Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen originally planned to personally drive to the front line to supervise the division after completing this court training! He wanted to see what Sun Chengzong's army and Yuan Chonghuan's army were doing!

But after the dispersal of the dynasty, a transcript of Sun Shenxing dispelled the emperor's idea of going in person!

"Your Majesty, most of the people's positions, the old ministers and a few selected assistants, have been drawn up, there is no big problem, and the next thing is to talk separately. Now it's just the Central Council! Sun Shenxing said to the emperor.

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen originally planned to completely replace all the departments in Beijing with the celebrant supervisor! But if you do that, there is also a drawback, even if the eunuchs understand some military affairs, government affairs and civil affairs, there is a gap between them and those ministers who climb up step by step!

Even if they are outstanding old eunuchs like Wang Chengen, Cao Huachun and Yang Siqing, their level is equal to that of Sun Shenxing, Yuan Keli and others, but the experience is different after all, these old eunuchs live in the capital, and their understanding of the place is no better than that of other ministers, and in the future, if they want to let high-ranking officials go out to do things, it seems that it is not convenient to transfer them from above, so Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen decided to select 400 officials above the 500 Zheng 3 grades to form the Central Council after consulting with Sun Shenxing! As an auxiliary agency for the celebrant and the celebrant superintendent!

"Master, if you have anything to say, just say it directly, is there anyone who is not easy to place?" Emperor Chongzhen knew Sun Shenxing's difficulty, so he directly broke it.

Sun Shenxing also knew that the emperor was in a hurry, so he stopped going around the bend, nodded and said, "Everyone else is okay to say, the key is this Qian Longxi, Yu Dacheng and Wang Qia, these three people have the collective protection of the Liaodong generals!" Ask them to remain in the center! ”

Emperor Chongzhen was furious! "How can this be true? When will it be the turn of these generals to dictate my personnel arrangements? Are they trying to rebel? ”

Sun Shenxing looked around, "It's a big matter, the emperor, go to the study, and the old ministers will tell the emperor all about it." ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen sighed, in fact, Sun Shenxing didn't say it, he had already thought about this problem, but he didn't expect that these Liaoxi generals would dare to be so bold and reckless and directly interfere in the government affairs? "Master, let's talk as we go! You are all fifty steps away from me and my master! In the future, when I am with the master, don't get too close! ”

Xu Guowei said yes, and hurriedly asked the deacons, eunuchs, and palace maids to put the array back to prevent anyone from hearing the conversation between the emperor and Sun Shenxing.

Sun Shenxing saw that the emperor trusted and respected his status so much, and his heart was warm, being able to be alone with the emperor and stay away from the eunuchs, this is not a small grace, this is a matter of status and trust! "Your Majesty, the Liaoxi General Gate has actually been formed for decades! It's a special group! Originally, from the hands of the great grandfather, in order to prevent the general from leading the troops for too long and forming a local warlord force, they all separated the training of troops from leading the troops! But the shape of Liaodong is special, because it has been in a state of war for a long time, and the history is decades! Then it will not be able to be restrained according to the old system of the imperial court! Over time, a local separatist force has been formed, and the relationship between these people and the imperial court has evolved from a subordinate relationship to a cooperative relationship. ”

Sun Shenxing didn't say it directly, but the emperor looked at the boss in surprise! Although he was vaguely aware of these things, he didn't pay enough attention to them in the previous life! In this life, it has just touched the interests of the entire officialdom, and it has led out the power of this Liaoxi general! "Is it really so strict? Are you saying that these people really dare not listen to the imperial court? Then I want to reduce the number of troops in Liaodong, Yuan Chonghuan has no way to implement it? ”

Sun Shenxing shook his head, "Your Majesty, you look up to this Yuan Chonghuan too much!" Where does he go to execute, if he dares to come hard, the old minister can conclude that as soon as he says the emperor's intentions, he may be wiped out by the generals of Liaodong on the same day! ”

Emperor Chongzhen's eyes glared! "Then I will go in person, I don't believe it! How dare they kill me? ”

Sun Shenxing took the emperor's hand, "Your Majesty, just listen to the old minister, the old minister will not harm the emperor, don't say that the holy driver goes to Shanhaiguan, even if you go to the three sides, it is dangerous to be close to Shanhaiguan!" If they have a heart! Don't dare to do anything, they won't use their own name, just mobilize tens of thousands of people, in the name of thieves, when the time comes, there will be no proof of death, and the world can't help them, Liaodong can have an army of nearly 400,000 in the imperial court! ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen gasped, in the past, he always thought that his Ming Dynasty was killed by Li Zicheng and Huang Taiji, but now it seems that this Liaoxi Jiangmen must be added! "You say, all the Guan Ningjin generals are their people?"

