After Sun Chuanting left the Forbidden City, he directly took out a holy decree, which was ordered by Chongzhen, and asked him to lead troops to enter the Beijing Division, but Sun Chuanting just showed this holy decree, and Zhao Yan sneered.

"During the formation of the cabinet, martial law was imposed in Beijing, and any officers and soldiers who entered the Beijing division would be killed." Zhao Yan coldly ordered, "After the cabinet is formed, the Shandong soldiers and horses will withdraw from the Beijing Division." ”

Zhao Yan's order, Sun Chuanting was out of line outside the city.

The well-equipped Shandong army did not open the city gate at all, even if he took the holy motat and called it to death under the city, it was useless, and He Renlong, the general soldier of Shaanxi, took a group of officers and soldiers to the city to call the door, and as a result, the Shandong soldiers in the city directly shot down a row of muskets.

Under such circumstances, Sun Chuanting didn't dare to jump, the Shandong army had obviously issued a warning, if he still ignored the warning, how would the end be conceivable.

The tiger whiskers of the Shandong Army are not something that he Sun Chuanting can handle, although Sun Chuanting's surname is unruly, it does not mean that Sun Chuanting is brainless, which Sun Chuanting still understands very well in his heart.

This time, Zhao Yan can be described as a comprehensive victory.

The officers and soldiers of Liaoxi did not move, and the officers and soldiers of Xuanda, under the leadership of Lu Xiangsheng, were separated from the two sides, that is, to protect the Ming Emperor, and also to support Zhao Yan to form a cabinet.

The soldiers and horses that the imperial court can mobilize, in addition to the Jiliao official army and the Xuanda official army, only the 130,000 army in the hands of Sun Chuanting is the 130,000 army, but these 130,000 troops cannot be drawn.

Because Li Zicheng and other thieves have not been eliminated in Shaanxi, and only 30,000 soldiers and horses can be transferred to the guard this time, the reason why Sun Chuanting is like this is that he is afraid of thieves, and second, the officers and soldiers in his hands are uneven, and more than 100,000 people are out of Shaanxi Qinwang, and the logistics on the road is a big problem, so he only brought 30,000 of the most elite soldiers and horses.

Before leaving, Sun Chuanting predicted that the officers and soldiers of Jiliao, Xuanda, plus the 30,000 people in his hands, if they worked together, there would be no problem in repelling Zhao Yan.

Because Zhao Yan had been fighting one after another before, not only in Liaodong and North Korea with Jianyu, but also rumored to have sent troops to conquer the Japanese state, coupled with the previous westward march of thousands of miles to suppress the thieves, the soldiers and horses must be tired and the troops are insufficient.

But what Sun Chuanting never expected was that Zhao Yan, who played the banner of the Qing monarch's side, all the officials and troops of the imperial court did not fight, and only the Beijing camp in the capital resisted.

Jiliao officials and troops don't care, although the Xuanda official army is sending troops, but they have reached an agreement with Zhao Yan You, with his 30,000 soldiers and horses, it is impossible to repel Zhao Yan this time.

However, what made Sun Chuanting more relieved was that Zhao Yan, who entered Beijing, did not mess around, but put forward the conditions for forming a cabinet that he was more acceptable.

Chongzhen obviously couldn't accept it.

Before Sun Chuanting had a secret conversation with Chongzhen in the imperial study, Chongzhen gritted his teeth at Zhao Yan, looking like he was killing and then fast, but Sun Chuanting had to admit that Zhao Yan had a gentlemanly demeanor.

Let's ask, who can maintain enough restraint in such a good situation, and have no intention of snooping on the Ninth Five-Year Artifact, if it were someone else, I am afraid it would have caused a disaster in the Ding Revolution.

But Zhao Yan's move is also very spicy, although he does not spy on the artifact, but he directly forcibly deprives the administrative power of the imperial power, such a mess, the imperial power has become a chicken rib.

Under various circumstances, although it is not good for Chongzhen, Chongzhen still has a chance to turn over.

In this way, a delicate balance is formed.

That is, although Chongzhen controls the military power, he has no administrative power, and after Zhao Yan forms a cabinet, he will have most of the administrative power, and at the same time have the support of military power. However, the tax revenue of the imperial court will be used to build the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, not the soldiers and horses of Shandong. But Zhao Yan also has many privileges in the military.

If Chongzhen wants to take back the administrative power, the only way to overwhelm Zhao Yan's military power militarily is to overwhelm Zhao Yan's military power. At the same time, if Zhao Yan wants to go further, he needs to fight with the imperial court again. At that time, Zhao Yan will face the soldiers and horses of his Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng, as for the officers and soldiers of Jiliao, they cannot fully grasp it, and it is possible to fall to either side, and at the same time, if Zhao Yan blatantly tears up the treaty, he will also be in an extremely disadvantageous position in public opinion.

In general, Chongzhen cannot destroy the current state of affairs without the premise of victory, and Zhao Yan has no reason to use force to fight for power before Chongzhen tears up the treaty.

Such a result is neither too good nor too bad. Everyone understands that there is still a showdown between Zhao Yan and Chongzhen in the future, and this time it can only be said that the two sides are in truce.

However, when the duel between the two sides will break out, no one has a bottom on this, and the only one who has a bottom is Zhao Yan, because he seems to be passive in taxes, but in fact, he has the initiative in his hands.

…… Sun Chuanting's soldiers and horses could not enter the city, so 30,000 Shaanxi border troops were stationed outside the capital, and they settled down for a while.

