Passing the decree, Yang He, the governor of Shaanxi, has great power, and he actually allowed the rogues to run rampant without extinguishing them, ruining the lives of the people, and greatly disappointing my appointment. He was immediately dismissed from his post and escorted to Beijing by Jinyiwei for interrogation. ”

Chongzhen was so hard to be concealed by his courtiers, and he always thought that Shaanxi was worry-free.

After Chongzhen gave the order, the ministers in the hall trembled one by one.

They clearly remembered that Chongzhen praised Yang He's strategy in the court.

Even, Chongzhen said it in front of the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty.

"The rogues are also my child, it is better to appease them, not to be pure, and they should be killed less."

Now the courtiers recalled this sentence and felt creepy.

Although the courtiers were deeply disturbed, they still had to stand up and take a stand.

coincided with the Shaanxi Governor Li coming to Beijing to report on his work, and he went out to impeach Yang He.

He blamed the situation of Shaanxi's rebellion against thieves to Yang He's single-mindedness.

He said that because of the appeasement, some of the degraders were sent to the countryside to harass the local people in various ways, and the people called them "official thieves" and hated the appeasement very much.

Wang Qia, the secretary of the Ministry of War, echoed in a timely manner, blaming Yang He for holding the soldiers and horses of the five provinces, but he was the main one but not the main one, which finally made the situation difficult to clean up.

"Your Majesty, when Yang He first took office, he only carried 150,000 taels of silver, and the grain he gave was only 20,000 stones, and hundreds of thousands of thieves in Shaanxi gave money to the grain and silver.

The minister dared to implore the emperor to investigate the matter thoroughly, and after finding out the original reasons, he would make a holy judgment. ”

The first assistant of the cabinet said to the class.

As the head of the cabinet, Chongzhen had to pay attention to what he said.

Chongzhen pondered for a moment and decided to appoint Wu Fu as the governor of Shaanxi to verify the matter.

After Wu Xian left, the ministers of the court saw the wind and the rudder, and began to impeach Yang He, who had long made them unhappy.

The ministers in the court didn't even care about Wang Zezhi's capture of Datong Mansion, and in their eyes, acting according to the emperor's will was more important than anything else.

In fact, the main point is that they see the best time to eradicate a nasty bug, and they will not let go of such a good time.

Wu Zhu investigated Yang He, and Yang He was very aggrieved.

In the end, Yang He couldn't withstand such a heavy pressure, his spirit tended to collapse, and he submitted his resignation to Emperor Chongzhen.

He said in great pain: Since the arrival of the minister, there has not been a day when he has not been in danger and fear, but not a day has been spent calling for illness or asking for leave.

Due to the urgency of the military situation, he was frightened and worried, and he couldn't swallow, and finally got anorexia.

I can't eat and drink day after day, and I drink thin porridge because my throat is narrow, and there seems to be a block in my chest that can't be dissolved.

The anxious, the thief has been in vain for a long time, and the person who thinks he is ominous, the more sick he is, the more worried he is, and the more worried he is, the more sick he is.

If the emperor is sorry and allows the ministers to return to their hometowns to recuperate, his son Yang Sichang will serve in the frontier to show the loyalty of the ministers.

Chongzhen was not moved at all when he saw the grievances and misery written in this article, and he was unmoved by the grievances and hatred he was not at all moved.

He just coldly replied in eight big words, "There is a purpose, and the ministry knows." ”

Shaanxi Governor Wu Fu investigated the fact that some people were sent to the countryside to harass the local people in every way, so he stabbed him in the back at a critical moment.

He accused Yang He of "trying to do things hastily, only talking about appeasement and not encirclement and suppression, which attracted the emperor to harshly plot the ending and favor and suppress."

Because Yang He only paid attention to appeasement and did not pay attention to encirclement and suppression, the thieves became more and more rampant, and Chongzhen was very angry.

He ordered the Shaanxi Inspector to investigate whether Yang He's continuous report on his exploits was true.

After Wu Fu's investigation, he submitted to the emperor the evacuation of Yang He's missteps, emphasizing that due to Yang He's missteps, the place was poisoned, and if Yang He could not do anything, he would be in a precarious situation.

At this time, Zhang Mengjin and Huang Youcai revolted again on 22 June, led their troops north, and captured the important military town of Ningsai, and the news reached Beijing, and public opinion was in an uproar.

The officials of the main suppression faction were originally very dissatisfied with the appeasement policy, seized the rebellion of the Fu thief, and asked the main Fu faction to question the guilt.

Officials who originally supported the Lord's Fu faction also condemned the Lord's Fu faction's bluff when they saw the wind and steered it.

