Chongzhen just finished dinner this day!

He suddenly realized that he hadn't been to the harem for a long time, and he was afraid that those concubines would have been lonely, empty, and cold for a long time, but don't give him anything to eat?

Chongzhen was thinking about the big matter of inheriting the ancestry, but the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies presented several urgent reports on the military situation at this juncture, all of which were sent urgently by 800 miles.

The thieves Wang Jiayin, Luo Rucai, Zhang Xianzhong and others revived, and these gangs of thieves gathered tens of thousands of horses to crisscross Yan'an.

The two brothers, the thief Kou Shen Yiyuan and Shen Yikui, gathered tens of thousands of horses and horses, and just conquered Heshui County a few days ago, and captured Jiang Yingchang of Zhixian County alive, and now these thieves are besieging Qingyang!

Yulin, an important town on the nine sides, rice is as expensive as a pearl, the war horses are starving to death, the soldiers guarding the border have nothing to eat, and some of them have rebelled.

Yang He, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, also made an excerpt to appease the thieves: the hungry people are thieves, the deserters are thieves, and now Yan'an is full of thieves, all caused by famine, and it is not easy to completely exterminate them, and it must be appeased.

To put it bluntly......

Yang He felt that the thieves would be more and more suppressed, so it was better to appease the thieves and give them money and food, so that the thieves would naturally disperse, and the country would not be stable?

Yang He and the lion opened his mouth widely, and if he wanted it, it would be a million taels of silver.

Chongzhen looked at these military reports with a headache, he is short of money now! How can there be silver to appease the rogue?

Not to mention......

Can the rogue be appeased?

Chongzhen in history spent endless silver to appease several waves of rogues, but as a result, people surrendered fraudulently, and immediately turned their faces and denied people after receiving the silver, and continued to be their rogues.

The silver that Chongzhen worked so hard to save was also a meat bun and beat the dog, and there was no return!

Zhao'an?

Phew, Chongzhen's current thinking is completely different from Yang He's, it is true that these thieves are all poor people, and they all have no food to eat, so they were forced to become thieves.

But?

One day is a coward, a lifetime is a coward!

If it can be whitewashed through Zhao'an, isn't it too unfair to those ordinary people who are honestly starving?

Doesn't it encourage everyone to rebel, to kill people and set fires to be thieves? Anyway, grab a wave first, and then talk about it when you are full of food and drink.

When there is no strength to kill, the court will honestly give Qian Zhao'an, let's go back to be a little common man, the little people are tired of it, let's continue to go back, the days are beautiful!

In fact......

In history, Zhang Xianzhong and his ilk did exactly that, repeatedly accepting Zhao'an, and repeatedly rebelling, which simply interpreted the idiom of treachery to the extreme.

And Yang He is also a second fool, as long as the thief is willing to surrender, he will immediately serve with good food and drink, and then give a settlement fee after serving.

Just this kind of policy?

The thieves are more and more suppressed, but countless ordinary people who are honestly waiting for relief are starving to death.

Chongzhen pondered for a moment!

He said to Wang Chengen, "Spread my will to Yang He, I will never accept surrender, one day for Kou, all life for Kou, all thieves must be exterminated, if Yang He can't be the governor, then I will let Hong Chengchou go." ”

"Yes!" Wang Chengen replied respectfully.

Chongzhen continued to arrange, "Wang Daban, you will arrange for someone to go to Shanxi Dai County tomorrow to summon Sun Chuanting back, I have an arrangement." ”

"Yes!" Wang Chengen replied respectfully.

Chongzhen thought for a while, and then said, "Urgently transfer 50,000 quintals of rice and grain from Xinhuangzhuang, and 50,000 catties of sweet potatoes to Yulin, so that the soldiers guarding the border will starve, and I will be wrong!" In addition, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army was sent to Yulin to quell the rebellion. ”

"Yes!" Wang Chengen racked his brains to remember Chongzhen's words, and he couldn't make a mistake when he arranged it later.

After everything is arranged.

Chongzhen is almost exhausted, mainly because he is tired, and he has no idea of going to the harem, forget it...... Just summon all these concubines to the Qianqing Palace!

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The scorched earth, the scorching sun!

Li Zicheng looked at these thousands of people and horses with satisfaction, as well as a cart of supplies, these are his roots!

With these books, he will be able to attack cities, open prisons, grab food, and then gather more men and horses until he conquers the Central Plains and dominates the world!

That's right......

Li Zicheng has always felt that the anti-thief who doesn't want to be the emperor is not a good anti-thief, since he has rebelled, why not be more vigorous?

"Chief!"

A white-skinned man suddenly stood up among the rogues, "Leader Li, the villain doesn't know if he should say a word?"

Li Zicheng came back to his senses, and he smiled happily, "But it's okay to say it!"

This man's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly behaved hard, "Chief, the villain sees that you have loaded so many food supplies, etc., but why don't you decorate some charcoal?" It is a pity that a lot of charcoal has been discarded in Uborg. ”

Li Zicheng thought that he would come up with some good ideas, but it turned out that he was asking him to bring some charcoal.

It's not cold now, why bring charcoal?

Besides, even if it's winter, there's no need to bring charcoal, since ancient times, I haven't heard anyone say that there is charcoal on the march?

Seeing that Li Zicheng didn't speak, this man hurriedly explained:

"Chief, we are now a lot of people, drinking sewage is not only easy to die, but also more likely to spread the plague, bring some charcoal, put these charcoal in the sewage, you can play a role in purifying the water quality, the leader thinks this method is feasible?"

It's a year of great drought.

In addition to the high cost of food, in fact, there is very little clean water, and there is some dirty water outside, which stinks unpleasantly!

But anyway, the lives of the displaced people are cheap, and they can live by drinking sewage, Li Zicheng doesn't care about the problem of water sources.

Li Zicheng frowned and said suspiciously:

"This carbon black is not lost, the water is already dirty, and putting charcoal in it will make the water even dirtier?"

The white-skinned man smiled, "The leader doesn't know, although the charcoal is black, there are fine pores on it, and these fine pores can absorb dirt. ”

"It is very difficult for the villain's hometown to draft water, so he lives by accumulating some rainwater on rainy days, and the rainwater will be filthy and mosquitoes breed after a long time, and people are prone to get sick when they drink this water."

"The people in my hometown rely on charcoal to purify the water, and we have a lot of people now, and the problem of water is actually bigger than the problem of food."

Li Zicheng pondered for a while......

He nodded suddenly, "In that case, let's bring a few boxes of charcoal, but I'll have to try it tonight to see if it really works, right...... What is your name? ”

The white-skinned man saluted, "Villain Liu Fangliang, I am willing to serve the leader of dogs and horses." ”

"Hahaha!"

Li Zicheng smiled heartily, his eyes were like torches, "Liu Fangliang, I see that you are well-read, you don't look like an ordinary homeless person, have you read books?" ”

Liu Fangliang replied respectfully, "The little ones only know a few words." ”

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