Ming Dynasty: Every day, Zhu Yuanzhang is in trouble

Inside the Wuying Hall, Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes were bloodshot as he stared at the screen on the simulator.

The whole person is going crazy and wants to eat anyone he wants!

My family’s ancestral tomb was destroyed just like that?
That is the grave of my parents!

How could he be implicated to this extent?

Can't rest in peace even after death? Being ruined like this?
These bastards! Even if he came to his own grave, he could just smash it up!

How could he destroy his own parents like this?
At this moment, he really wanted to lead the army to destroy all these damn things!

The death of his parents is a pain that is difficult for him to get rid of!

As a result, later on, the graves of my parents were destroyed again...

This feeling is simply indescribable!!
After his rage, Zhu Yuanzhang gradually calmed down.

If he could really come to the Chongzhen period, he would have to deal with more than just these rebels.

All the numerous ministers, gentry, and others, including the emperor, were on his list to be dealt with.

These people must be dealt with severely before we can let out a sigh of relief!
The end of the Ming Dynasty was rotten in every aspect.

To be honest, the tragedy that befell my family's ancestral tomb was not just the fault of those rebel troops.

The most fundamental thing is that the world is in chaos.

The people were living in poverty, and they rose up in rebellion...

Otherwise, why had his family's ancestral tomb remained intact and undamaged in the past two hundred years?

But by the end of the Ming Dynasty, it had become like this?

If the people can survive and order is maintained, who would dare to destroy their ancestral tombs?
However, although he thought so in his heart, Zhu Yuanzhang still felt extremely upset when he thought about the destruction of his ancestral tomb.

Even if he could understand the chaotic world, it couldn't change the fact that this was his family's ancestral tomb, which had been destroyed by someone! !

As Zhu Yuanzhang watched with mixed emotions and gnashing teeth, a series of images soon appeared on the simulator.

Zhu Yuanzhang got a lot of information from it——

Faced with the situation of the rebel army growing stronger and fighting in a mobile manner.

In August of the same year, Zhu Youjian created the post of Premier of five provinces.

Lu Xiangsheng, who had been promoted to Governor of Huguang, served concurrently in this position and cooperated with Hong Chengchou, the Governor-General of Five Provinces.

Hong Chengchou was in charge of the northwest, and Lu Xiangsheng was in charge of the southeast.

The following year, Sun Chuanting was appointed Governor of Shaanxi.

With the joint efforts of the three, the Ming army captured Gao Yingxiang, the most powerful leader of the rebel army, in July of the ninth year of Chongzhen.

To improve the "suppression situation"...

When Zhu Yuanzhang saw these scenes, he did not feel happy at all.

Because the situation is already rotten.

The most fundamental cause has not been resolved.

As long as there are still many people who cannot survive, the so-called thieves and bandits in the eyes of many people in the court will continue to emerge.

More and more people who can't survive will join them.

After one group is wiped out, countless more will pour in.

The more you pay, the more you will have to pay, and the stricter the rules will be, the more severe the situation will be!
There is no way to completely eliminate them!
While Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking this, another series of pictures appeared.

However, this time, the relevant content has been transferred from the internal troubles to the Jiannu side -

When Huang Taiji retreated after the Ji Si Rebellion, he occupied four cities in the interior of the country: Zunhua, Yongping, Qian'an, and Luanzhou.

These four cities were recaptured by the commander-in-chief Sun Chengzong in May of the third year of Chongzhen.

This was the great victory of Zunyong.

Huang Taiji then changed his strategy to destroy the Ming Dynasty. He no longer attacked Peking directly, but instead eliminated the Ming army's strongholds in western Liaoning while repeatedly sending troops into the Great Wall to plunder.

In November of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the city of Dalinghhe fell at the forefront of the Ming army in western Liaoning.

Sun Chengzong resigned from his post.

A more serious incident was the Wuqiao mutiny.

Soldiers Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming from Deng and Lai areas of Shandong mutinied on their way to support Dalinghhe City.

