Chapter Ninety-Seven, New Crossing Continues

Chongzhen five years of October on the ninth day, the Beijing Division, the Forbidden City, the cabinet room

With a "snap" sound, a newspaper from the Ministry of War that had just been delivered was thrown heavily on the floor. Immediately afterwards, there was another "ping-pong" sound, and a colored glazed tea bowl with a flower and bird pattern was smashed into the wall, and then fell down and shattered into a piece of porcelain.

“…… Stupid! Money is a fool who misleads the country! At this time, what kind of cabinet minister's score is still placed? This thing doesn't know whether to live or die! ”

After learning the whole story of the Tianjin Incident, Wen Tiren, the first assistant of the cabinet who had been in charge of the court bureau these days, immediately fell into anger, and his whole body was convulsing and trembling, and he couldn't wait to find out the second assistant Qian Shisheng, who had provoked a mutiny and brought down the last Qinwang army near the Beijing Division, and beat him violently. Beside Wen Tiren, the other two cabinet ministers, Wang Yingxiong and Wu Zongda, also echoed in unison, scolding Qian Shisheng, the second assistant who didn't know where to flee at the moment. And He Wuyu, who was sitting on the other side of the class room, lowered his head and fiddled with the jade pendant on his waist, looking contemplative.

Seeing that He Wuyu still didn't admit his mistakes at this time, and he didn't have the intention of working together in harmony, Wen Tiren was really angry, and wanted to slap him in the face and wake him up fiercely: they have all fallen into such a life and death situation, and the Donglin Party members are still bent on tearing down the stage and fighting infighting?

——In the official history of later generations, Wen Tiren, the first assistant in the late Ming Dynasty, was classified as a traitor. Gai Yin has always held an attitude of opposing the Donglin Party, and has always been an enemy of the Donglin Party when he was in power, repeatedly mentioning that he would increase the commercial tax in Jiangnan and reduce the land tax in the north, and he was bent on working against the Donglin Party. Although Wen Tiren's measures were not completed under the desperate obstruction of the Donglin Party of the Manchu Dynasty, it was enough to make the gentlemen in Jiangnan grit their teeth with hatred.

So, after Wen Tiren overthrew Zhou Yanru, the leader of Donglin, and seized the throne of Shoufu, the Donglin Party kept deducting all kinds of basins to Wen Tiren's head, and even used Wen Tiren's surname to make articles, linking "Wen" with "plague", and exhausted all kinds of low-level means.

For example, in order to prevent Wen Tiren from becoming the first assistant, Huang Shaojie even openly claimed to the emperor in the criminal department: Since Wen Tiren entered the cabinet, there has not been a year without drought, not a day when the sun has not dimmed, not a place that has not been affected by disasters, and no place where there have not been bandits. Therefore, Wen Tiren is an unlucky person and should be allowed to resign. And the folk song, which is the nirvana of the literati's political struggle, also began to "praise" Wen Tiren, and scolded Wen Tiren and his political allies: the cabinet has been turned into a brothel, and the king of Wugui has always suffered from the plague (Wen). This ballad alludes to the surname and place of origin, "Wugui" is a turtle, referring to Wen Tiren, the first assistant of Wucheng; "Wang Ba" is Wang Ba, referring to Wang Yingxiong, a native of Ba County, Sichuan, who is an auxiliary minister of the cabinet; "Rice pieces" means those who accompany others to study, play chess, paint, etc., similar to the current escort, here used to refer to another cabinet assistant Wu Zongda.

——Wen Tiren, Wang Yingxiong, and Wu Zongda have a good relationship with the three cabinet ministers, and they are also the sworn enemies of the Donglin Party in terms of political positions, so the Donglin Party scolded them as turtles, Wang Ba and Sanbao, and the cabinet was also ridiculed as a brothel by the people below because of these three people.

But to be honest, compared with the other first assistants in the Chongzhen period, Wen Tiren's character and talent are already very good.

