No matter what status a person is, even if he is a pawn of a peddler, he has reached the lowest level of society, even if the sky is high and the clouds are light, and he has reached the dignity of the Ninety-Five! Whenever you want to do something, you must calm down and not be half-hearted!

This is a necessary condition for doing things, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen began to completely sink his heart to Daming's body! The inside of the Ming Dynasty, the outside of the Ming Dynasty! The cause of the Ming Dynasty, the fruit of the Ming Dynasty!

If you understand the past and the present, you will be able to grasp the causal cycle of things! There's always a way to find a solution to your problem! This point, Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen is very clear!

Due to the stimulation of overseas trade, the Ming Dynasty's rich southern large acres of land were used for the cultivation of cash crops, and the grain output declined, and the drought in the north led to a greater scarcity of grain, and grain prices began to rise. Peasant revolts first broke out in northern Shaanxi, and soon became a prairie fire. Initially, Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyong of Fugu rebelled, and they occupied Huanglong Mountain. Then the king of Yichuan, Gao Yingxiang of Anzhai, Zhang Cunmeng of Luochuan, the monk of Yanchuan, and the king of Hannan responded one after another, and the fire of struggle burned all over Shaanxi. Soon, Li Zicheng joined Gao Yingxiang's mob after the Mizhi uprising.

The Ming court was corrupt, and the whole country was famine for many years, and the peasants shouted: "Instead of sitting and starving to death, why not steal (i.e., revolt) and die." ”

The peasant uprising was surging, and Gao Yingxiang unveiled the pole in Ansai and led his troops to live in Yanqing Mansion. He used to trade horses for a living. Good at riding and shooting. Extraordinary strength. White robe and white scarf when going into battle. Lead by example. Rendezvous with Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyong's department to cross east into Jin. The rebel armies of Shaanxi and Jin Dynasty formed 36 battalions, and Yingxiang was one of the leaders, and he was called "King Chuang". At that time, Li Zicheng and his nephews Li Guo, Zhang Xianzhong and other troops also crossed east to attend the meeting, and the righteous army numbered 300,000. Four blows were divided, and Ningxiang, Shilou, Jishan, Wenxi, and Hejian counties were conquered one after another. Yingxiang, Ma Guangyu, Xianzhong, and Zicheng jointly attacked Puzhou, Daning, and Yangcheng. In August of that year, Daning, Xizhou, Zezhou, and Shouyang were conquered, and the whole Jin Dynasty was shaken. Li Zicheng. Formerly known as Hongji, the leader of the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, he lived in Mizhi Li Jiqian Village in Shaanxi. When he was a child, he shepherded sheep for the landlord and was a pawn in Yinchuan.

Li Zicheng is a teenager who likes guns, horses, and sticks. After his father's death, he went to the Ming Dynasty post station responsible for delivering official documents to the imperial court as a post boy, responsible for taking care of the horses.

There were many drawbacks to the post station system at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Ming Sizong reformed the post station in 1628 (the first year of Chongzhen) and streamlined the post station. Li Zicheng was dismissed for losing official documents, returned home unemployed, and owed debts. In the winter of the same year, Li Zicheng could not afford to pay the debts of Ai Zhao. was sued by Ai Juren to Mizhi County. The county ordered Yan Zibin to "swim in the city with weapons and put him to death". After being rescued by relatives and friends, at the end of the year, he killed the creditor Ai Zhao, and then, because of the adultery between his wife Han Jin'er and Murakami's name Gaihu, Li Zicheng killed his wife again. Two lives are in the body, the government can't help but ask, and the lawsuit can't not die, so he and his nephew Li Tai went to Ganzhou, Gansu (now Ganzhou District, Zhangye City) in February 1629 (the second year of Chongzhen) to join the army.

At that time, Yang Zhaoji served as the general soldier of Ganzhou, and Wang Guo served as a general. Li Zicheng was soon promoted to the rank of general in the army by the kingdom. In the same year, in Yuzhong (present-day Yuzhong County, Lanzhou, Gansu), he killed the general Wang Guo and the local county commander due to the problem of unpaid salaries, and launched a mutiny.

After Li Zicheng's uprising, he moved to Hanzhong and joined Wang Zuohang's peasant army. In 1629, when the Later Jin Dynasty entered the fortress for the first time, Beijing was shaken, and the general Yuan Chonghuan was executed by Emperor Ling Chi. In 1630, Wang Zuohang was recruited by the imperial court, and Li switched to Zhang Cunmeng (not mud) as the captain.

