The rebellion of Anxu in the southwest was pacified by Zhu Xieyuan, the southeast pirates were exterminated by Zhang Bin, the main force of the northwest anti-thieves was defeated by Lu Xiangsheng, and the main force of the northeast Jiannu was defeated by Yuan Chonghuan.

He has even begun to think about how to mobilize troops and horses to eliminate Jiannu in one fell swoop and recover Liaodong!

It should be said that although Chongzhen has such and such problems, he actually really wants to be a good emperor in his heart, which can be seen from his insistence on the early dynasty, and the handling of government affairs without sleep and food, but unfortunately, his experience is still too shallow, and his character flaws are also obvious, so that he is often used by people to do stupid things that cannot be regretted, and all his efforts have been turned into nothing, which is really sad and lamentable.

For example, at this time, it is not his imagination, the situation of Daming is indeed slowly improving, if he can really eliminate Houjin in one go and recover Liaodong, it is not impossible for Daming to prosper in his hands.

It's a pity that there are always some people who don't care about the danger of the country and the lives of the people, just for their own selfish desires, fight for power and profit, and do everything they can!

Just when the entire Ming Dynasty was jubilant because of the victory of the Liaohe River, Wen Tiren secretly made a move.

The first one is still the Zhongshu Sheren Yuan Baoqi, this guy is shameless, and his confidant Yao Zongwen has to fight, out of nothing, reversing black and white, he is simply at his fingertips, this time he actually fabricated a Western Party for no reason!

The so-called Western Party means that Shanxi officials have formed a party for personal gain.

At this time, there are a total of two Beijing and thirteen provinces, but there are thousands of court officials in Beijing, among which there will naturally be the same province, and there will be at least dozens of them, this shameless person actually made up nonsense, pointing to the deer as a horse, far-fetched, and forced the left capital of the Imperial Court Cao Yubian, the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Cheng Qinan, the right servant of the Ministry of Household Sun Juxiang, and the Taifu Temple Zhengqing Wei Guangxu "kneaded" together, and made up a Western Party!

In fact, there is no real evidence for the recitals he wrote, they are all fabricated by him, and the only reason for saying the past is that the origins of these people are indeed from Shanxi.

Does anyone believe such a ridiculous reason?

Chongzhen really believed it, because it wasn't Yuan Baoqi who said it alone, after Yuan Baoqi handed over the fold, the twist of impeachment of Cao Yubian, Cheng Qinan, and Sun Juxiang flew over like snowflakes, smashing him dizzy.

A man who says so, he cannot believe it;

Ten men say this, and he may not believe it;

Dozens, if not hundreds, of officials said so, and he finally began to doubt!

The Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Imperial Procuratorate, the Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, the Right Shilang of the Household Department, the Zhengqing of the Taifu Temple, etc., these are all members of the imperial court, if they form a party for personal gain, then they have to do it.

So, he stupidly recruited Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet, and threw a bunch of folds to him for him to take a good look at.

Wen Tiren had actually started to laugh in his heart at this time, because as soon as Chongzhen thought about it, he would laugh.

He pretended to stand there and read it for a long time, and then he sighed: "Your Majesty, in fact, Weichen has heard about this matter for a long time. ”

When Chongzhen heard this, he said coldly: "Why didn't you tell me earlier? ”

Wen Tiren shook his head and sighed: "Alas, what these people are doing is too hidden, and Weichen can't find real evidence, so he didn't dare to mention it to the emperor, and the emperor asks for forgiveness." ”

Chongzhen snorted: "What do you mean, what the courtiers said is true, Cao Yubian and them are really forming a party for personal gain?" ”

What he hates the most is that someone has formed a party for personal gain, intending to deceive him, but he didn't expect that so many important ministers of the court would collude with him behind his back and secretly form a party for personal gain, which is unbearable!

Wen Tiren smiled secretly in his heart, but on the surface, he said righteously: "Weichen really doesn't have any real evidence, so it's not easy to make conclusions, but some of their things are too obvious, and a discerning person can see that something is wrong at a glance." ”

This means to imply Chongzhen, Your Majesty, you are not a clear-eyed person, you have been deceived!

