Yan'an Governor Yamen, the tiger is in the dragon pan, the huge vermilion lacquer door is open, like a beast with a huge mouth, waiting to devour everything, in front of the Yamen, three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, all the way to extend above the Sensen Hall.

Above the lobby, although there was a wind blowing through the hall, which made the government office look cool and suitable, and I couldn't feel the heat of midsummer at all, all the officials sitting here today were sweating profusely.

There is an exception in the meantime, there is no sweat and anxiety, the first one is the one who sits on the left hand in the first case, and the person who has benefited the most from the officialdom this time, Zhou Ji.

Zhou Ji with a tough attitude, several times sent troops to suppress the thieves, and won the favor of the new governor Hong Chengchou, several times to describe his merits, and was approved by the emperor, especially simple from the sixth grade and jumped to the fourth grade, it can be said that it has been promoted to three levels in a row, and it is a steady step.

There is also Zhang Yuan, who was promoted, as a military general, but he had to enter the house and sit on the governor's right hand side in a dignified manner. Although he always had a humble and deferential smile on his face, anyone could observe that in that deferential and modest smile, there was a pride that could not be hidden.

In the emperor's move, everyone can see a little rumor, that is, the policy of appeasing the poles in various places that was originally vigorously promoted by Governor Yang He here seems to be not favored by the emperor now, and the method of attacking Hong Chengchou has begun to focus, which makes the original Yansui officials panic all day.

Because, everyone who is sitting here is the Fufu faction headed by Yang Heyue and Sheng, and this time he will immediately change the court, and he is not adaptable, the most important thing is that Governor Yang He is still there, and he has done everything perfectly, that is, he has made a bad deal with the Governor, and now when the limelight is changing from east to west, it is better to change the same response.

At the beginning of his tenure, he secretly planned with Li Yingqi and Du Wenhuan, the chief soldier of Shaanxi, with a smile on his face, and issued an edict to those surrounding poles, with a polite tone, and made a wish to seal the officials, and then arranged in advance for the officials and soldiers to kill all ninety-eight people such as Wang Zuojiao and Miao Dengyun, and for those poles who had been assembled, they were all killed, and no one was left. This completely cut off the idea of being caressed by all poles.

This thunderbolt not only frightened the pole, but also made everyone the officials present lose color, and deeply felt that in this hot summer, the limelight has changed.

Hong Chengchou sat at the desk, his scarlet official uniform was neat and brilliant, and he didn't look at everyone, but just buried his head in reviewing the official documents.

Hong Chengchou is not like Yue Hesheng, who is nearly seventy years old, the current Hong Chengchou is in the prime of life, full of energy, decisive in killing, and extremely decisive in handling official documents.

Open the official document from time to time, or shake your head, take a few strokes, or nod your head, put it aside, and when you are reviewing, you suddenly stop writing, pick up a copy of the official document, compare it left and right, suddenly stand up, shake a document in your hand, and whisper with a gloomy face: "Fu Fu, it's all this time, and you haven't seen the situation clearly?" Still holding illusions, but being teased several times without knowing it, when the army attacked, the thieves were frightened, begged to be appeased, and then took the government money and food to restore their vitality, once they eased up, continued to rebel, repeatedly appeased and sentenced, is this lesson still less? This is the reason why thieves are everywhere in Shaanxi now. As soon as these words came out, some officials at the bottom couldn't help but slander in their hearts, crossing the river and demolishing the bridge, without Governor Yang's promotion, you are still a small governor, and you are not kind to blame the old boss of the benefactor here. The remaining officials nodded in agreement.

In fact, above the court, those Qingliushi doctors often have the saying that Yang He is the master of the world. They believed that the strength of the "rogues" was not great at the beginning, and that as long as the officials and troops were mobilized to annihilate them with one drum, the peasant uprising could be strangled in the cradle. It was only because of Yang He's single-minded devotion that the peasant uprising was able to develop, so that it was out of control. Therefore, in the minds of the main suppression faction, Yang He became the target of public criticism and was regarded as the culprit.

But in fact, everyone also wronged Yang He, and he himself was not blindly appeased, but adhered to the principle of suppression as the auxiliary and appeasement as the leading, or he would not have fought a vicious battle with Lu Shi in Yanchuan, and then returned to Mizhi and fought with Gao Yingxiang again, he hoped to use this blow as a condition to subdue the poles in various places, and then appease. The strategy of appeasement is actually for this Ming, and it is also a helpless solution.

In February of the early year of Chongzhen, Wu Zhiwang, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty, died of illness, and Zhu Youzhen appointed Yang He, the left deputy capital, to replace him.

After Yang He arrived in office, he saw that the famine in various parts of Shaanxi was very serious, and the hungry people who had no food and clothing joined the uprising in droves, so that the military pursuit and suppression he had deployed had little effect, and the officials and soldiers were exhausted, but the peasants of the uprising continued to increase. He felt that military means alone could not solve the social problems he faced. On the other hand, at the end of the second year, Chongzhen sent a large number of elites to King Qin, which made him feel that his troops were insufficient and he was unable to cope. In this overstretched situation, Yang He put forward the policy of giving priority to appeasement and supplementing pursuit and suppression.

The money was spent on relief to help farmers resume their businesses. This will not only eliminate the trouble, but also allow the government to continue to collect taxes after the peasants are settled, so it is said that "Li Mo Dayan". If he blindly pursues the campaign and spends the money on military spending, not only will he not be able to restore social production, and the money spent cannot be recovered in the form of taxes, but his own experience has also proved that if the problems of the peasants' livelihood are not solved, more and more people will inevitably take part in the uprising, and the situation will not be easy to conclude, and the future troubles will become more serious. This is the main reason why Yang He suggested that Fu should be the mainstay.

