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Chapter 1, 27 moments in the four years of Chongzhen ([-])

The First Moment: The Melancholy of Emperor Chongzhen

November of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Beijing, Forbidden City, late at night

November is the coldest time of the year in Beijing. It was already extremely cold, but the weather these years has been bad. It is not uncommon for the moon to not rain in summer. This winter is naturally even worse. It's cold, and it's not like a drop of water turns into ice.The streets of the whole city were deserted and silent—there was a night ban in Beijing, and ordinary people were not allowed to go out on the streets after the first shift, otherwise they would be caught and punished by the officers of the Wucheng Army and Horse Division.

And as the core center of the Ming Empire.The rules in the Forbidden City are even stricter. All the gates of the palaces are closed, and most of the candles are extinguished. The Forbidden City is full of darkness. Only the Qianqing Palace is still brightly lit. This is where the emperors of the Ming Dynasty worked and lived. In the place where today's son Zhu Youjian is extremely diligent, it is common for him to review memorials and work until midnight like this.Although it was bitterly cold and windy outside at night, there were still many eunuchs and guards standing with their heads held high on both sides of the outer corridor of the palace, waiting for a call from inside at any time, and they could immediately run around for them.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youjian was just over 22 years old, and he had been on the throne for four years. Although he was a tragic figure in the history books of later generations, at that time, especially in the years when he had just ascended the throne, Zhu Youjian The prestige in the court and among the people is still very high, so that it is touted as a "sage out" - think about it, starting from his great-grandfather Jiajing... or even earlier Zhengde, the Ming Empire has successive emperors for several generations, according to According to the records of the literati in the Donglin Party, none of them are mentally normal: either they love to travel around mountains and rivers and take them out to make themselves generals; Or he was just a short-lived ghost who died after eating pills. The previous generation of emperor Tianqi was even more exaggerated: he actually ignored the government and entrusted all political affairs to the trusted eunuchs, and he only loved being a carpenter!
In contrast, Zhu Youjian, the emperor of today's Chongzhen Emperor, is not lecherous and does not slack off. He often deals with state affairs until late at night. The ministers who had had enough of the lazy emperor were very excited-these "virtuous and loyal ministers" have survived for decades, and finally they have a "dedicated" emperor!
What's more, shortly after the young Emperor Chongzhen came to power, he silently eliminated the powerful nine-thousand-year-old Wei Zhongxian. His methods were clean and neat, and he gave a bad breath to the scholar-bureaucrats of the Manchu Dynasty. The courageous master of ZTE.

After sweeping away the evil eunuchs, the young emperor formed a brand new cabinet of the Donglin Party, ushering in an unprecedented scene of "all positive and prosperous courts" in the court.The spy agency of Dongchang was also abolished, in order to express all-round trust in the moral integrity of Donglin Junzi.For a while, he won the praise of scholars, calling him the reincarnation of Yao and Shun... Although the Ming Dynasty, which was "all the people are prosperous", did not seem to have any prosperity in the past two years, on the contrary, natural disasters continued, the border defenses collapsed, and they were continuously beaten to Beijing Under the city, the rogue bandits in Shaanxi and Shanxi became more and more violent, which slightly affected the emperor's reputation.But relying on Shilin's vigorous praise, the emperor's "British Lord" aura has not completely faded for the time being.

However, even so, the current Emperor Chongzhen is already living a very miserable life. Although he is still a young man in his 20s, a few strands of white hair have appeared on his sideburns.But generally speaking, at least the Emperor Chongzhen at this time still had the motivation to continue to work diligently, and he had not lost confidence in the future of the Ming Dynasty. At this moment, Zhu Youjian had just finished reviewing a stack of memorials under the lamp, and signaled to the little eunuch next to him Hold it down, and it will be sent to the cabinet for countersignature by the cabinet members tomorrow morning.He himself stretched a little relaxedly and took a sip of tea.

"...Your Majesty, it's time to get ugly, it's time to rest, take care of the dragon's body!" Cao Huachun, the great eunuch who was serving beside him, reminded.

"...Don't say too much, Cao Daban, I'll watch the memorial for a while." Emperor Chongzhen replied indifferently.

