Since his grandfather passed away and his father was driven to Borneo, Zhang Shijie has temporarily guarded filial piety at home. Although the big case of murdering the emperor's eldest son was not made public, the price paid by the Xungui family was very great, although many of the Xunqi involved in the case were not publicly punished, but they were ordered to leave the capital, except for a very small number of Fengcheng Marquis and those who were from the Mongols, most of the Xunqi have essentially lost the emperor's trust.

The nobles, who had lost most of their power in the struggle with the courtiers, had always relied on the emperor's trust and their in-laws with the imperial family to exist in the court. Chongzhen doesn't even care about the kinship between the royal family, let alone the in-law relationship with the relatives. Losing Chongzhen's trust is equivalent to losing the last foothold of Xunqi in the court.

If it was just a small beating, maybe these relatives would still be crying and complaining to the emperor about their past exploits. When they realized that the emperor really wanted to expel them from the court, or even rush to the barren lands overseas, these nobles began to show their loyalty to the emperor in different ways.

More than 200 years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, if there are many famous ministers among the civil officials, the honorable relatives are not as good as the generation. Most of the sons of Xun Qi, who do not know literature or martial arts, in addition to relying on their natural status as Xun Qi to sit and eat and wait for death, they do some illegal things to bully men and women outside from time to time.

Now that Chongzhen has expelled them from the capital and stripped them of their privileges and property, most of the relatives are not thinking about how to resist, but about how to beg the emperor for mercy and thus restore their old happy life. For this reason, many relatives privately reported to the emperor the wrongdoing of others, and at the same time sent their own children to the army and navy military academies, in an attempt to return to the emperor's side.

Although Zhang Shijie has some disdain for the behavior of these relatives, the situation of the British government is not much better than theirs. Although Chongzhen pardoned Zhang Zhiji, Zhang Weixian knew very well that this was just the emperor's fear of implicating the empress, so he simply suppressed the case.

This did not mean that the emperor did not have a pimple in his heart, so before he died, he wrote to Chongzhen to pass the position of the prince of the country to his grandson Zhang Shize, skipping his son Zhang Zhiji, and drove Zhang Zhiji to Borneo before he died. Because of this, the British government has also been silent for a long time, and it will no longer interfere in the affairs of the court.

However, although Zhang Shijie said that he was filial piety at home, the emperor did not completely stop his position, but only let Luo Yanghe share the power and responsibility of the commander of the Jinyi Guard, Luo Yangxing managed the affairs outside the capital, and he managed the affairs within the capital.

There were some serious disagreements in the court this time, and Huang Liji, the first assistant, asked Zhang Shijie to come to Fengzhen in person and invite Chongzhen back to the capital. Compared with the past, Zhang Shijie has obviously become much more stable now. After he saw the emperor, he clearly told everything about it, and quietly waited for the emperor's decision.

Although he had just received the title of "Bogda Heavenly Khan" from the Mongols, Zhu Youzhen was not as excited. As a modern person's thinking, no matter how noble and respectful the name is, if it can't be matched with the corresponding strength, it's just a joke.

The 33 banners of the left and right wings of Mongolia who participated in the Kuritai conference accounted for two-thirds of the total number of Mongolian tribes in southern Mo, and the western and northern parts of Moxi also did not participate in the conference. As far as the current situation is concerned, the representative of the 33 banners of Mongolia presents the honorific title to Chongzhen, which is still somewhat lacking in legal theory. If the Ming Dynasty unifies the Mongolian tribes in the future, today's affairs will naturally be a beautiful conversation. But if the Mongol tribes can't be subdued, this title can only make the Ming people laugh behind closed doors.

It's just that he didn't expect that when he was plotting the Mongolian tribes here, the capital would be noisy again. The news that Huang Liji asked Zhang Shijie to convey made him feel extremely bad suddenly.

The origin of the matter is actually not complicated, the cause is the Hebei land reform policy that was being vigorously promoted when Chongzhen left Beijing, it should be said that after clearing the forces of Huangzhuang, Weisho and Xunqi, Cui Chengxiu's resistance to Hebei's land reform policy has been quite small.

The leaders of the Hebei gentry are actually Feng Quan and Cui Chengxiu, both of whom are now on the emperor's side, and the Hebei gentry who oppose land reform naturally have no voice. However, although the gentry and landlords in other parts of Hebei did not dare to speak out against it, there were still people in Hebei who were not convinced in the neighboring Hebei region, which was adjacent to Shandong. They did not dare to openly oppose the imperial court, but through their friendly relations with the Shandong gentry, they sold their land to the Shandong gentry led by the Xincheng Wang.

Unlike the gentry of Hebei, who had been divided and tamed by Chongzhen, although the gentry of Shandong sided with the reformist bureaucrats in the court, they were still a group of landlords and literati based on land. While the gentry in Hebei continued to sell their land and invest in new industries, a small number of the gentry in Shandong began to take the initiative to cater to this change, turning their self-sufficient farms into cotton plantations that supplied cotton to the market.

