Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 675 Fanwai (23) Northern Japanese and Southern Burmese

"Dang...dang...dang..."

In the early morning, when the morning bell starts to ring, the time has entered the 44th year of the apocalypse.

In the past few months, war may have been the main theme of the whole world.

Not only are wars breaking out in Europe and North Kunlun, but even the borders of Ming Dynasty are not stable.

When Daming was carrying out reforms in the "New Five-Year Plan" and Emperor Taisun Zhu Heyin successively replaced Tianxun Shuyi, Zheng, Min, Huai, Tang, Ji and other countries, two battles broke out in Yingzhou and Luchuan respectively. rebellion.

On the seventh day of October, Li Heijiro, a miner in Gaotai County, North Island Prefecture, Yingzhou, took advantage of the disarmament of the Ming Dynasty and the emptiness of Yingzhou, and gathered thousands of people to rebel.

They attacked the soldiers and horses in the sentry box at the entrance of the mine, killing 12 servants and 120 Han Chinese miners.

Later, he sent people to Gaotai County, falsely claiming that the mine had collapsed, and tricked 220 yamen servants from the criminal department of Gaotai County to go to the rescue.

They blew up a mine ahead of time, and then lured the servants into the mine for rescue.

Since Yingzhou had been at peace for several years at this time, Zang Kejia, the chief banner officer, never suspected it, and led more than a hundred government servants into the mine to start rescue.

However, when they went deep into the mine, Li Heijiro ordered people to ignite thousands of catties of gunpowder near the entrance of the cave, killing more than a hundred government servants outside the entrance of the cave on the spot, and blowing up the entrance of the mine.

Li Heijiro, who was worried that the servants in the mine would not die, ordered his miners to ignite the remaining [-] catties of gunpowder, and continued to detonate the gunpowder in an attempt to kill the servants in the mine.

Half a day later, Li Heijiro led more than a hundred miners disguised as government servants transporting corpses to the high platform, followed by the remaining more than a thousand miners holding tools.

When he arrived in Gaotai County, Li Heijiro asked the miners to hide in a forest more than ten miles outside the city, and then he led more than a hundred miners to Gaotai County.

They put more than 100 flintlock guns they seized on the cart, covered them with white cloth, and sent people to the gate of the city in advance to tell the soldiers and horses that the soldiers and horses left behind had a mine disaster.

When the Bingmasi soldiers who stayed at the gate of the city relaxed their vigilance, the miners disguised as corpses suddenly got up and shot when they passed the gate of the city.

Due to the disarmament of both the Governor's Mansion and the Bingma Division of the Five Armies, the Bingma Division stationed in Beidao Prefecture at this time had only more than 500 troops, while there were only more than 150 in Gaotai County.

With only a team of 12 soldiers stationed at the gate of the city, Li Heijiro fell to the east gate of Gaotai County, and then organized more than a thousand miners to enter the city.

While entering the city, he ordered people to spread the news that "the Han people massacred the Yamato people" to confuse the public, and coerced a large number of Yamato people to attack the Bingmasi Yamen and the Criminal Department Yamen.

However, when they attacked the soldiers of Ximen Bingmasi, the nearby Bingmasi Yamen had heard gunshots, so they organized a counterattack.

The two sides engaged in street fighting in the city, but since nearly [-]% of the population in Gaotai County were Yamato people, the soldiers and horses could only call some Han people to retreat while fighting.

In the early morning of the eighth day of October, the soldiers and horses of Gaotai County stayed in Gaojian and led hundreds of Han people and more than fifty soldiers to withdraw from Gaotai County.

After Li Heijiro heard the news, he immediately sent someone to spread false news to the surrounding market towns and villages, saying that "the Han people massacred the Yamato people, and our people must desperately resist."

As soon as the news came out, many Yamato people immediately recalled the Ming army's landing in Yingzhou, and then picked up farm tools and gathered in Gaotai County.

On the ninth day of October, when Gao Jian led the Han people to the south, they arrived at the Yushan military camp more than [-] miles away in Gaotai County.

Hearing the news of the rebellion in Gaotai County, Zhang Fu, the general banner officer of the army, sent a message to Baoshan County, Beidao Prefecture, to ask for help.