Chongzhen said angrily: "What is obvious, you say." ”

Wen Tiren didn't answer and asked: "Your Majesty, Weichen has the courage to ask, do you know how old Lord Cao Yubian Cao is?" ”

When Chongzhen heard this, he said without thinking: "Cao Yubian is seventy and six, what's wrong?" ”

Wen Tiren sighed: "Seventy-six, it's really old and strong, Weichen is just sixty, sometimes he feels a little powerless, maybe in a few years, Weichen won't be able to share the emperor's worries, old and old, old, his body is like dead wood, and his brain is not bright, why bother to dominate the position, and the corpse is a vegetarian meal." ”

He seemed to be laughing at himself when he said this, but in fact, he was secretly mocking Cao Yubian's corpse as a vegetarian meal, dominating the position of the left capital of the Imperial Palace, and refusing to leave!

Chongzhen heard him say this, and then looked at the wrinkles he deliberately squeezed out on his forehead, and suddenly "woke up", yes, this Cao Yubian is seventy-six, and he can't walk anymore, and he still can't go, why?

Wen Tiren saw that he showed a puzzled look, and couldn't help but add fuel and vinegar: "Weichen heard that they are cultivating people to succeed them, Cheng Qinan and Sun Juxiang are both in their sixties, maybe they will be sick at some point, although the others are young, but the highest position Wei Guangxu is a Taifu Temple Zhengqing from the third grade, once they retreat, the Western Party will not even have a court member above the third grade, won't they be able to control the government, so, although Cao Yubian is seventy-six, he has always refused to tell the old man to return to his hometown, Because he hasn't promoted his successor yet! ”

When Chongzhen heard this, he said angrily: "The selection of court officials is based on talent, not on relationships, they actually want to teach and receive each other privately, control the government and government, shameless!" ”

Wen Tiren, who is truly shameless, said an idiot in his heart, but on the surface, he complimented: "The emperor is wise." ”

Chongzhen is really "wise", after talking to Wen Tiren secretly, he immediately recruited Cao Yubian and comforted him!

However, Chongzhen's comfort made Cao Yubian creepy, because the crimes that Chongzhen said were simply too scary, what kind of party for personal gain, greed for power, control of the government, exclusion of dissidents, cronyism, etc., although Chongzhen said that he didn't believe it, his eyes were full of suspicion.

This meaning is already obvious, if you are interested, hurry up and return to your hometown, don't force me to do it!

Cao Yubian was disheartened, and after he went back, he submitted his resignation, but Chongzhen did not make any reservations, and approved it without hesitation.

The "head of the Western Party", Cao Yubian, who controlled the Metropolitan Procuratorate, was gone, Chongzhen had no scruples, and immediately issued an order to wipe out Cheng Qinan, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Sun Juxiang, the right attendant of the Ministry of Households, and Wei Guangxu, the Zhengqing of the Taifu Temple, and all of them were dismissed!

Now, the court is finally clean, Chongzhen is complacent, thinking that he has rectified the rule of officials and achieved great results, but he doesn't know that he has been played into a dog.

In other words, Wen Tiren's target is not Yuan Chonghuan, why did he suddenly move Cao Yubian, who has nothing to do with Yuan Chonghuan?

It turned out that he convened people to discuss it a few times and found that it was really difficult to move Yuan Chonghuan at this time, because Chongzhen would not agree, just kidding, people have just achieved a great victory in the Liaohe River that is enough to reverse the situation, and the main force of Jiannu will be beaten to the ground, and you want Chongzhen to masturbate people immediately, or even drag them out and cut them, is it possible?

The Zhejiang party bigwigs discussed, discussed, and felt that this thing was unlikely to succeed, and it happened that the six-year Jingcha was about to begin, so they turned their attention to the Jingcha plan.

The Jingcha plan is a rare and good opportunity, and if you want to eliminate dissidents on a large scale and promote your cronies, this kind of opportunity must not be missed.

Since the beginning of the Wanli Dynasty, all the friends who want to control the power of the court have all taken advantage of the opportunity of the Jingcha plan to rise, like the Zhejiang Party and the Donglin Party of the Wanli Dynasty, and the eunuch party of the Apocalypse Dynasty, all of which used the Jingcha plan to rise, so as to gradually control the power of the court.

