The generals originally thought that there was still a fierce battle in Kuandian Fort, but they didn't expect Azig to lead 10,000 people to surrender directly!

After all, Abahai's identity is only known to a few cronies such as Li Sanshun!

And Fan Wenhuan is even more secretive, except for Li Xianzhong and Fan Wencheng in the entire Liaodong, only a few people in the Intelligence Department who can contact this line know! They didn't actually know that it was Fan Wenhuan, they only knew that the Intelligence Department had a person codenamed "Sparrow" inside the Tartar.

Now Azig's mother and the most relied on strategist are Li Xianzhong's people, so they can naturally hold him firmly in their hands.

If Azig was just a Jianzhou Baylor, Li Xianzhong could directly include these people in the "Imperial Allied Army".

However, Azig called himself the "Khan" of Dajin before he surrendered, so the nature of the surrender was completely different.

It became the Jianzhou Jurchen to ask the Ming Dynasty to surrender, and the object of the surrender also changed from Liaodong Jingluo Li Xianzhong to the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse Emperor Zhu Youxiao!

Therefore, Li Xianzhong did not directly agree to Azig's surrender.

However, he allowed the 2,000 blue banners of Sudianbao to retreat to Kuandianbao to join Azig.

And declare a temporary truce between the two sides to wait for the final reply of the imperial court!

However, the Jingshi had not yet received the good news from Liaodong, but first came the news that the White Lotus Sect in Shandong had rebelled, captured the state capital, cut off the Cao Yun, and called the emperor a rebellion.

Since the first year of the Apocalypse, there has been a serious drought in the north of the entire Ming Dynasty, and the drought in Zhili, Shandong, Henan and other places has been serious, and even locust plagues have occurred in some areas.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, the drought in eastern Liaodong improved slightly, but it intensified in other places, and Shaanxi began to experience a continuous drought, and even the rich Guanzhong Plain, crops began to be lost.

In the south, there was heavy rain, and huge floods broke out in Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Tongnan Zhili.

There was a rare heavy snowfall in the Lingnan area of Guangdong!

The entire Ming Dynasty was plunged into an unprecedented crisis.

As the disasters in various places were reported one by one, Daming was even more chaotic.

This year's disaster is even more serious than last year's, and even the Shaanxi region, which was not affected last year, has already experienced a grain harvest.

At present, even if the grain stored in Nanzhili and the grain stored in various state capitals are counted, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi and other places still need at least 2 million stone of grain relief; Jiangnan, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Nanzhili need to allocate 1.5 million taels of silver to repair the embankment!

But the grain stored in the capital had already been transported to Liaodong by Wei Liangqing, where was the surplus grain to be distributed for disaster relief?

If it weren't for the fact that the imperial court had just raided the home of the corrupt official Li Sancai not long ago, it is estimated that the Emperor of the Apocalypse would have to use his own internal funds again.

In desperation, the cabinet decided to buy grain from grain merchants in Jiangnan, and these grain merchants would send grain to the disaster areas.

This delayed the arrival of food in the disaster area.

This also made those officials and powerful people see the opportunity to make a fortune.

Officials first cut down on food distributions by withholding relief supplies, which made the disaster worse and the price of food rising.

After a period of time, the people naturally couldn't hold on.

When the money in their hands was spent, they could only buy these sky-high prices by selling their property.

And the powerful who have the grain in their hands will exchange it for the people's fields.

Originally, the grain was 6 yuan and one stone of silver, and one acre of good fertile land could be sold for 18 taels, which could almost be exchanged for 30 stone of grain.

But now the grain has risen to 4 taels of silver a stone, and the price of the fields will definitely fall sharply in this year of famine.

Because the victims of the disaster are selling, the original 18 taels of silver for an acre of land, now someone is willing to use 6 taels of silver to collect it, which is already considered to be doing a good deed.

According to the grain price of 4 taels and one stone, he only needs to use 1 stone and a half grain to exchange for one acre of fertile land.

