After Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka left Beijing, Chongzhen immediately ordered a major purge of the harem, and all the palace maids, eunuchs, and guards who were close to Wei Zhongxian and the Hakka were sent home. As soon as he got it down, nearly 2,000 people were dismissed, and even Chongzhen had to sigh that Wei Zhongxian's connections were wide enough.

And this time, more than 30 million taels were looted from those officials and Wei Zhongxian, which really made Chongzhen happy for most of the day, this time he was rich, haha.

However, he also knows that this money comes and goes quickly, and now Daming needs money everywhere. Not to mention that a lot of money is needed to prevent the construction of Liaodong, and the "Extravagant Rebellion" in the southwest is not worry-free, and it will not be long before there will be a major drought in the northwest, and it will not be a year and a half, but more than ten years in a row.

It can be said that money is needed everywhere, and there are holes everywhere that cannot be filled.

Therefore, Chongzhen needs to find a way to get money. With the experience of reading online novels in his previous life, Chongzhen thought that he had to open a golden finger. No matter how I say it, I am also from the world hundreds of years later, and I should be able to make a lot of money by opening a few gold fingers casually, otherwise I will be embarrassed by the traversal.

However, before opening the golden finger, you have to get a strong army of your own, as Lao Mao said, "political power comes out of the barrel of the gun", if you want to have a hard waist, then your own gun must be hard.

But who should you find to build a strong army for yourself? For a while, Chongzhen couldn't think of a reason.

At this moment, a person came to his mind - Sun Chengzong.

Chongzhen is ready to use Sun Chengzong has several plans, first of all, his ability is good, and secondly, his prestige among the border generals is great enough, and he uses him to train the new army, and those border generals are not easy to say, and the most important point is that he is a cadre of the Donglin Party. If he is used to train the new army, then it will be difficult for the Donglin Party, which is the most powerful among the civilian officials, to say anything, and if the Donglin Party does not stop it, then there will basically be no resistance to this matter.

Sun Chengzong, the word Zhizhi, the number Kaiyang, Gaoyang people, Wanli Jinshi. In the second year of the Apocalypse, he was appointed as the secretary of the military department and a scholar of Dongge University. After the king of Liaodong Jinglu left his post in Jin, he asked himself to supervise the teacher, and ordered the former official to supervise the armaments of Shanhaiguan and Ji, Liao, Tianjin, Deng, and Lai. During his four years in office, he presided over the restoration of Ningyuan and other big cities nine, forts 45, training 110,000 soldiers, expanding 400 li, and opening 5,000 hectares. The soldiers did not dare to move. Sun Chengzong had high merits, but he refused to attach power to eunuch Wei Zhongxian, and was framed and dismissed.

If according to the original history, in the second year of Chongzhen, Jianyu entered Daankou and took Zunhua, Sun Chengzong came back and guarded Tongzhou with the original official and military department. Later, it moved to Shanhaiguan and recovered Yongping, Qian'an, Luanzhou, Zunhua and other places. Chongzhen returned to the city after four years. In the eleventh year, the Qing soldiers went deep into the interior and attacked Gaoyang, but Chengzong led his family to refuse to defend it, and committed suicide after the city was broken.

And now, Sun Chengzong is still in Gaoyang for retirement, so now he has to send someone to invite him back.

"Grandpa Gao!" Chongzhen Road.

"Your Majesty" Gao Shiming, who was standing on the side, heard Chongzhen call him and approached.

"Father-in-law Gao, you go to Sun Chengzong's house in Gaoyang to spread my message, summon Sun Chengzong to return to the dynasty, and the official will be reinstated."

"Yes, the slave and maid will go at once." Gao Shiming said, thinking to himself, Sun Chengzong is going to make a comeback this time.

Gao Shiming was just about to walk out of the hall when he heard Chongzhen stop him: "Slow!"

"Your Majesty still has orders?" Gao Shiming stopped his footsteps.

"By the way, you will send someone to Jinzhou to summon a person for me, this person is named Cao Wenzhao, and order him to enter Beijing to see me." Chongzhen Road.

When Gao Shiming heard it, he understood that Chongzhen summoned Sun Chengzong back to Beijing, after all, this Sun Chengzong was also a great figure, but this Cao Wenzhao, he was really unheard of. But he didn't know what to say, the emperor ordered it down, and he just did it himself.

"Slave and maid will do it." Gao Shi Mingdao

In fact, this Cao Wenzhao Chongzhen also suddenly remembered. First of all, this Cao Wenzhao is also a fierce general, if he is asked to help train the new army, then it will also be beneficial to the combat effectiveness of the new army. Moreover, this Cao Wenzhao is not famous now, and he transferred him to Beijing, and the opinions of those generals in Liaodong are relatively small. Therefore, it is also beneficial to transfer Cao Wenzhao to Beijing.

