Be the emperor from the postman

Regarding Wu Guojun's question, He Jinzhao had nothing to say.

If he could help kill Gao Yingxiang in advance so that he wouldn't be turned into a Peking duck, it would be considered a good deed for him.

As far as the prison is concerned, even though Wu Guojun is a popular fried chicken in front of Chongzhen, there are still a large number of people who will not sell his face.

Wu Guojun knew that he had the ability to send Gao Yingxiang to prison, but he couldn't get him out.

Regarding He Jinzhao's confession, Wu Guojun immediately fell into a dilemma.

This thing is too risky!
The Emperor Ming demanded that Gao Yingxiang be killed by a thousand swords and ten thousand swords, just to announce to the whole world that being a traitor of the imperial court would not end well.

On the contrary, Zu Dale breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the hammer bandits leave Juyongguan.

As long as He Jinzhao didn't intend to turn around and come back to fight.

As for the hammer bandits who robbed the people in the capital, they just robbed them, which is much better than falling into the hands of the Qing army.

Any deal between Wu Guojun and He Jinzhao is none of his business.

After the hammer bandits and the Qing army withdrew respectively, Chongzhen felt relieved.

After summoning Wu Guojun, the greatest hero, he was directly promoted to the title of marquis with a swipe of a pen.

Uncle Jingliao was promoted to Marquis of Jingliao.

Wu Guojun thanked him, but the officials around him couldn't make sense of it.

Since Cao Wenzhao's death in battle, Ming soldiers rarely fought against the enemy bravely. Now the promotion of Wu Guojun is unstoppable, and no one is afraid of Chongzhen's bad luck.

After Wu Guojun was promoted to the title, he directly ordered Gao Yingxiang to be hanged.

Gao Yingxiang was pushed to Caishikou of Xishi City, where he was hung on a shelf like a butchered pig.

The veteran executioners on the side can be said to have rich experience, and most of the people who died in his hands were Yuan Chonghuan, Xiong Tingbi and the like.

This is the first time he has killed the world-famous big thief.

Gao Yingxiang looked at the people around him coldly, not regretting his death.

It's a pity that I didn't step through the Tianjie with Brother He again, and went into the palace to kill the dog emperor.

The idle people in the capital below threw mud at Gao Yingxiang, yelling that he would die in a thousand cuts.

For these, Gao Yingxiang didn't care at all.

As far as the people watching the excitement, how many of them are real common people?

Throw them all to Shaanxi, and see how many people will still support Ming's policies?
As the executor, holding a token in his hand, Wu Guojun walked up to Gao Yingxiang, dressed in a red robe and a crown of loyalty and tranquility.

He took the token and patted Gao Yingxiang's face: "Raise your neck later, and I'll let people shoot more accurately."

Before Gao Yingxiang could ask a question, he heard: "Marshal He said he couldn't save you, so let me give you a happy ride."

Gao Yingxiang laughed out loud.

After Wu Guojun left and returned to the execution platform, he looked into the distance.

Puff puff.

Three arrows were shot at Gao Yingxiang's neck, left chest and right chest, making sure to shoot the Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang to death.

"There are assassins!"

Wu Guojun shouted while pinching the token.

Caishikou suddenly panicked.

Many soldiers are guarding and beheading officer Wu Guojun.

Gao Yingxiang, the world-famous Chuang Wang of a generation, was shot and killed at Caishikou in the capital.

After Zhang Fengyi, Minister of the Ministry of War, committed suicide in fear of crime, Chongzhen looked around at the courtiers and found that there was no one who was proficient in military affairs and could be appointed by the central government.

When Chongzhen was having a headache, he heard that Gao Yingxiang had been killed by an arrow, and he was even more furious.

This is challenging the bottom line of the Ming court!

I wanted him to be hacked into pieces, but someone actually wanted to free him.

Chongzhen ordered Jin Yiwei to mobilize, and he had to find out these people who were hiding in the capital and colluding with the rebels.

But that day was so chaotic that it was impossible to catch the murderer.

As the Qing army and the hammer bandits invaded Gyeonggi respectively, Lu Xiangsheng was ordered to lead his army northward to "King Qin".

Without the pressure of Lu Xiangsheng, this provided a good opportunity for Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to develop.

They gathered 20 troops in the Huguang area, and their forces are quite strong.

Hong Chengchou succeeded Lu Xiangsheng and continued to encircle and suppress these insurgents, but his troops were insufficient, and the previous elites were either lost or transferred away.

Because of Hong Chengchou's reputation, many rebels stopped thinking about surrendering to the court.

It can be said that Chongzhen's appointment of personnel directly forced the potential subjects of the rebel army to regroup and fight against the court.

After Gao Yingxiang was arrested and killed, these insurgents did not completely sink down, and only a few surrendered.

Especially the hammer bandit He Jinchao dared to lead troops to loot near Gyeonggi, which made Chongzhen very irritable.

