Thousands of miles away in the capital court, at this time, because of the appointment of Emperor Chongzhen, the quarrel was inextricable.

The reason is also very simple, a few days ago, the capital received the news that the thieves in Hanzhong had rebelled and the Manchu Dynasty was shocked, and under the overwhelming criticism of the six Jiuqing and the imperial historians, Emperor Chongzhen ordered the dismissal of Chen Qiyu, the governor of the five provinces, and then sent him to the border.

Originally, there would be no more waves in this matter, but at this time, there was a small head of the household department, and he wrote a letter to Chen Qiyu to seek grievances.

Emperor Chongzhen also knew that it was a little inappropriate to completely put the responsibility on Chen Qiyu's head, and there were a few words in the note that Emperor Chongzhen liked, and Emperor Chongzhen planned to promote this chief named Han Mingyu as a foreigner.

From the head of the household department of the sixth grade to the outer lang of the fifth grade, the promotion range was not large, only half a level, and he never thought that he would be opposed by the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, the matter in Hanzhong has long been decided, and the top priority is how to exterminate the thieves scattered in Shaanxi, Han Mingyu, the head of the household department, has malicious intentions for Chen Qiyu to overturn the case and disturb the court, Weichen thinks that not only can he not be promoted, but he should be punished!" Zhang Yandeng, the imperial history of the left capital, went out of class with a tooth card in his hand.

Weichen agreed with Lord Zhang's opinion, the imperial court did not hesitate to transfer troops thousands of miles in order to exterminate the thieves, and the soldiers, horses, money, and food consumed were countless, and finally blocked the thieves in the gorge of the carriage, but Chen Qiyu's mistake led to a failure.

If Chen Qiyu is not guilty, then what is the crime of millions of people in Hanzhong, Baoji and even the entire Shaanxi? Your Majesty think twice! Wang Yuan, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, made a generous statement, and knelt down after speaking.

"Your Majesty, please think twice!" As soon as Wang Yuan's voice fell, the six ministries, the inspectorate, and all the officials of the imperial history and science and Taoism knelt down and asked Emperor Chongzhen to take back his order.

Emperor Chongzhen was sitting on the throne, he was just twenty-four years old this year, but there was no vitality on his face, and his tightly knit brows were full of exhaustion.

In the seven years since inheriting the great cause, the whole country of Daming has never been born in peace.

In the first year of Chongzhen, there was a great drought in the north, and the red land was thousands of miles, and there was no grass.

In the second year of Chongzhen, the whole Shaanxi sky was as red as blood.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, there was a great famine in Shanxi, five years of great flood, six years of plague, seven years of autumn locusts, no barking dogs in the village, and ten rooms and nine emptiness.

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Emperor Chongzhen blamed the disaster of the Ming Dynasty on his own industriousness, and began to deal with government affairs every day without light, and still refused to rest in the middle of the night, and listened to the opinions of cabinet ministers more in government affairs.

But seven years have passed, not only has the Ming Dynasty not improved at all, but the thieves and prisoners have become more and more rampant, which makes Chongzhen suspicious of these courtiers.

Han Mingyu, the head of the household department, is not like other courtiers, and he is willing to express his true opinions only when he cites the scriptures and classics when he writes the last two sentences.

It is also for this reason that Emperor Chongzhen felt that this person was a usable talent, so he wanted to promote him so that he could be used in the future.

But when he saw the situation of the officials, Emperor Chongzhen was very depressed, he didn't know why these officials always opposed him, but he couldn't do anything about them.

Emperor Chongzhen had no choice but to sweep his gaze to Wen Tiren, the head of the cabinet.

"What does Wen Aiqing think?" Emperor Chongzhen asked Wen Tiren, Wen Tiren had always been able to understand what he meant, and he hoped that Wen Tiren could be on his side in this matter.

Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, the scholar of the Zhongji Palace, and the crown prince and prince, did not dare to look up at Emperor Chongzhen's eyes, but moved a step to the left and bent down to salute:

"Your Majesty, but Chen Qiyu has ruined the efforts of the imperial court for many years, and the crime is unforgivable, as for this Han Mingyu, the minister feels that what Lord Wang said is reasonable.

The minister thinks that Han Mingyu made a fuss about Chen Qiyu's crime, the purpose is to arouse His Majesty's idea, and he is really a person who sells his reputation and reputation, and His Majesty should condemn the crime to set the record straight! ”

Wen Tiren also knelt down after speaking, and then the six Shangshu also bowed down one after another.

Previously, the courtiers quarreled more fiercely because of the matter of levying three salaries, but in this matter, the military ministers were surprisingly united, and even Wen Tiren, who had always helped him speak, said so, which made the young Emperor Chongzhen very depressed.

He found that although he was the emperor, he didn't seem to be able to do anything.

"That's it, this matter will be decided by the cabinet members, I'm not feeling well, let's retreat!" After Chongzhen finished speaking, he got up directly and went back to the Qianqing Palace.

Wen Tiren knelt in the hall with a slight smile on his face, it was rare to be able to agree with the people of Donglin, in the matter of Chen Qiyu, no courtier wanted to be overturned.

He and the Donglin Party were in the same situation because of Qian Longxi and Qian Qianyi, and the Donglin Party had long wanted to find an opportunity to get rid of him.

However, he is cautious in his work, and he has Chongzhen's trust, so that the two sides have basically not violated the river water in the past two years, but Wen Tiren knows that these people are just waiting for an opportunity.

This time, the Donglin Party accepted his feelings, and if he wanted to arrange his own people to replace a vacancy in the future, the Donglin Party members would no longer obstruct it.

Thinking of this, Wen Tiren got up and arched his hand with his colleagues around him, and left the Huangji Gate very calmly.

In the afternoon of the same day, Han Mingyu, the head of the household department, who was bedridden at home due to illness, received the appointment document of the ministry, and demoted him from the head of the household department of Zheng Liupin to the promotion of the treasure banknote promotion division, and he was demoted by three levels.

After Han Mingyu got the news, he lay on the bed and smiled bitterly, laughing at his whimsical and self-indulgent.

Han Mingyu is the old Chen and Chen Ping that Chen Hai has been looking for, that day Xiaoling suddenly changed, he was caught in a whirlpool in a daze, and when he woke up again, he had become Han Mingyu, the head of the Ming Household Department.

It's just that not every traverser can become a young man who travels to the past, he is more unlucky, although he is dressed as a court official as he wishes, but this body is nearly sixty years old, and his health is very poor.

After just accepting the memory of this body, Han Mingyu was shocked by everything around him, a dignified and six-grade courtier, the family was so poor that he couldn't even afford candles, and his son and daughter-in-law also died in the plague last year, leaving him with a granddaughter who had just turned thirteen.

Fortunately, there is a granddaughter, so that he does not feel so desolate, these days he has been looking for Sun Zhendong, but after searching in the capital for several days, there is no news.

Han Mingyu thought that his old friend must have traveled to other places, so he had to give up looking for it for the time being, and it happened that Chen Qiyu committed a mortal crime in the Carriage Gorge in Hanzhong, and the imperial court dismissed Chen Qiyu and promoted Hong Chengchou to replace him as the governor of the five provinces.

He has studied the history of the country for half his life, and naturally knows that the disaster of the carriage gorge is not Chen Qiyu, but the supervision of the army and the left and right civil and military forces at that time, and what makes him even more dissatisfied is that the imperial court promoted Hong Chengchou.

Although Hong Chengchou was born as a civilian official, he was insidious and ruthless, and often booby-trapped the peasant army under the pretext of appeasing the peasant army, and there were few peasant army generals who were booby-trapped at one time.

It is precisely because of this that the peasant army no longer believed in the sincerity of the imperial court, so that there was almost no possibility of mediation between the two sides, which was the bitter fruit of Hong Chengchou.

