After hearing this, Bi Bai smiled bitterly and asked, "The majesty of the Son of Heaven?" ”

Then, Bi Bai said to Bi Chengen and the others: "Now it seems that it is too late to take the Han people as hostages, so break through by yourself!" It's me who is sorry for you, I shouldn't have betrayed the court with you, it was I who overestimated the old party among the Han people, although they were ruthless and said the same, but they also scolded badly, and there were few who really dared to rebel, and even wished that others would rebel, and they would have stepped on it. ”

"Among these officers and generals mentioned just now, several of them were exempted from conscription, and they complained to me in private, and some even said that they couldn't follow Jing Nan, but they rebelled, but they were more active and serious than anyone else in his mother, and I can't wait for the Son of Heaven to see that no one is more loyal except him!"

It can be seen that what these people said in the past is false! In other words, they only hope that others will rebel, so that they can be rewarded for their military achievements in counterinsurgency, and at the same time enjoy the preferential treatment given by the court after the rebellion of others, if you can survive in the future, remember not to be blinded by greed, and pay for your life, but make wedding clothes for others. ”

"Yes!"

Bi Chengen and the others tearfully agreed.

Next.

Bi Chengen and other rebels really began to assemble, preparing to break through outside the city, and there was no time to catch Han Min as a shield.

Because, at present, the official army has begun to bombard the city with artillery non-stop, and it will break into the city at any time.

Here he killed all his wives and concubines, then carried a bloody knife, and then lit all the curtains in the house with a candle, and smiled as the fire spread.

The rebels such as Bi Chengen and Bi Hongda saw the thick smoke and dust of their homes when they broke through to the outside of the city, but they didn't dare to stay.

However, when Bi Chengen went out of the south gate, he was already ambushed at the south gate by the official army Yang Wendeng, who used rows of hooks and sickles to hook and fall off his horse, and then was captured alive.

Before Bi Hongda could escape to the north gate, he was beaten with a fire hammer by Xie Guibu, an official army who had already landed in the city.

It turned out that the Ming army had stopped shelling at this time.

Because the entire city of Ningxia has been bombarded with holes, and the official army has started the general offensive after Zhu Yijun personally issued the will to start the general offensive.

Zhu Yijun did rush to the front line at this time, and symbolically said that the battle was personally commanded by him, the emperor, indicating that he was the supreme commander of the army in the world.

The officers and armies also intended to perform better in front of the Son of Heaven, and they all worked very hard, and some rushed to the collapsed city wall without waiting for the smoke to dissipate.

Therefore, soon, a large number of officers and troops poured into the city of Ningxia.

Li Rumei, the younger brother of Li Rusong, ignored the fact that there were still many rebels in the city, and personally led the cavalry to rush to Bibai's mansion, but because he saw that Bibai's mansion was already beginning to burn, he had to improve the attack to extinguish the fire, and in the end he only snatched out a lot of goods that Bibai had looted over the years and the remains of his own body that had not been completely burned.

Zhu Yijun also entered Ningxia City that night, stationed in the Qingwang Mansion, and ordered that all the county kings and auxiliary generals and gentry who were forced to follow the Qingwang rebellion were beheaded in the city, and the main culprits Qi Chengen and Tu Wenxiu were ready to be escorted to Beijing to be executed.

So far.

The Ningxia Rebellion was put down.

But the purpose of Zhu Yijun's personal expedition was not just to quell the rebellion.

Therefore, in the future, he directly ordered Li Rusong, Ma Gui and Tong Yiyuan to make persistent efforts, continue to go north, search for the set in three directions, and build the city and Tuntian, so as to achieve the goal of recovering the Hetao.

Meantime.

Zhu Yijun also ordered Wan Shide, who had made meritorious contributions to guard Huamachi, to be the governor of Ningxia, and Xiao Ruxun to be the chief soldier and leader of the battalion in Ningxia, responsible for the aftermath of the Ningxia Rebellion and the logistics supply for the recovery of the Hetao.

Because Magui had almost wiped out the Mongol battalion in Hetao in advance, there were no large-scale captives in Hetao now, but some small Mongolian tribes.

As a result, the war to regain the Loop went smoothly.

Not long after, the Hetao area south of Yinshan was recovered by the Ming official army, among which Tong Yiyuan also entered the manhole, and built a city here, capturing the rabbit that fled here.

Zhu Yijun ordered the establishment of Shajing Mansion, and asked Ma Gui and Zhu Xinli to change the Tumut Department of naturalization and Dabansheng City, liquidate the Tulik Department that aided the rebellion, and abolish its title of Zhongshun Wang, and Zhu Xinli inherited it, and Pull Lik himself was also escorted to Beijing for execution.

In addition, Zhu Yijun also ordered the establishment of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

The Anxi Protectorate was located in Suzhou, and Li Rusong temporarily served as the Protector of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and prepared for the future recovery of Hamiwei, the conquest of Yarkand, Wara, and Yili Jiangli, and the opening up of the Western Regions again.

Besides.

For the Hu Lu who rebelled with Bibai and Cao Zideng in the past, Zhu Yijun also ordered the new Ningxia governor Wan Shide to be eliminated.

"How are you going to determine that the Hulu in the city are involved in the rebellion?"

Zhu Yijun also specially asked about Wanshide for this reason.

