At this time, Emperor Chongzhen could be said to be complacent. In the year since he ascended the throne, Emperor Chongzhen has completely taken over the power, and under the praise of the literati, he has also had the title of "Holy Monarch". And the affairs of the court are nothing more than to clean up the remnants of Wei Zhongxian's party that are still in the court.

By the way, at that time, Xue Lian's sworn enemy in the Beijing camp, Li Chengzuo, the Marquis of Fengcheng, because when Emperor Chongzhen first ascended the throne, he proposed to Wei Zhongxian without knowing the times: Let Wei Zhongxian take charge of the power and completely empty the idea of Emperor Chongzhen. Now he has been settled by Emperor Chongzhen.

Li Chengzuo was deprived of his title by Emperor Chongzhen, exiled to the border, and was captured and beheaded in the second year of Chongzhen. Relatively speaking, Xue Lian, who is now under house arrest, has gotten the most haode end.

And the situation in the Ming Dynasty was also calm. Under the blows of several big victories of the female chief soldier Qin Liangyu, the rebellion of Lu'an could not form any climate. The rebellion in Henan was also quelled in a short time.

Although there is some news of peasant unrest in northern Shaanxi, judging from the twists and turns presented by the local officials in Shaanxi, it is simply a group of rabble, and it is estimated that it will be quelled soon.

After the platform was summoned, Emperor Chongzhen squeezed out a large amount of money and grain from the household department to Liaodong in order to meet Yuan Chonghuan's promise of "five years of Pingliao". And the situation in Liaodong, after Yuan Chonghuan took office, did calm down.

This was not something that Emperor Chongzhen only learned from Yuan Chonghuan's recital, but also from other officials and supervisors in Liaodong who reported that since the beginning of autumn, the number of harassing attacks by Jiannu had greatly decreased, and the intervals had become longer and longer.

After getting such good news, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but feel a little proud of his wise move of using Yuan Chonghuan as the supervisor, in Emperor Chongzhen's opinion: The situation in Liaodong has been greatly improved, as long as he has his own support, Yuan Chonghuan will definitely achieve the goal of pacifying Liao.

Therefore, in these days, Emperor Chongzhen seems to be very relaxed. And because the emperor is relaxed, the entire court also shows a scene of singing and dancing.

However, Emperor Chongzhen and many ministers in the court did not expect that what they had learned was not the same thing at all. The Shaanxi peasant rebellion and the post-Jin Jiannu army, both of which would later become the objects of Emperor Chongzhen's nightmare, actively carried out some actions in the autumn and winter of the first year of Chongzhen.

First of all, let's talk about Shaanxi.

When the flame of peasant rebellion had just been ignited, those local officials of the Ming Dynasty in Shaanxi were afraid that this fire would burn on themselves, and they were worried that the imperial court would investigate the responsibility and be severely punished.

At the same time, these officials fantasized that after the summer harvest, the rebellious peasants, forced by hunger and cold, would automatically disband and return to their villages. As a result, they adopted an ostrich policy, prohibiting prefectures and counties from reporting news of "chaos". Speaking of this, the author is a little speechless, this day has become like this, are those officials blind and brainless, and are still looking forward to a summer harvest?

However, there are always people who have no lower IQ. Hu Tingyan, who was the governor of Shaanxi at the time, whenever the state and county reported the matter of "thieves", he beat the person who came to the board for no reason, and said: "This hungry scoundrel also made his own ears after plundering to Ming Spring." ”

Well, the biggest officials in Shaanxi are like this, so those petty officials in the prefectures and counties below will also be little ostriches. Then, these local officials looked forward to the autumn harvest.

However, some of the peasants who farmed the land joined the rebel team because it was difficult to survive, and some of those who did not want to rebel also fled completely, and no one came to farm the land at all.

When they arrived in Zuihou, the paper finally couldn't contain the fire, and the peasant rebellion was growing stronger day by day, and these magistrates could no longer hide it, so they had to report it to the imperial court.

However, when the Ministry of War was ordered to check it, these magistrates passed the buck to each other. They are not good at handling local government affairs, but they are all very good at pulling the strings.

When the peasants in northern Shaanxi first rebelled, the rebellious peasants threw themselves into the horse bandits and bandits that already existed. And where did those horse bandits and bandits come from?

This is about the battle of Sarhu, which established the Houjin regime during the Wanli period. In the Battle of Salhu, the Ming Dynasty army was the Houjin army that besieged Hachi in four ways, and was defeated by the Houjin army.

And among the armies besieging on these four routes, there were Ming Dynasty troops sent from Shaanxi and Shanxi. After the defeated soldiers from Shaanxi and Shanxi fled back to their hometowns, they did not dare to return to the army for fear of receiving military law, so they simply fell into the grass on the spot and became horse bandits and bandits.

In the early years of Chongzhen, the peasant rebellion was a gang with these routs as the main backbone and the peasants who could not survive as the periphery.

However, this situation has provided abundant ammunition for local officials in Shaanxi. In Shaanxi Province in the Ming Dynasty, in addition to Hu Tingyan, the governor of Shaanxi, who was mainly responsible for local affairs in Shaanxi, there was also a governor of Yansui, Yue Hesheng, who was mainly responsible for military and town affairs.

