On July 20, the twentieth year of Chongzhen, Ouyang Da Shangshu impeached Fan Jingwen, a scholar of Jianji Temple, and listed his 20 crimes, such as greed, stupidity, nepotism, jealousy, coercion, arrogance, and lack of honor.

Zhu Youzhen knew that this was the rhythm of the reactionary gentry in Jiangnan who were beginning to compete for the power of the government, and these people first used the arrest of Gu Lin in Dongchang to provoke Fan Jingwen and other important ministers to force themselves to kill Wang Chengen, so that they had to choose to compromise with Fan Jingwen and other civil officials in order to protect Wang Chengen, and then used their resentment against Fan Jingwen and other important ministers because of this incident to start playing impeachment, so as to achieve the goal of overthrowing Fan Jingwen and other civil officials such as the Zhejiang Party and the Jiangxi Party.

Zhu Youzhen had to admit that these reactionary gentry in Jiangnan were very shrewd in their calculations.

But now, Zhu Youzhen intends to fulfill the wishes of these reactionary gentry and bureaucrats in Jiangnan, and it can be regarded as a lesson to these civil officials who forced him to compromise.

However, Fan Jingwen himself also handed in his resignation and asked to retire from the elderly.

And Zhu Youzhen naturally did not agree to his request, most of these civil officials and doctors have pastoral plots, thinking that after becoming famous, they will be a great squire in the township similar to the emperor of the soil.

But how could Zhu Youzhen let them get their wish, especially when he was still disobedient to himself, so he ordered Fan Jingwen to be deposed as the governor of Danzhou, and ordered him to open up 500,000 acres of wasteland in Danzhou and train 30 jinshi, otherwise he would not be allowed to return to his hometown.

Zhu Youzhen This is the way the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty treated political enemies, not killing you, but definitely making your life worse than death.

Since Fan Jingwen dared to lead the civil officials to blackmail him, Zhu Youzhen dared to let him die of old age and serve the Ming Dynasty for the rest of his life.

Since he didn't want to listen to his own arrangement in the court, it was better to go to the poor countryside to help him study.

Fan Jingwen almost didn't spit out a mouthful of old blood when he received the will, he thought that he could return to his roots, but now he realized the ruthlessness of His Majesty.

"Your Majesty, you want to be a minister in a foreign country for the rest of your life!"

Fan Jingwen cried and shouted, while Zhu Youzhen smiled coldly: "It's not that I want Aiqing to live in a foreign country for the rest of my life, but Aiqing himself wants to be someone else's gun, and he dares to threaten me with the important ministers of the six cabinets, and now that there are officials who impeach you, it is also your own fault, and you don't do it in a good position as the first assistant, but you want to do something that embarrasses me, what is the use of a person like you except going to Danzhou to reclaim the wasteland, is it difficult to let me let you be a bully in the township!" ”

Fan Jingwen understood what Zhu Youzhen meant, and regretted that he didn't see all this, so he couldn't help but slap himself twice, and then chose to leave lonely and chose to go to Danzhou to take a job.

Zhu Youzhen did not approve Fan Jingwen's resignation, but deposed him to a remote place, which really shocked many officials in the court, and they did not expect that Zhu Youzhen, as the emperor, would also have his own means.

But as for the reactionary bureaucrats and gentry in Jiangnan who were trying to seize the power of the government, they were very excited, because it meant that His Majesty was really angry, and they happened to take advantage of this to completely disintegrate the other members of the six cabinets when Fan Jingwen was in charge of the cabinet.

Immediately afterwards, the imperial historian impeached Qi Biaojia, a cabinet scholar and a secretary of the household department, and Zhu Youzhen took advantage of the situation to depose Qi Biaojia to Yishan Zhixian County, Guangxi.

Liu Zongzhou, the Cabinet University and the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was also impeached and soon deposed to Huguang Xinningzhi County.

For a time, the government and the opposition were shaken, and no one expected that in this moment, one cabinet chief assistant and two cabinet ministers would fall.

The happiest are the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, Guan Shaoning, the head of the Hanlin Academy, Chen Shiding, and Ouyang Da, the officials of the department.

