After Zhou Yanru became the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, it seems that he really began to rectify the rule of officials, and one by one the corrupt officials under Xue Guoguan were taken down, and most of them were replaced by members of the Fushe who flaunted justice, and there were also some rare Qingliu, and there were even a few Donglin Party members who did not deal with him.

For example, the founder of the Qishan School, a famous master of science in the world, was Liu Zongzhou, the former secretary of the general political department.

For another example, Wanli, Taichang, and Tianqi were three generations of important ministers, and successively served as the secretary of the household department, the criminal department, and the secretary of the Ministry of Officials in the southern capital, and Zheng Sanjun, a famous minister known as the "Zheng Sanbu".

Another example is the famous Qingliu, with the motto of not being commissioned and not being gifted, and is known as Fan Jingwen, who is known as "Fuji Gong".

These representatives of Qingliu, whether they are Donglin Party members or not, Zhou Yanru reused them, and they are basically at the level of the six ministries, and his purpose is also obvious, that is, to control the cabinet, the six ministries, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and other important yamen.

To say that these clear streams, although their ability is limited, they really have nothing to say about being a person and doing things, they are honest, diligent, and upright, and they can be called models of officials.

After these people gradually took the position of the remnants of the eunuch party under Xue Guoguan, the corrupt officials in the court were suddenly pressed and unable to move, and the corrupt style that had been scraped in the government and the opposition for decades seemed to be strangled by someone and disappeared without a trace.

The Ming Dynasty is no longer in a miasma, Wen Tiren, Zhang Zhifa, Xue Guoguan, a series of malpractices left by these traitorous ministers have been gradually eliminated, many unjust, false and wrongful cases created by the remnants of the eunuch party have been rehabilitated, many wronged prisoners have been pardoned, honest and honest officials have been continuously promoted and reused, traitors and villains have to wear hypocritical masks, pretend to be upright gentlemen, be honest, and work diligently. Zhou Yanru once again took office as the first assistant of the cabinet, and it seems that it has become "logical".

Of course, these are all done by Zhang Pu under the command of the members of the Fushe Society, they were originally able to speak well, that is, they are invincible, plus Zhou Yanru is indeed rolling up his sleeves to clean up corrupt officials for the sake of fame, and he is an honest and honest official, regardless of his background, he is promoted and reused, and he does look like a virtuous minister, and it is not difficult for them to create this kind of momentum.

If Zhou Yanru really wants to do this, and can make unremitting efforts, it is really possible for Daming to revive under his governance, but unfortunately, he is only doing this for the position of the head of the cabinet, just to be in power, there are many people who are not even promoted by him, some are to use his fame, and some are forced by Chongzhen, in short, he is wearing the mask of a deputy righteous gentleman and pretending to be virtuous there.

Zhang Bin still didn't react at all at this time, of course he knew that these Qingliu promoted by Chongzhen and Zhou Yanru were to take over the power of the central yamen such as the cabinet, the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but he was not in a hurry, because at this time they had no excuse to seize power, Cai Shanji, Bi Maokang, Zou Weilian and others were also models of honesty and integrity, and they were also quite diligent in their work, so they had no reason to take care of others.

They want to do it, only to wait until next year, because next year is the year of the Jingcha plan, as long as they control the cabinet, the Ministry of Officials, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, they can use "legitimate" means to purge the officials who do not belong to their own lineup, and the party struggle that has lasted for decades in the Ming Dynasty has done this, and if you want to eliminate dissidents on a large scale, you have to use the Jingcha plan.

And next year, the prince will also become an adult, and by that time, it will not be them who will do it, but by themselves, and he will even take Chongzhen down together!

He is not in a hurry, but some people are starting to be anxious, every day he is being watched by the people below, seeing that the position is not guaranteed, and more importantly, the emperor wants to clean them up, if this is taken down, without power, it will be a catastrophe, in this case, how many people can and how many people can remain calm.

Seeing that Zhou Yanru's prestige is growing, and he has the posture of taking advantage of the situation to sit in the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, someone finally couldn't help but come to Zhang Bin.

The person who came to find Zhang Bin was still Huang Chenghao, but this time he came by himself, not Zhang Bin who called him over.

It was still dark, it was still the teahouse, or in the same way, Huang Chenghao was soon passed through layers of checkpoints to Zhang Bin's study.

As soon as Zhang Bin saw Huang Chenghao coming, he hurriedly got up and took him to the guest seat, and ordered someone to serve fragrant tea, so he asked curiously: "Bingzhong, what's wrong, why did you have the leisure to come here today?" ”

Huang Chenghao shook his head and smiled bitterly: "How can I have any leisure, this fire is going to burn to the eyebrows, Shuangquan, it's not a way for you to always tolerate it, looking at the emperor's posture, he is determined to clean us up, once we step down, I am afraid that the ending will be like the descendants of Yu Shaobao and Zhang Jiangling, extremely miserable!" ”

These emperors of the Ming Dynasty were sometimes indeed excessive, killing people regardless of loyalty, treachery, good and evil, just because they wanted to kill, so they killed!

Yu Qian kept the Ming Dynasty, but was finally beheaded; Zhang Juzheng worked hard for Zhongxing Daming and died, but his descendants were confiscated of his family property, exiled to the frontier, and starved to death in a foreign land!

These are all lessons of blood, of course Zhang Bin won't let this kind of thing happen, but he can't make it clear to Huang Chenghao that he wants to even Chongzhen!

He thought about it for a while, and comforted him euphemistically: "Bingzhong, don't worry, we won't step down, whoever wants us to step down, I will let him step down, Wen Tiren, Yang Sichang, and Xue Guoguan are role models!" ”

Whoever wants us to step down, I will let whoever step down, even the first assistant is the three, Zhang Bin said this is indeed hard, but Huang Chenghao can't be hard at all at this time, he shook his head in frustration and said: "Shuangquan, this time is different, do you know, Wen Tiren and Xue Guoguan are both remnants of the eunuch party, Yang Sichang is also the kind of villain who will do anything to achieve the goal, they always have this or that handle, as long as we catch it, we can die." This time, these people are all models in the clear stream, they are very upright officials, and they don't have the handle to let me catch them at all, how can we overturn people? ”

This is the truth, these Qingliu really don't have any tricks for people to catch, even most of the members of the Fushe Society are very honest, you don't want to catch people's pigtails at all, otherwise, Zhou Yanru would not have chosen to assassinate Zhang Pu by poisoning in history, because he really has no reason to treat other people's crimes!

This is indeed a problem, Zhang Bin frowned and thought about it, and simply said vaguely: "You can take people down without a handle, next year's Jingcha plan is a good opportunity." ”

As soon as he said this, Huang Chenghao wanted to cry even more, and he lamented: "Shuangquan, they just want to use the Jingcha plan to clean us up, and I'm afraid that if I can't hold on to the Jingcha plan, I will be taken down, because the Jingcha plan is under the control of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Officials, and they have already taken over the Ministry of Officials, will they let this Metropolitan Procuratorate let it go?" ”

Of course, Zhang Bin has considered these problems, but there are some things that he can't say directly to Huang Chenghao, he can only swear and swear, patting his chest and guaranteeing that as long as anyone dares to touch them, he will definitely fight back, so that he can send this guy away.

After Huang Chenghao left, Zhang Bin fell into deep thought.

He himself can sit and watch the wind and clouds fade, but can these people below him be as calm as him?

They didn't know they were going to clean up Chongzhen!