[After cutting off Wei Zhongxian, you worked hard and worked hard to restore the decline of the Ming Dynasty. 】
[When the emperor's brother Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, he faced two choices: First, refuse the throne and die cowardly. Second, ascend the throne as emperor, revitalize the country and save the country. 】
[Apocalypse Emperor Zhu Youxiao made the third choice: try his best to stabilize the situation and leave the choice to the next emperor. 】
[He cannot restore the Ming Dynasty, but he can delay the decline of the Ming Dynasty and let the next emperor make a choice, or bear the infamy of the subjugated king for him. 】
[Now, you are faced with the same choice as your brother Zhu Youxiao, and you have chosen to "resuscitate and save the country" without hesitation. You believe that the Ming Dynasty will not die in your own hands, and you will lead the Ming Dynasty towards the great cause of restoration! 】
【You have absolute confidence in yourself. 】
Zhu Di was roaring: "You have so much self-confidence! That's all you have left!!!!"
Emperor Chongzhen pacified the eunuchs with a snap of his fingers. If it were Zhu Di, he would do the same.
However, before pacifying the Eunuch Party, he would once again support a "Wei Zhongxian", a Wei Zhongxian who was loyal to him and help him inherit the imperial power of the Eunuch Party to suppress the Donglin Party.
Wei Zhongxian was killed because he wanted to seize power, not simply to kill people.
Could it be that by killing Wei Zhongxian, the situation in the court would be clear and the Ming Dynasty would be saved?
absurd!
After the fall of the Eunuch Party, no one from the Donglin Party was able to restrict it, and Jinyiwei was completely paralyzed, which brought more disasters. The root of everything was that Emperor Chongzhen had lost the ability to restrain his courtiers.
This was his own choice.
How can you do it!
[You get up every day when the rooster crows, you stay awake at night, and there is never any feasting in the palace. Not only did he insist on regular dynasty, but he would also go to the Wenhua Palace to summon important ministers to discuss political affairs except when it was hot or cold. You never slacked off in reviewing memorials, often reviewing them until late into the night, and even issued imperial edicts in the middle of the night. 】
[In all dynasties, there are only a handful of emperors who can be more diligent than you. 】
[After the fall of the Eunuch Party, the Donglin Party continued to expand, and the cabinet even had a nickname - "Donglin Cabinet". Since then, Donglin has been prosperous! 】
[You finally realized that you were deceived by the Donglin Party. In order to check and balance Donglin, you used the Minister of Rites Wen Tiren, the Right Minister of the Ministry of Rites Zhou Yanru, the Minister of Personnel Wang Yongguang, the Minister of War Shen Yongmao and other non-Donglin Party members. Officials came to limit Donglin Dasheng's situation. 】
[Outside of the court, Liaodong has been seriously invaded by Hou Jin, almost to the point of irreversibility. Once Liaodong is completely reduced, the capital of the Ming Dynasty will face a situation where it cannot be defended. In order to save Liaodong, you handed over this important task to Yuan Chonghuan, the former governor of Liaodong who had successively won the Ningyuan and Ningjin victories in the last years of Tianqi. 】
[In fact, Yuan Chonghuan was not willing to take over the mess of Liaodong. From April to July of the first year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan resigned twice. After he could no longer refuse, he promised to "restore Liaodong in five years." In the second year , because you were too harsh on Ji Miyong and Liaodong military expenditure issues, Yuan Chonghuan resigned again. 】
[However, you don’t care about any of this. You only care about one thing: five years of Ping Liao. 】
[After Yuan Chonghuan proposed five years of peace and Liaoning, your support was not as positive as you said. Although Yuan Chonghuan had cut Liaodong's funding by one-fifth, which was the lowest funding for any previous Liao governor, you still suspended military pay for four months. 】
[It is not uncommon for the military to be underpaid. The main reason is that the court has no money. But this problem has nothing to do with you, because the court's lack of money is caused by the system, not your intention. 】
[Although the cause of the problem is not you, it does not mean that you do not have a solution to the problem. 】
[Although the court has no money, you do. 】
[Although you have been crying about being poor, it does not mean that you are really poor. In fact, in your private treasury, that is, your internal money, you have always maintained a staggering amount of wealth, amounting to more than 30 million. two. 】
[If you are willing to give Yuan Chonghuan a small part of your money from your internal funds, even a small part, even if Yuan Chonghuan cannot reach Ping Liao in five years, you can guarantee that you can contain Hou Jin's offensive. Yuan Chonghuan is now very poor and crazy in Liaodong. The soldiers cannot be paid for several months, and they are ready to kill Yuan Chonghuan. 】
[But you don’t. Your internal funds are your own and you won’t give a dime to others. This is your little treasury and has nothing to do with the court. How can there be any reason to give your own money to others? 】
[There is a price for refusing to speak out. After constant fermentation, the Ningyuan Mutiny and the Jinzhou Mutiny were finally brewed. The decadence was out of control. 】
[You don’t understand why Ming Dynasty is declining faster even though you are so diligent? 】
Zhu Di was about to kneel before Chongzhen!
Please stop being so diligent!
Let Daming go!
If you use this method, you can turn living people into dead people. How can you govern the country?
You are so diligent. The more diligent you are, the faster Daming will die!
Zhu Di finally understood one thing now: "In this situation, it doesn't matter whether the person in power has the ability or not. As long as he does nothing, it will be his greatest contribution to the Ming Dynasty."
