Chapter 245 Make the best use of your talents

In addition to Cai Maode, the deputy envoy of Jiangxi Province, Zhang Cunren, who was promoted and appointed this time, was also the deputy chief soldier of Tianjin Town and the chief general of the Tianjin Water Division. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Nominally, it was because of his work in the sea transfer in Dongjiang Town, but in fact, only the emperor knew the reason behind it.

This Zhang Cunren was also a ruthless character who was ignored in the original history.

In the original history, in July of the first year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan put forward a five-year commitment to Pingliao, and successfully obtained the trust of Emperor Chongzhen.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, Huang Taiji led the Jianyu army to surround Dalinghe City for several months, when Zu Dashou, Zhang Cunren, and He Kegang were all surrounded in the city, and the reinforcements sent by Ningyuan and Jinzhou were ambushed by Jianyu on the way under the leadership of Wu Xiang and Song Wei, and the whole army was defeated.

After a period of time, the grain and grass in Dalinghe City were exhausted, and Huang Taiji continued to persuade him to surrender, and finally Zu Dashou and his sons and nephews decided to lead the army to surrender, but Zhang Cunren and He Kegang insisted on not surrendering, and finally Zu Dashou killed He Kegang, who had the firmest position, Zhang Cunren was frightened when he saw this, so he followed Zu Dashou out of the city and surrendered.

Later, Zu Dashou used the strategy of personally defrauding Jinzhou City, won Huang Taiji's consent, returned to Jinzhou alone, and then returned to Daming.

Zhang Cunren surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and finally became the governor of Huguang after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs.

Such a person is definitely a ruthless character, but it is a pity that he has been unknown on the side of Daming and has never been taken seriously.

These stories are now known to Emperor Chongzhen.

Since Zhang Cunren is a ruthless character, he naturally can't do without it, but he has the behavior of finally surrendering to the Manchus, so he can't be reused in Liaodong Town or Dongjiang Town.

This time, there was a riot in Zhejiang, and there was a lack of civil and military generals in the local area, so it was better to use this Zhang Cunren there directly.

This is also a double win, first, it can be regarded as eliminating the possibility of Zhang Cunren surrendering to the Manchu Qing in the future, and second, it can be regarded as reusing him as a general, maybe he can really give full play to his talents in history when he takes office in Zhejiang.

Zhejiang has the command of the embassy and the guard, and there are battalions and sailors, and the armament situation of Tianjin is roughly the same, Zhang Cunren has led the sailor, just suitable, so the emperor's will was quickly issued, so he was ordered to guard the general military officer of Zhejiang, and concurrently served as the commander of the Zhejiang special management guard.

As for Chen Xifan, the former commander-in-chief and commander of the capital, he was made famous because of his old age.

At this time, Zhang Cunren, of course, did not have the idea of surrendering to Jin, so when he received this will, he was overjoyed at the moment, and he was naturally grateful to the emperor, and rushed to Hangzhou to take office happily.

Since the Ming Dynasty, the positions in Jiangnan have been recognized by the court as a fat shortage, and the fat shortage is not to say that Yu Lu is high, but that this place is a recognized good place, compared to Liaodong and other places on the nine sides, it is indeed a paradise and a hell.

Even if there is a riot of victims in Zhejiang now, compared to the north, Zhang Cunren still feels that his family's ancestral tomb must have excellent feng shui, so he has such an opportunity.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen also took this opportunity to send Hui Shiyang, the squire of the Criminal Department, the core figure of the Donglin Party in the court, to Zhejiang as a political envoy of Zuobu.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang divided the world into thirteen Chengxuan political envoys, that is, thirteen provinces, and each political envoy arranged two political envoys on the left and right.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there were many wars, and there was a need for someone to coordinate between the three divisions of a province, so the officials above the imperial history of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court were appointed as governors and went to the province to sit in town.

However, in the beginning, the governor was only a temporary official, similar to the minister, not a permanent official, and was usually removed as soon as the matter was done, and in the final analysis, his establishment was still in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

In the beginning, the rank of the governor was not fixed, most of them were not high, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate of the seventh rank could serve as the governor of a province, mainly in charge of military affairs.

Therefore, in the Ming Dynasty, this situation often occurred, that is, the lack of high-grade officials because they had a mission or an imperial order, so they had a lot of power in their hands.

The status of the political envoy of Zuo Bu is very noble, it is the second grade, it is the same as the six books of the Ming Dynasty, and it is one grade higher than the squire, but after the governor gradually became a norm, although the status of the political envoy is noble, the power is not as great as the governor, and he has to listen to the governor's advice.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen's will, Hui Shiyang was actually dissatisfied in his heart, although the political envoy of Zuo Bu is the second grade, and the squire is the third grade, and the servant of the criminal department will be the political envoy, which is regarded as a kind of promotion in the official position, but as we all know, there is also a governor on the political envoy today, although the grade is high, but the power is not as great as the governor.

However, fortunately, the place where he served as the political envoy was Zhejiang, Hangzhou, and one of the places with the greatest influence of the Donglin Party, so after thinking about it, Hui Shiyang still received the holy decree and went to take office.

Of course, he can't go if he doesn't.

If you don't go, it's better, the current Emperor Chongzhen won't get used to him, if he dares not to go, the emperor will disobey the decree, remove him from the office, and let him get out of the way in advance.

