After the expulsion order from the Governor's Office of the Northwest Trilateral Governor's Palace, that is, the "Sumu Suman Book" was released, it began with Wuwei in Ningxia and gradually spread to the south and west.

It didn't take long for Yuan Chonghuan to send teams of military sentinels to the south, going to Pingliang City, Jingning Prefecture and even Lanzhou City to disperse.

Soon, not only the leaders of the thieves in Pingliang, Jingyuan, Zhuanglang, and Jingning at the foot of Liupan Mountain all knew the news, but also the Gannan region where there were still thieves separated from the official army, such as Tianshui, Luozhou, Taozhou, Lintao, Hezhou, and the Musu barbarian rebels in Hexi, Gansu, also heard the news.

Along with this expulsion order, of course, there were various rumors of the massacre of the city after the official army conquered Guyuan.

A large number of Mu Su Man in Ningxia and Gannan were not willing to completely naturalize the imperial court as stated in the book of Mu Suman, but also did not want to stay where they were, got involved in the war, and were slaughtered by the officials and soldiers, so they had to pack their bags, bypass Lanzhou and other cities where the official army was still guarded, and go west.

Some drove donkey carts and took away the family, young and old, and everything they could take with them.

Some drove sheep and horses, men and women, and took away all the belongings they could.

Ma Jinzhong, who was in the city of Hezhou, was self-proclaimed as the commander of the Hezhou Guard, and after receiving the expulsion order from the Trilateral Governor's Palace, he was worried for many days.

As one of the main figures of the Taozhou Mutiny half a year ago, Ma Jinzhong saw the results he never thought of and never wanted to see from this "Sumu Subarian Book".

What is the current Ming Emperor, and what is his attitude towards them, the families of the northwest border generals, he, a small former border general in Lintao Town, has no chance to see it, and there is no way to know.

Therefore, he couldn't see through the current Jingshi court, and he couldn't figure it out, so that he couldn't grasp what the current court was after waiting for months with troops.

Until mid-April, the news of the Guyuan massacre came, and a few days later, the generals under his command sent him a letter of sue Mu Subarian from the Trilateral Governor's Mansion in a panic, and then he knew that something was wrong.

They can't wait for the court's appeasement.

At the beginning, the imperial court did not remove the trilateral governor Yuan Chonghuan, which had already made him feel that the development of the situation was out of his expectations, but he did not expect it to come to this point.

Now, Ma Jinzhong faintly regrets what he did half a year ago, during the Taozhou Mutiny, the Musu barbarian army wantonly slaughtered the Han people, and the large-scale riots caused in the towns and villages of the state capitals in Gannan were completely out of control.

At the beginning, the generals and soldiers under the command of Ma Jinzhong and others, as well as the chaotic Musu Barbarian Jingtang Temple, profited a lot from the process of robbing and slaughtering the Han people and Han villages around them, gold, silver, grain, cloth, women, what they wanted.

Many soldiers and soldiers of the Musu Barbarian Border and the Musu Barbarian natives who were poor in the past became rich overnight.

But after a few months, including big names like Ma Jinzhong, they all felt deep worries.

There were no Han people and Han merchants in Hezhou City, and the Han villages outside Hezhou City were either looted and destroyed, or the people fled without a trace, and people went to the ground.

The ruined city and countryside suddenly became empty, the city that used to be full of traffic is now like a ghost town, and the densely populated countryside in the past is now like a ghost land.

Although their ancestors came from the Western Regions and settled here for 300 years, most of them still rely on various trades and commerce, mainly gathered in towns and cities, acting as small traders and hawkers from all walks of life.

Those who lived in the vast countryside outside the city also did not know how to farm, but mainly lived by herding sheep.

Now that there are no Han people inside and outside Hezhou City, and there are no more these pagans who are full of sin in the mouth of Mu Su Man, after a long time, Mu Su Man upper-class figure like Ma Jinzhong immediately felt that something was wrong and felt uneasy.

Without the Han people outside the city, who will cultivate the land outside the city, and without the Han people in the city, who will buy the things of those small merchants and peddlers in Musuman?!

For 300 years, the Ma family in Hezhou has been the largest merchant in Hezhou and the largest landlord in Hezhou.

Now, after the rebellion, the passes in Shaanxi under the control of Hong Chengchou have completely blocked Gannan, and all kinds of Han commercial goods, such as bulk tea, grain, salt, cloth, etc., have been cut off.

Without these goods, the Ma family's greatest source of wealth, namely trade and smuggling, would soon be unable to continue.

And not only that, as the largest local landlord in Hezhou, the Ma family owned a large amount of land and grange, as well as a large amount of military land obtained from the annexation of Hezhou Weisuotuntian, which was soon unsustainable.

Because the large number of tenant farmers who cultivated the grange of the Ma family were almost all Han Chinese, these people were either killed or fled in the Musuman riot.

In March and April of the third year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, the previous years have entered the days of large-scale spring ploughing, and in the countryside outside Hezhou City, there is no farmer who supports the plough to sow seeds and cultivate.

