Now the two bigwigs in Shanxi, that is, the political envoys of the left and right, one is Yao Tongxin, and the other is Lu Huanzhi, who has just taken office, at the same time, Lu Hanqiang's little fan Zhao Zi is also rising, and he is constantly promoted after Lu Huanzhi, first Ping 6 Fu Tongzhi, and then Ping 6 Fu Governor, I heard that now Yao Tongxin is co-branding with Lu Hanqiang Zhao Zi to be the governor of Ping 6 Zezhou and Erzhou, specifically responsible for the implementation of Lu Hanqiang's disaster relief law in the two places, this emperor has been moved, after all, Zhao Zi is the only candidate other than Lu Hanqiang. Zezhou, Zhili Prefecture is also Lu Hanqiang's person - Li Weidong, Yanmen and other military generals are also Lone Chen Party members, Lu Hanqiang's henchmen. In this way, in fact, most of the entire Shanxi is already the world of the Lone Ministers, so it is much easier to be the governor by himself, are they all a family.

But Wang Shilang was discouraged again when he was half happy, because he finally thought of the troubled times in Shanxi, which was rampant with gangsters, and it was definitely not something that an old man could solve by himself, and it was inevitable that he would not be able to go to prison and ask for guilt at that time.

If it weren't for Yao Tongxin and Lu Huanzhi's continuous allocation of money and grain from the 6 prefectures to rectify the guards in various places, and resist the surging 36th battalion of the pole rogues, maybe Shanxi would have fallen like Shaanxi.

Shanxi Governor Yang He, is simply a hard-mouthed straw bag, as soon as he arrived in Shanxi, he implemented his Zhao'an **, at the beginning, Wang Zuohang and others attacked Yichuan, and was repelled by Zhixian Chengcai, and turned to attack Hancheng. There were no generals in the official army of Hancheng, and Yang He appointed Hong Chengchou to lead the troops to resist, captured and killed more than 300 people, and the siege of Hancheng was lifted.

The thieves drove to Qingjian, and Yang He successively wrote to the imperial court to ask the generals to return to the station, but there was no result, so the original general Du Wenhuan came out to serve. Later, he urged the prefect of Yan'an, Zhang Yuan, and Dusi Aimu to advance the thieves in Yanchuan, and surrendered the thief prince Shun, Zhang Shusheng, and Ji San'er. The other thief king Jiayin ransacked Yan'an and Qingyang. Yang He concealed it and did not report it, and issued a death exemption document to the thief Wang Hu, the little red wolf, Yizhangqing, the land snatcher, and the mixed river dragon, and placed them in the Yansui and Hequ areas. Well, these rogues have obtained business licenses, and they are even more unscrupulous *** looting, but the local government does not dare to ask.

After Wang Jiayin defeated Huangfu, Qingshui, and papaya, he captured Fugu, Du Wenhuan beat him away, and the thieves poured into Shanxi. In the first month of the third year of Chongzhen, the thieves abandoned Ningsai and captured the security guard. After the death of Shen Yiyuan, his younger brother Yikui besieged Qingyang and defeated Heshui. Yang He moved to Ningzhou after learning about it. Shen Yikui asked to accept Zhao'an, and Yang He handed him over the water to Jiang Yingchang, the magistrate. Other thieves Tuo Xianling, Jinyin Peng, Guo Tianxing, Tian Jin'an, One-headed Tiger, Shangtianlong, etc. also surrendered successively, Yang He set up an emperor's seat on the city tower, let these thieves kneel and bow, shouting long live, and then read out the emperor's instructions, ordering them to make an oath, these thieves pretended to agree, Yang He immediately pardoned their crimes. So the thieves regarded him as a child's play. Yang He also because the power of Shen Yikui is the strongest, so he invited his son-in-law to the military tent, eat and live together, Yikui really came to surrender, Yang He listed his ten major crimes, Yikui kowtowed and asked for guilt, Yang He read out the edict to pardon him, gave him an official position, and arranged his troops of more than 4,000 people in Ningsai. When Du Wenhuan heard this, he sighed and said: "In the first battle of Ningsai, the thieves were afraid that I would flee. Now that the thieves are pretending to surrender, this Yang Gong believes it, and treats the famous city as an asset to the robbers, isn't this aiding the abuse. So he withdrew with his people.

At this time, Yang He was ashamed to write to Chongzhen, saying that the Northwest Liukou had given up looting and accepted Zhao'an.

In May, Yang He moved to Yaozhou. As a result, the thieves broke down the golden lock and killed Wang Lian, the capital division. In July, the other thieves Li Laochai and the Lone Ranger captured the central part of the country, and Tian Jin'an led 600 people to guard Malan Mountain to echo them. Yushi Xie Shangbin wrote to the imperial court and said: "Yang He said that the situation of recruiting peace in the Qingyang area has been formed, and the thieves have been evacuated. Did the thieves fall from the sky? The imperial court handed over his recital to Wu Shengsheng, the inspector of the imperial history, to check and report, and Wu Shengsheng said that Yang He advocated recruiting peace, and it was not shallow to mislead the country. Emperor Chongzhen was annoyed, arrested Yang He and imprisoned, and sentenced him to Yuanzhou.

Now in Shanxi, there is no trilateral governor, no governor, all rely on Yao Tongxin and Lu Huanzhi to support him, if he becomes the governor of Shanxi, then this mess has to be cleaned up by himself, and do you have the ability? The answer is, no, the former governor was also imprisoned and convicted, and now it seems that Lu Hanqiang has pushed himself into the fire pit.

Lu Hanqiang saw his thoughts from Wang Shilang's uncertain expression, and said with a smile at the time: "Lord Wang doesn't have to worry, you can take office calmly, there are Yao Tongxin Lu Huanzhi on the top of the text, Zhao Zi and other family members to be your right-hand man, full support, and the military generals I will also arrange a famous minister to help you, as long as you don't hinder him, in the military you let him do it, then I think this person will definitely give you a big surprise, the Liukou who flows into Shanxi will definitely be beaten by him, Even Shaanxi will have a big change. ”

Wang Shilang was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly asked, "Who is this person?" ”

Lu Hanqiang said with confidence: "Hong Chengchou." ”

"It's him." Wang Shilang sighed with relief.

"Hong Chengchou's ability has been obvious to all in the court, and the decisiveness of killing is unmatched, but how do you say that the emperor sent him out to be the governor of the three sides?"

Lu Hanqiang smiled: "You think too highly of me, I can take advantage of the situation to push Lu Xiangsheng to the position of the secretary of the Ministry of War, and I can also take advantage of the situation to push you to the position of governor of Shanxi, but if I want to push Hong Chengchou to the position of the governor of the three sides, it is impossible for me, however, this Hong Chengchou as the governor of the three sides is the emperor has long had this meaning, that is, a month ago, when I was talking to the emperor in the imperial study, the emperor took out several candidates for the governor of the three sides, and asked me to help come up with ideas. I saw that there was Hong Chengchou in that crowd, and the emperor admired Hong Chengchou's bravery and courage very much, especially the failure of Yang He's appeasement policy this time, so that our emperor began to change his mind about the problem of Liukou, and this Hong Chengchou just proposed to suppress it, which is very much in line with the emperor's appetite, so I praised Hong Chengchou by the way, and the result may be in this one or two days, and there will be a result. ”