Ma Zongbing couldn't believe that the officials of Xuanzhen would agree to exchange markets with Manchukuo.

Zhang Tinggong and Chen Qiyu, the two governors, couldn't believe it.

Chen Qiyu was suspicious:

"Could it be that Shen Di, the governor of Xuanfu, is following the emperor's will?"

"It is impossible for the emperor not to know the scene of Xuanda, he has no intentions, even if he lends Shen Di 100,000 guts, he will not dare to make decisions with Manchuria."

"Today's emperor loves and hates clearly, how can he make peace with Jiannu? Even if it is really the intention of the Shang, how can Datong Mansion not know it? ”

"If you dare to negotiate peace without your intentions, how can Shen Di have such courage! Could it be that Shen Di really served the emperor's will? ”

"Today's emperor loves and hates clearly, how can he make peace with Jiannu! Even if it was really Shangyi, how could Datong Mansion not know it! ”

"If you don't have any intentions, how dare Shen Di make decisions without permission!"

……

Zhang Tinggong softly interrupted Chen Qiyu's dead loop:

"Yuxuan, you are from the court, you should know the affairs of the court. Now there are Shandong rebels in the east, Shaanxi rebels in the west, Jiannu in the north, and 100,000 people in the imperial court on three sides, if you are the current emperor, how will you deal with this matter? ”

Chen Qiyu was stunned for a long time, and muttered to himself: "Boss, the imperial court is not only in a hurry on three sides, but the toast in the south is reversed!" ”

Zhang Tinggong's face suddenly turned pale, "Yuxuan, isn't the south already pacified?" Tell me what's going on. ”

……

Speaking of which, Zhu Youzhen, the Chongzhen Emperor at the end of the Ming Dynasty, was really not ordinarily bad. His brother Zhu Youxiao took his hand and told him: "My brother should be Yao Shun", and then threw him a mess.

At that time, Wei Zhongxian eunuchs were in charge of the court, and there was a Manchu Nurhachi rebellion in the northeast, and a Li Azhe in the southwest raised troops.

Ah Zhe raised an army, and the Chinese historical materials called it "The Rebellion of Luxury". Broadly speaking, it can be pointed out that a series of anti-Ming wars of the Yi people in the southwest began in the first year of the Apocalypse, which successively affected the four provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan and Guizhou, with more than one million casualties, and was finally extinguished by Zhang Xianzhong, the Great Western Army, and Wu Sangui.

Later generations often blamed the fall of the Ming Dynasty on the Manchus in the northeast and the Li in the southwest. In fact, to make an analogy, the blow of the northeast and southwest to the Ming Dynasty is "worse". The Manchus are snow, and the Li are frost. Although the snow is strong, the snow is in the light, and the sturdy crops can barely withstand it; Frost is in the dark, and a frost can kill the crops.

In the first year of the Apocalypse, the Ming court was tight on the northeast front and transferred Tusi soldiers from all over the country to Liao to participate in the war.

Sichuan Yongning (then part of Guizhou) Tusi Xuan Chongming, Li nationality name A Zhe, mobilized 20,000 native soldiers to Chongqing to assemble. However, the imperial court did not give military rations, and only 40,000 taels of silver were given.

Xu Keqiu, the governor of Chongqing, accused most of the soldiers transferred by Yu Chongming of being old, weak, sick and disabled, and had no combat effectiveness, and asked Yu Chongming to send back the native soldiers for re-recruitment.

Ah Zhe pulled up the anti-flag, led 20,000 "old and weak soldiers" to capture Chongqing, killed Xu Keqiu and more than 20 other officials, and divided his troops to capture Hejiang, Naxi, Zunyi and other important towns, and later besieged CD for more than 100 days.

For a time, the toasts in the southwest region responded one after another. Guizhou Shuixi Tusi An Bangyan quickly occupied Bijie, Anshun, Zhanyi and other places. Song Wanhua, the Tusi of Shuidong, Guizhou, occupied Longli and proclaimed himself the king of Luodian. In the second year of the Apocalypse, 100,000 Tusi troops dominated by Guizhou Shuixi and Shuidong surrounded Guiyang, besieged Guiyang for a whole year, 400,000 soldiers and civilians in the city, and finally starved to death, leaving only 20,000 people. It is said that people in the city cannibalize each other, and four catties of human flesh are worth one tael of silver.

At the beginning of the third year of the Apocalypse, the Tusi army in the southwest and the official army of the Ming Dynasty won and lost each other, and the two fought a protracted war in the mountains on the border of Sichuan and Guizhou.

The southwestern rebellion at the end of the Ming Dynasty restrained the forces of the five southwestern provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and more importantly, increased the military burden of the Ming Dynasty.

