During the Apocalypse, there was more than one famous minister in Xu Guangqi, and the Ming Dynasty Hall from the fifth year of the Apocalypse to the seventh year of the Apocalypse can be described as dark, and the sun and moon have no light.

Wei Zhongxian's power leaned towards the government and the opposition, covering the sky with one hand, and no one in the world knew that there was an emperor, only that there was a nine-thousand-year-old Wei father-in-law.

The eunuch party was in power, the dynasty was corrupted, the Donglin party was brutally persecuted, and the upright people were ashamed to be with the eunuch party, and most of them chose to go to the office.

In order to compete for the control of the cabinet, Wei Zhongxian framed, played scoundrels, falsely passed on the holy decree, etc., and did everything he could, the first assistant of the cabinet Ye Xianggao, the first assistant of the cabinet Han Yi, and the first assistant of the cabinet Zhu Guozhen resigned angrily one after another, and the cabinet left, leaving Gu Bingqian, Wei Guangwei, Huang Liji, Feng Quan and other aunts to flatter the shameless people who attached to the eunuch party, and the frenzy of honest people began from this.

Young Master, Prince Taishi, Ministry of Officials, Jianji Hall University Scholar Zhu Yanxi Zhishi;

Weng Zhengchun Zhishi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites;

Cui Jingrong, the secretary of the military department;

Ministry of Industry Shangshu Huang Kezhang Zhishi;

Wang Ji Zhishi, the secretary of the Criminal Department;

The left attendant of the Ministry of Officials, Zhan Shifu, Zhan Shi, Xiao Yun, and the officer;

Taichang Temple Qing Dong Qichang Zhishi;

The left waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Xue Sansheng Zhishi;

Xu Guangqi, the right waiter of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of waiting;

The right waiter of the household department, Bi Maoliang, Zhishi;

Li Zongyan, the right capital of the Imperial Palace, Li Zongyan Zhishi;

Zhao Yanzhishi, the right deputy of the Imperial Palace;

The right of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the imperial history of Bi Mao Kang Zhishi.

And so on and so forth, plus the Donglin Party members who were deposed by Wei Zhongxian.

Zhao Nanxing, the secretary of the ministry;

Sun Shenxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites;

Ministry of Industry Shangshu Feng Congwu;

The left capital of the Imperial Court of the Imperial Palace, Gao Panlong;

Yang Lian, the left deputy envoy of the Imperial Palace;

Zuo Guangdou of the Imperial Palace;

Zhou Qiyuan, the right of the Imperial Palace;

Zou Yuanbiao, the left attendant of the ministry;

Chen Yuting, the right attendant of the ministry;

Li Jin, the left attendant of the military department;

Li Banghua, the right attendant of the military department;

Zheng Sanjun, the left waiter of the household department;

The left servant of the criminal department, Wang Zhiyu;

General Political Envoy Si Zuo General Political Envoy Liu Zongzhou;

Dali Temple Shaoqing Hui Shiyang;

Taifu Temple Shaoqing Zhou Chaorui;

And so on, from the cabinet to the six ministries and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, all the senior officials above the fifth rank were either dismissed by Wei Zhongxian, or took the initiative to resign, and went away, Wei Zhongxian then cunning to replace him with his godson, godson and other eunuch backbones, and the entire capital court almost became a eunuch in the world.

This is just the beginning, after the eunuchs took control of the power of the imperial court, the situation in the southern capital of Jinling slowly began to be stirred.

At the beginning, as Yang Wenzhong said, the eunuch party did not directly control the six departments of the southern capital, but kicked two famous court ministers to Jinling.

These two people are also quite famous in the history of the late Ming Dynasty, one is Yuan Keli, the left attendant of the former military department, and the other is the imperial history of the right capital of the former capital inspection court, and Bi Ziyan, the left attendant of the household department.

These two people are not members of the Donglin Party, but they have always maintained the Donglin Party in the court, and disobeyed Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian couldn't bear it, so he simply demoted them to Jinling and let them come to support the elderly.

After Bi Ziyan was kicked to Jinling, he was first appointed as the imperial history of the right capital of the Southern Capital Inspectorate, and then was elected by the ministers as the head of the Southern Capital Household Department.

He is not the kind of person who gives up on himself, and the Nandu Household Department is not without nothing to do, he originally wanted to rectify the Nandu Household Department, grasp the taxes of Nanzhili and Zhejiang, Jiangxi, and Huguang provinces, and strictly control the distribution of Caoyun and salt introduction, so as to support half of the Ming Dynasty's taxes.

However, not long after he took office, Wei Zhongxian sent his confidant eunuch Cui Wensheng to the governor Caoyun, intending to embezzle Caoyun's income.