If it weren't for Hui Shiyang's good brother Hui Shixian, and if he hadn't been active in punishing the emperor's eunuchs when he was a servant in the Criminal Department, with his identity as a general of the Donglin Party and Chongzhen's ten-year surrender to Li Zicheng, this Chongzhen Emperor would have found a reason to remove him from office and reduce his status.

Now he just let him leave the court, and he was also given a position as a political envoy in Zhejiang, which is already very good.

As for the left and right participation in politics, Emperor Chongzhen circled Chen Xinjia in the Criminal Department and Geng Ruqi in the Ministry of War from the list provided by the cabinet.

Historically, among these two people, Chen Xinjia finally became the secretary of the military department, and Geng Ruqi later became the governor of Shanxi, but both of them were finally killed by Emperor Chongzhen.

Needless to say, Chen Xinjia is a typical figure who was ambitious and talented after Yang Sichang during the Chongzhen period in the late Ming Dynasty and could only talk on paper.

If it is in a prosperous era, such a person is also a talent if he is used well, but in the chaotic times of the late Ming Dynasty, which happened once in hundreds of years, and then put on an impatient and honest emperor, his tragic fate is basically doomed.

Now that the first year of Chongzhen has not passed, Yang Sichang, a half-bottle water strategist who was young and ambitious in the 38th year of Wanli and won the middle jinshi, is now under the command of Qiu Zhaolin, the governor of Henan, as his deputy envoy of Henan's military garrison, and is anxious to rebuild the Hangu Pass on the old road of Kunhan.

In this life, of course, Emperor Chongzhen will not easily promote Yang Sichang to serve in the court, which can only harm the overall situation of the court's suppression of bandits, but also harm Yang Sichang's own life.

Historically, Yang Sichang put forward a grand strategy of suppressing bandits in the tenth year of Chongzhen, trying to mobilize all the troops that could be mobilized to encircle and suppress the thieves, and Emperor Chongzhen, who was eager to exterminate the thieves and then concentrate on using the troops outside the pass, was overjoyed when he heard it, and immediately reused him, let him be the secretary of the military department, and obeyed him.

Yang Sichang first used Governor Xiong Wencan's military affairs in the six provinces to suppress the bandits, but he couldn't stop the thieves at all.

And before he left the court, the successor proposed to Emperor Chongzhen was Chen Xinjia, who agreed with his strategy and was also ambitious and talented.

Emperor Chongzhen also trusted this Chen Xinjia, who was always well-organized and straightforward, and entrusted him with the important task of military statehood, but this Chen Xinjia privately revealed to his friends in the court and China that the emperor asked him to plan and negotiate with Jianyu.

As a result, this word spread out, and suddenly the city was full of storms, and a group of disciples and disciples of the Donglin Party scolded the emperor for being weak and retreating to Jianyu, and Emperor Chongzhen learned that Chen Xinjia said it, and he was angry and angry, so he arrested Chen Xinjia and cut him down.

Chen Xinjia's ending is said to be wronged, but in fact, it is not wronged. But Geng Ruqi's death in history is indeed more wronged.

Geng Ruqi was a Jinshi in the forty-fourth year of Wanli, first as the head of the household department, and then as the Langzhong of the military department, and finally was dismissed from the post of deputy envoy of the Zunhua military garrison.

Originally, in history, after Chongzhen changed the Yuan, Geng Ruqi was directly appointed as the governor of Shanxi, and later because the Jin army invaded Jinggi after the winter of the second year of Chongzhen, Geng Ruqi led the troops into the Beijing Division, and the Shanxi soldiers were not paid, and the enemy was defeated, Geng Ruqi was captured and imprisoned, and finally beheaded.

But in this time and space, now after the amnesty of the Yuan Reform, the Chongzhen Emperor is only based on the suggestion of the Ministry of Officials, and Geng Ruqi has become a staff member in the Ministry of War.

Now let him go to Zhejiang to participate in politics as the right political envoy, firstly, he is promoted and used according to his character and life deeds in history, and secondly, he is also to vacate the position of Niu Juming, who has made great contributions before but has not been rewarded.

According to traditional standards, these people are indeed rare talents, and they also have official reputation above the court, as the emperor, you don't promote and use, it seems that you don't pay attention to talents, and you don't know how to know people well.

However, if you want to use them, you can't be like the Chongzhen Emperor in history, who is in a hurry to go to the doctor, and rush to hold Buddha's feet, after listening to the recommendation of the courtiers, he felt that Geng Ruqi was available, so he immediately moved him from a former deputy envoy of the Zunhua military garrison who was dismissed from his post and idle, and was directly promoted to the post of governor of Shanxi.

As a result, in less than two years, because he could not restrain the rout of Shanxi Town, Emperor Chongzhen was disappointed, so he listened to the words of the courtiers and put him to death.

If you use people in this way, no matter how many talents there are, in the end, you will end up with no one available.

In addition to the appointment and dismissal of these historical celebrities, because the county seat of Jiashan was given up after being plundered by Tu Augly and other thieves, and the original county order has committed suicide, it is also necessary to appoint a county commander.

In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen sent Wang Zhang, a new scholar who had not been in the cabinet for a long time, with a stroke of his pen.

This Wang Zhang was known for his ability to govern in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, and he was also able to take on the important task of restoring the chaos after the Jiashan Civil Revolution.