On the tenth day of October, when the information was sent back to the Yushan military camp, Li Heijiro had already gathered [-] people in Gaotai County and slaughtered all the Han people near Gaotai County.

On the evening of the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Yang Kejian, the general of the Baoshan Battalion stationed in Baoshan County, learned of the news of the rebellion in Gaotai County. He immediately sent people to Yingzhou City to deliver the news, and at the same time summoned the soldiers and horses of Beidao Prefecture.

On October [-]th, Yang Kejian led [-] soldiers from the Baoshan Camp in Beidao Prefecture to the north. At this moment, Li Heijiro had gathered more than [-] soldiers.

In the early morning of the [-]th, when Yingzhou City heard the news of the rebellion in Gaotai County, Yang Kejian led his troops to Baoshan County and immediately ordered to attack the city.

In the middle of the night on the [-]th, shortly after the Yingzhou Battalion supported by Yingzhou City arrived at the battlefield, the Ming army launched a general offensive, Gaotai County was recovered, and Li Heijiro died in the chaos of the war.

In the middle of the night on the [-]th, Wang Fuchen, the commander-in-chief of Yingzhou, the governor of the Eastern Army, ordered that all the prisoners who participated in the rebellion be shot to death.

That night, [-] Ming soldiers killed more than [-] captured rebels.

However, such an approach not only failed to act as a deterrent, but instead caused the people of Yingzhou, who had been emotionally pent up for a long time because of the huge gap between the rich and the poor in Yingzhou, to completely riot.

On the third day of the winter month, a rebellion broke out in Heshan Town, Beizhou County. Zhang Changweilang launched a rebellion among the townspeople, massacring all the Han Chinese and minorities except the Yamato people, and gathered thousands of people.

On the fifth day of the first winter month, a riot broke out in the Iwami mining area of ​​Nandao Prefecture, an important mining area in the Ming Dynasty. Miner Li Zuojiro gathered tens of thousands of miners to stage a rebellion.

Winter Moon Twelve...

Winter Moon 27...

In just one and a half months, riots continued in the land of Yingzhou, and hundreds of thousands rose up.

Most of them will besiege market towns and county towns after their rise to avoid the pursuit of the Dudu Mansion battalion.

When the news reached Beijing, it was already the fifth day of the twelfth lunar month. At this time, more than [-] Han people were directly or indirectly killed by the rebels, and their family members were hundreds of thousands.

You know, the number of Han people in Yingzhou is only about three million.

In just two months, nearly one-tenth of the Yingzhou immigrants had died at the butcher's knife of the rebels. Such news shocked the government and the public.

Of course, the Yingzhou rebellion alone is not enough to cause such an impact. The main impact that can cause the shock of the government and the opposition comes from Luchuan.

On the [-]th day of the winter month, after claiming that he was Mang Yinglong of the Toungoo Dynasty, Mang Tai, the leader of the Burmese tribe in Luchuan, launched a rebellion under the slogan of "Equal land, one hundred mu per household".

For a time, there were as many as hundreds of thousands of protesters in the two provinces of Luchuan and Ganges, and the Mughals also seized the opportunity to raise [-] troops while the Ming army in the border areas went to suppress the rebellion, and wantonly invaded and occupied the territory of Daming.

Before the news of Yingzhou was sent to the capital, Zhu Ciran, the supervisor of the state, had already paid 400 million taels, and ordered Li Dingguo, the cabinet minister and the governor of Shangzhi, to be the governor of Pingnan.

Due to the large-scale infrastructure and factories, the treasury of Daming is now empty. Unless the savings bank of the bank is used, there is no time to raise military pay to suppress the rebellion in Yingzhou.

When Zhu Ciran, the crown prince of Jianguo, was about to issue national debt, the emperor Zhu Youxiao came forward and ordered Wang Fuchen, the commander-in-chief of Yingzhou, to be the general to counter the rebellion. military pay.

It has to be said that Zhu Youxiao was relatively calm. He knew that the Yingzhou rebellion was caused by a long-term class gap, so Wang Fuchen and Zhang Tongchang were not to blame.

Instead of pursuing responsibility, it is better to put down the rebellion as soon as possible.

It must be too late to raise money from Daming, so it would be faster to let Zhang Tongchang raise money by himself.

