Zhu Youxiao's holy decree was issued, and the speed caught the cabinet off guard.

"Alas, eventful times......"

In the Wenhua Palace, when the first assistant of the cabinet received the holy decree, he knew that the storm was coming.

Sure enough, before he and Sun Ruyou could discuss, the Donglin Party officials in the Wenhua Hall gathered together in celebration, and they did not shy away from it.

From several successive decrees, it is not difficult to see that this time the emperor meant that Jingcha was mainly aimed at Jiangnan and Zhejiang, and then Shandong was implicated.

Therefore, as an official of the Chu Party, although nominally an alliance with the Zhejiang Party, it was a look of watching a play, and all the Zhejiang Party officials frowned.

Among the Qi Party officials, the right-hand Du Yushi Qishijiao, who is over sixty years old, has a sad face.

Qi Shijiao, as a protégé of the Zhejiang Party Fang Congzhe, plus the leader of the Qi Party, it is inevitable that he will not let him go this time in the Donglin Party.

He was still worried about this, and the Qi Party officials next to him were also full of sadness.

The only ones who were happy were the Donglin Party officials headed by Liu Yixiu, the deputy assistant to the cabinet.

"Jingwen, what should we do?"

Fang Congzhe walked to Sun Ruyou's side, and the two looked at Liu Yixiao, who was more than ten steps away, as well as Zuo Guangdou and the others, and their brows tightened more and more.

"Long live is suddenly so strict with Jiangnan, there must be something big happening in Jiangnan."

Sun Ruyou's reaction was very fast, and so was Fang Congzhe, he hurriedly said:

"If something happens in Jiangnan, then since this year, only Huaibei hunger is worth paying attention to."

The conversation between the two fully expressed a kind of helplessness in the workplace and officialdom.

To put it bluntly, the people above can sit in the position, in addition to their personal ability, there is also the foil of the people below.

Only when the people below are stable enough, the position of the people above can be more stable.

Even in the workplace of later generations, the middle level does some things, and the upper level may not be able to clearly understand all of them.

is his own descendant, and sometimes he will cause big trouble to his boss because of a trivial matter.

And right now, Huaibei has taught Fang Congzhe and Sun Ruyou a lesson.

They didn't know that the matter in Huaibei was so serious, and they didn't know that they had been cheated by Zhejiang party officials in Jiangnan.

"We must send someone to Nanzhili immediately, and we must find out what is going on, otherwise we will only end up being captured." Sun Ruyou said nervously:

"Only by understanding things and knowing the relationship between things can we deal with Donglin's counterattack."

"I'll do it!" Hearing this, Yao Zongwen hurriedly walked out of the Wenhua Palace, and this scene was also seen clearly by Liu Yixiu.

After Liu Yixiao caught a glimpse, he said to Zuo Guangdou:

"This time, I inquired about the inner court, and I heard that it happened after a brocade guard under the command of the Fifth Highness entered the palace."

"In addition, Long Live also leveled Wen Ru (Yang Lian's table character), so presumably, this matter must be caused by His Royal Highness the Five, and Wen Ru must also know a lot of things."

"According to his character, I'm afraid he is already on his way back to Beijing."

"Tomorrow morning, if Wen Ru can come, you can ask him carefully and see if you can catch the handle of this group of township parties!"

"Well, I know." Zuo Guangdou is very delicate, although he is nearly forty-five years old, his one-foot beauty makes him a little young.

He replied very firmly, in line with his character.

Seeing this, Liu Yixiao continued to explain to the Donglin officials around:

"The matter of Jingcha revision, the Ming Dynasty will inevitably be raised, and many parties will inevitably rise up to attack at that time, and the officials of the Chang Dynasty who will go to the palace tomorrow must prepare as early as possible."

"It's okay for us to wait, but most people have different opinions on the revision of Jingcha, and it is difficult to unify." Yushi Yuan Huazhong frowned and spoke, and this also said the problems within the Donglin Party.

