Lanzhou city.
The news that Liu Chengzong had captured Zhuanglang Acropolis frightened King Su. He knocked on the gate of Governor Lian's state affairs house with a ram's horn lantern all night, and sent people to gallop through the starry night to ask for help from Chen Qiyu, governor of Yansui.
At this moment, Chen Qiyu, the governor of Yansui, has a prestige in Shaanxi that is unmatched by anyone in the black and white circles. Even Liu Chengzong has to step back.
Because this person was the feudal official who was most likely to completely put down the rebellion among the nearly ten governors and governors of Shaanxi during the Chongzhen period.
Since the fifth year of Chongzhen, Chen Qiyu took over the official position of governor of Yansui, which has brought about earth-shaking changes in the entire Shaanxi.
In the military, since he took office, Yichen, Xue Hongqi, Yiziwang, Jieshanhu, Liupiozhi, Golden-winged Peng, Wang Chenggong, Yilong, Diamond, Mountain Harrier, Black Evil God, Human Tiger, Wu King of Hell, Ma Fei, Wang Denghuai, Ma Honglang, Man Tianfei... a series of leaders were defeated and killed.
Economically, he opened coal mines and built water conservancy projects, trying to take advantage of the mild drought in the past two years to restore the agricultural situation in northern Shaanxi, and resettle the surrendered rebels so that they could have jobs and food.
The most remarkable thing about politics is that in the sixth year of Chongzhen, every Shaanxi feudal official who died in office hoped to have the imperial court exempted from taxes, but Chen Qiyu did it.
Emperor Chongzhen actually issued an edict to exempt Yan'an Prefecture and Qingyang Prefecture from taxes.
In fact, this matter is not Chen Qiyu's credit. Everyone who died in office before him had written a letter to him. It was just his luck.
In the final analysis, it was not that Chen Qiyu's words of persuasion were too pleasant, but that Lord Chongzhen finally reconciled with himself with a smile when faced with the fact that northern Shaanxi had not been able to collect taxes in recent years.
What the hell were you doing so early?
No matter what, luck is also a kind of strength.
Just by being able to exempt the imperial court from taxes, the people in Yanqing are grateful to Chen Qiyu. After all, this matter is important to the people. In the past, officials wrote letters, but the people didn't know about it, but now that Chen Qiyu's letter has been successful, the people can see it.
The common people do not have high demands, and few are willing to be busy burning, killing, looting, and harming the natural world all day long.
As long as you are alive and can survive.
Relying on the aura of being exempted from taxes by the imperial court, Chen Qiyu could do whatever he wanted in northern Shaanxi. Even when his army entered Yan'an, the people would secretly leave a message saying that this road was blocked and they could not camp.
Compared to Hong Chengchou who came here to receive a beating, his treatment was as high as the ninth heaven.
Chen Qiyu didn't believe it at first. What do you mean this road is blocked? The whole world is not the land of the king, right? How can there be a feudal official who leads an army and walks in his own land but says that this road is impassable?
Who doesn't know that there are landmines in Yan'an Prefecture, but the timeliness of landmines is very short, and someone must be guarding the fuse to make it fire. Qi Jiguang's steel wheel does not need someone to be around when it catches fire, but it can take as little as three to five days or as many as eight days to be buried underground. On the 9th, let alone rain, the earth-humidity mine will be ineffective.
Chen Qiyu didn't believe it. With my prestige, does anyone still want to blow me up?
He didn't believe in evil, so he insisted on leaving until a patrolling soldier who set up camp at night stepped on a landmine, turning the mountains and plains into a fleeting light under the dark night sky.
After the officer inspected the residue and found the broken copper wheel and damaged gun machine at the explosion site, Chen Qiyu believed it... It was not that someone wanted to blow him up, but that the people in northern Shaanxi were too advanced in technology to believe it.
The people in northern Shaanxi are not old haters. They use Li Tiancheng's synchronized mines.
Li Tiancheng was originally a garrison in the Beijing camp and was good at firearms. He made great contributions to improving mines in the third year of Chongzhen. The imperial court set up a mine camp for him, and passed the teaching materials to Jiubian to teach the use of firearms and mines.
