"Your Majesty, Young Master Zhang gave it to me, but I didn't dare to ask for it!"
"Don't want it?"
Chongzhen was stunned for a moment: "Next time someone stuffs money into your pocket, just accept it. These people have a lot of money, so don't give it up. If you accumulate a little money, you can also subsidize the internal funds."
"By the way, let's see who is the most generous and write it down for me. It will be useful to me!"
Wang Chengen was stunned and didn't believe that Chongzhen had said these words.
Chongzhen is the emperor. Supporting his subordinates to collect money is simply detrimental to the majesty of the royal family. Does the royal family still want the face?
But Chongzhen didn't think so. It turned out that Chongzhen wanted to save face and borrowed money from ministers. He could have moved south, but he missed the opportunity because of face and so on.
He is not the original Chongzhen. He is from the 21st century. What have you never seen before?
What is face? Can it be used as silver or as food?
"You should be sensible about what you should say and what you shouldn't say. Get off!"
Wang Chengen withdrew and stood outside the Nuan Pavilion with a confused look on his face. Chongzhen had made him unable to play anymore.
In the Nuan Pavilion, Chongzhen took a piece of paper. After pondering for a while, he picked up a pen and wrote a few names on the paper.
These people died in the battle with Fang Zhenghua seventeen years later. They were Gao Shiming, the eunuch in charge of the imperial examination, Li Fengxiang, the eunuch of Si Li Bingbi, Chu Xianzhang, and Zhang Guoyuan, the eunuchs in charge of various supervisory bureaus.
Although Chongzhen's political ability was not very good, his calligraphy was definitely ranked among the top three among the emperors of the Ming Dynasty. He was elegant and elegant.
After a pause, Chongzhen wrote down another name - Gao Yushun
He was the last eunuch in charge of rituals and eunuchs during the Chongzhen period. When Li Zicheng besieged the capital, he prepared a coffin for himself and lit a fire next to it.
He told the little eunuch beside him that if the city was destroyed, he would jump into the coffin and would rather be burned to death than surrender. This was indeed the case when the city was destroyed.
Although the historical records of these people are more or less flawed, they were absolutely loyal to the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen, otherwise they would not have fought to the death.
When the time comes, everyone can become a trustworthy person.
"Your Majesty, it's lunch time!"
When Chongzhen was preparing to sort out the hidden dangers of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Chengen entered the Nuan Pavilion. Chongzhen had to stop thinking and walked towards the middle hall of Qianqing Palace.
Entering the nave, there were more than ten dishes placed on a long table, each dish was exquisite.
"Your Majesty, today's lunch has twelve dishes, including shrimps with pepper and vinegar, roast goose, sheep's head and hoof with fire, goose meat, lamb tripe plate with salted black bean and mustard, garlic vinegar white blood soup, five-flavor steamed chicken... Wild vegetables!”
Half an hour later, Chongzhen returned to Dongnuang Pavilion, complaining in his heart about the unreliability of the history books.
It is said that Chongzhen was frugal, and the dishes on this table were much less than those of other emperors. Not to mention the other dishes, let’s talk about the last wild vegetable. It was said that Chongzhen specially asked his subordinates to cook it in order to try the food that ordinary people would eat.
He asked Wang Chengen just now, and Wang Chengen's answer left him speechless.
The specific method is to put wild vegetables into the goose's belly, boil them in soup, then wash them with wine, and finally mix ginseng and deer antler with the wild vegetables and eat them together.
Is this a wild vegetable?
Is this called experiencing the suffering of the people?
Which common people can eat like this?
This is so outrageous.
But...it's so delicious!
After sleeping in Dongnuan Pavilion for half an hour, Chongzhen continued to sort out the hidden dangers of the Ming Dynasty.
I pondered for nearly half an hour before I picked up my pen and wrote a line of words.
If other people saw this line of writing, they would probably be frightened to death, because it clearly read "Summary of the Ten Major Problems in the Destruction of the Ming Dynasty."
1. Loss of business ethics;
The drag of second- and third-line operations;
3. Natural disasters during the Little Ice Age;
4. The plague that destroys everything;
5. Party struggle without a bottom line;
6. The formation of warlord regimes;
7. The moral decline of military personnel;
8. A scholar without any shame;
9. The failure of the united front;
10. Insufficient authoritarian strength;
These ten problems are all he can think of at the moment. Each of them will not cause a devastating blow to the Ming Dynasty, but if the ten problems are added together, with Chongzhen's original ability, the outcome is already doomed.
