Cheng Shao actually has a full estimate in his heart about Yao Zongwen's refusal to help him. The fact is that Cheng Shao didn't plan to get any help from Yao Zongwen at all.

    Cheng Shao has long been desperate for his future on the way from Kaifeng to Xiangyang. Not available to soldiers, not to officers. In this case, Cheng Shao felt that he was really Zhuge Reincarnated, and I am afraid that there was no chance of winning.

    Yes, people have to eat to live. Everybody has to eat. Naturally, there is no exception to this matter for the military. Huguang did not provide supplies to the Henan soldiers, and Cheng Shao himself could not conjure up food out of thin air. Then, the soldiers who have weapons in their hands will naturally go out and find food for themselves. In other words, it is inevitable to loot places.

     From the moment they entered the territory of Huguang, nearly 4,000 Henan soldiers became quasi-bandits. On the way from Xinyang Prefecture to Xiangyang Mansion, 4,000 Henan soldiers can be said to have plundered all the way.

    If it was said that quelling the mutiny was not conducive to dismissal was an option, Cheng Shao, who had arrived in Xiangyang Prefecture, had realized that this option no longer existed. It's no longer okay to go into hiding by yourself. After all, on the way from Xinyang Prefecture to Xiangyang Prefecture, the local gentry suffered great losses due to the plundering of the military crossing the border. These gentry were inextricably linked to the officials of the court.

    Cheng Shao estimated that his charge of arson and looting must have been impeached by officials in the DPRK and China.

    In this case, if he had resigned and returned to his hometown at the beginning of accepting the will of the imperial court, then he should still be able to become a squire of the peace. If you take the Henan soldiers along the way with sufficient supplies and good military discipline, you will lose the battle, and at most you will be taken away. However, the current situation is that it is very likely that he has lost the battle after plundering the place, and in this case, it is very likely that his sin will be implicated in his family.

    Feudal bureaucrats, whether they are ancient feudal bureaucrats or modern bureaucrats whose heads are filled with a sense of feudal power, when they encounter problems, they are not always thinking about how to solve them. All they think about is how to avoid the problem.

    Cheng Shao quickly accepted the reality when he found out that he was dead end and that he was very likely to implicate his family. From the perspective of personal interests and family interests, Cheng Shao has decided not to go to Wuchang to die. He was ready to die in Xiangyang, under the "coercion and persecution" of Yao Zongwen, the governor of Huguang.

    As a politician, Cheng Shao still stands on the side of party struggle when considering his own death. Cheng Shao knew that he was a governor who could not control the soldiers and led the soldiers to plunder, and then lost the battle and was executed. Or as a governor who was framed by the eunuchs, and committed suicide because of the lack of supplies and soldiers. There is a fundamental gap between the two.

    This is also a lesson that Cheng Shao learned from the failure of the struggle between the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party. In the DPRK and China, the eunuch party cracked down on the Donglim party on charges of embezzlement and bribery. On this issue, everyone is actually the eldest brother and the second brother, the difference between fifty and one hundred steps. Both the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party were actually corrupt and took bribes, but it was the Donglin Party that was in power at that time, so the crime of corruption made the ruling Donglin Party a target very easily.

     If he is unstable, he has to rest in the political struggle. This is mainly because the Donglin Party did not expect that the unspoken rule of corruption and bribery would be brought to the table by the Eunuch Party to deal with it.

    Cheng Shao felt that the Donglin Party's later remedy was very correct. The Donglin Party pushed out the few Qing officials within itself to shape a model and shouted wrongs. This approach is very good in reversing its disadvantageous position in public opinion. In the final analysis, the Donglin Party's approach is nothing more than an old way of hijacking public opinion.

    After Cheng Shao clearly realized that he could not escape death, he had already begun to comprehensively consider how he could avoid a ruined death. In his opinion, as long as his military defeat is tied to the persecution of the party and the eunuchs, then even if he has become an opposition force after his death, his colleagues in the Donglin Party, who still control the country's public opinion, will have to come forward to change their reputation.

    Therefore, dressing yourself up as a victim of eunuch persecution, although you can't change the final result of your own death, you can completely reverse the unfavorable situation of your family.

     As a loyal person, he was persecuted to death as a thorn in the eye of the eunuch party, then the Donglin party people will definitely give themselves a good name. With such a good reputation, after one's children become loyal, one's relatives will become orphans and survivors, and one's family members can be preserved under the halo of one's loyal ministers.

    Therefore, Cheng Shao's behavior of running to him for help in Yao Zongwen's eyes was very abnormal, which was actually paving the way for his death. Cheng Shao was preparing to commit suicide in his camp "grief and anger" after returning from Yao Zongwen's governor's yamen.

    Everyone can see that the feudal bureaucracy, or the ancient and modern bureaucrats under the influence of feudal power consciousness, is actually essentially the same.

    When officials have scientific and social ideas in their heads and believe in Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, they will honestly accept punishment if they do wrong things and make mistakes. And when the heads of officials are full of feudal power ideas, they want to serve the interest groups to which they belong, and they want to protect the interests of their families. All kinds of falling accidents began to emerge one after another.

    Therefore, it is feudalism that is more backward than capitalism, feudalism that is more evil than capitalism, and feudal bureaucracy that is more evil than capitalists. This is the reason why Old Man Ma said that capitalism is more progressive than feudalism. That is why bureaucratic capitalism, with its feudal nature, is one of the three mountains that must be overthrown.

    Cheng Shao, as a member of the Donglin Party, a vested interest group of the Ming Dynasty, considered all the problems around the interest group of the Donglin Party. Whether it is from his own interests, from his own reputation, or from the interests of his family, Cheng Shao considers the problem from the standpoint of the Donglin Party.

    After realizing that only by relying on the strength of the Donglin Party could he ensure the safety of his property and the safety of his family's interests, Cheng Shao did not hesitate to drag Yao Zongwen, a member of the Donglin Party's political opponent and a member of the Eunuch Party, into the water as his backing.

    As for Cheng Shao's own actions, such as his looting and plundering of the people of Henan, such as his abuse of the people he forcibly recruited from Henan, and so on. Cheng Shao, the "Qing official" of the Donglin Party, will not consider these problems at all.

    The suicide of the coward can also be divided into the suicide of the coward and the suicide of the brave. For example, suicide with a knife, suicide with fire, these are very painful processes. Generally speaking, people who don't have a certain amount of courage really don't dare to commit suicide in this way. And with poison, with rope, jumping from a height, these are either a momentary process, or a semi-automatic process. Those who commit suicide by this method are basically cowards.

    Cheng Shao is certainly not the kind of person who has the courage, and the way he chose to commit suicide was suicide.

     Hearing the news of Cheng Shao's suicide, Yao Zongwen was first surprised and then furious.

    Everyone is a person who plays politics, and in just a moment, Yao Zongwen understood the reason why Cheng Shao came to visit and pleaded with him against common sense in advance. Knowing this, Yao Zongwen's disdain for the Donglin Party was immediately replaced by a jealous mood.

    Even if it is death, it is necessary to contribute to the party struggle for their own group. From this point alone, the eunuchs who are attached to Wei Zhongxian may not be able to be so resolute.

    Yao Zongwen, who had already taken refuge in the eunuch party, was a little worried about his future for a while. After all, if a third of the Donglin Party had a guy like Cheng Shao who dared to launch a suicide attack, the future of the Eunuch Party would be worrisome.