"When I return to the emperor, the concubines will also sing loyalty to the country."

"Okay, Wang Chengen, you hurry up and call those cabinet ministers to me."

First, now, the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty is full of loyal ministers.

The main ones are as follows:

In the thousands of years of Chinese history, the change of dynasties is probably a common thing. However, martyrdom is rare. Moreover, most of the martyrs were concubines of the harem, because under normal circumstances, if they were caught by the enemy, they would be exiled, worked as coolies, and so on. After Chongzhen hanged herself, Queen Zhou hanged herself, and then the concubines also took out ropes, and hundreds of eunuchs and palace maids committed suicide. But when it comes to the martyrdom of officials, like the Ming Dynasty, it is extremely rare for civil and military officials to be martyred on a large scale, and the following are the ministers who died for the martyrdom of the Ming Dynasty.

1. Ni Yuanlu

He was not only a scholar of the household department and the Ministry of Rites in the Ming Dynasty, but also a calligrapher.

2. Fan Jingwen

After Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself, Fan Jingwen, who was an official to the Ministry of Industry and a scholar of Dongge University, immediately committed suicide by throwing himself into a well. In the suicide note he left behind, we see a guilty heart. Fan Jingwen regretted that he could not get rid of the traitors for the Ming Dynasty and wash away the shame of the Ming Dynasty.

3. Li Banghua

Li Banghua, who was the imperial history of Zuodu, wrote a desperate poem after Li Zicheng broke the city, and then hanged himself. Later, he was posthumously presented as a secretary of the ministry.

Fourth, Shi Bangyao

The official committed suicide twice. For the first time, after Chongzhen hanged himself, he felt that only in this way could he repay the country's kindness, so he hanged himself. But he was saved by a servant. After Shi Bangyao woke up, he immediately asked his servant to buy arsenic, swallowed the arsenic and wine, and died.

Fifth, Lingyi Canal

The official is Dali Siqing, and Ling Yiqu is also a writer and engraving printer. When he learned that Chongzhen had hanged himself, Ling Yiqu was so grief-stricken that he even hit the pillar with his head, causing blood to flow from his face. In the face of the consolation of his protégé, he also shouted loudly, sat alone, and burned the books he loved in his life one by one. The next day, Ling Yiqu committed suicide after writing a suicide note saying goodbye to his parents.

Sixth, Wang Jiayan

When the city of Beijing was captured, Wang Jiayan, who was the right attendant of the military department, jumped off the city to martyr himself. It's just that Wang Jiayan didn't die after jumping off the city, but he hanged himself afterwards.

7. Wu Linzheng

After Wu Linzheng, who served as Taichang Siqing, learned of Chongzhen's death, he walked to the ancestral hall on the side of the road and hanged himself.

Eighth, Liu straightened out

After learning that Chongzhen had hanged himself, the minister who served as Zuo Zhongyun committed suicide with his wife, concubines, and domestic servants.

9. Meng Zhaoxiang

His official position is the right attendant of the Criminal Department. When Li Zicheng attacked Beijing, Meng Zhaoxiang was persuaded by his family to flee for his life first, but he resolutely refused and kept guarding Zhengyangmen. Until the city of Beijing was captured, Meng Zhaoxiang did not give in, and finally died under the Zhengyangmen Gate. After that, his wife, concubine, and children also threw themselves into the well.

As a historian, Chongzhen, a traverser, naturally understands this history, so he made all of them cabinet ministers, anyway, this Chongzheng also frequently changed cabinet ministers back then, and he didn't need to perform major surgery on the cabinet after this blood change, wouldn't it be once and for all.

As for the first and auxiliary minister of the cabinet, it is natural to take Yang Sichang, this person is not only loyal and filial, but also really talented, who will he promote if he is not promoted?

After his operation, the current Ming Dynasty is full of vitality, and the ministers and eunuchs have not fought again, because Wang Chengen is also a slave who is wholeheartedly for the Ming Dynasty.

As for the Donglin party, he has to kill a group of them when he is free, these people will only make trouble all day long, and they can't do anything.

To live is to waste my food.

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Let's say that Yang Sichang is extremely trusted by Chongzhen.

Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty reigned for 17 years, during which more than 50 cabinet ministers were replaced, and more than a dozen of the first assistants were replaced, which shows the extreme incongruity between the monarchs and ministers.

Chongzhen has been in power for so many years, is there no courtier who can enter his eyes? In the eleventh year of Chongzhen, Yang Sichang, who was appointed as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of Dongge University, was one of them, and the degree to which they got along with each other was rare throughout Chongzhen's reign.

