Please ask me to be the emperor

Sun Chuanting was a surname from Zhenwuwei in Daizhou, that is, he was later born in Daixian County, Shanxi.

Logically speaking, he should take a job elsewhere.

But Shanxi was a barrier to Hebei, so the imperial court happened to promote him in an unusual way because he was known as a frontier talent.

Therefore, under Yang Sichang's strong insistence, he was finally appointed governor of Shanxi.

Sun Chuanting was elected as a candidate in the 46th year of Wanli and became a Jinshi in the 47th year of Wanli.

The forty-seventh year of Wanli was really the beginning of a troubled time.

This year Song Xiance left Yongcheng County and went to Chenzhou to look for the "Purple Micro Star Descends to Earth".

This year, Nurhaci defeated the Ming army in Sarxu, and famous generals Du Song, Liu Wei, and Ma Lin died in battle.

This year's imperial examination list was even more exciting:

Tanhualang was Chen Zizhuang, one of the "Three Lingnan Loyalists" in the Southern Ming Dynasty in history; the seventh person in the second class was Liang Tingdong, the Minister of War and the governor of the three sides, who had just been defeated and killed by Zhang Shun; and the nineteenth name in the second class was Ma Shiying.

The top fifty-six is ​​Jiang Yueguang, one of the "Three Wise Prime Ministers of Nanzhong" in the history of Nanming. The fifty-ninth place in the top two is Ding Qirui, who has just surrendered to King Shun Zhang Shun.

The 40th person in the top three is called Yuan Chonghuan, and the 41st person in the top three is Sun Chuanting.

The 83rd person in the top three is Gan Xuekuo, the governor of Shaanxi who just set himself on fire. The 122nd person in the top three is Yang Wenyue, who historically replaced Sun Chuanting as governor of Baoding.

Now those people above are loyal and surrender, no matter how much they have suffered, but now it is Sun Chuanting's turn.

"Your Majesty, Sun Chuanting, comes to greet the Emperor!" Sun Chuanting strode into the palace and saluted.

"Mr. Sun, please get up!" Chongzhen looked at the person in front of him and couldn't help but feel a little hopeful.

Sun Chuanting was just about forty, tall and eight feet tall.

Not only is he full of knowledge, he is also extremely skilled in martial arts and can shoot left and right.

Even though the two of them are about the same size, if they were to fight, eight Zhang Shuns might not be able to beat him alone.

It was Sun Chuanting's tall and burly aura that gave the restless Chongzhen some confidence.

"I want to appoint you as the governor of Shanxi. I wonder how you can teach me?" Chongzhen hesitated for a moment and couldn't help but ask first.

"The atmosphere that has flowed around has been fomenting chaos, and it will last almost ten years. At the beginning of the attack, the thieves were very small. But our troops are suppressing them day by day, and the thieves are getting stronger." Sun Chuanting had already been prepared, and he couldn't help but said impassionedly.

"Today, based on the proposal of the Councilor Yang Sichang, we will pay 2.8 million yuan and raise 120,000 troops. We will pay the supervisors and ministers to assist the ministers in order to achieve great success. We say that we will destroy the thieves in one fell swoop! "

"I have served my ministers with dignity, and have maintained the present path. There has been no change in my plans. I am afraid that the current salary of 2.8 million will be more than the several hundred thousand that I have already spent on you?"

"Today we have gathered 120,000 troops, and if we don't catch the enemy, we will have to mobilize 90,000! The temple has worked so hard to raise it, how can it be another attempt, and the affairs of the world can be wrong again?"

What does it mean? It turned out that Sun Chuanting openly opposed Yang Sichang's strategy of "sending an additional 2.8 million in salary and 120,000 in troops".

Just kidding, you can increase pay and troops at every turn. Who can't do this? It's your turn, Yang Sichang, to do arithmetic?

Isn’t it enough to increase pay and train troops a few times before?

A total of 200,000 horses were used, and they were beaten like dogs by the "obedient thieves". Now they are still playing this trick. This is because they care about eating and not about beating!

When Chongzhen heard this, his face couldn't help but turned down, and he said unhappy: "Mr. Yang calls you 'Mount Tai Yanyan', which is very difficult to achieve. I don't know what Mr. Yang thinks of this matter?"

