The land west of the Shanhai Pass to the west of the Liaohe River was set up as a separate "Liaoxi Town", and it was obvious that His Majesty was afraid of the military power of Liaodong, so it was divided.

Although this plan was proposed by Sun Chengzong, anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is actually what Emperor Zhu Youxiao himself meant, and he just said it through Sun Chengzong's mouth.

Although the eunuch party led by the first assistant Gu Bingqian and Cui Chengxiu may be quite unhappy with Sun Chengzong, this Sun Ge Lao has recently won the trust of His Majesty and has threatened their position.

But they can't go against the emperor in this matter, after all, it's not their own business.

Although Xiong Tingbi had the intention to stop it, it was difficult for him to change it alone, so he finally gave up speaking out.

Although He Zongyan of the neutral faction questioned whether this would cause turmoil in Liaodong, this rational questioning did not cause any waves at all.

In the end, the cabinet's vote on the establishment of "Liaoxi Town" still came to the celebrant supervisor.

Recently, His Majesty has repeatedly taken action against the Xungui group, reducing the military power in their hands, not to mention, there is nothing to do with the Beijing camp to start training, and now it is directly attacking Liaodong.

This made several of the chief eunuchs of the celebrant also scratch their heads.

The celebrant of the celebrant held the seal Wang Tiqian and said: "Your Majesty's move is really a bit Meng Lang, how can the Duke of Liao be such a good lord?" Previously, it was only in arrears of Liaodong's military expenses, and the Liaodong army dared to mutiny and rob the horse market, transport copper ships, besiege the yamen and kill the court officials! ”

"Now that they really set up 'Liaoxi Town', wouldn't it be upside down?"

Bingbi eunuch Li Yongzhen said: "It may not be so bad, the Duke of Liao has already changed the guard of Shanhaiguan from his brother Li Huaizhong to Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Liaoyang, and he should also want to ease the relationship with the imperial court." ”

Wang Tiqian shook his head and said, "It is precisely because of this that things are even worse!" If Li Huaizhong was stationed at Shanhaiguan, he would not have done anything too out of the ordinary. After all, he is a member of the Li family in Liaodong, and if he mutinies is equivalent to the Li family's rebellion, the Duke of Liao will still have some scruples. ”

"This Mao Wenlong is different, he is just a subordinate general of the Duke of Liao, if he really does something out of the ordinary, the Duke of Liao can also clear up the relationship on the surface!"

At this time, Wei Zhongxian was closing his eyes and recuperating, on the surface he was calm and relaxed, but in fact, his heart was also entangled at the moment.

In his heart, he didn't want Li Xianzhong to fall, because once he broke the pattern of "Wei Zhongxian is inside, Li Xianzhong is outside".

It's hard to guarantee that His Majesty won't attack him next.

However, he knew very well that there was a reason why Zhu Youxiao went against the norm and began to organize and train the new army and wanted to solve the problem of Liaodong.

According to Wang Huazhen, His Majesty's body has been conditioned, often waking up in the middle of the night, sweating and insomnia, and feeling weak.

It should be the sequelae of the overtaking of aphrodisiacs when His Majesty first succeeded to the throne.

Although Wang Huazhen has been conditioning Zhu Youxiao, it has not worked.

According to Dr. Wang's many years of experience, it should be that the Zhu Ming royal family has a hereditary disease, which has caused His Majesty's body to be cured for a long time.

Starting from Zhu Gaochi, the Hongxi Emperor, most emperors did not live long, and they were not satisfactory in terms of heirs.

Jingtai, Tianshun, Hongzhi, and Jiajing are all a single son, and Emperor Zhengde is the heir; There are only four descendants: Hongxi, Xuande, Chenghua, and Wanli.

And the longer life expectancy is only Jiajing and Wanli.

Because the two emperors of Hongwu and Yongle were both long-lived.

Despite being unusually obese and in poor health for a long time, Emperor Hongxi lived to be 48 years old, much longer than most of his descendants.

