Chongzhen ten years, spring!

Zhu Yuanzhang has achieved initial results in rectifying the internal affairs of western Shaanxi, because the territory he occupied is already quite large, and the efficiency has begun to deteriorate if he uses the old way of management as before, so he draws on some experience learned from later generations and reformulates a set of management methods, which include many advanced concepts, such as encouraging commerce, improving the administrative management system, improving the law, and improving the supervision system of government agencies......

This series of policy formulation can only be completed by Zhu Yuanzhang alone, because he is the only one who has been in the wandering soul sky for hundreds of years, and other subordinates have historical limitations, and he can't fake his hands on others, fortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang has a "model worker Zhu Yuanzhang" title in his last life, and it is not difficult for him to formulate all the policies alone.

In the last life, he governed the government in detail, so detailed that even a small errand in the county yamen should do what was listed in detail on the paper, but he also knew that he formulated too detailed terms and regulations, and the result also brought shackles to the development of the Ming Dynasty, in the early Ming Dynasty, his policy had a positive effect on the social production at that time, but since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, his system has not been able to keep up with the needs of historical development, but the officials do not want to forge ahead, unwilling, and do not dare to make changes in the policies he formulated, As a result, some of the policies formulated in the early Ming Dynasty were actually used until the end of the Ming Dynasty, and they have become policies that drag society back.

In his life, he had to be very careful when formulating policies, and he attached an appendix to the policies he made, which read: "In the future, if this policy is no longer suitable for social development." ......He didn't know how effective this sentence was, but in short, it was the king to develop the wisdom of the people and let the later generations have the courage and ability to revise the policies he has formulated now.

(Note: I won't go into detail about what strategies Zhu Yuanzhang used in governing the government, the focus of this book is on the process of the peasant uprising, rather than on governance, so please try your best to make up for it in terms of governance.) You imagine the policies he has made into our current system. Or the most progressive state system in the world right now. ）

After some painstaking rectification, the weather in northern Shaanxi has also begun to gradually improve, and the people who were frightened by the rogues and hid in the deep mountains and old forests have now returned to their fields, and they have learned the planting techniques of new crops from the people from southern Shaanxi. Everyone started tossing the taro.

But interesting phenomena followed. Due to the large yield of taro. It was enough to eat, and the price began to fall all the way, starting from the initial 20 yuan a catty. Soon it dropped to about 10 cents a catty, and in some places less affected by the drought, such as along rivers, farmers began to set aside part of their fields to grow cotton and other cash crops.

This is also the so-called regulating role of the market economy; when there was a great drought in Shaanxi, almost all of these fields along the river were growing grain, and now the arid places have planted drought-resistant crops, and the grain has been solved, and the places that are less affected by the drought will naturally no longer grow grain, but will instead grow cotton, and this phenomenon can be called the wisdom of the working people, and it is beyond the control of the administrative forces.

Zhu Yuanzhang is happy to see this phenomenon come to fruition, anyway, people not only have to eat, but also have to wear clothes, after the food problem is solved, the diversified development of crops is a normal economic system, otherwise all farmers grow potatoes, the world is not in chaos?

In contrast to Zhu Yuanzhang's thriving side, there is a gloomy mist in the capital, and Emperor Chongzhen has now found no way to turn the country into normal, and spends every day in uneasiness.

At this time, Li Zicheng's troops were active in Sichuan, and Zhang Xianzhong, the Fifth Battalion of Gezuo, Luo Rucai, Liu Guoneng, Li Wanqing and others galloped in the vast areas of Henan, Huguang, and Anhui.

Emperor Chongzhen has lost trust in all the people under him, and plans to find another talented person to help him clean up this mess. According to his observations, Emperor Chongzhen chose Yang Sichang, the former governor of Xuanda. At that time, Yang Sichang died of illness because of his father Yang He, and Ding You was at home. Chongzhen was anxious to employ people, and specially aimed at "seizing affection", and appointed Yang Sichang as the secretary of the military department.

In March of that year, Chongzhen was depressed in the imperial study looking at the bad news sent from all over the place, his brows were deeply locked, and he couldn't stretch it for a long time, and recently more than a dozen county towns were broken by thieves, the county treasury was looted, and the good people were coerced as thieves, and the officials were beheaded off, and the corpses were hung on the crooked neck tree at the city gate. In recent years, such things have been happening constantly, making civil and military officials numb, anyway, the country is not theirs, they are just the emperor's working cubs, and they can't manage so much. But Chongzhen can't be numb, if he is also numb, who else will care in this world?

When he was in a bad mood, his henchman eunuch Wang Chengen came in and reported: "Your Majesty, Lord Yang Sichang Yang is here." ”

Chongzhen's brows suddenly stretched slightly, and he waved his hand: "Pass him in." ”

After a while, Yang Sichang came in, the monarch and the ministers finished the ceremony, Chongzhen looked at Yang Sichang carefully, only felt that this person had a clear face, a calm expression, as if he was confident, and he was a well-educated person at first glance.