Yang Sichang is the son of Yang He, the former governor of the three sides, has the reputation of Jinshi, Yang He, who served as a thief in Shaanxi, was sentenced to death in Chongzhen for four years for failing to appease the thieves, and wrote to Chongzhen several times to save his father Yang Sichang asked Chongzhen to confess his father's guilt, so he won the recognition of Chongzhen, who paid attention to filial piety, and rarely removed Yang He's capital crime, and since then, he has deliberately observed and promoted Yang Sichang, so that he has been promoted all the way until he enters the cabinet.

Yang Sichang's most well-known things are roughly that he first put forward the strategic policy of "first securing the inside" when attacking the outside, and in order to implement this strategic policy, he framed Lu Xiangsheng, the minister of the main battle faction, during the invasion of the Qing army in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, causing Lu Xiangsheng to die in the battle due to isolation and helplessness. Sun Chuanting, another prominent minister in the late Ming Dynasty, was also imprisoned for disagreeing with Yang Sichang. Chongzhen's treatment for Yang Sichang can be said to be the only one among the ministers, why does Chongzhen trust Yang Sichang so much?

First of all, Yang Sichang has no party. Chongzhen was greatly appreciated by Yang Sichang's attitude of dying for his father Yang He during his conviction, so he began to pay attention to Yang Sichang. In addition to the early stage, Chongzhen's courtiers who particularly valued and intended to reuse had a characteristic, he could not be the Donglin Party, and the cabinet ministers resolutely refused to serve as Donglin Party members, probably because the Donglin Party's power in the officialdom and the people was too large, and it had threatened the imperial power.

Chongzhen was very uneasy about this, and deliberately suppressed it to prevent the Donglin Party from holding more power, and in the first few years of Chongzhen's rule, the Donglin Party made him very disappointed, Yuan Chonghuan needless to say, the occurrence of the "change of his own life" made Chongzhen hate him to the core, and did not hesitate to treat him with Ling Chi's means. Then the Ming army was defeated in the Battle of Dalinghe in Chongzhen's fourth year, and Sun Chengzong, the front-line commander who was mainly responsible, was a giant of Donglin.

The two commanders of the Donglin Party did not bring Chongzhen the victory he hoped for, but made Chongzhen constantly frightened, and the result was that Chongzhen, who was very willing to use the Donglin Party at the beginning, stayed away from them after that. Yang Sichang is a pure filial piety, and he is not a member of the Donglin Party, so there is a basis for Chongzhen to focus on training and promotion.

Secondly, Yang Sichang is indeed talented. He had the courage to do things when he served at the border pass, and there were many reasonable and suitable suggestions for governance to Chongzhen, after entering the court, he played with Chongzhen many times, and his internal and external governance opinions were also in line with Chongzhen's mind, Chongzhen rarely met such an appetizing courtier, of course, he had to be greatly promoted:

When the Central Plains was hungry and a group of thieves swarmed, Sichang asked for gold, silver, copper and tin mines to be opened to dissolve his party. and six sparse side affairs, many plans. The emperor is different.

Sichang is determined to vibrate, and Diyi thinks he can. When each pair must move, please listen to all the plays, saying: "Hate to use the night." ”

The point is that Yang Sichang belongs to the pragmatic school, and most of his suggestions are substantial, not empty talk, such as the strategy of "fighting outside must first be settled inside" against the Qing Dynasty and the method of encirclement and suppression of the convection of the Liukou of "four positive and six corners, and ten sides of the net", etc., are actually quite feasible, and are basically aimed at the actual predicament faced by the Ming Dynasty at that time.

Moreover, Yang Sichang is willing to take the blame for Chongzhen. Chongzhen, the emperor, has a shortcoming, he thinks that the emperor should not take the blame for the courtiers, there are wrong courtiers to recognize, and the credit is attributed to the emperor, which leads to the fact that few courtiers are willing to communicate with him, which is also the origin of his reign of 17 years of continuous replacement of cabinet ministers, there is no absolute success in doing things, and the leaders are unwilling to properly shelter, and after a long time, no one is willing to make suggestions, all of which are passable.

And Yang Sichang was grateful to Chongzhen for the kindness of his father Yang He, and was willing to die for Chongzhen, in the case that no one dared to propose peace with the Qing Dynasty in the whole world, he proceeded from reality, was not afraid of rumors, took the initiative to solve problems for Chongzhen, put forward the proposal of making peace with the Qing Dynasty first, and said that "people are unwilling to take their responsibilities and the ministers bear them", such an attitude of course makes Chongzhen who hates the ministers who can't do practical things for them appreciate.

