Dealing with such small bandits is really a slight attempt. But after all, the suppression of the bandits in the well that were pacified in Dingzhou was considered the first shot to pacify the bandits.

There is nothing to show off on such a small-scale battle, but it will cause the 12th Regiment Battalion to fall into the vast ocean of pacifying the gang.

Shanxi Cheng announced the Political and Envoy Department, four prefectures, twenty prefectures, seventy-seven counties. Almost every prefecture and county has bandits. Their number is more or less, and some prefectures are more than just bandits.

With so many bandits and hundreds or thousands of bandits, how do you fight?

Zhu Cilang was stunned for a moment. This was different as he imagined. Yangqu County, Yuci County, Taigu County, Qi County, Xugou County, Qingyuan County, Jiaocheng County, Wenshui County, Shouyang County...

In more than 70 prefectures and counties, if they want to wipe out all the bandits in Shanxi, even if the 12th Regiment Battalion takes action, they can only succeed in one or two years or four or five years.

Moreover, this requires strong logistical support, and all the soldiers, horses, food and grass are missing. This is only one Shanxi, which is why Sun Chuanting's ten thousand Qin soldiers guarding Tongguan were already exhausted in the face of the entire Shaanxi.

What’s so bad is that every battle you only need to win but not lose. Bandits can be defeated again and again, like Li Zicheng himself, I don’t know how many times he has been defeated. But every time he loses, he can make a comeback as long as he lives are left.

If you stay in the green mountains, you will not worry about burning firewood. What the bandits lack the least is soldiers. As long as they are given the right soil, they can immediately pull up a group of people to continue burning, killing, looting and looting.

If the officers and soldiers are not good, if the officers and soldiers are defeated once, they will not only lose a large area of ​​territory, but will also be in a slump. Because the court is really unable to continue to supplement you. One is rising and the other is getting worse, and the Ming Dynasty was dragged to death.

Zhu Cilang now understood why there were many famous generals in the late Ming Dynasty, and there were many soldiers who could defeat them. However, they still could not stop the destruction of the country.

There is another even more fatal point, you destroy a bandit. Not long after, they will appear again.

For example, this time the Tiger Ben Army tried a stunning skill, which was easy to slap, and at the cost of zero casualties, the frog bandit group in the well that was in trouble for Dingzhou.

The bandit leader was killed, the frog at the bottom of the well was annihilated, more than 300 bandits were captured, and more than 700 were captured. However, sixty or seventy people fled, and finally disappeared.

Just three days later, in the southwest of Leping County, under the jurisdiction of Dingzhou, someone looted a large village under the banner of a frog in the well. He killed the rich family without leaving the chickens and dogs in his family and looted all the property in his family.

There was no choice but Zhu Cilang, who had originally wanted to send troops to pacify the enemy in Henan, had to enter Taiyuan Prefecture first.

Since ancient times, many martyrs in Taiyuan were born. When the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed, the prefect of Taiyuan Prefecture in Shanxi and others died heroically.

In history, after Li Zicheng led his troops to Taiyuan, he killed as many as 46 officials, including the Shanxi governor Zhao Jianji, the deputy general Ying Shisheng, the guardian Mao Wenbing, the governor of Ning Dao, the governor of Taiyuan, and the patrol of Ning Dao, Sun Kang and others. Bi Gongchen was also killed at that time. Cai Maode, who was the governor at the time, was also caught by Li Zicheng's subordinates, and Li Zicheng tried to use means to force him to surrender. Cai Maode remained unmoved and refused to surrender for this. Soon he was killed by suicide. Li Zicheng sent troops to cut off Cai Maode's head, and the body was abandoned with Cai Ende and Zhao Jianji together. Eight days later, Li Zicheng led his troops to leave Taiyuan to attack Beijing. The bodies of Bi Gongchen and others were finally buried by local reserve troops Duan Keda.

At this time, Bi Gongchen, the deputy commander of the army, Zhao Jianji, the deputy general, Ying Shisheng, Mao Wenbing, the governor of Ning, Lin Gangzhong, Taiyuan prefect Sun Kang, etc., the governor of the governor, Cai Maode, Cai official Duan Keda and others were all called in front of Zhu Cilang.

These people were all loyal ministers and righteous men who died for the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Cilang also seemed very enthusiastic about them.

"Dear officials, my palace was ordered to quell the bandits in Henan and fight to the death with Li Zicheng. However, the bandits in Shanxi were rampant. After reading the memorials given by Lord Zhao, there were hundreds of bandits registered. For so many bandits, I am afraid that the officers and soldiers in Shanxi would be less than one tenth."

All officials from all departments in Shanxi were ashamed. The governor Zhao Jianji stood up and said, "I should die, but I am the one who is incompetent in governance. I would like to ask the Crown Prince to forgive me."

This time, Chongzhen sent his son Pingko to give Zhu Ciyang the greatest military power. Zhu Ciyang is now the Grand Marshal of the World and has control over the entire army. In other words, Zhu Ciyang now has the power to mobilize military and political power across the country, and is no longer as timid as before.

Zhu Cilang naturally valued his ministers loyal to the Ming Dynasty. The bandits attacked Taiyuan, and the momentum was rampant. Jianji and the governor Cai Maode and the supervisors were divided into guards. The city was trapped, and Maode died and was in danger. Jianji was in danger and was in a court. The bandits were surrounded by him and saw him unyieldingly, and he was about to behead him. The lower stairs called him again and said, "I lost my territory and have more than mortals." Zicheng thought he was calling him, so he returned. Jianji hated and said, "I call him the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, but I would rather call him the thief!" He shot him and killed him.

When the thief first plundered Yongning, Jianji's five sons died, and then he had three sons and died. At that time, the Zhao family was completely destroyed.

After hearing what Zhao Jianji said, Zhu Cilang replied, "Mr. Zhao, I am not the stupid official who is waiting to die. There is no need to say much about the saliva in these scenes. If I had been like the stupid officials in the court before, I might have felt that the bandits were blamed on you. But I only realized that I had misunderstood you when I came to Shanxi."

The officials were silent, yes, bandits were everywhere. The officials and men in the capital didn't care about this, and they always believed that it was the reason for local officials.

Even Emperor Chongzhen, Chongzhen has issued several decrees to severely reprimand officials from various Shanxi departments. Before, Shanxi and Henan had not provided disaster relief, the people had already lived in peace. Why did bandits rise again in the blink of an eye?

This must be the reason why local officials are corruption and are responsible for protecting the people and lazy government.

Zhu Cilang thought so before that the ministers of the Ming Dynasty had few good things. In the words of Emperor Chongzhen, all civil officials could be killed.

However, now Zhu Cixuan has changed this view. He knew that many times officials are involuntarily unable to control themselves. It is undeniable that the officialdom system has collapsed, but there are also honest officials.

For example, the officialdom in Shanxi, from the governor Zhao Jianji to the Kaihua minister Bi Gongchen, they were all considered honest officials.

Historian Ji Liuqi once recorded the situation after Bi Gongchen's death in "Mingji Beiluo": "The prince has no son and no one wants to ask for help." This shows that he is honest, has no family property, and is very desolate after his death.
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