Emperor Chongzhen helped Lu Xiangsheng up, and said with a smile: "I am very young, you are also very young, I hope to leave a good story with Aiqing in history." The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info for Aiqing's talent, I will wait and see, don't let me down! ”

Lu Xiangsheng suddenly felt that a confidant was dying, and he bowed down and said: "The emperor can rest assured, the minister understands!" ”

In history, the relationship between Emperor Chongzhen and Lu Xiangsheng was very good, so good that many eunuchs and ministers were jealous. Emperor Chongzhen was very suspicious, and he couldn't talk about the new appointment of his courtiers at all, but for Lu Xiangsheng, Emperor Chongzhen's perception was different.

Chongzhen trusted Lu Xiangsheng very much at that time, and put him in the most critical place every time.

Another thing also revealed some information, Chongzhen ten years, the head of the household Hou Sui (Hou Fangyu's father) was imprisoned, the secretary of the ministry Zheng Sanjun deliberately gave a light sentence, Chongzhen was furious, and Zheng Sanjun was also imprisoned. Hou Sui and Zheng Sanjun are both honest and reputable people, and many ministers have gone to the rescue of them, but Chongzhen disagreed, "Xuanda Governor Lu Xiangsheng rescued him", Chongzhen finally agreed. For Chongzhen, this is not easy.

From this incident, it can also be seen that Emperor Chongzhen values and trusts Lu Xiangsheng.

However, Lu Xiangsheng also had times when he was depressed, and Emperor Chongzhen's views on many things were different from Lu Xiangsheng's.

On September 22, the ninth year of Chongzhen, the imperial court appointed Lu Xiangsheng as the governor of Xuan (Fu), Da (Tong), and SX military affairs, Lu Xiangsheng asked His Majesty to resign, and Chongzhen discussed the strategy of governing the country, but did not get consent.

During this period, Lu Xiangsheng was very lonely and miserable, and he wrote in a letter to his uncle: "My nephew is alone, alone in the midst of great turmoil and tribulation, and he dies all his life, and he is entrusted with the matter of thieves for the imperial court. There is no one in the sea who responds to the same heart, only those who talk falsely, those who sit and draw promises, hope for favor and grudges, coerce anger and jealousy, have a clear chest, a beak three feet long, and shoot with sand at every turn, without killing endlessly. If it weren't for the Holy Son of Heaven who was aware of the virtuous and treacherous, and let others not be second, the nephew would have died under the knife and saw. ”

His loneliness lies in the fact that he can't find people with the same heart. Yue Wumu said that civil officials do not love money, and military generals are not afraid of death, so the world is peaceful. At that time, it happened to be full of officials who loved money, and generals were afraid of death. The princes who sat in the palace and read the documents and notes, each with a mouth three feet long, continued to slander him for bleeding and sweating on the battlefield, and wanted to kill him. In a few years, he was promoted from a mere prefect to the prime minister of the Central Plains Military Affairs, and his gratitude was probably Chongzhen's trust in him.

"History of the Ming Dynasty" quoted one of his passages: "Taiwan admonishes the ministers, regardless of the difficulty, regardless of life and death, and seeks complete blame." Although there are long materials, where to spread them. Ministers and governors, there is a law of suppression but no law, and there is a law of war but no law. ”

The confrontation between the two armies requires improvisation, and a person like him, who loves field warfare, as Yue Wumu said, "uses it with great skill, and has one mind", and the courtiers and officials want to make remarks in vain, and he has to express his anger.

In "The First Priority for Suppressing Criminals", he gave the most simple and direct explanation of the fact that the rebels are suppressing more and more: "The people follow thieves, and most of them start from hunger and cold; Soldiers and thieves are mostly due to lack of salary. "The rebellion of the army and the people is because they really can't survive, and the root of the suppression of bandits is to let the people have a way to live. His "Eight Rules of Jingkou Suimin" is: "It is advisable to delay the levy to prolong the lives of the people, to repair and abolish the campaign to lay the people's houses, to help the poor with the benefits of the mountains, to reduce the harm to the people, to prohibit and detain the people to ease the people's livelihood, to recruit and reclaim the people to support the people, to compensate the suffering of the households, and to return them to the people in need." ”

In letters to friends, he repeatedly complained, "The wind and dust on the border land, the consumption of gas, how can people be hard? "Only the beautiful scenery of the hometown in the south of the Yangtze River is worth remembering," Saibei Jiangnan, dreams are lingering, the hometown of pine and bamboo, when will we meet? The people of Yuguan were frightened. He repeatedly missed his sick old mother in Jiangnan, but "the side affairs are very bad, and a certain person is taught by the elderly, and he does not dare not do it wholeheartedly." ”

At that time, the Daling River outside the Northeast Pass had been lost, but Songshan Jinzhou was still there, and the Shanhaiguan defense line was still very strong. The Xuanfu and Datong areas are in vain. Thanks to his efforts, the situation gradually improved. In the second year, there was a bumper harvest of grain in the tuntian area of the military region, and Chongzhen ordered all nine sides to learn from the example of the Xuanda Military Region.

Emperor Chongzhen carefully studied Lu Xiangsheng's resume and found that Lu Xiangsheng was similar to an idealist, "Xiangsheng has few great ambitions, and he doesn't have to learn chapters and sentences", and Chongzhen believed that he could be the master of Zhongxing until his death, but the sky would kill him. Both of them are extremely industrious, close to ascetics, "(Xiangsheng) the officials are industrious and subordinate, carving candles at night, roosters crowing, getting a secret, putting on clothes, and standing up." ”

Lu Xiangsheng was not a simple military general, he had his own judgment on the country's policy, the simplest was to quell the peasant uprising and disagree with Emperor Chongzhen.

