When the army goes out for an expedition, there are a lot of troublesome things. Yang Ming doesn't need to worry about the canal side, but he has to take care of those who are taking the Chiluo from Guanzhong.
After the Chidao was built, Zhang Heng, who was originally demoted to Yulin County, went to Jiangdu and was responsible for repairing the Jiangdu Palace. Yan Bi became the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Huangfu became the Minister of the Ministry of Industry.
But there are still a lot of trivial matters on Chidao, so Huangfu Yi stayed in the capital and spent all day in Shangshu Province, helping with official affairs.
Which army should rest at which time and at which post station? The timetable was all arranged by the Ministry of War, and the post stations were all proposed by Huangfu, so he had to help arrange it. After all, there had been several jokes before.
More than 10,000 people lived in a post station that could only accommodate 3,000 people. There was no room to sleep in the barracks. People were sitting on the ground and crowded. It was so warm that if you fart, dozens of people would
Can smell it.
The road is easy to walk, but it is really difficult to spend the night. Either one thing is missing or the other thing is missing.
Yang Ming directly asked some officials from the East Palace to go to Shangshu Province to help deal with one trivial matter after another.
As for him, Liu Xuan, Li Gang, Yuan Wendu and other important officials from the East Palace were reading a military intelligence report from the Ministry of War.
Yang Ming had known about Zhuojun for a long time. If the emperor did not arrive at Zhuojun and the imperial edict to conquer Goguryeo was not announced to the world, there would be no fight ahead. Wei Yunqi could only hold back.
The military report in Yang Ming's hand had nothing to do with the conquest of Goguryeo, but he was very fond of it.
Because in Shandong, a rebel emerged. Comrade Wang Bo, who fired the first shot of the uprising in the late Sui Dynasty, rebelled under the nose of Zhang Xutuo of Qi County.
This is why the imperial court has always given preferential treatment to Shandong when it comes to conscription of troops and civilians. The people in this place are too tough-tempered and will rebel at every turn. A rebellion in one place can quickly develop into a rebellion in Shandong.
What do you think of the people of Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Hebei? Are they no more oppressed than you?
"How many people did the Shandong Military Mansion whip out this time?" Yang Ming asked.
Xuanling, the person under the gate, hurriedly said: "There are 110,000 troops and 300,000 civilians."
"It's not serious at all," Menxiafang Liu Hongji said with a wry smile: "How much injustice have they suffered that they dare to say those words?"
Wang Bo really rebelled. He was not of the same nature as the Hebei civil uprising. He was even different from Gao Yingnian's rebels. He blatantly composed a song: Resist the army, resist the election, every family
We need to collect iron weapons and make them into spears to kill all the ignorant kings and officials.
He has not yet had time to compose the now famous "Wuxiang Liaodong Wandering Death Song", but with just this sentence, his rebellious intentions are already obvious.
In fact, there were rebels every year in the Sui Dynasty, and they were basically civilians. Only the civilians dared to criticize the emperor for rebellion. The excuses for the nobles to rebel were generally more noble and upright, and would never involve the emperor.
The hardest hit area of the rebellion was in the south, and it was rare in the north. After all, 70% of the military mansions of the Sui Dynasty were in the north.
The rebellion in the south would be put down very quickly, which meant that the Ministry of War allocated some money and food. Some people even thought that the generals below were short of money and instigated a group of bandits to cause trouble, and then claimed that it was a rebellion and defrauded the court of money.
So when Wang Bo made trouble this time, the Ministry of War actually didn't take it seriously. They were still wondering why the prince took it so seriously.
Yang Ming said: "The Ministry of War has sent a message to Zhang Xutuo, ordering him to put down the rebellion as soon as possible. However, Zhang Xutuo currently has at most a thousand soldiers under his command, and they may not be able to suppress it."
