Chapter 80, I am afraid that the world will not be chaotic

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Soon after leaving the Fujian governor's yamen and returning to the inn where he stayed, Zhang Pu quietly changed his clothes and came out, walked around the city of Fuzhou a few times, and after confirming that no one was following him, he quietly left the street, sneaked into the alley, and finally turned around into a secluded house.

As soon as he walked into the door of the house, a strong man with dark skin and a sturdy body greeted him, "...... Zhang Gongzi, what's going on? ”

“…… Hey, it really doesn't work! Zou Weilian's old man is stubborn and cowardly, only caring about his own wealth and wealth, and would rather get by and tolerate adultery, but he completely forgets the righteousness of the country and the safety of the society! It's really a shame for my generation to be with a gentleman! ”

Zhang Pu shook his head and replied, his face full of disdain and disdain, "...... If my generation wants him to sacrifice his life for righteousness, go out to punish the rebel town internally, and steal thieves outside, it seems that it will not be possible. For the sake of the well-being of the people of the world, my generation can only make up our minds and take a decisive measure regardless of the reputation behind us......"

“…… Hehe, it should have been like this a long time ago, Zhang Gongzi, I said that Zou Weilian's old man can't count on it! ”

The black-faced man replied with a sneer, and the dozens of people gathered in the courtyard of the house also responded. If you look closely, there are people dressed in various colors, but there are many fierce men who fight, and there are even many Japanese samurai who are short and have strange hair buns......

-- Previously, when the Zheng family in southern Fujian was destroyed by the "Australians", although Zheng Zhilong's soldiers were defeated and his family's heirs died, there were still many remnants of the Zheng family wandering outside, waiting for an opportunity to take revenge, including not only the Zheng family's relatives and descendants, but also many Japanese ronins recruited by the Zheng family.

Later, due to the vigorous suppression of the Funing Army and the naval blockade of the "Australians", these remnants of the Zheng family were really untenable in southern Fujian, so they had to flee north, and were successively contained by the former Fujian governor Xiong Wencan, and then taken over by the new Fujian governor Zou Weilian, who organized these Zheng family remnants who had a deep blood feud with the Funing Army and the "Australians" into two battalions of "Fubiao", hoping to borrow them to deal with the Funing Army that might tear the flag and rebel at any time.

At the beginning, the remnants of the Zheng family thought that they had the support of the governor and that they were expected to take revenge, and they were extremely excited. But it didn't take long for them to see that Zou Weilian just wanted to maintain the status quo, and did not dare to be an enemy of the full-fledged Funing army, let alone avenge the Zheng family, and they couldn't help but be greatly discouraged and resentful.

Next, because of some coincidences, this group of former pirates who only wanted to take revenge and regain the wealth and glory of the past, and didn't care about anything else, later actually skipped Zou Weilian and directly got on the line with the Fushe and Donglin bigwigs, and then met Zhang Pu, a leader who had a relationship with the three sects and nine streams, and was extremely bold and reckless...... So the two sides soon hit it off, and soon hooked up and began to plot "big things".

In addition, the other group of Japanese here actually had a strange origin, which was the secret envoy sent by the Tokugawa shogunate to the Central Plains - it turned out that after the fiasco of the expedition to Choshu that year, the Tokugawa shogunate gradually knew what was going on with the "Ming foreign aid" of the Choshu Domain, and began to try to cut off the foreign aid of the Choshu Domain, so they sent people with a large sum of gold and silver and a number of good hands to cross the sea to the Ming side to operate, wanting to deal with the Funing army from the inside.

But the problem is that these shogunate envoys are black-eyed in the Ming Dynasty, even if they want to bribe gold and silver, they are not allowed to enter, but they have been deceived several times in a row, and they are very disgraced...... Fortunately, these shogunate envoys finally got lucky, and on the one hand, they somehow contacted Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, and on the other hand, they connected with the Zheng family's remnants of the Zheng family through the relationship between several Japanese ronin under the Zheng family.

However, although these two groups of people are sitting together at the moment, in fact, the various contradictions are not small - the shogunate envoy holds his own noble status and looks down on the Zheng family's lost dog; And the rough men of the Zheng family can't see these Japanese people pointing fingers and making gestures on the ground in Fujian...... Fortunately, there is still a common enemy who is still alive, and while shouldering the heavy responsibility of the shogunate, he is red-eyed and wants revenge to make a comeback, so he can barely cooperate.

