Daming Military Empire

Chapter 33 Mutiny
Shocked by the bad news, Zhu Cijiong instantly felt that his whole body was not well. He managed to maintain a smile and looked at the amazed expressions of the officials, but he was thinking in his mind: "What's the problem? Daming is doing well now. , there is no sign of decay!"

The internal cause of the decline of the Ming Dynasty is not clear to him, but the external cause is very clear, nothing less than the invasion of the Houjin in the northeast and the peasant uprising in the northwest.

But in the northeast, Huang Taiji was newly defeated and temporarily unable to organize a large-scale attack. It is impossible for Ningjin's defense line to be breached in the near future.

In the northwest, Shaanxi and Sichuan were indeed severely drought this year, but the relief money had already been allocated. Now the national treasury is still relatively rich. Zhu Cijiong allocated 500 million taels of silver for disaster relief in one decree, which should be enough.

He really couldn't think of any problems, so he had to let go of his worries, and accompanied Sun Chengzong and the others to patrol around, and then called Xu Guangqi and other cronies to a study room of the Ministry of Industry's Ministry of Industry, and put the flint The drawings of the gun were drawn one by one, and at the same time, the function of each part was explained to them in detail.

Others may not be able to understand the principle of the flintlock gun for a while, but Bi Maokang can understand it at a glance, and he has already started to develop the flintlock gun. Soon, with ready-made drawings in front of him, he naturally grasped the essence of them very quickly.

After the fusiliers explained, the inspection was considered to be a successful conclusion, and then Bi Maokang and the others will make samples for testing.Zhu Cijiong hastily received officials at all levels of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and Cleaning up, and after a few words of encouragement, he drove back to the palace.

He wanted to go back to the palace as soon as possible and look through the recent memorials to see if there were any mistakes. Only when the problem was found, could he solve it. He didn't even know what the problem was, and if he tried to solve it, he would have nowhere to talk.

In fact, he was completely wrong. There are no problems in the memorial. Many things are not as simple as he imagined. Daming is far from being as calm as it seems on the surface. Many problems are on the verge of eruption. Decline is only a matter of time .

At noon on July 25, the first year of Chongzheng, Ning Yuanwei, the capital of Liaodong.

The weather was clear and sunny, and it was a rare good day.It stands to reason that the weather is so good, these frontier soldiers should be in a happy mood, but everyone is frowning and can't cheer up.It's not that Houjin committed the crime, but that he didn't pay, and he hasn't paid for four months!
When it comes to this salary, we have to talk about the income of the frontier army. In fact, the treatment of the frontier army in the Ming Dynasty was quite good. They usually had food, salary, and clothing. There is also a settling fee.

After all, these soldiers are basically the main labor force of a big family. If you send someone to work hard to defend the country, it is not enough to feed him alone. He still has a big family to support.Many people who didn't know the situation at the time said that the frontier soldiers on the Ningjin defense line had no food, and they were so hungry that they couldn't stand it!These are all nonsense, you find someone hungry for a few months before you go to fight with others, let alone wielding weapons, whether you can crawl or not is a problem.

This is not paid, the soldiers in other places are better, but the soldiers in Sichuan and Shaanxi are a bit unbearable, because Sichuan and Shaanxi have been suffering from severe drought for years, and there is no harvest. Most of the families of Sichuan soldiers and Shaanxi soldiers are waiting for this. Live on some money, if you don't pay, you will really starve to death.

On this day, Yang Zhengchao, a Sichuan veteran in the Ningyuan Army, just received a short message from his family. The message was very simple, if he didn't send money, the five members of his family would starve to death!He couldn't sit still after hearing the letter, what should he do?

He thought about it for a long time, but he really couldn't think of a way. He could only find Zhang Sishun, a fellow from the same village.

Arriving at Zhang Sishun's tent, Zhang Sishun happened to be resting. Yang Zhengchao walked over and asked eagerly, "Old Zhang, do you have any money? Lend some to my brothers. The family really can't survive."

