At that time, Yang Sichang had to be white, suffering from a serious illness, he was in Chongzhen 14 years, on the eighth day of the first month of 1641, he sighed to the emperor: "The sorrow of this body is exhausted and sick, vomiting phlegm and blood every day, sleepless at night, dying, dare not speak!" Moreover, the treasury has no money, and the governor is horrified to move the advisory, and the minister is more and more angry, and he does not know where to die. ”

On February 28, when Yang Sichang marched to Yiling in pursuit of Zhang Xianzhong, who had left Sichuan, he was deeply embarrassed to face the emperor and completely collapsed when he learned the news that Luoyang and Xiangyang had been lost and the two kings had been killed.

From then on, Yang Sichang couldn't eat and drink, and when he walked to Xujiayuan in Shashi, Jingzhou, he was bedridden, and all affairs were handed over to the superintendent Wan Yuanji to deal with, and his family was notified to come to Jingzhou to see him for the last time.

On the first day of March, Yang Sichang died in Shashi.

Regarding the cause of his death, it is recorded that he died by hanging himself or taking poison, but these are all rumors, in fact, because the loss of Luoyang and Xiangyang became the last straw that broke the camel's back, and Yang Sichang, who was already seriously ill, died of panic.

After Yang Sichang's death, Emperor Chongzhen personally wrote a memorial text, posthumously presented the prince and the prince, and lamented: "Since Yang Sichang's death, there is no longer a person who can supervise the teacher and level the thief." ”

Although the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen also ordered Yang Sichang to be held accountable for the fall of the two feudatories, he was finally exonerated with the example of "discussing merit".

In response to the Shangshu who attacked Yang Sichang, Emperor Chongzhen also stayed in the center.

Zhu Youzhen summoned the six Jiuqing, Kedao and other officials into the palace and announced: "Yang Sichang is used simply, and the use of troops is ineffective, and I will judge myself; It is advisable to have it. ”

Then Zhu Youzhen reprimanded Shangshu's ministers as "everyone rejects them and wants to make a name for themselves." should have been re-governed, but you said that I would protect the heirs and forgive this experience. ”

Yang Sichang was buried in Longyang County as an auxiliary minister, and two years later Zhang Xianzhong broke the martial tomb, opened Yang Sichang's grave and burned his coffin.

In response to the intensifying peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Sichang seized the situation and reinstated the military department, and on April 16, 1637, in the tenth year of Chongzhen, on April 16, 1637, he proposed to Emperor Chongzhen the strategy of suppressing bandits with "four positives, six corners and ten nets".

Yang Sichang regarded Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Fengyang, where the peasant army was mainly active, as the "four positives", and the governors of these four places mainly suppressed the peasant army, supplemented by prevention.

Yansui, Shanxi, Shandong, Yingtian, Jiangxi, and Sichuan around the "Four Positives" were regarded as the "six corners", and the governors of these six places were mainly responsible for the defense of the peasant army, supplemented by suppression.

If the peasant army is in Shaanxi, then the governors of Shaanxi, Sichuan, Huguang, Henan, Yansui, and Shanxi will be surrounded on six sides.

By analogy, when a peasant army appears in any of the "Four Positives", six governors will set up nets to besiege it, and the governors of the five provinces and the prime ministers of the five provinces will be responsible for killing them.

This was a well-designed containment strategy designed by Yang Sichang to grasp the characteristics of the peasant army's mobile operations.

In view of the fact that the peasant army was mainly active in summer and autumn, and that it was inconvenient for the cold ground to move in winter and spring, he chose this winter and next spring, December, the first month, and February, and three months as the period of encirclement and suppression, and placed the main battlefield in Henan and Shaanxi provinces, encircled them separately, and broke them down individually.

For this reason, the governor of Shaanxi was strictly ordered to block it in Shangnan and Luonan, Yunyang to block it in Yunyang and Xiangyang, Huguang to block it in De'an and Huangzhou, Anqing to block it in Yingshan and Lu'an, Fengyang to block it in Yingzhou and Haozhou, Yingtian to block it in Qianshan and Taihu, Jiangxi to block it in Huangmei and Guangji, Shandong to block it in Xuzhou and Suzhou, Shanxi to cut it across to Shaanzhou and Lingbao, and Baoding to fly across Yanjin.

