Whether it is Qiu Yu, Zhang Shenyan, or this Liu Zhifeng, they are all early figures.

Like Zhang Pu, Xia Yunyi, Chen Zizhuang, Huang Daozhou, Wu Weiye, etc., they are all new figures who were more active in the Donglin Party during the Chongzhen period.

Previously, Emperor Chongzhen had taken the opportunity of promoting the opening of the sea and trade, as well as the opportunity of rectifying the nobles of the two capitals, and had already dismissed the group of Donglin Party bigwigs who were active in Nandu and Jiangnan, such as Zheng Sanjun, Qian Shisheng, Qian Xiangkun, Qian Qianyi, Zhang Yandeng, as well as Wang Yingxiong, Wang Zunde and other figures, and dismissed them, demoted officials, and exiled them.

The Donglin characters on the side of the Jingshi Dynasty have not been cleaned up, such as Gao Hongtu, Hui Shiyang and others.

However, above the court in Beijing, especially in the Inspectorate and the Six Departments Corridor, there are still many low-level backbones of the Donglin Party who are active, such as Zhang Shenyan in the Six Departments, such as Liu Zhifeng in the Inspectorate.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen does not want to cut all the characters in the Donglin Party from the beginning and eliminate all the characters in the Donglin Party without distinguishing between good and bad.

After all, many of them insisted on resisting the Qing Dynasty after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and the performance of some of them is not an exaggeration to call it singable and crying.

Therefore, he still has to observe and observe how these little people in Donglin who are listed in the Donglin Party in later generations are.

Now it seems that among the less famous figures in the Donglin Party, although the stinky problem of these two people who like to talk about empty things has not changed, it can be regarded as being able to be reformed and used.

Whether it is Zhang Shenyan or Liu Zhifeng, these two people are the backbone of the Donglin Party figures in the court, but they can be regarded as the same Donglin Party figures.

In other words, they are not hypocrites like Qian Qianyi and Hui Shiyang.

If it is a peaceful and prosperous era, this kind of person who likes to make a mistake and give the emperor a fault, and provokes words to criticize the government is indispensable.

But in the era of Emperor Chongzhen, such a person was more or less a troublemaker in the court.

Such a person, dismissal or simply killing, it will definitely not work, you have no reason.

Moreover, people's hearts and public opinion are still very important.

Although Emperor Chongzhen doesn't care much about his reputation, he doesn't want to really turn himself into a faint monarch who everyone scolds.

At the same time, such people cannot be reused.

Because they are stinky and hard, they don't know how to be flexible, and they like to find fault with the emperor's temper, and they can't be reused.

Because if they are put in a more important position, then I am afraid that the problem of party strife will be provoked by them immediately.

This is not the situation that Emperor Chongzhen wants to see now.

Since this is the case, I have to go out to the border and go to the post for exercise, which can be regarded as out of sight and out of mind.

Of course, if the current Xuanda is still the Xuanda of the past, if the current Mo Nan is still the past Mo Nan, of course he would not dare to hand over such an important place to these people who do not understand local practices to manage, who knows how much bigger trouble they will create for themselves if they go to those places.

But now it's different after all, and Mo Nan's threat has been lifted.

If there is any threat between Xuanfu and Datong, it is the threat of thieves or civil unrest.

On the question of how to deal with the rebellious people, even the most incorrigible Donglin Party members stood firmly with the imperial court.

So now that they are being sent over, Emperor Chongzhen is very relieved.

Moreover, today's Xuanfu and Datong do not have many complicated military and civil affairs that require strongmen to be in charge.

At present, the top priority in these localities is to recruit displaced people from Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and even Lianghuai to handle the affairs of Tuntian.

And these affairs of pacifying the people and appeasing the people are exactly what these Donglin Party members, who talk about the people every day, cry and shout for the imperial court to do.

Now that it's in their hands and let them do it themselves, what reason do they have not to do it and not do it well?

It is their duty to do a good job, and once they do not do it well, doesn't it mean that their previous remarks on governing the country are all talk on paper and sitting on the road? !

Emperor Chongzhen also wanted to get out the Donglin Party bigwigs who are still in the court, such as Qian Longxi, Liu Hongxun, Liu Zongzhou, He Ruzhong and others.

But these people are now all righteous men and gentlemen who are famous all over the world, and if you throw them out without obvious fault, where can you put them in the place?

Whether it is a governor, a political envoy, or an envoy, such an important position cannot be given to them.

So if you don't give a position, it's just a sentence to remove officials or let them be officials, and it's not in accordance with the rules to do this?

Therefore, it is also difficult for Emperor Chongzhen now, and he can do whatever he wants without scruples.

Only on the premise of maintaining the basic stability of the court can he push forward all the things he wants to do for the camp step by step.

For example, He Ruzhong, a figure of the Donglin Party, was sent to Ryukyu by Emperor Chongzhen in the name of canonizing the king of Ryukyu this time.

Originally, the canonization of a Ryukyu king did not require the Ming court to send a squire from the Ministry of Rites to go, in fact, a cabinet of scholars or a member of the six branches could act as a canonized messenger.

