If Chongzhen knew that because of his dismissal of the post station system, Li Zicheng had no job, and Li Zicheng had no job, and finally became the No. 1 thief in the Ming Dynasty, would Chongzhen regret his stinginess.

In fact, Chongzhen's dismissal of the post station system is also the reason why the displaced people can flood and the large number of liukou rises, because the important transportation and communication of the imperial court are gone, and those local officials also dare to exploit more boldly, which has caused a new round of social contradictions.

It can be said that Chongzhen's stinginess is really too undeserved, saving a little silver, but losing a lot of silver, and it is also similar to Emperor Jianwen, unable to control civil officials, and especially likes to use civil officials, listen to civil officials, who will perish if the Ming Dynasty does not perish!

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. In April 1631 (the fifth year of Chongzhen), Zhang Cunmeng was defeated in northern Shaanxi and also surrendered to Ming. In October, Hong Chengchou officially took over as the governor of the three sides, and gradually exterminated the peasant army in Shaanxi. In 1633 (the sixth year of Chongzhen), Li Zicheng led the rest of his troops to cross the Yellow River eastward, and defected to his uncle Gao Yingxiang, the "King of Chuang", in Shanxi, known as "Chuang General". In the same year, Cao Wenzhao led more than 1,000 Guanning troops to defeat the peasant army in Shanxi, and Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others fled to Henan to be surrounded by Cao Wenzhao, Zuo Liangyu and other Ming troops.

However, in the following year 1634 (the seventh year of Chongzhen), the Houjin army entered the fortress for the second time, Cao Wenzhao was transferred to Datong to resist the Jin, and the besieged peasant army broke through from Wang Pu. In June of that year, Chen Qiyu, the new governor of the five provinces, led the army westward and appointed the four governors of Shaanxi, Yunyang, Huguang, and Henan to encircle and suppress the Hannan peasant army. Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, Li Zicheng and other troops saw the Ming army gathered, and mistakenly took the carriage gorge of Xing'an (now the Han River valley east of Shiquan in Shaanxi Province). In the canyon is the ancient plank road, the mountains on all sides are steep, easy to enter and difficult to exit, the only exit is intercepted by the Ming army, "the horse is lacking and many are dead, the bow and arrow are all off", the situation is critical, Li Zicheng used Gu Junen's strategy, bribed Chen Qiyu's left and right people, and surrendered to the officers and soldiers. At this time, Chen Qiyu released Li Zicheng and others, and sent more than 50 pacification officers to send the peasant army back to their hometowns.

In 1635 (the eighth year of Chongzhen), Hong Chengchou served as the governor of five provinces and encircled and suppressed the people's army, and the people's army retreated to Luoyang, Henan. Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Lao Huihui, Luo Rucai, Ge Liyan, Zuo Jin Wang, Reincarnated King, Shooting Collapse Heaven, Hengtian King, Mixed 100,000, Guotianxing, Nine Dragons, Shuntian King and other thirteen 72 battalions of rebel army held a Xingyang conference in Xingyang, Henan, Li Zicheng put forward the strategy of "dividing troops and orienting the troops and attacking on four roads". After the meeting, Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, and Li Zicheng led their troops to capture Fengyang, Nanzhili, excavated the ancestral tomb of the Ming royal family, burned down the "Huangjue Temple" where Zhu Yuanzhang once became a monk, killed more than 60 eunuchs, and beheaded Zhu Guoxiang, the general of the guard. Because of the competition for the capture of the little eunuch and the drum of musical instruments in the Fengyang Palace, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had a grudge, and Li Zicheng went west to Gansu as an army.