[Yuan Chonghuan is like a double-edged sword. If you can control him, he will be a sharp knife that cuts through thorns. If you cannot control him, you will hurt others and yourself. 】
[On the fifth day of June in the second year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong, the commander-in-chief of the Dongjiang River, on Shuangdao by beheading first and reporting later, and then went to Shu to plead guilty. After you learned about this, everyone was dumbfounded, but you still had hope for Yuan Chonghuan's "Five Years of Peace and Liao Dynasty", so instead of blaming you, you responded with praise. 】
[The only general under your command who can fight tough battles without military pay is Yuan Chonghuan. Who can you use if you don’t need him? 】
[However, because of this matter, you have become alienated from Yuan Chonghuan, and you have the idea of finding someone to replace Yuan Chonghuan. However, the Jin army failed after the Guan Ning Army led by Yuan Chonghuan intercepted it. The Jurchen chief Huang Taiji led the army to fight at the gate of the capital, do whatever he wanted in the capital, and finally returned to the northeast with great arrogance. This battle was called the "Ji Si Change", and the Ming Dynasty Your dignity has been trampled under the hooves of horses by foreigners, and you have completely given up hope in Yuan Chonghuan. 】
[You summoned Yuan Chonghuan back to the capital, ordered the Jinyi Guards to arrest him and imprison him, and sent Sun Chengzong to appease the Guan Ning army who was running eastward. You also replaced Yuan Chonghuan with Liang Tingdong and Man Gui as civil and military managers respectively. 】
[After the Jisi Incident, you were eager to vent your anger and killed many civil and military officials, including the Minister of War, Liu Ce, the governor of Jiliao, Geng Ruxi, the governor of Shanxi, and Zhang Shixian, the commander-in-chief. Soon, you executed Yuan Chonghuan Lingchi. 】
[Taking this opportunity, you began to crazily suppress the Donglin Party and allowed Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren to take charge of the cabinet. 】
[Famines are frequent and food harvests are poor, especially in the northwest and central plains. Uprisings have broken out repeatedly in various places, and the whole country has rebelled! 】
[In the first month of the eighth year of Chongzhen, Fengyang, the land of Taizu Longxing, was captured by rebels such as King Sweeper and King Taiping. The ancestral mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty was burned. Not only that, the thief Zhang Xianzhong lived happily on the tomb of the ancestral mausoleum for three days and three days. Night, just left happily! 】
[Everyone was silent. If Jisi's changes could be accepted by everyone, the fact that Zuling Fengyang was exposed was tantamount to lifting the fig leaf of the imperial court, allowing everyone to see the weak side of the Ming Dynasty. , trampling on the dignity of Ming Dynasty underfoot. 】
Zhu Di: "What the hell? My grandfather's grave was dug up?!"
His mentality is broken!
After Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor, he built a new mausoleum in Fengyang to honor his father and grandfather as emperors, which is the dragon line of the Zhu family.
Throughout the dynasties, it was not uncommon to dig up ancestral tombs, but Zhu Di had never heard of the fact that ancestral tombs were gone while the dynasty was still there!
Damn Chongzhen!
You dare to return my ancestral grave!
Zhu Di could not imagine how he would meet Taizu after his death if he passed the throne to Zhu Gaochi!
Zhu Di: "Surprise or not?"
Zhu Yuanzhang: "Translation, translation, what the fuck is a surprise!"
Zhu Di: "The surprise is that my descendants, Zhu Laosi, failed to guard their ancestral graves and allowed the rebels to dig up your father's grave. They also sang and danced on your father's grave and lived happily for three days and three nights!"
Zhu Yuanzhang: "?"
What a surprise!
[You try hard to find capable ministers among the civil servants and appoint them to save the Ming Dynasty. However, after searching around, you realize: there are no capable ministers and loyal ministers, they are all traitors, evil thieves and corrupt officials! 】
[The chief minister of the cabinet, Wen Tiren, is a man of great talent. He can knock the Donglin Party to the ground by himself. If he uses his talent in the right place, he will definitely be a minister who saves the country. He is the longest-serving minister in the Chongzhen court. However, during his tenure, the internal and external troubles in the Ming Dynasty worsened. Wen Tiren made almost no important achievements or countermeasures. Instead, he blindly rejected dissidents and used his fists in party struggles. 】
[But, is Wen Tiren really a born traitor? 】
[Throughout the years of the Ming Dynasty, there were only four cabinet bachelors who were killed. You killed two of them by yourself. There were fourteen ministers of the Ministry of War. You killed five of them. Four of them were dismissed, served, imprisoned, etc. , you killed more than 20 people who were second-grade or above. After the Jisi Incident, you killed more than forty ministers in one go. 】
[During the Chongzhen Dynasty, you had a total of fifty cabinet chief ministers. In the more than two hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, there were only a total of 160 chief ministers! 】
[Wen Tiren also wants to be a good person. Who wants to bear the reputation of a traitor? Does he dare? 】
[How do good people end up under your hands? Who dares to be a good person? 】
[Supervisor Sun Chuanting is a good man. 】
[Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou went to quell the rebels, killed Zhang Xianzhong, captured Gao Yingxiang, and almost killed the rebel Li Zicheng. Although Li Zicheng survived by luck, he was also very miserable. He took Liu Zongmin and other 17 remaining people to hide in the ravine. The ditch shivered. 】
[Then you suspected that Sun Chuanting was pretending to be ill, so you arrested him for pretending to be ill, and even wanted to kill him at one point. In the end, it seemed that it was no longer possible. After thinking about it, there was no one else who could fight, so Sun Chuanting was appointed again. 】
[Sun Chuanting had just come out of prison at this time and did not understand the situation on the front line, because he had basically extinguished Li Zicheng back then, and the small flames had flickered and were about to be extinguished. He said: Give me five thousand elite soldiers, and I will extinguish them. he. 】
(End of chapter)