Good fellow, people highly recommend you and don't mention you. They also praise you as "a rare person in ancient and modern times and unparalleled in the world."

As a result, you turn around and cause trouble for others. What a villain!

Sun Chuanting couldn't help but be stunned when he heard this. He never expected that Yang Sichang would treat him like this.

The reason why he was so dissatisfied with Yang Sichang was because in the seventh year of Chongzhen Emperor's reign, when Yang Sichang served as the right minister of the Ministry of War and the governor of three towns in Shaanxi Province, Xuanda was plundered by the Qing army.

In the opinion of Sun Chuanting, who was well versed in side affairs, this guy was really useless and extremely incompetent.

Now that I have just heard about Yang Sichang's strategy of "increasing pay and apportionment" and "increasing troops", I almost burst out laughing.

It's just that Sun Chuanting is not a fool. As soon as he heard Emperor Chongzhen's words, he knew that he had offended the Holy Emperor.

He quickly responded: "What I said is for official business, not for personal use!"

"Yang Shangshu's noble character is ten times better than mine. I really don't dare to praise you so much!"

"It's just that when it comes to the strategy of 'sending more troops', I really don't dare to follow the edict."

"The fat in the sea is almost exhausted now. Even if you want to collect the salary according to the ministry's proposal, it may not be enough!"

"When will the army be united, and when will the pay be enough? We will still have limited support, and it will take more time to make up for the debt. If the troops are mobilized for the original period of a large-scale suppression, the pay will be difficult to sit and eat. What's more, the difficulty of paying is not the only one to worry about. Jihu?"

It turns out that at this time, Yang Sichang's father Yang He passed away, and then his stepmother Ding died again, so Ding You returned home.

However, the national situation was difficult, and three sides and four towns were captured by "shun thieves". Chongzhen had no choice but to issue an order to seize love and resurrect this person again.

Yang Sichang took office in a sorrowful mood without mentioning it, so he planned the strategy of "suppressing thieves" for himself. In the end, he was scolded by the people he recommended. You can imagine Chongzhen's mood.

Listening to Sun Chuanting's endless talk, Chongzhen waved his hands impatiently and said: "With your words, how should I act?"

"How many troops and how much pay are needed to destroy this thief?"

"Although the number of thieves is said to be one hundred thousand or hundreds of thousands, according to the officials, it is actually less than one hundred thousand." Sun Chuanting couldn't help but perked up after hearing this.

"If the old, weak, women and children are removed, the old camp will only have two to three thousand elite soldiers."

"In my opinion, we only need 30,000 elite soldiers to defeat the thieves!"

Originally, he wanted to say that there were less than two or three thousand thieves, and only three thousand elite soldiers could defeat them.

Then I thought about it, almost all of Shaanxi was lost. Isn't it nonsense to say that there were two to three thousand people?

In fact, this is the consequence of the delayed news. Although Sun Chuanting is talented, he knows nothing about the explosive growth of the rebel army.

If Sun Chuanting had trained 30,000 elite soldiers last year, the rebels would have been unable to do anything to him.

But now that Zhang Shun has surrendered to the rebel armies and married Yulin generals, his strength has expanded rapidly and is no longer what it used to be.

"Thirty thousand?" Chongzhen was stunned when he heard this. He couldn't help but recall the old events of the "Five Years of Ping Liao" in the past, and his impression of him became even worse.

"Okay, thirty thousand is thirty thousand!" Chongzhen said with a smile, "It's difficult to raise troops, but it's even harder to raise pay."

"I will give you a salary of 60,000 gold per year now, and I will leave it to you to set up your own affairs without any control."

Can't you? If you don’t allow more money to be paid and stipends added, does it mean that the money is falling from the sky?

Let’s see what you say when these 60,000 silver are spent!

"Your Majesty, please accept the order and thank me!" Sun Chuanting hesitated for a moment, then said firmly.

He was originally from the Zhenwu Wei family, and his home was only twenty miles away from Yanmen Pass, one of the "Three Outer Passes". Of course, he knew the situation of the Ming Dynasty very well.

Since Sun Chuanting dared to take office, he naturally had his own methods.