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In the third year of Chongzhen, the Little Ice Age entered a relatively serious stage, causing frequent famine and poor harvests. The northwest and the Central Plains were especially affected. In June, Wang Er's uprising broke out in Chengcheng, Shaanxi Province, which suffered from a great drought. They killed the magistrate and gathered in the mountains, opening the prelude to the peasant war of Chongzhen!
In the fourth year of Chongzhen, you ordered the governor Hong Chengchou to be the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi Province. You asked the governor of Shaanxi Province to "encourage the generals and quickly suppress them". Under the strong suppression of Hong Chengchou and others, the various rebel armies in Shaanxi Province moved to Shanxi in the winter of the fifth year of Chongzhen.
From then on until the eighth year of Chongzhen, peasant uprisings continued. Although the uprisings were only limited to the five northern provinces, they had already become more and more intense. You sent many generals to suppress them, but after each suppression, these uprisings quickly revived.
You start to feel that something is wrong.
Every time you gave the order, all the rebel soldiers were executed, and the masterminds were exterminated as a warning to the others. However, the number of rebel soldiers killed increased, and the number of heads reported and the number of people recruited had already faintly exceeded the total population of the five provinces.
In October of the same year, Fengyang, the birthplace of the Ming Dynasty royal family, was captured by the uprising army of the sweeping king, Taiping king, and other tribes. The Ming Dynasty ancestral tomb was burned, and you were furious again.
In the ninth year of Chongzhen, you put Hong Chengchou in charge of the northwest, Lu Xiangsheng in charge of the southeast, and appointed Sun Chuanting as the governor of Shaanxi. With the cooperation of the three of them, you finally captured the most powerful rebel, Gao Yingxiang, in July, and finally changed the situation.
However, although the domestic situation gradually calmed down, the Later Jin Dynasty was not idle. In the six years from the third year of Chongzhen to the ninth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji slowly pulled out the Ming army's strongholds in western Liaoning while sending troops to invade the fortress repeatedly to harass the Ming Dynasty.
In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, the uprising army within the Ming Dynasty was basically wiped out. A general named Li Zicheng ran into the mountains. However, in your opinion, all of this was harmless. After wiping out the uprising army, your gaze turned to the frontier.
Huang Taiji once again sent troops into the fortress, the capital is in danger, you urgently transferred Hong Chengchou, Sun Chuanting into the aid, but still can not do anything to the Qing army. The Qing army marched straight into the hinterland, captured 58 cities and captured 460,000 people and livestock. It was not until March of the 12th year of Chongzhen that they calmly left the fortress.
When the Qing army entered the pass, General Lu Xiangsheng died in battle. You were furious and imprisoned Sun Chuanting. Hong Chengchou was transferred to the governor of Jiliao and led the elite troops of Shaanxi to guard against the Qing army in Songshan and Jinzhou.
At this time, you still don't know that although this move stopped the Qing army, it also gave Li Zicheng, who was on the verge of desperation, a chance to catch his breath.
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Chaos!
It could be said that the Chongzhen Dynasty gave people the greatest feeling of chaos!
North of the Yellow River, in the five provinces, the uprising peasant army was almost everywhere.
Even the Ming Dynasty ancestral mausoleum was burned down.
At the same time, it wasn't just within Great Ming.
Huang Taiji had already unified Mongolia and was drooling over Ming Dynasty. He was constantly thinking about entering the pass.
In the eyes of Jiajing and Hongzhi.
If the Chongzhen Dynasty in such a situation was handed over to them…
His head was probably going to be big!
This wasn't a problem that could be solved by benevolence or the mind of an emperor!
It was a real war!
"No wonder my Great Ming perished in the Chongzhen Dynasty. It seems that it would be difficult not to perish.”
Jia Jing couldn't help but say.
However, this only received a glance from Chongzhen.
"Master Jiajing, don't be so sure.”
"That's the original history."
Chong Zhen nodded.
Rebuttal was nothing.
However, this title confused Jiajing.
Logically speaking.
I should be your great-grandfather, right?
Why is it here?
If Zhu Houzhao became his great-grandfather, would I become Lord Jiajing?
Unfortunately, before he could say anything.
Chong Zhen suddenly changed his earlier unyielding attitude and ran to Zhu Houzhao's side.
He rubbed his hands together in anticipation.
"Great-grandfather, look at how chaotic the Chongzhen Dynasty is. Do you want to give me some other suggestions?”
Zhu Houzhao continued to watch the scene in the sky.