As Zhu Youxiao expected, when Zhang Tongchang and Wang Fuchen received the imperial decree, their eager hearts also settled down.

Zhang Tongchang issued 50 taels of "counter-insurgency national debt" to the Han people in Yingzhou, and the Han people who wanted to protect themselves enthusiastically bought it, and made up enough military pay for the Yingzhou counter-insurgency.

At the same time that the military salary was fully collected, Zhang Tongchang transported the military salary to the front line, and at the same time sent people to receive the income after Wang Fuchen led the army to suppress the rebellion.

In this way, Wang Fuchen does not need to divide his troops to count and seize, but can directly reward him with cash after the war.

As for Zhang Tongchang, he also supported Wang Fuchen in suppressing the rebellion while repaying the "national debt for suppressing the rebellion" by relying on the subsequent inventory and seizures.

Under the logistical preparations of elite soldiers and sufficient food, the Ming army was in full swing. Although there were only 5000 people, they fought consecutively.

On the fifth day of the first month of the 45th year, Wang Fuchen surrounded and wiped out [-] rebels in Tongjian Gorge, and they were completely pitted.

On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, General Zhao Liangdong shot and killed more than [-] rebels in Zhongshan County in Sanfangyuan, and killed all the [-] rebels captured.

On the 22nd of the first lunar month, General Bai Guangyong recovered the Shijian mining area and killed more than [-] rebels.

The fourth day of February...

February [-]th...

With Zhu Youxiao's trust, Zhang Tongchang's financing, and Wang Fuchen's and Ming army's conquest, the rebels in Yingzhou were in danger and the riot was defeated.

However, before Zhu Youxiao was happy, on the morning of the second day of March, when he was still planning how the Tiange should be built, he suddenly found that the model of the Tiange he had built began to vibrate violently.

Before the eunuchs and maids on the right and left could react, Zhu Youxiao dropped the tools in his hands with lightning speed and ran out of the Qianqing Palace.

His speed was so fast that even the servants around him couldn't catch up in time. When they reacted and wanted to follow up, they didn't want to see wooden sills and mandarin tiles falling from the air just as they ran out of the door. The top of the servant's head was smashed and he died.

Zhu Youxiao walked quickly, unlike a 60-year-old man, he ran directly to the square of Qianqing Palace alone.

At the same time, the surrounding area was shaken, and the main hall of Qianqing Palace was severely damaged in just a moment, and the surrounding area was in a mess.

Many ministers of the outer court had no time to run out of the hall, and hid under the table to take refuge.

The palaces and houses in the entire Beijing city were trembling, countless houses collapsed in the city, and even the solid city walls collapsed in about a hundred places.

At the same time, a gust of wind suddenly rose, sweeping across the city, covering the sky with dust, and the people were terrified and rushed to the streets.

The earthquake finally passed, and as a result, three earthquakes occurred one after another within the same day.

For the next three days, aftershocks occurred every day, leaving many people homeless and sleeping on the streets.

Zhu Youxiao, Empress Zhang Yan, concubines, eunuchs, court ladies, dignitaries, etc. all evacuated outside the house and stayed in tents.

Fortunately, when the earthquake happened, Prince Zhu Ciran went to Nanyuan in the south of the capital to practice equestrianism, and did not return to the capital until the earthquake stopped completely.

After the disaster, according to the statistics of the Ministry of Household Affairs, 460 people died in the capital and its surrounding areas, and the loss caused by the earthquake was no less than 50 taels.

However, after this incident, the situation in the north and south of Ming Dynasty also began to improve.

On March [-], Zhang Tongchang and Wang Fuchen jointly went to Shangshu, and the riots in the city were over. However, the population of Yingzhou dropped sharply, and a lot of farmland was abandoned. They begged to be exempted from agricultural tax in Yingzhou for one year.

After seeing the memorial, Zhu Ciran, the crown prince of Jianguo, exempted Yingzhou from agricultural tax for two years, and asked Zhang Tongchang to count Yingzhou's "Yellow Book" at the same time.

The riots in Yingzhou here have been quelled, but the Burmese rebellion in Luchuan in the south has just reached its climax.

