Historically, at noon on July 25 in the first year of Chongzhen, a large-scale mutiny occurred in Ningyuan, which had been in arrears for several months. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The two people who initially rushed to the front to take the lead, one was named Zhang Zhengchao, and the other was Zhang Sishun, both of whom were the commanders of the Zhenwu battalion stationed in Ningyuan City in Liaodong Town.

Due to the financial difficulties of the imperial court at that time, there was no silver to be issued, so even in a military town like Liaodong, the camp was in arrears for more than six months.

Most of the low-level soldiers were extremely dissatisfied with this, so Zhang Zhengchao and Zhang Sishun, the two commanders, took the lead in the Zhenwu camp to call for wages.

The thirteen battalion leaders stationed in Ningyuan, tens of thousands of soldiers, under the prodding and instigation of well-intentioned people, rushed out of the camp gate one after another, looted the market, and finally developed to attack the Yamen of the Liao Governor's Mansion and the Yamen of the Ningyuan General Military Mansion, and captured the then Liaodong Governor Bi Zisu, the deputy envoy of the Liaodong military garrison Guo Guang, the Ningyuan General Zhu Mei, the general judge Zhang Shirong, and the official Su Han.

Because Bi Ziyan, the head of the household department at that time, was the elder brother of Bi Zisu, the governor of Liaodong, the rebellious soldiers led by Zhang Zhengchao, Zhang Sishun and others immediately asked Bi Zisu for military salaries.

But the yamen of Liaodong at that time did not have any silver, even if Bi Zisu had an elder brother who was the head of the household department, it was useless, and the court did not give Liaodong silver, Bi Zisu really had no problem at all.

Although Bi Zisu is the governor of Liaodong, in front of the rebels, he really responded to that sentence, and Xiucai couldn't explain it when he met the soldiers.

Bi Zisu and others, who couldn't take out the silver, were tied up on the city tower by the rebels and humiliated in every way. However, in the end, the rebels made trouble, and when they saw that they could indeed not find any silver in the yamen of the governor of Liaodong, they took a step back and continued to detain the governor Bi Zisu and other officials, and released Guo Guang, a local wealthy family with a reputation among the people of Ningyuan and the deputy envoy of the Liaodong military garrison at the time, and he raised money for the rebels in Ningyuan City.

In the end, Guo Guang temporarily raised 50,000 taels of silver among the merchants and people of Ningyuan, and handed it over to the leader of the 13th battalion of Ningyuan, and promised that the fault was in the governor's yamen and that he would not be held accountable for the rebellion of the 13th battalion.

The tens of thousands of rebellious soldiers who received the money and the promise of forgiveness finally collected their troops and returned to the camp after making trouble in Ningyuan City for a few days.

After such a thing happened, Bi Zisu, the governor of Liaodong, immediately left Ningyuan and went to the Zhongzuo Institute near Ningyuan, feeling that he was born in the three lists of Jinshi and lived in the position of governor of Liaodong, but he was tied up and beaten by a group of chaotic soldiers for several days.

After the incident, the imperial court quickly recalled Yuan Chonghuan and appointed him as the governor of Jiliao, and quickly went north to Ningyuan to quell the rebellion. Yuan Chonghuan was indeed very prestigious in Ningyuan's army, and after he arrived in Ningyuan, the mutiny was quickly quelled.

And Yuan Chonghuan really did not delve into the responsibility of the rebellion, but only killed more than a dozen minions who rushed to the front and looted the market, and even Zhang Zhengchao and Zhang Sishun, who were the initiators of the rebellion, were not arrested, except for demotion, they were all spared.

Why Yuan Chonghuan did this, it is difficult to figure out now, and it is difficult for outsiders to know how many cats are hidden in it. But the results of Yuan Chonghuan's actions are extremely significant.

The first effect is remarkable, referring to the rapid subsidence of the rebellion, this result is very significant, as soon as Yuan Chonghuan arrived in Ningyuan, he only killed a dozen small soldiers, and the rebellion was immediately quelled.

The second remarkable effect is that from now on, there will be endless mutinies among the Ming officials and soldiers.

Moreover, the unlucky ones are all civilian officials who lead the troops, and as for the military attaches who lead the troops, in addition to being demoted or reprimanded, few of them are beheaded because of the mutiny of their subordinates.

As a result, in the last years of Chongzhen, the arrogant soldiers and fierce generals who listened to the tune and did not listen to the announcement were everywhere, but Emperor Chongzhen had no way to take those arrogant generals, and finally the world of the Ming Dynasty could not be cleaned up.

Today's Emperor Chongzhen naturally can't let Ning Yuan mutiny again, and there will be such a worst ending.

