Not to mention that the two brothers Zhu Youcheng and Xinwang were happy in Daliang Mountain, and in a dilapidated courtyard in Beijing, the Donglin Party once again held a secret meeting.

However, this secret meeting was a bit miserable, and the meeting place was simply a slum, as if the house would collapse if you blew it; The number of people in the party was pitiful, only a few dozen people in Liao Liao; The position of the party officials is embarrassingly low, and the largest official is only the imperial history of the seventh rank.

Beijing's Donglin Party was wiped out by the emperor in the third year of the Apocalypse, why are there still so many fish that have slipped through the net? It turned out that these people were not in Beijing when they were three years after the Apocalypse, and they escaped the catastrophe. After returning to Beijing, he found that the Donglin Party was suspected of rebellion, so he flatly denied his relationship with the Donglin Party.

The Donglin Party members in prison also thought that they wanted to preserve some vitality for the Donglin Party, so they did not involve those people.

Hao Tuyan, the initiator of the secret meeting, sighed and said: "The results of last year's scientific examination, everyone can see clearly, divided into thirteen provinces, and the provinces are average, and it is basically impossible for our Donglin Party to reproduce the original grand scene." I think I have the most prosperous literary style in Jiangnan, all dynasties and generations, and countless Jinshi. Even if the emperor sweeps away the Donglin Party, we are not afraid, as long as we go through several rounds of scientific examinations, we can regain control of the government. But now that the emperor has cut off the roots of our Donglin Party, there is no longer time for the Ming Dynasty to be in power. ”

As he spoke, Hao Tujiao shed tears of sadness.

Hao Tujiao is right, since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the literary style in the south is far better than that in the north, and the scholars are naturally mostly southerners. As a result, the southerners were far more powerful in the court than in the north, and they were prone to forming parties for personal gain.

In order to balance the political ecology of the north and the south, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, changed the imperial examination from the national unified examination to the admission of the north and south sub-lists.

But in this way, it did not give much advantage to the scholars in the north, and the ministers of the DPRK and China were mostly southerners.

However, now the thirteen provinces are divided into provinces to recruit scholars, completely breaking the situation of unified scientific research in the south, so that people from each province have entered the court as officials. The policies of the imperial court will also be fairer.

The political foundation of the Donglin Party, which was based on the southerners and the northerners as enemies, quietly collapsed under this new imperial examination policy of the Ming Dynasty.

Wang Xiangchun said: "Hao Yushi is right, this policy remains unchanged, and the Donglin Party will not turn over." Not only that, but what is even more odious is the Daming School of Administration. What do you teach your students? What loyalty, what patriotism, isn't it just to make us scholars become dogs raised by the emperor? Do we still need the backbone of a reader? I think about how many holy decrees the emperor was sealed by the Sanyang cabinet (Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu) back then, and set an example for the world's scholars. But now? The emperor is what he says. You see that the current cabinet five elders Gu Bingqian, Wen Donglai, Huang Liji, Shi Fenglai, and Qian Longxi are simply the emperor's echo worms, and the emperor said that they are either 'good' or 'right, right, right'. ”

Huang Gongfu asked a little curiously: "I remember that the cabinet has always been six people, how can it be three years of apocalypse." After Mr. Sun Chengzong, the elder of the cabinet cabinet, went to work, he did not add a university scholar to enter? Could it be that the emperor misses the old and wants to recall Sun Chengzong back to the imperial court and specially leave a place for him? ”

"It is impossible to recall Sun Chengzong," Hao Tujiao said, "His defeat in the third year of the Apocalypse has completely proved that his so-called Ningjin defense line is scum at all." Once he returned to the court, how could he face the doubts of the courtiers? But. I already have a number of candidates for the cabinet seniors. ”

Everyone asked, "Who is it?" Is it a friend of our Donglin Party? ”

Hao Tujiao sighed. Said: "On the contrary, it is the sworn enemy of our Donglin Party. Remember that in the third year of the Apocalypse, the emperor conferred the title of a university scholar? Yes, it is Zhu Youcheng, a scholar of Longtuge University. The reason why the emperor did not select officials to serve as assistants to the cabinet was to leave this position to him. ”

Everyone gasped together, Zhu Youcheng. They know each other too well. This person is simply a disaster star of the Donglin Party, and it has never been a good thing to meet him.