And Zhang Pu, a celebrity of the Restoration Society, regarded himself as the leader of the alliance, raised a hand in a very stylish manner, and gave them orders in a big way:

“…… Ladies and gentlemen, since the governor is so unjust, let me not blame my generation for being unkind! The specific way to do it has been discussed before, so let's start now! In order to save the people of the world and help protect the lives of the community, please work hard to fight against the heavens! Expel the thief! ”

“…… Fengtian rebellion! Expel the thief! The crowd also shook their fists and shouted in accord.

Of course, the Donglin Party has always been in the habit of pit its own people, and the first knife of this "rebellion" naturally cut off the heads of its own people.

-- Late at night on the first day of the sixth month of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Zhang Pu, a scholar of the Shu Ji, together with his henchmen, took advantage of the night to set up a copper urn in the city gate of Fuzhou, which burned firecrackers inside the urn and pretended to sound cannons, and sent dozens of people to run between the streets and alleys with fires, shouting everywhere and shouting: "...... The Funing army is in turmoil! The thieves have entered the city! ”

The city of Fuzhou was shocked, and the people fled outside the city in the starry night, trampling on each other and killing countless people. There were also robbers of the market, killing people and goods, and local scoundrels taking advantage of the chaos to rob and set fire to killing, and the chaos in the city became more and more prosperous. Before it arrived, the governor's yamen caught fire, and the "defeated pawns" of the governor's military pacesetter battalion fled with wounds, shouting "...... Woe has come! The thieves and rebels have broken through the governor's yamen, and Governor Zou has martyred his family! ”

As a result, the whole city of Fuzhou was terrified, and the prefect and the officials of the teaching department abandoned their posts one after another, and were escorted out of the city by a cadre of strong officials, and rushed to the surrounding counties overnight. After everyone took a breather, they reported that "thieves broke the city", and countless emergency documents flew into the north and south of Beijing like snowflakes.

At the same time, the first battalion of the Fujian Governor's Central Army Pacesetter raided Xiapu, the old camp of the Funing Army, set fire to the village market, and killed local military households. Because there had been no war in Xiapu for several years, most of the soldiers left behind were old and weak, and they actually let the enemy penetrate deep into the territory for a time. He Dingyuan, the general of the Funing Military Department, who had just been transferred from Quanzhou to Xiapu, was furious when he heard the news, and hurriedly ordered hundreds of soldiers and horses out of the camp to meet the attack, and immediately defeated the invading enemy, and tortured the identity of the other party from the mouth of the prisoner.

The next day, He Dingyuan sent 2,000 troops, both by land and water, to the provincial capital Fuzhou to question the guilt and demonstrate. Unexpectedly, when he first arrived at the city of Fuzhou, he found that the city gate was wide open, and the official offices everywhere were also empty, and only a few thieves who took advantage of the fire to rob were caught. He Dingyuan, who was relatively simple-minded, was confused for a while, so he went straight to Fuzhou, began to gather the citizens, restore order, and at the same time kill more than 100 people who were fake thieves from all walks of life

But it was too late at this moment, and the news that "the Funing Army broke through Fuzhou, killed officials and rebelled, and Governor Zou Weilian committed suicide and martyred himself" had already spread to the north and south of the river. And the Nanjing Military Department was also under the activities of a cadre of Donglin Party members, and issued a crusade order to the Funing Army as quickly as possible.

-- The smoke on the battlefield in Fujian was ignited, adding a bit of apocalyptic atmosphere to the Ming Empire, which was already full of beacon fires......

What's even worse is that the flames of war ignited by the gentlemen of Donglin at the same time are not limited to this place......

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In the summer of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Daming Nanzhili, Changshu County, Suzhou Prefecture, the Qian family's mansion.

Qian Qianyi, a former right attendant of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, who was once a prestigious Donglin giant and a literary giant, has been forced to return to his hometown for four years since he was conspired by Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren in the first year of Chongzhen.

In the past few years, in addition to lecturing at the academy, his main entertainment has been writing poetry. The style of these poems is very distinctive, when you are in a good mood, you can become depressed, and when you are in a bad mood, you can go to suicide. The main meaning of the poem is more similar, what I regret it, I want to go into hiding, I lived in vain, I don't mean it, anyway, in a word, my life is bad luck. After all, after so many years of waste at home, it is normal to be a little resentful.

