At this time, Emperor Chongzhen had been on the throne for more than half a year. He has passed the euphoria of his first accession to the throne. And because Emperor Chongzhen swept away Wei Zhongxian's party like a leaf in the autumn wind, the current Emperor Chongzhen is completely in charge of the government. He is also full of confidence and wants to do something great and become the king of Yao Shun.

Emperor Chongzhen's feelings for his elder brother, the Emperor of the Apocalypse, were very complicated. On the one hand, the brotherly relationship between him and the Emperor of the Apocalypse is quite good. Otherwise, the Emperor of the Apocalypse would not have driven him to the local area to become a vassal when the then King Xin came of age, but left him in the capital. will not be very happy to pass on his throne to Emperor Chongzhen later.

However, it is very strange that all the emperors of the Ming Dynasty have very deep feelings for their families, and they do not reflect it at all - "the most ruthless emperor's family", the meaning of this sentence. Even some emperors still have "tracheitis" (strict wife). What's even more exaggerated is that some emperors also regarded the eunuchs who served them as relatives. This is also a major reason for the rampant eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty.

On the other hand, Emperor Chongzhen hated what the Emperor of the Apocalypse had done from the bottom of his heart. Therefore, if the Emperor of the Apocalypse reuses Wei Zhongxian, he will kill Wei Zhongxian; The Emperor of the Apocalypse was a carpenter and ignored the government, so Emperor Chongzhen had to be diligent in the government; The Emperor of the Apocalypse sent eunuchs to collect the commercial tax and the mining tax, and the Chongzhen Emperor wanted to recall these eunuchs and cancel the commercial and mining taxes.

But Emperor Chongzhen didn't know that all the things he did were what he had heard from the civil officials who taught him to read since he was a child.

Are these civil officials right? Logically speaking, it's all right. And most of the practices they taught Emperor Chongzhen were also absolutely correct.

However, the content that these civil officials taught to Emperor Chongzhen was mixed with some of their own private goods. Because behind these civil officials, they all have their own interest groups. Of course, these interest groups have to reflect their political demands through these civilian officials. And some of the policies formulated by the state may be beneficial to these interest groups and not to the benefit of the country as a whole. For example, the collection of commercial tax and mining tax.

Emperor Chongzhen, who had no political experience, did not know that although some things had to be said in front of all the people in the world, he could say one thing and do another.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen had calmed down. He found that the previous emperors did leave a lot of problems, and he also encountered many problems after he ascended the throne. But in the final analysis, money is needed to solve these problems. At this time, the financial problems of the Ming Dynasty were already very serious.

The financial problems of the imperial court can be solved by two aspects: open source and throttling. And the policy proposed by those civil officials is not only not open source, but also to turn off the faucets that have been open source, or even shut down the faucets.

And Emperor Chongzhen, because of the education he received since he was a child, and because there were no reminders from the eunuchs around him who were also familiar with government affairs and also knew the grudge actions of these civil officials, Emperor Chongzhen stupidly approved these policies.

weishenme these eunuchs don't remind it? Because after seeing Wei Zhongxian's fate, they didn't dare! This also reflects the evil consequences of Emperor Chongzhen's killing of Wei Zhongxian.

Since the road of open source cannot be taken, the only way to do this is to throttle.

At that time, the largest expenditure in the Ming Dynasty was military spending, accounting for more than half of the Ming Dynasty's financial expenditure. In military spending, Liaodong's military spending accounts for more than half of the entire military spending.

Moreover, Liaodong's military spending is increasing almost every year. After the Battle of Salhu, the Ming Dynasty army was at a defensive disadvantage in Liaodong, and in order to resist the aggressive offensive of the Later Jin army, the Ming Dynasty court spent a lot of money and food, and sent a part of the army to strengthen the strength of the Liaodong army.

In addition to this, the Ming Dynasty also built a large number of forts in Liaodong. And all this requires a lot of money. However, even so, the situation in Liaodong has not improved. For the finances of the Ming Dynasty, the entire Liaodong region has become a bottomless pit.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen thought: gather the financial resources of the whole country, smash the pot and sell iron, and collect a large amount of military spending. and then send a famous general to Liaodong (because the Ming Dynasty was led by civilian officials, this famous general must also be a civilian official). Efforts should be made to completely reverse the situation in eastern Liaoning within a certain period of time. and even the complete elimination of the Houjin army.

If that's the case, as long as you grit your teeth and survive the previous few years, the entire financial problems of the Ming Dynasty will be completely alive.