Therefore, Wang Huazhen boldly speculated that this hereditary disease should have been transmitted from Emperor Hongxi Zhu Gaochi downwards.

It is precisely because of Zhu Youxiao's poor health that all the princes and princesses who were born died young.

Except that Empress Zhang Yan's eldest son Zhu Ciran was born stillborn!

Zhu Ciyan, the second son of the emperor born to the imperial concubine Fan, died a few days after he was born.

In addition, three princesses also died young.

Zhang Yan's stillbirth was indeed caused by Wei Zhongxian to Wang Huazhen, but he did not harm the other princes and princesses.

According to Wang Huazhen's estimate, the lifespan of the Emperor of the Apocalypse should not be too long, but after all, he is still young, and it should not be a big problem to drag it out for ten years and eight years.

However, Li Xianzhong, the Duke of Liao, was too young, and he was not yet 27 years old at this time.

Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse knew that his body was deteriorating, and he had a premonition that he would not survive Li Xianzhong, so he would go against the norm and take the risk of weakening Liaodong.

Wei Zhongxian said: "Since Your Majesty is determined to weaken Liaodong, even if we oppose it, it is useless, I am afraid that Liaoxi Town will have to be established!" ”

"However, we don't have the right person for the candidate for the chief military officer of Liaoxi anyway, so it is better to sell the face of the Duke of Liao."

Soon the establishment of "Liaoxi Town" was adopted.

But who will serve as the commander-in-chief of Liaoxi Town has become a big question.

Xiong Tingbi suggested that one of the two people, Mao Wenlong, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and Luo Chengcheng, the chief soldier of Guanning, be selected as the chief military officer of Liaoxi Town.

But at this time, no one wants to go to Liaoxi, this belongs to digging meat from Li Xianzhong, who dares to go?

Naturally, they don't recommend their own people to go, so they have to choose one of these two.

This Mao Wenlong is Li Xianzhong's cronies, so many people followed Sun Chengzong and chose Luo Yi, who was relatively not so famous.

These two people are Li Xianzhong's generals, although they are different from each other. But no matter who serves as the chief military officer of Liaoxi, Liaoxi Town is probably still in the hands of Li Xianzhong.

Everyone in the cabinet is well aware of this, but at this time they are not willing to offend Li Xianzhong too much!

Although Luo has always had a not so close relationship with Li Xianzhong on the surface, after all, he has been in Liaodong for a long time, and I am afraid that he has long been Li Xianzhong's person.

Zhu Youxiao is still not satisfied with this candidate.

In the end, he decided to restore Ningyuan, which had been dismantled, and appointed Zhu Hai, the general soldier who had been driven out of Liaodong by Li Xianzhong, as the commander-in-chief of Liaoxi, and placed the seat of Liaoxi Town in Ningyuanwei.

His decision was a surprise to everyone.

Not only that, but he also set up a governor of Liaoxi, which not only separated it from Liaodong militarily, but also divided it politically.

and appointed the right hand of the Imperial Inspectorate, Bi Zisu, as the governor of western Liaoning.

I have to say that Zhu Youxiao's hand really made Li Xianzhong very uncomfortable.

Although adjustments were made in advance, Shanhaiguan and Quang Ninh still had 22,000 troops.

In addition to the loss of people and horses, more than 800,000 people in western Liaoning, as well as 1.4 million acres of land, will also be stripped from eastern Liaoning.

This made the civil and military forces in Liaodong unbearable!

Li Sanshun said: "The imperial court is pressing on us step by step, if we back down this time, I'm afraid they will attack Liaodong directly in the next step!" ”

Zhang Wenbing, the governor of Liaodong, who had lost a large area of territory, also said angrily: "I'm afraid it won't be long before Bi Zisu, Zhu Hai and others will replace the civil and military officials in Liaoxi, and we can't sit idly by?"

The words of Li Sanshun and Zhang Wenbing also expressed the thoughts of the officials in Liaodong.

