Chapter 44 Section 7 Only when there is value in use can there be value in existence

When Sun Chuanting began his prison life in Beijing, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong happily held the Gucheng Summit. These two influential people in the Jianghu had an extensive exchange of views on urgent issues such as the development of the peasant army and the new trends of the Ming Dynasty. They agreed that the peasant movement has great potential and that the rebels will have a better tomorrow. .After a period of low tide, the revolutionary situation is ushering in a high tide that even the king of heaven and Lao Tzu can't hold back.We must seize the opportunity, develop separately, and take advantage of the Qing army's attack on Daming to quickly become stronger and bigger.

In this world, strength comes first. The strong survive. But in many cases, strength does not come out by waiting, but rolls out like a snowball, and it is made by real swords and guns.Zhang Xianzhong decided not to sit and wait, but to go against his grandma first.So Gucheng changed color overnight, and Ruan Zhitian, the county magistrate, committed suicide and became benevolent, thanking the country with death.Zhang Xianzhong posted a notice, giving reasons for his rebellion: his rebellion was caused by the Prime Minister.It is said that for a year, Prime Minister Xiong Wencan has extorted bribes from him twice in three days, which made him live a lifeless life without human dignity.It is better to die with dignity than to live in humiliation.Zhang Xianzhong also released a list of bribe-seeking officials, announcing the name, amount and time of each bribe-seeking official.

In this way, a major scandal in the Ming Dynasty was exposed by a leader of the peasant army who had been appeased. Xiong Wencan felt that Zhang Xianzhong was really shameless.Who asked for bribes, who dares to ask for bribes from you Zhang Xianzhong?You support your own self-respect, and it's too late for me to guard against you?How dare you charge protection money?As for the occasional gift you give me, I have no choice but to accept it, because it is a matter of face and a symbol of peace, so how could it become evidence for my extortion of bribes? But in human affairs, facts are one thing and opinions are another.

The fact is that Xiong Wencan took money from Zhang Xianzhong, but what do you think?That's hard to say. What kind of position and perspective determine what kind of views you have. Chongzhen had only one view of Xiong Wencan: corrupt elements.Corrupt elements of great harm. What kind of money is not easy to take? If you want to take Zhang Xianzhong's money, you are courting death!Now we spend money to buy peace and we can't even ask for it. It's better for you to seek food with the tiger.As soon as the north settled down, something happened to me in the south. Don't you want me to work hard day and night?Yang Sichang is also blind, and even recommended me a corrupt person to guard Huguang.If such a person joins forces with Zhang Xianzhong, will my Ming Dynasty still have peace?

Chongzhen ordered Xiong Wencan to be arrested, and if he had anything to say, he went to the prison.At the same time, Yang Sichang, acting as the supervisor of Xiong Wencan, hurried to Huguang. The person who tied the bell is needed to untie the bell. There is a problem with the person recommended by you, Yang Sichang, so I have to wrong you to come and solve the problem for me. This is called fairness. This is called justice. This is called accountability. Yang Sichang was indeed Yang Sichang.When Zhang Xianzhong led his troops all the way, he made a move.Yang Sichang made great use of Zuo Liangyu, the commander-in-chief, and at the same time coordinated various troops to win the victory of Manao Mountain in one fell swoop.In this battle, Zuo Liangyu's troops captured Zhang Xianzhong's eldest wife and military adviser Pan Duao alive. Zhang Xianzhong's more than 3,000 elite troops were wiped out, and more than 300 people surrendered.

Zhang Xianzhong fled in despair.Zuo Liangyu chased after him all the way. For the first time, Zhang Xianzhong looked at Yang Sichang with admiration.He had nothing to do when Xiong Wencan was around, so why would he be exhausted when Yang Sichang came?Alas, Daming still has talents after all. Zuo Liangyu is a talent.Yang Sichang is even more talented.Yang Sichang was strategizing, Zuo Liangyu was ruthless, and when these two talents were added together, it was impossible for the Huguang peasant movement to flourish. The talent chain of Yang Sichang and Zuo Liangyu must be cut off.They must be made suspicious of each other and alienated from each other. Only in this way can Zhang Xianzhong escape to heaven.

