Mr. Tolstoy said, "Happy families are all alike, and unhappy families have their own misfortunes." "This is very reasonable. This sentence of Tolstoy vividly illustrates the problem of the universality and particularity of contradictions.

    In the words of Mr. To, we can say: the feudal dynasties that are dying are all similar, and the powerful and prosperous empires have their own prosperity. And so it is. If we look at the historical material, we can see that all the feudal dynasties in their last days were very similar.

    Among them, the weakening of the armed forces is one of these similarities.

    Under normal circumstances, even if it is like the white pole soldiers of Shizhu Tusi, this kind of local troops that can be deployed at will, there is no reason to deploy them year after year.

    From the beginning of the Battle of Liaodong in 1616 to the early pacification of the Lu'an Rebellion in 1625 (compared with normal history), Qin Liangyu's mother and son and Qin's sisters and brothers have been leading the white pole soldiers to fight in the northeast and southwest for ten years for the imperial court.

    In the past ten years, five or six batches of white pole soldiers have been replaced. If it weren't for Wang Shuhui and the Fuxing Association's assistance to the Shizhu area, with the local population and productivity level of Shizhu Tusi, it would not have been able to sustain it for such a long time. For example, on the battlefield of Liaodong, more than 4,000 white pole soldiers were killed. This is the purest form of population consumption.

    The white pole soldiers led by Qin Liangyu's family only returned to their hometown in 1625, that is, in the middle of this year. Normally speaking, no matter how much the imperial court looks down on the Tusi soldiers, and does not treat the Tusi soldiers as people, it is impossible to be so endlessly recruited.

    The reason why the imperial court did this, we have to say that the current eunuchs are still relatively reliable. Whether it is Wei Zhongxian, the leader of the eunuch party, or Gu Bingqian, the spokesperson of the eunuch party in the government system, one of the problems they all know is that in the current army of the Ming Dynasty, there are only two kinds of soldiers who can be pulled out to fight.

    When Cheng Shao's matter was reported to the above, Wei Zhongxian really couldn't believe it. The state of the local army is so bad that it is. They didn't even have to fight the rebels, and a long march could break up the team and drive the commander to death.

    Wei Zhongxian, a political figure, of course, also put party struggle in the first place in political life. However, unlike the Donglin Party, and even different from other eunuch literati, Wei Zhongxian really regarded the Ming Dynasty as the belongings of the Zhu Emperor and regarded himself as the great boss of the Ming Dynasty.

    In Wei Zhongxian's view, these things are important, but it is also very important to help the emperor take care of his family. Therefore, Wei Zhongxian had to report the whole matter in detail to the Ming Dynasty's hardcore carpentry enthusiast Emperor Tianqi.

    Wei Zhongxian took this matter very seriously. The Emperor of the Apocalypse didn't take this matter seriously at all. In his words, "When the Lord of the Temple (Emperor Jiajing) was there, the guards in the world were broken, so there was the Qi family army." This is why starting from the master of the temple, the first emperors of all dynasties have attached importance to the inner court. The ancestors are using you to help the Heavenly Family watch those thieves and martial ruffians. ”

    The Emperor of the Apocalypse rarely got out of the carpenter's work and talked about the government. This time, he played at a super level, and according to Wei Zhongxian's reminder, he remembered that he should send new eunuchs to various places. After that, he discussed with Wei Zhongxian the candidates for the eunuchs in various places.

    This kind of thing can't help but be unconcerned by Wei Zhongxian. This is a good opportunity for him to extend his influence to the local area. Therefore, the matter of the Huguang rebellion was interrupted by the Emperor of the Apocalypse himself.

    If we turn the page of history, we have to say that the emperors of the Zhu family are a little different from the emperors of other dynasties. It seems that the princes and grandsons of the Zhu Ming Dynasty competed for the right to inherit, except for a "Battle of Jingjing" and an unreliable "Ning Wang Change", the Zhu Dynasty was quite peaceful in this regard.

    Of course, this peace is not without a price. The price is that the finances of the entire Ming Dynasty will be burdened with a huge amount of clan expenses.

    No one likes to pay for someone else's days of drinking. The emperor was not willing either. Therefore, the kings of the Ming Dynasty worked tirelessly to pick on the problems of the vassal kings in various places, and tried to cancel the qualifications of these people from spending all their time and drinking. However, no matter how you say it, for the emperor, this is all his own business. The emperor can try his best to cancel the titles and titles of the vassal kings, and if outsiders help him, it will be touching the dragon's scales.

    Emperor Tianqi originally thought that the Wuchang military rebellion was just another ordinary local guard soldier's trouble, but one day, the Emperor of the Apocalypse heard the little eunuch who served him next to him say that because of the Wuchang military rebellion, the Chu domain (Chu Wangfu) was extinct.

    The two little eunuchs are both people who are studying in the inner study hall, and the two of them talk about the news they heard from the master of the inner study hall as a talking point, but they don't know that this matter has deeply stimulated the nerves of the apocalypse carpenter who has not had a strong sense of security.

    Originally, the Emperor of the Apocalypse ignored the government and didn't like to listen to the report of the celebrity, but at this time, the nervous Emperor of the Apocalypse was very angry because of the heir of the Chu Domain, and called several bigwigs of the celebrity supervisor over for a good time. Questioning them, why didn't they report such a big matter as the collapse of the clan to him.

    Although the emperor has only reacted now because this matter has been reported a long time ago, it makes everyone very strange, but the person who is the celebrant is a minister after all, so being scolded is one of their own jobs. However, after being scolded, things did become different.

    Everyone originally wanted to take advantage of the Wuchang Mutiny to get rid of a few more feudal officials of the Donglin Party, but now because His Majesty the Emperor has paid attention to this matter, and has taken the overthrow of the clan very seriously. Therefore, a swift and beautiful solution to the Wuchang Mutiny has become the task of the eunuchs who are currently in charge of the Ming Dynasty.

    At this time, the problem arose, whether it was Wei Zhongxian or Wei Zhongxian's subordinates, they had already realized a very clear truth through the death of Cheng Shao: now the local troops of the Ming Dynasty are completely rotten, and they can't actually bear the work of counterinsurgency.

     Then according to the current situation, the only people who can fight and win the war in the Ming Dynasty are the Tusi soldiers of the Shizhu Xuanfu Division who have just flattened the Tusi Rebellion in the southwest of the land, the Tusi soldiers of the Qin family, and the nine-sided army that consumes more than half of the income of the imperial court every year.

     But the current situation is that because the Eastern and Northern Tatars have not stopped, the Nine-sided Army does not dare to move at all. As for the Tusi soldiers of Shizhu, they had just quelled the turmoil in the southwest in the middle of this year, and it was less than half a year since they returned home.

    Wei Zhongxian and his men searched for thirteen moves, but they couldn't find any other serious troops that could fight. Therefore, after resting at home for less than half a year, the white pole soldiers are about to go to the battlefield again.

    Wei Zhongxian is still more reliable when he does serious things. He knew that his subordinates were all "whole people", and they couldn't play with marching and fighting. It was precisely because of such a sober understanding that Wei Zhongxian decided to appoint Zhu Xieyuan, the governor of Sichuan, who had quelled the rebellion in the southwest, to take command.

     Shangshu of the Ministry of War, Governor of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Huguang, Henan, Jiangxi Province Military Affairs Such an important title, Wei Zhongxian gave Zhu Xieyuan, who had vague factional tendencies, which shows how important Wei Zhongxian regarded this matter.