After November of the third year of Chongzhen, the situation in the northwest of the Great Northwest once again entered a relatively stable situation, and the turmoil of impeachment of Yuan Chonghuan and Li Banghua in the Beijing court gradually calmed down.

On the first day of the first day of November, Emperor Chongzhen mourned the family of King Su of Lanzhou in order to avoid the ministers from increasing the incident.

And all kinds of other impeachments of Yuan Chonghuan and Li Banghua, after being transferred to the Qianqing Palace by the celebrant supervisor, were like sinking into the sea, and there was no response from the emperor.

As for Li Guoyi, the first assistant of the cabinet, Xu Guangqi, the cabinet minister and secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the important ministers of the court, such as the secretary of the household department and the secretary of the military department, everyone was busy with all kinds of things arranged by the emperor, and no one participated in the impeachment of Yuan Chonghuan and Li Banghua.

Therefore, after more than half a month passed, this small and small turmoil fell silent.

Although the clan clan is extremely noble, but after all, it is the emperor's own family, and if the clan is lost to thieves and dies, if the emperor himself doesn't care much, then others will not chase after him.

After all, there are really more things in the Beijing Dynasty today, which have attracted the attention of these ministers.

For example, in the fourth year of Chongzhen's spring vacation, it is now time to start arranging the chief examiner, the deputy chief examiner, that is, the president and vice president, as well as the promotion officer, marking officer and other relevant officials.

For the civil officials of the imperial court, this matter is much more important than the defeat of the officials and troops in the northwest.

Therefore, every year of Dabi, especially when the matter of Chunqiu is put on the agenda, the focus of the up and down between the government and the opposition in the Ming Dynasty will be shifted to this.

Chunqiu, that is, will try.

Because the Ming Dynasty held the examination every three years, it was usually arranged to be held in the spring and March of the year of the big examination, so it was also called Chunqiu.

In the first year of Chongzhen, almost three years have passed in the blink of an eye, so when it comes to the fourth year of Chongzhen, it is usually the year of the triennial big competition of the Ming Dynasty.

Not long after the end of the provincial and township examinations in Chongzhen's three years, there were already those new imperial examination people who were far away from Beijing to rent a building in Beijing to start preparing for the examination.

And this time the spring is different from the previous spring festivals before the Ming Dynasty.

After the nod of Emperor Chongzhen's approval, the opinions put forward by Zhang Pushang, the permanent envoy of the Ming Dynasty in Korea, were finally approved by the Ministry of Rites and the Cabinet.

A group of Korean Confucian scholars selected after the examination will participate in the Beibang examination of the Ming Dynasty for the first time.

The proportion of tributes admitted to the North List will also be increased by ten more than the quota of Enke in the first year of Chongzhen.

Although Zhang Pu, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty, praised the Korean scholars in the above letter, the officials of the Ming Dynasty's Ministry of Rites and the Hanlin Academy all believed that the ten places added by Chongzhen for the Beibang Examination in the fourth year would finally benefit other people who studied hard in the northern part of the Ming Dynasty.

Because most of the officials of the Ministry of Rites and the officials of the Qing Gossip did not believe that the Korean scholars would have a high level of attainment in the Four Books and the Five Classics.

Therefore, for the opening of Korean scholars to participate in the Chongzhen four-year imperial court North List examination, there was not much resistance from the government and the opposition.

Emperor Chongzhen allowed Korean scholars to participate in the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, which made the northern and southern scholars of the Ming Dynasty feel novel, and also made the Korean scholars happy.

And Zhang Pu's reputation in North Korea has also become even more prosperous because of this incident.

Those who followed Zhang Pu to establish the Fulin Academy in North Korea and gathered people to give lectures, such as Zhang Pu's younger brother Zhang Cai, as well as the original Jiangnan Shilin celebrities Zhou Zhong, Sun Chun, Li Wen and others, also quickly became famous teachers sought after by Korean scholars after the approval of the Ming court was delivered to the Korean state.

Confucianism, which was already very popular in North Korea, and the genuine Four Books and Five Classics that were taken by Zhang Pu and others to the Ming Dynasty to be engraved by the Hanlin Academy of the Ming Dynasty, were also popular in North Korea.

In the past, these things were only classics that only a small number of people in the Korean Shilin could grasp, but since then they have begun to enter the homes of ordinary people and have begun to become the golden key to open the door to the career of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty that many people dream of.

For this situation, the current Emperor Chongzhen is of course very happy to see it.

It's just the beginning, but it's off to a good start.

As the saying goes, as long as the direction is right, the road is not far.

According to the current momentum, in a few decades, there may not be a need for the Ming Dynasty to send a single soldier, and the current Korean state will invite itself to become a county.

