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Chapter 187 Digging a New Pit to Fill the Old Pit
Although Shen Shuren didn't want to be led by the nose by Chongzhen, Hong Chengchou had just been defeated and surrendered to the enemy, and the court still had the last bit of inertia, so he still had to give face on the bright side.

In addition, this time Chongzhen did not personally give him an order, but Yang Sichang euphemistically conveyed it.

Shen Shuren did not receive Chongzhen's "national grace" (the first official he entered was bought with money, and the first official was not an imperial examination, and the degree of receiving the emperor's favor was not as good as those who entered the imperial examination), but Yang Sichang It was still supporting him at the beginning.

If it weren't for Yang Ge's energy, Shen Shuren would not have risen so fast in Chongzhen's 12th and 13th years.

Anyone with a discerning eye would see this point, if Shen Shuren suddenly turned his face, it would not be good for him to win people's hearts in the future.

No one would really work for a mean and ungrateful leader.

Therefore, no matter how many things with higher priority are at the moment, Shen Shuren has to deal with Yang Sichang's emissary first.

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Early the next morning after returning to Wuchang, Shen Shuren received the envoy sent by Yang Sichang in the newly renovated Wanfu Yamen, who was Fang Si Lang Zhong and Superintendent Wan Ji of the Ministry of War in Nanjing.

The traditional 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 care too much about such details. Shen Shuren's adjustment of the station was also because the area of ​​his governor was far beyond the scope of Nanzhili.

Even the part in Huguang has reached the five prefectures of Xiangsuihuang and Wuhan, surpassing the three prefectures of Anluchi in Nanzhili, so it is normal to move to Wuchang.

As long as the governor of Huguang, Fang Kongxuan, who is also in Huguang, has no objections or feels that his authority has been weakened, no one will come forward.

Shen Shuren and Wanji are quite familiar, and he can open the skylight a little bit to speak brightly, so he didn't plan to use an official accent from beginning to end.

Wanji also got straight to the point: "Congratulations to Shen Futai for being famous all over the world. Since Li Zicheng launched a violent attack last month and annexed the Roman/Ma tribes, who in the world does not praise Shen Futai for being Zhuge, bright and candle-lit, and able to predict the enemy thousands of miles away.

Hearing that His Majesty was in the capital, he was also deeply moved. All the ministers in the court were asked to read "On the Rogue" again and again. "The experience is written in a memorial.

Shen Futai is both civil and military, although his achievements in hunting down thieves have not yet been completed, his achievements in morality and speech have already been called the courage of the world! "

Shen Shuren raised his hand: "Okay, okay, don't put a high hat on me. Mr. Yang Ge is trying to control Li Zicheng. If you want me to send troops to help, don't you? Wan Jianjun, if I have a word, I will take you Being one of my own is out of respect for Elder Yang Ge, so I'll just say it straight.

There is a saying in the art of war that it is better to cut off one finger than to injure the enemy's ten fingers.As for the thieves, it is necessary to eradicate all evils, uproot each family, avoid half-heartedness, and block whichever side is in danger.

We eliminated Liu Xiyao, He Jin, He Yilong, and Lin Chengyi last year and two years before, and now Li Zicheng has helped us eliminate Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying. Isn't this just a good time to completely cut off Li Zicheng's wings, and finally go straight to them? Belly?

Zhang Xianzhong is also a centipede, and it is extremely difficult to completely eradicate it. In the eighth year of Chongzhen, he was the first to dig the ancestral mausoleum in Fengyang. His Majesty twice issued an edict of sin against himself, and once swore an oath to the ancestor's Taimiao, and the one who killed Zhang Xianzhong was made a duke.

