Chapter 132 Yuan Chonghuan's Restoration and Lin Danhan's Actions

On the first day of July, the Taibai star appeared, reddish-brown, flickering, and shaky, which was an ominous sign.

On the same day, Chongzhen received the news of the defeat of the Ming army in Shaanxi. He couldn't help but feel angry and spurted out a mouthful of blood, and fainted directly.

The emperor's coma directly caused the entire palace to fall into panic.

Fortunately, Chongzhen was just angry and woke up in the afternoon.

However, as the saying goes, good fortune never comes alone, and misfortune never comes alone.

He hadn't completely recovered from the news of the defeat of the Ming army in Shaanxi, and he received another bad news.

On July 3, the Ningyuan mutiny.

Because the military pay had not been paid for a long time, many soldiers became angry and agitated, and the Sichuan and Huguang soldiers were the first to make a fuss.

Zhang Shirong and Su Hanchun, who were patrolling, saw that the situation was not good and turned to escape.

However, they were soon rushed up and caught and tied up by angry soldiers.

At this time, the soldiers' emotions were like dry firewood, which would burn fiercely when it encountered a spark.

As soon as the soldiers from Huguang and Sichuan made a commotion, the other 130,000 soldiers immediately responded.

For a time, the crowd was excited and almost everyone lost their minds.

The soldiers tied up the governor Bi Zisu and the general Zhu Mei, and tied them to the tower together with Zhang and Su, and cursed and humiliated them.

However, Guo Guang, the deputy envoy of military preparation, had just taken office and was not very familiar with the soldiers, so the soldiers did not arrest him.

Guo Guang saw that the incident had suddenly occurred, and the soldiers were too numerous and powerful to suppress it at all, so he tried every means to collect 20,000 taels of silver and distributed it to the soldiers.

However, this amount of silver was really a little too little for more than 100,000 soldiers.

In the end, Guo Guang borrowed another 50,000 taels from the rich merchants in the city.

Although many soldiers were still somewhat dissatisfied, it was better than having no military pay at all, and Guo Guang and others promised that they would not pursue the guilt of the mutinous soldiers.

After receiving the silver, the soldiers slowly dispersed.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan, the new governor of Ji and Liao, had just entered Shuntian Prefecture in the capital.

Yuan Chonghuan, whose courtesy name was Yuansu and nickname was Ziru, was born in Dongguan, Guangdong. His father, Yuan Zipeng, was proficient in geomancy and had many knights under his tutelage, like Mengchangjun.

After Yuan Chonghuan entered the officialdom, he was generous and courageous, and liked to talk about military tactics, which was influenced by his father.

However, the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty valued civil service over military service, and the number of candidates for each military examination was less than one-third of the number of candidates for civil service.

In order to serve the country, Yuan Chonghuan gave up military service and took the civil examination. As expected, he won the imperial examination and became the 40th Jinshi in the third class in the 47th year of Wanli.

This section was full of talents and produced a group of influential figures, among which Yuan Chonghuan was the most eye-catching.

In the sixth year of Tianqi, Nurhaci of the Later Jin attacked Ningyuan City.

In the end, he was repelled by Yuan Chonghuan, or was injured by Yuan Chonghuan's artillery, and had to retreat.

Eight months later, Nurhaci's injuries worsened and he died.

In May of the seventh year of Tianqi, Yuan Chonghuan defeated Huang Taiji again.

But in the end, he was dismissed by Wei Zhongxian with a false decree and returned to his hometown in Guangdong to farm.

However, in April this year, he was promoted by Chongzhen again to the Minister of War and Deputy Chief Censor, Governor of Ji and Liao, and controlled Ningyuan, Jizhou, Denglai, Tianjin and other places.

However, he had not yet taken office, but had just arrived in the capital, and a bad mutiny occurred in Ningyuan.

Almost immediately, he was summoned to the palace by Chongzhen.

