Cao Huachun's actions were fast, but Wen Tiren's actions were faster, and after he got Chongzhen's approval, he immediately launched a purge of Zhang Bin's "henchmen".

On the morning of the same day, Bi Maoliang, the left attendant of the Ministry of Works, received a report from the Beijing inspection jointly issued by the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Officials, and the results of the four assessments of Shouzheng Cainian were Shouping, Zhengping, Caiping, and Old, and then there was no more.

The focus of this assessment result is the fourth item, old age, which means that he is forced to return to his hometown, once the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Officials make such an assessment, you can't resign if you don't resign!

Bi Maoliang is indeed old, he is forty-one years old in Jiajing of Ming Shizong, that is to say, he is seventy-one years old at this time, and it is not wrong to use the assessment of old age on him.

However, the reason why Wen Tiren ordered him to return to his hometown was not because he was old, but because he was not a member of the Zhejiang Party!

The main reason why Bi Maoliang was purged is because Cheng Qinan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, has been beaten as a "Western Party" by Wen Tiren, and he has been dismissed from office and cut his status.

Just kidding, how can the pit dug by himself fill other people's turnips, although Wen Tiren is not very interested in this Ministry of Works, but someone is interested.

This time, in the matter of impeaching the "Western Party" and overthrowing Cao Yubian, the left capital of the Imperial Procuratorate, the Qi Party made a great contribution, and they naturally did not look at the face of Wen Tiren and the Zhejiang Party, but also to obtain sufficient benefits in the next major plan of Beijing and Procuratorate.

At this time, the court hall, the eunuch party fell apart because Wei Zhongxian committed suicide in fear of crime, the Donglin Party was killed by Wei Zhongxian as early as the Tianqi Dynasty, and the only few remaining old guys were also overturned in the third year of Chongzhen, and these two big forces that were in power in the Tianqi Dynasty have become yesterday's yellow flowers.

Now the most powerful party in the court is the Zhejiang party, followed by the Qi party, and the Chu party because of its self-cutting meridians, in order to frame the Donglin party, cooperated with Wei Gonggong to cut down the most capable Xiong Tingbi, and passed on the head of the nine sides, which has long been abolished.

The Qi Party is also very ambitious, but at this time, their power is not as big as the Zhejiang Party, there is no way, they can only retreat to the second best thing and help the Zhejiang Party control the government, however, this help has a price, they demand, the Zhejiang Party will give at least three positions above the book!

This request is not excessive, because counting the cabinet, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the six ministries, there are more than ten positions above the Shangshu, and the Zhejiang Party does not have so many capable people to control so many yamen, so these two former eunuch brothers joined hands again and united to purge other forces in the court, and at the same time share the positions they have grabbed.

As the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Wen Tiren is ready to share the profits to Zhang Zhifa, a veteran of the Qi Party.

Zhang Zhifa, a native of Zichuan, Shandong, a Jinshi in the 29th year of Wanli, successively served as the magistrate of the county, the director of the Ministry of Rites, the inspector of the Imperial Palace, Dali Temple, Shuntianfu, Guanglu Zhengqing, it should be said that his promotion path is relatively slow, and he has been promoted to the third grade for more than 30 years, which is no different from ordinary officials.

In fact, this is mainly because his parents were seriously ill during the Apocalypse, and he went home to raise his relatives, and Wei Zhongxian had repeatedly ordered the officials to be promoted, but he never took office because his parents were critically ill.

This can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, otherwise, he is very likely to be listed in the eunuch rebellion case, and it will be difficult to turn over.

Chongzhen Dynasty, his parents died, the expiration of the system of observance, just happened to meet Donglin was cleaned again, the Zhejiang Party, the Qi Party reasserted power, soon, he was reinstated as Shuntian Mansion Cheng, and then promoted to Guanglu Zhengqing, objectively speaking, his qualifications are enough to serve as six Shangshu, but the position is not enough, if according to the normal promotion process, he wants to climb to the high position of the six Shangshu, at least six years.

However, with the former eunuch brother Zhejiang Party, there is no need to wait for these six years, the position of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu has already been booked for him, but Wen Tiren has not found an excuse to overturn Bi Maoliang, and rashly put him up to compete with Bi Maoliang, Wen Tiren is very afraid that Chongzhen will choose Bi Maoliang, who is stronger than Zhang Zhifa in ability, qualifications and position, so the position of the Ministry of Industry Shangshu has been vacant.

This opportunity has finally come, Chongzhen has agreed, to clean Zhang Bin's henchmen, Wen Tiren immediately took the opportunity to implicate Bi Maoliang, Bi Maokang is the Fujian Chengxuan political envoy Si Zuobu political envoy at this time, a proper Zhang Bin henchman, as his eldest brother, Bi Maoliang is not Zhang Bin's henchman?

