On May 26, the second year of Chongzhen, the early dynasty.

Gong Yonggu stood in the Xungui train, nervous and at a loss, today, for the sake of happiness in the future, he wanted to tell his affairs in public in the court.

Of course, he can choose to state his own affairs without going through the court, but the concert will inevitably be sent to the cabinet first, and the cabinet elders will definitely not agree to this kind of thing that violates the ancestral system. Anything that the cabinet doesn't agree with can't be sent to the Imperial Court at all. In the entire Ming Dynasty, two capitals and thirteen provinces, how many things are there every day, and if anything needs to be handled by the emperor, what else does the cabinet do?

In other words, only in the court can he have the opportunity to speak and be discussed.

The members of the Cabinet of Ministers are all about the recent events in Japan. In fact, how to deal with various things has long been discussed, and discussing it in the morning is just a matter of taking a look at the situation. Generally speaking, Zhu Youzhen will directly agree.

Unless there are things that are quite controversial and the cabinet cannot make up their minds, they will discuss and dispute in the court, and generally such things mean big things.

Today's early dynasty looks very peaceful, everything is in accordance with the process, there is no dispute, no tearing.

After the ministers finished their respective affairs according to the process, Wang Chengen shouted at the top of his voice: "If there is something to play, there is nothing to retreat!" ”

Gong Yonggu pinched his thigh suddenly, and was about to get out of the train as soon as he gritted his teeth, but at this moment, someone suddenly grabbed in front of him and shouted: "The minister has this to play!" ”

was preempted by someone, Gong Yonggu could only return to the train depressedly, and wait for others to finish talking about it, so he paid attention to what this guy who robbed him first said.

"Your Majesty, the Imperial History of the Imperial Inspectorate Zhong Jianyuan, has recently been rumored that Li Yanzhi, the chief soldier of Fujian, colluded with pirates, robbed Quanzhou, slaughtered Huang Zheng, and occupied people's homes and tyrannized people's wives and daughters.

Zhu Youzhen's spirits perked up, and he looked at this imperial history called Zhong Jianyuan with sharp eyes, and secretly said that the time to come is finally here!

"The minister Xu Song impeached Li Yanzhi, please order Your Majesty to lock Li Yanzhi into Beijing for questioning!"

"The Criminal Division seconded Mao Shilong's proposal."

One after another, the imperial historians stood up and began to crusade against Li Yanzhi.

As early as a few days ago, they went to the palace to impeach Li Yanzhi, but when the song entered the palace, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, and there was no movement, which made these imperial historians who were professional in impeachment how to endure it, and now in the early dynasty, they naturally had to ask the emperor for an understanding.

Zhu Youzhen looked at these imperial histories coldly, these people may not all speak for the Fujian gentry, and they may not all be the Donglin Party, many of them are just impeached when they hear the wind. To put it bluntly, many guys don't know what they've done, and they don't know that they've been used as gunmen.

After these guys finished speaking one by one, the court fell silent.

Zhu You's prosecutor said lightly: "You said one by one that according to the rumors, you impeached Li Yanzhi en masse, how can the rumors be used as evidence?" ”

"Your Majesty," Mao Shilong immediately spoke in the middle of the incident, "The incident may not be without a reason, only by summoning Li Yanzhi back to Beijing for interrogation can we know the truth of the matter, and please ask Your Majesty to issue an order to summon Li Yanzhi into Beijing!" ”

"Ridiculous!" Before Zhu Youzhen could speak, the British public Zhang Zhiji stood up, pointed at Mao Shilong and reprimanded angrily, "Fujian pirates are rampant, and there are red-haired ghosts attacking and plundering Ming fishermen everywhere, Li Yanzhi, as the chief soldier of Fujian, has the important task of guarding the sea frontier, how can you summon the general back to Beijing for trial because of some of your baseless rumors?" ”

"Yes, a major event in the court, do you think it's a playhouse? And I also heard that it was not Li Yanzhi who was thirsty for killing, but the killed Huang Zheng who colluded with pirates. Xinlehou Liu Xiaozu also stood up and said with a smile.

