Yang Sichang is the son of Yang He, the right attendant of the military department and the governor of the three sides, and is the so-called family history; he was a high school scholar in the 38th year of Wanli, so he was very eloquent, and won Chongzhen's appreciation in a few words, so the young emperor nodded frequently after listening to Yang Sichang's words.

In fact, the history of the Ming Dynasty and me agreeing to make peace, Chongzhen is not unclear. This happened sixty years ago, it was still the years when his great-grandfather Emperor Longqing ruled the world, and the Ming Dynasty at that time had a strong foundation, although it was not enough to bully all the heroes in the same village, but it was not much different.

In addition, there were Zhang Juzheng, Gao Gong and other famous ministers in the Ming Dynasty at that time, and there were many famous generals guarding the nine sides, and the arms of the Ming Empire were much thicker than the thighs that my ancestors and grandchildren had been tied together for generations, so the Ming Dynasty was able to negotiate peace with me is to give him face, and because of this, he was able to achieve a better peace result.

Moreover, in the ten years that he was the boss, the ministers quarreled with each other and completely disregarded the safety of the Ming Dynasty; the businessmen colluded with the Tartars and even the border generals of the Nine Changes; those grass and mustard people who were used as shields by Chongzhen every day were not willing to be lonely, and they took advantage of the natural disasters to keep committing rebellion; the evil White Lotus took the opportunity to go out to fight the autumn wind, and the evil Li Chuang dug the ancestral graves......

However, because Chongzhen was anxious to sue for peace with Manchuria, he was reluctant to seriously think about it for a while, "Tang Bao said that Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting went all out to pursue and suppress the thieves, and they have been very successful recently, can they be able to calm down in one go?"

According to the two ministers of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting, some of the thieves entangled by the thief Li Zicheng were defeated, some were annihilated, and some surrendered to the Celestial Empire, and now there is not much left. At present, Hong and Sun are leading a large army to chase after them, blocking them on all sides, and the service period is flattened. ”

Speaking of Hong Chengchou, he was also a capable person in the Chongzhen Dynasty, he was born in Liangshan Village, Yingdu Town, Quanzhou, Fujian. He and the Jinshi in the 44th year of Wanli, tired of officials to Shaanxi to participate in politics, in the battle with the Shaanxi bandits repeatedly performed miraculous feats, and then promoted to the governor of Yansui and the governor of the Shaanxi trilateral area.

And Sun Baigu, who has a teacher-student relationship with Hong Chengchou, is a famous Confucian general in this dynasty. He was the Jinshi governor of Shaanxi in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, and his teacher Hong Chengchou surrounded and suppressed Li Chuang's old eighth team.

Thinking of this, Yang Sichang's tone became more and more firm, "If the thief wants to go to Henan, Huguang, and Sichuan, it is impossible, so he has to flee north from Shangluo Mountain in a vain attempt to return to northern Shaanxi." Hong Chengchou has already arranged heavy troops in the south of Tongguan and set up an ambush to wait, and the minister wants to report to Beijing in a few days. ”

Chongzhen's haggard and pale face finally flashed a smile that matched the pattern of the monarch's performance, and he immediately raised his voice slightly and said, "Sir, please take a seat!"

Yang Sichang hurriedly kowtowed and thanked him, then got up, and at the same time two eunuchs heard the sound and put a low rosewood chair for him diagonally opposite the emperor.

As soon as he sat down, Emperor Chongzhen very realistically instructed the chamberlain to give Mr. Yang tea, Yang Sichang stood up again, bowed up and thanked Chongzhen, who was sitting upright.

