When Wang Shuo rushed back to the Wuying Palace, the hall was deserted, only Chongzhen and Wang Chengen were sitting next to the imperial book.It seems that both of them are very calm, in a good mood, and very speculative in their speech.I only heard Wang Chengen say: "The slaves are the youngest in the family, and the family really can't eat enough, so my father and mother have no choice, so I sold the slaves to the clean workshop outside the front door."
The slave does not hate his parents, he does not sell the slave there, and the slave also starves to death.In this way, the slave got a life, and he was destined to serve the emperor, and the slave was content.The brothers and sisters in the family also have a way to live, and this is all thanks to the emperor's blessing. ”Chongzhen said: "You are much stronger than me, at least you know what your parents look like."
I hadn't seen my mother since I was born, and it wasn't until I inherited the throne that I asked the eunuch who had seen my mother to ask the painter to draw her mother's appearance.That portrait is not like the queen mother, only God knows. ”Speaking of this, his nose was sour, and he wiped his eyes with the sleeves of his dragon robe before saying: "My mother is even worse than me, she was beaten into the cold palace early, she lived in depression and fright all day long, and she died not long after." ”sighed and said, "This palace city is as deep as the sea, looking solemn and majestic, brilliant and magnificent, how can others know that under this magnificent magnificence, there are unjust souls everywhere" Before the words fell, there was a rumbling cannon sound in the distance.The Dashun army could not wait for the envoys to come back and began to attack the city.Wang Shuo didn't care about etiquette, ran into the hall and said loudly: "Your Majesty, if you don't leave, there really won't be a chance" Chongzhen looked at Wang Shuo, and then said slowly: "I never planned to walk."
Emperor Chengzu set up the capital here to tell his descendants that the most dangerous place is the place where the emperor should stay the most.If I leave the capital and escape, how can I be worthy of the ancestors and ancestors" After contacting Chongzhen for just half a day, it completely changed the image of Emperor Chongzhen in Wang Shuo's original heart, from the history books.To tell the truth, by now, he had a little sympathy for the emperor, a poor man who had worked so hard to change everything.It's not that he doesn't want to do it, and he's not confused at all.He did it, and did it with all his heart.However, the decline of the Ming Dynasty did not start from his hands, nor did it become like this overnight.The rotten bureaucratic constitution, backward management methods and concepts, have been eroding the body of the Ming Dynasty little by little since a long time ago, and finally the disease is eroded from the skin into the inside, just like a person has a terminal illness, and it has reached an advanced stage, and there is no hope of recovery.Even if Chongzhen is a famous doctor, it is difficult for this Ming Dynasty to come back to life.Wang Shuo didn't know why, but intuitively felt that it was a pity that Chongzhen died like this.Daming has come to this day, and the responsibility cannot be completely put on this poor and somewhat hateful emperor.He persuaded Chongzhen: "As long as Your Majesty escapes and avoids the catastrophe of this time, and recovers the capital in the future, Your Majesty is still the British Lord, why bother with the gains and losses of this time" Chongzhen smiled and said: "If the Ming Dynasty is not destined to die, even if I am gone, the descendants of Taizu are all over the place, and there will eventually be someone to inherit the unification, so the survival of Jiangshan Sheji does not depend on my life and death."
If the heavens are going to destroy the Ming Dynasty, what good is it for me to escape" Then he changed the subject and said to Wang Shuo, "You also go find a seat, sit down, I still have something to ask you."
Today, there is no emperor or courtiers, even if we are all ordinary people, we are sitting here and talking together. ”After all, Chongzhen carries the majesty of the king of a country, and Wang Shuo can personally feel the existence of this majesty.He bowed down and replied, "The minister is not tired, so he will stand and listen to the training." ”Chongzhen didn't insist, and asked Wang Shuo: "You are in the northwest, and you have contact with the thieves.What the people and thieves outside say about me, you can tell me the truth. ”At this time, Wang Shuo could only tell the truth, he said: "Actually, most of the people who are attached to Li Zicheng are hungry people, and some of them are Ming troops who surrendered.Li Zicheng's own direct army, no more than 100,000.In the eyes of the people, His Majesty disregards their life and death, blindly levies and extorts, and is a tyrant. ”Chongzhen was not angry when he heard this, and smiled slightly: "Whoever sits in my position will be a tyrant."