Because it is not a township party and there is no unified interest, the unified opinions are just to make the Ming Dynasty move forward in a better direction, so everyone has different backgrounds and different political views.

For example, Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others have basically rich peasants and poor peasants, while behind Hui Shiyang, Qian Qianyi, Gao Panlong and others are gentry who are entrenched in the prefecture and county and are scholars.

An old minister like Liu Yixian is a squire entrenched in the countryside behind him.

If we take different positions, it will be difficult to unify our political views.

Coupled with the loose organization, many times the Donglin Party itself can quarrel internally.

The words put forward by Yuan Huazhong can be said to be a fatal point for the officials of the Donglin faction, and the reason why they were later defeated by the eunuch party formed by the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang under Wei Zhongxian was also because of this.

"This time, our Occupy Dayi, Long Live and the Fifth Highness are also on our side, even if there are differences of opinion, the matter of Jingcha can be decided!" Liu Yixiao frowned and said:

"Even if the other township parties don't agree, as long as we insist, we will definitely be able to change the system of Jingcha, sweep this group of corrupt officials out of the officialdom, and return the bright and prosperous world!"

"That's right!"

"When it is!"

"Only by sweeping them away can the people of the world live and work in peace and contentment."

After Liu Yixiao finished speaking, a group of Donglin officials immediately echoed it, but among them, it is not known how many people can think about the people like Zuo Guangdou, Yang Lian, Liu Yixie, Gao Panlong and others.

No matter how the times change, there will never be a shortage of speculators, and the nature of speculators is greedy.

When the speculation is successful, their greedy nature will be slowly released, and they will eventually be more greedy than the corrupt officials they once were.

Therefore, after seeing that he had almost united people, Liu Yixiao put his heart at ease, and then heard the sound of hurried footsteps.

He looked at the door, only to see a group of people walking into the Wenhua Hall in a hurry, and after glancing at Liu Yixian and their group of Donglin Party, he walked into the side hall of Fang Congzhe and others.

"The Xuan Party and the Kun Party are here."

Zuo Guangdou was calm, and Qi Shijiao and others from the Qi Party saw the people from the Xuan Party and the Kun Party, and they also led people into the side hall.

Their behavior made Liu Yixiao and others frown, and after a while, a person walked out of the hall, went to the crowd of the Chu Party, and called Ying Zhen, the young official of Taichang Temple, the leader of the Chu Party, into the hall.

However, how to deal with this kind of thing in Jingcha will definitely not be discussed in the Wenhua Palace, they should only discuss a time and place, and then everyone walked out.

After they all left, Zuo Guangdou suddenly said:

"This group of people, I'm afraid, will unite to resist Banzai's will to modify Jingcha."

"Resist!" Liu Yixian snorted coldly:

"As long as we insist, if Banzai really wants to revise the Jingcha period, we will directly impeach Fang Congzhe, Sun Ruyou and others."

"Impeach them, and when we take power, we will be able to bring peace to the world."

"But ......" Speaking of this, Liu Yixian said again:

"These township parties are powerful, and we must not be able to fight against them, and we must invite back Zhao Mengbai, Gu Boqin, Xia Zhengfu, Zhou Jihou, Yuan Liqing and others."

The people Liu Yixiao mentioned are Zhao Nanxing, Gu Dazhang, Xia Jiayu, Zhou Zongjian, Yuan Keli and others.

Among them, I am afraid that in the eyes of later generations, the most famous is Yuan Keli.

After all, Yuan Keli single-handedly established the defense line of Dongjiang Town and Liaonan, and when he was in charge of Shandong and Liaoning, it can be said that he was impregnable.

In particular, the rebellion against Liu Aita and the establishment of the southern Liaoning defense line can be said to have restrained Houjin's great energy.

As for the others, they were well-known incorruptible officials during the Wanli Dynasty.

However, the most eye-catching of them is Zhao Nanxing.

At the beginning, he relied on his own strength to stir up the Zhejiang Party into troubled waters.

At this time, Donglin Party members like Sun Chengzong were not ranked among the internal talents of the Donglin Party.

