Mao Yuanyi did not agree with Sun Chengzong's judgment, he has been paying attention to Hutchison all these years, including Zhang Han's trajectory, from an ordinary businessman in Xinpingbao, Shanxi Province to the current point, and its development trajectory is by no means as simple as outsiders imagine. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

There is super force, and there is the pursuit of force and territory, these two points are already a matter of hegemony, where does it have anything to do with businessmen?

However, Hutchison has been following the rules, although it has good strength, but it has launched insurance business from the mainland to Jiangnan, which makes many bigwigs feel relieved, no matter how Hutchison's strength grows, it is still acting by merchant means.

"Elder Ge," Mao Yuanyi said, "Is there another impeachment?" ”

"Exactly." Sun Chengzong said lightly: "And the Sacred Heart has also changed." ”

"What?" Mao Yuanyi's face showed a look of shock.

Sun Chengzong's tour of Liaodong was originally just an expedient measure for himself. But for the sake of the grand strategic dispute, he brazenly drove away Wang Zaijin, who was also a soldier and quite old, and sent Wang Zaijin to Nanjing to retire, after which Wang Zaijin hated Sun Chengzong to the core, and said a lot of slanderous words about Sun Dabeard, some of which were out of public intentions, and some were purely angry.

After the king was driven away from Jin, he originally wanted to call Yan Mingtai to take over, but Yan Mingtai's qualifications were poor, and he was quite timid, and he was not qualified to use the post of governor of Liaodong to pass through Liaodong, Sun Chengzong had no choice but to stay in Liaoxi and not leave, and strengthened the authority of Liaodong Economic Strategy several times, and he has also done a lot of things conscientiously in recent years. And with Sun Chengzong's original wishes, of course, it is more suitable to return to the dynasty as a scholar, the cabinet is the most senior, his qualifications are almost the same after a few years, and he occupies a pit in the court, if the opportunity is coincidental, with the trust of the Emperor of the Apocalypse in him, it is not impossible to be the first assistant in the future.

However, now the opportunity is slim, the Donglin Party was defeated in the party struggle, first a high-powered and prestigious Shoufu Ye Xianggao was forced to resign, and then Han Yi and Zhu Guozhen took over successively, these two Donglin Party members were of course not allowed to be allowed to the emperor, and they were also forced to resign within half a year.

Now the first assistant is already Gu Bingqian, who is a eunuch, this person has a kind face and a poisonous heart, and has the nickname of a smiling Buddha, when people say him to his face, he also laughs and does not say anything, but he will definitely take revenge afterwards and never let go of the enemy.

This person is much younger than Sun Chengzong, and he is a eunuch general, and now he must be trusted by the emperor, and he will not be replaced within ten years, with such a first assistant, even if Sun Chengzong returns to the dynasty, there is no reason to be able to top Gu Bingqian, it can be said that Sun Chengzong's first auxiliary road has been completely cut off with the comprehensive defeat of the Donglin Party.

This is not the most depressing thing for the old grandson...... After Ye Xianggao resigned, in order to save some of the vitality of the Donglin Party, Sun Chengzong, who was stationed in Jizhou at that time, invited himself to the court to celebrate the Wanshou Festival, and Wei Guangwei immediately urged Wei Zhongxian to stop it after hearing about it. And Wei Zhongxian seems to be as strong as an ox, and he is ruthless when dealing with political enemies, but he is easily frightened when encountering difficulties, like a wild boar blocked in the corner, his response is to immediately enter the palace to find the Emperor of the Apocalypse to cry, and even fabricate rumors that Sun Chengzong wants to lead troops into Beijing......

This was a few months ago, and now the overall situation has been decided, Donglin's forces in the DPRK have been swept away, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou, Gao Panlong, Huang Zunsu and other backbones of the Donglin Party were all killed, Ye Xianggao and Han Yi and other top bigwigs were forced to go into the field, Yuan Keli and other members who were originally going to enter the court as a minister were also given to Shi or placed in Nanjing to work idle, Sun Chengzong could not compete for the position of first assistant, it can be said that the career in the court has been blocked.

"Pavilion Elder?" Mao Yuanyi said: "How has the Sacred Heart changed? ”

"Previously, Li Fan, Xu Dahua and others impeached me," Sun Chengzong sighed: "Of course, it is the same old tune, saying that Liaoxi has a heavy army but does not dare to advance an inch, wasting national funds." Although the emperor ignored this generation, he also issued an edict from the military department, ordering me to check and verify the battalion and eliminate redundant officers and redundant soldiers. Although the emperor ordered me to continue to supervise Liaodong, but also asked me to organize a simple army to save military salaries, indicating that the emperor also felt that Liaoxi spent too much here, and the credit was too small, and most of the court officials who supported us went to work, this time Xu Dahua and his ilk were impeached on a large scale, although the ministers knew that it was Wei Zhongxian's instructions, and the only one who dared to support me was Lord Cui of the military department, and then the emperor ordered me to reduce the cost of military salaries......"

Speaking of this, Sun Chengzong shook his head, it was inconvenient to continue.

Prior to this, the highest salary in Liao was nearly five million taels, and the Apocalypse didn't say anything at that time, after all, when Sun Chengzong first arrived in Liaoxi, except for Shanhaiguan and the precarious Ningyuan, there was no land outside the customs to return to the Ming Dynasty.