He returned to Dengzhou and Laizhou and held Denglai Governor Sun Yuanhua hostage to resist the imperial court.

The mutiny was not quelled until February of the sixth year of Chongzhen.

However, Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and others successfully broke through and defected to Huang Taiji.

Not only did he lead the Later Jin troops to capture Lushun, but he also passed on the technology of the Red Cannon to the Later Jin.

The Later Jin thus developed a tactic of coordinated combat between Han artillery and Manchu and Mongolian infantry and cavalry, which made the Ming army even more exhausted...

Zhu Yuanzhang was no longer able to comment.

At this time, he instead shifted more of his attention to the artillery.

I feel more and more that the Hongwu cannon made by Mei Yin, this good son-in-law, is indeed very useful.

Far-sighted!

This firearm is indeed a better direction for development!

It can greatly increase the combat effectiveness of the army.

In the future, I must be more determined and continue on this path!

At the same time, take a look at the appearance of the cannon in the picture.

I also feel that it has many similarities with the Hongwu Cannon made by my good son-in-law.

However, it seems that in terms of power, it is not as big as the one forged by his own son-in-law.

My own son-in-law is indeed extraordinary!
The Hongwu Cannon, which he could not make, was at least a hundred years ahead!
Thinking of this, he became more excited about the next mission he was going to carry out to wipe out the two pirate groups of Chen and Fang at sea.

Now our Ming Dynasty is equipped with so many Hongwu cannons.

The next time we fight against these pirates, we will definitely achieve particularly good results!
As Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking this, the scene on the simulator continued -

In the seventh and eighth years of Chongzhen, the Jiannu invaded the Great Wall twice to plunder during their westward expedition against the Chahar tribe of Mongolia, and they ran rampant in Xuanfu, Datong and the hinterland of Shanxi.

In April of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji proclaimed himself emperor.

The country was named Qing and the reign was called Chongde, and a regime that was in competition with the Ming Dynasty was formally established.

He then sent troops into the Great Wall to plunder the capital, which is known in history as the Bingzi Rebellion.

The Qing army acted as if they were in an empty land, and in September they plundered 180,000 people and livestock before leaving the border.

On the way, they left behind a humiliating wooden sign that read "Officials, please do not send me off"...

Minister of War Zhang Fengyi committed suicide after being imprisoned. On October 13, Zhu Youjian appointed Yang Sichang, son of Yang He, who was in mourning, as Minister of War.

In June of the 11th year of Chongzhen, he was appointed Minister of Rites and concurrently Dongge Grand Secretary, and was still in charge of the Ministry of War.

The hope of resolving internal and external troubles and reviving the Ming Dynasty was placed on him...

"boom!!"

Zhu Yuanzhang punched down hard, looking like a mad tiger.

For a moment, I wished I could get rid of all these barbarians!
The various scenes that appeared in the simulator made him feel really depressed and uncomfortable!

This is my Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty I built with my own hands!

Drive out the Tartars, restore China, and make all the surrounding barbarians behave themselves like a human being in the Ming Dynasty!

But now, we are being bullied and humiliated by those barbarians!

Just thinking about this made him furious! !
I just regret that I can’t come to the end of Ming Dynasty!

I can only vent my anger here in vain.

However, after this thought arose in his mind, suddenly an idea came into his mind.

I...can I make more efforts in the future?

See if you can find the ancestors of the so-called Jiannu?
And then solve them first?
This can be considered as solving the future troubles of the Ming Dynasty from one aspect...

After such a thought arises in my mind.

Zhu Yuanzhang thought his idea was indeed very good.

However, some new ideas soon arose in my mind.

He felt...the most fundamental reason was not this.

If many problems are not solved, it would be like I proposed to kill the ancestors of those people in advance.

Prevent the Jiannu from developing.

However, if the Ming Dynasty is not strong now, there will definitely be other slaves in the future...

I will be destroyed by someone else. This thought quickly echoed in my mind.