In the winter month of last year, Mang Tai, the leader of the rebel army, occupied Mengshan County in Luchuan, and broke through Yong'an City in the second half of the month. "Wang Tianli".

Such behavior caused the Fourth Battalion of the Luchuan Southern Army to send troops to suppress it. Although the rebel army had [-] people, they could not resist the defeat. Mang Taiyin led thousands of remnant troops to break through from Yong'an and go north to Mubangfu.

On the second day of the twelfth lunar month, Mangtai joined two groups of rebels and recovered [-] troops, so his heart swelled and he intended to attack Mubangfu and govern Mupang.

After a day of fighting, they failed, and heard that the army had gone north to encircle and suppress, so Mang Taiyin chose to continue leading his troops to the northwest.

On the 27th of the twelfth lunar month, while the tenth Battalion of the Ganges West Army was busy encircling and suppressing the Ganges Burmese rebellion and the rear was empty, Mang Tai led his army through the mountains into Ganges Province and captured Xishan County, Demasa Prefecture.

Although most of the people in Xishan County were also Burmese who migrated from Luchuan, Mang Taiyin did not soften his heart because the other party was from the same clan.

After a brief plunder, Mangtai led a large army to attack the city of Demasa because he heard that the city was empty of troops.

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, when Mangtaiyin besieged the city of Demasa, Li Dingguo, who was ordered to suppress the rebellion, led the four guards of the upper straight to Bengal in the central Ganges province by train.

Due to the large Burmese population in Ganges Province, the army was betrayed before entering Demasa Mansion.

Mang Taiyin, who knew the strength of the official army, immediately led the army to march northeast of Demasa Mansion, attempting to enter Yunnan through the valley and mountains.

Since the Shangzhi troops led by Li Dingguo to the south this time were four cavalry guards, when he arrived in Demasa City, he learned that Mang Taiyin fled into the mountains and did not pursue him, but chose to counter the rebellion in the Ganges.

At the same time, he issued an order to the governor's office of the Western Army, ordering Mu Yi, the general soldier of Luchuan, Ma Wannian, the general soldier of Yunnan, and Zhang Chunqiao, the general soldier of Uszang, to send troops from Menggong, Lima, and Shannan to encircle and suppress them into the mountains and forests. Mangtaiyin.

After the three commanders got the order, they each led three battalions of soldiers and horses to participate in the encirclement and suppression. At the same time, Li Dingguo himself led the Shangzhi Four Cavalry Guards and the Western Army's [-] cavalry to fight the fire.

Under his fire fighting, the situation in the Ganges and Luchuan was brought under control, and the good news was sent to the capital one after another.

In February, the Ganges was completely empty of rebels.

In April, the rebels in Luchuan were completely empty.

On the ninth day of April, after more than three months of trekking, when Mang Taiyin led more than 6000 remnants out of the primeval forest, what he faced was the [-] Ming army who were waiting for work.

The battle started in the early morning and ended at noon. More than [-] rebels were killed. Mang Tai was captured because of his injuries.

So far, the two major rebellions in the south and the north have come to an end, known in history as the "Yingzhou Japanese Rebellion" and "Luchuan Riot".

On the fifth day of August, when Zhu Heyin heard the news of the rebellion and hurried back to Daming, and arrived at Luchuan West Harbor, he went deep into the hinterland of Luchuan and recorded what he saw.

In his diary, compared with the prosperity he saw when he passed by Luchuan when he set out, the population of Luchuan after the war decreased dramatically, many villages disappeared out of thin air, and the fields were abandoned.

The "Golden Triangle" that once had unprecedented social and economic prosperity has also become exhausted, and the people who survived in the northern and northwest areas of Luchuan are extremely fearful and desperate.

In his diary, Zhu Heyin wrote:

"The war has greatly damaged the local economy. Many fields have been abandoned and the population has been slaughtered."

"Although some people survived by luck, their food and family property were looted, their houses were burned, and their machines were destroyed."

"Although the imperial court gave the local people [-] mu of land to each household, the people couldn't reclaim the land that had been abandoned for half a year because they didn't have tractors."

"If the court doesn't issue new machines, they may still fall into long-term panic and despair."

"The imperial court should make new policies for the local area as soon as possible, speed up the recovery of the local economy, and exempt taxes to ensure public security..."

