Watching Cao Huachun lead the order to leave, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but rub his head. It's all trouble, and there is no good news!

A group of cabinet ministers must be selected, but not everyone can enter the cabinet. If you are not familiar with political affairs and do not have many years of experience, it is difficult to handle the votes of major events in the world.

According to the practice of the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the selection of high-ranking officials was subject to court push. It can be said that the court push system is a characteristic of the Ming Dynasty.

However, the court push system is not immutable, when it evolved to the Chongzhen Dynasty, the original Chongzhen Emperor would summon on the basis of the list of court push candidates, and then select through the form of interviews, that is, the interview is recognized by the civil officials, and the emperor recognized the officials.

Otherwise, it is easy to attract criticism, that is, officials who are not on the right path may resist taking office, or the officials will not go through the entry procedures and resist the appointment. Such an example has happened many times in the nearly 300-year history of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, during the Chongzhen period, the integrity of officials was basically gone. Most of the officials were specially promoted by the emperor, that is, promoted through non-proper ways, and not many people cared about it anymore.

However, in this way, the original Emperor Chongzhen heard others say how so-and-so was, and he thought it was okay, so he called over for a few interviews, and he was fooled and successfully took office. And this is also one of the reasons why the senior officials of the Chongzhen Dynasty are diligent. Because the selection in this way is often unreliable.

First, the so-called recommendation is not necessarily based on the real talent and learning of a certain person, but it is very likely to be a collusion of interests. Therefore, after taking office, the performance often disappointed the emperor.

Second, if it is not the result of compromise between officials, it is often attacked by political opponents. At this time, if you can't distinguish between right and wrong, you will often be punished by demotion or dismissal or even punishment based on the emperor's momentary thoughts (being fooled).

Of course, no system is perfect. At this time in the late Ming Dynasty, the civilian-bureaucratic clique has rotted, and it would be strange if they had to compromise and come up with a result. In this case, if you meet a promising king, discerning and special promotion, it can be an efficient and useful means.

But the crux of the matter is that the original Emperor Chongzhen couldn't be discerning. And today's Emperor Chongzhen is a newcomer, and he does not know the history of the late Ming Dynasty like some time-traveling novels about contemporary characters. History, not yet written by posterity. After all, everything has to be seen with the eyes and analyzed with the heart to know how a person is.

Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen finally made a decision that the civil court would recommend many auxiliary ministers (if not specified, it is generally two, one main and one alternate two candidates), and he would interview by himself after the list came out. He believed that from his own point of view, he should be better than the original Emperor Chongzhen.

However, a slight difference from the original is that before the civil court pushed, Emperor Chongzhen decided to cite a precedent for him to ask for a job, as later generations did. When the officials and the department officials are preparing candidates, they must meet the conditions prescribed by him. If the candidate given does not meet the conditions and is verified by the factory guard, the official department and the Kedao palm seal officer are jointly and severally liable.

In this way, the matter of selecting the cabinet ministers has a preliminary conclusion. Then, Emperor Chongzhen began to think about another thing.

All the cash seized in the case of the Imperial Horse Supervisor has been used, but the follow-up money has not yet been settled. It's not a matter of just raiding the house, there must be a steady stream of money channels!

But now two days will be the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, followed by the twelfth year of Chongzhen. The top priority at the moment was the Manchu army raging near the Jingshi. Everything has to be done for the sake of the Tao. In this way, the source of money is still only by raiding the family.

Of course, there is already a target for raiding. It is the original official of Jinyiwei. Li Ruolian, the new commander of the Jinyi Guard, has already submitted all the charges of those people, everything is ready, and he is waiting for the last person.

Emperor Chongzhen was thinking that the time he had given had passed, and Dongchang sent a confession from the former Jinyi Guard's commander Luo Yang.

Emperor Chongzhen opened it and looked at it, and found that this Luo Yangxing didn't know the situation outside, and with a fluke mentality, he only wrote a few small mistakes on the confession book. This is far from the accusations about him provided by Li Ruolian.

In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen was too lazy to talk nonsense, and sent Li Ruolian to meet him. Let him go to Dongchang to raise Luo's temperament, take him back to Jinyiwei Prison for interrogation, and when the results come out, they will raid the homes of these former Jinyiwei officials.

That's it, the matter of Jinyiwei can be regarded as setting the tone for dealing with it.

Thirty miles away from Jinju, Lu Xiangsheng led his troops to be stationed here. At this time, he had already learned that the main force of the Manchu army was attacking Jinju. However, the Manchu army's probe horses were far away and very strong, which basically blocked the possibility that the Ming army would not collect it at night to explore the battle situation in Jinzhou.

In this regard, Lu Xiangsheng was also a little helpless. At this time, the army under his command, after the battle of the giant deer, was like a person who had used up his strength, and he was still hungry, and it was impossible to fight immediately.

It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice! At this moment, Lu Xiangsheng has a very big feeling about this.

Wang Chengen watched all this, and for the first time deeply realized the importance of logistics to the army, even if a person as capable as Lu Xiangsheng did not have the support of logistics, he was also helpless.

In this regard, he faced Lu Xiangsheng, who had a grim face, and could only comfort: "This soldier can rest assured, our family will urgently send the good news to the Beijing division as soon as possible." I believe that after the imperial court learns of this news, it will have some expressions. ”

Thinking of the 20,000 taels of silver out of his pocket, he couldn't help but feel distressed, and his words were a little weird: "It's hard to say, even if there is good news?" Is there still money to be given to the court? This matter should not only be known to our family, but the prince actually knows it in his heart, so there is no need to say these comforting words, lest the soldiers have expectations and then be disappointed! ”

When Wang Chengen heard this, he was a little dissatisfied, and immediately glared at him. Wouldn't it be worse for you to say these depressing words at this time! Do you know how to affect the morale of the army?

Lu Xiangsheng saw the expressions of both of them in his eyes, and he actually expected it in his heart. The imperial court is famous for having no money, and it has been borrowing money since the three major levies of Wanli, and even additional taxes have been levied, but the treasury still has no money.

At this time, he agreed with what Gao Qiqian said, what if the good news was passed back, could the court still have the money to allocate it? At most, it is just a reward for individual generals, and it is useless to boost the morale of the army at this time!

He was thinking about it, when suddenly the guards outside the tent shouted loudly: "Lord Qinpai has arrived!" ”