The situation in the capital is not calm, and it can be said that there is an undercurrent. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

On August 16 of the third year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan, the former secretary of the military department and the governor of Jiliao, was imprisoned in the city, and Qian Longxi, the deputy assistant of the cabinet and the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, was quickly investigated and put into prison, and Wang Qia, the former secretary of the military department who was imprisoned at the end of the second year of Chongzhen, was also killed. In the first month of the fourth year of Chongzhen, Qian Longxi was exiled.

There are deep-seated reasons behind all these major events that shook the imperial court, and in the final analysis, there are two words, party struggle, a fierce party struggle for power.

In this party dispute, the first person to be calculated is Qian Longxi, the second assistant of the cabinet.

In the final analysis, Qian Longxi and Zhou Yanru are at odds.

Although Zhou Yanru did not have any measures to form a party, he did not disdain to do these things, but he appreciated the Donglin Party people, and was a strong support for the Donglin Party in the cabinet, and Qian Longxi did not have any good impression of the Donglin Party members, and there was some taste of suppressing the Donglin Party people.

So the speech officials composed of the Donglin Party began to calculate Qian Longxi.

The Donglin Party succeeded, and it was not only Qian Longxi, Wang Qia and Yuan Chonghuan who were liquidated and killed, but even Wang Xiang, who was the seventh product of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to supervise the imperial history, was also dismissed, because Wang Xiang was in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and in this department directly controlled by the Donglin Party, he did not echo the decision of the Donglin Party to impeach Qian Longxi.

In September of the third year of Chongzhen, Zhou Yanru served as the first assistant of the cabinet, and the strength of the Donglin Party began to increase on a large scale.

This gradually increasing power began to infiltrate the examination, after all, the tributes after the examination will definitely enter the court as officials, and after a few years, as they grow older, these people will have complete control of the government.

The people from all over the country who rushed to the capital to participate in the examination participated in many so-called academic exchange activities, and almost all of these large and small academic exchange activities were presided over by the Fushe, and there were shadows of the Donglin Party behind them.

The Poetry Club and the Saiwen Society, such a co-optation has reached a climax.

The Donglin Party thinks of a single move, how can they make others feel at ease.

Cabinet Secretary and Ministry of Rites Shoshu Wen Tiren is one of them.

Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru are the same, there are some taboos about party disputes, he knows that the emperor hates party disputes, if he is caught in party disputes, then it will be like many former cabinet ministers who were dismissed, it will be difficult to die well, so Wen Tiren refuses to form parties and associations, so that he is in a relatively independent state, but Wen Tiren and Zhou Yanru have similarities, that is, he is a native of Zhejiang, and is regarded as the backer of the Zhejiang Party in the DPRK.

Zhejiang Party and Donglin Party has always been opponents, one originated in Suzhou, one originated in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, the two are not very far away, but unfortunately can not be said to go together, from the beginning of the Wanli years, Donglin Party and Zhejiang Party began to merciless game, both forces are strong, from the Korean South Zhili and Zhejiang officials are many, but from the reality of the situation, the strength of the Donglin Party is still much stronger, for many years of party struggle, the Donglin Party people are alone, there is no joint battle with whom, Even against Wei Zhongxian's eunuch party, the Donglin party members fought against it with their own strength and never united with other forces.

The Zhejiang Party is different, it needs to unite other forces, and during the **** period of Wei Zhongxian, the Zhejiang Party also relied on Wei Zhongxian to jointly suppress the Donglin Party, which made the contradictions between the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party even more irreconcilable.

Of course, Wen Tiren needs the support of strength, he can't fight alone in the DPRK, he won't join the Zhejiang Party, but he can still use the power of the Zhejiang Party to enhance his own strength and fight against opponents who threaten him.

Once the measures of the Restoration Society are successful, then it will not take long for the Donglin Party to fully control the cabinet and the government, and when the time comes, don't say that the Zhejiang Party has no room for survival, I am afraid that he Wen Tiren will also leave in disgrace.

The party struggle that began in the Wanli period lasted for decades, and its huge energy was something that no one dared to underestimate.

However, the treacherous and cunning Wen Tiren will not do it for the time being, he can't find a reason to do it, after all, all the things are done by the Restoration Society, and the purpose of the Restoration Society is to figure out the eight shares, learn from each other, and sharpen the character, which is no problem, the exchange between scholars, the imperial court will never object, but it is encouraging, as for the shadow of the Donglin Party behind the Restoration Society, what they do is very secret, Wen Tiren has no evidence.

There is another more critical reason, Zhou Yanru, the first assistant to the cabinet who has not been in office for a long time, appreciates and supports the Donglin Party.

Without mastering the evidence and thoroughly understanding the reason, it is impossible for the veteran Wen Tiren to do it, and he must also maintain a harmonious relationship with Zhou Yanru to buy time and gather strength for himself.

