If you open the historical records, you will find that from August of the seventh year of the Apocalypse to November of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, Chongzhen did nothing else in the first three months of his succession except praising the eunuchs and praising Wei Zhongxian!

Chongzhen is not an emperor who eats and waits for death, let alone an arrogant and lascivious unscrupulous monarch, he is diligent in political affairs, strict with himself, and has never slackened off on national affairs.

After he took power in the first year of Chongzhen, he immediately appointed Yuan Chonghuan as the secretary of the military department, gave Shang Fang the sword, and entrusted him with the important task of recovering the whole Liao.

Then he appointed Xiong Wencan as the left squire of the military department, the left Yushi, the governor of Fujian, and solved the problem of piracy.

Immediately afterwards, Yang He was appointed as the right squire of the military department, the right of the capital of Yushi, and the governor of the trilateral military affairs of Shaanxi to deal with the problem of peasant uprisings.

Subsequently, Zhu Xieyuan was appointed as the secretary of the military department, the governor of Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, Hu, Guangxi military affairs and the governor of Guizhou, to quell the rebellion of Hao'an.

From these, it can be seen that he knows that many things cannot be delayed, so why did he do nothing in the first three months of his succession except for slapping Wei Zhongxian's ass?

Perhaps, he was frightened by the death of his imperial brother, and was afraid that Wei Zhongxian would directly give him an elixir and let him ascend to heaven.

Or perhaps, his holy decrees could not leave the palace at all, and they were all intercepted by Wei Zhongxian.

More likely, he was paralyzing Wei Zhongxian and making Wei Zhongxian think that he was a puppet like the Apocalypse.

In short, at this time, Chongzhen behaved very well-behaved, Wei Zhongxian still dominated the dynasty and did whatever he wanted, not only did he not blame, but praised and praised vigorously.

Of course, Wei Zhongxian is not a fool, smiling on the surface, stabbing in the back is his strength, no matter how well-behaved Chongzhen is, he will not easily believe it.

How can you tell if Chongzhen is a real puppet?

Wei Zhongxian came up with a good method, that is, to instigate his subordinates to impeach himself and attack the eunuch generals!

He first asked Yang Weiyuan, the right deputy of the Imperial Palace, to repair and supervise Yang Weiyuan, the imperial historian, to attack his godson Cui Chengxiu in order to test Chongzhen's intentions.

As a result, Chongzhen ignored it and reprimanded Yang Suoxiu and Yang Weiyuan.

Later, he instigated Lu Chengyuan, Qian Yuanyu, the directors of the Ministry of Officials, and Shi Gongsheng, a member of the Foreign Minister, to play a fold to impeach himself, but Chongzhen still ignored it, not only reprimanded these people, but also comforted him vigorously and asked him not to take it to heart.

After several temptations, Wei Zhongxian was a little paralyzed, he really thought that Chongzhen was a puppet like the Apocalypse!

It was also at this time that his godson Cui Chengxiu sent him a holy decree: Zhang Bin, a member of the staff of the Ministry of War of the Southern Metropolitan Army, was appointed as the official of the Ministry of War, and the right envoy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was the imperial envoy of Fujian, and the pirates were exterminated!

Why did this holy decree fall into the hands of Cui Chengxiu?

Quite simply, because the emperor's will at this time in the Ming Dynasty was divided into two kinds.

One is promulgated by the Cabinet after consultation and confirmation by the relevant ministers, and this is called a holy decree and cannot be disobeyed.

The other is issued directly by the emperor, without going through the relevant ministers and cabinets, this is called the central decree, the minister can accept it or not, and the courage of the main minister is not fat enough.

Generally, whether it is a holy decree or a middle decree, the minister does not dare not accept it, if you dare not accept the emperor's decree, then don't you look for death!

However, at this time, Chongzhen did not dare to make a central order, because at this time, the cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the six ministries were all decided by Gonggong Wei, and his central decree was a fart, and no one would take care of it.

At this time, he must first obtain the consent of the relevant ministers and send out the decree through the cabinet.

Cui Chengxiu is the imperial envoy of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he is also the secretary of the military department, and the metropolitan procuratorate and the military department are under his control, and if Zhang Bin is promoted, he naturally has to pass him.

Naturally, he wouldn't agree to this kind of will casually when he received this kind of thing, and he didn't ask his godfather how to do it!

Wei Zhongxian listened to him finish reading the holy decree, frowned and pondered for a while, then pulled the holy decree with one hand, stood up, and said gloomily: "The miscellaneous family went to ask the emperor what it meant." ”

Chongzhen's meaning was already very clear, he wanted Zhang Bin to go to Fujian to exterminate the pirates.

What Wei Zhongxian meant by this was not about Zhang Bin's suppression of pirates, but about asking the emperor why he made an order without his consent

Chongzhen naturally has his reason for doing this, and he has been looking for an opportunity, an opportunity to make his voice heard.

He knows very well that the eunuchs are not monolithic, and many of the eunuchs are grass on the wall, and they will fall to whichever side is windy.

The reason why they followed Wei Zhongxian was because Wei Zhongxian could cover the sky with one hand and dictate the dynasty, and the world only knew that he was 9,000 years old, but he didn't know that there was an emperor.

If he can make his voice out, those wall grasses will understand that the emperor also wants to be in power.

Once they understand that the emperor wants to take power, they will definitely not hesitate to fall to themselves, because no matter how old Wei Gonggong is, he is only a eunuch at the age of 9,900, and this Ming is the emperor after all, not a eunuch's!

Originally, he had to wait until November, when there was intra-party strife, to have the opportunity to make his voice out, but Zhang Bin's performance gave him a glimmer of opportunity.

Because, Zhang Bin said that he didn't need any grain and grass to exterminate pirates, this kind of thing sounds very abnormal, if you don't listen to Zhang Bin's detailed explanation, he thinks Zhang Bin is bragging.

Of course, he would not explain Zhang Bin's method to Wei Zhongxian, then Wei Zhongxian would think that Zhang Bin was bragging.

If Zhang Bin went to Fujian to embarrass people, not only did he lose his own face, but the emperor who promoted him also lost his face, Wei Zhongxian might be happy to see it.

Wei Zhongxian didn't know that the emperor had a lot of money in his stomach, he just wondered why Chongzhen made a holy decree without his consent, this kind of thing, the apocalypse would not do it.

At this time, Chongzhen was in the imperial study, he naturally knew that he walked directly into the imperial study with the holy decree, pretending to be pretending to worship, Chongzhen immediately cooperated and stopped: "Father-in-law Wei, no courtesy." ”

He straightened up and arched his hand: "Weichen dares to ask the emperor, why did he send a young man with no experience to be the governor of Fujian?" ”

When Chongzhen heard this, he touched the back of his head with a smile, and pretended to be naïve: "I'm not in a hurry to exterminate the pirates in Fujian, it just so happened that Zhang Aiqing said that he didn't need any food and salary, and he could exterminate the pirates around Fujian within a year. ”

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, he was dumbfounded, this guy is too outrageous, don't want food, how can it be possible to exterminate all pirates around Fujian in one year!

He couldn't help but remind: "Your Majesty, this guy is bragging, how can he organize a large army to exterminate pirates without food." ”

Chongzhen said naively: "Zhang Aiqing is a loyal person at first glance, how can he deceive me?" ”

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, his eyes rolled, and the emperor was obviously young and ignorant.

Perhaps, it's better to let him eat a deflated meal, and when Zhang Bin's kid goes to Fujian and loses his face, he will understand, no matter what happens, it's better to listen to the miscellaneous family!