This Cui Wensheng is the eunuch of the Ming Guangzong Taichang period, the eunuch of the imperial pharmacy, it is he who gave the rhubarb medicine to Guangzong, and the Guangzong diarrhea he ate did not stop, and he couldn't go to the court, and then he used the red pill offered by Li Kezhuo of Honglu Temple as an immortal medicine and gave it to Guangzong, which made Guangzong die violently!

This red pill case was a sensation in the court at that time, but because the red pill was suggested by Fang Congzhe, the head of the cabinet and the leader of the Zhejiang Party, to take it to Guangzong, so Cui Wensheng and Li Kezhuo, who were the parties involved, were vigorously defended by the Zhejiang Party and were not severely punished.

Cui Wensheng was the culprit who killed Guangzong, and now Wei Zhongxian actually wanted to use him to be the governor of Caoyun, Bi Ziyan was naturally annoyed and resolutely resisted, and his relationship with the eunuch party began to become increasingly tense.

This is not over, and then, Wei Zhongxian heard that there were more than one million taels of silver in the horse pasture of Taifu Temple in Nandu, so he sent his godson Hu Liangfu to ask for it, in the name of decorating the three new halls of the palace.

As a result, as soon as Hu Liangfu came, he found that this was a rumor, and he didn't find a tael of silver, so he went back and suggested that Wei Zhongxian sell the horse pasture of Taifu Temple in Nandu to make up for expenses.

Nandu Taifu Temple horse pasture is the place to provide forage for the Ming Dynasty's war horses, if it is sold, the Ming Dynasty will not be able to raise war horses, this is not to break the legs of the Ming army, Bi Ziyan naturally resolutely disagreed.

Wei Zhongxian was also very annoyed, he directly scolded Bi Ziyan in the name of the emperor, Cui Wensheng's governor Caoyun's matter was settled, and the horse pasture of Taifu Temple in Nandu was also sold, and Bi Ziyan was so angry that he directly said that he was sick and returned to his hometown.

As for Yuan Keli, after being kicked to Jinling, he was first appointed as the secretary of the household department of the southern capital, and then Bi Ziyan was appointed as the secretary of the household department of the southern capital, and he was elected by the ministers as the secretary of the military department of the southern capital, took over Yang Wenzhong's position, and became Zhang Bin's top boss.

Originally, Zhang Bin thought that he could take this opportunity to win over this famous minister in the late Ming Dynasty, but he never thought that Yuan Keli had only been in office for a few days, and he resigned angrily and returned to his hometown.

What's going on here?

It turned out that Yuan Keli disobeyed Wei Zhongxian too hard in the capital, Wei Zhongxian's hateful teeth itched, and after demoting him to Jinling, Wei Zhongxian didn't want to let him go, so he even sent his minions to follow and monitor him every day, trying to find out something and clean him up.

After Yuan Keli found out, he was naturally so angry that he simply resigned and quit, so as not to be framed by Wei Zhongxian and arrested and tortured to death.

As soon as Yuan Keli left, Wei Zhongxian sent his godson Liu Tingyuan to take over as the secretary of the Nandu Military Department.

Zhang Bin can't do anything at this time, with his current ability, he can't overturn the behemoth of the eunuch party, all he can do is wait for the opportunity.

Of course, he is not waiting for this, and he has not been idle during this period, and has been preparing for his future rise.

Like Cao Huachun, a key figure, he has always been courting and courting, and after more than two years, the Cao family and the Zhang family are almost like a family.

For example, he has not slackened in the compilation of "Introduction to the Drill of the New Army of the Ming Dynasty", and after more than two years, he finally wrote the first draft.

In addition, the drills of the Dajin Tunwei have been carried out in secret, and he has been courting famous ministers such as Xu Guangqi and Bi Maoliang, and even participated in the compilation of the "Complete Book of Agricultural Administration".

During this period, he also did a very meaningful thing, after Bi Maokang took office as the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry of Nandu, he urged Bi Maokang to reactivate the abandoned Nandu Arsenal, and tried his best to transfer a group of skilled military craftsmen from the Wang Gong Factory in the capital to assist him in developing flintlock pistols.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, Wang Gong's factory exploded, but the military craftsmen who made firearms in the Ming Dynasty did not die because of this.

In the turbulent times, dark clouds covered the sky, Zhang Bin silently prepared, prepared, waiting for the arrival of that glimmer of light.

Finally.

In August of the seventh year of the Apocalypse, news came from the capital that the emperor, accompanied by the Hakka family, Wei Zhongxian and others, went to Xiyuan to play on a cruise ship, unfortunately fell into the water, and his health deteriorated.