In the 14th year of Zhengtong of the Ming Dynasty, the governor of Fengyang was separated by the governor of Huaiyang, Shandong. The jurisdiction included Fengyang Prefecture, Huai'an Prefecture, Yangzhou Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture, Chuzhou, Xuzhou, and Hezhou.

After Zhu Yuanzhang, a hero from Fengyang, overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, he proclaimed himself emperor in Yingtian Prefecture and established the Ming Dynasty. At first, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to set the capital in Fengyang's hometown, and put forward a lot of reasons: Yingtian Prefecture is too far from the Central Plains and is not easy to intimidate the north. (This was confirmed by the rebellion of the King of Yan after Zhu Yuanzhang's death) Fengyang is located in the center of the Ming Dynasty, and there is also the Yangtze River in Fengyang. The Huai River is used as a natural barrier to defend, so it is very convenient to transport food.

It is rare for the emperor to lobby for so many reasons, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who has always been arbitrary, is hard to say anything, but Liu Bowen disliked Fengyang's bad Fengyang. Of course, those ministers did not want to move out of the luxurious Nanjing city to rebuild the court in the remote Fengyang. Under the public's expectations, Liu Bowen wrote a letter to Zhu Yuanzhang, saying: "Although Fengyang is an imperial hometown, it is not a capital."

As soon as Liu Bowen said that the ministers agreed. Although the idea of ​​moving the capital was dispelled, Liu Bowen had to give Zhu Yuanzhang a step, so he discussed with the ministers and finally came up with a plan of two goals: to combine Jianghuai, Jiangning and Suzhou into one to form the largest province in the country - Nanzhili Province (the later Jiangnan Province). This move could not only allow Fengyang to have the status of the capital but also preserve the identity of Nanjing as the imperial capital. In the 11th year of Hongwu, with the planning of the Southern Zhili Province, Nanjing officially became the capital.

The economic center, which started in the Jin Dynasty, moved south to the south, which was also perfected in the early Ming Dynasty. The Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas have been known as "Suhu ripens, the world is full" since the end of the Song Dynasty. At the beginning of this dynasty, there was no war after the war in the Poyang Lake in the south. In addition, the southern rice was at least ripe every year, and the economy recovered very quickly. The north had to wait until Emperor Yongle brought a large number of southern immigrants to move the capital to Beijing before it gradually stabilized.

In other words, from the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the early and mid-Middle Ming Dynasty, the entire north did not even have a relatively stable social structure. In addition, the Yellow River waterlogging at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was not completely managed, so the economy and grain production were naturally very different.

During the Yongle period, Emperor Yongle Zhu Di recruited a large number of manpower and material resources from the people in order to expedition to the Northern Yuan Dynasty. The most important one was to open the qualifications for selling private salt to merchants from all over the country. However, these merchants required their own strategic materials such as grain, cotton, coal to the northern frontline for salt supply, which was the opening of China and France.

This measure was originally intended to support the economy of the north, and it did give birth to the Shanxi merchants, a prosperous Ming Dynasty merchant gang that had been prosperous for dozens of generations. However, Hui merchants located in the south also saw business opportunities. They were more convenient than Shanxi merchants. Nanzhili Province was the backstage, and in the past few hundred years, it rose rapidly and brought the economic belt of Nanzhili Province to a new peak.

The salt merchant culture in Yangzhou and Nanjing was developed at this time. It is said that the tax revenue of Nanzhili Province accounts for one-third of the country, and half of the imperial officials came from Nanzhili Province and gradually increased with each period of imperial examination.

It is no exaggeration to say that even after Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, Beijing dialect was made the national common language, the vast majority of people in the court, including the emperor, and the concubines in the palace, mainly spoke Jianghuai Mandarin (the dialects born in the Jianghuai region of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, namely the official name of Jiangsu dialect and Anhui dialect in folk sayings).

Although Nanzhili Province was strong, it seemed that the rulers of the Ming Dynasty were not worried about rebellion and separatism. The reason was also very simple. First of all, it is not difficult to see from the name of Nanzhili Province that this is a place directly controlled by the court; secondly, it is the richest in the country, without natural disasters and wars, and basically no one will have a good life.

In addition, Jianghuai was Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown, Nanjing was the old capital and had a backup court that could be used at any time. The local patriotism was quite high and it was not easy to rebel incidents.

After the court finally established the Fengyang Governor, the Fengshan Governor was also the most important member of the governors in the world, because he was in charge of Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Huai'an and other places, which were important industrial places of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Sancai, a member of the Donglin Party, who was once prominent at that time, accumulated extremely amazing property because of the 13 years of restoration of the Huai River. It is said that it was 4.7 million taels of silver, and the annual agricultural tax income of the Ming Dynasty was only 4 million taels. Although Li Sancai's property may be a bit exaggerated, it is not much different, which shows the benefits of being the governor of Fengyang.

Governor Fengyang is naturally a top-notch fat man, but he is not the time to be Zhu Dadian now.

Because Fengyang Mansion, one of the important towns, was attacked by Zhang Xianzhong in one fell swoop.

After Zhang Xianzhong's army captured Fengyang Mansion, they destroyed the imperial tomb of the Zhuming Dynasty, and also cut off more than 100,000 pine and cypress trees in the imperial tomb. They also killed all the wealthy households, officials and eunuchs in the city. They seized a large amount of food here, and all of this food was sent to the people.