For the upcoming spring of the fourth year of Chongzhen, this time, Emperor Chongzhen chose to let go completely and let the cabinet and the Ministry of Rites arrange the arrangement.

At the same time, the many ministers who were concerned about this matter in the DPRK and China quarreled endlessly with the cabinet, the Ministry of Rites, and the Hanlin Yuan and other yamen over some trivial matters that seemed trivial to them.

If the government and the opposition need hot spots, then give them hot spots yourself.

After all, there needs to be an outlet for the energy of a large number of officials in the DPRK and China, and it is not enough to just blindly block them.

Just when the attention of many ministers in the court was attracted by the upcoming Spring Festival, Emperor Chongzhen took the Minister of Military Aircraft, the Secretary of the Ministry of Households, and the Secretary of the Ministry of War, and rushed to the Qianqing Palace and the Wuying Palace day after day, busy dealing with more urgent and difficult affairs, such as the transfer of grain, the work for immigrants, and so on.

However, also in this November, when the state affairs of the Ming Dynasty outside the Forbidden City were in turmoil, the harem in the Forbidden City ushered in the birth of a princess, the second daughter of the emperor, and a prince, the second son of the emperor.

On the sixth day of the first month of November, Hai Lanzhu, the Lan Concubine in Chuxiu Palace, gave birth to a daughter to Emperor Chongzhen.

Only three days later, on the ninth day of the first month of November, Concubine Tian in the Chengqian Palace gave birth to a prince to Emperor Chongzhen.

Prior to this, Emperor Chongzhen already had Princess Zhaoren, the eldest daughter of Concubine Yi, and Zhu Cihong, the eldest son of the queen.

Therefore, when Concubine Lan gave birth to a daughter and Concubine Li gave birth to a child, whether it was in the palace or in the Zongren Mansion, there were ready-made precedents, and everything would be much easier.

Just like Concubine Yi was promoted to Concubine Yi after giving birth to the emperor's eldest daughter, Hai Lanzhu was also promoted from one of the concubines to Concubine Lan the day after giving birth to the emperor's second daughter.

The concubines of the Ming Dynasty generally have no titles, only distinguished by their surnames, but the surname of Lanfei Hailanzhu is more special, which is the Borzigit clan of Horqin, which cannot be crowned before the concubine.

Yes, this time she was specially given the title of Lan Guifei by Emperor Chongzhen.

At the same time, Emperor Chongzhen also sent several princess names into the palace from the Zongren Mansion, and together with Hai Lanzhu, he selected the word Weiyan for his second daughter, and compared the precedent of the eldest daughter of the emperor, and named Princess Kunyi.

And Concubine Tian, who gave birth to the second son of the emperor, was also promoted from one of the harem concubines to a noble concubine the day after giving birth.

is also because of Hai Lanzhu, a precedent for her to be promoted to a concubine a few days earlier, called Concubine Li, and the palace is called Tian Guifei according to convention.

As for the second son born to Tian Guifei, like the eldest son born to the queen, three days after his birth, he only set his name on the royal jade and did not give any title.

Compared with Emperor Chongzhen's love and protection for the two princesses, one was named Princess Zhaoren and the other was Princess Kunyi, and the prince born by himself did not have any title, which made Tian Guifei's heart very dissatisfied.

But the eldest son of the emperor has not been given a title so far, but she has nothing to say.

Three days after the second son was born, Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou went to visit Tian Guifei in the Chengqian Palace, and in order to show her different treatment, Tian Guifei herself chose a word for the second son from the name recommended by the Zongren Mansion.

Tian Guifei circled the word "Xuan" among the many words with beautiful meanings.

Xuan, bright, grand, meaning.

After Tian Guifei chose this word, she asked for the opinion of Empress Zhou, and Empress Zhou also liked this word, saying that with the emperor, the emperor is naturally indispensable.

As a result, the second son of the emperor born to Tian Guifei was named Zhu Cixuan.

Empress Zhou was originally gentle and frugal, but now that she has the eldest son of the emperor, she has a son who is full of everything, and she is also lenient and preferential in the treatment of the harem concubines and their children.

In addition, the current queen is not short of money in her hands, and she is constantly rewarding the concubines of the harem, and the relationship between the queen and the concubines is much more harmonious than before the queen gave birth to the emperor's eldest son.

In the last years of the stormy Ming Dynasty, a relatively harmonious harem is more important to the current Emperor Chongzhen than to have a relatively stable court.

At least, when he was busy with various affairs every night and returned to the inner palace exhausted, he could also expect to get some home warmth and family comfort from the harem concubines.