The Red House starts from Liaodong

Chapter 451 Zhou Shifeng Goes to Prison

meet as planned.

When the recruitment order was issued, the 77th Department needed to send a total of [-] riders, plus [-] new combined troops transferred to Liaoyang.

A total of [-] cavalry is enough for Zhu Xiu.

Every spring and autumn.

The [-] steppe cavalry and the [-] newly joined forces will conduct military training outside the new city of Liaohe Tao, and all ministries must not shirk or delay.

It marked Jinjiang Town and completely regained Liaohetao.

There was a lot of noise about this matter.

This aroused King Zhongshun's concern.

After defeating the barbarians, Jinjiang Town not only did not stop developing, but also had more and more territories and became stronger and stronger.

King Zhongshun couldn't cope with the rising situation.

While strengthening the wooing of Khalkha and preventing it from being wooed by Jinjiang Town, it is necessary to strengthen the military forces in western Liaoning, Tianjin, and Denglai.

Recruit civilians, recruit supplies, repair cities, and repair official affairs.

Recruit military households and recruit sailors.

……

The capital cabinet.

Liu Yiru pointed to the mountains of memorials, and sighed to Feng He: "Although there are many memorials, they are old topics in various yamen, and they are just superficial. Although they are diligent, they are actually empty talk."

Recently, Liu Yiru, the chief assistant of the cabinet, has become more and more kind.

Feng He knew the reason.

The country's affairs are difficult, not as Liu Yiru expected. Although the people in disorder are flat, the localities are still unable to make ends meet, and the local finances have not yet been collected, and they have fallen into a deficit.

On the contrary, the imperial court has to send salaries to support the localities, and the loophole of the deficit is getting bigger and bigger.

The war in Guangdong is struggling to maintain. Western Liaoning, Tianjin, Denglai, and towns on the nine borders are all in arrears of payment, and a single grain has not been dispatched.

Even Liu Yiru, who is powerful and powerful, can't make a living without rice, and everything is difficult, so how can he have the confidence to treat others.

"Officials in various places are negligent, and the abuses have been accumulated for a long time, and it is difficult to correct."

Feng He explained.

"Officials do not implement imperial policies, do not solve problems encountered, censors do not supervise and urge local officials, but only forward official documents from the imperial court, and turn a blind eye to the backlog of government affairs.

If things go on like this, everything in the imperial court and even in the local area will be empty, and it cannot be removed by manpower. "

Liu Yiru let out a long sigh.

It is easy to deal with corrupt officials, but difficult to deal with lazy government.

The former occupies righteousness and can leave a clear name, while the latter has no clue and will only betray relatives.

Feng He was promoted to the cabinet by Liu Yiru's recommendation, and Liu Yiru was the emperor's benefactor, so after he got close to the cabinet, he didn't dare to call himself a colleague, and Liu Yiru mainly handled affairs.

"Let officials from all over the country clean up their debts, and implement them everywhere. The old deficit has not been eliminated, but the new deficit has been completed.

The censor does not supervise, and the place is full of human relations, a group of harmony, but he is concerned about personal affairs and let it go. "

Liu Yiru complained.

Feng He nodded.

It is not easy to live in Beijing, the officials in Beijing are poor, and the military officials are also poor.

For the funds sent by the imperial court to the localities, less than [-]% of the direct votes are paid, and there is no layer of local chief secretary votes. After the layers are distributed, the remaining half is good.

How to blame the place?
Up and down.

The officials had a better life, supporting their families, servants, and book boys, traveling in traffic, feasting and talking day and night.

Pipa fine wine luminous cup.

No one can bear the good days when they get it, they can only hope for better and better days.

It takes human kindness to maintain a good life.

If there are too many favors, government affairs will be useless.

When government affairs are emptied, the government will also accumulate abuses.

In the end, it rotted into a pot of porridge.

"It's been like this in the past years, but these years, the successive years of natural disasters have made people unable to breathe a sigh of relief. I hope this year will have a good year."