Wan Shide replied: "Anyone who still lives with the Han people is considered to have not participated, and anyone who has a house full of Hulu should be killed if he robbed the houses obtained by the Han people." ”

Zhu Yijun nodded: "Very good, just do it." ”

Therefore, Wan Shide asked Xiao Ruxun to seal the city, and led the troops to kill all the Tartars in Ningxia City who did not live in the same house as the Han people, and the entire Ningxia City was filled with blood and fog for a while, and it did not disperse for three days.

Zhu Yijun can only sigh at this, he can only use Wan Shide's suggestion, because there is no better way.

After all, the ordinary Tartars who followed the rebels to loot the Han people in the city must be punished, otherwise it will not be enough to deter the ordinary Tartars gathered in other border towns.

And Wan Shide's openness to the Tartar net that can get along with the Han people is already an extra favor.

Of course, this can be regarded as another signal, that is, as long as you are willing to sinicize or become a slave of the Han people, even if you encounter a rebellion of the Hu people, you can be spared.

That's right, the Tartars who can live with the Han people are naturally either sinicized and the Han people have formed a family, or they are attached to the Han family as slaves.

In either case, it can be ruled out that there is also a barbaric habit of plundering the Han people, after all, if they still have this habit, they will only kill the Han people in the same room as early as when they are in rebellion.

The Ningxia Rebellion occurred because Zhu Yijun agreed to Shen Shixing's request to no longer restrict human trafficking to non-national people, which was equivalent to officially recognizing the human dignity of his own people and respecting his own people, which caused dissatisfaction among Bibai and others, and in addition, the policy of exempting from forced labor had long caused Bibai and others to breed dissatisfaction, so it led to the emergence of this rebellion.

And now, the Ningxia Rebellion has been completely quelled, which means that only the people of the country have human dignity, and no one can stop the national policy that other populations can be trafficked, and once again let the people of the world know that the exemption from forced labor cannot be stopped.

However, the Ningxia Rebellion and the associated Shaanxi Rebellion also cost Zhu Yijun a lot of silver, and the expenditure on internal money alone was more than 10 million taels.

If this had been left behind the Ming Dynasty, which had been orthodox before Wanli, the cost would have been enough to collapse the empire's finances.

After all, before Wanli, the Ming Empire's annual silver income in Taicang was only about four million taels, although there were tens of millions of stone grains in their true colors, but because of the huge expenses of the empire, they were basically in a state of eating grain before Wanli, and if they really spent tens of millions of taels of silver at a time, for a big war, the whole country could not bear this kind of financial pressure at all.

And the Ming Dynasty of the Wanli Dynasty naturally already has this strength.

But even if the Ming Dynasty of the Wanli Dynasty has this strength, the internal expenditure of tens of millions of taels of silver dollars is still a bit nerve-wracking.

At least for Zhu Yijun, his private property as the emperor has decreased a lot.

As mentioned earlier, in this era, the important guarantee of imperial power is not so much how many troops to control, but how much property to control.

Because in the era of conscription and firearms, there were no soldiers who could be recruited quickly, and no artillery could be built quickly, but without money, soldiers could not be recruited and artillery could not be built.

Therefore, Zhu Yijun will continue to find ways to increase his internal treasury and treasury revenue.

These two are actually not much different.

Because Zhu Yijun ruled alone, he could put the money from the inner treasury into the treasury, and he could also put the money from the treasury into the inner treasury.

And now, the economic advantage of quelling these two rebellions to Zhu Yijun is that he can abolish the Qin and Qing domains openly, recover a large amount of royal mansions, and reduce a lot of expenditures.

Of course, this benefit is not much for Zhu Yijun, and his main direction of increasing his wealth is to expand externally.

It is worth mentioning that after Zhu Yiluo, the former king of Qin, was captured, Zhu Yijun specially announced that he had met him.

After Zhu Yiluo saw Zhu Yijun, he knelt directly on the ground: "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty!" But please see that your majesty is forced to rebel, not that the minister really wants to rebel, but that they are forcing the lives of their own clans, so the minister has to agree. ”

"You were originally for the clan, but in your eyes, is it true that only the close branch of your Qin clan is the clan, and the far branch is not the clan, not even a person?"

Zhu Yijun asked at this time.

Zhu Yiluo was stunned after hearing this.

"Show him the list of children from the clan he sold."

Zhu Yijun commanded at this time.

"Yes!"

So, Tian Yi handed a roster to Zhu Yiluo.

Zhu Yijun said: "See for yourself, how many clan children you let your internal officials sell, you do such evil, even if you are forced to rebel, but just by doing this, I can't spare you!" ”

"This ......"

Zhu Yiluo didn't know what to say for a while, he thought he was doing this very secretly, but he didn't expect the emperor to know about it.

"Someone, drag him out and cut him down, and the gentry of the clan who plotted with him are also cut down!"

Zhu Yijun then commanded.

"Your Majesty!"

"Your Majesty!"

Zhu Yiluo quickly dragged it out, and the clan gentry who rebelled with him were all beheaded in the city.

After disposing of Zhu Yiluo and these people, Zhu Yijun drove to Yan'an, preparing to lead the army to sacrifice the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum.

This was something he had planned a long time ago.

As an advocate of governing the country with new rites, Zhu Yijun wants to emphasize the sense of national identity.

Therefore, since he is touring the west, it is necessary to personally worship the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum, so that the people of the world will have a stronger sense of compatriots who are all descendants of Yan and Huang.

(End of chapter)