Then Xiong Wencan, the prime minister of the five provinces, led the border soldiers, Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch of the supervising army, led the forbidden army, and the governor of Henan led Zuo Liangyu and Chen Yongfu's troops, working together to suppress the Central Plains, putting on an endless posture.

If Chuang Jiang, Guotianxing and other troops crossed the Tong Guandong, the governor Hong Chengchou led Zuo Guangxian, Cao Bianjiao, Zu Dabi and other troops to track the eastward out, in order to annihilate in the Central Plains.

For such an arrangement, Yang Sichang appeared full of confidence and assured the emperor: "The next three months of hard work will not end for ten years."

Although Yang Sichang failed to fulfill the promise of "exterminating the thief in March", it did work in the following year, Zhang Xianzhong was cornered and accepted Zhao'an, Li Zicheng was pursued to only eighteen horsemen, and the other peasant armies also surrendered one after another, and the stormy Ming Dynasty once had the appearance of returning to the light.

However, Yang Sichang's plan for peace talks with the Manchu Qing Dynasty was aborted, resulting in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, in the winter of 1638, the Qing troops entered the fortress, and Emperor Chongzhen hurriedly transferred Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, who surrounded and suppressed the peasant army, to King Qin, Yang Sichang was very opposed, and strived for: "The thief is not extinct, and it is advisable to leave one person in the court to suppress it." ”

Emperor Chongzhen refused to accept it in order to solve the urgent need.

With the twelfth year of Chongzhen, in May 1639, Zhang Xianzhong raised the anti-flag again, and Yang Sichang's plan of "four positives, six corners and ten nets" was declared bankrupt.

It can be said that if Chongzhen's position as emperor is given to Yang Sichang, Yang Sichang is likely to bring the Ming Dynasty back to life.

Of course, history has no ifs.

There are also very few emperors who can be as powerful as ministers.

Ministers who can be extremely popular ministers generally have a few brushes.

Not to mention much, in thousands of years of Chinese history, it is not a problem to find thousands of powerful courtiers.

And the emperors who can dominate in history, if you don't count the founding kings, can be counted on ten fingers.

After all, the royal selection of materials is too narrow, and it requires extremely high talent and excellent chance to produce a male master.

As for the founding kings, most of them are heroes created by the times.

Of course, Wei Bao recognizes Yang Sichang's ability, but the evaluation of Yang Sichang in history is inconsistent, there are different opinions, good and bad, and Yang Sichang is also a very controversial figure.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Jifu was under martial law and ordered his step-ancestor to move to Texas. The time scale is only 3,000, and according to the order of Yang Sichang, the fifth and third are changed. Later, the order was ordered to defend Texas, and Jinan was empty...... In the first month of next year, the Qing Dynasty soldiers Kejinan, the king of virtue. Step-grandparents can't take care of both...... Arrested and imprisoned, abandoned the city. If you don't listen to him, you will be responsible immediately. Fang Xiangsheng was killed in the battle, and Sichang sent three soldiers to investigate his death. One of them, Yu Zhenlong, returned to the words and died like a real death. He was angry, whipped for three days and nights, and died.

Therefore, if you listen to Yang Sichang's words, it is very likely that you will be killed by Yang Sichang, and you will have to be responsible for what happens, and Yang Sichang will not help you be responsible.

The thieves attacked Xichuan, Zuo Liangyu did not save it, and the city fell. Wang Zhong, the chief soldier of Shanxi, came to the aid of Henan, saying that he would not advance, and the soldiers returned with noise. Si Chang asked to arrest the wrecked marshals and order the army to arrest the loyal and late general Zhang Quanchang. If you don't coax, you will be set up by him. At the beginning, Liangyu was sealed by the general of the thief, and he was arrogant and refused to be bound by the superintendent. And He Renlong has repeatedly broken the thief and made meritorious contributions, and Sichang privately promised to replace Liangyu with human dragons.

Therefore, even if you listen to Yang Sichang's words, it is very likely that you will be pulled by Yang Sichang to kill chickens and make an example of monkeys.

