Master Sun was cautious. He knew that after this great victory, there would be a great purge. After all, if such a big thing happened, in the case of no enemy in the capital for 150 years, Jiannu directly fought under the city and ravaged the capital area for five months. Someone was always responsible for this.

But this matter cannot be discussed in the court, because it will be another involvement and another disaster. Therefore, Master Sun, with his supreme prestige, invited all those who have made contributions in this war to convene a meeting in the name of convening military affairs, and decide to take the blame.

He took great risks, but he was also the one who was most considering the responsibility of the state.

"We are not victorious, but in fact we are failure." Zhao Xing followed Sun Chengzong's words and began his statement.

No one refuted his overwhelming rank. In fact, Zhao Xing's official position was second, mainly because of the battle to defend the capital. Zhao Xing was so eye-catching. Everyone, including Lu Xiangsheng, who was disliked by Zhao Xing, had to admit that without Zhao Xing, this crisis would be bad. Without Zhao Xing, everyone would not know what the consequences would be.

Although Sun Chengzong asked for something like Donglin, remnants of eunuchs, despised generals, and public enemies of all officials, everyone has a common label - patriotism.

Therefore, the Jinyiwei who was most opposed by everyone was not the Jinyiwei, but an equal Zhao Xing who discussed major events together.

"Our Ming Dynasty failed first, the Zhulei policy in western Liaoning." While saying this, Zhao Xing apologized for looking at Sun Chengzong and Zu Dashou.

Sun Chengzong looked ashamed because he was the initiator of this Zhulei strategy.

He was also the number one sinner of the Ming Dynasty assessed by later generations.

Why do I say that? Because he gave up Xiong Tingbi's proactive strategy and began to implement Zhu Lei's strategy. Under his huge influence, this policy has always been respected by his two students, Tianqi and Chongzhen.

But don’t you know that the most successful defense was offense. Although the Ming army was already afraid of the enemy after the Battle of Sahu at that time, it was not without troops.

Even though this unit is rarely and small, it is feasible to make short attacks under layers of barriers and not be completely passive.

At the same time, Sun Chengzong's policies really drained the Ming Dynasty's finances and caused the finances to collapse.

At that time, the financial income of the Ministry of Revenue in the Ming Dynasty was only 3.3 million taels, including nearly one million white strips. However, it took 1.5 million to build a Dalinghe Fort left and right guards, and later there were 47 forts, hundreds of military platforms, and Yuan Chonghuan's Jinzhou Xingcheng and Suizhong, which was even a bottomless pit. At the same time, the Guanning Iron Cavalry chaired by Sun Chengzong directly expanded from 40,000 to 150,000, which consumed another one million.

Therefore, last year, Yuan Chonghuan and Chongzhen were righteous and righteous, which was a legacy of Sun Chengzong's policies.

Zhao Xing did not doubt the old man's ethics or his greed, but he could not help but doubt the greed of Sun Chengzong's subordinates, such as Zu Dashou, who was in front of him, how did he raise 4,000 personal soldiers? And the beloved general of Sun Chengzong, Ma Shilong, who died in battle, how did he raise 10,000 personal soldiers, but he ended up being useless.

His policy of Sun Chengzong consumed 5.5 million taels of silver directly in the Ming Dynasty.

This directly caused the consequences of the Ming Dynasty's financial collapse, but it directly led to the Ming Dynasty's heavy burden on the lower class people - the increase in Liao salary. It eventually increased to 7.7 million. When the Ming Dynasty's actual north-south confrontation was almost all in the north of natural disasters and man-made disasters, which also caused the bankruptcy of the northern farmers and became refugees. The desperate refugees eventually formed a major uprising, which eventually completely ruined the Ming Dynasty.

If you want to say that the number one person who is good at doing bad things is definitely the first one.

Remember, Sun Chengzong did not harm the country, but did bad things with kindness. He was not the real number one sinner of the Ming Dynasty.

He looked at Sun Chengzong again apologized. Sun Chengzong sighed, but reached out and said, "See the wise, please continue to say."

Zhao Xing bowed to Sun Chengzong and refuted the respected Sun Chengzong in person. Zhao Xing shouldn't have done it, but now it's not the court, but the military tent. Everyone here is all military generals. Zhao Xing's disagreement with the military policy in western Liaoning is the most appropriate here. For the task he traveled through time, his conscience, and to relieve the pressure of plundering silver everywhere to fill the bottomless pit in western Liaoning, he had to say, it would be unhappy if he didn't say it.

"This war is over. Looking at the court, Master Sun can only continue to take on the burden of the Ji Liao Supervisor. So the boy is unruly. He can only advise Master Sun here to change your Zhulei policy."

Sun Chengzong was speechless. Sun Chengzong dared to take responsibility, but his personality was more stubborn. He became stronger and stronger when he was old.

Zhao Xing advised with great thought: "How can you win the war by blindly Zhu Lei without taking the initiative? Of course, you will give countless examples of war to prove that you can win if you can't defend. But you must clearly understand that such victory must be achieved under the prerequisite of the enemy's supply away from the rear. However, Jiannu did not have such conditions. Jiannu's food can be achieved by looting around, and their war horses are all hard-working Mongolian horses, with a handful of hay and a few beans running and fighting continuously. Behind him is his territory, without any worries about food and grass."

Everyone is a military general. If you think about it carefully, you will know that Zhao Xing is right.

"There are two so-called great victories in western Liaoning. Are they really relying on defending to win? In fact, it is not. It is the result of Mao Shuai of Dongjiang Town raiding Nurhaci's rear, forcing Nurhaci to rescue him. Even if they were victorious, they easily snatched all the supplies and population outside Ningjin City. Not to mention anything else, in Ningjin alone, Yuan Chonghuan stood in Jinzhou City, watching the 450,000 people in western Liaoning were plundered by Jiannu. Jiannu retreated to the Liaohe River and killed all the 450,000 Ming people. The Liaohe River was red, and the bodies blocked the river channel, and the river water soared."

Thinking about the tragic situation, all the generals closed their eyes in pain.

Sun Chengzong said with his lips trembling: "It's my legacy."

Zhao Xing breathed a sigh of relief. His statement finally made Master Sun relax.

"Zhu Lei is too expensive. Now, under the governance concept of the Donglin Immortals, the finance of the Ministry of Revenue has gone from 3.5 million taels of the Apocalypse to 2.3 million taels today. If it weren't for the huge treasury left by Wei Zhongxian, if it weren't for the generous subsidies for the country by the emperor, what would have been used to fill the gap of more than 5 million in western Liaoning a year?"

After Zhao Xing said this, the royal guards led by Man Gui all showed resentment.

It was to fill the huge bottomless pit in western Liaoning that they suppressed other border guards without money and food, and that the army they led was actually begging for food and was powerless to suppress bandits.

Seeing everyone's eyes, Sun Chengzong silently bowed to everyone with shame.
Chapter completed!