In the face of ambition, there is always not enough time, and two months have passed in a flash.

Everything is moving forward in an orderly manner.

This empire, which was once on the verge of decay, under the leadership of an ambitious young emperor and a legendary peerless warrior, has shown a state of revival of dead trees and new sprouts of old trees.

Folk, there are words like "Chongzhen Zhongxing" coming out.

The Empire, on the march.

It's just that there are always twists and turns along the way forward.

On February 21, the fifth year of Chongzhen, a major event occurred in the Guanning army stationed in Jizhen that no one expected.

Speaking of which, the fuse of this incident was lit by the Demon Cult.

After the Demon Sect promised to help Qin Shuhuai train the imperial court soldiers and horses, he first sent the elite of the two hundred and five elements of the banner to secretly enter the Jianghe Gang, and after staying there for a short period of seven days to complete the identity change, he immediately went north as a member of the Jianghe Gang and went to train the imperial army stationed in Jizhen, Shanhaiguan and Liaodong.

And all the imperial court troops, including Yuan Chonghuan's Guanning army, after receiving the imperial court's edict for rectification, basically accepted these "leaders" who came to rectify the training - although many generals in the Guanning army had a lot of complaints about letting people from the rivers and lakes to reorganize the army, but because many generals had a good personal relationship with Qin Shuhuai and had also seen the combat effectiveness of the Jianghe Gang, with their support, the training was carried out smoothly.

However, Qin Shuhuai ignored one point, that is, although the soldiers trained by the Demon Sect were indeed strong, their training methods were extremely cruel - even a little dehumanized!

To what extent?

In order to exercise perseverance, the Demon Sect requires everyone in the ice and snow to practice the formation shirtless, and one practice is an hour or two. How cold is the winter in the Xiaoice River can be imagined, which of those soldiers is not shivering from the cold?

In the past few days, hundreds of soldiers have suffered from frostbite, three of them have froze to death, and more than a dozen of them have been crippled! This is still based on the fact that the soldiers in this world are more or less proficient in martial arts, and they are more resistant to cold than ordinary people, otherwise the number of people who are not frozen to death and frozen is far more than that.

But the people of the Demon Cult don't care about this at all, and it seems normal to them, because that's how they usually train!

In addition to bare-chested training, these "leaders" of the Demon Cult also have various other perverted requirements, such as training in subjects that are "forbidden by order", and making soldiers jump into the ice river with an order, or roll barefoot into the fire.

Another example is the subject of formation drills, so that two groups of people are armed with wooden knives and wooden swords to attack, and if the two sides don't fight and cry and cry for their mothers, they won't have anything to eat.

Of course, there are also many cases of beating, scolding, and corporal punishment at every turn during training.

The arrogant Demon Sect Five Elements Banner elite didn't look down on these court soldiers at all, and the court soldiers, especially the Guan Ning Army, who were also a little arrogant, couldn't bear all kinds of torture that they didn't treat them as human beings.

As a result, resentment is spreading, and contradictions are escalating!

Finally, on the 21st of February, the 15,000 Guanning troops stationed in the Santun camp in Jizhen couldn't stand it anymore for the first time

On this morning, in the routine formation drill, one of the generals in the Guan Ning army didn't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, and he slowed down three times in a row, causing several leaders of the Demon Sect to be furious, and pulling him out was a violent beating.

However, this general has a high prestige among the brothers on weekdays, and this completely angered the soldiers, and these people went up to reason with the people of the Demon Sect in a vigorous manner.

When the people of the Demon Sect saw that there were still those who dared to commit crimes, they did not hesitate to raise their knives on the spot and slash a soldier as a warning—although it was not fatal, the wound was very deep, and the blood was rushing out.

A group of soldiers are already emotional, what will be the consequences when they see blood?

The answer is self-explanatory.

Boom, these soldiers are doing it with these leaders!

There were only 20 Demon Sect Five Elements Banner people in the Santun camp, and there were 15,000 Guanning troops stationed there! And as soon as the riot broke out, it spread rapidly, and soon the entire camp was full of red-eyed soldiers who wanted to kill the "sect leader"!

Although Zu Dashou, who was ordered to garrison the Santun camp, immediately carried out suppression, it was still a step too late.

The Demon Sect's Five Elements Banner is only 20 people, even if it is the elite of the elite, how long can it resist under the siege of hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands?

All 20 Demon Cult elites were killed!

It is worth mentioning that in the face of the siege of thousands of people, they even killed more than 20 Guan Ning troops!

This mutiny soon reached the imperial court.

The strange thing is that half a month has passed, and the imperial court has not said anything at all.

Even Qin Shuhuai didn't speak.

This made the officers and men of the Santun Camp and even the entire Guanning Army at a loss.

The most difficult person is naturally Zu Dashou, because it was his subordinates who killed people, and it was the people of Grandpa Guo who were killed!

Although he had already tied up all the soldiers who took the lead in making trouble and escorted them to the capital, and took the initiative to apply to the imperial court for his dismissal, the imperial court never replied.

At this time, no news is the worst news, how can Zu Dashou, who has been in the officialdom for many years, not know this?

He knows very well that the most important thing for the court to deal with this matter depends on the meaning of Grandpa Guo.

So, he immediately wrote a sincere letter of guilt to Qin Shuhuai, but unfortunately Qin Shuhuai didn't reply to him at all. forced him to quickly ask someone to go to Sun Chengzong's to inquire about the tone of the grandfather, but in exchange for Sun Chengzong's closed door.

Zu Dashou was as anxious as ants on a hot pot, and Yuan Chonghuan was also anxious.

As the commander of the Guanning Army and the commander of Jiliao, the mutiny happened in his territory, can he not be in a hurry?

Yuan Chonghuan sent people to ask Zu Dashou almost every day how things were going.

Zu Dashou couldn't sit still, so he had to apply for a month's leave from the imperial court in the name of returning to Beijing to treat his back injury, and hurriedly returned to the capital to find Qin Shuhuai.

Of course Qin Shuhuai won't see him!

Because on the first day when the news reached the palace, Chongzhen said in front of Qin Shuhuai that this incident was caused by Yuan Chonghuan's lax imperial soldiers, which caused a mutiny in the army, and he could not escape the blame!

Since Chongzhen named Yuan Chonghuan's name, what else do you want to talk about with Zu Dashou?

Qin Shuhuai knows very well that Chongzhen is in the next big game of chess!

Poor Zu Dashou ran to the Guogong Mansion and stood in the ice and snow for a full day, but he only got a bowl of ginger soup sent by Qiu Dali, and as for the grandfather of the country, he didn't even see a shadow.

Zu Dashou was unwilling, and from the next day onwards, he went to block the people around Qin Shuhuai. From Qiu Dali and Steward Qiao to Lao Dao who was far away in Tianjin, even Wen Tiren and Zhao Bingzhen went to look for him, but these people either didn't see him, or they sighed when they saw him, saying that they couldn't help much.

In a word, he's got a big deal!

In order to avoid the great birthday of his ancestors, Qin Shuhuai temporarily lived in Liushi Academy.

For this matter, what he can do now is to appease the emotions of the Demon Sect on the one hand, after all, they have lost people, and on the other hand, he ordered the rectification training to continue in various places, and those who disobey the rectification will be killed.

He was also waiting, waiting for Chongzhen's final opinion, although he could probably guess what Chongzhen would do - Sun Chengzong had entered the palace from time to time in the past few days, and it was obvious that he was planning something with Chongzhen.