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Chapter 129 Northwest Inspection

The mutiny of the Yansui border army in Shaanxi should be handled by the governor of Shanxi, because he was in charge of this part. At the worst, there were governors of Yansui and the governor of the three borders. If this part was handled by the vassal department, then the emperor issued an order to the Beizhenfushi Tiqi, as soon as the Beizhenfushishi Tiqi came out, he mainly used the officials who were improperly handled. This was the real procedure. As a result, Emperor Chongzhen's arrangement was logically the one who had crossed the boundary.

Although Zhao Xing had just become the governor, he still knew the rules. If he had such a fuss, the censor and the civil servants might come out to firmly oppose it again, which would be detrimental to the entire Jinyiwei system that had just stabilized.

Just when he was confused, a little eunuch who had issued an order came to the palace and announced the order directly to him: "The emperor's oral order, let Zhao Xing go to the palace to see you."

Due to Zhao Xing's respect for the emperor's oral decree several times, Chongzhen saved the trouble of writing a few words every time he summoned him.

The sky is vast and the earth is big, and the thick legs are the most ordered. Zhao Xing had to give up the wedding chamber and obediently followed the little eunuch into the palace.

After many twists and turns, Zhao Xing was taken to the imperial study room.

As soon as he saw this place, Zhao Xing's heart became tight because it was not a secret matter, Chongzhen would not summon him here. Because in the entire palace where the wind was leaking everywhere, only some secrets could be kept here.

And the emperor’s secrets are definitely a huge matter.

Sure enough, Zhao Xing had just walked to the door of the Imperial Study Room. Before he could invite him to see him, Chongzhen's voice came from inside: "Is Zhao Aiqing here? Come in."

As soon as the words fell, the curtain was opened, and the one who lifted the curtain for Zhao Xing was the dignified eunuch Wang Chengen, the eunuch who was the eunuch who was the pen of the ritual supervisor.

This made Zhao Xing's heart tighter. Just as he was about to thank him humbly, Wang Chengen flashed to let Zhao Xing in, and waved his hand to the little eunuchs in the yard: "Everyone will wait outside the yard, don't let anyone come in." That's not all, and he ordered again: "Everyone blocks my ears. If anyone dares to listen to one or two sentences, he will be killed by a cane."

Zhao Xing's heart became even tighter about the sudden situation of such a great enemy.

"Don't give me a gift, come and talk." Before Zhao Xing could kowtow and greet him, he sat behind the table with a heavy face. Chongzhen anxiously asked him to go over and answer.

Zhao Xing quickly approached the front, and still stood there with polite manners, and then stood there in a proper manner, waiting for Chongzhen's inquiry.

Chongzhen glanced at Wang Chengen who had returned, then picked up a memorial in front of him and pointed to it and said: "This is the news from Luo Yangxing who summarized the news from Shanxi Jinyiwei. When you and my king and minister met at the bridge, what Guo Guangsheng said now seems to be right, and it is even more serious than what he said."

Zhao Xing's heart was inexplicably relieved.

Such information was a good thing for Zhao Xing, because the Shanxi incident finally attracted Chongzhen's attention. This was much better than just four years later when Chongzhen realized that something was wrong.

Chongzhen knocked on the table hatefully and cursed in depression: "Shaanxi governor Hu Tingyan and Yansui governor Yue Hesheng are all taboos and deceiving them. Even the bandits in Shanxi have reached tens of thousands, which have become a prairie fire. If it weren't for the reorganization of the Jinyiwei this time, I wouldn't know how long these bastards would have to hide me. It's hateful that they should kill them."

Zhao Xing could only listen with a low eyebrow to the emperor's anger. In fact, the one who should be killed here is not these two people, but their true boss, Geng Ruqi, the governor of Shanxi, and the upright and good official, but he did not know the military and devoted himself to fostering the three-sided governor Yang He who invented the theory of nourishing qi.

But these two people were either the remains of Tianqi, or the first batch of officials appointed by Chongzhen to the frontier. Chongzhen must not slap himself in the face. Unfortunately, Geng Ru had a harmonious voice and wanted to take the blame for Chongzhen's face.

"And just today, the Jinyiwei reported another news that the Shaanxi border army was making a mutiny. I really don't know where the military pay that is stuck in the local tax burden every year went. The court could not collect money, but the border army could not get money. So where did this money go?"

Zhao Xing still smiled bitterly and looked at him silently. Nine-side millions, the place where this huge one dollar of grain was still available in history.

The use of fiscal and taxation in the Ming Dynasty was divided into two parts, one was converted into silver and paid by the state treasury, and the central government paid the money. The other part was physical, which was directly left in the local area and supplied to the garrison and the soldiers on the nine sides.

However, the severe drought in Shanxi and Shaanxi could not collect the money and grain of the nominal border troops of the garrison. Therefore, when officials in Shanxi and Shaanxi handed over to the treasury and achieved political achievements, they could use this Ministry of Revenue to offset a loss that was invisible and intangible.

And the second one was indeed appointed by this wise and powerful emperor, Lord Yang He, who had high hopes, to raise the thief.

It is OK to raise a thief to be respectful, but it is really wronged to the good official Yang He.

The Nine-Border Rebellion is a disadvantage that has existed in the Ming Dynasty for two or three hundred years. Of course, the Nine-Border Rebellion mentioned here does not refer to the bandits, but the invasion of the Mongols, which is the so-called threshing grass.