If you lose the battle, you need to be responsible, and Yang Sichang will never care what the reason is.

At that time, Jie Chun raised 20,000 weak soldiers to defend Chongqing, relying only on Qin Liangyu and Zhang Lingjun. No, Qin Shi returned to the west, and Chu defeated Zhang Yingyuan and others in the land ridge of Kuizhou. So Jie Chun ...... The general Shao Zhongguang guarded it...... Xianzhong defeated the Zhongguang army...... Sichang then beheaded Zhongguang and impeached Jiechun for the wreck...... Death in prison.

won the battle, the credit belongs to Yang Sichang, although Yang Sichang did not even go to the front line, but the greatest credit must be Yang Sichang's.

Chongjian is to lead the dragon in February of the thirteenth year, and the Liangyu of the National Wonder Society defeated the thief in the Agate Mountain, and won the first merit of three thousand three hundred and thirty, and the thief will be twenty and five, and the horse and mule, and the battle of the first one is not counted. It is also a service, Chongjian is in the line, and Sichang is far away in Xiangyang. and on merit, half of the heirs are given, but one rank is increased, and one rank is reduced by the first. You offended his father, and he remembered you for the rest of his life. Hui Wencan went to Macheng, and at the request of Gui, he did not follow the ...... The thief escaped from the land divided by Ying Gui, and Wen Can impeached him for misleading the army in the later period. Yang Sichang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, impeached his father Heye in response to Gui and arrested him.

If anyone offends Yang Sichang, don't think about being promoted again, even if the merit is outstanding.

The king Li Zicheng was chased by Hong Chengchou, and he was killed, and he escaped with eighteen horsemen. The group of thieves in Guanzhong is peaceful, and it is the spring of the eleventh year of Chongzhen. Jie Wen, great joy, first describe the victory of Cheng City, and order to pass on the title of the court. Si Chang is still out of line. If you offend him, even if you die on the battlefield, you will die in vain. (Lu Xiangsheng) killed dozens of people with his hands, and was hit by four arrows and three blades in his body, and an army was wiped out. Lost in a hurry, not to say that he was going to die. Si Chang is suspicious, and there is an edict to inspect it. Tinglin got his corpse on the battlefield, sackcloth and white net. When he saw it from afar, he cried and said: "This is my Lu Gongye." When the people of the three counties heard this, they cried silently. The prefect of Shunde was in the form of Yingshang, and the heir Chang was beheaded, and he was buried after 80 days. Next year, the king of the elephant wife will ask for mercy. Next year, his younger brother Xiangjin and Xiangguan are invited again, and they are not allowed to ...... Fang Xiangsheng was killed in the battle, and Sichang sent three soldiers to investigate his death. One of them, Yu Zhenlong, returned to the words and died like a real death. He was angry, whipped for three days and nights, and died.

From Yang Sichang's treatment of Lu Xiangsheng, it can be seen that Yang Sichang is extremely narrow-minded.

If you disagree with Yang Sichang, the enemy is current, Yang Sichang will not take into account the interests of the Ming court, will not take into account the interests of the emperor, Yang Sichang will dare to dismantle the stage.

Qing troops enter the wall...... Xiangsheng is in the main battle, and Sichang and the superintendent are high and the main money is raised, and they disagree and have a bad relationship...... The generals should not fight lightly, and the generals were cowardly, and they took the excuse to wait and see, and the city in Leh was broken. According to the report of the army, Sichang asked for a strategy. Compared with before leaving the army, the opportunity has changed, the advance is obedient, and the Xinjiang affairs are good and bad.

Once you disagree with Yang Sichang, Yang Sichang will always disagree with this person.

Sichang used Chengchou as the governor of thistle, and wanted to leave all the Qin soldiers' aiders to guard the thistle and Liao...... The court could not be won, and he was depressed and deaf. Next year, the emperor moved to the governor of Baoding, Shandong, and Henan military affairs. Now that the strictness has been lifted, please see your majesty. Si Chang was shocked, saying that the court would be poured out, and reprimanded the court for returning the service. The court is stunned, and the illness is begging. Sichang impeached him for supporting his illness, not really deaf, the emperor was angry, reprimanded the people, and the governor Yang Yijun checked the authenticity, and Yijun said: "Really deaf, not deaf." "And the next Junjun. It is rumored that the president of the court is pending a decision, and it is impossible to say that he knows his grievances.

