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Chapter 357 Am I the Most Useless Emperor?
"Sister, sister."

When Song Sanniang was mediating the conflict between the two little girls, a heroic woman in red came over, and when she saw the girl named Siyan crying, she said, "Why are you crying? You have eaten all the biscuits, so why should you ask your sister to give you the biscuits, but you ran over to sue for no reason, go, go back to the room and copy the Three Character Classic, and you are not allowed to come out until you have finished copying."

"Ah, mother."

The little girl was crying when she heard the words, but the woman in red didn't soften her heart at all. With a wave of her hand, someone took the crying doll back to the house to copy the Three Character Classic.

At this moment, Song Sanniang looked at the woman in red and said, "What useful news will my sister get from going down the mountain this time?"

The red lady nodded and said: "There are indeed some useful news. Zhang Xianzhong dispatched troops to attack Sichuan again. On the way, he met General Qin Liangyu. He retreated without fighting and never entered Sichuan."

"Well, Zhang Xianzhong is bound to win Sichuan, and he won't give up so easily, but it's hard for our Kuimen generation, Zhang Xianzhong fought with Qin Liangyu's white pole army, and we were the only ones caught in the middle to suffer."

Song Sanniang smiled wryly, and the red lady said, "Yes, but it doesn't matter, Zhang Xianzhong will be here soon, the imperial court sent Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, Hong Chengchou's Shaanxi Army, and Sun Chuanting's newly formed Qin Army to encircle Gao Yingxiang's troops in northern Shaanxi. Gao Yingxiang is the leader of the rebel army, Zhang Xianzhong will definitely return to rescue Gao Yingxiang, once Zhang Xianzhong leaves, our life will be easier."

Hearing this, Song Sanniang frowned and said, "Zhang Xianzhong is going back to northern Shaanxi?"

The red lady heard the words and said: "It's for sure, Gao Yingxiang is the leader of the rebel army. If he is in trouble, whoever dares not to rescue him, and whoever does not rescue him, it will be a loss of righteousness. How should the heroes of the world view him, and how will he convince the people? However, it is not easy for Zhang Xianzhong to save Gao Yingxiang. After all, if he wants to go to northern Shaanxi, he has to go through southern Shaanxi, and now southern Shaanxi is the territory of Lantian County. I'm afraid it will take some effort. At that time, it will be a scene of two tigers fighting each other.

The red lady said, but she didn't see a trace of worry flashing in Song Sanniang's eyes.

"Hey, by the way, Sanniang, let me tell you an anecdote, does Lantian County Venerable Li Chaosheng know?"

Song Sanniang nodded slightly: "I know, I have heard about it."

"He's getting married."

"what?"

Hearing this, Xiaoju, the maid behind Song Sanniang, widened her eyes, and turned to look at Song Sanniang. He was Song Sanniang's personal maid, and he knew everything about Li Chaosheng and Song Sanniang back then.

Song Sanniang said with a very calm expression at this time: "Oh, I didn't expect him to be so powerful and get married only now."

The red lady looked at the maid in surprise, then at Song Sanniang and said, "You don't know Li Chaosheng, do you?"

Song Sanniang said with a smile: "Sister, I was joking. Li Chaosheng is a powerful figure. How could I, a bandit's daughter, know him?"

After hearing this, Song Sanniang said: "That's true, but it's interesting to say. After the news that Li Chaosheng in Lantian is going to get married this time, the world was shaken. Countless people wanted to send their daughters to Lantian. If you choose it, it will really turn a pheasant into a golden phoenix, reaching the sky in one step."

Song Sanniang nodded and said, "That's right, I don't know any girl who is so lucky."

The red lady looked at Song Sanniang strangely: "Sister, are you alright?"

"It's alright."

Song Sanniang smiled, and Hong Niangzi said: "It's fine, I won't accompany you anymore, I'll go to the army to have a look."

"Sister, do as you please."

……

The red lady left, and the maid Xiaoju ran over and said, "Miss, that Li Chaosheng is so heartless and ungrateful, he wants to find another woman to marry him. Miss, let's go back to Lantian, we can't take advantage of other women."

Song Sanniang sighed and said: "Xiao Ju, don't talk nonsense, we are the daughters of bandits, and now we are also engaged in the bandit business. He is a prince, and there is no way the world will have him in the future. This kind of person, your lady I'm not good enough for him."

"Why is he not worthy? He, Li Chaosheng, also started as a bandit. Why should he look down on bandits?"

Xiaoju shouted unconvinced, and Song Sanniang smiled wryly: "It's different, he is now a prince, and his wife should be a lady, even a noble person like a princess, they will help him in his career .”

Xiaoju pointed to Li Niansheng who was kicking sandbags not far away and said, "What about Niansheng? He is Li Chaosheng's own daughter."