The scheming Zhang Xianzhong also made a move. On the way to escape. He sent his confidant Ma Yuanli to visit Zuo Liangyu with a lot of money, and told Zuo Liangyu what he meant: General Zuo, if you kill them all like this, don't you think about the consequences? Zuo Liangyu was confused: I was thinking about the consequences, did you make a mistake?Only by driving you all to extinction can I make great military exploits! Ma Yuanli smiled: I'm afraid that when you catch up with the extinction, your own death is not far away. Zuo Liangyu was very vigilant: I sue you, don't leave me alone.I don't fall for it.

Ma Yuanli: Does General Zuo really not understand?You usually get along with Xiong Wencan as if you were alone, but in Huguang, you are the Tu Emperor!Now Xiong Wencan went in, because of what, asking for bribes, but General Zuo, didn't you ask for bribes?We know how much money you took from us, and so does Xiong Wencan in the prison.Why did he go in and you didn't go in.Can you say that Xiong Wencan has no idea?Besides, General Zuo's soldiers are ruthless, they are ruthless to us, and they are also ruthless to ordinary people. The court knows all this, and you must know better than us what you think of General Zuo.To be honest, in Yang Sichang's eyes now, your use value is to kill Zhang Xianzhong and drive him to extinction.When everything is wiped out, your use value will be over.It's time for the imperial court to settle accounts after autumn.I'm afraid that by then, General Zuo will end up worse than Xiong Wencan...

Ma Yuanli was kicked out by Zuo Liangyu before he finished speaking.Zuo Liangyu didn't like being described by his opponents about his tragic fate, but he kept the huge sum of money Ma Yuanli brought. He liked gold, and all solid things, and disliked miserable fates. Regardless of whether what Ma Yuanli said made sense, Zuo Liangyu still sympathized with one sentence - in Yang Sichang's eyes, Zuo Liangyu's use value was to kill Zhang Xianzhong and drive him to extinction.When everything is wiped out, the use value will be over. That's what happened, that's what happened.In this world, only those who are useful can have the value of existence.The longer the use value is, the longer the existence value will be.The reason why Xiong Wencan went in was because his use value was gone.So what is his use value? Keeping Zhang Xianzhong warm and stable, so as not to cause chaos for the court and the emperor, this is Xiong Wencan's use value.Now that Zhang Xianzhong has raised his troops again and attributed the cause of the rebellion to him, Xiong Wencan, then I'm sorry, Xiong Wencan, you are about to walk.

The same goes for Zuo Liangyu.In this world, truth is simple, but truth is universally applicable. Zuo Liangyu claimed to be sick.He stood still in the Zhushan area, saying that it was inconvenient for him to march.At the same time, Zhang Xianzhong was tired and returned to the forest, regrouped on another hill, and quietly developed himself. But in fact, when Zuo Liangyu claimed to be sick at such a critical moment, Ma Yuanli's words only played half of the role, and the other half was played by Yang Sichang. It turned out that Yang Sichang didn't know how to be a human being, really he couldn't be a human being.

