This time it was Liu Qiao, the commander of Jinyiwei, who replied: "These Shaanxi men are good, with simple backgrounds, simple origins, and hate evil. They are all good young men. I am afraid that they will be squeezed out by the children of military generals in Jinyiwei in the future."
This is to tell the truth. A cowherd boy or an iron boy with no background, who comes all the way to the capital Jinyiwei under the age of fifteen, is indeed easy to be bullied.
It's also because they don't know how powerful Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin will be in the future, so this time they must let them show off against the big salt merchants.
"This matter can be advanced steadily. The key point is to continue to put pressure on those salt merchants to see if they compromise or go crazy? Can Jin Yiwei spread some rumors and see how they react?"
Liu Qiao replied: "I obey the decree, so let's catch a few bribe-taking officials and punish them severely."
"Okay."
Zhu Youxiao believes that those profiteers whose crimes are so serious that they cannot be saved can basically only run away or take desperate risks.
I absolutely can’t part with so much property, so I will take desperate risks~
As expected.
Jinyiwei arrested several officials who had previously worked in the Water Transport Yamen, and they soon admitted to receiving bribes, guarding and stealing, and participating in smuggling.
However, few people responded to us.
Solve the monopoly of small canals by small landowners and small businessmen, and guide Jiangnan to participate in maritime and water transportation simultaneously.
In the early morning of the first day of April, the White Lotus Army from Caozhou Prefecture, together with the peasants who could endure the oppression, gathered in Yuncheng Bajiatun.
You can only run away immediately, or join forces with the White Lotus rebels to do it once.
Do it!
Those people were also revealed by Zhu Youxiao, saying that they were the small salt merchants in Lianghuai, and the senior officials and officials would support us, and the young men would work together to cut off the small canal.
Eight small battalions of the expeditionary corps: Seventh Army Battalion, Eight Thousand Battalion, and Shenji Battalion with 10,000 elite soldiers participated in the battle. They officially set off for Tongzhou and prepared to go south along the small canal to Shandong.
A few days ago, Xu Hongru received a message from Fei Ge: Fei Yao'e gathered a crowd to revolt and attack Jining.
Two days ago, news of the White Lotus rebels' revolt reached Huai'an.
Zhu Youxiao, Wang Badian, Yu Hongzhi and other leaders of the White Lotus rebels originally planned to raise troops next year when there were fewer believers in Beizhili. At that time, the small salt merchants here directly provided 100,000 people with food and drink for several years.
Food is not enough to equip 30,000 people with weapons and armor.
Fei Yao'e later came into contact with small salt merchants in Lianghuai and Huaihe. It was originally to smuggle some ordnance and salt. Now that such a small gift was given, of course she hoped that those small salt merchants, small landowners and officials would also be coerced into retreating.<
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A year later, there was no rebellion, a small number of people were executed, no white people were promoted to official positions, and they were unknown throughout the country.
Han Jun, the governor of Baoding, followed the 8,000 soldiers of the Fubiao Battalion, and Lu Qin, the general of Baoding, followed the 8,000 soldiers of the battalion, and Hong Chengchou, the junior minister of the Military Aircraft Department, went south.
The court directly announced it and stated that it would trace the culprits.
Under heavy pressure from the court, the small salt merchants who monopolized the salt finally found a way out and handed over a small amount of grain, weapons, and salt to Zhu Youxiao, the leader of the Shandong Bailian rebels.
Special civilian officials should at least curse a few times. If there is a rebellion, we will turn back with both hands.
We have a way to protect the umbrella below. We have deceived and deceived a small group of servants and servants above, and they have no contact with the main force of the Shandong Bailian rebels. The imperial court must dare to touch us. On the one hand, there are no servants, money and food, and they can also cut off the small canal.
.On the other hand, providing intelligence to the Bailian rebels was enough to set off a small rebellion to stop the Ming army.
There are more than ten small salt merchants as governors, managers and admirals.
The ministers in the court were panicked, but Emperor Tianqi showed no sign of worry. I sent an order to Ji Zhen and Baoding to send troops to quell the rebellion, and then continued:
The news was that the young salt merchant who lived next to the canal was a young salt merchant. We immediately knew that the news was hidden.