Zhao Yan's soldiers and horses in the Beijing division have reached 45,000 at the moment, and he has absolute control over the Beijing division, plus there is no shortage of firearms, even if the king of heaven Lao Tzu comes, he must be defeated.

In terms of the DPRK and China forming a cabinet, the competition is also extremely hot. But there is nothing to do with Zhao Yan, the seats of the two parties in his hands have been determined, and none of them have jumped out and barked indiscriminately, Lu Xiangsheng's royalist seat has also been determined, and no one is fighting for it, and the rest is the 25% of the seats.

Judging from the seats, the two sides seem to be very fair.

Zhao Yan controlled 50 percent, the royalists led by Lu Xiangsheng accounted for 25 percent, and other old bureaucrats also accounted for 25 percent, and in the ideal state of unity, the two sides would be evenly matched.

However, this ideal state is not destined to be possible.

First of all, there will definitely be a few people in Lu Xiangsheng's royalist party who support Zhao Yan, because Zhao Yan does not plan to do whatever he wants after taking control of the cabinet, and the focus is to use the cabinet to carry out large-scale reforms to the Ming Dynasty, while he will carry out deeper reforms at the local level.

In addition to the royalists, the remaining 25% of the seats can certainly be co-opted and bought by Zhao Yan, so the side dominated by the old bureaucracy is very fragile internally.

And Zhao Yan's two parties are very strong internally, and they have absolute control over the cabinet members, even if there is an internal ghost, he can be removed at any time.

All parties are fighting, but how many seats they will win in the end is still up to Zhao Yan. The Donglin Party, the Zhejiang Party, the Chu Party, the Kun Party, the Qin Party, and the Qi Party were established one after another in the imperial court, and some small parties were also formed.

Among them, the Donglin Party was the most powerful, and the Qi Party followed closely.

There are not many officials in the Qi Party, but because most of them are officials from Shandong, they are very close to Zhao Yan and occupy many advantages in the formation of the cabinet.

But in terms of how to distribute this seat, Zhao Yan still has to give a standard.

On September 28, Zhao Yan convened the leaders of various parties.

Soon, people from all parties arrived early, and the Donglin Party was headed by Qian Qianyi, who had just been released from prison, but he was alive and well, and since he rushed to Beijing non-stop, he directly became the leader of the Donglin Party.

Qian Qianyi's literary talent, that is famous, after the party struggle went underground, Qian Qianyi has always maintained the appeal of the leader of the Donglin Party.

But Qian Qianyi is not without opponents, but he can't compete with them yet.

The leaders of the other parties, Zhao Yan didn't have any impression before the crossing, and he didn't understand what his character was, but it didn't matter anymore, he just went through a procedure.

To Zhao Yan's surprise, Sun Chuanting actually joined Lu Xiangsheng's royalist party. At the same time, the royalists have recently rapidly absorbed a large number of officials loyal to Chongzhen, and their personnel have rapidly expanded.

Although Lu Xiangsheng recruited party members quickly, most of them were upright people, and some officials from various parties were involved.

This made Zhao Yan feel a little inappropriate, although Lu Xiangsheng may support him, his cabinet members may not be able to support his actions.

Before he started talking, Zhao Yan had already made up his mind to let the Qi Party occupy more seats in order to be safe.

"I've seen the general." As soon as Zhao Yan walked out, the leaders of various parties saluted Zhao Yan one after another, even if some were not convinced by Zhao Yan, they were harmless to humans and animals on the surface.

can be the leader of various parties, as well as the backbone personnel, naturally he is not a stunned person, even a fool can see that now Zhao Yan can do whatever he wants.

The fate of the officials who insulted Zhao Yan in the court before is a good example.

However, the treatment of Yang Sichang and a group of 'fellow parties' has not yet been implemented, and in fact, Zhao Yan is only scaring and scaring these guys.

Zhao Yan is not disgusted with Yang Sichang, this is for sure.

Historically, Yang Sichang did not surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and he did not embezzle [***], but some political strategies are a little incredible.

It is best to leave it to Chongzhen, there are such fierce people who have no conditions to create conditions, and they don't worry about Chongzhen not jumping. After experiencing this failure, Yang Sichang will definitely learn a lesson, and he will not jump in the near future, just giving Zhao Yan time to strengthen his strength.

After Zhao Yan's strength is enough to swallow more than ten provinces of the Ming Dynasty alive, he can jump as he wants.

Zhao Yan had a smile on his face, and he also waved at them, and then said: "All of you are the pillars of the imperial court, and there are twenty-five seats undecided in this cabinet. ”

"General, please speak." Qian Qianyi said with a smile, and the rest of the parties also echoed it, all wanting to take the lion's share of the cup of soup that Zhao Yan shared.

"Okay." Zhao Yan nodded, and said at length: "When thieves are everywhere today, the officers and soldiers are powerless, and natural disasters are frequent, the people are struggling to make a living, and the imperial court's finances are also unable to make ends meet. Since then, the formation of the cabinet is intended to change the predicament and make the world clear. All parties such as you, gather the strength of the whole party, and submit a policy discussion on the first day of the new year, and those who are good in policy will occupy more seats, and those who are inferior will occupy less. ”

“……”

As soon as Zhao Yan said this, the audience was stunned.

Only Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting of the royalist party nodded in agreement when they heard this, Sun Chuanting took two steps forward with his head held high, and laughed loudly: "The general's words are reasonable, and the seats of each party will be determined according to the merits of the policy, so it could not be fairer." ”

(To be continued)