However, if it was just reported that Zhang Bingzhong was misbehaving and disobedient, then Emperor Chongde would not be too angry. Because this is not a secret in the imperial court in the first place. Even, Zhang Bingzhong will rebel again sooner or later, which has long been the consensus of the imperial court. Before appeasing Zhang Bingzhong, Yang Fei and Emperor Chongde analyzed Zhang Bingzhong, and believed that most of him "has a thief's heart and is difficult to change". It was only due to financial pressure that Emperor Chongde and Yang Fei had to accept Zhang Bingzhong's surrender. Even, the imperial court arranged Xiong Shanhuo to be in charge of chasing down Zhang Bingzhong, in fact, it was not because he valued his military ability, but because he was good at recruiting people. But even Xiong Shanhuo once wrote to Yang Fei, saying that Zhang Bingzhong was not credible. In fact, if everything goes well, now I am afraid that the imperial court will have to find a way to deal with Zhang Bingzhong.

On the other hand, Yang Fei is now too favored, and it has also brought him a lot of enemies. Last year, Huang Youping, the young man of the Zhan Mansion, argued with Yang Fei in front of the emperor, accusing Yang Fei of being disloyal and unfilial, and compared him to Qin Hui, who betrayed the country and sought glory during the Song Dynasty, because he presided over the peace talks with the Jin State. Although Emperor Chongde firmly stood on Yang Fei's side, he demoted Huang Youping by six levels in one breath and transferred him to Jiangxi as the judge.

But even so, it failed to stop these people's attacks on Yang Fei and the bandits and peace negotiations he presided over. Lu Tianxiong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, accused Yang Fei of negotiating peace with the Jin people and dispatching all the troops near Gyeonggi, for fear that he would fall for the Jin people's plan to transfer the tiger away from the mountain. And predicted that Jin Ren would definitely take the opportunity to enter the prison, and when the time came, Yang Fat Chicken would fly eggs, and the world would definitely be out of control. and said that Yang Fei was "a thief who misled the world". What's even worse is that the subsequent situation turned out to be really the same as he predicted. After Lu Tianxiong was martyred in the battle with the Jin people, the government and the opposition blamed Yang Fei even more. Emperor Chongde also had to remove Yang Fei from his official position, but these people were not satisfied, and they attacked Yang Fei more vigorously. Not only are those imperial historians who specialize in scolding people like this, but even some magistrates have joined in, such as the Sun Baigu just now.

In Emperor Chongde's view, these attacks on Yang Fei were actually attacks on him. In his opinion, Yang Fei's plan did suffer some setbacks, but this was not because Yang Fei was incompetent, but because he and the Jokhang Dynasty were not very lucky. Plus a bunch of guys are always there dragging them back.

"If they hadn't opposed the peace talks together, how could there be a Jin army joining the army?" Emperor Chongde couldn't help but think so.

However, even if they objected, Emperor Chongde was still able to maintain Yang Fei's position in the cabinet, this is because, although Yang Fei made mistakes, he also had undeniable merits, that is, in the past few years, under his auspices, he has basically leveled the raging rogues.

However, if Zhang Bingzhong rebelled at this time, then in the past few years, the imperial court's efforts to exterminate the rogues would have almost been ruined. Zhang Bingzhong will indeed rebel sooner or later, but if it can be postponed for a few more months, the imperial court can also recover a little from the defeat of the Jin army just now, and it can also transfer some of the troops gathered in the area of Beijing to go back, so that Zhang Bingzhong really wants to rebel, and the imperial court will have time to suppress them.

However, the two people who patrolled the Imperial History, Lin Mingqiu, Gucheng County, and Ruan Zhitian, the latter actions made Emperor Chongde break down in a cold sweat. Ruan Zhitian actually scolded Zhang Bingzhong in Zhang Bingzhong's military camp for being a thief, and threatened Zhang Bingzhong that if he did not restrain himself and did not return the looted property quickly, the court would be punished with thunder.

As for Lin Mingqiu, he ordered several county towns around Gucheng to step up the reinforcement of the city walls and reserve defensive equipment in case of contingencies.

In the current situation, this approach can easily make Zhang Bingzhong feel that the imperial court is about to do something to him immediately. Maybe he will immediately rebel because of this.

"If he really rebelled at this time, who would be the happiest?" Emperor Chongde couldn't help but think, "I'm afraid that even Huang Zide's thief is not as happy as some people in the court, right?" ”

So Emperor Chongde couldn't help but wonder if some people saw that Yang Fei had not yet fallen, so they were in a hurry to force Zhang Bingzhong to rebel.

"If Zhang Bingzhong rebels at this time, the imperial court will only have Zuo Liangyu in Huguang. The forces are limited, and I am afraid that if I cannot suppress it in a short time, it will definitely make the place fester. Then Huang Zide will definitely come out of the mountains...... If there are a few more months, Sun Baigu will be able to return to Shaanxi with a large army, and Huang Zide will be killed, and the harm will be limited. And in the Huguang area, there are a lot more troops that can be mobilized. Zhang Bingzhong rebelled, and the harm could be reduced a lot. Hehe, some people are afraid that the imperial court will have these few months! ”

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongde almost couldn't control the killing intent in his chest:

"These people, all of them are national thieves, and they should all be killed! One day, I will arrest them all, look at their heads, and punish their nine clans! ”

It's just that although it's very pleasant to think like this, it doesn't help. Now Emperor Chongde feels that the first important thing is to appease Zhang Bingzhong first, at least, to let him rebel later.