Who is enough to feed Daming?

In recent years, Li Xianzhong and Yan Mingtai have changed the law to distribute silver to officials at all levels, and they have long been on the Li family's chariot.

Looking at the excited crowd, Li Xianzhong was very satisfied, and this was what he wanted.

Now it seems that the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, has departed from the trajectory of history, he is playing with fire!

Li Xianzhong said: "Rest assured, as long as my father is still in Liaodong for a day, he will definitely ensure that the glory and wealth of the brothers will not be taken away by anyone." ”

From now on, the monthly salary of Liaodong soldiers will be increased from the original 1 tael to 2 taels, and the shortfall will be made up by the Liaoguo Mansion. The general's monthly salary has also been increased by 3%. ”

"The yamen of the governor of Liaodong and the officials at all levels under the Liaoguo Mansion will directly issue three times the imperial court's Yulu as 'raising incorruptible silver'."

The annual salary of a Qipinzhi county in the Ming Dynasty is only 45 taels, and the 45 taels are not used by him alone, and there are not many people in the official establishment of a county in the imperial court, and the rest of the masters have to be ordered by the county to pay for their own money.

Even the governor of Liaodong from the second rank only has an annual salary of 288 taels, and this bit of silver is probably enough to support himself, let alone be an official communicator.

Therefore, it is not surprising that Daming is full of corrupt officials, and if you are not greedy, you can't live at all.

Originally, part of Li Xianzhong's increased commercial tax in Liaodong was used as a bonus for officials, which directly increased their basic salary.

Now that people's minds have changed, Li Xianzhong directly promoted the treatment of all officials and soldiers in Liaodong, and the people's hearts are naturally attached.

In this way, whoever wants to drive them out of Liaodong will really fight hard.

He said again: "Don't worry, the affairs of Liaoxi have their own arrangements, you just wait to see the show." ”

Zhu Hai only brought 500 Ding into Ningyuan, but Ningyuan was the seat of governance in western Liaoxi after all, in addition to the 2,000 people originally stationed here, he transferred 1,000 people from Mao Wenlong and Luo Cheng to garrison Ningyuan.

At the same time, Bi Zisu's Liaoxi Governor's Yamen was also located in Ning Yuanwei.

Originally, officials in western Liaoning could draw commissions from taxes, and these revenues were naturally wasted when Bi Zisu came to the ground.

Naturally, they were a hundred unwilling in their hearts, so the instructions issued by Bi Zisu were basically in disobedience.

Moreover, the officials in Liaodong next door actually tripled their annual salaries, which made their hearts even more unbalanced.

Strikes began one after another, and the entire western Liaoning region was almost paralyzed!

Originally, Guangning still had a horse market, but since the establishment of Liaoxi Town, neither the merchants of the Ming Dynasty nor the Mongols came here, and all of them went to Kaiyuan, which made it deserted all of a sudden.

Compared to officials, ordinary soldiers are even more angry!

The monthly salary of Liaodong next door has risen to 2 taels, and now their monthly salary of 1 tael and 5 is still in arrears.

Although at the beginning of the year, the Duke of Liao had directly sent them the arrears, but the imperial court did not know.

The more they thought about it, the more angry the officers and soldiers became, and they sought out the new governor of Liaoning, Bi Zisu, to ask Zhu Hai, the commander-in-chief of Liaoning, for salary.

The equipment of ordinary soldiers in Liaoxi Town was no worse than that of Zhu Hai's family, and the two sides quickly started to move.

After all, there are few people in the family, and at this time they are also a rat trap, and they dare not use the knife for fear of further intensifying the conflict.

After a while, they were beaten all over the ground looking for teeth.

In the face of the excited soldiers, Zhu Hai chose to avoid the edge for the time being.

In the end, under the cover of 500 families, he escaped from Ningyuan City.

It didn't matter if he left, but he left Bi Zisu to the Ming army who was begging for money.

Soon these soldiers tied Governor Bi to Ning Yuan's city tower.