Zhu Yuanzhang quickly figured it out. Even if that was the case, so what?
Just calm down first!!

We’ll talk about the rest later!
While Zhu Yuanzhang was thinking this, the images on the simulator continued to appear.

Showing him many scenes from the end of the Ming Dynasty.

And the court’s response:

The strategy proposed by Yang Sichang to deal with the rebels was a four-square, six-corner, and ten-sided net.

The governors-general and prime ministers of the five provinces were responsible for the suppression.

Hong Chengchou was still the governor-general of the five provinces, while Lu Xiangsheng, the previous prime minister of the five provinces, was transferred to the north after the Bingzi Rebellion.

His successor Wang Jiazhen was incompetent.

Yang Sichang recommended Xiong Wencan, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi who had made great contributions in quelling the pirates, to serve as the premier of the five provinces.

By the eleventh year of Chongzhen, this strategy had achieved certain results.

The uprising forces in the northwest were completely wiped out under the suppression of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting.

In October of the same year, Li Zicheng led 18 riders to escape into the Shangluo Mountains.

Among the rebel forces in the southeast, Zhang Xianzhong's troops, the most powerful, accepted Xiong Wencan's offer of amnesty in April and continued to hold Gucheng.

In November, another rebel army in the southeast, led by Luo Rucai, also surrendered in Junzhou.

Other rebel forces in the southeast either surrendered or fled.

The policy towards the Qing Dynasty proposed by Yang Sichang was to give priority to peace talks.

So as to free up hands to deal with the people's rebellion.

This matter was carried out secretly by Liaodong Governor Fang Yizao and the military supervisor eunuch Gao Qiquan.

However, due to the leakage of the secret, the ministers opposed it and the peace talks were delayed.

In September of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji also sent troops into the Great Wall for the fifth time, and the capital was in a state of emergency.

This was the Wuyin Change.

Zhu Youjian urgently dispatched Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting to provide assistance.

However, they were still helpless against the Qing army.

The Qing army marched straight into the heart of Shandong, captured 58 cities, and captured 460,000 people and livestock...

"Get in his fucking bastard!!"

Zhu Yuanzhang shouted angrily: "Our Ming Dynasty's northern defense line has become a fucking sieve!
It became the back garden of the Jiannu!
They come when they want and leave when they want!
If everything is fine, head south to plunder!"

For him, watching the scenes in this picture, the mood is simply indescribable...

The screen is still showing——

Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, Sun Chuanting was imprisoned, and Hong Chengchou was transferred to be the Governor-General of Ji and Liao.

He led the elite troops of Shaanxi to guard against the Qing army in Songshan and Jinzhou.

This gave Li Zicheng, who was on the verge of despair, a chance to catch his breath.

Zhang Xianzhong also took advantage of Xiong Wencan's stupidity and raised the banner of rebellion again in May.

In September, Zhu Youjian sent Yang Sichang to lead an army to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong.

At first, he commanded Zuo Liangyu to win a victory at Manju Mountain in eastern Sichuan.

But then he suffered a series of defeats.

When Li Zicheng heard that Zhang Xianzhong had raised an army in Gucheng, he rushed to join him, but they soon parted ways.

From Huguang to Sichuan, and then from Sichuan to Henan.

In the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, he captured Luoyang and killed the emperor's uncle, Prince Fu Zhu Changxun.

In February, Zhang Xianzhong captured Xiangyang and killed Prince of Xiang Zhu Yiming.

When Yang Sichang heard the news that Luoyang and Xiangyang had fallen and the two kings had been killed, he died of worry in March...

Zhu Youjian felt sorry for Yang Sichang's death but did not hold him accountable.

Instead, he killed Zheng Chongjian, the former governor-general of the three borders of Shaanxi, who was considered to have failed to cooperate with Yang Sichang.

Then, Zhu Youjian appointed Ding Qirui, the governor of the three borders of Shaanxi, as the commander-in-chief to continue the encirclement and suppression of Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong...