As a result, Wen Tiren shifted his attention to the examination held by the Ministry of Rites, he needed to observe and speculate on the situation from the results of the examination and even the palace examination, if the examination and the palace examination were the world of the Donglin Party, then he would do everything possible to find a breakthrough and do it mercilessly.

The fact that this examination was held under such circumstances is something that no candidate expected.

At the end of the examination, the marking is fifteen days, during this time all the candidates will wait quietly, and the tributes who can pass the examination will have embarked on a golden avenue since then, and those who have failed to make the list will either choose to enter the Guozijian to study, and at the same time report in the Ministry of Officials, waiting for the Ministry of Rites to be sent as an official, or still waiting for the examination after three years.

What is different from the township examination is that Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, and Wen Tiren, the cabinet minister and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, have to meet with the chief examiner and the same examiner before the marking begins, and they are the examiners who represent the emperor to meet with many examiners, and their purpose is to inform many examiners of the emperor's ideas, so that these examiners can grasp the key points when marking the papers.

Those who pass the examination are called tributes, and they will soon participate in the palace examination, and the emperor will personally preside over the palace examination.

If the emperor sees an unsatisfactory tribute, the face of the cabinet and the Ministry of Rites is not good-looking.

There are 350 tributes admitted to the examination, but after the examination is marked, the chief examiner and the same examiner will select 360 examination papers, of which 10 are alternatives, once the first 350 people have any disability in appearance, or their appearance is too ugly, they will be mercilessly eliminated, and their remaining places will be replaced by those who are behind.

This rarely happens, but just in case.

There is also a situation where the handwriting is too ugly, and it may also be eliminated.

The meeting was held at the official office of the Ministry of Rites, presided over by Wen Tiren, the minister of the cabinet and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and instructed by Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, on behalf of the emperor, and the time was not very long, no more than half an hour before and after.

This specification is also enough to see the importance that the emperor and the imperial court attach to the examination.

Zhou Yanru's precepts are decent, and they are also some clichés, what will be the examination for the selection of talents for the imperial court, it is necessary to strictly check it, carefully read the papers, ensure that talented people enter the imperial court, what emperor attaches great importance to this examination, and so on.

Wen Tiren listened very carefully, hoping to find something out of it.

Zhou Yanru, who has not been in office for a long time, has won the trust of the emperor, and Zhou Yanru is not very old, Chongzhen entered the cabinet at the end of the second year as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, when he was Chinese New Year's Eve six years old, Chongzhen became the first assistant of the cabinet in September of the third year, that is, at the age of thirty-seven, Wen Tiren Chongzhen only entered the cabinet in June of the third year, and he was already fifty-eight years old, whether in terms of seniority or position, he was not as good as Zhou Yanru.

At the end of Zhou Yanru's speech, he suddenly announced a decision of the emperor, that is, Wen Tiren, the cabinet minister and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, personally participated in the marking of the examination.

This caught Wen Tiren, who was presiding over the meeting, off guard, and hurriedly thanked the emperor.

This should be a good thing, which shows that the emperor attaches great importance to the examination, and it also shows the emperor's trust in Wen Tiren.

Moreover, as a cabinet minister, Wen Tiren has the absolute right to speak when he participates in the examination papers.

But Wen Tiren, who is close to the age of the sixtieth year, doesn't know how many turmoil he has experienced, and it will not be so simple to see anything, Zhou Yanru announced his participation in the marking of the file on behalf of the emperor, which is not all good things in his opinion.

One is that Wen Tiren, as a cabinet minister and a secretary of the Ministry of Rites, did not know that the emperor made this decision, and asked Zhou Yanru, the first assistant of the cabinet, to announce it, which is a bit abnormal, even if he Wen Tiren wants to participate in the examination of the marking matter, it is also announced by the emperor himself, and Zhou Yanru does not need to do it on his behalf, which at least shows that the emperor attaches great importance to the examination and the importance he attaches to Wen Tiren.

The second is that Wen Tiren participated in the marking of the papers, so there is no objection to the tributes who will be admitted to the examination, if there are too many members of the Restoration Society, it is also a person whose knowledge has reached a certain height, and he should be admitted.

Since Wen Tiren participated in the marking of the paper on behalf of the emperor and the imperial court as a cabinet minister, the chief examiner and the examiner naturally understood the meaning, that is, the final determination of the ranking could only be determined by Wen Tiren's mouth.

When Wen Tiren took many examiners and fellow examiners to the Tribute Academy, he had a smile on his face, but there was no smile in his eyes, and no one knew what he was thinking, nor did he know whether he was happy or thought of something else.

Wen Tiren participated in the examination on behalf of the emperor and the imperial court, and became the actual chief examiner, which also caused some discussion in the imperial court.