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- Chongzhen twelve years, October.
Zhao Han ordered his troops to divide into two groups, one to receive Fuzhou by boat, and the other to go south to receive Tingzhou. Those who resisted in the corner were all wiped out, and the number of officials who surrendered or fled was almost evenly divided.
Over the past few years, more than a dozen uprisings broke out in Fujian, and it suffered from droughts many times. Neither the gentry, the officials, nor the people wanted to fight.
Four words: people's mind is fixed.
A lot of autumn grain just harvested in Jiangxi was shipped to Fujian for disaster relief. A large amount of grain from Hunan was transported to Jiangsu and Zhejiang for sale. The territories in several provinces under Zhao Han's rule were finally able to recuperate this time.
The north is even more chaotic.
The officers and soldiers in Xunyang and Xiangyang have not been paid for half a year, and they usually rely on looting the people for food and drink.
?Governor Wang Aoyong asked for military pay, totaling more than 100,000 taels of silver. If the imperial court has no money, ask for the distribution of salt quotations, and attract merchants to sell salt quotations to offset military funds.
Chongzhen agreed.
?The rest of the officers and soldiers from all walks of life also used salt to deduct the deduction, and let them find a way to cash it out.
For a while, the price of salt was overblown and depreciated rapidly.
Huizhou merchants, Qin merchants and Shanxi merchants suffered heavy losses. In order to calm the resentment of merchants, the Lianghuai patrol salt censor strengthened the management of saltworks.
In this way, the businessman was happy, but he forced Yanxiao and Zaohu to rebel.
Especially the salt-burning kitchen households, if they do not rebel, there is only a dead end, because they rely on selling illegal salt to survive.
Zheng Guofeng, the salt lord, gathered a crowd to raise troops, and the two Huaizao households echoed each other, killing the supervisors of each saltworks. In ten months, he had more than 30,000 troops and occupied Rugao, Haimen, Taixing, and Tongzhou (Nantong) counties.
The salt merchants exploded.
Huizhou salt merchants and Shanshan salt merchants used to play tricks on each other, but this time they joined forces to recruit soldiers to assist local officials to suppress the salt owl uprising.
Huizhou merchants kept writing letters, asking Zhao Tianwang to send troops to take the Lianghuai area as soon as possible.
Zhao Han turned a deaf ear to it and stayed on the sidelines until next summer's harvest.
The battle between Huaihe and Huaihe was lively, and Hubei was occupied by Zhang Xianzhong.
"Cao Cao" Luo Rucai originally mixed with Zhang Xianzhong, but they had a falling out some time ago. The reason was that Zhang Xianzhong gave all the land to his godson and his subordinates for selfishness, and Luo Rucai was busy for a long time with only two counties.
Luo Rucai led his army westward to the Dabie Mountains and captured Shangcheng, Gushi, Guangzhou, Guangshan, Xixian, Luoshan and other counties.
This move frightened the Henan officers and soldiers. They were besieging and suppressing Li Zicheng, and Luo Rucai suddenly developed wildly behind his back
Xin Zheng.
"Cough cough cough!"
? Yang Sichang coughed repeatedly, until he could hardly straighten his back, as if he wanted to cough up his lungs.
The most powerful civil servant in Ming Dynasty, his beard and hair are all gray at this moment. Compared to last year's full of energy, she seemed to be twenty years older, and her face was covered with wrinkles at some point.
Luoyang City was high and deep, and Li Zicheng couldn't fight it down. As Xuan Da's frontier army went south, King Chuang was driven away again.
What kind of farming, what kind of establishment, these policies can't be implemented, he can only continue to be a rogue.
Li Zicheng was in a difficult situation, and Yang Sichang was also in a difficult situation. The armies from all walks of life were complaining about their salaries.
"Report!"
"Tiger Dawei, fierce as a tiger, and Zuo Liangyu teamed up to attack and smash the bandit camp, killing more than 5,000 enemies, and the bandits fled to Yanling!"
Yang Sichang stood up excitedly, with a sickly flushed face, and said repeatedly: "Okay, okay, good fight, let the generals from all walks of life report their merits."