Cao Wenzhao served in the army in Liaodong in his early years, and served Xiong Tingbi and Sun Chengzong, and was promoted to guerrilla warfare. In the original history, after Chongzhen entered the customs in the second year, Cao Wenzhao followed Yuan Chonghuan into the customs to defend the Beijing division, and played a meritorious role in resisting the Houjin invasion. In July of the third year of Chongzhen, the people of Shaanxi changed greatly, and Cao Wenzhao was named the deputy chief soldier of Yansui East Road, and led the Guanning Iron Cavalry into the customs for conquest. In April of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Cao Wenzhao defeated Wang Jiayin, the leader of the mutinous people who guarded the river meander, and was promoted to the chief military officer of Lintao with merit, and successively destroyed the leaders of the mutiny such as Lamplight, Li Laochai, Yilong, and King Sweeper.

In March of the fifth year of Chongzhen, Cao Wenzhao fought with the People's Revolution Army in Xihao, beheaded thousands of levels, and captured Du San and Yang Laochai. Then he struck down his Red Army friends. The leaders of the people's rebellion, Ke Tianfei, Liu Daojiang and others, surrounded Heshui City, and Cao Wenzhao went to the rescue. The Minmutiny Army ambushed the elite and challenged it with thousands of horsemen, luring the Ming army to the southern plains, and the ambush army rose up. The people in the city said that General Cao had been killed in battle. Cao Wenzhao attacked left and right with a spear, and his horse went in and out of the crowd. When the defenders saw this, they sent troops to flank them, and the people's mutinous army was defeated. Cao Wenzhao fought dozens of battles in Shaanxi, and he had the most credit, but Hong Chengchou did not help him recount his merits.

Seeing that the Ming army in Shaanxi was strong, the people's mutinous army flowed into Shanxi. The imperial court ordered the generals of Shaanxi and Shanxi to be restrained by Cao Wenzhao. He defeated the militia many times. In July of the seventh year of Chongzhen, the Qing army invaded westward and besieged Huairen County, Jingpingbao and Yingzhou. Cao Wenzhao was stationed in Huairen and entrenched. In August, the siege was lifted, and Cao Wenzhao moved to the town and lost the battle. Soon the Qing troops withdrew. In November, Cao Wenzhao was convicted of being used as a border guard, and Wu Fu, the governor of Shanxi, knew that Cao Wenzhao knew that he was good at fighting, and recommended him as the chief military officer for aiding and suppressing the army, and he made meritorious service to redeem himself. At that time, the people of Henan were in great turmoil, and the imperial court ordered Cao Wenzhao to go to the conquest. Wu Fu wrote a letter requesting that Cao first go to Shanxi and then enter Henan, but the imperial court did not approve it. Cao Wenzhao was kind to Wu Fu because he was kind to him, so he went to Taiyuan and was left by Wu Fu. Cao Wenzhao marched south, and in March of the eighth year of Chongzhen, he met with Governor Hong Chengchou in Xinyang. Hong Chengchou was overjoyed and ordered him to fight, and he broke the enemy in Suizhou and beheaded more than 380 levels. In April, Hong Chengchou retreated into the pass because of all the people's rebellion army, so he ordered Cao Wenzhao to enter the pass, and then took the mountain road from Ruxiang to Luonan and Shangzhou, and smashed the base area of the people's rebellion army, and then entered Hanzhong from Shanyang, Zhen'an, and Xunyang. On May 5, Cao Wenzhao arrived in Shangzhou. The militia camped thirty miles away from the city, and the camp was full of fires. Cao Wenzhao led his nephew to attack Cao Bianjiao and others at night, won, and chased straight to Jinlingchuan. The people's mutiny army met the battle with thousands of horsemen, Cao Bianjiao shouted into battle, and the people's mutiny army was defeated. Cao Bianjiao bravely crowned the three armies, and the people's rebel army was all frightened when they heard the name of General Cao.

Cao Wenzhao's military ability is undoubted, and his loyalty is also very credible, and such a person is exactly what Chongzhen needs.

Gaoyang, in the garden of Sun's mansion, an old man over the age of sixteen is sitting leisurely at the stone table, holding a teacup, and sipping tea carefully, this person is Sun Chengzong.

At this moment, a young girl came over, grabbed Sun Chengzong's arm, and said with a smile: "Grandpa!"

Sun Chengzong squinted his eyes, stroked his beard, and said peacefully: "What? Yue'er, do you want to go to the street again? ”

"Hehe, the parents of the one who gave birth to me, and the grandfather of the one who knows me!" Yue'er said with a smile.

