Although Shen Shuren didn't want to be led by Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou had just been defeated and surrendered to the enemy, and the court still had the last bit of power and inertia, so he still had to give him face.
In addition, this time it was not Chongzhen who gave him the order in person, but it was conveyed tactfully through Yang Sichang.
Chen Shuren did not inherit much of Chongzhen's "national favor" (the first official position he entered was bought with money, and his first official position was not an official through the imperial examination, so the degree of favor he received from the emperor was not as good as that of someone who entered the official position through the imperial examination).
But Yang Sichang still supported him in the beginning.
If it weren't for Mr. Yang Ge's energy, Chen Shuren would not have risen so fast in the 12th and 13th years of Chongzhen.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see this. If Shen Shuren suddenly turns against him, it will not be conducive to his winning over people's hearts in the future.
No one would sincerely work for a mean and unkind leader.
Therefore, no matter how many higher-priority matters there are at the moment, Shen Shuren has to deal with Yang Sichang's envoy first.
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Early the next morning after returning to Wuchang, Shen Shuren met in the newly renovated Wanfu Yamen, an envoy sent by Yang Sichang, a doctor from the Nanjing Ministry of War and Supervisor of the Army Wan Yuanji.
Traditionally, the yamen of Wanfu should be set up in Luzhou Prefecture. For example, Shen Shuren's predecessor, Shi Kefa, worked in Hefei County, Luzhou Prefecture.
However, the imperial court would not pay too much attention to such details. Shen Shuren adjusted the location because the area he patrolled had far exceeded the scope of southern Zhili.
Even the part within Huguang has reached the five prefectures of Xiangsui, Huang, and Wuhan, surpassing the three prefectures of Anluchi in southern Zhili. It is normal to move to Wuchang.
As long as Fang Kongzhen, the governor of Huguang who is also in Huguang, has no objections and does not feel that his authority has been weakened, no one will step forward.
Shen Shuren and Wan Yuanji were quite familiar with each other and could speak a little brightly, so he didn't intend to speak in a bureaucratic tone from beginning to end.
Wan Yuanji also got straight to the point: "Congratulations to Shen Futai for becoming famous all over the world. Since Li Zicheng launched an uprising last month and annexed the Luo/Ma tribe, who in the world does not praise Shen Futai as a Zhuge in the world, who has a bright and bright candle and can predict the enemy thousands of miles away.
I heard that His Majesty was in the capital, and I was filled with emotion. All ministers in the court were required to read "The Theory of Outlaw Thieves" again and again. Your Majesty even required all officials in the capital of fifth rank and above to read "The Theory of Outlaw Thieves".
》The experience was written into a memorial and submitted.
Shen Futai is a man of both civil and military talent. Although his achievements in defeating thieves have not yet been completed, his achievements in establishing moral principles and speaking out have already made him the most courageous scholar in the world!"
Chen Shuren raised his hand: "Okay, okay, don't put a high hat on me. Mr. Yang Ge is trying to control Li Zicheng's situation in a big way. Do you want me to send troops to help? Wan Jianjun, I have a saying.
I regard you as one of my own, and it is out of respect for Mr. Yang Ge, so I will say it bluntly.
There is a saying in the art of war that it is better to cut off one finger than to injure ten of the enemy's fingers. To deal with rogue thieves, we must eradicate all evils and uproot every family. We must not be half-hearted and block wherever there is a crisis.
Last year, and the year before last, we killed Liu Xiyao, He Jin, He Yilong, and Lin Chengcheng. Now Li Zicheng has helped us kill Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying. Isn't this just the right opportunity to completely cut off Li Zicheng's wings and finally attack directly?
Confidence?
Zhang Xianzhong is also a centipede, and it is extremely difficult to completely eradicate him. In the eighth year of Chongzhen's reign, he was the first to excavate the Fengyang ancestral mausoleum. His Majesty issued two edicts to sin against him, and once swore an oath to his ancestors' Ancestral Temple to make the person who killed Zhang Xianzhong a duke.
Although Li Zicheng killed King Fu and other vassal kings last year, Zhang Xianzhong also killed King Xiang and King Gui. The severity of the two crimes has not changed. Now Zhang Xianzhong has become increasingly weak. If he focuses on the siege and suppression, and unites as one, he will be defeated within a year.
Can destroy it!
Why should we sacrifice the most important thing and turn around to deal with Li Zicheng first? For Li Zicheng, in fact, we only need to contain and defend him to prevent him from getting bigger. There is no need to rush to attack."
