When he brought Hatano Hidego back to the mansion, Ashikaga Ikki and Tadayama Naoyi were relieved to see him return safely. After thanking Zhou Chong, he returned to his residence with Hatano Hidego to prepare for his return. As for what Hatano Hidego had experienced in Jianchang Hou Mansion, everyone knew very well and did not ask.

Although Zhou Chong did not want too many people to know about his departure from Beijing, he is now a hot figure in the capital. Many people are desperately trying to see him, and the news about him spread very quickly. In addition, he did not deliberately keep it secret, so many people know about his departure from Beijing.

The next day, Zhou Chong and his friends met Ashikaga Ikki and Wu Shan's Jinyiwei and left the capital from Chongwen Gate. Originally, Wang Lun was the only one who saw him off. Zhou Chong did not inform him, but when he came out of Chongwen Gate, he found that outside the city gate was full of people who came to see him off. Among them, except for Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe and a few people he knew, most of the others did not know Zhou Chong at all. What surprised him was that Zhang Heling and Zhang Yanling, who had a bruised nose and swollen face, also came to see him off.

Although Zhou Chong knew that among these people who saw him off, except for a few, most of the others were somewhat utilitarian. However, since they came to see him off on their own initiative, they wanted to make friends with him. If Zhou Chong wanted to stay in the officialdom, he had to have a broad connection. Therefore, whether they knew him or not, Zhou Chong showed great enthusiasm for these people who saw him off.

Seeing Zhou Chong dealing with these people who saw him off easily, Wang Lun next to him also smiled satisfied. When Zhou Chong first took over as the admiral of the Sihai, he was still a little worried that Zhou Chong would not be able to adapt to the officialdom. But now it seems that he is really worried, and Zhou Chong's performance is even better than he imagined.

After saying goodbye to everyone who saw him off, Wang Lun, Li Dongyang and a few others personally sent Zhou Chongyili. Finally, Jinxuan and his father Wang Lun said goodbye with tears in their eyes, which made Wang Lun cry. He is over 60 years old. I don’t know if he can still see his beloved daughter and his soon-to-be-born grandson in his life after leaving today?

After saying goodbye to Wang Lun, Zhou Chong rode on the horse, and Jin Xuan and the others also got on the carriage, but they did not go south along the main road, but moved a little further towards the Tianjin Wei in the southeast. This was because Bazhou, directly south of Beijing, is now in chaos, and Liu Liu and Liu Qi led the Baumin and Shen Ying to fight fiercely.

Speaking of which, when Zhou Chong and his friends came to the capital, they passed by Bazhou. At that time, Liu Liu and Liu Qi had not rebelled. Although Bazhou was only more than 100 miles away from the capital, Zhou Chong had only the word "poverty". The reason why Zhou Chong had this impression was mainly because there were too many beggars in the city. Moreover, when these beggars saw the convoy passing by Bazhou, they would beg for the road. If the car owner did not give the money, it would be impossible to leave. Fortunately, Zhou Chong's convoy was protected by the Jinyiwei, so the beggars did not dare to stop their team.

Afterwards, Zhou Chong also inquired about Wushan, but the other party told him that most of the beggars in Bazhou City were farmers who went bankrupt due to Ma Zheng, and they had to become beggars in order to survive. As a result, Zhou Chong was silent after hearing this. He also knew about Ma Zheng and knew that this was one of the national policies established by the Ming Dynasty to maintain the use of cavalry. After all, if you want to defeat the Mongolian cavalry in the north, the Ming Dynasty must maintain a powerful cavalry. However, these days, natural disasters in the north, coupled with Ma Zheng's heavy burden, have caused countless people in the north to go bankrupt, which is definitely not a good thing for the Ming Dynasty.

Sure enough, what happened next also confirmed Zhou Chong's conjecture. The two bandits Liu Liu and Liu Qi rose up and immediately received a response from some bankrupt people in Bazhou. Thousands of people gathered in a short time, and there was a growing trend. Fortunately, because of Zhou Chong's reminder, Zhengde changed his mind and sent an experienced veteran like Shen Ying to take on the role of the general to suppress the rebellion.

It is precisely because this matter has something to do with him that Zhou Chong has been paying attention to the rebellion in Bazhou for a while. What makes him happy is that Shen Ying is indeed very good at leading troops to fight, just as he boasted. When he first arrived in Bazhou, he fought a battle with Liu Liu and Liu Qi's rebels, and the result was a complete victory and killed most of the rebels. As for several core figures such as Liu Liu and Liu Qi, they were also surrounded by the army mobilized by Shen Ying in a fixed area, and the officers and soldiers were pressing forward step by step. If nothing unexpected happens, they will soon be able to squeeze Liu Liu and Liu Qi's remnants to death.

