On August 28, the sixteenth year of Zhengde, Xu Jin was ordered to lead the Dewei to defeat the Nishan bandits outside Qufu City, beheading more than 1,000 people, and the leader of the horse thieves, Zhao Zhi, was awarded the head.

On the same day, the mine thief Wang Tang led his troops and Zhao Quan's other road of Nishan horse thieves to break through Xintai County, since then, Laiwu, Xintai, Surabaya three counties have fallen into the hands of thieves, and the thief army is strong.

The next day, Tai'anwei commanded Zhang Hao to lead an army of 2,000 to attack Laiwu County, but because of the fear of the war, the fighter was missed, and the Wangtang Department of the division was encountered near Guanshan, and under the attack of several times the troops, the Ming army was defeated, and the commander Zhang Hao fell to his horse and died, and the remnants of Tai'anwei fled back to Tai'an Prefecture in a hurry.

In the battle of Guanshan in Laiwu County, Wang Tang led the thieves to defeat the two thousand Ming army, and killed Zhang Hao, the commander of Tai'anwei, which made him more prestigious, and for a time all the bandits and strongmen came to vote, and the thieves under Wang Tang also developed like a snowball, and in less than half a month, the rebel team of only a few thousand people had skyrocketed to more than 20,000 people, and there was a faint sign of success.

At this time, the actions of Luo Xiang, the eunuch of Shandong Town, were a little unclear So, he actually mobilized troops to encircle and suppress the Jiema Mountain in Feicheng County, and I heard that it was because when he passed through Feicheng, he was attacked by the horse thief Tang Jing in the Jiema Mountain, so he sent troops to retaliate.

Tai Anwei happened to be not far from Feicheng, so he was also transferred by Luo Gonggong to take away half of the men, otherwise Tai Anwei commanded Zhang Hao would not have led only 2,000 people to attack Laiwu County, so that he was defeated and died under the attack of several times the strength of Wang Tang.

Despite this, Luo Xiang stubbornly continued to encircle and suppress the horse thief Tang Jing across the mountain, Xu Jin had sent two groups of people in a row to inform Luo Xiang, asking him to suspend the encirclement and suppression of the horse mountain, and transfer Tai'anwei back to Tai'an Prefecture, so that he could form the word "product" with Qufu's Guide and Qingzhou's Qingzhou Wei in Qingzhou, and besiege the three counties (Laiwu, Xintai, and Surabaya) occupied by the thieves.

However, Luo Xiang didn't listen at all, and even replied to ridicule Xu Jin for being too lenient, saying that Xu Jin was only ordered to supervise the military affairs of Dongchang Mansion and Yanzhou Mansion, and had no right to dictate to the army of Jinan Mansion, because Tai'anwei belonged to Jinan Prefecture.

Xu Jin was so angry that his teeth itched, but he was helpless, but on the third day of the ninth month, the Tai'an Prefecture City, which was empty of troops, was broken by Wang Tang and the thieves in one fell swoop. It is the place where the emperors of the past dynasties sealed Zen, and now it has fallen into the hands of thieves!

Luo Xiang, the eunuch guarding the town, knew that he was afraid, and immediately ordered the troops to counterattack Tai'an Prefecture in an attempt to recapture Tai'an Prefecture, of course, he himself slipped back to the Jinan garrison, leaving only the army to fight there.

Tai'anwei commanded Yang Ji to lead 3,000 people to storm Tai'an City, but Tai'an Prefecture was built according to Mount Tai, the terrain was dangerous, and now it was occupied by Wang Tang's thief army, and it was not easy to take it back.

The 3,000 Tai'an guards led by Yang Ji attacked fiercely for several days, but failed to break through Taizhou City, but suffered heavy losses, and finally could only retreat to Feicheng.

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In early September, the Double Ninth Festival, the autumn is high and cool, but the atmosphere in the capital is a bit bleak, whether it is the inner and outer city, or the defense of the palace is obviously much stricter, and the garrisons around the capital are also frequently transferred.

Beginning in late August, riots broke out in Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, and Shandong provinces, shaking the government and the opposition.

