Beijing, Forbidden City, Wenyuan Pavilion.

Wen Tiren looked at the fold in his hand and hesitated.

Wen Tiren is a senior official, a scholar of Dongge University, and the first assistant of the cabinet. may not be as powerful as the previous prime minister, but because of Wen Tiren's outstanding ability in party struggle, it can basically be said that the power is tilted towards the government and the opposition.

Wen Tiren is not a good official, not even a good person, he basically did not do anything beneficial to the country and the people or even Chongzhen himself. But he may have allocated all his abilities to party struggle, and on the premise that he was useless, he relied on the means of party struggle to defeat many officials who were not necessarily capable, but at least really wanted to do something practical.

If there is no accident, Wen Tiren can rely on his outstanding ability to fight the party to eliminate dissidents, and he can still work in the position of first assistant for a long time. But there are often accidents, especially in recent years. Natural disasters and man-made disasters are frequent, the government and government, and people's livelihood are not as good as year by year, and they are deteriorating rapidly, and even Chongzhen, who has been deceived by him for a long time, has already realized that something is wrong. If nothing improves, Wen Tiren feels that he will soon have problems.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the ship was late and encountered a head wind. Although Wen Tiren didn't look down on Feng Menglong, he also felt that what he said was too appropriate. is not only appropriate to describe today's Da Ming, but also to describe himself. Wen Tiren has been clumsy recently, but last month there was bad news.

Last month, the army of the imperial court to suppress bandits was defeated by the traitor Zhang Xianzhong, the imperial court suppressed bandits, it was not the first time to lose, but this time the defeat was the worst, the loss of 6,000 soldiers was okay for him, the key is to fold more than 40 generals, this matter can not be hidden. What's more important is that this time the bandits, the boss was determined by his oath, he never imagined that some chaotic people would defeat the main force of the imperial court head-on, this group of waste!

This time the defeat is held accountable, although he can shirk his responsibility and will not directly let himself quit, but in Chongzhen's heart, the already incompetent suspicion must be heavier. Yes, until now, Chongzhen only suspected Wen Tiren of being incompetent, and never suspected him of being disloyal. But Wen Tiren has never been so-called loyal to Chongzhen, but he is just good at showing loyalty in front of Chongzhen. Chongzhen, who knew no one well, had never doubted that as Wen Tiren of Wei Zhongxian's party, how could he have any loyalty to him Chongzhen who destroyed Wei Zhongxian's party.

Originally, Wen Tiren was about to die of sorrow, because he really had no way to prove that he had the ability that he didn't have. But this letter that made him entangled miraculously appeared in Wen Tiren's hands. Of course, this letter is Chen Hongmi's "Natural Disasters and Crimes Are Not in the Imperial Court".

Chen Hongmi, not only is not Wen Tiren's party, but Wen Tiren wants to crack down on one of the targets, who made his father Chen Wenhui resign when Wei Zhongxian was in power, obviously not my friend, his heart must be different. Especially Chen Hongmi's unclear relationship with the people of the Restoration Society, if it weren't for the fact that he was just a small role, he would have been hit by Wen Tiren looking for a handle. If it hadn't been too widely implicated a month ago, those local positions would have been so poor that they would have almost no oil and water, and I wouldn't have just warned them that those who couldn't pay their taxes would have been dismissed from office a long time ago.

If it was in the past, or if the title of Chen Hongmi's performance was not so attractive, he would have directly discounted this performance, without even looking at it, and at the same time reprimanded him for lying about the military situation and using the urgent route of the military situation to get on the so-called twists and turns.

But the content of this memora doesn't need to be read carefully, it's just the title, it's already a timely rain for Wen Tiren, it's Ganlin, and it's a savior. If the crime of natural disasters is not in the imperial court, not only is it true that Emperor Chongzhen is right, but as the first assistant, isn't it also right? This is too much to his heart. In particular, although this year, from the whole country, there has not been a large-scale disaster report, but the disaster situation in Shaanxi has already appeared, and it is even more serious than before, and it is estimated that in two months, it will inevitably be thousands of miles away. If you follow the past practice and think that the catastrophe is a warning from the imperial court, you will never have a good life.

So, although Chen Hongmi, who was disgusted by the folds, Wen Tiren still pinched his nose and finished reading the folds.

But after reading it, he was even more entangled.

The phenomenon of water vapor that Chen Hongmi said, except for Chongzhen, the emperor who is trapped in the deep palace, everyone has seen it, and even Chongzhen should have seen it when he was bathing, but everyone usually didn't pay attention to it, so they didn't realize that it was related to the rain. Therefore, it is said that drought in the north and flooding in the south is a natural phenomenon, and everyone will definitely agree that for Chongzhen and the imperial court, the key is to be gentle and benevolent, which can be said to solve the urgent need. At least ignore the loss.

But the hateful Chen Hongmiao has to add some disaster prediction to the end, isn't it embarrassing? If there is no such part, when the disaster is serious in the next few years, I am afraid that I will no longer be in his position, and I don't have to worry, and even because of the inaction of the first assistant in power, I can recover. But Chen Hongmi's take this to the present and say, isn't it to "eat the grain", so that himself, who is now the first assistant, will carry the black pot for the first assistant in the next year? If something goes wrong, it will definitely mean that I didn't prepare earlier this year, not that it's their own fault.

Wen Tiren has obviously realized that even if he can be fooled again, before the end of this year, Chongzhen will definitely find that he is not capable and withdraw himself. So he hopes that there will be nothing to do this year, after he comes down, there will be some big problems next year, maybe Chongzhen will revive himself in desperation, and then he may be able to do a few more years of first assistant. Wasn't that Cai Jing like that in the Northern Song Dynasty? Dismissal, the next one makes a mistake, and he recovers, he has already studied this process thoroughly. When Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian back then, wasn't he also implicated? But I can just seize the opportunity to make a comeback.

Wen Tiren looked at the fold in his hand tangledly, and finally made up his mind, or had to send the fold to Chongzhen, at least, this fold, whether it is the good news in the front or the worry in the back, is important enough, it can shift Chongzhen, the attention of the courtiers from defeat, to natural disasters. As for the preparations for disaster relief later, Wen Tiren weighed in his heart which was more important between fighting political opponents and keeping his position as first assistant, and chose to keep his official position. muttered in his heart that it would be cheaper for Chen Hongmi's kid.

After thinking clearly, Wen Tiren hurriedly wrote a summary of himself, describing Chen Hongmi's excerpts at the beginning of the article to attract attention; After that, the writing about the defeat was not clear, not light or serious, and mixed with some affairs including the disaster in Shaanxi, which made people look no different from the natural and man-made disasters in recent years.

Wen Tiren believes that when Chongzhen sees his summary, he will definitely attract almost all of Chen Hongmi's attention to it, and when he sees that the rest is the same bad news as in the past, he will definitely not pay attention to the specific content. In this way, if the army is defeated or something, it will be revealed. He had fooled Chongzhen like this many times before, but there had been nothing that attracted enough attention these days to make him worried.