"Your Majesty, Gonggong Cao is waiting for the decree outside the palace." Shortly after Sun Chengzong and Cao Wenzhao left, a young eunuch entered the palace to report.

"Xuan!"

This Cao Huachun was summoned back by Chongzhen's order, this Wei Zhongxian has fallen, and someone has to be found to be in charge of the East Factory. Although this Gao Shiming is easy to use, he has been appointed as the eunuch of the palm seal of the ceremonial supervisor by himself a few days ago, so it is naturally impossible to concurrently serve as the eunuch of the palm seal of the East Factory, otherwise it will be troublesome if he is too powerful. Therefore, Chongzhen thought of Cao Huachun.

Speaking of Cao Huachun, the first thing that comes to everyone's mind may be the image of the dog eunuch who opens the door to welcome the thief in Jin Yong's martial arts novel Blue Blood Sword, but is this really the case?

Cao Huachun, the word is like that, the number is Xuzi, and Wang Qingtuo of Wuqing. When he was a child, because of his poor family, he entered the palace cleanly, and because he was proficient in poetry, calligraphy and painting, he was appreciated by the eunuch Wang An. Later, he entered the palace of King Xin and served Zhu Youzhen, who was still the grandson of the Five Emperors at that time, which is now Chongzhen. In the early years of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian was favored and killed Wang An, and Cao Huachun was implicated, expelled from Beijing, and sent to Nanjing to be convicted.

In the original history, after Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, Cao Huachun was recalled and entrusted with an important task, responsible for handling the unjust, false and wrongful cases of Wei Zhongxian, and rehabilitating more than 2,000 cases of Zhaoxue. Because of his effective work, he won the trust and reliance of Emperor Chongzhen.

In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Cao Huachun served as the eunuch of Sili Bingbi and the governor of Dongchang.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when the army besieged Beijing, Cao Huachun was in his hometown, and it was impossible to participate in the opening of the city and surrender.

Speaking of which, this Cao Huachun can also be regarded as a talent. Perhaps, he can use Cao Huachun to contend with the Donglin Party, Chongzhen plans to do so.

"Slaves and maids knock to see Your Majesty, may my emperor live long live long live!" Cao Huachun knelt down and kowtowed. He originally thought that he was going to spend his life in Nanjing, but he didn't expect that the Emperor of the Apocalypse would die and King Xin would succeed him. He also realized that Wei Zhongxian was about to fall. Sure enough, it didn't take long for Wei Zhongxian to fall, and what pleased him the most was that His Royal Highness King Xin back then, and now Emperor Chongzhen had not forgotten himself and reactivated himself. Therefore, as soon as he saw Chongzhen, Cao Huachun knelt down excitedly and kowtowed to make a big salute.

Cao Huachun was only lying on the ground, listening, why didn't His Majesty let himself get up? Just when he was in doubt, he felt a pair of hands grab his arms and pull himself up, Cao Huachun looked up and saw that it was Chongzhen in front of him who personally helped him up.

"Cao Banban, please get up!" Chongzhen said while helping Cao Huachun up.

"Your Majesty, I can't help it, I've tormented the slaves." Cao Huachun said excitedly. The emperor still remembered himself, not only personally helped himself, but also called himself Cao Companion, how to make Cao Huachun not excited.

"How not. Cao Companion began to take care of me when I was young, and although I was still young, I still remember it in my heart. Chongzhen said. If you say that you remember what happened when you were a child, it is pure nonsense, and you can only rely on historical records.

"Your Majesty......" Cao Huachun looked at Chongzhen with a touched expression.

"Okay, okay, Cao Banban doesn't have to be like this. Come on, give Cao a seat to accompany him. ”

At this time, Cao Huachun was already moved to tears, it was rare for the emperor to value himself so much, even if he let himself go up the sword mountain and go down to the sea of fire, he would not frown.

After sitting down, Chongzhen had also returned to the throne, Chongzhen looked at Cao Huachun and wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and said: "Cao Banban, I summoned you back this time to let you take charge of the East Factory, but before the East Factory was in the hands of Wei Zhongxian, and there were many other parties, I am afraid that you will have trouble after you take charge of the East Factory, do you have the confidence to do this well?"

"The slave and maid have confidence and are willing to go to the soup for Your Majesty." Cao Huachun said with a little excitement.

