Xiangyang was captured by the anti-thieves, and Luoyang was also captured by the anti-thieves;

King Xiang was killed by the thief, and King Fu was also killed by the thief;

Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the military department, was ill, Wu Zhenying, the governor of the five provinces, was afraid of the enemy, and the situation in the five northwestern provinces took a sharp turn for the worse.

Chongzhen seems to understand that Wen Tiren is unreliable, and Zhang Fengyi and Wu Zhenying are even more unreliable.

At this time, he didn't have time to think about Wen Tiren's problem, because the situation in the five northwestern provinces had been eroded, not only Xiangyang and Luoyang had been conquered by the anti-thieves, but the anti-thieves in Shanxi and Shaanxi were also becoming more and more rampant, many prefectures and counties were looted by the anti-thieves, and the royal family and local officials were almost slaughtered by the anti-thieves.

Question, at this time, Zhang Bin is trapped in Liaodong and can't move, and Zhang Fengyi and Wu Zhenying can't be trusted, what should I do?

Chongzhen pondered for a while, and really let him think of a way, or a person, this person is Yang Sichang, the right attendant of the former military department.

Yang Sichang is the son of Yang He, the former governor of the three sides, a jinshi in the 38th year of Wanli, and successively served as a professor of Hangzhou Fuxue, a doctor of the Nandu Guozijian, the director of the Fujian Division of the Ministry of Households, a member of the Jiangxi Division of the Ministry of Households, and a member of the Ministry of Households.

He seems to be a money manager, why does Chongzhen think that he can solve the crisis in the five northwestern provinces?

Don't worry, this is just Yang Sichang's resume before the second year of the Apocalypse, and in the second year of the Apocalypse, Yang Sichang saw that the eunuch Wei Zhongxian gradually had the power to abuse power, and Zhongliang was gradually being mutilated by him, so he simply resigned from illness and returned to his hometown to live in seclusion!

Perhaps, he thinks that he is a loyal minister and a wise man, if he stays in the court, he will be persecuted by Wei Zhongxian sooner or later, perhaps, he is to avoid party disputes, and he refuses to join the Chu party and join the eunuch party.

Yang Sichang did not remain idle after resigning and returning to his hometown, he compiled his experience of participating in financial management in the household department into the "Collection of Local Officials", and spent money to hire someone to compile and print a book, which was circulated in the world.

The Ministry of Officials is a heavenly official, and the household is a local official, which is not a formal name, but this kind of name is quite popular among the people, without him, because the heavenly officials and local officials are called a bit mythical, Chongzhen may be attracted by this name, bought a set of "Local Official Collection", and studied it carefully.

Of course, at that time, he had not yet ascended the throne, and he was not called Chongzhen, but called King Xin, the fifth brother of the emperor, King Zhu Youzhen.

Chongzhen didn't think that he would be the emperor at that time, because Tianqi was in the prime of life, and it was not that he was infertile, but the princes he gave birth to were all "dead", and at that time Tianqi was only in his twenties, and there was time, it was impossible for the prince to give birth to one and hang one, and there were always those who could survive to inherit the unification, so Chongzhen never thought about being an emperor at all.

He studied Yang Sichang's "Diguan Ji" not to prepare for becoming an emperor, but to prepare for becoming a vassal king, because the vassal king would hardly have to do anything after becoming a vassal king, as long as he took care of his own money bag.

However, by mistake, the twenty-two-year-old Apocalypse was hung up because of a wind and cold, and he really didn't leave an heir, and he, the fifth brother of the emperor, inherited the unification so inexplicably!

Now Yang Sichang's opportunity came, because Chongzhen when he was the king of the letter to see his "Diguan Collection", full of praise for his talent, as soon as he succeeded to the throne, he promoted Yang Sichang to patrol Henan Ruzhou Road, plus the right to participate in politics, and soon moved to the Shanhaiguan internal supervision army and military preparation road, Chongzhen four years and promoted him to the right of the Imperial Court of the Imperial History of the Governor of Shanhaiguan and Yongping Mansion.

Chongzhen is cultivating his own team, if nothing else, Yang Sichang will have a smooth ride and slowly enter the power core of the court.

However, there was an accident at that time, because Yang Sichang's father Yang He was impeached and sentenced to death.

Filial piety is one of the most important qualities, if you are not filial, then there is no qualification to be an official, Yang Sichang is very filial, he has been on the book several times, please replace his father.

Chongzhen naturally couldn't be accurate, he simply exempted Yang He from the death penalty, and sentenced him to Yuan Zhou, and through this matter, he attached more importance to Yang Sichang.

Such a sincere and filial piety, talented and outstanding official, where to find it, soon, Yang Sichang was promoted to the right attendant of the military department.

Originally, Chongzhen stripped Zhang Bin of the real power of the military department Shangshu in order to promote Yang Sichang to the position, but unfortunately, at this time, Yang He died, Yang Sichang had to go home to worry, and Zhang Fengyi, a talented and cowardly rice bucket, was able to get the position.