How can I not know that the people of the world are difficult, but only the Liao salary has to spend tens of millions of taels every year, and I can't sit idly by, watching the Jianzhou slaves grow bigger and bigger, and I am indifferent.To tell the truth, even if Li Zicheng doesn't come to Jingshi, I can't support this huge country. ”This Wang Shuo really didn't expect that his army was self-raising food, why would Liaodong need so much food, he couldn't help but say: "The land in Liaodong is fertile, and the army can raise its own food and salary, and there is no need for the imperial court to receive help." ”Chongzhen snorted and said: "Do you know why I want to kill Yuan Chonghuan, I have to take so much food and salary from me every year, it's not enough, but also to send Mao Wenlong's food and salary to him, if you don't give it, kill it, and go to trade with the Mongols, and exchange the food and salary I give for what he needs, the Mongols are instructed by Jianzhou slaves, and he is tantamount to an indirect enemy, even so, I didn't say anything."
As long as you, Yuan Chonghuan, can control the Jianzhou slaves in Liaodong and let me slow down to deal with Li Zicheng, I will never complain.As for the five years of returning to Liao, I never thought about it, but Yuan Chonghuan spent a lot of money, but he still let Huang Taiji pass inside and outside the pass, and follow up with his own home in the Central Plains, you said, should this Yuan Chonghuan be killed" Wang Shuo couldn't help but stay in the local area.History only said that Yuan Chonghuan died unjustly, and he traveled thousands of miles to help in exchange for a punishment, and no one said what kind of mistake he made.It turned out that in Chongzhen's eyes, this Inspector Yuan made a big mistake, so to speak, Yuan Chonghuan's death was not too unjust.I only heard Chongzhen continue: "Of course, the punishment was a little more ruthless, and I was still angry at that time.According to his sins, I didn't implicate his family later, but I regretted that I was too cruel to him. ”It seems that Chongzhen has never regretted killing Yuan Chonghuan, and has always thought that he should be killed, but he regrets that he was tortured too severely.But this Yuan Chonghuan, should he be killed or not In Wang Shuo's opinion, Chongzhen is not right to kill Yuan Chonghuan, but Yuan Chonghuan's military command in Liaodong is also debatable.Huang Taiji did not have many troops, if Yuan Chonghuan did not blindly defend a few fortresses, but like he was in the northwest, he competed with Huang Taiji for population, established a base area, and adopted the method of mobile warfare, so that the Guanning Iron Cavalry, which was not lost to the Eight Banners of Manchuria, went deep into Huang Taiji's territory to fight, so that he could not be at peace, just like Liu Deng marched into Dabie Mountain, how could Huang Taiji free his hands to attack Guannei Moreover, there are still many Han people in Liaodong, and the Han people are facing the Ming army.He is like Wang Shuo in the northwest, learning the ideas of great men, organizing villages, encouraging farming, flowering more, and competing with Huang Taiji for resources and population, how can Huang Taiji develop so fast The reason why Huang Taiji attacked the pass is that the lack of life and supplies is to the limit, and then he ventured into the pass, which has a complete record in history, and it is so miserable that even the Baylors are not enough to eat and wear.Besides, when Huang Taiji entered the pass, what did you Yuan Chonghuan do, why didn't you attack his base area, and rushed to this point when he took his lair, Chongzhen suspected that he was collaborating with the enemy Of course, the Ming army in the pass was too weak and the organization of resistance was not effective, which could not be blamed on Yuan Chonghuan.At that time, Fan Hanjie was a scholar, and like Yuan Chonghuan, he stubbornly defended several cities, which caused his gradual passivity and was broken by the Northeast Army.From this point of view, this Yuan Inspector really can't be called a general
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