A person who is an emperor can have the temperament of Wenqing, but it is definitely not possible to let Wenqing be the emperor. 【Reading.com】

In normal history, the performance of Zhu Youzhen, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was quite literate. The barely maintainable court situation left by his brother Zhu Youxiao made Zhu Youzhen, who was full of four books and five classics and a gentleman's way, and had not received a formal imperial education, very completely destroyed.

Without the restraint of the eunuchs' inner court, in normal history, the entire Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period fell into a complete quagmire of party strife. In this time and space, because of the butterfly effect caused by the emergence of Wang Shuhui and the Baath Party, the entire Central Plains region has fallen into the crisis of the peasant rebellion.

The forces of Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng and other peasant rebels have developed particularly strongly. They dragged the entire Shanxi and Henan provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and even the Beizhili region into chaos.

In this situation, Zhu Youzhen is no matter how young he is, and he does not dare to entrust the country and society to the hands of the civilian-bureaucratic bureaucracy who are sanctimonious and hypocritical to the core, and only know how to make money. Wei Zhongxian, who understands military affairs, can at least make a clear picture of the situation in the world, and by chance has become the only channel through which Zhu Youzhen can clearly understand the actual situation in the world. It is for this reason that he did not completely lose power as in history, and was finally secretly executed by Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen can only pinch his nose now and use Wei Zhongxian, the "big traitor" in his eyes, to maintain the court. Even Yuan Chonghuan, who made Zhu Youzhen hate to the bones, gritted his teeth and did not kill him.

Because Zhu Youzhen, who had just mastered the art of imperial balance, knew that he needed to use Yuan Chonghuan's life to win over Sun Chengzong, the only Donglin Party scholar in the court who was not only aware of party struggles but could make some achievements in military affairs.

After all, through the matter of Zu Dashou, Zu Dashou escaped from the battle of Jingshi in 1629 and led his soldiers to retreat to Liaodong in defiance of the imperial court's orders. Zhu Youzhen has fully realized the sinister reality that the imperial court has completely lost control of the warlords in the border towns. Now he not only needs Sun Chengzong's Donglin Party to balance Wei Zhongxian, but also needs to use Sun Chengzong's qualifications and prestige to suppress the warlords in the border towns who have lost control.

The Baath Party choked the Wuguan from Shaanxi to Hubei and the Wusheng Pass from Henan to Hubei, completely cutting off the path for the peasant rebels to enter Hubei. By striking at the leaders of the peasant rebel army and absorbing and reforming the displaced people, the Baath Party did weaken the strength of the peasant rebel army to a certain extent. But on the other hand, because the Baath Party stuck in Hubei, it also made the power of the peasant rebels more concentrated.

More importantly, under Wang Shuhui's instructions, the Baath Party, on the one hand, constantly dissipated the strength of the peasant rebel armies of different sizes through military strikes and continuously absorbed labor, and on the other hand, it also carried out trade exchanges with Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, and other leaders of the peasant rebel armies.

High-quality smoothbore guns, smoothbore guns, as well as various plate armor spears and other high-quality cold weapons, were used by the Baath Party to carry out interpersonal exchanges with peasant rebels from all walks of life.

Although the peasant rebel army, which lacked food and weapons, gathered a large number of people in various places and used these people to play the role of cannon fodder in the battle against the government army of the Ming Dynasty, because of the decline in agricultural production and serious land annexation caused by the harsh Xiaoice climate, a large number of bankrupt peasants actively and passively gathered under the command of the peasant rebel army of all stripes, which also caused the rebel forces of all stripes to have the same troubles. The stolen food really can't feed so many people, and even cannon fodder is not something that everyone can do.

In this case, the militarily powerful Baath Party was able to exchange with the precious, high-end and high-grade "advanced" weapons of unsurpassed quality and cold weapons produced by the Baath Arsenal with the most valuable and high-end products of this time and space, and the cold weapons of higher quality than all the products of this time and space, to exchange with them what they had, the largest number of people, who had become a burden and a burden, and the rebels of all walks of life were of course quite scrambling to trade with the Baath Party.

In Wuguan between Shaanxi and Hubei, and Wusheng Pass between Henan and Hubei, because of this trade in weapons and people, even produced two huge bazaars.

With the regularization and normalization of trade, in addition to human exchange, various property obtained by the rebels in the process of looting was also used to exchange food and military supplies with the Baath Party.

