Summer is slowly coming.

Shaanxi's dismantling of the guard's army, in the Ming Dynasty, did not cause too many repercussions, and the imperial court did not have any movement, the previous impeachment of Su Tiancheng and Zhu Xianxuan's twists and turns, invisible, since Yang Sichang and Xu Eryi returned to the capital, the emperor seems to have calmed down, and did not continue to talk about the implementation of the abolition of the guard's army in the Ming Dynasty.

But within the imperial court, there was an unpeaceful atmosphere.

Since the sixth year of Chongzhen, the situation has slowly turned to stability, and the replacement of ministers in the court has slowed down, and it used to be a marquee-like adjustment, so that the hearts of the ministers in the court have slowly begun to stabilize, but the party struggle within the court is still fierce, especially several imperial examinations, which have become a battlefield for many scholars and officials to recruit talents.

For six consecutive years, he served as the first assistant to the cabinet, and Wen Tiren can be said to be a protégé all over the world.

But there is also an unfavorable situation, that is, the rise of the Zhongxing Society, to a large extent weakened Wen Tiren's pace of recruiting people to raise scholars, the Donglin Party and the Restoration Society no longer have the glory of the year, but they are also ready to move, trying to get a piece of the pie, the emperor decided to use the royal family, but also threatened the authority of Wen Tiren's cabinet chief.

Shaanxi succeeded in dismantling the army of the guard, which greatly stabilized the situation, and the border armies of Ningxia and Yulin began to show their might, and two tribes in Mongolia, because they were not convinced that the Xibe and Daurian tribes monopolized the mutual market, and once launched a small-scale attack, intending to attack Anningbao and Jingbian, destroying the mutual market, but they were defeated by the new army and bowed down.

On the issue of appointing the commander of the new army, Wen Tiren's right to speak was greatly restricted.

The formation of the new army. It has aroused the great attention of the emperor, and the emperor has seriously thought about the issue of recommending the commander, this is a brand-new army, with very good combat effectiveness, and the duty is very important. The focus is to confront and defend the Mongolian tribes, the status is extraordinary, and according to the emperor's intentions, the new army will slowly begin to shoulder the border guards in Shaanxi and Shanxi, that is to say, the next step will be to dismantle the Shanxi Datong border army and form a new army.

Wen Tiren understood what he meant. He recommended Zhang Fengyi, the governor of Datong, to serve as the commander of the new army.

As for Su Tiancheng, he did not express any opinion on this matter, he was already a high-ranking and powerful person, and he controlled the Jiangning battalion, and if he continued to meddle in the selection of the commander of the new army, it was very likely to arouse suspicion. And then trigger the relationship between him and the emperor, if this relationship is shaken. Da Ming is really about to fall into a place of no return.

The emperor focused on soliciting Sun Chengzong's opinion.

The candidate recommended by Sun Chengzong is Lu Xiangsheng of Liaodong Jingluo.

Speaking of which, Lu Xiangsheng used to be Zhang Fengyi's subordinate, and when Zhang Fengyi served as the secretary of the Ministry of War, Lu Xiangsheng was a squire of the Ministry of War, comparing the situation of the two. Lu Xiangsheng is undoubtedly better, but in terms of qualifications, Zhang Fengyi is much stronger.

The emperor adopted Sun Chengzong's opinion and appointed Lu Xiangsheng as the commander of the new army.

This incident is a huge blow to Wen Tiren.

From this time on. Wen Tiren's attitude has changed a lot, and he has begun to wrestle with the party struggle in the imperial court, and he has paid unprecedented attention to the candidates recommended by the ministry, and has tried to install his own cronies, trying to stabilize his position as the first assistant of the cabinet.

In fact, Wen Tiren, as the first assistant of the cabinet, has done a lot of things in the past six years, and the emperor has also considered it in many ways, thinking that Wen Tiren has still done a lot of things, and he can't bear to remove him immediately, if Wen Tiren can stabilize and correct his position, he can still hold on for a while.

It's a pity that Wen Tiren doesn't have such patience, and the battle with Zhou Yanru, the former cabinet chief assistant a few years ago, greatly stimulated him, making him feel that he can't sit still.

And the emperor gradually began to mention the royal family, Zhu Xianxuan and Zhu Youxiang are two of the most prominent vassal kings and vassal princes, if the royal family really began to enter the core of the imperial court, it is a huge threat to their own right to speak and decide.

The opportunity has finally arrived.

In the middle of the matter, a royal history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Joint Military Department wrote an impeachment note, and the target of impeachment was the seventy-five-year-old cabinet deputy Sun Chengzong.

Impeaching cabinet members in the matter and the imperial history, this is a very common thing, their duty is to report the news, and they don't need to bear much responsibility, anyway, if they see any danger in advance, they will be impeached if they find clues, regardless of whether the impeachment is justified or not, and even some of them are responsible for the impeachment of cabinet members and the emperor, and they don't care if they encounter the court staff.