Under Yang Sichang, if he lost the battle, he was going to be killed.

The Beijing division was soldiered, and the cardinal was guilty. In the second year, Wang Qia was imprisoned and died, and the repetition was reopened. In the ninth year, Zhang Fengyi became a superintendent, took poison and died, and still lost his nationality...... Si Chang discussed the crime of wreckage of civil and military ministers, which was divided into five classes...... So the lieutenant is the director of Jizhen Deng Xizhao, the sub-supervisor Sun Maolin, the governor is Shuntian Chen Zubao, Baoding Zhang Qiping, Shandong Yan Jizu, the general soldier is Jizhen Wu Guojun, Chen Guowei, Shandong Ni Pet, aid Zu Kuan, Li Chongzhen and his deputy generals, to the state and county division, where 36 people, abandoned the city on the same day.

And Yang Sichang himself lost the battle, and there was nothing, because the rules were set by him.

And yes, more than 70 cities died, and the emperor's heirs prospered...... Si Chang discussed the crime of wrecking civil and military ministers. He is loyal. Therefore, no matter how big or small, it must be commanded remotely. Although Sichang is talented, he is good for his own use, and he bows to his own books, which is too complicated. The military must cut itself and stop at it, waiting for a thousand miles to be reported, and miss the opportunity. Wang Ao always tasted the admonition and did not accept it. …… The situation of thieves is changing rapidly, and it is advisable to move thousands of miles to conquer the machine, and to do the best of the heirs, to go back and forth, to move for more than ten months, and to sit on the wrecked plane, it is no wonder that there is no war after many years.

Thaksin. So he said that the salary was only levied for one year. At the beginning, the heir Chang increased his salary, and the period ended for one year. After the salary was exhausted and the thief was not settled, half of it was levied. As a result, the overseer Zhang Bojing asked for the full conscription. The emperor was worried about his dishonesty, and Si Chang said: "There is no injury, the endowment comes from the soil, and the soil field belongs to the powerful family, and the silver is increased by three or four dollars per hundred acres, and the merger is slightly suppressed." So he increased his salary by 7.3 million.

He is filial. So his subordinates can't use his father's name. Sichang is self-benefiting and ignores the population...... A crane has made many contributions...... Sichang's father's name is Crane, a crane is revealed, and his name is called a bird, and the Chu people laugh at it...... A crane also caused a disease. He is righteous. So as long as it is the person he recommends, no matter how incompetent he is, he insists on using it. Wen Can was arrested, and Si Chang was still a cloud of arguments.

He is wise. So he recommended a lot of his own talents. In June of the 11th year, Lu Xiang, the governor of Xuanda, was promoted to Ding, and Changfang was appointed as the center, and the new Jiakan was recommended...... The Qing soldiers will go deep into the interior, and Zhao Xinjia will be replaced, that is, the superintendent's troops will assist the imperial ...... The new armor and each other rely on each other, and they dare not fight. He's got a lot of strategy. Xianzhong walked into Sichuan, and Liangyu chased him. The order of Sichang was returned, and Liangyu did not obey. On February 7, 13 years, he and Shaanxi deputy generals He Renlong and Li Guoqi attacked and offered loyalty to Agate Mountain, broke it, beheaded 3,620, and the dead who fell into the rock valley were not counted. His party swept the ground, and Cao Wei and others were awarded the head, and Yang Youxian, the king of the ten anti-parties, led the crowd to surrender. He was like a stream.

In the meantime, those who can surprise themselves are only the battle of Agate Mountain. If you must obey the orders of the governor and the auxiliary, Liangyu should retreat to Xing'an, and there is no such shortcut.

Yang Sichang is kind to others.

At the beginning, Liangyu was sealed by the general of the thief, and he was arrogant and refused to be bound by the superintendent. And He Renlong has repeatedly broken the thief and made meritorious contributions, and Sichang privately promised to replace Liangyu with human dragons. And the good jade plays the agate mountain Jie, and the dragon of the Sichang language has a life. The human dragon hates, and the previous words told Liangyu, and Liangyu also hated inside.

