"Emperor, there's a letter from Shaanxi Governor Sun Chuanting!”
"Oh, Sun Chuanting has a letter. Hurry up and show it to me!”
Ye Xin was very happy after hearing Sun Chuanting's letter. After opening the letter, Ye Xin didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
The first matter was still relatively easy to deal with, but the second matter made people's jaws drop. It turned out that Sun Chuanting had brought one million taels of silver to Ye Xin this time. He said that the officials and rich people in Shaanxi took the initiative to pay the customs duties. Sun Chuanting knew that the national treasury was empty, so he sent the money to Ye Xin.
Looking at the one million taels of silver outside, Ye Xin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He secretly wondered what Sun Chuanting meant by this. Did he think that he, Ye Xin, was so poor that he couldn't make a living, so he came to give money to Ye Xin?
The other generals guarding a region were all eager to come and ask Ye Xin for money. However, this Sun Chuanting actually took the initiative to collect money and send it to Ye Xin. One had to know that when Sun Chuanting left, he went to his post alone. There was no one around him at all.
Look, what is a loyal minister and famous general? This was what it meant to be a loyal general!
"Emperor, what should we do with the one million taels of silver that Lord Sun sent over?”
"Hehe, since Lord Sun has sent it over, then we don't have to be polite. It's better to send it directly to the treasury!”
"Yes, sir!"
Sun Chuanting also mentioned one more thing in the letter, which was that the peasant army was now planning to attack Fengyang and dig up the ancestral grave of the Ming Emperor. Sun Chuanting felt that the peasants and soldiers were in a mess now, and the Ming army was strong. It was time to completely destroy them.
Ye Xin had almost solved the problem of money and lack of money, and Wang Chaoen had also taken Ye Xin's money to treat the plague. Therefore, the main problem now was to get rid of these peasant armies.
The peasant army that rose up quickly gathered together and attacked Beijing with unstoppable force, destroying it. He reckoned that when the time came, he, Ye Xin, would have no choice but to learn from Chongzhen and hang himself on a mountain of coal.
Ye Xin only wanted to say two words: Nonsense.
Ever since Chongzhen's older brother, Tianqi Era, the Northwest region had experienced famine year after year. There was no grain harvest, and the people simply could not eat enough. Even if Ming took the grain money to go to the disaster relief, it could not stop the famine year after year.
The famine last year had not disappeared, but this year's famine had reappeared. The hungry people of the previous year had not had enough to eat, and this year's hungry people began to starve again.
There was no other way. The farmers did not have enough to eat in the era of drought. If they did not revolt, they would definitely starve to death. Therefore, the purpose of the peasant uprising was very clear. They wanted to rob everywhere, snatch food and clothing, and some even directly snatched women to become raiders.
Feng Ziqing's family was originally a small aristocratic family, but they were forced to live by these raiders. What do you think Feng Ziqing and the others did wrong? Why did they let the raiders glare at them?
Moreover, one had to know that once one became addicted to robbing, they would never be able to stop. After these raiders had gotten what they wanted, they were no longer willing to be good citizens.
Da Ming had also organized many disaster relief activities, but every time they came with food, the peasant army obediently came over and put down their weapons to eat. However, after they finished eating, the peasant army immediately flipped the table and picked up their weapons to continue their rebellion. They even robbed the government while they were at it.
Therefore, when faced with such bandits and raiders. It was basically useless to pacify them. There was only one way to deal with the hundreds of thousands of peasant soldiers in the northwest, and that was to completely annihilate them.
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