There are also reasons such as the power of eunuchs, spy politics, internal corruption, etc., which Chongzhen was not included in. These may sound reasonable, but upon closer inspection, they are nonsense.
Among these ten major problems, in Chongzhen's view, four of them should be addressed: the loss of business ethics, the drag on the three-front war, bottomless party strife, and the formation of warlord separatism.
For example, the moral integrity of businessmen is out of control.
Marx described in primitive accumulation: As soon as there is an appropriate profit...if there is a profit of 300%, capital will dare to trample all laws in the world and even commit treason.
This was vividly demonstrated in the late Ming Dynasty. The eight major Shanxi merchants not only traded with the Jiannu, providing various prohibited materials, but also served as the eyes and ears of the Jiannu, spying on military intelligence and so on.
Thinking of this, Chongzhen focused on the eight major Shanxi merchants. In his eyes, this was a huge windfall.
The second and third fronts were dragged down by the Houjin Group, Li Zicheng Group, Zhang Xianzhong Group, etc. Western powers were also eyeing the south. Mongolian plundering has not stopped. The entire country is a big hole. The east wall is demolished to repair the west wall.
Third, party struggle. After Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, the party struggle reached its peak. Whatever the opponent agreed with, the Donglin Party opposed it.
Fourth, warlord separatism was fine in the early stage, but in the later stage, if you have soldiers, you will be the boss. If you give money, you can move. If you don’t give money, there will be no negotiation. You will listen to the announcement but not the instructions. For example, in the later stage, when the capital was besieged, Zuo Liangyu held 800,000 soldiers and horses. , and did not go to King Qin to save him.
There were several names written behind each question. Every time Chongzhen wrote a name, the anger in his heart increased.
After sitting for a while, Chongzhen wrote the word "clan" on the paper.
"Let's settle this account slowly!"
After doing this, Chongzhen let out a long breath. Fortunately, it was the seventh year of Tianqi. If he had traveled to the second year of Chongzhen, he would not have to do anything and just hang himself from the southeast branch. There would be no need to sum up experience.
Because the second year of Chongzhen was the final turning point for the entire Ming Dynasty. First of all, it was the continuation of the great disaster in Shaanxi in the first year of Chongzhen. There was a national famine and a large-scale peasant uprising broke out.
Secondly, Shaanxi postman Li Xiaoge revolted.
Third, there were three mutinies;
Finally, Huang Taiji of the Later Jin Dynasty led the elite troops of the Eight Banners, detoured through Mongolia, avoided the Ming army's Ningjin defense line, broke into the pass through the Great Wall Pass, captured the important town of Zunhua, and advanced directly towards Beijing.
Known as the Jisi Incident in history, this war directly led to the death of several senior generals and directly changed the military, political, and personnel situation in the Liaodong region of the Ming Dynasty.
Indirectly, it reduced the pressure on the peasant rebel army and led to the increase in the strength of the rebel army.
Looking out the window, the sky was gradually darkening. Wang Chengen held the lamp, and the entire Dongnuan Pavilion was filled with candlelight, making it much brighter in an instant.
Looking at the flickering candlelight on the Long Book Desk, Chongzhen sighed: "It will be clear to read the booklet for eternity, and it will illuminate the article for a lifetime."
"Your Majesty, Tian Ergeng, the commander of the Imperial Guard, would like to see you!"
"Let him in!"
Chongzhen covered what he had written with a fold, and Tian Ergen came in: "Commander Tian Ergen, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, has sent you to see your majesty!"
"Your Majesty, all the commanders of the three major battalions of Beijing and Guards, wearing armor, entered the British Palace from the front door at three o'clock."
After hearing this, Chongzhen narrowed his eyes.
Such unabashed recruitment of military leaders into the government is a demonstration to the emperor that the capital and defense belong to me and I have control.
Otherwise, all military matters would be settled in the military camp, so why go to a private residence.
"Your Majesty, do you need me to find out what they talked about?"
"Are you teaching me how to do something?"
