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    Chapter 519: The Situation of the Ming Dynasty Second

    So, the most important thing is knowing oneself! Dank an won the call. Kong Youde thought he was talking to the Ming Dynasty. He simply didn¡¯t understand that to the Chinese Empire, his tens of thousands of people were nothing.

    After solving the problem in Shandong, Sun Chuanting returned to Anhui and tried his best to deal with Xiao Mingchou. However, Xiao Mingchou's land distribution and other reform measures made those people who were oppressed by the big gentry and exorbitant taxes to actively support Xiao Mingchou.  hatred

    This situation made Sun Chuanting's army seem to be attacking a strange country. There were hostile looks and destruction everywhere.

    Sun Chuanting¡¯s army that entered the Dabie Mountains was completely blind and deaf. In the following three months, after suffering 80,000 casualties, Sun Chuanting¡¯s 200,000-strong army failed to achieve any results.

    With desperation, Sun Chuanting could only withdraw his army from the Dabie Mountains and adopt a siege method in the surrounding areas to restrict Xiao Mingqiu's development.

    This situation made Sun Chuanting feel that Xiao Mingchou was the most threatening force outside the Chinese Empire. The other peasant armies were basically bandits. Apart from destruction, there was no construction at all. Such thieves did not pose much of a threat at all.  , as long as there is no problem on Daming¡¯s side

    But in September, the Ming Dynasty still had problems. Although Emperor Chongzhen appointed many officials who were determined to reform, he was also tired of the Donglin Party and other clean streams and distrusted the foreign court, which caused the eunuch power to rise again.

    First, he occupied the money and food of the Ministry of Household Affairs and the Ministry of Industry, and later he occupied the supervisory positions of the armies in various places. This made many people wonder. Is Emperor Chongzhen still the saint in their eyes?  Why has there been such a big change in just three or four years?

    In addition, the center of the imperial court was gradually controlled by people like Wen Tiren and Zhou Tingru, which made the political situation of the Ming Dynasty worsen again. The struggle for power and profit in the center of the imperial court had just calmed down a little, and there were signs of intensification again.

    The first thing that manifested itself was the army of the Ming Dynasty. The food and salary received by the army were further lost layer by layer, and only 20 to 30% reached the army.

    Moreover, with the arrival of the supervisory army, the struggle for military power in the army became more and more fierce. The latent supervisory force in Liaodong and Cao Huachun in charge of the Zhejiang army. As soon as these two eunuchs arrived, they went around to win over local generals with coercion and inducement, making the two eunuchs  Many factions emerged among the defenders in the direction, but the military power of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chengzong was gradually emptied out at this time.

    Sun Chuanting's side was fine. Cao Huachun also knew that his ability to run the army was not very good, so he did not interfere much with Sun Chuanting's military operations. However, Hong Chengchou's side was in pain. Gao Qiqian simply didn't understand anything.  But he's a bastard who wants to interfere in everything

    Under Gao Qiqian¡¯s intervention, the command of the North Route Army was in chaos, allowing the Shaanxi peasant army to breathe a little.

    It was at this time that Huang Taiji, who had been silent for a whole year, started to move again after it was determined that the year would be another year of disaster.

    Also at Xifengkou, Huang Taiji invaded the Central Plains again. This time Huang Taiji's advance went more smoothly, but this time Huang Taiji also learned his lesson. He no longer attacked any fortified cities, but only those that could not be captured in one battle.  He bypasses them all, just to seize the population and food

    All the way down, Beizhili was turned upside down, then bypassed the capital and went straight down to Hebei, Shandong and other places

    The crazy looting made the people of Beizhili fall into hell. The people who had just some food found that their granaries had become the main reason for provoking the Tatars. As long as they put down the food and fled into the mountains, the Houjin soldiers would  I have no interest in chasing them, but I have no food. How will I live this time when winter is approaching?

    At this time, the Ming court was also in a panic. They did not expect that under the pressure of the Chinese Empire, Huang Taiji would still have the courage to enter the border and plunder

    But they know that although the Chinese Empire¡¯s army in Liaodong is worrying, the hunger and cold in the cold winter can also kill people.

    So after seeing that the Chinese Empire had not taken any military actions for a whole year, Huang Taiji emboldened himself and went south to plunder again.

    The main target of this robbery is no longer the population, but food and other property. Only in this way can Huang Taiji continue to survive.

    The panicked Ming court immediately summoned Hong Chengchou who was in Shaanxi to return to the capital. Although there were nearly 100,000 troops equipped with breech-loaded flintlock rifles in Beijing at this time, the troops without morale could not be equipped with Type 25 rifles.  , they did not dare to go out of Beijing to fight, and even if they dared, the emperors and ministers of the Ming Dynasty would not dare to let them out.

    After receiving the order from the imperial court, Hong Chengchou was really helpless and could only see the Shaanxi Peasant Army being defeated.Completely eradicated, but still fell short

    But what can be done? Unless Hong Chengchou wants to be cut into pieces like Yuan Chonghuan, he must immediately lead an army to the capital Qinwang

    So the peasant army, which was almost out of breath after being crushed by Hong Chengchou's army, came to life again and quickly swept across the entire northern Shaanxi region again.

    This time they received unimaginable food supplies, which increased the number of troops they could recruit.

    And those grain merchants who still expected to make a fortune from borrowing grain were in complete tragedy. Even if the people begged them hard, they were indifferent. When the peasant army came, all the grain was confiscated and the local tyrants were wiped out.  Opening warehouses to release grain is always the only magic weapon for the development and growth of the peasant army

    After Hong Chengchou's army left, the resurgent peasant army quickly worsened the situation in the northwest. Hundreds of thousands of people were like locusts, madly swooping on Henan and other places, dragging in many landless people and forming an army of one million.  Sun Chuanting is in charge of the overall situation in Anhui, but people are still panic-stricken

    By the end of 1852, due to the invasion of Huang Taiji, the power of the Shaanxi Peasant Army developed explosively again, completely becoming a climate change.

    Huang Taiji himself did not dare to stay in the Ming Dynasty for too long. The incident in Liaodong had just passed more than a year ago. He did not want others to take advantage of his old place, so he quit the Ming Dynasty years ago.

    After Hong Chengchou¡¯s army returned to the capital, they could only follow Huang Taiji and drive them away from the Ming Dynasty. As for the suffering of ordinary people, they could not control it.

    In this way, the people in Beizhili, Hebei, Shandong and other places were once again hit by a disaster, which plunged the people who had just been able to live a better life due to sufficient food into a deep disaster.

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