Before the start of the Battle of Manau Mountain, Yang Sichang received Zuo Liangyu cordially, expressing that he would ask the emperor for an order to recommend him as the "thief" general.Zuo Liangyu was so excited in his heart that he repeatedly assured Yang Sichang that he would serve the country faithfully and die.But two days later, it was another person, He Renlong, a Shaanxi general, who Yang Sichang asked Chongzhen to recommend as General Ping "thief".It wasn't that Yang Sichang was too cunning, but that Zuo Liangyu was too domineering and had a lot of bad deeds, which was hard to control, so Yang Sichang temporarily changed his mind.Chongzhen fully respected Yang Sichang's opinion and appointed He Renlong as the "thief" general of Ping, but the imperial decree was sent to the barracks, and Yang Sichang changed his mind again.He felt that He Renlong could not compete with Zuo Liangyu in terms of military strength or record. Such a general who can level the "thief" would not be able to level the "thief". Possibly, this is an era where strength speaks.At that time, don't say that He Renlong will be wiped out, if not, I, Yang Sichang, will also be wiped out.Yang Sichang urgently asked for an order again, hoping that the emperor would still appoint Zuo Liangyu as the general of Ping "thief" and He Renlong as the general.This time the three men were annoyed at the same time: Chongzhen, Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong.You can't do things like this, please make a plan and then act, okay?After Chongzhen snorted a puff of air, he ignored Yang Sichang's request, and Zuo Liangyu and He Renlong also expressed disapproval of Yang Sichang's behavior.Especially Zuo Liangyu, the disappointment in my heart-what are you doing, Yang Sichang, so confused?I have been defeated as a "thief" general. Since I am so unhappy and let me pacify the "thief", then it's okay for me to be unfair. Just like that, Zuo Liangyu became "ill".When Zuo Liangyu got sick, Yang Sichang felt worse than himself.If the "thief" cannot be suppressed, Zuo Liangyu will be held accountable, and he, Yang Sichang, will be held accountable even more.Yang Sichang wrote warm condolence letters to Zuo Liangyu, hoping that his illness would recover as soon as possible. Of course, if he was able to fight while sick, he would definitely ask his majesty to ask for credit for him. Zuo Liangyu wrote back, saying that he was very ill and would not recover for a while, and hoped that Yang Sichang would consider using He Renlong to pacify the "thief". Yang Sichang's heart went cold. Heart disease, it really is heart disease.This Zuo Liangyu has too much ambition for fame and fame.Of course, Yang Sichang couldn't get angry at him yet, he was already called a "sick person", and if he scolded him again, he might become "unable to get sick".Yang Sichang could only continue to write letters, and the next letters could not go around in circles, but had to go straight to the point. Heart disease needs heart medicine.Yang Sichang, who never lied, lied for the first time.He wrote a letter explaining that it was the Ministry of War's idea that He Renlong would replace him as General Ping's "thief". Zuo Liangyu wrote back. He was born in the army and likes to speak directly.Zuo Liangyu said that He Renlong once told him personally that Lord Yang intended him to replace Zuo Liangyu as the "thief" general, but only after the victory at Manao Mountain did he say that he was no longer in the position of He Renlong. It's still on fire! Yang Sichang's face flushed red.He didn't expect to pay a price for lying, and lying is a more advanced technique than lying. Right now, he still can't master this technique. For Zuo Liangyu to believe what he said, He Renlong had to prove that he, Yang Sichang, had never said anything similar to him.But will He Renlong prove it?Maybe, maybe not.Let’s just follow the path of the meeting, and a new problem is posed in front of us: If Yang Sichang hadn’t said similar things to He Renlong, then everything He Renlong told Zuo Liangyu was a lie—why did He Renlong What about lying? Yang Sichang's head was getting bigger.Lying is a more advanced technique than lying.This is absolutely true. Yang Sichang could no longer convince Zuo Liangyu, because his skills had not passed the test.Zuo Liangyu continued to be "ill".But what Yang Sichang didn't expect was that the butterfly effect began to appear, and Zuo Liangyu's gently flapping wings triggered a deadly tsunami.He Renlong began to play it perfunctory, and the governors of the provincial capitals also took advantage of this deadlock to get out of it.Zheng Chongjian, governor of Shaanxi, simply followed Zuo Liangyu's good example, and fell ill in Taiping, northern Sichuan. Yang Sichang asked him to join forces in Daning, but he was lucky and led his troops back to Shaanxi.Yang Sichang had no