Chapter 268: Resigning as Governor
Several other Wujin warriors also made arrangements according to local conditions, taking into account their origins and the emperor's understanding of their original fate. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
For example, Pan Yunteng, who is a native of Hanzhong, Shaanxi, was directly arranged by the emperor to be under the command of Hong Chengchou, the governor of Shaanxi, and appointed him as a general in Hanzhong, and wrote a letter to Hong Chengchou, while going north to exterminate the thieves in northern Shaanxi, we should pay attention to the two strategic places of Hanzhong and Tongguan.
And Weng Zhiqi also won the martial champion of the second martial arts of the Chongzhen Dynasty in history. Although he is not a champion in martial arts now, he was admitted to Wujinshi nearly ten years in advance, which is also very good.
Historically, he was appointed by the imperial court as the garrison of Zhoushan and commanded the sailors of Zhoushan, Zhejiang.
Since he is only in his twenties now, this time it is the same, he was personally appointed by the emperor to garrison Zhoushan, and first arranged for training under the new Zhejiang commander-in-chief Zhang Cunren.
Wang Gongluo, one of the three giants of Jiangyin's resistance to the Qing Dynasty in history, was arranged by Emperor Chongzhen this time to Yuan Keli, the governor of Caoyun in Huai'an, to serve as a military training in the Cao camp.
And Chen Mingyu, another hero of Jiangyin's resistance to the Qing Dynasty, was arranged by Emperor Chongzhen to Qiu Zhaolin, the governor of Henan, to help him train and lead Fubiao.
And among all these martial artists who were personally arranged by the emperor, the highest actual position was a martial artist named Jin Riguan, who was not ranked high in the Enke martial arts, and was directly arranged by the emperor to Jizhen as the deputy commander-in-chief.
This Jin Riguan is a martial artist who applied for the examination in the post of the secretary of the Malanyu Du in Jizhen, and he passed the exam, and the origin of Jin Riguan was not recorded in history, but his death in battle was recorded.
Originally, in the winter and October of the second year of Chongzhen, when Huang Taiji led the army into Kou Gyeonggi, he took the road of Jizhen, and the direction of the first attack at that time was Ma Lanyu, and Jin Riguan was the defender of Ma Lanyu.
Due to the seriousness of Jin Riguan's management of troops and the strict garrison of Ma Lanyu, although Huang Taiji adopted the method of raiding in the middle of the night and besieging with heavy troops, he was still repelled several times by thousands of border guards in Ma Lanyu.
In the end, the Jianyu army led by Huang Taiji had to change the direction of the main attack and attack Da'ankou, Longjing Pass and other places, and finally broke through the pass from these places.
It was also a hasty response, the same broken pass, the same lack of soldiers and equipment, but Jin Riguan did not collapse at the touch of a button like other pass guards, and was captured by Jian, which shows that he is indeed very capable.
This time, just in time for Liu Ce, the chief soldier of Jizhen, was executed, and You Shiwei, the chief soldier of the Jianchang battalion, took over as the chief soldier of Jizhen, so send him to be a deputy commander-in-chief to help rectify the armaments along the border of Jizhen.
Today's Jizhen is only in charge of the defense of the passes along the Great Wall along the outer Great Wall under its jurisdiction, that is, the guards along the Great Wall in the north of the Jingshi, and the defense of the Great Wall in the west of the Jingshi, from the Juyong Pass in the north to the Bauhinia Pass in the south, along the Taihang line, was all handed over to the five military camps that moved to defend the Juyong Pass.
The 5th Military Battalion of the Beijing Division originally reported a quota of 25,000 personnel to the Military Aircraft Department, but after this purge, relocation, and further selection, in addition to the posts that were falsely reported and occupied, there are now 20,000 soldiers.
A large number of graduates from the first batch of Jiangwutang quickly filled the purged middle-level military attache positions, which also gave the Fifth Military Battalion a new atmosphere.
The most important thing is that there is a fifth less people, but the amount of salary allocated by the imperial court to the Beijing camp has not changed, under the auspices of the Beijing camp supervisor Yu Shi Wen Zhenmeng, the per capita military salary in the five military camps has been increased by one-fifth, and each person can get twenty-five Chongzhen silver dollars per year, which has caught up with the highest salary in the border army, and the spirit of ordinary soldiers is naturally very different from the past.
Emperor Chongzhen personally arranged the positions of several martial artists he was optimistic about, and then said to Sun Chengzong: "The ancients said that a thousand armies are easy to obtain, but a general is difficult to find. I and Aiqing once talked about the current situation in the Ming Dynasty, in the four directions of east, west, north and south, there are either foreign enemies eyeing each other, or there are internal thieves gathering to make trouble. The reason why I am determined to re-use military and military ministers is all here.
"Especially in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty, the peace has been maintained for a long time, and there is a shortage of good generals, and the arrangements of these martial artists should be inclined to the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty.
