The mouthpieces of the world are controlled by the scholars, so whatever the scholars say, the people also think so, and the world scolds them, accuses them of greed, tyranny, sinisterness, cunning, and psychopaths, and these crippled people can hardly do a thing that pleases the scholars and doctors.

scolded them as a group of mad dogs raised by the royal family, and also buckled all the basins that did not dare to be buckled to the emperor's head.

But those people scolded too much...... That's right.

They are dogs, and their masters let him live and let him die.

For example, Wei Zhongxian, knowing that the death of the first emperor was about to die, so in the face of Chongzhen's butcher's knife, with his dignified status of nine thousand years old, he did not want to make the slightest resistance.

Wei Zhongxian's refusal to rebel even though he knew that he would die, does it confirm Zhu Youxiao's last words that Zhu Youxiao instructed Zhu Youzhen before his death: 'Wei Zhongxian is faithful and loyal, and can count big things,' is not wrong?

Rao is Pang Tianshou himself didn't want to help Wei Zhongxian sing praises, he also admitted that Wei Zhongxian was not a good person, but compared to some people, Wei Zhongxian's greed was true, but he was a few grades higher than Chongzhen in terms of maintaining the overall situation, knowing people and being good at their duties, and rewarding and punishing.

Because when Pang Tianshou was young, Zhu Youxiao didn't care about anything, so he always compared his idol Wei Zhongxian with Chongzhen.

So far, Pang Tianshou has admitted that he has served five emperors, Chongzhen, Hongguang, Longwu, Shao Wu and Yongli.

He originally entered the palace during the Apocalypse, but he never said that he had served the Emperor of the Apocalypse, because in his heart, that era belonged to his idol.

He never dared to say this, afraid that someone would shoot bricks, but in his heart, Wei Zhongxian really knew people and was good at it.

After Xiong Tingbi was deposed, Wei Zhongxian used him again, of course, Xiong Tingbi was impeached after being activated because of his low political IQ, so he angered Wei Zhongxian again, and then he carried the pot of the fall of Liaodong, and then passed on the head of the nine sides.

Guangning because of Wang Huazhen's loss, Xiong Tingbi's words Wang Huazhen did not listen to it at all, after the loss of Xiong Tingbi, Xiong Tingbi said to withdraw into the pass, yes, this is the sentence, people sued him for trying to give up the entire Liaodong.

Pang Tianshou felt that if Xiong Tingbi did not offend Wei Zhongxian, it would be a matter of one sentence for someone to save his life at the age of 9,000.

and Sun Chengzong was also recommended by Wei Zhongxian at the earliest, and the most successful plan of the imperial court for the war strategy of the Later Jin Dynasty was almost entirely from Sun Chengzong's hands.

Qing history evaluated that Sun Chengzong's retirement due to exclusion and Lu Xiangsheng's death in battle were the last straw that crushed the Ming Dynasty.

Compared with the ups and downs of uprisings in various places during the Chongzhen period, there were countless of them, and Pang Tianshou remembered that during the Apocalypse, the famous civil uprising only happened once.

Pang Tianshou even remembered that in the Liaodong battlefield, the Ming army fought a soft battle of the Hunhe River in the first year of the Apocalypse, which was the most spectacular battle in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, he remembered that in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming army also won the Battle of Ningyuan, and in the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Battle of Ningjin was won, including the Battle of Hunhe, and each of the three battles annihilated more than 10,000 enemies.

In Pang Tianshou's impression, Chongzhen also has advantages, such as he and Empress Zhou are very thrifty.

But if this matter is to be theorized with Tianlang, Tianlang may say as a traverser that Chongzhen is the same as the Daoguang Emperor who wore a dragon robe with patches in later generations, and the thrift of the two is not worth learning, not to mention that they may not want to be extravagant, but they have no money in their pockets.

The biggest difference between the Apocalypse and Chongzhen years was in fiscal revenue.

Emperor Tianqi supported Wei Zhongxian to collect the prison tax, and during the Apocalypse, only the tea tax has always been 200,000 taels a year, but Chongzhen cut out the eunuch party to listen to the Donglin Party, and changed the tax collected by the eunuchs to the local taxation bureau, and as a result, the tea tax in Jiangnan could not even be collected 100,000 taels a year.

Chongzhen's policy can be paraphrased, called: "Coal bosses do not pay taxes, capitalists do not pay taxes, only the bitter haha who guard one acre and three points of land every year raise taxes year after year, and in the end they can't pay taxes." ”

Moreover, the Donglin Party also canceled post houses in various places, which seems to be a trivial matter, but don't forget that there is a person in the unemployed army of post soldiers, his name is 'Li Hongji', nickname Huang Lai'er, and later called --- Li Zicheng.

Whenever an official scolded Wei Zhongxian in front of Pang Tianshou, Pang Tianshou would always reply to him with such a question: "Do you know who collected Wei Zhongxian's bones in the end?" It was Emperor Chongzhen himself. ”

Pang Tianshou remembered that Emperor Chongzhen bumped into Jingyang Zhong to summon hundreds of officials, none of the civil and military officials came to see him, and the only person who accompanied Emperor Chongzhen was only Wang Chengen, and many people knew about it.

But there is one thing that Pang Tianshou knows, but others don't know, is that five days before Chongzhen hanged himself, Cao Huachun, the great eunuch who was kicked out of the palace by the nine thousand years old because of his discord with Wei Zhongxian, scolded Chongzhen for his political enemies, Pang Tianshou remembered that Cao Huachun yelled angrily at Emperor Chongzhen: "If the loyal and virtuous are here, the current affairs will not come to this, if the loyal and virtuous are here, the current affairs will not come to this!" ”

As an enemy, Cao Huachun admires Wei Zhongxian, not to mention Pang Tianshou, an iron fan.

Only then did Chongzhen reflect on his brother Emperor Tianqi before his death, emphasizing that he must reuse Wei Zhongxian, and said that he was "conscientious and loyal, and can calculate great things" The deep meaning and foresight.

In the end, Chongzhen, who suddenly woke up, buried Wei Zhongxian's remains.

In terms of the means of knowing and employing people, the carpenter's brother is the chairman of a large enterprise group who is strategizing, while the younger brother who is diligent is just a stunned young man.

Thinking of this, Pang Tianshou couldn't help but murmur: Chongzhen, Chongzhen, you are far worse than your carpenter brother who can't even read words.

It is true that the tax supervisors and eunuchs also took advantage of the people's interests, but the premise is that you have to do business, so the tax supervisors are mainly exploiting the powerful and the big merchants.

The Donglin Party and Chongzhen abolished the tax supervision under the pretext of exploiting the people's interests, but they did not give the people more benefits.

No one knows better than the party members that are tired of this, because after the abolition of tax supervision, it is the party members themselves who get the tax exemption, and they are all rich people, which means that all the money saved goes into the pockets of vested interests.

Pang Tianshou thought a lot about the past on the road, because what happened to Xiao Wuyi's family made him very hurtful, so he wanted to punish Wang Yuanwai's family severely, and asked him why he bullied the poor by the way.

Wang Yuanwai did do things too much, so Pang Tianshou wanted to do things even more.

The afternoon sun lazily sprinkled on the city of Liuzhou, and on a wide street in the city, there were more than a dozen men standing opposite to watch the excitement.

On the other side of the street, outside a wide gate, there were about a dozen people, who came and slammed the door indiscriminately.

(End of chapter)