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Chapter 660 Chongzhen: There is a pot here, Yang Qing, what do you think?
[Soon after Yang He arrived in Shaanxi, the Jisi Incident occurred.]

【The troops from the five towns of Yansui, Ningxia, Guyuan, Gansu, and Lintao were transferred to defend the capital, so Yang He found it difficult to suppress the rebellion. He then used Du Wenhuan, the former general of Ningxia, to transfer 3,000 troops from Yansui and Guyuan to suppress the rebellion.】

[Du Wenhuan's approach to the civil unrest is completely different from Yang He's. Du Wenhuan was known for his ferocity when he was stationed in Ningxia. Now Yang He is in favor of appeasement, while Du Wenhuan is in favor of suppression.]

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The period of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty
"Nai Gong has understood it clearly."

Liu Qi looked at the slices of meat boiling in the copper cauldron and said calmly:
"These people are just treating the symptoms instead of the root cause."

“They still don’t understand what the problem is.”

Little Liu Che stuffed his mouth with meat and stared at the pot.

Queen Wang picked up a piece of mutton with chopsticks and put it into Liu Qi's bowl.

Liu Qi looked at the meat in the bowl and thought of the little things that Chongzhen had allocated.

"What is enough..."

“They still don’t take it seriously.”

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[Disagreement between the governor and the governor-general is undoubtedly a taboo in suppressing a rebellion. There are lessons from Wei Xuezeng, Ye Mengxiong, Xiong Tingbi, and Wang Huazhen.]

[On the one hand, Yang He concealed the fact that the leader of the uprising, Wang Jiayin, had attacked Yan'an and Qingyang, and on the other hand, he began to actively pacify Wang Zuogua's troops.]

[While Yang He was stepping up efforts to pacify the rebels, Du Wenhuan was leading troops from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Lintao, and Ningxia to launch a fierce attack on Wang Jiayin's troops, and the government troops were badly defeated.]

[Then, the rebel leader Shen Yiyuan led the rebel army to capture Ningsai, killing Ming Lieutenant General Chen Sanhuai and more than a dozen members of Du Wenhuan's family.]

【In the two years after Yang He took office as the General of the Three Borders, there was not much improvement in the situation in Shaanxi. Under such circumstances, the court began to debate again in the fourth year of Chongzhen about the policy to deal with the civil unrest.】

[On the twenty-sixth day of the first lunar month in the fourth year of Chongzhen, the emperor set the tone.]

[“The enemy is also our child, so we should comfort them.”]

[“If you know how to take care of people, thieves will stop and people will be at peace.”]

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Song Shenzong Period
Regarding this imperial edict, Zhao Xu felt that the Song Dynasty still had a say.

He took a closer look and found where the problem lay.

That is, the imperial court has actually not yet decided whether to suppress or appease!

This leads to the most fatal point.

"The Ming army will miss the opportunity to contain the rebels in Shaanxi, and will also miss the opportunity to defeat them one by one while they are fighting separately."

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[In the first month of the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), Shen Yiyuan was killed by Zhang Yingchang, the deputy general of Dingbian, and his brother Shen Yikui became the general of the rebel army.]

[He led tens of thousands of troops to attack Ningxia, defeated the Ming army commander Wang Ying, and attacked Hezhou and Qingyang, and was unstoppable.]

[On March 16, the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Shen Yikui faction was recruited by Yang He and granted the title of garrison. Four thousand of them and his followers were settled in Ningsai, and the other six or seven thousand were demobilized and returned to their hometowns.]

[The success of Shen Yikui's surrender undoubtedly set an example for Chongzhen's policy of appeasement, and Chongzhen was very pleased.]

【However, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Yansui, did not agree with the court's policy of appeasement. He led Cao Wenzhao and Ai Wannian to launch a fierce attack on Wang Jiayin's troops, defeating Wang Jiayin in Yangcheng, where he died.】

[The leaders of the rebel army surrendered one after another.]

[Although the situation looks promising, the problem has not been solved.]

[Rebellious soldiers should be returned to the army, and rebellious peasants should be sent back to their hometowns.]

But they found that nothing had changed.

