Chapter 90: A Shift in the Situation
Yu Xiaotian took a pause, took a sip of water and said: "Sun Yuanhua is missing, now the government and the opposition have made a lot of trouble, some people speculate that Sun Yuanhua may have been attacked and killed by the rebels by mistake, some people say that Sun Yuanhua is afraid of crime and absconded, in short, many people have their own opinions, and now Sun Yuanhua's disappearance has muddied the water."
Although it seems that the wind direction in the DPRK and China is still dominated by the main fu, I dare to conclude that this time the court will deal with the rebels, and in the end, the main suppression will finally gain the upper hand! Sun Yuanhua's disappearance can be said to have given the main suppression a pretext, and this can speed up the final decision of the current emperor.
Let's just sit back and wait for the news, if nothing else, I guess this time the court will think of me and someone! Let the brothers intensify their training and prepare for departure, and now that it is March, the sea ice will melt soon, and the shipping lanes are expected to be opened in the near future.
In addition, we must prepare to strengthen the defense force on the sea around Yangma Island in Xishan Village, and order the warships operating in the Jiaozhou Bay area to patrol the area around Yangma Island as soon as the waterway is opened, and not allow the rebels' warships to attack Yangma Island by water. ā
"The student obeys, so go down and arrange it immediately! Please rest assured! Lin Yiyang is now in front of Xiaotian, and he no longer has the arrogance he used to have, and he has become respectful.
The news of Sun Yuanhua's disappearance really caused an uproar in Beijing, and the government and the opposition were discussing whether Sun Yuanhua was killed by bandits on the way back to Beijing after he was released, or because he was afraid that after returning to Beijing, the court would be held accountable and flee incognito.
No one can confirm this matter, especially in such a chaotic situation, no one can confirm it, and it cannot be confirmed, in the troubled times, the evaporation of a few people in the world is nothing at all, and no one knows where Sun Yuanhua disappeared after he was released from Dengzhou.
So this matter is quite unfavorable to Xu Guangqi and other masters, it turned out that they thought that the rebel would be forced to have no choice but to mutiny, this matter has actually been decided, and it has been verified at that time that this matter was caused by the rebels robbing a chicken of Wang Xiangchun's servant.
The rebels robbed the chickens because the people of Wuqiao County boycotted the city, which made the rebels unable to buy food and fill their stomachs, so some people impeached Wang Xiangchun and Wuqiao Zhixian.
Of course, there are also a group of people who are in charge of suppression, and the people who are in charge of suppressing are not completely for the sake of the country, but purely want to use this matter to disgust those Donglin Party members who are in charge of the faction.
It's just that before that, the main suppression side did not have an advantage, and the main Fu side was strong, and always controlled the voice of the court, but Sun Yuanhua's disappearance, the main suppression faction finally found an opportunity, although no one knew what happened to Sun Yuanhua, and he disappeared.
But it is precisely because no one knows what Sun Yuanhua has encountered, that the people of the main faction have seized the handle, and these people insist that Sun Yuanhua is afraid of crime and abscond, although they have no evidence, just guessing out of thin air, but what makes the people on the main side unable to fight back is that they say that Sun Yuanhua did not abscond, but there is no evidence to prove it.
It happened that the rebels conquered Zhaoyuan one after another, slaughtered the city for three days, killed people without counting, and then broke through Pingdu Prefecture, which also caused countless bloody cases.
Seeing that the rebel army is getting stronger and stronger, including the Dongjiang Town, many Dongjiang troops have also made trouble, and the north and the south echo each other, making a mess, but in the court, they are still arguing over the question of whether to suppress or appease, if it continues like this, the development of the rebels will be more unscrupulous, and the development of the situation may be even more uncontrollable.
And at present, it seems that the rebels will definitely not let go of Laizhou City, and it is only a matter of time before they storm Laizhou, and sure enough, in early March, after the rebels were in Lianke Zhaoyuan and Pingdu, Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde gathered tens of thousands of rebels again, arrived at the city of Laizhou, began to surround Laizhou City, and launched a fierce attack on Laizhou.
Xu Congzhi, the new governor of Shandong, and Zhu Wannian, the prefect of Laizhou, sent people to ask for help from the imperial court again, and led the defenders of Laizhou City.
At this point, Emperor Chongzhen finally made up his mind, and finally decided to adopt a strategy of attacking and suppressing the rebels, and no longer considered the issue of appeasement.
Because Chongzhen now seems that this time the rebels are so powerful, if they are still appeased, it will undoubtedly have a very bad impact, and may even become a very bad example, if those arrogant generals are a little dissatisfied, they will launch a mutiny at every turn, make things bigger, and then count on the court to appease them, if there is no, who will not do this in the future?
In this way, wouldn't the already rotten state affairs be even more chaotic? This incident also made Emperor Chongzhen have an opinion on those people who were in charge of the Fu faction, and reprimanded Shoufu Zhou Yanru and others in the court, completely suppressing the voice of Lord Fu.
In addition, for Zhang Tao, Song Guanglan, Wang Zheng and others who were released by the rebels and fled back to Beijing, Chongzhen issued an order, arrested and interrogated them all, and put them in prison.
So far, it has been almost half a year since the imperial court rebelled against the rebels and finally made up its mind to suppress it, which undoubtedly provided considerable convenience for the rebels to sit down.
