The words are divided into two ends, not to mention how anxious Yang Sichang's reply to Shen Shuren and Liu Guoneng was, and how eager he was to urge Liu Guoneng to return to Luoyang to rescue Luoyang.

Just said that Yang Sichang's performance to Chongzhen, after being sent, after just six days, it was sent to the capital through an expedited delivery of 400 miles a day.

After all, this is not an enemy situation that burns eyebrows, but a victory after the war, and the overall situation has been settled, so there is no need to be too anxious. It is not cost-effective to travel 600 miles a day and kill and wound the horses.

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In the Forbidden City, Chongzhen, who is more diligent in government and more helpful, has been in a very complicated mood recently.

In the past month or two, the government's and military affairs have been mixed.

In the area of internal affairs, last year's vigorous rectification of maladministration has yielded some successes, and in the financial aspect, at least judging from the daily income and expenditure accounts, the deficit is slowly improving.

At the end of March and the beginning of April, the three pilot provinces in the south officially started to levy centigold.

After two months of testing, according to the mid-year data collected at the end of June in the south, it was reported to the household department. It is said that it has collected four or five hundred thousand taels in total, and there is so much silver in just two months, and it has not aroused local resistance, it seems that this silver should indeed be levied!

There are so many wealthy businessmen in the Ming Dynasty, and there are also officials and businessmen who collude, many of them are also officials and businessmen, and they should have contributed to the country a long time ago!

Chongzhen didn't dare to move the idea of increasing commercial taxes before, not because he didn't want to. But when his brother was in power, the fierce resistance of the south to the tax and mine supervisors is still vivid, so he didn't dare to levy it for fear of causing trouble.

This time, there were sporadic revolts in the south, but none of them were violent, and everything was within the bearable range-

Of course, Chongzhen didn't know that all of this was the result of Shen Tingyang's father and son's careful layout in advance. Before the implementation of Lijin, they had already won over the Zheng family in Fujian, Zhang Guowei of the Nanjing Household Department in Nanzhili, and Yang Sichang and Fang Kongzhi in Huguang. If it weren't for the full cooperation of these local real power factions, the local "public resentment" of the Lijin reform would have boiled long ago.

But Chongzhen still thought that all this was caused by his wisdom and martial arts and imperial power. I felt that if I had known that the southerners would not dare to resist violently this time, he would have levied this centigold a few years earlier!

Although the imperial court in Beijing did not get a tael of silver, it could at least cover the military expenses of the southern thieves. The capital can allocate a lot of money less, and throttling is equivalent to open source.

During the whole process, the only obvious resistance and unhappiness that Chongzhen noticed was the household system and its nepotism network from Beijing-

Originally, the military expenses of the imperial court had to be levied and distributed uniformly, and all military salaries and household departments could be handed over, and once they were handled, it meant that they were stained with oil and water.

Now the local government collects it and sends it directly, and the hand-to-hand hand-tosing link saves a lot of middlemen who make the difference, so the middlemen complain and are not greedy.

However, the people in the places where the taxes were collected did not call out, and it was certainly inappropriate for the people in the household department to go beyond their bounds and complain on their behalf.

In this case, whoever dares to jump out and ask for his life for the interests of the local government is to admit who is the culprit who was the most greedy in the original process of issuing military salaries, that is, the knife used to kill corrupt officials in Chongzhen is not sharp enough.

Moreover, Jiang Dejin, who is now in charge of the daily work of the household department, still protects Shen Tingyang a little, and it is more difficult for others to bring down Shen Tingyang alone.

As a result, those interest groups in Beijing responsible for the payment of military salaries, after a short period of dormancy and testing in April, finally found a very useful and novel angle of impeachment in mid-May.

They no longer discuss the point of "whether the gold exploits the local people and whether it competes with the people for profit", this point cannot be said, and the "people" have not shouted at you to shout a fart.

Instead, they concentrated their firepower on spraying "the system of centigold, which will lead to the local military salaries being paid by the local governments themselves, leading to the risk of returning to the Tang Dynasty to divide the feudal towns of the system."

This point is really justified, because what these corrupt officials in the capital say is the truth, and there is indeed a tendency for warlords to split in the south-

Historically, the Qing Dynasty opened a gold medal in order to deal with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and there was no "Southeast Household Protection" later. When the Eight-Nation Coalition forces come in, the southeast can have its own foreign attitude that is different from Beijing, and even ask the foreigners to "only declare war on the Beijing court, not fight with the provinces of the southeast."

Although none of this has happened now, the spirits of the old officialdom are all able to deduce.

Beginning in mid-May, within 20 days, the excerpt of "the future may lead to warlord secession" flew into the cabinet and into the palace like snowflakes.

Chongzhen saw it and sneered.

He has already figured it out: the people who are now spraying Shen Tingyang's "possible harm in the future" are actually the same group of dog officials who were in charge of sending and receiving military salaries with oil on their hands! Huge greed!

Where did they impeach for the sake of the imperial court! The real motive is, of course, that their position as a middleman who handles the penny is bypassed!

Chongzhen's heart has already begun to accumulate killing intent, and for these impeachers, each one of them is in mind, and he just wants to find an excuse to slaughter them in the future!

Of course, Chongzhen wanted to do this, not to protect Shen Tingyang, or to help the Shen family get angry, he was not so kind.

He was just angry at the silver that had been embezzled by the "military pay middlemen" in the imperial court over the years. Shen Tingyang just happened to play the bait for Chongzhen to catch a big fish.