In response to Chongzhen's inquiry, he boldly said that he would recover Liao in five years, advocating "defending as the right way, fighting as the odd way, and appeasing as the side way"

"Use Liao people to defend Liao land, and use Liao land to support Liao people"

"Appease the Western Tartars (Mongol) to control the Eastern Barbarians (Later Jin)"

And Yuan Chonghuan's remarks and ideas naturally pleased Chongzhen.

When he first ascended the throne, he always wanted to make achievements as quickly as possible to stabilize and rectify the already shaky Ming Dynasty.

Yuan Chonghuan's five-year pacification of Liao naturally pleased Chongzhen.

Not to mention Yuan Chonghuan's trip to Ningyuan to appease the Ningyuan mutiny, let's talk about Yang He, the governor of the three borders of Shaanxi, who retreated all the way back to Xi'an Prefecture after being defeated by the rescue army.

However, before he had time to reorganize the army, Chongzhen had already issued an imperial edict, ordering him to reorganize the army as soon as possible and suppress the uprising army in Shaanxi.

Looking at the imperial edict in his hand, Yang He's expression changed. The uprising army in Shaanxi must include the dynasty's people's salvation army.

However, after the previous battle, he really didn't have the confidence to fight it again.

He didn't even have any confidence in whether he could defend.

However, Chongzhen's imperial edict had already come down, what could he do?

"Alas~!"

Yang He sighed, but he could only cheer up and raise food and grass for the army again and recruit soldiers.

At the same time, he also submitted a memorial to Chongzhen, hoping to resign from the position of governor of the three borders. He felt that he really didn't have this talent.

And at this time, something even more misfortunate happened.

Those uprisings that had been surrendered, after the failure of the court army, regrouped and rebelled.

In this regard, Yang He could only cheer up again.

As for the people's salvation army in the west, he could only arrange a defense line and focus on defense.

While Yang He was suppressing the bandits once again and deploying a large army to guard against the rescue army's eastward advance, Wang Chao, who had already returned to Lintao Prefecture, had no plans of expansion at all, but devoted himself to the development of his territory.

As time goes by, Shaanxi Xingdusi, as well as the newly occupied Pingliang and Fengyang prefectures, are gradually covered by the bright yellow national destiny.

Endless national fortunes gathered together, and the golden ball of light above the dynasty's head became more solid and brighter. There was no longer any impurity there, only pure gold, and it had completely turned into a golden ball.

A mysterious aura of power was gestating and evolving in the golden ball of light.

The golden ball of light at this time is like a golden spiritual egg, nurturing a divine life.

Soon, soon.

Feeling the rhythm of the golden ball of light above, Wang Chao's heart was slightly excited. In about ten days and a half, the golden ball of light will undergo its final transformation and evolve into higher power.

He was looking forward to it very much.

At this moment, Li Hei suddenly came in a hurry.

Seeing this scene, Wang Chao couldn't help but look serious.

For Li Hei to be like this, something big must have happened.

"Leader, Wang Dahu, the commander-in-chief of Gansu Province, sent someone to report that Lin Dan Khan seems to be a little restless on the northern grasslands."

"Hmm~?"

Chao Chao looked gloomy and sneered with a cold light in his eyes:

"Does Lin Danhan, who was just beaten up by Huang Taiji, think that our People's Salvation Army is easy to bully and wants to show off his strength and power here in our People's Salvation Army?

Reply to Wang Dahu. If Lin Danhan dares to come even half an inch closer to the Great Wall, he will be beaten back by me.

Also, tell Wang Dahu that there is a shortage of people for the construction of the territory."

"yes!"

Wang Chao narrowed his eyes slightly and looked northwest.

The national destiny is shrouded in bright yellow, and there is a small black cloud on the edge of the national destiny.

That is the area of ​​spiritual radiation around the territory. If someone is in it and is hostile to the Salvation Army, a large amount of black and gray energy will naturally breed.

And if a black cloud can be formed, there must be a lot of people.

In fact, there are black clouds in many places around the territory of the People's Salvation Army. They are the spiritual power generated by the Ming court army and the surrounding forces.

Therefore, the dynasty itself did not care much about the dark clouds around it.

But combined with Li Hei's report.