Under the collusion of officials and businessmen, a large amount of land soon fell into the hands of these powerful people.

And these people can only be reduced to tenants.

These methods of the powerful are exactly the same as when Li Xianzhong bought land at a low price in Liaodong.

But the difference is that the conditions they offer to the tenants are extremely harsh, and those people can't survive at all!

In desperation, under the instigation of the White Lotus Sect, they could only rise up!

The White Lotus Sect originated in the third year of Shaoxing of Gaozong of the Song Dynasty and was founded by a monk Mao Ziyuan.

In the third year of Song Gaozong's Shaoxing, Mao Ziyuan built the White Lotus Confession Hall in Dianshan Lake in Qingpu, Shanghai, and called himself the "White Lotus Teacher", thus giving birth to a new sect of Buddhism - the White Lotus Sect.

Compared with other Buddhist sects, the White Lotus Sect can be described as very "open".

The White Lotus Sect asked its disciples to propagate it at home, calling for the establishment of a temple. As a result, the White Lotus Sect in China is opposed to the Buddhist cultural tradition, and is not accepted by social orthodoxy and is criticized by the Buddhist community.

And the imperial court also considered the White Lotus Sect to be a cult and was banned. So Mao Ziyuan was also beaten as a cult leader and exiled. It was not until Song Gaozong's adopted son Song Xiaozong ascended the throne that Mao Ziyuan was pardoned.

At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect had a new development.

They began to assimilate some Manichaean ideas, as well as some of the teachings of Maitreya. A mixed religion was formed. It advocates the idea that "Maitreya Buddha replaced Shakyamuni Buddha and went down the mountain to save the world".

Gradually, the White Lotus became dissatisfied with the Mongol rule, and they called on the Cultivators to rebel.

Peng Yingyu, one of the founders of the Southern Red Turban Army, is a member of the White Lotus Sect, and it can be said that the Southern Red Turban Army was established on the basis of the White Lotus Sect.

However, the Red Turban Army in the south has never been able to grow stronger.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was previously from the Red Turban Army, must have known very well the threat of the White Lotus Sect to the imperial court.

So the imperial court ordered the White Lotus Sect to be banned, and the "Da Ming Law" stipulated: The White Lotus Sect is the leader of the hanging, and the servants each have a hundred rods, flowing three thousand miles.

But the White Lotus never stopped.

In the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, the White Lotus Sect underwent a "reform", which had a great impact on later generations.

Luo Sifu, a native of Shandong, founded a new religion "Luojiao" in the Jingshi area, advocating the doctrine of "vacuum hometown, childless parents", believing that people must eventually return to the side of "childless parents", and "childless parents" are the highest gods in heaven and earth.

Perhaps Buddhism, Maitreya and Manichaeism, could no longer satisfy the followers of the White Lotus, who decided to introduce "new ideas".

Thus, the spirit of the "Luo Sect" doctrine was absorbed into part of the White Lotus Sect.

They gradually evolved the basic concept of "childless parents" into "childless old mother", and downgraded Maitreya Buddha, the original supreme god of the White Lotus Sect, to become the messenger of "childless old mother".

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, folk religions such as Nirvana, Hongfeng, Laozi, Luozu, Nanwu, and Guoguan all claimed to be branches of the White Lotus.

For a while, the White Lotus Sect grew rapidly, and this time they took advantage of the continuous drought in the Central Plains to encourage the people to rise up against the imperial court!

Originally, the leaders of the White Lotus Sect, Xu Hongru, Wang Haoxian, Yu Hongzhi and others made an appointment to revolt at the same time in Jingzhou, Jizhou, Hebei, and Yuncheng, Shandong.

Because of the increasingly serious disaster in Shandong, Xu Hongru decided to lead the people to revolt alone in advance.

