Chapter 263: A Trip to Baoding
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When he left the Forbidden City, Su Tiancheng felt as if he was in a dream.
Most of the requirements he put forward, Zhu Youzhen agreed, and it was very refreshing, Zhu Youzhen even couldn't wait to ask, asking him to come to the capital, fortunately, Wang Chengen suggested on the side, saying that Master Su was temporarily in Fuzhou County, and he could do more things to increase the income of the imperial court, and the situation of the treasury was still not very good.
Under such circumstances, Zhu Youzhen woke up and did not insist on his own opinions.
Regarding the measures of the Jiangning County City Ship Division, Zhu Youzhen agrees very much, the City Ship Division has already handed over 500,000 taels of silver to the government treasury, this is not a small income, a small Jiangning County City Ship Division, can earn so much silver, if Su Tiancheng continues to do things in Fuzhou County, wouldn't he be able to earn more silver taels, with silver, a lot of things, it is much easier to do.
Of course, Su Tiancheng's suggestion to renovate the Yellow River and the Huai River made Zhu Youzhen hesitate, after all, renovating the river would cost a lot of silver, and the imperial court could not afford it for the time being.
After listening to Su Tiancheng's detailed explanation, he felt that it was indeed necessary, the prisoners who could enter the Guozijian had a good identity, and the Guozijian could only accommodate so many prisoners.
In addition to being happy, Zhu Youzhen personally chose a name for the society. Call it "Zhongxing Society".
Zhu Youzhen would not have thought that this society would play a pivotal role in the history of the Ming Dynasty, so that most of the ministers in the middle of the court came out of this society. The officials of the imperial court are proud that their children can enter the Zhongxing Society.
The main role of the society is to discuss the culture and discuss the government, in the Zhongxing Society, everyone can speak freely, put forward their own understanding and opinions, the person in charge of the society to integrate everyone's opinions, put forward views and opinions. In the end, the understanding of all people was unified and the court was played.
In this way, the society has actually become an important staff organization, which can grasp the real thoughts of scholars all over the world, so that their opinions have a place to confide, and the court can still adopt the actual situation.
Su Tiancheng brought it up. The heads of the society are Sun Chengzong and Huang Daozhou. Zhu Youzhen did not hesitate, and was about to issue an order to let Sun Chengzong and Huang Daozhou come directly to the capital, but Su Tiancheng hurriedly proposed that it was better to visit by himself.
Su Tiancheng returned to the official post and immediately began to prepare.
This time I came to the capital. He brought a hundred soldiers from the Jiangning battalion, led by Liu Tiehan.
These 100 soldiers are all sergeants of the scout battalion.
These people should also follow him to Baoding. After all, going to the north, there is a big problem with the safety factor, and Houjin often harasses these places, unknowingly.
Sun Chengzong is a native of Gaoyang County, Baoding Prefecture, which is more than 300 miles away from the capital and east of Baoding Prefecture.
Starting from the capital, hurry up, but in two days, you can go to Gaoyang County.
When he was about to leave, Su Tiancheng thought of a lot.
Sun Chengzong's fame is very great, the list of Wanli years, when he supervised Liaodong, he repeatedly established meritorious service, the most important credit is that after several years of hard work, a strong Guanning Jin defense line was arranged, from Shanhaiguan to Ningyuan to Jinzhou, it became an obstacle that the Houjin cavalry could not overcome, from Nurhachi to Huang Taiji, it was never able to break through this line of defense.
This line of defense not only ensured that Shanhaiguan was protected from attack, but also basically stabilized the battle situation in the western Liaoning corridor.
When Sun Chengzong supervised Liaodong, he reused a large number of loyal and upright civil and military generals, plus he was the teacher of Zhu Youxiao of Ming Xizong, so his prestige in the court was very high, and even Wei Zhongxian, when he was in power and in the opposition, wanted to win over Sun Chengzong.
But Sun Chengzong's career is also a little bumpy, at the age of forty-two, he was in high school, awarded the Hanlin Academy to edit, and has been in the Hanlin Academy for ten years, at the age of fifty-two, he was promoted to Zhan Shifu Right Chunfang Right Zhongyun, and later served as Zuo Chunfang Zuo Zhongyun. Zhan Shifu is the place where the prince reads, and Zuo Zhongyun in Zuo Chunfang is just the rank of the sixth grade, mainly to teach the prince to read.
By 1620, Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne, and at this time, Sun Chengzong was already fifty-eight years old.
In 1622, Sun Chengzong was appointed as the secretary of the military department and concurrently served as a scholar of Dongge University, which ushered in the peak moment.
Unfortunately, because of Wei Zhongxian's dictatorship, in 1625, Sun Chengzong resigned and returned home.
In 1629, that is, in the second year of Chongzhen, the official was reinstated, and with his original official position, he was appointed as a young master, a prince and a prince, a secretary of the ministry, and an intermediate palace scholar, and was ordered to go to Shanhaiguan to supervise military affairs.