Since it was decided to attack, then the imperial court naturally began to consider, where to transfer the soldiers to Denglai to suppress the rebels, and now the imperial court has not a lot of available troops, although Denglai is not far from the Guanliao area, the border army in the Guanjin area is still quite combative.
It turned out that Tianjin Wei and Baoding also had some soldiers and horses, but in the first month, these soldiers and horses had been defeated by the rebels in Huangxian County, and the losses were exhausted.
If you want to win the battle, I am afraid that there is only a battle in Muping County, Ninghai Prefecture, which is the only bright spot in the eastern part of Denglai Mountain after the rebels rebel in the past few months, only here blocked the rebels, and killed the rebels It is said that there are more than 1,000 rebels, forcing the rebels to finally have to withdraw their troops.
For this reason, Chongzhen felt a little relieved, and also remembered the name of Zhao Hongzhi, the governor of Ninghai Prefecture, and deeply felt that this person was in chaos again, and he could lead a city of soldiers and civilians to stop the rebels, which was really a talent, as long as he looked back and verified that the heads of the rebels who were captured were not fake, then this matter would not be fake, and this person could be reused.
When the imperial court decided to take the main suppression as the main strategy, the officials in the court debated endlessly about where to call the generals and enter Denglai to suppress the rebels.
Some people proposed to transfer the elite Ming army outside the pass to enter the customs and suppress, and some people proposed to assemble the official army of the Northern Straight to enter the suppression, but suddenly many people proposed that the Fujian official army could be transferred to suppress.
This mention yƬ immediately aroused the interest of many people, so many people remembered that in recent years, Fujian from time to time to come to a variety of successes, to say that this Fujian, these years of the table, in the Ming Dynasty, is really a standout, although Fujian also suffered a hundred years of drought, but also caused a civil uprising, but Fujian quickly suppressed the chaos.
Even did not reach out to the court for a tael of silver relief, nor did not pay much less to the court to pay additional taxes, in the past few years, there are also many bandits in Fujian, but every time there is such a disorder, it will soon be extinguished by the Fujian official army, Fujian officials and troops swept away the decline of the Apocalypse, in recent years, the table is quite good.
This can't help but remind people of Qi Jiguang and Qi Marshal who fought against the Japanese in Fujian in the early years, and for so many years, Fujian has never had such a stable situation.
As early as the Apocalypse, everyone knew that the coastal areas of Fujian were not quiet, pirates were numerous, and they attacked and harassed the prefectures and counties near the sea everywhere, and the people's assets and lives were seriously damaged.
It was only after the arrival of this Fujian governor that the governor recruited him and Fujian became stable.
In recent years, the reason why Fujian has become so peaceful should also be the credit of Yu Xiaotian, the former pirate leader who was recruited.
Since this person was recruited, according to Xiong Wencan's statement, he has been loyal to his duties, scrupulously abides by his duties, and will come out when he hears the alarm, not only on the sea, repeatedly exterminating a group of pirates, but also a pacification along the coast of Fujian, and also has made many achievements in suppressing bandits on land, and has repeatedly defeated a large number of bandits with less, and has repeatedly beheaded tens of thousands of officers and soldiers under his command or command, and has repeatedly performed miraculous feats and shocked the bandits in various parts of Fujian, who dare not move in disorder, making Fujian a rare pacification for decades.
In the past few years, the situation of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be getting worse and worse, and the rebellious army in Shaanxi has been suppressing more and more, and it has swept the whole of Shaanxi, not to mention, but also swept most of Shanxi, and now it has broken into Henan, and even affected Beizhi, Nanzhili, Huguang and other places, and there is a great tendency for a spark to ignite the prairie fire.
The imperial court mobilized a number of officers and troops to suppress it, although there were also victories, but there were more defeats, and the chaotic people were more and more suppressed, without any restraint, the previous Yang He was in charge, although the initial little effect, but the rebel army was reversed, and the Chongzhen Emperor under the anger of Yang He was arrested and finally abandoned (killed).
Now the imperial court has ordered Hong Chengchou to preside over the suppression, but whether it can succeed or not, no one dares to pack the ticket, after all, everyone actually knows in private that the root knot of the chaotic people is, and now the Ming Dynasty is financially empty, and troops are used everywhere, and there are Jiannu in Liaodong who are coveting the pass day and night, and there are several provinces in the Central Plains that have turned the people's army into a disaster, and there is still a rebellion in the south that has not yet been pacified, and now Denglai has made such a big mess.
There are also the remnants of cults such as the White Lotus Sect, and now they are ready to move again, and there is a great tendency to resurrect, and the imperial court is having a headache every day for the lack of food and salary.
As a last resort, the imperial court had to continue to increase the number of salaries, salaries, and salaries, but in the north there have been droughts for many years, and officials have become even more corrupt.
Even in Guangdong, there are also civil uprisings from time to time, Jiangxi also has chaotic people, and Nanzhili and Zhejiang have either been earthquakes or floods in recent years, and the victims have also made a lot of trouble.
At present, the imperial court can be said to have a headache and a headache, pressing the gourd and scooping, but only Fujian Province has been very good in the past few years, and it has never caused a big chaos, and the slightest sign of chaos will be destroyed and suppressed by the Fujian officials and troops in one fell swoop.
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