Although Zhou Chong also knew that except for Liu Liu and Liu Qi, the rebellious leaders, most of the other rebels participated in the rebellion because they could not survive. Therefore, Zhou Chong also sympathized with them. However, sympathy was sympathy. If Liu Liu and Liu Qi were not eliminated quickly, it would eventually cause a heavy blow to the Ming Dynasty, and countless innocent people died. Therefore, for the benefit of the majority of the people, Zhou Chong could only make up his mind to suggest to Zhengde to wipe them out.

Just as Zhou Chong and his convoy passed Tianjin Wei, good news came from Bazhou again. After Liu Liu and Liu Qi were surrounded by a large army led by Shen Ying for several days, they finally decided to break through. However, unexpectedly, someone under their command secretly surrendered to the court and leaked the news of the breakthrough to Shen Ying. As a result, on the night when Liu Liu and Liu Qi led their troops to break through, they were ambushed by Shen Ying. The entire breakthrough team was almost wiped out. Even Liu Liu and Liu Qi died in the chaos, but only Qi Yanming, the other leader of the rebel army, was missing.

The two bandit leaders Liu Liu and Liu Qi died, and the remaining rebels had no leader. In addition, they could not escape even in the encirclement of the cards, so most of them chose to surrender, and the rebellion in Bazhou finally subsided.

When Zhou Chong heard that Shen Ying lived up to expectations and quelled the rebellion in just a few days, and even Liu Liu and Liu Qi died in the chaos, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Liu Liu and Liu Qi, the two rebel leaders, died just after rebellion, which was completely deviated from the original history. I believe that the Liu Liu and Liu Qi uprising that caused huge damage to the Ming Dynasty in history will not happen again.

Before Zhou Chong could be happy, he suddenly thought that Qi Yanming, another key figure in the rebellion, had escaped. There were not many records in history about Qi Yanming. This was mainly because he died in battle not long after the uprising, but now he has turned around. Liu Liu and Liu Qi's brother died in front of him, but Qi Yanming, who should have died early, suddenly felt an unknown premonition in Zhou Chong's heart. Perhaps history was not so easy to change.

Just when Zhou Chong was worried about Qi Yanming's escape, Bazhou, not far from Tianjin, was covered with corpses in a large river in the southeast. The river water was stained with blood. The piled up corpses almost blocked the river water. In addition, the land on both sides of the river was full of dead bodies, and the soil on the ground mixed with blood to form a kind of sauce-red mud.

This is where Liu Liu and Liu Qi led their troops to break through. Unfortunately, the plan for breaking through was told by the rebels, so Shen Ying set up an ambush on both sides of the river. When Liu Liu and Liu Qi's breakthrough team crossed the river halfway, the officers and soldiers on both sides suddenly emerged from the darkness, and caught the rebels off guard. Liu Liu and Liu Qi were unable to command the team to fight. In the end, they were finally killed by the officers and soldiers several times more than they had. Liu Liu was chopped off his head by a knife in an official army. As for Liu Qi, he wanted to jump into the river and escape, but he did not expect Shen Ying to set up archers on both sides of the river, and Liu Qi was shot to death in the river.

The core figures of Liu Liu and Liu Qi's rebellion were the more than a dozen people who were the ones they made when they were playing horses. Now the two leaders of Liu Liu and Liu Qi are dead, and other famous core figures are also dead. However, Qi Yanming, who is on par with Liu Liu and Liu Qi among the rebels, disappeared, and no one even saw him.

If it were the past, Liu Liu and Liu Qi, the leader of the thief, had already died, and the rebels were eliminated, even if they escaped Qi Yanming, it would not be a big deal. After all, he alone could not cause much storm. However, before Shen Ying came to Bazhou, Zhou Chong told him that he would better arrest all the core figures of this rebellion, so Shen Ying did not dare to neglect him. After the war, he sent more than a dozen teams to search for Qi Yanming's whereabouts nearby.

It is precisely because of this that the officers and soldiers who searched for Qi Yanming on the battlefields on both sides of the river, even in the water plants on the riverside. They have been searching for a whole day and are about to set. If they can't find anyone, they can only withdraw their teams and return to the camp.

Speaking of which, although the battlefield is large, there are not many places where people can hide. The battlefields on both sides of the river have been turned over several times by the officers and soldiers, and each dead body has been turned over for the surrendered rebels to identify it. Unfortunately, Qi Yanming was still not found. So now the officers and soldiers have focused their main energy on this big river in the middle of the battlefield. First, there are many dead bodies in the river, including Qi Yanming, and second, there are many reeds growing in the river, and there are probably surviving rebels hidden inside.

I saw that the banks of the river full of dead bodies were now full of officers and soldiers. These officers and soldiers were holding a long bamboo pole, and there was a hook on the head of the bamboo pole, which could drag the corpses in the river. Every time a corpse was dragged, they were immediately identified by several surrendered rebels. Unfortunately, they were very disappointed every time.

It is already early winter now, and the reeds growing in the river have long dried up, so when they encounter reeds that may be hidden, the officers and soldiers will set fire to the fire and poke under the water with long bamboo poles. It can be said that as long as Qi Yanming is hidden in the river, he will definitely not be able to escape.
Chapter completed!