Long before the current Jiliao Governor Lu Shanji set off for Ningyuan to take office, Emperor Chongzhen, who had a deep impression of the Ningyuan Mutiny in history, explained several precautions to Lu Shanji, one of which was to be sure to pay attention to the possibility that the soldiers might mutiny because of the salary.

Since Lu Shanji took office at the end of April, he has indeed asked his subordinates to arrange informants in various camps and forts in Liaodong Town, and pay careful attention to the dangerous signs that may lead to a mutiny.

But what he didn't expect was that such a thing still happened, and the first to make trouble were the two commanders of the Zhenwu Camp in Liaodong Town, Zhang Zhengchao and Zhang Sishun.

The reasons for the mutiny were complex and multifaceted, but the immediate trigger was the long-standing dissatisfaction of the soldiers with the Shangguan.

In the early morning of 25 July, Zhang Zhengchao and Zhang Sishun, who had gathered in the Zhenwu camp to gamble all night, lost more than 100 taels of silver overnight, just like the stories that have happened in history.

In addition to the savings of the two of them, each of them also owed seventy or eighty taels of foreign debts, and what they owed was the usury of Yang Wenkui, the general of the Zhenwu battalion.

On this morning, Zhang Zhengchao and Zhang Sishun, who had gambled all night, finally ended a gambling game, and walked out of the barracks of Yang Wenkui, the general of the Zhenwu Battalion, with red eyes and a dejected head.

The one who is slightly short but strong and stocky is called Zhang Sishun, who is tall and sturdy, with a Chinese face and a beard, is Zhang Zhengchao.

These two people are both from military households, they have been in the army since childhood, they don't want to die when they fight, they are tough guys who crawled out of the pile of dead, if it weren't for the bad gambling habits, according to their respective skills, they would have been the same as Yang Wenkui and others, and they would have become generals, even if they were almost transported, they should be a guerrilla, and they should be a capital or garrison officer at the very least.

It's a pity that although the two fought bravely on the battlefield, after seizing the Jurchen head, they both exchanged it for silver to pay off gambling debts, because although they fought a lot of tough battles and took a lot of heads, most of the time they were sold to others in private, such as people like Yang Wenkui and his nephew Yang Shengyuan.

These two people joined the army with Zhang Zhengchao and Zhang Sishun, both of whom started as pawns, and now they are two uncles and nephews, one is a general of the Zhenwu Battalion and the other is a guerrilla of the Chinese army of the Zhenwu Battalion, and compared with the commanders of the Zhang family, they are naturally much higher.

The two were dissatisfied, but they didn't dare to express it, but they just blindly pursued the injustice of the sky and the court.

Today is the same, in the first half of the night, the two of them were lucky, and they had been sitting in the village and winning, once winning three or five hundred taels of silver, and their hearts were naturally extremely refreshing, and the more they gambled, the bigger they gambled, but unfortunately in the second half of the night, their luck changed abruptly, and it was the turn of the Yang family's uncles and nephews to become more and more prosperous.

What's even more infuriating is that the two bastards of the left battalion guerrilla Wu Guoqi and the right battalion guerrilla Zuo Liangyu, who gambled together, first followed themselves to buy big and small, and made a lot of money, and then saw that they were unlucky, so they stood on the side of Yang's uncle and nephew, followed the squeeze, and refused to borrow a tael of silver, and finally could only borrow usury from the banker's Yang's uncle and nephew to turn the tables.

As a result, not only did he not turn the tables, but he borrowed more and more debts, and when the day dawned and the gambling game ended, he really lost nothing but a bunch of IOUs.

The two walked in the camp, sighing as they walked, only to hear the short and stocky Zhang Sishun say: "Big brother, brother thinks this thing is wrong!" Originally, we have been winning, why did we lose as soon as General Yang came? Could it be that they set up a trap for our brothers! ”

Zhang Zhengchao was sulking to himself, and when he heard this, he glared at Zhang Sishun viciously, and said angrily: "Even if those bastards set up a trick for me, what else can you fucking do?!" Anyway, Lao Tzu admits to gambling and loses, and it's a big deal to risk his life in the future and take two more Jianyu's heads! ”

Zhang Sishun's heart was also not smooth, so he replied: "What the eldest brother said, the brother is not a bad seed who is afraid of death, if there is a war to fight, is our brother still worried about the lack of silver flowers?" Isn't this going to withdraw to Yiju now, Quang Ninh and Da Ling River have been abandoned, what battle can there be?!

"Besides, within this month, we have to plug the current hole, if you and my brother can't plug this hole, our two lives will not be our own in the future, how many heads do we have to take for their surname Yang to be considered a head?!"