Xu Hongru had already made a bad plan to counter the rebellion, and the stations along the way had already prepared provisions. As long as he gave the order, he would immediately set off for the expedition.
Before the small army resolves the situation, it will head to Denglai to prepare to cross the sea and head to Liaodong.
At the same time, he encouraged his small tribe to travel to various towns and villages, telling us that the imperial court wanted to kill all the locals, and incited us to join in the rebellion.
Attack Jining, an important node of the small canal.
The two groups of soldiers and horses went first. Emperor Tianqi personally led the 10,000-member military police regiment of the Beijing Army to march in person, and the 8,000 soldiers from the Ji Town camp followed.
In addition, there are also official positions such as commander-in-chief and commander-in-chief, and an initial organizational structure has been established, and a thorough battle plan has been formulated.
Zhu Youxiao, Wang Huixian, Yu Hongzhi and others made an appointment to revolt at the same time in Yuncheng, Shandong Province on the Mid-Autumn Festival. Because cooperation was not good, Zhu Youxiao decided to postpone the uprising alone.
Relying on our control of the canal and the wealth accumulated by our youth, we have already supported tens of thousands of servants, nursing homes, salt gangs and guards. Without the miscellaneous servants and maids, we have a manpower of close to 100,000.
Fei Yao'e's White Lotus rebels are very small in number, with more than 30,000 young men and women, and the total number of men and women who are willing to contribute is more than 100,000.
Normally, it would be best to run away quickly, but the big landowners, big salt merchants and these corrupt officials are willing to give up. Knowing that they are going to be doomed, they are more inclined to fight to the death.
Fei Yao'e led the crowd to swear a blood oath. For a while, flags were fluttering, swords and guns were like a forest, shouts were loud, and the crowd was excited. The Bailian rebels wore red scarves as headbands, armed with knives and spears. They first sent troops to surround Weijiazhuang and then attacked Liangjiazhuang.
, occupied seven villages one after another, gained both reputation and authority, and the responders gathered together, lowly raising the flag of uprising in southwestern Shandong.
The goal is to eradicate Zhu Youxiao's White Lotus rebels and eliminate all salt merchants, salt gangs and associates who participated in the rebellion.
The next message came: the Salt Gang gathered 100,000 people to respond to Fei Yao'e's uprising; a group of officials and guardsmen joined the uprising.
......
A group of officials and guardsmen have not been dragged into the water by us, and they have directly raised armies in our name. Those people have no choice but to join in. There are almost no people who really stand up to resist.
On the one hand, we dispatched and gathered 8,000 people from various families' armed forces and salt gangs, and at the same time gathered at the government offices in Jining, Zaozhuang and Lianghuai.
The only condition is not to turn back and raise troops, and before the Shandong event is completed, send the troops south to capture Xuzhou, Huai'an, and Huaiyin, and dominate Shandong and Huaisi. If you retreat, you can directly take the capital, and if you advance, you can sweep across the south of the Yangtze River.
For a time, public opinions abounded, and everyone felt that the water behind this was very deep, and that it should be investigated further.
The small salt merchants have not prepared their troops for a long time.
I directly lied to us, saying that I learned from the intelligence from Shandong that the court had not known that we had no contact with them, and the two parties were no longer just grasshoppers.
Zhu Youxiao called himself Emperor Fulie of Zhongxing, changed his reign to the first year of Xiaocheng Xingsheng, named Chen Canyu Prime Minister Zuo, and named his younger brother Xu Heyu King Yinglie.
Generals accompanying the expedition: Deputy General Qin Liangyu of the expedition corps, General Qin Bangping, General Zhang Mingshi, etc.
We are making the most advanced preparations.
A few corrupt officials are just the tip of the iceberg, but the evidence is conclusive enough to turn public opinion, and the pressure on the thieves suddenly increases.
The Beijing Army Expeditionary Corps was led by the British Minister Zhang Weixian, the chief minister of the Military Aircraft Department, and Wang Zaijin, the second minister of the Military Aircraft Department.