1779. Failure to assess the situation will lead to mistakes in both leniency and severity.
While the ladies were visiting the Prince's Mansion in Shunyi, Yang Fan and others were having a banquet at the newly built Chunhui Tower.
Yang He is the host today and is very attentive to the wine. Today's dishes are also very good, including the famous water and land eight delicacies banquet. The wine is Shaoxing Nuerhong that is thirty years old.
In the Ming Dynasty, white wine was a low-grade wine and was not served at formal banquets. At formal banquets, rice wine was consumed.
"Don't be afraid of Marquis Dingyuan's jokes. I'm so worried that I can't sleep day and night." Yang He pulled Yang Fan to complain. He regretted it very much. He was too upright as a censor and offended too many people.
Therefore, everyone wanted to drive him away, otherwise how could this unfortunate job happen to him.
Now northern Shaanxi has become a complete mess, and no one is willing to come. Chongzhen really can't find anyone, and originally wanted to draw lots to decide. Whoever is caught will be the one. But none of the officials wanted to be unlucky enough to be caught, so they contacted each other privately.
, the public recommended Yang He, a guy who hates people and dogs, as the new governor of the three sides.
Yang He is an upright official, a rare exception among Beijing officials. He has also done many good things in the local area.
But one characteristic of the Chongzhen Dynasty was that good officials were not allowed to die a good death. Treacherous officials were all trusted and reused. There were no exceptions in almost seventeen years.
In the Battle of Sarhu, after Yang Hao's four-way Liaodong Army was defeated, Yang He faced a severe situation and recommended the use of Xiong Tingbi, Zhang Heming, Li Changgeng, Xue Guoyong, Yuan Yingtai and others. He also wrote a letter analyzing the reasons for the Liaodong military defeat.
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Because Yang He spoke too frankly, he was disliked by the Donglin princes and officials who were in power at the time. They planned to drive Yang He away through other reasons. Yang He was not stupid, and before they could take action, he claimed to be ill and left.
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He was almost always unpopular with officialdom.
In the early years of the Apocalypse, the imperial court once again appointed Yang He as the servant Shaoqing, and was promoted to the censor of Youqiandu. He was asked to patrol Nan'an and Ganzhou. Before Yang He took office, his mother died again. The war in Guangning failed again.
Wei Zhongxian did not trust Yang He because he had protected Xiong Tingbi, so he took the opportunity to remove him and let him be Ding You.
After the Chongzhen Dynasty came back again, he was promoted to take charge of the Supervisory Council. He also wanted to investigate and deal with corruption, maladministration, and laziness in government, which caused the capital to be in a state of panic. This made the officials intolerable, and they recommended him to be promoted to governor of the three sides.
Tell him to get out of here.
After Yang He took over as the governor of the three sides, northern Shaanxi was already at war.
Wang Zuogua and other bandits attacked Yichuan, but were repulsed by the county magistrate Chengcai. They then turned to attack Hancheng. The Hancheng army had no generals, so Yang He temporarily appointed Hong Chengchou to lead the army to resist.
This was the battle where Hong Chengchou first showed his talents.
As a civil servant with no military experience, he captured and killed more than 300 people. He was able to lift the siege of Hancheng. After the rebels were defeated, they went to Qingjian and planned to start a mobile battle.
For a time, people in northern Shaanxi were panicked, warning signals were heard everywhere, and smoke was rising everywhere.
Due to the disarmament and the intensification of the army, the number of officers and soldiers in northern Shaanxi was seriously insufficient at this time. Only Yulin Town still had more than 3,000 combatable soldiers. In order to prevent the situation from deteriorating, Yang He wrote one after another to the court, asking the generals to return to their bases.
But at this time, Huang Taiji came in, and the emperor was panicked. He wished that all the soldiers and horses in the world came to protect him. Naturally, there was no result.
Yang He saw before his eyes that there were no reinforcements, no food and grass, let alone money.
In desperation, he appointed the original general Du Wenhuan to serve.
In February, Zhang Nian, the prefect of Yan'an, and Ai Mu, the governor of Yan'an, forced the rebels in Yanchuan, and surrendered the rebel leaders Wang Zishun, Zhang Shusheng, and Ji San'er. In addition, the rebel leader Wang Jiayin sacked Yan'an and Qingyang.
Yang He did not have the troops to attack, so he had to conceal the matter and did not report it.
Yang He had no troops and no food, so he could not suppress the bandits, so he had to persuade them to surrender. He also issued death-free documents to the surrendered bandits King Hu, Little Red Wolf, Yi Zhangqing, Luo Dihu, Hun Jianglong and others, and placed them in Yansui and Hequ.
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He simply did not have the force to reorganize and control these surrendered soldiers. As a result, these bandits continued to commit adultery and looting at the station. After they were recruited and settled, they became official soldiers, and the local government did not dare to interfere at all.
Others saw that the consequences of rebellion were not serious, so more people who had no food were inspired and started to follow suit. Wanting to be an official, murder and arson, etc. became the slogan.
