About an hour later, Sun Chuanting, the right waiter of the former military department and the right servant of the imperial capital, was brought into the palace.

Sun Chuanting was a jinshi in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, and was first awarded the magistrate of Yongcheng County, and in the early years of the Apocalypse, he was the chief of the seal inspection of the Ministry of Officials. Chongzhen served as the seal of Langzhong for eight years, and was later promoted to Shuntian Fufu. In March of the ninth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chuanting asked Ying to serve as the governor of Shaanxi, preparing to exterminate Gao Yingxiang's peasant rebel army. After Sun Chuanting arrived in Shaanxi, he won a great victory in the battle against the Liukou, and Gao Yingxiang was captured after the defeat and sent to Beijing where he was executed.

After Gao Yingxiang's death, his nephew Li Zicheng succeeded him as King Chuang.

At the beginning of the tenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's troops crossed Ma Jinzhong and other troops into Shaanxi again, and attacked Shangzhou, Luonan, Lantian and other places.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, when the rebel army of Guotianxing and Chaotianxing went to Chengcheng from Hui, Qin and other places through Fengxiang, Sun Chuanting commanded part of its five-way joint attack and won a great victory, and then defeated the rebel army again in the west of Juzhou and east of Heshui, and repelled Ma Jinzhong and Ma Guangyu's troops who rushed to aid the Shaanxi rebel army, and then ambushed with Hong Chengchou in Tongguan Nanyuan with heavy troops, and once again hit Li Zicheng's troops. Li Zicheng was almost completely annihilated, and finally broke through with only 18 cavalry.

At this point, the rebel army in Shaanxi was almost suppressed. But just when the peasant rebels were about to be exterminated, the Qing army invaded south, and Emperor Chongzhen urgently transferred Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting back to Beijing for defense, and Li Zicheng got a respite and sat down again.

In August of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Dolgon and Yue Tuo led the Qing troops to attack the Great Wall from Qiangziling and Qingshankou, and the troops pointed to Beijing. After Lu Xiangsheng was killed in the Battle of Julu, Emperor Chongzhen urgently summoned Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou to preside over the defense of the Beijing Division.

Due to the deep contradictions with Yang Sichang, the secretary of the military department of the main and faction, and Gao Qiqian, the middle official, after Sun Chuanting arrived in the suburbs of Beijing, he could not even see the face of Emperor Chongzhen, and Sun Chuanting was very dissatisfied with this.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the imperial court transferred Sun Chuanting to the military affairs of Baoding, Shandong, and Henan. Sun Chuanting was furious and took a leave of absence from illness. But Yang Sichang still did not let go, and marched to Emperor Chongzhen, saying that Sun Ting's illness was a prevarication. Emperor Chongzhen listened to Yang Sichang's words, and in a fit of rage, demoted Sun Chuanting to a commoner and imprisoned him.

Now three years have passed since Sun Chuanting was imprisoned, and Sun Chuanting, who was originally arrogant and full of fighting spirit, is already an old dragon after being devastated. Because he was going to enter the palace to face the saint, Sun Chuanting finally had the opportunity to take a bath and change into clean clothes before being brought into the palace, but this still couldn't hide the haggard look on his face.

After some bowing, Emperor Chongzhen ordered Sun Chuanting to get up.

"Sun Aiqing, we haven't seen each other for a few years!" Emperor Chongzhen laughed twice and motioned for Sun Chuanting to give him a seat.

"Today, the grass people are fortunate to be summoned by the Lord Long Live today, it's really embarrassing and sighing," Sun Chuanting did not hide his dissatisfaction at all, and said directly: "Long live, the grass people still don't understand, why did they ask for a meeting again and again that day, hoping that some military affairs could be presented in front of Long live, but Long Live but not seen?" ”

In fact, this question is something that he has been haunting and difficult to explain in the past few years. As a member of the party, before receiving the holy order to go to the post, please see the emperor and discuss the opportunity, which is the most normal thing, but why did the emperor avoid it, and finally cut him to the people, arrested and imprisoned, and affected his family?

