Chapter 10 - Arrogant Zhang Shenyan
Unlike the appeal of those vassal kings, Chongzhen was a rightful emperor.
Therefore, after arriving in Nanjing City with more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, Chongzhen, who held the military power, immediately accepted all the power!
Although a group of high-ranking officials had a lot of complaints, they dared to compete for power and profit with those Ming Dynasty vassal kings, but they did not have the courage to jump out and talk about Chongzhen, so the state affairs went extremely smoothly.
It didn't take long for Chongzhen to basically straighten out the backlog of official documents in the imperial court these days.
At the same time, the local officials in the south and the provinces of the Central Plains, who were also in the hands of the Ming Dynasty, soon all knew the news that the emperor had successfully arrived in Nanjing.
The encouragement brought to them by this news was obvious, and the north was already preparing to surrender some of the Manchu counties.
At this moment, I suddenly regretted it!
This is the effect of Chongzhen, the title of the orthodox emperor, and this is also the reason why Zhang Yun tried his best to rescue Chongzhen.
If he had chosen to give up Chongzhen and go to the south to farm and develop, Zhang Yun didn't know if the system would have given him so much time?
In the same way, since Zhang Yun knows that he must go, he has become less persistent in the game of dominating the world!
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Just when Chongzhen wanted to completely rectify the affairs of the DPRK and China, and twist the forces of the southern provinces into a rope, so as to resist the Manchus and Li Zicheng.
Zhang Yun, who was holding the pass token, walked into the Qianqing Palace again, and the first time he saw Chongzhen, Zhang Yun said: "Please also ask Your Majesty to retreat, there are important secrets to tell you!" β
Before Chongzhen could react, the civil and military officials in the Qianqing Palace at this time were in addition to Yan Yingyuan and Huang Degong.
Almost all of them reprimanded angrily, and even Zhang Shenyan, the secretary of the ministry, even opened his mouth to Chongzhen: "Now that the state affairs are difficult, Your Majesty must not indulge in these Buddhist and Taoist theories......
"For this demon in front of me, I ask His Majesty the Emperor to immediately order him to be beheaded!"
In the face of everyone's hatred, Zhang Yun always smiled, kept glancing at Chongzhen, and at the same time didn't feel much fear in his heart......
Even if Chongzhen wants to kill himself, Zhang Yun is sure to escape from this palace, and after that, in order to complete the task, it is a big deal to bring out a team by himself, and at the same time give birth to a son himself.
After unifying the whole country within a few years, even if he is taken away by the system, at least he has a naΓ―ve son to inherit the throne!
The big deal is that after the young lord succeeds to the throne, it leads to the fall of power......
Fortunately, the worst-case scenario imagined by Zhang Yun did not appear, and Chongzhen was grateful for the more than 10 million taels of silver that Zhang Yun took out, and the great grace of saving his life!
In addition, Chongzhen also felt that Zhang Yun was indeed very capable, when Yan Yingyuan was training, there were many places where he had been instructed by Zhang Yun, and these Chongzhen had seen it with his own eyes!
Therefore, Chongzhen hurriedly said to Zhang Yun: "It just so happens that Zhang Daochang is here today, and I am also a little tired, so I might as well stay in the palace and accompany me to the back for lunch!" β
Then Chongzhen explained a few more words to the civil and military officials, calmed their emotions a little, and motioned Zhang Yun to follow his footsteps to the back of the Qianqing Palace......
After arriving at the palace, Zhang Yun signaled Chongzhen to send Lu Jiude and Han Zanzhou aside, leaving only Wang Chengen alone to hold the pot on the side.
Chongzhen complied one by one and drove out the two eunuchs who were full of reluctance......
Zhang Yun ignored it, the two eunuchs looked at him, anyway, he didn't mix here for a long time, did he need to be afraid of these two eunuchs?
When only Chongzhen, himself, and Wang Chengen were left here, Zhang Yun opened his mouth and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, the military power is still in your own hands, do you remember what Poor Dao once said?" Power comes out of the barrel of a gun! β
"The most obvious example is that if Your Majesty didn't have these 100,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, do you think those high-ranking officials would be as obedient as they are today?"
"I'm afraid that Your Majesty's actions today would have already jumped up when they were in Beijing City, and Zhang Shenyan's words about His Majesty's killing of the poor Dao would definitely not be as simple as words......
"There are also many stories that have happened to His Majesty's ancestors, such as the example of daring to say that the emperor is in the palace, as long as he has a child, and the state affairs are handed over to our ministers, here, the poor road will not talk about it!"
"Let's just talk about Emperor Zhengde, there are clear historical materials to prove that he was 'killed'......"
"Poor Dao said something unpleasant, Your Majesty, if you touch the interests of some people without holding the military power, then Your Majesty dares to guarantee that you will not be 'killed' one day?"
Chongzhen listened with a gloomy face, in fact, in the palace, Chongzhen had heard these secret news more than once, and the mystery of Emperor Zhengde's death.
Chongzhen even knows a little more thoroughly than Zhang Yun, who has information obtained from hearsay!
It's just that looking at Zhang Yun's appearance today, he obviously didn't come to tell a story to himself, so Chongzhen didn't beat around the bush and asked directly.
"I don't know, when Zhang Daochang entered the palace today, there must be some good strategy to teach me?"
"Ha ......"
After Zhang Yun laughed a few times, he saw that Chongzhen's face was getting more and more ugly, so he had to shut down, and said: "The four towns of Jiangbei, plus Zuo Liangyu, are the warlords who hold military power in addition to Your Majesty!" β
"Of course, among them, Huang Degong has now belonged to His Majesty's subordinates, so naturally he can be omitted, but the other four, doesn't Your Majesty have any thoughts about them?"
"You must know that in addition to the four of them, whether it is the Beijing camp outside Nanjing, or the miscellaneous troops in other places, if you say something unkind, they don't say that they will fight the Manchus, but they will fight Li Zicheng, I'm afraid they will not be able to do it......"
"Therefore, the four of them who still have combat effectiveness have seriously affected Your Majesty's prestige, and in the same way, if Your Majesty can't integrate them, then after a while, the Manchus will sort out the north and start to lead the army south."
"What will Your Majesty do to stop it?"
"You must know that Your Majesty's great enemy will always be the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as for Li Zicheng, the person who once forced His Majesty to hang himself, at this moment is already yesterday's yellow flower, and it is not worth mentioning at all!"
"As a person in power, Your Majesty should give up hatred, at least he should not point the finger at Li Zicheng, a yellow flower of yesterday."
"Because Your Majesty wants to rejuvenate the Ming Dynasty, then the Manchu Qing Dynasty is the biggest stone in front of Your Majesty, so next, the main thing Your Majesty has to do is to go north to recapture the ......capital after integrating all its own resources."
"But to achieve this goal, with only the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in His Majesty's hands now, it is obvious that he will not be able to reach the destination, so that if the idea is hit on the four warlords, that is the only thing Your Majesty can do now!"