Yuan Chonghuan was right, Chongzhen didn't want to really kill Wang Zezhi, he just wanted to suppress Wang Zezhi's sharpness.

On August 16, the third year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan was taken to the execution table.

The people were furious, and kept throwing stones, rotten leaves, rotten eggs, and other things at him.

Yuan Chonghuan's eyes widened and glared angrily, but he never gave in.

"Kill the traitor!"

"Kill the traitor!"

"Shoot him!"

"Shoot him!"

Wang Zezhi was escorted and hidden in the crowd, looking at Yuan Chonghuan, who was waiting to die.

He knew that Chongzhen was demonstrating to him, and he wanted to tell Wang Zezhi that he could give Wang Zezhi everything, and he could also take everything from Wang Zezhi.

Yuan Chonghuan was cut off from his body one by one, and the onlookers rushed to line up to share the food.

In this process, Yuan Chonghuan remained silent until there was no trace of flesh and blood on his body, only a skeleton was left hanging on the execution table, swaying in the wind.

The most outstanding general at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the general who knew the situation in Liaodong the most, was executed by the most cruel punishment.

Wang Zezhi watched the whole process, and was finally taken to the palace, Chongzhen's study.

"It is a great blessing for the country and the people to get rid of a big traitor in the court, but there are still some people in the court who cry out for Yuan Chonghuan, so what do you think about this matter?"

"The minister thought that they must be confused, and they actually spoke for a human-faced beast like Yuan Chonghuan."

Wang Zezhi didn't dare to disobey Chongzhen, he was afraid that he would be cut by a thousand knives like Yuan Chonghuan.

Although Wen 14 promised him that he would be safe.

But so far, he has not met Wen 14 in person, and he is not sure whether Wen 14 is loyal to him or not.

"What do you mean by that?" Chongzhen asked.

"It is rumored that soon after the battle of Ningyuan, Nurhachi died, and Yuan Chonghuan sent people to pay respects, and also issued a request for peace.

"Yuan Chonghuan privately negotiated peace, but he didn't ask for instructions with me, he really deserves to die." Chongzhen said.

"Privately opening a horse market, using food for money, is the second crime."

During the reign of Ming Qi and Chongzhen, 30 years of natural disasters in northern China, the people gnawed tree bark, ate grass roots, and even had a cannibalistic tragedy, and the Ming government stopped food funding for many friendly countries.

In the second year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan twice wrote to request the opening of Ma City and the subsidy of the Gelqin Department with grain, but Chongzhen refused, and warned him: "Xiyi City buys goods, obviously to meet Dongyi, and uses Kou to steal, how can you listen to it?" ”

"Xiyi Tongnu, it's important to ridicule and guard. Playing the city of Yi to buy cloth in the east, obviously is to respond, how to make slaves? The governor strictly prohibited. ”

Yuan Chonghuan thought that if he didn't open a horse market and didn't sell grain to the Gelqin Ministry, if the Gelqin Ministry cooperated with the Houjin and acted as a guide to lead the Houjin to attack the Ming Dynasty, it would be troublesome.

The naïve Yuan Chonghuan assured Chongzhen that he would open a horse market and sell grain to the Gelqin Department, and Gelqin "would never dare to lure slaves into Jiliao".

And in Gaotaibao began to trade with the Gelqin Department.

At the same time that Yuan Chonghuan opened the market to sell grain to the Gelqin Department, the Gelqin Shubu Prefecture and Houjin also started a grain transaction, and someone reported the matter to Yuan Chonghuan, but Yuan Chonghuan did not believe it.

After repeatedly issuing edicts prohibiting the opening of the market, Yuan Chonghuan still resisted the order.

So Emperor Chongzhen finally told Yuan Chonghuan.

If the high platform is opened, causing the consequences of "borrowing money and stealing", Yuan Chonghuan must bear the relevant responsibility.

Yuan Chonghuan explained to Chongzhen while opening the market that who knew that in the end, the serious consequences would come unexpectedly, and the Gelqin Department finally took refuge in Huang Taiji, and as a guide, led Huang Taiji to besiege Beijing City, and at the same time, Guangning also had a situation of food shortage.