This kind of atmosphere, for a period of time, has been suppressed, Wen Tiren is not used to and does not like this kind of practice, any cabinet chief assistant who likes autocracy, will not like such a person, but in the imperial court, there is no system to change this atmosphere, so after a period of time, the matter and the imperial history are active again.

The impeachment of Sun Chengzong this time is very serious, mainly because Sun Chengzong has different intentions, forms a party for personal gain, and intends to rebel.

The reason is well known, Sun Chengzong had a good relationship with Su Tiancheng, the governor of Shaanxi, and supported Su Tiancheng to do another set in Shaanxi, which slowly formed a situation of separation, and Sun Chengzong vigorously recommended the royal family to enter the imperial court as officials, and some of these vassal kings were originally restless, and found such an opportunity, but also to strengthen their own strength and pose a threat to the emperor.

In the impeachment fold, the most important bomb is the association, and Sun Chengzong is the founder of the Zhongxing Society.

It is undeniable that with Sun Chengzong entering the cabinet and becoming the second assistant of the cabinet, many members of the Zhongxing Society began to regard themselves as Sun Chengzong's students.

The complaint is like this, the more things are said, the better, some things and no things, all say it, so that you have no place to justify, and the object of impeachment is the respected Sun Chengzong, once it succeeds, the impeachment is proposed to the matter and the imperial history, wouldn't it go down in history.

According to the past practice, such an impeachment letter could not attract attention at all, and those who proposed impeachment would even be punished, but this time, the situation is different.

Wen Tiren began to pay attention to this impeachment reversal, and when the cabinet was in session, he specifically proposed it.

When Sun Chengzong heard these reasons for impeachment, he was so angry that he was unprepared for such an impeachment, and he was speechless and did not make a strong defense.

Sun Chengzong is 75 years old, and he regards reputation as more important than life, and it is inevitable that he will be angry when he suddenly encounters such an impeachment, and it is understandable that he will be speechless for a while.

However, this matter was seen by some people as an opportunity.

As a result, a large-scale impeachment and debate unfolded among the ministers.

Above the court, there has not been such a scene for many years, and some of them are in the middle of the matter and the imperial history, as if the lions have seen the blood, and feel that the time has come for them to show their abilities, and they are ready to move.

The appearance of a key person pushed this matter to the forefront, and this person was Cao Huachun, the eunuch of the Admiral Jingying.

The struggle between Cao Huachun and Wang Chengen ended in failure, and since then, Cao Huachun has been a man with his tail between his legs, much more honest, and he has also taken great pains to govern the Beijing camp, and slowly won the emperor's favor, but his ultimate goal is to be able to return to the palace, return to the emperor's side, and continue to serve as a eunuch of Bingbi.

It's a pity that Wang Chengen's position has always been very stable, Cao Huachun doesn't have the slightest chance, and Wang Chengen has a good relationship with Su Tiancheng, Su Tiancheng and Sun Chengzong, Liu Zongzhou, Huang Daozhou and others The relationship is extraordinary, this solid alliance makes Cao Huachun have nothing to do.

Now, the opportunity has come, and someone has proposed such an impeachment twist, and Cao Huachun will never miss the opportunity.

Of course, if Cao Huachun wants to exert his strength, he needs to unite with Wen Tiren, Wen Tiren is the first assistant of the cabinet, and the two can really exert great strength when they join forces.

Wen Tiren has never been interested in eunuchs, and he has never befriended eunuchs, and the relationship between Wen Tiren and Cao Huachun is not very good.

Even if Wang Chengen is in power and has always been by the emperor's side, Wen Tiren did not deliberately make friends.

Therefore, Cao Huachun's heart has no bottom, and I don't know if Lu Dao can unite with Wen Tiren and work together to impeach Sun Chengzong.

In Cao Huachun's view, this is a chain that involves the whole body, once Sun Chengzong is impeached, Sun Chengzong is frustrated, and then the unlucky ones are Liu Zongzhou and Huang Daozhou, these two great Confucians, stubborn tempers, will definitely not admit defeat, and will soon fall, in this case, Su Tiancheng will suffer a major blow, in the imperial court, there is almost nothing to rely on, and the next person to be affected is the great eunuch Wang Chengen.

The result of this link is completely predictable by Cao Huachun.

Cao Huachun wanted to make friends with Wen Tiren this time, and he also had a certain degree of self-confidence, at this time and that time, everyone knew that the emperor began to rely on Sun Chengzong and snubbed Wen Tiren, which indicates that the position of Wen Tiren's cabinet chief assistant has been shaken, in this case, Wen Tiren in order to be able to keep the position of the cabinet chief assistant, and he joined forces to carry out actions, it is not an impossible thing, the two have their own place, and they have their own different purposes.

After thinking about these things clearly, Cao Huachun began to act after careful arrangement. (To be continued......)