Cao Huachun sighed, turned around and brought up a plate of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, saying that the Empress knew that the Lord Long Live always worked on state affairs until late at night, so she made these snacks by herself, and hoped that the Lord Long Live would take good care of the dragon body... Chongzhen used a few pieces, but his eyes were full. It landed on another tall stack of memorials beside the table.

For many emperors, reviewing memorials is hard work, but Emperor Chongzhen has not been on the throne for too long, and he has not been completely bored with this work-now Zhu Youjian is still like a hardworking old farmer, who can't see the land. There are weeds.No matter how tired you are, you must finish the daily memorials before going to bed.So there was only a short break, and the young emperor began to devote himself to the endless paperwork.

——As a rule, first look at "Yinghuang" and "Pasting Huang", which are the introduction and outline of the contents of the memorials written by the officials of the General Administration Department. The emperor judges which memorials are urgent matters based on these contents, and must be done as soon as possible. No response, and those memorials are just routine stories, which can be ignored or delayed.Among them, the "Tang Bao" related to military affairs has always been the focus of the imperial court. Whenever it is related to military affairs, the subordinates always report it at the fastest speed. In the past, Emperor Chongzhen always gave priority to looking for Tang Bao when reviewing memorials. .It’s just that he’s a little afraid to see things in this area recently—the newspapers always report defeats, civil uprisings, mutinies... almost every pond newspaper is a hole, and the court needs to spend a lot of money, food and materials to make up for it, and even if it’s cast The huge amount of money, food and materials may not be able to make up for it.But the royal treasury is almost empty...

Trouble is trouble, things still have to be done——Emperor Chongzhen rubbed his forehead, took out the memorials again, and spread them out on the table one by one.

As expected, as before, most of these memorials are pure nonsense, and the rest are either crying poor or complaining, and reporting bad news under cover while shirking each other's responsibilities, which can really have some substance Suggested content is almost completely invisible.

——The drought in Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Gansu continued. Not only did the hungry people riot without food and clothing, but the frontier soldiers who were short of food and wages also defected and mutinied.Since Baishui Wang Er started the incident in the last year of the apocalypse, hungry people and thieves have plundered everywhere, trapping castles and ruining cities, just like tarsus maggots that are difficult to eradicate: officers and soldiers go east, thieves go west; thieves go forward, officers and soldiers chase after.There are bandit soldiers all over the mountains and plains all over northern Shaanxi, and the government can't clean them up.

Fortunately, the peasant army in the early years of Chongzhen did not have a clear will to overthrow the Ming Dynasty. They were probably only driven by hunger and cold, and they raised their flags to resist taxes, and seized food from the government and local gentry and big households by force. On the day of raising the flag when you are hungry, you will place your hopes entirely on the Ming army’s compromise and recruitment—at this time, the heroes of the Water Margin who murdered and set fire to recruit security are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the peasant army is eager to eat and not hungry. Surrender to the imperial court and work for the imperial court to suppress "Fang La" and "Liao bandits".If the Ming court could effectively organize disaster relief, if the Ming court could bring enough food, and if the Zhu Ming court could find a way to export the crisis, the early civil uprising in Shaanxi would not be difficult to quell.

The officials of the Ming Dynasty were quite aware of this situation, but they had neither the perseverance nor the ability to solve the problem. Yang He, the governor of the three sides, once explained to Emperor Chongzhen in this way: "...the thieves of the Three Qin Dynasty were extremely poor and hungry. Living in a place, when the soldiers arrive, the heads will return, and when the soldiers go, the plunder will remain the same. This is an inevitable trend. If you want to disperse the thieves, you must give real relief, so that they can make a living, and then they are called true dissolution. Give cattle breeds, make them return to farming and resume business, and then call them real placements. If this is the case, the thieves will have the joy of life and have no desire to die.