It's a pity that most of these people in history were persecuted to death by the Qichu, Zhejiang, Xuankun parties who were attached to Wei Zhongxian and were known as the eunuch party.

In the end, the Donglin Party without this group of people completely became a master of mouth artillery, and there were only a few capable ministers such as Yuan Keli, Sun Chengzong, Li Banghua, Xu Guangqi, Ni Yuanlu, and Fan Jingwen during the Chongzhen period.

By the time he arrived in Nanming, only Qian Qianyi and other people who had no political means were left among the 309 Donglin Party members.

Putting people with mediocre talents on the table is tantamount to hastening the collapse of a dynasty.

However, these are all later words, and now after Liu Yixiao's words came out, he was immediately respected by all the Donglin Party members.

"In the early years, Fang Congzhe was the first assistant, and he used Jingcha to squeeze out people with lofty ideals such as us, and now that feng shui is turning, it's time for us to punish them!"

Zuo Guangdou was atmospheric, and Yuan Huazhong also said:

"The urgency of the current delay is to implement the Jingcha matter first, as long as the Jingcha matter is implemented, you can make a big fuss about the Jiangnan matter."

"As long as the Kun Party and the Xuan Party are cut off, the Qi Party, the Zhejiang Party, and the Chu Party can be swept out of the court!"

"That's right!" The people next to him also chimed in.

At this moment, it seems that all other township party officials who are not Donglin Party have become enemies of Donglin Party.

This is one of the most failed political policies of the Donglin Party......

As long as his opinions do not match his own, he is a minister who brings disaster to the country and the people!

Therefore, the discussion came to this point, and all the officials of the Donglin Party chatted enthusiastically.

While they were talking all night, various other township parties left the Wenhua Hall one after another, and the last ones who remained in the Wenhua Hall were only the officials without party affiliation and the officials of the Donglin Party who were in full swing.

As for all the officials who left, they went to Sun Ruyou's mansion in the capital one after another.

In the dark Shuntianfu Jingshi, the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses patrolled the streets, and the husband also beat the gong from time to time.

Many markets are lit with lanterns, and it looks like they are still bustling even with a curfew.

But under this prosperity, there is a danger that can destroy the country......

On the main hall of a mansion in Nanxunfang, there are seven or six people sitting on the main seat like the previous court, and in front of them are more than two hundred people, which have spread beyond the main hall.

Sun Ruyou, the leader of the Zhejiang Party, the cabinet minister, and the scholar of Dongge University, sat in the middle of the main seat of the six, and to his left was the cabinet chief assistant Fang Congzhe.

On the right, it is the leader of the Qi Party, and Fang Congzhe's disciples are the right of the Imperial History of the Imperial Academy.

About three people are the leaders of the Chu Party, Ying Zhen, the Shaoqing official of Taichang Temple, the head of the Kun Party, Gu Tianjun, and the Xuandang Zuo Chunfang, the left Yude Tang Binyin.

In this way, a huge alliance led by six people covering fifty percent of the officials in the Ming officialdom was revealed.

Those who can enter the main hall inside and outside are all officials above the seventh rank of Beijing officials, which shows the great power of these five major parties.

However, the fact that the Donglin Party wanted to take charge of Jingcha made these five major parties fearful, and it is not difficult to see what a terrifying weapon Jingcha was in the late Ming Dynasty.

Looking at the people in the main hall, Sun Ruyou knew that all the discussions were just discussions of the six leaders, so he looked at the other five:

"If Liu Yixiao and others become a matter of Jingcha, I am afraid that there will not be one out of ten people here who can be in the court."

As soon as the word was spoken, everyone was silent......

The Donglin Party's Jingcha proposition has been seen by most of the people here.

In March of the 21st year of Wanli, the Guiji Jingcha was presided over by Sun Yan, the secretary of the Zhejiang Party Officials' Department, Li Shida, the imperial history of the non-party Zuodu, and Zhao Nanxing, the Donglin Party Examination Meritorious Division.

