Zhang Jingyi probably learned about Yuan Chonghuan’s problems.

If you say that Yuan Chonghuan is a traitor, this is indeed a bit too much.

However, Zhang Jingyi can understand Yuan Chonghuan when analyzing from the perspective of human nature.

First of all, he wanted to make contributions. Which of these Jinshi who came from school did not want to govern the country and pacify the world?

However, Yuan Chonghuan was not lucky. He was not ranked high in the imperial examination and could not enter the Hanlin area. Instead, he was sent to be a county magistrate.

If he follows his trajectory, then basically he will be at most a local governor in his life, and he may even die in his office as a county magistrate for the rest of his life.

But Yuan Chonghuan was not a scheming person. He felt that he could do it, so he excavated the gold mine in Liaodong.

At that time, the Liaodong issue began to be sharp. The place was a bitter and cold place and was fighting. Most civil officials were unwilling to go.

So Yuan Chonghuan stood up. He brags about the first cow first. After he ran to Shanhaiguan for investigation, he said to the court: "As long as I can give me enough troops, money and food, I can guard Shanhaiguan alone."

This was a sudden blow, and no one was willing to go to Shanhaiguan. Isn’t this a hurry to deliver it to the door?

So everyone praised his talent. After receiving unanimous praise, Yuan Chonghuan was promoted to the position of military officer and the army outside the pass.

Since then, Yuan Chonghuan has been constantly advancing along this trajectory and finally made his mark.

Yuan Chonghuan actually has some ability, but when he was outside the barrier, he soon found that he couldn't play anymore.

You are a civil servant, and you are considered an old man. Today you have a big plan and tomorrow you have a strategy, but you have everyone to follow you to implement it.

Under such circumstances, Yuan Chonghuan felt that his prestige could not convince the public at all.

So he began to continue his previous successful experience, wrote letters again and again, making various promises and boasting to the court, and portraying himself into a world-class figure.

Because only by gaining the absolute trust of the emperor can he restrain the generals.

Of course, Emperor Aoki would not listen to his foolings.

But, Emperor Chongzhen was fooled by him, and then happily accepted his promise to pacify Liao for five years and took office.

After gaining the absolute trust of Emperor Chongzhen, in order to ensure that the Qiu Ba people in Liaodong bowed to him, he had to find someone to attack him.

Unfortunately, Mao Wenlong from Pidao became a scapegoat, Yuan Chonghuan directly slaughtered Mao Wenlong, and then Liaodong was shocked.

The final result is really a tragedy in tragedy. The power is in hand. If you say you kill, you will kill him, but the brag at the beginning... it was not realized.

Not only has it not been realized, but you have been operating the Liaodong defense line for so many years, but you were actually broken through by the Jiannu people and killed to the capital, and then... a tragedy.

The reason why Zhang Jingyi proposed that Sun Chengzong take charge of Liaodong affairs is very simple. Even if Zhang Jingyi does not judge the ability between Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan, he will not talk about their character.

Only one thing, Sun Chengzong is not comparable to Yuan Chonghuan. That is, Sun Chengzong is the imperial teacher and can communicate with the emperor at any time. As long as he works well in Liaodong, he will sooner or later join the cabinet and become the prime minister in the future.

This means that when he arrived in Liaodong, those generals who were willing to listen to him would follow him. After all,... he is a person who can really support you in the future.

It's like... the county magistrate and the county magistrate may have conflicts, because although the county magistrate is a little smaller than your county magistrate, your county magistrate cannot be promoted to me.

Can your county magistrate still promote me to be a county magistrate? You have someone in the prefectural yamen, and I have no one in the prefectural yamen? Who is afraid of whom!

But the same county magistrate, what if this county magistrate had been the emperor's teacher before? Such a county magistrate with a deep background, not only would he dare not disagree with the county magistrate, and would not lick the imperial magistrate's PIGU to pieces, but he would feel sorry for being lucky enough to be an official with the imperial magistrate.

There are many prominent problems in Liaodong, and Zhang Jingyi believes that the most important problem lies in internal friction.

If civil and military affairs are in harmony, upper and lower levels are in harmony, and each border town is in harmony, there will be a shirk, and they will complain to each other, and then the rift will become deeper and deeper, even to the point where the power is the same as water and fire!

It’s okay in normal times, but once it reaches the critical moment of war, it becomes a flaw that the Jiannu people can exploit.

His answer is very simple. Either send Wei Zhongxian or Sun Chengzong, or... there will be big problems sooner or later.

After all, the discord between the governor and the general officer is not just a conflict between the two chief officers, which will extend to the conflict between their respective subordinates.

Think about it, your boss has become a thorn in the other boss's eyes. It is precisely the other boss who defeated his boss or directly cut off his boss's head. If it were you, would you still have the intention to fight?

Not to mention that this means that you will never be able to stand out in your life, and even more miserable... Maybe you will be retaliated by the other party. If you encounter this situation, you may mutiny or simply defect to Jiannu.

