As soon as Ningxia Governor Cao Zideng finished speaking, the deputy chief soldier hurriedly walked towards him, and said with a solemn expression: "Bad thing, news has come from Beijing that there are large troop transfers in Guyuan, Yan'an and other towns!" ”

Cao Zideng couldn't help but tighten up after hearing this: "This is for us?" ”

"So, let the court know about our killing of the clan?"

Zhu Yiluo also asked at this time.

Cao Zideng said with some disappointment: "I thought that even if such news was reported, Enfu would suppress it for me." ”

As he spoke, Cao Zideng looked at Zhu Yiluo and Bibai again and said:

"But no matter what, we didn't expect this day!"

"The imperial court does not distinguish between high and low, and is exempt from forced labor, which is a chaotic government and a dishonest act, and now no matter how the court disposes of us, we have only one way."

"That's the opposite!"

Subsequently, Cao Zideng bowed his hand to Zhu Yiluo: "Please Your Highness raise the banner of righteousness again, Fengtian Jingjing, and Qingjun's side!" ”

Although Zhu Yijun's reforms benefited the common people of the world, they did affect the interests of many powerful bureaucrats.

For some powerful bureaucrats, making them no longer able to serve the military and civilians in the name of the imperial court is equivalent to asking for their lives.

After all, these powerful bureaucrats do not want to give money and ask for the consent of the people when they need to use labor.

Because they don't have it.

They have long felt that it is normal for them to enslave the people as the upper class, and they have long felt that the people should be enslaved by themselves.

Even the Ming Dynasty geographer Xu Xiake recorded in his notes that he forcibly captured the people to serve him when he was traveling and the people refused to be beaten, and he was not ashamed but proud, thinking that he was teaching Diao people a lesson, which was a very fulfilling thing.

Therefore, for the powerful bureaucrats who are accustomed to prostitution labor, asking them to pay for labor and treat the people as human beings will make them feel that they have suffered a big loss.

Cao Zideng is the same, the court exempts all the people in the world from servitude, in his opinion, it is an unethical act, that is, he is forcing him to give money to the people for nothing, forcing him to treat the people as people.

In addition, in the Ningxia region, there are many captives and few Hans, and his subordinates already have an antipathy, so he will either win over the Han soldiers and Han people to kill Bibai, or collude with Bibai, but the former is difficult to do, because he has already deducted the salaries of the low-level Han officers and soldiers and bought subscription coupons.

Therefore, Cao Zideng had no choice but to choose the second path, and at this time he used this as an excuse to persuade King Qing to rebel.

"I didn't expect this day to come."

Zhu Yixi, the king of Qing, who also colluded with Cao Zideng and Bibai because he wanted to enslave the low-level clans and the people, was now pounding in his heart, and asked Cao Zideng:

"Can we make it?"

Cao Zideng replied: "You don't have to ask if you can do anything, but you should ask if you should or not!" ”

"Your Highness, as a descendant of Taizu, you should raise troops to protect the ancestral system! Otherwise, instead of hesitating now, His Highness might as well endure and not slaughter the clan of his own domain before, and not force the people to be slaves! Treat them with new gifts! ”

"In the end, it's not the other way around!"

"Your Highness has a happy word!"

At this time, Bibai directly pulled out the knife, and said:

"The 100,000 troops of the Rabbit Department are waiting to respond, and there are tens of thousands of soldiers and horses in the set ready at any time, if Your Highness refuses, then you can only kill Your Highness first, and we will raise our own troops!"

In the entire Hetao area and even in Hexi, in fact, the contradictions between Ming and Mongolia have become more and more intense.

First of all, under the influence of climatic factors, the grazing income of the Mongolian tribes is getting lower and lower, and the income from raiding is more and more cost-effective compared with grazing and trade, so the frequency of the Mongolian tribes plundering the Han people has increased, resulting in a very intensified conflict between the Han and Mongolia in the border towns.

Secondly.

Because the Han people in China are getting richer and richer, and the Han people who are willing to be slaves are getting fewer and fewer, there are more and more Han businessmen who come to buy Mongolian people as slaves, which makes many Mongolians attached, which in turn leads to a large decrease in the number of herdsmen who can be enslaved by many Mongolian nobles, and therefore many Mongolian nobles are more and more dissatisfied with the new rites implemented by the Ming Dynasty.

At last.

It is precisely because of the large number of Mongols who are attached, whether they are attached as slaves or as people, that there are more and more Hu people in Ningxia, and the Han people no longer have an advantage here, relatively speaking, so many Mongolian people who have not been assimilated and have not been attached to them for a long time began to bully the Han people more and more frequently, which further intensified the Han-Mongolian contradictions.

Even the generals who had already been attached to the Ming Dynasty also had the intention of rebelling, and they were no longer willing to be the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty, but only wanted to collude with the Mongolian nobles who had not been attached to it, and plotted against the entire Central Plains!

No way.

The rich land of Kyushu in China has always been coveted by the surrounding ethnic groups, and they will either annex it in a peaceful way or conquer and occupy it.

If you can choose the latter, naturally no one will choose the former.

