Chapter 359 is just right

On the 10th day of the first month of February, the Ming soldiers stationed in Ningxia (now Yinchuan, Ningxia) mutinied due to lack of salary. Hungry soldiers besieged the government office. The governor of the right capital of the imperial history Wang Ji was unable to take a salary, and the hungry soldiers had no salary, so he made a noise and killed him. Ding Qirui, the deputy envoy of the military garrison, led the army to suppress it, captured seven people as the leader, and immediately beheaded him, and the mutiny was pacified.

This incident once again put the financial difficulties of the Ming Dynasty on the table, and there is another problem, Fuding! In other words, the life of a local official of the imperial court, as well as countless civilians who were robbed in the mutiny, were dealt with only seven people. And among these seven people, there are a few problems that are really the leader, and no one cares. What everyone is concerned about is that the matter has subsided. So, what's next? Without salaries, the incident of officers and soldiers turning into bandits will continue to repeat itself.

Similar things were repeated in the late Ming Dynasty during the Chongzhen period, and there was never a way to cure it. In other words, if the Ming Dynasty does not make changes, such a thing cannot be cured. So, can't the officials of the imperial court really see it?

Xiangyang, once again rejecting the invitation of the wealthy merchants in the city, Chen Xie, as usual, patrolled the barracks outside the city. The fact that the supply and marketing of human beings are unexpectedly booming, and the need for population in Dengzhou is a huge business opportunity in the eyes of many local businesses. The people of the Ming Dynasty are really worthless, twelve or thirteen-year-old children, that is, four or five taels of silver. For such a big child, the price has risen a little because of the large-scale purchase of the Dengzhou camp. No one cares what Master Chen wants these children to do. These children care about having food every day, and they don't think about what the future holds.

The fate of these children. They themselves did not know that since then there has been a heavy dà turn. After a period of recuperation in Xiangyang, his health improved, and he was loaded and transported by sea to Dengzhou, where a special person was responsible for receiving it. Where these children go is the schools. There are all kinds of learning, and the same thing is that they will be instilled with a concept for a long time in the future, and they will eat Master Chen's food.

Doing this kind of thing, the first time it was probably still stressful, the second time it was not stressful. More times. Chen Xie was numb. According to their own needs, cultivate the talents they need, this model Chen Xie has done for many years. Dengzhou's school, from the first two or three hundred children. It has developed into more than 10 schools scattered all over the country. Five or six thousand children.

This time it came out. Chen Xie got back no less than 5,000 children, and in just five or six years, these children will become Chen Xie's diehards. And received different educations and went to different jobs.

On April 11, Emperor Taiji of the Later Jin State Khan was proclaimed emperor, changed the yuan to Chongde, and thought that this year was the first year of Chongde; changed the country name Jin to "Daqing"; changed the name of the clan to "Manchuria"; The capital is Shenyang. The honorable title "Emperor Kuanwen Rensheng." The next day, Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty led a hundred officials to sacrifice to the Taimiao, and honored his father Nurhachi as "Emperor Chengtian Guangyun Shengde Shengong Zhaoji Liji Jiren Xiaowu Emperor", and the temple name was Taizu; Grandfathers and ancestors were all honored as kings. Ten days later, Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty made his vassals vassal. His brothers, sons and nephews, all the foreign vassals of Mongolia Baylor, and the Ming Dynasty named Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming, and Shang Kexi as kings. The enthronement ceremony of Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty lasted for more than 20 days, and the etiquette was mostly imitated by the Han system.

At the beginning of April, under the pretext of insufficient troops, two B-shaped battalions were transferred to Henan, and at the same time, three more Jiazi battalions were transferred from Dengzhou, putting on a posture of wanting to kill the Henan Liukou. At the beginning of May, Chen Xie gathered people from all walks of life in Nanyang. In the mountainous areas at the junction of the two provinces, the thieves were vigorously pursued and suppressed, and Chen Xie's extremely hard-working actions led to the fact that the rogues of the two provinces were even unstable in the mountainous areas. Zhang Xianzhong, who was in Henan, had nowhere to hide, so he turned around and ran to Huguang, and only stopped when he ran to the Yunyang Mountains in one breath. At this time, his brother Li Zicheng was also surrounded by Lu Xiangsheng and went into the mountains. Because of the madness of the Dengzhou battalion, the thieves who were active at the junction of Henan, Huguang, and Shaanxi provinces lost a large number of men and horses. When he hid in the mountains, Li Zicheng only had more than 10,000 cavalry in his hands, and Zhang Xianzhong was a little better, with more than 30,000 in his hands. These two brothers directly mobilized people from all walks of life for Lu Xiangsheng to besiege them in the mountains at the junction of the three provinces.

After purging the thieves in Henan, Chen Xie did not move again, under the pretext that he needed time to rest and adjust the containment strategy. At this time, there were three Dengzhou battalions in Henan, Chang Shiren led a B-shaped battalion and a A-shaped battalion in the Nanyang area, and Wang Ben led a A-shaped battalion and a B-shaped battalion, and went directly to the vicinity of Luoyang. Su Haochen took three A-shaped battalions and stayed outside Kaifeng City. As the boss of the Dengzhou battalion, Chen Xie took a battalion of cavalry and walked back and forth along the Han River, which means that everyone should not cross the Han River.

The strength of the Dengzhou battalion directly led to the fact that there was no shadow of thieves in the entire territory of Henan, and some small groups of robbers were not having a good time. Under the pretext of maintaining local law and order, the Dengzhou battalion carried out sweeps every now and then. Bandits of all sizes have no way to survive at all, either going down the mountain to surrender or fleeing to other provinces.

