Chapter 30 In the first quarter, an excellent censor became the governor

Just at the two ends of Chongzhen's first mouse, Wu Zhiwang died. Wu Zhiwang was the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi, he was in his prime, how could he die suddenly? There were two reasons for the report: one was that he died of illness, he was in poor health, and died of illness; the other was that he committed suicide by taking poison, which was actually a suicide in fear of crime, because Wu Zhiwang, as the governor of Shaanxi Province, had a large number of soldiers mutiny.He felt unable to explain to the emperor, so he died. Chongzhen is angry, I am dignified and dignified, and it is not a war-torn era. Can't you figure out how a governor died?check!Be sure to check it out for me!

But what made Chongzhen so angry was that he couldn't find out no matter how hard he checked.Hu Tingyan, governor of Shaanxi, insisted that Wu Zhiwang died of illness, saying that the situation in Shaanxi was very good, everyone lived and worked in peace and contentment, and even if there were a few petty thieves, it would be nothing to worry about.As for the mutiny of the soldiers, it is even nonsense; Wu Huan, the censor of Shaanxi Province, insisted that Wu Zhiwang committed suicide in fear of crime. They threatened to mutiny, Wu Zhiwang was caught in a dilemma, and in desperation, Wu Zhiwang went to a dead end. Of course, another reason why Wu Zhiwang went to a dead end was that the rebel army on three sides in Shaanxi had become a climate. The emperor blamed him and couldn't bear it, so he had to die to thank the country.Hu Tingyan said that Wu Huan was alarmist, and Wu Huan said that Hu Tingyan was whitewashing the peace; Hu Tingyan called Wu Huan brain problems and insanity, and Wu Huan called Hu Tingyan's cerebellum flooded and got rabies.

Hu Tingyan and Wu Huan fought each other, and Chongzhen couldn't help being hurt again: the banditry in Shaanxi seems to be serious.The governor of the three sides should undoubtedly have committed suicide, because the Ministry of Household Affairs has indeed not paid military salaries to the three sides in Shaanxi for so many years. It is no wonder that Wu Zhiwang didn't commit suicide!Next, an imminent question is, who should be appointed as the three-sided governor of Shaanxi? No one wants to be the governor. Because the officials of the Ming Dynasty knew that if the Ministry of Household Affairs did not pay the soldiers, no matter how they did it, there would be no way to survive as a governor of the three sides of Shaanxi.

But will the Ministry of Households pay soldiers?No one can guarantee. In this world, no one can guarantee anything related to money. Chongzhen couldn't guarantee it either.There are too many places where money is used, but the money in the household department is pitifully small.Where did the money from the Ministry of Finance go? It was all lost by corruption and party disputes.It is easy to get rid of this money, but it is difficult to get it out again.Chongzhen felt physically and mentally exhausted for a while: there was no military pay, and the governor had to be appointed.What to do next, take one step at a time.

But months passed, and the new governor was still nowhere to be found.For his grandma, this official also played Tai Chi with me.Usually, if there is any vacancy, it is a struggle to recommend to me. Now it seems that it is a hard job, but everyone has become a shrinking turtle... No, stick your head out to me! Under the strict order of Chongzhen, the Ministry of Officials finally elected Yang He, the deputy capital censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, as the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi. Yang He is a censor, a censor who dares to speak out. Once, when he saw that the country's affairs were in decline, he advised the emperor to cultivate the vitality of the country.What Yang He said about cultivating vitality was mainly aimed at the corruption and party struggles of the court officials, and it was also aimed at the buying and selling of official positions by the Ministry of Officials. Therefore, the Ministry of Officials has always had a grudge against him.Now, the opportunity has finally come, you Yang He don't want to cultivate vitality, go to Shaanxi to cultivate it first.