In recent months, the nobles have been very enthusiastic about state affairs, often scolding people in the court, and many civil officials have become accustomed to it.

"The British public is wrong to say this!" Cheng Ji, the servant of the ministry, stood up and directly refuted, "This is not a trivial matter, but a matter related to the community." The killed Huang Zheng has a meritorious reputation, and Quanzhou was also a meritorious person who was directly raided by Li Yan. Could it be that all these people have done things that are contrary to the law of the land?

Even if there is, Li Yanzhi is just a general soldier, what power does he have to deal with them? What's more, Li Yanzhi led his troops to attack Quanzhou without authorization, and directly shot and killed many soldiers defending the city with firearms, his behavior has already constituted rebellion, is it still a trivial matter? Shouldn't he be summoned to Beijing for interrogation? ”

Zhang Zhiji touched his nose, a little speechless, talking about where he was the opponent of these civil officials.

"Your Majesty, Fujian is four thousand miles away from Beijing, Li Yan holds the general army in his hands, and colludes with the former pirate Zheng Zhilong, if he really has a rebellion, I am afraid that Jiangnan is not owned by the Ming Dynasty, and he must not be careful!" Glancing at Zhang Zhiji with disdain, Cheng Jiming turned around and said to Zhu You.

Zhu Youzhen was silent, and secretly sighed in his heart that these nobles are really not good, their combat effectiveness is really scum, and they can't quarrel when they quarrel, no wonder they have been suppressed by civilian officials for more than a hundred years!

Zhu Youzhen was also very helpless, many times, as the emperor, he didn't want to go into battle shirtless, and went directly to argue with these civil officials.

But the point is, except for these useless nobles, no one helps themselves!

At present, the civil officials in the court are divided into several factions, one is the "eunuch party" headed by Huang Liji, and they are the most numerous. But the eunuch party is also divided into several factions, such as Shi Fenglai, who is also the second assistant of the eunuch party, who has long been aiming at the position of the first assistant, and is secretly competing with Huang Liji. However, when dealing with foreign enemies, especially the Donglin Party, the eunuch parties of different factions will generally unite together and try to suppress the Donglin Party. After all, the influence of the Donglin Party in the government and the opposition is too great, and the number of officials is too large, once the Donglin Party enters the court in large numbers, it will definitely be able to quickly control the court, and maybe it will counterattack against them.

The second faction is the Donglin Party, and there are still a lot of Donglin Party in the court, such as Li Banghua, the squire of the Ministry of War, Cheng Jiming, the Shaoqing of the Taifu Temple, Jiang Yuanyi, etc., that is, Sun Chengzong, the governor of Jizhou, are all members of the Donglin Party, and there are also a large number of middle and lower-level officials in the imperial history, such as Mao Shilong and others in the criminal department.

These Donglin parties have a common characteristic, they have a very strong ability to be honest and honest officials, and even Zhu Youzhen, who has always been wary of the Donglin Party, has no choice but to use them.

Then there is the Imperial Party, which is very small in number. At present, the main people who have completely chosen to defect to Zhu Youzhen are Hong Chengchou, the governor of Xuanda, Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Yansui, Sun Chuanting, the governor of Liaodong, and Liu Mao, the governor of Fujian, and a few others, and none of them are in the court. To tell the truth, Lu Xiangsheng and Sun Chuanting are not considered imperialist parties, but non-partisans.

In the DPRK, Zhu Youzhen has always hoped that Shi Fenglai, the second assistant, can completely throw himself into himself, so that he can remove Huang Liji and control the situation through Shi Feng, but at critical moments, Shi Fenglai always chooses neutrality, for example, now, Shi Fenglai stands in the train, like an old monk who is not at all in tune.

Looking at the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, Zhu Youzhen couldn't help but want to ask, where are my henchmen and courtiers?