This controversy in the court lasted until August, and although Chongzhen had been ignoring the impeachment of Yang Sichang, it seemed that the sense of trust was gradually fading as time went by.

On August 3, Emperor Chongzhen summoned his assistant minister Yang Sichang to discuss important matters in the Winter Warm Pavilion, no one knew what the two said, everyone only knew that the next day of the court meeting, the current military department is still the book, and the cabinet minister Yang Sichang took the initiative to invite Ying, go to Xiangyang to supervise the thief.

Yang Sichang guessed the holy will so clearly, Emperor Chongzhen was naturally overjoyed, gave him the sword of Shangfang on the spot, and was scheduled to lead the elite of Beizhili to Shanxi, Henan and other places to suppress the thieves and quell the chaos on August 25.

Since Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Sichang succeeded to the title of "Governor", in charge of all the suppression of thieves in the Central Plains provinces, and the governors of the five provinces, the prime ministers of the three provinces, the general towns of the provinces, and the governors were all subject to his control.

In fact, Yang Sichang removed the meaning of catering to Emperor Chongzhen, and also planned to correct his name, in the past, he always said "to suppress and appease, to care", but the facts have proved that these thieves have wolf ambitions.

Even if they were appeased at that time, they were all Zhongshan wolves, and sooner or later they had to rebel, so now Yang Sichang feels that only by using the "four positive and six corners" strategy to completely eradicate it will work.

At the same time, Yang Sichang boldly speculated on the holy will, analyzed the emperor's meaning from the words and actions that were intentionally or unintentionally revealed between Chongzhen's words, and formulated a strategy accordingly.

A few days before departure, Yang Sichang worked day and night, and finally made a set of plans for Emperor Chongzhen.

As soon as this excerpt was made, Yang Sichang, who was already on the cusp, was even more suspicious.

Chongzhen was overjoyed in his heart, Yang Sichang's speculation was very accurate, in fact, Emperor Chongzhen had this plan for a long time, but he was suffering from no courtiers who could communicate with him in the court.

As an emperor, he has too many things to worry about, so naturally he can't be cheeky and ask for salaries.

Yang Sichang regardless of his reputation, after inviting the superintendent, he personally proposed the matter of "training salary", Chongzhen knew in his heart that Yang Sichang was afraid that he would not only be criticized by the six department officials, but also become a minister in the mouth of the world's scholars and people.

But in Chongzhen's heart, he is a rare and valuable minister, and he knows that bearing the charge for the emperor is much stronger than those Donglin scholars who can only speak empty words and are greedy for fame.

However, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't say much about Jiami, so he could only push the boat down the river, sighed heavily, and watched the somewhat elderly Yang Pavilion limp out of the Winter Warm Pavilion.

The situation was critical, the imperial court had no troops available, and the treasury had long been exhausted.

However, Emperor Chongzhen trusted him very much, and his suggestions were inaccurate, and he instructed the eunuch Wang Chengen to leave all the impeachments against Yang Sichang in the middle of the ceremony.

At the end of August, Emperor Chongzhen, at the suggestion of Yang Sichang, an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, sent a message to various places, and selected Xuanfu, Datong, Shanxi, Yansui, Ningxia, Gansu, Guyuan, Lintao, Liaodong, Jizhen, and Baoding, Jifu, Shandong, and Hebei towns to train the elite soldiers by the general towns, governors, and general soldiers.

And on the basis of the original three salaries, the "training salary" was re-levied as a military need.

According to the strategy proposed by Yang Sichang, each town should train elite soldiers and build beacon fires diligently, and respond to the east and west, so as to achieve the effect of hearing the alarm, so as to exterminate the rogue as quickly as possible.

On the day when Yang Sichang led the Beijing army to supervise the expedition, Emperor Chongzhen held a grand support for him, and he thought about keeping it several times, but he couldn't say it in front of the ministers, and the words that came to his mouth were swallowed back several times.