Bi Zisu had just arrived in Ningyuan, and he was not a wealthy man, so naturally he didn't have much silver.

Guo Guang, the former deputy envoy of Ningqian's military garrison, heard the news and rushed to admonish these soldiers.

He said: "Brothers, Governor Bi has only been in office for more than a month, and the matter of arrears has nothing to do with him!" Please let Governor Bi go! ”

At this time, a general said: "Why has nothing to do with him, since Bi Zisu took office, the merchants in western Liaoning have run out, the horse market has also been suspended, and the income of the brothers has plummeted!" ”

"This is all caused by the establishment of Liaoxi Town by the imperial court!"

Guo Guang couldn't persuade him at all, so he had to ask Bi Zisu to write a letter to the imperial court asking for compensation for the 22,000 soldiers in Liaoxi Town.

Then he personally went to Jingshi to deliver the letter!

When he was hoarding the guards in front of him, he found Zhu Hai and others.

After explaining their intentions, Mao Wenlong finally released them from Shanhaiguan.

Soon after, the news of the Liaoxi mutiny reached the Beijing Division.

This is a big event, and Xiong Tingbi, the secretary of the Ministry of War, did not dare to delay, and reported to the cabinet overnight.

First assistant Gu Bingqian convened a meeting of the cabinet and officials of the household department overnight.

The Emperor of the Apocalypse was in a hurry, and after all, there was a mutiny.

But they can't blame the emperor, if there is such a thing, they still have to clean up the mess.

Tobe Shangshu Tianji first asked: "Kumamoto soldiers, please also confirm whether it is Ning Yuanwei's 4,000 people or the entire Liaoxi Town's 22,000 people who mutinied?" ”

Xiong Tingbi said: "Guo Guang, the deputy envoy of Ningqian's military garrison, asked the chief soldier Mao Wenlong when he went out of the Shanhaiguan, and he said that this was the meaning of all the soldiers in Liaoxi, and they also asked the imperial court to revoke Liaoxi Town!" ”

Tian Ji scratched his head and said: "If it is the whole town of Liaoxi, then it will have to make up 200,000 taels of silver, this year, His Majesty has organized a new army, but Taicang has been hollowed out, and the household department can't take out so much silver now?" ”

The entire Liaoxi town has mutinied, and the matter has become bigger, although the previous Liaodong mutiny was also excessive, but after all, it only killed a few sesame mung bean officials.

They have now tied up the governor of Liaoxi, defeated the general army of Liaoxi, and not only begged for salaries, but also openly demanded that the imperial court abolish Liaoxi Town.

The key is not the 22,000 people in this Liaoxi Town, if you want to say that they do not have the support of Liaoguo Gong behind them, who will believe it?

Now it's not a matter of giving the 200,000 taels of silver at all.

Gu Bingqian said: "Sun Ge Old Liaoxi Town has been repeatedly asked to be established, what do you think about this matter?" ”

Sun Chengzong said: "It is important to punish or appease this matter, I think we are still ready to suppress and appease, and the final decision will be made by Your Majesty, right?" ”

This matter is indeed very tricky, although 200,000 taels of silver is not much, it is not only Liaoxi Town that owes wages.

If Liaoxi is reissued, then Jingying and the towns on the nine sides may also make trouble, and will it be made up at that time? But if you send troops to suppress this mutiny, there are 22,000 people in Liaoxi Town, and there is a strong Shanhaiguan, who do you want to exterminate it?

I am afraid that the only one in the imperial court who can defeat Liaoxi is Li Xianzhong's Liaodong Town, but this incident makes it clear that Li Xianzhong is instigating it.

He was deliberately embarrassing himself!

Soon Zhu Youxiao asked everyone to retreat, but he left Sun Chengzong alone.

At this time, only Sun Chengzong relied on!

Zhu Youxiao said: "Elder Sun Ge, if you let the Yulin camp go north, how sure are you that you can quell the rebellion?" ”

Sun Chengzong personally patrolled the Shanhaiguan, although it was easier to attack from the south than from the north, but with the combat strength of the Liaodong Army, the Yulin Battalion had no chance at all.