However, a large part of the gentry did not agree with this agricultural method of producing for market demand, believing that such a production method was too profit-oriented, making it difficult for the honest and obedient peasants to discipline and corrupting the simple folk customs of the countryside. They wanted to be able to maintain the old pastoral life, and the peasants on the land that belonged to them should work according to the orders of the Lord, and produce all kinds of crops according to the needs of the Lord. Only when they feel that a certain type of grain or cotton is too much for their own consumption to consume, they can take it out and exchange it with others.

For these gentry landlords, the most important role of land was not to multiply wealth, but to control the families who rented land.

In order to minimize resistance and set an example for land reform in other provinces, Zhu Youzhen deliberately designated only one province in Hebei for land reform. But what he didn't expect was that there would be resistance from outside the province. These Shandong gentry, who openly bought land in Hebei, are simply provoking his ruling power.

What annoyed Chongzhen was that Cui Chengxiu, Huang Liji and others actually retreated at this time, because they felt that the Shandong gentry were a force on the side of the reformers, and if these Shandong gentry were dealt with, I was afraid that the Shandong officials would be alienated from morality and the bureaucratic gentry who opposed the reform would applaud.

But the problem is that their weakness not only greatly boosted the morale of the Shandong gentry, but even many people began to accuse the imperial court of the land reform policy as a means for the imperial court to deprive the gentry of their property. As a result, the bureaucracy, headed by officials from the south and Shandong, began to write one after another, claiming that although the starting point of land reform was good, if the people were not properly employed, good governance would also become bad government. The bureaucrats and gentry took advantage of Choi's past misdeeds and asked the cabinet for a change in the cabinet and rechecked the several county governments that had completed land reform.

In just a few months, the voices of opposition to the land reform policy in the DPRK and China have once again overwhelmed the voices of their supporters, and if it were not for the emperor's victory on the side of Jining Haizi, the first assistant Huang Liji might not have been able to withstand it. Huang Liji sent Zhang Shijie precisely because he wanted the emperor to take advantage of the prestige of returning from a great victory to suppress the series of counter-reformist officials in the capital who were about to move.

However, Zhu Youzhen did not want to understand the feelings of Huang Liji and Cui Chengxiu at all, he felt that he had given them enough power and support, but these reformist officials have always refused to completely break with the bureaucracy that opposes reform, and they seem to want to let him, the emperor, charge into battle every time.

Previously, there was no atmosphere of reform in the country and in the court, and Chongzhen naturally wanted to go into battle in person to tear up a gap, but now the voice of domestic support for the continuation of reform has been quite imposing, and they still want to compromise with the opposition, which makes Chongzhen can't help but be suspicious, wondering whether they are forbearance for the country, or do they want to bet on both ends?

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhu Youzhen finally spoke: "How can the country's major politics be child's play, and the policies adopted at the State Council actually have people who dare to speak out and provoke, this is not to seek justice but to trample on the authority of the imperial court." I write a letter for me, you bring it to Shoufu and Master Cui, and my opinions will be written in the letter..."

Zhu Youzhen instructed his attendants to bring pen and ink, and it took nearly an hour to stop writing, and then he personally sealed it and handed it to Zhang Shijie, and ordered him to rest for one night before returning to the capital.

As soon as Zhang Shijie stepped back, Chang Haochun came back from the side of the picture. After he was ushered into the flower hall, he hurriedly saluted the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, the Tu Tai Ji is already in order, and he has promised to persuade the other Tai Ji and Na Yan to sell us the land along the railway. ”

Hearing the news, Zhu Youzhen's somewhat irritable mood calmed down, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly and said, "It seems that the disappearance of Lin Dan Khan is not a bad thing for us." ”

Chang Haochun nodded again and again and said, "Even if Lin Dan Khan is still there, he can't escape from His Majesty's palm." It's just that, why do we have to give so much money to Uttu Taiji? The villain thought that if he let Gonchuktaiji do this, he might save half of the money. ”

Zhu Youzhen shook his head and said: "What is money, it's just some paper, didn't the money we spent on them end up in the pockets of your Shanxi businessmen?"

Don't be too careful, people have already packaged and sold the entire Chahar tribe to you, do you want to save a few more dollars, is this necessary?

After all, Gonchuktaiji was not the master of the Chahar Ministry, and his promise was not justified after all. Besides, I still like to deal with honest people, and I am more honest than Gunchuktaiji.

Someone, go and call Shi Yong'an, the governor of the three sides, and now we can study how to develop the Hetao area..."

Shi Yongan was also overjoyed when he heard that the railway network plan had won the approval of the Chahar Ministry. With the changes in the situation in the northwest frontier, he, the governor of the three sides, has retreated from the first line of the northwest frontier defense to the second line, and the power in his hands has also been reduced a lot.

The emperor led the border troops of Fengda and other places to repel the expeditionary force of Houjin, which certainly made Shi Yongan happy, but also caused him anxiety. After this battle, as long as it is properly handled, the Hetao area will be recovered from the Ming Dynasty.

Once the Hetao was recovered, he, the trilateral governor, would be in a position of no defense. Therefore, when the emperor summoned him to Fengzhen, he was still a little uneasy, but after meeting with the emperor, he took a reassuring pill.