In this gloomy and gloomy country life that makes people want to commit suicide, the only bright color that makes him feel happy is the birth of the fourth son Qian Ruyi - Qian Ruyi has just turned four years old this year, after Qian Qianyi's first three sons died early, now Qian Qianyi really regards this lone seedling young son as a pearl in his palm, the flesh of his heart, in addition to teaching and writing poems, he often personally teaches young children to learn walking, language, and words, and enjoy the joy of family.

However, on this morning, because he received news from Fujian, Qian Qianyi was so frightened that he was covered in a cold sweat, and he didn't even have the heart to play with his youngest son: "...... Zhang Pu's ...... How bold is it?! Not only did he contact the foreign domain, but even the dignified governor dared to murder him?! ”

-- Although it was Qian Qianyi himself who proposed that he should take action against the Funing Army and the Australian thieves, he only collected some information and put forward a preliminary idea, and when it came time to put it into practice, he had to almost stand aside-because Qian Qianyi was after all a person who had been dismissed from his post and left the wilderness, and his power and influence were not as strong as before, and he was not as energetic as those young people when he was old. In addition, there is Zhang Pu, an activist who likes to seize power, volunteered...... Therefore, he never expected that Zhang Pu would be able to make things so murderous and sensational!

“…… Alas, the destruction of Zou Weilian in Fujian, is it Zhang Pu who is advocating for himself? Or is it a pre-arrangement of the court? If the princes of the court really ordered this, then ...... Oh, it sounds really chilling! ”

Speaking of which, the reason why Qian Qianyi proposed to provoke the encirclement and suppression of Huangshi before was not only for the sake of his own career, trying to concoct a great concoction, in order to accumulate prestige, enter the emperor's green eyes, and finally return to Beijing to recover, but also to reverse the current political environment in which the Donglin Party was encircled and suppressed in the imperial court, and to gain a period of respite and adjustment for the Donglin Party members who were about to be killed by old enemies from all walks of life.

-- In March of the fifth year of Chongzhen, the Battle of Dalinghe, which lasted for more than half a year, ended. Huang Taiji, the second generation of the Later Jin family, was very clever in adopting the strategy of besieging the city to help, using the elite of the Guanning army such as Dalinghe City and Zu Dashou in the city as bait, and repeatedly defeated the Ming army that came to aid from Jinzhou.

After a series of failed siege relief operations, the total number of Ming reinforcements that were defeated and annihilated was as high as 150,000! In the final decisive battle, there were more Liaodong general Wu Xiang, Yongping soldier Beidao Zhang Chun, Changping deputy general Zuo Liangyu, Tongzhou deputy general Yang Yufan and other cadres and generals were captured, and the Ming Dynasty's Guanning iron cavalry, which was heavily raised, was almost wiped out. Although Sun Chengzong, the governor of Liaodong, was lucky enough to get out of the battlefield, he also fled back to Shanhaiguan in a hurry, and only a few horses were left with his personal soldiers.

As for Zu Dashou, who was trapped in Dalinghe City, he ran out of ammunition and food after defending the city for more than half a year, and even used human flesh as food, and soon could no longer hold on, and could not break through, and finally had to surrender in March of the fifth year of Chongzhen. At this point, the Houjin army won a complete victory, while the Ming army was defeated miserably.

In the course of a series of wars inside and outside the city of Dalinghe, in order to contain the reinforcements of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Taiji also sent Abatai Belle to lead a number of eight banners and Mongolian soldiers and horses, as well as the variegated Han army, a total of more than 10,000 people, once again detoured to Jizhen, broke through the border wall in early January, and then moved to the prefectures and counties of Beizhili, and even broke the official army of the imperial court, and the civil and military forces of the Ming Dynasty were helpless. It was not until April that Abatai returned with a full load under the "escort" of the Ming army, and when he left the Great Wall, the number had swelled to 40,000 due to the plundering of the population and the collection of troops along the way.

Fortunately, the Dengzhou Rebellion in this time and space did not happen as in history - when Sun Yuanhua first sent his cronies and descendants of the Liaodong Army (a force recruited from Dongjiang Town to suppress the natives of Shandong Province) to rescue Dalinghe City by sea, these Liao soldiers who had already been killed by the Jurchens originally planned to go to sea and take a turn casually, so they came back to report that there was a storm at sea and could not sail, so they used this as an excuse to escape to the sword of the Jurchen soldiers and sent them to death, but who knew that they happened to bump into the Far East Company's "immigration recruitment fleet." ”…… As a result, in front of the modern steel warship, 2,000 Liao soldiers and the main general Kong Youde have all become prisoners, and they have just left the epidemic prevention and isolation camp in Vladivostok, and are working as loggers in the deep mountains and old forests. And Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, who stayed in Dengzhou, really thought that they had encountered a storm and drowned because he had not received the news.

