When the news reached the governor's office, Hong Chengchou and Yu Chongxiao were both calm.
This kind of thing happening in Ningxia is not worth people's consternation.
Hong Chengchou was well prepared. He raised his hand to untie his belt, put down the official robe and hat of the regimental leader, and had his servants put them away. Then the officials, subordinates, and Wu Bian all walked out of the side door and walked towards the governor.
Go to Biaoying station.
The reason why the imperial court did not dare to say more about the Ningxia military garrison was because it was difficult to handle.
Since Ye Qi's reform, the official salt of the imperial court has been packaged and sold to merchants in Huaihe and Huaihe Rivers, which has provided the country with millions of taels of silver from salt merchants every year, enriching the national treasury revenue.
Those who paid the price were Gansu, Yansui, and Xuanfu with Ningxia as the center.
It's just that the price came slowly. Later, people looked at it and realized that the problem was Ye Qi.
But at that time, after the reform, Shangtun in Ningxia still provided the towns with a source of food rations for nearly thirty years.
Such slow changes made it difficult to see any connection at the time.
After all, the Kaizhong method was so successful that it allowed places like Yansui to produce very little grain. With the help of Kaizhong Shangtun, the price of grain reached a terrifying three or four qian per stone. The rations for the soldiers were purchased locally at low prices, with almost no need.
The official silver of the imperial court.
The land in Shangtun was not worthless all of a sudden. It could not be exchanged for salt, but it could still be sold for grain. Grain prices gradually increased, military expenditures gradually increased, and the empire's finances were getting worse day by day under the situation of boiling frogs in lukewarm water.
By the time people discovered something was wrong, the fields had become civilian fields, and their food and clothing could not be moved.
Along with this, the army also deteriorated. The border troops began to flee and recruit new soldiers. The number of soldiers remained unchanged and their combat effectiveness declined.
In this process, it was inevitable that some officers would get rich first, leaving the elite behind, giving Ningxia a unique mutiny advantage.
It is different from mutiny and mutiny in other places.
Although each town has a large number of hereditary military attachés who control wealth and the army, and they are all relatively closed small class societies, and the vitriolic exploitation from the upper class is the same, the situations of mutiny and mutiny are still different.
In Yansui and other places, they were guarding poor areas and starving. The soldiers were not very angry with the court, and they just wanted to eat when they made trouble. More often, people knew that there would be no food if they made trouble, so they simply stopped making trouble.
The real trouble was mostly due to poor management by the superiors, so the soldiers would kill the superiors directly under their subordinates and then run away.
If the commander is also a good commander, the choice of the army over there is usually to avoid detours and just run away without losing sight of him!
Liaodong is facing the front line, and the huge military pressure is overwhelming. Only by uniting the people from top to bottom, and the Liao soldiers as one, can they survive and win through unity.
Therefore, mutinies in Liaodong were usually caused by guest troops. Because the pay for guests was high, the court could not pay them.
The frontier troops in Ningxia guarded the wealthy areas and suffered from hunger and poverty. This environment made them furious.
They are just a basket of firewood soaked in oil and even soaked. As long as there is a spark, it doesn't matter what the spark is, they just want to make a big fuss.
During the Kuaibai Rebellion, the supervisor Mei Guozhen made an analysis of the Ningxia mutiny.
From Hongwu to Jiajing, the bandits invaded every year, and we took precautions every year. Although the armies had the hard work of fighting and defending, they did not suffer from defeat.
From Jiajing to Longqing, the peace agreement was completed, and there was no need to practice war and defense. Although the armies suffered from defeat, they did not have to train.
Nowadays, if you cultivate harmony externally but want to fight internally, if you cultivate harmony, you will inevitably still lose your ability to flatter the invaders. If you also fight, you will only have practice but no hope of success.
If you don't add caution but suppress the hearing, you will not be able to control your life, and your body will have no steps.
When there is nothing to do, it is difficult to get rid of his heart, but when he uses force, how can he avoid his resentment?
