After talking closely with Chongzhen for a long time, Xu Xinsu finally walked out of the apse of Jiale Hall in a happy mood. Although he served as the supreme governor of the Donghae Patrol Office, most of the Jeju Island, the Korean coast, Vladivostok, and Sakhalin Island, which were supposed to belong to the Donghae Patrol Office, were now occupied by officials from Donggang Town.

Although Xu Xinsu was unwilling, he was not willing to move from Fujian to the north, but was forced by the pirate and maritime merchant group led by Zheng Zhilong, so he had to obey the emperor's will.

Therefore, the East China Sea Patrol Mansion under the leadership of Xu Xinsu is not as single as the Taiwan Strait Patrol Mansion under Zheng Zhilong's name, and the power of Fujian maritime merchants in the East China Sea Patrol Mansion is only divided into three parts of the world with the merchants under the management of Dongjiang Town and the Internal Affairs Office.

Compared with Zheng Zhilong, whose strength grew rapidly after the establishment of the Taiwan Strait Patrol Office, Xu Xinsu naturally wanted to develop his own power as soon as possible, but because of the containment of the other two forces, he could not bury his own power without scruples like Zheng Zhilong.

However, the permission he received from the emperor this time gave him an opportunity, an opportunity to untie his bound hands and feet. What could be better than provoking a war to give him the opportunity to pool the resources of the Donghai Patrol Palace, just like Zheng Zhilong's war to recover Saigon from Quang Nam.

On February 8, the third year of Chongzhen, in order to make up for the lack of this year's Zhengdan court meeting, and as the official resumption of normal operation of the imperial court this year, Zhu Youzhen had to hold a grand court meeting in the Huangji Palace at the request of many officials.

Although it has entered the early spring, but since yesterday, the capital has begun to flutter with snowflakes again, and when the sky is about to dawn, the whole capital is once again wrapped in a layer of silver-white plain makeup.

When the civil and military officials entered the white marble square in front of the Huangji Palace from the noon gate, a layer of snow had been piled up on the squares on both sides of the royal road, and although the snowflakes in the sky began to thin, the sky was still chaotic, like a white night in the far north.

Although the snow has been removed from the route that the officials of the previous dynasty have to pass, some of the older officials still received preferential treatment from the emperor, and there were guards in front of the emperor to help them carefully walk towards the imperial palace, for fear that these old people would slip here and make some bad news for today's court.

In fact, this kind of weather is really not a joyful thing. The officials who lived closer to the imperial city had to leave their homes before the fifth watch. Officials who live farther away will have to leave their homes around the fourth watch.

When they arrived at the Chengtian Gate, although they could enter the six-part duty room for a short rest, it was also an extremely long walking distance from the six-part duty room to the Imperial Palace. Between the cold and the hot, officials with poor physique can easily get sick in the process of going to court.

Therefore, except for some special day court meetings, most of the time court meetings, in fact, there are not many officials present. Most of those officials who feel that their careers are hopeless, or who plan to go to Beijing to take up posts, will take leave to rest at home.

However, what is surprising is that the officials who came to the court today came relatively neatly, and there was also a small group of officials with nervous faces, not knowing what to say in their mouths.

The doorman guarding the palace gate is also an old man who has been more than ten years old, he watched these officials walk by without sidelines, and couldn't help but think that the expressions of some officials today are too abnormal, and he hopes that there will be no trouble in the palace later.

Wu Linzheng and several officials who had recovered were led to the side hall of the Imperial Palace by a guard, and their feet, which had been a little numb from the cold, suddenly felt warm after entering the side hall where the earth dragon was burning.

When the guard turned to leave, Wu Linzheng chatted with the officials around him, and when he and the officials around him informed him of his name, he realized that in a corner of the side hall, there was a middle-aged official who had been waiting here for a long time.

Looking at the clothes on this official's body, the lonely appearance of sitting alone near the charcoal basin, and the look of disdain to take care of others with his eyes closed, Wu Linzheng subconsciously asked the official next to him: "Who is sitting in the corner?" ”

An official who was nearly fifty years old and had some gray hair glanced over there, then lowered his voice and said to Wu Linzheng with resentment and jealousy: "That's Cui Chengxiu, the former secretary of the military department, and also the leader of the eunuch party. It is said that this time he gave his niece to His Majesty, in exchange for a chance to recover. It's really a shame..."

In the main hall of the Imperial Palace, which was dozens of steps away from them, Zhu Youzhen, who was sitting on a high throne, supported his knees with his hands, and once again saw the controversy at the court meeting that he hadn't seen for a long time.

Soon after the court meeting began, it was also full of order, but with the completion of the ceremonial three affairs report, when Yao Shiheng replaced the cabinet to play the list of officials who were reinstated to the emperor, Lu Chengyuan, Qian Shisheng and others left their own order and began to oppose the list of reinstated officials, to be precise, someone in the list was reinstated.

This person is Cui Chengxiu, the former secretary of the military department, and the ministers of the imperial court who have been with Chongzhen for more than two years finally understand the preferences of this young emperor.

In Lu Chengyuan, Qian Shisheng and others' remarks against Cui Chengxiu's repetition, they finally broke away from the model of gentlemen and villains, but aimed at Cui Chengxiu's corruption and perversion of the law when he was in office in the past, so he asked the emperor to order a thorough investigation of these cases, instead of reinstating and appointing this person.

