In the first year of Chenghua, this year's Ming Dynasty used troops everywhere.

The Datengxia Uprising has broken out since the orthodox year, and the scope has spread to both Guangzhou, even as far as Hunan and Zhejiang, and by the time of the Chenghua year, it has completely grown into a major problem for the Ming Dynasty.

Emperor Chenghua couldn't bear it anymore and finally sent an army to quell the rebellion.

Han Yong led an army of 160,000 to the south, fought for three months, broke 324 rebel fences, and then cut off the big vine, so that the rebels could no longer go back and forth on both sides of the Great Teng Gorge, and finally completely broke the rebels in the battle of the nine-story cliff, and the south was decided.

Han Yong, who was the first contributor to quelling the rebellion, was rewarded with the position of the left deputy capital Yushi to supervise the military affairs of Liangguang and Guangzhou, as a reward for him.

Not only that, in April, the displaced people in Jingxiang were in turmoil.

In April of the first year of Chenghua, Liu Tong and Shi Long, Feng Zilong, and Yu Dashichang set up a yellow flag to gather people to start an incident, claiming the title of King of Han, Jianyuan Desheng, gathering tens of thousands of people, and plundering Jingxiang.

Rebellion among displaced people is actually not uncommon, without him, after the Ming Dynasty officially entered the Xiaoice River period, natural disasters are more and more year by year, and the resulting displaced people are also very large.

The most outrageous one was in the orthodox years, when a drought broke out in the four provinces of Beizhili, Shandong, Shaanxi and Shanxi at the same time, resulting in more than 200,000 displaced people pouring into Henan together, resulting in Henan "not enough food to give, not enough land to hold".

However, at this time, the Ming Dynasty was at its peak, and it was still able to open warehouses and release grain in time, so the displaced people quickly settled down, and the rebellion was quickly suppressed.

To be honest, the emperor was a little surprised.

Although the scale of this rebellion of the displaced people was several times larger than before, Zhu Jianshen was still not flustered.

According to his experience, these guys only fought more and fought less, and the guards were really negligent in training, so they could dominate one side, and when the counterinsurgency army arrived, they would immediately ambush and execute.

Sure enough, when Zhu Yong led the army south, it looked violent, and the rebels who dominated Jingxiang were not vulnerable at all, but in five months, the rebels were completely annihilated, and the thieves were ambushed.

Although it seems that the Ming Dynasty is in crisis, and two large-scale uprisings broke out in a row within a year, in fact, the Ming Dynasty has not been damaged at all.

Both uprisings were quelled in a very short period of time, as evidenced by the fact that the Ming Dynasty also had an efficient military and administrative system that could easily coordinate forces to quell the rebellion, which was completely different from the total collapse of all aspects in the late Ming Dynasty.

What's more –

At this time, the Ming army was still fully paid, and the rebels were merely afraid, so what was there to fear?

The Ming Dynasty entered a brief period of peace.

It's just that neither Zhu Jianshen nor the princes in the court expected that this rebellion was just an appetizer.

……

The time came to the second year of Chenghua.

At this time, there had been a major change in the cabinet. During the reign of the previous orthodox emperors, Qunfu Chen Xun, Miao Zhen, and Gao Gu had died successively, and Li Xian was still the first assistant in the cabinet, and Yan Yan became the second assistant, and under him, Yu Qian and Peng Shi.

And in the second year of Chenghua, Li Xian also passed away, and he finally came to the end of his life after serving as the first assistant for more than ten years.

According to the general rules, it should be the second assistant who will replace him as the first assistant of the cabinet and control the court.

However, the severity at this time has actually been half cut into the ground.

Although the name is the second assistant, but he has reached the age of seventy-one, he has actually shown obvious old age, except for some major events, he has rarely participated in government affairs, Li Xian and Yu Qian, Peng Shi, is the backbone of the main help to help the emperor deal with government affairs.

Now that Li Xian is gone, it is naturally impossible for him to take over the position of first assistant, and the two Chen Guogongs have finally become the first assistant, and the ministers have to make trouble, and in the final analysis, they are just a military general.

Compared with his father's civil and military skills, the severity is much worse, he has always been responsible for military affairs, and he is not as strong as his father was when he was there, in this case, even if he wants to, the civil officials will not allow it,

In fact, with the death of Yan Keng, the power of Wenchen has gradually overwhelmed the nobles, and most of the nobles, except for the shadows that can be seen when leading the troops to go out on the expedition, most of the rest of the time, most of them play a small transparent role.

Although the Yan family still has a place in the court by relying on Yan Keng's afterglow, in fact, with the growth and reshuffle of Wenchen's power, their influence is also decreasing.

But this is also the reason why Yan Ling decided to vigorously develop the family imperial examination.

Yan Jingxiu is an example of a non-main family bloodline entering the center. In addition to him over the years, there are probably dozens of people who have served as officials in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, which will be an important force at a critical moment.

If Yan Yan was not promoted, then Emperor Chenghua appointed Yu Qian as the first assistant of the cabinet, and Yan Jingxiu and Shang Yu were added to the cabinet.

And it didn't take long, and by November, the severity had subsided.

His son succeeded his father, but this generation of Chen Guogong did not show the same talent as his grandfather, and even his father could not compare.

Grim is old and has a son, so he dotes on his son so much that he spoils his son Yan Yundeng into a little bully.

Of course, Yan Ling has admonished, but he can't always do it to educate hard, and in the long run, this child has become very gentlemanly, and he also boasts of being smart, but in Yan Ling's opinion, he can only be regarded as a mediocre person, or even worse, but he himself does not realize this.

All over the body, it is full of frivolity and pride.

Twenty-six years old, at this age, as the heir of a big family, he should have matured a long time ago. At this time of the year, Yan Ya and Yan Keng were even in high positions and worked for the world.

But in this child, he did not see a single shadow.

Not only that, compared to Yan Keng and Grim, who have a closer bloodline to him, Yan Yundeng's bloodline has faded a lot.

The arrogant character of the other party also made him feel faintly uneasy.

is more than a hundred years old, and he has read countless people, Yan Ling feels that such a person will not be a good successor.

The problem is that there is no other son except him.

The fact is that the people in Chen Guogong's Mansion are not as prosperous as the Yueguo Mansion in the south, not to mention the long house, Yan Keng has two sons, and Yan Keng has no wife, only one son and four daughters.

If he is really abolished, no one will change him.

Let's use the Dream Technique first, and try to see if you can transform it. Yan Ling frowned and thought.

(End of chapter)