The day after Li Banghua entered Lu'an Mansion, he received these military intelligence reports, and at this time, Sun Chuanting and He Shiyu had already led 5,000 cavalry and 2,000 foot soldiers from Yansui Town to Taiyuan City two days ago. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Knowing that the Taiyuan direction of the northern line had been aided by the Yansui army led by Sun Chuanting himself, Li Banghua's heart was much more steady.

Taiyuan is Shanxi's premier city, or a unique town, as long as Taiyuan is firmly in the hands of the official army, then the thieves in Shanxi will always be a disease of scabies, can not become a big problem.

In other words, as long as Taiyuan is always in the hands of the official army, Shanxi will always be the imperial court.

This is not just Li Banghua's own idea, this is the idea of almost all the people in the world at that time.

Throughout history, the importance of Taiyuan to Shanxi is equivalent to that of Xi'an to Shaanxi, and Nanjing to Jiangnan.

As long as Taiyuan is as stable as Mount Tai, and Lu'an Mansion, where he sits in town, is not in trouble, then at least this time he will be considered invincible.

Lu'an Mansion in the Ming Dynasty was the Changzhi area of Shanxi in later generations, and in Shanxi in the Ming Dynasty, this place was undoubtedly the rear.

Whether it is facing the threat from the northern grassland peoples, or the current threat from the northwest Liukou, in terms of security, the geographical location of Lu'an Mansion in Shanxi can be said to be more superior than that of important towns such as Datong and Taiyuan.

This is also an important reason why Li Banghua led the army into the Jin Governor's Division, and preferred Fukou and stationed in Lu'an Mansion.

The day after receiving the news from Zhang Xiao, the governor of Shanxi, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of Yansui, he met two groups of messengers from the south one after another.

The first messenger came from Wenxi from Jiezhou, more than 200 miles south of Pingyang Mansion in Shanxi, and it was the person sent by Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, to spread the news.

In January of the first year of Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou, who was not yet 36 years old, was promoted to the governor of Shaanxi by Emperor Chongzhen.

According to the will granted by Emperor Chongzhen in person, after Hong Chengchou returned to Xi'an, he first inspected all parts of the jurisdiction, reviewed the Shaanxi troops stationed in Xi'an, Tongguan and other places one by one, and after knowing the situation of the generals and soldiers, he took Wang Chengen, then the deputy chief soldier of Tongguan, and Weixian, the guerrilla officer, as generals, and publicly posted lists in various prefectures and counties in Guanzhong, recruited strong men with generous salaries, lasted three months, selected a total of 7,000 young and strong people, and began the process of organizing and training the five battalions of Fubiao in Shaanxi.

Emperor Chongzhen promised an annual salary of 100,000 taels of silver, not a penny of silver was less than his, and at the same time let him concurrently serve as the political envoy of Shaanxi, and he grasped the military, government and civil affairs with one hand, and almost had full power in Shaanxi, and Hong Chengchou did not waste this full power.

Within three months, not only from the hands of the Qin Wangfu to take back the power to collect taxes at the gates of Xi'an City, but also in Shaanxi and Henan, Huguang, Sichuan, Gansu junction of the traffic arteries, such as Tongguan and from Tongguan to the south of Wuguan, Baiyang Pass, Bauhinia Pass, Manchuan Pass, Ziyang Pass, Suotou Pass, etc., all the dangerous passes into and out of Shaanxi, set up tax cards to collect toll fees from merchants.

Since June of the first year of Chongzhen, the tax silver or in-kind money handed over to the governor's yamen every month has also been around 20,000 taels of silver, and the governor of Shaanxi finally has a relatively stable income.

The Shaanxi Provincial Supervision of the Inspectorate Ren Zanhua, the Shaanxi Inspectorate Wu Huan, and the Hu Branch gave Ma Rujiao in the matter, and successively wrote to impeach Hong Chengchou for privately setting up taxes, treating businessmen harshly, isolating the southern Shaanxi trade route, and his heart was unpredictable.

