Shen Shuren's promotion is temporarily set at the tune of "you can give more real power, but the level and treatment cannot be promoted too quickly".

I believe that such a tone is also what Shen Shuren himself is happy to accept - in this troubled world, what he needs most is real power, and as for the official position, it is all false.

Shen Shuren knows that there are still a few years left in Daming, and when it comes to the real tilt, it doesn't depend on how many resources everyone can actually control at hand.

As for the salary, salary, and opportunities for greed for oil and water...... Hehe, the Shen family has never expected to be an official to make money, it has always been an official with money!

However, Shen Shuren himself would think so, but others didn't know. As the decision-maker of the official seal, Chongzhen felt a little guilty about this in his heart.

Therefore, during the period after the tone was set, Chongzhen was not only diligent in government, but also began to care about the recent achievements of Shen Shuren, a courtier, in all aspects, and asked Wang Chengen to collect more deeds of Shen Shuren.

To put it bluntly, I just want to examine this talent in a more comprehensive way and see if there is anything else worthy of praise.

There is no such thing as an impermeable wall. The emperor was concerned about this matter, and Wei Zhaocheng, the official who handled this matter, of course, also knew it, so he later took the opportunity to give the emperor a few words.

Wei Shangshu's meaning is nothing more than this: "Although Shen Shuren has made miraculous achievements this time, it is the result of relying on Yang Ge Lao's overall coordination of the two provinces' military strength to suppress thieves and work together, and Shen Shuren is only the beneficiary of the decision."

The key to meritorious service lies in the fact that the military resources on the battlefields of the two provinces have been tilted towards the battlefields of Suizhou and Xinyang. However, a few days ago, Henan reported that in early June, Li Zicheng had set out Shangluo Mountain, broken Luonan and Luoning, and surrounded Luoyang from the south.

If Elder Yang Ge couldn't reverse the overall situation, and only tilted resources to local battlefields, but caused mistakes in other directions, then the credit of the Shen Shuren was nothing more than the defeat of others.

This fault does not need to be counted on the head of Shen Shuren, but there must be some civil and military generals in the Huguang and Henan theaters who are not effective in scheduling, or are afraid to move forward. In the case of damage to the overall situation, only Shen Shuren was promoted too quickly, and I am afraid that he will not be able to convince the public. ”

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Speaking of conscience, Wei Zhaocheng's reasoning was still very sincere, and the emperor also listened to it, so he completely stopped thinking about other things.

This is like if there is a large group company in the future, if the overall efficiency of the parent company and the group company is not good, and the performance of a subsidiary with internal related party transactions is very good, then the CEO of the subsidiary will not be rewarded and promoted too much.

Because who knows the performance of this subsidiary, whether it is related party transactions to make false accounts, let other brother companies supply him with raw materials at a low price, and buy his finished products at a high price, so that this subsidiary is praised as a star enterprise?

In later generations, listed companies should not do too many false accounts, and conservatively say that there are such false accounts above X.

Yang Sichang is responsible for the overall situation of the Central Plains to suppress the thieves, if Yang Sichang is uneven with a bowl of water, pours resources into the local battlefield of the Shen Shu people, and causes other places to collapse, then the Shen Shu people should not be promoted too high even if they are still meritorious.

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Chongzhen listened to Wei Zhaocheng's words, and after temporarily relaxing on this matter, Wang Chengen didn't know about the change in his master's mentality.

A few days ago, Chongzhen instructed him to collect materials about Shen Shuren through other channels, and Wang Chengen has always kept it in mind.

On the 20th day of June, that is, the fifth day after the extermination of Erhe's Yigong, Wang Chengen really found something good and sent it directly to Chongzhen through internal channels.

It was a thin booklet, a book of only a few dozen pages. The number of words per page of the Ming Dynasty's thread-bound books was not much, and this kind of pamphlet was only two hundred words per page, and the front and back were only four or five hundred. So a paper of 20,000 or 30,000 words can get fifty or sixty sheets of paper.