"The king's thief is instigating the people to evade service, and he claims to be a wise man. He is very good at deceiving people," Li Gang said with a frown: "Now that the war is about to begin, if something like this happens in Shandong, it still needs to be resolved as soon as possible to avoid it becoming a prairie fire. "
Yuan Wendu smiled and said: "It's not that serious, right? These people are just a group of bandits who fled into Changbai Mountain. Zhang Xutuo's thousand soldiers are enough to defeat them."
Xue Shou shook his head and said: "Right now, there are so many deserters and laborers in various places, and the government can't arrest them for a while. The king thief is the first one to use desertion as a slogan to gather people to rebel. If they can't be eradicated early, I'm afraid other places will also It’s a big problem to follow suit.”
"What happened in Shandong cannot be spread, and no one dares to take the risk and imitate the king's thief," Wei Fusi, the person in charge of the record house, said with a smile.
Li Mi shook his head and said: "Not necessarily. Nowadays, deserters are everywhere. No one can say where these people will go. It is because they are too scattered that the local government can't take care of them. Besides, there is really no extra manpower to arrest the deserters. If this continues for a long time, I'm afraid it won't be a good thing."
Prince Xian Ma Liu Xuan said: "Your Highness might as well send someone to say hello to the big families in Shandong and ask them to protect the courtyard and help Zhang Xutuo wipe out the rebels."
At present, the imperial court cannot allocate money and food, so Zhang Xutuo has no way to temporarily recruit troops. He can only rely on the established team of the military government to fight Wang Bo.
But it definitely can't be beaten.
There are no refined weapons and armor stomachs in Qi County, and the military guards are also poor at the moment, and they may not be willing to work hard. Moreover, the strength of the troops is so disparate that Zhang Xutuo himself may not dare to fight.
According to the official document from the Ministry of War, Wang Bo has now gathered 6,000 people, and people from all over Shandong are also responding one after another. I am afraid that Zhang Xutuo's 1,000 people will already have 10,000 people before they reach Changbai Mountain.
Ten thousand people can kill a thousand of you even if they are empty-handed.
As for what Liu Xuan said about letting the big families contribute, don't expect them. At this time, they will only protect themselves and will never help, especially that place is the hometown of Northern Qi. When Yang Liang rebelled, a group of people were implicated. They were all killed by the imperial court, so it was impossible for them to contribute.
But Wang Bo must be suppressed, otherwise, Hao Xiaode, Sun Xuanya, Liu Badao, Zhang Jincheng, four people from Shandong, two people from Hebei, Gao Shida, Dou Jiande, and Zhai Rang, the Henan Yin, are all waiting to rebel.
This year is February, the seventh year of the Great Cause. Historically, these rebels have emerged this year.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Yang Ming thought that he had reduced the danger to his father to a very small extent, but he did not expect that Wang Bo was still born.
It can be seen that there are some things that he cannot change.
At this time, Yang Ming suddenly frowned and said, "Did you come to protect your children and oppress them too hard? Otherwise, Shandong shouldn't be like this this time?"
Fang Xuanling said: "Rongguo Gong repaired the ship and recruited 200,000 civilians. They were all from Shandong. The casualties should be heavy. This time in Shandong, it should be related to the flood last year. The heavy rain flooded a county in Henan.
, but six counties in Shandong were flooded, and the people's harvest last year should not even be enough to pay taxes."
Yang Ming frowned and said: "For disaster relief in Henan, officials donated money. Didn't Shandong have food from Jiangnan sent to the disaster relief?"
"I don't know this," Fang Xuanling shook his head.
Yang Ming immediately said: "Call Cui Zhongfang to me."
After a while, Cui Zhongfang, Minister of Civil Affairs, came, and Yang Ming asked directly:
"Last year, when there was a flood in Shandong, two million dan of grain were allocated from Jiangnan. Was it actually used?"
Cui Zhongfang was stunned and suddenly hesitated.
Yang Ming immediately felt something was wrong: "Say!"
