Chongzhen is really busy during this time, at the beginning of this new year, it is a big plan and a meeting test and a palace test, and he also has to prepare for the elimination of Jiannu and the elimination of the anti-thieves, which is very busy.

After more than ten days of hard work, he finally took some time out to check the prince's study, and at three o'clock in the afternoon, Chongzhen hurriedly ate some food, and then drove to Cining Palace to see the prince Zhu Cihong.

At this time, Zhu Cihong didn't go to play or rest, but sat in his study to practice calligraphy in the company of Zhang Yan.

Hearing that his son was so studious, Chongzhen was so excited, he waved back left and right, walked into Zhu Cihong's study lightly, and made a silent gesture to Zhang Yan inside, and then secretly walked behind Zhu Cihong and stretched out his head to look.

At this glance, his eyeballs were about to fall, Zhu Cihong really knew how to write, and the writing was quite neat, it has only been a few days!

He held his breath and watched for a while, then coughed lightly and said happily: "Hong'er, you can write so soon?" ”

When Zhu Cihong heard this, he turned around and said in surprise: "Father, you are here." ”

Chongzhen nodded, leaned up, pointed to the words written by Zhu Cihong, and said with expectation: "Hong'er, what kind of word is this?" ”

Zhu Cihong happened to be writing Ming, and he said aloud without hesitation: "The sun and the moon are bright, and the Ming is bright." ”

"Okay, Hong'er is so smart." Chongzhen asked excitedly: "What words have you learned in the past few days?" ”

Zhu Cihong said proudly: "I have learned a lot, there are people who are popular, mountains and stone fields, cattle, sheep and horses, a fire is extinguished, two woods, three woods, two people, three people, a lot, and at the beginning of people, the nature is good, the sex is similar, and the habits are far away." ”

So much! Chongzhen said in disbelief: "Really, do you know how to write?" ”

Zhu Cihong nodded proudly and said, "Yes." ”

Chongzhen immediately couldn't wait to say: "Quick, write it to my father." ”

When Zhu Cihong heard this, he did not hesitate to take out a blank piece of paper and write it seriously, from the sun and the moon, the people, the mountains, stones, fields, cows, sheep and horses to the beginning of the people, the nature is good, the sex is similar, the Xi is far away, dozens of Chinese characters, without a pause, and soon, the table is covered with the words he wrote.

These words can only be said to be neat, and the words written by those ministers who are comparable to calligraphers are more than 108,000 miles away, but Chongzhen is like seeing calligraphy treasures, his eyes are shining, his hands are trembling, he picks them up one by one, he can't put it down, and his mouth is still chanting: "Okay, write well!" ”

He is completely relieved of Zhu Cihong's study, he can learn so many words in more than ten days, and he can still learn it after ten years, not to mention the posture of the champion, there is no problem with the level of Jinshi.

This Zhang Bin is really capable, no matter what happens, he has never disappointed him.

However, his mind of suppressing Zhang Bin has not changed, although Zhang Bin has relieved himself of the heavy responsibility of the governor of Fuguang and accepted the idle post of Zhan Shi of Zhan Shifu, although Zhang Bin did not care about anything during this period of time and devoted himself to teaching the prince, he still wants to suppress, not for anything else, just because he may threaten his imperial power, this kind of person, he would rather kill the wrong person than let go, for this, he does not have any guilt in his heart, he thinks that the person who is the emperor must be ruthless!

Even, when the crown prince becomes an adult, he has to tell the prince that this kind of person can't be used, so let him be the Zhan Shifu Zhan Shi for the rest of his life, teach the crown prince to teach other princes, and teach other princes and the grandson of the pope, anyway, he can't let him take power.

The so-called "cunning rabbit dead lackey cooking, flying birds do their best to hide the bow", this kind of thing has been done by the royal family of all dynasties, Zhu Ming's royal family has done it more thoroughly, Chongzhen thinks that this is the way to be a king, and he should do it!

He didn't look at it, now the cunning rabbit of Huang Taiji is still bouncing in Liaodong, Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong These birds are still flying everywhere in the northwest, at this time, he wants to clean up Zhang Bin, he is simply sick in the brain.

No matter how well Zhang Bin taught the crown prince Zhu Cihong, early the next morning, after going to the early court, he still called Wen Tiren, Tang Shiji, and Wang Yingxiong, who were "not the party or the group, and loyal to the king", to the study and began to discuss how to suppress Zhang Bin and eliminate Zhang Bin's henchmen.

At this time, the big plan has begun, and local officials have begun to return to Beijing one after another, which is a good time to suppress Zhang Bin and eliminate Zhang Bin's henchmen.

