Once these peasant armies tasted the sweetness of being bandits, they could no longer stop. As long as the imperial court provided them with food for disaster relief, they would immediately settle down and become peaceful citizens. However, once the imperial court ran out of food, they would immediately become raiders again and cause trouble everywhere.
During the Chongzhen years, the imperial court had spent close to ten million taels of silver to appease the peasant army, but it had no effect at all. These peasant armies gradually believed that the imperial court was easy to bully, and began to plunder in the northwest even more unscrupulously.
However, this time, the peasant army had miscalculated. Back when Chongzhen was still in power, perhaps they could still bully Chongzhen and swindle his money, but the current Ye Xin was not so easy to swindle.
Ye Xin governed Great Ming, and every step he took was bloody. And every tael of relief silver that Ye Xin gave out was fatal.
Ye Xin now had money in his hands. If these peasant soldiers really wanted to surrender, Ye Xin would immediately allocate funds to settle them. They were still good citizens of Great Ming.
Sun Chuanting, Lu Xiangsheng, Zuo Liangyu, and Cao Wenzhao were the most powerful generals of the current era. And now, Ye Xin had summoned these generals into the capital with the goal of launching a large encirclement and suppression of the peasant army and completely eliminating these calamities of Great Ming.
The biggest problem with the peasant army was not their combat strength, but the range of their activities. Moreover, they had no base and liked to wander around. It was very troublesome to deal with them.
If they were defeated in Shaanxi today, they would go to Shanxi tomorrow to rob. After they finished robbing in Shanxi tomorrow, they would go to Henan the day after tomorrow. After all, a regular army needed to spend food and pay, so they could not run around happily like the peasant army.
And now, Ye Xin's goal in summoning the five generals into the court was to command the five armies at the same time to completely encircle and suppress the peasant army.
After Ye Xin's order was issued, these five famous generals all rushed to Beijing to meet Ye Xin. These five were all famous generals of the late Ming Dynasty, but now, they were all under the command of Emperor Ye Xin to carry out a nationwide massacre.
"Emperor, this is Lu Xiangsheng, whom I mentioned to you in the letter! Although this person is young, his military ability is very strong. As long as the emperor uses him, he will definitely play a big role in eliminating the raiders!”
Ye Xin smiled and sized up Lu Xiangsheng. In fact, Lu Xiangsheng looked fair and clean, like a scholar. He did not look like a person who would lead an army in battle at all.
However, this Lu Xiangsheng was a fierce person that even Cao Wenzhao felt was terrifying. This was because this man's favorite thing was actually to kill the enemy himself. The problem was that Lu Xiangsheng's martial arts were very strong, so every time he went into battle to kill the enemy, he was not injured at all.
"Many thanks, Your Majesty!"
Although this was Lu Xiangsheng's first time meeting Ye Xin, he had long heard that this emperor was also unusually brave. He had once personally led a thousand brave guards to defeat the Manchu Eight Banners. His military ability was much stronger than Lu Xiangsheng's.
After seeing Ye Xin with his own eyes, Lu Xiangsheng felt that Ye Xin lived up to his reputation. Even though the current Ye Xin's speech and actions were very polite, it could not conceal the domineering aura of an emperor on his body.
Lu Xiangsheng felt that he had killed many people, but in front of Ye Xin, he was still intimidated by his domineering aura and did not dare to move. When Lu Xiangsheng heard that Ye Xin put him in an important position, he felt that the emperor was very powerful.
Ye Xin knew that the Tianxiong Army founded by Lu Xiangsheng in the later stages was the most capable army in the Ming Dynasty other than the Guanning Cavalry. Therefore, he must take this opportunity to put him in an important position and promote him.
"Emperor, I have also brought a general over this time. I hope that the emperor can put him in an important position!”
After Ye Xin encouraged Lu Xiangsheng, the Governor of Gansu, Yang He, happily led a dark-faced scholar to Ye Xin.
This Yang He was the governor of Gansu appointed by Chongzhen. The purpose of Chongzhen sending him over was also to pacify the bandits. Unfortunately, Yang He always used the method of appeasing the bandits, so not only did he not pacify the raiders, but he also made the bandits stronger and stronger.
Ye Xin had called Yang He to the capital this time with the intention of replacing this kid. It was just that he did not have a good candidate at the moment. Unexpectedly, before Ye Xin could make a move, Yang He had already recommended a talent.
"Emperor, this person's name is Hong Chengchou. His military abilities are outstanding. This time, the emperor will definitely be able to use him to deal with the raiders!”
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