They all thought that their plan had been fulfilled, and the incident of successfully using Dongchang to arrest Gu Lin made His Majesty feel disgusted with these officials of the Zhejiang Party and the Jiangxi Party.

"Your Majesty, Gu Lin secretly entered the Guan Mansion last night, saying that he had contacted the imperial history and was ready to impeach Gao Hongtu, the second assistant of the cabinet, Ma Shiying, the scholar of the Cabinet and the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Song Yingxing, the secretary of the Cabinet University and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and at the same time, he also drew up a list of candidates for the next first assistant of the cabinet, and prepared to contact these officials to help them become the sixth cabinet department."

After Wang Chengen conveyed the news to Zhu Youzhen, Zhu Youzhen smiled faintly: "It seems that it is time to end the turmoil in the court, how can my court allow them to have the final say, you quickly send someone to pass on the message to Gao Hongtu, the second assistant of the cabinet, and ask him, do you want to go to Bijie to teach with the barbarians, or do you want to stay in Nanjing to preside over the cabinet and carry out the great cause of salt tax reform?" ”

As early as July of the eighteenth year of Chongzhen, after the total annihilation of the Qing army's Duoduo Department, Zhu Youzhen instructed Gao Hongtu to reform the salt administration, and even asked him to inspect it for a period of time in the name of vacation.

Now that it has reached the second half of the twentieth year of Chongzhen, the reform of the salt administration should also be put on the agenda, although Gao Hongtu also rebelled against himself with Fan Jingwen before this, but Zhu Youzhen still hopes that he can stay and succeed the first assistant and prepare to reform the salt administration.

Gao Hongtu was naturally unwilling to go to Bijiewei, Guizhou, where the war was spreading, to serve as a magistrate, so he quickly conveyed his intention to Zhu Youzhen, and was willing to be His Majesty's cattle and horses, and would never do anything against Zhu Youzhen again.

So, three days later, when a Yu Shi named Wen Zhenhong impeached Gao Hongtu, the second assistant of the cabinet, Zhu Youzhen issued an order to reprimand Wen Zhenhong on the grounds that Wen Zhenhong's performance was untrue.

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"What, Your Majesty didn't depose the second assistant Gao Hongtu again!"

Shaoning, the secretary of the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, sat up in surprise.

"It seems that Your Majesty is willing to be the first assistant of the cabinet, Gao Hongtu, so it is not good for us to impeach Gao Hongtu now, I am afraid that soon, Your Majesty will issue an order to appoint him as the first assistant of the cabinet, and order him to go to the main cabinet, now it is better to impeach only Ma Shiying and Song Yingxing, impeach one more, and we can fight for one more position at that time!"

Chen Shiding, a bachelor in charge of the Hanlin Academy, said.

"What Brother Er Xin (Chen Shiding Zi Er Xin) said is extremely true, but what makes Guan incomprehensible is why His Majesty spared Gao Hongtu, and intended to let him be the first assistant, whether Gao Hongtu and His Majesty have reached some kind of deal, Gao Hongtu is from Shandong, not from our Nanzhili, this may be one reason, but will there be other reasons."

When Guan Shaoning was saying this, Ouyang Da opened his mouth first:

"Why do you have to think about it, Your Majesty's intention is nothing more than that you don't want to let the position of the head of the cabinet in the hands of people like us, to put it bluntly, Your Majesty is still in the embankment of us, this is no way, if you want us to let the Nanzhili people take charge of the government, we have to come step by step, and now the most important thing is that we must have our people among the six departments of the cabinet."

"In this case, what we should do now is to first promote Gao Hongtu, the second assistant of the cabinet, as the first assistant of the cabinet, and the officials above the second rank have the qualifications to be promoted, so this will need to be done by the Ministry of Management when the time comes, and it can be regarded as a good sale to His Majesty and Gao Hongtu; In addition, it is the impeachment of Ma Shiying and Song Yingxing, and this has to rely on Ouyang Da to mobilize your officials. ”

After Chen Shiding said, the rest of the officials also said yes.

Soon, Zhu Youzhen's case had a little bit of a plan to protect Gao Hongtu and impeach Ma Shiying and Song Yingxing.

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