Zhang Xianzhong gathered the peasants of 18 villages in his hometown and also organized a team to respond to Wang Jiayin and other riots. He called himself the "Eight Kings". Because he was "long and thin and had a slightly yellow face, he had to be one foot six inches, and he was strong and fruitful, and he was called 'Yellow Tiger' in the army." This team originally belonged to Wang Jiayin's own use, and later became an army of its own. Because he had read a little as a child, and had received military training, he was resourceful, courageous, and soon showed his command skills, and his men became the strongest of the thirty-six battalions of the time with the king himself as the leader. Since then, Zhang Xianzhong has followed the team of displaced people to fight in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Anhui, Hubei, Sichuan and other places, and has repeatedly made military exploits. His army also grew from a few thousand to tens of thousands, becoming the most powerful force. It plays a pivotal role in the battle against the officers and soldiers.

The rebel armies of various departments successively marched eastward, and the center of activity was moved to Shanxi. Operations have also developed from extremely scattered and fragmented to relatively centralized, echoing each other. Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai and other troops of more than 300,000 people, known as the 36th battalion, once broke Daning, Xizhou, Zezhou, Shouyang and other cities.

In the former Shanxi governor's mansion in Taiyuan City, fires were raging on all sides, and hundreds of leaders of the anti-people army gathered together! Everyone's face glowed in the light of the fire! All the leaders of the rebel army have arrived, this is the first large gathering of all the rebels in the history of the late Ming Dynasty! Taiyuan City is also the first important town they won! This played a very positive role in the entire fight against the imperial court and the overthrow of the rule of the Ming Dynasty!

"Now that Taiyuan City is under our feet, what to do next, let's talk about it!" Wang Ziyong's stature is not high, but he is the core of this group, he is a peasant through and through, strong, decisive, plus some peasant greed, when he speaks, his eyes are shining.

Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and other leaders of the rebel army, large and small, all looked at Wang Ziyong, and no one said anything, although the number of each army was about the same, but the team of these three people, especially Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, the strength of the team was still higher than that of other rebels, and their words played a great role!

Wang Ziyong smiled at Gao Yingxiang, "Brother Gao, come and see, in our righteous army, even if you are more knowledgeable, I mean kill Xiangjing and completely turn the sky upside down!" Let the high-ranking officials in the fucking Beijing city also taste the taste of lack of food and clothing, what's the use of us taking him down again and again? The whole empty city, the old landlords with a little bit of strength, have already run out of fucking runs! ”

Gao Yingxiang took a sip of the liquor and stood up, "What Brother Wang said is that I, Gao Yingxiang, take Brother Wang's horse head as a guide, no matter where we go, there are so many of us, as long as we twist into a rope, we are not afraid of heaven and earth!" ”

Wang Ziyong also happily drank a large bowl of spirits, and laughed, "Okay, that's right, in the end, it is a scholar who can speak, this truth is good, as long as we are always together, 300,000 righteous troops will not be afraid to go to the edge of the sky!" From Shaanxi to Shanxi, which way did the government soldiers not flee when they saw us? These officers and soldiers are like tofu scum! ”

All the leaders shouted loudly, although there was nothing to eat, but everyone was enthusiastic, and they took Taiyuan City, making everyone feel like they had been beaten with chicken blood!

Zhang Xianzhong pulled Li Zicheng and said softly, "If you go further north, it will be a strong city!" After passing the three passes, you will arrive in the Gyeonggi area! Although we have a large number of people, can we beat the city of Beijing? It's better to go down, Hubei, Sichuan, these places are not short of grain and grass! ”

Li Zicheng nodded lightly, "Listen to my uncle, everyone goes, you see at this time, if you say this, others will say that we are careful." ”

Zhang Xianzhong sighed, chattering about going to the south, Gao Yingxiang noticed that the two important leaders under his command were talking in a whisper, probably knowing their thoughts, so he sat next to the two of them, "The key now is that everyone should be together, if you can pull the emperor Lao Tzu off the horse, it would be great, if not, let everyone in the world see our momentum, there will be a chance in the future, understand?" This is a big deal, if we don't take advantage of the high heart of Wang Ziyong now, when he wants to go to Beijing to try his luck, we won't be able to do it ourselves in the future, besides, now that there are so many people in the righteous army, the military rations have long been cut off, what can we do if we don't go to the north? These words cannot be said again. (To be continued......)