"No, every time you go out, you'll get into trouble for me, and I can't let you out if you say anything!" Sun Chengzong said solemnly.

"Oh, don't be so stingy, grandpa, I promise not to cause trouble for you this time!" Yue'er shook Sun Chengzong's arm and said coquettishly.

Just when Sun Chengzong wanted to say something, a servant came over and said, "Master, there are a few eunuchs and Jinyi guards outside the door, saying that they are from the palace and are here to announce the decree!"

"Oh? Open the main door and meet the envoy!" When Sun Chengzong heard this, he immediately reacted and said.

"Congratulations grandpa, it must be Your Majesty who is going to use grandpa again!" Yue'er clapped her hands excitedly.

At the gate of Sun's Mansion, Gao Shiming and his entourage were standing at the door waiting for Sun Chengzong to come out.

After a while, the main gate opened, and an old man wearing a scarf on his head and a robe of five bats holding longevity walked out with more than ten men and women, it was Sun Chengzong and his family.

"I don't know what this father-in-law is called?" Sun Chengzong saw at a glance that Gao Shiming was the main master, and asked.

"Elder Sun doesn't have to be so polite, our family's name is Gao Shiming, and he is just a little eunuch serving by His Majesty's side." Gao Shiming said modestly, everyone knows that after Wei Zhongxian and his henchmen lost power, the person who was most likely to sit on the eunuch of the boss and the seal of the eunuch was none other than him. But he is still modest in front of Sun Chengzong, because this is the candidate for the current emperor to be reused!

"Father-in-law Gao is polite, I don't know if father-in-law has a token?" Sun Chengzong asked, although he could see that this Gao Shiming should be a very respected figure in front of the emperor, and no one should dare to deceive him Sun Chengzong, but he also had to be careful.

"Haha, yes!" Gao Shiming took out a waist card as he said and handed it to Sun Chengzong.

After all, I haven't met, and people should be careful, and Gao Shiming didn't care much.

Sun Chengzong took the waist card and looked at it, it was indeed from the palace, and hurriedly returned it to Gao Shiming, and said: "The old man is too cautious, I hope that my father-in-law will not blame me, please face the public kilometer!"

Sun Chengzong welcomed Gao Shiming into the living room and ordered the servants to make tea for Gao Shiming and his party. After a period of greetings, Sun Chengzong asked, "Dare to ask my father-in-law, what is Your Majesty's will this time?"

Gao Shiming stood up at this time and said, "Oh, look at my brain, I almost forgot about business!"

"Spread the word to His Majesty!" Gao Shiming cleared his throat and said.

Sun Chengzong and his family knelt down and said, "Listen to the command!"

"Your Majesty's dictation: Summons Sun Chengzong back to Beijing, and the official will be reinstated." Gao Shiming said.

"Old minister Sun Chengzong, thank you for Your Majesty Longen!" Sun Chengzong bowed.

"Lord Sun, please hurry up, our family has to go back first to restore our lives, so we will leave first." Gao Shiming said.

After sending Gao Shiming away, Sun Chengzong returned to the living room, and Na Yue'er clapped his hands happily: "Congratulations to grandpa, congratulations to grandpa for reinstatement!"

"Yue'er, what kind of system does a girl's family have become like this?" A middle-aged woman next to her said.

"I hope that today is a Ming Jun and revitalizes my Ming Dynasty!" Sun Chengzong muttered to himself.

……

In Jinzhou, in the governor's yamen, after a middle-aged eunuch finished announcing his decree, a man dressed as a military general kneeling on the ground bowed: "Long live, long live, long live!"

After sending the eunuch away, several generals surrounded a middle-aged general, and you congratulated me word by word, "Guerrilla Cao, congratulations!" Lao Cao, don't forget your little brother in the future! ”

The middle-aged general is Cao Wenzhao, and he himself doesn't know why he suddenly got the emperor's appreciation and was called into the Beijing Division, but he also knows that his good luck has come, and if he gets the emperor's appreciation, it means that the future is bright.

A man dressed as a civil official walked over, and all the generals clasped their fists and said, "Lord Futai!"

That person was Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Liaodong, at this time, Yuan Chonghuan walked in front of Cao Wenzhao, Cao Wenzhao hugged his fists and said: "Lord Futai"

"Congratulations, Wen Zhao," Yuan Chonghuan said with a smile and patted Cao Wenzhao's shoulder.

"Thanks to the support of Lord Futai, Wen Zhao is what it is today."

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In the past two days, I remembered that Wang Chengen should not have appeared at this time, so I made some changes to the previous chapters, and all Wang Chengen parts were changed to Gao Shiming, that is, the one who took over as the eunuch in charge of the seal after the fall of the eunuch in history