After Xue Guoguan's death, he was given 50,000 taels of stolen silver and his home was confiscated. But only more than 600 taels of accumulated wealth were copied, and then it was just an ancestral house. Many people feel that although Xue Guoguan is not a good person, he is not punished, and the situation is really miserable. He is guilty of not death, it is inevitable to form a party, and corruption is definitely a false accusation.

The role played by the Restoration Society in the Xue Incident, although relatively obscure, is still rumored in the government and the opposition. Donglin celebrated with his hands, and Donglin's opposition hated it. Since the Restoration Society has penetrated into the core of the political struggle, it will continue to do two things, and further promote one of its own representatives to serve as the first assistant. After careful study, Zhang Pu and his assistants, who were far away in Taicang, felt that the most suitable candidate was Zhou Yanru, who had previously served as the first assistant.

Zhou Yanru originally had a lot of friends in the Donglin Party, but Chongzhen was not selected for the meeting in the early years, so he joined forces with Wen Tiren and tore his face with the Donglin Party. Later, he himself was ostracized by Wen Tiren, and for the sake of interests, he also stood against Wen Tiren and was more consistent with the Donglin Party. He has been leisure for a few years, living in his hometown of Yixing, and his neighbors are all Donglin giants, and he has interacted with a lot. On the surface, everyone has gotten rid of their old suspicions and become good friends again.

However, the decision-makers in the Restoration Society thought that by going all out to promote Zhou Yanru, they could not only make him their political spokesperson, but also not arouse too much alarm from the opposition, and because Zhou Yanru's qualifications were unusual, he would be the first assistant as soon as he entered the cabinet, which was much less troublesome than others.

The decision was made, and the people of the restoration society went out in all directions, not only finding the backbone of Donglin in the government and the opposition, such as Qian Qianyi, Hou Sui, and others, but also finding the well-known eunuch figures Feng Quan and Ruan Dacheng. And when the resumption of society wanted to use Ruan Dacheng, he immediately smiled; When not in use, raise eyebrows. That Ruan Dacheng was like an itchy skin, and he didn't remember the lesson. The official is confused, this is no longer crazy, but demonic. I could only shake my head and be speechless.

To move a first assistant out of the mountain, it is a very large project, which requires both smooth personnel and the use of large sums of money. However, this problem is difficult to defeat the gentlemen of the Fushe Society, the wisdom of the people is infinite, let alone the gentlemen? So the resumption of the society adopted the method of offering shares, 10,000 taels per share, and gave returns after the success of the matter.

So it was put together. He even sent people to Runing to look for Wu Shigong, the military attache of the Donglin Party, but because Wu Shigong was in Liaodong, the officials of Runing could not make such a major decision, so Zuihou failed. Arrived at Zuihou. Finally, 200,000 taels of activity funds were collected and all of them were transported to Beijing to pay bribes.

This money, which was close to astronomical at the time, certainly played a huge role. In terms of personnel. Mainly relied on Wu Changshi to be active in the capital. Wu Changshi was close to the eunuchs. He is very familiar with the situation in the palace, and he can also exert influence on Emperor Chongzhen invisibly, known as "a moment of hand manipulation of the handle, breathing through the emperor's seat"; Because he had just eliminated a dignified chief, the ministers and ministers did not dare not look at him differently. Plus backed by 200,000 taels of silver, after some activities. It really worked.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't know when he began to think about the first assistant of the year, and the courtiers also seemed to inadvertently often mention Zhou Yanru's loyalty and ability. By February, everything seemed to fall into place. Emperor Chongzhen finally "made an arbitrary decision" and decided to reappoint several former cabinet ministers when state affairs were becoming increasingly difficult and there was a lack of people around him.

He summoned the former auxiliary ministers Zhou Yanru, He Fengsheng, and Zhang Zhifa to Beijing to enter the cabinet to assist in government affairs. Among them, Zhang Zhifa probably knew a little bit of the inside story, and felt that it was quite boring to attach Ji to Zhou Yanru, and he did not come to Beijing under the pretext of illness. Zhou Yanru and He Fengsheng were ordered to go immediately and came to the capital in September of this year to take up their posts.

However, Zhang Pu, the leader of the Restoration Society, is a young man with great ambition and sharp edge, he not only looks down on some of the behaviors of Zhou Yanru, a teacher, but also often asks him to do things according to the meaning of the Restoration Society, so Zhou Yanru hates this student to the core, just to take advantage of his talent and grievances, where is he willing to really change his mind and change his past?

Zhou Yanru, although he was once a champion, was greedy for money and sex. There was a young woman with a dead husband in the rich room of East Dongting Mountain, who couldn't bear the loneliness, and colluded with outsiders to marry herself, of course the rich family was unwilling, so she went to the county and was afraid of marrying, so she had to give the young woman's makeup to Zhou Yanru.

At this time, Zhou Yanru was "favored at first sight", at that time, when the imperial court announced that he was the first assistant, he was indulged in beauty, and he delayed and refused to enter Beijing. Zhang Pu took the county's catch slip to find Zhou Yanru, and no matter what the gift of teachers and students, he threw the catch slip in front of him, and Zhou Yanru couldn't help but be furious.

And Zhang Pu didn't buy his account at all: "This is just a trivial matter, you don't need to be so angry." If you don't go out now, I'm afraid something worse will happen in the future. ”

When Zhou Yanru, the old slippery head, heard this, his face immediately changed, and he said to Zhang Pu with a pleasant face: "Without your words, I can't see this." "I even respectfully addressed the students to you. So he took the young woman and took office. This one seems to be a "trivial matter", but the resentment is extremely deep.

And Zhang Pu also used this matter to blackmail Zhou Yanru, and wanted to use Zhou Yanru as a puppet to manipulate the appointment and dismissal of the government and officials. This made Zhou Yanru hate Zhang Pu to the core.

What Zhang Pu didn't know was that when he learned that Zhou Yanru had restarted as the first assistant, his protégé Wu Changshi had already changed his court. When Zhang Pu got the conditions agreed by Zhou Yanru, he returned to his home in Taicang in a hurry, and that night he suffered severe pain in his abdomen and returned to the west.

That is Wu Changshi used a dose of medicine to send Zhang Pu into Jiuquan. Zhou Yanru's comeback, Zhang and Wu were both people who planned and made contributions, but in the struggle for power and profit, Wu Changshi held the power in his hands, and he didn't want Zhang Pu to taste the top, so he came up with this poisonous plan. Of course, Wu Changshi can still see the shadow of Zhou Yanru's cruel smile behind him.

And this obvious conspiracy has not been publicly exposed. Afraid of Zhou Yanru's poisonous hands and clinging to Zhou Yanru's power, the gentlemen of the Fushe and the Donglin Party collectively lost their voices, but they still slapped Zhou Yanru on the way. And Zhang Pu's funeral was deserted, and those "friends" and "comrades" before his death were gone, which really made him die blindly!

Anyway, this farce of transmutation, except for making Zhou Yanru the prime minister for the second time, did not have any positive impact on the current situation of the Ming Dynasty at all. Because at this time, the decisive battle between the Ming and Qing dynasties in Liaodong and the Ming and Qing dynasties was about to begin. (To be continued......)