Wan Yuanji is obviously not as knowledgeable as Chen Shuren or Yang Sichang. He is just a rigid supervisor. He does not agree with Shen Shuren's views:
"Although what Futai said has some truth to it, Li Zicheng's guilt is indeed not greater than that of Zhang Xianzhong so far, but he has a powerful army, so shouldn't he be dealt with more focused on it?
Moreover, killing the vassal king is only a serious crime, but the actual harm to the imperial rule is not too great. The key to Li Zicheng is that at the end of last year and the beginning of this year, he killed two governors in a row! Within three months, the two governors of Shaanxi Trilateral were killed.
With his own hands, Zhang Xianzhong cannot do this!
The elder has no choice but to press, His Majesty wants to kill two governors in a row! This means that Li Zicheng has been able to fall into a province twice in a row! Zhang Xianzhong has not been able to kill a single governor in the past two years!"
When Shen Shuren heard this, his face turned cold. No wonder Chongzhen deserves to die. This is how he sees the problem? If he can kill a governor, he is a great threat to the court. Whoever can kill more governors must be dealt with first.
who?
Then you have to be exhausted!
The key point is that the system of the Ming Dynasty was not very flexible. Although it is not a bad thing for the emperor to be very rigid, when a critical moment requires flexible defense and when the situation is urgent, this rigidity can easily be exploited by the enemy.
For example, Shaanxi has suffered from natural disasters for at least fifteen years in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen. It is no longer suitable for human survival. An average of 20% of the population there is destined to starve to death every year, or have their corpses eaten by others.
Not easy to use.
The population there was multiplied by 0.8 every year for fifteen years, and it declined in a geometric series. Theoretically, to the 15th power of the last 0.8, the population of Shaanxi when Chongzhen died should be 3.5% of what it was when Chongzhen ascended the throne.
Twenty-nine out of thirty people died, leaving one-thirtieth of the population. At this time, the Loess Plateau with severe soil erosion could finally support this ecological balance.
If killing the governor can make the emperor jump, then Li Zicheng can keep killing the governor of Shaanxi to increase the number of heads, experience and levels and bloodletting.
It was not that Fu Zonglong and Wang Qionian were not good, but that whoever went to Shaanxi at that time would die. Sun Chuanting was indeed slightly stronger than Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian, but what happened after he went to Shaanxi to take over as the governor of the three sides? It only lasted a year, and was finally defeated by Li Zicheng
killed.
Wan Yuanji saw that Chen Shuren was deep in thought, and did not dare to push him too much, so he had to let Chen Shuren figure it out on his own. The situation is so treacherous now, who knows if another Zuo Liangyu will appear?
Chen Shuren thought for a long time and secretly thought: If the emperor has this attitude and must put "challenging Zhang Xianzhong" as a priority in the future, is it really necessary to watch Zhang Xianzhong kill a governor?
But the butterfly effect caused by his arrival was already very powerful, and Huguang was about to be built into a rich rear base by him. It was definitely impossible to let Zhang Xianzhong come in to deliberately "trap the governor" and then let the Shenshu people counterattack and kill him.
In the Huguang area, the previous major vassal kings and wealthy gentry in Xiangyang, Wuchang and other places were also killed by Zhang Xianzhong. Now the problem of concentrated land annexation has also been alleviated. Those big landowners who had their whole families exterminated by Zhang Xianzhong
Fields can be given to the poor for rent.
As for the rich and wealthy landowners in the five prefectures in the Dabie Mountains, they had all been killed by the Fifth Battalion of Ge Zuo before, and the land annexation was also alleviated.
From this point of view, Chen Shuren is not suitable for many things from an official position. For example, he cannot massacre super landowners to divide their fields, but bandits can help him do this kind of thing.
The best the Shenshu people can do is to wait for the bandits to leave, then create some "complicit bandits" and clean up a few ugly thorns to alleviate social conflicts.
Therefore, the existence of Zhang Xianzhong and his like is still valuable - as the provinces of the Ming Dynasty developed to the end of the Ming Dynasty, it would be best for each province to have butchers like Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng transit through the border briefly to kill a group of large landowners who have hoarded the most land, and then
The officers and soldiers immediately recovered it, so that the land annexation was resolved and social productivity was not excessively damaged.
If it is occupied by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong for a long time, the local social productivity will be completely destroyed.