In his hand, there is a long list, which is exactly all Zhang Bin's henchmen counted by Wen Tiren, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Bi Maokang, Cai Shanji, Zou Weilian, Chen Zizhuang and other civil officials above the third rank are listed, Cao Wenzhao, Qi Yuangong, Yu Chenglong, Zheng Zhilong and other military generals have not let go, anyway, as long as Zhang Bin was promoted during his tenure as the governor of Fujian and the governor of Fuguang, all the officials above the third rank are listed, Wang Zheng, Sun Yuanhua, Song Yingxing and others are not listed, as well as Cao Huachun, Luo Yangxing, Xu Guangqi, Zhang Zhiji, they are even more ignorant.

However, these alone are enough, there are more than ten officials above the third grade, which is scary enough.

Chongzhen is not so crazy that all the officials promoted by Zhang Bin have been cut or all removed from their posts for investigation, after all, he is just suspicious, and there is no evidence, and these people have not done anything unfavorable to Daming, on the contrary, many of them have contributed to Daming, if all of them are cut or all removed from their posts and investigated, Daming officialdom must be chaotic.

The strategy he set was to rise and fall, marginalize all these people, and let them take idle positions with no real power like Zhang Bin.

After Chongzhen set the tone, he began to discuss them one by one.

The first is the daimyo governor Lu Xiangsheng, who believes that although Lu Xiangsheng has been promoted from governor to governor, it is still not safe, because he Lu Xiangsheng still has military power, which is very unsafe.

Anyway, they are all "their own people" here, Chongzhen asked without hesitation: "How should Lu Xiangsheng be transferred, do you have any opinions, anyway, you can't let him take charge of the army." ”

Wen Tiren smiled secretly in his heart, he is the best at this, when it comes to Yin people, who is as powerful as him, he said without thinking: "Isn't Lu Xiangsheng the right capital imperial history at this time, why don't you directly promote him to the right deputy capital imperial history of the Southern Capital Procuratorate, what do you think, emperor?" ”

The Nandu Metropolitan Procuratorate is also an idle yamen, and there is basically nothing to do all year round, and it can't manage a few officials.

When Chongzhen heard this, he nodded and said: "Well, very good, I will promote Lu Xiang to the right deputy capital of the Southern Capital Procuratorate, and as for the post of the governor of the Daimyo, let Chen Qiyu, the political envoy of Shaanxi Zuobu, take over." ”

Chen Qiyu is an official he is more optimistic about, when the governor of the three sides was vacant, he had considered it, but in the end it became a competition between Sun Chuanting and Hong Chengchou, the person who nominated Chen Qiyu was a royal history with little power, and he had no ability to fight for Wen Tiren and Zhang Bin, so he quickly died down, however, Chongzhen remembered this Chen Qiyu, after some investigation, he was absolutely Chen Qiyu is indeed a talent, so this time he took the opportunity to mention Chen Qiyu to the position of the governor of the daimyo, Although this position seems a bit low at this time, once he wants to pursue and suppress the peasant army, he can let him be the governor of Shanxi and Xuanda's soldiers and horses, and then he will be promoted at once.

In fact, Wen Tiren also had this idea, and he was even ready for Lu Xiangsheng's replacement, but unfortunately, Chongzhen suddenly "made his own opinion" and proposed Chen Qiyu, he had no choice but to praise: "The emperor is wise." ”

Chongzhen was very useful to take this sycophant, and then said wisely: "Sun Chuanting will be counted this time, he has been demoted to Shuntian Mansion, and it is not interesting to descend again, and then there will be the current officials in Fujian, let's start with Bi Maokang, Changqing, what do you suggest?" ”

Wen Tiren naturally had a plan for how to suppress the officials of Zhang Bin's family, and he said without hesitation: "Didn't Bi Maokang serve as the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry in the Southern Capital before, why don't you directly promote him to the secretary of the Ministry of Industry in the Southern Capital, what do you think, Your Majesty?" ”

The Ministry of Industry of Nandu is a pure idle yamen, if you don't look for something to do, you basically have nothing to do, even if you look for something to do, you can't do anything famous, just throw people over to be idle.

Chongzhen couldn't help but nod when he heard this: "Well, it's good, the next one, Cai Shanji." ”

Wen Tiren said in a yin voice: "This Cai Shanji doesn't have much merit, so why don't you transfer him to the Southern Capital Metropolitan Procuratorate to be the imperial history of the right capital." ”

Even if the Imperial History of the Right Capital of the Capital Metropolitan Procuratorate is only a name and does not have any authority, the Southern Capital Metropolitan Procuratorate naturally has no power, and it is purely a name.

Chongzhen nodded with satisfaction and said, "Well, it's good, the next one, Zou Weilian." ”

Wen Tiren still said without hesitation: "Zou Weilian once served as the official of Yanping, and his ability to handle cases should be very strong, if he is promoted to the secretary of the Criminal Department of the Southern Capital, what do you think, Your Majesty?" ”

How can the Nandu Criminal Department have any cases to try, it is similar to the official of Ying Tianfu, and it is indeed quite suitable for Zou Weilian to go to leisure.