Moreover, Han Mingyu knew that Hong Chengchou would surrender to Jianyu a few years later, and led Jianyu to enter the customs to kill the Han people, making great contributions to the masters of Jianyu, ranking first in the biography of the second minister compiled by the old man.

Han Mingyu was naturally very dissatisfied with the decision of the imperial court, even if his official position was low, he still dragged his sick body to write a letter and asked someone to submit it to the General Administration.

But he didn't expect the efficiency of the General Administration Department to be so high, and he didn't expect the revenge to come so quickly and so ruthlessly......

"Alas! The world is unpredictable! Han Mingyu sighed.

The former owner of this body is also a guy who reads dead books, and after being an official for 30 years, he only mixes with the head of a household, and he is not corrupt, does not form a party, and does not engage in personal gain, and in the end the result is that he can't eat enough.

At this time, he completely lost the heroic spirit of guiding the country in front of Zhu Yuanzhang's grave, and felt that he had hit walls everywhere and could not move an inch, and it was already difficult to survive, and he even had to be the enemy of the Donglin Party.

As a currency spurned by the Ming Dynasty, the treasure banknote division was originally to settle the idle officials who were excluded, and the officials who promoted the eight products of the treasure banknote department did not have much salary at all.

In his memory, due to the lack of money in the imperial court, in recent months, the salaries paid to officials have been replaced by linen cloth and other physical goods, and a pile of burlap was piled up in the dilapidated small warehouse of the family.

"Grandpa, I'm back, Tao Tao sold three pieces of cloth today in exchange for half a bucket of rice!"

While thinking about it, a thin girl ran at the door of the small courtyard, this girl was dressed in navy blue coarse cloth clothes with patches on her upper body.

She was holding a coarse cloth in her arms, and a small half bag of grain was hanging on her thin shoulders, and she smiled at Han Mingyu who was lying on the bed as she entered the room, and brightened the food in her hand.

This girl is Han Mingyu's granddaughter Han Taotao.

"Tao Tao is back, go wash your face and rest, grandpa will cook for you." After Han Mingyu finished speaking, he struggled to get up.

"Grandpa, you're not well, lie down and rest, Taotao is going to cook!" Han Taotao put aside the cloth in her hand, hurriedly helped Han Mingyu to sit on the edge of the bed, poured him a glass of water, and went straight to the kitchen.

Now the only thing he is happy with is this sensible little granddaughter, she does not dislike the poverty of the family at all, and can always smile and make him happy.

At this time, Han Mingyu felt very uncomfortable, and the more sensible his granddaughter was, the more uncomfortable he became.

Han Mingyu took a sip of water, stood up on the edge of the bed and walked slowly to the yard, picked up a pinch of straw and put it in the trough, and a donkey with a fairly strong physique rubbed Han Mingyu's shoulder with his head and ate the straw.

This is his usual mount in the court, and it is also the only living creature in the family except for his granddaughter.

"Grandpa, why did you come out, Lang Zhong said you should stay in bed!"

Han Taotao, who was burning the fire, ran out of the house coughing, her white little face was smoked into a little flower cat, and when she saw Han Mingyu feeding the donkey, she ran over anxiously to help.

"Grandpa is fine, I feel much better in the past two days, and I may be able to move around more quickly.

Taotao has worked hard these days, and when grandpa recovers from his illness, he will change his grandfather to cook. Han Mingyu picked up his clothes and wiped his granddaughter's face, a little spoiled, a little distressed.

"Grandpa is old, and Tao Tao will take care of you in the future." Han Taotao's two big eyes bent into crescents.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps outside the courtyard, and soon the courtyard door was opened, and the two teams of Han generals of the Jinyi Guard came in with their heads held high.

Han Mingyu didn't know why, so he hurriedly pulled his granddaughter behind him.

"The emperor's edict summons the treasure money to lift Han Mingyu into the palace to see him!"

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