Regrettably, although the court affirmed Yang He's views, even Emperor Chongzhen was unable to solve the above problems. The most important thing was that he couldn't allocate money and food for resettlement, so Yang He could only go to appease the hungry people with nothing. Can't you just stay at home and starve to death?So the Northwest government army wanted to suppress the bandits, but there were thousands of miles of red land in the mountains and Shaanxi, and there were uprisings of hungry people everywhere, and they couldn't be suppressed at all;

In this way, the northwestern thieves descended and then rebelled, rebelled and surrendered again, and it went on and on forever, endlessly.Not to mention that there are still a bunch of brain-dead Donglin Party members who are desperately trying to help: reduce business taxes for the land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, and increase land taxes for thousands of miles of red land in Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi. However, the rice and wheat could not be sold for five renminbi, so the people abandoned their farms and more and more people fled. The fields in Chengxiang and counties were forced to be abandoned by the court, and the rogues obtained inexhaustible soldiers, and finally the situation in the Northwest was completely eroded day by day. Go on—what the Emperor Chongzhen didn’t know was that there was an unemployed postman in Mizhi, northern Shaanxi, whose original name was Li Hongji, and who later changed his name to Li Zicheng, and now he has joined the ranks of rebels...

——The once prosperous place in Gyeonggi is still dilapidated. From the second year of Chongzhen to the third year of Chongzhen, Liaodong Jiannu broke through the Great Wall twice and ravaged the pass. Although they did not break through Beijing, they devastated the surrounding counties everywhere. There are ruins and bones, and there are no chickens crowing for hundreds of miles.Although the Jiannu did not break into the Central Plains this year, the counties on the outskirts of Beijing are still dying, crying everywhere for tax exemption and relief, and there are still many defeated soldiers and hungry people gathering in the wilderness to riot and loot their homes. It is difficult to clarify for a while.It can be seen from this that the land of Gyeonggi at the foot of the emperor is still like this, how can the court squeeze out money and food to provide relief and resettlement for those thieves who are far away in Shaanxi and Shanxi?No matter what, you have to take care of the land under your own nose first!
Moreover, in order to compete for the manor land left over from the massacre of the slaves, all relatives, officials and ministers from all walks of life took action together, causing countless turmoil. Headache—hey, I really regret listening to that Guangdong barbarian Yuan Chonghuan's nonsense, saying that the Liao Dynasty was flattened in five years? !After only one year of hard work, it has been blocked, and all the Jurchen Tartars have been slaughtered to the root of the imperial city!Moreover, there will be a second time after coming, and I don't know if there will be a third time... It is absolutely not wrong to cut this sinner into pieces!
——The She'an Rebellion that swept through several provinces in the Southwest is finally coming to an end. The chieftains of the rebellion have been hit hard repeatedly and have retreated to their old nests.However, these rebels occupy a dangerous place in their hometown, relying on the favorable location to defend, and it is difficult for the official army to invade for a while.As for whether to appease Huairou or continue to suppress, the imperial court has not yet made a conclusion, and even party disputes broke out because of this.

According to Emperor Chongzhen himself, he naturally wanted to appease him. After all, war is a beast that swallows gold. As the saying goes, with swords and soldiers, ten thousand taels of gold and silver!And the royal treasury doesn't have much silver taels anymore. As for the Taicang (national treasury), it has never been able to make ends meet, and there is no hope. If it can save a few silver taels, then it is better to save it. It’s not good to take the initiative to be subdued, otherwise it’s easy to lose your majesty, and you can only watch the courtiers quarreling endlessly... So, at least in a short period of time, the court still has no way to get rid of the military expenditure of the Southwest War...

——In addition to man-made disasters, God is also very disrespectful. In addition to the successive droughts, floods, and locust plagues, there was another major earthquake this summer: On the night of July 60 in the fourth year of Chongzhen, there was an earthquake in various prefectures in Huguang .In the middle of the night in Wuling, Changde Prefecture, there was a loud earthquake, black air blocked the sky, wells and springs flooded, the ground cracked holes, slurry water gushed out, and countless government offices, palaces and city walls collapsed, killing [-] men and women.Lizhou trembled like thunder, the ground cracked and sand surged along with the water, houses fell and trees were pulled up, crushing countless people and animals to death.Four out of ten of the city walls in Jingzhou Prefecture were damaged, and three out of ten of the houses were... In the next few months, the local government in Huguang kept crying for tax exemptions and relief, but Emperor Chongzhen refuted them all: Surplus food!
In short, the three major troubles of natural disasters, Liao incidents, and refugees harassed Zhu Youjian non-stop, and various other lesser-level scabies plagues came one after another every year and every month. It made him feel quite overwhelmed.The only good news that made the emperor feel gratified in the past two years is that Xuan Town in Shanxi was able to claim victory when the Tartars knocked on the side last year, beheading 280 levels in World War I, which is considered an excellent record in recent years, especially that The little village chief named Wang Dou was able to achieve level [-]. It would be great if Daming could have more loyal and brave men like this!
In fact, strictly speaking, there is another piece of good news...Zhu Youjian turned around and picked up a military affairs pond newspaper marked from Fujian, and read the content on it again with complicated eyes-this is Fujian General Soldier Huangshi And Fujian Governor Zou Weilian sent a good report, claiming that not long ago, the Funing Army was led by Huangshi at the request of the King of Ryukyu. The hometown of the Japanese pirates forced the Japanese chief to kneel down and beg for peace, vowing not to invade Ryukyu and the coasts of Zhejiang and Fujian again.At the same time, there is also a letter of thanks written by the Ryukyu King Shang's handwriting "Reconstructing the Fandom Chronicle"... Logically speaking, at the moment when the Ming Dynasty was on fire and smoke was rising from all directions, this victory was really a victory. It was a rare booster that could inspire people's hearts, but in the eyes of Emperor Chongzhen, it was dazzling no matter how you looked at it.