Chongzhen didn't know all of this, he just felt that the person selected by the Ministry of Officials this time was a good person who wanted to make a difference.Chongzhen summoned Yang He. Yang He frowned. You don't seem happy. Is not happy. Why? Because I think it is inappropriate to send me to Shaanxi. Tell me. I am the Deputy Capital Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. According to the usual practice, officials of this level should not be transferred to other posts. The Ministry of Officials is taking revenge on me. I once criticized him for buying and selling officials, so they put me on the top...

emperor! Have you finished? It's over. Chongzhen snorted: You didn't finish, at least one thing was missed.You should say that you have never led troops to fight, and you have never experienced frontiers, so you are not worthy to be the governor of Shaanxi on all sides!Therefore, you Yang He can only stay in the capital, and you can only be a censor for the rest of your life.If one day Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's troops come in and become the masters of this palace, then you will be their censors! Yang He shocked: I... I didn't mean that... Then what do you mean?That's what you mean if you don't become the three-sided governor of Shaanxi!Why should you not be transferred to a foreign post according to the usual practice? What officials are retaliating against you? What did other officials retaliate against you?You are making contributions to the country, not telling you to go to jail and exile!What did you say at the beginning, you want to cultivate the vigor of the common people, the vigor of the frontiers, and the vigor of the scholar-bureaucrats for my Ming Dynasty? How well you said it, it made me cry, but now?Are you just using your mouth to cultivate vitality? !

Yang He knelt down: Your Majesty, I'm afraid of harming the country and the king... Chongzhen waved his hand: You think too highly of yourself.The country is so big, can you make a mistake by yourself?Mistake?Are you calling me blind? Yang He panicked: I dare not!It’s just that I, Yang He, really have limited abilities... Chongzhen: Whether the ability is limited or not depends on doing instead of talking.The three sides in Shaanxi have been without a leader for several months.The state is in danger, how about your ability, you will know if you try it there. Yang He finally took office.

So what if you don't go?If you say you can do it, you can do it, and if you can’t do it, you can do it; As far as military affairs are concerned, Yang He is a complete layman.He can become an excellent censor in his life, but he will definitely not be a qualified general, especially the governor of the three sides of Shaanxi. Where is Sanbian in Shaanxi? It is the land of tigers and wolves.The rebellion of the refugees and the mutiny of the soldiers was the most chaotic place in the Ming Dynasty. How to clean up the mess?Governor Yang He started thinking about non-professional officers.In Yang He's view, there are two ways to solve the three-sided problem in Shaanxi: one is to suppress; the other is to appease.There must be soldiers for suppression, and money for support. At present, the conditions are not met.

But if there are no conditions, we must create conditions, otherwise the chess on the three sides of Shaanxi will be a dead game.In fact, as a former censor and a layman in the military, Yang He instinctively tended to Fu.It has the meaning of benevolent government and the meaning of subduing others without fighting. It is a superb diplomatic art, and it is a warm and romantic border strategy.In the final analysis, this is a verbal job. Yang He likes and is good at this kind of job, but suppressing is different.It is violence, it is the loss of life, it is hatred and karmic reincarnation, in the final analysis it is a purely technical work without any emotional color.Yang He doesn't like this kind of work, nor is he good at it.

