Chapter 45: Human Nature
"Li Yan, I only know that you have always understood the importance of public opinion among the people, you have let people spread rumors among the people, break into the king's benevolent and righteous teacher, do not kill or plunder, and also make up nursery rhymes, let the children sing everywhere: open the gate to welcome the king, when the king comes, he does not pay food, open the door early to worship the king, and discipline everyone to be happy, right" Chongzhen said this with a calm face, and he couldn't see that he was happy and angry.
"Bold dog thief, he actually broadcast rumors, Your Majesty, Weichen implores Ling Chi to execute this person!" Another official was out of breath
Chongzhen looked at it, it was for the light in the matter.
This Guangshi Heng Chongzhen remembers, just TM a misguided and angry young man who claims to be Yu Qian!
Before Li Zicheng besieged the city, the minister persuaded Chongzhen to move south, and Chongzhen originally planned to move south, but this Guang Shiheng was "righteous and awe-inspiring", denouncing this kind of escape, thinking that the southward migration disturbed the hearts of the Ming people, and the officials who moved south should be killed to calm the world! So Zhu Youzhen, the emperor who wanted to save face and suffer the crime, did not move south, the word south moved to the Beijing division after the defense of the war became synonymous with the nest, after the change of the civil fort, Ming Yingzong was captured, and the leader of Wara also attacked the Ming Jingshi first, Yu Qian resolutely opposed the southward move and led the Ming soldiers to repel Wara and win the battle to defend the Beijing Division!
In this context, some people oppose the southward migration and take out the example of Yu Qian, righteously condemning it, does Zhu Youzhen, who wants to save face, still dare to mention the southward migration?
"I remember that it was you who resolutely opposed the move to the south," Chongzhen asked Shiheng coldly.
"A minister is a counselor, and it is the duty of a minister to speak out and persuade the king to correct his mistakes!" Guang Shiheng still said unashamedly, thinking, I am not wrong to oppose the southward move!
"But I remember, you and that Zhang Jinyan wanted to surrender Li Zicheng that day, do you counselors only care about my virtue and don't need to restrain your own virtue?"
Light Shiheng: ......
"I ask Li Yan, since you can't lead by example, what more mouths!"
Guang Shiheng hurriedly knelt down and pretended to be deaf and dumb.
"Your Majesty, those rumors are indeed sung by the sinners." Li Yan found that this emperor was like a mirror in his heart, the emperor knew that these rumors were released by himself, and Li Zicheng killed him The emperor also guessed that this light Shiheng who suddenly appeared, a little Yanguan The emperor is also very familiar with it!
"Li Yan, I also know that you wrote a song of persuasion"
"Back to the emperor, when the sentencing passed by Qi County, he saw that Qi County had suffered a series of natural disasters, and the people were hungry and miserable, so the sinner went home and took 300 stone of grain to help the victims, but they had no choice but to drop the bucket. The sinners thought that the Li family lived by collecting rents and had hundreds of stones of grain in stock, and those rich families wanted to come and store more grain, so they made that song of persuasion, hoping that the rich families could donate some food to help the victims, but this was just wishful thinking on the part of the sinners, and the song of persuasion had no effect at all and was ridiculed by others" Li Yan was a little self-deprecating for his bookish spirit, and lowered his head in shame.
"Persuasion is the same as me collecting donations from officials, it's just wishful thinking, Zhang Jinyan and Chen Yanken cried poor, until they broke the law, and I didn't know until I confiscated their homes that they all had millions of family fortunes" After speaking, Chongzhen coldly swept the officials around him, "Some officials, there are more wives and concubines than me!" I even cried with me! ”
Many officials didn't dare to speak, when the emperor was collecting donations, who was present who didn't cry poor! The emperor raided several officials, half a year has passed, and he didn't find his head, thinking that the emperor doesn't care about this matter, now it seems that the emperor has an abacus in his heart, but the time is not enough to calculate his own head!
But if you really want to take out the money, this is the family property that you have accumulated over many lifetimes, take it out, you can't, and you haven't made a mistake, continue to pretend to be stupid!