Then the black clouds in the northwest may be the army assembled by Lin Dan Khan.

Involuntarily, Wang Dynasty had a thought, and his mind had already arrived in that area. The cavalry team, which stretched for several miles, was slowly approaching the Great Wall.

There are at least 20,000 people in the area that is only covered by spiritual power and can be sensed by the dynasty.

Not to mention, there must be more cavalry outside the area covered by spiritual power.

However, Dynasty was not too worried.

Because through spiritual induction, the Dynasty could clearly sense that these Mongolian cavalry were not stronger than the Ming army, and the combat power of the Salvation Army was enough to crush them.

The only concern is that the National Salvation Army may not be able to catch up.

With the evacuation and occupation of Gansu Town and Shaanxi Xingdusi, the Dynasty naturally confiscated a large number of war horses.

However, compared with those Mongolian cavalry, they are still far inferior.

but

The dynasty suddenly looked to the west. The monks can run away, but they can't run away from the temple. You can run away, but your land can't run away, right?

The dynasty really doesn't have the energy to occupy the northern Mongolian grasslands now.

But to the west of Dongkel, my country's largest inland lake, Qinghai Lake, now also belongs to the Tatar Tumote tribe of Lin Dan Khan.

Even in history, Lin Danhan died in Qinghai Lake.

And there seems to be a salt lake in the southwest of Qinghai Lake.

It's called Chaka Salt Lake.

And the salt it produces is the famous Daqing salt, or Tibetan blue salt.

The Dynasty felt that their National Salvation Army needed such a salt lake.

However, all this has to wait until Lin Dan Khan's attack is defeated.

While Wang Chao was thinking about this, Jiang Bo suddenly walked in quickly.

"Chief, Mr. Zhou Tiezhou, the head of the Weapons Manufacturing Department, wants to see you!"

"Hmm~?"

After hearing Jiang Bo's words, Wang Chao was stunned for a moment, then his mind was shaken, and an idea vaguely emerged.

"Quick! Let Mr. Zhou come in."

"yes!"

After Jiang Bo walked out, he extended his hand to Zhou Tie who was waiting beside him.

"Master Zhou, the leader invites you!"

"Well, thank you, Guard Guojiang!"

With a bow of his hands, Zhou Tie quickly entered the government office.

"Zhou Tie, the head of the Weapons Manufacturing Department, has met the leader!"

Seeing Zhou Tie's faintly excited expression, the Dynasty had basically determined that this must be something that the Dynasty had explained and it had already yielded results.

"What's the purpose of Chief Zhou Tie's visit this time?"

Sure enough, when Dynasty asked, Zhou Tie immediately responded excitedly.

"Chief, it's successful! The blast furnace has successfully smelted iron."

"Oh! Did it really succeed?"

Wang Chao stood up abruptly and couldn't help but smile on his face.

"Well, it really worked!"

"Okay, okay, Master Zhou is indeed an expert in this field.

Let’s go, let’s go and have a look later.”

"Yeah, yeah, yeah"

Zhou Tie nodded repeatedly and led the way, while saying a little embarrassedly:

"The success of blast furnace ironmaking is really thanks to Xiao'er?"

"Oh~? What's going on? Tell me."

Chao Chao looked at Zhou Tie and asked with interest.

"Hey! Ever since the leader told his subordinates and his father about using coke in blast furnaces to make iron and converters to make steel, his subordinates and his father have been studying it day and night.

However, although some results have been achieved, it is still far from the expected goal.

The efficiency of ironmaking has been greatly improved, but there has been no progress in converter steelmaking.

Until a few days ago."

It turned out that Wang Chao, based on his memories of his previous life, told Zhou Tie and his son about the use of coke in blast furnace ironmaking and converter steelmaking, and then asked them to study the ironmaking.

However, Wang Chao only knew a general idea, and he didn't know how to operate it.

Blast furnace ironmaking has existed in China during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and by the Song Dynasty, it was already very mature.

Of course, it must not be comparable to later generations, but no matter what, it can also produce molten iron.

So, Wang Chao mainly wanted to make steel in a blast furnace.