Although Li Zicheng killed King Fu and other vassals last year, Zhang Xianzhong also killed King Xiang and King Gui.Now that Zhang Xianzhong is getting weaker and weaker, if he concentrates on the siege and pursuit, and unites as one, he will be wiped out within a year!
Why do you have to give up the heavy and ask for the light, and turn around to deal with Li Zicheng first?For Li Zicheng, in fact, it is enough to encircle and defend, so that he will not become bigger, and there is no need to rush to attack. "

Wanji is obviously not as knowledgeable as Shen Shuren, nor is he as Yang Sichang, he is just a rigid supervisor, so he doesn't quite agree with Shen Shuren's opinion:
"What Futai said, although there is some truth to it, Li Zicheng's guilt is indeed not greater than that of Zhang Xianzhong, but his military strength is so powerful, shouldn't we focus on it?

Moreover, killing the vassal king is only a serious crime, but the actual harm to the court's rule is not too great. The key to Li Zicheng is to kill the second governor in a row at the end of last year and the beginning of this year!Within three months, the two governors of the three sides of Shaanxi were killed by him, which Zhang Xianzhong could not do!

Elder Ge can't help it, His Majesty is urging him, in order to lose the second governor!This means that Li Zicheng has been trapped in a province twice in a row!In the past two years, Zhang Xianzhong has not been able to kill a single local governor! "

Shen Shuren's face turned cold when he heard this, no wonder Chongzhen deserves to die, that's how he sees things?If you can kill a governor, is that a great threat to the court?Who can kill more governors, who should be dealt with first?
Why not be exhausted!
The point is that the system of the Ming Dynasty was not very flexible. Although the emperor was rigid, it was not a bad thing, but when it came to a critical juncture that required flexible defense and power in a hurry, this rigidity was easy for the enemy to take advantage of.

For example, in Shaanxi, there have been at least 17 major natural disasters in the 15 years of Chongzhen, which is no longer suitable for human survival. It is destined that an average of [-]% of the population will starve to death every year, or be eaten by other people. It is not good for anyone to go. make.

那儿的人口就是齐刷刷地持续15年每年乘以0.8、等比数列下滑。理论上到最后0.8的15次方，崇祯死时陕西人口就该是崇祯登基时的3.5%，

Twenty-nine out of thirty people died, leaving one-thirtieth of the population. At this time, the Loess Plateau, which suffered from 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 get his head, experience, level and bloodletting.

It's not that Fu Zonglong and Wang Qiaonian can't do it, it's that whoever goes and who dies in Shaanxi at that time.Sun Chuanting is 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 lasted for a year, but was finally killed by Li Zicheng.

Seeing that Shen Shuren was lost in thought, Wan Ji didn't dare to urge him too much, so he had to let Shen Shuren think for himself.Now that the situation is cloudy and treacherous, who knows if there will be another Zuo Liangyu?
Shen Shuren thought for a long time, and thought to himself: If the emperor has this attitude, he must give priority to "discussing Zhang Xianzhong" in the future. Does he really have to watch Zhang Xianzhong kill a governor?
But the butterfly effect caused by his own arrival is already very strong, and Huguang is about to be built into a rich rear base by him, it is definitely impossible to let Zhang Xianzhong in to deliberately "trap the governor" and then he sinks Shuren and then fights back.

In the Huguang area, the former main feudal lords and the wealthy gentry in Xiangyang, Wuchang and other places were all killed by Zhang Xianzhong.Now the problem of land annexation and concentration has also been alleviated. The fields of those big landlords whose entire family and family were wiped out by Zhang Xianzhong can be distributed to the poor for rent and planting.

As for the rich households, wealthy people, and big landlords in the five prefectures in the Dabie Mountains, they were all killed by the Fifth Gezuo Battalion before, and land annexation was also eased.

From this point of view, Shen Shuren stood in the position of the officialdom, and many things were not suitable for him to do. For example, he couldn't slaughter the super big landlord to divide the land, but the thief could help him do this kind of thing.

At most, Shen Shuren waited for the thieves to leave, and then created some "bandit" cases, and then settled a few unsightly thorns, so as to ease social conflicts.

Therefore, the existence of Zhang Xianzhong and his ilk is still valuable—the provinces of the Ming Dynasty developed to the end of the Ming Dynasty. The government and army immediately recovered, so that the annexation of land was also resolved, but social productivity would not be excessively destroyed.

If it is occupied by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong for a long time, then the local social productivity will be completely over.