At that time, the strength of the Donglin Party was still very weak, but this time Jingcha they were almost the main impeachment force, and the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang were all impeached and supported the same party, and a large number of ministers were removed and deposed.

Yuan Keli, the imperial history of the Donglin Party, angered Shen Zhengyi, the head of the Zhejiang Party, and Shen Zheng instigated the Wanli Emperor to directly remove Yuan Keli.

Such a move caused an uproar at the time.

But this is only the calm before the storm, and the real highlight is in the thirty-third year of Wanli.

At that time, Yang Shiqiao, a member of the Donglin Party, and Wen Chun, the Yushi of Zuodu, presided over the Yiji Jingcha, during which the "pseudo-Chu Wang Eucalyptus" broke out, forming a struggle between the two major groups of the Zhejiang Party Shen and the Qingliu Party Shen Li.

Shen Li took the opportunity to belittle the Zhejiang Party officials, but Shen has always simply put it up, directly saying that he was sick and closed his home, and in the end only Zhu Geng was left in the cabinet.

It is precisely because of this incident that the Wanli fresh air left by Zhang Juzheng was destroyed and began to go downhill.

During the struggle between the Zhejiang Party and the Qingliu Party, the Donglin Party grew rapidly, which attracted the attention of the Zhejiang Party.

Therefore, in the 39th year of Wanli, during the Xinhai Jingcha, the officials of the Zhejiang Party, the Qi Party, and the Chu Party planned to overthrow Donglin, but fortunately they were stopped by Wang Tu, the right Yulang of the Ministry of Officials.

During this period, the party struggle of the imperial court formed a dispute between the southern party and the northern party, attacking each other, and Xu Zhaokui, the imperial historian of Gyeonggi Province, said: "The eastern forest is there, and it is tempting for a while, so that the north and the south can attack, and the horn victory party is attached."

The Donglin Party was continuously suppressed, and under the suppression of the three parties of Qi, Chu and Zhejiang, a political atmosphere of the party fighting against differences was also formed.

In the end, in the forty-fifth year of Wanli, Ding Jijingcha, Qi Dang Shijiao, Zhou Yongchun, Chu Party officials Ying Zhen, Wu Liangsi, Zhejiang Party Yao Yunwen, Liu Tingyuan and other three parties wantonly expelled the Donglin Party, so far the dispute between friends and parties has intensified.

It has only been three years since Ding Jijing's investigation, and the Donglin Party's desire for revenge is very clear to the officials of the three parties after discussions.

Therefore, it is necessary to reject the emperor's holy decree to revise the Jingcha deadline at the moment, and even more so to fight back against the Donglin Party in the next few years!

Thinking of this, Sun Ruyou continued:

"Just like Xinhai Jingcha, as long as I am equal to the enemy, I will not let Donglin Yuchen succeed!"

"It's easy to say, but is that really the case?" Suddenly, Gu Tianjun of the Kun Party opened his mouth and said with a calm expression:

"Long live the reason why you want to inspect Beijing in advance and focus on Nan Zhili?"

Gu Tianjun asked the key question, and at this time, the officials of the Xuan Party and the officials of the Zhejiang Party and the Qi Party were a little timid.

Ying Zhen, the leader of the Chu Party who had nothing to do with himself, also snorted coldly:

"Although it is an alliance, there are some things that some people do not do authentically."

Guan Yingzhen and Gu Tianjun's words pointed directly at the Zhejiang Party, and the reason was even simpler.

The Ming Dynasty paid taxes, mainly to collect land taxes, followed by miscellaneous.

Ying Zhen, an official of the Chu Party, was attached to the Sichuan Party, and the Sichuan Party and the Chu Party, as well as the Township Party in Henan, were the main places where grain was cultivated.

The taxes paid in Sichuan and Huguang are paid every year and transported to the south of the Yangtze River, and then to the north of the canal to the capital.

However, Zhejiang party officials always withheld taxes from the two provinces and shipped them to the north after making a profit.