At this time, Chongzhen was really unavailable, and finally remembered Yang Sichang, who had returned home, and he thought that Yang Sichang would definitely be able to help him solve the crisis in the five northwestern provinces, but people were worried about Ding and kept filial piety, what should I do?

There is another way, that is, to take away the love of revenge, that is, to take away the affection of filial piety for the sake of national affairs, continue to serve in the court, work in plain clothes, and do not participate in auspicious ceremonies.

This kind of thing is not without precedent, Zhang Juzheng, the first assistant of the cabinet in the early years of Wanli, had seized the love of the recovery, which made Wanli Zhongxing, and now, Daming or Chongzhen also urgently needs Yang Sichang to solve the crisis, so he gritted his teeth and directly issued an order to make Yang Sichang regain his feelings, serve as the secretary of the Ministry of War, the governor of the military affairs of the five provinces, and exterminate the northwest thieves!

Although most of this kind of thing is a last resort, it is easy to be attacked, and ordinary people really dare not take revenge, Yang Sichang doesn't know whether he really doesn't dare or fake don't dare, anyway, he wrote to resign, and he resigned three times in a row, but Chongzhen resolutely refused to allow it, "helplessly", Yang Sichang had to end Ding Wei and return to Beijing to take office.

Chongzhen is so excited, his most trusted minister is finally here, and the crisis in the northwest can finally be solved!

As soon as Yang Sichang returned to Beijing, he recruited him into the palace and discussed secretly.

In other words, at this time, there are only 60,000 available soldiers in the five northwestern provinces, and there are hundreds of thousands of anti-thieves, and they have also captured the important towns of Xiangyang and Luoyang, does Yang Sichang really have a way to solve this crisis?

He really has a way!

However, his method is really a bit fucked, and he proposed three "good strategies" for Chongzhen.

First, the outside must first be inside;

second, enough food and then foot soldiers;

Third, only by protecting the people can we slash the people.

The so-called "outside must first be inside" is to negotiate peace with Jiannu, and strive to let Jiannu quit!

The so-called sufficient food and then foot soldiers is to increase the levy and training salaries, and expand the army crazily!

As for the third point, that is, the levy and salary training are simply to kill the people, and to protect the people of a fart, this is what Yang Sichang used to fool Chongzhen, but it just sounds good.

It's also called a good policy!

To negotiate peace with Jiannu is to seek skin with the tiger, and the goal of others is to take away your country, can they really strike a truce with you!

Levying and training salaries, frantically expanding the army, and even drinking to quench their thirst, the common people rebelled because they couldn't live anymore, and you even desperately increased taxes, which didn't force people to rebel!

The third is the real good policy, Zhang Bin did this, but he didn't talk to Chongzhen about it, although Yang Sichang mentioned it to Chongzhen, he wouldn't do it at all, he was just farting.

Just these two clumsy tricks and one fart, Chongzhen actually believed it all!

He immediately issued a secret decree, ordering Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, to send an envoy to negotiate peace with Jiannu, and at the same time ordered the household department to increase the levy and training salary, add one point per mu to the field endowment, and double all other salt taxes, commercial levies, and miscellaneous taxes!

Subsequently, he investigated and dealt with the dismissal of Zhang Fengyi, the secretary of the military department, and Wu Zhenying, the governor of the five provinces, and promoted Yang Sichang, the right attendant of the former military department, to serve as the secretary of the military department, and the governor of the military affairs of the five provinces, responsible for exterminating the anti-thieves.

In other words, there are a total of 60,000 horses in the five northwestern provinces, how to exterminate the thieves?

This guy, as soon as Yang Sichang took office, he immediately ordered that Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, and Huguang all the capital divisions and Xingdu divisions were transferred to the tunwei to form a new army, with an increase of 30,000 troops in each province, and a total of 120,000 troops in the four provinces!

Originally, more than 200,000 troops and the imperial court could not afford to raise them, and then suddenly there were 120,000 troops, where did the food and salary come from, and it was not from the common people, the common people rebelled precisely because they were poor and could not survive, but you used the method of increasing taxes to solve the problem of the people's rebellion, can you solve it? I'm sick in the brain!

Zhang Bin saw the secret report sent by the capital, and scoffed, Chongzhen is a braincase with water, Yang Sichang is even more seriously watered in the braincase, negotiate peace with Jiannu, and increase taxes, is this the solution to the current dilemma?

This method seems to be feasible, but there are huge hidden dangers, even if they can suppress the thieves in a short time, it will eventually make the thieves more rampant, because their foundation is the hungry and the homeless, and the increase in taxes will only increase the hunger and the homeless, which is to stabilize the foundation for them, even if they suffer temporary setbacks, they can quickly recover.

Zhang Bin really wanted to tell Chongzhen that this would not destroy the anti-thieves, and it would only make the situation in the northwest more erosive, but he knew that Chongzhen was a strong donkey, once he decided about it, it was useless for you to persuade him, he could only let these two people with their brains in the water toss blindly, if they jumped out to oppose it, it was very likely that Chongzhen would be angry and even jerk himself off, and when the time came, the plan to clean up Wen Tiren would be completely ruined.

To his surprise, the peace talks were "successful"!