"Fuck it motherfucker!"

Zhu Yuanzhang cursed angrily again.

I just feel extremely tired.

Extremely angry!
These things are so frustrating to watch!

So many times I failed at the last minute!
The Ming Dynasty today is truly full of holes.

Press the gourd to float the scoop!
Chongzhen’s problems were also particularly serious.

In many things, Chongzhen was simply giving blind orders!

In Zhu Yuanzhang's view, if Chongzhen did not give orders, many things might be very different...

Amid Zhu Yuanzhang's unspeakable mood, the images on the simulator continued to appear.

Tell him that what he saw before was still light, and there will be more severe things to come -

Before the 14th year of Chongzhen, although the internal and external situations were becoming increasingly unfavorable to the Ming Dynasty, they had not yet gotten out of control.

After the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the internal and external situations took a sharp turn for the worse.

The Ming Dynasty was rapidly sliding toward the brink of collapse.

Since the reign of Chongzhen, there has not been a happy year in Henan Province. Droughts, locusts, and disasters have occurred one after another.

The situation became more serious after the 12th year of Chongzhen.

In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, a "great famine and epidemic" occurred, and by June, countless people had died...

Under such circumstances, a large number of hungry people joined Li Zicheng's army, making it grow stronger.

Li Zicheng began to be called "King Chuang".

Intellectuals such as Niu Jinxing and Song Xiance also defected to Li Zicheng.

In February of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng, the capital of Henan Province.

Ding Qirui used the excuse of fighting Zhang Xianzhong and did not save Kaifeng.

Zhu Youjian appointed Fu Zonglong, who had made great contributions in suppressing the She'an Rebellion, as the governor-general of the three borders of Shaanxi.

He led 20,000 soldiers from Sichuan and Shaanxi to rush to Kaifeng for assistance.

Li Zicheng gave up attacking Kaifeng and turned to attack Fu Zonglong.

In September, Fu Zonglong was captured and killed in Xiangcheng.

In December, Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai attacked Kaifeng again.

Zhu Youjian promoted Shaanxi Governor Wang Qiaonian to be the Governor-General of the Three Borders of Shaanxi, and sent him to Kaifeng for assistance.

In February of the 15th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng captured and killed Wang Qiaonian in Xiangcheng.

Zhu Youjian was forced to release Sun Chuanting from prison and appointed him as the governor-general of the three borders of Shaanxi.

In summer, Li Zicheng besieged Kaifeng for the third time and annihilated the reinforcements led by General Ding Qirui and Baoding Governor Yang Wenyue in the Battle of Zhuxian Town.

Zhu Youjian urged Sun Chuanting to go out to rescue.

In September, the Yellow River embankment collapsed, Kaifeng was destroyed, and Li Zicheng stopped attacking Kaifeng...

In October, Sun Chuanting left Tongguan, was defeated in Jiaxian County, and retreated back to the pass.

In the intercalary November, Li Zicheng captured Runing, killed Yang Wenyue, and controlled most of Henan.

Then he moved to Huguang...

Zhang Xianzhong, who was once suppressed by Ding Qirui and others, became active again in Nanzhili. He captured Luzhou in May and defeated Huang Degong and Liu Liangzuo's troops in Lu'an in July.

At the beginning of the 16th year of Chongzhen, he moved to Huguang...

The war situation against the Qing Dynasty is also deteriorating...

The scenes in the simulator made Zhu Yuanzhang furious!

My temples were throbbing and my head was dizzy!
He threw his beloved inkstone to the ground, smashing it to pieces!
I am the Ming Dynasty, but I have become so miserable!
Many people died like grass!
After Zhu Yuanzhang smashed the inkstone, he stood there in a daze for a long time.

He sank back into the chair and half-lay there, as if all the strength in his body had been drained away.

He sighed deeply, feeling extremely tired.

Tired! Destroy it... (End of this chapter)