During the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong referred to the Liaodong Commander Command, which is the Liaodong Town in the Jiubian important town of the Ming Dynasty. It belongs to the Shandong Xuancheng Prefectural Office and is the largest military center of the Ming Dynasty. Its jurisdiction area is only slightly smaller than that of Liaoning today.

Junzhen was a local administrative unit unique to the Ming Dynasty. It was a border defense area established to resist the counterattack of the Yuan and Meng. There were almost no administrative units such as counties, prefectures, and prefectures in Junzhen, and most of them were garrisons. For example, Liaodong Town consisted of twenty-five garrisons and two states. The area under one garrison was equivalent to a county today.

Ningyuanwei was such a small county town where this mutiny occurred. So why did the Liaodong Governor and the Liaodong General stay in such a small county town? It was because from the 46th year of Wanli (1618 AD), the Jianzhou Jurchens, that is, the Later Jin Dynasty, attacked Liaodong Town in an all-round way. By the first year of Chongzheng, almost all of Liaodong were lost, leaving only the narrow area of ​​Shanhaiguan-Ningyuan-Jinzhou as the last fortress to resist the invasion of the Later Jin Dynasty. This is the famous Ningjin defense line.

You should know that after passing Shanhaiguan, it is the territory of the Northern Zhili Capital. The importance of the Ningjin defense line can be imagined. Therefore, when I heard about the Ningyuan mutiny, the entire Ming court was shocked. This was simply a self-destruction of the Great Wall. Once the Ningjin defense line was lost, the cavalry of the Later Jin Dynasty could march straight into the capital!

Sun Chengzong naturally knew the importance of the Ningjin defense line. He hurriedly recruited Yuan Keli, the admiral of the Three Military Camps, and Yuan Chonghuan, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, and then led more than a thousand Jinyiwei's personal troops to set off.

The capital city is almost a thousand miles from Shanhaiguan. Wang Zhichen originally thought that the imperial envoy of the court would take at least ten days and half a month to arrive, but he never thought that he would meet Sun Chengzong, a fierce man, who only brought a thousand personal guards to gallop along the way, and rushed to the Shanhai guard station in three days!

Wang Zhichen was organizing a group of confidants to cover up the evidence of the crime and create an illusion. This action was caught by Sun Chengzong at the beginning. So, a huge corrupt group was presented to Sun Chengzong. Even though he was used to the storm and waves, he was shocked by the greed of these people!

Not only do they deduct food and pay, but they also eat empty amounts, use inferior products as good ones, smuggling and selling prohibited items, etc. In short, they do whatever they can make money, but they just don’t properly prepare for the war!

Bi Zisu was so honest that he was excluded by them. Originally, the ministers of the king did not intend to deduct Ningyuanwei's food and salary, because Ningyuanwei had only less than 50,000 people in total, but he reported it to 100,000. Even if all the food and salary were paid to them, half of the empty salary was put into his pocket! However, the court cleaned up the eunuch party this time, and officials like him who depended on the eunuch party were also the target of cleaning up, and he had to spend money to deal with it.

As the money was spent a lot, he began to feel distressed. He simply kept doing everything and took down all the money. He only gave away food and grass. He had no war anyway. He was idle all day long, so he could make you full!

He thought that there was someone above him, so there would be no accident, but he didn't expect that the above was here to hold on, but the lower part did not hold on. Ning Yuanwei actually made a collective trouble, and Bi Zisu actually committed suicide!

Wang Zhichen was originally a kind of person who was good at flattery. He knew that he could not avoid him if Sun Chengzong caught him, so he just told him honestly and tried to give him some fun, pour beans on the bamboo tube, deducted his food and salary, and accepted bribes.
Chapter completed!