Sun Shenxing nodded, "Yes!" These people can't get into the water at all! The two veterans Ma Shilong and Ma Shiliang who were sent to Shanhaiguan before, the emperor knows, right? Senior general soldiers, they were squeezed out by these people in less than a year, don't talk about these general soldiers now, even if Sun Chengzong is put in charge of Liaodong, these people will not buy his account! If Sun Chengzong stands in their shoes and speaks for them, they will keep him, and if he doesn't follow them, he will be kicked out in a while! Now His Majesty knows why the whole court thinks Yuan Chonghuan is suitable, right? Because Yuan Chonghuan is actually the mouthpiece of these Liaoxi generals, the real power is in the hands of the traditional local heroes headed by Zu Dashou! He and Wu Xiang, the former commander of the guard, are in-laws! From Ningyuan to Jinzhou, and then to Shanhaiguan, where are not their people, these two families together form the entire general system of Liaodong! ”

The more Emperor Chongzhen listened, the more frightened he became! Although he had expected the strictness of the matter, he didn't expect it to be so strict! Damn, am I still called an emperor? Half of the army in the world is in the hands of a local warlord with a family system, and most of the Central Plains army has no combat effectiveness, and it is too far away from the capital, so it does not belong to the emperor's pro-army at all, which is equal to the troops that he can directly mobilize at hand, that is, there are less than 10,000 people left!

With less than 10,000 people in his hands, Huang Taiji does have 200,000 elite iron riders! If all kinds of Mengbaqi and Hanbaqi are combined, it is estimated that Huang Taiji can mobilize about 400,000 troops! This time, it was because of the long-distance attack on the Beijing division that the war horses were concentrated, and the three horses were guaranteed to supply one cavalry, so more than 50,000 people were brought here, if the army was all pressed over! Not to mention the Ming Jingshi, even half of the northern country will definitely not be able to stop the Jiannu Iron Horse! Among them, the army of Shanhaiguan did play a little role, without the more than 300,000 troops! There is no army of more than 300,000 that the imperial court spends its entire annual tax to support! I'm afraid that the north has already become the bag of Jiannu!

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen nodded painfully, "What the master said is good!" If the Liaodong army is forced to take refuge in Huang Taiji, the consequences will be unimaginable! I won't be able to do anything! If that's the case, I'm afraid that all the north of the Yellow River will not be saved! ”

Sun Shenxing smiled with relief, "The emperor is finally willing to listen to the opinions of the old ministers, so Qian Longxi, Yu Dacheng and Wang Qia can't move!" The emperor must not move the idea of the imperial conquest, the imperial conquest is the emperor with his own guard army! You must ensure that your army is completely loyal to the emperor, you can, if you go out of the capital now, I really don't dare to imagine what the consequences are, in the capital, you are the emperor, so you went to Liaodong bare, please forgive the old minister, you are afraid that it is ......"

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen knocked on the table heavily! "Could it be that Wei Zhongxian was also so passive in the first place? was also led by the nose by the Liaoxi general? ”

Sun Shenxing smiled bitterly and nodded, "No matter who is in charge of the power of the society, they will definitely be led by these people!" From the later period of Wanli Ye, this situation has lasted for almost ten years now! Therefore, the emperor's idea of dismantling the Liaoxi army is simply to build a car behind closed doors, don't even think about it, there is no possibility at all, not only does the emperor not even want to go to the north lightly, but also, they said that they will not let Qian Longxi, Yu Dacheng and Wang Qia, the emperor had better not move, no matter what he wants to do to them in the future, don't stiffen now, it's always good, otherwise how dare you be the emperor Taiji casually cross the three passes, go straight to the mainland, and go south to Shandong! After staying in the suburbs of Beijing for such a long time, aren't they afraid of being dumplings by the more than 300,000 troops in Sanguan? It's not difficult to cut off these people's back roads! ”