The closing mechanism was originally used by Zhao Shizhen in the bolt mechanism of the matchlock gun. It is a mechanical device that uses gears to automatically open and close the fire door cover. Specifically, the gear is installed on the gun machine. There are two movable tooth rails up and down, one of which is connected to a steel spring. It forms a structure of two guns, inner and outer, yin and yang.
When the trigger is pulled, the gear rotates, and the two upper and lower tooth rails move in tandem. The female machine is inside the gun bed and is responsible for pushing open the fire door cover of the medicine pool; the male machine with the fire tube is outside the gun bed and is responsible for igniting the medicine pool.
The name of the combined gun comes from the meaning of pulling the trigger and firing the two guns together.
This structure can protect against wind and rainy weather and is the most reliable bolt mechanism for the matchlock gun.
On the earliest Lumi gun, the medicine tank needed to be opened and closed manually, while the closed gun could be opened and closed automatically.
The next upgrade is called Xuanyuan Gun, which was also invented by Zhao Shizhen.
This part is a detachable long pole. A copper rain cover and a small weight that is heavier than the rain cover are respectively installed on the upper and lower parts of the long pole. There is a crossbeam in the middle.
In rainy and snowy weather, the long pole beam is inserted into the reserved hole in the wooden gun bed. Due to gravity, the weight is naturally on the bottom and the cover is on top, and the match rope is also wrapped around the lower part of the long pole.
Because the small weight is heavier than the copper cover, no matter where the gun is aimed, or even if the charge is reversed, the copper cover will always be parallel to the ground, shielding the fire door and match rope from rain.
Specifically speaking, these things are actually parts of a gun. A gun may be called a gun, but it has parts such as Heji and Xuanyuan.
Mine coach Li Tiancheng transferred the closing device to the steel wheel mine, which greatly increased the timeliness of the mine. Even if there is occasional rain or snow, the mine buried underground can guarantee a service life of more than two months.
The officers and soldiers in the five towns on the three sides of Shaanxi learned this skill, and there is almost no use for it... Firstly, the cost of making this thing is relatively high, and secondly, Lin Dan is almost rotting in the ground. Who should he blow?
The government and the army were reluctant to build this in large quantities, but the simple people of Yan'an carried it forward, because the people of Yan'an were not the army, and they needed a peaceful living environment to live well.
Landmines are the lowest-cost means of defense for them.
It doesn’t require a large batch, just bury a few in the ground. Regardless of the officers, soldiers or thieves, as long as you step on one, you will be frightened and return to the original route, and people can defend their lives.
For the people of Yan'an, synchronized landmines have many advantages, but only one disadvantage. In the geographical environment of northern Shaanxi, the timeliness of this thing is a bit too long.
So much so that the young people in each village who are responsible for planting mines often ask others: "Where did I bury the mines?"
I don’t know, I guess it’s official.
No one particularly cares about it. Who is a serious person who takes the official path?
Later, we couldn't walk on the path. If we had to go out, we didn't have to wear clothes. There was no one on the road anyway, but we had to catch a thunder sheep.
No matter what, for the people of Yan'an Prefecture, the tax resistance is a victory, and the court's tax exemption is also a victory. Chen Qiyu, who can make the emperor tax exempt, is undoubtedly the only official who the people do not want to send him to heaven.
After so many years of chaotic fighting, people's minds have already settled on it. It can be said that all Chen Qiyu's victories are political victories.
The most commendable thing is that although Chen Qiyu holds a high position, he can still understand the psychological state of ordinary people's soldiers. He is very clear about the unhappy situation of the Shaanxi military thieves' family, and he can use this disadvantage to his own advantage.
Just last year, in order to wipe out the Kaishan Ax and Zuotian Sentry entrenched in Yongning Pass in Yanchuan, he took advantage of the opportunity of Hong Chengchou's westward march to spread false news among the army.
Pretending that their army would be transferred to Gansu by Hong Chengchou, he ordered He Renlong to lead the army all the way to the west, with Chen Qiyu at the rear.
Arriving at Yanchuan, Chen Qiyu suddenly rode his horse eastward and ordered the entire army: "Watch the direction of my horse's head!" The entire army immediately changed from the rear to the front and quickly attacked Yongning Pass.
The army suddenly arrived, and Kaishan Ax and Zuotian Sentinel, who were paralyzed by the false news, were caught off guard, and they got into the merit book in a daze.