Later, forced by the strict order of the Ministry of War, Sun Yuanhua gathered the remaining Liaodong Army, led by Li Jiucheng, who was rebellious in the back of his head, and went out of Shanhaiguan by land to rescue Liaoxi. It happened that Abatai led the Jurchen Eight Banners to break through the pass and go south at this time, and had already arrived near the Dengzhou reinforcements, so Li Jiucheng broke off and surrendered to the Tartars, followed the Eight Banners soldiers in the north Zhili Fox fake tiger might, ravaged many states and counties, and finally went out of the pass with the Houjin army to Liaodong - during this period, Li Jiucheng also persuaded Abatai to wave his army to expedition to Dengzhou, so that he could cooperate with the local Liao army and break the city in one fell swoop...... However, Abatai thought that the distance of Dengzhou was too far, and if he went deep alone, he was afraid of accidents, and at the same time he did not trust the new Li Jiucheng, so he vetoed this mention and returned to the customs in April, leaving only a ruin behind him.

On the other hand, although at the end of the Battle of the Great Ling River, Abatai had already retreated out of the pass, but the Ming court in Beijing was still like a frightened bird - at this time, all the elite troops of Liaozhen and Beizhili had been wiped out, the front-line troops were extremely empty, and the only people who could fight were only a few thousand Sichuan troops at Shanhaiguan. There was a lot of noise among the soldiers and civilians on the border between Jizhen and Liaoxi, and everyone feared that Jiannu would soon be invaded again in a big way, and even the occasional appearance of a few Mongolian herdsmen would frighten the already terrified border guards into fleeing in hundreds.

And above the court, the crowd was even more raging -- because of the clumsy performance in this military disaster, as well as the heavy losses on the battlefield of the Daling River and the prefectures and counties of Beizhili, the cabinet of the Donglin Party and the important members of the local Donglin Party were reduced to thousands of people for a while, and the courtiers of the other factions took the opportunity to launch a campaign to overthrow the cabinet, and the imperial history of the Kedao Imperial History of the Beijing Division has been jumping up and down since last autumn, and the impeachment of Sun Chengzong, Zhou Yanru and other important officials of the Donglin Dynasty is piled up higher than the people...... There is no way, since it gained power in the first year of Chongzhen, the appearance of the Donglin Party in the officialdom has become more and more ugly, and the role it has played has become more and more bad, it seems that this group is born to expand itself in the court and exclude others. For a time, the Donglin Party was dominant in the bureaucratic system of the Ming Dynasty, so that if the scholars did not join this illegal organization (the Donglin Party was never legally recognized), it would be almost impossible to get ahead.

As for the achievements of this illegal organization, well, it's really embarrassing to talk about it -- war, road construction, disaster relief, flood fighting, water conservancy, ...... It seems that everything is badly done, especially many water conservancy systems that should have been put in operation and maintained every year have been completely destroyed under the management of the righteous men and gentlemen, so that in the event of a major natural disaster, the consequences will be twice as severe as in the past. As for the war, it was one fiasco after another. Such a grudge against the world, such a disaster to the country and the people...... If such a cabinet can be as stable as Mount Tai, it will be a hell of a sight!

As a result, since the first year of Chongzhen, the Donglin Party, which has been a dominant party in the court, finally can no longer control the government, under the joint siege of the officials of the other factions and the anger and disgust of Emperor Chongzhen, the first assistant Zhou Yanru was forced to resign and return to his hometown, and the official positions of the remaining Donglin dignitaries were also in jeopardy.

Although such a fate is obviously self-inflicted, the Donglin Party people do not think so, but are very aggrieved that the current "evil is flourishing" in the DPRK and China, and they dare to drive these righteous men and gentlemen to the stage, which is really unbearable...... When the defeat of the court political battle was decided, the Donglin Party members who refused to admit defeat continued to mobilize their various connections and forces in an attempt to bring the situation back, at least they could not lose again.

-- Specifically, it is to create a new war to divert the attention of the government and the opposition and temporarily relieve the difficulties of the Donglin Party in the difficult situation in the DPRK and China -- When the war becomes very urgent, the struggle between the court and the cabinet will be temporarily suppressed, so that the "traitors in the DPRK and China" and the "deceived Shengshang" will not be able to further counterattack, so as to prevent the entire Donglin Party force from being completely driven out of the court.

