Jingcha ......

This is a system of the Ming Dynasty's officials to assess the Beijing officials, Hongwu stipulated that the examination was held every three years, and then changed to an examination every ten years, and it was stipulated that it was held once every six years during the Hongzhi period.

The purpose of the existence of the Jingcha and Daji system is to reward the good and punish the bad, so that officials at all levels can fulfill their duties and contribute to the rule of the imperial court.

However, it is precisely because of the rewards and punishments of officials that the phenomenon of forming parties such as favoritism and irregularities is very obvious, and it is difficult to truly achieve its due role in the later stage of development.

Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, due to the rise of the Zhejiang Party, the Qi Party, the Chu Party and other township parties after Zhang Juzheng's death, the party struggle between them broke out, which led to the weakening of the national strength of the Ming Dynasty.

In the face of the manipulation of the government between the parties, political darkness, military decay, financial constraints, and heavy expropriation, the Donglin Party came into being.

And because the Donglin Party was not limited to the regional characteristics of the township party, the Donglin Party developed rapidly and had a large number of people, and soon occupied a place in the imperial court.

The Donglin Party believed that it was the party struggle that led to the weakening of the imperial court, so the simplest idea was to end the party dispute.

They strongly demanded that the situation of eunuch dictatorship and disorderly administration be changed, and advocated that "political affairs should be attributed to the six ministries, and public opinions should be dealt with by officials", so that the world would "rejoice in the rule of hope."

As for the imperial family, they vigorously opposed the emperor's dispatch of mine supervisors and tax envoys to various places to carry out frenzied plundering and expropriation.

For civil affairs, it also advocates attaching importance to both agriculture and industry and commerce, and requires benefiting businessmen and the people, reducing taxes, reclaiming wasteland, and building water conservancy; Oppose the frequent malpractice of imperial examinations.

It may sound good, but in fact, since the Donglin Party members come from all over the world, and everyone has their own careful thoughts, many of them joined the Donglin Party in order to wrest power from other parties.

This kind of joining also led to a split within the Donglin Party.

For example, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others advocated the construction of water conservancy, the importance of industry and commerce, and the importance of agriculture, opposed the fraud of the imperial examination, and attached importance to the military of Liaodong.

The second is that he just wants to kill the Qichu and Zhejiang parties in Jingcha, snatch power from them, and seek benefits for the gentry class behind him.

To sum up, Yang Lian and others want to collect business taxes and become enemies of the Zhejiang Party in disguise, and everyone in the other faction will be impeached and be enemies of everyone.

The internal forces of these two Donglin parties are huge, and the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang are facing Jingcha three years later, and if they want not to be killed by the Donglin Party, they can only support Ye Xianggao, who is not hated by the Donglin Party and has no party affiliation.

After figuring out everything, Zhu Youzhen also beat a drum in his heart.

It's not that he is afraid that Du Ye Xianggao will be in high power and thin mud, to put it bluntly, Ye Xianggao's high position will also be good for him.

To put it bluntly, there is no fight or grab, in case someone impeaches him, Ye Xianggao will also be with the mud when he thinks about it.

But the problem is also here, Zhu Youzhen now wants to collect business taxes and land taxes with his good royal brother, so he must curb the Zhejiang Party.

So after Ye Xianggao ascended to the position of first assistant, if he made peace with the mud too much when he was in Jingcha, and the Zhejiang Party survived, then he would unite the two parties of Qi and Chu to defect to Wei Zhongxian and form a eunuch party against the Donglin Party.

The eunuch party and Wei Zhongxian are two things, if the eunuch party is really formed, then Zhu Youzhen will be a little unpredictable.

Even if Wei Zhongxian is killed later, as long as the three parties join forces, it doesn't matter whether Wei Zhongxian is dead or alive.

is as strong as the Donglin Party, after Chongzhen killed Wei Zhongxian, wasn't the three parties that quickly changed their identity from the eunuch party to Qi Chuzhejiang kicked out of the cabinet in the second year of Chongzhen?

It is best to maintain a situation in which many parties work together in a common political struggle, and it would be better if we could do something practical while the struggle was being carried out.

Thinking like this, Zhu Youzhen had a headache.

If he remembers correctly, Ye Xianggao doesn't seem to deal with Yang Lian......

What he has to do now is to use Yang Lian and other small teams to change the law, and then use Wei Zhongxian to drive out all the people in the Donglin Party who want to engage in power struggle.

But if a Ye Xianggao comes up, it will be contrary to his plan......

"I've got to figure out a way."

Zhu Youzhen's face was cloudy, and at this time, the elephant chariot also came to the back left door, and let Zhu Youzhen see a flat bluestone square.

Not far away, under Huang Luo's umbrella, Zhu Youxiao changed into a round-necked robe, tied the robe of his hands and feet with wrist guards, and the front hem of the robe was tucked into the belt around his waist, looking ready.

Beside him, two foals about four feet tall were kicking the bricks, and next to them, there were two taller horses.

On the opposite side of them, there were all kinds of weapons and bows and arrows, and it was obvious that Zhu Youxiao not only wanted to ride a horse, but also wanted to play something else.

In the distance, there are several straw targets standing in the square, presumably used for riding and shooting.

"Brother, come on!"

Seeing Zhu Youzhen's elephant chariot, Zhu Youxiao immediately waved his hand to this side, and the elephant's speed also accelerated and came to Huang Luogai's umbrella.

When Zhu Youzhen got out of the car, a little eunuch stepped forward to put on a bracer for him and pinned the front of the round-necked robe to his belt.

"Brother still wants to practice riding and shooting?"

"That's nature!"

Zhu Youzhen asked, the good imperial brother replied with a smile, and picked up a short bow from the bow frame, tried to pull the bowstring, and then slowly returned to the position with the buckle string.

The bow should not be shot in the air, and the bow should not be injured by the shot.

Zhu Youxiao's every move seems to have been playing with bows and arrows for a long time.

However, I have to say that when he wears this outfit, Zhu Youxiao, who is about five feet five feet tall, looks like he has a hint of the momentum of a hero.

Compared with him, Zhu Youzhen changed into a wrist guard and put on a finger guard for riding and shooting, and stood next to him looking a lot shorter.

"My brother rides this foal, and I ride this horse from the Western Regions that the Vulti tribe paid tribute to! I named him the Bone Penetrating Dragon! ”

Zhu Youxiao said as he led a yellow war horse nearly five feet tall and stroked it lightly.

This horse has white hair on its head, the shape is round like a full moon, its white spots are mostly located on the belly and two ribs, the bones are thick, the skin is thick and dense, the mane, mane, and tail hair are dense, and the body is thicker and heavier.

"According to the Tatars who paid tribute, this horse has the blood of a bloody horse, so it grows tall."

"It's just a pity that there is only this one ......horse in the entire Ming Dynasty," Speaking of this, Zhu Youxiao looked at Zhu Youzhen again and said:

"If my brother wants it, I'll give it to you."

"Forget it...... Zhu Youzhen hurriedly waved his hand and said:

"This war horse is too tall, I'm afraid I can't ride it, or my brother will ride it, and when I'm older, I'll get a bloody horse myself!"

"Good!" Hearing Zhu Youzhen's words, Zhu Youxiao smiled, turned over and got on the horse, his movements were very skillful, and he could see that he often rode a horse.

This is in line with the Ming Dynasty eunuch's description of Zhu Youxiao's "good horse galloping".

It's just that it's difficult for Zhu Youzhen, and the first time he learns horses, he has to practice with Zhu Youxiao......