"Uncle Guo is cautious, I naturally can't guess for sure. But His Majesty did not choose to be Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, which is indeed something I didn't expect, and I guess Wen Qiaogong didn't expect it either. ”

Pan Jien smiled bitterly, and then said: "It can be said that His Majesty betrayed his ministers, and now that I think about it, Uncle Guo and Chao Cuo are still different, and maybe Your Majesty's thoughts are also different from Emperor Han Jing." ”

"How can Emperor Han Jing compare to His Majesty?"

"In the words of Uncle Guo, Your Majesty does not only regard himself as the biggest landlord in the world, nor is his thinking limited to infighting thinking, to be precise, His Majesty has never only thought about himself!"

"Only emperors who only think about themselves will be successfully used by you. You just think that Your Majesty thinks the same as you, but you don't know that Your Majesty, as a person who likes to invent and create, is essentially tired of being unchanged, and essentially wants the world to be better because of his transformation. ”

Zhou Nengyan said.

After speaking, Zhou Neng ordered: "Bring Tian Jingyuan here!" ”

Not long after, Tian Jingyuan was escorted.

After Zhou Neng saw Tian Jingyuan, he asked directly: "Tian Jingyuan, you listened to it for a while just now, what he Pan Jien said, is it all true?" ”

Tian Jingyuan nodded.

At this time, Liu Hongxun shouted on the side: "The surname is Tian, the old man wants to ask you, as a son of a sage, where is your conscience?" He Yang Sichang asked you to frame the old man, and you framed it! The old man still believes in you and supports you. ”

After hearing this, Tian Jingyuan also replied loudly: "Liu Yuanfu, I am sorry for you!" But in this matter, isn't his Uncle Zhang Guo a little responsible?! If Uncle Zhang hadn't asked Zhu Zhiyu to deliberately pull people into the water, would we have taken advantage of your old age?! ”

Peng!

Zhou Neng directly kicked Tian Jingyuan and roared angrily: "Clean Lao Tzu's mouth!" Is the uncle of the country addicted to planting the bribe? ”

Tian Jingyuan didn't dare to say more, but said: "If you want to kill or chop, please!" ”

Next, Pan Jien and Tian Jingyuan were indeed all killed, and the nine clans were also exiled to Sakhalin.

Liu Hongxun was also released from prison because he was found not to be Tian Jingyuan's mastermind behind the scenes, but he was not reinstated, and was only reinstated as the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites.

Chen Zizhuang was added to the university scholar, and he was still ordered to act as a minister of the Ministry of Rites.

Therefore, from now on, people called Chen Zizhuang as Chen Gebu.

There was a precedent in the Longqing Dynasty for university scholars and ministers, and Gao Gong served as a university scholar and served as a minister.

Generally speaking, however, it is rare for a cabinet scholar to concurrently serve in six ministries.

And now, the Apocalypse has asked Chen Zizhuang to concurrently serve as the Ministry of Rites, mainly because there are not many trustworthy Qingliu civil officials among the Qingliu officials nowadays.

No one knows that these Qingliu civil officials, a few of them are really in favor of not respecting science, although on the surface, many Qingliu civil officials have taken advantage of the situation to express their disapproval of science, but Tianqi only dares to believe Chen Zizhuang, a Qingliu official from Hanlin.

After all, recently, reactionary civil servants have always appeared in the position of the Ministry of Rites, which is a concentration of Qingliu officials.

And Chen Zizhuang and the Son of Heaven are bound by interests.

People can not believe in any relationship, but they can only believe in the relationship of interests.

And after Liu Hongxun came out, he had to admit that it was not Uncle Zhang Guo who really framed him, but Yang Sichang and others, and the reason was just to make himself a victim of public opinion created by them.

People's hearts are sinister, Liu Hongxun has learned a lot now, and he doesn't dare to be stupid anymore to go against Zhang Gui, and then be used as a gun.

In the face of absolute strength, any strategy pales in comparison.

Zhang Gui tied the most powerful emperor to his chariot, so he also mastered absolute strength, and Yang Sichang, the behind-the-scenes opponent who started from the Industrial Division, the factory guard, and the Qingliu Wenchen, was killed in a simple and rude way.