In the second year of the Apocalypse, in the early morning of June 21, the White Lotus cultists in the area of Caozhou Mansion, together with the peasants who could not bear the oppression, gathered in Liujiatun in Yuncheng.

Xu Hongru led the crowd to swear a blood oath, and for a while the flag was displayed, swords and guns were like a forest, the cry shook the sky, and the crowd was excited.

The soldiers of the uprising took the red scarf as their headscarf, armed with broadswords and spears, first sent troops to surround Weijiazhuang, and then captured Liangjialou, occupying four villages one after another.

The rebels wore red scarves on their heads, and there were more than 10,000 people.

Xu Hongru proclaimed himself Emperor Fulie of Zhongxing, changed the year name to the first year of Dacheng Xingsheng, named Chen Canyu as the right prime minister, and his younger brother Xu Heyu as the king of Yinglie.

In order to alleviate the worries of the soldiers, Xu Hongru placed the families of the rebel army in Shuibo Liangshan, the base of the peasant uprising at the end of the Song Dynasty.

In the early morning of June 23, Xu Hongru led the army to attack Yuncheng, and Yu Ziyi, the magistrate of Yuncheng, was frightened and fled in a hurry.

The rebels quickly occupied Yuncheng and launched an attack on Juye, and the sharp edge was invincible. Wherever the rebels went, they opened warehouses to release grain and relieve the people, and the peasants and people "avenged their fathers, and their wives and husbands hated".

In just a few days, the rebel army had grown to tens of thousands of people, and the bureaucrats and landlords everywhere were terrified and fled one after another.

At the same time, other leaders of the White Lotus Sect, such as Shen Zhi, Xia Zhongjin, Zhang Khan Bai, Hou Wu, Zhou Nian'an, and Meng Xianhan, also captured Teng County, Zou County, Yi County and other county seats, as well as Xia Town, the main road of Caoyun.

He also attacked Yanzhou, Qufu, Tancheng and other places, and soon controlled the vast area on both sides of the canal in Shandong to intercept the Cao Yun.

At this time, the main force of the Ming Dynasty had already been transferred to Liaodong, and the official army in Shandong was very serious and had weak combat effectiveness.

At the beginning of July, Xu Hongru marched eastward, crossed the canal, conquered Zou County, and signed a seal to sentence Zheng Yijie to flee with his family.

Then, the righteous army waved to Teng County, and Yao Zhiyin, the magistrate of the county, fled, and the prestige of the righteous army was greatly boosted, and the team grew to hundreds of thousands.

Zou and Teng counties are adjacent to Jining in the north and Xuzhou in the south, which is an important section of the canal and water.

Xiong Tingbi, the secretary of the military department, urgently ordered Zhao Yan, the governor of Shandong, to be the commander-in-chief, and at the same time appointed Yang Zhaoji, a native of Yizhou and a former general soldier of Datong, who had retired and returned home, as the commander-in-chief of Shandong, to suppress Xu Hongru's rebel army and attempt to recover Zou County.

Meng Chengguang, the sixty-sixth grandson of Mencius, also led the village warriors to assist the official army in attacking the city, but was repelled by the righteous army.

The rebels broke through Meng's mansion and killed Meng Chengguang and his eldest son Meng Hongluo.

Xu Hongru took this opportunity to take Zou County as the center, used the main force to defend this city, and based on this city, sent troops to attack Yanzhou and Qufu in the east, and Juye in the west, and also expeditioned to Peixian, Rizhao and Tancheng, Hengge Canal, and galloped across the vast area of southern Lunan.

The news that Xu Hongru was proclaimed emperor in Lunan shook the Jingshi.

Because the officials and troops in Shandong did not exterminate the rebel army at the first time, the current situation is very unfavorable.

The successive defeats of the official army not only greatly boosted the morale of Xu Hong's Confucian rebels, but even the White Lotus Sect members in Hebei, Henan and other places were in trouble, and if one was not careful, it would likely lead to the fall of the entire Central Plains.