The key word is resentment.
What happened to the Ningxia army made them resentful of the world. This resentment is not directed at any specific person, but resents everyone equally.
It means that you should obviously be rich, you should obviously live a good life, and you should be guarding your blessed land, but your life is a piece of shit.
This led to mutinies in Ningxia, which rarely occurred in Ningxia guards, but were concentrated in Ningxia towns.
On the surface, there are always political demands, but in fact, the military attache who has the demand loosens his bridle, and the border soldiers who have long wanted to cause a scene pick up their swords and kill people.
They did not kill the common people, nor the officials directly under them, but pointed the tip of their knives at outsiders again and again.
Some of them attack and kill the governor, while many of them raise flags and rebel followers gather.
During the Zhengde period, Anhua King Zhu Zhixiu learned that the soldiers were dissatisfied. He invited the generals to drink and rewarded the entire army with one tael of silver. He raised a flag on the spot to rebel against the emperor and killed the governor An Weixue.
During the Wanli period, Kuaibai rebelled, mobilized soldiers to demand pay, and killed Dang Xin.
Being a governor in a place like this, and in this day and age, the possibility of rebellion is too high.
Not to mention Hong Chengchou, the governor Wang Ji ran faster than him.
Wang Ji had experienced the Ningyuan mutiny, and he was very optimistic about the mutiny in his heart. He always felt that he could reason with the army.
But last year, there was a little change.
Wang Ji was a native of Tai'an Prefecture. He had a son named Wang Dechang, who had the reputation of being a scholar.
After the Ningyuan mutiny, Wang Ji won the favor of the emperor. His son wanted to join the army and serve, and he was honored to be an officer under Yang Yufanbiao, the commander-in-chief of his hometown. The year before last, he had made outstanding achievements in suppressing bandits and was promoted to a commanding officer. He had the opportunity to fill in the garrison in Linqing.
Really lacking.
Last year, Wang Dechang heard that Tongguan was massacred and Shaanxi fell. He was so panicked that he resigned from his official position, took more than ten of his family members, and embarked on the road to Ningxia to find his father.
A very smart person.
They dressed up like deserters at the border of Shanxi and Shaanxi. They bribed and cheated their way into Shaanxi. They told everyone they met that they wanted to join the Generalissimo. Some people in Yan'an Prefecture even heard that he was from Shandong and came all the way.
He defected to him, marveled at him, and provided food for this good young man.
It took three months of walking, and it was full of difficulties and dangers.
Fortunately, seeing his father Wang Ji, Ningxia did not fall.
Wang Dechang took advantage of his proficiency in general bidding affairs and selected Ningxia soldiers to serve as pacesetters for his father.
Basically, he did the job of approving the generals, but he had no official position. Even if Ningxia had lost contact with the court, Wang Ji did not dare to appoint the generals without authorization.
It was this acting general Fubiao who frightened Wang Dechang.
He found that Ningxia was like a raging fire. The Ningxia soldiers in the Biao camp had very big ideological problems. They were all filled with anger and didn't know who to direct their anger at.
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Just let a Ningxia soldier instigate a mutiny and kill the governor.
He didn't even need wine to get this Ningxia soldier to kill the mutinous rebels.
They just have no fun living.
In addition, Hong Chengchou cleaned the fields one by one.
yes.
Both Wang Ji and Wang Dechang knew that as long as Hong Chengchou could persist in getting things done from beginning to end, Ningxia would be completely new within a year.
But the father and son knew better that doing so would cause big trouble.
In particular, the current state of mind of the Ningxia soldiers is very confusing, and they cannot survive the clearing out of the military camp.
Wang Dechang advised Wang Ji several times, but if it didn't work, he should resign and go back to his home in Shandong. Although the road back home would be difficult, it would be better than staying in Ningxia.
With Hong Chengchou's tormenting posture, there will be some internal strife. He Hong Chengchou became ruthless. He has many soldiers, but we don't have many. When the time comes, the mutiny will suffer.