First of all, Wen Tiren is shrewd and capable, and has a strong ability to work. The cabinet is busy with government affairs, and there are many clues. Every time he encountered a complicated problem, all the auxiliary ministers frowned and looked at each other, only Wen Tiren was clear at a glance, and there were never mistakes and refutations, so the other auxiliary ministers in the cabinet admired his agility. Secondly, Wen Tiren is very incorruptible, and the house in Beijing was still rewarded to him by the emperor, and in addition, he has no money to spare and never accepts the slightest bribe. Compared with the astonishing wealth accumulated by the predecessor Zhou Yanru Shoufu who ruled the world for four years, Wen Tiren, the first assistant, is really the most incorruptible prime minister since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, and can even be compared with the famous Qing official Hai Rui during the Jiajing period. Even the Donglin Party members, who hated him to the core, had to admit that Wen Tiren "couldn't reach the door with Bao Tho (meaning bribe)".

It is really unfair to beat such an incorruptible and capable Shoufu into a traitor, no matter how you look at it. Speaking of which, as long as Wen Tiren wants to do things, he will definitely not allow the Donglin Party who can only shout nonsense and not be pragmatic to dismantle the stage. However, the logic of the Donglin Party is that the Donglin Party people are always good people, so Wen Tiren, who excludes the Donglin Party people, is a bad person. This kind of logic is the logic of shameless and unreasonable bandits, and it is the logic of a pig's head without brains, but because the Donglin scholars controlled the right to speak and wrote history under their auspices, no one was able to refute this absurd logic at that time and for many centuries afterward.

On the other hand, Wen Tiren's character and talent are certainly okay among the ministers in the late Ming Dynasty, but he is only the eldest son among the dwarfs, at best he is just a pasteur who demolishes the east wall and repairs the west wall, not a great man who can turn the tide.

Especially in this time and space at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was greatly changed by many time-travelers, Wen Tiren took advantage of the east wind of the Daling River fiasco, just defeated Zhou Yanru, and not long after he was promoted to the first assistant of the cabinet, he encountered a series of super disasters that could be called the collapse of the sky - the rebellion of Huangshi in Fujian, the rebellion of Chen Xin in Dengzhou, the Wenxiangjiao uprising in Shandong, the internal strife of the Xuanda border army, the Shaanxi Liukou broke Taiyuan to kill the vassal king, the Guanning army defected and surrendered, and the Jurchen soldiers re-entered Gyeonggi...... No matter which one of them is, it is a drastic change that can shake the whole world, but now it is all together and exploding at the same time! So many stuffy sticks smashed down, so that Wen Tiren, who had just ascended to the position of first assistant, was really at a loss for a while, and he was almost dizzy.

What's even worse is that as the sworn enemy of the Donglin Party, Wen Tiren, the first assistant, is now tantamount to fighting the entire bureaucratic system alone. Although he is the first assistant, after the eunuch party was purged and offended the Donglin party, Wen Tiren only had a few cronies to help, and in the face of the delay of the Donglin Party in the Manchu Dynasty, what power could he make? The Ming Empire is now suffering from internal and external troubles, but why is his Wen Tiren not internal and external troubles?

Even if it has reached such a life-and-death crisis, the Donglin Party in the court is still tirelessly dragging its feet - although Wen Tiren is the first assistant at the moment, the key positions in the court are all Donglin Party members, and the orders issued by the cabinet cannot be effectively implemented by the six ministries.

Even the cabinet ministers are not of the same mind: for example, Qian Shisheng, the second assistant of the cabinet, is Donglin Yuanxian, who became famous very early, and his qualifications are older than Qian Qianyi, and he was originally not a person from Wen Tiren. However, after being promoted to the first assistant, in the face of the collective sabotage and non-cooperation of many Donglin Party officials in the imperial court, Wen Tiren felt that it was difficult to support himself, so he decided to give up his position and accommodate the opposition, and led Qian Shisheng, who looked quite pleasing to the eye, into the cabinet, hoping that Qian Shisheng could put the country first, suppress Donglin, and make the cabinet decree unimpeded. Unexpectedly, this Qian Shisheng looked kind, in fact, he was still a model good Donglin who lived endlessly and the party struggled endlessly, and he didn't think about Wen Tiren's kindness at all...... made Wen Tiren's abacus completely fail.

Then, another college student, He Wuyu, is also a member of the Donglin Party in the cabinet, and he is still an extremely staunch anti-Wen, who has always been angry with Qian Shisheng, and has not dragged Wen Tiren back since he entered the cabinet, Wen Tiren is angry with He Wuju, but there is no way to take him, because it is impossible to get rid of him through legal means - as long as Wen Tiren dares to instruct people to impeach He Wuju, the Donglin Party will have several times the impeachment of Wen Tiren and the cabinet will be heard.

