Chapter 270

Governor Fengyang was separated from governor Huaiyang of Shandong in the 14th year of the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty. His jurisdiction includes Fengyang Prefecture, Huai'an Prefecture, Yangzhou Prefecture, Luzhou Prefecture, Chuzhou, Xuzhou and Hezhou.

After the overthrow of the Yuan Dynasty by Zhu Yuanzhang of Fengyang, a hero of huaizuo, Zhu Yuanzhang declared himself Emperor in yingtianfu and established the Ming Dynasty. At first, Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to set the capital of the country in Fengyang's hometown and put forward a lot of reasons: yingtianfu was too far away from the central Plains to deter the north. (this was confirmed by the rebellion of King Yan after Zhu Yuanzhang's death) Fengyang is just in the center of the Ming Dynasty, and Fengyang also has the Yangtze River and Huaihe River as natural defense, which is also very convenient to transport food.

The emperor rarely put forward so many reasons to lobby, and Zhu Yuanzhang, who has always been an arbitrary leader, is hard to say, but Liu Bowen disliked Fengyang's Feng Shui. Of course, those ministers did not want to move out of the luxurious Nanjing city to rebuild the imperial court in Fengyang, which is more remote. Under public expectation, Liu Bowen wrote to Zhu Yuanzhang, "although Fengyang is an imperial Township, it is not a capital."

Liu Bowen said that all the officials should respond. Although the idea of moving the capital was abandoned, Liu Bowen had to give Zhu Yuanzhang a step down, discussed with the officials, and finally came to a two-way plan: integrate Jianghuai, Jiangning and Suzhou into one to form the largest province in China - nanzhili province (Jiangnan Province in later generations). This can not only make Fengyang the capital, but also preserve Nanjing's identity as the imperial capital. In the 11th year of Hongwu, with the planning of nanzhili Province, Nanjing officially became the capital.

Since the two Jin Dynasties, the economic center has moved south, which has been improved in the early Ming Dynasty. Since the end of Song Dynasty, Jiangsu and Zhejiang have been known as "Su Hu is ripe and the world is full". At the beginning of this dynasty, there was no war after the flood of Poyang Lake in the south. Coupled with at least two crops of rice in the south every year, the economy recovered very quickly. The north, on the other hand, will not become stable until Emperor Yongle moves to Beijing with a large number of Southern immigrants.

In other words, during the period from the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the whole North did not even have a relatively stable social structure. In addition, the flood of the Yellow River at the end of the Yuan Dynasty was not completely managed successfully, and the economy and grain production were naturally poor.

During the reign of Yongle, Zhu Di, the great emperor of Yongle, recruited a large number of human and material resources from the people for an expedition to the Northern Yuan Dynasty. One of the most important was to open the qualification of selling illicit salt to local businessmen. However, this requires these businessmen to send their strategic materials such as grain, cotton and coal to the northern front in exchange for salt diversion, which is Kaizhong France.

This measure was originally intended to support the economy of the north, and it did give birth to a prosperous business gang of Shanxi merchants for decades in the Ming Dynasty. However, Huizhou merchants in the South also saw business opportunities. They had more convenience than Shanxi Merchants in the Grand Canal and nanzhili Province as the backstage. In these hundreds of years, they rose rapidly and brought the economy of nanzhili province to a new peak.

The salt merchant culture of Yangzhou and Nanjing 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 court officials come from nanzhili Province, which gradually increases with each imperial examination.

It is no exaggeration to say that even after Zhu Di moved his capital to Beijing, Peking Dialect became the national lingua franca, the vast majority of people in the imperial court, including the emperor and imperial concubines, mainly spoke Jianghuai Mandarin (the dialect born in Jianghuai area of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces, that is, the official name of Jiangsu dialect and Anhui Dialect in folk parlance).

Although nanzhili province was strong, it seemed that the rulers of the Ming Dynasty were not worried about rebellion and separatism. The reason is also very simple. First of all, it is not difficult to see from the name that nanzhili province is directly controlled by the imperial court; Secondly, it is the richest place in the country. There are no natural disasters and wars. Basically, no one will put a good life.

In addition, Jianghuai is Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown, Nanjing is the old capital, and there is a set of standby imperial court that can be used at any time. The local patriotism is quite high, and it is not easy to rebel.

After the imperial court finally established Fengyang governor, Fengshan governor was also the most important governor in the world, because he was in charge of Xuzhou, Yangzhou, Huai'an and other important industries in the Ming Dynasty.

Li Sancai, a prominent member of the Donglin Party at that time, accumulated amazing property because of his 13 years of fuhuai. It is said that there are 4.7 million liang of silver, and the agricultural tax income of the Ming Dynasty is only 4 million Liang. Although Li Sancai's property may be exaggerated, it is not much worse. It can be seen that he is good to be governor of Fengyang.

Governor Fengyang is naturally a first-class good fat and lack, but now Zhu Dadian is not the time.

As one of the important towns, Fengyang mansion was attacked by his army led by Zhang Xianzhong.

After Zhang Xianzhong's army captured Fengyang mansion, they destroyed the imperial mausoleum of the Zhu Ming Dynasty. At the same time, they also cut down more than 100000 pines and cypresses in the imperial mausoleum. Moreover, they killed all the rich families, officials and eunuchs in the city. They seized a large amount of grain here, which was distributed to the people.