It should be said that Emperor Chongzhen's idea is correct and completely logical. However, he did not expect that the implementation of this policy would greatly reduce the money and food for disaster relief after the drought. Therefore, the peasant rebel contingent now in northern Shaanxi immediately spread from a spark to the entire Shaanxi Province.

Don't say any more digressions. So which civilian official should be sent to preside over the military affairs of Liaodong now? At that time, there were only two ministers who were expected to return: Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan.

But because Sun Chengzong was already very old at that time, and because Sun Chengzong was once the teacher of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, in view of Emperor Chongzhen's complicated feelings for the Emperor of the Apocalypse. Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen was unwilling to send Sun Chengzong in his heart.

Then there is only Yuan Chonghuan.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan was indeed lucky. Although in the past, he was also Wei Zhongxian's party. However, because he has been an official in Liaodong, he is far away from the center of the capital. Therefore, he basically did not offend any other civil officials.

Fortunately for Yuan Chonghuan, in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, in the attack on civilian officials led by the Donglin Party launched by Wei Zhongxian, he and Xue Lian were members of the same faction, advocating not expanding the scope of the attack on civilian officials.

Therefore, in the subsequent struggle for power within Wei Zhongxian's party, Yuan Chonghuan was attacked by another faction and had to resign and go home. In this way, Yuan Chonghuan also vaguely became a victim of Wei Zhongxian's attack on civilian officials. In the eyes of people who don't know the situation, Yuan Chonghuan seems to be opposed to Wei Zhongxian's party. And Emperor Chongzhen's opinion of Yuan Chonghuan is exactly like this.

Therefore, in April of the first year of Chongzhen, when a minister recommended Yuan Chonghuan to Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't wait to reactivate Yuan Chonghuan. And in July of the first year of Chongzhen, he had an important platform summons with Yuan Chonghuan.

For the details of the platform summons, you can take a look at the historical materials or Baidu, and there will be no irrigation here. The general content of this summons is as follows:

Emperor Chongzhen learned in detail about the situation in Liaodong from Yuan Chonghuan and listened to Yuan Chonghuan's views on resolving the situation in Liaodong. When Yuan Chonghuan made many requests to Emperor Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen also satisfied Yuan Chonghuan. In Zuihou, Yuan Chonghuan assured Emperor Chongzhen that as long as the imperial court did meet Yuan Chonghuan's demands, he would pacify the situation in Liaodong within five years.

After the summons, Emperor Chongzhen immediately gave Yuan Chonghuan the sword of Shangfang, and appointed Yuan Chonghuan as the secretary of the military department and the right deputy capital of the imperial history, supervising the military affairs of Ji, Liao, and Deng, Lai, and Tianjin.

After the summons, Emperor Chongzhen's heart was very happy. He finally began to do the first major thing after taking the throne. Although the current situation in Liaodong is still like this, with Yuan Chonghuan's guarantee and his own support, isn't the beginning of Haode half the success?

This is the end of the platform summons. But we should look at two scenes that took place in this summons.

The first is that Emperor Chongzhen promised to meet all of Yuan Chonghuan's demands, and Yuan Chonghuan promised to pacify the situation in Liaodong within five years.

Because this summons is recorded in historical records, and it is very well recorded. In addition, many ministers were also present at this summons. Therefore, this summons must be very formal. Therefore, the promises made by all in this summons must have been very serious. The established guidelines and policies will also become national policies.

But in hindsight, Emperor Chongzhen fulfilled his promises one by one. And what does Yuan Chonghuan, who made a promise, think of his promise?

The second is: When a minister who was familiar with the situation in Liaodong and knew that he would not be able to pacify Liaodong in five years in any way, he privately raised the question in his heart to Yuan Chonghuan, and Yuan Chonghuan answered him like this.

The approximate meaning of Yuan Chonghuan's words is: Now the emperor is still young, and he doesn't know much about the situation in Liaodong. I saw that the emperor was anxious about the situation in Liaodong, so I said this to comfort him.

What's going on? Could it be that Yuan Chonghuan made a promise to make Emperor Chongzhen happy? He used this official summons as a place to coax the kindergarten children!

What's even more incredible is that although in the historical materials, the content of the conversation between the minister and Yuan Chonghuan is recorded very completely. But in hindsight, Emperor Chongzhen obviously did not know the content of the conversation between them. This can't help but make people miss those spies of the East Factory very much!

As for the other protagonist summoned by the platform, Yuan Chonghuan, we will analyze it in detail. Because of what he did, it had an extremely huge impact on the development of the situation in the last years of the Ming Dynasty.