Shandong definitely has the soil of civil unrest, not to mention the Liangshan uprising in the former Song Dynasty, just in the entire Ming Dynasty, I don't know how many times the people in Shandong rebelled.

From Tang Sai'er in the Yongle period of the early Ming Dynasty, to Liu Liu Liu and Liu Qi in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, and then to Xu Hongru in the Wanli Apocalypse, there were more than ten uprisings with names and surnames.

The reason for the rebellion of the people is very simple, they just can't live! The increasingly large number of clans, the Yansheng Mansion covering an area of one million acres, and the mergers and acquisitions of the gentry are raging, making the life of the common people extremely miserable, as long as there is a spark, it can be ignited immediately.

In the Chongzhen period, the weather became colder and colder, drought and locust plagues, and the people in the northern provinces were already miserable. Because of Zhu Youzhen's early intervention in northern Shaanxi, he killed all the gentry and officials in northern Shaanxi, so that the people were no longer oppressed, and with the promotion of high-yield crops sweet potatoes and corn, the people were able to live a good life. And the people of Shandong and even Hebei and Henan are living a miserable life.

Therefore, Ma Yilong launched the Holy Maiden Baigu of the Wenxiang Sect, in the name of the Wenxiang Sect, at the beginning he did not hesitate to "break" his own manor, opened the granary to put grain to recruit troops, and soon the people of the four townships gathered, and in less than half a month, the number of rebels surged to more than 10,000 people, and even captured Zhucheng County. Although Jiaozhou was not conquered because the Li family recruited young and strong defenders to defend the city, they soon conquered Gaomi Pingdu and other prefectures and counties, and the team soon grew to more than 100,000 people. Of course, there are more than 20,000 of these 100,000 people, and the rest are old women and children.

However, the power caused by 100,000 people was still terrifying, and various prefectures and counties sent letters to Jinan, asking the emperor in Jinan to send troops to suppress it.

In Jinan City, not long after Ma Yilong's incident, Zhu Youzhen received the news, and he was not surprised or overjoyed after receiving the news.

I was worried that there was no excuse to transfer troops into Shandong, but I didn't expect the opportunity to come.

"Vice Cao Xian also said not long ago that there are only a few civil unrest in Shandong, and only the local guards need to be used, but now, there are 100,000 rebels in a short period of time, is this the minority civil unrest you are talking about?" Zhu Youzhen questioned Cao Yubiandao.

Cao Yubian was speechless. Half a month ago, Shandong was quite calm, who knew that the civil unrest would be so large-scale during a period of time, with 100,000 rebellious troops, the scale of which actually exceeded the Xu Hongru uprising that year.

"Your Majesty, the top priority now is to immediately deploy troops to suppress it, otherwise I am afraid that the entire Jiaodong Sanfu will be completely eroded." Cao Yubian said urgently. The three prefectures of Jiaodong, namely Qingzhou, Laizhou and Dengzhou, are located in the easternmost part of the Shandong Peninsula.

"It's not in a hurry, it's just a bunch of troublesome peasants, just use the local guards to suppress it." Zhu Youzhen was not in a hurry, so he first asked the peasant army to suppress those gentry, so as to reduce the resistance to future reforms.

"Your Majesty, there are too many rebel troops, and I am afraid that the guards alone will not be able to suppress them." Cao Yubian said bitterly at the corner of his mouth.

Shandong naturally has an army, and there are many guards in Denglai and Denglai. But the problem is that the guards are already rotting and cannot fight at all. The army in Jiaodong, except for the water division, is relatively good, and the combat effectiveness of the other armies is fundamentally scum, and it may not be able to defeat the rebellious peasants.

At the beginning, Cao Yubian desperately dissuaded the emperor from transferring the Praetorian Guard into Shandong, but now, Cao Yubian had to take the initiative to persuade the emperor to transfer troops.

The emperor may have taken action against the gentry of Shandong, but it was impossible for all the officials and gentry to be executed, and the rebellious peasant army did not care about anything......

"What does Da Sima think?" Zhu Youzhen looked at Hong Chengchou on the side.

