Struggle, interpreted philosophically, is a fierce clash of contradictions, the sum total of all means by which one side seeks to overcome the other. Although Zhu Youzhen has been warning officials in the court since he ascended the throne, they are not allowed to form gangs and factions to engage in partisan struggles in the court.

However, under the influence of the natural disaster in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen had to adopt a pedagogical political struggle method for those scholars and officials who tried to use the theory of heaven and man induction to negate the overall situation of the imperial court reform. Su Changqing, who had experienced the information age of later generations, obviously knew better than anyone else in this era that once public opinion broke out, the issue itself was no longer important, but what mattered was what the positions of the two sides of the struggle adhered to.

Because the silent majority is willing to follow not the truth, but the side that wins the struggle. The winner wins everything, and the loser loses everything, and this is the most brutal aspect of political struggle. It is precisely because the political struggle is so cruel that it is very difficult for people to change their position after they have chosen their position, otherwise they will be purged by their own comrades first.

The Pope of the West once said that heretics deserve Hell more than heretics. The same applies in political struggles, where traitors can be more odious than enemies. Therefore, once the position is clear in the political struggle, even if there are pig teammates among their comrades, in order to protect the interests of the faction, everyone must vigorously defend the comrades and put right and wrong aside.

For Zhu Youzhen, the party struggle in the Ming Dynasty is actually no different from the saliva controversy on the forum in later generations. One official made a trivial suggestion, which was refuted by an official he disagreed with, then ridiculed the official, and then the argument escalated until the two officials' relatives, friends, mentors, and protégés were drawn into the vortex.

Therefore, the quickest solution to deal with these boring party rivals is not to quarrel with him, but to delete the post and ban him. When the first batch of autumn grain from the south was delivered to the disaster-stricken areas in the north this year, Zhu Youzhen took advantage of the turn of public opinion and approved Qian Qianyi's proposal to exile these civilian officials who were arguing about the government in vain.

However, he rejected Qian Qianyi's proposal to interrogate these people through a superficial process and exile them to Jeju Island. Although the theory of celestial and human induction has been refuted by scholars throughout the ages, because of the limitations of the rulers of the feudal dynasty, this set of theories is still very marketable among the people.

Zhu Youzhen publicly refuted the induction of heaven and man, saying that everyone could barely remain silent. But to use this charge to try such a group of readers, God knows how many jokes will be made when they pass the court. He was reluctant to turn the lobby of the Criminal Department into a personal press conference for these readers, so as to arouse the sympathy of the people for these people.

Directly announcing the punishment results, dismantling the exile overseas territories, and fixing the exile period, Chongzhen finally completed the deletion and banning of this era in an alternative way. And just as he expected, when the disaster area received food, the public opinion of the northern people began to change greatly, and these readers and officials on the Zuoshun Gate were denounced as ill-intentioned, and the Jiangnan gentry, who originally had some voices, were completely marginalized by the mainstream views of public opinion in the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to the rhetoric of public opinion in favor of the court and the emperor overwhelmed the voices of doubters, Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, for the rectification of military affairs in Nanjing and his support for the surplus grain collection system also made it impossible for the Jiangnan gentry to take care of Jin Shengsi, Wu Weiye and others who were imprisoned in the prison of the Criminal Department.

Although Chongzhen reduced the jurisdiction of Nanzhili after ascending the throne, Nanjing was still the political center of the south, and the Jiangnan gentry basically controlled everything in Nanjing. For example, Zhu Guobi, the Nanjing garrison, who was in charge of Nanjing's military affairs, and Cao Huachun, the eunuch who guarded Nanjing, were both nobles and powerful people who were close to righteous men and gentlemen who were highly respected by the literati in Jiangnan.

A nobleman and a eunuch, these two people who should have been most loyal to the emperor became the object of admiration of the literati in Nanjing. In a way, this is as ridiculous as a pack of rats praising the cats guarding the granary for their devotion. However, what is surprising is that this is not a joke, it is the reality of the Ming Dynasty.

The emperor appointed the two men to manage the military affairs of Nanjing and supervise the southern gentry, and they became good friends of the Jiangnan gentry, which obviously proved in another way how strong the Jiangnan gentry were in Nanjing. In turn, it also shows how important Nanjing is to the Jiangnan gentry.

Mu Tianbo's chaotic punch in Nanjing turned the heads of the nobles of Nanjing City, and also made the Jiangnan gentry begin to lose control of Nanjing City. When the Marquis of Funing was under house arrest in the palace, Mu Tianbo successively replaced nearly 500 officials, large and small, in the Nanjing Beijing Camp and the Guard, and replaced them with the graduates of the Nanjing Army Military Academy, who had been left idle.

Mu Tianbo's move was naturally supported by the Army General Staff Headquarters and the Nanjing Army Military Academy, and because of the obstruction of Zhu Guobi and the Nanjing Military Department, the Nanjing Beijing Battalion and the Weisho Army were never able to complete the reorganization, which greatly delayed the General Staff Headquarters' plan for reorganizing the army. The cadets who graduated from the Nanjing Army Military Academy were not like their colleagues in the military academies in Beijing and Chengdu, and were rejected by the noble sons and incompetent generals in the army, which has always made these graduates of the Nanjing Military Academy very dissatisfied.

Therefore, when Mu Tianbo unscrupulously broke the unspoken rules of Nanjing officialdom, there was no shortage of supporters behind him. Mu Tianbo himself is a powerful prince and has a respected status. Now, coupled with the support of the General Staff at the upper level, and the lower-level officers running for it, how did the Jiangnan gentry restrain Mu Tianbo's actions.