[The wages owed are still not paid, and the exploited land is still sucking blood. ] [Everything is like frost on the tiles, meaningless. ]

[In September, Ru Chengming, the leader of Shen Yikui's men, was dissatisfied with the reward he received and beat up Yang He's lieutenant general. Yang He then captured and killed Ru Chengming.]

[Zhang Mengjin and Huang Youcai, two other leaders under Shen Yikui, took Shen Yikui hostage and launched another rebellion, capturing Ningsai, an important town in northern Shaanxi.]

[Shen Yikui's rebellion again marked the failure of the court's policy of appeasement. In Chongzhen's eyes, these rebels were no longer the emperor's "sons", but "evil thieves" without credibility.]

【On September 23, Emperor Chongzhen ordered the arrest of Yang He.】

[His imperial edict was stern: "Yang He is the general governor of Shaanxi. What a great power! Yet he allowed the bandits to run rampant and failed to put them down, causing great suffering to the people. He has failed greatly in his duty. He is to be dismissed from his post and the official flag of the Jinyiwei shall be brought to the capital for questioning."]

[On October 11, Yang He was sent to Yuanzhou, Jiangxi.]

[In October of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Yang He died in Yuanzhou Garrison.]

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{You bastard... weren't the major policies of the Fu Bureau approved by you, the Emperor? "If the word Fu is done right, thieves will naturally stop and the people will be at peace." Isn't this your central idea?}

{Chongzhen was like this, eager to see results. When the policy of appeasement was not as effective as he had imagined, he changed his position and became more and more inclined to exterminate and kill. He did not criticize Hong Chengchou and Li Yingqi for killing the surrendered bandits on a large scale, but instead rewarded them: "The bandits are very powerful, it is wrong to appease them, and killing them is the right thing to do."}
{Yang He's tragedy was that his thinking did not keep up with the changes in the emperor's will, and he continued to follow his previous purpose without changing. He still did not figure it out until he was arrested and imprisoned.}
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Southern Song Dynasty Xiaozong period
"It's difficult to make an imperial edict."

Zhao Shen felt that the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were also somewhat "naive".

The difficulty of appeasing the emperor does not lie in making people “lay down their butcher knives and become Buddhas on the spot.”

But it is about how people can stop being thieves and stop picking up butcher knives.

If we don't invest money, help them settle down on land, give them oxen and farm tools, and restore production, they will still rebel.

"After the disbandment, they must be resettled, and resettled, they must be given oxen and seeds, which requires relief, and a large amount of money and grain."

"Do you have money?"

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Ming Dynasty Yongle Period
Zhu Di leaned on the table, lowered his head and said weakly:

"The failure of the court's appeasement policy is by no means Yang He's fault. The key problem lies in the court's uncertainty about whether to suppress or appease."

"Although Yang He advocated pacification, Hong Chengchou advocated suppression, and even brutally killed the surrendered rebels."

"And all of this... has reduced the confidence of the rebels in surrendering. To them, the imperial court no longer has any credibility."

The courtyard was silent.

"Outwardly fierce, but inwardly weak... indecisive..."

Zhu Di closed his eyes and murmured to himself:
"The military generals were killed, the civil officials were released, and the people were in unrest..."

"It's not okay without merit, and it's not okay with merit either."

"Ugh……"

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[After Yang He was dismissed, Chongzhen appointed Hong Chengchou as the chief of the three frontiers to be in charge of suppressing the rebellion.]

[After Hong Chengchou took office, he completely abandoned his previous policy of appeasement and launched a large-scale campaign against the rebels.]

[In April of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou led the five armies of Gansu General Yang Jiamo, Guyuan General Yang Luqi, Lintao General Cao Wenzhao, Yansui General Wang Chengen, and Ningxia General He Huchen to encircle and suppress the Shaanxi rebels. The two sides launched a major battle in the West Trench of Qingyang, and the rebels were defeated. This battle basically suppressed the rebel forces in Shaanxi.]

[This was undoubtedly a great victory for Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three borders of Shaanxi.]

[However, for the various rebel armies, breaking through the encirclement and blockade, crossing the Yellow River and entering Shanxi, they gained room for maneuver, and instead of being weakened, they became even stronger.]

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(End of this chapter)