After receiving the good news from Zhu Xieyuan from the front of the Guizhou army, on the same night, Emperor Chongzhen asked the guards on duty in the military aircraft department to copy several copies of the summary, and Zhu forwarded it to the cabinet ministers in Beijing.

At this time, the news that the Luxury Rebellion, which had plagued the southwest for nearly ten years, was finally put down, and it had already spread inside and outside the Beijing Division, as if it had grown wings.

Zhu Xieyuan sent out to deliver the messenger of the fold, riding a stagecoach along the post road, along the way, showing cloth to report success, and preach the merits of the southwest front.

Although most people don't care about this, and they don't know who Luxury Chongming An Kuniyan is, but everywhere he goes, after all, there are still many officials, businessmen, and scholars who care about national affairs know about this major event.

In the land of Beijing, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, the common people of Beijing have always flocked to all kinds of rumors above the court.

Since the messenger team from the southwest hurried to the capital all the way to report the victory, the news of the southwest victory had already spread before entering the palace.

Waiting until the night of the same day, the palace door had been locked but suddenly opened, and then the military aircraft and the ministers were escorted by the three guards of the imperial army on duty in the palace, some went straight to the old mansion in Beijing, some left Beijing to go north to Rehe Fort, and even went west to Taiyuan to spread the message.

The great victory in the southwest and the heavy news of the emperor's meritorious deeds were quickly confirmed.

So, on the morning of the next day, when Emperor Chongzhen summoned his ministers and ministers of military aircraft to the imperial study of the east pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, the reward for meritorious deeds about the great victory in the southwest seemed to have become the hottest topic among the government and the opposition in Beijing.

These days, Emperor Chongzhen's cabinet chief assistant Li Guowei has been busy with the household department Shangshu Bi Ziyan to handle the affairs of the Huangming Jingshi Bank.

The problem of the general number, the problem of several semicolons, and the design and anti-counterfeiting of basic bank bills such as silver round bills and bills of exchange, etc., all kept the cabinet chief assistant very busy.

In the past, the first and auxiliary ministers of the cabinet, who were in charge of almost all military affairs in the court, have now become another household secretary above the household department.

Not only is military affairs basically inaccessible, but other court affairs, Emperor Chongzhen is also very assertive, and rarely entrusts carte blanche to the cabinet chief assistants to handle it.

Now I have handed over to Li Guowei a specific matter of the general office of the Huangming Jingshi Bank, and every now and then I have asked for orders, and I have made a group of Li Guowei branches, and he is busy from morning to night every day, and he has no extra time and energy to ask about other affairs.

Not only is it the first assistant of the cabinet, Li Guowei, but also another of the ministers in Beijing today, that is, Xu Guangqi, who is also the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, has also been very busy during this time.

The matter of rebuilding the "Great Unification Calendar" and compiling the "Chongzhen Calendar" is enough for him to be busy.

And the Jesuit missionaries who went to the northwest to spread the Gospel of God in high spirits wrote letters to him every few days.

The letters of complaint were varied, some of which accused the government of not allowing them as Western missionaries to enter the city, accusing them of discriminating against them.

Others accused the trilateral governor Yuan Chonghuan of approving the building of churches or gathering to spread the teachings.

Others wrote to Xu Guangqi, asking Xu Guangqi, a cabinet minister and secretary of the Ministry of Rites, to write a letter in the name of the cabinet to the guard offices and state capitals of the trilateral governors, so that they could provide protection for the Jesuit missionary activities.

Some also threatened that if local officials could not guarantee their safety, they would arm themselves or have the Society of Jesus hire bodyguards to ensure their safety, and so on.

In the recent past, Long Huamin, Tang Ruowang and others have written letters to him, the head of the Ministry of Rites, directly complaining to Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of the trilateral government, saying that he completely disrespects the will of His Majesty the Ming Emperor to allow the Jesuits to preach in the trilateral governorates, and does not allow them to build churches in Dinglu, Guyuan, Ningxia, Lanzhou and other places, and only allows them to go to Ganzhou, Suzhou, and Xining further west to preach, and so on.

Long Huamin and Tang Ruowang asked Xu Guangqi to convey this situation to His Majesty the Ming Emperor, and to draw His Majesty's attention and inquire about the disobedience of the trilateral governor Yuan Chonghuan.