The Manchu dynasty did not have much shock to Yang Sichang's death.

Because Yang Sichang has long been despised by the scholars and doctors because he has become a military general, not to mention, Wu Weiye and these people have already scolded Yang Sichang before this.

Of course, Yang Sichang himself did something that did not make the conservative ministers happy in order to paralyze Zhang Gui and the Son of Heaven, so after Yang Sichang was killed, he did not make much waves.

The courtiers now had to turn their attention to the upcoming war against the southern puppet dynasty.

Long before Tianqi and Zhang Gui left Beijing to defeat the puppet dynasty's Gao Chongjian department, Lu Xiangsheng, the secretary of the military department, had already been ordered to transfer troops from all over the country, mainly from outside the customs and from overseas, and to prepare for the complete extermination of the southern puppet dynasty.

Now, a few months later, the army has been assembled one after another, the money, food, and baggage are almost ready, and the officers and men are almost resting.

Zhang Gui was also reappointed as the superintendent of several southern provinces, and became the commander of the nominally southward pacifying imperial court.

The reason why Zhang Gui wants to go with him is because many of the governors in the local government are already Fa-changers, and Yuan Keli, Chen Zizhuang, and Lu Xiangsheng are in the center, so they need an official of the Fa-Changing faction as the commander to coordinate the contradictions in all aspects and ensure that Zhu Xieyuan's Jun orders are issued from above.

Otherwise, if the governors at all levels don't want Zhu Xieyuan to make meritorious service easily, they can completely use all kinds of legal methods to restrain Zhu Xieyuan.

And the southern puppet dynasty has also begun to discuss how to resist the imperial court to exterminate them.

"Today's plan, only by uniting to destroy the Kou can we maintain orthodoxy!"

Wang Wenkui therefore put forward his own ideas, which is similar to the ministers of the Hongguang regime in the history of the Southern Ming Dynasty who proposed to join the capture of Pingkou.

Wang Wenkui and other ministers agreed, and decided to continue to strengthen cooperation with Waiyi against the imperial court.

Obviously, these scholars and doctors of the puppet dynasty who advocated the exclusive respect for science and the restoration of the ancestral system would rather count on the foreign Yi than the Han people under their rule who were passively willing to support their exclusive respect for science and the restoration of the ancestral system.

The key is that Wang Wenkui's so-called strategy of "uniting to destroy the Kou" is to spend money to hire foreign soldiers to fight for the Ming Dynasty.

And hiring a foreigner naturally requires silver.

Therefore, Wang Wenkui and other puppet courtiers were obviously creating an opportunity for themselves to make a windfall, and therefore, in the name of the puppet emperor, they issued a tax item of "hired salary".

Sometimes one has to wonder if these people are really rebelling, or if they really just want to make money in the name of rebellion.

Of course, this may not be up to them.

However, the actual increase in the "hired salary" on the common people is naturally many times more than the nominal increase in taxes.

Wang Wenkui and other puppet ministers naturally made a lot of money.

It's just that the people are even more miserable, not only a large number of poor peasants and middle peasants have gone bankrupt, but even many rich peasants have begun to go bankrupt.

Wei Boxiang, who defected to the country, couldn't stand this, but had to ask to see Wang Wenkui, reflecting the overburden of the people, and said: "It's rare that the center can't see it, the entire Guangzhou Mansion is starving!" ”

Wang Wenkui said: "The people's livelihood is difficult, and the servant knows it, but when the time comes, he can only insist on it." ”

Wei Boxiang said: "If you insist, the people will rebel!" The restoration of the ancestral system and the exclusive respect for Confucianism should not be for the convenience of the people, Yuanfu! Now that there are so many corrupt officials in the DPRK and China, just copy a few, and you don't have to add any hired wages to exploit the people! ”

Wang Wenkui suddenly slapped the table: "You don't want to talk so much, now that the imperial court has restored the ancestral system and respected science, the people are in the dynasty, and the officials are in the Qing Dynasty, where are there any corrupt officials?!" Corrupt officials are everywhere, that is the situation of the northern puppet dynasty controlled by the traitor Zhang Gui, not ours! Could it be that you want to say that it is wrong to restore the ancestral system, respect the science alone, and abide by the etiquette and religion?! ”