In the second year of Chongzhen, the eighth day of June.

The information that Wang Zezhi swept the four prefectures and seven counties of Datong Mansion reached the central government.

On the first day of the first month of June, the general army of Shanxi gathered troops to rebel, and within one day connected the four counties of Datong, Huairen, Shanyin and Mayi, and captured the city of Shuozhou that night, and the Zhizhou and garrison of Shuozhou were killed.

After that, his troops and horses were like bamboos, seizing Yingzhou and attacking Hunyuan Prefecture.

Knowing that he was invincible, the governor of Ulzhou implemented the strategy of clearing the wilderness with strong walls, and gathered all the soldiers and horses in the three counties of Guangling, Lingqiu and Guangchang in Ulzhou City.

The city of Ulzhou is high and deep, and Wang Zezhi can't attack it for a long time, so he uses the siege strategy to cut off the grain and water in Ulzhou City.

Wang Zezhi cooperated carefully in the city, and at midnight on the sixth day of the sixth month of June, he burned the head of the city, opened the city gate and seized the city of Ulzhou.

To this day, the entire territory of Datong Mansion has been lost, and all the civil and military generals from Wupin Zhizhou to Jiupin have been captured. ”

This piece of information was like a bomb dropped into the DPRK and China, and all the ministers in the court were shocked.

Datong is one of the nine towns on the nine sides, this place is the northwest border of the important place, if Datong Mansion is lost, the capital will be wide open.

Wang Zezhi can gallop under the capital from Datong Road.

"How so?"

"How's that okay?"

"Why did he turn the other way around?"

"Your Majesty, the only way to do this today is to order Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, to come to the aid with the eastern border army of Liao, so as to ensure that the capital is not lost."

When the courtiers were frightened and messed up, the king of the military department Shangshu Qia came out of the class to play.

"Yuanshui can't save the fire, so the governor of the five provinces, Yang He, is ordered to postpone the suppression of bandits and immediately rush to the aid of Beijing." Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair and ordered unhurriedly.

The reason why he was so calm was because he had already received the recital from Song Tongyin and Wei Yunzhong.

The two of them sang a report in unison, saying that the merchants in Shanxi had raised prices, hoarded strange things, and even betrayed the country.

As for the officials of the four prefectures and seven counties, according to Song Tongyin, these people were involved in the smuggling of iron weapons, firearms and other prohibited items out of the customs.

This is also the reason why Wang Zezhi suddenly attacked four states and seven counties.

Price gouging and hoarding are nothing, and it is a big crime to sell prohibited goods out of the customs.

Chongzhen hated these people, if it weren't for the intricate relationships behind these people, without Wang Zezhi's action, Chongzhen would have killed these people.

Don't think that Chongzhen is a good person, no one who becomes an emperor is a good person.

"This..."Wang Qia listened to Chongzhen's will, cold sweat flowed from the back of his neck, he wanted to speak and stopped, and finally lowered his head and didn't dare to speak.

"Huh? Say, "What are you hiding from me?" As soon as Chongzhen saw Wang Qia's appearance, he knew that he had something to hide from him.

To conceal the emperor is to deceive the king, and the crime of deceiving the king is a great crime.

When Wang Qia heard this, he knelt down with a puff.

"The minister is guilty, Yang He reported that under his strategy of appeasement and pursuit and suppression, the trouble of thieves in Shaanxi has been calmed down, but this is not the case.

The money and food given to him by the DPRK was only a drop in the bucket for the hungry people in Shaanxi.

After Yang He spent all the money and grain, Tian Jin'an, Evil Tiger, Mountain Tiger, Han Zhishan, Shen Yikui and other thieves rebelled, and now Shaanxi is already a piece of erosion, and there is no way to draw troops and horses to help the Beijing Division. ”

Wang Qia knelt on the ground and said the information about Shaanxi in fear, and then knelt on the ground and did not dare to move, he was waiting for Chongzhen's punishment.

Chongzhen closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and suddenly stood up and drank.

"If you have anything else to hide from me, tell me about it, I am the Son of Heaven, and I can bear it."

