The Ningxia border troops mutinied on their own halfway and chose to join forces with the Hetao rebels. The Jining general soldiers rushed to Hetao, but were afraid to move forward, but were appointed as their commander-in-chief by the Jining rebels in Hetao and asked him to lead the army to Beijing.

Armed to demand wages.

Jining's commander-in-chief pretended to agree, and when he walked to Shanxi, he trapped and killed more than ten rebel leaders. The rebels dispersed and did not dare to return to the border town. They occupied mountains and became kings in various parts of Shanxi.

In the twelfth year of Binh Ninh, the Nguyen family of Jiaozhi raised their own troops, killed the chief envoys of Jiaozhi, and established the country of "Dai Viet". They attacked Guangxi again, and the gentry and merchants of Guangxi were forced to form regiments to deal with the invasion of Jiaozhi's army.

In the same year, civil unrest broke out in Jiangxi, and the peasant army swept across the entire southern Jiangxi region. The Jiangxi Tuanlian army could only resist.

In the fifteenth year of Pingning, Japan, which finally completed its reunification, suddenly sent troops to Korea.

The Ming Dynasty maritime merchants, who had huge interests in North Korea, used armed merchant ships to form a naval regiment and defeated the Japanese fleet. The Japanese army who landed in North Korea were either killed in battle or captured.

In the 16th year of Pingning, the emperor passed away. Fortunately, he did not become the last monarch.

Emperor Taichang succeeded to the throne, taking the meaning of "the country is prosperous and the people are prosperous".

In the first year of Taichang, 1713 AD, it had been 345 years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

Insightful people all over the world are calling for the reform of bad government, demanding that commercial taxes be increased, land taxes be reduced, and extra factions be cancelled. However, commercial taxes are still being reduced, because all the dynasties are spokespersons for merchants.

In coastal provinces, industry and commerce are developed, and a large number of landless peasants flock to cities and factories. Even if civil unrest occurs, they are defeated by the powerful private armies of merchants. If the natural disaster is too serious, they will immigrate to Yinzhou, anyway, the people will not be allowed to cause chaos along the coast.

The coastal provinces are singing and dancing, creating a scene of prosperity.

Wang Yuanzhen has been training in the Huguang regiment for ten years, occupying Yizhang, Guiyang, Lanshan, Ningyuan, Jianghua, Yongming, Daozhou, Bangzhou, and Yongxing, which are some remote prefectures and counties in Huguang, directly bordering Guangdong and Guangxi to the south.

, it is also very convenient to buy arms in Foshan.

Industry and commerce were underdeveloped in these places, so Wang Yuanzhen did not attack the merchants, but frantically expelled the big landlords and distributed their land to the sergeants and common people.

Neighboring gentry raised funds one after another to support powerful officials in organizing group training in order to organize Wang Yuanzhen's expansion.

As for the government, they turned a deaf ear and allowed the local regiments to attack each other. Anyway, Wang Yuanzhen did not kill the officials in rebellion.

In the first year of Taichang, Wang Yuanzhen captured Yongzhou Prefecture, which was the first prefecture he captured. He then sent his troops to capture Hengzhou Prefecture. In the middle, he defeated a large number with a small number, defeating an army of 30,000 regiments. There was no opponent in the entire southern Huguang.

The difference in weapons between the two sides is very small, but the difference in morale is huge.

The troops under Wang Yuanzhen's command were all allocated land in real terms. However, the enemy's regiment training troops were paid to eat and were not willing to work hard at all.

A partial division was sent to capture Baoqing Mansion. Wang Yuanzhen led his own army to march to Changsha, and then went to Yuezhou, Changde, and Chenzhou. He moved his base to Yuezhou Mansion and carried out large-scale land division activities in the newly expanded territory.

The Governor of Huguang finally couldn't sit still and led the regiment training army in northern Huguang southward.

Wang Yuanzhen could not avoid the battle and held Yuezhou City for more than two months.