"This matter can only be discussed with the prince alone," Cui Zhongfang said helplessly.
Yang Ming was stunned. Damn it, this must involve my father.
So he stood up and entered the back hall, and Cui Zhongfang quickly followed.
"Last year, Xingluocang in Luoyang was flooded, causing a loss of nearly three million dan. Shandong's disaster relief grain was diverted to make up for the shortfall. It has now been sent to Zhuojun," Cui Zhongfang whispered.
"Why didn't you tell me about such a big thing earlier?" Yang Ming was furious.
Cui Zhongfang said with a bitter face: "His Royal Highness went on a hunting trip to Zhongnan Mountain, and I did not have time to report it. Moreover, it was approved by His Majesty. The capital is just preparing the files and has no right to intervene. Moreover, other ministries do not know, only
The Ministry of Civil Affairs knows this because allocating food must go through the Ministry of Civil Affairs."
Wherever the emperor is, the Shangshu Province is the Shangshu Province. Even though the Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs is in the capital, he stays here because he is too old to walk. The Ministry of Civil Affairs, which can truly coordinate the world's supplies, is in Luoyang.
If Cui Zhongfang was not the Minister of Civil Affairs, Yang Guang would not necessarily let him know.
Awesome, Dad, it has to be you, I'm just saying, why does the good Wang Bo show up anyway, you have screwed Shandong emotionally.
No wonder no news came from Pei Ju, Yang Yue and Xuangan about such a big thing in Luoyang. So it turned out that it was done without telling the world?
It seems that the father was also afraid of tarnishing his reputation, so he secretly misappropriated the relief food. Since it was a shady matter, naturally the fewer people knew about it, the better.
And Cui Zhongfang also knew that this matter should not be mentioned. If Yang Ming was not the prince, he would not say it.
Yang Ming sighed helplessly: "I know, you can go back."
"I resign,"
After Cui Zhongfang left, Yang Ming also returned to the front hall, but he did not mention this matter again. He could not expose his father's shameless thing in front of so many people.
But everyone in the palace also realized that there must be something wrong with the disaster relief food, otherwise the prince's face would not be so ugly.
However, everyone was very interested and did not ask any further questions.
Yang Ming knew that in Shandong right now, it was no longer about counterinsurgency, but how to provide disaster relief. If the people affected by the disaster could not be comforted, there would only be more and more rebels like Wang Bo.
Suppressing the rebels only treats the symptoms but not the root cause.
But where can we get food? We really can’t get it.
Yang Ming returned to Guanghua Palace and discussed with his wife Yin Jiang about raising food.
"The common people have no food, but the aristocratic families have plenty, but how can we move it out of their granaries?" Yang Ming washed his feet in Nuan Dong and frowned.
After Yang Yinjiang pondered for a while, she said: "Don't you, husband, have the idea of becoming a monk in Bashu? You might as well ask your father to try it in other places."
"It won't work," Yang Ming said flatly: "Some methods can be used in Bashu, but they may not be used in other places. If we do this in other places now, the chaos will be even greater."
Bashu is isolated and basically does not communicate with other places, so it is okay to mess around sometimes, but it is not possible in other places.
Yang Yinjiang nodded and fell into silence, trying to help her husband think of a solution.
She can spend a little here, but not too much. After all, 600,000 yuan has been spent on the winter clothes, and the East Palace is also short of money at the moment.
"I think Feng Yuzhi doesn't want to leave this time, and I'm afraid Feng Ang means the same," Yang Yinjiang said, "It's better to let Feng Yuzhi help."
Yang Ming frowned and said, "Lingnan has already put in the effort this time. There aren't many farms there, and I'm afraid there isn't much food now."
Yang Yinjiang smiled and said: "The only person in Lingnan who contributed was Feng An, but there was another person who didn't contribute."
Yang Ming frowned and said, "Who?"
"The commander-in-chief of Liao Liao is Ning Changzhen," Yang Yinjiang said with a smile.