Tianqi did ask about the battle of Ningjin several times, but it was just like other things. It was kept in mind and it also felt important, but since Wei Zhongxian was in charge, the emperor did not take the matter too much.

But after Wei Zhongxian said this, Tianqi remembered that he had once advised and repeatedly emphasized that the matter in western Liaoning was important, and Yuan Chonghuan's strategy of fighting against the city and supporting the two cities was also a general policy set by Emperor Tianqi himself. If you think about it this way, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the ruling of the Sacred Heart.

The emperor was happy, which was rare good news. The battle situation in western Liaoning was very involved, and many people were very concerned and worried. Because despite Yuan Chonghuan's presence, no one knew what the direction of things would develop.

If the Ming army was defeated as in the battles of Chenyang and Liaoyang, and all 60,000 troops were destroyed, and Jinzhou and Ningyuan were lost, it would be a disaster that the sky collapsed and the earth broke!

As soon as he thought of this, the emperor was very happy and said casually: "There is nothing to do with you. Today I will go to visit Xiyuan. I will take a boat to see the scenery."

The emperor had imperial boats in the sea in Xiyuan, which were all larger ships, such as enlarged versions of the pleasure boat. The water surface of the sea was calm and unremitting. In summer and autumn, the emperor often drove to Xiyuan to travel and sightseeing. Sometimes he would summon the inner supervisor or minister and give him a banquet... Chongzhen liked to talk to ministers on the platform, and occasionally he would let his ministers go to Xiyuan for a trip, and he would also give him a banquet around the platform.

The platform is the Ziguang Pavilion in later generations. The scenery during the Chongzhen period was still the best. The pavilion was very tall and spacious, with shades of trees and ponds, and green. It is a rare scene and a good place to escape the summer and summer.

I heard that the emperor was going to visit the West Garden and was likely to have a banquet for the ministers. The eunuchs present all showed a funny look. A eunuch in the Sili said on the spot that if the emperor wanted to host a banquet, he would reimburse all the expenses.

Tianqi laughed and scolded: "You have to reimburse the money from Xuanda."

Everyone smiled and lowered their heads. The matter involved hundreds of thousands of taels, which was not a joke.

There was actually another memorial hidden in Wei Zhongxian's arms, which was a memorial sent by Yang He, the governor of Sanbian, who was complaining about asking for money and food. Sanbian was no longer valued. The division was completed and Tumote was also completed. The main force of Hutchison started in Korqin to Jizhen and Xuanda. Where could Sanbian have anything to do?

The three-sided governor has a thousand-mile defense line, with more than 200,000 soldiers, and only a few thousand people can be mobilized urgently. This is not to seize Zhang. You should know that the garrisons in some places in Gansu have not paid a penny of silver for more than 30 months. If they are embarrassed, without military pay, these soldiers will never be able to fight!

Yang He did not dare to waste too much time. Who knows whether the bandits on the banks of Baishui River will gather more and more counties and even prefectures? The strength of the border troops is mostly placed in important places along the border, such as Yulin City, Ganzhou, Suzhou, and some counties in northern Shaanxi have no guards at all. When thousands of bandits arrive, what if there are hundreds of guards? A whistle is afraid that most of them will be scared away. There is no way to fight this battle.

If the bandits gather together and make it into a scale of tens of thousands of people, this matter will be a big deal. If the city like Yan'an Prefecture is broken, Yang He will have to resign, and he may even be punished heavily by the court!

With concern and various complex thoughts, Yang He urged a general and two guerrilla generals to bring their small number of Need and the battalions to gather a team of four or five thousand people, and began to kill the place where Wang Er and others in Baishui County gathered.

This battle was still unsatisfactory. At the beginning of the war, the officers and soldiers fought smoothly. They sent sentry cavalry and beam-mounted horses to kill the scattered bandits around. Later, the army lined up on the Baishui River. The number of people on both sides was similar. Several generals of the border army thought they would win and relaxed. Just as they were lined up, a group of bandits rushed forward from the middle. At the beginning, there were only a few hundred people. Later, more and more people rushed. They were extremely brave and had good weapons. They rushed out of the chaotic front row like a quick knife to cut meat. All the bandits screamed and rushed into the officers and soldiers. Where did the camp soldiers survive such an impact? Thousands of people collapsed. The front team rolled back and forth, dispersing both wings of their central army.

Even the general Needin could not suppress the escaped array... It was completely destroyed. Wang Er and his subordinates chased for more than twenty miles. Along the way, there were all border soldiers who knelt down and asked for surrender. There were also many people who died. The so-called corpses were buried in more than ten miles, and at least more than a thousand people died. The ground was full of discarded military flags and weapons. Many Needin and the swordsmen in the camp soldier threw away their shields, untied their armor and threw them on the ground. Even so, they could not escape... Both sides were infantry, only generals and a small number of Needin riding horses. After the battle, the officers and soldiers lost two-thirds of them, and one Dusi was killed, one guard, a thousand, and the generals were either killed or captured, losing more than ten.

Only a few of the highest-level generals escaped from the riots, which of course was due to their strong protection from the protection of the powerful Needian. However, when the man came back, the blame could not be escaped. Yang He had already removed them from his official duties and asked the court to deal with it. In fact, the three-sided governor also had Shang Fangjian. If these guys were cruel, they would not say anything if they killed the court directly. However, Old Yang He would never use such power. Anyway, the court would definitely not spare these guys.

Now during the Tianqi period, the imperial court rules remained and were very closely involved. Unless it could reach the level of independence like Zhang Han, who could escape this big net?