"What is this?" Chongzhen saw Wang Chengen sending him a book, and he was puzzled for a while.

Wang Chengen: "Your Majesty, it is written on the cover, this book is called "The Theory of Thieves", signed by Shen Shuren and edited by Gu Yanwu, the old slave has asked, it is a new folk who has appeared in the capital recently, Henan, Huguang, may have been published more than half a month ago."

The content of the book, the old slave did not understand very well, I heard that it was a work prepared by Shen Bing, analyzing the gains and losses of thieves in all dynasties and dynasties in the world, analyzing which thieves are the most dangerous, why they are dangerous, and which thieves are relatively unsuccessful. ”

"Oh? This Shenshu man has been a thief for several years, but he has learned from it. It is worthy of being born as a two-rank jinshi to suppress thieves, this is a combination of civil and military. ”

Chongzhen was also quite pleased to hear this, he had seen all kinds of practical twists and turns on how to suppress thieves on civil officials over the years, but they were all about details and operations, and no one had discussed the historical lessons of thieves from the level of political philosophy system theory.

Shen Shuren can write like this, I'm afraid that there is indeed some goods in his stomach.

Chongzhen quickly opened it and looked at it, not to mention, in just a few minutes, he was attracted by Shen Shuren's argument.

The content of Shen Shuren's discussion is nothing more than the content of talking about the dangers of thieves from all walks of life today when he asked Fang Kongzhi for help.

But at this moment, the text Chongzhen saw was much more complete and meticulous than when Shen Shuren dictated it at the beginning, and it was very convincing by quoting scriptures and classics, and it was the Tao at the head - this was obviously the result of Gu Yanwu, a great writer and philosopher, ghostwriting.

"It turns out that the thieves are so sharp, but the officials and the army are hindered everywhere, not only because the officers and soldiers are not strong in combat, but because the thieves are in the form of organizing people, which is inherently conducive to battle and is not conducive to stabilizing the world?

A thief is a kind of thief who does not have to think about how to prevent civil strife, prevent the seizure of power, and everything is to improve military combat power, and there is no time to think about long-term existence? This point of view is a bit interesting, indeed, the former Song Dynasty and my Ming Dynasty have to restrain the military ministers, internal checks and balances, but the thieves are not in danger, how can they care about long-term stability? How can you fight the best at the moment, let's get through it first. ”

"In all dynasties, Chen Sheng and Huang Chao were not able to defeat Qin and Tang militarily, but they could fight militarily, and after internal divisions were self-harming, Chen Sheng was harmed by Wuchen, and Huangchao was harmed by Zhu Wen......

From this point of view, I should now think about who are the military ministers and Zhu Wen under Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong. Last year, when the Shenshuren Hall tried to ask questions, I suggested that I Huai Rouyuan people, seduce Li Zhang's subordinates to kill the lord and surrender, and even their righteous son could persuade them, I'm afraid I already figured this out at that time......"

"Huh?! It turns out that in Shen Qing's eyes, this Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are more dangerous than Chen Sheng and Huang Chao? Just because Li Zhang's two thieves can not only have the advantages of thieves in previous dynasties, but also have the advantages of evil and crooked ways in previous dynasties, such as Taiping and White Lotus?

Just because Li Zhang's two thieves are one of the eunuchs and the other are injured and disabled, they are all children and grandchildren, so their righteous sons and generals support them like evil monks and sect leaders, and they are unwilling to betray easily?

Because they all know that if they betray, the other righteous sons and generals of Li Zhang's second thief will not betray, but will be happy to see him rebel, kill him and be loyal to Li Zhang, and in the future, they will be able to reduce a competitor who will inherit Li Zhang's family business?