Taking the sixth year of the Apocalypse as an example, the Emperor of the Apocalypse ordered Yuan Chonghuan to "act cheaply" and contact Nurhachi to "negotiate peace". The expenditure on the war in Liaodong was reduced from 7.7 million taels to 6.8 million taels, while the military expenditure on quelling the rebellion in the southwest increased from 4 million taels to 5 million taels. The silver saved by the Ming court from the northeast filled the holes in the southwest.

During the Apocalypse, the silver spent by the old Zhu family to pacify the rebellion in the southwest can be regarded as an unbearable burden.

When Emperor Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, the sixteen-year-old Zhu Youzhen applied what he had learned in his "life" and did three things with enthusiasm and resoluteness:

First, vigorously and resolutely smashed the evil Wei Zhongxian eunuch clique;

second, to revive Yuan Chonghuan, who was abandoned by Wei Zhongxian, to supervise Jiliao with the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and to devote the country's material resources to build a fortified cannon, and repair it step by step to the city of Shenyang to recover Liaodong;

Third, "suffer my people for a few more years", Zhu Xieyuan, who revived Ding Wei, added the title of secretary of the military department to supervise the five provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Huguang and Guangzhou, and made every effort to encircle and suppress the Tusi in the southwest.

Zhu Youzhen was very wrong.

If it had worked, his brother would have done it a long time ago.

The biggest difference between Zhu Youxiao and Zhu Youzhen lies in the different educations they received. The elder brother Zhu Youxiao received the education of the emperor and the emperor, and the younger brother Zhu Youzhen received the education of the feudal king and the thought of loyalty.

Zhu Youzhen thought that everyone in this world should be as loyal and patriotic as he imagined, and for the benefit of the old Zhu family, he would not hesitate to throw his head and throw silver, starve, and even sell his son and daughter to eat.

Zhu Youzhen thinks that the people in this world, except for the good people who are loyal to the king, are all evil bad people.

Zhu Youzhen set up two battlefields in the northeast and southwest where a lot of money was spent, but he smashed the evil eunuch clique that had accumulated wealth for himself.

When the eunuch group was smashed, hundreds of officials praised him, and Zhu Youzhen thought that he was "Yao Shunyu soup" for a while. When it came time to ask for military expenses, the hundred officials had no choice one by one, and Zhu Youzhen was so angry that he replaced the five first assistants in one go.

The so-called eunuch party, to put it bluntly, is the "imperial party", the emperor's minions. When Zhu Youzhen executed Wei Zhongxian by virtue of his imperial power, it was no more laborious than executing a dog.

The original minions are too arrogant, just replace them with a new one, why bother to uproot all your minions?

Zhu Youzhen had no choice but to send out the eunuchs who had been withdrawn from various places to monitor the eunuchs.

But the bitter fruit has already been brewed.

Let's take a look at the immediate consequences:

——In July of the first year of Chongzhen, the Jimen garrison burned and looted gunpowder due to hunger, and the governor of Shuntian asked for arrears of wages for three months, and disbanded in order to appease the army.

——In July of the first year of Chongzhen, the Sichuan and Huguang soldiers in the Ningyuan army mutinied for four months due to lack of pay, and the remaining thirteen battalions rose accordingly. They invaded the shogunate and captured alive the governor Bi Zisu and the general soldier Zhu Mei. Bi Zisu had declared his arrears to the imperial court nine times, but the imperial court ignored them. Bi Zisu said that he was unable to support and was beaten to the point of serious injury. Later, Guo Guang, the deputy envoy of the military garrison, privately issued 20,000 taels of silver from the official treasury, and borrowed Wu Wanliang from a wealthy local businessman, and issued a total of 70,000 taels of silver before redeeming Bi and Zhu. Bi Zisu was disheartened and committed suicide.

——In the first year of Chongzhen, the border soldiers of Shaanxi Town mutinied, and the rebels robbed the Guyuan Prefecture Treasury, and in the first month of the following year, the Guyuan soldiers attacked Jingyang and Fuping.

——In the winter of the first year of Chongzhen, the imperial court was unable to relieve the hungry people in the northwest. Baishui Wang Er was the first to get into trouble, and then Fugu Wang Jiayin and Yichuan Wang Zuo hung up, and Ansai Gao Yingxiang and Hannan Wang Daliang responded. The Shaanxi rebels and the Shaanxi rebels set off a rebellion in the northwest.

Let's take a look at the Northeast Battlefield:

- The Manchus attacked Korea, and the imperial court was unable to help, and sat back and watched the surrender of this most loyal vassal state.

- Yuan Chonghuan had already sent information that the Manchus might make a detour to Jizhen. The defenders of Jizhen were short of pay, and the imperial court had no soldiers to help, and finally the Manchu soldiers came to the city of Beijing.

