Emperor Chongzhen silently read the draft ticket posted on the concerto.

Although this piece has just been handed over to him, everyone already knows the content. The reason why the decision was made today was because the cabinet ministers needed to gather information and even exchange opinions after receiving the medal, so the "votes" representing the collective opinion of the cabinet were not shipped until today.

However, the content of the draft ticket has long been known to the emperor and officials. After all, in the past two days, the cabinet ministers have openly discussed this piece with their colleagues and disciples, and then several cabinet elders reached a consensus. In this process, from the emperor to the many officials who cared about this matter, they had already made a general decision on the vote.

And the emperor asked for a vote today, but he just finalized the content and went through the legal procedures. The result did not exceed everyone's expectations: the votes were drafted, and the ministers collectively agreed to the request for the concert.

Zaifu's ink writing in small block letters is strong and powerful. However, in the eyes of the emperor, this draft is always weak: not the words are weak, but the person who wrote the draft is weak.

Those who can stand here today are all the highest-level political figures of the Ming Empire. Since it is at the highest level, it must know the situation in the world. Since it is clear, it should be known that the imperial court has always had a desire to suppress the military leaders of other towns.

This mind has nothing to do with personal matters, it is pure business. Although it is inconvenient to say it explicitly, as a normal "capital" bureaucrat, suppressing and containing foreign towns and maintaining centralized power is the most basic political cultivation, but the emperor did not see this in the draft, even if it was a little boycott in words and words?

Sighing softly, Chongzhen, who was slightly disappointed in his heart, raised his head and looked left and right, then shook the fold in his hand, and asked softly, "Do you have no objections from the ministers?" ”

Why the emperor said this, the ministers and workers knew it. However, the emperor's voice lagged behind, but the scene was a little embarrassingly quiet, and no courtiers stood up to share the king's worries. Even a few Donglin Party members who should have jumped out in the eyes of the emperor were also holding their breath at this moment, staring solemnly at the white marble floor in front of the hall, with a pensive look.

Chongzhen gasped.

Judging from his heart, the emperor didn't plan to do anything with this recital. After all, the imperial court had agreed to the "cheap acting" of the governor of Liangguang before, and Cao Chuan, the commander of Zhangchao, was "loyal and brave", and it was when the imperial court relied on it, and he would definitely be able to grant the request for that little matter in Guangzhou.

The reason why the emperor was unwilling to let go of this piece easily was due to pure inertia: for warlords with natural centrifugal force, they should not be taken lightly at any time, and there was an opportunity to show the prestige of the court. This is the instinctive operation of the emperor, ignoring this...... Didn't Li Longji lose his family and run away, and even his own women were strangled to death.

So when the emperor found out that even if he made a hint, none of the people in the hall stood up and boycotted it every day, and the young man's face suddenly became gloomy. Chongzhen is no longer the stunned young man who just came to power, he now knows the most important thing to be an emperor: balance.

Now, the balance is broken, and that's the big deal.

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It is true that the emperor is angry, but it is also difficult for the courtiers!

In fact, it's not that everyone doesn't know the rules, but there are some things, once someone pinched the eggs, it is difficult to say the words.

The courtiers present today, except for a few lone wolves who played soy sauce, the rest of the people were roughly divided into three factions.

First of all, it is naturally the "Cao Dang" led by Wen Tiren, a scholar and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites.

Of course, the so-called Cao Party has always been only a vague alliance and has not been recognized by public opinion. The forces deployed by a certain force in the capital are strong and the resources are abundant, so most of the things can be solved in this step in Beijing, and it will not be troublesome for Lord Cao to be a heavy ally in the imperial court.

This model is naturally excellent for Wen Tiren and others: they don't have to come forward to defend their allies in everything, so they are caught by political opponents in the braid of "forming a party for personal gain". You must know that the reason why Lao Wen is on the throne is precisely because of the "lonely minister" character created in Chongzhen's mind.

Therefore, Wen Tiren, the bachelor who was present today, the eunuch Fang Zhenghua, Lao Wen's new ally, Min Hongxue, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and even Lao Wen's successive collusion into the party's military department in the past year, Tang Shiji, the deputy capital Yushi Zhang Jie, Yushi Gaojie, Shi Fan, and other de facto "Cao Dang" lineages, naturally they will not speak.

Next up is the Xungui Group.

Since last year's reign of King Qin, Yizhou Cao Chuan was canonized as a genuine loyal and brave uncle. From that moment on, whether he wanted it or not, Cao Zongbing actually squeezed into the Xungui group in the capital.

Of course, although the nobles of the Ming Dynasty are declining, no one can afford the rural buns surnamed Cao at first.

However, when a cart of industrial products was transported ashore from Tianjin into Beijing, the nobles came one after another, and the threshold of the banquet held every day in the Zhongyong Mansion was overwhelmed, and the nobles in the capital became the "elder brother" and "elder brother" of Cao Zongbing, who had been separated for many years, and everyone became their own family.

...... Or else? The nobles who were suppressed by the civil government and whose political rights were shrinking day by day, just like those Kaifeng generals in the Song Dynasty, degenerated into commercial groups, and only that little yellow and white thing was left in their eyes.

Therefore, the Xungui Group will not speak out today. Even if someone jumps out and dares to make a big statement against "Brother Cao", the old brothers will have to help resist one or two - if Brother Chongzhen has the Shangchao APP, in fact, he can easily summarize a phenomenon through big data: In the past year's court meeting, whenever there is an issue about Cao, Xungui Group is always the most crowded.