Until the first month of the seventh year of Chongzhen, Chen Qiyu was at the height of his popularity in Shaanxi.
At present, Hong Chengchou cannot move in Gansu. Although Liu Chengzong has not yet marched to Lanzhou, Chen Qiyu has become the only life-saving straw in Su Fan's eyes.
If there is anyone in the world who can stop Liu Chengzong in Lanzhou, then it is Chen Qiyu.
Even not only Su Fan, everyone thought so, except Chen Qiyu, who did not dare to think so.
Before the twelfth lunar month of last year, Chen Qiyu was actually a little eager to give it a try, but after the twelfth lunar month of the sixth year of Chongzhen, Chen Qiyu did not dare to think so, because the rebels were marching at an alarming speed, and they were almost flying.
On November 24, the sixth year of Chongzhen, the rebels spread loess on the river and covered the straw door panels, crossed the Yellow River at high speed, defeated the Mianchi defender Yuan Dashu, and announced their entry into Henan.
Just five days later, on November 29th, the news of the rebels' invasion of Henan had not spread throughout the Central Plains. The rebel troops, led by eight leaders including Wang Xinglang, Sweeping King, and Man Tianxing, had Bypassing the tightly defended Tongguan Pass, a mighty army of 100,000 troops broke through Wuguan Pass.
In order to coordinate Hong Chengchou's actions, Chen Qiyu first drove away King Chuang who besieged Xi'an Prefecture, and then led his army westward and settled in Lintao Prefecture.
At this time, after hearing the news of the police, he hurried back eastward and crossed Gongchang Prefecture and entered Fengxiang without stopping. He only had time to have a hot meal in Baoji. I heard that in one day, Shanyang, Zhenan, and Shangnan in Shangzhou, Xi'an Prefecture Three cities were captured. The rebel vanguard was only a hundred miles away from Xi'an Fucheng, and the smoke was everywhere visible to the naked eye.
The armies from all walks of life worked hard for this purpose. Zuo Liangyu and Deng Qi from the Henan direction rushed all the way to Shaanzhou regardless of food and water. Chen Qiyu also led the Shaanxi army to rush to Xi'an non-stop, leaving most of the army behind.
But what awaits them is the very peaceful and peaceful Xi'an Mansion.
The rebels had already left the country, and their march to the northwest was just a false shot. They turned around and marched southward under the leadership of General Chuang. Yunxi and Shangjin in Xunyang Prefecture were declared to have fallen.
The Jingxiang area where Xunyang is located is a special area of Ming Dynasty.
This is the combined area of Shaanxi, Huguang, Henan, and Sichuan provinces, starting from the eastern end of Zhongnan Mountain in the west, to Tongbai Mountain and Dabie Mountain in the southeast, to Funiu Mountain in the northeast, and to Jingshan Mountain in the south.
It has the advantage of waterways, and the climate is between the north and the south. It has rolling mountains and deep forests. People from the south can plant paddy fields, and people from the north can plant dry land.
As early as the Yuan Dynasty, due to its convenient waterways and suitable climate, it became an ideal gathering place for refugees from the north and south. Once the political and economic environment deteriorated, bankrupt farmers from the north and south would flood into Jingxiang from all directions.
Since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the first large-scale rebellion began here, because the imperial court had no choice but to order the mountainous areas to be closed to the refugees who refused to accept the king's rule, which intensified the conflict between the refugees and the imperial court.
Liu Tong, who was wanted for robbery during the Zhengtong period, hid in the mountains. In the first year of Chenghua, he set up a rebel flag and called himself King of Han. He attacked Xiangyang, Dengzhou and Hanzhong. He was suppressed at the end of the second year and the imperial court revoked the mountain ban order.
After Liu Tong's death, his general Li Yuan set up another banner to recruit the old troops to accumulate strength. In the sixth year of Zhengtong, he became king again and was called King of Taiping. In response to the refugees, there were millions of people. The imperial court dispatched 250,000 heavy troops to divide and annihilate them. .
From then on, the imperial court established Xunyang Governor in order to deal with the armed refugees in Jingxiang. The jurisdiction covered the adjacent areas of Hubei, Henan, Sichuan and Shaanxi, including Xi'an Prefecture, including Xi'an Prefecture, and 65 counties in nine states.
