The Soul of the Han Dynasty in the Late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 729
After Liu Zhilun and Fang Zhenghua led the team back to Beijing, they received generous gifts, and Liu Zhilun was promoted to Minister of Rites and part-time Wenyuan Pavilion Bachelor to join the cabinet.

The post of Minister of the Ministry of War was appointed to Yang Sichang, whom Chongzhen admired very much. This time, it was not a false title but a real award.

Because when Chongzhen and Yang Sichang were discussing the current situation, Yang Sichang played against "four positives and six corners, and a net on ten sides."

Four positives and six corners are based on Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Jiangbei as the four positives. Jiangbei here is different from later generations. It refers to Fengyang North, the central capital, and the four governors are responsible for the campaign.

Yansui, Shanxi, Shandong, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, and Sichuan are Liuyu. Jiangnan here is the south of Fengyang, the central capital, and there is no great river. Cooperate with suppression when obtained.

The four main attackers and the six main defenders add up to exactly ten governors working together, which is called a ten-faced net.

Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, and Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of the five provinces, were two able-bodied frontier officials who could fight wherever the thieves went.

Once this method was proposed by Yang Sichang, Chongzhen Dang decided to agree to Yang Sichang's plan, took his hand and sighed: "It's too late for me to hate you!"

Ever since, Yang Sichang went to Chongzhen to complete the grand plan of encircling and intercepting bandits on all sides, and he had to increase his troops by 14 and increase his salary by 280 million taels.

Chongzhen was a hot-headed young man, whoever he trusted was really sincere. He believed that Yang Sichang was as talented as Huang Han, so he spared no effort to support him.

The entire territory of the Ming Dynasty was "equal taxation due to grain", with Liuhe of rice added per mu, and eight qian of silver per stone, and another one cent of silver per mu, and 330 million taels of land tax.

Is Yang Sichang talented?Are his ruling measures correct?
The answer is yes!But Yang Sichang was not enough to make Ming get rid of internal and external troubles and move towards ZTE, and it was not enough to stabilize the situation.

His talents are too limited, because he was born in a bureaucratic family, Yang Sichang grew up with rich clothes and good food, and he couldn't see the ordinary people in his eyes.

He didn't realize that the fundamental problem of the repeated suppression of the bandits was that the peasants couldn't survive.

He proposed to increase the salaries. In a short period of time, Ming Dynasty increased the money and food for soldiers, horses and horses to fight several battles, just like a dying person who was given a shot of morphine, which can make the situation look good within a few months.

After the effect of the medicine has expired, more farmers will be unable to live in Ming Dynasty, taxpayers will flee in large numbers, and Daming will become weaker due to a large reduction in taxes.

The finance of the Ming Dynasty had to receive 330 million taels of silver from hand-suppressed salaries. The local government would not be able to complete this task if it did not increase the tax by more than double.

Losing the hope of living, more young and middle-aged people took risks and killed officials to rebel, and the bandits will grow stronger in the future.

Another thing is also very important. Yang Sichang didn't know people, let alone know how to use them well. He actually recommended the big fool Xiong Wencan to replace Lu Xiang, who was no longer trusted by the emperor, as the governor of the five provinces.

Lu Xiangsheng, who was able to fight and take responsibility, was demoted secretly by Mingsheng, and became the political envoy of Yunnan Chengxuan Cong Erpin Zuobu Political Envoy, and went to the Southwest to serve in a few days.

Cheng Xuan's political envoy is definitely a civil servant, in charge of a province's finances and civil affairs. This shows that Chongzhen was extremely dissatisfied with Lu Xiangsheng's attitude towards Tang Wang, and he would no longer want him to lead the army.

The promotion of Lu Xiang to Yunnan to serve as a local official was also because the Mu family guarding Yunnan was loyal to Daming, and Mu Tianbo, the general who conquered the south, had elite soldiers under his command.

One of the main bandits suppressing generals who will be replaced on the battlefields of Zhongdu and Henan is Xiong Wencan, a braggart who can't do this or that.

This move is really harmful to others and self, and it is because Xiong Wencan took the lead, which runs counter to Yang Sichang's strategy of being tough on the rogues and would rather kill the illusion than let them go.

Yang Sichang didn't believe in the rogue bandits, so he had to kill them quickly. The reason was that his father Yang He, who was the governor of Shaanxi's trilateral military affairs at the time, adopted the strategy of "mainly recruiting, supplemented by pursuing and suppressing." It ended in failure.

The rogues are all bastards. They bully the honest people. They tricked Yang He into trusting him when he was beaten up by the government and the army. After he regained his vitality, they rebelled one after another. As a result, Yang He was imprisoned by Chongzhen for his ineffectiveness in encircling and suppressing the rogues. .

How could Yang Sichang be willing to repeat the mistakes of his father?Dealing with rogues is just one word "kill!".

However, he is not good at employing people, and Xiong Wencan, the number one recommended member, sang against him.

The direct evil result in history is that Zhang Xianzhong got a respite, surrendered and rebelled, which directly led to the failure of the ten-face Zhangwang plan, which made Xiong Wencan arrested by the court, imprisoned and finally beheaded.

Employing people should be treading on thin ice. Knowing how to use them well is easier said than done.

Chongzhen was fooled by Yuan Chonghuan and entrusted with the important task of harming others and himself. Yang Sichang recommended the big fool Xiong Wencan to be the head of the five provinces at the most important node in Ming Dynasty, harming others and himself and harming the country and the people.

Next, Yang Sichang made an unforgivable mistake. He reused Zuo Liangyu and gave him the title of "General Ping Thieves", which made Zuo Liangyu stand out among dozens or hundreds of general officers and became the only eight generals in Ming Dynasty. One of the commander-in-chief of General Yin.

It is well known how bad Zuo Liangyu is, and there are countless references to his impeachment.

The ignorant Yang Sichang simply ignored Zuo Liangyu's killing of good men, taking credit for meritorious deeds, burning, killing and looting, and did more bad things than bandits, so he entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.

In history, at the critical moment of opening the net on ten sides, Zuo Liangyu deliberately let Zhang Xianzhong go by accepting bribes, which caused Yang Sichang's painstaking plan to open the net on ten sides to fall short.

Only then did Zhang Xianzhong's surprise attack on Xiangyang later make Yang Sichang, who was physically and mentally exhausted, die of shock and anger in office. This is another classic case of using the wrong person to harm others and himself.

All in all, in today's Ming Dynasty, the "Red Banner Army" has taken over more than [-] million starving people in Shanxi and Xuanda, and the land of Gyeonggi has not been harmed by Jiannu again.

It's just that because Sun Chuanting was absent, Gao Yingxiang and his main force were still there. The running ability of this armored cavalry was far stronger than that of the Ming army in the interior.

It directly led to Xiangyang and Nanyang being taken advantage of by the bandits prematurely. Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, etc. got a lot of money, weapons, gold and silver treasures, and 10,000+ young adults with good physical strength.

The strength of the rogues was far stronger than in history, and now the main forces were attacking the city in four directions. Zhang Xianzhong once again crossed the Dabie Mountains and rushed to the Central Capital, and had already approached Yizhen County, which is more than a hundred miles west of Yangzhou.

Gao Yingxiang, who was unable to leave his homeland, led the main force into Shaanxi again, fighting all the way to Hanzhong and now advancing to northern Sichuan, intending to harm the land of abundance.

(End of this chapter)