At this time, the good news of Liaodong had not yet entered Beijing, and everyone only thought that Li Xianzhong was still besieging Hetuala, so he did not mobilize the border army of Liaodong.

On the one hand, Xiong Tingbi urgently ordered the soldiers and horses of Nanzhili to go north to ensure the safety of the central capital Fengyang and the canal towns of Huai'an and Xuzhou.

On the other hand, the three battalions of the Beijing Division were ordered to send 30,000 troops south to quell the rebellion.

This can make the nobles anxious.

In the past, there were wars in Liaodong, although the men and horses of the three major battalions were also transferred, but they all followed the border army to fight and assist.

This time I want them to go out as the main force, isn't this to send them to death?

But the emperor's order was difficult to do, and the British Duke Zhang Weixian and Chengguo Duke Zhu Chunchen had to reorganize their troops and horses to go south.

Although the three battalions of the Beijing Division were seriously empty, they were still able to make up 30,000 horses.

Soon the five military battalions sent 20,000 troops, the Shenshu battalion (formerly the 3,000 battalion) and the Shenji battalion each sent 5,000 troops, and the 30,000 horses left the Beijing division in a mighty way.

However, their progress has been slow since they left Beijing, and they marched no more than 20 miles in one day.

What kind of combat power is Jingying, Zhu Chunchen knows very well, he has already sent a messenger to Li Xianzhong for help!

And the Donglin Party seized this opportunity and took the opportunity to point the finger at Wei Zhongxian!

Soon the capital sang the "Song of Baked Cakes" that was said to be made by Liu Bowen that year:

"There is a strange hunger and cold in the world, and the pillars of Longde ride a baby;

The forbidden palace is wide and the responsibility is to go sideways, and the golden dragon is peaceful when it grows up;

The old gold essence is particularly strong, and it is said that Kunyu follows the dragon hall;

The eunuchs appointed Bao Sheji, and 8,000 female ghosts were chaotic. ”

Father-in-law Wei doesn't know a few big characters, but he still knows his name.

Under Feng Quan's explanation, he quickly understood that "Eight Thousand Female Ghosts" together is a Wei character.

The Donglin Party is alluding to Wei Zhongxian's disturbance of the dynasty!

Naturally, Gonggong Wei was not used to them, and Dongchang and Jinyiwei soon arrested people who sang "Song of Baked Cakes" in the capital.

However, after checking for a long time, in the end, only the heads of a group of little beggars were found, and the mastermind behind the scenes was not found.

Unlike Gonggong Wei's anxiety, the Donglin Party is currently very comfortable.

This uprising came too timely, if there was no such uprising, I am afraid that he Wei Zhongxian would have to levy commercial taxes on Jiangnan again.

Han Yi said: "I have already informed Yuan Keli, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, that the men and horses of Nanzhili only need to hold Xuzhou and Fengyang, and there is no need to go north to attack Zou County. ”

Sun Ruyou said: "I didn't expect that in just over ten days, the thieves have grown to hundreds of thousands, and now Wei Zhongxian is comfortable!" ”

Donglin boss Zhao Nanxing said: "The eunuch party is chaotic, and even God can't stand it, so he is punished." Everyone knows very well the combat power of Jingying, once Jingying is defeated and the thieves continue to grow, we will definitely take the opportunity to expel Wei Gelding, who is in turmoil in the country, from the court! ”

After Wei Liangqing left Hetuala, he took the head of Huang Taiji and the ashes of Nurhachi all the way south to return to Beijing.

Naturally, he would not miss this opportunity to show his face, and directly asked Yan Mingtai, the governor of Jiliao, to ask for a band to blow and play all the way, for fear that people would not know about his achievements.

The people along the way were also very excited when they learned that Jianzhou had been pacified.

Now that Liaodong has been pacified, the "Liao salary" imposed by the imperial court should be canceled, right?

If the "Liao Salary" is not canceled, I am afraid that they will also rebel.