Huang Taiji warmly received Zhou Yuanzhong, the secret envoy sent by Fang Yizao, the governor of Liaodong, and said that if the Ming Dynasty was willing to gradually withdraw his troops, he would also gradually reduce the number of garrisons in Liaoyang until neither side could threaten each other!

What's going on here?

It's very simple, because Huang Taiji can't bear it, the army of more than 200,000 seems to be mighty, but the consumption is extremely huge.

He has an army of 180,000 under the Eight Banners, and Liaodong, a big place, can't afford to raise so many troops, if he hadn't levied and forcible and plundered, he wouldn't have been able to gather the grain and grass of the 180,000 army.

What's even worse is that at this time, he still has to raise nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners of Mongolia and nearly 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

The reason why he was able to organize so many troops to attack the Santaizi River was because he had plundered a lot of money and grain in Datong Town last year, and after a few months of tossing, the money and grain had already been tossed.

If he continues like this, his old book will be eaten up, and he will take more than 300,000 troops to drink the northwest wind!

It's too good for the little emperor's secret envoy to come, if the little emperor's secret envoy doesn't come again, he will send a secret envoy to talk to the little emperor, everyone take a step back, don't fight, everything is precious, right!

He did not hesitate to accept the olive branch handed over by the little emperor, agreed to stop the war, and took the initiative to send the 100,000 Mengbaqi army back to the Monan grassland, so that they could go back to their own homes, find their own mothers, eat their own food, and stop eating and drinking with him.

When Chongzhen received the news, he almost jumped up with joy, and he immediately issued an order to order Zhang Bin to send the 20,000 white pole soldiers of the Sichuan Army in Liaoyang City to Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi Province to accept the dispatch of Yang Sichang, the new governor of the five provinces.

He wanted to show his attitude to Huang Taiji, if you withdraw the army, I will withdraw the army, and at the same time, he is also slowly stripping Zhang Bin of the military power, although he is disappointed in Wen Tiren's gang, but it does not mean that he will give up the way of balance, he is going to use Yang Sichang to suppress Zhang Bin.

In the middle, he also played a strategy self-righteously, he did not tell Zhang Bin about the peace talks, but deliberately concealed it from Zhang Bin, he asked the governor of Liaodong Fang Yizao to secretly send an envoy to negotiate peace with Huang Taiji, if he didn't want to hide it from Zhang Bin, just let Zhang Bin send someone to negotiate with Huang Taiji, why bother so much.

The reason why he did this was to test Zhang Bin to see if Zhang Bin had any objections, and whether he would play something with him would be unacceptable to the king's life outside.

If someone else receives this inexplicable will, they must be so angry that they will spurt blood, I am confronting the main force of Jiannu, you actually want to send people from me to suppress the thief, what if Jiannu pounces and attacks wildly?

However, Zhang Bin will not spurt blood, because he knows how these guys are tired of playing, Chongzhen is also naïve, and even arranged for someone to find Huang Taiji to negotiate secretly under his nose, even if he does not have Cao Huachun's internal response, can this kind of thing be hidden from him?

Isn't Chongzhen just testing his loyalty, okay, I'll show my loyalty.

As soon as he received the order, he immediately ordered without hesitation, ordering Ma Xianglin to lead 20,000 Sichuan troops to Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi Province as soon as possible to accept the dispatch of Yang Sichang, the governor of the five provinces.

Such a good opportunity can't be missed, Chongzhen still thought he was in the dark, of course he had to pretend not to know and show his loyalty.

As for Huang Taiji's side, he was not too worried, he had already sent his personal guards and scouts all over the entire Liaoyang periphery, and he received the news as soon as the 100,000 Mengyuan cavalry and foot retreated, at this time, there were less than 150,000 horses in Liaoyang City, and he still had 60,000 horses in his hands, and there were dozens of various city fire prevention cannons, as well as 800 tiger squat cannons, even if Huang Taiji brought all the 150,000 horses and rushed over, he would not get any benefits.

Chongzhen saw that Zhang Bin was so obedient, and he really had less suspicion of Zhang Bin in his heart, but fortunately, this guy didn't have any objections, but the authority was too heavy, and it was enough to suppress and suppress it.

And Huang Taiji saw that the Ming army really withdrew, and immediately dismissed the 20,000 Han and Eight Banner soldiers in Liaoyang City without hesitation.

Chongzhen received the news and ordered Zhang Bin to send 10,000 Qi soldiers to Pingyang to show his sincerity.

Seeing this, Huang Taiji simply led 60,000 cavalry of the Eight Banners back to Shenyang, leaving 60,000 heavy armored infantry to defend Liaoyang.

At this time, there is really no danger, Chongzhen received the news, and immediately issued an order, ordering Zhang Bin to return to Beijing to resume his life, and ordered Lu Xiangsheng to lead the Tianxiong army to Pingyang to accept Yang Sichang's dispatch, and Haizhou City was handed over to Sun Chuanting and his 40,000 Qin troops to garrison.

This Liaodong War is over, and next, Zhang Bin will face a court battle, what will be the outcome of this war?

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