Wang Jiayin went down the mountain, and the leaders were still waiting for him at the foot of the mountain, he didn't look back at the mountain again, waved his hand and said, "Pull out the camp, let's go!" ”

"Let's go?" Zhang Xianzhong was a little puzzled: "Big brother, what did Zhu Ba say to you?" Why didn't he let us go up the mountain to make it clear? ”

"It's clear!" Wang Jiayin sighed softly: "It's not him who is wrong, it's right that he doesn't let us go up the mountain, it's us who came unexpectedly and disturbed the peace of others, let's go!" ”

After Wang Jiayin finished speaking, he turned his head and left, seeing that his pace stopped, obviously he had made up his mind, Zhang Xianzhong had no choice but to frown, sighed, and walked up after him.

"Where are we going? You can't stay in Huanglong Mountain, you have to be beaten by Hong Chengchou when you go out of the mountain, big brother, you can come out with a strategy. King Zijin Liang leaned in and asked in a low voice.

"Let's cross the Huanglong Mountain, and the Yellow River is in the east, hey...... Find a place where the river is narrow, cut down trees and build a pontoon bridge, let's go to the west of the mountain to be happy! Wang Jiayin waved his hand and said: "I have been a soldier, and I know very well about the imperial court, as long as we enter the west of the mountain, Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi * west, will no longer be able to pursue us." ”

Wang Jiayin gave an order, and the leaders of the 36th Route Righteous Army under his command pulled out the camp together, and the 20,000-strong army was dispersed again into dozens of troops, penetrating into the mountain trails, and heading east.

Watching Wang Jiayin's army go away, the leaders under Zhu Yuanzhang breathed a sigh of relief: "Whew, these guys are finally gone, I'm really worried that he will come to take our cottage......"

"Yes, the cottage has finally stabilized and begun to take shape, if we fight a confused battle, all our previous efforts will be in vain!"

"Brother Wang Jiayin is a good person! But the eight kings under him are quite annoying. ”

"That's a madman......"

There was a lot of talking.

Chongzhen three years, Wang Jiayin led the main force of the righteous army in the east of Shaanxi * west, collectively known as the 36th battalion, crossed east into Shanxi, except for Zhu Yuanzhang, no one will know, Wang Jiayin has never had the opportunity to set foot on the land of his hometown since then, this big brother who values love and righteousness, because he believes in others too much, was killed by his most trusted relatives in Shanxi, and the leader of this rebel army will go through several changes, and finally fell into the hands of Li Zicheng and Li Xianzhong.

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Chongzhen three years, December! Winter is here again!

This year's winter doesn't seem to be as cold as last year's, and when the winter wind blows on your cheeks, you don't feel that tingling. It was a rare sight that a few clouds would occasionally drift through the sky, and the people watched the clouds drift by, hoping for a few rains to be sprinkled with rain.

Xi'an, the Governor's Palace!

Yang He, the governor of the three sides, buried his head in a large pile of official documents, unable to raise his head for half a sound. He read the Tang Bao (Military Intelligence News) for three days in a row, and it was all about some dog-skin things: for example, a certain village was attacked by a small stream of gangsters, and nine villagers were killed and one was injured...... A certain village was swept away by the rogues, and all the young and strong ...... A small city repelled the invasion of the rogues...... and so on, which made him overwhelmed.

There are not many of these small bands of rogues, and they are not very powerful, that is, there are more than 100 thieves in the east and dozens of bandits in the west...... Running around, there is not much trouble, but they happen too often, either here or there, today this village suffers, tomorrow that village suffers.

Sending a large army to suppress it is a bit of a fuss and a waste of military salaries. There are fewer people sent to the party, and they can't form a siege network, and the thieves run away, and the shadows are gone.

When he was having a headache, Governor Liu Guangsheng walked in from outside the door and said softly, "Your Excellency the Governor, are you still having a headache?" ”

"yes...... Can Ben Governor not have a headache if this trouble is not settled? Yang He sighed and slammed the brush on the table: "It's devastated...... The emperor sent the governor to clean up the rogues in western Shaanxi, but the governor made such a mess, and he was ashamed of his love for the emperor......"

"It's a good thing, isn't it?" Liu Guangsheng hurriedly laughed and said: "Wang Jiayin and his group ran into the west of the mountain under the pursuit of Hong Chengchou, and it is none of our business from now on." ”

Liu Guangsheng, the governor, is the governor of Shaanxi, and of course Shanxi's west has nothing to do with him. And Yang He, the governor of the three sides, is in charge? It is the four places of Shaanxi*xi, Gansu*su, Yansui, and Ningxia, and the place in Shan*xi is indeed none of his business!

Everyone often says that officials protect each other, which means that when something happens, officials cover each other, but in fact, it is because the matter is not big enough to pierce the sky. Whenever a major event occurs that can pierce the sky, the protection of officials and officials will become the promotion of officials and officials! If you can push things on other officials, that's your own ability.

Yang He smiled bitterly, he didn't want to push, but now even if he doesn't push, he can't do it, he can't reach out after crossing the Yellow River, otherwise he will be fishing across the boundary, in the Ming Dynasty, it is a very serious crime for officials to cross the boundary, and it will kill you at the least, and it will be ...... At least they will be killed, and if they are heavy, they will not be said.