It is conceivable that Hu Tingyan, the governor of Shaanxi, will definitely say: It is the border soldiers under the jurisdiction of Yue Hesheng, the governor of Yansui, who are in rebellion, and it is not a local matter; And Yue Hesheng, the governor of Yansui, must have said: It is the hungry people in the interior of Shaanxi who are "thieves", and it has nothing to do with the affairs of the military town.

However, as a direct official sent by the imperial court to supervise the locality, Wu Huan, the governor of Shaanxi, did not reflect the real situation to the imperial court, but made a dilucent situation, and in the recital he presented, he played 50 boards each, but he downplayed the real situation of the peasant rebellion.

But in this way, Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the imperial court were even more confused about the situation of the peasant rebellion in Shaanxi. They could only believe the understatement of the peasant rebellion in the recitals by these local officials. I thought that this was just some bandits making trouble, and it was not a problem.

It can be seen from this that under the behavior of the local officials in Shaanxi, at the very beginning of the peasant rebellion in northern Shaanxi, the government did not make any organized disaster relief and suppression actions at all, nor did it promptly tell the information about the peasant rebellion to Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the imperial court. Not to mention getting reinforcements and money and food from the imperial court to support.

It was not until more than a year after the peasant rebellion that Yang He became the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, and he told the true situation of the peasant rebellion at that time to Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers of the imperial court.

But at that time, the situation of peasant rebellion had already swept the whole of Shaanxi Province. Therefore, at the beginning of the peasant rebellion in Shaanxi, it had not yet become the climate. The best opportunity to quell the peasant rebellion in Shaanxi was lost in vain at the hands of those stupid and stupid local officials in Shaanxi.

And the Houjin army in front of Yuan Chonghuan's Ningjin defense line weishenme was so calm?

Huang Taiji passed the death of his father Khan and the attack on the Ningjin defense line after he came to power, and came to such a conclusion, that is: if the Ningjin defense line cannot be attacked, it cannot enter the Shanhaiguan. And if you can't enter Shanhaiguan, you can't enter the Central Plains. However, the Ningjin defense line was too strong, and if it was attacked head-on, even if the Houjin army won the victory, then the Houjin army would suffer heavy losses and would no longer be able to launch an attack on the Central Plains.

And because of the threat of the two thorns inserted in the east and west sides of the Houjin army - Mao Wenlong's army in Dongjiang Town and the Mongol army of Chahar Lindan Khan, Huang Taiji made such a military strategy: he would vigorously use Mongolia, and bypass the Shanhaiguan Pass and enter the border through the mouths of the Great Wall.

Therefore, in February of the first year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji personally led his two younger brothers, Dolgon and Duoduo, to lead a large army to conquer the Dorot Department to which Har belonged, and entered the place of Aomulun, capturing 11,200 people. Because of the great victory of Aomulun, Dolgon was given the name Murgen Daiqing, and Duoduo was given the name Erke Chuhuer.

However, this great victory, because Lin Dan Khan fled relatively quickly, did not hit the main force of the Mongolian Chahar Department, and Lin Dan Khan's foundation was not shaken.

Therefore, in August of this year, Huang Taiji negotiated peace with Karaqin, and in September, he transferred troops from Horqin, Karaqin, Ao Han, Naiman and Khalkha to the meeting. On September 6, the Houjin army set out for Chahar. On the 20th, they attacked Silha, Sibertu, Ying, and Tong, all of them.

The next day, they chased to the Xing'an Mountains and obtained countless people and animals. Victorious in mid-October. In this expedition, the Later Jin not only dealt a blow to the great enemy Chahar, but also further consolidated the rule of the subjugated Mongols.

Soon after, the Emperor Taiji sent Ashdarhan to these places to proclaim the edict, and in the future, if he was to conquer Har, all those who were in charge of the banner were under the age of seventy and above thirteen, and all of them were to be levied, and those who violated the law were punished with horses and camels, and those who did not go to the place of rendezvous were also punished with horses.

Huang Taiji's expedition has completely defeated Lin Dan Khan's Chahar Department. Although Lin Dan Khan still fled, in the years after Lin Dan Khan's illness and death, Lin Dan Khan never posed any threat to the Later Jin army.

What is even more terrifying is that because of the military deterrence of the Later Jin army and a series of intermarriages between Manchu nobles such as Huang Taiji and Mongolian nobles, the Manchus and Mongolians formed a close military group. And the mouths of the Great Wall controlled by the Mongol tribes were also completely open to the Later Jin army.

And all the actions of Huang Taiji's Houjin army, because of the existence of that no-man's land, and the refusal of those Liaodong troops to send spies into the no-man's land for reconnaissance and strangulation in order to preserve their strength, so the Liaodong army of the Ming Dynasty knew nothing about the movements of Huang Taiji's Houjin army.

Yuan Chonghuan, the officials and generals of Liaodong, only felt on the surface that the Houjin army harassed them much less. However, they did not know that the main force of the Later Jin army had already gone out to attack the Mongol Chahar Lindan Khan.

Therefore, at the end of the first year of Chongzhen, because there was no news of any bad news at all, Emperor Chongzhen and the ministers in the capital felt that the world was calm. They didn't know that starting from the upcoming second year of Chongzhen, the entire Ming Dynasty would immediately rise to wind and rain under the impact of the times.

However, at the end of the first year of Chongzhen, our Wu Shigong encountered an annoyance.