The result of the appeasement was that more people rose up in rebellion. This was the source of the troubles caused by thieves and bandits.
The fire of the civil uprising that overthrew the Ming Dynasty was ignited from his hands.
Since last year, the chaos caused by bandits has become more and more serious. After Wang Jiayin captured Huangfu, Qingshui, and Papaya, he then captured Fugu. The bandit leader Yiyuan captured Xin'an, Ningsai, Liushujian and other castles, and killed most of Du Wenhuan's tribe.
, and Shen Yikui, the younger brother of Shen Yiyuan, besieged Qingyang and captured Heshui.
After Yang He learned about it, he immediately moved to Ningzhou. Seeing Yang He coming with the last troops of Yulin Town, Shen Yikui quickly accepted the recruitment. Yang He sent him back to Heshui and handed him over to the county magistrate Jiang Yingchang. After seeing this, the other thieves also
Returned one after another.
Yang He placed a seat for Emperor Chongzhen on the city tower and asked the thieves to kneel down and shout long live. Then he read out the emperor's instructions and ordered them to swear an oath to either join the army or return to farming, and never become thieves.
These thieves pretended to agree, and Yang He immediately pardoned their crimes.
The group of thieves knelt down and laughed, thinking that Yang He, the governor, was child's play.
Because Yang He was the most powerful, he invited his son-in-law to the military tent to eat and live with him. As expected, Shen Yikui came to surrender. Yang He listed his ten major crimes, and Shen Yikui kowtowed to apologize.
, Yang He read an edict, pardoned him, and granted him an official position. He arranged more than 4,000 of his troops in Ningsai and sent guard Wu Hongqi to protect them.
General Du Wenhuan was very aggrieved by Yang He's behavior.
Brothers Shen Yiyuan and Shen Yikui almost wiped out Du Wenhuan's family, but the governors of the three sides pardoned them. He had no choice but to get promoted, so he voted with his feet, quit the job, and left without saying goodbye with the remaining members of his clan.
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Shen Yikui's subordinate Ru Chengming was particularly unruly and committed crimes one after another. Although he was recruited, he was no different from being a gangster. Yang He gradually couldn't bear it. Yang He forced Shen Yikui to trap and kill Ru Chengming in Yaozhou.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This incident made the associates of the Shen Yikui brothers suspicious and worried that Yang He would kill them all. So they coerced Shen Yikui to rebel again
.This caused the civil uprising in northern Shaanxi that had just calmed down to start churning again like a boiling pot.
Anyone with eyesight up and down could see that Yang He's efforts to recruit him so far had completely failed.
The imperial censor Xie Shangbin wrote a letter to impeach Yang He for deceiving the court. The imperial court handed his memorial to the censor Wu Di for verification and report. Wu Di wrote a memorial saying that Yang He advocated recruiting peace, which was a great harm to the country.
Emperor Chongzhen was angry, so he arrested Yang He and imprisoned him, and sentenced him to be exiled to Yuanzhou. In the winter of the eighth year of Chongzhen (1636), Yang He died in the camp of the exiled army.
And now, it was just when Yang He had just surrendered these bandits. However, at this time, Yang He no longer had money or food, so he continued to support these bastards who were officers and soldiers in name, but in fact were still wearing official clothes everywhere and blatantly being bandits.
If Yang Fan doesn't take action, it won't be long before Northern Shaanxi will be in chaos again. This time, it will never be completely suppressed. Until Li Zicheng penetrated Shanxi from south to north, from Datong, Xuanfu Town, and eastward to Juyongguan, and captured the capital in one fell swoop.
, Chongzhen hangs himself.
After listening to Yang He's complaint, Yang Fan put down his wine glass and sneered: "I have a lot of money, food, armor, and weapons here. They are all leather armor, armor, riding bows, scimitars, etc. captured from the previous crusade against the Mongols. I can make the decision.
I’ll give you enough equipment to arm 30,000 to 50,000 people.”
"I also have grain, and I can give you one hundred thousand dan of cornmeal. But if these people don't sincerely submit to the imperial court, what's the point of giving them more money and grain, General Xian? They will rebel if they should. Once these people kill people and set fire, they will do it.
Once you become a bandit, you cannot go back. You cannot become a good citizen again."
Yang He asked helplessly: "What should we do? We can't just let it go."
Yang Fan said coldly: "Catch all the landless people in northern Shaanxi and those who don't have five measures of food at home and give them to me. I will put them in the coat and move them to Fengzhou. As for these bandits who surrendered, you can
They gathered together, reported to Yulin Town, and lied to them about distributing money and food."
Yang He looked at Yang Fan's gloomy face and couldn't help but tremble.
It has always been rumored that General Zhengxi was ruthless and ruthless in his killings. Judging from his intentions, he wanted to deceive and kill all of these surrendered troops, just like the Jizhou mutiny and massacre of Qi's army.