The people are like leeks, crop after crop.

As long as the year is good, a new crop of leeks can be grown, and the days will pass.

"I hope so. God rewards the common people with a bite of food."

Liu Yiru said sympathetically.

soon.

King Zhongshun's memorial arrived at the imperial court, informed Jinjiang Town of the actions, and warned the imperial court that if the military forces in various places were not strengthened, if the Jinjiang army rebelled, they might only attack the important areas in Gyeonggi.

This is a matter of national security and must be taken seriously.

"What do you think sir?"

The emperor summoned Liu Yiru and asked calmly.

Liu Yiru smiled wryly.

The emperor's attitude towards him was becoming more and more impatient, how could he not know, this disciple of his was not a patient person.

"It can only be added."

"Where to send more?"

"Shandong, Jinling, Henan, Huguang, Jiangxi, Zhejiang."

Shaanxi cannot send more people, and there are rioters in Shanxi. In order not to intensify these two places, we cannot continue to send more people.

Fujian, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Guangxi supply Guangdong's war preparations, and they have already been dispatched last year.

If we continue to send more troops, I am afraid that Guangdong will not be prepared enough to fight, and new disasters will arise again.

Just as Liu Yiru often laughed at himself, he was just a tinkerer, tinkering everywhere, and let's get on with it.

The emperor glanced at the teacher and nodded impatiently.

He has been in power for several years, diligently governing and caring for the people, but he has never been able to figure out why the state affairs have not been alleviated, but instead have new problems every year.

When the Supreme Emperor was in power, he had no access to government affairs, and he felt that the Supreme Emperor was insensitive to the attitude of the Supreme Emperor to suppress officials.

After he came to power, he would know why the Supreme Emperor despised ministers.

Officials are all incompetent people, and everyone is a money wolf who only knows how to love money but not how to love the people.

For Liu Yiru.

He also doubted whether it was really as it appeared, was it really an upright official?

The imperial court sent more.

As soon as the official document arrived at the place, it was sent down layer by layer, creating a happy era of servants and squires, and contiguous fields were annexed by them.

Countless self-cultivating farmers have become bankrupt refugees.

Unfortunately, from Shandong to Gansu, where the Shaanxi Xingdusi is located, a famine broke out in the whole of northern China.

soon.

Zhou Shifeng, the governor of Shaanxi, played urgently.

"The thieves are extremely poor and hungry, and have nowhere to live. When the soldiers arrive, they will surrender, and when the soldiers leave, they will plunder as before. This is an inevitable trend."

Complaining that because of the lack of food, the righteous people in various places could not maintain it, and hoped that the imperial court would send food to relieve the disaster.

The gentry in Shaanxi knew that they could not count on the imperial court, so they united with local officials who knew the real thing to trap and kill the leader of the rebel army who was appeased.

The leader of the famous rebel army, in just one or two months, was counted and killed 98 people by them.

I want to kill the unstable factors in advance.

The idea is good.

The strategy is correct, but it cannot be killed.

After killing one person, there are still ten people, and after killing ten people, there are still a hundred people. They found that the more they killed, the more dangerous the signs became.

Most of the leaders of the rebel army who had hoped for the imperial court in various parts of Shaanxi were killed, and the rest were the leaders of the rebel army who had completely given up on the imperial court.

The additional faction and natural disasters in Shanxi made the rebels who flowed into the territory with a strong will to resist glow radiant, which is completely different from the ashes of last year.

The momentum is getting bigger and bigger, there are signs of returning to Shaanxi, and there are also traces of fleeing into Sichuan and Henan.

The rebel army in Shaanxi revived, and it was like fire and water with the imperial court.

Before recruiting, the rebels did not dare to resist the officers and soldiers. They always had illusions in their hearts. They only wanted to go back to their hometown after surviving the natural disaster, so they had a natural fear.

Therefore, most of the leaders of the rebel army used nicknames, and no one used their real names.

present.