And this situation... has always been happening in Liaodong.

Emperor Tianqi was an extremely smart person. Many people in the dynasty had been caught in the verbal dispute over the candidates for the Liaodong Governor. Everyone evaluated a person's character and ability, but few people paid attention to it from this perspective.

Zhang Jingyi's opinion suddenly made Emperor Tianqi suddenly enlightened. He said, "This Yuan Chonghuan... wrote a letter every now and then, either just talking big or impeaching other general officers. I just think that this person has a problem with his personality. Now it seems that the root of the problem is here!"

Speaking of this, Emperor Tianqi looked at Wei Zhongxian and said directly: "Parent Wei, you have issued an order to entrust Master Sun to come to Beijing. I still have to consider the candidate for the Liaodong Supervisor. I... I still want to see Master Sun first."

When Wei Zhongxian heard that Sun Chengzong was going to enter Beijing, he really wanted to kill Zhang Jing immediately.

This guy did it on purpose!

But it is obvious that I can’t kill you at this time, so I have to point at him to refine medicine!

Emperor Tianqi did not know Wei Zhongxian’s thoughts, and at this time he couldn’t help but sigh: “I used to be counting military accounts, but now it seems that… Liaodong’s decay may not be the level of ability.”

Zhang Jing looked at Wei Zhongxian happily, and felt that he could not die, so he became bolder: "In fact, compared to Liaodong, the most serious thing is the national economy and people's livelihood. He is worried that a huge disaster may occur this year. The most urgent task at the moment is that the court will stockpile more food in case of accidents."

"Disaster?" Emperor Aoqi said in surprise: "You can even calculate this?"

"This..." In fact, Zhang Jingyi had already hinted about this matter before. Now Emperor Tianqi asked back, and he couldn't answer it anymore. He thought for a while and said, "I am not a god, how can I count this? It's just... I am more than a humble person. It's better to plan ahead."

"Listen to you." Emperor Tianqi cheered up and said, "I think of a solution, Wei Fan, how much surplus food is left in the warehouse now?"

"This..." Wei Zhongxian was thinking about Sun Chengzong's affairs and was in a state of confusion. At this time, Emperor Tianqi asked, and hurriedly put away his thoughts and said, "Your Majesty, there is no autumn harvest yet, where does the surplus grain come from? There are only so many harvests every year, but there are much more flowers than those collected, especially after the decay in Liaodong, it will be even more precarious. If Your Majesty really wants to save some money and grain...or, save a lot from other places?"

Emperor Aoki was energetic and said, "Okay, what are your ideas?"

Wei Zhongxian thought for a long time and calculated where to save some money and food. After pondering for a long time, his eyes lit up and said, "Chen Le, the head of the Ministry of Revenue, repeatedly reported that today, the one who wasted the most money and food was the stations in various places. You might as well start from this station, lay off a batch of stations, and then streamlined redundant staff. In this way... maybe you can save a lot of money and food."

Zhang Jingyi was smiling beside him, thinking that today's advice would be very effective. Could it be that I, Zhang Jingyi, are finally going to change the trend of history?

But the next moment he heard Wei Zhongxian actually proposed to cut off the post station, his face suddenly changed, he was sweating profusely, his body couldn't help but tremble, and then subconsciously made a voice: "Damn."

“…”

Emperor Tianqi and Wei Zhongxian looked at Zhang Jingyi in confusion.

Zhang Jingyi felt that he had lost his words.

But the layoffs... are you serious?

Do you know why Li Zicheng rebelled? He was a postman. Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne and the first thing he did was to streamline the post station. Then, Li Zicheng, who lost his job, fucked the guy and turned against him without saying a word.

This is the root of the Ming Dynasty. I, Zhang Jingyi, just won the title of title?

How can you not cheat people like this?

Emperor Tianqi said curiously: "Zhang Qing, what does this mean?"

Zhang Jingyi was a little confused and hurriedly said, "This means he is shocked."

"Where is Zhang Qing shocked?"

Zhang Jing glanced at Wei Zhongxian and said, "I thought that Brother Wei could easily grasp the affairs of the government, so I was shocked. In the future, I should learn more from Brother Wei. However,... I will streamline the post station and see that it is not a day to achieve success. It is better to slow down?"

Emperor Tianqi sighed in embarrassment: "This court... is really difficult to collect money and grain, but there are countless places to spend money. If you ask me to prepare for the future, why don't I want to prepare for the future? But it's hard for a good cook to cook without rice. But... Then again, maybe this year will be a good harvest? Zhang Qing, you don't have to worry about it!"

Zhang Jing couldn't help but say in his heart, don't I hope this year will be a good harvest?

Little do we know that this year is a year of disasters that is rare in a century. That kind of large-scale disaster has surpassed most years!

But who would have thought that the first thing Wei Zhongxian did to lay off the post station for the purpose of storing grain was to lay off the post station, and maybe this guy wanted to lay off some other things next. Will the sack and disaster add fuel to the fire?

It's difficult.
Chapter completed!