Chongzhen's spirit had been perked up, and the fatigue and boredom just now had been driven out of the clouds by Yang Sichang's words. He took a cup of hot tea from the hand of a palace maid, contrary to the court etiquette he had studied for more than 20 years, took a big sip, and said in a majestic and confident tone: "If you can level it out with one blow, Mr. will be in the middle of the dispatch." ”

Yang Sichang stood up from the chair for the third time, he bowed down and said: "This is entrusted to the emperor Weiling, and the soldiers are relied on for their lives." Since he was appointed as his own soldier, the thieves have not been extinguished for a long time, and the foreign captives have invaded and approached the Beijing Division, causing His Majesty to be diligent at midnight and restless in sleep, and he really deserves death!"

Listening to such a high-end and atmospheric sycophant of the first auxiliary minister, and feeling the opening of his own small universe, Chongzhen took out the bearing of Corporal Yao Shunyu Tang Lixian, and said to Yang Sichang: "Qing's difficulty, I know it very well, I don't need to say more." ”

After a pause, Chongzhen found that his hanging heart had upgraded to the ambition of annexing the Eight Desolations, so he said, "Zhang Xianzhong has already been appeased, Li Thief is a big problem for the country, I heard that the nephew of Li Thief said 'a tiger' is in great trouble, if it can be leveled in one fell swoop, the rest of the thieves will naturally be easy to annihilate, so there is no need to worry!"

"Your Majesty has seen the extreme. Li Zi became the old department of the dead thief Gao Yingxiang, and his nephew 'a tiger' was the strongest among the thieves. At present, as long as the thieves' uncles and nephews are leveled, the rest of the thieves are frightened, and they should surrender without a fight. Yang Sichang and Chongzhen's thoughts are highly unified, which is also the first element of his first assistant.

"After Zhang Xianzhong was appeased, was he really sincere? Is it okay to be appeased?" Chongzhen was in a good mood, and his IQ also recovered, and he was not worried about his other old opponent.

Yang Sichang was scheming, he had already expected that the emperor would ask him this question sooner or later, and he had already filed it in his heart at this moment. He was suspicious of Zhang Xianzhong's surrender from the beginning, and was not as naïve as Xiong Wencan, the premier of the military affairs of Nanjing, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Huguang (Hubei and Hunan).

However, his plan of "four squares and six corners, and ten sides of the net", the deadline of 'crossing the river before Christmas, and eliminating the rebel bandits in three months', have long been in vain; so the current method of appeasement has become the only way to work, and the Ming Dynasty is still breathing, and it must take a breath.

At this moment, Chongzhen also thought of the plan to suppress thieves in four corners and six corners, and the net was spread out on all sides; that is, with Shaanxi, Henan, Huguang, and Jiangbei as the four frontal fronts, that is, the main battlefields, also known as the "four positives," were "divided and suppressed, and the defense was carried out." With Yansui, Shanxi, Shandong, Jiangnan, Jiangxi, and Sichuan as the six side battlefields, that is, auxiliary battlefields, called "six corners", by the six governors "divided defense and coordinated suppression". In this big net, Prime Minister Xiong Wencan and Governors Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting "went with the thieves to go to the levy".

According to the March deadline at that time, that is, from December of the tenth year of Chongzhen to February of the eleventh year, the thieves must be wiped out......

"You can't worry about the situation," Yang Sichang replied cautiously.

"At present, the situation is beneficial to the imperial court, and it is safe for the time being. If we take advantage of this time to quit the soldiers, straighten out the battle, and rest and replenish ourselves for a while, we will always be in the position of 'controlling the enemy but not controlling the enemy,' and then it will be even more difficult to calm the situation; otherwise, it will be unacceptable. ”

"It's very true. Chongzhen was relieved, he deeply felt Yang Sichang's old respect, which is also the reason why this old man was able to live in the court for several years, thinking of Yang Sichang's predecessors, who dared to be their own, the old immortal, the little immortal, Chongzhen looked at his talent for selecting talents and appointing talents.

After hesitating again and again, I decided not to write Xiaobaiwen for the time being, forgive the sugar pile, and run to the black land on one of the roads to be willful, and from tomorrow onwards, I will no longer ask for votes, and everyone will let go of ourselves together......

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