Because he knew that Sun Chengzong in history committed suicide and martyred the country, Zhu Youxiao did not arrest him and put him in prison like other Donglin Party officials. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

But in order to show his imperial majesty, he was still placed under house arrest at home and suspended from all duties.

Therefore, there are still two rows of Dongchang fans standing in front of Sun Chengzong's house, and when Zhu Youxiao came to his door, he happened to see this scene, so he asked with a smile: "Mr. Sun, it doesn't feel good to be locked in the deep courtyard." ”

"Fortunately, the prince personally sent several watchdogs to the criminals, at least there is no fear of life."

Witnessing the murder of countless colleagues and friends in the DPRK and China, Sun Chengzong naturally did not dare to complain about Zhu Youxiao, but it did not prevent him from mocking Zhu Youxiao's thug Wang Chengen.

Zhu Youxiao was also happy to see these two people bickering, if the inner minister and the outer minister were compatible, it would be a bad phenomenon for him, a dictatorial emperor.

The reason why his grandfather Emperor Wanli took revenge on Zhang Juzheng so heavily was because Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao jointly suppressed his imperial power.

"Then you have to thank him", Zhu Youxiao couldn't help but gag, seeing this Sun Chengzong is a dignified scholar, an official residence, but the mansion is just a small courtyard, the garden next to the courtyard has been opened up into a vegetable field, and chickens and ducks are raised.

When the old woman saw Zhu Youxiao and the others coming in, she hurriedly got up and saluted.

Zhu Youxiao hurriedly stopped her big gift and asked Sun Chengzong: "Who is this?" ”

"He is cheap", Sun Chengzong replied, Zhu Youxiao hurriedly said: "It turned out to be the master's wife", so he also owed it, and Zhang Yan also came up to salute and ordered the maid to bring the gift.

After entering Sun Chengzong's study for a while, Zhu Youxiao put out the emperor's shelf, blew hot tea, and asked in a cold voice: "Sun Chengzong, are you guilty?" “

"The guilty minister is guilty, and His Majesty is in danger, and the crime deserves death!" Sun Chengzong hurriedly got up and waved towards Zhu Youxiao, and brought the black gauze hat that had been placed on the big table to Zhu Youxiao.

"Put it on, I'm not a tyrant, I won't put my teacher to death unless I have to."

Zhu Youxiao got up himself as he spoke, took the black gauze hat in Sun Chengzong's hand and put it on Sun Chengzong's head, and when he saw that his temples were dyed with white frost, he sighed:

"Mr. is old, if you don't notice it for a while, it is understandable to be bewitched by the people below, this central cabinet, you can't stay any longer, now the drought in Qin, Jin, and Long is quite serious, and the local officials have come to report several times, Tongguan is full of displaced people, plus the military generals in the border towns have deducted military salaries very seriously, resulting in countless mutinies;

Therefore, I want you to hang the title of Shangshu of the Military Department and the Imperial History of the Right Capital, and the general system of the trilateral military rations and silver, one is to provide relief to the victims of the disaster and collect the displaced people, and the other is to appease the soldiers and punish the unjust; With the prestige of Mr., I will definitely be able to appease the three places for me, so that I have no worries, and the soldiers and civilians in the three places will have no worries about food and clothing, I don't know what Mr. thinks? “

was demoted from a cabinet scholar to a trilateral general system, Sun Chengzong was not dissatisfied, he would rather lead the army and make great contributions to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, before Zhu Youxiao continued to persuade him, he bowed directly and said: "I am willing to serve Your Majesty." ”

Zhu Youxiao hurriedly shook his hand: "So very good, now the biggest hidden danger in the imperial court is the stability of the military and civilians in these three places, my Ming Dynasty's Jiangshan Sheji depends on you, Mr., Mr. does not have to be soft after he goes, up to the governor, down to the soldiers and the people, if there is a collaborator to sell to, illegal and disciplined, you can cut it first and then play, in addition, Mr. is not afraid of spending money, the one who should be given will do his best to help, and the one who should be repaired will spend money to repair, and Mr. should pay special attention to Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, as well as Li Guo, Liu Minzong, etc., if you can appease as much as possible, If you can't get rid of it directly, I will send someone from the East Factory to help you at that time. ”

Li Zicheng? Zhang Xianzhong?

