Chapter Seventy-One: Anxiety

People who have no long-term worries must have near-term worries, and Yang Cheng, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department and the counselor of the aircraft, has not had a very good time in recent times.

In terms of the power in control, he is the first person in Nanzhili, and no one can match him, although he can't be compared with the ministers of the imperial court, the six books and the imperial history, but it is not bad.

Chongzhen's three years of changes in the imperial court officials are very frequent, the cabinet first assistant Han Yi was impeached to Zhishi, the cabinet assistant Li Biao was impeached early because of the party struggle, and succeeded the first assistant Huang Ji's life, serving as the first assistant of the cabinet for less than half a year, and also to the minister, the cabinet assistant minister Qian Longxi was arrested and put in prison because he was implicated by Yuan Chonghuan, the left capital Yushi Cao Yubian was impeached to Zhishi, and the Ministry of Industry Shangshu Nanjuyi was impeached to Zhishi, this series of top-level ministerial adjustments are dazzling.

The most shocking thing is not the adjustment of the court officials, but three other things.

The first thing is that Yuan Chonghuan, the secretary of the military department, the right deputy capital Yushi, and the Jiliao governor Yuan Chonghuan were imprisoned in the city, that is, the corpses of the five horses were divided, and the brothers and wives were exiled for 3,000 miles and their homes were raided. You must know that after the emperor ascended the throne, the most trusted was Yuan Chonghuan, who entrusted all the defense matters of Liaodong to Yuan Chonghuan, which can be said to be obedient, and even after Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong without authorization, he did not surrender the crime, but Yuan Chonghuan killed Mao Wenlong for only one year, and he was also killed by the imperial court.

The second thing is that the peasant rebellion in Shaanxi is getting bigger and bigger, and it has developed from Shaanxi to Shanxi, although the imperial court sent troops to encircle and suppress it, but the scale of the peasant rebellion is getting bigger and bigger, and if it continues to develop according to this trend, the situation in Shaanxi and Shanxi will get out of control, and Shanxi is close to the north of Zhili, so it will not directly affect the capital.

The third thing is that the Houjin Tartars are getting more and more crazy, the original Tumut Department, Ordos Department, Chahar Department, etc., because of the difficulties of the imperial court, can not be rewarded, plus the strength and suppression of the Houjin, all surrendered to the Houjin Tartars, which makes the power of the Houjin unprecedentedly strong, almost unified the grassland, in addition to the grassland of the Khalkha Seven Divisions, Oirat Division, Mughal Division, Yarkand Department and Turpan Department have not yet completely surrendered, the strong Houjin Tartars, in Chongzhen two years of October from Shanhaiguan into the customs, all the way to plunder, It was not until February of the third year of Chongzhen that the troops of King Qin converged towards the capital, and the Jin Tatars withdrew.

On the surface, these things have little to do with Nanzhili, and they are not good, the distance is so far away, it will not affect Nanzhili for the time being, and the officials of the six departments of Nanzhili and the Metropolitan Procuratorate will almost all be denounced, and they will not receive special attention from the emperor and the imperial court.

But the matter of the Nanzhili Township test made Yang Cheng suddenly wake up, and he found that things were not so simple.

The emperor hated the party struggle, and all the civil and military ministers in the court, as long as they were involved in the party struggle, would be dismissed at the light of the day and imprisoned at the worst, and he would never show mercy to his subordinates, even those who were dismissed because of the party struggle.

The party struggle in the imperial court, there are many names, what Donglin Party, Eunuch Party, Zhejiang Party, West Party, etc., can really sort it out, can form a partisan struggle is the Eunuch Party, Donglin Party and Zhejiang Party, the Eunuch Party has suffered a heavy blow, is currently in a slump, it is difficult to resist, but the struggle between the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party is intensifying.

The Donglin Party originated in Nanzhili, and its power in the DPRK and China is very huge, and at present there is a tendency to unite with the influential Fushe and Yingsha, and so on.

How could the emperor not know about these circumstances, although the emperor treats Donglin Academy well, he will one day be wary of the Donglin Party.

This kind of sign can't be seen by others, how can Yang Cheng not notice it.

As the secretary of the military department of Nanzhili, he is actually in charge of the affairs of the entire Nanzhili, if the Donglin Academy, Fushe and Yingshe here, etc., are more and more prosperous, how can the emperor be happy, if they really interfere in the government affairs, the emperor will definitely be furious.

This time, Yang Chengcheng sniffed out an unusual wind direction from the appointment of the internal curtain official of Nanzhili Township.

It seems that the emperor is not very satisfied with Nanzhili's Donglin Academy, Fushe and Yingshe, etc.

The inner curtain official of the Nanzhili Township Examination should have been appointed by a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, but he became Dong Qichang, the secretary of the Nanzhili Rite Department, which is unreasonable, Dong Qichang became the inner curtain official of the examination, and he can barely explain it, after all, he is one of the six Shangshu in Nanjing, and his identity is there, but Dong Qichang is still happy to accept the task.

What kind of character is Dong Qichang, who is famous for not asking about political affairs and being obsessed with academic research, he will never participate in party struggles, and he will never form a gang.

The reason that Yang Cheng can understand is that the emperor does not want Nanzhili's township test to become a platform for Donglin Academy, Fushe and Yingshe to expand their scale and influence, and he is even more unwilling to have any relationship between the internal curtain officials and the Donglin Party and the Zhejiang Party.

In this way, Dong Qichang is the best candidate.

