national surname chiming

Chapter 126
For the time being, Shen Shuren's promotion was set on the tone of "more real power can be given, but the level of treatment can't be raised too fast".

I believe that such a tone is what Shen Shuren himself is willing to accept—in this troubled world, what he needs most is real power, and as for official positions, they are all vain.

Shen Shuren knew that there were still a few years left in Ming Dynasty, and when the time came to really turn the sky, wouldn't it be worth seeing how many resources each person could actually control, and the false name would be of no use at that time?
As for the remuneration, salaries, chances of being greedy... Hehe, the Shen family never expects money from being an official, and has always been an official with money!
However, Shen Shuren himself would think so, but others did not know.As the decision maker of the official appointment, Chongzhen felt a little guilty about it.

So during the period after the tone was set, Chongzhen, apart from being diligent in his administration, also began to pay close attention to Shen Shuren's achievements in various aspects recently, and asked Wang Cheng'en to collect more stories about Shen Shuren.

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

There is no impenetrable wall in the world.The emperor was concerned about this matter, and Wei Zhaocheng, the official minister who handled the matter, of course knew it well, so he took the opportunity to speak to the emperor several times later.

Wei Shangshu's meaning is nothing more than this: "Although Shen Shuren has made extraordinary achievements this time, it is the result of Yang Ge's overall planning and cooperation of the two provinces' anti-thief forces. Shen Shuren is only the beneficiary of the decision.

The key to making meritorious service is that the military resources on the battlefields of the two provinces are all tilted towards the Suizhou and Xinyang battlefields.But a few days ago, Henan reported that Li Zicheng had left Shangluo Mountain in early June, smashed Luonan and Luoning, and surrounded Luoyang from the south.

If Mr. Yang Ge couldn't turn the situation around, but only diverted resources to a local battlefield, but caused mistakes in other directions, then Shen Shuren's credit was nothing more than based on the defeat of others.

This fault may not necessarily be attributed to Shen Shuren, but there must be some civil servants and generals in the Huguang and Henan theaters who were ineffective in dispatching or hesitated to move forward.With the overall situation damaged, the only thing that promoted Shen Shuren too quickly was that he might not be able to convince the public. "

To be honest, Wei Zhaocheng's reasoning is still very sincere, and the emperor listened to it, so he completely stopped thinking about it.

This is like if there is a large group company in later generations, if the overall benefits of the parent company and the group company are not good, and a subsidiary with internal related transactions has a good performance alone, then the boss of this subsidiary will not May be promoted by too many rewards.

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

There should not be too many listed companies in future generations who do this kind of false accounts. It is conservative to say that more than X percent of them have such false accounts.

Yang Sichang is responsible for the overall situation of suppressing bandits in the Central Plains. If Yang Sichang's bowl of water is uneven and he pours resources into Shen Shuren's local battlefield, causing other places to collapse, then even if Shen Shuren still has merit, he shouldn't be promoted too high.

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After Chongzhen listened to Wei Zhaocheng's words and temporarily relaxed on this matter, Wang Chengen didn't know the master's change of mind.

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

On June [-]th, that is, the fifth day after the meritorious deeds for the extermination of Erhe, Wang Chengen really found some good things, and sent them directly to Chongzhen through internal channels.

It was a thin booklet with only a few dozen pages.The thread-bound books of the Ming Dynasty did not have many words per page. This kind of booklet had no more than two hundred words per page, and only four to five hundred words on the front and back.So for a thesis of [-] to [-] words, you can get [-] or [-] sheets of paper.

"What is this?" Chongzhen was puzzled when he saw Wang Chengen gifting him a book.

Wang Cheng'en: "Your Majesty, it says on the cover that this book is called "On the Thieves", signed by Shen Shuren and edited by Gu Yanwu. The old slave has asked about it. It is a new one that appeared in the capital recently. Henan and Huguang. It may have been published more than half a month ago.

The content of the book, the old slave does not quite understand, I heard that it is written by Shen Bingbei, which analyzes the gains and losses of the thieves in the past dynasties, analyzes which thieves are the most dangerous, why they are dangerous, and which thieves are relatively ineffective. "

"Oh? This Shen Shuren has been suppressing thieves for several years, but he has gained some experience in suppressing thieves. As expected of a two-ranked Jinshi who went to suppress thieves, this is a combination of civil and military skills."

Chongzhen was also quite pleased to hear the words. He had read all kinds of practical memorials on how to suppress thieves published by civil servants over the years, but they were all about details and operations. history lesson.

For Shen Shuren to be able to write like this, he might have something in his stomach.

Chongzhen quickly opened it to read, not to mention, in just a few minutes, he was attracted by Shen Shuren's exposition.

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

But at this moment, the text that Chongzhen saw was much more complete and meticulous than Shen Shuren's original dictation, and the quotations from the scriptures were clear and convincing.

"It turns out that the bandits are so sharp, but the officers and soldiers are holding back everywhere. It's not just that the officers and soldiers are incapable of fighting, but that the way bandits organize their troops is naturally conducive to battles and not conducive to stabilizing the world?