But at this time, he didn't want to hit Zhu Youxiao too much.

He said: "The Yulin battalion has been formed for a short time, and now the Dutch are not fully equipped with their rifles, and the Shanhaiguan city defense is strong, if it is attacked, I am afraid that there is only a chance of victory of 3 percent at most." ”

Zhu Youxiao knew very well that his current strength was difficult to solve this mutiny by force, unless he summoned the elite of the Nine Sides to attack Shanhaiguan.

But in this way, it will directly anger Li Xianzhong, and even force him to rebel.

Just when he was in a dilemma, the news of the Yellow River bursting came.

In the Ming Dynasty, the Yellow River bed was raised, and a hanging river had been formed, which posed a great threat to Xuzhou City.

There is a saying in Xuzhou: "If you are not afraid of the danger of swords, you are afraid of the danger of fish and turtles." ”

Looking at the embankment from the city, it looks like an upturned kettle, and the surrounding water rises, and the ground spring gushes out, overflowing without rain. The plague of ants can make Xuzhou City sink in an instant, and the people will suffer from the catastrophe.

Due to the shortage of silver in the imperial court in recent years, the river embankment near Xuzhou has not been overly renovated.

On August 19, the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the Kuishan embankment burst, and the Yellow River water poured into Xuzhou City from the southeast water, and the city was an ocean in an instant, and the water depth was one foot and three feet. The official houses and the people are gone, and countless people have drowned.

After that, it rained heavily, and the people near Xuzhou had to take refuge in Yanzhou.

For the past two years, Wang Xifan has been recruiting believers near Yanzhou as the king of Hejian, and now the Yellow River is flooding and there are displaced people everywhere.

After Wang Xifan received the instructions from the Intelligence Division, he quickly called the White Lotus Sect near Mata Lake around Juye.

Wang Xifan's righteous army directly broke through Juye City, released grain to the surrounding people, and for a time a large number of displaced people came to take refuge, and the momentum was huge.

The news of the resurgence of the Yanzhou White Lotus Sect gave Zhu Youxiao a headache.

On the one hand, he had to order Nan Zhili to provide disaster relief to the people near Xuzhou, and on the other hand, he ordered Liu Zhaoji, the general soldier of Shandong, to organize soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress the rebels of the White Lotus Sect!

Liu Zhaoji soon led 5,000 officers and troops to kill Juye City.

Unexpectedly, these White Lotus Sect troops lured out the defenders of Yuncheng under the guise of Liu Zhaoji, and finally annihilated the 500 Ming troops in Yuncheng County.

Then Wang Xifan broke through Yuncheng and opened a warehouse again to release grain.

Liu Zhaoji, who pounced on Juye, hurriedly went north to Yuncheng, and then pounced again.

Annoyed and angry, the officers and soldiers heard that these thieves had not gone far, and hurried out of the city to pursue.

Liu Zhaoji led 1,500 cavalry first, and was finally lured into the swamp by the rebels near Liangshanji, northwest of Yuncheng.

In order to support Wang Xifan's White Lotus Sect uprising, the Intelligence Department had already secretly provided them with a lot of firearms and armor.

The cavalry of the officers and soldiers, who had lost their mobility, suffered heavy casualties under the attack of the rebels' guns and bows and arrows, and most of them were lost.

After that, Wang Xifan led more than 30,000 rebel troops to the south and defeated the 2,000 infantry who came to reinforce them.

The wounded Liu Zhaoji had to lead the remnants to retreat to Jining Prefecture.

The rebels regained Yuncheng and Juye in one fell swoop, and they were powerful in Yanzhou!

Originally, after the abolition of the "Liao Salary", the development of the White Lotus Sect was greatly affected, but this year the imperial court resumed the collection of the "Liao Salary", which made them resurrect!

