Xu Guangqi, the first assistant of the cabinet, passed away, without any warning, and died suddenly in office!

As soon as this news came out, the entire imperial palace, the entire imperial city, and even the entire capital were shaken.

Some people are grieving because they have lost a loved one or a friend.

Some people sighed because the court had lost a virtuous and virtuous minister.

Some people secretly rejoiced, because their opportunity to rise to power had come!

Xue Guoguan was overjoyed at this moment, fortunately, fortunately, Zhang Bin had not killed Jiannu and recovered the entire Liaodong, otherwise, it was really hard to say whether this position of first assistant would fall on his head.

The emperor's intention to support him and suppress Zhang Bin is obvious, Xu Guangqi is gone, and his ascension to the throne is almost a certainty, because at this time Zhang Bin is still fighting with Jiannu in Liaodong, it is impossible for the emperor to recall him back as the first assistant, and everyone else is all floating clouds!

So what does Chongzhen think, will he really put Xue Guoguan, a big traitor, to the position of the first assistant of the cabinet?

Chongzhen was in a very complicated mood at this time, and he was still very satisfied with Xu Guangqi, because Xu Guangqi was not a party, a group, a power, a corruption, and there were many famous works handed down, with both ability and political integrity.

As for Xue Guoguan, he was actually not very satisfied.

This guy is a little greedy for power, a little like to engage in infighting, and even a bit of a tendency to form gangs, which he doesn't like, but it is precisely because of these that he will promote and reuse this guy.

Xue Guoguan is the chess piece he used to suppress Zhang Bin, if this guy doesn't like power, won't engage in infighting, and doesn't win over officials to confront Zhang Bin and his henchmen, then why is he using this guy!

After Xu Guangqi died, he began to think about putting Xue Guoguan as the first assistant of the cabinet, but before that, he had to find someone to suppress this guy, because he had already decided to clean up Zhang Bin, once Zhang Bin cleaned up Jiannu and recovered Liaodong, he would start to clean it up, including his henchmen, not one of them was left behind, all of them were gone!

In this way, the court has become the dominant family of Xue Guoguan again, this is not what he wants to see, the way of balance is the king, how can no one suppress this guy!

While appeasing Xu Guangqi's family, he secretly selected the person who suppressed Xue Guoguan, and after a few days of busy work, he finally let him find a suitable candidate.

This person is Zhou Yanru, the former head of the cabinet.

Zhou Yanru, how to say it, in fact, at the beginning, Chongzhen still valued him very much, because this guy is very capable of breaking, and he is also the champion of the 41st palace test of Wanli, in Chongzhen's eyes, this guy has a lot of brushes.

It's a pity that not long after he became the first assistant, his in-law Chen Yutai was the top student in high school, which was used by Wen Tiren, who was eager to seize power at that time, Chongzhen didn't know that Wen Tiren was a big traitor, so he was fooled by Wen Tiren and snubbed Zhou Yanru, as a result, Zhou Yanru was forced to resign from illness and go home to "recuperate".

At this time, Chongzhen recalled the situation at that time, and fully understood that he was indeed tricked by Wen Tiren at that time.

Zhou Yanru is the chief examiner of the general examination and the palace examination, and it is not wrong that Chen Yutai, the champion Lang, is also in-law with him, is it because of this that Chen Yutai cannot be the champion!

Chen Yutai's exam papers he also looked at carefully, it was a little worse than Wu Jianye and Chen Zilong's, but it was still much better than the second and third grades, which shows that people are already talented, but the talent is just a little worse than Wu Jianye and Chen Zilong, and it is entirely possible for other examiners to give Zhou Yanru face and put Chen Yutai in the first place, which is not the same nature as cheating in the imperial examination at all.

As for what Zhou Yanru's relatives blamed him for committing an accident, the court blamed him for his struggle, and the courtiers blamed him for their faults, these are purely Wen Tiren is far-fetched, deliberately angry with Zhou Yanru, he is also confused for a while, believing Wen Tiren's nonsense, not only does not give support to others, but also has a lot of complaints, Zhou Yanru was forced to resign from his illness is really helpless.

Chongzhen is like this, he has a lot of problems, but he has the courage to admit his mistakes, he thinks that he is wrong to blame Zhou Yanru, so invite people back, just at this time, he needs a person to suppress Xue Guoguan, and it is more appropriate to use a former first assistant to suppress the current first assistant.

So, Zhou Yanru, who was recuperating at home, inexplicably received Chongzhen's will, which roughly means, I'm sorry, I blame you, now I understand, it's Wen Tiren who is deliberately framing you, I still appreciate you quite a lot, hurry up, come back, continue to be a cabinet scholar, and help me share my worries.

This week, Yanru's official addiction was already big, and as soon as Chongzhen summoned him, he immediately ran to the capital in a hurry, and the report came.

The day after he arrived in the capital, Chongzhen organized the first assistant of the cabinet of the court, the scholar of the cabinet and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, of course, Chongzhen greeted Xue Guoguan before the court, I asked you to be the first assistant of the cabinet, and you find someone to promote Zhou Yanru as well.

I have to say that this Chongzhen is really a bit of a bad taste, he actually asked Xue Guoguan to push up the opponent he arranged for him!

Zhang Bin is not in the capital, only Chongzhen and Xue Guoguan speak out in this court, and what he wants to do is naturally smooth sailing.

In this way, Xue Guoguan became the first assistant of the cabinet as he wished, and Zhou Yanru was also reactivated as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of the cabinet, and the vacancy left by Xu Guangqi was filled.

After Xue Guoguan took power, he ostensibly cooperated with Chongzhen to prepare for cleaning up Zhang Bin, but behind his back, he bought and sold officials, cronyism, and many remnants of the eunuch party were promoted to the position of the six servants by him, just waiting for Chongzhen to clean up Zhang Bin, and this court is his world.

And Zhou Yanru has just made a comeback at this time, and the cronies he originally cultivated have already been cleaned up by Wen Tiren, and he will not be able to cultivate his own power for a while, so that the entire court will slowly have signs of being controlled by the remnants of the eunuch party.

Saying that Xu Guangqi's death is such a big thing, as his friend and ally, why didn't Zhang Bin react at all?

It's not that Zhang Bin doesn't want to react, but he can't react, he has already received the news of Xu Guangqi's death, but Chongzhen ordered him not to let anyone notify him for the sake of yin, no one notified, can he know, can he react quickly?

Of course he can't know, if he knows, it proves that someone disobeys the holy decree, Chongzhen's temperament, and someone shows his disobedience to the holy decree like this, then he has to go, so he can only pretend to be deaf and dumb, as if he doesn't know.

As a result, this pretend, a bad thing, Xue Guoguan actually began to deceive Chongzhen, wantonly exclude dissidents, and promote the remnants of the eunuch party, all of a sudden, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the six yamen, as well as the five temples, the general administration and other yamen everywhere The demons danced, many upright officials were dismissed and even framed and imprisoned, and the court became smoky again, Cai Shanji, Bi Maokang, Zou Weilian and others were so angry that they were smoking, and they wrote secret letters to Zhang Bin to complain.

Zhang Bin was really a little angry when he received the secret letter.