When the enemy's morale was exhausted, they suddenly launched a night attack. The governor of Huguang took advantage of the chaos to escape. The Hubei soldiers fell into the river and died. The regimental training commander was killed by a stray bullet.

Wang Yuanzhen took advantage of the situation and occupied Jingzhou, and his finances were immediately abundant. He also organized a naval army, and his reputation finally spread to Beijing.

The imperial court sent the contemporary Marquis of Zunhua, a descendant of Wang Su, to recruit Wang Yuanzhen through kinship relations.

Wang Yuanzhen actually became the governor of Huguang, and blatantly opened government offices. Moreover, he continued to crack down on big landowners and distributed land to poor people. Many of the affected landowners and their tribesmen served as officials in the court.

The officials were furious and planned to conquer Wang Yuanzhen, but there was no army available.

As for the regiment training troops in each province, they only want to "protect the territory and the people" and are expanding their own territory. How can they be willing to cross provinces to help the imperial court fight?

In the second year of Taichang, Wang Yuanzhen occupied the entire territory of Huguang and carried out a policy of dividing the province.

There were riots among the gentry, but Wang Yuanzhen did not need to send troops. The peasants who learned the news took their hoes and suppressed them spontaneously.

In the fourth year of Taichang, Wang Yuanzhen sent troops to Jiangxi, which instantly stirred up a hornet's nest because there were too many families serving as officials in the government.

However, the war went extremely smoothly.

Throughout the Ming Dynasty, Jiangxi was the province with the most civil unrest, ranking first in the country, and there was no other semicolon.

Wang Yuanzhen came over shouting the slogan "equalize the land", and countless Jiangxi farmers heard about it and came to vote. However, due to the large number of officials in Jiangxi's large families, the regiment training troops were full of conflicts, and no one obeyed anyone. When fighting, even the Huguang regiment training was inferior.

In the fifth year of Taichang, Wang Yuanzhen occupied all of Jiangxi.

It can be said that he was extremely rich, because he controlled part of the Yangtze River waterway and made a fortune every day by collecting taxes from merchant ships.

Finally, the merchants regretted it.

No matter whether they are land traders or maritime traders, they cannot tolerate local separatism, because the forces in each province are setting up cards to collect taxes, which has caused their commodity transaction costs to increase significantly. Factory owners also have a headache, and the cost of transporting raw materials has also increased sharply.

ah.

But what's the use of regret?

If you are awesome, build your own army and fight!

In the sixth year of Taichang, the emperor died suddenly, leaving no children.

All officials compared the royal family genealogy and welcomed Emperor Taichang's second brother from Hanzhong to Beijing to succeed him.

The new emperor was riding a train and passing through Shanxi when a group of bandits came out.

These bandits are so powerful. They ride on tall horses and have muskets in each hand. They are rebel soldiers from Hetao who scattered into the mountains and forests. They complained that they were deceived by the general soldiers of Jining and asked the new emperor to give an explanation. They all wanted to return to Hetao to be with their relatives.

Reunion.

The rails were pried, and Xinhuang overturned.

The new emperor pretended to agree and conspired to deal with the bandits in Taiyuan. The bandits were tricked once, but they were very cautious this time and kidnapped the new emperor again at a critical moment.

Well, I shouldn't call him the new emperor, because he hasn't officially ascended the throne yet.

So, the hijacking was just a hijacking, and the officials in the court elected a new prince.

The bandits were dumbfounded and didn't know what to do. After much deliberation, they simply put a yellow robe on the prince from Hanzhong and took him back to Hetao to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor.

The Hetao border troops responded one after another, killed their generals, came to join them, and supported the emperor to attack Shanxi.

Shanxi merchants were cut off from their wool supply. For their own benefit, they simply cooperated with the border troops, supported the emperor, and announced that the capital would be moved to Taiyuan.
Chapter completed!