In addition to Yanzhou, the White Lotus Sect in Zhili and Henan also launched an uprising in response to Wang Xifan, and uprisings broke out in Jizhou, Hejian, Runing, Guide, Nanyang and other places.

Especially Jizhou, which is close to Beijing!

Rumors spread in Jingshi for a while!

Before Zhu Youxiao was so in the Beijing camp, Zhang Weixian and Zhu Chunchen naturally refused to fight under various excuses.

Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to send the Yulin battalion to various places in Zhili to quell the turmoil.

After all, this unit is a trump card unit created by Zhu Youxiao with all his might, although it has never been on the battlefield, it is still easy to deal with some ordinary White Lotus Sect army.

In particular, a guerrilla named Zuo Liangyu was very brave, and he successively killed many leaders of the White Lotus Sect in Tonghejian Mansion in Jizhou.

In the end, under the recommendation of Sun Chengzong, Zuo Liangyu was exceptionally promoted by Zhu Youxiao to become the deputy chief soldier of the Yulin Battalion.

And let him lead the Yulin Battalion south to Henan, and Shandong completely exterminated the White Lotus Sect rebellion!

As soon as the White Lotus uprising in Zhili improved, news came that the combined forces of the Mongol Fried Flower Department and the Horqin Department had invaded the Xuanfu of Datong in the south.

made the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty tense again all of a sudden.

And Ning Yuanmingjun, who had never received a reply from the imperial court, angrily cut off one of the ears of Bi Zisu, the governor of western Liaoning.

Bi Zisu himself couldn't stand the humiliation, so he actually committed suicide by hanging himself directly from a beam while the sergeant was unprepared!

In such a situation of internal and external troubles, Zhu Youxiao had no choice but to send Sun Chengzong as the minister of the Qin Mission and let the Duke of Liao help solve the problem of the Ningyuan mutiny.

Sun Chengzong made it clear that he was negotiating with these mutinous sergeants, but in fact he was negotiating with Li Xianzhong.

The fact that these people are making trouble is just a pretense, and their real purpose must be to abolish Liaoxi Town and reassign it to Liaodong Town.

Before leaving Beijing, Zhu Youxiao had already agreed to these conditions.

In today's situation, he simply does not have the capital to negotiate conditions with Li Xianzhong.

It's just that he didn't expect Li Xianzhong to gain an inch.

Li Xianzhong said: "Elder Sun Ge, now the military spending in Liaodong is indeed overwhelming. ”

"Has the imperial court ever thought about raising Liao with Liao?"

Sun Chengzong asked suspiciously: "What is Liao?" ”

Li Xianzhong said: "My Li family is favored by the emperor and is willing to share the worries of His Majesty. As long as Your Majesty allows Liaodong to set up a separate political envoy and hand over Liaodong's tax authority to Liaodong's political envoy, I can promise Your Majesty that Liaodong does not need the imperial court to pay military expenses, and Liaodong can pay the border army of Liaodong only with Liaodong's own taxes. ”

"And the copper ingots worth 600,000 taels of silver that Liaodong originally sent to the imperial court every year can continue."

Sun Chengzong couldn't believe what he heard, and he said: "Is what the Duke of Liao said true? ”

Li Xianzhong said: "It's true, but the political envoy of Liaodong must be appointed by me, otherwise I can't guarantee such a large amount of expenses!" ”

Soon Sun Chengzong brought Li Xianzhong's meaning to Zhu Youxiao!

The pros and cons of this are obvious.

The advantage is that from now on, the imperial court can not only get rid of the annual salary and grain and military expenditure in Liaodong, but also conservatively estimate that it can save at least more than 2.5 million taels.

In addition, Liaodong also wants the imperial court to provide 600,000 taels worth of copper every year, so that the Tianqi Dynasty has been completely liberated.

The disadvantage is that Liaodong has become a Ming feudal town.

Although he knew that this was drinking to quench his thirst, Zhu Youxiao finally agreed to Li Xianzhong.

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