choice but to use the imperial decree to scare Zheng Chongjian, saying that the emperor had "a decree to stay in Shu" long ago, and your grandma actually retreated to Shaanxi. You really don't care about the emperor? !Yang Sichang spoke harshly, he didn't expect Zheng Chongjian to be the master who was frightened when he was a child, and he didn't pee in his pot at all, Yang Sichang had nothing to do. Due to Zheng Chongjian's withdrawal from Sichuan, Sichuan's defense was empty.Zhang Xianzhong's men and horses came to this vast world, and they really did a lot.They captured Mianzhu, Anxian, Deyang, and Jintang in one fell swoop, making Sichuan almost change its color.Chongzhen Longyan was furious, wishing he could grab the thin neck of Zheng Chongjian, a son of a bitch, and wring it off. Half of Sichuan's lands and mountains in Sichuan, Ziyang, Rongchang, Yongzhou, Luzhou and other places have already been lost.Yang Sichang is based in Chengdu, playing both soft and hard ways.On the hard side, he gathered the elite troops from the surrounding provinces to carry out encirclement and suppression. On the soft side, he divided and disintegrated Zhang Xianzhong's troops, and ordered Luo Rucai to be pardoned and not guilty. Zhang Xianzhong is rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver. Yang Sichang thought that in this way, even if Zhang Xianzhong could not be caught immediately, at least the effect of disintegration was achieved. Sure enough, a few days later, small leaders of the peasant army came to surrender intermittently, but Zhang Xianzhong was still missing. The only thing related to Zhang Xianzhong was a leaflet he sent someone to paste on the Yamen of Yang Sichang's camp, which read: Yes Those who can kill Yang Sichang will be rewarded with three coins. Yang Sichang was so angry that he almost vomited blood and died, but what can he do?Zhang Xianzhong was as slippery as a mud puller, Yang Sichang couldn't catch him at all, and the most terrible thing right now was the problem of the conquest and suppression army's distraction. If this problem is not resolved, it would be empty talk to catch Zhang Xianzhong.But this problem is really difficult to solve, because in the end it was Yang Sichang himself who messed up the matter first, which made Zuo Liangyu feel cold and unwilling to work for him. Alas, character determines destiny.For the first time, Yang Sichang was troubled by his character of worrying about gain and loss, with both ends. When Zhang Xianzhong raised his army again, Li Zicheng also raised his army in Shaanxi. This is the agreement they reached at the Valley City Summit. The revolutionary situation was in full swing again, and Li Zicheng's golden signboard in the Jianghu once again reflected its brand value. Within three months, hundreds of thousands of people stood beside him. Of course, this was also thanks to Zhang Xianzhong. It was Zhang Xianzhong's maneuvers in Huguang and Sichuan that restrained the Ming's conquest army, so that Li Zicheng's troops were not encircled and suppressed by the Ming army, and finally grew stronger. Even the clever Li Zicheng took advantage of the discord between Yang Sichang and Zuo Liangyu to break through the Wuguan defense area guarded by Zuo Liangyu and enter the inner countryside of Henan. In fact, Zuo Liangyu originally wanted to intercept him, but considering that he was "ill" and couldn't be too aggressive, he thought about it, and then watched Li Zicheng enter Henan. This delivery sent a dynasty to a desperate situation.Li Zicheng, who was born in Henan, is like a tiger with wings added, with hundreds of thousands of people, he can do great things.Li Zicheng quickly occupied Luoyang City and captured Fu Wang Zhu Changxun alive.This Zhu Changxun was Chongzhen's uncle, he was a heavyweight, he weighed more than three hundred and sixty catties, and he was trembling when he walked. But Li Zicheng didn't let him walk anymore.First he was killed, and then he was cut off piece by piece, and a large pot full of venison was cooked together, and a huge Fulu (homophonic for deer) banquet was held at the Zhougong Temple in Xiguan. The soldiers ate so much that their mouths were full of oil. This is the first month of the 14th year of Chongzhen, and there are still snowflakes in the sky in Luoyang. The celebration of the New Year in this city even exceeds that of previous years.But the jubilation only belonged to the ragged peasant army speaking the Shaanxi dialect, not to the panicked citizens of the city, let alone the Ming Dynasty, a dynasty that had existed for more than two hundred years.Because in the administrative sense, Luoyang at this time has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. Its supreme ruler is Li Zicheng, a former unemployed postman who now claims to be the king of Chuang. There are also snowflakes in the sky of the Forbidden