However, there is also a reason for repeated convictions, the emperor originally thought that as long as a letter of pardon was issued and a little relief, the rebellious peasants could be dismissed and returned to the country, and they would still act as "good citizens" who paid grain and served as errands. Instead of managing to lighten the burden on the peasants, he stepped up the pressing. In July of the second year of Chongzhen, Li Chengming, the left waiter of the household department, saw that it was really difficult to pay enough money, and suggested a rate of nine points, but Zhu Youzhen still insisted on being very accommodating.

In September of the third year, the inspector asked for exemption from the arrears of Shaanxi Province according to the imperial history Li, and Zhu Youzhen delayed until the end of this year, before he reluctantly agreed to exempt the taxes owed to the people in the first and second years of Chongzhen, and the tax arrears of that year were still not allowed to be exempted.

The more Hong Chengchou spoke, the higher his voice became, "This general judgment is still in charge of this cliché, everyone, you are all well-educated people, have you ever seen the troubled times use appeasement to make the world peaceful?" In troubled times, this is the right way. ”

The judge who was said heard it, but he didn't care, just stood up, bowed down and saluted according to the rules of officialdom, and said softly: "Students are taught." "Then Shi Shiran sat in his seat.

He was personally taken care of by Yang He, but in fact, he was an eye-and-ear pawn planted by Yang He in Yansui, and he was also a staunch follower of Yang He's appeasement policy.

Looking at the officials below who were as quiet as wood carvings, they no longer moved their official authority, turned around and changed to a smiling face and said to Zhou Ji: "Zilian (Zhou Ji's character) You have a lot of fights with the thief, can you see that the thief has the heart to be cared for?" ”

Being called by the boss, this is a kind of closeness and a kind of favor, especially in the military, Zhang Yuan, who is also popular without asking, but asking a literati himself, is even more important to the governor.

Zhou Ji hurriedly stood up and said to Hong Chengchou: "I think Lu Shi has absolutely no heart to be appeased, even if he is embarrassed for a while, if he accepts the appeasement, he will definitely rebel in the future." ”

Hong Chengchou was very satisfied with this answer, smiled and nodded: "Why?" ”

"It's ambitious." So far, it says it all.

"Look, this is the person who really understands current affairs." Hong Chengchou turned around again, faced the people below, and commented sincerely: "It's just a pity, there are too few such talents." Saying that it was a pity, there was no pity on his face, but he raised a briefcase and trembled and said: "Now, Zilian is no longer alone, and now Zhao Zilong, the commander of Yichuan County, is another person who understands the overall situation, this is Zhao Zilong, who is long live." ”

Zhao Zi, everyone is familiar with it, and the reason for being familiar is not only incompatible with everyone, but the most important thing is his words, which together are Zhao Zilong, but it's a pity that he has a name, but he is a civil official who has no power to restrain chickens, isn't it stinky and hard, why did he suddenly jump out this time, and he also learned to make a sycophant?

Hong Chengchou didn't care what everyone said about Zhao Zi, but held up Zhao Zi's official document and said impassionedly: "Zhao Zilong, well, from the official document he has uploaded, it can be seen that real talents can be regarded as a pillar of the Ming Dynasty in northern Shaanxi in the future." ”

As soon as these words came out, in exchange for not envy, but jealousy, then Zhao Zi was not liked by everyone, but he was appreciated by the incumbent governor, and it seems that he is expected to be promoted, this is really a courtier, as long as the sycophants are in place in time, it is really a sentence of 10,000 sentences, under this accurate blow, it is time to operate, promote and make a fortune, no, you can't let this vertical son be with yourself, a Zhou Ji, and a martial artist Zhang Yuan will make people angry, if you add a Zhao Zi, in that way, don't you disgust yourself and other colleagues? As long as the governor mentions the promotion with him, then he will try his best to block it, the beauty of adults will not, but the bad guys, everyone will be able to catch it.

So everyone still lowered their eyebrows and was pleasing to their eyes, but they had already begun to make accusations against Zhao Ziluo in their hearts.

Speaking of this, Hong Chengchou glanced at the general judgment, and the general judgment looked at the nose and nose to the heart, sitting like a bodhisattva, and did not take his official career to heart at all.

"Is there really not? No, he's deceiving me and not daring to take him down. Hong Chengchou can only think about it like this.

"This Zhao County ordered the book to care, saying that a few days ago, the rogue Gao Yingxiang and the thief Lu Shi had a fire fight in front of Chenjiabao, and finally both were defeated, Gao Yingxiang was only 10,000 rabble left in the hundreds of thousands of rogues, and they were in Yichuan trouble, Zhao County ordered to ask for money, food, and weapons, and to take advantage of the courage of the township, Gao Yingxiang was newly defeated, and when the thieves were tired, they surrounded and suppressed Gao Yingxiang."

As soon as this remark came out, it was not a big uproar in the fight between Lu Shi and Gao Yingxiang, but a big uproar in what Zhao Zi did.

"I think it's very good, if everyone has the courage of Zhao County's order to do things, and don't sit back and watch the rogue strings, then the world will be peaceful." After Hong Chengchou sighed, he said to the officials below: "I have decided to allocate the money, food and equipment in full according to Zhao Zilong's request, and let him fight, even if it is just to drag the thief for a while, and wait for me to ask the governor for troops, and after the autumn harvest, the whole army will fight again." ”