But Wang Ji has been undecided because he knew that Liu Chengzong was about to attack Ningxia.
Just last winter, Qianhu in Lingzhou on the other side of the Yellow River in Ningxia handed him a report on the seizure of spies, including a copy of the Lingzhou defense map drawn by the spies.
The map of Lingzhou stretches from Hongsi Fort near Zhongwei to Anding Fort and Xingwu Camp beside the wall. There are villages, waterholes, rivers and lakes, roads, mountains and forests, everything you need.
In some places, Wang Ji compared the official maps and was able to find and fill in the gaps.
Lingzhou City is particularly exquisite and meticulous. The prison in the southeast corner of the city, the warehouse in the northwest, the river town tower outside the city, the palace, the school ground, and even the layout of the double-urn city in the north of the city are all vividly painted.
What they intercepted was only Lingzhou.
The Marshal's Mansion was not sufficiently prepared to survey and map Lingzhou in such a detailed manner. Lingzhou was like this, and other fortresses and garrison stations were not much better.
Clearly a war is imminent.
At this time, he was afraid of mutiny and running away, which would only make Ning Zhen's already weak defense worse.
Therefore, we can only take a chance and hope that the mutiny can be postponed until the war comes. On the other hand, we also ask our son to try to prevent the Biao camp mutiny.
But for Wang Dechang, guarding against a standard camp was useless, and he couldn't keep an eye on everyone.
As for mutiny and attacking the government office, only a dozen people are needed to carry it out, and a few hundred people can be coerced into following and the town can be thrown into chaos.
Therefore, Wang Dechang's focus was not on preventing a mutiny at all, but directly determined in his heart that a mutiny was bound to happen, and made preparations to escape after the mutiny.
While he placed the cronies brought from Shandong throughout the city, he also selected people from the Biao Camp in Ningxia who were both crazy, loyal, brave and trustworthy.
This is not a contradiction, because the craziness of the Ningxia soldiers is reflected in the fact that there is no room for advancement. They can kill anyone. Working for the governor and rising to the top in one step can also be considered as room for advancement.
In the city, he asked his cronies to be stationed in Fuya, prepared many sets of civilian uniforms, parked two cars and put ladders on the back wall, and promoted some trustworthy Ningxia soldiers to the nearest city gate.
Outside the city, he set up a carriage shop to raise horses, bought fodder for regular meals, made friends with the Yi Cheng and Pu Si at the post stations along the way and the defenders of Qingtongxia, and planned an escape route out of Ningxia.
He prepared more carefully than Hong Chengchou.
Therefore, as soon as he heard about the mutiny, Wang Dechang rushed to Fuya. At this time, the front door was surrounded by mutinies and he hurried to the back wall.
I happened to see my Shandong veterans standing on the wall, scrambling to send the old father out who was wrapped in an old sheepskin coat. The group drove two cars and went straight to the city gate.
The city was in chaos, and people were running around in the streets and alleys. They ran to the outside of the city without any danger, and when they looked back, they saw the black smoke igniting from Fu Yamen.
Wang Ji, who was kept in the dark, still didn't know that his son was taking him away from Ningxia. He stayed in the car and didn't dare to show his head. He planned to take refuge in the governor's Biao camp and wait for the storm to pass before sending his son to negotiate with the rebels.
Finally, when I heard the noise, I raised the curtain and saw that everyone was outside the city. Wu Bian, who had changed into civilian clothes, was changing horses and preparing food in the carriage shop.
Wang Ji was dumbfounded.
The key son's men didn't listen to him at all, they just changed their horses and packed food, and then set off with their bows, swords, and armors.
The group crossed the Yellow River and headed straight for Qingtong Gorge along manholes and stone ditches. After three days and nights, they traveled nearly 600 miles and entered the Huanxian County of Qingyang Prefecture.
Until now, stationed in the ruins of the barren mountains, Wang Dechang could not bother to comfort his panicked old father who had abandoned his official position and fled.
But there wasn't much time left for him.