Even if he doesn't, he has to be!

As soon as he said the slander, Chongzhen finally nodded and stroked!

As a result, Bi Maoliang quickly received the Beijing inspection notice ordering him to return to his hometown.

Wen Tiren didn't know that he was crooked, and Bi Maoliang was really Zhang Bin's party.

Bi Maoliang was immediately disheartened when he received the report from Jingcha, he didn't tell anyone, and resigned directly, because the evaluation of this old man can only be written after the emperor's nod, since it is written on the notice, it proves that the emperor thinks that he is old and faint and cannot be appointed to the office, so what else is there to argue, no matter how much it is, it is just a shame for himself.

The next day, Lu Xiangsheng, who was far away in the Daimyo Mansion, also received a notice from Jingcha, assessing his Shouping, Political Chief, Caiping, and Nianping, and planned to be demoted and retained, and his governors Xuanda and Shanxi military affairs were dismissed, and he was demoted to the governor of Daimyo, and was only responsible for the military affairs of the Daimyo, Guangping, and Shunde.

This is still Chongzhen watching Lu Xiangsheng break the anti-thieves in Huaiqing Mansion, and his military achievements are great, and he can't bear to beat him directly, otherwise, he will also be ruthlessly cleansed.

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't believe his eyes when he received the report from Jingcha, he sacrificed his life and forgot about death, and finally defeated the main force of more than 200,000 anti-thieves.

On the third day, Sun Chuanting, who was far away in Shaanxi, received a report from Beijing Chacha that was urgently transmitted for 800 miles, assessing his peace, political shortage, talent, and year, and planned to remove him from his post as governor of the three sides, and let him immediately return to the capital to defend himself!

Sun Chuanting is so indignant, he just trained the Qin army well, and he was deposed, saying that he had poor political performance, and he always had the opportunity to lead the army to obtain political achievements!

This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that he goes, what do the 50,000 Qin troops eat, although he has been assisted by Zhang Bin in the Wuding River and the Yellow River along the wasteland farming, harvested a season of sweet potatoes and potatoes, but that is only enough for the 50,000 army to eat for a month, he is also ready to continue to open up the wasteland next year to expand the production of sweet potatoes and potatoes, this is all over, without the support of Dongshengtang's grain and grass, the 50,000 Qin army will not even be able to pass this year, because in December, they will have nothing to eat!

He knew that this was someone behind his back to get him and Zhang Bin, this time in the capital, it would be good if he didn't quit his post and cut his status, it was basically impossible to come back and be the governor of the three sides, 50,000 Qin troops, not a single soldier had been dispatched, and it was ruined like this, he really couldn't understand why.

Chongzhen actually didn't do anything, just because he was an official from Fuguang, in order to weaken Zhang Bin's power, he, the governor, must be removed, he has an army of 50,000 under his command, once Zhang Bin plots wrong, he is a great threat, how can Chongzhen let him continue to stay in the position of the governor of the three sides.

As for the 50,000 Qin troops, Chongzhen naturally couldn't let them go, Wen Tiren recommended to him, and Wu Zhenying, the right servant of the Imperial Palace, took over the position of the governor of the three sides, and continued to lead the 50,000 Qin troops to practice near Yulin Town, Chongzhen also agreed, he thought that the person Wen Tiren fancied should be right!

This Wu Zhenying is in the same department as Zhang Bin, and he is also a jinshi in the second year of the Apocalypse, and has served as a scholar in the middle school, a governor of Guangdong Province, and an imperial history of the right capital, and he looks like a normal official, and there is nothing special about it.

However, if Chongzhen ordered someone to check carefully, it would be found that Wu Zhenying is a native of Gui'an, Zhejiang, and is likely to be a Zhejiang party, and he is the younger brother of Wen Tiren's concubine, and Wen Tiren is an in-law!

At this time, Zhang Bin was indeed still in the dark, because the capital and Dongfan were four or five thousand miles apart, and it would take more than two days even to use the fastest wheel, and the secret letter was sent from Cao Huachun, passed to Luo Yangxing's hands, and then passed to Zhao Ru's hands, which had been delayed for nearly half a day, and when Zhao Ru personally arrived at Dagu Port with the secret letter, a day had almost passed.

Therefore, until the morning of the third day, Zhang Bin had not received the secret letter, and he was sitting on the train from Kaohsiung to Dayuan, dancing excitedly.

After nearly a year of research and development and testing, the development of the train finally achieved initial success, and Zhang Bin specially ordered people to build a railway from Kaohsiung to Dayuan, the final test line.

The railway is still a single lane, which means that a large circular bend must be built at both ends to make a U-turn, and all trains must go in the same direction at the same time, otherwise they will collide head-on.

Of course, this problem did not exist at this time, because Wang Zheng and they had only made a formal freight train for the final test.