Of course, Chongzhen understands this group of officials, and now that he has won the battle, Li Yan and Song Xiance have taken many soldiers of Li Zicheng to surrender, and his military power is greater, and these soldiers are all poor!
"Since it's a rumor spread by you, then you are responsible for clarifying it. I abolished the camp prostitute today, and changed it to an art troupe, the art troupe is to sing some patriotic songs, so that the people know who is good and who is evil, I appointed Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan as the head of the art troupe, and she is a woman to manage the female troupe. I now order you to be the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, and you will assist Chen Yuanyuan in composing some tunes to sing, and at the same time serve as the vice president of Daming Daily! ”
When Li Yan heard this, he was so big an official, and after being surprised, he hurriedly thanked the emperor, thinking that the emperor would punish himself by mentioning the rumors he had released, but he didn't expect the emperor to make himself a third-grade person!
"Your Majesty, the sinners ......"
"What kind of criminal, didn't I just make you a waiter in the Ministry of Rites?" As soon as Li Yan spoke, Chongzhen interrupted him.
Li Yan hurriedly corrected himself, "Weichen has something to understand, why did you know that Li Zicheng wanted to kill me in the first place?" ”
"Then do you now know why Li Zicheng wanted to kill you?"
"When I went to see Li Zicheng, I met Brother Song, and Brother Song told me that Li Zicheng was too cruel, and if he won the world, the people of the world would suffer, and he didn't want to give advice to Li Zicheng anymore, so he persuaded me to start anew. Although I was named King Bian by the emperor, I belonged to Li Zicheng, and my generals were all Li Zicheng's cronies. After Brother Song persuaded me, Li Zicheng ordered Niu Jinxing to kill me. But Weichen doesn't understand, how do you see this? ”
Chongzhen understood, it turned out that Li Zicheng wanted to kill Li Yan not only because of Niu Jinxing's jealousy, but because Li Zicheng Niu Jinxing knew that Song Xiance said that there was another person in the eighteen children, and this other person was of course Li Yan. In Li Zicheng's view, Song Xiance is an important strategist, and Li Yan is just a child who sings nursery rhymes.
In Li Yan's heart, the emperor is really worried about the country and the people, and he talks about being diligent and loving the people, compared with Li Zicheng, who built a palace after Li Zicheng was crowned queen and connived at his subordinates to rape and rob the people, the emperor has turned into the Yao Shun saint in his heart, only a saint like Yao Shun will tell him from the bottom of his heart that he must be diligent and love the people!
Li Yan and Song Xiance are both people who have the same mind for the world, which made Li Yan and Song Xiance rebel and return to the name in Li Zicheng's army!
"The nature of a man!" Chongzhen swept the officials around, these officials who only care about themselves, it's time to clean up!
"Han Gaozu started in Guanzhong, Tang Gaozu started in Taiyuan, and Emperor Taizu started in Haozhou, they all have their own territory, and they expanded step by step from their own territory to finally win the world. Li Zicheng rebelled in the second year of Chongzhen, but for more than ten years, he has been a rogue and has no territory of his own, which shows that this person is short-sighted and has no ambition. Since Li Zicheng ate King Fu's Fu Lu banquet, I even thought he was a brutal person! But how much I also have a little fantasy about him, I think that with people like you and Song Xiance in front of him to persuade him, maybe he can really be diligent and love the people to manage Shaanxi. But a person's nature is difficult to change, so I will give you that bag to open when you have to prepare! ”
"A person's nature will not change, my Ministry of Rites Shangshu Liu is smooth-minded, open-minded, talented and virtuous, so he can sit in the same house with a woman for three years without chaos! Ni Yuanlu, the secretary of the ministry, is jealous of evil and has hatred for the world, so he can scatter all his family property to recruit soldiers and serve the king! You and Song Xiance both love to fight grievances, uphold justice, and desire to eliminate violence and peace. When I enshrined Li Zicheng as the king of Han, and Li Zicheng restored his greedy and cruel nature, what choice would you make with the nature of Song Xiance? ”
Li Yan couldn't help but nod in admiration!