Zhang Xianzhong knows who is his friend and who is his enemy, which is the same as Liu Yuanqiao's idea. What Liu Yuanqiao wants to unite is the official and gentry class. Zhang Xianzhong was born as a farmer, so he can only unite more farmers to gather around him.

Originally, 100000 people gathered in Xingyang, Henan Province to discuss breaking the situation. Who knows, Zhang Xianzhong suddenly opened a great way for them.

Therefore, Gao Yingxiang, another leader of the roving bandits, led his 100000 troops to the South and arrived in Fengyang area. They not only got enough supplies here to make everyone eat and wear a new set of clothes, but also got a full bowl, which was a great momentum.

Then they sent troops to attack other places under governor Fengyang.

The most famous nanzhili in the Ming Dynasty was managed by two governors respectively. The nanzhili area in the south of the Yangtze River was under the jurisdiction of governor Ying Tian and stationed in Suzhou.

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

It can also be said that it is the hometown of the royal family and the place of their prosperity. Now it is good. Their hometown and place of prosperity have been rampant and attacked by wandering bandits.

When the news of the bandits burning the mausoleum reached the capital, Emperor Chong Zhu Youjian was shocked and extremely sad. "The emperor, dressed in plain clothes and crying, sent officials to sue the temple and arrested Yang Yipeng, the imperial envoy of Cao Du, who abandoned the city.

Chongzhen also said in the imperial edict of sin and self: "the atmosphere shocked the imperial mausoleum, and the ancestors intimidated the people. The crime is really mine."

It is generally believed that the capture of Fengyang and the burning of the imperial mausoleum are unprecedented changes in ancient and modern times and the death of monarchs and officials. However, in the face of powerful exiles, they are helpless and afraid to move forward. Zhu Dadian, governor and governor of water transport and governor, as well as the chief soldiers, generals and guerrillas in the army, are afraid of being annihilated by exiles, but only symbolically "lead troops to help suppress" , they dared to go after the rogue bandits left. None of them had the courage to fight head-on with the rogue bandits

At that time, Mei Zhihuan said, "everywhere you go, those who are rebellious, habitual thieves and wanderers are like a city. There are many supplies and extravagant offerings. He lamented that" there is no hope for a word like this! "

Emperor Chongzhen sent the strongest team he could send this time. On the one hand, he ordered the governor of the five provinces, Hong Chengchou, to lead his troops to march with all his strength and defeat the enemy within a limited time.

In addition, Zhu Dadian was ordered to be the governor of Fengyang, Lu Jiude was the eunuch of the army, and led all troops to encircle and suppress the roving bandits who invaded Fengyang area.

Jiude Shuangquan, a native of Yangzhou, is hardworking and proficient in military training machines. Its brand Chinese Army Huang Degang and Zhu Ji are extremely brave. "

Zhu Dadian and Lu Jiude are recognized as the strongest combination. They jointly calmed the Wuqiao mutiny that year. They are recognized as one of the best partners by the emperor. The imperial mausoleum was planed this time, which is an unprecedented change in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, it is difficult for his country to think of good generals. They immediately thought of this combination and sent them out to hang and kill the wandering bandits.

But the momentum of the bandits was so fierce that even Lu Jiude and Zhu Dadian arrived near Fengyang one after another, they just didn't dare to march in large numbers and went to provoke these 100000 bandits.

They don't have many men, but they are some elite troops. After all, they don't have many hands. They can't attack the other party's 100000 army lineup. They don't dare to go all out to attack the other party. They have to rely on Hong Chengchou's troops to arrive. Hong Chengchou's troops have urgently left Tongguan and made every effort to go south.

Since Chen Qiyu got off the horse, Hong Chengchou held the title of minister of the Ministry of war and served as governor of five provinces. This job is not easy to do, because the talent of his predecessor Chen Qiyu is not necessarily under him. His strategy is also successful. Seeing that he can almost wipe out the roving bandits, who knows that he was caught in a conspiracy and taken advantage of by the enemy, he finally let the other party smash his cars and escape.

These officials can only use the changing King's flag at the head of the city. In front of him, he rises and sees it collapse. In the past two months, there was still boundless scenery. Chen dashai, who commanded tens of thousands of troops to encircle and suppress the roving bandits, has now become a prisoner at the bottom of the rank. Listen to the meaning of the imperial court, he will be imprisoned and sentenced to death.

Because the emperor executed these ministers, but he was never soft hearted. If a minister deceived him or ruined his job, Emperor Chongzhen did not hesitate to give him a hard hand and execute them directly. For example, yuan suihuan, who was always punished by the emperor.

Therefore, after hearing the emperor's edict, Hong Chengchou led his Qin army to go out of Tongguan with all his strength to recover the rebels, but there are more than 100000 fathers of the army. The mobilization of more than 100000 troops is boundless and powerful, and it is impossible to complete it directly in a short time.

Now they all know that the army combat effectiveness of the roving bandits is actually quite strong. If they don't have an absolute advantage, they rush over and almost give away their heads. They not only don't destroy each other, but also let the other eat back.

Therefore, all their armies were very cautious and shouted loud slogans, but they were afraid to attack until the main forces were assembled. This led to the large-scale attack of the roving aggressor army in all the governments under the rule of Fengyang area.