"...Save the country from danger, and promote the country's prestige overseas? Huh, the writing is really brilliant! The king of Ryukyu is an outsider, so he doesn't know the inside story, but Huangshi still doesn't know that Japan is appointed by Emperor Hongwu. Is it a country that will not be conquered? If you are so good at using swords and soldiers, you will be punished!"

Emperor Chongzhen threw the memorial on the table heavily, and snorted displeasedly, but the expression on his face was not angry, but hesitant and entangled: Zhu Youjian still recognized Huangshi's fighting skills—— In the past, the seniors put down the Guangning rebellion with their own efforts, beheaded the rebel general Sun Degong, and covered tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians retreating safely; then followed Mao Wenlong to Dongjiang, set up a battalion on Changsheng Island, and soon pulled up a battalion of elite soldiers , Relying on a set of spear formations, news of success on the battlefield spread frequently, and many Tartars were beheaded one after another, gradually reversing the decline of the Liaodong battlefield.In the end, Huangshi even broke into Liaoyang single-handedly, beheaded the enemy chieftain Nurhachi and returned. At one time, the Liaodong Jian slaves became dismayed when they heard about Huangshi. He surpassed Mao Wenlong, his immediate boss, so he was favored by the late emperor's elder brother.

At the end of the Sixth Apocalypse, in view of the improvement of the war situation in Liaodong, Huang Shi was promoted to the general army of Fujian, and was given the title of "imperial envoy to Pingnan to act cheaply, to wear the seal of the vanguard general of Pingman, and to supervise the military affairs of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Guangxi." , transferred from the Liaodong battlefield, and led his troops to the south, preparing to prepare all the supplies in Fujian, and then use this elite army to quell the She'an Rebellion in the southwest.Unexpectedly, pirates invaded Fujian on a large scale at this time, attacking prefectures and counties again and again, as if the Japanese plague was repeating itself. After Huangshi arrived in Fujian, he had to start suppressing bandits immediately to strengthen his foundation. The expedition to the Southwest was thus delayed.

Then, when the Fujian Pirates were gradually wiped out by Huangshi's army, Emperor Tianqi suddenly died of a serious illness.

Next, although his elder brother (Emperor Tianqi) had his last words before his death, asking Zhu Youjian to reuse Huangshi, in the eyes of the newly enthroned Emperor Chongzhen, Huangshi's generation is really worrying: According to the information collected by Jin Yiwei Intelligence and civil servants' impeachment memorials, Huang Shi is extremely cruel, ruthless, and his former boss Sun Degong clearly supported him, and planned to marry his daughter to him, but he didn't even blink during the Guangning Rebellion He brutally killed his whole family, and even forced his fiancée to hang herself—this shows his cold nature and his passion for power.

Moreover, according to the secret report of the eunuch of the supervising army, Huang Shi is not greedy for money or lustful. It can even be said that he has no desires and desires. But as a whole, he is regarded as his servant, and it is hard to say whether he has any unruly ambitions.

What's more, this person has a lack of virtue, he is recognized as a member of the eunuch party, and he has been in collusion with that traitor Wei Zhongxian for a long time.When the first emperor was still alive, he had a close relationship with many ministers in the court... Huangshi may be loyal to the first emperor who single-handedly promoted him, but not necessarily to himself, the emperor.