Huang Gongfu said: "Zhu Youcheng...... He is too young, will the guilds of the court agree? ”

Wang Xiangchun groaned: "It's not impossible. The so-called generals enter the phase, and the generals' merits are too great, but it is possible to be rewarded with phases. Di Qing of the Great Song Dynasty. Isn't it because of his excessive military exploits that he entered the court? Zhu Youcheng broke the Jiannu in Liaodong and beheaded 30,000, and his meritorious service was unparalleled. Now he has gone to the southwest to quell the rebellion, and maybe he will play a triumphant song again. It is reasonable to pay the cabinet elders. ”

Huang Gongfu said: "Doesn't that mean that the Ming Dynasty is about to appear the youngest Shoufu in history?" ”

The order of the cabinet elders is generally ranked in the order of entering the cabinet, and the current first assistant is Gu Bingqian, if he is a minister, he will be succeeded by Wen Donglai, and then they will be Huang Liji, Shi Fenglai, and Qian Longxi.

And now these five cabinet elders are all dying, and they will definitely be appointed one after another, maybe ten years later, Zhu Youcheng will be able to ascend to the position of the first assistant of the cabinet.

Ten years later, Zhu Youcheng was only 27 years old, and the 27-year-old cabinet chief assistant was rare in the world.

Hao Tu said: "The inner minister of the Ming Dynasty is Wei Zhongxian, the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty is Zhu Youcheng, Wei Zhongxian is a dog raised by the emperor, and Zhu Youcheng is a tiger raised by the emperor." The Ming Dynasty government fell into the hands of this dog and a tiger, and the Donglin Party had no day to turn over. ”

A shrill voice sounded, but it was Yu Shi Wansheng, he said: "The Donglin Party not only has no day to turn over, but also has a bad reputation. In the past, there was "The Wind of Donglin" written by Feng Menglong, a damned member of the Ministry of Rites, and then Gu Bingqian was ordered by the emperor to compile "The Essentials of the Three Dynasties", and the face and lining of the Donglin Party were lost. Now whether they are scholars or not, they all look at the Donglin Party coldly. ”

Feng Menglong has been promoted to a member of the Ministry of Rites because of his strong work ability.

"The Wind of Donglin" is a commentary (novel) written by him at the request of Zhu Youcheng, a fictional story that throws all the bad things of the Donglin Party into it. After the commentary was published, it aroused strong reactions.

Recently, someone in the court mentioned the matter of the Donglin Party, and the Emperor of the Apocalypse felt that the court had not fully recognized the true face of the Donglin Party, so he ordered Gu Bingqian, Huang Liji, and Feng Quan to compile the "Three Dynasties Classics", which described in detail the three major cases involving Zhu Changluo of the Ming Guangzong: the attack case, the red pill case, and the palace transfer case.

"The Wind of Donglin" made the Donglin Party stink all over the streets among the people, and "The Essentials of the Three Dynasties" made the Donglin Party become a street rat in Shilin, so in history, the Donglin Party hated the "Essentials of the Three Dynasties", and once it regained its position, the "Essentials of the Three Dynasties" was set as a banned book. What is ridiculous is that the "Three Dynasties Canon" is a book written by the emperor's order, and there is a preface made by the Emperor of the Apocalypse himself.

Moreover, even if the Donglin Party surrendered to Jiannu, became their slave, and became the traitor referred to by Qianfu, they still remembered the "Three Dynasties Classics", and finally said that the puppet emperor who moved Jiannu made the "Three Dynasties Classics" a banned book again.

Jiannu likes to pour sewage on the Ming court, and has always enjoyed it, and if the "Three Dynasties Canon" really reverses black and white, they will definitely shout that it is a good book. Why is it good? Who knows, I don't know how to read, but I heard that someone made a rumor about the Ming Dynasty, since it is a rumor, it must be a good book.

For example, "Shu Bi", which fabricated Zhang Xianzhong's massacre of the people of Sichuan, is a good book and must be included in the "Siku Quanshu". Look, the people who kill people are all Ming people, we Jiannu never rob grain, never rape women, and never kill people.

What, there's a corpse behind me? That's what Da Ming did. What, there's a naked woman pressed down under me? That's what Da Ming did. What, where does my food come from? That's still the Ming Dynasty...... No, it's our own production.

Jiannu is so shameless, and so is the Donglin Party.

Wang Xiangchun said: "Don't think about turning over in this dynasty. If the Donglin Party wants to turn over, it has to wait for the emperor's big trip. ”

The emperor's big line refers to the death of the emperor.

"It's the pole, it's the pole."

The Donglin Party officials present nodded their heads together.

Wang Xiangchun's words are basically a naked curse of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, but the Donglin Party, who claims to be the last loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty, not only does not think that there is anything wrong with this sentence, but thinks that this sentence is quite accurate, and they all look forward to the early arrival of that day. (To be continued......)