"Shen Qing is a good official who is loyal to the country and gathers wealth for the country...... It's a pity that he has provoked so many people to hold grudges now, I'm afraid it's not easy to deal with. However, the memorabilia written by those money-greedy dog officials, every word is righteous and awe-inspiring, and it is impossible to find mistakes, and it is impossible to dismiss them.

Looking at such a posture, even if they want to transfer Shen Qing to Nanjing, rise and surrender secretly, I am afraid that those who oppose it will still not give up, and what they want is probably 'clear and real' in order to calm the anger of this group of people......

If, after the start of the levy, there were some military achievements on the battlefield in the south, it would be better to find an excuse to silence the mouths of those officials, and prove that 'after the start of the levy, the combat effectiveness of the provinces in the south that raised their own military salaries has indeed been improved.'" However, if there is no military victory, there is only one effect, which is 'saving money', and I am afraid that it will be difficult to convince the public......"

Chongzhen looked at the piles of impeachment recitals in front of him, and he also fell into pain. I couldn't come up with a deal for a long time, so I fell asleep leaning on the eucalyptus before I knew it.

It is estimated that tonight is another night of diligent administration that wastes time, and it has worked so hard, but nothing has been accomplished.

After a long time, it was Empress Zhou who heard that Her Majesty had fallen asleep in the study again tonight, so she brought the palace maid to comfort her with supper, and wanted to wake up the emperor and go back to bed.

Chongzhen was woken up, and he was quite annoyed in his heart, feeling that he had not done anything again, and he had been distressed all night in vain, and he had a sense of frustration.

He only felt that his temples were jumping, and he really wanted to find a eunuch or palace maid who made a mistake to scold.

Fortunately, the eunuchs and palace maids have been serving him for more than ten years, and when they know that this son of heaven is helpless about government affairs, he is very angry when he gets up, so he is very careful at this time, and he looks at his nose and nose one by one, so that Chongzhen can't find fault with it.

Chongzhen became more and more depressed, and he was about to hold back his internal injuries.

Fortunately, at this moment, there was a sudden rush of footsteps outside the palace gate, as if a eunuch with a message rushed over.

Chongzhen raised his eyebrows, his face was happy, and before the eunuch entered, he took the initiative to get up and rush to the door, and reprimanded him personally: "What are you running at night!" Aren't you afraid of being scared! ”

The palace maids and eunuchs next to them were all sad for a while, and they knew that the person who ran to deliver the message was afraid that they would be unlucky.

Sure enough, the eunuch was reprimanded by the emperor and was so frightened that he tripped directly on the threshold and gnawed mud, knocking out one of his front teeth, but he had to get up quickly, and explained in a leaky voice while masking for guilt:

"Your Majesty forgive your sins! The minions don't dare to be shocked! It is really a 400-mile urgent military intelligence report ahead, and I want Your Majesty to hear it as soon as possible, so I can be happy. ”

Chongzhen's beating temples finally calmed down with the word "good news", and the blood pressure in his head was also high and low, and his face suddenly turned pale and red.

"What a good news! Show me! Chongzhen stretched out his hand while asking sharply, and his body shook a little.

Empress Zhou was beside her, she knew her husband too well, so she hurriedly went up and hugged her, so as not to prevent Chongzhen from standing unsteadily.

Feeling the comfort of his wife, Chongzhen finally breathed a sigh of relief, and listened to the eunuch's dictation while unfolding the good news.

"Your Majesty, it is good news that Yang Ge Lao came from Huguang and Henan. In the territory of Huguang, the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution was destroyed, and He Jin himself was beheaded by the official army, and in Henan, He Yilong's department was also annihilated, and He Yilong himself was also beheaded. The two heads were sent to the capital division this time. ”

Chongzhen took a few deep breaths, clenched the good news tightly, and said hatefully: "The fifth battalion of the left has been destroyed!" The thirteen thieves who dug up the Fengyang Imperial Mausoleum with Zhang Yi at the beginning, and now there are seven or eight of them still alive in the world!

Fathers and fathers! Zhu Youzhen, the descendant of Xiaoxiao, swears here, sooner or later, he will send good generals to destroy the many thieves who excavated the ancestral tomb! Comfort the spirits of our ancestors in heaven! ”

After sighing, he gradually became more sober again, and had the heart to slowly look at the meritorious generals.

Only then did I notice that in this battle, He Jin and He Yilong jointly wanted to invade Huangzhou and Suizhou, but they were designed by Shen Shuren, a military commander from Hubei, to lure the enemy and encircle and annihilate in Tongbai Mountain.

Shen Shuren and Liu Guoneng flanked back and forth, trapping the enemy in the Jedi. 50,000 thieves, completely annihilated, no one slipped through the net!

In Yang Sichang's good news, some details were also whitewashed and some atmosphere was set off, for fear that the emperor would not know the topography of the Tongbai Mountain battlefield and would not understand how to win the battle. By analogy:

Sun Wuzi, who wrote "The Art of War", broke the "Battle of Baiju" of the Chu army in the Tongbai Valley, which took place on almost the same battlefield. However, Shen Bingbei brought into play the mystery of the art of war of "throwing himself into the place of death and then surviving, and then living after falling into the place of death", and exerted it to the point that Sun Wuzi was not far behind.

After Chongzhen finished reading it, he was also fascinated by his brain.

God bless you!

Could it be that this Shen Shu person is really the reincarnation of Sun Wuzi and the decline of my Ming Dynasty!