"Shaanfu Valley Wang Jiayin, Hannan Wang Daliang, Ansai Gao Yingxiang, Luochuan Bu Mu, Yang Liu, Suide Zijin Liang, Chaotian Wang... There are about 100 famous uprisings... Wang Qia, the newly appointed secretary of the military department recommended by the cabinet, still showed the appearance of a shrewd minister in front of Xiao Xuan, and did not press the affairs of northern Shaanxi again like Wang Zaijin and the previous secretary of the military department, and he could delay it as long as he could. Of course, tens of thousands of people participated, and the uprising throughout the counties of northern Shaanxi could not be suppressed at this time.

Yang He, the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, was in a hurry in the northwest at this time, but he did not forget the Shangshu Chen Song: "The thieves in the mainland started in the Wanli and Apocalypse years. The soldiers who came to aid Liao fled back one after another, not daring to return to the army, so they gathered and looted to gradually spread. Unfortunately, the border areas have been in drought for four years, there is no harvest of grains, the operation of Beijing and the people cannot continue, and the hungry army and the people are strong and half of the thieves, so it is difficult to clean up. ”

These things were also unexpected by Xiao Xuan. According to Xiao Xuan's original idea, the peasant war at the end of the Ming Dynasty naturally came from the heavy burden of the Shaanxi-Gansu border land over the years, the accumulation of various contradictions, and of course, the severe drought in the past two years. Now I understand that not only northern Shaanxi, but even Beizhili and Shandong are not peaceful at this time.

Wang Yongguang, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials of the Central Committee, Guo Yunhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, and other important ministers had a relatively unified opinion when they were deliberating: "Focus on caress and use both soothing and appeasement"

Of course, Xiao Xuan understood that this was useless at this time, and at this time, the entire financial system of the Ming Dynasty still wanted to learn from the two Song Dynasty? Apparently impossible. However, at this time, Xiao Xuan became more confident after hearing about the large-scale peasant uprising. Because Xiao Xuan did not think about these things from the perspective of the emperor of a dynasty from the beginning, but from the perspective of the rebels of the entire old system.

The peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not their own burden, but their own strong support, and in the case of a general showdown, the strength of the peasant army increased, and the strength of opposing the Guanwai regime and its "comprador forces" and even the reactionaries of all stripes became stronger. Because the Manchu army is too strong, too bullish. Then the pattern of the final Three Kingdoms killing, of course, is that the opposition forces of all stripes have to be enemies of Manchuria? I'm afraid I'm not the "first bird" for the time being, especially when I can not tell some people anything about the courtesy of the monarch and the minister directly and rebel if necessary. As the saying goes, "some people have the risk of going through the outside thief to flip the table", and they themselves have the means to "get the thief to flip the table".

If necessary, it is expected that he and these bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods will be in vain, and it is better to have a direct showdown to form a situation like that in 1644.

Therefore, Xiao Xuan at this time did not seem to be very eager, but smiled with a disdainful attitude: "Focusing on caressing? Hehe. I don't know how much money we can come up with now, you won't be eyeing the inner treasury in the palace or even in the guards, right? Or it is better to add new pensions from all over the country. In addition to the reduction and exemption of Liao's salary and autumn grain in northern Shaanxi that some of you just proposed, I have a way, I don't know if you are willing to listen to it or not... ”

Xiao Xuan's tone, which seemed to be completely out of the way, was completely unexpected by many people, and many people were silent for a while.

"It's to take out a million taels of silver a year to appease these troublemakers, I dare to promise. Let's not talk about how much waste there will be in the middle of our current official system, how much can it be in the hands of those people and even the people below. Even if these tens of thousands of people can be appeased, I am afraid that there will definitely be more people who will take risks for the sake of profit. Don't be a new emperor with little experience. Since I ascended the throne, I have been blessed by God. When I went out on patrol, I saw the fields of Beizhili, which were not considered catastrophes, and the harvest in a year was only sixty or seventy catties. I heard that in the area around Taihu Lake and Suzhou, the annual situation is not too bad, and one acre of land can harvest three or four hundred catties of rice, which is still calculated according to the shelled rice. In the vast areas south of the Yangtze River, the yield of raw grain per mu is also three or four times that of the north. Although there is a difference in per capita land, there is definitely no such a big difference in the number of households. That... Let's do it: How about the displaced people who have risen in the north in the future be resettled in the south? I heard that there are many epidemics in the two Guangxi and Hainan areas, and the northerners still regard them as daunting, so how about arranging them in the western part of Jiangsu, Zhejiang... ”

What is the real yield per mu of land in a normal year, but one of the "top secrets" that everyone in the court avoids mentioning, Xiao Xuan kicked out the whole thing, at least half of the verbal table.

The cabinet and even the six Shangshu did not speak, these are the good old people who came up to fool the emperor. Officials at the lower levels were horrified and bluntly stated the harm of this. From the significance of the stability of grain production in the south to the national grain price, to the fact that the local people will fight with each other, and even the possibility that the displacement of people from outside may exacerbate the contradictions in the south and cause great chaos in the whole country.

Xiao Xuan thought about it for a while, and began to understand the consequences if he forcibly did this: it would inevitably be a serious fighting between the local gentry and even all kinds of oppression, just like the contradiction between the local gentry and the Liao soldiers in Shandong who had not been kicked out at this time, and finally made those displaced people in the north regard the south as a daunting way, and it was better to strengthen the big families in the north.

In the end, it was Wang Qia who guessed Xiao Xuan's intentions and stated: "Your Majesty, the minister also advocates that the plan of focusing on Fu is not feasible, and trying to focus on Fu first, at most it is just to win a justifiable slogan for the imperial court." In fact, the people were in turmoil, but it gave the imperial court an opportunity to train the people's brave and good fighting talents, and also to increase the pressure on combat readiness in various places. When the power of these thieves grows day by day, the Son of Heaven will lead the invincible army of soldiers to surrender to the realm in person, which will surely make my Ming like a tiger with wings... ”

The people in the court are not stupid, and from Wang Qia's words, they seem to hear a little different taste. At this time, someone suddenly chimed in: "What Wang Shangshu said is not unreasonable. In the test of the great drought in the northwest, the hungry people who were coerced among the thieves would not dare to resist the army of the Son of Heaven after hearing the arrival of the Holy One. It's still stubborn, it must be those more stubborn thieves... ”

There are also many important ministers in the court who righteously and sternly refute this kind of person who instigated the Son of Heaven to go out in person, comparing it with the eunuch Wang Zhen before the Ming Yingzong Tumubao.

Although Xiao Xuan's experience is not very rich, his understanding of class and people's hearts is obviously better than that of ordinary ancient emperors, and he understands that some people in the court began to sing double reeds to encourage him to personally conquer for ulterior purposes. But at this time, Xiao Xuan had already had the mentality of "willing to cut his body and dare to pull the cow ghost snake god off the horse". Don't worry about this set. If you force yourself to be in a hurry, of course you will lead the rebel army to fight the Beijing division in advance, so there is not much taboo to say: "Hehe, some Aiqing is too worried, I am not the Ming Yingzong back then." The victims of the disaster in the border areas are not the Warat army of the past... ”

Of course, Xiao Xuan did not forget some candidates for Liao affairs before planning to personally recruit them, and he had to personally identify and deal with them one last time, including Yuan Chonghuan, Yuan Keli and others who rushed back from the south.

(End of chapter)