"...Unfortunately, although he has a great talent, he is not a gentleman, so it is difficult for me to use!" Emperor Chongzhen, who was still somewhat morally obsessed with cleanliness at that time, came to such a conclusion in his heart, and at the same time acquiesced in the civil society's suppression of Huangshi. Criticism, gradually weakening his authority, first he was dismissed as the vanguard general of the Pingman, and then he was demoted from the Fujian General Soldier to the Fujian North Road General, and finally some people even suggested that he be executed in prison... If it weren’t for the emperor Sun Chengzong and others doing their best Defense, claiming that the current country is in constant war, and the general must not be beheaded for no reason. Perhaps Huangshi has already fallen into the same end as Wei Zhongxian.

Then, after a period of silence, the governor of Fujian, Xiong Wencan, brought up the old story again, impeached Huang Shi, who had been demoted as a general of Fujian North Road at that time, for a lot of crimes, and then claimed that in order to appease the pirates and pacify the Fujian Sea, Huangshi's Let your head stand up and vent your anger on a group of "Sea Lords"...

It's a pity that when Xiong Wencan's memorial was sent to Beijing, it had been three years since Chongzhen. , the flames of war are already connected to one another... When the Tartars went south last time, due to the mutiny and rebellion of the Guanning Army, the city of Beijing almost fell. .This time the Tartars once again broke through to the south, and Emperor Chongzhen didn't know how to deal with it. At this time, he was shocked when he saw that Xiong Wencan was going to kill the general again in violation of the system. Mao Wenlong Liwei, and then put Jiannu under the city of Beijing.Xiong Wencan is now saying that in order to calm the sea, he needs to kill the more famous Huangshi to unify the power, and then some pirates will break Nanjing City?

Although the situation in the south is completely different from that in the north, Emperor Chongzhen, who already has a psychological shadow, can't help but think so!
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen immediately refuted Xiong Wencan's absurd suggestion. Looking back, he was not at ease, lest Xiong Wencan would not do two things, just like Yuan Chonghuan before, simply forged the imperial decree to kill people, and hurriedly sent a secret decree to Fujian , Threatening Xiong Wencan sternly, telling him not to forget Yuan Chonghuan's fate... This secret decree seems to be effective. After that, Xiong Wencan never mentioned anything about killing Huangshi. I know the truth of being patient with each other for the sake of the country.Especially after the pirates harassed southern Fujian last year and was repelled by Huangshi, Xiong Wencan, who was about to be transferred to the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, also asked for credit for him, allowing Huangshi to restore his official position as Fujian general.

However, although Emperor Chongzhen did not intend to watch Xiong Wencan violate the system and kill a military officer of Huangshi's level without authorization, he also had a grudge against Huangshi, an "ex-emperor and former minister", at least he was not prepared to use him again on the Liaodong battlefield—— Although since Jiannu went south to plunder twice and the criminal governor Yuan Chonghuan subdued the law, there have been waves of calls to use Huangshi, but they were all suppressed by Emperor Chongzhen.

In short, Emperor Chongzhen's views on Huangshi were very contradictory. He not only recognized his talent, but also resisted his promotion. In the end, he left Huangshi in the south to refrigerate. Pull it out and push it up... Therefore, this victory report from Huangshi made Emperor Chongzhen feel deeply entangled: Although he had long known of Ryukyu's request for help, it was only natural for Ming to protect the vassal state.But Huangshi went to Japan without the approval of the cabinet, that is "sending troops privately, which is tantamount to rebellion." Moreover, Japan is still the "Nation of No Conquest" appointed by Emperor Hongwu...

Hey, that's all, after all, he won the battle, so of course no rewards can be given.The crime of acting without authorization will not be cured - in the current situation of Ming Dynasty, if it is too corrupted to be dealt with, maybe we still need to rely on Huang Shi, a famous general who has won all battles!As long as he grasped his lifeline of money and food, he would not be afraid of him flying to the sky... So, after the word "I know" was approved on this victory memorial, Emperor Chongzhen didn't think about it any more.

