In Wei Bao's impression, it seems that Wei Zhongxian is very wary of people who come into contact with the emperor.

Those who can get in touch with the emperor, except for the very few opposition parties such as the Donglin Party in the cabinet, who are people that Wei Zhongxian really can't stop, the others generally have the opportunity to communicate with the emperor only after Wei Zhongxian approves them.

Wei Bao didn't know why Yang Sichang was free to go to the emperor's side to speak.

When Yang Sichang heard Wei Zhongxian ask, he behaved very calmly, neither pretending not to hear it, nor going back, but replied calmly: "If you go back to nine thousand years old, the lower officials are shallow in their studies and are powerless. ”

Yan Tiannan was secretly funny, in front of the emperor, ordinary people would not call Wei Zhongxian nine thousand years old, which obviously violated Wei Zhongxian's taboo, and it was relatively tough.

But listening to Yang Sichang say this, it doesn't seem to be completely tough, because Yang Sichang's tone and the content of other words are obviously showing weakness again, and he feels more like a eunuch than a eunuch.

Is this really the Yang Sichang who is very powerful in history but has been criticized in various ways?

Yang Sichang is definitely not a good person, for personal grievances, Lu Xiangsheng's 30,000 main army was only defeated by 5,000 old and weak, and in the end, Lu Zhan, who had never lost the battle, died in battle, and the whole army died.

In order to cover up his mistakes, Yang Sichang tortured the intelligence soldiers who insisted that Lu was killed in battle for three days and three nights.

Is the current behavior of the great enemy's cabinet scholars symmetrical?

Yang Sichang can even be said to be a complete villain, and the name Yang Wenqiao is too vivid.

only cares about his own power and abandons national affairs, Lu Xiangsheng is the best example!

Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting both died in the hands of the eunuch Gao Qiqian and this thing.

Externally, he can't suppress the wild boar skin, and he can't reconcile.

Internally, he could not appease the peasant army, and he could not extinguish it.

But I don't know why, whether it was before he met Yang Sichang this time, or when he hadn't seen Yang Sichang before, Wei Bao never hated Yang Sichang very much.

Sometimes Wei Bao looks at history with a personal subjective color.

But the problems of Yang Sichang recorded in history, Wei Bao felt that it was mainly the fault of the sour literati, basically a literati, and most of them were narrow-minded.

Yang Sichang killed Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda, and Fu Zonglong, the governor of the three sides, and spared no effort to attack Sun Chuanting, the commander of the Qin division.

In fact, Lu Xiangsheng's death has nothing to do with Yang Sichang, in fact, it is also in the past.

First, Yang Sichang's proposal for peace was passed with Governor Lu, and Lu Xiangsheng meant that if the other party could win the other party, if the other party agreed to negotiate peace, it could be negotiated for peace.

But it is a pity that Houjin did not have the sincerity to negotiate peace, and the Ming army did not have the capital to negotiate peace.

And the contradiction between Lu Xiangsheng and Gao Qiqian and Guan Ningjun, Yang Sichang is also trying his best to adjust, but if you want to say that Yang Sichang can mobilize Guan Ningjun and force them to support Lu Xiangsheng, this is too difficult for Yang Sichang, or too high to think of Yang Sichang.

The Liaodong Frontier Army in history was run by many people, and the leaders were all Liaodong generals, and outsiders couldn't get their hands on it at all, unless it was Wei Bao's private treasure army.

When Yang Sichang personally supervised the suppression of bandits, even He Renlong could not command, Zuo Liangyu did not arrive, and he could not command the warlords in the mainland.

This makes it even more impossible to expect Yang Sichang to mobilize the Liaozhen warlords outside the pass to support Lu Xiangsheng.

As for Lu Xiangsheng's death, Yang Sichang did not allow others to collect his body for him, which is even more nonsense, although Yang Sichang is narrow-minded, he is not narrow to such a point.

Yang Sichang is a politician, even if Lu Xiangsheng is his political enemy, Lu Xiangsheng is dead, and his power can no longer affect Yang Sichang at all, so what's the point.

As for oppressing Fu Zonglong and Sun Chuanting, there is no point in suppressing them.

Whether it is Fu Zonglong or Sun Chuanting, the death of the two has nothing to do with Yang Sichang's dime.

The deaths of Fu Zonglong and Sun Chuanting are very similar, they were both imprisoned, and then Chongzhen was unavailable, and then the two were released directly to Shaanxi for less than two years, forcing them to go out of the customs to exterminate the thieves.

But the two of them are not immortals, for two years, there is no food and no soldiers, and they take something to suppress the thieves, but they have to get out of the customs, otherwise they will be locked up by Chongzhen's neuropathy.

After the two of them got out of the customs, with barely enough troops, they first won a small victory, then a big defeat, and then Zuo Liangyu He and the people of the dragon ran away.