Although Lu Xiangsheng faithfully implemented the policy of Emperor Chongzhen and was very effective in strangling the rebel army, Lu Xiangsheng also knew that if he wanted to completely put down the rebellion, it was not possible to rely on the encirclement and suppression of the army alone, and he had to solve the problem fundamentally.

That is, the imperial court clarified the rule of officials, expanded production, and changed the tax system, so that the people had land to grow and food.

However, Emperor Chongzhen has been recognized by history as having no rules in employing people, and he has killed so many ministers, but he still has not selected a suitable candidate.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many capable officials, but most of them died in party disputes or were expelled from the imperial court. The other is to blame the mistake on the courtiers, have an impatient temperament, and drill the horns of the bull in the affairs of Liaodong.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Lu Xiangsheng, who bowed his head, and sighed in his heart, he would definitely not let the things in history repeat themselves, otherwise they would be sorry for these courtiers and ministers who were central to the country, and sorry for the people of the Ming Dynasty.

"I believe in you!" Emperor Chongzhen looked at Lu Xiangsheng's eyes and only said four words, with a serious expression.

Lu Xiangsheng trembled, admiring Emperor Chongzhen for the first time, and felt that there was a fire burning in his heart.

"About your official position!" Emperor Chongzhen turned around and returned to the dragon book case, looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said: "I don't want to give you too high a position directly, give you the title of a soldier squire, and the left deputy imperial envoy of the Jiadu Chayuan is responsible for the training of the Beijing camp, what do you think?" ”

Is this called not giving yourself too much official position? Lu Xiangsheng didn't react for a while.

He is just a prefect, and the emperor actually directly gave the title of the squire of the military department, as well as the left deputy imperial envoy of the Ducha Yuan, which is simply overused, and it is definitely exceptional. Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly saluted and said, "The minister's decree!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen nodded, pondered for a moment and said, "As for the martial arts, I will also give you one, so as not to be unjustifiable." The governor of the five armies and the governor of the army in the palace, I think it's still good. ”

The Governor's Office of the Five Armies (center, left, right, front, and rear) is "divided into all the guards in Beijing, and the various divisions and guards outside". Each of the five military governors has its own governors, governors, governors, governors, governors, and other officials. The governor of the prefecture and the governor of the prefecture gradually became an empty title. What Emperor Chongzhen gave Lu Xiangsheng was an empty title, even if it was an empty title, it was not low.

The officer who commands the troops, plus the titles of general soldier, deputy general soldier, staff general, guerrilla general, garrison, etc., has the real power to lead the troops.

"As for the loose rank, I will award you the second rank hussar general, the famous general Huo Qubing of the Han Dynasty is the hussar general, known as Huo Hussar, I also hope that you will become my Huo Hussar!" Emperor Chongzhen looked at Lu Xiangsheng and said with a smile.

Lu Xiangsheng reacted at this time, quickly knelt on the ground, and said loudly: "The minister asks the emperor to take back his order!" ”

Emperor Chongzhen was stunned for a moment, frowned and asked, "What does Aiqing mean by this?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng had no choice but to bite the bullet and said: "The minister has been a member of the military department, although he has been a member of the military department, although he has been enlarged to the Ming Governor's mansion, but his promotion to the military department is also traceable, and the emperor has used it superbly, which is already a great grace of heaven." The emperor appointed the ministers to consult the Jingying, and the ministers were the Qincha who carried the emperor's order, and the imperial history of the left capital of the Jiadu Chayuan was also due, and others would not say anything. ”

"But in the military position, the minister has not achieved an inch of merit, and he has not even been on the battlefield, and the minister really can't receive the military position. The relationship between the governors of the five armies and the governors of the palace is very important, and the general of the second rank hussar is also a high-ranking position, and the ministers are worthy of it, and there will be criticism, which is not conducive to consulting the Beijing camp! ”

Emperor Chongzhen was still frowning and didn't speak for a long time, could it be that he was too excited?

Lu Xiangsheng saw that Emperor Chongzhen hesitated, and hurriedly said again: "The reason why Huo Hussar is famous in history, and his power is ancient and modern, is not because of the title of Hussar General. ”

"The minister didn't dare to compare himself to Huo Hussar, but he still had the heart to see the sages and think together, and the minister was willing to get military merits on the battlefield. If the minister wins the battle, the emperor's reward will be received by the minister. But now it's really inappropriate, and it's useless! ”

Seeing that Lu Xiangsheng's attitude of pushing back was very resolute, Emperor Chongzhen also realized that his idea was wrong, nodded and said: "Since Aiqing said so, then I will keep the official position for Aiqing, and wait for Aiqing to make contributions to the battlefield, and I will definitely reward him generously." ”

"Thank you, Lord Ron!" Lu Xiangsheng wiped the sweat from his forehead and said with palpitations.

Training the Beijing camp by himself is a very big matter, and he will definitely be on the cusp, the emperor is so rewarded, it is simply adding fuel to the fire, although Lu Xiangsheng knows that Emperor Chongzhen values himself, but he really doesn't dare to accept this official position!

"Your Majesty, Li Banghua is asking to see you outside!" At this time, Wang Chengen walked in from outside, bowed down and said.

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Wang Chengen, then at Lu Xiangsheng, and said with a smile: "Your partner is here!" Saying that, he laughed and said to Wang Chengen: "Let him come in, it just so happens that Lu Aiqing is here, so I don't have to summon the two of them once!" ”