Lu Xiao's appointment finally came down, and the commander of the Jinyiwei. He also served as another official position, military preparation.

This official position is full name for the rectification of military preparations, and is a comprehensive official position responsible for local soldiers, horses, money, grain, and military farming. It was evolved from the regiment training and envoys during the Tang and Song dynasties, and has the right and responsibility to train troops.

The ministers in the court naturally made another crazy impeachment of this. However, no matter how they impeached, they were useless. Moreover, the methods of the Apocalypse were not comparable to those of Chongzhen later. With countless black materials in his hand, he could threaten a group of subordinates.

After missing a little information, Wei Zhongxian, as a qualified loyal dog, immediately attacked strongly and dragged several court officials into Zhao Prison. After torture, he colluded with the enemy and treason, confiscated his family and destroyed his family, and started to serve in one-stop service.

The key is that all the evidence of the crime this time is true. Tianqi also showed some evidence in the court, and the voice of the entire court suddenly became much smaller. Obviously, the group of people had already understood the emperor's meaning and shut up a lot.

The key point is that Lu Xiao has only served as the commander of the Jinyiwei and added a military commander. He has not actually been involved in the power of the court. Moreover, since he took charge of the Jinyiwei, the number of people who were sent to Zhao Prison has been significantly reduced.

In this comparison, the court officials actually felt that Lu Xiao was actually okay.

I can only say that sometimes many things cannot withstand comparison.

However, the tranquility in the court did not bring substantial changes to the Ming Dynasty. The north has been drought for years, and natural disasters and man-made disasters have taken turns to fight. Countless lower-class people finally lost the last possibility of survival. Therefore, the turmoil broke out.

The first peasant riot broke out in northern Shaanxi, and soon formed a prairie fire. At first, Wang Jiayin and Wang Ziyong in Fugu riots, and they occupied Huanglong Mountain. Then the King of Yichuan Zuogao, Ansai Gao Yingxiang, Luochuan Zhang Cunmeng, Yanchuan King Monk, Daliang, Hannan King and others responded, and the fierce fire of the struggle burned throughout Shaanxi.

At this time, Shaanxi Yinzhou, also known as Mizhi County, a lower-level civil servant in the Ming Dynasty was unemployed. This person was named Li Zicheng, a groom at the post station of the Ming Dynasty. Because he lost a document (some say he lost his horse), he was expelled from official business and went home without a job.

Without a job, there is no money. So, the debt owed to the juren was not paid, and the other party sued him to the yamen. On one side was a juren, and on the other side were an unemployed civil servant. The county magistrate immediately arrested him and tortured him severely, basically preparing to kill him.

However, Li Zicheng is usually very loyal. There is a group of poor guys. After discussion, these guys rescued Li Zicheng. After Li Zicheng came out, it was still impossible for him to have money to pay off his debts. So he thought of a wonderful note. If he kills the creditor, wouldn’t he have to pay off his debts?

Li Zicheng, who had strong execution ability, did what he thought of. Soon after, he killed the creditor and successfully eliminated the debt. Li Zicheng, who had handled the debt, was originally very proud. However, after returning home, he found that his wife had committed adultery with a gangster in the same village.

Li Zicheng broke the defense on the spot and killed his wife with the opportunity. Two lives were left alone and could no longer hide. Under the pursuit of the government, Li Zicheng had to join the army.

But when we entered the Ming army at this time, it was actually similar to the national army in 1949.

Li Zicheng joined the army, originally just to have a full meal. As a result, after he went there, he found that the soldiers were not as good as the rice, and the rice was not enough to eat.

In fact, it is not that there is no military pay, but it just cannot be reached. The superiors embezzled and exploited them layer by layer, except for the chief general's personal soldiers. The soldiers below are no different from beggars.

Li Zicheng's bad temper naturally couldn't stand this kind of treatment, so he simply turned against it.

Lu Xiao has actually been paying attention to the news in Shaanxi. He had thought of killing Li Zicheng in advance. But it was meaningless to think about it. In the late Ming Dynasty, if you kill a Li Zicheng, you will also produce Zhang Zicheng, Guo Zicheng, and Zhao Zicheng. In the seventh year of the Tianqi revelation alone, dozens of uprisings of all sizes occurred across the country.

Some have been suppressed, some are still wandering around. Some have already captured the city and become a certain climate.

This is a tragedy caused by the entire era, and it cannot be compensated by killing one or two people. Of course, what is more important is that most of Lu Xiao’s energy is actually devoted to Liaodong.

Over the years, he has cultivated a lot of trustworthy people. However, he has basically sent him to Liaodong to collect various information against the Tartars. For Lu Xiao, civil strife in the Central Plains. That is the people of the Central Plains who are working hard to survive. He does not have that much energy to care about these things.

After personally participating in this world trend, he realized the saying that manpower is sometimes poor. Even though he is now the command room of the Jinyiwei, he also serves as a military commander. He is still trusted by the emperor and has memories of his previous life to cheat. However, facing the situation in the Ming Dynasty, he still feels full of troubles and messy.

So, after some choice, Lu Xiao finally realized that he could not solve all problems. Therefore, he focused his energy on Liaodong. He was responsible for resolving external conflicts. As for internal conflicts, it depends on the gods.

Wars are everywhere across the country, creating countless unmanned areas and countless refugees. These refugees are huge hidden dangers in public security in various places. Because everyone knows that these people are refugees today. But they may not be able to wait for tomorrow. That night, someone raised their arms and shouted. They turned into bandits.

As for selling children and girls, it is even more common. In this environment, Lu Xiao sent a lot of people to take in some young and middle-aged people around him, at least in his old age.

This winter is a life-threatening hurdle for countless refugees. When the first snow fell, dozens of people died of cold and starvation in the capital every day.

You should know that this is the capital. The lives of those refugees in the towns around the capital and even further north are only worth half a steamed bun.

In this case, Lu Xiao only spent a very small amount of money to gather thousands of young and middle-aged people. As a price, it was just two meals a day.

This is to make some preparations for the reconstruction of the Qi family army. What Lu Xiao wants to build is a professional army, who is completely full-time, and has all his energy to fight for wars. Everyone pulls them out and is an absolutely strong army like a killing machine.

A completely out-of-productive army is actually a huge burden for a dynasty. A simple question: If a soldier is completely out of production, does his family also need to be supported by the state? Otherwise, if he loses this labor force, his family may starve to death.

Therefore, supporting 10,000 full-time soldiers is not only supporting one thousand people, but also supporting 10,000 families. This increases the cost several times.

At the same time, after the soldiers were completely out of office, the logistics work of camps, weapons and equipment, horses, etc., also requires a huge and professional team to be responsible for. This is another huge expense.

These expenses combined, in ancient times when there was insufficient productivity, would put huge pressure on a dynasty. Therefore, there were very few soldiers who were completely out of stock in ancient times.

At this time, Lu Xiao recruited soldiers to avoid the burden of his family. All these soldiers were refugees who were bought separately. Their families were either dead or separated. Without the side of the family, building this army could greatly reduce expenses.

But even so, Lu Xiao’s money and grain reserves can only be used to maintain their basic survival. Fortunately, as time goes by, this difficult winter finally passed.

The arrival of spring finally made Lu Xiao feel relieved. Those pigs that had been raised for a long time can finally start killing.

The first wave started with the Fan family, one of the eight major Shanxi merchants.
Chapter completed!