The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 494
The Ming Dynasty in the last days was really full of disasters and disasters. The tragic Chongzhen rarely had a good day. The establishment of slaves has just stopped for a few months, but Shaanxi has become more and more troublesome.

In June of the third year of Chongzhen, the bandit Wang Jiayin captured Huangfuchuan and the second camp of Qingshui.The next day, they conquered Fugu County and surrounded Gushanbao.

Yulin Daobai Yiqing sent soldiers and horses to encircle and suppress them. At this time, the rogues were just a group of mobs with no fighting power at all. Wang Jiayin's bandit soldiers collapsed at the first touch and fled back to Fugu County.Hong Chengchou fought a battle of siege and annihilation, bloodshed and many gains.

Dusi Aimu blocked several groups of rogues between Yanchuan and Qingjian, and the leaders of the rogues begged the court to call for safety.The garrison officer Jiang Shizhong sent Li Guangying, the leader of the bandits who had surrendered before, to read out the will of the great Emperor Chongzhen who loved the people.

Of course, this decree is not for these rogues, but for the civil and military generals who are suppressing thieves from all walks of life.The meaning is clear, the rogue bandits are also my people, and we should caress them.

well!The honest Chongzhen really doesn't know that once the thieves start killing, setting fire, robbing, and raping, they are not even considered human beings, they are all animals, how can they be people?
Now the court soldiers and horses can beat them, but they are lenient. When the two thieves Li and Zhang with ulterior motives rise up, they will not give the court any chance.

Now the cause of the refugee riots is hunger, and in the next few years it will not be the cause at all, but the result of the thieves who have tasted the sweetness and deliberately deceived people.

Killing officials and rebelling, robbing gold and silver, sleeping beauties, the momentum is wrong, and recruiting security. Who would not do such a low-risk, high-profit business?

Emperor Chongzhen is really stupid. It is not advisable to recruit bandits. It is okay to accept surrender. Disperse the underlings and resettle them, find out the leader of the thieves, and kill those who have massacred the people. Only in this way can we deter Xiaoxiao .

The gangsters who were recruited committed countless bloody crimes and became officials without punishment. Driven by such a bad example, who would be willing to be a good citizen?
Only then did Yanchuan recruit Wang Zishun, Zhang Shusheng, and Ji San'er, a few gangsters.Over there, the leader of the thieves, Shen Yiyuan, brothers Shen Yikui, and Wang Jiayin, etc. began to plunder Yan'an and Qingyang frantically again, attacking the city for a while, and I don't know how many people died.

Yang He, the governor of the three sides, advocated appeasement and did not send troops to encircle and suppress.

Yang He and the governor Liu Guangsheng each sent their subordinate officials to summon the rogues with certificates of proclamation and waiver cards. The dead card was recruited and placed in Yansui and Hexi.

These thieves were not divided and ruled, they still formed gangs, and the court had to pay them instead. Even though these thieves did not kill or set fire for the time being, they still robbed, plundered, and raped women.

The common people swallowed their anger, and the local officials did not dare to sue, and the bandits were in trouble.The bandits in Shanxi also rose up, captured Shilou and Yonghe, broke Puzhou and Lu'an, and the officers and soldiers were defeated.

All the suburbs of Yan'an, Shaanxi were thieves. Mizhi thief Zhang Xianzhong occupied Shibazhai, Fuchuan thief Wang Jiayin and Qi San occupied Fugu County, Dongshanzhai, and the rest Wang Sweeping and Shangtianhu occupied Qingjianbao to attack the village. Hengtian Wang, Gegoufei, and Lighting Lamp Zi and others are based in Qingjian County, and thieves such as Sanlihu and Daoshenghu are based in Anle Temple to avoid thieves' dock.

During the fierce battle between the army and the rogues, a star rose. He was Hong Chengchou, who was single-handedly promoted by Emperor Chongzhen and became a traitor in the future.

Chongzhen likes to eclecticly promote talents he thinks, so he specially promoted Hong Chengchou, who participated in politics in Shaanxi, as the censor of Youqian Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and governor of Yansui.

