Emperor Chongzhen's thunderous means shocked the civil and military courtiers, after this great change, many people were honest, and did not dare to take risks at this moment and make some unwise moves.

However, Chongzhen didn't feel happy at all, he even had some sadness in his heart, his original intention was to work together to save this devastated country, but he didn't expect that over the years, what he saw was the intrigue of the courtiers, and the monarchs and ministers became more and more detached.

Soon after, Jiang Fengyuan, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, wrote to resign, perhaps because he was not used to seeing the emperor's methods against Wenchen, or perhaps he did not want to get involved in future disputes between the emperor and the crown prince.

Chongzhen did not keep it, and readily approved his resignation, allowing him to return to his hometown Yuyao to spend his old age, in his heart, Jiang Fengyuan's ability is limited, and he is not the minister he wants.

On the day Jiang Fengyuan returned to his hometown, Zhu Cihong personally went out of the city to practice for this teacher, and asked for a pair of calligraphy and paintings as a souvenir.

Jiang Fengyuan looked at this student who was respectful to him, he was very moved, opened his mouth and didn't say a word after all, and left Jingshi in a carriage after sighing.

A few days later, Chongzhen summoned Li Tingbiao again to inquire about the results of the investigation into the prince's poisoning case.

Li Tingbiao replied, when the scope of the investigation was narrowed down to a dozen people, a eunuch of Shangshan Jian committed suicide in fear of crime in the Imperial Prison, and Jinyiwei found a small amount of poison in the cracks in the floor tiles of his residence.

This eunuch of Shangshan Jian has recently had a record of going out of the palace to procure, and it can be basically determined that he is the person who poisoned him, but it cannot be ruled out that there are also accomplices, and the person behind it has not yet been dug out, and Jinyiwei's investigation work continues.

Chongzhen nodded, spoke highly of Li Tingbiao's ability, and asked him to find out who was behind the scenes, and report directly in front of the emperor, and not to leak the content of the investigation with others.

Li Tingbiao made a guarantee with the snapping of his chest in front of him, and tactfully poked Luo Yang's adultery with the palace maid.

Chongzhen, who was already unhappy with Luo's cultivation, dismissed him on the same day, but did not appoint a new commander of the Jinyi Guard.

Zhu Cihong was lifted from the ground, and Chongzhen did not let him go to the former dynasty to discuss politics, and suspended his participation in politics in the name of allowing him to cultivate.

Wen Tiren originally felt very sorry for not bringing down the crown prince and the Yongwei battalion, but then he used the spiritual victory method to think about it, the current situation is not bad, the crown prince has no power to discuss politics, and he is still the boss.

After a period of careful planning, Wen Tiren was ready to carry out a major purge of those who opposed him in the DPRK and China.

Wen Tiren in the Huzhou Hall in the capital was tasting the side dishes of his hometown while thinking about how to clean up the people who opposed him.

Originally, Jiang Fengyuan's old thing was his first target to deal with, but he didn't expect him to take the initiative to resign, counting him as good luck.

Lu Zhenfei is a hard bone, he has just returned to Beijing, and there is no pigtail to grab at present, so bear with it first.

Hou Sui has contradicted himself many times, and he needs to solve it as soon as possible.

Feng Ying, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Yang Tinglin, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, both of them are towards the crown prince, and they don't know each other, since they are both from the Criminal Department, they need a pot, and they have to find a big case.......

As the treasury was once again empty, on October 25, the imperial court ordered the opening of silver, iron, copper, and lead mines.

As the disaster in Shandong progressed severely, on November 7, the imperial court exempted Shandong from taxes owed five years ago.

Soon after, the court that had been quiet for a period of time had another turmoil, and the first assistant Wen Tiren and the cabinet minister Xue Guoguan instigated Song Zhipu and other officials to impeach Hou for mispaying the country, and Hou Sui, the head of the household department, was cut down and imprisoned.

Hou Sui said that he was also wronged, when the Qing army entered the customs, the reinforcements of the Qinwang from all walks of life urged food and salary every day, not to mention, the crown prince led several battalions of tens of thousands of horses to fight and build slaves, and a large amount of grain and grass was also needed, and the reward after the victory was to be silver, and the food and salary of the general soldiers of the Qinwang from all walks of life were also charged.

These are all from the household department, and now that the money is spent, do you blame him, the household secretary, for misleading the country?

But there is no way, Chongzhen only recognizes money and does not recognize people, and all parts of the nine sides have begun to urge salaries again, and the household department can't take out the silver, what if you don't look for this household book?