But at this time, the Ming court was already in a state of desperation.

First of all, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and others joined the uprising of the hammer bandit He Jinzhao in the southeast.

They traveled from the northwest to the Central Plains, and farther to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, making it impossible for the Ming court to defend against them.

In Mongolia in the north, except for those who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, most of them call He Jinchao the Heavenly Khan.

The Ming court wanted to use the Mongols with the lowest combat effectiveness as containment, and there was no good strategy to receive and lure them.

The most troublesome thing for Chongzhen was the newly established Qing dynasty, whether it was war or peace, he was hesitant.

Can't fight again.

He couldn't afford to lose the face of the dignified Shangguo.

At the time of Zhu Di, these savages were nothing, and they had to send envoys to see them, but now the Qing army did not send envoys to the Ming court at all.

When he couldn't find a suitable person to serve as Minister of the Ministry of War, Chongzhen remembered Yang Sichang.

This person is the son of Yang He, the former governor of the three sides. Although Yang He was intercepted by the hammer bandit He Jinzhao, he was imprisoned in a prison in Shanxi.

But Chongzhen has a good sense of Yang Sichang, especially after discovering that he has military talent, which is many times better than his father.

It's a pity that Yang Sichang's stepmother died at an inappropriate time, and now Duoqing has also called Yang Sichang to the capital.

Yang Sichang asked for resignation three times, but was rejected by Chongzhen, and he arrived in the capital after the war.

Yang Sichang was not idle during the mourning period, he studied hard to enrich himself, in order to avoid walking down his father's old path one day.

Because he was in a high position, the result was not fixed, but it fell into the hands of the bandits.

When Chongzhen summoned Yang Sichang, he was eloquent, eloquent, eloquent and able to figure out Chongzhen's thoughts.

Yang Sichang was completely different from the dull and humble appearance of the previous ministers of the Ministry of War, and he was full of confidence in his speech, so he was regarded as a capable minister by Chongzhen.

Yang Sichang was summoned by the emperor several times, and all of them exceeded the stipulated time. He almost obeyed his words.

The emperor did not alienate him because of his father, but appreciated him very much, which made Yang Sichang grateful.

In order to serve the Ming Dynasty, Yang Sichang continuously stated to the emperor his ideas on governing the country and the world.

He put forward three major policies that can get rid of Ming's internal and external troubles after careful consideration.

The first is to fight against the outside world first.

The bandits must be suppressed!
Second, you must have enough food before you can have enough soldiers.

The third is to protect the people first, and then to wipe out the thieves.

Yang Sichang's three policies and a series of proposals are all centered on this.

Because of his father, he collected a lot of information about Hammer Bandits.

At least He Jinzhao managed to protect the environment and the people, and had enough food and soldiers, so that he was able to run wild in the northwest, unstoppable.

How much arable land can there be in the bitter cold land of the northwest after natural disasters and man-made disasters?
How many people can serve as soldiers?
He Jinchao was able to rely on those barren lands to pull up a large number of troops and run amok across the capital, even fighting the Qing army and fleeing in embarrassment.

Daming owns two capitals and thirteen provinces, as long as it can be done, what kind of fart is a mere hammer bandit?
Yang Sichang also saw that He Jinzhao was a foreigner, and the population under his command was insufficient. Otherwise, why did he want to plunder the population from the vicinity of Gyeonggi all the way?

Chongzhen was a little hesitant about Yang Sichang's theory at the beginning, after all, it was a cliché.

I spend several million taels of silver every year, how can I not have enough to eat and not protect the people?

But Yang Sichang was good at talking, and he emphasized to Chongzhen that he was not a cliché, nor was he repeating empty words.

The foreign aggression shown by the Qing army's second southward march, and the internal troubles of the spreading bandits galloping in the Central Plains.

Which comes first between the two?
This is an unavoidable strategic choice, and it is also the most important thing for the Minister of War to consider.

Otherwise, with a hammer in the east and a stick in the west, the Ming court, which had already demolished the east wall and repaired the west wall, would be powerless to fight against both sides.

Don't look at the capture and killing of Chuang Wang Gao Yingxiang, but it still didn't scare the rebels.

After Gao Yingxiang died, Li Zicheng took over the title of King Chuang again.

Especially He Jinzhao, a hammer bandit who had never been called a king, was the leader of the rebels.

Although his power is not as great as that of Li and Zhang, but this boy is weak, and he is a serious problem for the imperial court.

Therefore, Governor Xuan must have a capable person, and Lu Xiangsheng is the safest.

It was enough to prevent the hammer bandits from traveling eastward unimpededly to the vicinity of the capital to make trouble. Once He Jinchao invaded the capital, the entire Ming society would be overthrown.

Must guard against!

Although the hammer bandits only reached Changping City, Chongzhen knew that He Jinchao was behind the scenes who entered the palace to kill the emperor.