After all, because of the widespread natural disasters, and especially because the Baath Party adopted a policy of only entering but not leaving out the grain policy, the Ming Dynasty government ruled the area, relying on the supply of the Grand Canal, the price of grain could barely be maintained at the level of 15 or 6 taels of silver and one stone, but whether it was in the Liaodong region or in the Shanxi and Henan regions of Shaanxi, where the peasant rebels were raging and the local grain production was completely destroyed, the grain prices in these places all collapsed and could not be maintained, forming a situation where there was a market but no price.

In the Central Plains, where the rebel army was raging, the price of grain was generally as high as about 27,823 taels per stone. But there is still little food to be seen on the market.

Under these circumstances, the rebels, who only knew how to sabotage and did not carry out production and construction, could only sell the looting proceeds to the Baath Party at low prices in exchange for high-priced grain.

In the bargain with the Baath Party, the rebels undoubtedly suffered a loss. Not to mention the exchange of population for weapons, because the population is not worth much in the rebel army. However, the Baath Party did suck the blood of the rebels by buying the looting proceeds of the rebels at a low price and selling grain at a high price.

Gao Yingxiang was dissatisfied with the Baath Party's policy of buying low and selling high, so he sent Ma Yingshou, an "old returner" under his command, to lead an "army" of 5,000 to attack the Shangluo area where the Ba'ath Party was stationed, preparing to give the Baath Party a taste of power.

However, then Ma Yingshou's 5,000-strong "army" was defeated in a blink of an eye by a company of 250 people of the Fuxing Army outside Shangluo City. Ma Yingshou himself was unlucky enough to be hit by a Baath Party shell during the battle, and was completely turned into a pile of pieces. After that, Gao Yingxiang and the rebel armies under the leadership of Gao Yingxiang were completely honest.

Even so, the Baath Party's Hubei base area punitively closed its trade with the rebels for three months, and sent a temporary regiment deep into the Henan region to completely defeat the Luo Rucai rebels, who had the advantage in military strength in this area. In this military deterrence operation, several "heavy generals" under Luo Rucai's command, such as the "Dongshan Tiger" and the "Bombardment Sky", were killed on the spot by the revival army. Luo Rucai himself escaped by luck after changing into women's clothes, and finally took refuge in Gao Yingxiang.

Since the incident subsided, dozens of rebel forces throughout the Central Plains have completely relented to the Baath Party. They also thoroughly followed the rules in their dealings with the Baath Party.

From this point of view, the rebels did suffer a great deal in their dealings with the Ba'ath Party. In a sense, they are in a very aggrieved position. On the one hand, they had to provide the Baath Party with the population in exchange for various military supplies, and on the other hand, they had to exchange the proceeds of looting for food. In this process, they completely played the role of a kind of "temporary worker" who carried a black pot and a pot of.

On the other hand, however, the Baath Party's actions are also causing the forces of the originally scattered rebel forces to merge. What's more, by exchanging with the Baath Party, the rebel army itself got out of the original history of the helpless way of using wooden sticks and stones to pile up on the number of people to fight the Ming Dynasty government army.

Using the "sophisticated" weapons produced by the two small machine factories of the Baath Party, the main force of the rebel army, which is constantly weaponizing, is not only rapidly catching up with the Ming Dynasty government army in terms of equipment, but is also comprehensively surpassing the Ming Dynasty government army.

In the original history, Yang Sichang and Hong Chengchou, who were very effective in suppressing the peasant rebels on the side of the Ming Dynasty, no longer faced the rebel army that was very backward in all aspects in the Central Plains and Shaanxi.

Different from the situation in history, Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, who was reused as in the original history, did not achieve any results in exterminating the rebel army, but was defeated repeatedly in the battle against the Shaanxi rebel army.

And in the original history, Yang Sichang, the military secretary who almost wiped out the peasant rebel army and held the sword of Shang Fang and the governor of the five provinces, is now trapped in Luoyang City.

The erosion of the Central Plains, the out-of-control border towns, the sluggish finances, the severe inflation, the soaring prices, and the raging popular mutiny made Zhu Youzhen, who was struggling to maintain the government, emaciated.

He couldn't figure it out, obviously the Ming Dynasty was fine when his brother was in power a few years ago. Why is it that after only a few years of hard work, by the time he comes to power, the world is completely out of control?