Of course, there are also several officials with an excessive sense of justice, and in addition to impeaching Choi Cheng-so's past bad deeds, they also criticized the cabinet members who passed the notice of Choi Chengxiu's reinstatement.

As a result of these officials' expanded targets, some officials who had long wanted to change the cabinet saw an opportunity to participate in the impeachment of Choi. And in addition to accusing Choi Chengxiu's resurgence of being a favoritism by someone in the cabinet, they also launched several cases related to the people around the cabinet ministers, trying to take this opportunity to change the power structure of the court.

When the officials in the palace stood up and attacked Cui Chengxiu for not coming back, several ministers in the cabinet actually secretly agreed in their hearts. But as the officials involved in the impeachment pointed the finger at the cabinet, the ministers suddenly realized that their obstruction of Choi Chengxiu's resurgence was just a reason, and the real purpose was to get them out of office.

Now that things have developed to this point, several cabinet ministers who were originally only reluctantly resurrected through Cui Chengxiu because of Chongzhen's face had to hint that their protégés and former officials began to fight back, and tried to ensure that the cabinet was legitimate and in line with the rules by reinstating Cui Chengxiu.

Before the emperor did not make a formal statement, the leaders of both sides remained silent, only let some middle and low-level officials come forward to argue, as the secretary general Yao Shiheng, who spoke on behalf of the cabinet, had to be at the forefront of maintaining the legitimacy of the cabinet's orders, this meeting was also the only fierce in his life.

The remnants of the original eunuch party led by Yang Weiyuan desperately supported Cui Chengxiu's order to return to the imperial court, and they directly accused Lu Chengyuan, Qian Shisheng and others of setting off party disputes, rather than talking about things. Otherwise, when Cui Chengxiu returned to his hometown to guard the system, they should have written about these questions. Now more than two years have passed, and these people have turned over old accounts and come up with some difficult stories to hinder the recovery of a court minister, which is really a bit unreasonable.

The defense of Yang Weiyuan and others finally angered a large number of young officials close to the Donglin Party, who no longer accepted the hints of Qian Shisheng, Lu Chengyuan and others, and spread the impeachment that had originally focused on Choi Chengxiu to the eunuch party organization headed by Wei Zhongxian, and these officials not only demanded the liquidation of Choi Chengxiu and Wei Zhongxian, but also the liquidation of all the remnants of the eunuch party in the DPRK and China.

The expanded attacks of these young officials immediately caused chaos in the court, and Yang Weiyuan immediately retreated and bowed to the emperor and cried: "... The minister just said a few fair words, but he was beaten into a remnant of the eunuch party before he could do it. Chen really didn't know what it was called a eunuch party, in the past, the Donglin party people were all over the government and the opposition, and the Donglin leader Zuo Zhizhi openly claimed: If it is not the same way, it is the enemy.

This is full of people, as long as they are not Donglin Party members, they have become what they call eunuch ugly. The ministers didn't dare to hold grievances for Wei Zhongxian and Cui Shangshu, but as long as they didn't agree with the Donglin party, they would become party members who clinged to Wei Zhongxian, isn't this still the same party?

If the whole court and the central government are full of Donglin Party members, where will these so-called righteous men and gentlemen be placed in Your Majesty? If Your Majesty disagrees with the opinions of the Donglin Party, isn't Your Majesty my great tomorrow..."

Yang Weiyuan's cry suddenly made a group of Donglin leaders scramble, Li Biao, Qian Longxi and others finally couldn't bear Yang Weiyuan's slander, and came out to refute his remarks and distinguish for the Donglin Party.

"Pap, papa, papa..." Chongzhen suddenly stretched out his hand and slowly slapped his palms a few times, finally shifting the attention of the officials in the hall who were arguing with themselves to himself.

After watching His Royal Highness's officials begin to quiet down, Zhu Youzhen sneered and said: "At the first court meeting this year, I thought that you, as officials of the imperial court, would at least care about the spring plowing work in various parts of the Ming Dynasty this year, as well as the needs and difficulties of the local people. Tell me how to govern the country.

The result? That's how you helped me run the country? I would like to ask you, Jizhou was broken through by the Houjin army last year, and the loss of people's personnel and property was huge, do you have any measures to deal with the aftermath?

Although most areas in Shaanxi did not continue to experience drought last year, there are still a small number of places that continue to suffer from drought. How should the imperial court assist the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi to rebuild their homes, and how should the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi flee out of the province and become displaced people in various places, and what specific measures do you propose?

Last year, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, the governor of Zhejiang, and the mayor of Shanghai all wrote to the governor of Shanghai, saying that the water conservancy in the south of the Yangtze River has been in disrepair for a long time, and once it encounters a year with abundant rain, it is easy to cause floods.

Yangzhou salt merchants and officials of the Salt Transportation Department colluded to falsify salt to embezzle state taxes, and this case has been handled for more than half a year, why can't the case be closed today? Who's interfering? Have any of you ever reported it?

You don't care about so many major national events, but you know who should and shouldn't, and it seems that everyone can be the master of the house. Then you can tell me a good story today, whose court is this court? What exactly does the imperial court do? Who are you officials?"