In the end, it was just turned into a poem full of emotion and presented to Yang Sichang:

"Yanmei is now temporarily used as a dry city, and the admiral is majestic and fine willow camp; Sweep away the atmosphere of Kou from now on, and return the period of education and people's livelihood. ”

Yang Sichang burst into tears after hearing this, almost all the emperor's affection was in these four quatrains, he deeply felt the emperor's grace, and knelt down for Emperor Chongzhen on the spot, and said:

"Your Majesty, if the minister dies, the squire of the Ministry of War, Wan Yuan Ji is loyal and honest, and he can be succeeded as the secretary of the Ministry of War." Chongzhen took a few steps forward to help Yang Sichang up, and deeply instructed him:

"Yang Pavilion has a long way to go in this trip, you must pay attention to take care of your body, I am waiting in Beijing to celebrate the Cabinet Department!"

Yang Sichang was moved, the old tears were rampant, crying and worshipping, choked up and said:

"Your Majesty, after the ministers left, the Beijing Division and the Courtyard were all traitors, and they only knew that they did nothing when they met the horses, you... Gotta be..."

Speaking of this, Yang Sichang was speechless.

When he said this, in fact, Yang Sichang no longer had the luxury of hoping for a good result, since he had already carried the pot of levy for the emperor, it was better to use the last bit of fame to say something that was really useful to the court situation.

The officials of the Eighteen Yamen of Beizhili and the ministers of various ministries who accompanied them were still warm, and they all became cold-eyed in an instant.

After Yang Sichang arrived in Xiangyang, those who were far away from the mountains and rivers of Jingshi were bound to find fault and criticize with words.

Emperor Chongzhen agreed with Yang Sichang's words very much, his face was slightly moved and nodded again and again, but he still didn't say anything, and watched Yang Sichang ride away.

After the incident, Emperor Chongzhen returned to the Winter Warm Pavilion calmly, and saw that there was only one Wang Chengen around, and suddenly roared and swept all the notes on the table.

He looked at the portrait of the ancestor emperor on the wall, sighed heavily, and sighed:

"The big thing is almost successful, and it is mistaken by a few yellow-mouthed scholars, and it is almost like this!"

Wang Chengen also sighed secretly, he fully understood Chongzhen's thoughts, but he didn't say anything, he just bent over and picked them up one by one.

A few days later, the news came that Emperor Chongzhen had derogated and impeached Yang Sichang, the most fierce Shao Zhan Shi, Huang Daozhou, and other officials of the six sections, and the meaning of protection was deeply obvious.

Yang Sichang, the supervisor who was marching to Xiangyang, was even more moved when he heard it, and secretly swore in his heart that he must exterminate Zhang Xianzhong and the thieves for Emperor Chongzhen, and return the Ming Dynasty to a peaceful world.

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Not to mention how Yang Sichang arranged to save the crisis after he traveled all the way to Xiangyang, since he defeated the fifth battalion of Gezuo in June and beheaded Ge Liyan, the thieves and bandits did not dare to invade Shandong.

In early July, Wang Zheng, the chief soldier of Shandong, issued a military order to summon the generals of the other two provinces in Shandong to the capital of Jinan to discuss matters.

On this day, there was a peaceful inside and outside the city of Jinan, a group of people and horses slowly came to the south gate, these people played the signboard of the general army, the gongs and drums were not lively all the way, and the farmers and pedestrians who cultivated and cleared the wasteland on the roadside continued to pay attention.

After they stopped shouting and neighing, they looked up and saw the big banner with the word "king" fluttering on the city and the soldiers of the Dengzhou battalion wearing helmets and armor, and the general of the army led by them sighed.

Suddenly, another group of men and horses came to the south gate, and when the general soldier saw it, he showed a look of cruelty and sneered:

"It turned out to be General Yu, I don't know how your department is recuperating in Wuding Prefecture, how many soldiers and horses are left at the moment?"

Seeing that Yu Yuan was silent, Qi Cheng, the chief soldier of Caozhou, laughed and said to himself:

"If you don't have that good tooth, don't provoke the vicious Dongyu, this is good, if you can't fight for success, you will lose your wife and lose your soldiers!"

After speaking, Qi Cheng rode a high-headed horse, and with a wave of his big hand, he was about to ride into the city with his soldiers, but was suddenly stopped by the head of the Dengzhou battalion, who was guarding the door.