After meeting in the Yunyang Mountains, the two brothers talked to each other about their recent situation. invariably mentioned the Dengzhou camp, and it was not a taste to talk about the two of them. Zhang Xianzhong was a little more unlucky, he was personally led by Chen Xie to encircle and suppress him. ran all the way southwest from Tongbai Mountain, losing more than half of the men and horses before escaping from Chen Xie's pursuit. Li Zicheng's luck was also not good, he was running in Henan, first being beaten by Lu Xiangsheng, and then planning to run to Shaanxi near Luoyang, and encountered Wang Ben. As a result, he was naturally beaten violently, turned around and continued to run west, but he didn't run far, but he was caught up by Zu Kuan, and he was beaten again. I couldn't live this day, so I ran to the southwest without a head or a brain, and finally arrived here. The current situation is that one Hong Chengchou and one Lu Xiangsheng are all encircled. There is definitely nowhere to run, so you can only shrink into the mountains, otherwise you will have to be beaten by Zu Kuan and Zu Dale when you go out. Fortunately, the Dengzhou camp did not come to join in the excitement, otherwise there would really be no way to live.

Xifengkou. Wang Zhaokun, the patrol of the imperial history, inspected here, and before his ass was hot, he was stunned by the scene he saw in front of him. The dense Mongolian soldiers, the war horses could not be seen, and the smoke and dust rolled towards the Xifeng Pass.

On May 30, the Qing Taizong sent 100,000 soldiers from the Eight Banners of Doluo Wuying, including Azig, the king of the county, to attack Ming. On June 27, the Azig soldiers entered Xifengkou (in present-day Qianxi County, Hebei) and Dushikou (in the north of present-day Chicheng County, Hebei) by three routes. Wang Zhaokun, the imperial historian of the Ming Patrol Pass, refused to fight, was defeated and died, and the Ming army retired to Changping (now Changping, Beijing).

A team of fast horses rushed into Luoyang City, and Chen Xie, who happened to come to Luoyang to inspect recently, received an urgent order from the Beijing Division.

After the Qing army broke the Great Wall, the matter of once again treating the vicinity of the Ming Jingshi as a safari ground was about to be staged, and Zhu Youzhen immediately found Wen Tiren: "Where is the Dengzhou camp?" Where is Chen Xie? ”

Wen Tiren hurriedly asked Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the military department, and the answer he received was: "I am resting in Henan, and a while ago, I cooperated with Lu Dushi and local officers and soldiers in Henan to expel the thieves from Henan and besiege them in the mountains of Yunyang and other places. ”

Zhu Youzhen immediately made a decision, in order to avoid the phenomenon of the Qing army going to Xuanda again, Lu Xiang was promoted to the governor of Xuanda, and the Dengzhou battalion was urgently transferred to the north to Qinwang. Oh, because of Chen Xie's rest plan, he was impeached by a group of people from the Ministry of War. At this time, Chen Xie's rest is really just right. Worried that Chen Xie would not go north quickly, Zhu Youzhen also sent a special envoy. This person is Wu Zhi, an old friend of Dengzhou Ying, who is much better than Wang Dehua. Wang Dehua is staying in Dengzhou now, and he has not accompanied the army to suppress thieves. Wang Dehua took the first step to receive Zhu Youzhen's secret order, asking him to go to Wang Qinian, send troops behind enemy lines, and contain Jiannu.

Wang Dehua, who received the secret decree, immediately took a boat to Lushun, saw Wang Qinian, and after taking out the secret decree to Wang Qinian, he begged: "General Wang, the Beijing division is in a hurry, and we must send troops as soon as possible." ”

Wang Qinian spread his hands and said: "I want to send troops, what is the situation in the Dengzhou camp now, the supervisor doesn't know." The chief soldier is in Henan, and eighty percent of the troops have been transferred. Inspector Lu wanted to suppress the thieves, but he always said that the troops were insufficient, so the master transferred troops. ”

Wang Dehua felt awkward in his heart, in fact, he was neither deaf nor dumb, and knew that there were at least 20,000 horses in the Dengzhou battalion, not counting the original Dongjiang Town gang, such as Shen Shikui's subordinates, there were more than 3,000, and Li Weiluan's subordinates, there were more than 5,000. The problem is, these two are not reliable, if you want to say that when you are fighting, it is still the Dengzhou battalion that is reassuring.

Wu Zhi's actions were very smooth, and the road was fast and bumpy, and it only took four days to meet Chen Xie. His waist fell apart, he sat on the chair, picked up the teacup and took a big sip before saying, "Mr. Chen, whether our family can make a comeback depends on what happens." Long live the Lord pointed to you to fight Jiannu, and our family also pointed to you. ”

Chen Xie quickly read the order of the military department, and said with a little hesitation: "The troops are a little scattered, this matter is not easy to handle." Wu Zhi was anxious when he heard this, and knelt down for Chen Xie and said, "Master Commander, I'm pointing at you right now." Xuanda's group of grandsons, don't you know? ”

Chen Xie looked embarrassed, chopped his feet and said: "Okay, I will immediately order, quickly notify all the soldiers and horses, quickly go north, and assemble in Zhangde." But Lao Wu, you have to work hard to open up, Su Haochen has six thousand elites in his hands, you go and inform me. I'll write you a warrant. When Wu Zhi heard this, he was happy, nodded and said, "Cheng, I'll go." ”

Wu Zhi hurried to Kaifeng and saw Su Haochen. After reading the warrant, Su Haochen frowned and didn't speak for a long time, Wu Zhi hurriedly said, "Old Su, what's the problem?" Su Haochen said: "The master still can't wipe his face, in fact, the biggest problem in the Dengzhou camp is not anything else, but that the medicine and guns and ammunition have to be transported over long distances." Forget it, don't mention this, I will send someone back to Dengzhou and ask Wang Qinian to organize a fleet and transport it to Tianjin. (To be continued......)