Because soon, a group of sixteen of them were captured by registered soldiers from Yanqing Road, Marshal's Mansion.
They came by bad luck.
On the one hand, Ding Guodong, who was stationed in Qingyang Prefecture, was eager to dismantle the army due to over-staffing. He was busy conducting winter drills to eliminate the old and weak. He was at the time when the army was at its largest.
On the other hand, Zhang Zhen, the commander-in-chief of Yanqing Road, had just ordered Ding Guodong to step up defenses in Huanxian County to prevent the border troops from moving south.
Ding Guodong wants to disarm because the Yanqing brigade garrison is overstretched.
The troops stationed in each brigade of the Marshal's Mansion are divided into two mansions: the chief and the deputy. The mansion where the general is stationed has two battalions, one large and one small, with 7,000 soldiers; the mansion where the deputy general is stationed has two battalions and one small.
, five thousand soldiers in total.
The Yanqing Brigade had an over-staffing of 2,000 people due to the Yan'an Prefecture and Township Party members joining the army. In terms of organization, there was one large battalion of 5,000 people and three standard battalions of 3,000 people.
But as Ding Guodong settled in Qingyang Mansion, the situation changed again.
There are many peasant armies in Qingyang, mainly because there have been several big battles in the past. For example, the local Liu family, the Jianghai brothers, and the Shen family brothers were ruthless gangsters who gathered tens of thousands of people. They were dispersed, and many people hid on the spot after they were disbanded.
Go into the mountains.
The prefect Ju Sirang had already deployed tens of thousands of peasant troops, and He Renlong wanted to fight when he came.
At the same time, there are still many uninhabited peasant troops in the local area, hiding in the mountains and doing their own thing.
Since Qingyang Mansion changed its flag and joined the Marshal's Mansion, when the peasant army found out that the Grand Marshal was Liu Chengzong, every leader wanted to join the army.
The key speeches were quite tough. He opened his mouth and said that he had worked in the camp for Marshal Liu and besieged the city. Some people even said that he had made shoes and socks for Liu Chengzong.
Ding Guodong couldn't refuse at all. The key point was to ask Liu Chengzong. Liu Chengzong also said that this was indeed the case, so he told him not to make it difficult, and to do all the tricks first, and let them cultivate the land and slowly pass the training.
Liu Shizi also wanted to strengthen the military strength of the Yanqing Brigade. This brigade was already weak, with only two to three thousand Gansu veterans including Ding Guodong and Mila Yin among its elite troops.
It would not be a bad thing to take this opportunity to select the elite peasant armies scattered in various places and draw them into the army, leaving the old and weak in the place for Ju Sirang to recuperate.
Therefore, he sent eight words to Ding Guodong: Recruiting more soldiers is more expensive, selecting soldiers is more expensive.
On the other hand, Zhang Zhen asked Ding Guodong to pay attention to the defense of Huanxian County. It was not because Zhang Zhen had the ability to predict the future and knew that there was a mutiny in Ningxia.
In fact, it was because something happened in Yansui Town.
Yang Qi of the Monan Governor's Mansion didn't know which tendon was wrong. First, Sa Nang Taiji led hundreds of Wushen cavalry to cut open the Yansui border wall, and then they rushed towards the surrounding fortresses and rolled south quickly.
The chaos only lasted for an hour, and the Wushen cavalry who broke through the border wall returned to the Mu Us Sea through the breach and walked away in the desert.
Governor Yang Qi took this opportunity to lead more than ten riders to drive four or five horses each. They only changed horses at various places in Yan'an Prefecture along the way and rushed to Xi'an at a speed of four hundred miles a day.
The soldiers did not dare to intercept him on the way, and Zhang Zhen had no time to ask after receiving the news. The old officer had already run out of Yan'an Mansion.
Ding Guodong didn't know what Zhang Zhen asked him to guard against. Anyway, there were many people at hand, so we would guard against anything.
Just in time to catch Wang Ji and his son who had fled into Huan County.