"Cough cough cough cough!"
? Yang Sichang coughed again and coughed up a hand full of blood. He secretly wiped off the blood, not daring to let anyone see it.
? On the next day, the military achievements of all parties were reported, and Yang Sichang drafted a victory report document, and immediately sent someone to Beijing.
The imperial court had no money to reward meritorious deeds, so Yang Sichang had no choice but to ask for the title of earl, asking Hu Dawei, Meng Ruhu, and Zuo Liangyu to be made earls, and the rest of the generals were also made wives and sons.
If he didn't do this, he wouldn't be able to command the army, and the imperial court owed him too much.
"Supervisor, a eunuch is here!"
As soon as the letter of victory was sent out, a eunuch suddenly came to Xinzheng to announce the decree.
This decree was not official, so the eunuch stepped back and said to Yang Sichang: "Mr. Yang Ge, Your Majesty asks you, when will the intruders be wiped out?"
"I just won a big game a few days ago." Yang Sichang replied.
The eunuch sighed and said, "Your Majesty ordered you to suppress the bandits quickly and dispatch elites to rescue Jinzhou! Ifthe bandits cannot be suppressed within half a year, Your Majesty will have to replace the master with another person."
Yang Sichang didn't even bother to argue, and said weakly: "I will definitely do my best."
in the armyWar, not twisted into a rope at all.
"Pfft!"
? Yang Sichang spat out a mouthful of old blood and passed out in the barracks on the spot
Beijing.
If Chongzhen was struck by lightning, he couldn't believe it: "Did Yang Ge die of illness?"
"Your Majesty, this is the legacy of Elder Yang Ge."
Chongzhen read the suicide note carefully with trembling hands.
? Yang Sichang first blamed himself, saying that he had owed the emperor's kindness. It also explained that the reason for the defeat in this battle was all due to the generals' disobedience to military orders. If they pursued together or did not pursue them, such a big defeat would not have occurred.
Finally, Yang Sichang recommended Chen Xinjia to be Minister of War.
Chongzhen put down Yang Sichang's suicide note and tried not to cry. He knew that Daming was hopeless.
Zhao Han's occupation of Jiangnan was a fatal blow, and the imperial court only had the Lianghuai salt tax available.
Today, the uprising of Yanxiao and Zaohu has caused the imperial court to fail to collect salt tax, and Yanyin has become a piece of waste paper.
The imperial court ran out of money, and the capital was experiencing a rice shortage, and the price of rice had risen to five taels of silver per stone.
Even in the city of Beijing, people began to starve to death due to lack of food!
The Tartars are besieging Jinzhou, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai are raging in Henan, and Zhang Xianzhong is expanding wildly in Hubei. As soon as the Shandong Cao Army Uprising was suppressed, the Lianghuai salt lord stove households rebelled again.
By the way, Sichuan also has an uprising army, and there have been more than a dozen groups. Qin Liangyu is running in Sichuan to suppress the rebellion.
Due to the severe famine, the people of Beizhili revolted, and the officers and soldiers of Jizhen were suppressing it.
Chongzhen was in a desperate situation, there was no way to rescue Liaodong, and he couldn't even make up the expenses for the army's departure.
Zu Dashou's Liaodong generals could only defend the city slowly by themselves, and they would definitely surrender when the food ran out. Reinforcements can't be waited for, at most let Hong Chengchou bring Jizhen soldiers to rescue, and the Beizhili uprising army must be pacified first.
Chongzhen called all his sons and daughters here, and it was rare for him to have a good meal.
Looking at these children, he couldn't bear it, and suddenly remembered Wang Tiaoding's message.
Send your children to the south?
Before and after Chongzhen sent several groups of Jinyiwei to the south, knowing that Zhao Han had the reputation of "benevolence and kindness". Whether it is true benevolence or false benevolence, reputation must be taken into account after all, and perhaps it will not kill the royal family.
Having figured things out, Chongzhen hesitated again. If the children were sent to the south, what face would the Ming imperial family have?
(Sorry, I missed a lord, thanks to the lord of readerk for the reward.)
(Take it easy, there are only two updates today.)
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