Hearing this, Zhang Sishun said with a sad face: "Oh, where did I get the money? I got a letter from my family last month, and the rice has already been eaten. I have been digging wild vegetables for a living these few months."

Hearing this, Yang Zhengchao said angrily: "When will this salary be paid? It's been four months, and there's not even a word. Will people be allowed to live?"

Zhang Sishun was also angry, and vented: "Yes, we are working so hard for Daming here. The family members can't even eat and don't pay. These officials are too worthless. How about we organize big guys to surround the governor The yamen ask for an explanation?"

Yang Zhengchao also went all out, and he responded loudly: "Okay, I'll call someone."

Zhang Sishun grabbed him, and said angrily: "If you want to go, go together, and let you take care of things alone!"

So the two went to their acquaintances to agitate. This agitation was incredible. Whose family is not short of money? Not only the Sichuan soldiers and Shaanxi soldiers, but also the [-] battalions of Ningyuanwei, tens of thousands of people were all agitated. After getting up, everyone ran out of the barracks, and followed Yang Zhengchao and Zhang Sishun noisily to the governor's yamen in Ningyuan City.

When there are too many people, it is easy to be chaotic. Tens of thousands of people came to the Governor's Yamen in a mess. It is not known which bastard was the first to rush in. Everyone also broke the rules and rushed in.

Governor Bi Zisu was convening a meeting of officials. Before he could figure out what was going on, he was surrounded by swarms of rebels. Everyone had only one question: "Governor, when will the payment be made? Can't live anymore."

When Bi Zisu saw the situation, he became anxious. He had nothing to worry about. Where did he get the money? He could only patiently explain: "I don't have any money. I'm asking for it from the imperial court. I'll send it to you as soon as I get it."

The gang of rebels became anxious when they heard that they had no money, and when they caught Bi Zisu, they beat them up. The smarter officials next to them ran away when they saw that the situation was not right. Zhu Mei, the commander-in-chief, Zhang Shirong, the general judge, and Su Hanchun, the pusher, were a little bit Conscience, even ran up to dissuade.These rebellious soldiers are already red-eyed, whoever you are, dare to come up to persuade a fight, and beat you together.

After beating for a long time, Bi Zisu was almost beaten to death, and he still muttered about having no money, no money.It seemed that he was really out of money. These rebels were helpless for a while, and whoever came up with a bad idea simply tied them all to the Bell and Drum Tower to show the public, and asked his relatives and friends to use money to redeem them.

As a result, a mutiny turned into kidnapping. The governor Bi Zisu, the general officer Zhu Mei, the general judge Zhang Shirong, and the pusher Su Hanchun were all tied up on the Bell and Drum Tower. Don't let anyone go.

It stands to reason that even if their relatives and friends have money, they dare not use it to redeem people, because there are tens of thousands of people here, and no matter how rich you are, you can have several 10 taels. He didn't redeem it, but put himself in it.

But there is really someone who is not afraid of death. This person is Guo Guang, the deputy envoy of military equipment. He scraped together 2 taels of silver and came to redeem him.

The rebels naturally quit. There are 6 or 2 Ningyuan Guards, so how can [-] taels be enough.Guo Guang gritted his teeth, and simply ran to the merchants in the county to borrow money from door to door.If they don't borrow it, they threaten: "You can see, there are rioters everywhere here. If you don't borrow it, they will gather in the city all the time. If there is a robbery, you will never receive the loan."

In this way, he insisted on borrowing 5 taels of silver to redeem the man, but the rebels said: "This matter is endless, if you don't pay them all the money, they will continue to make trouble."

Governor Bi Zisu thought that the supervision was not good, and hastily wrote a memorial to explain the situation of Ningyuan, and then took advantage of people's unpreparedness and hanged himself!
This is the famous Ningyuan Mutiny in history. Emperor Chongzhen sent Yuan Chonghuan to solve the mutiny. Who would Emperor Chongzheng send to solve this problem?
(End of this chapter)