The two provinces paid 3 million stones every year, and the miscellaneous items were more than 100,000 taels, but after they arrived in Nanjing, they were directly detained by the Zhejiang Party, and only nine percent were handed over again.

It is equivalent to saying that the Zhejiang party officials ate 10% of the taxes that the Chu party should have paid, and in the end, the taxes were insufficient, and the Chu party was forced to default on paying taxes.

This kind of accumulation over the years has become a large amount of money, and the Chu Party is even more angry in his heart.

If it weren't for the Donglin Party, the most important thing for the Chu Party to strangle was the Zhejiang Party, so the Chu Party and the Zhejiang Party often impeached each other on small matters, and only in the face of Donglin would they be unanimous to the outside world.

Compared with the Chu Party, the Kun Party is even more miserable.

As a major tax province, Nanzhili occupies a quarter of the tax of the Ming Dynasty all the year round, and pays 6 million stones of grain every year, of which nearly 2 million stones are handed over in Suzhou alone, almost occupying one of the eleventh days of the Ming Dynasty.

The establishment of the Kun Party, to put it bluntly, is also to reduce the burden of the large and small landlords in Suzhou, while the Zhejiang Party has always resisted taxes, which is basically against the Kun Party.

The tax is fixed, and since Suzhou has to pay less tax, then other places need to pay more.

But the Zhejiang Party not only did not hand it over, but also sheltered the small township party below, so that the Kun Party became a singing clown.

Therefore, it is right that Guan Yingzhen and Gu Tianjun have grievances, they have no grievances, aren't they dead?

Therefore, Sun Ruyou also understands the grievances of the two, but as the leader of the Zhejiang party gentry and squires, officials, and businessmen, it is impossible for him to harm the interests of the Zhejiang people.

Therefore, he could only say: "The matter of seizure can be discussed, and the urgent matter of delay at the moment is to discuss how to reject the Long Live Decree first." ”

"Rejected? Consult? Gu Tianjun sneered:

"Doesn't Sun Gechen know who caused the Huaibei incident this time?"

"Whoever provokes it, wipe it himself......" Suddenly, Tang Binyin of the Xuan Party also spoke, pointing the spearhead directly at the Zhejiang Party and the Qi Party.

However, at this time, Fang Congzhe and Qi Dangqi Shijiao did not hide it, but generously admitted:

"This time the Huaibei famine, we have already inquired, the Huaibei famine is in the Xuzhou prefect and the Huai'an prefect."

"We have told them to release food quickly, and the local famine will be solved very quickly."

"Famine can be solved, but what about corpses? How many people died of hunger in Huaibei? Do they dare to tell you? Tang Bin Yin of the Xuan Party asked loudly.

Although he was also an official from Nanzhili, he also knew that if the Ming Dynasty died, everything for them would be lost.

So when Xiong Tingbi was impeached, he also silently made a contribution, and the officials in Huaibei and Fengyang had already told him.

In addition to being shocked, he also hated the Qi Party and the Zhejiang Party that caused this incident.

In his opinion, this is not a natural disaster, it is a man-made disaster.

Moreover, because of this incident, the Donglin Party will take power for the first time, and it is difficult to say what evil consequences the Donglin Party will "feedback" based on the oppression experience of many of their parties.

"The prefect of Huai'an reported that 1,464 people died in the famine in Huai'an ......"

Sun Ruyou was silent for a few seconds and then slowly spoke, and this opening made everyone's hearts hang.

Is there really only such a small number of people?

If there are only such a few people, then why does the emperor lose his temper so much and make so many adjustments?

"One thousand four hundred and sixty-four? It's not just ......" Tang Bin Yin sneered:

"I think 140,000 people are about the same!"

"How is this possible?"

"Won't you...... 140,000? ”

"With so many people, it's no wonder Banzai is angry......"

Tang Binyin's words made the entire main hall boil, a human disaster that starved to death of 140,000 people, this level of disaster, no wonder the emperor was angry.