Because everyone in the ministry knows that King Chuang can't pass on his son, this is why the thieves from ordinary poor and lowly backgrounds try to harm each other and seize their industry, and they are competing for this great cause 'everyone collects firewood and the flame is high', as long as they win the first credit under King Chuang, they will naturally be able to inherit his family business peacefully when King Chuang dies in the future? ! ”

When he saw this, Chongzhen's eyes were about to fall out, but after thinking about it carefully, every sentence Shen Aiqing said was a wise saying, although it was unheard of, but it really couldn't find fault.

I see! So that's how it was!

No wonder my Da Ming dealt with the thieves, it was so difficult, it was much more difficult than Qin to deal with Chen Sheng and Tang to deal with Huang Chao!

It turns out that the root lies in Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, one is an injured eunuch, and the other is a heavenly eunuch, which makes the internal cohesion of the thieves much higher than that of other thieves who have been exterminated in previous dynasties!

For a moment, a terrible thought even flashed through Chongzhen's mind:

If I also cut off my children and grandchildren, and only recruit one son-in-law, I will recruit the most capable military general of the Ming Dynasty as a son-in-law. is even an adopted son-in-law, that is, the kind of treatment that must first give the son-in-law the surname Zhu and the emperor's son-in-law, and then let him marry the princess and pass the throne to the son-in-law of the Mengjiang in the future.

Maybe even if there are 10 million thieves, they will have been slaughtered by the "quasi-horses" who want the throne like wolves and tigers!

He remembered that when the imperial brother was in power, Xu Ge Lao translated some historical books of the Roman Empire, which mentioned that the period of the most powerful Five Sages Emperor in Rome was passed down from generation to generation of five generations of sons-in-law.

In his later years, the old emperor chose the most famous general in the empire as his son-in-law to inherit the throne, resulting in the five generations of emperors, Rome opened up its territory and was invincible to the West, and beat other countries.

It wasn't until the last Emperor Aurelius of the Five Sages that he felt that his own son Commodus was also good, and he had to pass on his own son, which led to infighting between his son and son-in-law, and the bloody storm in the center, and Rome gradually declined.

Fortunately, this terrible thought flashed in Chongzhen's mind. He is still very strong, and he would rather bend than bend.

Not to mention that he already has three sons, even if he has no sons now, and there is only one Princess Kunxing (Zhu Yujiao, later Princess Changping) under his knees, he will never really be cranky.

However, Shen Aiqing's book, Chongzhen feels that it is really valuable to promote.

Especially in the later text, he saw that it also described that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong would inevitably have an advantage when the thieves had internal self-plotting mergers in the future, because Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong had no sons, so the cohesion and loyalty of their subordinates must be higher than that of Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying's subordinates.

In any case, as long as these remarks are analyzed and handed down, the thieves will definitely kill each other!

For the sake of the internal friction of the thieves, this kind of discordant scheme without cost and profit should also be promoted!

"Wang Chengen!"

"The old slave is here!"

As soon as Chongzhen spoke, Wang Chengen, who was hidden in the dark next to him and tried not to disturb the emperor, appeared just right.

Chongzhen's eyes were full of appreciation: "This book is a bit interesting, let the Hanlin Academy take it and print it widely, so that the Manchu Dynasty Wenchen can read it!" It is also necessary to vigorously spread it to places where the rampant thieves are serious! ”

"The old slave will do it."

"Wait!"

"What else does Your Majesty command?"

Chongzhen's nasolabial folds twitched: "That's it, if you make a mistake, it's okay not to let the Hanlin Academy undertake it." ”

Wang Chengen was puzzled: "The Hanlin Academy has the responsibility of promoting cultural governance, how can it be wrong?" ”

Chongzhen sighed: "I remember that during the palace examination last year, the champion Wei Zaode and the others did not deal with Shen Shuren and Fang Yizhi's crane tails.

When you go to the Hanlin Academy, remember to remind me one more sentence, don't use him to edit a lot of things, Shen Shuren's writing, not a word is allowed to change, and I will print the world as it is. Dare to change a word, let him not stay in Hanlin. ”