Rogue is a kind of existence that does not need to consider how to prevent civil strife and power seizure from the beginning to the end, and everything is based on improving military combat power, and has no time to consider the long-term existence?This point of view is a bit interesting. Indeed, both the former Song Dynasty and my Ming Dynasty had to constrain the military officials and internal checks and balances, but the thieves were in danger, so why care about long-term stability?What is the best way to fight right now, let's get over it first. "

"In all dynasties, Chen Sheng and Huang Chao were not incapable of defeating Qin and Tang militarily, but they were able to fight militarily. After the internal division and self-phase plot were killed, Chen Sheng was killed by military officials, and Huang Chao was killed by Zhu Wen...

From this point of view, it is time for me to think about who is the military official and Zhu Wen under Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong.Last year, when the Shen Shuren Temple tried to ask questions, I suggested that I cherish the people from far away, seduce the subordinates of the two thieves, Li and Zhang, to kill the lord and surrender, and even persuade their adopted sons, I am afraid that I have already figured this out at that time..."

"Huh?! It turns out that in Shen Qing's eyes, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are actually more dangerous than Chen Sheng and Huang Chao? It's just because the two thieves Li and Zhang can not only have the advantages of thieves in the past dynasties, but also have the evil and crooked ways of the dynasties. , Bailian's advantage?

Just because the two thieves Li and Zhang, one eunuch and the other injured and disabled, are all descendants, so their adopted sons and generals support them like evil monks and Taoists supporting the leader, and they are not willing to betray easily?
Because they all know that if they betrayed, the other adopted sons and generals of Li and Zhang's second thief would not betray. Instead, they would be happy to see him betray, kill him to show loyalty to Li and Zhang, and reduce the competition for inheriting Li and Zhang's family business in the future. opponent?

Because everyone in the Ministry knows that King Chuang cannot pass on a son, so instead of thieves from ordinary poor and humble backgrounds trying to harm each other, they are now competing for this great cause. First, in the future, when King Chuang dies of old age, he will naturally inherit his family business peacefully? ! "

When Chongzhen saw this, his eyeballs almost popped out, but when he thought about it carefully, every sentence Shen Aiqing said was wise and famous.

I see!It turned out to be so!
No wonder it is so difficult for me, Ming, to deal with the bandits, much more difficult than Qin's dealing with Chen Sheng, and Tang's dealing with Huang Chao!

It turns out that the root cause lies in Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, one is a wounded eunuch and the other is a heavenly eunuch, which makes the internal cohesion of the thieves much higher than other thieves who have continued to have children and grandchildren in the past dynasties!
For a moment, a terrible thought even flashed through Chongzhen's mind:

If I also cut off my sons and grandchildren and only recruited one son-in-law, I would recruit the most capable general of the Ming Dynasty as my son-in-law.Even as a son-in-law and adopted son, that is, the kind of treatment that first gives the son-in-law the surname Zhu and the emperor's adopted son, and then lets him marry the princess, and pass the throne to this fierce son-in-law in the future.

Then maybe even if there are 1000 million thieves, they would have been killed by the "prospective sons-in-law" who are eager to take the throne!
He remembered that when the emperor's brother was in power, Mr. Xu Ge translated some history books of the Western Roman Empire, which mentioned that the period of the five most powerful Roman emperors was passed down from generation to generation.

In his later years, the old emperor chose the most famous general in the empire as his son-in-law to inherit the throne. As a result, during the five emperors, Rome expanded its territory and became invincible to the West, beating the shit out of other countries.

It wasn't until Emperor Aurelius, the last of the five good emperors, felt that his own son Commodus was also capable, so he insisted on passing on the throne to his own son, which led to infighting between his son and his son-in-law, and the central bloody, Rome gradually declined.

Fortunately, this terrible thought just flashed through Chongzhen's mind.He is still very staunch, he would rather bend than bend.

Not to mention that he already has three sons, even if he has no sons now and only has Princess Kunxing (Zhu Yuxi, later Princess Changping) under his knees, he will never really think wildly.

However, Chongzhen felt that Shen Aiqing's book was really valuable and promoted it heavily.

Especially in the following article, he saw that it also described that Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong would definitely have an advantage in the future when there is an internal self-contradictory merger of the thieves, because Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong have no sons, so the cohesion and loyalty of their subordinates must be stronger than Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying The loyalty of subordinates is high.

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

For the internal friction of the thieves, this kind of profit-free scheming should also be promoted!

"Wang Chengen!"

"The old slave is here!"

As soon as Chongzhen opened his mouth, Wang Chengen, who was hiding in the dark and tried not to disturb the emperor, appeared just right.

Chongzhen's eyes were full of admiration: "This book is interesting, let the Imperial Academy take it and publish it widely, so that the civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty can read it carefully! It should be spread vigorously to places where there are serious thieves!"

"The old slave will do it now."

"and many more!"

"What orders does Your Majesty have?"

Chongzhen's decree pattern twitched for a moment: "Forget it, if there will be a delay, it's okay not to let the Imperial Academy undertake it."

Wang Chengen was puzzled: "The Imperial Academy already has the duty to promote the rule of culture, how could it be wrong?"

Chongzhen sighed: "I remember that in the palace examination last year, the number one scholar Wei Zaode and others were at odds with Shen Shuren and Fang Yizhi who were at the bottom of the crane.

When you go to the Hanlin Academy, remember to remind one more thing, you don’t need him to edit and write, Shen Shuren’s essays are not allowed to change a single word, and they will be published for the world as they are.Dare to change a word, let him not stay in Hanlin. "

(End of this chapter)