Zhang Xianzhong knew very well who was his friend and who was his enemy. This was the same as Liu Yuanqiao's idea. All he wanted to unite was the official and gentry class. Zhang Xianzhong was born as a farmer, so he could only unite more farmers to gather around him.

Originally, a large army of 100,000 people gathered in Xingyang, Henan, to discuss breaking the situation, but Zhang Xianzhong suddenly opened up a huge road for them.

So Gao Yingxiang, another leader of the bandit, led his army of 100,000 to the Fengyang area. They not only received enough supplies to make everyone eat and wear a new set of clothes, but also made a fortune, which made a huge boost.

Then they divided their troops to attack other places under Governor Fengyang.

The most famous Nanzhili in the Ming Dynasty was managed by two governors. The Nanzhili area south of the Yangtze River was governed by Governor Yingtian and stationed in Suzhou for a long time.

The north of the Yangtze River is under the jurisdiction of the Fengyang region. There is no saying in Anhui Province at this time, but because Zhu Yuanzhang, a great man, came here, this is the heart of the Ming Empire and the foundation of the world.

It can also be said to be the hometown of the current royal family. Their place of prosperity is now better. Their hometown and place of prosperity are actually rampant and attacked by bandits.

The news of the bandits burning the tomb reached the capital, and Emperor Chong Zhu Youjian was shocked and mourned. "The emperor cried in a low dress, sent officials to report to the temple, and arrested Yang Yipeng, the imperial envoy of the Caodu, and abandoned the market.

Chongzhen also said in the "Sinful Edict": "The atmosphere shocked the imperial tomb, and the ancestors threatened the people's revenge, and the crime was really my fault."

It is generally believed that Fengyang was conquered and the imperial tombs were burned and destroyed, which was a strange change that had not been seen in ancient and modern times, and the king was humiliated and died in the autumn of death of ministers. However, in the face of powerful bandits, they were at a loss and feared that they would not move forward. The Governor-General and Governor Zhu Dadian, the generals and generals of the official army, the generals and guerrillas were afraid of being annihilated by bandits, but they only symbolically "lead troops to suppress the enemy" after the bandits left, and none of them had the courage to confront the bandits head-on. "The official history of the states has no strategy to defend."

Mei Zhihuan, a man at that time, said: "Where are people who go there, those who are traitors, and those who are used to robbing and eating, follow like a market. The amount of baggage and extravagance of offerings cannot be described." He lamented, "Like this situation, there is no hope for the word "sooth"!"

This time, Emperor Chongzhen sent out the strongest lineup he could send. On the one hand, he ordered the governors of the five provinces. Hong Chengchou led his troops to march with all their might and to control the enemy within a limited time. He should not relax.

In addition, he ordered Zhu Dadian to be the governor of Fengyang and Lu Jiude to be the eunuch of the army to lead various troops to fully encircle and suppress the bandits who invaded Fengyang.

Jiude was named Shuangquan, a native of Yangzhou. He was diligent in nature and skilled in military training. He was the Huang Degong and Zhu Ji, both of whom were extremely brave."

Zhu Dadian and Lu Jiude are recognized as the strongest combination. They joined forces to pacify the Wuqiao mutiny and were one of the emperor's best partners. This time the imperial tomb was punctured, which was a strange change in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, other countries were unable to think of good generals, so they immediately thought of this team combination and sent them out to strangle the bandits with all their might.

However, the momentum of the bandits was so fierce that even though Lu Jiude and Zhu Dadian arrived near Fengyang one after another, they did not dare to advance in large numbers and all went to provoke these 100,000 bandit troops.

They don’t have many subordinates, but they are some elite troops. After all, they don’t have many men and cannot attack the opponent’s army lineup of 100,000. They dare not attack the opponent with all their might. They have to rely on Hong Chengchou’s troops to arrive. Hong Chengchou’s troops have urgently left Tongguan and moved south with all their might.

Since Chen Qiyu got off the horse, Hong Chengchou was appointed as the Minister of War and served as the governor of the five provinces. This job is not easy to do, because his predecessor Chen Qiyu's talent may not be inferior to him. His strategy was also successful. He could almost wipe out the bandits. Who knew that he had been trapped and taken advantage of by the enemy, and finally let the other party break the car and escape.

These officials could only use the city to change the king's flag. When he saw it collapsed, he saw that it was still in full swing in the first two months. He commanded 100,000 troops to fully encircle and suppress the bandits, and now he has become a prisoner. According to the court's wishes, he will be imprisoned and die.

Because the emperor was never ruthless in his execution. If a minister deceived him or did a mess of his errands, Emperor Chongzhen did not hesitate to take ruthless measures and directly executed him, such as Yuan Chonghuan, who was always punished by the emperor.

So after hearing the emperor's edict, Hong Chengchou led his Qin army to go out of Tongguan with all his might and pursue the rebels. However, the right army had a father of more than 100,000 people and more than 100,000 troops. It was boundless and massive, and it was impossible to complete it directly in a short period of time.

Now they all know that the combat effectiveness of the bandits' army is actually quite strong. If they do not have an absolute advantage, they will almost give up their heads to rush over. Not only will they not wipe out the other party, but they will also make the other party backfire.
Chapter completed!