Shaanxi Provincial Trial Shi Xie Sanbin impeached Yang He, Yang He had boasted before: After the appeasement, the troops have been dismissed, the Qingyang area has been clarified, and the state area is guaranteed.

Emperor Chongzhen was furious and urgently ordered the Shaanxi patrol to check the report according to Wu Fu.

Wu Fu reported to the emperor: Yang He is the master of the country.

Emperor Chongzhen no longer hesitated, and in the second year of Chongzhen, on July 3, he ordered Jinyiwei to arrest Yang He and return to Beijing for interrogation.

Before Yang He was arrested, he was grief-stricken and wrote a note entitled "Weichen is not wronged" to defend himself.

He said that when the emperor summoned the minister on the platform, he once said, "The thief was originally a son of the Central Plains, and he should not be purely suppressed."

In accordance with the emperor's will, the minister did not like to kill, and when the emperor issued 100,000 taels of silver, he sent Wu to relieve the famine and appease the thieves.

The minister pursued virtue and lured several teams of thieves, but he wanted to disband them and return them to the peasants, so what he said was the truth, the problem was that there was not enough money and food, so that the thieves were not successful, and it was useless to talk about those old words.

Yang Sichang, the son of Yang He, who patrolled the state road in a timely manner and joined the right to participate in politics, heard what happened to his father.

So, he immediately asked the emperor to be willing to bear the responsibility for the crime on behalf of his father, in fact, he hoped that the two generations of father and son would be loyal to the court and be treated lightly.

The emperor did not allow it, Yang He knew that the overall situation had been decided, and it was useless to complain about grievances, so he wrote a note entitled "Tianyan is close at hand and waits for the crime", admitting his mistakes, but angrily criticizing the emperor for improper use of people.

He said that the governor was appointed by a minister, and that he was not using someone else.

He said that when the emperor summoned the right platform, he explained to his face that he did not have the talent to solve the trouble, nor did he have the experience of defending the frontier.

Thinking of repaying the grace of God, he reluctantly made it difficult, but he was embarrassed to this point, which was really his own mistake.

At the same time, he unceremoniously pointed out that after he took office, except for the 100,000 taels of private silver given to him by the emperor, he never gave him a tael of silver or a stone of rice and grain, which caused the soldiers and horses of the five provinces to be scattered, and the situation was difficult every day.

The adoption of the policy of appeasement is also forced by the situation.

In all fairness, this is indeed the case.

But as a person who is bound to sin, it is definitely not a wise move to put the blame on your own immediate superior.

Sure enough, Chongzhen was furious and did not allow any minister to intercede for him.

In fact, even if Chongzhen allows, there will be no ministers to intercede for him, and the ministers in the court only know how to protect themselves, and no one will touch the emperor's mold at this time.

What's more, they had long wanted to expelle Yang He from the court, how could they let it go now at such a good time.

The soldiers and horses of the five provinces were scattered, and Chongzhen knew that it was difficult for him to gather them again without money and food now.

So he discussed with the ministers whether to increase the land endowment and get some money.

The ministers listened to Chongzhen's words and began to discuss.

On July 11, the Household Department Shangshu Bi Zi Yan Chen Fu Zhi

Emperor Chongzhen obeyed.

After that, Chongzhen began to abolish the post station with great fanfare.

After doing this, the ministers began to discuss the matter of the governors of the five provinces.

The courtiers unanimously agreed that the governor of the five provinces was proposed by Wang Zezhi, and whether Wang Zezhi rebelled or not, they have not yet figured out.

Therefore, they abolished the post of governor of the five provinces and reinstated the post of governor of the trilateral.

The original trilateral governor Wu Zhiwang committed suicide, and now that the governors of the five provinces have been abolished, they have begun to elect new trilateral governors.

After a heated discussion, the courtiers finally agreed on their opinions.

They elected Hong Chengchou, who defeated Wang Zuohang on the ninth day of the fourth month of the second year of Chongzhen, to take office.

After Hong Chengchou heard this, he trembled, fearing to follow in Yang He's footsteps, and wrote a note of "Please Kuan Qiandu" to intercede for Yang He.

He said that since Yang He took office, he has been cautious and cautious because of the serious famine, and the number of thieves has increased.

The change of rebellion against thieves is really very current and unexpected, and I implore the emperor to send Yang He leniently.

Chongzhen was very angry when he was exposed by Yang He, so he didn't let go.

"Yang He has his own cuts, and he doesn't have to act on behalf of Chen."

Soon, Yang He was sent to Yuanzhou, Jiangxi.