Sun Chengzong naturally didn't know that these two people would cause great damage to the stability of the Ming Dynasty, and when he saw Zhu Youxiao specifically mention these people, he was naturally surprised in his heart, but he didn't ask much.

In Zhu Youxiao's eyes, Sun Chengzong's spending money was first-class among the famous ministers in the late Ming Dynasty, and the Guanning Iron Cavalry he created single-handedly is still devouring the treasury every year. Eight million taels, followed by the second-rate construction of the project, a Guanjin defense line has also played a lot of role in resisting the Tartars, and the so-called military strategy can only be regarded as a third-rate, step by step, building forts and castles everywhere, it can indeed eat away at the Houjin, but Sun Chengzong completely ignored the finances of the Ming Dynasty, but he was afraid that the Houjin had not been eaten away, and the Ming Dynasty would be dragged down by him.

Therefore, Zhu Youxiao will not let Sun Chengzong supervise Ji Liao, even if he has now obtained a lot of money by confiscating the Donglin Party and Jin Shang, he can't afford to spend it.

But the matter of helping the people of Qin, Jin, and Long is different, disaster relief has never been a thing that can save money, and it is necessary to spend money, as long as the people can not rebel, for the Ming Dynasty, even if it is not a problem to spend half of the treasury.

Now it is undoubtedly the most appropriate to let Sun Chengzong, who is good at spending money, be responsible for disaster relief and arrears of military salaries, not to mention that Sun Chengzong is still a clean official.

Early the next morning, Zhu Youxiao instructed the cabinet celebrant to issue a clear decree, appointing Sun Chengzong as the general system of the three sides, hanging the title of the secretary of the military department and the imperial history of the right capital, and giving him the sword, and at the same time, Zhu Youxiao generously allocated him 3 million taels of silver and 100,000 stones of grain and grass.

In order to prevent the peasant uprising in Chongzhen's second year, Zhu Youxiao had to give enough money and food.

He even directly ordered Sun Chengzong in the holy decree that if there were people in the land of Qin and Jin Dynasty within five years, then he Sun Chengzong would be the first offender and be directly beheaded!

In this way, Sun Chengzong naturally had a lot of pressure, and as soon as he got the holy decree, he immediately went out of Beijing to Tongguan, and at the same time, he also sent the household department and the Ministry of Industry over the years on the yellow book of household registration in the Qin and Jin dynasties and the fish scale book of the fields, and carefully studied the countermeasures.

Although Sun Chengzong's trip to Beijing this time was not as majestic as Han Zhiwei Qinghuo going to illness to lead the troops to the expedition, in Zhu Youxiao's eyes, he carried the success and failure of the Ming Dynasty in the next seventeen years.

The Donglin Party has been completely wiped out, the eight Jin merchants have all been eradicated, and now the displaced people in Qin and Jin have also sent people to pacify, and there is still a threat to the Houjin in Liaodong.

The Manchu Tartars from Chongzhen three years began to detain and loot several times, the trauma caused to the Ming Dynasty is definitely not less than Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, although his younger brother Zhu Youzhen is eager for quick success, but if there is no Manchu sideways when the Liukou is about to be exterminated, it may not be able to make the Ming Dynasty strong for a few more years.

The ending of history is composed of such a combination of countless accidental factors, and Zhu Youxiao's butterfly effect has changed countless accidental factors, and perhaps history will be a different ending.

But better or worse, Zhu Youxiao, the helmsman of the empire, does not know.

Standing under the vermilion palace wall, he could only look up and ask the sky.