At this time, the train had been running between Kaohsiung and Dayuan for three days, and there were no problems, so Wang Zheng and Sun Yuanhua officially invited Zhang Bin to take the train to go around for a try.

In fact, the train made by Wang Zheng and the trains of later generations is completely incomparable, not to mention the ugly appearance, the speed is very slow, and it takes an hour to drive from Kaohsiung to Dayuan, or from Dayuan to Kaohsiung, and the distance between Dayuan and Kaohsiung has been calculated when laying the rails, just about 100 miles, that is to say, the train they made can travel 100 miles in an hour, and the unit converted into later generations is 50 miles per hour or 25 kilometers per hour. Compared to the trains of later generations, it is almost like climbing on the ground!

However, whether it is Wang Zheng or Zhang Bin, they are quite satisfied with this result, because the train at this time does not need to be compared with the trains of later generations, if you have to compare, it can only be compared with the horse, the horse will be scrapped if it runs about 500 miles a day, and the train does not need to change anything at all, it is easy to run 1,200 miles a day, and it can also bring at least ten carriages, and the capacity is more terrifying than the steamer!

Zhang Bin was thinking about the eight-hundred-mile expedited and steamer, the train returned to Dayuan, he had just jumped out of the first wagon, Zhao Ru walked up quickly, holding an envelope and said tiredly: "My lord, Gonggong Cao's letter." ”

Zhang Bin was stunned when he saw Zhao Ru, he received his report a few days ago, he was stepping up the renovation of the mansion of Shibei Hutong and Banqiao Hutong in the capital, and he actually ran to Dongfan at this time, it seems that this letter is quite important, otherwise, Zhao Ru would not have hurried back with the letter.

He didn't say a word, took the envelope and checked it carefully, and even added a secret note, it seemed to be a very important secret letter, he quickly tore it and took out the pile of letter paper inside, and looked at it carefully.

Looking at it, his face gradually became gloomy, Cao Huachun did not describe too much, but directly retold the dialogue between Wen Tiren and Chongzhen, and thanks to his memory, he actually retold the conversation between Chongzhen and Wen Tiren for more than an hour.

Zhang Bin really didn't expect Wen Tiren to attack himself again so quickly, and he didn't expect that Chongzhen would listen to Wen Tiren's slander and want to clean up himself and his "henchmen"!

He secretly formed a party, but he did not do anything that was detrimental to the Ming Dynasty, the imperial court, and the people, on the contrary, he also made great achievements and made indelible contributions to the Ming Dynasty.

He exterminated the pirates that ravaged the southeast coast, drove out the Dutch and Spaniards entrenched in the east, repelled the Jiannu army that attacked the capital, defeated the strong clan of the eastern Ying who bullied the subject country of Ryukyu, was defeated by Zhang Bin, and beat the anti-thieves who entered the capital.

Let's ask, in today's court, all the officials, which one can compare with him, even Yuan Chonghuan, because Yuan Chonghuan only achieved the great victory of Ningyuan, Ningjin and Liaohe, to put it bluntly, Jiannu is an opponent, and only recovered more than 400 miles of lost land.

And he, just recovering Dongfan is nearly a thousand miles of land, and the Dutch, Spaniards, and Dongying people are no worse than Jiannu, so the great military exploits in exchange for a great purge!

Chongzhen is so mediocre!

He actually believed Wen Tiren's nonsense, believing that he formed a party for personal gain, and after his power expanded, he would threaten the imperial power!

If he wants to rebel, he doesn't have to do anything, it's really just like Wen Tiren said, just dominate Fuguang, Chongzhen can endure him, and the court can endure him, as long as the peasant army conquers the capital, and Jiannu cleans up the peasant army again, he will not only not be a rebel thief, but will become a hero who opposes the Qing Dynasty and restores the Ming Dynasty!

He was really completely disappointed in Chongzhen, and at the same time, he was also impressed by Wen Tiren, this guy is really shameless!

Throughout the ages, most ambitious treacherous ministers have probably had the same idea, that is, to seize power, call for wind and rain, satisfy personal power desires, and trample everyone under their feet.

To this end, they can do whatever it takes, they can play conspiracy, they can be incorruptible, they can harm others and benefit themselves, they can deny their relatives, and they can even sacrifice the lives of innocent people to betray the interests of the country and the nation.

In the eyes of these people, everything else is not important, only the struggle for power is the most important.

Wen Tiren, although he is only a small shadow compared to Qin Hui, the great traitor in history, and even Wei Zhongxian is not even comparable, but the consequences he caused are no worse than Qin Hui and Wei Zhongxian.

At this time, in order to satisfy his personal desire for power, he disregarded the interests of the country and the people, and stained his path to heaven with the blood of innocent people!

This traitor, he is going to put Daming in a situation from which he will never recover!