Fang Congzhe should not have suppressed the criminal department without permission, after all, it was a major case of assassinating the prince, and the court should pay attention to it. If he is not careful, he will be attracted to attack the Kedao group, thus endangering the position of his ministers.

It was Qi Shijiao, the leader of the Qi Party, who forced Fang to make this dangerous decision.

Although Fang Congzhe is a member of the Zhejiang Party, he served as the director of the Guozi Supervisor and the sacrificial wine in his early years, and Qi Shijiao is his protégé. As early as when Fang Congzhe did not come back, Qi Shijiao had already organized and established the Qi Party. However, because of Qi Shi's shallow qualifications, the Qi Party has no important ministers, so its power is not as good as Donglin, nor as good as the Zhejiang Party and the Chu Party.

However, it is precisely because Qi Shijiao is a protégé of Fang Congzhe that the Qi Party is naturally close to the Zhejiang Party, and it can even be said that the Qi Party is a branch of the Zhejiang Party.

The reason why Qi Shijiao suggested that the teacher temporarily suppress the criminal department was because of a four-party joint meeting held in Xinju, a famous fireworks place in Beijing, two days ago.

This meeting originated from the "Anti-Donglin Alliance" secretly established by the Zhejiang, Chu, Qi, and Xuan parties when Donglin presided over Beijing a few years ago.

At that time, although the Xuan Party was overthrown in Beijing because the party leader Tang Binyin was set up by the Donglin Party, the four parties of Zhejiang, Qi, Chu, and Kun rescued Zhao by encircling Wei, and bitten Gu Xiancheng, the leader of Donglin who was far away in Wuxi, and successfully forced the Donglin Party not to dare to deceive people too much.

Although the first assistant Ye Xianggao and the heavenly official Sun Piyang tried their best to plan, the Jingcha presided over by Donglin was still at an impasse like the previous two times.

The four parties successfully saved themselves and their power was prosperous, and then under the running call of Li Yongzhen, the leader of the Qi Party, Qi Shijiao, the leader of the Qi Party, came forward to invite the leader of the Chu Party and the head of the Hu Branch to give the central official Ying Zhen, the backbone of the Zhejiang Party Yao Zongwen, the leader of the Kun Party and the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple Gu Tianjun and others held a "tea party" in Yuanxinju.

This "tea party" laid the foundation for the "anti-Donglin Grand Alliance," which later played a crucial role in the two major events of besieging and blocking Li Sancai's entry into the cabinet and impeaching Li Chengliang and returning to Beijing. In the future, this "tea party" was also held from time to time, and the required expenses were paid by the office of the maritime eunuch Yamen in Zuo'anmen.

What is not known to outsiders is that there are two ministers behind this grand alliance. One is Jin Zhong, the eunuch of Si Li Bingbi, and the other is Wei Liangchen, the maritime eunuch of the Admiral.

Both of them are staunch chaise factions.

The cooperation between the Zhejiang Party and Wei Liangchen is like a fish in water, and the fact that Southeast Maritime Affairs can achieve today's achievements is inseparable from the close cooperation between the two.

Before that, Wei Liangchen had rescued Zou Zhilin, the backbone of the Zhejiang Party.

In the Shuntianfu Township Examination that year, Zou Zhilin served as the examiner of the house, and because of love, he made an exception to admit a candidate surnamed Tong as a lifter, but was attacked by the Donglin Party for cheating in the examination room. was originally just a trivial matter of pure love, but it has become a big thing to live and die.

Weng Zhengchun, a member of the Donglin Party and a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, wrote a letter requesting that Zou Zhilin be demoted, but Qi Shijiao, the leader of the Qi Party, said that Weng Zhengchun favored the examiner and deliberately used Zou Zhilin as a scapegoat.

Weng Zhengchun was disdainful and insisted on the initial discussion, but as a result, the four parties pointed the finger at him and dug up a lot of black materials when he was an examiner in the past.

The Donglin Party couldn't keep Weng Zhengchun, so they promoted Sun Shenxing, who was originally teaching at Donglin Academy, to serve as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites. After Sun took office, he still wanted to attack Zou Zhilin according to Weng Zhengchun's method.

This matter is irreconcilable.