"The East Road Liukou have been taken away by Wang Jiayin, then we are only worried about the West Road Liukou now...... Liu Guangsheng said in a low voice: "Lord Governor, now the West Road Liukou is the most powerful in the number of Shenyikui, you only need to send Hong Chengchou to destroy the Shenyikui guy, and we can be peaceful in Shaanxi." ”

"Well, come on, pass on Hong Chengchou!" Yang He shouted outward, and after a while, the soldiers invited Hong Chengchou.

Hong Chengchou still looks thin and clean, but now he is a little different from when he first debuted a few years ago, he was still a typical civil official when he first debuted, with a clean sleeve and a trace of literati temperament. But now he has a little bit of blood on his body, although he is still quiet, but there is a ruthlessness in the quiet. He has been suppressing bandits for many years, and he has been chasing and suppressing Wang Jiayin, the most powerful in the rebel army, it is inevitable that there will be such a change.

"Lord Hong!" Yang He greeted politely, and then continued: "I'm going to work hard for you again, although Wang Jiayin has fled, but the rogues on the West Road have not stopped, and now there are more than 10,000 rogues entangled in the vicinity of Qingyang Mansion, and the governor wants to invite you to Qingyang." ”

Hong Chengchou frowned: "The east is just flat, and the west is rising again?" Hey...... It's really funny. "It turns out that the location of Qingyang Mansion is at the intersection of Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningbo provinces, which is the westernmost corner of Shaanxi, and Wang Jiayin only ran away from the easternmost Huanglong Mountain not long ago.

Hong Chengchou hugged his fists: "Since the governor has an order, how dare the lower officials be lazy, so let's go and order the soldiers to attack...... Speaking of this, he paused and said: "But...... Your Excellency the Governor, the subordinate officials must tell the truth, so that the symptoms of the attack will not be cured, and the root cause of the peasants' uprising and rebellion must also be found, otherwise it will never be finished. ”

When Yang He heard this, he immediately smiled bitterly: "You and I both know why the peasants want to rebel, there is a great drought in the world, but the imperial court imposes heavy taxes, this is the fundamental reason for the rebellion...... But what's the use of just knowing it? This is the emperor...... Cough...... The emperor nodded in order to solve this problem. ”

"The subordinate officials take care of the affairs of suppressing bandits...... The emperor's side of the matter, I hope the governor will talk about it......" Hong Chengchou hugged his fists, turned around and walked out of the governor's mansion.

Yang He and Liu Guangsheng glanced at each other, sighed deeply, and said: "Forget it, the governor will be scolded desperately, and then write a seal to the emperor, and be sure to ask the emperor to reduce some taxes in Shaanxi......"

He picked up the brush from the table again, spread out the blank paper, and planned to write an affectionate and lush note to persuade the emperor to reduce taxes. In my mind, I thought about what sentence to start with, what sentence to end with, and how to write to move the emperor......

Just as he was thinking about it, suddenly, a messenger jumped into the door: "Report ...... Your Excellency the Governor, you have the will to come from the capital. ”

"Huh? Is there a holy decree? Yang He was startled and wanted to kneel down to accept the order. He wondered in his heart, what kind of will should be preached by a messenger? Isn't it common to send father-in-law to deliver the holy decree?

The messenger hurriedly said, "It is not written to you, Your Excellency Governor, but it is the will of the whole world, so there is no need to kneel to receive it." ”

"Oh, the world's best?" Yang He was a little strange this time: "What is the purpose, you can show me quickly." ”

The messenger handed over a volume of documents, Yang He hurriedly unfolded it, and when he saw it, his whole body trembled, and a fishy smell in his mouth surged up from the ground, almost rushing out of his mouth.

"Your Excellency, what's wrong with you?" Liu Guangsheng, the governor next to him, hurriedly supported him.

Yang He stretched out his hand and pointed at the paperwork, his arm trembled, but he couldn't speak for a long time.

Liu Guangsheng couldn't care about humility, so he hurriedly turned his head to look at ......

I saw that the document read: On the first day of December, the head of the household department was strict because of the big deficit in support, and he neglected twelve things, asking for an increase in tariffs, donating public funds, etc. Liang Tingdong, the secretary of the military department, was short of food for the soldiers. Shangshu Bi strictly asked for an increase of 3 cents per mu, so he increased the field by more than 1.65 million ......

"What? The imperial court wants to ...... Want to raise taxes? Liu Guangsheng was really frightened: "This ...... This Shaanxi * West is already chaotic enough, and you have to raise taxes again? Oh my God! Is this going to add to the chaos? ”

"Add three cents per acre...... Add 3 centi% per mu...... Oh, my God...... Add three centiths per mu ......" Yang He repeated this sentence, his body was like a candle in the wind, trembling incessantly, he also wanted to write a fold to ask for tax exemption, but the letter of tax increase here arrived before his fold: "Shaanxi * West can't afford it...... Emperor...... My Emperor...... What are you trying to do? ”

What Yang He didn't know was that poor Emperor Chongzhen was now in the palace, looking at the list of Liaodong military salaries listed by the Ministry of War, he sighed and said: Liaodong...... Alas...... Even if I add three cents per mu and collect an extra 160,000 taels of silver, I won't be able to fill the big hole in Liaodong...... I said Jiannu, what are you trying to make a fuss about?