Tianqi looked at Zhang Gui in surprise: "Mao Yujian is a fine work of the imperial court?" ”

Zhang Gui nodded and replied: "Back to Your Majesty, you have allowed Xichang to develop his own eyeliner, but the minister just didn't have time to report to you." The minister had instructed him to take tens of thousands of rebels with him in the name of returning to the division to rescue Wei Hui, and temporarily stationed in Qishui Town. I'm waiting for you to summon me now. ”

"See you."

Apocalypse said.

After noon, Mao Yujian arrived.

As soon as Tianqi saw him, he asked, "Mao Yujian, when did you enter the West Factory?" ”

Mao Yujian replied: "When I heard that Xia Zhongcheng mobilized the displaced people in Huaiqing Mansion to divide the fields and land in the countryside and besiege the city, the minister was contacted by Xichang because he mentioned to his staff that the rebels were difficult to succeed, and he had already become a member of Xichang later. ”

Tianqi looked at Ding Qirui and asked, "Is he really your eldest brother?" ”

Mao Yujian nodded: "Yes!" ”

Tianqi asked again: "Did he really write to you and say that if I kill them, you will slaughter the city in Guanzhong?" ”

"Yes!"

Mao Yujian took out the letter as he spoke.

Seeing this, Ding Qirui roared at Mao Yujian with red eyes: "Mao Zhenghuan, you are shameless!" How can you do the fine work of the West Factory! Do you still have my doctor's discipline?! ”

"That's better than asking him to slaughter the city!"

Tianqi shouted, and said: "Spread my will, the traitor Ding Qirui is extremely evil, his conscience is extinguished, Ling Chi is like Liu Jin's example, and he is divided into the hungry people!" ”

Ding Qirui was hit hard when he heard this, and immediately pouted and cried: "Your Majesty! Grace! The criminal minister is just a moment, and he only thinks of using hundreds of thousands of people to coerce His Majesty! ”

"It's a pity that there won't be hundreds of thousands of people to bury you."

Apocalypse said.

Immediately, Tianqi looked at Mao Yujian and said: "Since you have surrendered to sincerity first, and did not follow Ding Qirui's intentions, slaughtered the city in Guanzhong, I will exempt you from the death penalty, thinking that you will atone for your sins with merit, but you rebelled first, and you can't redeem it all, since you are willing to be the eyeliner of the West Factory, then be a small official in the West Factory, instead of expecting the official to be reinstated." ”

Mao Yujian said: "Thank you, Your Majesty! ”

Tianqi immediately commanded: "The rest of the traitors will also be dealt with as Wang Yongguang did!" Lu Xiangsheng, the left attendant of the Ministry of War, was promoted to the soldiers and horses of the five provinces, and immediately recovered the rest of the cities that betrayed the imperial court! ”

"Yes!"

Although the city of Weihui, which belonged to the fiefdom of King Lu, has been recovered by the imperial court, there are indeed many prefectures and counties that have taken the initiative to join the rebels and have not been recovered.

In particular, after Mao Yujian led some rebels to attack Guanzhong on the orders of Zhu Changshu and Wang Yongguang, it caused many county officials and gentry in Shaanxi and Shanxi to surrender to the wind because they were dissatisfied with the new policy or simply did not want to resist.

Therefore, there are still many counties in Shanxi and Shaanxi that are still ruled by rebels.

Mizhi County is one such county seat.

As an ordinary post man in Yinchuan Station, Mizhi County, Li Zicheng, now known as Li Hongji, did not expect that he would become a clerk under the command of the rebels.

Originally, Li Zicheng enjoyed the life of a postman very much.

Because since Zhang Gui asked Daming to appear in the newspaper, Li Zicheng, as a post officer, has a part-time job of delivering a large number of newspapers to the local area for the West Factory.

This has allowed him to increase his income quite a bit.

After all, as the number of newspaper readers increases, so does the demand for newspapers.

Crucially, Li Zicheng also had the opportunity to receive training at the Xichang night school, and learned a lot of words, so that when the official gentry of Mizhi County changed their banners and surrendered to the rebels, he had already taken a part-time job reading newspapers from the local people in Xichang.

Li Zicheng is so diligent in order to save more money and buy some land as soon as possible.

