In mid-November, it rained heavily in the capital, and the entire Forbidden City was washed clean, leaving no trace of dust. The arrest of the eunuchs was basically over, and the entire court was also purged, and less than forty percent of the officials remained.

The eunuch party is cleaned up, a very serious problem will follow, all the yamen in the capital are seriously short of people, especially the six departments, the eunuch party almost occupies the vast majority, except for Sun Chengzong, the other five Shangshu are all eunuchs. This clean-up, not to mention the operation of the state apparatus, can't even get together to interrogate the eunuchs!

Zhu Cijiong hurriedly summoned Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youzhen to discuss the issue of official promotion. said that it was a discussion, but in fact, it was to let Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youzhen put forward candidates, and they thought that there was no problem.

Zhu Cijiong didn't have too many requirements, and the only department he wanted to control was the Ministry of Industry, mainly to facilitate the establishment of a military industrial system in the future.

This Ministry of Industry happens to be a den of thieves, the Ministry of Labor, the right capital of the imperial history Wu Chunfu is the main culprit of the eunuch party, and there are a large number of eunuch party members below, this purge, the main officials of the entire Ministry of Industry have almost been purged. Bi Maokang naturally took over as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Wang Zheng was also promoted to the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry, and even Song Yingxing, a cronie from a high background, was exceptionally promoted to the Ministry of Industry Camp Qing Langzhong, which can be said to be the entire Ministry of Industry from the eunuch party directly to the imperial party.

The others are basically Sun Chengzong and Zhu Youzhen, and the first to be determined are the cabinet members.

Needless to say, Sun Chengzong was the emperor's appointed prince, a scholar of the Middle Pole Palace, a secretary of the military department and the first assistant of the cabinet.

The emperor Xu Guangqi had already entered the cabinet, and Gu Bingqian, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, happened to be a eunuch again, and was dragged out and cut down, so Xu Guangqi naturally became the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and became a scholar of the Jianji Palace.

The other two cabinet members were Han Kuang and Lai Daozong.

This Han Kuang is terrible, he is the elder of the Donglin Party, Wanli, Taichang, Tianqi three dynasties elders, Tianqi four years is the first assistant of the advanced cabinet, and later because of discord with Wei Zhongxian, he resigned angrily and retired, which escaped the eunuch party's purge of the Donglin party. This time, he was invited by Sun Chengzong to go out of the mountain, mainly to judge the eunuch rebellion case and rectify the rule of officials, and entered the Wuyingdian University to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Officials.

This is not a small Taoist sect, he is the thirty-second year of Wanli Jinshi, successively served as Guanglu doctor, young master, prince Taifu, household department Shangshu, ritual department Shangshu, is the Ming Xizong when the minister of life, but also the cabinet elders, but later did not want to participate in the eunuch party and the Donglin Party party party to return to the hometown, this time invited to go out of the mountain into the Wenyuan Pavilion University scholar as the household department of Shangshu.

The cabinet members are these four people, plus the previous Ministry of Industry Shangshu Bi Maokang, the six Shangshu have been determined five, who is the last one?

Sun Chengzong, the candidate for the secretary of the criminal department, recommended Qiao Yunsheng, this Qiao Yunsheng is also the backbone of the Donglin Party, he is the secretary of the criminal department during the apocalypse, and he is also unwilling to participate in the party struggle and return to his hometown, this time it can only be said that he was reinstated.

The six Shangshu are established, and the next thing is the left and right servants, and the other departments have nothing to say, Zhu Cijiong doesn't care much at all, but he pays attention to this military department, why?

Because he still has a cronie Sun Yuanhua in the Ministry of War, it stands to reason that one step further is the waiter, this is a step forward, but not the left waiter, but the right waiter. Sun Chengzong, the candidate for Zuo Shilang, has long been booked, that is, Yuan Chonghuan, the former governor of Liaodong.

Sun Chengzong still values Yuan Chonghuan very much, not only named him the left squire of the military department, but also added him the title of the right capital of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, which is the second grade of the right capital of the Imperial History, that is to say, he is at the same level as the Shangshu of the various ministries. Yuan Chonghuan still has a small temper and is unwilling to take office, why?

This is all caused by Wei Zhongxian, as mentioned earlier, Yuan Chonghuan defended Ningyuan in the sixth year of the Apocalypse, bombarded Nurhachi into the western sky, and achieved a great victory in Ningyuan, so I won't talk about the rest of the matter.

In fact, after Ningyuan's victory, Yuan Chonghuan also achieved a more brilliant Ningjin victory, he beat the invading Huang Taiji in May of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, so scared that Huang Taiji did not dare to attack the idea of Ningjin defense line for a long time, and instead went to the Mongolian steppe to develop forces.

