Crazy at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Wu Shigong returned to his home in Runing on the evening of June 21, the seventh year of Chongzhen.Seeing Wu Shigong's return, the wives in the inner house were all very happy.Because this time Wu Shigong finally did not bring any women back, especially to the world-famous Qinhuai River.

As soon as Wu Shigong got home, in addition to immediately notifying Deng Qifan and Xue Yongli to discuss matters tomorrow morning, he took a stack of mansion newspapers and Shanchuan Division's intelligence analysis back to the inner house to read them carefully.

So when Wu Shigong entered the study the next day, Deng Qifan, Xue Yongli and other people who were familiar with Wu Shigong could see that Wu Shigong was worried.And Wu Shigong's worry was not because of the unfavorable situation outside, but because Chen Qiyu's encirclement and suppression of the peasant rebel army went too smoothly.

During these four months, Chen Qiyu, governor of the five provinces, organized and fought 23 battles, winning all of them. The peasant rebel army could not stand on the plains, so they had to rely on the mountains and moved to Hanzhong, Xing'an, Yunyang, and Fangxian.

At this time, Zhang Xianzhong's peasant army entered Sichuan to break Kuizhou (now Fengjie, Chongqing) and encircle Taiping.Wu Shigong's godmother, Qin Liangyu, arrived with her troops, and happened to be flanking back and forth with her son Ma Xianglin, who had returned to Sichuan, and defeated Zhang Xianzhong in Kuizhou. Dading.Zhang Xianzhong was defeated and retreated to Huguang.

However, when the peasant rebel army entered the mountainous area, the officers and soldiers flinched in the face of difficulties. No one was willing to do the dirty work of going into the mountain to pursue and suppress them. All they could do was to expel the peasant rebel army to neighboring provinces.

However, Emperor Chongzhen was very dissatisfied with this kind of behavior of kicking the ball. On April [-], he personally issued an order to urge the battle, and gave verbal warnings to the Fuzhen.

So Chen Qiyu personally planned the strategic deployment of regional defense and full-court pressing: he ordered the governor of Shaanxi to guard the northern front, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Yunyang, to guard the west, Xuanmo, the governor of Henan, to guard the east, and Tang Hui, the governor of Huguang. south line.

And Chen Qiyu herself.He personally undertook the pressing task of the audience and led the army into the mountains to chase down the peasant rebel army.In any case, at this time, Chen Qiyu's spirit of bravely shouldering heavy burdens is still very commendable.

Chen Qiyu and Lu Xiangsheng decided to first focus on killing the militiamen in the mountains near Yunyang. The two supervised the officers and troops to cross mountains and rivers, climb trees on cliffs, and tracked and killed the militiamen, with many successes.

So in front of the achievements, Chen Qiyu was complacent, and he went to Shushu to report to Chongzhen, because he personally led the army into the mountains to search and suppress.The Chuzhong bandits were basically wiped out.

But what Chen Qiyu said was true, but there was another fact. A large number of peasant rebels moved from the mountains of Huguang to the mountains of Hannan, Shaanxi.

In fact, there is also a small thought of Chen Qiyu here, he is going to give some trouble to his biggest competitor Hong Chengchou, disgusting him.But how could Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, not fight back?

So Emperor Chongzhen got "another fact" from Hong Chengchou, governor of the three sides of Shaanxi.He thought that Chen Qiyu's work was not clean, and instructed Chen Qiyu to "clean up as soon as possible."So Chen Qiyu continued to lead his army northward.

But anyway.There is no doubt that the Ming army won big victories one after another, and there is no doubt that the peasant rebel army was in a desperate situation.Even Zheng Ling's intelligence analysis mainly analyzed and predicted how the two factions headed by Chen Qiyu and Hong Chengchou would fight for power after the victory of the encirclement and suppression, and how the Runing Army would take advantage of the situation to obtain some benefits.

But Wu Shigong knew that the situation was not optimistic at all.A military group that will conquer Beijing in the future and overthrow the rule of the Ming Dynasty will not be that simple.

Wu Shigong knew it.If there is anything to change the original history, it is nothing more than the Ruzhou victory of the Runing Army.But Wu Shigong also knew that although the great victory in Ruzhou looked brilliant in terms of results, it did not hurt the peasants' rebel army at all.Even their fur didn't hurt much.So that is uncountable.

Besides, on the surface, the peasant rebel army is indeed in a desperate situation.But just look at Henan.Except for Runing Mansion and Guide Mansion, which were strongly suppressed by the Runing Army, the rule of the Ming Dynasty has been shrunk inside the city, and the areas outside the city are completely in a state of anarchy.

To tell the truth, Wu Shigong believed that as long as a reputable leader of the peasant rebel army came to Henan to ascend the heights, Wu Shigong believed that he could immediately raise an army of hundreds of thousands of refugees.

Henan is like this, and so is Shaanxi and Shaanxi, which were beaten and maimed.The Huguang and Sichuan regions where the peasant rebel army ravaged this time will also become like this.Therefore, if the leaders of the peasant rebel army such as Li Zicheng were not completely wiped out, then the giant python of the peasant rebel army would not have hurt Qiinch's vitals at all. They could recover at any time, and they could still make waves in the Central Plains.

But Wu Shigong couldn't express the worry in his heart. Being a crow's mouth always makes others bored. After all, it was Wu Shigong's own guess.Besides, Wu Shigong was also feeling lucky in his heart, thinking that if he could really succeed in encircling and suppressing this time, that would be to eliminate a serious trouble for himself.

As a result, the discussion proceeded as normal.The first is the reporting work of various departments.And there is good news for the Runing Army.

The summer harvest in Tuntian Zhuangzi of the Runing Army has already achieved a bumper harvest.Because the three decrees were issued late, only one season can be harvested on the abandoned land this year.However, depending on the situation, it is also a big harvest.From the perspective of food, the Runing Army can finally breathe a sigh of relief.For the first time in so many years, the Runing Army was able to achieve self-sufficiency in food without getting food from the outside.

As for the business of Sihai Commercial Bank and Sihai Bank, due to the good reputation in the past, and with the efforts of Yuan Xingshan and other principal shopkeepers, a batch of goods were purchased on credit from outside merchants based on their reputation, so that the working capital was not as tight as originally expected.

Furthermore, since Runing Mansion has become a safety island in the surrounding area, only the workshops here can produce smoothly.Therefore, Runing Mansion and Guide Mansion have gradually become a trading center for the surrounding areas.That also made the work of attracting investment go quite smoothly.The tax revenue obtained by the Runing Army is also increasing steadily.

The army is also all normal, except that because of the gathering of refugees, another four or five thousand village guards have been added.If it is troublesome, there is only the continuous influx of refugees.However, under Deng Qifan's strong control, the influx of refugees can still be tolerated temporarily.

However, Deng Qifan pointed out that with the bumper harvest of the Runing Army, special attention must be paid to the influx of refugees.Because if it is forcibly rejected, it will affect the "benevolence and righteousness" image that the Runing Army has erected in the past.But if the comers do not refuse, the Runing Army may face financial collapse again. (To be continued..)