Chongzhen nodded with satisfaction again: "Well, it's good, the next one, Chen Zizhuang." ”

Wen Tiren continued to say in a yin voice: "Chen Zizhuang is a first-class tanhua and a talent, but his position was forcibly promoted by Zhang Bin, which is not conducive to the development of his career. ”

What he said seemed to be for Chen Zizhuang's good, but in fact, it was to let him go to the Nandu Ministry of Rites to be free, Chongzhen naturally had no opinion, and then, he continued to read down one by one according to the list, these people Wen Tiren had already thought about where to go, most of them were idle positions of the six departments of the Southern Capital and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and other idle yamen, and basically did not have any authority, such as the Nandu Military Department and the Nandu Household Department, etc., who had a little authority and did not have their share.

If these people have leisure and leisure, they can get together every day to chant poems and experience the wind and moon of Qinhuai, but they are all virtuous ministers who are worried about the country and the people, and it is simply a torture to put them in the pension yamen.

Chongzhen often did some inexplicable things in history, like the famous Sun Chuanting, who exterminated the main force of the peasant army in Shaanxi, captured the leader of the peasant army Gao Yingxiang alive, and designed an ambush for Li Zicheng, killing Li Zicheng with only 18 cavalry to escape, and his military exploits were outstanding, which made the peasant army frightened.

However, Chongzhen listened to the rumors of Xue Guoguan and Yang Sichang, the remnants of the eunuch party, not only did not reuse Sun Chuanting, but when Sun Chuanting entered the king of Jingqin, he also turned Sun Chuanting away, and he didn't even want to see him, and the angry Sun Chuanting was so angry that he was deaf, so that Sun Chuanting retired due to illness, and he listened to the slander and demoted Sun Chuanting to a civilian and imprisoned him, and locked up Sun Chuanting for nearly four years.

When Lu Xiangsheng was killed by Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, the situation took a turn for the worse, and the Ming Dynasty was in danger, he brought Sun Chuanting out of prison again, and ordered Sun Chuanting to fight with the peasant army, at this time the peasant army was in full swing, and Li Zicheng alone had hundreds of thousands of male soldiers, Sun Chuanting was forced to respond to the battle in a hurry, and died in Weinan, Chongzhen also listened to slander, thinking that he had cheated to death and absconded, and he didn't even have a word of comfort!

Chongzhen's stupidity is simply incomprehensible, in fact, it can be boiled down to one problem, that is, he doesn't know people.

When the emperor, or the boss, the most important point is to know people and make good use of them, as long as you use the right person, you can collect money while lying down, once you believe in the wrong person, it is useless to die of exhaustion, and you can't see people clearly, which is Chongzhen's biggest sorrow.

It's not that he hasn't given trust, but almost all the people he trusts are selfish villains, so it's useless for him to die of exhaustion.

At this time, he was discussing with Wen Tiren, Tang Shiji and Wang Yingxiong, a group of traitorous ministers, with great interest how to clean up the loyal ministers who served the country and the people.

The first military general is Cao Wenzhao, the first fierce general in the late Ming Dynasty, now in his eyes is the number one thug under Zhang Bin, the Guangdong chief military officer actually has no men under him, but he is still unwilling to let go easily, he discussed with Wen Tiren and others, and decided to directly "promote" Cao Wenzhao to the former military governor of the five armies in the southern capital.

He listened to Wen Tiren's slander, thinking that the Qi family army had become Zhang Bin's private soldiers, not only unavailable, but also a waste of food and salary, so he simply issued an order to disband the Qi family army on the spot, and Qi Yuangong was "promoted" to the right governor of the rear army of the five armies in the southern capital, which was still a nominal idle position.

Yu Chenglong's fate is the same, he was directly "promoted" to the governor of the left army and the right governor of the five armies of the Southern Capital, and let them go to Jinling to play!

The last Zheng Zhilong, they didn't dare to mess around, because Zheng Zhilong is a pirate, if you dare to clean him up, he will dare to rebel, if you dare not give him food, he will dare to occupy this month Hong Kong and Zhuhai to collect his own food, in the face of such a piece of hob meat, not only Wen Tiren was stunned, even Chongzhen was a little hairy, more than 100,000 pirates are not joking, if you really want to force people to rebel, it is simply impossible to clean up, in the end, they agreed that Zheng Zhilong should not move, let him go, It is unlikely that a pirate will fight for Zhang Bin.

After arranging all the "Zhang Bin's henchmen", it seemed that this discussion was over, but Wen Tiren suddenly proposed: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid that the Fuguang officials will become a plate of scattered sand if they are replaced, they will go their own way, why don't you send a governor or governor over to deter them?" ”

When Chongzhen heard this, he nodded, and said thoughtfully: "Well, what you said is very reasonable, then send Xiong Wencan, the political envoy of Shandong Zuobu, to patrol Fujian and Guangdong." ”

"Poof", Wen Tiren heard this, so he didn't have a mouthful of blood spurting out, he wanted to arrange his own people to continue to be corrupt in the past, but he never thought that Chongzhen already had a candidate!