However, Emperor Chongzhen did not say anything about this.

Hong Chengchou is a smart man, although he did not submit a request through the official channels of the imperial court, such as the Department of General Affairs, but the secret communication with the emperor has never been interrupted.

Regardless of whether there is anything to do, big or small, after taking office in Shaanxi, at the end of each month, there will be a secret fold, reporting the major events of the month, as well as some ideas and plans for the next month.

Therefore, for the important measures taken by Hong Chengchou after taking over as governor of Shaanxi, Emperor Chongzhen himself not only grasped all of them, but also supported them very much.

In the six years since the Apocalypse, Shaanxi, especially in northern Shaanxi, has been suffering from severe droughts, natural disasters and thieves for many years, making the people miserable, and soon after Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he issued an order to exempt Shaanxi from taxes on money and grain.

In a place like Shaanxi, where the main source of finance is the land endowment, the imperial court has exempted the tax on money and grain such as the field endowment and the ding tax with a stroke of the pen, which is very easy to say, but what to do with the expenses of the large and small yamen in Shaanxi after the exemption, what to do with the income of the government officials, whether it is disaster relief or recruitment, if they lose this financial resource, what will they rely on to support it?

The Salt Transportation Division and the Tea and Horse Division of Huamachi are now all in the hands of Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the three sides, and what does Hong Chengchou rely on to open up new sources of wealth?

In addition to the 100,000 taels of silver that the emperor gave him every year, every penny of military salary issued by the imperial court to the battalions in Shaanxi also had its fixed place.

If he is not allowed to open up new sources of wealth, he will be like in history, and he will not be able to display his talents.

For this point, now the Chongzhen Emperor is more aware than these above-mentioned impeached courtiers, and because of this, all the impeachment notes are left unreleased and not disposed of, and Hong Chengchou is naturally still favored.

Emperor Chongzhen did this, although he got some infamy, such as not being able to listen to the advice of the contrary, appointing treacherous and fortunate people, etc., but it allowed Hong Chengchou to finally gain a firm foothold in Shaanxi and gradually opened up the situation.

In this way, in October of the first year of Chongzhen, at the same time as the great turmoil in northern Shaanxi, Guanzhong and Hanzhong did not stop, Fengxiang and Luoyang in the west, Baishui, Hancheng and other places in the east, as in history, one after another because of the autumn grain harvest and chaos.

The thief god Yiyuan, the god Yikui brothers started Hancheng, lit the lamp Zhao Si'er and Fengxiang, and what black god Zhang Wuqi Sanyuan, and for a while, the surrounding prefectures and counties of Xi'an were in chaos.

Fortunately, these thieves know that Xi'an is not easy to mess with, and no one dares to fight Xi'an's idea.

For example, when the White Water One Piece II joined the army, he ran to northern Shaanxi and defected to Wang Jiayin.

And those who did not go to northern Shaanxi, in the following months, were successively exterminated by the generals Wang Chengen, Guan Weixian, Yang Shien and others under the command of Hong Chengchou, who led the newly formed Shaanxi Fubiao Fifth Battalion separately.

The general Wang Chengen mentioned here has the same name and surname as the eunuch Wang Chengen, a close confidant of Emperor Chongzhen, and is also a real figure in history.

But it's a pity that this Wang Chengen, like many other generals who have made no achievements, chased the thieves in Shaanxi everywhere, although he became more and more brave the more he fought, but the army under his command was less and less, and finally died on the battlefield.

The ending of Guan Weixian is the same, and Yang Shien was finally captured on the battlefield of thieves in Huguang after more than ten years of fighting, and the coach Deng Zuyu he followed at that time was also captured.

However, in this life, the Shaanxi army ushered in the ruthless role of Hong Chengchou several years in advance, and the circumstances of these people naturally changed.

Of course, the first thing that was changed was the fate of the thieves who started trouble in Guanzhong, such as the God One Yuan Shen Yi Kui Brothers, the Lamplighter, and the Black Evil God.