——The Qinwang army in various places had no travel expenses, and they broke up one after another to join the people's rebellion.

- There are always people who carry this pot, and if the minister doesn't carry it, the emperor will have to carry it. Chongzhen chose Yuan Chonghuan. The people ate Yuan Chonghuan's meat, and the courtiers immediately raised their vigilance against the emperor.

Talking about the Southwest Battlefield:

From the first year of Chongzhen to the third year, Zhu Xieyuan successively killed Hao Chongming and An Bangyan, and finally blocked the stronghold of the rebel Tusi for more than 100 miles, cut off food and besieged it for 100 days, and finally the rebel Tusi surrendered.

Located at the junction of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, the "Extravagant Rebellion" was pacified, and the whole country celebrated.

But Chen Qiyu brought the latest news from Beijing this time: in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Tusi in the southwest reversed again. The site of this rebellion took place in Yunnan.

During the "Rebellion of Luxury", Zhu Xieyuan exhausted the military and material resources of the southwestern provinces, and the neighboring provinces not only had to receive silver, grain and rice, but also recruited a large number of Tusi soldiers to help in the war.

After the "Rebellion of Luxury", Yunnan's finances collapsed. "The treasury has no penny", "three coins of rice", "and another murderous year, there is no price and no market".

In the "Rebellion of Luxury", there were two Tusi soldiers who made outstanding contributions. one is from Sichuan, known as the "White Pole Soldiers"; One is from Yunnan and is known as "Angbing".

At the beginning of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Ming court received a letter from the governor of Yunnan, saying that the "Angbing" Tusipu famous spot in Amizhou was against it, and asked for encirclement and suppression. Emperor Chongzhen ordered Yunnan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Huguang and other provinces to encircle and suppress each other, and the two sides held each other for six months from March.

During this period, the governor of Yunnan, Wang Yan, constantly asked the imperial court for soldiers and salaries. However, at this time, the imperial court was busy reinforcing the battle of the Daling River in the northeast, and had no time to take care of the southwest battlefield. The household department replied, one said: "When the east and the west are crusading, the council must not go, and on the day when the four are exhausted, the salary must not be much." The second said: We cannot "starve close to the division and feed the distant soldiers, and treat the hands and feet with the heart", and categorically refused to send additional troops to the southwest.

At this time, the imperial court received a report that Pu Mingsu had no intention of rebelling, and that it was the governor of Yunnan who provoked him for no reason.

Chongzhen issued an edict on October 15 of that year, dismissing Wang Yan, the governor of Yunnan, and Zhao Hongfan, the governor of Yunnan.

On October 28, the northeastern ancestor Dashou opened the gate of Dalinghe City and surrendered to Manchuria, and then fled back to Jinzhou alone. Emperor Chongzhen issued an edict three times, ordering Zu Dashou to enter Beijing to meet him, and Zu Dashou resigned and always stuck to Jinzhou City.

In the leap November of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Ming army reinforcing the Daling River mutinied in Wuqiao, Shandong. In the first month of the fifth year, the rebels occupied Dengzhou and captured the governor Sun Yuanhua alive; In February, Laizhou was besieged, and as of July of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Laizhou had been besieged for four months. The imperial court debated whether the rebels were suppressed or appeased, and in the final analysis, it was a matter of money and soldiers.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Ming army in the southwest encircled and suppressed the famous places in the Ming army, and the thirteen generals were annihilated. Pu Mingsheng rushed out of the cage, in Chongzhen five years of the first month of the first month of the attack on Yunnan Lin'an City, and then attacked Sanxiang County, and finally broke Ningzhou, Shiping Prefecture, and Shayuan Tusi and other thirteen Tusi, these areas are all subjugated to Pu Mingsheng, Pu Mingsheng rebellion has a tendency to sweep Yunnan.

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After Chen Qiyu explained the situation in the southwest to Zhang Tinggong, he couldn't help but look up to the sky and sigh:

"In all directions, there is an emergency everywhere! The court seeks to consolidate day and night, like a leaky boat in the huge waves; The courtiers begged the thief day and night, like a tiger bound with his bare hands. ”

Zhang Tinggong nodded frequently.

"That makes sense. One faction does not send troops, and the other faction does not produce food. Trapped in a place where there is nowhere, all the plans of a lifetime are born. The intention is unknown. ”

Chen Qiyu was shocked and shouted: "Could it be that Shen Di has been ordered by a secret order!?" ”

Zhang Tinggong immediately interrupted him: "Since it is a secret will, then what the will is, including whether there is a will or not, outsiders should not know!" Yuxuan, be careful! ”