It stands to reason that such a big credit has to be added to the ranks, but at that time, it was Wei Zhongxian who was in power, and all the credit was taken by Wei Zhongxian.

The credit for this Ningjin victory was all given by Wei Zhongxian to his nephew Wei Liangdong and his grandson Wei Pengyi, so Wei Liangdong, who was still a farmer a moment ago, was awarded the title of Dong'an Marquis and added to the crown prince Taibao; Wei Pengyi, who is still drinking milk, was named An Pingbo because of his merits, and he was added as a young master!

And the real hero Yuan Chonghuan only raised one level slightly, from the fourth product to the third product, and then there was no more. Yuan Chonghuan was naturally angry and spurted blood, picked a pick, quit his job, resigned and went home to farm.

After suffering such a big grievance, he naturally needs to be comforted, Sun Chengzong thought that it would be enough to mention Zheng Erpin to him, but as mentioned earlier, this Yuan Chonghuan has a stinky problem, that is, he is proud of his achievements. He thinks that this great credit is not enough, it must be a positive product, otherwise the master will not serve.

Emperor Chongzhen in history really gave him a super official, that is, the military department of Shangshu and Jiliao Governor, in charge of the military and political affairs of Liaodong, Denglai, and Tianjin, this supervisor is generally served by the cabinet scholars, holding the sword of Shangfang, supervising the military and political affairs of various places, no matter how big the local officials commit, they can be cut first and then played, it can be said that the supervisor is bigger than the first product, and he is the emperor of the soil!

Of course, it is impossible for Zhu Cijiong to learn from Emperor Chongzhen to accommodate him, the Ningjin defense line is not impossible to hold without Yuan Chonghuan, the Houjin cavalry is not good at attacking the city, plus their number is too small, as long as they are not generals who are greedy for life and afraid of death, they can hold the Ningjin defense line. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many generals who were not afraid of death, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, and Shi Kefa Nake were all fierce generals who would rather die than surrender, and they could hold the Ningjin defense line if they picked any one. You Yuan Chonghuan love not to come, it's better not to come, come to make trouble, don't think that the earth will not turn if you leave you, there will be better on the earth.

As a result, Yuan Chonghuan's matter was temporarily put on hold, and the officials of the six ministries were almost arranged, and the rest was to arrange military positions.

Speaking of this military position, the first thing to be promoted is naturally Luo Yangxing, this product is the first to jump out and sing against Wei Zhongxian, and as soon as he comes to power, he will not come down, he has been working against Wei Zhongxian, and he should be the first to take credit.

I have to say that although Luo Yangxing is a second-generation official, he still has a little ability, although he is not a good general, but at least he will not stab Lou Zi, and it is not necessary to count on him to go to the front line to charge, but he is still competent in the small matter of managing the security of the capital. So Luo Yangxing got what he wanted, entered the Jinyi Guard Commander, and entered the Governor of the Five Armies as usual.

What the hell is this Left Governor of the Five Armies? In fact, this Zuo Governor is not a real position, and the Governor's Office of the Five Armies is not a department, but five. The Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies is the general name of the former Military Governor's Office, the Rear Military Governor's Office, the Chinese Military Governor's Office, the Left Army Governor's Office, and the Right Army Governor's Office. And the Zuo Governor of the Five Armies, who commanded the Jinyi Guard, was just a fictitious title, not the actual governor of any Governor's Mansion.

In addition to Luo Yangxing, Yuan Keli and Qin Liangyu also made great contributions, but the commander of Jingying was already a good product, and he could not be promoted. If you can't add officials, you can only give them a knighthood, Yuan Keli was named a loyal and brave marquis, and Qin Liangyu was also named a loyal marquis. Don't say that a female general can't be a marquis, in history, this Qin Liangyu is really a loyal marquis, but it was sealed by Zhu Yousong, the emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and now she was only given a marquis more than ten years earlier.

As for Qin Gongming and Qin Yiming, they were already in the third rank of official residence at a young age, and it would be a bit ridiculous to be promoted again, so Zhu Cijiong had to give up.

In the end, there are the eunuchs in the palace, and the eunuch Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch Bingpen, has made great contributions, and naturally took over the East Factory and became the most powerful eunuch in the palace. The rest of the outstanding eunuchs Gao Youqian, Wang Chengen, Wang Dehua, Fang Zhenghua, etc. have all been rewarded, so I will not detail them here.

In short, now that the eunuch party has been purged, Zhu Cijiong's cronies and the backbone of the Donglin Party have also been promoted, and Huang Taiji is not interested in attacking the Ningjin defense line for the time being, and what is even more rare is that the treasury also has some money. It seems that the situation is very good, and Daming Zhongxing is hopeful, is this really the case?

At the end of this volume, what is the situation, please see the breakdown of the next volume.