Generals who don't love money and beauty certainly make the emperor wary, but those generals who are greedy for money and profit also make the emperor feel headache.For example, this Dengzhou town is a force that has only emerged in recent years. The Liaodong escapee named Chen Xin was just a donated official. State and town heads.He opened farms in Dengzhou, promoted sea trade, trained soldiers and suppressed bandits, and he did a great job, and his abilities seemed not to be inferior to those of Huangshi in the past.And when the Tartars invaded in the second year of Chongzhen, this Chen Xin took the initiative to lead the army to serve as the king, beheading [-] Tartars in the outskirts of Gyeonggi, and made great achievements. Chongzhen praised him as "My Qi Shaobao" at that time, as if From him, I saw the shadow of Huangshi back then.

Compared with Huang Shi, who is attached to the eunuch party, Chen Xin is full of integrity. When he was still a small family, he dared to scold Cui Chengxiu. It is really rare for a Liaodong escapee to have such integrity.

On the surface, this person must be a pillar of the imperial court, but after the initial joy, Emperor Chongzhen ordered people to collect information and carefully examine his actions, but found that Chen Xin was now a prince of the separatist side, not only recruited soldiers and horses greatly exceeded The number of soldiers in this town, and the military and civilian affairs of the entire Dengzhou Town are all decided by Chen Xin. All kinds of illegal things such as extortion, corruption and bribery, and occupation of civilian land happen almost all the time.The government decree in Dengzhou is not as effective as Chen Xin's words. Even spies from Jinyiwei and Dongchang can hardly get involved in it. It is not too much to say that it is a country within a country!

(At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Jinyiwei’s intelligence capabilities got worse the farther it was from the capital. It was okay in Shandong, but it was almost better than nothing in Fujian, Guangdong.)
Although the soldiers and horses in Dengzhou Town can still be dispatched by the imperial court, like Liao Town headed by Zu Dashou, it is too big to lose its tail.Even though Sun Yuanhua, governor of Denglai, still has a Liao army in Dengzhou, he still can't stop the growing growth of Dengzhou town... It seems that it is time to support new forces to check and balance, such as the warrior king who beheaded eighty Fighting is good, maybe it can change the situation that Xuanda is weaker than Liaodong.Hmph, when the situation improves, let's see how I deal with you domineering generals!

"... My Qi Shaobao, hmph, I want to be Cao Cao! I am not Han Xiandi!"

Zhu Youjian snorted so coldly, while opening the memorial of Chen Xin, the chief soldier of Dengzhou Town, and then gradually frowned—apart from the clichéd begging for money and soldiers at the beginning, Chen Xin was also strangely It was mentioned in the memorial that the imperial court should be wary of a group of pirates entrenched in the outlying areas of Qiongzhou, called "Kun Bandit", and even wrote "Kun Bandit is a serious problem for the country, and its damage is far worse than that of Eastern captives!" Such exaggerated words ... This made Zhu Youjian very puzzled. A leader of the Shandong army who has no profit and can't afford it early is in trouble with a group of pirates thousands of miles away?How strange!

Speaking of which, the Emperor Chongzhen had heard about the name of "Kun Thief". As early as the second year of Chongzhen, there was a report of his invasion of Lingao County, Qiongzhou, but the Kun Thief only occupied "Bairen Beach". Standing on a cliff, they are entered and exited by fast boats on the sea. The Lingao area has been attacked many times, but unfortunately they all failed.In the third year of Chongzhen, Wang Zunde, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, launched a large army to besiege the bandits in order to wipe out the bandits. The grain and waterway caused the army to be defeated, and all efforts fell short.Later, the Kun bandits sent a fast boat to invade Guangzhou, but luckily they were retreated by the brave local villagers.In the following time, the Kun thief was peaceful, except that Zheng Zhilong's center left was attacked by pirates, perhaps it was the Kun thief's work-but Zheng Zhilong's left and right were just another wave of Zhao Anhai. Kou, for the imperial court, death is not a pity.

All in all, based on the detailed reports of local officials in Fujian and Guangdong, Emperor Chongzhen thought he had a relatively clear idea of ​​this group of thieves: "... There are pirates in Lingao County, Qiongzhou Prefecture, entrenched in Bairen Beach , built a stronghold called Bairen City, known as Kun Bandit. Kun Bandit claimed to be a Miao descendant of the Song Dynasty. Many, but with black hair and black eyes, they are not of the red-haired Francine. Kun thieves can understand writing, but they are not good at etiquette, and women and women often show their faces in public. Kun thieves are sexually prostitutes, and many women are bought as maids, and they are stored in Bairen City. **Its obscenity. There are no more than a thousand real kun thieves, local refugees, and more than ten thousand people who are dependents of pirates. There are several people such as Wen Desi and Ma Qianzhu.