Moderate indulgence is like bloodletting therapy for hypertensive patients in ancient times, which is good for health.But if there was too much bloodletting, he would be released to death just 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, and he couldn't and didn't need Zhang Xianzhong to harm Huguang again, then he could only find an opportunity this year to lure Zhang Xianzhong into Sichuan...

After all, Zhang Xianzhong is now entrenched in the Shennongjia mountainous area, with Lake in the east and Sichuan in the west, and there is no third way to go.

Of course, if Shao Jiechun, the governor of Sichuan, is really killed, then Shen Shuren must rush to help immediately, chase Zhang Xianzhong and rush into Sichuan. He must not let him destroy Sichuan's productivity too seriously. The top landlord with the most fields will do.

Eliminate the big landlords, restrict the middle landlords, and unite with the peasants.

In history, when Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, the remnants of Qin Liangyu and the white soldiers who were severely injured must also find ways to save them.

The most perfect state is that, except for people like the King of Shu, everyone else should not die too much.In fact, what can be achieved in the future depends on the operation.

And once Shen Shuren's power can enter Shu, there is another advantage, that is, he can reuse the inconvenient transportation and blocked information to farm behind closed doors and hide his real strength.

The reason why Shen Shuren was forced to make great efforts this time was that on the one hand, he wrote "On the Traitors" with his magic calculations. While gaining fame and prestige, he also incurred responsibility.

On the other hand, it is also because he annexed more unplanned sites last year and overfulfilled his own layout, which caused problems in his "hidden strength" plan.

Shen Shuren's original plan was to become a "Emperor of the Dabie Mountains" before Chongzhen's death, taking advantage of the traffic congestion and lack of information in the six prefectures of the Dabie Mountains, and low-key farming to pretend to be pigs and tigers.

But last year, Li Xiangjun was successfully used to frame Zuoliang Yuyi Town, and Wuchang and Hanyang were also obtained in advance.It brought huge material benefits to Shen Shuren, not only ironworks and mines, but also caused his low-key plan to be interrupted.

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, everyone knows that you have soldiers and money to take on heavier responsibilities, so how can you pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger?

Therefore, winning Wuchang is a double-edged sword. Only by finding a bigger surface with closed terrain and traffic, and covering the farming results in Wuchang and other places, can Shen Shuren put his plan back on the established track.

And Sichuan, which is blocked by traffic, is undoubtedly the best choice-once Zhang Xianzhong enters Sichuan, Shen Shuren will block Zhang Xianzhong's exit from the east, and Shaanxi in the north will soon be harmed by Li Zicheng.At that time, all the information channels for Sichuan and the central transportation of the imperial court will be in the hands of Shen Shuren.

Even if Shen Shuren wanted to keep it a secret for a year or two, making the outside world think that "Sichuan is fighting so hard now, Zhang Xianzhong engulfed so many soldiers after entering Sichuan, and the resources that Shen Futai mobilized in Huguang have all been filled into the bottomless pit of Sichuan", It can also be done.

And this time, it can definitely be delayed until Chongzhen dies!

Shen Shuren was not disloyal, he just hoped to better preserve the world of the Han people, don't be wasted by Chongzhen's blind orders, and don't waste resources on those few battlefields where death is inevitable.

After thinking through this strategy of self-protection, Shen Shuren decided to change his rhetoric and negotiate a deal with Wanji.

"Wan Jianjun, Elder Ge asked me to support the Henan battlefield, and it is my duty to accept the elder's kindness. But Huguang is indeed in trouble now.

And to be honest, some of my troops were actually transferred away before to form the newly-established water-protecting water division of the Nanjing household department, and also participated in the rescue operation of the remnants of the Hongdu division in Liaodong.

The official always has to write about Nanjing, transfer some of the troops of the water guards back, and then take a short rest before sending troops to the north.Moreover, during the rest and waiting time before dispatching troops, I planned to beat Zhang Xianzhong first, so that if it is false, it will be true, and if it is true, it will be false. After I really went north, Zhang Xianzhong would not dare to act rashly against Huguang. "

(End of this chapter)