As a result, Huangshi, far south of the country, unfortunately became the preferred target - of course, not because he colluded with Australian thieves and repeatedly violated the imperial court system, but because: first, I heard that this vulgar martial artist learned a lot of money-making skills from Australian thieves, and his life was very nourishing, but he refused to take it out and give it to the Jiangnan gentry, and the money he earned did not share the profits of the honest and honest Donglin gentlemen;

Second, in order to accumulate wealth and raise troops, the Funing Army actually ignored the imperial court's tradition of collecting less and no commercial taxes, and brazenly imposed a "Jinghai tax" on every merchant ship in the Taiwan Strait...... The annual income is as high as more than 5 million taels of silver, which is equivalent to taking money out of the pockets of the behind-the-scenes financiers of the Donglin Party, which has long made the landlords and gentry in Jiangnan grit their teeth with hatred, just because not every gentry is doing sea trade, and the power of the Funing Army is really not weak, so they have not made up their minds to deal with him for the time being.

Thirdly, it was Huangshi who gathered land in southern Fujian, persecuted the gentry, and stepped the dignity and honor of scholars into the mud...... Although this somewhat makes the Donglin Party feel a little sad and hurtful, the landlords in the world have never been a family, and unless they involve relatives and old relatives, the landlords and gentry in the south of the Yangtze River will not wipe their tears for the plight of the landlords in southern Fujian -- not to mention that they themselves have not done less about similar things of cleverly seizing and annexing land.

In short, taking advantage of this opportunity, the Donglin Party planned to brand Huangshi and Funing Army into rebels, and while diverting the focus of discussion between the government and the opposition, they would take over all the financial resources that were originally in the hands of those lowly warriors for them to enjoy. As for how to clean up after the rebellion of the Funing Army, and how to clean up the mess afterwards, it is the responsibility of the imperial court, no matter how much manpower and material resources are lost, the imperial court is also responsible, and the Donglin Party only needs to reap more benefits with foresight - send you to death, and I will make a fortune...... Haven't the rules been the same for so many years?

Therefore, after the initial shock and shock, Qian Qianyi gradually became relaxed - no matter how earth-shattering the process of provoking the incident was, how cruel and vicious Zhang Pu's methods were, and how aggrieved the death of Governor Zou Weilian as the introduction, anyway, the dead Taoist friends did not die and the poor Dao, maybe this is what the princes of the court and the central government meant? It's just that I need to pay more attention in the future, don't be accidentally cheated by Zhang Pu's mad dog......

But what these optimistic and lawless Donglin parties in Jiangnan didn't know was that because the Donglin Party and the rest of the gentry and wealthy families all over the country did not communicate with each other well, there were people in other parts of the Ming Empire who were doing almost the same thing......

Therefore, in the next few days, Qian Qianyi, who lived in seclusion in the countryside south of the Yangtze River, was stunned to receive one after another earth-shattering bad news - although he retired at home, as a Donglin Party that advertised "family affairs, national affairs, world affairs, and everything cares", his news is still relatively well-informed:

A mutiny broke out in Dengzhou, Shandong, Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai, disappeared in the chaos, and Chen Xin, the former chief soldier of Dengzhou, led the rebels to cross the sea and attack Tianjin!

The border armies of Datong and Xuanfu broke out into fierce infighting over the silver mines, with countless casualties, and they are still accusing each other of being rebels.

More than 30 liukou in northern Shaanxi elected Gao Yingxiang as the leader, formed an alliance to cross the river into Shanxi, took the provincial capital Taiyuan, and killed the Jin king's mansion!

Shandong Wenxiang Sect once again rebelled in Lunan, and has now gathered hundreds of thousands of people to besiege Jining and cut off the lifeblood of the canal!

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In the end, the "slave chief" Huang Taiji ordered many Ming Dynasty generals who surrendered in the Battle of Dalinghe to lobby the remnants of the Guanning Army in western Liaoning to persuade them to surrender. The civil officials and eunuchs of the superintendent have repeatedly reported that the front-line army is unstable and may have unforeseen disasters......

Although the geographical concept in his mind is very general, Qian Qianyi also vaguely judged that at this time, Beijing may have been on fire from all sides.

“…… How did this, so many catastrophes come together? What are you doing in the court? ”

Sitting in his small study, he groaned in disbelief with his mouth open in a daze.