"Good, good! Proposed purpose, Feng Cao Huachun as the eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor Bingbi, and the eunuch of the palm seal of the East Factory, and gave another mansion. Chongzhen said. This mansion was added by him temporarily, after all, Cao Huachun had just returned to Beijing not long ago, and it was inconvenient not to have a house, so he gave him a mansion.

"Thank you...... Thank you, Your Majesty!" Cao Huachun bowed again.

"Cao Companion sit, no need to be polite." Chongzhen said, "In addition, I have something to hand over to Cao Banban."

"But please command, Your Majesty." Cao Huachun said, now Chongzhen wants his own life, and he is willing to do it.

"I want Cao Banban to find someone for me." Chongzhen said mysteriously.

"Dare to ask who Your Majesty is?" Cao Huachun asked.

……

"What is the important thing for the secretaries?" In the early dynasty, Chongzhen asked the ministers.

The early dynasty was held in the Fengtian Palace, the reason was that Chongzhen was deeply influenced by the costume dramas of his previous life, and felt that he felt more like an emperor in this "Jinluan Palace", so the location of the court meeting was officially set in the Fengtian Palace.

"Your Majesty, the minister Yan Mingtai has something to do." Yan Mingtai, the secretary of the Ministry of War, went out of the way. Yan Mingtai is a Jinshi in the twenty-sixth year of Wanli, and has done political participation in Liaodong and affairs, Shandong participated in politics, served as the governor of Shuntian and the governor of Jiliao in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, and served as the secretary of the military department, awarded the prince Taibao, the prince Taifu, the prince and the prince, and the seventh year of the Apocalypse. It's an old man.

"Yan Qing, please speak."

"Your Majesty, today's Liao affairs are getting worse, the frontier is uncertain, and the salaries of the border army have been in arrears for a long time, and if this goes on for a long time, I am afraid that there will be a mutiny!" Yan Mingtai said.

"Household department, how much money is left in the treasury?" Chongzhen asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, there is no silver in the treasury." An official in a scarlet robe came out of the ranks, and this person was the current head of the household department, Guo Yunhou. To say that this Guo Yunhou is really sad enough, people say that this household has a lot of oil and water, and he is in charge of the country's money bags, but he wants to say very much, what a fart is it. Not to mention that there is no money, there are still a lot of accounts to be managed, the military department comes to urge salaries all day long, the officials' salaries have not yet been paid, and there are still many projects to be allocated for repairing border walls and cities. And for these things, he can only deal with two words: no money.

"No money? How so? I am a dignified Ming Empire, and the treasury will run out of money? Chongzhen asked. In his opinion, there should be one or two hundred thousand taels in the treasury, right? But this Guo Yunhou directly told himself that he had no money.

Looking at Chongzhen's slightly angry eyes, Guo Yunhou lowered his head, he didn't want to. I have been conscientious since I was in charge of the household department, but there are too many places where I need to use money, and the country's tax revenue (the tax revenue actually collected) is too small, so I can't make ends meet, and the bosses of more departments have to cut some meat, so there is a fiscal deficit! He has long wanted to pick and choose, who cares about this mess.

"Your Majesty, now that I have been in the Ming Dynasty for many years, coupled with the previous eunuch party's greed, the treasury is empty, and the autumn tax has not arrived, so there is no silver in the treasury!" Guo Yunhou said aggrievedly. Of course, it's not just the eunuchs who are greedy, but he can only put the blame on the eunuchs, otherwise he won't know if he will return home after the next court.

Chongzhen listened to it and knew that there were these rice moths, which was also a matter of course, and he didn't ask much about it, but just said in his heart: Look if I will treat you moths well in the future.

"Then take it out of my inner money, and allocate two million taels of silver and 500,000 stone of grain from my inner money, and send them to various towns to reward the soldiers of the border army." Chongzhen said, fortunately, a few days ago, he looted a lot of money and food from Wei Zhongxian and these officials, otherwise he would have to wait for the mutiny.

"Your Majesty is kind-hearted, and I believe that the soldiers of the border army will definitely be grateful for Your Majesty's kindness." The courtiers patted their ass. And they can also pump water from it, coming and going and ending up in the pockets of officials. As for those who are stationed at the border gates, those are bitter haha? Whoever cares about them will leave them 120,000 taels of meaning. Who isn't like this these days?

