June 19, the twenty-seventh year of the Chongzhen era.
Just as the Senior Grand Secretary, Xie Sanbin, was fretting over who should lead the troops to suppress the rebellion, news arrived from the Shaanxi-Sichuan border: with the assistance of the Viceroy of the Capital Garrison, Lü Daqi, Borjigin, the son of the former Prince of Shunyi, Obu, had successfully taken control of the tribe.
Xie Sanbin’s first instinct was to immediately order Lü Daqi and the frontier troops of the Shaanxi-Sichuan border to march south to suppress the rebellion. However, Shaanxi was thousands of miles away from the Capital. If he were to rely on them to quell the uprising, the rebels would likely have breached the Capital long before they arrived.
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