Ma Jinzhong's territory, Hezhou, although it does not border with the official army, is located in the westernmost part of the entire Gannan Taomin land, and there is no danger of the official army entering and suppressing it for the time being, but the lifeless atmosphere inside and outside the city of Hezhou makes this leader of the Musu barbarian mutiny even more worried.

One day in early May, Ma Jinzhong convened several henchmen to discuss the matter in the former Hezhou Wei Command and Envoy Office.

The official office of the Hezhou Wei Command Department is located in the first two entrances of the Ma family's compound, and there are three huge courtyards in the back, which is where Ma Jinzhong and his family live today.

This place previously belonged to Ma Jinzhong's uncle Ma Wanshou, and after Ma Wanshou was killed, it was owned by Ma Wanshou's eldest son, Ma Jinzhi.

However, Ma Jinzhi is only fifteen or sixteen years old, and he is a pampered child since he was a child, and he has not been in the army for a day, and his prestige in the Hezhou Guard at this time is far inferior to Ma Jinzhong, who is twenty or thirty years older than him.

Therefore, Ma Jinzhong led his troops back after the Taozhou mutiny, and while successfully taking over Hezhou City and becoming the head of the Ma family in Hezhou, he also became the head of the Musu barbarians in Hezhou.

Ma Wanshou's wives and concubines, as well as Ma Jinzhi's brothers, had to move out of the official office of the Hezhou Wei Command Department to make room for Ma Jinzhong.

On this day, Ma Jinzhong and his henchmen Ma Xin, Ma Shun, and the imam Saiyide of Hezhou City discussed in the second hall of the Hezhou Health Office.

Ma Jinzhong, the puppet commander of Hezhou Wei, had a beard at this time, short hair and a white hat, dressed in a white placket (that is, a long robe), holding a blue and white tea bowl in his hand, drinking tea from time to time, looking out of the door, and listening to a few henchmen with a worried face.

I only heard one of the people present say: "I shouldn't have killed Yang Qi in the first place!" Even if the adults couldn't stop it at that time, and let people kill Yang Qi, when those imams in Taozhou City asked them to kill the red-haired ghosts, they shouldn't have killed the Han people in the city indiscriminately!

"Now the Han people in the northwest, which one of them is not as deep as the sea and is invincible, how can the Han emperor in the Jinluan Palace in Beijing give up?!

"My lord took me back to Hezhou, and I sat in this city day by day, waiting for the court to recruit An, but today, I'm afraid I can't wait for Zhao'an!"

The person who spoke was still dressed in the armor of the Lintao Border Army, but the iron helmet on the top of his head was replaced by the white hat of Mu Suman's logo, and the loose curly short hair that could not be covered under the little white hat showed his identity as Mu Suman.

This person is Ma Xin, one of Ma Jinzhong's right-hand men.

Since Mu Suman entered China, he has kept his clothes and hairstyles for hundreds of years.

After Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, established the Ming Dynasty, he issued an edict to restore the clothes of the former Song Dynasty, and forbade the wearing of Hu clothes and speaking Hu language within the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

This edict was well implemented in the Ming Dynasty's two capitals and thirteen provinces, and most of the Mu Suman, who were scattered in the inland provinces and even the coastal areas south of the Yangtze River, were soon sinicized.

Although at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, there were several rebellions against this edict in Guangzhou, Quanzhou and other areas where there were many Musumans, but all of them were suppressed.

By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Hui people scattered among the Han people in the two capitals and thirteen provinces in the interior of the Ming Dynasty were difficult for outsiders to distinguish if they did not say that they were Hui.

However, this edict of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, has not been vigorously implemented in the northwest border, in the southwest Tusi region and other confined areas.

Except for those Mu Suman officials who served in the court, government, and army of the Ming Dynasty, who had to abide by the laws of the Ming Dynasty and change their Chinese clothes, no one else who lived in the border areas of Mu Suman obeyed the decrees of the imperial court at all.

This time, after Ma Jinzhong and others rebelled, in order to increase the prestige of these officers and generals in Mu Suman, they naturally changed the clothes and crowns of the abandoned officers and soldiers at the first time and changed back to Mu Suman's clothing.

Although these people have been officials and generals in the Lintao border army for generations, they have never adopted the hairstyle prescribed by the imperial court, and wore their hair in a bun on the top of their heads like Han generals.

Therefore, they were all short-haired, and they changed their clothes, but they just changed their hats, but they changed the original Ming army helmet to a little white hat of Mu Suman.

It's just that the standard helmet of the Ming army can be discarded, but the armor that symbolizes the original status is reluctant to be left behind, after all, the quasi-white robe from the far west can block the swords, guns, bows and arrows of the unofficial army.

Ma Xin, who was dressed a little nondescriptly, finished speaking, and Ma Jinzhong, who had been sitting for a long time, put down the tea bowl, sighed, and said:

"I really can't wait for the emperor Lao Tzu to recruit An! I hate this Yuan man, he insists on forcing my Ma Jinzhong to a dead end! ”