Xu Guangqi, as a Catholic, was a little overwhelmed by the repeated demands of these missionaries, although he was well cultivated and happy to see their careers accomplished.

On the one hand, he could not directly give the various letters written to him by these people, after all, maintaining such close correspondence with so many Western missionaries in private would have a bad impact on his position above the imperial court.

On the other hand, Xu Guangqi was also sensitively aware that Emperor Chongzhen did not have a good impression of Catholicism, the Jesuits, and these missionaries from the West.

And I'm afraid it's not just a matter of not having a good feeling, but a problem of being wary or even hostile.

Therefore, in this overwhelmed and helpless situation, Xu Guangqi except for a single visit to the emperor, incidentally mentioned to Emperor Chongzhen the problems encountered by missionaries such as Long Huamin and others in rushing to the northwest to preach, and after the emperor took care of him, he never mentioned the complaints and demands of Long Huamin and others in front of the emperor.

However, in addition to replying to persuade Long Huamin and others not to act eagerly, in order to appease his conscience and be worthy of his Catholic status, Xu Guangqi reluctantly wrote a private letter to Yuan Chonghuan, who had a good relationship.

In his letter, he mentioned Emperor Chongzhen's intention to allow 12 Jesuit missionaries including Long Huamin to go to the northwest to preach, and asked Yuan Chonghuan to help these learned Western missionaries as a friend.

In addition to these troublesome affairs, after the news spread that the emperor was going to set up an engineering college and would confer official titles to the students who graduated from the engineering college in the future, Xu Guangqi, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites in charge of academic administration and imperial examinations, received countless letters of petition from scholars, asking him to dissuade the emperor from being the secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

At the same time, the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, as well as the scholars, scholars, and scholars in various places, gradually saw that Xu Guangqi was actually on the emperor's side on this issue, so they began to write to impeach him continuously, accusing him of being a vegetarian in the corpse, and converting to Yijiao as a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, not an orthodox disciple of the Holy Gate, and not qualified to serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and so on.

Although all these impeachments were kept by Emperor Chongzhen as soon as they were sent to Ouchi, a lot of content was still circulated, and all kinds of discussions made him embarrassed as a secretary of the Ministry of Rites.

Today's cabinet ministers are in such a situation, two are busy with military affairs outside, and although the two are in Beijing, they are overwhelmed by various affairs arranged by the emperor.

However, despite this, Emperor Chongzhen ignored the call for more cabinet ministers above the court.

The imperial meeting of the Qianqing Palace on the second day of August in the second year of Chongzhen was composed of two cabinet ministers and a military minister who was sick.

Although there were many people in the court who were dissatisfied with Emperor Chongzhen's current cabinet, Emperor Chongzhen himself did not see it that way.

A good cabinet is one that can carry out the intentions of its own decisions.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen doesn't want the kind of cabinet where everyone regards himself as the emperor's teacher, works against the emperor everywhere, and teaches the emperor how to behave anytime and anywhere.

Now this cabinet is just right, two cabinet ministers with more correct ideas and stronger personalities, Sun Chengzong and Li Banghua, one was sent to Saibei, and the other was sent to Shanxi, and they were gone for several months or even half a year.

And Li Guowei and Xu Guangqi, who stayed in the Jingshi, were both lonely ministers who could not support themselves, and they could not stop any of the emperor's claims at all.

Li Guowei was impeached and attacked by the ministers of the Donglin Party again and again because of his colleagues in the eunuch party and did not fall, relying on the help of Wei Zhongxian and his eunuch ministers.

For Wei Zhongxian and his party members, the enemy of his enemy is his friend, so in the party struggle of that year, the more the Donglin Party impeached him, the faster he was promoted, so he was regarded as a eunuch by many Donglin Party members.

And when Emperor Chongzhen came to power, Li Guowei stood on the emperor's side in the process of dealing with the eunuch case, and dealt with the eunuch elements strictly, severely and quickly, and as a result, he successfully turned himself into a lonely minister.

As for Xu Guangqi, although he has the natural geographical relationship of the Donglin Party, because of his Catholic status and his relationship with Western missionaries, he also has no sect or faction, or is a lonely minister.

There is no alternative to the will of the emperor himself for such a cabinet, at least for now.