Chapter 125: Angry Chongzhen
The city of Beijing in the first month, is still raging in ice and snow, although the year has just passed, but there are still no pedestrians on the street, this Spring Festival in the second year of Chongzhen, for the people in Beijing, is their most impressive year, because the Houjin Tartar actually hit the city of Beijing.
The old Beijingers are usually pampered and accustomed to it, they are often proud of the feet of the Son of Heaven, they look at people from other provinces, their eyes are slanted, but they did not expect that they will also encounter the threat of war, the old people have said, this is about to change the sky, this is the first time in the past 100 years to encounter this kind of thing.
The common people just sighed, but the usual meat eaters felt it deeply, and they sighed one after another, it is very difficult for this official to be now!
No, the adults of the early morning court were kneeling quietly on the ground, and it was very quiet in the Jinluan Palace, only the roaring voice of the Son of Heaven was echoing in the main hall: "Can any of you tell me what to do?" What to do? Why, it's all dumb! ”
Listening to the angry roar of the Son of Heaven, the ministers lowered their heads, and they longed for a crack in the ground that would allow them to get into it and save them the thunderous wrath of the Son of Heaven.
Wang Chengen looked at the ministers kneeling on the ground, and a feeling of joy rose in his heart, especially looking at Qian Yiqian, who usually scolded Fang Xuan in the court and often put on a moral grandmaster to teach others, with his butt high like an ostrich, and his head fell to the ground, he felt a burst of joy.
Although he was secretly happy in his heart, he was still expressionless, and seeing that Chongzhen was almost scolded, he hurriedly handed over the teacup with a very good look.
Chongzhen took the teacup. After taking a sip of tea, he felt that his throat was more comfortable, and he immediately continued to scold, "What's the use of the court raising you?" You will only be a corpse element, and you will waste the people's fat and ointment in vain! A group of miners rebelled, which lasted for nearly a year, and you told me that there was no way, so what do I want you to do? ”
"Damn it!" Immediately the people threw their heads to the ground again and began to pretend to be ostriches. They lamented in their hearts, "Can we be blamed for this?" If you want to blame, blame the group of people in Shandong. Even a group of miners can't suppress the rebellion, and the court has raised you in vain.
Chongzhen finished his temper and felt much better, and he looked at the minister kneeling on the ground. There was a lament in my heart. There are no sages in the court. Look at these people, they are either the remnants of the eunuch party, or they are the Donglin party. These people you let them play with their mouths, they are very good, but if you want to solve the problem, then you don't have to count on it.
"Shengshang, for today's plan, is to quickly deploy troops to suppress it, and not let the mining thieves ravage Shandong!" Zhou Yanru, the first assistant minister, saw that the others did not speak, and sighed in his heart, he had to stand up and speak by himself, otherwise everyone would kneel down like this, when will it be a head!
Zhou Yanru's words made Chongzhen's temper, which had finally calmed down, rise again, and he was so angry that he threw the cup on the ground, and then said angrily: "Who doesn't know that Lu Dao wants to transfer troops to suppress it, but you tell me, where are the troops transferred from?" ”
It stands to reason that Houjin has just withdrawn, and there are many troops around the capital, so there should be no worries about having no troops to adjust, but the situation is the opposite, and now Chongzhen does not dare to transfer a soldier at all. Chongzhen thought of these soldiers and felt that his head hurt even more, because he couldn't get severance pay.
At that time, after the siege of the capital, the situation was critical, Chongzhen almost transferred the soldiers from several surrounding provinces, but it is easy to ask God to send God, and it is difficult to be a soldier to eat food, you are in trouble, everyone who does not want to die rushed to save you, and now that the danger is lifted, your son of heaven should do good according to merit.
Although everyone's combat effectiveness is not good, and they didn't kill a few Tartars, on the contrary, they were beaten by the Tartars, but there is always hard work without credit, right? There's no hard work and no fatigue, right? Everyone came all the way over, you are rich all over the world, you won't let everyone go back empty-handed, right?
But the most fucked up thing in the Ming Dynasty is here, although the Son of Heaven is rich all over the world, but Chongzhen really doesn't have any money in his hands, and the only little money has already been rewarded to the soldiers guarding the city, and the Qinwang troops who came behind really don't have any money to reward, and they will pay severance pay.
There is a way that the emperor wants to send us away if he doesn't send hungry soldiers, doesn't give severance pay, and doesn't give everyone some hard-earned money, that's impossible! Therefore, King Qin's soldiers stayed in the capital and did not leave. Some of the bold ones simply followed the example of the Shanxi soldiers, mutinied, and plagued the surrounding townships all day long.
For these soldiers, Chongzhen felt very embarrassed, this is really beating and not daring to fight, scolding and not daring to scold, so he had to order the people in the military department to do their work well, let them go back quickly, usually they are raised like uncles, just ask for one thing, they don't rebel and make trouble.
So Zhou Yanru's proposal just opened a piece of the scar in Chongzhen's heart, which made Chongzhen's heart begin to drip blood, he lost his temper and snorted coldly: "Since you can't think of any ideas now, then stay here and think slowly, when to think of when to go back!" Retreat! ”
Chongzhen simply brushed his sleeves away, leaving only the ministers to kneel on the cold ground and continue to be ostriches. When Chongzhen returned to the imperial study, he had just picked up the folds on the table, and as soon as he looked at them twice, he immediately roared and swept all the folds on the table to the ground.