Sun Chengzong agreed to the order, and the military aircraft housekeeper also quickly wrote down every word the emperor said.
After saying this, Emperor Chongzhen's purpose of summoning Sun Chengzong today has been achieved, and he picked up the teacup and was about to end the summons, when he suddenly heard Sun Chengzong say: "Your Majesty, the old minister has a sentence that I don't know whether to say or not?" ”
When Emperor Chongzhen saw him say this, although he was a little suspicious in his heart, he still put down the teacup and said to him: "Sun Aiqing is the pillar of the country, and there is nothing that cannot be said in front of me. Aiqing has something to say, just say it! ”
Sun Chengzong bowed down and said: "Since the minister entered the court last year, he was trusted by His Majesty, first gave the minister the secretary of the military department, and then promoted the minister into the cabinet. Please resign from the post of Secretary of the Ministry of War, Governor of Zhili and Minister of Supervision and Training of the Zhuozhou New Army, and concentrate on assisting Your Majesty in handling important military affairs, please ask Your Majesty's permission! ”
After Sun Chengzong said this, he got up and left his seat, solemnly knelt down in front of Emperor Chongzhen's throne, and kowtowed silently.
Since ancient times, most of the ministers of the DPRK and China have only been afraid that their official positions are not high enough and their powers are not big enough, and few people are afraid of too many part-time jobs.
But for a minister like Sun Chengzong, he doesn't see it that way.
In his opinion, the more part-time jobs the better, especially for the military department and the minister of military aircraft, many part-time jobs mean that you don't have much time to do your own job, especially since the establishment of the governor of Zhili, Sun Chengzong has been stationed in Tongzhou most of the time, although the Gyeonggi area has been well managed by the military training affairs, as well as the industry, agriculture and commerce, but far away from the center, it also makes him feel that he has sorted out with the center of the imperial court.
Especially the emperor in front of him was ruthless to the Jingshi Xungui family, which made Sun Chengzong, who was in Jizhou at the time, very worried, although the result was good, but he did not participate in the entire decision-making process, which made him feel a kind of crisis, away from the center for a long time, he would lose his influence on the emperor.
In his opinion, if the young emperor did not have the assistance of an old minister like him, he might accidentally ruin the good momentum that he had finally reversed.
On the other hand, it can be regarded as a kind of suspicion avoidance.
Emperor Chongzhen's excessive trust in Sun Chengzong has long caused the dissatisfaction of some courtiers, and some imperial historians have written to impeach him for reusing the old ministry and the old people, so that now the important positions of the Manchu Dynasty are all his wings and old departments, and there is a suspicion of forming a party for personal gain.
The impeachment of important ministers by the imperial historian was a common thing in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, not to mention that some of the imperial history's impeachment chapters are not purely chasing after the wind, for example, Sun Chengzong is a native of Gaoyang County, Baoding Prefecture, and this is the case, and his appointment as the governor of Zhili is against the ancestral system.
However, at the beginning, the emperor Qiangang was arbitrary and made Sun Chengzong the governor of Zhili, and no one dared to oppose it.
Although Emperor Chongzhen turned a deaf ear to such impeachment notes, Sun Chengzong, who was a cabinet minister and minister of military aircraft, was also able to see these impeachments, and the reason why he never raised this issue was because he was open in his heart, knowing that it was all nonsense, and if he was more serious, he would mislead the state affairs.
Now that the Gyeonggi region has been overhauled and adjusted, it is not said that it is solid, but there will be no major problems in the short term, and the next step is to consolidate governance.
Besides, today's Gyeonggi is indeed full of its own subordinates, Ma Shilong and You Shilu have become the capital and deputy commanders of the first town of the Guards, You Shiwei has become the chief military officer of Jizhen, and other such as the Armed Forces Institute and the Lecture Hall are also candidates arranged or recommended by themselves, and the Zhili Governor's Mansion has become their own self-reserved place.
Now that the first town of the Guards has been established, and Ma Shilong, who is in charge of it, is his own person, which is even more well-known, if he is still in the position of the governor of Zhili, and all the military and political power in Gyeonggi is in his hands, over time, even if the courtiers and imperial historians do not impeach, the emperor's heart will definitely be uncomfortable.
Therefore, on the way back from Tongzhou with the emperor, Sun Chengzong was already determined to resign from a series of controversial positions such as the governor of Zhili as soon as possible, and become the full-time minister of military aircraft. And this attitude is more important than anything else.
After Sun Chengzong said this, he kowtowed silently. Shen Tingyang and Li Xin sat not far away recording something, and the two were a little dumbfounded at first, but soon continued to bow their heads and write, and at the same time pricked up their ears to listen to the emperor's reply.
If the emperor agrees to Sun Chengzong's request, then they think that the important position of the governor of Zhili is going to be replaced, which is also a major change above the court.