After Chongzhen finished speaking, his chest rose and fell violently, in his opinion, Yang He and the ministers teamed up to deceive him, and this kind of crime of deceiving the king was more excessive than Wang Zezhi.

At least Wang Zezhi will give him an excerpt to explain the situation, and the ministers are good, such an important matter is hidden from him.

In fact, if you really want to talk about this, you can't blame Yang He entirely.

Chongzhen only gave Yang He 100,000 taels of private silver, plus 50,000 taels of silver and 20,000 stone rice grains donated by the vassal kings of Shaanxi, which was far from enough.

If we want to solve the problem of the hungry people in Shaanxi, we need at least millions of stone of grain, and according to one stone of grain, two or three silver, that is several million taels of silver.

Now what Chongzhen lacks most is silver.

If Emperor Chongzhen came up with enough silver or grain, Yang He might really be able to quell the starving people in Shaanxi.

The problem is that Chongzhen can't take it out, he can't take it out, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and Yang He can't use it even if he has a belly of strategies.

When Yang He used up the 150,000 taels of silver and 20,000 stone of rice grain, he immediately faced a dilemma: whether it was extermination or recruitment, a lot of silver was needed.

And what the court lacks most is silver, and even the silver for disaster relief has to be found by himself.

In this case, Yang He had only one strategy for the rebellious hungry people, and that was - Fu.

Yang He's so-called fu is to indulge the behavior of the exiles, as long as they are willing to surrender, immediately forgive all their sins.

His idea was also supported by a group of Confucian scholars, who considered it a good method and was in line with the Way of the Virgin.

If Confucius was alive, he would definitely be by this group of people, because what Confucius hated the most was the Way of the Virgin.

In fact, the number of thieves has not decreased because of Yang He's tolerance, but has become more and more because of this tolerance.

No matter how great the sin is, as long as you show repentance, you can not blame the past.

This leniency directly minimized the cost of the rebellion.

The main basis of the rebellion in Shaanxi was the starving people, refugees, fugitives and routs, because of the existence of this foundation, all kinds of restless people could be like fish in water and stir up trouble.

In fact, the backbone of the rebellion was precisely the fugitives and the routs.

Because Chongzhen did not give Yang He enough silver and food, Yang He failed.

On the other hand, Yang He's caress is not wrong.

Because the reason for the rebellion of the hungry people is very simple, that is, natural and man-made disasters have forced the common people into a corner, and the deduction of food and salaries, corruption and corruption have forced the soldiers to have nothing to do.

In this case, it is the most correct thing for the court to allocate money and food to appease.

If you don't consider other circumstances, it's purely from the perspective of natural disasters.

When the drought is over, the competent officials should mobilize all the forces they can to deal with it; If there are petty officials who deprive the people of their fat and ointment, the officials in charge should destroy them with the force of thunder.

The so-called natural disasters require the organization and coordination of the imperial court to tide over the difficulties together, Yang He was temporarily transferred over, and it is obvious that he cannot handle this matter.

The so-called man-made disasters are nothing more than corruption by local officials, and nothing more than the collusion of officials and businessmen to expand brutally.

Obviously, Yang He, as a powerless civil official, can't deal with these people with backgrounds.

If Yang He is made an enemy of these officials, businessmen and squires, he can't do it, what he can do is to give some good policies to the hungry people who rebel and rebel, which is also the only thing he can do.

Some people may ask him, doesn't Yang He have soldiers in his hands? Why didn't you send troops to deal with those corrupt officials, evil gentry and profiteers?

In fact, when Yang He took office, the soldiers and horses of the five provinces had already dispersed due to lack of food and salary.

Even the soldiers and horses of Shaanxi have returned to their respective stations, and they are unwilling to continue fighting.

The reason is very simple, they fight with their lives, and the court doesn't pay them, they can't even supply food, and they don't want to command them empty-handed.

You must know that when Li Zicheng invaded the capital, these soldiers were short of pay and food for a long time, and they were unwilling to fight alive or dead.

There is another point, that is, Chen Qiyu, the former governor of the five provinces who commanded them to fight hard and forced the thieves to Huanglong Mountain, was arrested, which made these people feel cold.

They were afraid that they and Chen Qiyu would end up together, so they withdrew to their respective stations and went to save their lives.