When the news of Li Xianzhong's capture of Hetuala came, the nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian was overjoyed.

Not only because his nephew Wei Liangqing made a great contribution this time and gave face to his old Wei family, but also because the rumors of "Eight Thousand Female Ghosts Messing with the Dynasty" were self-defeating.

Now that the biggest scourge of the Ming Dynasty has been pacified, why do you say that I, Wei Zhongxian, disturb the dynasty?

What's more important is that the elite of Liaodong can go south to quell the rebellion, and they can even destroy the Tartars, let alone the rogues?

However, Wei Liangqing didn't seem to be aware of his uncle's thoughts, but pretended to cry and said, "Uncle, do you have to make decisions for your nephew?" ”

Wei Zhongxian asked puzzledly: "With Uncle Ning Yuan here, can you still be bullied?" ”

Wei Liangqing said: "Ning Yuanbo's family is extremely arrogant, and he actually asked his nephew's grain transportation team to make way for them; When the nephews didn't comply, they beat us. ”

"And Uncle Ning Yuan's protection is short, not only did he punish his family, but also beat his nephew with 20 military sticks in public, where is his nephew's buttocks, he is clearly beating your 'nine thousand years old' old face?"

After Wei Liangqing said this, Tian Ergeng and Feng Quan on the side also frowned.

This Ning Yuanbo is really strong, and he actually directly took Wei Liangqing to establish his authority!

Wei Zhongxian understands Li Xianzhong's personality, and it is absolutely impossible for him to use Wei Liangqing to establish his authority for no reason.

So he said sharply: "Our family has warned you a long time ago, don't cause trouble when you go to Liaodong, to be honest, what did you do to provoke Uncle Ning Yuan?" ”

Seeing that Wei Liangqing bowed his head and was silent, Wei Zhongxian scolded angrily: "How did Xu Xianchun protect Wei Jianjun, and he didn't tell our family truthfully?" ”

Xu Xianchun was also helpless at this time, so he could only tell the truth as it was.

However, he emphasized in the end: "Ning Yuanbo's family is indeed arrogant and unreasonable, Wei Jian Jun didn't do anything to Hai Lanzhu, they came up and beat them!" ”

After hearing this, Wei Zhongxian laughed and said: "You molested Ning Yuanbo's woman on the territory of Liaodong, he only beat you with 20 military sticks, you should be content, if you were someone else, you would have been in a different place a long time ago!" It's not a loss to change a knighthood for a board, you kid doesn't think about Ning Yuanbo's good, and in turn says that other people's are not! ”

At this time, Father-in-law Wei asked Li Xianzhong to naturally not take this little thing to heart!

However, he still didn't know Li Xianzhong's true thoughts, so he quickly communicated with Mao Yuanyi again.

Li Xianzhong knew that it was difficult to let the Li family "Yongzhen Liaodong", and it was difficult for Mao Yuanyi to communicate with this kind of thing.

Therefore, Mao Yuanyi said that Ning Yuanbo would personally return to Beijing to communicate with Wei Zhongxian in this matter.

From Wei Zhongxian's point of view, within the scope of his ability, he will at most fight for Li Xianzhong for a national duke.

He really couldn't think of anything else Li Xianzhong could ask for, after all, he was now a Liaodong Jingluo, and as for those false titles such as "Taishi", presumably Ning Yuanbo was not interested.

However, he is also selfish, after all, only Li Xianzhong's title is high, and his nephew Wei Liangqing's title can be higher.

You can't have a prison commander who is higher than the boss, right?

Soon, Wei Zhongxian and Xiong Tingbi together sent the news of the Ming army's capture of Hetuala, and told the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao!

Although Zhu Youxiao didn't care too much about government affairs at this time, he also knew the importance of this matter.

This means that Liaodong has basically been pacified.

And I heard that Ning Yuanbo has continued to send troops to attack Kuandian, and I believe that Ding will have good news soon!