Nanjing is the nest of these Jiangnan gentry, if someone turns the world upside down here, how can they still control the people in the south. Therefore, there were differences among the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River, and some people believed that it was not an urgent need to oppose the surplus grain collection system at this time, and it was the top priority to drive Mu Tianbo back to the north.

In such a situation, the impeachment of Mu Tianbo on the southern gentry flew like snowflakes to the north. As for Jin Shengsi, Wu Weiye and others, there is nothing to mention.

For Chongzhen, he didn't plan to solve the idea of solving all these southern gentry at one time, and he was able to force these southern gentry to accept the surplus grain collection system, and after teaching the southern nobles a lesson, and letting them know who was their master, he also planned to accept it when he saw it, and give these southern gentry a little sweetness, so as to alleviate the contradictions and conflicts between the north and the south.

Therefore, after forcing the southern gentry to issue a statement expressing their support for the temporary system introduced by the imperial court to save the victims in the north, Chongzhen finally changed his previous tough posture and expressed his willingness to consider transferring Mu Tianbo back and arranging more stable personnel to serve as the Nanjing garrison and the Nanjing town guard eunuch.

Of course, the reorganization of the Nanking army, which had already begun, would not be terminated. In fact, when Chongzhen ordered the recall of Mu Tianbo, the 12th Field Army of the Ming Dynasty had already begun to see its scale in Nanjing, and Liu Zhaoji, the former commander of the 35th Division, was promoted to the commander of the 12th Field Army.

However, the new Marquis of Zhenyuan, who was the garrison of Nanjing, and Wang Kun, the eunuch of Nanjing, were both figures who obeyed the emperor's orders, and they had nothing to do with the gentry in the south of the Yangtze River. The arrival of these two people, although they could not make a big move against Nanjing officialdom like Mu Tianbo, they were also able to maintain the control of Nanjing that Mu Tianbo seized from the Jiangnan gentry.

After 12 years of this political storm in Chongzhen, Chongzhen's control over the south can be said to be a big step forward. And because the gentry officials of the Ming Dynasty were too concerned about domestic affairs, not many people even paid attention to what happened in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

However, for North Korea, every move of the Ming and Manchu Qing could lead North Korea to hell, so they are particularly concerned about any changes between the Ming and Manchu Qing.

Since the Ming Dynasty improved navigation technology, the sea traffic between the Korean Peninsula and the Shandong Peninsula began to change from sailing along the coastline to a direct navigation mode, which greatly reduced the mileage and time between the two countries, and also reduced the risk of wind and waves capsizing. Located at the mouth of the Han River, Jemulpo has become the largest port for North Korea to Daming because of its favorable geographical conditions.

On the Shandong side, the ports of Yantai and Qingdao have gradually replaced Dengzhou and become the main trading ports of Shandong facing North Korea and Japan, especially Qingdao, which has become the preferred port for trading ships because of the railway connecting to Tianjin.

In the past, it took at least 19 days to depart from Seoul and arrive at Dengju Watergate. But now it only takes about six or seven days to get from Jemulpo to Yantai. From Jewupool to Qingdao, it is only about 10 days. After Chongzhen opened a shuttle ship from Qingdao to Jewupo in the eleventh year, the communication between the Ming Dynasty and Korea became more convenient.

With the support of the Ming Dynasty, Shen Jiyuan, the head of the Joseon Dynasty, took control of the political situation in Korea, purged the officials of the DPRK who had surrendered to Kaesong to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and overthrew the Joseon King Yi Liang, and began to actively implement political reforms that imitated the Ming Dynasty. Unlike the Ming Dynasty, after two indiscriminate rebellions, North Korea lost a large number of people, and even many two classes of nobles were arrested and taken to Shenyang, so North Korea was a situation with few people at this time.

Therefore, Shen Qiyuan's redistribution of land did not gain much resistance. Of course, this redistribution of land did not touch the abolition of feudal obligations, so in a way, it strengthened the revival of the two classes of nobility rather than the strengthening of the Korean state.

However, when Shen Qiyuan tried to adopt the same mercantilist policies as the Ming Dynasty in order to raise national taxes, he was met with opposition from both domestic and foreign forces. The two classes of aristocrats in China believed that Shen Qiyuan's mercantilism would shake the ruling order of the two classes, so that the merchants would be above the two classes, which was obviously unacceptable to them.

The merchants of the Ming Dynasty were not happy to see that North Korea would develop its own workshops, they believed that the Ming Dynasty could produce all the daily necessities needed by North Korea, and that North Korea really did not need to produce its own products of inferior quality and high price, so as to waste the raw materials produced by North Korea. Moreover, the Ming merchants also did not agree with North Korea's increase in foreign trade taxes, believing that the North Korean government could not compete with the people for profit.

As for the businessmen from the Manchu Qing Dynasty, they even said that the Shenyang side did not agree with the North Korean government's move to raise foreign trade taxes, and they believed that this was a discriminatory policy against the Qing state. As a result, the merchants of the two hostile countries, the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, had a tacit understanding to exert pressure on the Hanyang court.

In such a situation, Li Liang and the capitulation officials who had lost power were ready to move again, wanting to overthrow Shen Qiyuan's ruling position. As a result, the Joseon consul had to personally go to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute in order to try to gain the support of the Ming Emperor. Shen Qiyuan is actually more wise, he knows that there is a drought in the north of the Ming Dynasty this year, so he has exchanged all the treasures of the tribute for grain.

More than ten ships carried 30,000 stone of rice, this move made him quickly win the favor of the people of the Ming Dynasty and the emperor, so he was received by the emperor on the third day of his entry into Beijing.

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