Seeing that Zou Zhilin was going to be unlucky, Wei Liangchen, who was in Jiangnan at the time, wrote a poem and ordered people to send Li Yongzhen directly to him, and attached to the poem was a message: "National affairs are difficult, and talents are hard to find." ”

Poetry "Kyushu is angry and thunderous, and thousands of horses are sad." I advise the heavenly prince to be vigorous and reduce talents without sticking to one pattern. ”

This poem and the message inadvertently reached the emperor's ears, and then Sun Shenxing's impeachment of Zou Zhilin was left by the emperor, and the Son of Heaven, who had not been in court for many years, actually asked the Zhongguan to give Zou Zhilin ten taels of silver.

Therefore, Wei Liangchen is really a firm alliance with the Zhejiang Party, and he also has a very good relationship with the Chu Party. Although he is not in the capital, he will receive his New Year's gift every New Year's festival in Beijing.

At this joint meeting of the parties, the internal supervisor Li Yongzhen said that the Donggong attack was clearly a bitter ploy of the Donglin Party, and the purpose was to frame Zheng Guifei, so as to hit the party forces behind Guifei Niangniang.

"Ding Si Chadian!"

Chu party official Ying Zhen agreed with what Li Yongzhen said, because in half a month, it should be the Jingcha presided over by the Ministry of Officials.

And the official secretary is Zheng Jizhi, a member of the Chu Party!

"Donglin thought that he knew that most of them would be impeached this time, so he used the case to divert the attention of the government and the opposition, so that he could surround Wei and save Zhao."

"Kill two birds with one stone, if this case is used by them, not only will the concubine be hit, but we will also be beaten back to its original form."

“......”

The people in the party are all human spirits, and they understand that if they really want to let the Donglin Party borrow the Donggong attack case, they must be the unlucky ones who are "treacherous" in the eyes of Donglin.

Li Yongzhen put forward further ideas and countermeasures, and then Qi Shijiao visited his mentor Fang Congzhe.

"Teacher, more than 20 years ago, Donglin ** Star was called the canon of internal inspection, six years in one fell swoop, the gentleman was evil, and the villain repaid his grievances, all at this time. With the meaning of the speaker, the meaning of the servant, like the broken chapter of the poem, each takes what he wants. Because of these words, the party struggle continued, and we and other people without a party were forced to form a party to fight against it...... The students know that the teacher is bent on stabilizing the court, but now that the attack has started, the Donglin Party wants to take advantage of the situation to sweep away us and others, and the teacher must not let it go. Qi Shi taught.

Fang Congzhe asked, "What do you mean over there?" ”

Qi Shijiao hurriedly said: "There is no need for the teacher to worry about the affairs of the concubine, the teacher only needs to focus on this inspection." ”

"Are they sure?" Fang Congzhe doubted this, and the result of the criminal department's trial was very unfavorable to the concubine Niangniang.

"If you are not sure, how can the student agree." Qi Shijiao reminded his teacher that there was still Jin Zhong behind that Wei Gonggong.

"Gonggong Wei asked the students to bring a sentence to the teacher, now and now, it is the consequence of Donglin's self-eating party struggle, and it is also the time for them to pull the list! If we back down again, I am afraid that there will be no place for us in the future! Qi Shijiao said in a condensed voice.

After hesitating, he said: "The teacher must not know, the Donglin Party people are talking about the teacher outside the government, and His Majesty is happy that the teacher is incompetent and peaceful." ”

"Auxiliary ministers can't hold the government, but Taiwan Province can't hold it?"

Fang Congzhe sneered, "Okay, I'll come back and see how they crack it." ”

He made this decision not because he was stimulated by what the students said, but because he also felt that the inexplicability of the attack on the students happened before this year's inspection ceremony, and it is difficult to explain it if it were not for the Donglin Party's ghost.

Although Fang Congzhe prides himself on being fair, in the face of party struggle, his Zhejiang party background is the original sin. Even if he can tolerate Donglin, Donglin will not tolerate him.

At that moment, he ordered someone to guard the General Administration Department, and as long as it was the performance of the Criminal Department, it was handed over to the cabinet first, and then the word "Miao Delusion" was approved on the performance of the Criminal Department.