The carriage fell into silence, and He Kegang felt heavy for a moment.
He was an upright man and held great hopes for the Dukes of Donglin. He always felt that after defeating the eunuchs and bringing justice to the court, the Ming Dynasty would have a promising future. However, the reality made him extremely disappointed.
This time, the cabinet did nothing to build a slave invasion. It did not come up with any effective response strategy. Except that the emperor ordered the soldiers, guards, and chieftains in the world to organize their own armies to serve the king. They helped for a while, and they just stared there.
Small eyes.
Every day, counties outside the city were captured by the Qing army. After the massacre, the people were captured as slaves, and the loss of life and property was incalculable and the amount was extremely huge. At this time, the Cabinet, the Ministry of War, and the Fifth Army Governor's Office did not see any
Countermeasures. The entire body is in a petrified state.
At this time, even a wrong decision is better than no decision at all.
He Kegang asked: "Mr. Ge, I have something I don't understand. I don't know whether to ask or not."
Sun Chengzong looked at the street outside the window in a trance. Hearing this, he turned his head and said, "Just tell me. I can't answer you many questions."
"You said that these officials are all top-ranked Jinshi. They can pass the Jinshi or even enter the Hanlin Academy. Which one is not chosen by thousands of people? Don't talk about them. Even if they are a scholar, they have to eliminate hundreds of students before they can get it.
. How can there be such a person who is not smart? If he was not smart, he would not be where he is today. But why do they always do some stupid things. Some things are even so stupid that it is incomprehensible."
Sun Chengzong smiled bitterly and said: "Some things seem ridiculous to you. That's because you don't know the inside story of the decision-making on this matter. The decisions you see are all people behind the scenes, compromising and fighting each other on interests.
, the final result of the game. You feel ridiculous because you are the ridiculous person, because you are outside the inner circle at all. If you were a participant, you would not be able to laugh. You would not feel ridiculous at all.
It’s not even funny.”
He Kegang asked: "These people read the books of sages and the teachings of sages. It's not that they don't know. They set up their minds for the world, establish their lives for the people, and create peace for all generations. Why don't any of them after becoming officials?
Take the people seriously, where have all the books in the past few decades gone?"
Sun Chengzong asked: "Tell me, who gave you your position and rights? Are they the common people in the world?"
He Kegang said without thinking: "No, it was given to me by Shangguan. It has nothing to do with the people."
Sun Chengzong continued: "When you were studying, you were taught to create a peaceful and prosperous age for the people. But when you get to the officialdom, you will find that your rights and wealth are not given to you by the people, but by your superiors.
"
"Although the wealth is indeed created by them, the only way for you to obtain this wealth is your immediate boss. Therefore, you need to be responsible to the superiors, not to the people. The dogmas taught to you by the teachers when you were in school, and
Your real experience in officialdom is completely the opposite."
Sun Chengzong looked at the refugees outside the window and said: "The life and death of these people outside has nothing to do with the officials of the Ming Dynasty. They only care about one thing, and that is that these people must not cause trouble for him. What they hate most is to give him
They are looking for troublesome people. If you don't believe it, just file a lawsuit and file a lawsuit. You will understand this truth once. Because they know very well that the emperor's only purpose of using them is to maintain stability. But these people outside naively think that,
The emperor uses these officials to make decisions for them. He unconditionally places his hope on the officials of the Ming Dynasty to be good officials. It is so ridiculous to be ignorant."
"Since ancient times, the rise and fall of dynasties has been recorded in the Twenty-Three Histories. If you read history, you will find that if the government were more relaxed, the people would show great vitality, cultivate more land, and produce more goods.
, have more children. At this time, the court will prosper. But once every dynasty becomes prosperous, the government will begin various controls and impose more and more severe restrictions on people's livelihood activities. The economy will also decline.
.In the end, it became so famous that it was difficult to survive. This is the case in almost every dynasty."
"If you control it, you will die, if you let it go, it will be chaos." Sun Chengzong shook his head and said. "This is not all a problem of civil servants, but also a problem of the emperor and the court. The people are too rich, and the court and the emperor are very worried. They need to tighten it.
Once in a while, we take control of things. However, sometimes the control is stopped all of a sudden and never gets up again, so we have to wait until the next dynasty to loosen things up again.”
"Mr. Ge, why did Master Yuan have to lead troops to the capital?" He Kegang asked incomprehensively. "Is it really like the rumors outside that he has a secret agreement with Huang Taiji to form an alliance under the city?"
Sun Chengzong shook his head and said: "I can't see through him now. I don't know what he thinks. He is now mature, and there are people from the eight major business groups and the eunuch party who support him. He and Zhang Tianru are very close, and they
They are causing trouble in the south and in the north. At this critical moment, Zhang Tianru is also here, which is really not a worry."
He Kegang's pupils shrank. Sun Chengzong didn't explain it thoroughly, but he had already seen the clues. He thought of a person who had been frequently summoned to the palace by His Majesty for secret talks recently.
Your Majesty is using him and Wen Tiren to try to bring down Donglin. Your Majesty is using Donglin to eliminate the eunuchs. Now that the eunuchs are finished, Donglin has naturally lost its use value. It is the proper intention for Xiao Tiantian to become Mrs. Niu.
.
Your Majesty uses people and throws them away after use. There is no exception.
This person is Zhou Yanru!
Zhou Yanru's appeal is to be the chief minister of the dynasty, and as for Mr. Yuan, does he want to follow Yu Qian's example and control the troops in the capital camp? Seeing what Zhang Tianru has done in recent years, it is possible that he has taken a fancy to the Inspectorate. He has done so much in the past years.
Newspapers are very popular in Jiangnan. Now, many provincial cities have newspaper shops.
The three of them respectively represent the army, civil servants, wealthy merchants from Jiangnan, the eight major business groups, and salt merchants from Lianghuai. This is a huge force.
Could it be that they wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to cause trouble? They took advantage of Huang Taiji's situation outside the city and people's panic to cause trouble.
He Kegang didn't dare to think about it any further. He had known for a long time that Master Yuan was very dissatisfied with the current power structure of the court. He believed that if things couldn't be done below and the people were not governing well, the problem lay with the court.
Could it be that Mr. Yuan wanted to take the power into his hands first, and then deal with the accumulated abuses in a drastic way?
He is just a small person. Although he is also a deputy general, he is nothing compared to the big people who have already sat at the card table and represent a certain force. Others can't change anything with their humble words. I can only pray that big people like them don't want to
The commotion was too great and the common people were given a way out.
"Mr. Ge, will His Majesty be angry with you? After all, Master Yuan is your close disciple." He Kegang asked with some worry.
"I have no problem for the time being. At least we have to drive the Qing army out. I am the god erected by your majesty to control Donglin. There is still some value in relying on one's old age. However, the matter has been settled here. According to your majesty's
It’s my nature to settle the accounts later in life. When the time comes, it’s okay for me, as an official, not to do anything.”