Of course, if you want to control the power of the court, it is not so simple to control the plan of Jingcha, first of all, you must control the cabinet, that is, you must first seize the position of the head of the cabinet, and then it is possible to rise in the plan of Beijing Cha, otherwise, no matter how you jump, the head of the cabinet will give you a vote, and what is there to talk about controlling the court.

At this time, Wen Tiren has already seized the position of the first assistant of the cabinet, and the opportunity to rise has come, and then he can consider the plan to influence Jingcha.

So, how to control the Beijing inspection plan, it is very simple, control the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Officials, because the Beijing Inspection Plan is responsible for the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Ministry of Officials, as long as these two yamen are controlled in their hands, then they can do whatever they want in the Beijing Inspection, and they can promote whoever they want, and they can promote whoever they want!

The Ministry of Officials was originally controlled by Wen Tiren for a long time, but unfortunately, Min Hongxue and Min Mengde were not angry, and the East Window incident happened, and they were almost executed by Ling Chi, but fortunately, Wen Tiren was scheming and quickly discarded these two wastes, so that Wang Yingxiong took over the position of the secretary of the ministry, and this ministry was still under his control, and at this time, there was only one Metropolitan Procuratorate left.

Therefore, Wen Tiren's spearhead was directly pointed at Cao Yubian, the left capital of the Imperial Palace, in order to take down Cao Yubian, but he made great efforts and spent a lot of money, he not only let his henchmen jump out, but also united the remnants of the Qi Party, the Chu Party and other eunuchs, and together played the impeachment of Cao Yubian and others, which inspired Chongzhen's thinking, let Chongzhen do it himself, and wiped out Cao Yubian and other cadres!

Cao Yubian is gone, and the next thing is to compete for the position of the left capital of the Imperial History.

If according to the principle of vacancy and replacement, the most qualified person to succeed the left capital of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate should be Huang Chenghao, the left deputy imperial historian, because the imperial history of the right capital of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Court is generally suspended, and it is unlikely that he will serve as the imperial history of the left capital of the Imperial Palace, such as Yuan Chonghuan, who is still fighting with Jiannu in Liaodong at this time, and it is unlikely that he will come back to serve as the imperial history of the left capital.

Wen Tiren's cronies, Zhang Jie, the right deputy of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, seems to be a little less qualified to serve as the Imperial History of the Left Capital, that is to say, if he is replaced from the Imperial Palace, it is very likely that Zhang Jie will not be able to take his turn, so what should I do?

Since there is not much hope for internal replacement, it is necessary to select someone from the outside, parachute into the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and compete for the position of the Imperial History of the Left Capital.

Wen Tiren proposed his hardcore cronies, the squire Tang Shiji.

Tang Shiji is actually not a eunuch, when he was in the Tianqi Dynasty, because he couldn't get used to Wei Zhongxian's actions, he resisted Wei Zhongxian a few times, as a result, he was slapped by Wei Zhongxian to Jinling, demoted to the right waiter of the Nandu Criminal Department, and then moved to the left waiter of the Nandu Military Department, the reason why he was transferred to the military department was not to see him pitiful and wanted to give him some real power, but because the eunuch Wang Yongguang was appointed as the secretary of the Nandu Military Department, and he was transferred to the past in order to clean him up.

As a result, Wang Yongguang casually found an excuse, slapped him to death, dismissed the official, and never hired!

Maybe it was Wei Zhongxian and Wang Yongguang who slapped him awake, or maybe Wen Tiren deliberately pulled him together, in short, after Chongzhen succeeded to the throne, he immediately attached himself to Wen Tiren, obeyed Wen Tiren's words, and died down.

As a result, his career was immediately smooth, Wen Tiren first reinstated him as an official, continued to serve as the left squire of the Southern Capital Military Department, and soon promoted him to the right capital of the Southern Capital Imperial Palace, and then transferred him back to the capital to hang up the false title of a military squire, ready to be promoted to the power.