Song Sanniang heard the words and said: "Nian Sheng is my daughter, I can support her, I am not looking for him in this life, how could he know of Nian Sheng's existence, come on, Xiao Ju, let this matter never happen."

"But miss."

Song Sanniang sighed and said, "You go."

Xiaoju stomped her feet angrily, and Song Sanniang looked at the sky and murmured: "Your wife should be a lady, not a female bandit with blood on her hands."

Beijing.

Emperor Chongzhen knew about Li Chaosheng's preparation for a big wedding, and felt that he might have seized an opportunity that could be used, so he called Cao Huachun to the palace overnight.

Cao Huachun was an old eunuch from the three dynasties. When Wei Zhongxian was around, he had a lot of power. Although the eunuchs were not reused these years, he was very popular with Chongzhen. Compared with him, Wang Chengen was more loyal and less flexible. Stay by your side to serve yourself, don't worry about him taking power.

And Cao Huachun may not be as loyal as Wang Chengen, but he is definitely more reliable than the court princes, because they have lost power, and they can rely on the emperor, and their power is an extension of the imperial power.

So they could only get close to the emperor desperately, because if something happened to the emperor, they would definitely have an accident, and they would die miserably.

You must know that they are not stupid, the emperor is gone, they are bereaved dogs, the ministers want to kill them alive, and the rebel army, these forces that can overthrow the imperial power, they can't take refuge, because that dynasty will use eunuchs from the previous dynasty to serve them The emperor of this dynasty.

In addition, it is the rebels like Li Zicheng who are expected to overthrow the imperial court, and these eunuchs are the masters of anger and grievance after the public opinion fermented by the scholar-officials over the years. Eunuching the country will allow the peasant rebels to kill them alive.

Therefore, the eunuch has almost no other way to go except hugging the emperor's big thick leg. People who often listen to storytelling may have heard such a story, saying that when Li Zicheng entered BJ City, it was the great eunuch Cao Huachun who opened the gate of Zhangyi. drop.

In fact, the possibility of this is almost zero, because Cao Huachun retired and returned to his hometown six years before Li Zicheng attacked BJ, and he may have secretly done some work for the court, but he was not in BJ city at all at that time, you insist now He was the one who opened the Zhangyi Gate to surrender. Could it be that this old eunuch also knows the spell of space teleportation?

Moreover, this matter is not only controversial in modern times, but also filed a lawsuit at that time. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Yang Bo and Yang Shimao, two "important ministers" of the Ming Dynasty who had surrendered at that time, participated in Cao Huachun's book, saying that they opened the city It was Cao Huachun who surrendered at the door, and asked Emperor Shunzhi to execute Cao Huachun.

However, Shunzhi later helped Cao Huachun prove his innocence. For this reason, Cao Huachun escaped with his life and wrote a poem specially.

Serving the country foolishly and disregarding one's own self, who made false accusations for no reason?The family has been slandered for six years, and believes that history is not true.

With such a simple poem, you can see how helpless Lao Cao was back then. I have done immoral things all my life, and I dare not admit any crimes. , I can admit the crime of decapitation, but you can't frame me if you haven't done it, Lao Cao is wronged.

In fact, according to the records in "Ming Ji Beilue", Zhang Jinyan, Shangshu of the Ministry of War, and Zhu Chunchen, the son-in-law, opened the city gate to surrender, and they did not open Zhangyi Gate, but Zhengyang Gate and Qihua Gate.

And why put the pot of shit on Cao Huachun, this is obviously to shirk responsibility, and want to tell the world that Daming died at the hands of the eunuchs, not us scholar-officials, we are all strong, and in the end it was the eunuchs. Daming Kingdom is sold.

To put it bluntly, this is the blame of the scholar-official class.

The reason why Cao Huachun opened the city and surrendered is so popular. The first is that there are indeed rumors of Cao Huachun opening the door and surrendering in the "History of Ming Dynasty" compiled by the Qing Dynasty, but we have already mentioned it in the previous article. How about more than [-] million people? Is this also true? Does Ming Dynasty have a population of [-] million?
Another important reason is that the popularity of eunuchs in the eyes of ordinary people is too low, and the propaganda of scholar-bureaucrats has become a trend. In modern times, our old man Jin Yong also borrowed this point in "Jade Blood Sword", which suddenly became famous. Just opened it.

Just like Zhuge Liang in the mythology of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Zhuge Liang never borrowed arrows from a straw boat, let alone an empty city plan.

So it is true that Lao Cao is a bastard, but he is still loyal to Chongzhen, and he is also a rare person under Chongzhen who can do things.

This time Chongzhen called Cao Huachun into the palace, mainly because he wanted to know if Li Chaosheng was going to get married, and he could take advantage of it.

"His Majesty."