Kun Thief is good at boating, is familiar with water, can swim in water for three days without rest, and likes to eat fish and shrimp raw.Good at all kinds of crafts, all the products produced are extremely exquisite, and they are called Australian goods.Especially good at firearms, the firepower of Kunzei cannons is better than that of Hongyi cannons. Once a cannon is fired, the sound can be heard for hundreds of miles, and it can rot for fifty miles. It is unmatched by human power.Or it may be heard that the thieves have iron clippers, the wonders of giant ships, but according to the investigation, no one has seen them in person, or it is a rumor from mountain and field villagers.

Although the Kun bandits have sharp firearms and fast boats come and go freely, they don't know how to fight on foot. They invaded Lingao County many times to no avail. Chongzhen was also defeated in field battles in the third year of Chongzhen. The mouth is like entering the land of no one, but as soon as he landed, he was wounded by the local villager and left in embarrassment.

The Kun bandits occupy the land of Bairen Beach, backed by Bopu Port, surrounded by Bairen cliffs on three sides, and can only enter and exit by sea. The land is easy to defend and difficult to attack.However, although the Kun thieves were based here, it was seldom heard that they harassed the place, and most of them were retaliation after the campaign, and there was no news of the Kun thieves looting merchants.The kun thieves value business and trustworthiness, they act like sea merchants, and they mostly trade privately with the local gentry in Guangzhou. I have never heard of the kun thieves breaking their trust... I believe that the kun thieves are pirates added by the Nanyang mandarins. After the former Song Yashan craftsman.

As far as I know, although the Kun bandits have occupied Bairen Beach for several years, they have not expanded their territory. They should follow the old example of the Hongmao barbarians occupying Macau in the past, seeking a port for transshipment of overseas goods.If you only know how to advance and suppress blindly, you will waste your labor and pay, and the gain will not be worth the loss. Even if you win, you will have nothing but useless ground.In this turbulent autumn of the world, I think that you should not be greedy for false fame, and you should focus on appeasement, or you can imitate Xiong Du in the past to appease the Zheng family, and then settle the Minhai matter..."

Generally speaking, in recent years, Guangdong and Guangxi have not been affected in any way except for the unfavorable campaign to suppress these gangsters. This kind of mange disease, which is not harmful to the court, can attract Chen Xin and other domineering troops. Looking sideways at it, Emperor Chongzhen guessed that most of the joints were still in the interests of maritime trade: after all, he had heard a little about what Chen Xin did at sea. Most likely, Xin couldn't sit still.

Hmph, the court's confidant Donglu is still looking at each other across the sea, but he always thinks about the little silver earned at sea, how can I easily fulfill his wish!Emperor Chongzhen muttered so much, he also approved "Got it" on Chen Xin's memorial, and left it aside.Then I vaguely recalled that Huang Shi seemed to be hooking up with those thieves from the rumors in Beijing... Hey, these generals who don't read poetry and books are really, all of them are selfish, and they don't know how to contribute to the country at all. Regardless of how rampant the thieves of the slave chieftain Huang Taiji (Huang Taiji) in Liaodong are...

As soon as he remembered the battle in Liaodong, Emperor Chongzhen found another memorial for help sent by his emperor Sun Chengzong from the front line of Liaodong. The fort had been in the fort for several months, and the Guanning army was about to collapse in a field battle, so they had to defend the castle. Jiannu then used the method of digging trenches and siege to cut off the grain road of Dalinghe City, trying to trap Zu Dashou and the elite Guanning army in the city to death.