City. There were no more snowflakes than in previous years, but Chongzhen felt a deep chill. Class struggle is indeed cruel, bloody, and inhumane.Eight years ago, in the first month of the lunar year, the Zhu family’s ancestral grave in Fengyang was picked up by Zhang Xianzhong. In the first month of this year, Zhu Changxun, the king of blessings, the uncle of the current emperor, was boiled and eaten by Li Zicheng.God, is Daming's fate really coming to an end? Chongzhen fell ill, and fell ill after fourteen years of his accession to the throne.Chongzhen announced that he would stop going to court for three days and contemplate his mistakes behind closed doors at home. This is a deep reflection of the rulers of a dynasty, but it is difficult for Chongzhen to think or summarize any regular things. The destiny code of the Ming Dynasty was already in effect more than 200 years ago. It's all about human affairs, so why change?The code of destiny cannot be changed, and anyone in the game is just its pawn.Chongzhen finally understood a little bit.But for the answer, Chongzhen still has a childlike curiosity: How many willows and flowers brighten another village in the scenery on the road ahead; what will be the fate of everyone in it, especially what Chongzhen will experience Stormy seas?Chongzhen wanted to know too much. The turbulent waves came soon. Not long after the death of King Fu of Luoyang, Zhu Yiming, King Xiang of Xiangyang, was executed by Zhang Xianzhong.This Zhu Yiming inherited the throne in the 23rd year of Wanli. According to his seniority, he should be Chongzhen's grandfather.From uncle to grandfather, the two kings were killed within one month. Chongzhen was not only humiliated, but also shocked.This Xiangyang is where Yang Sichang's governor's yamen is located. There should be heavy guards, so why can't you see it? If it can be forgiven to say that King Fu of Luoyang couldn't stand it because Yang Sichangyuan didn't take care of the "bandits" in Sichuan for a while, then the killing of King Xiang Zhu Yiming is really unreasonable. Yes, the "bandits" want to be suppressed, but these Zhu Yiming Family princes need more protection!All the princes have been killed, and there is no use in suppressing "bandits".Besides, the suppression of "bandits", how come there are more and more suppressions?Where did Li Zicheng recruit hundreds of thousands of people? Didn't it mean that there were only 18 people left?He can do magic? !Thinking of this, Chongzhen was really annoyed. So, was it right or wrong to use Yang Sichang in the first place?Did this ten-sided net catch the "bandits"?Chongzhen began to doubt himself again.Alas, in the past fourteen years, countless people have passed in front of him one by one like a revolving lantern. All the work he has done is employing and disposing of people, but what he uses is not human, and what he disposes of is not human.Now, if Yang Sichang is abandoned, who else would be useful? When it will be used, I will hate less.Chongzhen was at a loss. Yang Sichang fell ill. Very ill. Almost dead, to be precise. He was sick from exhaustion, and he was also sick from fright. He never expected that Zhang Xianzhong would suddenly fly out of Sichuan and head straight for Xiangyang.Yang Sichang chased after him panting, but he was still one step short. This is a fateful step, and Yang Sichang, who lived in the 14th year of Chongzhen, will never walk out of this fateful step.When Zhang Xianzhong hung the head of Xiang Wang Zhu Yiming, who was over 70 years old with white hair, on the West Gate Tower, Yang Sichang knew that everything was over. He couldn't take it any longer.He was naturally sick, really sick.He didn't even dare to report his illness to the emperor.In such an age, illness has become a suspicious thing. How many people use "illness" to avoid disaster. Yang Sichang could only suffer from illness alone, in a place called Xujiayuan.The creator of the ten-sided network plan, the troublemaker of interpersonal relationships, and one of the last supporters of the Ming Dynasty Building died lonely on the first day of March in the 14th year of Chongzhen at the age of 54. The dead are bigger than the sky, not to mention that Yang He and Yang Sichang had been loyal to Daming for decades, and there was no credit but hard work. This made Chongzhen hate and pity Yang Sichang's death, and of course he also had deep regret and fear.The talents of the Ming Dynasty died one by one, and the pillars of the Ming Dynasty Building were constantly decreasing, and one day it would fall down with a crash. Such speculation made Chongzhen terrified. Alas, such is life. Part speculation, part fear. Fear in guesswork. Guess in fear. until the end of life. The so-called meaning of life is nothing more than experiencing this torture process. At this moment, Chongzhen is "enjoying" the meaning of his life.