After Zhu Heyin finished writing his diary, he did not stay where he was, but returned to Xihai Port, urging the fleet to return to North Zhili.

On the second day of September, with the sound of the whistle, he led the fleet back to Tianjin, where he had been away for more than a year.

The long journey made his body tired, but he did not rest, but quickly returned to Beijing City, and went to Qianqing Palace at dusk, and told the local situation in Luchuan to Emperor Zhu Youxiao, who was studying the "Tiange" .

After learning the truth about the people in Luchuan, Zhu Youxiao put down his beloved "Tiange" design drawings and held a temporary court meeting.

First of all, the agricultural tax of Luchuan, Ganges, and Yingzhou will be exempted for two years, and the population will be counted at the same time, and new machines will be distributed to the people whose machines have been destroyed.

At the same time, the local yamen should put the house repair work of the people whose houses were destroyed into the "New Five-Year Plan".

In order to prevent corruption, Zhu Youxiao sent Zuoqian Du Yushi Chengde of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to inspect the two provinces of Luchuan and Ganges, and the cabinet minister Yan Yinshaojia inspected the province of Yingzhou.

These simple policies were issued after the cabinet deliberated correctly, and most of the officials associated with them also took action.

On the fifth day of July of the same year, Spain and Ottoman signed the "Egyptian Treaty", announcing that Derna was the boundary, the west of Derna belonged to Spain, and the east of Derna belonged to Ottoman.

On the second day of August, Ezhe led the army and finally invaded Warsaw, the capital of Poland, which had been surrounded by them for nearly a year, and the Kingdom of Poland perished.

After taking Warsaw, Ezhe led the army to capture some cities in the west of Poland, and did not participate in the war between Sweden and the Holy Roman Empire. Such a move made Swedish King Alvin very angry, but there was nothing he could do.

At this moment, neither the Holy Roman Empire nor Sweden was able to interfere with Mongolia, and Ezhe also moved Hara and Lin to Kiev with peace of mind.

However, his good days didn't last long. When the relieved Ottoman withdrew his army from Egypt to the mainland, Mongolia, which occupied the area north of the Caucasus Mountains, immediately became their next target.

Due to the suzerain-vassal relationship between Ming and Mongolia, Osman did not send a large number of troops, but sent a small number of troops to harass the herdsmen on the border of the two countries.

E Zhe didn't pay attention to this little matter, and he was still busy digesting Poland at the moment.

Digesting a country is difficult for the Mongols.

However, that was the Mongolia before, and now since Mongolia became a vassal state of Daming, they send the children of nobles to study in Daming every year.

These children studied from elementary school and did not return to Mongolia until they graduated from university.

It is now the No. 20 three years since Mongolia became a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. In the past 23 years, the Mongolian nobles sent tens of thousands of children to the Ming Dynasty.

Although many of them were unwilling to return to Mongolia, but lived and served as officials in Daming, there were still about 4000 officials who returned.

Using these four thousand aristocratic children who had received a new type of education, Ezhe at least stabilized the situation in Poland.

However, these four thousand children are not enough to completely digest Poland.

Therefore, he further lowered the rule that only the descendants of generals with a hundred households or more can go to Daming to study. As long as they are Mongolians who joined the army, his children can go to Taixi Province of Daming to study.

As a result, the number of school-age children that Mongolia can send to Daming has increased to 8 to [-].

They are arranged to go to Daming to study in August, and they will arrive in Xizhou City, the capital of Taixi Province, when school starts on the first day of February.

However, to send so many children to study, Mongolia's financial expenditure will be greatly increased.

Since the Ming Dynasty charged tuition fees for the people of the vassal states to study in the Ming Dynasty, the Mongolian nobles did not send too many people there before.

It's just different now. Mongolia, which won Poland, will get a large amount of financial revenue, and it will be no problem to support [-] to [-] children to study in Ming Dynasty.

The only thing E Zhe needs to arrange is to present a generous gift to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, when the time came to August, the children set off with more than 30 wagons full of goods, in addition to their luggage.

The carriage contained all the treasures that Ezhe searched in Warsaw, including the treasures of the Polish royal family for hundreds of years...

　There are still a few extra chapters at the end, and then the postscript of the fourth and fifth chapters
　　
　
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