After Liu Zhilun and Fang Zhenghua led the people back to Beijing, they were generously rewarded, and Liu Zhilun was promoted to a part-time scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion in the Ministry of Rites.

The post of secretary of the military department was appointed to Yang Sichang, who Chongzhen admired immensely, and this time it was not a fictitious title but a real award.

Because when Chongzhen and Yang Sichang discussed the current situation, Yang Sichang played a statement on "four positive six corners, ten sides of the net." ”

The four positive and six corners are based on Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang and Jiangbei as the four positives, and the Jiangbei here is different from the later generations, referring to the north of Fengyang, the central capital, and the four governors are responsible for the people who are responsible for the suppression.

Yansui, Shanxi, Shandong, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, and Sichuan are the six corners, and the Jiangnan here is the south of Fengyang, the central capital, and has not crossed the river.

The four main attacks and the six main defenses add up to exactly ten governors working together, which is a ten-sided net.

Hong Chengchou, the governor of the three sides, and Lu Xiangsheng, the chief of the five provinces, were two powerful feudal officials who followed the thieves and specialized in conquest, and the central idea was to intercept and surround the peasant army that was fighting on the move, and then eliminate it.

As soon as this method was proposed by Yang Sichang, Chongzhen agreed to Yang Sichang's plan, took his hand and sighed: "I hate it late!" ”

As a result, Yang Sichang played Chongzhen, and wanted to complete the big plan of opening nets on all sides to chase and intercept the Liukou, and he had to increase his troops by 140,000, and the plan to increase the salary of 200 was in vain, so that Xiong Wencan was arrested by the imperial court and finally killed.

Employing people should be like walking on thin ice, knowing how to make good use of people is easier said than done.

Chongzhen was entrusted with a heavy task by Yuan Chonghuan, which was to harm others and himself, and Yang Sichang recommended Xiong Wencan to serve as the general system of the five provinces at the most important node in the Ming Dynasty, harming others and himself, and misleading the country and the people.

Yang Sichang then made an unforgivable mistake and reused Zuo Liangyu to give him the title of "General of the Ping Thief", which made Zuo Liangyu stand out among dozens or hundreds of general officers and became one of the only eight general officers in the Ming Dynasty with the seal of the general.

How bad Zuo Liangyu is is well known, and there are countless excerpts to impeach him.

Yang Sichang, who didn't know people, simply ignored Zuo Liangyu's bad deeds of killing, burning, killing, looting, and doing more than that of the rogue, and entrusted him with a heavy responsibility.

In history, at the critical moment of the ten-sided network, Zuo Liangyu accepted bribes and deliberately let Zhang Xianzhong go, causing Yang Sichang's painstaking ten-sided network plan to fall short.

This is why Zhang Xianzhong attacked Xiangyang in the future, which made the exhausted Yang Sichang die in shock and anger, which is another classic case of using the wrong person to harm others and himself.

All in all, the Ming Dynasty has the "Red Banner Army" to take over more than 4 million hungry people in Shanxi and Xuanda, and the land of Gyeonggi has not been plagued by Jiannu again, and the life of the Ming court is much better than in history.

It's just that because of the absence of Sun Chuanting, Gao Yingxiang and his main force are still there, and the ability of this Biao ironclad cavalry to attack is far stronger than that of the Ming army in the mainland.

Directly led to Xiangyang and Nanyang being exploited by the rogues prematurely, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, etc. got a lot of money, food, weapons, gold and silver treasures, and hundreds of thousands of young adults with good physical strength.

The strength of the Liukou is much stronger than history, and now the troops are attacking the city in four ways, Zhang Xianzhong once again crossed the Dabie Mountain area to the central capital, and has approached Yizhen County, more than 100 miles west of Yangzhou.

Gao Yingxiang, who was inseparable from his homeland, led the main force into Shaanxi again, and fought until Hanzhong was now advancing to northern Sichuan, intending to harm the country of abundance.