In the imperial study room in the palace, Chongzhen sat on a chair, and Empress Zhou stood behind Chongzhen. He came to deliver food to Chongzhen, but he was left to listen. Chongzhen's original words were: "I have nothing to hide from you."

So Queen Zhou also listened in, and there were two people standing in front of the Yushu case, one was the eunuch Cao Huachun, and the other was the emperor's personal eunuch Wang Chengen.

These two can be regarded as the pinnacle figures in the world of eunuchs. At this time, the two stood respectfully bent over. Chongzhen took a sip of the tofu soup stewed by Queen Zhou, looked up at the two eunuchs and said: "I heard that Li Chaosheng in Lantian is preparing Marriage, are you choosing the right woman?"

After hearing this, Cao Huachun said: "It is His Majesty, Jin Yiwei has confirmed the authenticity of this news."

Chongzhen took a sip of the soup and said, "Then do you think there is anything that can be used?"

After hearing this, Cao Huachun said: "Your Majesty, this old slave thinks that he can send beautiful women into Lantian to confuse Li Chaosheng, but if he can't, he can also be a spy."

After hearing this, Chongzhen said, "What are the odds?"

Cao Huachun said: "If His Majesty personally decrees, it can be [-]%."

After hearing this, Chongzhen looked at Cao Huachun and said, "I will make an order myself? Tell me."

Cao Huachun said: "It is Your Majesty, but this matter is difficult for Your Majesty. The old slave said this method, which insulted His Majesty Long Yan. The old slave asked for thirty battles, and then came back to offer advice to His Majesty."

After hearing this, Chongzhen waved his hands and said, "I forgive you for your innocence, just say it."

Cao Huachun said: "Your Majesty, the old slave's strategy is that Your Majesty can reward Li Chaosheng with some maids of the right age in the palace. These maids are all of good looks. If one of them is valued by Li Chaosheng, he will marry him as his wife, or even fill in the house as a concubine. , it is of great benefit to us all, and His Majesty can give more rewards. There are more people, and Li Chaosheng has more choices, and our chances of winning are great. Moreover, the old slave can also train a few spies inside to spy for His Majesty. intelligence."

"Bold, Cao Huachun, are you crazy? The maid is His Majesty's. There is no reason for His Majesty to give his own woman to his courtiers. Why don't you hurry up and apologize to His Majesty."

Hearing this, Wang Chengen let out an angry roar, and Cao Huachun immediately kowtowed and said, "Your Majesty, this old slave is guilty, this old slave is guilty."

Chongzhen frowned when he heard the words, this is indeed a dishonorable thing, especially for men, it always feels very useless when a man sends a woman out, especially Gong'e, who is the emperor's woman in name Well, the emperor can sleep with anyone he wants, and now they are all sent away. As a man, the emperor must be a little strange.

"What does the queen think?"

Empress Zhou looked at Chongzhen and said, "It's up to Your Majesty to decide."

Chongzhen breathed out and said: "Forget it, the country is so precarious, there are only some women, why can't you bear it, send, send more, it happens that the palace can reduce some expenses and send 500 people there."

After hearing this, Queen Zhou said: "Yes."

Chongzhen glanced at Empress Zhou and said, "How many maids do we have now?"

Queen Zhou heard the words and said: "There are more than [-] people."

Chongzhen took a breath and said, "Then send 800 people there."

"Ah, Your Majesty, isn't that too much?"

Empress Zhou said, Chongzhen heard this and said: "To deal with people like Li Chaosheng, we have to make a big bet. Pick [-] beautiful women of the right age and send them to Lantian."

"Yes."

Queen Zhou replied, after all, Queen Zhou was in charge of the harem, and Queen Zhou had to agree to such a thing.

"Okay, after the candidates are selected, they will be handed over to Cao Daban for training for one month, and then sent to Lantian, and they will be rewarded by me. Wang Daban drafted the decree and said that Li Chaosheng, the magistrate of Lantian County, has made great achievements. I will reward 800 of his maids for his merits. , to serve his life, don't tire out my minister of the humerus of the Ming Dynasty."

"Yes."

Wang Chengen responded respectfully, and Chongzhen said: "The imperial decree and Gong'e will be sent to Lantian together."

"Yes."

Everyone should be, Chongzhen got up and walked towards the bedroom, Empress Zhou immediately followed, Wang Chengen and Cao Huachun looked at each other and did not follow, Chongzhen sighed on the way: "Am I the most useless emperor in all ages? Gong'e rewards the courtiers, and only asks the courtiers not to turn against me, hehe..."

Empress Zhou heard the words and said: "Your Majesty, there is no need to be like this. Your Majesty has never seen many of those maids, so I will give them away. They will cost too much to stay in the palace. Your Majesty only has two dishes for a meal. They sent them away. We can save a great deal of money for His Majesty's expenses."

(End of this chapter)