Then Fu Zonglong, Sun Chuanting was surrounded, Fu Zonglong was held, and died unyieldingly, and Sun Chuanting fought and died.

Obviously, it has no direct relationship with Yang Sichang, and if you want to talk about leadership responsibility, it is also Chongzhen who carries the cauldron.

Yang Sichang is a chief of staff at best, and as the chief of staff in history, Yang Sichang can at least rank in the top ten, which is a very good and talented chief of staff, but it is a pity that Chongzhen, who is too poorly talented, insists on putting Yang Sichang in the position of commander.

Chongzhen ascended the throne at the age of sixteen, his father died early, and the elder brother of the previous emperor played with the apocalypse for seven years, leaving Chongzhen with a fragmented mess.

Chongzhen is not very old and lacks a mentor, and as soon as he came up, the eunuch party and the Donglin party were in a deep situation, and there was no time for him to adapt to the power struggle, and he was forced to choose between the Donglin party and the eunuch party before he could figure out the situation.

Although his brother Emperor Tianqi said that Wei Zhongxian could be trusted.

But Wei Zhongxian is notorious, and it is very likely that he once bullied Chongzhen, and the relationship is not very good.

Therefore, Wei Zhongxian, who is so powerful that he can even threaten his own life, really makes Chongzhen fall in love.

On the other hand, the slogan was shouted louder, and the Donglin Party members who sacrificed their lives for the king looked more like loyal ministers persecuted by traitorous ministers.

In fact, as long as it is not from God's perspective, no matter how wise the emperor is in the face of this kind of opening, he will fall into the pit.

Many times, Wei Bao prefers to brag with the Donglin Party, and the thieves are all MLM experts.

Chongzhen chose the Donglin Party, and beautifully killed Wei Zhongxian, and at the same time uprooted the eunuch party.

The eunuchs are bad people and need to be uprooted in order to reinvigorate the dynasty.

There's nothing wrong with that.

Until this step, everything Chongzhen did was a template for Mingjun, and there was nothing to blame.

However, the game has come to this point.

Chongzhen's road was almost blocked.

Even if Zhu Youzhen and his ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang were reborn and went on a killing spree, they would not be able to hold the edifice of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why you dare to make such arbitrary words is that the key is to see what the Donglin Party is.

The Ming Dynasty adopted the eight-strand jinshi system, and used the eight-strand system to win the talents of the world.

In fact, this is a good way to recruit talents, avoiding the monopoly of power by high-ranking tycoons.

However, no matter how good the system is, there will be loopholes in the implementation for a long time.

The method of collecting materials from Baguwen tries to avoid people cheating and exploiting loopholes, but bureaucrats can't start with people who have never been admitted, but by extracting someone, they automatically become someone's mentor to form a party for personal gain.

A candidate must pass the township examination and the palace examination to become the champion.

Not to mention the palace exam, passing the township exam is equivalent to having two teachers.

And the one who served as the chief examiner, needless to say, must be a member of the imperial court.

With a thigh like this, no candidate would refuse.

Even if there are candidates who are unwilling to cling, but since they are nominally the candidates' mentors, then if the candidates target the tutors in the future, they will be hit by various social opinions.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the partisan struggle was fierce, and an official's reputation was ruined, and his future was certainly not guaranteed.

These gangs and parties, formed in the name of teachers and students, are usually named after the localities.

Among them, the Donglin Party is named after the Donglin Academy, a famous Qingtan holy place in the south of the Yangtze River.

Since the origin of the Donglin Party is Jiangnan, the Jiangnan gentry naturally provided them with a lot of support.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, handicrafts and commerce were developing rapidly in the south of the Yangtze River, and even later generations said that Chinese capitalism was about to sprout.

And the Donglin Party accepted the benefits of the gentry, and at the same time had to fight for the interests of the gentry.

The root of the interests has already made the Donglin Party crooked, but what is even more terrifying is that the Donglin Party is pedantic, prevails in empty talk, likes to criticize current affairs, but is not good at practice.

The most well-known person in the Donglin Party is probably Qian Qianyi, who is "too cold in water".

And he was one of the leaders of the Donglin Party at the time of Chongzhen.

It's just that it was a mistake when the eunuch party and the Donglin party were chosen.

Which of those emperors who slipped around in history was not a master of power, and they would still be killed after knowing what the Donglin Party was.

The reason is so, but the problem is that the eunuch party includes all the parties that have been bullied by the Donglin Party.

During the Wanli period, the Donglin Party was already the largest party in the imperial court.

The living space of the other Zhejiang and Chu parties has been greatly compressed.

Even Emperor Wanli couldn't anal the powerful Donglin Party, and he was so angry that Emperor Wanli did not go to court for 20 years.

Emperor Taichang, who ascended the throne for too short a time, and then Emperor Tianqi who was later was also tossed by the Donglin Party at the beginning.

Emperor Zhu Youxiao of the Apocalypse was okay, but later he got angry and threw Wei Zhongxian out.