After all, pacifying Liaodong was the last order of the two emperors of Wanli and Taichang.

Although Nurhachi has died, the ashes of the old slave have been brought back, which can be regarded as a consolation for the spirit of the first emperor in the sky.

Soon, Zhu Youxiao went to the Taimiao Temple to report this great news to the ancestors and ancestors.

The next priority is naturally the reward of meritorious soldiers.

Similar to this kind of victory, the Ministry of War, the Cabinet and even the celebrant will have corresponding rewards.

However, the most important thing at present is the reward of Ning Yuanbo, Li Xianzhong, and Wei Liangqing, the prison army.

Under the instruction of Wei Zhongxian, the plan proposed by the Ministry of War was that Ning Yuanbo, Li Xianzhong, would be crowned the Duke of Liao, and Wei Liangqing, the superintendent of the army, would be crowned the Marquis of Sun, both of whom were hereditary.

However, Han Yi, the first assistant of the cabinet, still believes that the position of the prince of the country cannot be lightly sealed, and the cabinet believes that Ning Yuanbo Li Xianzhong was promoted to Ning Yuanhou; Originally, he felt that Wei Liangqing should not be knighted, but thinking that Wei Zhongxian would definitely not give up, he finally agreed to seal Wei Liangqing as Su Ningbo.

Just when they were arguing, there was news that the Ming army had conquered Changdian and other five forts, besieged Kuandianbao, and the "Great Golden Khan" Azig's "Letter of Surrender".

Azig is willing to cancel the throne of Khan, accept the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, and surrender to the Ming Dynasty from now on!

Li Xianzhong obviously made two preparations, and when the imperial court surrendered, he received Azig's men and horses.

The imperial court was not allowed to surrender, so he continued to spend in Kuandianbao.

This time the White Lotus Sect launched an uprising was really sudden, although the current Intelligence Department has laid out the intelligence points to the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, it is more important in some big cities, which have not yet spread to the countryside and small towns.

Although the White Lotus Sect's activities had also been mentioned in the intelligence before, no one expected that it would directly turn into such a huge uprising!

And Li Xianzhong didn't have much impression of this uprising in his previous life, so he also caught Li Xianzhong off guard.

However, at this time, the official army of the imperial court in Shandong was defeated, and the expansion of the thieves was just in their favor.

He also took advantage of the birth of his second son Li Shizu to return to Ningyuanbo Mansion in the capital.

I have to say that Hazia's stomach is still very competitive, and she gave birth to two sisters-in-law for Li Xianzhong in a row, and the position of this main palace is as stable as Mount Tai!

Li Xianzhong knew that Wei Zhongxian had something to ask for him at this time, so he got straight to the point.

Li Xianzhong said: "For the sake of the long-term peace and stability of Liaodong, I hope that Wei Xiang can persuade His Majesty to follow the precedent of Mujiashi Town, the Duke of Qianguo, in Yunnan and give me Li Jiayong Town in Liaodong." ”

Wei Zhongxian didn't expect Li Xianzhong's appetite to be so big!

He frowned and said: "This matter is quite difficult to handle, our family asked for the title of Duke of Liao for Uncle Ning Yuan, but it was still fully opposed by the cabinet, let alone Yongzhen Liaodong?" ”

Li Xianzhong took out 2 land deeds, and said with a smile: "This is 200,000 mu of fertile land in Liaodong, Wei Xiang doesn't have to worry about it, these granges will naturally be taken care of by others, and the silver taels from the operation will be sent to Suning every year." ”

Wei Zhongxian thought to himself that Li Xianzhong was so generous, even if the acres of land in Liaodong were cheaper, the 200,000 mu was estimated to be worth about 2 million taels.

Now that the border troubles in Liaodong have been calmed, these lands are estimated to appreciate in value.

He smiled and said, "Uncle Ning Yuan is polite, then let's try our best!" ”

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