Emperor Chongzhen gritted his teeth and slapped the table again! "Disaster to the country and the people, his heart can be punished! Suppressing the Kou has become raising the Kou, do these beasts know that when the time comes, the Emperor Taiji will be raised, not to mention these hundreds of thousands of warlords, even if I use the power of the world, it will no longer be enough! Besides, where am I going to mobilize the power of the world now? ”

Sun Shenxing knelt down and cried, "Your Majesty, the old minister knows that the emperor doesn't like to hear this, but now, the old minister still has to say it again, the emperor's plan to investigate Beijing this time is so strong!" Rare in eternity! Lao Chen still thinks that it will do more harm than good! The system of the imperial court was not built in a day! This is a decades-long, intertwined system, this time with such a great force, all the officials at the top of the social hierarchy have been moved, I am afraid that officials from all over the world will incite the world's wealthy families and the world's scholars to fight against the emperor together! So at this time, the emperor never had the capital to have any more conflicts with the Liaoxi generals! The old minister told the emperor that the reform should come step by step, and the old minister did not support the emperor's idea of reforming the rule of officials, but you have to be so thorough, so you pull up a big radish at once, pull out the radish, but also turn the entire Ming soil! How many moths are coming out to eat people's lives and drink people's blood! That day, the old minister wanted to make it clear to the emperor that he was slapped by you, and almost lost the old minister's life, if it weren't for the old minister's heart, he wouldn't be relieved to be the emperor! I didn't want to live for a long time! The old minister knew that the emperor was in a hurry, and he didn't blame the emperor! However, your Majesty, you must understand that the Sheji Dynasty! Officialdom, these are not taken for granted! is the emperor's most admired Zhang Juzheng, his reform also took five years to achieve initial results, and it took ten years to implement it, but as soon as he died, it was all restored to its original state immediately! So politics is not achieved overnight! ”

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen stabilized his feelings, and helped the excited Sun Shenxing to sit down, "Master, now is not the time to discuss this, I have already done it, you are scolding me to death, isn't it in vain?" Do you have to abdicate? Now I should think about going down, and I don't care about Jingcha's big plan anymore. ”

Sun Shenxing shook his head, "Your Majesty, the old minister's heart is already in turmoil, from the fact that Zu Dashou and others dared to openly send such a copy of the appointment and dismissal of ministers in the court to the emperor this time, it can be seen that these people are no longer afraid!" This is the prelude to openly singing against the court! If the world makes trouble together again, the old minister will push the master out! Let's just say that the old minister was reckless, ignoring the instructions of the saint, and expanded the scale and intensity of the Jingcha plan without authorization, and once the old minister died, the world's wealthy families and scholars should be able to reduce their criticism of the emperor! ”

Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen knew that he couldn't talk to Sun Shenxing about a single idea, and the old man was indeed thinking about himself wholeheartedly, but the matter had already come out! What's the use of all that? "Master, you don't have to worry, in this way, you go back first, continue to do your own things with peace of mind, and do your best to let the eight prefectures and two states move first, the current situation is not as unbearable as you thought! At least the Gyeonggi region is firmly in our hands! ”

Sun Shenxing sighed loudly, "Your Majesty, you are still young!" Controlled the Gyeonggi region? This is the appearance! When the relationship with the Liaoxi Jiangmen deteriorates, after this winter, in the spring of next year, Huang Taiji will definitely make a comeback and repeat his old tricks! Lao Chen, look at the new officialdom physique you have worked so hard to build, will it be in vain! ”

Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen knew that it would be useless to talk more with Sun Shenxing, so he said, "Teacher, if you are still absolutely loyal to me, don't work with these negative feelings anymore!" Just do your own thing, and I'll take care of the world's affairs! In this way, first restore Qian Longxi, Yu Dacheng, and Wang Qia to their titles, and they can be suspended in the Central Council, but don't arrange specific jobs for them! But all the property will be confiscated! Go down and do your errands. ”

Sun Shenxing shook his head, knowing that the emperor was already angry, and he also knew that at this time, if he said these things again, it would make the emperor unhappy, and it would be useless, so after retreating, he left worriedly!