" What's the rush? Let's talk after the evaluation."
"Alright!"
Chong Zhen nodded repeatedly and obediently sat back on the futon.
Jiajing was speechless.
Were the emperors these days all so realistic?
He wanted to curse!
In the 14th year of Chongzhen, the internal and external situation took a sharp turn. The Ming Dynasty was on the verge of collapse. The Central Plains had even experienced 14 consecutive years of drought and cold waves. Locust wreaked havoc and chaos continued!
The famine and plague were rampant, and by June, countless people had died. Under such circumstances, a large number of hungry people joined Li Zicheng's team, making it grow stronger and stronger. They began to be known as the " King of Roaming." Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, and other scholars also joined Li Zicheng.
In February of the same year, Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng City. Ding Qirui, the governor of Ming Dynasty, used the excuse of fighting Zhang Xianzhong and did not save Kaifeng. You could only use Fu Zonglong, who had made contributions to quelling the rebellion of She 'an, as the governor of Shaanxi Province. He led 20,000 troops from Sichuan and Shaanxi to assist Kaifeng. However, Li Zicheng did not expect to give up attacking Kaifeng and attack Fu Zonglong instead. In September, he captured and killed Fu Zonglong in Xiangcheng.
In December, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai attacked Kaifeng again. You promoted Wang Qiaonian, the governor of Shaanxi Province, to be the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi Province to assist Kaifeng, but you were captured and killed by Li Zicheng.
Such a battle situation naturally made you furious. Under such circumstances, you had no choice but to release Sun Chuanting from prison and appoint him as the governor of Shaanxi Province. You ordered him to suppress Li Zicheng.
As the situation within Da Ming rapidly deteriorated, the battle against the Qing also worsened.
In order to enter the pass, Huang Taiji invaded Songshan, Jinzhou and other fortresses in western Liaoning for years. In February of the same year, under the help of Xia Chengde, the deputy general of Songshan, the Qing army captured Songshan. Many Ming generals died and Hong Chengchou was captured.
In March, Zu Dashou, who was holding Jinzhou, surrendered to the Qing army. In addition, Xingshan and Tashan were also captured by the Qing army.
At this time, you have already realized that the Ming Dynasty could not face both internal and external battlefields at the same time. Therefore, after the war, you instructed Chen Xinjia to negotiate peace with the Houjin, hoping to temporarily ease the Houjin, and then deal with the Houjin after the domestic rebels were pacified.
However, you would never have thought that before the peace negotiations had even begun, it would be leaked by this person, causing the ministers to oppose it again!
You were furious again, but not only did this person not admit his mistake, he even thought that he had done something meritorious. You decisively imprisoned him!
The country is in danger!
"Peace?"
He saw these two words that were a little dazzling.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di subconsciously felt a little uncomfortable.
"Great Ancestor, Great Ancestor, there was really no other way with the situation of the Chongzhen Dynasty at that time.”
Chong Zhen smiled bitterly.
"The Hou Jin is not a small tribe. Huang Taiji has already unified the grasslands and is comparable to the Yuan Dynasty.”
"And at that time, my Chongzhen Dynasty was in internal and external trouble. There was no other way if we didn't ask for peace.”
They started fighting from the third year of Chongzhen until the fifteenth year of Chongzhen.
Chongzhen really had no other choice.
Otherwise, he would not have run to the ancestral temple and cried bitterly after this matter was leaked.
Chongzhen's ability was mediocre.
But he was not stupid.
If he was stupid, he wouldn't have killed Wei Zhongxian.
It was the situation at that time.
Chongzhen pondered. Other than letting Taizu, Chengzu, or great-grandfather come personally, he could not think of any other way to save Ming.
"It's a pity that I, Da Ming, actually ended up in such a state.”
"Let those barbarians wreak havoc in the pass.”
Zhu Yuanzhang gritted his teeth.
Even though he had heard Chongzhen mention it once before.
However, seeing the scene now was naturally different from just hearing about it!
He felt even more empathy!
"Chongzhen, if I remember correctly, the last time you came to the question space was July 15th, right?”
Zhu Houzhao suddenly said.
"Yes!"
Chong Zhen hurriedly nodded.
"July plus three months, which is October."
"Is something going to happen in October?”
Chong Zhen was looking forward to it.
"Yes."
Zhu Houzhao nodded.
"If I remember correctly."
"After Huang Taiji knew that there was no hope for peace negotiations, he entered the pass again at the end of October.”
"Are you ready?"
Chongzhen was speechless.
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