In the first month of the 12th year of Chongzhen, the Qing army in northern China was turned upside down by the Qing army entering the border. Li Zicheng, the king of rebellion who was traveling in Jin, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Henan and Guangdong Province, was beaten by Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, and only a dozen knights were left, which was no longer a threat.

The other two rebellious civilian troops, the Eight Kings Zhang Xianzhong and Cao Cao Luo Rucai's troops, were both recruited by the court, but their recruitment was not the kind of surrender to the court completely, but they occupied a piece of territory themselves and did not allow the court's recruitment officials to be sent to simplify their troops.

Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of the five provinces who were responsible for pacifying these two soldiers, was already an alliance with Yang Sichang, the Minister of War. To put it bluntly, it was precisely because Xiong Wencan also advocated peace talks and pacifying internally and externally that Yang Sichang, who also advocated peace talks, was highly recommended in front of Emperor Chongzhen and became a minister in the face of the chaos in Shaanxi.

But at present, Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong are in Gucheng, and Luo Rucai is in Juncheng. His attitude towards the government is to only accept a small number of officials entering the surveillance. He did not accept Xiong Wencan's order to dismiss his subordinates and lead elite troops to follow the official army to fight. Instead, he claimed that he "don't want to receive food from the officials, but willing to serve as a mountain farmer and support his own farming."

Regarding this embarrassing situation, scholars and officials who knew the situation everywhere sarcastically said that this was not a reunion, but clearly a peace talk.

There are rumors that King Li Zicheng of the Chuangwang led more than a dozen remaining men to Gucheng and gathered with Zhang Xianzhong. Someone said with a gaze. At the banquet, Zhang Xianzhong once asked King Li Zicheng of the Chuangwang with a smile if he would like to work with him. King Li Zicheng of the Chuangwang replied with a smile.

The Eight Kings did not force it and supported the King of Chuang who was in trouble and more than a dozen of his subordinates to armour and weapons and horses. After Li Zicheng thanked and said goodbye, he entered the deep mountains again.

However, there is a news circulating in a smaller circle near Gucheng, saying that the ten riders of the King of Chuang should have brought a sum of gold and silver. One of the dozen riders had contacted some brave merchants to buy some supplies strictly prohibited by the government. Everyone was speculating where the money came from, and some wanted to make the money, but the traces of the King of Chuang were difficult to keep up.

But at least, the disaster of the Shaanxi chaos and the civilians and military forces that began in the early years of Chongzhen finally subsided. Of course, this kind of quelling was not trustworthy.

The She'an Rebellion in Yunnan and Guizhou almost exhausted the financial and manpower of the southwestern Ming Dynasty. Two governors, several generals and countless civil and military officials died in this situation. By the beginning of the 12th year of Chongzhen, it was completely stable.

After the Qing army left the Ming Dynasty from Qingshankou, the entire Ming Empire was actually peaceful, but the world was peaceful, it would be too ironic to say it out loud.

Since the various places were pacified and the court was free to take action, it was necessary to issue various punishments and reward orders to the relevant personnel, especially the Qing army entering the frontier, traveling thousands of miles in northern Zhili and Shandong, and ravaging the local area. Civil and military officials either defended their territory, resisted or blocked them.

Liu Yuliang, the chief minister of the cabinet, asked to inspect the army's commander. Who would have thought that the soldiers in Zhili in the north won the victory? Lu Xiangsheng, who was the governor of the world, died in battle. Gao Qi, the supervisor, was in danger of being rescued. Moreover, the entire army was defeated and fled back to the capital alone. The responsibility for this defeat was naturally borne by the unlucky chief minister.

Emperor Chongzhen never had any tolerance for most of his ministers, and the Chief Secretary Liu Yuliang was immediately dismissed and replaced by Xue Guoguan.

The eunuch Gao Qiqian, the military supervisor, was originally an admiration for the troops outside the capital. He had a good relationship with Yang Sichang in the capital. Although he fled back to the capital alone, he actually put all the blame on Lu Xiangsheng, saying that it was because Lu Xiangsheng was greedy for merit and made a rash progress, so he was defeated.

Yang Sichang, Minister of War, also tortured the military academy of soldiers who went to check the corpse, and asked them to say that Lu Xiangsheng was not dead. Because if he died, he would have fought hard to die in any case. If he didn't die, this light army would advance rashly and be greedy for suicide. However, those soldiers who went to check the corpse had not lost all their conscience and insisted on checking the results. Of course, this test itself was ridiculous.

The bastard actions of Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian completely angered the censors and censors of the court, and they submitted memorials to reveal that the Minister of War Yang Sichang deliberately delayed the supply of military pay, and Gao Qiqian escaped at the fortress.