But because the gentry of Mizhi County joined the rebels, Xichang's offices in Mizhi County had to be evacuated one after another, and his part-time job was naturally gone.

But what Li Zicheng didn't expect was that the rebels actually had to dismantle the post station, and even his superiors laid him off because he had no background and no money.

The more Li Zicheng thought about it after he became unemployed, the more angry he felt, especially after being exposed to some ideological education through the West Factory, and the behavior of the local gentry did make him dissatisfied.

Therefore, he felt even more that the officials and gentry in Mizhi County are now a group of traitors who betrayed the emperor and oppressed the people, and his current predicament was also caused by these traitors.

Coupled with the sudden change, Ai Juren asked him for debts, colluded with the county order to beat him badly, and his wife Han Jiner cuckolded himself again, Li Zicheng killed his wife in a fit of anger, and then killed Ai Juren.

So, when Li Zicheng was desperate, he simply changed his name to Li Zicheng, and gathered the displaced people to raise troops to rebel against the local gentry, and under the banner of respecting the emperor and rape, he threatened to lead his own righteous army to exterminate the rebels for the emperor!

Because of the continuous natural disasters in Shaanxi, there are many displaced people, and the West Factory is now withdrawn, so that many people who can rely on delivering newspapers to work in the stores opened in the West Factory are unemployed, and the post station has been laid off by the rebels themselves, resulting in more people unemployed.

Even many scholars from poor backgrounds joined in, and they wanted to follow Li Zicheng and other righteous soldiers to fight against the emperor, and in the name of counterinsurgency for the imperial court, they carried out class revolution and 0 lives, and for a time, many prefectures and counties were recovered by these rebels.

However, these rebels were essentially peasant armies composed of displaced people, and naturally they were not so gentle with the gentry.

What's more, in their eyes now, these officials and gentry are all traitors and disloyalists.

Therefore, for a time, all the gentry in these places were slaughtered.

And the number of rebels increased more and more, and it didn't take long for them to reach 100,000.

"What! You listened to Wang Yongguang's instructions, and asked King Lu to issue an order to dismantle the post station?! ”

Zhang Gui had just learned about the dismissal of the post station from Mao Yujian, which made him feel shocked and had a hunch that something even more chaotic would happen.

Mao Yujian replied: "Wansheng was his party at the time, so I can't help but listen." ”

"But do you know what the consequences will be?"

Zhang Gui asked with a smile.

Mao Yujian asked, "What can be the consequences?" It's just that many post men are going to be unemployed and will return to their hometowns to farm. ”

Zhang Gui waved his hand: "I can't tell you clearly!" I just hope that you and Wang Yongguang will not become sinners through the ages. ”

"Uncle Guo's words, don't you understand in your later life?"

Mao Yujian asked puzzled.

"Your Majesty! Lu Butang reported from Jiezhou, saying that there were more than 100,000 righteous troops operating in the area of Mizhi, Suide, and Yongning, under the banner of respecting the emperor and begging for traitor, and most of the cities in this area that betrayed the imperial court had been broken by them, and the gentry were all killed by them, and only a few cities were stubbornly resisting. Now, Lu Butang has come to ask Your Majesty, what should be done with these rebels? ”

Shortly after Zhang Gui and Mao Yujian chatted about the abolition of the post station, Zhu Guozhen, a scholar, also reported to Tianqi the latest report from Lu Xiangsheng from the front.

After hearing this, Tianqi was also quite stunned: "100,000 rebels? ”

For a while, the apocalypse couldn't help but turn out that Lu Xiangsheng's recital looked at it carefully, and felt depressed for a while: "How did it become like this!" There are still 120,000 peasant soldiers on Xia Yunyi's side who don't know how to settle them, and now another 100,000 rebels have emerged! ”

Zhang Gui said at this time that Wang Yongguang instigated Zhu Changshu to abolish the post station, and said: "Your Majesty, it seems that now it seems that there are so many peasant soldiers and rebels, the original reason is that there are too many unemployed people in the Ming Dynasty, and the direct reason is that these places attached to the rebels are too heavy to the people, plus the rebels have come to dismantle the post station and reduce the expenditure on disaster relief, so that more unemployed people suddenly appear in these places, so whether it is the people who spontaneously organize the rebels, or the court officials organize the peasants and soldiers to quell the rebellion, There were so many soldiers at once. ”