Chongzhen is a smart person, how can he not know what calculations these "pillars of the country" are making?

Chongzhen called Cao Huachun, who was standing next to him, and whispered a few words. After hearing this, Cao Huachun chuckled knowingly and returned to where he was standing.

"Alright, I have two more things to do today." Chongzhen cleared his throat and said, "Master Chuansun"

After a while, Sun Chengzong entered the main hall. "Old minister Sun Chengzong see Your Majesty." Sun Chengzong said first.

Sun Chengzong's appearance caused a sensation among the courtiers. It's not that they don't welcome Sun Chengzong, on the contrary, they wish that Sun Chengzong would return to the court as soon as possible. I don't know how many pieces of music asked Chongzhen to reactivate Sun Chengzong, and finally asked the emperor to recall Sun Chengzong back, of course, they thought so.

"Master Sun is my capable minister of the Ming Dynasty, I am ready to reactivate Master Sun, reinstate the official, add the title of Taifu, and give python clothes." Chongzhen Road.

"The ministers seconded it!" The courtiers said in unison.

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

"In addition, I want to allocate money and food from the internal treasury and hand it over to Master Sun to train a strong army, and the secretaries can have objections." Chongzhen asked.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, where is the army trained by Your Majesty going to be recruited? How much is recruited? A minister asked.

"I am going to recruit 50,000 good family sons from the land of Beizhili for training, and the training place will be set in Xishan!" Chongzhen said.

When the minister heard this, he had no objection and returned to his place.

Sure enough, as Chongzhen expected, except for one or two discordant opposing voices, there was basically no objection. The matter was settled.

The emperor's will to recruit Liangjiazi as a soldier suddenly spread throughout Beizhili. Many people scoffed when they heard it, who would be so stupid to be a soldier? Becoming a soldier means joining the military. But when they heard that each soldier was paid five taels of silver a month, and that there was meat in the meal, and there was enough white rice, many people were tempted.

……

In a family in Tongzhou City

"Yuan'er, are you really planning to join His Majesty's new army?" An old woman asked her son, who was kneeling on the ground.

"Yes, Mother, the child has decided. It's just that the child can't serve the mother in the future, and the child is not filial. The kneeling man said.

"Yuan'er, since you were a child, your mother has taught you to be a loyal person like Yue Wumu to serve the country, since you have made up your mind, your mother will definitely support you with all her might. You don't have to worry about me, I can still take care of myself, you have to remember that you must be loyal to His Majesty the 'Holy Son of Heaven'. The old woman said.

"Let the child remember the teachings of his mother." The man knelt on the ground, "Bang!" Bang!"" Bang!" The ground kowtowed three times.

After the man stood up, he walked up to the other man standing next to him, hugged his fists and bowed deeply, "Brother Yuanyu, the mother of the younger brother asked your brother Yuanyu to take care of it, and Liheng is grateful."

Yuan Yu helped him up and said, "Liheng has seen the outside, and as a brother, he will definitely treat his aunt as his own high hall and serve him wholeheartedly."

Li Heng bowed again and said, "Thank you, Brother Yuanyu."

That night, Liheng looked up at the sky, looked at the snowflakes that were slowly falling, and said in his heart: Father, you have a spirit in the sky, and the child will definitely destroy Jianyu for me and recover the lost land!

In the original history, he moved to Jiangyin in the fourteenth year of Chongzhen. At the beginning of his tenure, Haikou Gu San Mazi led hundreds of warships to invade Huangtian Port, he led his troops to refuse, and fired three arrows in a row, all of which fell in response. Haikou was terrified and did not dare to commit it again. In the first year of Hongguang in the Southern Ming Dynasty, he took 60,000 people in Jiangyin, faced 240,000 Qing army iron cavalry, more than 200 heavy artillery, and trapped the lonely city for 81 days, causing the Qing army to break three kings and 18 generals in a row, and 75,000 people died.

Faced with the persuasion of the Qing army to surrender, he said angrily: "There are generals, but there is no history of surrender."

After being captured, he resolutely refused to kneel to the Qing court, and was pierced in the tibia, "blood gushed and served", but he never bent his knees, and finally died heroically.

He has a resounding name, his name is Yan Yingyuan.

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I'm a little enthusiastic when I write this, Yan Dianshi!

In addition, I would like to thank my good brother, Brother Lu, good brother, for a lifetime