Gao Qiqian was completely out of power, and no one was willing to help him. As a result, he was imprisoned by the angry Emperor Chongzhen and severely punished.

It is said that Yang Sichang, the Minister of War, was even more serious, but the unconditional trust of Emperor Chongzhen was undoubtedly revealed at this time. Yang Sichang, a bachelor of the cabinet and Minister of War, was not even criticized, but he asked him to preside over the rewards and punishments of the various officials in the capital and local areas during this invasion of the Tartars.

This kind of appointment to conduct self-examination and correction is really ridiculous, but Emperor Chongzhen did not do much of such a ridiculous thing, and the world is quite common.

It is precisely because Yang Sichang presided over the rewards and punishments of merits and demerits, that the tragic supervisor Lu Xiangsheng, who died in the country, was still detained as a charge of being aggressive, underestimating the enemy, and greedy for merit. But then again, the supervisor Lu Xiangsheng was lucky that he had died in the country and died. No matter what happened behind him, he didn't have to worry about it.

But others were different. There was already news that from the eunuchs who supervised the army in Jiliao Town, the local governor, the generals, the generals in the army, the generals, the generals of the prefectures and counties below, the garrison officials, the guards of the Ministry of Garrison, all those on the Qing army's route or nearby places were responsible and guilty.

There are poor defenses at the border and they are waiting and waiting without rescue. The city is lost, the commander and the princes and relatives of the vassal kings are killed or abducted by the Tartars, and various crimes. Moreover, the army is disbanded this time, the important city is lost, and the first-class princes are abducted. I am afraid that many civil and military officials who are involved cannot escape this death penalty.

Although there are many reports of documents to report meritorious decapitation in various places, the actual situation is a stalemate, and there are defeats everywhere, such as defeat and fleeing.

But in these defeated battles, there was a bright look. Li Meng, the general of the four prefectures, fought fiercely with the Tatar army near Qihe County, Jinan Prefecture, beheaded nearly a thousand.

Shandong Governor Yan Jizu and military eunuch Liu Yuanbin were well-organized. When they were guarding Dezhou, the Tatars army did not dare to enter Shandong from Dezhou, so they had to take a detour from Linqing to Jinan. However, because of the central command of Shandong's army, Li Mengmen, ordered soldiers from all over the country to serve the king, left Dezhou and entered northern Zhili to pursue the Tartars.

However, the Tartars took advantage of the situation to break into Shandong from Linqingzhou, Dongchang Prefecture, captured Jinan City, and abducted King De and General Fengguo. Shandong General Qiu Lei tried his best to rescue him, but he was outnumbered.

Li Meng, the general of the four prefectures, pursued the chasing forcefully in the absence of food and wages. He fought fiercely with the Tatar army in Qihe County, Jinan Prefecture, and beheaded more than 720. The captive chief Mergen Daiqing (Dorgon's official name in the Ming Dynasty) was terrified and hurriedly led his army to flee north, and the troops in Shandong could not catch up with him.

It has been a long time since the Ming Dynasty won’t even be a victory in Li Meng’s eyes, but in the center of the court and the military office, it was already a great victory. The heads that had been slurried by lime and sulfur were repeatedly tested by people. Fortunately, Yan Jizu and Liu Yuanbin were familiar with the heads of the capital. Someone helped to take care of them. After countless times, it was finally confirmed that they were the heads of the real Tartars, which immediately caused a sensation in the capital.

A few days later, news came from Shandong that Shandong General Qiu Lei was poisoned by the Tartars because of the unfavorable blocking of the Tartars. He felt ashamed and hanged himself to death. He left a suicide note to express his regret, and to recommend Li Meng, the general of the four prefectures, as Shandong General.

Some people won battles, some were well-organized, and some were heartbroken and repented and hanged themselves. In the defeat, such glorious examples emerged. The yamen at all levels of the central central government of the Ming Dynasty naturally had to make a big statement. Yang Sichang, the Minister of War, originally convicted the Shandong Governor Yan Jizu of the death penalty for beheading the head of the deceased vassal.

But after two brilliant examples appeared, Li Meng and Qiu Lei, Minister of War Yang Sichang advised Emperor Chongzhen not to blame the meritorious ministers for the dispersion of the Tian family. Of course, it was Yang Sichang's order to mobilize Shandong troops to station in Dezhou. If he insisted on conviction, he would have taken himself in.

On the second day of March of the 12th year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen issued an order to posthumously award the title of Shandong General Qiu Lei, Shandong Governor Yan Jizu, and military eunuch Liu Yuanbin. Although he had made great contributions in command and dispatch, he was guilty of losing his relatives and vassals. However, the emperor's kindness was great and he fined two people a year's salary and still held his original position.
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