Sun Chuanting's direct inquiry made Emperor Chongzhen a little embarrassed, and he didn't know how to answer, and at this time, Wang Chengen, who was waiting on the side, stepped forward and said softly: "Sun Chuanting, Yang Sichang has committed suicide in defeat last year, and now the rogue is powerful, long live Lord let you out of prison this time, I want to discuss with you how to pacify the rogues." Don't worry about some of the things you used to do!"

Sun Chuanting glared angrily at Wang Chengen, who was talkative, but in the end he didn't have a seizure, but turned to Emperor Chongzhen, and asked bluntly again: "Long live Lord, is this time to order the grass people to lead the army to quell the thieves?" ”

"I summoned Sun Aiqing over today, just to discuss with you how to completely extinguish the Liukou!" Emperor Chongzhen still felt a little guilty about putting Sun Chuanting, an important minister who had made great contributions to the country, to prison.

He knows Sun Chuanting's ability, and it can be proved in the defeat of the Liukou several times back then, but the Son of Heaven needs face, and he can't admit his mistake in person, Wang Chengen's answer just now has actually given Sun Chuanting a lot of steps, and he also took the opportunity to say this, hoping that Sun Chuanting will not dwell on the previous things, otherwise he will send this guy back to prison again.

Sun Chuanting is a person who understands after all, in the past three years in prison, he has reflected a lot, and his original hot temper has also been restrained a lot, and when he was brought into the palace today, he guessed that Emperor Chongzhen wanted to reactivate himself. When he questioned Emperor Chongzhen at the beginning, he just wanted to elevate his position, so that Emperor Chongzhen could feel ashamed and show more favor to him as a way to make up for it.

"Long live the lord, the grass people have been in the cell all these years, and they don't know anything about the affairs of the world, I'm afraid there is no way to make ideas for the long live lord!" Sun Chuanting's words had softened significantly.

Emperor Chongzhen naturally heard the change in Sun Chuanting's tone, and immediately pointed to the military newspapers and copywriting in front of him, and said to Sun Chuanting: "Aiqing, let's take a look at these first, and when you finish reading them, you will tell me your opinion." If you still don't know the situation, you can ask me, and I will answer you one by one!"

Sun Chuanting only hesitated, and immediately agreed: "Thanks to the trust of the Long Live Lord, then the grass people will not refuse!"

Wang Chengen also stepped forward and hugged the pile of copywriting that made Emperor Chongzhen anxious in front of Sun Chuanting. When Sun Chuanting read these documents, Emperor Chongzhen also roughly told Sun Chuanting about what had happened in the past two years, including the war with Jiannu and the battle with Liukou.

Sun Chuanting listened to Chongzhen's lecture while reading the copy, and sometimes did not express some opinions, applauded some exciting things, but also scolded some incompetent people, including Yang Sichang, who was so miserable and committed suicide in defeat. When he heard Emperor Chongzhen say that Cao Yue broke through Shengjing with more than 1,000 troops and destroyed Shengjing City, and Huang Taiji was also angry to death, he couldn't help but high-five.

When he knew that Cao Yue defeated Jiannu under Datong City and almost wiped out Geng Zhongming's men, he couldn't help but be interested, and asked about Cao Yue's situation, and when he learned that Cao Yue was Cao Wenzhao's son, he couldn't help laughing wildly, ignoring the current Son of Heaven sitting in front of him. "Long live the Lord, this Cao Yue, is really saving the Ming Dynasty from fire and water, his merits are no less than his father's, it is really amazing, he will surpass his father in the future, and he will be able to calm the world for the Long Live Lord!"

"This son's performance is indeed good, I am ready to marry Princess Kunxing to him, and continue to let her be in charge of the Datong Army," Speaking of this, Emperor Chongzhen paused and asked Sun Chuanting very seriously, "Sun Aiqing, I want to ask you, if I let you serve as the governor of Shaanxi, can you calm down the chaos in Shaanxi and Henan?" ”

Emperor Chongzhen's question made Sun Chuanting's heart skip a beat.