However, Emperor Chongzhen raised this standard, on the one hand, to let some of the high-level people in the court know about some overseas situations, and on the other hand, to further dilute the Donglin Party forces in the court.

Including Zhang Pu and others, who were sent to Korea before and have been stationed in Korea since then to spread Confucianism, the same decision made by Emperor Chongzhen based on this consideration.

In this world, there is no pure garbage, the so-called garbage is actually just misplaced resources.

Zhang Pu is a person with profound Confucian attainments, in other words, in popular terms, he is particularly able to fool.

During the Chongzhen period, many of the government and opposition activities promoted by the Donglin Party were planned and instigated by this Zhang Pu.

Now he was sent to North Korea by Emperor Chongzhen as a resident envoy of the Ming Dynasty, and it was only a little more than a year before he established a Fulin Academy in North Korea that was almost exactly the same as Donglin in Wuxi in imitation of the method of Donglin Academy in Wuxi that year.

Originally, the Ming Dynasty did not give him much actual government affairs as an envoy in Korea, and his understanding of these government affairs was also very simple, that is, to monitor the state affairs of Korea, and at the same time to educate Korean scholars or purify Korean customs.

As a result, Zhang Pu, the envoy of the Ming Dynasty who let go of his hands and feet, took a group of Ming Juzi and Donglin Party cadres who were invited from Nanzhili to his classmates Sun Chun, Zhou Zhong, Yang Yi, and Chen Zilong, and gathered in the Fulin Academy to give lectures, which was very happy.

On the one hand, with his reputation as Enke Tanhua in the first year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, with his solid attainments in science, he soon became famous, with more than 3,000 disciples, as if he was already a new generation of Confucian masters in North Korea since Mr. Li Yun.

This time, when the Korean envoy Li Li, the prince of Ayahara, and Yin Xuan, the deputy envoy, came to the Ming Dynasty to meet Emperor Chongzhen, they naturally praised and thanked Zhang Pu and others for their merits.

In this regard, Emperor Chongzhen was of course also very happy.

The stay of Zhang Pu and others in the territory of Daming is not a big "scourge", or a destabilizing factor with great energy, but it is the right place to put it in North Korea to instill Cheng Zhu Lixue in the North Koreans.

Not only are North Koreans very welcome, but Zhang Pu himself has a place to use and is very satisfied, isn't this the best of both worlds?

Of course, after Zhang Pu arrived in Korea, he also repeatedly wrote to the emperor from North Korea, while reporting the situation in North Korea, he also repeatedly asked the Korean scholars to ask for their lives, asking Emperor Chongzhen to allow the Korean scholars to participate in the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty.

This time, Ayahara Maharaja Li Li and deputy envoy Yin Xuan entered the court to congratulate, and once again accompanied the emperor Shu who brought the Ming envoy Zhang Pu to the court, and requested that the Korean scholars be allowed to participate in the upcoming township examination in the autumn of the third year of Chongzhen and the spring of the fourth year of Chongzhen.

Ayahara Maharaja Li Li and Yin Xuan had an ambiguous attitude, and only forwarded the song and did not make such a request.

For this, of course, Emperor Chongzhen agreed, and now it is just a matter of whether the time is ripe or not.

Therefore, he forwarded the issue to the cabinet and the Ministry of Rites for study and judgment, and did not directly express his attitude.

Because he knew that if Zhang Pu, who was in North Korea, thought that the time was ripe, then he would definitely contact the Donglin Party in the DPRK to promote or facilitate this matter.

Therefore, for this problem, in the opinion of Emperor Chongzhen, it is good to wait.

And this is a result of getting Zhang Pu, the number one cadre of the Donglin Party during the Chongzhen period, to North Korea.

Moreover, Emperor Chongzhen arranged several Donglin elements who were always in the limelight in the court to serve in the newly established Zhili Prefecture, and also decided to upgrade Shuozhou, which originally belonged to Datong Prefecture, to Shuozhou Prefecture, and changed Pingyuwei and other guards into counties, and included them in the jurisdiction of Shuozhou Prefecture together with other original counties.

As for the prefect of this upgraded Shuozhou Mansion, Emperor Chongzhen selected Zhu Zhifeng, the governor of Ulzhou, who held Ulzhou in the battle of Xuanda and repelled the siege of the Blue Banner army of Mang Gurtai.

For other state and county official arrangements, Emperor Chongzhen accepted the recommendation of the ministry and the cabinet.

Because according to the long-standing practice of the Ming Dynasty, the appointment and dismissal of officials below the fourth rank are basically decided by the ministry, and reporting to the emperor is basically a formality.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen, since he succeeded to the throne, has broken a lot of rules, especially likes to destroy the ancestral system under the banner of the ancestral system, in fact, he doesn't care much about the criticism of the government and the opposition for a long time.

However, it is not difficult to find that there are traces of this.

There are some stereotypes that must be broken no matter what, and there are some conventions that he will still abide by if he can abide by them.