What's even more exaggerated is that if Yang Sichang lives, others can't live.

In addition to the salary, the salary was increased by 7.3 million. The commentator said: "The nine sides have their own salaries, and if they are given new salaries, then the old ones will return in peace?" There are many empty border soldiers, and now they are real numbers, and their salaries are exhausted, and the number of exercises is still insufficient. And the soldiers can't gather often to divide defense, so there is a discussion of drilling, and the rest are not asked. And the practice is still empty, and the border defense is getting weaker and weaker. The militia of Zhizhou County has no real benefit, and it is in vain to pay a lot of money. "With the heir to the lord, don't dare to make things difficult.

What's more, Yang Sichang died, and others had to accompany him to the funeral.

The Chongjian army won three victories in five days, and its prestige was very revealing. begging for bones with declining years, not allowed, ordered the general army Zheng Jiadong to return to Guanzhong...... Chongjian went, not a few, the dragon army also returned to the west from the opening of the county, and the Chu division was defeated in the land ridge, and Shuzhong was in chaos. Sichang withdrew his troops too early because of his words and frugality, causing thieves to run rampant...... In the spring of next year, Xianzhong fell into Xiangyang, and Sichang died...... Arrested and imprisoned, not after the autumn, to abandon the city in May. When the king was blessed, Li Qing said in the matter: "Chongjian did not lose a city or lose a brigade, but because others skillfully discharged, he served his sentence." The ministers know their grievances, and those who dare not speak out are very painful. "Advocating frugality begins with injustice.

You have soldiers in your hands, even if you are domineering, Yang Sichang will not dare to touch you, this is called a gentleman not standing under the wall.

For example, Zuo Liangyu's soldiers are gone, even if you are from the door, kill the most thieves, it is useless, pull it to cut off the head, this is called paying the division to discuss its punishment.

For example, Zu Kuan is a famous politician and puts forward the only two political propositions, one is to negotiate peace, and the other is the sieve-like "four positive and six corners".

He was a famous military strategist, and the only beautiful battle he fought was fought by his subordinates who disobeyed orders and did not fight according to his arrangement.

Just because he is Yang Sichang, his words are weak.

What Yang Sichang does, many times, is not something that people can do.

Yang Sichang took out a piece of rice paper, which was densely filled with numbers in Chinese characters, as well as various inputs and expenses.

"A few adults, please take a look, these are the main items of this year, and there are items that must be spent, disaster relief and border army salaries are imminent, especially border army salaries, without military salaries, mutinies will occur one after another, and I am afraid that it will cause a big disaster." Yang Sichang said.

Wei Bao glanced at Wei Zhongxian, he could say these things in front of the emperor, obviously, this was acquiesced by Wei Zhongxian, and Wei Zhongxian relied on this to not block the audio-visual, at least he would tell the emperor about the emergency.

"There are too many words, so we won't look at it, how much silver is there, is it a difference of 9,748,655 taels of silver?" Gu Bingqian looked directly at the bottom of the rice paper.

Wei Bao is secretly funny, such articles often appear on the Internet in later generations, and there are a lot of ramblings, many times, as long as you read the last sentence, you will know what to say.

It seems that Gu Bingqian can be the first assistant minister, and he still has a lot of experience in handling official affairs.

Yang Sichang nodded: "It's so much worse, but as long as you can raise eight million taels of silver, you don't have to worry too much about the remaining one or two million taels, and it's still too late to make up for the leak next year." It is mainly the military salary of the border army, the military salary of the Beijing camp and the disaster relief silver. ”

"Raising money is your household's business! Now there is no book in the household department, and you, as the head of the household, can only settle accounts, and don't think about ideas? Wei Zhongxian suddenly asked nonchalantly.

Wei Bao then knew that Yang Sichang was not Wei Zhongxian's person, which was a bit strange.

I don't know why Wei Zhongxian was so generous to this Yang Sichang, so that Yang Sichang had the opportunity to meet the emperor.