With the above points, in Chongzhen's eyes, Yang Sichang is a selfless minister who serves the country and has the talent to save the country. The suppression of bandits presided over by Yang Sichang progressed slowly, Chongzhen refused to convict him, Yang Sichang framed Lu Xiangsheng to death due to disagreement, and Jinan fell due to command errors, and the prince was killed, but Chongzhen still did not convict him. Xiong Wencan, recommended by Yang Sichang, indulged Zhang Xianzhong to surrender and rebel, and Chongzhen only sent him out to be responsible for exterminating Zhang Xianzhong, and also wrote poems for Yang Sichang to encourage:

Yanmei is now temporarily used as a dry city,

Admiral majestic Willow Battalion.

Sweep away the atmosphere from now on,

Returning the period of education to improve the people's livelihood.

Chongzhen has never written poems to several courtiers in his life, except for Qin Liangyu is Yang Sichang, which shows how much he trusts him. Yang Sichang's defeat in the military campaign to encircle and suppress Zhang Xianzhong led to the fall of Xiangyang, the king of Xiang, whose fief was in Xiangyang, was killed, and Yang Sichang himself died of fear. After his death, Chongzhen was still extremely sad, and defended him many times when the ministers asked to hold Yang Sichang responsible for the fall of the prince, and Yang Sichang rarely became the minister who was remembered by Chongzhen after his death:

It is the sin of Zhao Xue Heichang, and the sacrifice is given, and it is buried in Wuling. Si Chang first entered the prince and young master with the skill of suppressing thieves, and when he died, he talked about Lin, Lan Ping stealing skills, and entered the prince and the prince. The courtiers still pursued it, and the emperor finally thought about it.

You must know that when Sun Chengzong and Lu Xiangsheng died in the war for the country, Chongzhen did not even reward a single hair, Sun Chengzong only passed on the decree to compensate, not even posthumously, and Lu Xiangsheng's body was not buried for three months after his death. Later, Sun Chuanting, the only hope of the Ming Dynasty, died in battle, and Chongzhen even suspected that it was a fake death and refused to pay compensation. Throughout Chongzhen's dynasty, only Yang Sichang could be treated with Chongzhen's help to defend after his death.

Yang Sichang's reputation in later generations was mixed, because of the death of Lu Xiangsheng in the eleventh year of Chongzhen, many people regarded Yang Sichang as a traitor. In fact, Yang Sichang's strategy of "fighting outside must first be inside" may not be wrong, the Ming Dynasty at that time did not afford to fight on both sides, Yang Sichang made a mistake in the case of Chongzhen's eleventh year when the Qing army had entered the customs in a big way and insisted on negotiating peace, the correct way to deal with it should be to beat the Qing army out first and then talk, even if you want to negotiate peace, it cannot be in the state of the enemy's invasion, otherwise the nature of the peace talks will become peace, when Ming Yingzong was captured by the enemy under the city of Beijing, the Ming Dynasty did not accept the threat, not to mention the robbery of the Qing army?

For example, in order to implement the tactics of "four positive and six corners, ten sides of the net" to increase the agricultural tax in the country, it was seriously out of touch with the actual situation at that time, and it was this additional levy that made the peasant rebel army in the late Ming Dynasty completely develop and grow, Yang Sichang's original intention was right, the bandits needed money to collect taxes, but he was the gentry class, and he was never able to jump out of this box to find the really rich class to collect taxes, and the class limited his vision and means. But in general, Yang Sichang can be regarded as a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty and a loyal minister of Emperor Chongzhen.

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In a short time, everyone arrived.

"Angry hair rushes to the crown, relying on the place, Xiaoxiao rain rest. Raise your eyes, look up to the sky and roar, strong and fierce. Thirty fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons. Don't wait, the young man's head is white, empty and sad.

Jing Kang is ashamed, and it is still snowing. When the courtiers hate, when will they perish. Drive a long car and step through the lack of Helan Mountain. Zhuang is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood. To start from the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and face the sky. ”

Chongzhen faced everyone, and said after reading the lyrics and songs.

"This Yue Fei's Manjianghong, I still remember it very clearly, but it's a pity that this Yue Fei is pitiful, and it is really his personal tragedy to meet an emperor like Song Gaozong. I will decree tomorrow that the descendants of Yue Fei and his generals be treated kindly, repair their cemeteries, and commend their deeds. ”

"I don't know what Concubine Ai is singing, but this is full of Jianghong?" Chongzheng asked after speaking.

"No, what the concubines sing is to serve the country with loyalty, guzheng and pipa, and prepare to !!" Chen Yuanyuan greeted several musicians and began to sing.

Serve one’s country with true allegiance

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