And Bibai now wants to use the latter way to directly conquer the rivers and mountains of the Han family, because Zhu Yijun's new policy makes him unacceptable.

He originally thought that he could be the emperor of the soil, that is, the landlord of the land, but after he wanted to be attached, because of the reform, he not only became the emperor of the soil, but also because he regarded ordinary Han people as people, and he couldn't even bully ordinary Han people.

So, Bibai can't accept it.

It is precisely because he can't stand the worship and because the Mongolian upper-class figures inside and outside Ningxia are a little ready to move, that Cao Zideng, these Han officials and generals, are willing to be in cahoots with him while they can't stand being exempted from forced labor.

Zhu Shenyuan was also worried that he would be killed directly by Bibai, and said: "Then let's raise troops, the traitors in the DPRK and China are perverse, and they should be alone in adhering to the "Emperor Ming Ancestral Training" to crusade against the traitors!" ”

"That being the case, the minister and the deputy envoy Wan Shide and other officials will come to the palace and support His Royal Highness as the king!"

Cao Zideng hurriedly said a word at this time, and then gave up.

But not long after, Cao Zideng's henchman Tu Wenxiu came to him and said: "Deputy envoys Wan Bingxian and Xiao Ruxun refused to leave Huamachi, and deduced that there were traps gathered outside the Great Wall Pass, and they did not dare to leave their posts without permission. ”

After hearing this, Cao Zideng sank his face, walked over and said to Bibai: "Immediately start the army, don't ask anymore, the surname Wan is already alert, we don't have any more soldiers, I'm afraid there will be more luck!" ”

"Okay, I'll personally lead the troops to capture the city!"

Bibai immediately led the governor with Cao Zideng's governor's ticket, took his elite family members, and first went to the General Military Administration to find Zhang Jizhong, the chief soldier of Ningxia.

Zhang Jizhong asked: "What is the matter of the Fuyuan to come to see me?" ”

"Fuyuan asked the duke if he was willing to support King Qing as the king and ask for the court?!"

Bibai asked.

Zhang Jizhong was shocked when he heard this: "How can Fuyuan rebel? ”

"Will the public want or not?"

Bibai asked, drawing his sword.

Seeing this, Zhang Jizhong said in a deep voice: "I'd rather break my neck than betray the king!" ”

Poof!

Bibai also killed Zhang Jizhong with a knife, and then personally led his subordinate Ding to send troops to break into Zhang Jizhong's camp, and killed all the officials and generals under Zhang Jizhong, such as the guard officer Li Chengen.

Then, Bibai led his troops directly to the city gate, and released the prisoners, plundered the people's property and goods in the city, and even robbed the people's women, and some raped the people's women on the spot.

At the same time, Qing King Zhu Shenyuan also officially issued a letter to Fengtian Jingjing, asking all the vassal kings of the world to discuss power and rape, and also asked the entire Ningxia and Hexi forts to surrender, especially to Wan Shide and Xiao Ruxun in Huamachi, who sent an edict to the two of them, asking them to surrender immediately, and luring each other with high-ranking officials.

Because Huamachi is an important town to go to Yulin in the east, it is also a key pass for the captives to enter the customs.

But Wan Shide and Xiao Ruxun refused to surrender.

This made Bibai quite annoyed, and said to Cao Zideng: "It seems that I have to personally lead the troops to take these two places." ”

Cao Zideng said: "Let's hit the flower horse pond first!" In any case, it is necessary to let the captives in, and when they send someone to contact the captives, they promise to make the flower horse pond their grazing land in the future, and let them help to fight the flower horse pond together, so that it can be regarded as a two-sided attack, which can ensure that nothing goes wrong. ”

Bow down and nod your head.

……

Flower Horse Pond.

Wan Shide was asking Xiao Ruxun: "Has the news of King Qing's rebellion with Cao Zideng, Bibai and others spread?" ”

Xiao Ruxun replied: "It's spread out, I believe that soon, Xiao Butang will learn the news." ”

Then, Xiao Ruxun asked Wan Shide again: "How did Bing Xian expect that they would raise troops." ”

"In the entire Ningxia area, there are more Hu people and fewer Han people, but now there is a trend that Hu people want to enslave my Han people, and the chieftain will naturally be unwilling, so sooner or later something bad will happen, so I have already bought the eyeliner in the governor's yamen in advance, in order to know the situation as soon as possible, when he Cao Zideng decided to make trouble, someone around him had already passed the news to me."

Wan Shide said.

Xiao Ruxun said: "The lowly position also has this concern, so it has already made people prepare more food, grass and ordnance, and now they are only waiting for the decree of the imperial court." ”

……

"King Qing's matter, whether he is alone in harming the clan, or he is colluding with the local bureaucrats to harm the clan, we have to deal with it according to what may be the opposite, and the Privy Council is right to deploy troops in advance."

"But in my opinion, I'm afraid that once you transfer troops, you will still startle the snakes, who will let them think that the world will be in chaos because I will never spare the people from servitude?"

Chamberlain.

After Zhu Yijun came here, he discussed with Shen Shixing, Qi Jiguang and others about King Qing's greedy ink clan and the slaughter of the clan, and said such a sentence at this time.

