Daming: Apocalypse of Longevity

Chapter 40 Chen remembered something funny
Early the next morning, Wang Yuanbao sent dozens of memorials, but none of them were for pleading guilty. Instead, they were all for impeaching Sun Chengzong. These memorials were unanimously unanimous, saying that Sun Chengzong was not worthy of being the Minister of the Ministry of War, let alone the Grand Scholar of Zhongji Palace. , because he has problems left over from history.

When Sun Chengzong was the governor of Ji Liao, many people impeached him for pretending to receive military pay, and then he went to the Shu to resign. After he was replaced by Gao Di, Gao Di also impeached Sun Chengzong for falsely claiming to have paid 5 yuan. There were so many people that Sun Chengzong admitted this at the time.

He expressed that he had no objection to Gao Di's impeachment, and personally told the Ministry of Household Affairs: "Since Gao Di said that there are only 5 sergeants in Shanhaiguan, please only pay [-] soldiers in the future!"

Although Gao Di was later punished by the emperor for lying, this was just the emperor defending his teacher Sun Chengzong. Everyone can understand it, but Sun Chengzong's embezzlement of more than [-] soldiers' salary cannot be just wiped away, right?

So now that the emperor wants to investigate the problem of false reports and false claims of empty pay in the capital camp, he must at least send someone whom everyone can trust to investigate. Let Sun Chengzong, the Minister of War, who has his own problems, come to investigate. I am afraid it will be difficult to convince the public!
After Zhu Tianqi read these memorials in his hand, he was a little confused. He thought that these people would be stubborn and unwilling to explain their problems easily and honestly, but he did not expect that it would be fine if these people did not explain their problems obediently. How could he return it? Are you all targeting Sun Chengzong?
After thinking about it again, Zhu Tianqi realized that the court in the late Ming Dynasty was in chaos. The ministers were divided into many parties, and basically no one would admit defeat. This led to a very strange result, that is, who was selected into the cabinet. , hundreds of officials will impeach anyone, especially the chief minister of the cabinet is the most "popular"!
Now that he had promoted Sun Chengzong to the position of Minister of the Ministry of War in one fell swoop, and conferred the title of Grand Bachelor of the Intermediate Palace, it seemed that he wanted to make him the chief minister of the cabinet. The ministers in the court were naturally jealous, and in addition to the fact that he had promoted Sun Chengzong to the throne, The next step is to rectify the Beijing camp. No wonder they linked this matter to Sun Chengzong!
The matter was figured out, but Zhu Tianqi really had no idea how to deal with it next. He didn't expect that Sun Chengzong still had such a stain on him. Now it seems that if he doesn't give an explanation to the ministers, I'm afraid that I won't be able to continue with the matter of rectifying the Beijing camp!
Zhu Tianqi even wondered if he was a bit "black and white", thinking that Sun Chengzong was a capable minister, good at everything, and couldn't find any stain on his body. However, since ancient times, no one is perfect. Sun Chengzong is probably not exempt from vulgarity. In an era like the late Ming Dynasty, it was probably impossible to find anyone who had never been corrupt!
But Zhu Tianqi was not in a hurry to make a conclusion. He still planned to find Sun Chengzong to ask clearly what happened back then. In fact, even if the military salary of 5 people was really embezzled by Sun Chengzong, Zhu Tianqi could accept it. of.

But he couldn't figure out why Sun Chengzong admitted it so frankly at that time. Was it because he relied on the emperor's trust in him?Or is he already determined to resign and return home, so he doesn't consider the consequences?
While waiting for Sun Chengzong, he took out the historical books and looked through them again, and found that the things written in the memorials of these ministers were not groundless, and that what they said really happened, and Sun Chengzong was indeed so. What he said to Hu Bu was a disguised admission of his embezzlement of military pay.

Zhu Tianqi also looked at Gao Di, who was impeaching Sun Chengzong. He was a timid and fearful mediocre person. At that time, Sun Chengzong resigned several times, but no one in the court could come to replace him. Wei Zhongxian was eager to get Sun Chengzong to step down, so he put this person Gao Di arrested the strong man, drove the ducks to the shelves and forced him to the position of Liaodong Economic Strategy. It is estimated that the reason why he impeached Sun Chengzong was also instructed by Wei Zhongxian!
Since this matter has something to do with Wei Zhongxian, then there is a high probability that Sun Chengzong was framed. If so, it would be even more strange that Sun Chengzong would take the initiative to admit his guilt.

Just when Zhu Tianqi was puzzled, Sun Chengzong arrived.

Zhu Tianqi didn't say much nonsense, and immediately pushed these memorials to him to read, and then Sun Chengzong read the memorials one by one very seriously. After reading, he neither panicked nor argued, but smiled, I laughed very proudly and loudly.

Zhu Tianqi couldn't help frowning, and asked in confusion, "Why are you laughing, Teacher?"

Sun Chengzong smiled and replied: "Reporting to your Majesty, I remembered a very funny thing!"

Zhu Tianqi was even more surprised when he heard this, and couldn't help asking: "What is so funny?"

Sun Chengzong pointed to the memorial on the table and said, "It's the matter of Gao Di's impeachment of officials for embezzling military pay!" Zhu Tianqi couldn't help but was stunned, and began to think about Sun Chengzong's words in his mind. He knew that Sun Chengzong was stronger than his student Yuan Chonghuan. Sun Chengzong was a master in both fighting and serving as an official. He never suffered from the overt and covert fights in the officialdom. Even when he finally left the court, he resigned by himself instead of being dismissed from office. It is not fair to say that he is an "old fox"!

So Zhu Tianqi now thought that Sun Chengzong probably made such an exaggerated reaction on purpose to show that what he said in the memorial was nonsense.

Thinking of this, Zhu Tianqi couldn't help frowning and asked: "Is this funny?"

Sun Chengzong did not suppress the smile on his face, raised his hand and gave a salute, and said: "Your Majesty, please tell me in detail about this matter!"

Zhu Tianqi was very curious about what tricks Sun Chengzong would say, so he nodded in agreement.

Sun Chengzong said: "At that time, there were clearly more than 11 sergeants in Liaodong, but Gaodi insisted on saying that there were only 5 sergeants in Liaodong, and he wanted to impeach the minister for corrupting tens of thousands of soldiers. Naturally, I couldn't be more angry. , so I deliberately followed his words and told the Household Department that the Household Department will allocate 5 soldiers to Liaodong in the future, just to let Gao Di dig a hole by himself and jump into it by himself!"

Zhu Tianqi already knew what Sun Chengzong said from these memorials and historical records, but after hearing this, he still couldn't understand what Sun Chengzong meant by letting Gao Di dig the pit himself and jump out of it. What's so funny about this?

Sun Chengzong couldn't help but laughed again, and continued to explain to Zhu Tianqi: "Your Majesty, think about it, there are clearly more than 11 sergeants in Liaodong, and his high rank only pays 5 military pay, and when he gets his salary, In these days, don’t the [-] to [-] sergeants who cannot receive their pay have to block the door of his house with a machete?”

Zhu Tianqi was stunned and immediately figured it out. He couldn't help but burst into laughter. He secretly thought that this Sun Chengzong was indeed not Yuan Chonghuan. Not only was this old Sun very cunning, but he also showed no mercy to his political opponents. Not only did he want to cheat , and he is going to die. No wonder Gao Di worked in Liaodong for only one year and then went to work to resign!
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