Because the court's confidantes were in trouble, the Liaodong was calm, and the Emperor Chongzhen gave the generals of the Liaodong a commendation, and entered Sun Chengzong's Taifu, Zhang Fengyi's Prince Taibao, and Yin Yizi to direct the affairs of the Jinyiwei.

Jin Zu Dashou Shao Chuan, Yin Yi's son Jin Yiwei commanded Tong Zhi, Song Wei and Ma Shilong were given to the crown prince's Taibao, You Shilu and Yang Zhaoji entered the prince's Taishi, entered Wu Zimian Zuo Dudu, Yu Wenwu's promotion was poor.

Another minister got his wish. Wen Tiren, the minister of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of Dongge University, Zhiwenyuange, became the elder of the current court.More intense party struggles will break out in the future imperial court.

The scheming Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru, a cabinet minister of the young and strong faction supported by the Donglin Party, will surely meet each other.

The chaotic imperial court Huang Sheng can't control and can't control it. To be honest, there is nothing he can do to help him now that he is intensively planning to use soldiers. The Huang family has too few private soldiers. Now tens of thousands of Xiangyong have been mobilized. This time it is a full effort!

Hunger is the cause of the rebellion of refugees. It is not difficult to solve this problem, and the key is food.

There is only one method that is most effective when there is no food, and the brutal method of wild boar skin kills the people who have no food.Otherwise, it would be futile to suppress the rebellion. Even the officers and soldiers had to rob to survive.

Every conscientious general of the Ming army will be abandoned by the cruel reality, because they can't go down and snatch the people's living food, and they can't bear to cut off the heads of the good people. False success.

In the end, the Ming army general Zuo Liangyu, who was worse than the two thieves Li and Zhang, became bigger. They were bandits in official clothes and trampled on the last bit of righteousness of the court.

The badness of the officers and soldiers directly caused the common people to hate the Ming government even more. If they were slightly bewitched by the rogues, they would follow the thieves without a trace of psychological pressure.

Huang Sheng's food surplus is limited, and he still has to prepare for wars and shortages. No one knows what will happen to Xiaobinghe's ghostly weather next year. Now that there are more than two million people, how can we do without food reserves?
In the short term, Huang Sheng wants to strive to farm in his own system, even if there is no harvest throughout the year, the grain reserves will be enough to consume for a year.Only in this way can people feel at ease.

At this time, if a long-distance transportation of grain is sent to Shaanxi for three thousand miles, I don’t know how many mules, horses, carts, and heavy troops are needed to make the trip. The consumption on the road under the management of the Huang family will exceed [-]%.

If it was transported by the Ming Dynasty army, I am afraid that half of it will be good when it reaches the ground.In ancient times when transportation was extremely underdeveloped, it was too difficult to transport grain by land for three thousand miles.

Huang Sheng could only choose to pick up some refugees from Shaanxi, and refused to transport food into Shaanxi.

Because the food is cheap in the end, who is unknown, without the deterrence of their own private soldiers, and unable to put them in the hands of every victim who is waiting to be fed according to human hair, who knows if the rogues finally got the food?It is also possible that the officials who handled it made a windfall.

Huang Sheng is a realist, and he will not hesitate to give up what he can't do. His own soldiers and horses cannot enter Shanshan on a large scale. , I can only take part of the hungry people to Haizhou Port to sea as much as I can.

At the beginning of November, [-] high-ranking Xiangyong arrived from Huangjiawan Island, "Huaxia Island" and other Huangjia sites. The weapons Xiangyong are the spear and shield hand and the spearman respectively.

There are very few archers, because it is really not easy to practice archery. Archery is much more difficult than shooting a gun, and you must have enough physical strength.

Unless you are a hunter who knows how to shoot arrows since you were a child, you will insist on practicing riding and shooting. A blank piece of Xiangyong will naturally practice easy-to-learn musket shooting, and don't spend those idle hours foolishly.

Yi Wan Xiangyong excitedly rushed to Qinzhou Port on November [-]th, because they knew that they were going to fight with the Patriarch, and everyone was very excited.

The Huang family never ordered Xiangyong to participate in the war, and they were selected from volunteers every time. Active combat and passive participation in the war are not the same.

(End of this chapter)