After the fierce battle at Daling River broke out, memorials for help flew into the capital like snowflakes.The chaos of Jian slaves wreaking havoc on Gyeonggi last year and last year is still vivid. The courtiers of the capital and the governor of Liaodong dared to underestimate the [-] Jian captives, and hurriedly sent troops from all walks of life to reinforce Dalinghe City.However, Jianlu has always been stronger than field battles. While besieging Dalinghe City, he also closely monitored the reinforcements of the Ming court. The military department of the Ming court is a group of civil servants who claim to be proficient in military affairs, but in fact only know the four books and five classics. He didn't talk about tactics when he assembled soldiers and horses to rescue Dalinghe, he only knew to order reinforcements wherever he saw soldiers.Each unit of reinforcements may be five thousand or six thousand, and they are not assembled into a large regiment, but sent to the Houjin army bit by bit to fight for reinforcements, and then of course they were defeated one by one by the superior forces of Jianlu. The countermeasures of a group of ministers of civil and military affairs are just like the traitors who broke into the capital from Jiancap!

In Sun Chengzong's memorial, the latest batch of reinforcements sent to Dalinghe was defeated again, and after repeated battles and defeats, the Guanning Army and reinforcements on the front line of Jinzhou and Ningyuan were panicked and their morale collapsed. Thousands of soldiers fled.Zu Dashou didn't know how long he could last in the Daling River Castle. If the imperial court didn't want another big defeat in Saarhu, they had to send a strong army capable of defeating the Liaodong Tartars to rescue them.

A strong army that can defeat the Liaodong Tartars?Where can I find this?Huangshi in Fujian?I'm afraid the journey is far away, and it's not urgent.Hey, it seems that Chen Xin's Dengzhou Town can only be moved again... Zhu Youjian shook his head and sighed, while instructing and urging Dengzhou to send troops to aid Liao as soon as possible.

In addition to the successive bad news on the Dalinghe battlefield, Dongjiang Town on the other side of the Liaodong battlefield is also complaining to the sky. It is said that there is another famine, and countless soldiers and civilians starved to death... It's just that the thoughts and food of the government and the people are all spent on the Dalinghe battlefield. , As for Dongjiang Town, they can only let them fend for themselves.

In addition, there was a civil uprising caused by private salt dealers in Jiaozhou, Shandong. The leader was called Li Meng. The local military equipment had been dismantled for a long time, and the government was unable to suppress it. We had to ask the imperial court for help, hoping that Dengzhou Town would send troops to help suppress it... Chongzhen The emperor is also sure about this matter - let that Chen Xincan do more work!

Turning to the last memorial with a sigh, Emperor Chongzhen finally saw some good news to be happy about—Guangdong government reported that Fanbang "Huamei" and "East Coast Kingdom" came from thousands of miles away to pay tribute and offer rare treasures. There are countless tributes, among which there is even a unicorn (giraffe), which is particularly auspicious, which greatly inspires the young Da Mingzi: the unicorn seems to have appeared only in the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty.God actually bestowed on me such auspiciousness, which shows that God will not abandon me!After the grace of God and the rain, Daming may be able to return to the heyday of the Wanli Year!
After finally approving all the memorials for today, Emperor Chongzhen stretched his waist while looking at the kerosene lamp on the table, and said casually, "...this wide lamp is really good, it is much brighter than the candles burned before. It doesn't hurt the eyes. It's a pity that there are few, otherwise I will give one to several pavilion elders."

"...The emperor is really sympathetic to the elders. This servant will tell you that when the next batch of lanterns arrives, each elder must be given one."

After hearing Emperor Chongzhen's order, Cao Huachun immediately responded with a flattering smile, but he couldn't help secretly slandering in his heart: "...Which old man in Beijing doesn't have a few lights like this in his home? It's just our emperor alone. Think of this Australian product as a rarity..."

Zhu Youjian, who didn't know Cao Huachun's inner thoughts, nodded, and reached out to turn off the kerosene lamp on the table, but his eyes accidentally glanced at the victory report of the Funing Army defeating the Ryukyu Japanese pirates on the table, and couldn't help but recall Huangshi crossing the sea in the past The battle against Juehua Island, the Leaping Horse Liaoyang beheading the enemy chieftain, the frequent news of victory shocked the heroic figure of Liaodong, and I remembered the repeated defeats on the Dalinghe battlefield in Liaodong... All kinds of tangled and indescribable thoughts kept coming, and finally I could only feel sad He let out a long sigh: "...Your beauty, how can I be a thief?" Then I turned off the kerosene lamp, turned around with a lonely expression, and went to bed.

And Marshal Huang of Huangshi, who was far away in Quanzhou, Fujian, suddenly felt a chill behind his back for no reason, and couldn't help but sneezed...