"Cao Banban." Emperor Chongde said.

"The slave is here." Cao Huachun hurriedly responded.

"You go to Xuanyang to enter the palace, I have something to discuss with him." Emperor Chongde said.

Cao Huachun answered, and turned around. Emperor Chongde sat down behind the imperial case and looked through the other pieces. Most of these recitals cost money. Generally speaking, Zhili, as well as Shandong, reported the damage and difficulties of the Jin army after entering the customs, asked the imperial court to reduce taxes, and even asked the imperial court to allocate money for disaster relief. Then there are the military newspapers of the Qinwang Army in Liaodong and various places, most of which also ask for money. Generally speaking, it was because of the lack of military salaries, and the soldiers did not have enough to eat, so that there was a danger of mutiny.

"Even Guan Ningjun said that he would mutiny if he couldn't eat enough, this is really unreasonable!" Emperor Chongde couldn't help but think, "The true colors of Guan Ningjun have always been sufficient, and what is insufficient is just folding." How could they have nothing to eat? They're embarrassed to have nothing to eat! ”

The military salaries of our Jokhang Dynasty have always been divided into two parts, namely the grain called "true color" and the salary silver called "folded color". Those guys in Liaoxi have hundreds of thousands of acres of land in their hands, and they have obtained a full amount of "true colors", and even Emperor Chongde knows that the soldiers in their hands are insufficient. How could they have nothing to eat and want to mutiny? This is clearly blackmailing the court. But now that the imperial court can fight fewer and fewer troops, the imperial court's dependence on these Liaoxi generals is becoming more and more heavy, although he knows that there is something wrong with this, but even Emperor Chongde does not dare to really turn his face against them.

It's just that the imperial court really has no money now.

"Where does the money come from?" Emperor Chongde thought, "Do you want to raise taxes again?" ”

During the time of Emperor Shenzong, because of the rebellion of the Jin Kingdom in Liaodong, in addition to Zhengfu, the tax per mu was increased by nine cents, which was called Liaoxi; By the time of Chongde in the fourth year, because of the lack of money, he had to order an additional three cents per mu of land on the original basis, but this move, in addition to making the number of exiles increase day by day, only brought more than 100,000 taels of income to the imperial court, (the peasants who were willing to pay taxes abandoned the land and fled) and the expenses of the imperial court to suppress bandits increased sharply. Last year, in order to completely eliminate the Liukou, Yang Fei proposed that the imperial court charge an additional 2.8 million taels of wages, which is said to be difficult for the people to support. Is it possible to add one more now? If this is the case, I am afraid that more peasants will abandon their land and flee, or even take risks to become homeless gangsters.

"If you continue to levy, you will drink to quench your thirst. It's just that if you don't, you won't be able to support it right now! What the hell am I going to do? Emperor Chongde was full of anxiety, and he couldn't wait to hurry to the Fengxian Hall and cry again in front of the portrait of his biological mother, Empress Dowager Liu.

Emperor Chongde and Yang Fei discussed something together, but no one knew. I only know that the emperor ordered Zhang Bingzhong to be crowned as a deputy general, and his wife Wang as "Madame". It's just that whether this kind of "lip service" can appease Zhang Bingzhong or not, no one can be sure.

The next day, the emperor summoned the cabinet members to discuss the matter of military salaries. The cabinet members were also silent and could not come up with a solution. In the end, it was Yang Fei who proposed that on the basis of the salary, add a penny of silver tax to each mu of land to train the border army, which was called "training salary".

As soon as the idea was proposed, it was immediately met with opposition. Soon after, the news reached the ears of other court ministers. As a result, the voice of opposition became louder and louder, and for a time the opposition was piled up with Emperor Chongde's imperial case.

Liu Qidong, the left attendant of the Ministry of Works, even wrote a book, bluntly saying that the emperor was "a fish driver for the abyss, and a jue for the cong (through fake words, birds)". These two sentences are from Mencius, and the original text of the whole is: "Therefore it is the fish repellent of the abyss, and the otter is also; For the cluster to drive the lord, the parrot also; For Tang Wu to drive the people, Ji and 纣 also. This means that it is the otter who eats the fish in the deep pool; It was the harrier eagle that ate the birds and finches that drove the finches to the forest; For King Shang Tang and King Wu of Zhou, it was Xia Wei and Shang Wei who brutalized the common people. This is clearly comparing Emperor Chongde to the king of the fallen country who drove the people to Shang Tang and Zhou Wu.

Emperor Chongde was naturally furious when he saw it, and it is said that when he saw this recital, he directly smashed it on the ground, and crushed it vigorously with his feet, gritting his teeth and saying to Wang Dehua, the eunuch who was serving on the side: "This guy actually said that I am a man, who is Tang Wu?" Could it be that Huang Zide, Zhang Bingzhong, they are Tang Wu? Whose official is he, and whose family is he eating? Such a mad thief, I will never spare him! ”

So he ordered Liu Qidong to be imprisoned, and later, considering Liu Qidong's reputation, he did not kill him, but only denounced him as a citizen. However, the idea of adding another salary training has also failed.

At this time, Huang Zide's personal guard Hu Yidao quietly left Shangluo Mountain with two people.