And after Zhu Yijun said this, Shen Shixing stood up first and said, "Your Majesty said yes!" This matter is not only because the permanent exemption from forced labor has caused the dissatisfaction of some powerful bureaucrats, but also related to the fact that the current imperial court has taken the initiative to help the Mongols and encourage the acceptance of Mongols as slaves, thus causing the dissatisfaction of the Mongol nobles. ”

Zhu Yijun waved his hand: "The Mongolian people are attached to a large number of people because of hunger and cold, and my Han people are getting richer and richer, and the need to buy and sell Mongolian children as slaves is inevitable, and it can't be forbidden, how can you blame Qing; This matter can only be blamed on the ambition and stubbornness of the Mongolian nobles themselves, so they want to use this way to fight against the imperial court, which is really beyond their means! ”

"Your Majesty is magnanimous."

"I can't thank you enough."

"Your Majesty, in the humble opinion of the ministers, right now, because of the collusion of King Qing to slaughter the clan, it also gives the court a chance to recover the Hetao."

"Your Majesty can issue an edict to demand that the captive chieftain surrender on the grounds of forcing the Qiang Sect to slaughter the clan, otherwise he will be conscripted with a large army!"

Shen Shixing continued to speak at this time.

Zhu Yijun said: "Very much! ”

Then, Zhu Yijun said: "The hidden danger of the Hetao is quite deep, I have discussed this matter with Zhuqing before, and I have concluded that sooner or later there will be a big chaos, this new policy of exempting forced labor and allowing the sale and purchase of non-national people, can be regarded as exacerbating this matter, so that this matter will appear in advance, and what is even more hateful is that King Qing and Cao Zideng want to fight the country with the Tartars in order to continue to enslave their compatriots." ”

Zhu Yijun said hatefulness, not accident.

This is because he knows that many people in the Ming Dynasty do not have such a strong national concept and national concept, only the concept of the world.

The ruling class, in particular, cares more about their own interests.

You know, even Zhu Di will unite with the Mongols like Duoyan Sanwei when he raises troops, doesn't King Qing know to learn from Zhu Di and unite with the Mongols?

Therefore, Zhu Yijun was not surprised that King Qing and Cao Zideng colluded to arbitrage, but he felt hateful.

Why hate?

The reason is that the new rite has been implemented for so long, and the elites and bureaucrats of the ruling class, such as King Qing and Cao Zideng, still take betraying the country and betraying the nation seriously, which shows that many people in the ruling class are naturally reactionary, and this reactionary nature in history promoted the later Manchu Qing Dynasty to enter the Central Plains.

"However, this does not mean that the previous New Deal cannot be implemented."

"As Yuanfu said, this restructuring is a combination of pros and cons, while we gain a lot of people's hearts, we will also lose some people's hearts;"

"Restructuring!"

"It has never been a dinner to satisfy everyone, but we can only satisfy the majority, and there is no doubt that whether it is the exemption from forced labor or the permission to buy and sell non-nationals, it will satisfy the majority of the country's citizens."

"The former bails out small and medium-sized families, and the latter allows large families to still have a source of slaves and maids."

"It's just that the Tartar nobles who don't want to live under our Han people and don't want to change customs and those powerful bureaucrats in this dynasty who don't want to regard their compatriots in the world as innocent people want to unite and restore the old rites."

"There is no way to talk about this, it can only be dealt with with war!"

"It can only be you dead or I live!"

Zhu Yijun said again: "Therefore, we should revert to completely eliminate all possibilities for the old rites to dominate the national fortune again!" ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Shen Shixing and other ruling ministers all surrendered their hands at this time.

Then, Qi Jiguang said to Zhu Yijun: "Your Majesty, in this case, please transfer back to Magui and let him lead the army to recover the Hetao." ”

"The minister seconded the proposal!"

"The Privy Council has asked the Governor of Tieling, the Governor of Shaanxi Province, to go to Ningxia, so that once Ningxia rebels, it can be divided into a joint attack!"

Li Chengliang followed at this time.

"Accurate!"

Zhu Yijun nodded, and then ordered: "When you send a fast horse, quickly ask what is the situation in Ningxia now?" ”

"Fast horses have been dispatched, but it will take time for now."

Qi Jiguang replied.

Zhu Yijun didn't say anything more after hearing this.

……

At that time.

Ningxia, Huamachi.

More than 100,000 captives are approaching here.

Tens of thousands of people gathered together are boundless, not to mention more than 100,000 sets of captives in Huamachi.

Wan Shide and Xiao Ruxun and other Han people in Huamachi City also changed color after seeing the traps that poured into Huamachi like a monstrous black flood.

And Bibai and Zhuli Rabbit also met outside the Great Wall of Huamachi at this time.

Bibai said to Litu: "What Gong Cao means, if Taiji doesn't want to just get Huamachi as grazing land, he should surrender to King Qing, and follow the example of Duoyan Sanwei who surrendered to King Yan back then, so that the Han people don't think that this incident is that the Mongols want to enslave him Han, but just King Qing wants to clear the king's side!" Make more Han people less resistant, I wonder what Taiji thinks? ”

(End of chapter)