Wei Zhongxian absorbed those parties that were oppressed by the Donglin Party and established the Eunuch Party.

Emperor Tianqi reigned for seven years, and the Donglin Party was bitten by Wei Zhongxian for seven years.

The eunuch party has officially become the new underworld force.

In fact, if it weren't for the untimely death of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, or the Ming Dynasty would not have perished, it would not have been.

But after the death of the apocalypse, the newly appointed Chongzhen was not sure to control Wei Zhongxian.

This is the first choice between two or the other.

From the point of view of a ruler.

Chongzhen's decision to eradicate Wei Zhongxian may not be wrong, after all, he is a great eunuch left over from the previous emperor, and he is a ruthless master, and Chongzhen does not dare to use it.

It's a pity that the eunuchs are probably really the last elite of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Wei Zhongxian is not highly educated, he is a pragmatic person. Most of the people he selects, regardless of their background, are genuine.

With the fall of Wei Zhongxian, the bureaucracy, which was still pragmatic, was also liquidated.

Why there are so many people who whitewash Wei Zhongxian in later generations is because there is one thing that the Donglin Party will never be able to bypass.

The articles in the history books of the late Ming Dynasty were all written by them.

Judging from the backbone ethics of the literati in the late Ming Dynasty, there is a lot of water in it.

And there are indeed many elite talents in the eunuch party, and they have done a lot of practical things.

Although the Donglin Party also has elites, it cannot be said that no one has done practical things, but compared to the Eunuch Party, there are too few.

Comparing the two, if it is from God's perspective, it is a good choice, the general policy of using the eunuch party to suppress the Donglin Party remains unchanged, and the Ming Dynasty will not finish playing so quickly.

Kill the eunuchs, and the Donglin Party has no available people.

This is the first drawback of choosing the Donglin Party.

The second drawback of the Donglin Party, the collusion between the Donglin Party and the Jiangnan gentry, is not right.

In other words, the Donglin Party itself is the largest representative of the Jiangnan gentry group.

Almost every dynasty has three problems over time.

Bureaucratic corruption, land annexation, and antagonism between social classes.

Agricultural taxes are becoming more and more difficult to collect, people's satisfaction is getting lower and lower, and society is becoming more and more unstable.

These three problems will only get worse over time, and only the continuous reform and anti-corruption of those in power can continue to maintain the vitality of the dynasty.

Whether you have a heart or an intention.

Emperor Apocalypse's move of letting Wei Zhongxian come out to bite people really has the possibility of reshuffling the cards and clearing up these three evil diseases.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was in the Xiaoice era, and natural disasters continued.

The northwest was particularly serious, and there were even several peasant uprisings, but the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River were just spared disaster.

Only the emperor, who has a slight sense of the big picture, will know that he needs to divert resources from wealthy areas to supply the disaster areas.

But under the brainwashing of the Donglin Party to "benefit the people".

Chongzhen actually made an anti-intellectual act of reducing taxes in the south of the Yangtze River and raising taxes on the heads of farmers in the disaster area.

Chongzhen was faced with more than a combination of the Donglin Party and the gentry, and the Xiaoice River era affected not only the northwest region of the Ming Dynasty, but also the post-Jin regime of the same period was also a victim of the Xiaoice River era.

Even because of their proximity to the north, they are more severely affected than in the northwest.

The honest peasants still had to revolt three or four times under natural disasters, not to mention the carnivorous wolf of the Houjin regime.

To be an enemy of the landlord and capitalist class is to be an enemy of the Donglin Party, and it is equivalent to that most of the officials of the imperial court do not recognize this kind of policy, and it will become a tyranny, and the Ming Dynasty will be even more finished, almost a dead circle.

Therefore, Chongzhen's first step to power was doomed to Chongzhen's tragic ending.

It's one thing that the Donglin Party is incapable of doing things, but what's even worse is that they block the financial lifeblood of the Ming Dynasty.

Even if they are actually very capable, as long as they can't collect taxes, the Ming Dynasty will be finished.

And Wei Zhongxian, who is not stingy, he has already taught the Jiangnan gentry to be human beings with facts.

Children of Destiny need no explanation.

In fact, the saddest and most terrifying thing in the late Ming Dynasty was that many people misled the country without knowing it.

Sun Chengzong is patriotic, Yuan Chonghuan is patriotic, and Yang Sichang is patriotic.

Even in the Donglin Party, there are actually many people who are patriotic.

But they don't know that they are tearing down the building blocks of their country.

Sun Chengzong has a lot of achievements, but he disagrees with Xiong Tingbi's politics and cheats Lao Xiong.

Xiong Tingbi Luzi is a strong and clear wall, and even thinks that he can give up Liaodong first.

Sun Chengzong built the Guanning defense line at the same time, which dealt another heavy blow to the miserable treasury of the Ming Dynasty.