The last three-sided governor was captured and imprisoned because the Mongols' cavalry all rushed to Yansui City, the hinterland of Shaanxi. As a result, they only had troops to trap the city, allowing the Mongols to slaughter hundreds of miles outside the city. Then they robbed themselves and retreated with satisfaction. In November of the first year of Chongzhen, they were beheaded and passed on to the border.

As a result, no one dared to take this position again.

At this critical moment, the good official Yang He made a fuss in a joke with his colleagues. Yang He said: "The failure of Liao affairs was unexpected, but he lost his troops and humiliated the country. He was wrong in the management. He was not familiar with the opportunity and immediately urged the war, but in the auxiliary minister; he did not hear the dispatch, and was helpless, and in the Pub. The supreme emperor was always gentle, and the supreme emperor was wrong." How deafening and far-sighted he was said to him.

Yang He even had a shocking statement about the matter in the northwest: "The key to seeking great governance in the world is to cultivate vitality. Since the large-scale war and military service, he has often sent more troops to the lower side. At present, the public and private financial resources are inseparable, and the vitality of the people has been damaged. Since the defeat of Liaozu, Guizhou and Sichuan, the bones have become hills, and the vitality of the border has been damaged. Since the gentry formed a clique and fought against each other in the court, the eunuchs who were planning to rebel took the opportunity to attack good people and the vitality of the literati was damaged. The current country is like a serious illness that has just recovered, and the veins of the body have not been well recuperated. The wind evil virus is easy to invade. The way to control it is to cultivate vitality. Therefore, whether it is the court or the northwest, it is not about suppressing but about nourishing it, nourishing energy." At that time, people regarded his words as famous quotes.

As a result, it would be fine if you say this, but one day I suddenly became confused. Whether I was dedicated to the country or show off my own uniqueness, I didn’t know, so I submitted a memorial. I supplemented and improved my views, and sent a memorial with a lot of flowers to the Chongzhen case that was unavailable.

When Chongzhen saw this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed: "I didn't expect that our Ming Dynasty is really a crouching tiger, hidden dragon, and a capable man who has such foresight and insightful border affairs and military affairs is actually idle in the Ministry of War and is a small minister. Isn't this a talent?

So without saying a word, he went against the opposition and directly made him the governor of the three sides.

A good official may not be able to do things, at least he may not be able to do absolutely cross-border things. Yang He ran to the mountain and became the governor and realized that not only the Mongols were the bandits in the three provinces, but also the bandits in the three provinces. At that time, the famous bandits were Zijinliang (Wang Ziyi), Eight Kings (Zhang Xianzhong), Kings of Chuang (Gao Yingxiang), Kings of Sweeping the floor, Xing Honglang, Black Evil God, Cao Cao (Luo Rucai), Kings of Troubled Times, Crashing the Sky (Liu Guoneng), Stars, Old

Hui Hui (Ma Shouying), King Li Jin, Dang Family, Armor-breaking Cone, Eight Vajra, Mixed Heavenly King, Scorpion Block, Lighting the Lantern (Zhao Sheng), Not Touching the Mud (Zhang Cunmeng), Zhang Miaoshou, Bai Jiuer, A gust of wind, Qilang, Dayao King, Nine Dragons, Four Heavenly Kings, Heavenly Monkey (Liu Jiusi), Maid, King Qi Yao, Reflecting the Mountain Red, Tuo Mountain Tiger, Soaring the Sky Pillar, Slipping in the Oil, Strong Eyes. And there are countless unknown rats, so the first thing he has to face as soon as he takes office is the bandits everywhere.

How to fight? Faced with the group of people who were forced to revolt, Yang He, as a good official, naturally had the people in his heart and could not bear to kill. At the same time, the three-sided army could not defeat the bandits at all, so he took out a trick to nourish his spirit.

As long as the bandits are willing to accept the pacification, they will immediately send a small sum of money and grain to be dismissed, and the leader will be granted an official to raise him.

As a result, the food he sent was limited. After the dismissed refugees had eaten up all the food, they still had no way to live. So they continued to rise up and become bandits, and had no choice but to continue to recruit them. The final outcome was that some of these bandits would be resented, and they would rebel if they had eaten.

But the entire Shanxi and Shaanxi deliberately concealed the emperor, and there was no such sum of money for him to mess with. So there was no way, so Yang He used the little bit of pitiful money and grain that he had given to the border army as capital for raising thieves.

Zhao Xing, who knew this, had to lament in his heart that treacherous ministers were in trouble with the country, but good officials may not be able to do good things, and doing bad things with good intentions is even more fatal.

But I can't say this, because Yang He was the most respectful Emperor Chongzhen in front of me. He was promoted by the public opinion. As long as I said this, it would be a slap in the face. If I slap him in the face, it would be a serious consequence. I worked hard to climb to this position and wanted to seize greater power, to change the fate of my family and to change the overall situation of the world. Because I slap the emperor in the face, I will definitely be doomed. I will go to 18 levels of hell first.

Fortunately, Emperor Chongzhen did not ask for his opinion and said solemnly to Zhao Xing: "Your dear is going to Shanxi this time to deal with the mutiny of the border army. In secret, you must understand the official administration in Shanxi and Shaanxi clearly." Then he was angry, and in fact he even drew a boundary for him: "Hu Tingyan, the governor of Shaanxi, and Yue Hesheng, I will never forgive the crime of deceiving the emperor this time."

Young and energetic, I can't stand anyone's deception.
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