Cao Yubian went down, Wen Tiren thought of this hardcore cronie, the reason is very simple, because he has the experience of serving as the right capital of the Imperial Palace.

If according to the actual situation, the right capital of the Southern Capital Imperial Court is a fart, there is no real power at all, it is purely a pension position that makes people eat and wait for death, waiting for Zhishi, but Wen Tiren operates casually, and his right capital imperial history of the Southern Capital Procuratorate has become a very important qualification.

Regardless of whether it is the Southern Metropolitan Procuratorate or the Beijing Metropolitan Procuratorate, aren't they both the Metropolitan Procuratorate? The right capital of the Southern Capital Imperial Palace, that is also the right capital of the imperial history!

As a result, Tang Shiji, who had been raised in the Nandu Ducha nursing home for a few months, had the advantage of being the oldest and the highest official position in the Ducha Yuan, and overwhelmed Huang Chenghao, the left deputy capital of the Ducha Yuan, and was promoted to the left capital of the Ducha Yushi, controlling the power of the hundred officials and inspectors, clearing the last obstacle for Wen Tiren's plan to control the Jingcha.

However, although the Jingcha plan is a sharp weapon to eliminate dissidents, the appointment of cronies is actually not all based on the Jingcha plan, because the Jingcha plan is mainly to evaluate the merits of officials, even if the officials who want to be promoted have to go through the process of the Ministry of Officials, they are first selected by the Ministry of Officials, and then handed over to the Ministry of Officials for review, and then approved by the emperor.

Therefore, if you want to take advantage of the opportunity of Jingcha's plan to appoint cronies, it is best to start from the grassroots level and grasp the Ministry of Literature and Selected Divisions in your hands.

Who is in charge of the Ministry of Writing?

Choosing and choosing, Wen Tiren chose Xue Guoguan, who was newly attached to him.

Xue Guoguan is a terrible person, he wants to climb up, he can be said to do everything, he is a Jinshi in the forty-seventh year of Wanli, when the Apocalypse Dynasty, he actually has no experience, but, it doesn't matter, Wei Gonggong uses people, never only depends on whether you are loyal to him or not, what qualifications, ability, morality, ethics, are not the point.

Xue Guoguan in order to climb up, that is called a madness, at that time the criminal department of Shangshu Qiao Yunsheng, the military department of the squire Xiao Jingao, Baoding governor Zhang Fengxiang, Caojiang Yushi Xiong Mingyu, etc., all took the lead in initiating impeachment, and then was persecuted by the eunuch party, because he impeached the Donglin party, he was soon appreciated by Wei Gonggong and joined the eunuch party, and the position was also rubbed up, from the middle of the matter, to the right to the matter, and then to the middle of the matter, he only took three years!

It's a pity that he is not Wei Zhongxian's relative and can't pull his face to be Wei Zhongxian's godson and grandson, and he is not a member of the Qichuzhejiang Party, so he can't be promoted when he is promoted to the capital, because the eunuch party is also hierarchical, the one at the level of the six Shangshu must be Wei Zhongxian's godson or absolute cronies, and the one at the level of the squire must be a member of the big forces such as the Qichu Zhejiang Party and other big forces attached to the eunuch party.

He was so angry in his heart, when Chongzhen succeeded to the throne and ordered to investigate the eunuchs, he frantically attacked the eunuchs, and put Wei Zhongxian's relatives, godsons, godsons, and grandsons to death.

However, the situation changed abruptly, Chongzhen for three years, as several old men of the Donglin Party became discouraged one after another, abandoned their officials, and the matter of investigating the eunuch party was gone.

What to do?

There is nothing difficult in the world, only afraid of people with hearts, people who are determined to climb up can always find opportunities, and when the situation in the DPRK and China is clear, he found that the power has become the eunuch party, or the eunuch party remnants of the Zhejiang party, he once again threw himself into the arms of the eunuch party, caught the Donglin party and the members of the Fushe and bit wildly, and soon he won Wen Tiren's appreciation and was promoted to the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple.

This time, because of his "loyalty" to Wen Tiren, he was promoted to the Ministry of Officials, and became the "little heavenly official" who decided the fate of officials, which can be described as a step to the sky!