In the end, it is natural that the key figures in today's mystery case: several Donglin party members.

It is said that since Chongzhen came to power, the Donglin Party has been briefly highlighted for a period of time. However, since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the Beijing Division, and found Chongzhen, who was shaken by the Donglin Party, he freed his hands and began to deal with these bastards.

After that, Chongzhen first killed Yuan Chonghuan, a military figure in the Donglin Party, and then exiled the Donglin Party's civilian card, Qian Longxi, a scholar.

With the collapse of the cabinet represented by Qian Longxi, and Zhou Yanru and Wen Tiren, who were not dealing with the Donglin Party, were promoted to the first and second assistants respectively, the Donglin Party entered a period of decline in the former Chongzhen era: a large number of party members were cleared out of the officialdom in the capital, and many Donglin Party bigwigs returned to their hometowns one after another to "teach and educate people" in the future.

So for more than a year, the Donglin Party has been very bad in the political pattern of the capital, and its right to speak has been reduced to a minimum.

Fortunately, Chongzhen will be the emperor now, so he did not exterminate the Donglin Party, but retained a few to maintain the balance of the court. As a result, today's play made Chongzhen incomprehensible: what balancing role should you play?

It's a pity that the emperor has not yet learned to read minds. If Chongzhen could hear the voices of these silent speakers at this moment, then he probably wouldn't have any doubts.

Because of the existence of intruders in this plane, specifically, the existence of intruders with great technology and sufficient resources, the original Ming landlord class finally encountered a wealthy regime that did not take it as its mission to completely eradicate them in countless books throughout the multiple planes.

As early as a year ago, Cao Zongbing not only made friends with nobles in the capital, but his old man also promised one thing in public in the Jinluan Palace: to sell the whole field in Yizhou.

Now, a year has passed, and the big landlord class, who had spent a lot of money on this matter to buy land and eat crabs, has tasted the sweetness.

The large farms in Yizhou, which are continuous and have canals, have harvested two seasons of products to this day.

After the harvest of these two crops, the government will purchase and ship them on ships and send them to Fujian and Guangdong across the strait for sale. The landowners didn't even have to show their faces, and they received the grain money allocated by the Chikan District Government. The money was then purchased by the housekeeper as industrial products and transported back to his hometown by ship for sale.

This humble triangular trade brought huge revenues to the landowners.

Most importantly, Cao made good on his promise: the Chikan district government did not collect agricultural taxes on the land sold. In addition to the necessary services such as pesticides and fertilizers to divert water, the government does not pay a penny for field taxes.

The landlords of this era did not have the concept of poor industrial and agricultural scissors, so they did not know that their homes were actually secretly sucked by industrial products, but felt that the current cooperation model was very high: they did not have to worry about anything, everything was operated by the "big tenants" of the Chikan government, from ploughing the land to sowing seeds to selling a full set of services, and in the end, the landlords could count the silver in their hometown.

In this way, the Donglin Party, which represents the big landlord class in the south of the Yangtze River, unknowingly, and Cao Zongbing changed from a state of tension to a gentle drizzle.

And today's Donglin cadres in front of the Jinluan Hall are also well aware of the inside story. They even know some other "secret high-end news": the Annan Farm mentioned in the compromise, which is really fertile soil, much more fertile than the land in Yizhou! Moreover, the title deeds that Mr. Cao "made" from the hands of Francois are far more than those on the surface.

In other words, this time the silver buried in the cellar has a place to spend again.

So, in the end, after carefully weighing and considering the meaning behind Cao's recital, a Donglin important minister walked out of the queue with square steps, and in the emperor's eyes from yin to sunny, he said the following words: "The minister's servant Shaoqing Hou Sui impeached the chief soldier Cao Chuan without courtesy, trapping the monarch's father in injustice!" ”

Chongzhen was a little strange after hearing this, this crime is not common: "Oh? What does this mean? ”

"Now that the state affairs are difficult, the northwest is full of smoke, and the household government is empty, and it is the time to urgently wait to make up for it."

"Oh...... Hou Qing continued, "

"This Cao Chuan dared to ignore the discipline of the imperial court at such a time, and openly offered bribes to the top, and sure enough, he was a minister!"

"Huh!?"

"Since ancient times, the wise kings have taken the well-being of the people of the world as their own responsibility. According to the minister's intentions, why not return the land deeds and property used by the chief soldier Cao Chuan to flatter, so that even if the precipice is reined in, it shows the court's intention to protect the border generals. Well, by the way, the righteousness of the monarch and the ministers is complete, so that the monarch's father will not be embarrassed, and the army will not lose his footing, this is a perfect strategy. ”

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After the end of the imperial meeting, Emperor Chongzhen returned to the inner palace and did not speak for a long time.

Finally, when it was time for dinner, the emperor ordered: "Come here, spread the news that the prince of the East Palace will read and see me." ”

"Whoa!"

Soon after: "Your Majesty, the prince of the East Palace will give a lecture and wait to see you." ”

"Biography! The rest of the people went down. ”

"Whoa!"

"Wake up and see long live my emperor."

"Get up."

"Your Majesty."

"Wake up, tell me about the disaster of the machines in the south."

"Yes."