These years of being the queen mother!

But mediocrity also has its benefits, at least when working under a strong hand like Queen Mother Yang, as long as everything is done according to orders.Just like this time when the Yellow River broke through Mengjin, the Empress Dowager Yang had already asked officials from the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Officials to deal with it. The other assistants and five people discussed other political affairs together.

Since the beginning of the fifth year of Taichang, there have been many troubles in the beginning of spring. First, the Yellow River burst in Mengjin, and then there was no harvest in the Yansui area.

Well, under the influence of the Little Ice Age, the harvests in most areas of the Ming Dynasty were not good, and the conventional crops planted were only enough to feed the hunger.It's just that the Yansui area is more serious.

Cabinet officials usually work in what is commonly known as the Cabinet Office.The address is in a separate palace in the east of the Meridian Gate of the Forbidden City, the south of the Wenhua Hall, and the west of the cabinet treasury. The plaque in the main hall is written in the cabinet lobby.

There are study rooms on the left and right side halls, which are filled with various four books and five classics, and the poems are easy to read.During the reign of Tianqi, all cabinet officials gathered in the southeast corner of Zhaodemen to handle affairs, and only on the day of new appointment, a public case was set up in the cabinet.Since the first year of Taichang, when the new emperor came to the throne, Empress Dowager Yang felt that it was not good for the cabinet office to be empty, so she let the cabinet officials work in the cabinet lobby, and the southeast corner of Zhaodemen was used as a lounge for busy political affairs. It was used for the rest of the ministers who ran out of time and failed to leave the palace and return to the palace before the ban.

In this way, it also saves the cabinet officials from traveling back and forth.It's just the efficiency of work, and it hasn't improved much. At least one question about how to do disaster relief has been discussed repeatedly for a few days.

Therefore, the relief of the victims is still the top priority of the magistrate of Yansui, and this year's work. Shi Shoufu and other cabinet ministers have issued a central decree to exempt Yansui from taxes and allocate 20 shi of grain. Shipped to Yansui area to relieve victims.

After the central government's decree was issued to the Yansui area, the prefect of Yansui, who was considered a good official and reliable in his work, was relieved.They knew that when a famine happened, the imperial court would definitely respond and allocate food to relieve the victims.They can't speculate on how fast or slow to allocate food.

It's best if it's fast, but if it's slow, it's the most taboo to stir when people's hearts are fluctuating.Once the food distribution is not timely, the hungry people are the most likely to be instigated by lawbreakers and cause civil uprisings under the despair of hunger. Therefore, the food distribution is fast this time, and the governors of Yansui and Sui who are afraid of accidents are very relieved. .

"For the current plan, we can only set up porridge sheds to help the victims, and at the same time inform Governor Sun (Sun Chuanting) to step up vigilance, and don't let the chaotic party take advantage of it..."

Soon after Empress Dowager Yang ordered Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng to be responsible for exterminating the peasant uprising army, Sun Chuanting asked Ying to be the governor of Shaanxi.After Sun Chuanting took office, he first trained an army named Qin Army in Yulin, and at this time Lu Xiang was transferred to the governor of Xuanda to fight Gao Yingxiang in northern Shaanxi together!

After the two slaves, the peasant uprising army to which Gao Yingxiang belonged was defeated, and Gao Yingxiang and the rest of the party fled back to Huguang.The reason why the governor of Yansui's subordinates suggested that the governor of Yansui inform Sun Chuanting to strengthen his vigilance while helping the victims was because they got the news that Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the militia who hid in Huguang, had come back and came to Shaanxi to prepare to leave Hanzhong. Attack Xi'an.

Originally, before the food and grass arrived, the prefect of Yansui was afraid of the lurking chaotic party instigating riots. Now that the food and grass arrived safely, the prefect of Yansui was still afraid of the chaotic party and riots. According to his cronies, the prefect of Yansui was in a hurry on the spot Nodding: "Just do what Huaisheng says!"

So the news of informing Sun Chuanting to strengthen his guard quickly reached the ears of Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng.Sun Chuanting led the Qin army to guard Hanzhong, and the mob gathered by Gao Yingxiang could not conquer it at all. He listened to the suggestions of his subordinates and intended to start from a place located in the south of Chang'an County, Shaanxi Province, which is the only way from Guanzhong to Hanzhong, called Ziwu Valley. The □□ is approaching Xi'an.

However, Sun Chuanting, who was talented as a general, had expected this a long time ago, and arranged for the Qin army to wait for work in Heishui Valley in Ziwu Valley, waiting for Gao Yingxiang and other insurgents to come to their door.After four days of fierce fighting between the two sides, the mob finally lost to the well-armed Qin army, and Gao Yingxiang was undoubtedly defeated.

In this defeat, Gao Yingxiang didn't have the life to go back to his hometown to hide. He was betrayed by his cronies, captured by Sun Chuanting, and sent to the capital.This time, the only thing waiting for Gao Yingxiang is death!

In history, Gao Yingxiang was captured and killed nine years after Chongzhen, but in this time and space, he was strangled four years earlier.In history, when Gao Yingxiang died, it was his nephew Li Zicheng who succeeded King Chuang and continued to make revolutions. In this time and space, Li Zicheng and his military adviser Li Yan were strangled in the cradle by the factory guards sent by Empress Dowager Yang before they rebelled, so they succeeded The person who broke into the king was one of Gao Yingxiang's subordinates named Wang Siren, and he happened to be a close friend who had been bought by the Houjin Tartars, secretly connected, and betrayed Gao Yingxiang.

