, in the first year of the Apocalypse, he had patrolled Henan with the title of imperial history, and suppressed the White Lotus Uprising that broke out in eastern Henan and other places at that time, and in the fifth year of the Apocalypse, because of the impeachment of Wei Zhongxian for his abuse of power, he was dismissed from office by the imperial court controlled by Wei Zhongxian.

In August of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he immediately ordered him to serve as the governor of Henan.

Qiu Zhaolin's governor of Henan, although not personally appointed by the current Emperor Chongzhen from later generations, was also appointed by the historical Emperor Chongzhen himself, so there is no need to change it.

Historically, after Qiu Zhaolin arrived, he suppressed the annexation, opened up the wasteland, implemented the protection of armor, cut redundant troops, and rectified the armament, but soon offended the magnates headed by King Fu and the local heroes, and was finally dismissed again in the second year of Chongzhen, and soon died of anger on the way back to his hometown, and the situation in Henan was also greatly damaged.

Of course, today's Emperor Chongzhen will not easily listen to slander, especially the slander of the so-called prince of the clan, and the letter of complaint from the Fu Wangfu will not only not let the current Chongzhen Emperor deal with Qiu Zhaolin, but will make him trust Qiu Zhaolin even more.

After the three governors of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan received the emperor's will, only Hong Chengchou, who had seen the emperor in person, fully understood the emperor's deep meaning, and Zhang Xiao and Qiu Zhaolin were both a little inexplicable, and they didn't know why the emperor suddenly made such a will.

However, as loyal and virtuous ministers of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, and Qiu Zhaolin, the governor of Henan, still obeyed the order and soon took measures in accordance with the emperor's will.

For Qiu Zhaolin, the governor of Henan, it was not too difficult for the governor's yamen and the general military office to move from Kaifeng to Luoyang, after all, this move to the town was mostly related to military affairs, and the three major yamen in charge of civil affairs, justice and health affairs, the three major yamen of the political envoy department, the inspection envoy department, and the command envoy department were still located in the immovable place of Kaifeng Fucheng, so it was not too much of a toss.

For Qiu Zhaolin, the misdeeds of the Fuwang Mansion around Luoyang have reached the point of common indignation, and the King of Zhou, whose fief is in Kaifeng Mansion, is much more virtuous.

Therefore, in his opinion, the things arranged by the emperor are not difficult, and the only difficult problem is that the construction of a new Hangu Pass City on the old road of Cuihan will inevitably require a large amount of money and grain, and the source of these money and grain, the emperor did not mention a word, but asked him to move the Henan Governor Yamen and the General Army Yamen to Luoyang as soon as possible after receiving the order.