In short, if Wen Tiren, the first assistant, wants to really make a difference, he must vigorously crack down on the Donglin Party, but now that the country is in danger, it is really not the right time to engage in party strife - but although Wen Tiren intends to tolerate it, the Donglin Party will continue to add chaos and even die!

For example, after Lu Xiangsheng's army defeated Jizhou, Wen Tiren Shoufu was not good at military affairs, and he also understood that the Qin army in Tianjin was the last straw for the Beijing Division, and he had to be rewarded generously no matter what.

But the problem is that the Donglin Party in the imperial court does not seem to think so: the household department said that there was no money and grain in the treasury, and the last bit of surplus grain was also allocated to Lu Xiangsheng in Tongzhou, and there was no silver to pay the Qin army. And it is even more impossible to give them a promotion in violation of the old rules. There is also an imperial historian who openly accused Wen Tiren of being willing to be inferior and currying favor with Wufu - "...... We are the pillars of the country, and the first assistant treated the scholars so contemptuously and harshly before the Qingliu, expelling the Donglin gentlemen in the court, but to curry favor with such lowly martial artists, isn't it upside down and rebellious? Over the years, righteous men and gentlemen have lived in the court, but state affairs have been corrupted like this, all because those vulgar martial artists deserve death. This generation does not read poetry and books, and has no loyalty in his heart, so he refuses to fulfill his responsibility to serve the court, only thinking about getting rich and saving his life, and shrinks in case of trouble. As long as the princes in power expel all those treacherous people from the court, entrust us and other Qingliu with heavy responsibilities, monitor and beat those martial artists in the army, and often know the righteousness, intimidate and punish them severely, and those lowly martial artists will definitely serve their lives one by one, so that the situation can get better! ”

Wen Tiren naturally scoffed at such ridiculous words, but he couldn't stand the Donglin princes but agreed one after another, thinking that it was a good word. Immediately afterwards, after discussing with He Wuyu, the deputy assistant of the cabinet, Qian Shisheng didn't say a word to him at all, and went to Tianjin to "supervise the battle" by himself...... And then he caused a mutiny! What's even worse is that he also let Jiannu Dongyu seize the loophole and destroy the 50,000 Qinwang reinforcements in one fell swoop!

Hey, it's in the past, so don't talk about it now. What really matters is that now that the situation in Gyeonggi has deteriorated to such an extent that even Moon doesn't know what to do. Anyway, he, the head of the cabinet, is probably the most aggrieved one in the more than 200 years of the country, and no one listens to what he says, every court meeting is dismissed, and the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty treat him as air.

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And what made Wen Tiren feel even more chilling was that he had obviously broken through such a monstrous disaster and put Jingshi in deep danger, the main culprit Qian Shisheng who didn't know what was going on didn't mention it for the time being, and the accomplice He Wuyu sitting in front of him still had no intention of repenting at all.

——Under the silent condemnation of Wen Tiren, Wang Yingxiong, and Wu Zongda, the three cabinet scholars, I saw He Wuyu's face not red and his heart beat for a long time, and suddenly changed the topic and asked, "...... I don't know what happened to the holy dragon body at the moment? Is it getting better? ”

“…… According to the palace supervisor, His Majesty is still unconscious...... "Although he was unhappy in his heart, Wen Tiren still reluctantly replied.

In recent days, the reason why Wen Tiren, the first assistant, is so aggrieved, and even almost despised and set aside, in addition to the Yang Fengyin of the Lin Party in the Middle Dynasty and the desperate demolition of the stage, another very important reason is that Emperor Chongzhen suddenly fell into a coma, which made Wen Tiren, a lonely minister, lose the support of the imperial power, and suddenly fell into trouble under the non-cooperation of the Donglin Party of the Manchu Dynasty, which made the imperial court basically paralyzed recently.

——After learning the bad news that Liaoxi Jiangmen surrendered to the enemy and Liaodong Jiannu seized Shanhaiguan and invaded Yongping Mansion, Emperor Chongzhen was angry for a while, rolled down from the palace's Danqi, and fell on the spot with a broken head and bleeding, and did not know what to do. After that, although the injury did not deteriorate after being rescued by the imperial doctor, Emperor Chongzhen also kept lying in bed for a long time and was unconscious for many days, just barely hanging on with ginseng soup...... Today, it has been more than a month, and despite the rapid collapse of the situation in the country outside, the concubines in the palace are crying and blind, and Emperor Chongzhen still has no signs of waking up.