The palace is in the palace, and the Qianqing Palace is in the heart palace. The little emperor Zhu Houxi angrily smashed his fist on the imperial case, and fell to the ground with a bang, and several little eunuchs fell forward and knelt to pick it up.

"The rice bucket, all of them are waste, and none of them can share my worries, not even a few white lotus Yu Xue can't clean it up!" Zhu Houxi's eyes were red, like an enraged little beast.

Since 25 August, when we received the news of the rebellion of the Mine Thieves Wangtang in Qingzhou, Shandong, more than a dozen civil uprisings have occurred in several provinces around the capital, most of which have been rebellions by bandits, and all of them have flaunted the banner of Maitreya's reincarnation.

Of course, it doesn't matter who rebels, as long as it is exterminated, but the news coming from all over the country is not optimistic, especially the situation in Shandong, which makes the little emperor Zhu Houxi very annoyed.

Zhu Houxi was sulking, and the eunuch Bi Yun walked into the Heart Nourishing Hall with a smile in his hand, and trotted to the front of the imperial case, grinning and saying softly: "Your Majesty, good news, good news!" ”

Zhu Houxi was just unhappy, and took the performance of Eunuch Bi and said coldly: "If you coax me with something innocuous and trivial, I can't spare you old thing!" ”

Bi Yun smiled with an old face: "How dare the old slave, this piece was originally sent back by Lord Xu Jin Xu from Shandong, and it was just sent from the General Administration Department to the celebrant supervisor." ”

When Zhu Houxi heard that it was Xu Jin's notebook, he immediately opened it and laughed: "Okay, great, I finally see a good news, hurry, I want to convene a court meeting and notify the cabinet and the six ministries!" ”

Bi Yun promised, ran out of the Heart Cultivation Palace, and notified the relevant people to hold a court meeting.

After Zhu Houxi waited for Bi Yun to leave, he carefully read Xu Jin's recital, and then happily closed it and said: "Xu Jin, you really didn't disappoint me, come here, set up the Wenhua Palace!" ”

It turned out that Xu Jin had reported the situation of the first battle of Qufu, and he also asked the imperial court to give him greater power to supervise the military affairs of the entire Shandong Province, and at the same time give him a banner to allow him to act cheaply.

This matter is not trivial, the little emperor naturally cannot have the final say, and the awarding of the flag must be written by the Ministry of War, and the cabinet drafts the decree, so it must be discussed and decided by the court.

Soon, the four elders of the cabinet and the six Shangshu were all present, and the little emperor Zhu Houxi sat on the throne, and the court meeting officially began.

Mao Cheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Yang Tan, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, was in a complicated mood, from the beginning of the examination, they tried their best to suppress Xu Jin, and this time he was not out of good intentions to get him out of Beijing for disaster relief, who knew that this kid's luck was really a bit against the sky, first from the deputy envoy of the Qin mission to the main envoy, and the commander of the military affairs of the two prefectures in Shandong.

Now when there was a sudden civil uprising in Shandong, and everyone else was defeated, this kid won a battle, beheaded more than a thousand, killed the first thief, and solved the danger of Qufu, the holy land of literati, which is undoubtedly a great achievement.

Soon, the results of the court meeting came out, and the four elders of the cabinet and the six ministers almost unanimously agreed that Xu Jin would supervise the military affairs of Shandong Province, and ordered the military department to award a banner to allow him to act cheaply and coordinate the Weisho army in several surrounding provinces.

Although the first assistant Yang Tinghe did not like Xu Jin, he was still relatively upright as an official, and decisively abandoned his personal prejudices in front of the overall situation related to the security of the country, so the court proposal to grant Xu Jin military power was quickly passed, which made the little emperor Zhu Houxi very satisfied, and Yang Ge Lao also felt a lot more pleasing to the eye.

Now that the results of the court meeting have come out, the next step is to be issued by the cabinet and the Ministry of War, officially ordering Xu Jin to supervise the military affairs of Shandong Province, and awarding the marching flag to allow him to act cheaply.

It is said that when Wang Shouren was the governor of southern Jiangxi, he also won the marching flag awarded by the Ministry of War, mobilized the troops of several surrounding provinces, and in one fell swoop set the group of bandits entrenched in the mountains at the junction of Jiangxi, Guangdong and Fujian provinces.