In three years, although Sun Chengzong spent more than 10 million taels of silver, but also stabilized the defense line, although he did not build a long wall of more than 200 miles as previously envisaged, but until the fifth year of the Apocalypse, he has re-sent generals to guard Jinzhou, Xiaoling River, as well as Xingshan, Songkou, Tashan, Youtun and other forts, and advanced the defense line from Ningyuan to the front for another 200 miles, until it reached Daling River and Jinzhou, Jinzhou is Guangning one hundred and fifty miles to the west, and the soldiers of the 174,000 battalions were also trained to echo Li Banghua and Yuan Keli. and supported Yuan Keli to rebuild the water division, and supported Dongjiang and Denglai to recover southern Liaonan...... In the evaluation of Wang Yongguang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, it is: "There are clouds in soldiers, and those who are good at fighting have no outstanding achievements." The cabinet minister Sun Chengzong supervised Liaodong, although he did not attack on a large scale, he took small battles, but he echoed and cooperated with Yuan Keli of Dengfu, and the captives did not dare to go deep easily. ”

In the past two years, Jianyu has not attacked on a large scale, and the time is not yet ripe for a large-scale counterattack, but on the contrary, Sun Chengzong has invisibly saved a large amount of military expenses for the imperial court, ensuring the safety of Shanhaiguan and Jingshi, so that the Ming Dynasty can recuperate and maintain the prestige of the Celestial Empire. ”

On the one hand, it is a waste of national funds, no size of the work, on the other hand, the so-called good fighters have no outstanding merits, anyway, Sun Chengzong has military training, real generals, recovering the soil, repairing forts, many merits, at least in the eyes of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, this teacher is still quite capable, in addition, when supporting the Thirteen Mountains, the generals of Liaoxi have also experienced small-scale actual combat, indicating that they can still fight with the captive field, so no matter how Sun Chengzong resigned before, he asked to resign from the post of superintendent of Liaodong in more than forty years in three years, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse did not agree even if he was killed, At this time, Sun Chengzong had no hope of returning to the dynasty, and when he wanted to continue to show his strength in Liaodong, the emperor changed his sacred heart under the bewitchment of the eunuchs, and asked Sun Chengzong to reduce the size of the army and save Liao's salary...... At this moment, the grievances in Sun Ge's heart were mentioned.

Back then, I really wanted to go, but now I say I want to go, but I don't want to go, and I don't want to go, and the emperor's apprentice is looking for trouble...... Mao Yuanyi felt aggrieved for the old Sun Ge in front of him.

"Let's try the next resignation note." Sun Chengzong sighed and said to Mao Yuanyi: "I also want to ask Zhisheng to polish it for me." ”

Mao Yuanyi is now a military praise painting in the name of a general, Sun Chengzong has always praised him for his hard work, and he has been on the secret sparse guarantee, so in the past two years, Mao Yuanyi will definitely be promoted to the level of deputy general and deputy commander-in-chief, even so, Sun Chengzong has also expressed his apologies to Mao Yuanyi, but unfortunately Mao Yuanyi has no fame, otherwise with his identity as a military scholar, he can take the same civilian path as Sun Yuanhua, which is of course much stronger than taking the military position, Mao Yuanyi even if he does the general army of a town, It is also completely inferior to Sun Yuanhua in the Ministry of War, which is a well-known fact.

Fortunately, Mao Yuanyi doesn't mind, who told him that he just couldn't pass the exam, became famous, and couldn't even get into a show? Sun Chengzong insisted on protecting him, he would definitely sting his head, and even Mao Yuanyi himself would be ruined, just like this, as a white ding, he has been guaranteed to the fourth grade, and the future three grades can be expected, which can already make him satisfied.

"I'll take it away in a while, and after giving it to the elder tomorrow morning, I will transcribe it and send it."

"I don't look at it." Sun Chengzong waved his hand and said: "The left and right are that set of words, official articles." ”

Mao Yuanyi nodded lightly, Sun Chengzong's request for resignation has been dozens of times, and there is indeed nothing to see. Asking him to polish is just asking him to see if there are any taboo words and words.

"Then how to streamline the soldiers and save military salaries?"

Sun Chengzong didn't say anything for a while...... His signing room is in an official area, surrounded by the official residences of senior civil officials and generals, Sun Chengzong's most permanent place is Shanhaiguan, occasionally going to Jizhou or Ningyuan, these years, he has been working hard here, Shanhaiguan is also from the lonely and dangerous customs of the year to the absolute safety of the rear.

The eyes are full of greenery, outside the signing room is a mountain stone and green trees, the officials and officials in blue robes and green robes are busy in the courtyard, there are also people standing under the eaves of the corridor with their hands in their hands, looking around leisurely, and there are people talking in twos and threes, a group of generals wearing armor, carrying bows and arrows, and hanging swords or swords from their waists are also standing near the second gate, they are all high-spirited, excited, these people are low to the garrison, high to the generals, guerrillas, most of them are going to the battalions or forts to take office, before leaving, To accept the summons of the old superintendent, these generals are fully armed, carrying bows and arrows, and they also follow the ancient etiquette and greet the commander in full uniform, which is to express their respect and admiration for Sun Chengzong.

In any case, Sun Chengzong, as Zhang Han said, is good at enclosing the Liaoxi generals, he guarded the Liaoxi for several years, and did not force the generals to fight, withstood the pressure from the Beijing Division, which is something that no Liaodong governor can do, and the strength of the Liaoxi generals has also undergone earth-shaking changes in the strength of the Liaoxi generals in another year, and now Liaoxi is completely different from a few years ago, a few years ago they were just a group of hereditary generals entrenched in the place, and they stabilized each other's status with marriage, and their voices were connected, Now, with the interests of millions of Liao, it has become a real alliance that cannot be separated by a sword, and their respect for Sun Chengzong is of course from the bottom of their hearts...... Without Sun Gebu in front, how could there be millions of silver dividends in western Liaoning?

As soon as he thought of this, Sun Chengzong's mood also became more gloomy.