In terms of rebellion, this new King Chuang is not as good as Li Zicheng, the King Chuang in history, nor Gao Yingxiang, who is already dead. In addition, the news that he betrayed Gao Yingxiang, leading to Gao Yingxiang's capture and death spread somehow. After being separated from the crowd, Wang Siren, who succeeded King Chuang, quickly followed in Gao Yingxiang's footsteps and was captured.

With his death, the peasant uprising, which was so vigorous in history and overthrew the Ming Dynasty, officially fell into dust.In the future, Jin's spies lurking in Daming, although they incited the people one after another and caused internal troubles in Daming to continue, but often at the beginning, before the troubles came to light, they were thundered by Zhu Cilin, who was even more cruel. Annihilated.At that time, Huang Taiji was already dead, and Shengjing, the capital where Houjin was located, was in danger of being attacked by troops and ruining the country at any time...

Of course, the above are all funeral affairs, so let’s not talk about it for the time being. Let’s talk about the five years of Taichang.After Gao Yingxiang was captured in March of the fifth year of Taichang, Mao Wenlong, who could not be suppressed once Yuan Keli died, died of drunkenness because of drinking too much.As soon as he died, the post of Zuo Dudu was naturally vacant.

Sun Chengzong of Liaodong Economic Strategy preferred Yuan Chonghuan, who was still the chief military officer, to take over the post of Zuo Dudu, while the Mingda family, especially Xiong Tingbi, preferred Mangui, who was supposed to die in the battle of the latter Jin to attack Ming Gyeonggi, to take up the post. It's not good for Hei Yunlong and Ma Dengyun's generation, but it's better than Yuan Chonghuan, who he believes is talented and ambitious, to take over the post of Zuo Dudu.

Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chengzong quarreled over this issue, but they ignored one thing.That is Mao Wenlong's subordinate Kong Youde, who is also very interested in the post of Zuo Dudu.

Kong Youde thinks that he is also a figure on the side, comparable to contemporary famous generals, and qualified to be the governor of the left.Kong Youde, who has a high self-esteem, thought that when Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chengzong were arguing endlessly, he should push him to the top position, but he never thought that in the end, You Shilu, the general soldier of Ningxia, would take advantage of the position...

At this moment, he felt that he had lost face, and Kong Youde, who was squeezed out by both Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chengzong, suddenly turned against him, and he had the idea of ​​betraying the Ming court and switching to Houjin.

At the beginning of May in the fifth year of Taichang, Huang Taiji suddenly led the elite soldiers of the Houjin Eight Banners to attack Dalinghe City. Zu Dashou, who was guarding Dalinghe City, was trapped in the city because he did not respond in time.

In mid-May, Mingda arranged for people to rescue Dalinghe City by land, and at the same time arranged for people to go by sea to provide support from the sea.

After Yuan Keli's death, Sun Yuanhua became the governor of Denglai and assisted Mingda in defending Liaodong.Mao Wenlong, who died drunk, was restrained by the governor of Denglai, and Kong Youde, who was his subordinate, naturally obeyed the order of Sun Yuanhua, the governor of Denglai.

Mingda asks Sun Yuanhua to arrange for people to rescue Zu Dashou by sea. Kong Youde invites Ying to go, but he returns due to a hurricane.Later, Kong Youde rushed to Wuqiao with Sun Yuanhua under the pretext of reinforcements. When he was stationed at night for repairs, he suddenly launched a mutiny and captured the bewildered Sun Yuanhua without bloodshed.

The news of Kong Youde's betrayal and Sun Yuanhua's captivity spread as soon as the news spread.Daming was furious, while Houjin's Huang Taiji laughed and began to write to Zu Dashou who was besieged in Dalinghe City, urging him to lead his troops to surrender!

Zu Dashou was ordered to build a city on the Daling River to defend Jinzhou, but when he had not finished building the battlements for less than half a month, Huang Taiji suddenly led an army to the city and surrounded the city of Daling River.In order to preserve his strength, Zu Dashou had no choice but to close the city gate and hastily challenged.

Fortunately, in the past few years, in order to ensure sufficient food and grass at any time without relying on supplies from the rear, Mingda has used soldiers to garrison the fields. A large area of ​​Liaodong has planted sweet potatoes, sorghum and other crops.With plenty of food and grass, after Zu Dashou went to Daling River to build the city, he did not leave only enough food and grass to defend the army for a few days as in history, but hoarded a warehouse full of enough food and grass for the defenders of Daling River City. Grain for several months.

So Zu Dashou who was besieged was not as flustered as he was when he was besieged in history, and the soldiers under him were not panicked either.Zu Dashou, who was also regarded as a general in the late Ming Dynasty, hid in the Daling River City relaxedly and comfortably. No matter how much Hou Jin's side scolded him, he would not send troops, which made Huang Taiji, who was confident that he could capture Daling River City, start to feel a little bit Headache, after all, Baqi Erlang, who grew up on horseback, is good at fighting, but he is not very good at siege warfare.

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