Seeing that the opening effect was excellent, Wen Tiren went up again and asked the emperor to execute Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party who had been imprisoned, his feelings for Qian Qianyi were too deep, and he would not be able to sleep well if he did not kill Qian Qianyi.

In the first year of Chongzhen, Emperor Chongzhen, who had just ascended the throne, re-established the cabinet, and when he elected the cabinet ministers, Qian Qianyi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, considered that if Wen Tiren, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and Zhou Yanru, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, were pushed into the cabinet, the name was on himself, which had a great impact on his entry into the cabinet and as the first assistant.

After thinking about it, Qian Qianyi decided to play some tricks and sent his own doorman and etiquette department to Qu Shiyun in the matter, and secretly contacted the officials who recommended the cabinet ministers, asking them not to recommend Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru.

At that time, the Donglin Party in the DPRK was powerful, and there were eleven people such as Cheng Jiming, Qian Qianyi, and Zheng Yiwei in the recommended list, and there were really no names of Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru, which made Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru hate Qian Qianyi and other Donglin Party members.

The two began to unite to deal with Qian Qianyi, Wen Tiren exposed Qian Qianyi's fraud case, Zhou Yanru assisted in secret, and pulled Luo Yangxing in the brocade guard.

When Qian Qianyi was taking the Zhejiang exam, candidate Qian Qianqiu cheated in the scientific examination and wrote "once on a smooth step" at the end of each paragraph as a code, colluding with the officials in the examination room Jin Baoyuan and Xu Shimin.

This was a few years ago, but it was dug up by Wen Tiren, Chongzhen, who had just ascended the throne, was still a young man in his teens, and he was very angry, so he immediately dismissed Qian Qianyi's official and punished him with a cane, and none of the people recommended on the list were useless.

Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru turned the tables, Zhou Yanru became the first assistant, and in order to repay his old comrades-in-arms, he pulled Wen Tiren into the cabinet.

The court of the Ming Dynasty was cruel, and it didn't take long for Zhou Yanru to pull his old friend, but his old friend Wen Tiren kicked him, and took advantage of the change of Denglai Sun Yuanhua to kill him, and he became the head of the cabinet.

After Wen Tiren came to power, he frantically put the Donglin Party to death, especially Qian Qianyi, even if he was dismissed, he didn't want to let go.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen, Wen Tiren bribed his acquaintance Zhang Hanru and asked him to falsely accuse Qian Qianyi of being greedy and presumptuous, saying that he had made a group of friends in the township, spreading strange theories, slandering the government, and disobeying dozens of things all day long, Qian Qianyi was finally arrested and imprisoned.

Qian Qianyi, who had been squatting in prison for nearly two years, learned that Wen Tiren was now preparing to kill him, and immediately panicked, and hurriedly asked his family to run around, looking for old friends to help him intercede in front of the emperor, and asked Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the ceremony, for help through the son of Sun Chengzong.

Cao Huachun turned out to be a close confidant of the great eunuch Wang An, and was assigned by Wang An to serve the five emperors Sun Zhu Youzhen in the palace of the king of Xin, and later returned to the palace to serve.

After Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, he was recalled and entrusted with important tasks, so that he was responsible for cleaning up the unjust, false and wrongful cases of the Wei Zhongxian era, and assisting in the investigation and punishment of the eunuchs.

Qian Qianyi once wrote an inscription for the eunuch Wang An, Wang An and Cao Huachun are both members of the Donglin Party, hearing that Qian Qianyi is in trouble, Cao Huachun is quite righteous and promised to help.

Lu Zhenfei, Zhang Guowei and other ministers of the DPRK and China have written to intercede for Qian Qianyi, and even Cao Huachun began to act in front of the emperor.

The Criminal Department began to retry Qian Qianyi's case, and after re-interrogation, no matter how Zhang Hanru planted the falsehood, Qian Qianyi refused to admit guilt, and gradually, the situation became favorable to Qian Qianyi, and there was even the possibility of being released.

Wen Tiren learned that Cao Huachun was interfering, and he hesitated for a while, he knew that Cao Huachun was a big celebrity in front of the emperor, and he had a lot of energy, and they had always been well water and not river water.

Wen Tiren was a little unwilling that Qian Qianyi's dying person was going to be rescued again, weighed it again and again, and after thinking and meditating, his eyes showed a fierce light, and he said coldly: "The surname is Cao!" Do you really think that the old man is muddy? ”

He decided not to do anything, and simply took Cao Huachun and Qian Qianyi, as well as the two stumbling blocks of the Criminal Department, in one pot!

From this time on, the always cautious Wen Ge Lao began to embark on his own path of death!