However, when Scholar He Wusu mentioned this matter at this time, of course, he was not really concerned about the safety of His Majesty's dragon body, but had another purpose.

“…… Alas, His Majesty's body is not safe and he can't take care of the government, which really worries us, and it is quite constrained to deal with state affairs, and no one can make a decision. How can the country be in a difficult autumn now, as the so-called country cannot be without a king for a day. How about making the crown prince (Zhu Cihong) the prison country? He Wuyu stood up, looked up to the sky with a stern face and said, "...... In this way, it will be possible to appease the ministers and reassure the hearts of the people......"

“…… But although His Majesty is in poor health, it is not a big deal, and the prince is only four years old this year......" Wen Tiren said subconsciously, and then suddenly his pupils shrank, and he guessed He Wuyu's sinister intentions - he wanted to launch the toppling of the pavilion again and take his first auxiliary throne!

- Before, although the emperor's sudden coma made Wen Tiren, the first assistant, become nominal under the exclusion of the Manchu Dynasty, it was also for the same reason that the Donglin Party could not make a move to remove Wen Tiren from the position of the first assistant: the removal of the first assistant must be approved by the emperor.

And if the crown prince, who is only four years old this year, is allowed to act on behalf of the emperor, it seems that there is a possibility of overthrowing the cabinet and recalling the prime minister......

Thinking of these Donglin gentlemen who are full of loyalty and morality, at the current crisis of life and death in such a country, they are still only thinking about how to overthrow the cabinet and seize power...... No matter how good Rao is Wen Tiren's cultivation is, he couldn't help but blush with anger for a while, and stretched out his hand to point at He Wuyu who was about to have a seizure.

However, before Wen Tiren could scold, a middle-aged eunuch with a happy face hurriedly slammed open the door and broke in, not even knowing that his shoes had run away, "...... Ladies and gentlemen, happy event! What a happy event! Majesty has finally woken up! Majesty finally woke up today! ”

Hearing this rare good news, Wen Tiren, who was originally full of anger, couldn't help but feel relieved, and suddenly turned his anger into joy.

“…… Is Majesty awake? That's a ...... That's great!! Lao Chen's heart is really ...... Hey......"

Thinking of the tremendous pressure he has endured these days, and the bad news that is enough to scare people to death, Wen Tiren muttered almost in tears.

“…… Well, the dragon body has turned from danger to safety, and it is indeed God who blesses me Daming Sheji...... Congratulations, congratulations......"

He Wusu, a scholar who had just proposed to support the establishment of the crown prince and the prison country, had no choice but to echo and say.

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At the same time, in the depths of the dormitory, on a carved bed hanging with a dragon-patterned curtain, a haggard and thin young man was sitting up in a daze, looking blankly at the surrounding concubines who were crying, laughing, and excited, and couldn't help but be full of confusion.

“…… This...... What's going on? Where have I been? Who are they? ”

He clearly remembered that he was sitting in front of the computer in the Internet café playing "World of Warcraft" a moment ago, why was he lying on a bed in the blink of an eye, surrounded by such a circle of beautiful women in ancient costumes with towering hair buns and rings? Is it a whole game of variety shows? Or are you dreaming?

So, he coughed a few times, opened his mouth with some difficulty, and wanted to ask the people beside the bed, but immediately felt a tingling pain in his throat, and he couldn't make a sound at all...... At the same time, I felt that I was greasy and dirty, my hair was itchy like lice, and my mouth was emitting an extremely disgusting rancid smell - hell, how long had I been lying in bed? Why didn't anyone come to help me get a good wipe?

Then, as if he had been electrocuted, his whole body twitched violently, and his brain felt like it was about to burst - countless memories of this body's original memories came like a hurricane tsunami, making this traverser miserable for a while, but he also knew his identity at this time:

“…… It turns out that this is the Forbidden City, and I am Zhu Youzhen, the last Chongzhen Emperor of the Ming Dynasty...... I didn't think I had crossed the ...... Wait, no! It's only five years of Chongzhen! Qing soldiers in Liaodong...... Well, now it's still a post-Jin soldier, why have you already entered the customs in advance?!! ”R1148