The leaders of the rebel army no longer have illusions about the imperial court, and have strengthened their resistance.

The situation has changed.

It used to be that only a small number of ministries would attack the county seat, but now the rebels from all over the country have made up their minds to overthrow the government.

When a rebel army was blocked by the big river in front of them, the officers and soldiers behind caught up and surrounded them.

After Qingzhuang died in battle, the women, children, old and young in the rear camp supported each other and threw themselves into the river to die. No one surrendered, which indicated that the people did not trust the government and did not want to die at the hands of their enemies.

The situation of the refugees and the government has undergone tremendous changes this year.

It turned out that when the refugee army encountered officers and soldiers, even if it was a team organized by deserters in the frontier army, it could not form a fighting force and would collapse at the touch of a touch.

From this year onwards, most of the refugee army firmly resisted the officers and soldiers, and fierce battles broke out. The officers and soldiers could no longer easily defeat the refugee army as before.

The rebel armies in Shanxi and Shanxi were joined together, and a small number of them fled into Sichuan and Henan.

Feeling deceived, the emperor directly ordered the arrest of Shaanxi governor Zhou Shifeng, thinking that he had been deceived by officials and let down by refugees.

Last year, he said: "Zhou Shifeng recruited, and agreed to cooperate with me."

just now.

He looked at Liu Yiru bitterly, and cursed: "This person deceived me and ruined the current situation in Shaanxi, so he shouldn't take the strategy of appeasement."

The emperor found out what some officials had suggested before, that they should take advantage of the favorable situation to completely wipe out the refugee army, instead of giving the other party a chance to breathe.

This memorial made him think that the other party was a great talent.

So I feel angry and annoyed by the disciple recommended by Liu Yiru.

Liu Yiru has been in power for many years, but the country is not peaceful and the people are safe as he said. On the contrary, the state affairs are worse than those of the Supreme Emperor.

"Thieves are rampant, it's wrong to recruit, and it's good to kill."

The emperor wrote this sentence in his own hand.

Seeing his disciples complaining, Liu Yiru knew he had failed.

Subsequently.

"Zhou Shifeng is in charge of the whole of Shaanxi, what powers he has. He listened to the rogue bandits, who were rampant and could not be wiped out. They were devastated, and they were greatly responsible for the appointment.

He was dismissed from his post, and the guard in Jinyi became an official flag, and he came to Beijing to inquire about it.

The lack of staff is recommended to be used.Aunt Lianguo is demoted to three ranks, and he is punished and exterminated to redeem himself. If he is still playing tricks, he will be severely punished. "

Zhou Shifeng was sent to prison.

Liu Yiru and his disciples were all from Jinling, Zhejiang and other places. During the few years he was in power, he was highly valued by the emperor.

The consequence of Zhou Shifeng's imprisonment was the impeachment of officials from all over the country.

It is believed that the rogue bandits were not very powerful at that time, and as long as the officers and soldiers were mobilized to wipe them out, the rogue bandits could be killed in the cradle.

Such a favorable timing was precisely because of Zhou Shifeng's strategy of appeasement, which allowed the rogues to develop and become out of control.

The impeachment of Zhou Shifeng is only superficial, and ultimately points to Liu Yiru who recommended Zhou Shifeng.

Amidst the accusations of everyone, Zhou Shifeng turned gray overnight.

Liu Yiru came to visit his favorite student in the cell.

"Teacher, it's really not my fault."

Zhou Shifeng hugged the prison door and cried bitterly.

When he took office, it was not that he had not organized officers and soldiers to encircle and suppress the rogues. He had failed many times to organize the encirclement and suppression.

That's why he changed his attitude according to local conditions, and adopted a strategy of appeasement to divide and disintegrate the rogues.

If it wasn't for the fact that the imperial court only sent 10 taels of silver, but gave him more supplies, he would have solved the disaster long ago.

Why does everyone think that he is unwilling to kill all the rogues?

(End of this chapter)