Moderate indulging in thieves is like bloodletting for patients with high blood pressure in ancient times, which is good for health. But if you do too much bloodletting, you will be killed directly like Washington.
After having this idea, Shen Shuren had no choice but to come up with a new plan: if he really wanted to deal with Zhang Xianzhong, but he could not and did not need Zhang Xianzhong to harm Huguang again, he could only find an opportunity this year to induce Zhang Xianzhong to join Sichuan...
After all, Zhang Xianzhong is now entrenched in the Shennongjia Mountains, with Huguang to the east and Sichuan to the west. There is no third way to go.
Of course, if Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, is really killed, Chen Shuren will definitely rush to help immediately and chase Zhang Xianzhong into Sichuan. He must not be allowed to damage Sichuan's productivity too seriously. As long as he kills the King of Shu and a group of people who will be the most outraged
, just the top big landowners who have hoarded the most land will do.
Eliminate large landowners, restrict middle landowners, and unite farmers.
In history, Qin Liangyu's remnants of Qin Liangyu's white-pole soldiers, who were severely damaged when Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, must also find ways to save them.
The most perfect state is that except for people like the King of Shu, no one else will die too much. In fact, what can be achieved in the future depends on the operation.
Moreover, once the Shenshu people's forces are able to enter Shu, there is another advantage, that is, they can reuse the inconvenient transportation and lack of information to farm behind closed doors and hide their true strength.
The reason why Shen Shuren was forced to make great efforts this time was that on the one hand, he wrote "The Theory of Rogue Thieves" and his calculations not only gained him fame and prestige, but also brought him responsibility.
On the other hand, it was also because he annexed more unplanned territory last year and overfulfilled his layout, which caused problems with his plan to "hide his strength".
Shen Shuren's original plan was to become a "local emperor in the Dabie Mountains" before Chongzhen's death. He would use the traffic and terrain of the six prefectures in the Dabie Mountains to be blocked and the information was blocked, and he would farm in a low-key manner and pretend to be pigs and eat tigers.
But last year, he successfully used Li Xiangjun to frame Zuo Liangyu to move to the town, and also obtained Wuchang and Hanyang in advance. It brought huge material benefits to Shen Shuren. In addition to the iron factory and mine, it also caused his low-key plan to be disrupted.
broken.
Wuchang is located on the thoroughfare of nine provinces. Where is the Dabie Mountains on the other side so easy to block news? After occupying Wuchang, others know that you have soldiers and money and can shoulder heavier responsibilities. How can you pretend to be a pig and eat the tiger?
Therefore, taking Wuchang is a double-edged sword. Only by finding a larger area with congested terrain and traffic, and covering the farming results in Wuchang and other places, can Shen Shuren put his plan back on track.
above.
Sichuan, with its congested traffic, is undoubtedly the best choice - once Zhang Xianzhong enters Sichuan, Shen Shuren will block Zhang Xianzhong's east exit, and Shaanxi to the north will soon be harmed by Li Zicheng. By then, all information on Sichuan and the imperial court's central transportation
The channels are all in the hands of Chen Shuren,
Even if Shen Shuren wanted to hide it for a year or two, let the outside world think: "How fierce the fighting in Sichuan is now, how huge the rebels Zhang Xianzhong brought after entering Sichuan, and the resources Shen Futai mobilized in Huguang have all been filled into the bottomless pit of Sichuan."
”, which is completely possible.
But this time, it can definitely be delayed until Chongzhen is dead!
Shen Shuren is not disloyal, he just hopes to better protect the Han people and not to be wasted by Chongzhen's blind command, and not to waste resources on those battlefields where death is inevitable.
After thinking about this self-protection strategy, Shen Shuren decided to change his words and discuss the deal with Wan Yuanji.
"Wan Jianjun, Mr. Ge asked me to support the battlefield in Henan. It is my duty to accept Mr. Ge's kindness. But Huguang is indeed in trouble now.
And to be honest, part of my troops were actually transferred away to form the newly established canal protection water division in Nanjing, and also participated in the operation to rescue the remnants of the Hongdu Division in Liaodong.
I always have to write to Nanjing to bring back part of the water defense division and rest for a while before sending troops to the north. And during the rest and waiting period before sending troops, I also plan to give Zhang Xianzhong a painful beating first.
Such imaginary things are real, and real things are imaginary. After I really go north, Zhang Xianzhong will not dare to act rashly against Huguang."
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