In a sense, being an official is the easiest thing in the world. Li Hongzhang once said something like this. He said that if a person can't even be an official, then he can't do anything. If you don't plant the land, you can't do the workmanship well.

    Of course, Li Hongzhang's words should be put in the historical environment in which he lives. At the end of the Manchu Dynasty, which was a semi-slave and semi-feudal and semi-colonial Manchu Dynasty with a colonial nature, it was a very simple thing to be a dumb official, a corrupt official who robbed the people and enriched himself, and a mediocre official who had nothing to do.

    However, no matter in which era or dynasty, if you want to be an honest official, a responsible official, an official who does things, and an official who solves problems, it cannot be a simple and easy thing. Not to mention in the feudal society, that is, in the modern society, if you want to find a few officials who are honest, responsible, do things, and solve problems, no matter whether they are Chinese or foreign, you can find a few.

    So, in the environment of the Ming Dynasty, regardless of the size of the ability, if you really want to do things to solve the problem, how hard it is to work in the overall mediocre and decaying environment, it is conceivable.

    On the contrary, Mr. Wei Zhongxian, who is regarded as an absolute bad person by almost all civil officials, really wants to manage the country for His Majesty the Emperor of the Apocalypse and be a helmsman who does things and solves problems in the Ming Dynasty. His ideal will inevitably collide fiercely with reality.

    Wei Zhongxian's way of governing the country was learned from the Emperor of the Apocalypse. Emperor Tianqi, a young man who has been the grandson of the emperor for many years, has received a relatively comprehensive monarch education. Don't look at this gentleman who is obsessed with carpenter work every day, but for the matter of governing the country, he has a trick inherited from his ancestors.

    The Emperor of the Apocalypse once told Wei Zhongxian clearly that as long as the two key points are grasped, the other things will be easy to do. These two key tasks, one is called the money bag, and the other is called the gun. The treasury must have plenty of silver, and under its hands must have troops capable of fighting. As long as there is money and troops, there is nothing in the world that cannot be solved. (Experience learned from his grandfather, Emperor Wanli.) ）

    Of course, whether it was when the Emperor of the Apocalypse learned these principles from his grandfather and father, or when the Emperor of the Apocalypse explained these principles to Wei Zhongxian, these words must have been very elegant in terms of language expression. It's just that in the eyes of Wei Zhongxian, a semi-literate person, those who listen to Wen Crepe's words understand this is what they mean.

    Wei Zhongxian, who has been a hooligan and gangster and has been on the street for a long time, is especially able to understand the truth of money bags and guns. He also knew from his own practice that on the streets of Suning County, Cangzhou, his hometown, the gangsters with the highest status and the strongest strength were the kind of people who had an industry at home and a man in hand. There are more people who can fight and cut than them, but those who can really become a climate are still the kind of gangsters who have industries and manpower.

    Wei Zhongxian knows this truth, and he implements this truth when governing the country. In terms of the protection of state taxes and the control of the army, Wei Zhongxian has never relaxed. He used eunuchs to collect taxes, and he used co-optation for the army. On the one hand, the tax supervisors in various places, and on the other hand, Yuan Chonghuan and Mao Wenlong in the border army were vigorously wooed, Wei Zhongxian finally relied on the civil officials of the former Zhejiang Party and the Chu Party who had defected to him and the Donglin Party, and generally controlled the behemoth of the Ming Dynasty.

    For Wei Zhongxian, compared with one Wuchang, the stability of the entire southwest is naturally more important.

    Wuchang Mansion is the provincial capital of Huguang, but without him, the tax situation of the entire Huguang does not have much impact. After all, almost all the land near Wuchang was controlled by the Chu Palace, and the imperial court could not collect much tax revenue from Wuchang.

    Yao Zongwen sat in Xiangyang Mansion, although he did not have any achievements in the military, but he completed the tax work in place. Wei Zhongxian knew that in order to ensure the safe arrival of taxes in Huguang on time, Yao Zongwen used the few troops in the entire Huguang to ensure the safety of the tax and silver escorts.

    From this point of view, although Wuchang Mansion was temporarily controlled by rebellious soldiers, this did not cause much harm to the overall situation of the Ming Dynasty. From the same point of view, although the annual tax revenue of the four or five provinces in the southwest region is not very high, the total number of the four or five provinces combined is still very large. Once the whole southwest region is in turmoil again, then there is a possibility that the tax revenue of four or five provinces will not be guaranteed. Wei Zhongxian didn't want to take such a risk.

    However, the biggest obstacle to changing the established counterinsurgency plan was not on the side of the imperial court, but on the part of His Majesty the Emperor, who was angry about the extermination of the Chu domain. Doing the work of His Majesty the Emperor has become the focus of Wei Zhongxian's work.

    Fortunately, His Majesty the Apocalypse is a professional carpenter, whether it is for the government or the clan, his interest cannot be compared with his carpenter work. For these questions, he is all three minutes of heat. So, it won't be hard to do his job.

    Wei Zhongxian specially picked a person from His Majesty the Emperor to report the change of plan when he was most prosperous in carpentry. Sure enough, the Emperor of the Apocalypse waved his hand impatiently and told Wei Zhongxian: "Everything in the government is borne by the great companion, don't bother me, you can do it yourself." ”

    Wei Zhongxian solved the emperor's problem and immediately issued a new order. He ordered Qin Liangyu to lead his troops back into Guizhou and assist the governor of Guizhou in dealing with the rebellion of Hao'an. At the same time, he also ordered Zhu Xieyuan, the military governor of the five provinces, to unify the forces of the five provinces and resolve the Wuchang rebellion on the same day.

    Wei Zhongxian's opinion is that Zhu Xieyuan and Qin Liangyu, both of whom have the ability to fight. The two of them were arranged together, not because of how difficult it was to solve the Wuchang Rebellion, but because there was a need to quickly and beautifully solve the Wuchang Rebellion at that time.

    Now, the southwest region especially needs Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers to solve the problem, so only one Zhu Xieyuan is used to quell the Wuchang rebellion, and this efficiency and speed will definitely be reduced accordingly. However, Wei Zhongxian felt that with Zhu Xieyuan's ability, he could still solve the Wuchang rebellion.

    Zhu Xieyuan received the imperial court's decree at the residence of the governor of the five provinces of Xiangyang Prefecture, and his heart was bitter.

    Zhu Xieyuan is a person who left his name in history. In the "History of the Ming Dynasty", the stability of the southwest region at the end of the Ming Dynasty was completely achieved under his hands. However, the "History of the Ming Dynasty" compiled by the Manchu Qing Dynasty is so unbearable to scrutinize.

    Actually, as long as you are a person of normal intelligence, you can know what the truth is by thinking about it.

    Historically, Zhu Xieyuan controlled the military power of several provinces in the southwest and northwest, with the title of Governor Monk on his head, and the sword of Shang Fang in his hand. With so many advantages, it took about ten years for this prince to suppress the rebellious village chiefs in the two mountains.

     That's it, he also left a lot of tails in the southwest. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, there was a Tusi rebellion in the southwest.

    From this perspective alone, you can see what level this Zhu Xieyuan who was blown into the sky by the "History of the Ming Dynasty".