At that moment, Chongzhen casually took some topics out to talk about, and Yang Sichang responded to them one by one and answered them decently. Chongzhen asked about the situation in the world again, and Yang Sichang talked eloquently, showing everything he had learned in his chest one by one. After Chongzhen heard this, he felt a lot of relief in his heart, and secretly thought: This person is a soldier who knows soldiers, unlike other civil officials, who don't even understand soldiers, so he knows that he is talking nonsense, if he is used, maybe he can really help me straighten out the world.

At that moment, Chongzhen asked: "Today, there are thieves and robbers in China, but there are slaves abroad, what does Mr. think?" ”

Yang Sichang said confidently: "The thieves, dogs, horses, and crossbows are blunt, and the grass and trees are worried, and everything is out of order. Meng's grace is unusual, stacked with the Ming Decree Star Trend, and the first is to be Anbian Kou Mianchen cuisine. It seems that Anbian is the first, and Dangkou is second. Weichen is saying that he must be safe inside before he can go outside. Why? Stealing the body of the general trend of the world, the head of the Beijing Division, the shoulders and arms of Xuanji, the heart of the Central Plains south of the Yellow River and north of the Great River. The head of state is the most important thing. Outside the shoulders and arms, the side is very urgent; In the heart of the rogue and the trouble, it is very deep. Those who are in a hurry cannot be slowed down, and those who are deep cannot be ignored. If the heart is at peace and the viscera is safe, then the sperm and blood will be transfused internally, and the limbs and remains will be transported externally, so as to look up to the head of state and protect the wind and cold outside the shoulders and arms, why should the husband worry? Now the heart is poisonous, the viscera is ulcerated, the essence and blood are dried up in the day, and the limbs and bones are only skinned. Therefore, the ministers said that they must be safe inside before they can fight outside, they must have enough food and then enough soldiers, and they must protect the people to be able to sweep the people. If you don't dare to speak slowly, you have to settle your inner ear first......

He said a lot, all of them were dropped from his book bag, but in fact, there was only one sentence: "If you go outside, you must first settle inside!" Destroy the thieves first, and then resist the Manchus. The peasant uprising was a problem for the heart, and the Manchurian Tatars outside the Shanhai Pass were only a disease of the shoulder and arm. ”

His opinion just hit Chongzhen's heart, Chongzhen was overjoyed, and asked again: "If you want to be safe, what do you need to do?" ”

Yang Sichang confidently stretched out three fingers and said: "The minister has three plans, as long as he follows them, it will only take three months, and the thief will be broken!" He said this very loudly, and actually said that it only took three months to solve the peasant uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which had been raging for ten years, and Emperor Chongzhen should doubt him if his intelligence was fine.

It's a pity that Emperor Chongzhen's intelligence is really not very high, and he was actually fooled by this big talker, and Daxi asked, "Three months is enough?" Please also sir teach me. ”

Yang Sichang said: "The first plan, formulate a strategy!" Before the minister, the suppression of bandits in the past was not effective, because there was no strategy, and the commanders and governors fought their own battles, chasing this thief today, chasing that thief tomorrow, running east and west, and it was impossible to eradicate the thief army at all. Only Lord Lu Xiangsheng once used it once to drive out the thieves from east to west, and the effect was obvious, but unfortunately Lord Lu was forced to go north to resist the captives because of the construction of slaves, which gave the thieves a chance to breathe. According to Weichen's opinion, as long as there is a unified dispatch, there is no difficulty in dealing with thieves. ”

Chongzhen asked again: "Then how to schedule?" ”

Yang Sichang took out a map and pointed out on it: "The minister takes the four places of Shan*xi, Henan, Huguang, and Fengyang as the core, called the four positives, and the main task of the governors of these four places is to open a net to defend the place and prevent the thieves from escaping...... In the end, Weichen led the main force of the bandit army again, and followed the thieves' direction and was responsible for killing them full-time...... In this way, the thief was chased by Weichen, but he couldn't escape in all directions, so naturally he had only one way to die. ”

Chongzhen thought to himself: Huh? Good plan, first put the turtle in the urn, and then reach into the urn to catch the turtle, this turtle is not ready to be caught? Sure enough, it's a good plan!

He was overjoyed and boasted, "This method is very good! He thought for a moment and said, "Huh? Although this method is good, it requires a lot of troops to open a ten-sided net and send a strong force to pursue the enemy. ”

Yang Sichang nodded and said, "Emperor Shengming, this method does require a lot of troops. According to Weichen's calculations, 120,000 troops are needed......"

As soon as Chongzhen heard "120,000", a mouthful of old blood almost spurted out of his mouth, and he exclaimed: "Where can I get so many usable soldiers?" Even if so many soldiers were brought, where would the household department get so much food? (To be continued.) )