Everyone was boiling, and they all looked at Sun Ruyou, but Sun Ruyou was an old god, and said with an indifferent face:

"In the sixth year of Wanli, the households of Huai'an Mansion were 109,205, and the mouth was 906,033."

"How many people died, just do a little math......"

Sun Ruyou's words made the hearts of hundreds of officials feel cold.

Everyone knows that most of the household registrations in the late Ming Dynasty are copied from the old, and if Huai'an Mansion has a population of 900,000 on paper, then the real population is likely to exceed 2 million.

In this way, as long as some squires and gentry are asked to release some tenants, it is enough to make the Huaibei area have no dead people on paper.

This approach is chilling, but it is the most effective and direct.

As for the hundreds of thousands of people who died? Are they human? It's just a lonely ghost after a stroke, as if Da Ming has never appeared in this group of people.

"Humph!" Hearing this, although Tang Binyin was angry in his heart, there was nothing he could do.

State affairs are very important, but if the officials who proclaim the party can't stay, then how can they handle state affairs?

"The corpses of the local hungry people, the officials of Huai'an Province have already begun to dispose of them." Sun Ruyou then continued:

"When Yang Lian goes south, he will only see a peaceful scene, and in Huaibei, there has never been any starving people who died of great hunger."

"What we have to do now is to think about how to refute Banzai's holy decree to revise Jingcha."

"The holy decree is easy to say, what do you say about the autumn tax and additional silver seized in Jiangnan?" Chu party official Ying Zhen continued to ask, but Sun Ruyou could only say:

"The grain, silver, and silver will be escorted north soon, but it will take a little time to get together."

"Turning it in?" Guan Ying sneered.

"Tomorrow can be discussed, minus the additional silver in Sichuan and Huguang." Sun Ruyou did not answer positively, but used the silver sent by Ming Sui to make profits, but Guan Yingzhen said:

"I'm afraid I won't count it then, right?"

Guan Yingzhen knew very well that the imperial court was short of silver, and the additional silver of Sichuan and Huguang was nearly 500,000 taels, and it was impossible for the emperor to dispense with it, and the two places did not suffer any military disasters and natural disasters, so there was no reason.

"Why be aggressive?" Sun Ruyou was also annoyed by Guan Yingzhen's question.

"It's not that I'm being aggressive, I think it's supposed to be aggressive." Guan Yingzhen said:

"The increase in the field endowment has made it unbearable for the people of the world, and the additional distribution of the field endowment must be apportioned to miscellaneous!"

"That's right!" Gu Tianjun of the Kun Party and Tang Binyin of the Xuan Party echoed one after another, but only Qi Shijiao of the Qi Party hesitated.

If the lake can still be crossed in front of it, then now is the time to cut the meat.

Thinking of this, Sun Ruyou only felt very tired, and looked at Fang Congzhe hesitantly, and only after seeing that the other party also nodded, did he say:

"Miscellaneous items cannot be levied, it is better to pay one more point for the fields of Zhejiang next year, and how about paying half a cent less for other provinces?"

Sun Ruyou knew that he could not levy miscellaneous items, so he would rather pay an extra point for Tian Fu, that is, one percent, than pay an extra cent for miscellaneous items.

Although this is not considered cutting meat, it will pay more than 200,000 taels more than 200,000 taels in a year, plus other taxes, which can be regarded as an exchange for the support of all parties.

"That's fine." Chu party official Ying Zhen nodded, and the leaders of other parties also chimed in.

This is unimaginable, but for the sake of more than 200,000 taels, this group of people has actually been fighting until now.

But when it comes to this, the parties are considered to have unified their attitude towards the emperor and the Donglin party.

The matter of Jingcha must not be changed, and the Donglin Party will definitely not be able to take power.

When the Donglin Party is in power, they have no way to live!

As soon as the matter was settled, everyone returned to the mansion one after another, and wrote all kinds of notes overnight, all of which were notes rejecting the holy decree.

It flies like a locust, like a threatening blade, about to be stabbed out in the regular dynasty of tomorrow......