However, if you really want to care, you need the court to spend a lot of money to solve the livelihood problems of the refugees.Will the emperor agree to this?After some careful consideration, Yang He left.He said that there are nineteen prefectures and counties in Yan'an, and the rebel refugees can't be suppressed no matter how they are. What is the reason?The reason is that when we caress, we must caress sincerely, caressing with real money.On the issue of appeasement of the people, it is not enough to just shout slogans.We want to appease the people, not fool them.After we disbanded the rebel refugees, we had to let them eat and wear clothes, so we had to buy cattle and seeds for them, let them support themselves, and let them feel that their lives were promising.To put it another way, it is to always have a sense of hope rather than despair in your heart.In this way, they will not choose to rebel again.As the so-called appeasement bureau is established, the suppression bureau will also end. Chongzhen received Yang He's memorial, which was really a mixed blessing.The good news is that Yang He has a new way of thinking about solving the dilemma in Shaanxi, and he is right about the person, which is very good.The worry is that Yang He asked for money as soon as he took office, which is not good.It's okay to caress, but asking for money is not good, very bad.Don't say that the imperial court has no money now, and if you have money, you can't give it casually.These hundreds of thousands of rebellious refugees each want to buy cattle and seeds, and if they fail to build houses for them to marry wives, how much will the court spend.The court gave them this money, is it suspected of spending money to buy peace?Besides, the imperial court now owes the frontier troops a sea of ​​salaries. If the soldiers did not get the money in the end, but the rebellious refugees got the resettlement fee, wouldn't the situation be chaotic?If everyone doesn't give it, it can still maintain a dynamic balance, but as long as my buttocks are slightly tilted, the old hen will turn into a duck, and the soldier will turn into a bandit in an instant-this is too possible for his grandma. Chongzhen was hesitating, but the development of the situation couldn't help him to hesitate. The new Shaanxi Governor Lian State Affairs Report said that Qingyang and Pingliang are desolate, Xi’an and Fengxiang are in danger, and Gansu and Ningxia’s military morale is shaken. In order to save the situation, it’s impossible not to give money. There is going to be a drastic change.Li Jizhen, the official secretary of the Ministry of War, said that if the emperor used tens of thousands of money to save hundreds of thousands of lives, and the agriculture and mulberry industry resumed, and taxes were paid regularly, the income would be more than hundreds of thousands.In order to dispel Chongzhen's concerns, Li Jizhen further pointed out that what we want to appease are not "thieves", but those who have fallen from "thieves" among the hungry people. The number of "thieves" is hard to count.Your Majesty, if you don't take decisive measures to distinguish the "thief" from the "thief", it will be a disaster... These two people spoke from different angles, and they had only one purpose, which was to ask for money.Chongzhen closed his eyes tiredly, feeling countless hands reaching out to him asking him for money...money!money!money! ...It seems that the money will not work.Hundreds of thousands, no!At most, I can only get a hundred thousand from my private money.Well, the 100,000 is money to appease the refugees, let’s let go of the owed soldiers’ salaries—after all, most of the troops are still not making trouble, as long as the soldiers haven’t turned into bandits, this matter can be discussed... Alas, one place of chicken feathers, one place of chicken feathers!Chongzhen rubbed his temples, feeling that his life was really troubled. However, the money was given, but the refugee problem was not resolved. In this world, there are many things that money cannot buy. Like love. Like the peace of the country. The country is not peaceful, how can Chongzhen be peaceful? Small reports about Yang He from Shaanxi kept coming, saying that after the implementation of Yang He's appeasement policy, although Wang Zishun and other bandit leaders came to surrender, the leader of the bandit, Wang Jiayin, still plundered the Yan'an and Qingyang areas. His deeds were even concealed and not reported; after some bandits pretended to surrender, Yang He issued them death-free cards. As a result, these people ran rampant in the village with the death-free cards, doing all kinds of evil, and the local officials were helpless... It was not only the small report of Shaanxi officials beating Yang He, but also the speech officials in Beijing who were relentlessly catching Yang He's pigtails.Chang Ziyu in the criminal department and Gu Guangzu in the engineering department respectively went to the Shu to impeach Yang He and let the "traitors" attack the city, but never dispatched troops to fight back, causing the people to suffer and the people's minds to be confused. Chongzhen dismissed these small reports at first. Chongzhen thought to himself: easy to say, but difficult to do.I, Chongzhen, agreed to Yang He's presidency, and to oppose his presidency is to oppose my Chongzhen's decision, but does Yang He also have problems?The main caress means that caressing is the main thing, but don't forget to suppress at the same time.The so-called soft and hard, the so-called grasping with both hands must be tough, they all talk about the same truth-everything should pay attention to both yin and yang.Yang He means that there is excess yang and insufficient yin.But what about those who snitch?Too much yin and not enough yang! Chongzhen let out a heavy breath through his nostrils, feeling that the world was complicated, but after all, he couldn't escape his piercing eyes.In this world, no one can play with him.Whether it's a conspiracy or a scheming, he takes it lightly and turns bones into cotton, just like a dog dissolving an ox. This is experience, this is the wisdom of life.Chongzhen chuckled conceitedly a few times, feeling that everything in the world is nothing special in the final analysis. Worrying about life?That's asking for trouble!