However, the problem of armed refugees in Jingxiang was no longer a problem during the Wanli period, so Governor Xunyang paid an annual salary of 6,000 taels of silver and only had 500 pacesetters.
These five hundred pacesetters are the entire field force of Xunyang Mansion. However, these five hundred people were sent to Nanyang by the Ministry of War because Zhang Xianzhong entered Huguang last year and followed the governor Jiang Yunyi.
Li Zicheng did not seem to be in a no-man's land, but he was indeed in a no-man's land.
At this juncture, Chen Qiyu received a letter asking for help from Su Fan and almost fell off his horse - he wanted to walk him to death.
He did not dare to leave Xi'an Mansion. Even if he wanted to go to Lanzhou, King Qin would not let him go.
He drove King Chuang into the Qinling Mountains, and General Chuang led a group of rebel kings into Xunyang. The rebels had unprecedented power around Xi'an Prefecture. Maybe he would return to Lanzhou and lose Xi'an Prefecture.
Thinking about it, Chen Qiyu suddenly thought of a person who could cure Liu Chengzong.
Yan'an general Yang Yanchang!
Chen Qiyu, who held the official title of Minister of War, sent a dispatch order from the Ministry of War to Yan'an Prefecture on horseback, ordering General Yang Yanchang to pack up his troops and set off for the front line in Lanzhou.
Along with the transfer order, there was also a private letter from Chen Qiyu sent to Yan'an Mansion. In the letter, he highly praised Yang Yanchang and was extremely sincere.
He said that the imperial court knew that the troops of Yan'an Camp and Yan'an Guard had suffered heavy losses in the previous war with King Chuang, but at this time Lanzhou was extremely critical, and it was hoped that General Yang would be loyal to the country and lead his army to aid Lanzhou. Then Liu Chengzong is yours Only General Yang can deal with his old rival.
Within two days, Yang Yanchang's reply arrived at Xi'an Mansion. He said that thanks to Mr. Futai's love, he had dedicate himself to serving the country.
After reading the reply, Chen Qiyu from the Xi'an government office breathed a sigh of relief with satisfaction.
Chen Qiyu knew the situation of the military thieves' family in northern Shaanxi very well, and he also knew in his heart that Yang Yanchang was definitely not as simple a character as he appeared on the surface.
The dignified God of War of Yan'an spends his days in the castle doing nothing but fishing and giving birth to babies? This guy already has twenty kids.
And if he is not sent out to fight, it seems that this guy's rate of having babies will continue to increase, maintaining the efficiency of five babies in two years.
That was Yan'an Prefecture, where landmines were everywhere. How could a person survive as a general in Yan'an?
Chen Qiyu strongly suspected that Yang Yanchang was a thief.
But even with this conjecture, after thinking about it, he still believed that transferring Yang Yanchang to Lanzhou was the best choice at this time.
Because his purpose was not to destroy Liu Chengzong, but to let Yang Yanchang go and defend Lanzhou. If he had not collaborated with the traitors, there would be no problem in defending Lanzhou; if he had collaborated with the traitors, defending Lanzhou would not be a problem.
But how to ensure that Yang Yanchang will not become a thief?
Chen Qiyu used his little brain and came up with a clever trick. He placed his own spy next to Yang Yanchang.
This spy is called Ren Quan'er, the commander of the Yan'an Guard.
He also sent someone to send a letter to Ren Quan'er, telling Commander Ren that you would go to war with General Yang Shen, and you would also send your trusted followers to keep an eye on Yang Yanchang's more than 30 family members.
This letter was sent to Yan'an Prefecture. The army has already set off. The mountains and plains are full of people seeing them off. People beat their drums loudly. The old man and the old woman put their sons in red and colorful clothes and sent them to the army. It has been a long time in Shaanxi. This has happened before.
General Ren, who was riding a horse on the slope, wore a black lacquered gold-plated alms bowl and silver-scaled armor. He looked heroic. He waved his hand and wrote a short message and handed it to the messenger.
Amidst the sound of military music, Ren Quan'er looked at the rolling carriages and horses on the official road beside him. He looked past the well-equipped sergeants heading west with their heads held high, and towards the direction of Yang Yanchang in the vast smoke and dust in front of the military formation. Then he lowered his head and looked at the envoy, saying: "Tell Mr. Futai, sir, don't worry, I'm here to watch!"
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