Hong Chengchou said: "Your Majesty, the minister thinks that Vice Cao Xian is right, in order not to make the lives of Shandong miserable, it is better to transfer troops as soon as possible." Quell the civil unrest in Shandong as soon as possible, and go south in time to worship the filial piety tomb. ”

"Okay, it's up to the two Aiqing." Zhu Youzhen agreed.

"The decree ordered Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Jiliao, to select and transfer 20,000 Liaodong Janissary Army, led by Zhou Yuji, the general soldier of southern Liaoning, and landed in Dengzhou along the coastal road. Another 10,000 Janissaries of the Beijing Division, led by Zhao Shujiao, the governor of Caoyun, went south into Qingzhou and blocked the westward march of the rebellious people's army. Zhang Shize, the Marquis of Pingbei, led the Praetorian Guard in Jining to enter Yanzhou, and entered Luzhou from Linyi to the northeast to block the road of the rebellious people's army into the mountainous area of Luzhong.

The three-way army, from the northwest, southwest, and east, encircled and attacked the rebellious people's army, and the rebellious people's army must be completely annihilated! ”

Zhu Youzhen said murderously.

At the beginning, Zhu Youzhen really had the intention of ignoring it for the time being and letting the rebel army clean up the gentry on the ground. Later, I thought about it, if the rebellious army was allowed to rage, Jiaodong would be completely eroded, and I don't know how many people would die, and the consequences would be too serious.

Therefore, we should take advantage of the fact that the momentum of the rebellious people's army is not too great, and directly deploy troops to exterminate it.

The Liaodong Praetorian Guard, the Jingshi Praetorian Guard, plus the Praetorian Guard who followed Zhu Youjian on patrol, more than 40,000 soldiers and horses, in fact, there is no way to fight at all, and the rebellious people's army will not need so many people at all. With more than 10,000 imperial guards who followed Zhu Youzhen's southern tour, it was enough to completely exterminate the civil unrest.

However, Zhu Youzhen's purpose is more than that. First pacify the rebellious people's army, and then take the opportunity to clean up the place and clean up the whole of Shandong, and then we can carry out reforms. There are more than 100 counties in Shandong, and the place is too large, and there are many hills, and there are tens of thousands of troops who can't manage it at all.

The Liaodong Praetorian Guard is too far away, and the Jingshi Praetorian Guard is more than 800 miles away from Qingzhou Mansion, while the Imperial Praetorian Guard led by Zhang Shize is in Jining Prefecture, just in Shandong, and it is said that it can be quickly put into the battlefield.

However, Zhang Shize's march was swallowed slowly, without the slightest hint of hurry.

Zhang Shize led the army to the Yanzhou capital city first, and began to ask for money and food for the march, and the Yanzhou government urgently raised enough money and food for ten thousand troops, but Zhang Shize seized the Yanzhou Mansion master who escorted the grain to the military camp on the grounds that the grain was moldy, and then led the troops directly into the Yanzhou capital city. The prefect of Yanzhou was shocked and asked Zhang Shize why he entered the city, but Zhang Shize took out the evidence that the prefect of Yanzhou and the former Shenggong Kong Yinzhi colluded to harm the people, and directly arrested the prefect of Yanzhou, and then purged the entire city of Yanzhou, and countless officials and gentry were arrested.

When the news reached Jinan, Cao Yubian was furious and impeached Zhang Shize for exceeding the rules. Zhu Youzhen took out Zhang Shize's note, which was full of evidence that Yanzhou officials were corrupt and perverted the law to trap the people and harm the people.

"Your Majesty, it is important to deal with the exile army at this time, and it is not the time to check the officials. And the Marquis of Pingbei has no right to check the officials at all! Cao Yubian persuaded.

Zhu Youzhen smiled coldly: "If you don't know when to investigate now, will you wait until the army leaves Yanzhou, and then there is a civil unrest, and then you will investigate the officials?" By the way, the arrest of Yanzhou officials is actually mainly Jinyiwei, and Zhang Shize is just cooperating with Jinyiwei. ”

Saying that, Zhu Youzhen ordered Wang Chengen to put a brocade guard in front of Cao Yubian.