After five years of teaching support, Daming became an empire on which the sun never sets.

Chapter 223 Chongzhen's meanness and lack of kindness

"So Chongzhen's correct approach at that time was to keep Wei Zhongxian first, and use his power to destroy the Donglin Party, which represented the feudal aristocracy. It would not be too late to kill Wei Zhongxian after the Donglin Party was wiped out."

"After all, Wei Zhongxian's power largely depends on the emperor, and it is easy for the emperor to kill him."

"Emperor Chongzhen, reversed the order."

"Killing Wei Zhongxian was the first mistake Chongzhen made." Qin Yu said,

"Next, he made another mistake, which was to kill Yuan Chonghuan."

"At that time, Yuan Chonghuan was high-spirited and devoted himself to serving the country. He was known as 'a Shangfang sword that leveled Liaodong in five years'"

"Although he didn't do what he said, he also admitted that the five-year leveling of Liaodong he said was just to comfort the emperor. Given the current situation of the court, no one can achieve five-year leveling of Liaodong."

"Although he caused Huang Taiji's soldiers to come to the city in the end, and even though he killed Mao Wenlong without authorization, he still shouldn't be executed."

"Because in that extraordinary period, apart from Yuan Chonghuan, there is probably no one who can win the battle against Jurchen."

"In extraordinary times, you should do extraordinary things. Although generals have ways to kill, you should at least wait until he defeats the enemy before you settle accounts with him."

"Don't be dazzled by anger. Anger will lower a person's IQ. And Chongzhen killed Yuan Chonghuan because he was so dazzled by Yuan Chonghuan's actions."

good!Zhu Yuanzhang agreed very much when he heard the words.

When he raised righteousness, there are many generals under him who have the means to kill, even Chang Yuchun has killed captives.However, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't care about them, he just wrote down their merits and demerits in a small notebook.

After the founding of the country, if the founding military general knows how to restrain himself, then the previous things will be forgotten, and the small book will always be dusty in the cabinet.

If they don't know how to restrain themselves, act recklessly, and dare to take credit for themselves, then the old and new scores will be settled together.

The great cause is unfinished, and it is time to employ people, why did you kill him?Zhu Yuanzhang complained in his heart.

"After Yuan Chonghuan was killed, there were no more people available for the Liaodong War. It's sad, sad!" Qin Yu said. "Emperor Chongzhen's third mistake was not being decisive in killing Li Zicheng and others."

"When Hong Chengchou was about to wipe out Li Zicheng, he transferred Hong Chengchou back to defend the capital. According to what he said at the time, only six or seven Li thieves escaped, so there is nothing to worry about."

"So giving up halfway, Li Zicheng later resurged and captured the capital."

"He doesn't understand the principles of killing a snake without killing it, causing endless harm, letting the tiger go back to the mountain, and cutting the grass without eradicating its roots."

"Of course, it's not because he doesn't understand, but because he didn't do it. Any fool can explain the truth clearly and logically, but very few can do it. Knowing and doing it are completely different things."

"At that time, the battle in the capital was too tight, and Wu Sangui, who was guarding Ningyuan, was at his wits' end. If Hong Chengchou hadn't been transferred back, it might be difficult to defend the capital. He also had his reasons."

"That's why the teacher said that everyone understands the truth, but not everyone can do it. Because those who can't do it can always find a reasonable excuse for themselves."

Not bad!
The crowd nodded after hearing the words. Mr. Qin's words contained a profound philosophy of life.

"The disadvantages of beheading Yuan Chonghuan here are revealed. Wu Sangui is inferior to Yuan Chonghuan in terms of prestige and commanding ability. He has no ability to block Huang Taiji's three-way army."

"In a word, everything is linked together."

"If you made a wrong choice before, you will have to work ten times harder to make up for it later, or even never make up for it."

Qin Yudao: "Chongzhen's fourth mistake was to fight and be uncertain when facing Huang Taiji. Fighting from time to time and not fighting from time to time caused the Ming Dynasty to always be in a passive situation in dealing with border troubles."

"Of course he is not primarily responsible for the Jurchen war and uncertainty."

"There is only one fundamental reason why he is fighting and indeterminate - that is, he has no money and no food."

"The imperial court can't afford the army's salary, and the army has no food and grass supply. What do they use to fight?"

"If he had money, he would have fought. If the imperial court had sufficient military pay and made a fool the emperor, he would know that the enemy should fight rather than make peace. Peace is also a sum of humiliation."

"Everyone understands the reason why the imperial court has no money and no food, that is, the feudal aristocracy occupies most of the wealth in society."

"So war and uncertainty are just superficial, and the deep-seated reason is that the feudal aristocrats confused the court."

"Although Chongzhen did not bear the primary responsibility for this matter, he still cannot escape the secondary responsibility. Because of extraordinary times, extraordinary things should be done. Conventional operations cannot cope with the situation at that time, and you must have the courage to burn the boat. Since you If you are the emperor, you should show some courage."

"So, Chongzhen is not stupid, but lack of ability."

"Not bad, not bad." The crowd nodded after hearing the words: Although the root cause of war and uncertainty is lack of money and food, but you are an emperor, if you can't solve the problem, it proves that you don't have any great talents.

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"Fifth, Chongzhen is also mean and ungrateful."

"The generals killed by Chongzhen are ten times more than those killed by the enemy."

"Yang Gao, Minister of the Ministry of War, Liu Ce, the censor of the capital of Jiliao, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor, Sun Yuanhua, the imperial envoy of the governor's capital, Yang Yipeng, the governor of the water transport, Xiong Wencan, the minister of the Ministry of War..."

"I don't have Zhu Yuanzhang's ability, but I have Zhu Yuanzhang's disease. Of course, Zhu Yuanzhang is not mean and ungrateful. What the teacher refers to is that Chongzhen has the 'disease' of Zhu Yuanzhang who killed many ministers."

"When it should be killed decisively, it is not decisive, but when it should not be killed, it kills a lot."

"You must know that people like Yuan Chonghuan were talents available at that time."

"The imperial court is already rotten, and it has to draw its own salary from the bottom of the pot."

"According to what he said, the civil servants can't afford to mess with it. Isn't it easy to kill your generals?"

"The teacher will tell you one more thing, and you will know how mean and ungrateful Chongzhen is."

"In the second year of Chongzhen's reign, the Sisi revolution broke out. Chongzhen ordered the Gansu army to guard King Ma Qin. When he arrived in Dingxi, the Gansu soldiers mutinied. No one came back alive. Now we have to travel six thousand miles, the armor and artillery are heavy, and the imperial court will not give us a cent of food and wages to settle down."

’ The leader had strict requirements on us. He must march as much as he stipulated every day, and he was not allowed to stay in private houses at night. After sleeping outside for a while, he immediately blew the trumpet to let us continue marching.Going on like this, and walking for a few more days, I am afraid that all the people and horses will die of exhaustion on the road.It's better to die than to die here.Now that we have mutinied, we have no chance of surviving, so we can only do our best. '"

(End of this chapter)