In November of the fourth year of Chongzhen, because of the defeat of the Daling River and the dispute in the imperial court, Sun Chengzong took the initiative to take responsibility and resigned to return to his hometown, this year, Sun Chengzong was already sixty-nine years old.
By the sixth year of Chongzhen, Sun Chengzong was already seventy-one years old.
Life is rare for seventy years, Sun Chengzong has experienced too much in his life, and in the face of such an elder, Su Tiancheng does not dare to have a little slackness.
Sun Chengzong's appointment as the head of the Zhongxing Society must have a huge appeal, there is no doubt about it, and the emperor also has a will to ask Sun Chengzong to take office.
But the problem also exists, Baoding is far away from Nanjing, the road is far away, people are old, they are homesick, as the saying goes, the leaves fall back to the roots, the seventy-one-year-old man, thousands of miles away, rushed to Nanjing, is it a little unkind.
Zhu Youzhen can not think about this issue, but Su Tiancheng has to think about it.
He is not very familiar with Sun Chengzong's temperament, according to his plan, he can let Sun Chengzong take his family and all rush to Nanjing, and there will not be so many taboos.
The Zhongxing Society must be established in Nanjing, and the rest of the places are not good, and the influence is too small, which is also determined by the unique environment of the Ming Dynasty.
The south is a place where scholars are concentrated, and the level of students in the south is generally higher than that of students in the north, and in terms of wealth, the north is far less than the south, so it is not an option to establish the Zhongxing Society in the north.
In the capital, there are too many officials, and the society will inevitably be constrained by a lot, and if it has too strong official color, it will be criticized a lot.
Based on these circumstances, Sun Chengzong had to go to Nanjing.
Along the way, Su Tiancheng was thinking about these problems, although it was a quick horse, but when he arrived in Gaoyang County, Su Tiancheng still did not go to visit rashly, but found an inn in the county seat and stayed temporarily.
He didn't bother the local government either.
Sun Chengzong was very enthusiastic about the construction of his hometown, and once specially revised the county chronicles of Gaoyang, and made a preface, he also paid attention to supporting agriculture and mulberry, and cared about the suffering of the people, and the officials of Gaoyang County and even Baoding Prefecture respected him very much.
To put it mildly, Sun Chengzong's family, in Baoding Mansion and Gaoyang County, belongs to the largest prestigious family.
This situation made Su Tiancheng even more worried.
Su Tiancheng came to Gaoyang County with a hundred cavalry, and it is unlikely that he wants to be obscure.
In the Gaoyang area, although they rarely encounter harassment from the Houjin, the people here are aware of the fierceness and cruelty of the Houjin cavalry, and their vigilance is very high.
The whereabouts of Su Tiancheng and his entourage were soon known to the county government.
The classic history of Gaoyang County, with the sergeant of the inspection department, when he came to visit, Su Tiancheng felt funny, it seems that the Zhixian in the Gyeonggi area, the shelves are not small, he brought a hundred sergeants, came to Gaoyang County, the situation is not ordinary, can put out such a posture, showing the identity is also unusual, it is said that the county should come forward, but the person who came to the inn is actually a classic history.
After chatting a few words, Dian Shi Zhilu explained Su Tiancheng's identity, was greatly surprised, and said that he was offended.
Su Tiancheng was a little strange, I don't know why the history of the Dao Classics would have such a reaction, it is said that he is just the magistrate of Jiangning County, so far away from Baoding, it is impossible to have any fame, could it be that before the history came, he doubted his identity.
Soon, the magistrate of Gaoyang County came, and after entering the inn, he said that there were many things about the county government, and he didn't have time to receive it, so he had to go to the official post to live, Su Tiancheng politely declined, saying that he had brought too many people and horses, and he was very embarrassed to increase the burden of the county government.
In the process of chatting with the magistrate, Su Tiancheng learned that he was very famous in Beizhili.
The main thing is the deeds of slashing the mud wisely, capturing Zijin Liang alive, and exterminating the old Huihui, these deeds have been compiled into an allegro, and have been circulated in the Beizhili area, in the eyes of the people of Beizhili, they are omnipotent, and they are captured by exterminating the Liukou.
Su Tiancheng couldn't help but smile bitterly, where did he have such a great ability, no wonder he had to find himself last time he came back and try his best to exterminate himself, it turned out that the root cause was here, with the vigorous propaganda of the people, the leader of the Liukou must be unconvinced, and he had to deal with himself by all means, if he killed himself, wouldn't the Liukou be famous.
The magistrate of Gaoyang County learned that Su Tiancheng came to visit Sun Chengzong, with a reverent expression on his face, although Sun Chengzong resigned, but the title is still there, and he is still the Ronglu doctor of the imperial court, with a prominent identity, plus Sun Chengzong is the teacher of Zhu Youxiao of Ming Xizong, this layer of glory, everyone knows, in Gaoyang County, when it comes to Sun Chengzong, anyone's face has to show admiration.
Su Tiancheng's heart muttered even more, Sun Chengzong has such a high prestige in Baoding, will he refuse to go to Nanjing City, this is also an uncertain thing, if he completely relies on the holy decree to force, it will also be disrespectful to Mr. Sun.
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