The fate of Wei Zhongxian is not related to the people of the people... Even if they are killed, it has nothing to do with him. These poor people have no money to buy a way out from his Eunuch Wei. What he cares about is that such news must not be reported to the emperor at this time... In addition to Wang Er defeating the officers and soldiers and starting to flee, two more refugees arose in northern Shaanxi. One is called Buzhanni and the other is called Wang Jiayin, and they both gathered thousands of people.

This is a very dangerous signal, indicating that northern Shaanxi has become a big powder barrel!

With the continuous rise of natural disasters and man-made disasters, the people of northern Shaanxi have reached an untolerable level. This is how Chinese farmers can endure a lot of suffering. Whether it is the year-round failure to have enough food and clothing or the disasters of separation of wives and children, as long as most people can tolerate it, everyone is willing to endure it.

Suffering is a dull knife that slowly removes people's dignity and self-confidence and their bloodiness.

But when this knife is endless and always grinds everyone to death, when people lose the last glimmer of hope, Chinese farmers can transform them in an instant, and they will no longer bear it, and they will not be willing to bear even a slight suffering. They will cut down wood and rise up, targeting the supreme imperial power, the emperor!

"Would you rather have a king, prince, general, and minister?" Looking at the whole world, the Han people in China were shouting such words! In Europe, even if the nobles were unforgivable, the leaders of the fiefdom could not resist and could only endure it. Japanese farmers could bear taxes several times higher than Chinese farmers, and they had to follow the buttocks of the samurai as cannon fodder. They could not eat meat, eat fine grains, and only eat mixed grains for the whole year, and contribute their limited good things to the nobles. An adult Japanese man, from birth to death, had not eaten a bite of pork.

They are as gentle as sheep, and will and determination to resist, because there is no such gene in their civilization inheritance. Scholars, peasants, industry and commerce, only scholars, and those big merchants, ordinary craftsmen and farmers, are the lowest class, even if they are bullied to death, they will never resist.

The lower one is also a samurai job, and has nothing to do with the lowest peasants.

China has been different since ancient times. There were many giant thieves in the Spring and Autumn Period, which were actually peasant uprisings that resisted violence and politics. By the Qin and Han Dynasties, first Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, then the Red Eyebrow and Yellow Turban, and the peasant uprisings had never been cut off in China.

This kind of resistance brings about dynasty changes and alleviates the land annexation and pressure caused by population growth. It is like a valve that needs to be opened once at a certain time.

The situation in the late Ming Dynasty was not much different from the previous dynasties. The difference was that the Ming Dynasty was not purely internal reasons, and there were also considerable external factors that influenced the development of history.

The memorial in Wei Zhongxian's arms was like a ball of hot charcoal. It was already hot, and he felt his chest was getting hot.

If the emperor knows about this, he must be a severe rebuke, and even the emperor will be very angry.

With Ning Jin's great victory, Wei Zhongxian was not worried that the emperor would lose trust in him. However, there have been several things that Wei Zhongxian has not done well recently and has lost the score in the emperor's heart. If the matter in northern Shaanxi is reported, I am afraid that the emperor's mind will really change...

Now, as long as the governors and governors in various places have good things, they will definitely bring Wei Zhongxian with them. What kind of factory ministers are planning, and their wisdom is wise, their supervision is strict, and their subordinates serve their orders... Anyway, all the credits are counted on the factory ministers. Even Yuan Chonghuan is the same. He just won the Ningjin Battle, didn’t he just count the great merits on the factory minister Wei Zhongxian?

All the credits were from Wei Zhongxian. If there were any mistakes, what would the emperor think?

With strange thoughts, Wei Zhongxian felt quite awkward. He also had to consider how to deal with the bandits in northern Shaanxi. There were already tens of thousands of bandits, including Gansu Town, Yulin Town, and Shaanxi Town, all of which had to mobilize officers and soldiers to pursue and suppress them.

Although Wei Zhongxian attached importance to the thief at this time, he had not yet woken up completely from his ignorance. Of course, he didn't know that these inconspicuous thiefs brought out more ambitious and capable strong men. The gravediggers of the Ming Dynasty were already on the way and would soon gather together.

Wei Zhongxian could never have imagined that the huge Ming Dynasty was overthrown by such an inconspicuous group of thieves, not just the "trouble" he hid in his arms. It ended in the peasant uprising that was not very conspicuous and was regarded as trouble by him.

Because he was worried, Wei Zhongxian had to say goodbye to the emperor. Tianqi didn't care and said, "Wei Daban, go and do state affairs. You have to take care of all things, but it's still a bit too hard."

The emperor pointed to the plate of iced grapes in front of him and smiled, "This is given to the great companion."

What is common is the love. Wei Zhongxian took the silver plate with sweat and said sincerely: "Don't worry, I will do my job well outside, and I will eventually restore the Ming Dynasty to a peaceful world."

"It's best to be able to be peaceful." Tianqi was grateful to Wei Zhongxian's sincerity and said sincerely: "I was young during my ancestors' years, but there was nothing in the world, and there were few memorials every day. There were no seas everywhere. The ancestors had nothing to do. I watched miscellaneous operas in the palace, listened to storytelling, visited the Xiyuan in summer, and watched ice skating in winter. When it came to Lantern Festival, the Lantern Mountain in the palace was almost higher than the Huangji Palace. Oh, I was still young at that time, and watched the lanterns with King Xin. That scene was hard to see again."
Chapter completed!