If it was according to the previous methods, Yang Cheng would definitely try his best to suppress Donglin Academy, Fushe and Yingshe, etc., but now he can't make the slightest move, after all, there is no emperor's will, and the emperor's focus is on the eunuch party, and he did not reprimand Donglin Academy, Fushe and Yingshe in public, etc., and Liu Zongzhou, Yingtianfu Ya, is still one of the backbones of the Donglin Party.

This put Yang Cheng in a dilemma, on the one hand, he was worried about the growth of the Donglin Party, the Fushe and the Ying Society, on the other hand, he was worried about the emperor's blame, no one dared to do the black pot thing, Donglin Academy, the Fu Society and the Ying Society had a very high status in the minds of the Nanzhili and even the southern readers.

Fortunately, his grandson Yang Tingshu withdrew from Yingshe, which also caused a lot of fluctuations in Suzhou, which Yang Cheng was very happy about, and he was more and more grateful to Zheng Xunrui, Yang Tingshu was under the influence of Zheng Xunrui, and quit Yingshe.

Yang Cheng has always been concerned about Yang Tingshu's situation, and instead he also paid attention to Zheng Xunrui's movements, and after observing for a long time, he faintly felt that Zheng Xunrui in the future must be a famous and famous man.

Zheng Xunrui became the Xie Yuan of the Township Examination of Nanzhili, and Yang Tingshu became the Yayuan of the Township Examination as the second place, which was also something that Yang Cheng was happy about, but he soon noticed that among all the people in the new imperial examination of the Township Examination, the chief examiner Dong Qichang only took the initiative to find Zheng Xunrui, and even his grandson Yang Tingshu went to meet by himself.

Thinking of so many things that happened in the imperial court, and thinking of the change of the inner curtain official in Nanzhili Township, Yang Cheng felt that he was already sitting on the top of the crater, and if he didn't pay attention to it, he would be crushed.

At this time, he received an endorsement from Chen Yaoyan in the matter from Nanjing Huke.

On the one hand, impeaching officials, on the other hand, pointing out many anachronistic things in Nanzhili, for the emperor to make decisions, the so-called endorsement of Shuchen is that the Nanjing Sixth Branch will play the general to the emperor in the matter, and prepare a point for the highest official of Nanzhili.

Of course, when it comes to the negligence of impeaching officials, it is impossible to endorse it.

Chen Yaoyan once played the emperor for the disadvantages of the new and old coinage factories controlled by the household department in Nanjing, and was praised by the emperor.

After receiving Shu Chen, Yang Cheng attached great importance to it and couldn't wait to read it, but the content of Shu Chen made his heart cold, and even a cold sweat broke out behind his back.

The main person impeached by Shu Chen was actually Zheng Xunrui, the trial solution of Nanzhili Township.

The reason for the impeachment is very clear, Zheng Xunrui's father, Zheng Fugui, was originally a prisoner of the country, has a meritorious reputation, and should be law-abiding, but recently bought a thousand Arab horses, although the imperial court allowed the scholar family to raise horses, but such a large-scale purchase of horses, isn't it ill-intentioned, and Zheng Fugui lives in Gyeonggi County, should know that Nanjing is the eastern capital of the imperial court, and the imperial court attaches great importance to it, not to mention whether the purchase of a thousand horses has other uses, it is said that this kind of thing should not be done.

Shu Chen also directly pointed to Zheng Xunrui, saying that Zheng Xunrui is the solution of the Nanzhili Township test, after encountering this kind of thing, he should be well aware of the righteousness and admonish his father not to have misdeeds, but unfortunately there is no such behavior, how can such an awareness become the solution of the Nanzhili Township test.

Chen Yaoyan's final conclusion was to implore the emperor to condemn Zheng Fugui, deprive Zheng Fugui and Zheng Xunrui of their reputation, hand them over to the government for severe punishment, and confiscate the thousand horses they bought.

Seeing this endorsement, Yang Cheng first felt all cold, and couldn't help but think of the relationship between Yang Tingshu and Zheng Xunrui, afraid that Yang Tingshu would be implicated, and the guide himself would also be implicated, and then he was angry and sober, he thought of Chen Yaoyan's identity, Chen Yaoyan was the top three in the 41st palace test of Wanli, and was given the background of the same jinshi, and the champion of the 41st palace test of Wanli is the first assistant of the cabinet Zhou Yanru, speaking of which Chen Yaoyan and Zhou Yanru are still in the same year, this is not the most important, The key is that Chen Yaoyan is a standard Donglin Party member, and he has great praise and enthusiasm for the Fushe and Yingshe.

Thinking of Chen Yaoyan's identity, after seeing the endorsement in his hand, and thinking of Yang Tingshu's withdrawal from Yingshe, Zheng Xunrui did not have the slightest interest in Donglin Academy, Fushe and Yingshe, Yang Cheng suddenly felt that there was a conspiracy slowly forming, and the people behind this conspiracy were not simple, I was afraid that I was thinking of making a big deal in Nanzhili.

This conspiracy is not only aimed at Zheng Xunrui, but also against him Yang Cheng and Yang Tingshu, and may even be aimed at Dong Qichang, as for what kind of goal the other party wants to achieve in the end, Yang Cheng also faintly understands.

A sneering look appeared on Yang Cheng's face, and the person behind the manipulation thought that he wanted to subvert the situation of Nan Zhili just by relying on Chen Yanyao, and he also publicly called out to himself, thinking that he was a sure winner, and he was too underestimating people.