In 1636 (the ninth year of Chongzhen), Gao Yingxiang was defeated and surrounded in the Yunyang Mountains by Lu Xiangsheng, the new governor of the five provinces, in Anhui. After April of the same year, Jin Jianguo changed to the Qing Dynasty, and in June, the Qing army entered the fortress for the third time. Lu Xiangsheng was transferred to the governor of Xuanda to resist the Qing Dynasty. Wang Jiazhen, the squire of the military department, succeeded as the governor of the five provinces, and Gao Yingxiang and others broke through. When Gao Yingxiang attacked Xi'an from the Meridian Valley, he was defeated and killed by Sun Chuanting, the new governor of Shaanxi. The remnants of Gao Yingxiang defected to Li Zicheng, and Li was promoted as the "King of Chuang" and continued to fight in Sichuan, Gansu, and Shaanxi. The History of the Ming Dynasty called it a "thief".

In 1637 (the tenth year of Chongzhen), Yang Sichang raised 100,000 soldiers, increased his salary by 2.8 million, and proposed the strategy of "four positive and six corners, ten sides of the net" to limit the mobility of the peasant army, break through each one, and finally annihilate. This has paid off in two years. Zhang Xianzhong's troops were defeated and surrendered to Ming, and Li Zicheng was defeated by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting in the south of Tongguan in Weinan, and took Liu Zongmin and other remnants of 17 people to hide in Shangluo Mountain in southeast Shaanxi.

And now Li Zicheng is in Shangluo Mountain, and perhaps because Lin Fei's butterfly is too powerful, Li Zicheng actually has eighteen cavalry.

Of course, now the Ming army is also stronger, but Lin Fei suddenly chose to attack Shandong, which completely made Chongzhen panic and angry.

At this moment, Yang Sichang received Chongzhen's order and had to retreat with the army, and he also lost the right to lead the troops to fight the governor for the last time.

Chongzhen knew that Lin Feijun's strength was too strong, because he almost sent eight excerpts in a row to let Yang Sichang return, and there was a great rush for Zhao Gou to storm the pavilion.

And this also saved Li Zicheng's life, so that he had a chance to breathe again!

At this time in history, there was a Tartar who saved Li Zicheng's life, and now although the Tartar was beaten by Lin Fei and almost played, he could no longer be Li Zicheng's savior.

In August, 1638 (the 11th year of Chongzhen), the Qing soldiers destroyed the wall from Qingkoushan (now northeast of Qian'an City, Hebei) and Zhuziling (now northeast of Miyun, Beijing) to enter the pass, and launched the fourth entry operation. In order to implement his strategy of "keeping the inside safe and fighting the outside", Yang Sichang strongly advocated peace with the Qing Dynasty, but was fiercely opposed by Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda and the commander-in-chief of Qinwangbing, and others. Chongzhen and the war were uncertain, and Lu Xiangsheng died in the battle of Julu, Hebei. After the Qing soldiers retreated, Sun Chuanting, Hong Chengchou and others were transferred to Liaodong to guard against the Qing army, and Li Zicheng was able to breathe in the mountains. In winter, Li was stationed in Shenglong Village in the south of Fushui Guannan, and married a wife and had children.

"Now Yang Sichang and Lu Xiangsheng both have strong troops, although Yang Sichang is a little bit wasted, but they are not easy to do, so it depends on how Xu Feiran and Zhang Jinhu react!"

Now Lin Fei asked Xu Feiran and Zhang Jinhu to attack Shandong, which still gave the court face, that is, these two people were really angry with the behavior of some officials in Shandong, and they dared to make things difficult for the land and servants of the grandfather, which made the two really unacceptable and attacked Shandong without authorization.

Of course, this is just a fig leaf for the imperial court, in fact, both sides understand that with Lin Fei's control of the army under his command, how can the two generals mobilize all the people of their headquarters.

However, the imperial court is now in a state of crisis, although Emperor Chongzhen and some ministers hate Lin Fei to the core, they do not dare to start a war rashly without authorization, after all, once the skin is completely torn, then it is you who are alive and dead, and now no one on either side is fully prepared!

Therefore, after the court ripped off, it still decided to fight with Lin Fei first, if Lin Feijun was really as strong as the legend, then make plans earlier!