Chongzhen's worries still appeared, he believed that Yuan Chonghuan repeatedly disobeyed his decrees and warnings, "with grain for the Kou", provided great help to the Mongols and the Later Jin people, and he assured that Gelqin "would never dare to lure slaves into Jiliao", and finally failed to avoid it, causing himself to almost destroy the city and the country, so he had to bear the responsibility for this.

"Do you know why I arrested you?"

"The minister is guilty."

Privately opened the border Guanma Market, and Wang Zezhi also did it.

"You are guilty, but you are different from Yuan Chonghuan, you defeated the Saiwai Tatars, you have merit, merit and demerits, this matter is over, you continue, let me listen, what other big crimes Yuan Chonghuan has committed."

Chongzhen said indifferently.

"Vainly killing the border officials, Mao Wenlong, is guilty of the third crime."

In fact, Mao Wenlong did have a reason to be killed, but Yuan Chonghuan took the initiative to overstep his power, after all, Mao is a general, he made three mistakes in this case, one is that the time of killing is wrong, the second is that he did not communicate with Chongzhen before killing, and the third is that after killing Mao Wenlong, there is no general equivalent to Mao to lead the troops of the Dongjiang River, so Houjin has no worries, gives up entering the customs from Ningyuan, and detours through Mongolia to enter from Daankou to the Beijing Division.

"Mao Wenlong does have a problem, but he has his own role in Phi Dao, it's not that he can kill him, Yuan Chonghuan killed him without asking me, is he the emperor or I am the emperor.

Hmph, you are no better, you dare to privately behead the generals of the Xuanfu, you are very bold. ”

When Chongzhen said this, he flicked his sleeves unhappily.

"The minister is guilty." When Wang Zezhi heard this, he knelt down with a puff to show his guilt.

"You go on, I still want to hear what other crimes Yuan Chonghuan has committed, if you say it well, I will allow you to get up."

"Yuan Chonghuan was arrested and imprisoned, and the Liaodong soldiers did not listen to the command of the imperial court, but only listened to Yuan Chonghuan alone, and he was suspected of supporting the army and self-respect, and his crime was four."

"Hmph, you're not the same, the soldiers and horses under your command are all your personal soldiers, and no one can move except you."

"The minister is afraid, the soldiers and horses under the minister's command are all the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty."

"What you said doesn't count, I have ordered Wang Guoliang to be the chief soldier of Shanxi and go to Shanxi to take up his post." When Chongzhen said this, he glanced at Wang Zezhi meaningfully.

Wang Zezhi lowered his head and didn't dare to look directly at him, but at this moment he felt that he was being targeted by a fierce tiger, and he only felt creepy.

He vaguely guessed the reason why Chongzhen didn't kill him directly.

Chongzhen was afraid that Wang Zezhi's soldiers and horses would rebel, so he saved his life.

This was used as a threat, so that the soldiers and horses under Wang Zezhi's command did not dare to act rashly.

It's not easy to be an emperor.

"You don't say this sin well, don't get up, you continue, say it's okay, I will allow you to get up."

"Yuan Chonghuan deceived the king and promised to level Liao in five years, but he was attacked by Jin soldiers under the city of Beijing, and his crime was five."

Yuan Chonghuan promised to pacify Liaodong in five years, one was to please Chongzhen, and the other was to win Chongzhen's trust.

Chongzhen was anxious to recover Liaodong and began to spare no effort to support Yuan Chonghuan.

Chongzhen, who was bent on reviving the Ming Dynasty and recovering a large area of land in Liaodong occupied by the Later Jin, gave Yuan Chonghuan a lot of power, financial resources, and military support, but as a result, an inch of land in Liaodong was not recovered, and Huang Taiji led the Jin soldiers to kill under the city of Beijing, almost ending the nest of the Ming Dynasty.

As the saying goes, as deep as love goes, hate goes as deep.

How much Chongzhen trusted Yuan Chonghuan before, and how much he hates Yuan Chonghuan now.