"Money, money, money! I only know that Lu Dao asked me for money, will I change money! You ministers, all things will look to me, and what use do I want you? ”
Wang Chengen hurriedly lay on the ground and picked up all the folds scattered on the ground, which made Chongzhen Longyan angry, and he knew who the Dao was, and he deliberately put it on top. Hmph, you Yang He prides himself on being tall, and if you don't buy my account, I'll let you wear a few more pairs of small shoes.
"Wang Banban, don't pick it up, I get angry when I look at these twists and turns!" Chongzhen sat on the dragon chair very dejectedly, waved his hand to Wang Chengen, and stopped him from picking up the folds.
Wang Chengen gave the little eunuch on the side a look, asked the little eunuch to come over and pick up the fold, walked to the desk, poured a cup of tea for Chongzhen, handed it to Chongzhen and said: "Shengshang, don't be angry, you are angry, who will be the director, Daming can't do without you!" ”
"Wang Banban, do you think I am a qualified son of heaven?" Chongzhen asked depressedly.
Wang Chengen didn't answer this question at all, because he knew Chongzhen's character, he didn't ask himself at all, he just talked to himself.
"Since I ascended the throne, I don't sleep for three hours every day, and I review at least three watches every night, what else do I do wrong, why do I punish me like this, it's not peaceful everywhere!" Chongzhen said very frustratedly.
"Holy Lord, this is the trouble that the ministers don't know about you, and they don't share your worries well!" Wang Chengen knew Chongzhen's character, although Chongzhen said that he was wrong, in fact, he was blaming the ministers for not doing their best, he just followed Chongzhen's thoughts.
"Hey, those ministers, they only think about fighting for power and profit all day long, or they will only be in the wind and snow, and there are few people who can do things at all!" Chongzhen shook his head, for the ministers under him, he only had the idea of complaining.
"Lord Qian is still good, and the officials have a good opinion of him!" Wang Chengen said lightly on the side.
"Qian Yiqian? These Donglin Party members, apart from pretending to be righteous and alarmist every day, what else can they do? In addition to scolding, I don't see any achievements from them at all! Chongzhen was furious when he mentioned Qian Yiqian, this old thing, relying on the leader of the Donglin Party, chirped crookedly in front of him every day, not to mention how annoying it was.
Wang Chengen didn't speak, but he was secretly happy in his heart, Qian Yiqian, do you still want to be the first assistant? Don't count on it, you dare not take me in your eyes, I will make you unable to be the first assistant for the rest of your life.
Chongzhen was not wary of Wang Chengen's thoughts at all, and he was muttering to himself: "The country is in turmoil, a group of small miners have made my entire Ming Dynasty helpless, and the face of the court has been lost!" ”
Wang Chengen thought about it, and said very carefully next to Chongzhen: "Holy Lord, actually??? There are adjustable soldiers! ”
"Where's the soldier?" When Chongzhen heard this, he immediately became interested, stared at Wang Chengen and asked.
"These are the major events of the court, and the slave and maid are yin people, and they can't talk too much! I was too talkative just now! Wang Chengen was happy when he saw that Chongzhen was interested, but he deliberately took out Ming Taizu's decree to talk about things.
"I forgive you for your innocence! You are the most trustworthy person in me, if you don't remind me, who will remind me, say it quickly! Chongzhen saw Wang Chengen's appearance, his heart was very comfortable, what he admired most was that Wang Chengen knew how to be measured, and he didn't dare to cross the line easily.
Wang Chengen's attitude became more and more respectful, and he saw that he said very carefully: "Saint, have you forgotten Wang Hu, who was impeached some time ago, he is now resting at home and has no combat mission!" ”
"Wang Hu? Fang Wenjin's son-in-law? "When it comes to Wang Dalun, Chongzhen can't help but think of Fang Wenjin, this is a capable official, but unfortunately his qualifications are lighter. But thinking of this, a sudden idea entered Chongzhen's mind, and he asked lightly: "You said that Fang Wenjin was transferred to Shandong, how about it?" ”
Wang Chengen was stunned for a while, he was confused by Chongzhen's sudden thoughts, and just said Wang Dalun, how could he talk about Fang Wenjin.
Now the more Chongzhen thinks about it, the more excited he becomes, he said to himself: "Fang Wenjin is a capable official, now that Shandong has suffered a military disaster, he needs a capable official to help me stabilize the situation, he has done a good job in Yan'an Mansion, he can do this job, well, add a little more burden, see how capable he is!" ”
In Wang Chengen's surprised eyes, Chongzhen said: "Proposed decree, Fang Wenjin of Zuoqian will be appointed as the political envoy of Shandong, responsible for the reconstruction of Shandong, and Wang Hu will enter Shandong to participate in the general, responsible for exterminating Kong Youde and other rebellious soldiers." Since receiving the order, we must leave as soon as possible and take office as soon as possible! ”
Wang Chengen's pen is like flying, but his heart is very uncalm, this time Wang Dalun and his son-in-law have picked up a big bargain again, it seems that Fang Wenjin's rise is just around the corner, and he will deepen his ties in the future, so as to help. (To be continued......)
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