Even though Zhang Xianzhong and others excavated the imperial tomb of Zhongdu, and the Qing army burned Tianqi's imperial tomb, they were nothing compared to He Jinchao.

Because those are dead people.

He Jinchao wanted the life of today's emperor, how could Chongzhen bear it?
In the past, because they didn't have much energy, the courtiers below mostly turned a blind eye to the hammer bandits.

It's rare that the new minister of the Ministry of War will target the hammer bandits.

This made Chongzhen feel extremely happy!

There are not a few people with vision like Yang Sichang.

As early as a year ago, the Ministry of Military Affairs put forward six points in the matter, to persuade the honesty to support the honesty, to have enough food for the soldiers, to destroy the slaves first, to relieve the disasters first, to provide food first, to provide disaster relief, to calm the people and not disturb the people, and to select talents.

Regarding these six articles, Chongzhen only approved the first, forty-six articles, and the remaining three articles are too empty and unrealistic, so it is better not to implement them.

Now that Yang Sichang has appeared, he not only proposed the phalanx, but also proposed specific solutions.

The emperor seemed to think that the safety of the border was the first, followed by the bandits, and the ministers believed that the inside must be settled first before the outside can be fought.

In order for Chongzhen to understand better, he compared the world to the body, and if there was a mistake, he would first map it out according to the severity.

How many of the Nine Sides still belong to the imperial court after Xuanda?

After the hammer bandit took control of the northwest, he was able to drive the Mongols to fight the Qing army, and even stayed near the capital, which was enough to see his strength.

Hearing this remark, Chongzhen nodded again and again. Hearing that He Jinzhao came near Gyeonggi at that time, Chongzhen really lost his composure.

Even the rebels dare to stroke his tiger's beard, so what is the majesty of the emperor?

Immediately afterwards, Yang Sichang hoped to increase troops and pay to ensure that the soldiers had enough food.

Prior to this, Hong Chengchou and Lu Xiangsheng pointed out to the emperor more than once that the enemy is strong and we are weak.

Compared with the superior forces of the rogue bandits, the official army is always at a disadvantage, and in terms of the composition of the army, the official army is the opposite, and the disadvantage is even worse.

Chongzhen was very hesitant about the increase of troops. The previous policy of reducing troops made a large number of frontier troops in the northwest join the ranks of rebels.

Now that there is a need to increase troops, wouldn't it mean that the rebels will be sent soldiers with rich combat experience for no reason, and the court will have to spend money and food on training again?
In fact, the biggest obstacle is money!
自从万历47年加派辽饷400万两，48年加派辽饷500万两，崇祯三年加派辽饷680万两。

This huge tax increase has made the Ming people miserable, because the imperial court has to collect so much money, and the local government collects much more than this money.

But for the war in Liaodong, it is still a drop in the bucket.

Especially with the continuous large-scale development of the scale of warfare, another loophole has been added that will never be filled:

Constantly increasing troops and increasing salaries!

Chongzhen held several imperial meetings to seek good strategies.

But the courtiers are proficient in imperial examinations and party struggles, so it is probably impossible for them to make money.

The only one who was good at economics was also regarded by Chongzhen as forming a party because he spoke for others, and was sentenced to prison, and then he was dismissed and went home.

So no matter how many meetings you have, it's useless and a waste of time.

But Yang Sichang came and dared to say that the salary increase was used for "civil war" and gave a solution.

In a word, there are four ways: Junshu, Yidi, sending students to supervise students, and post delivery.

The first is to apportion evenly according to the area of ​​cultivated land, one stone of rice is equivalent to eight coins of silver, and 190 million taels can be collected every year.

The second type refers to the newly added cultivated land after the national arable land area was cleared from the sixth year of Wanli to the 11th year. When the Liao pay was increased, it was not included in the apportionment object.

The third is to sell the diplomas of Guozijian students, and open up a shortcut for dudes to use money as a springboard to enter official careers.

In fact, it's just bringing the black box operation to the bright side.

The fourth is to continue to abolish post stations, not all post stations have been abolished.

After Deng Qi, the deputy general of Sichuan, died in a mutiny, his younger brother still used the post station to transport the body back to his hometown in Sichuan.

In this way, 20 taels can be saved.

Some people criticized Yang Sichang's words.

Said he was an act of death!

And it is proposed that the best way is to carry out military garrison and restore the strategy of guard garrison (existing in name only), which can achieve the goal of having enough soldiers and food without taxation.

Emperor Hongwu's strategy is sure to be correct. Haven't you seen that the hammer bandits are farming in Shanxi?
Such an idealistic approach is not very feasible for the Ming court under the current situation of chaos.

First of all, there is not so much land. Like the Hammer Bandit, the big landlords can "give it up" for him free of charge.

Even if Daming's army is stationed in the fields, it won't take a year or two for them to be remembered and dragged to their homes.

What the fuck is the imperial court?
That is my field!

Don't believe me, look at the evidence I just forged?
Guaranteed to be true, so that you can't find reason.