Wei Mansion.

Yang Suoxiu knelt on the ground tremblingly, and scolded his mother in his heart: Today is really declining, and it is not easy to pick up a life in the morning and come back to return here to restore his life.

Wei Zhongxian sat on the soft collapse, and Ni Wenhuan, one of the Five Tigers, sat under him. I saw Wei Zhongxian take a sip of tea, and asked lightly, "Lord Yang, you bothered about today's matter." ”

"Where is it, worrying about the nine thousand years old is a matter within the responsibility of the lower officials."

"Well, I appreciate Lord Yang as a down-to-earth and reliable person, I already know about today's events, Lord Yang should go back and rest early!"

"The next official retired." As he spoke, his own subordinates from the Wei Mansion took him away.

After Yang Suoxiu left, Wei Zhongxian looked at Ni Wenhuan and asked, "You have heard everything, what do you think of today's events?" ”

"Father-in-law, the child thinks that the emperor still listened to the words of Emperor Daxing, and he has no plans to do anything to us."

Seeing Wei Zhongxian's puzzled face, Ni Wenhuan spoke again: "Father-in-law, you want to go, after all, the new monarch has just been established, if someone proposes it." Ding worried' and the emperor's words without any expression will inevitably damage Tianwei, so even if you want to get by on the face, you have to temporarily detain Lord Cui and a few people, and you have also heard that today's situation about someone impeaching you, the emperor directly vetoed it, which proves that the emperor is also a master who understands the way of checks and balances, after all, the strength of the Donglin Party is also very strong, and he also needs our help to help him stabilize the current status quo. ”

"And what do we do now, in your opinion?"

"I have a suggestion that my stepfather can try."

As he spoke, he got up directly and came to Wei Zhongxian, and after whispering a few words, Wei Zhongxian instantly stroked his palm and smiled: "Okay, just do as you say." ”

Inside the Imperial Study.

"Your Majesty, Minister Zhang Weixian has been ordered to come to the audience."

Chongzhen showed a rare smile, this is the only loyal minister he has completely trusted in this time and space so far, and he still attaches great importance to this courtier.

"Aiqing is exempt from courtesy, you don't have to be restrained, give a seat."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The little eunuch was very clever and moved a rosewood chair over. Zhang Weixian sat down very crampedly (in fact, he put his butt on the side, ready to get up at any time.) ）

Chongzhen looked at Zhang Weixian and said bitterly: "Aiqing, now that Emperor Daxing has just returned to heaven, Jiannu is eyeing the outside of the gate, and there are continuous party disputes between the government and the opposition, and the earthquake and locust plague have led to the fatigue of the people's livelihood, what do you say the widow should do?" ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen thinks that the top priority should be to canonize Concubine Liu Niangniang first." Zhang Weixian said unhurriedly.

Shrimp? Chongzhen was taken aback, I am telling you about such an important state event now, you are actually here to talk to me about the canonization, seeing Chongzhen looking at himself suspiciously, Zhang Weixian did not sell his son anymore, and directly and honestly stated his true intentions.

"Dare to ask Your Majesty, why is Cui Chengxiu and a few people only imprisoned in the court today, but the impeachment of Gonggong Wei is ignored?"

"Zhang Aiqing, do you think I can really be such a big master?" Chongzhen asked with a wry smile.

"Your Majesty Mingjian, since Your Majesty thinks that you should temporarily keep your head in obscurity and forbear, you should show that you have nothing to do, and treat Wei Zhongxian and Baba and others as if the first emperor was there, step by step, Concubine Liu is Your Majesty's biological mother, Your Majesty should be canonized based on reason, and the queen mother and Her Majesty the mother should also be sealed as soon as possible, and firmly grasp the power of the court, military and political affairs in their own hands as soon as possible, as for the rest, they can only be slowly figured."

After listening to Zhang Weixian's words, Chongzhen nodded thoughtfully.

A few days later, on the Imperial Palace, it was agreed to posthumously worship the Virgin Concubine Liu as the Empress Dowager of Xiaochun, and selected the Zhou family as the queen on September 27, the queen's father Zhou Kui was promoted from the deputy commander of the Nancheng Terracotta Division to the right army governor Tongzhi, the queen's two elder brothers Zhou Wenbing, Zhou Wenyao as the deputy commander of the Terracotta Division.

Unconsciously, half a month has passed, with the passage of time Chongzhen is slowly getting used to this era, one morning after the end of the dynasty, Chongzhen is about to go to the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies to inspect, Wang Chengen said: "Master, Wei Changgong asks to see." ”

Since the funeral of the Emperor of the Apocalypse, this is still one of the few official meetings between the two. Chongzhen was a little puzzled, but still said: "Let the old dog wait in the imperial study." ”

"Old slave Wei Zhongxian, long live my emperor, long live, long live."

Wei Zhongxian's attitude was very respectful, lying on the ground like an old dog, and he couldn't see the slightest arrogance at all.

"Wei Daban, you get up, what is the important thing to tell you when you are in a hurry."

Chongzhen said lightly, not hearing any feelings.

"Emperor Xie, the old slave is indeed in trouble, and the old slave is here today to ask the emperor to resign from the position of the governor and eunuch of Dongchang."

Chongzhen was taken aback in his heart, but he remained silent on the surface, thinking that it could be that this old dog had changed his sex, and the sudden wave of operations made me a little overwhelmed, could it be that he deliberately retreated to advance and test my true intentions. Thinking about it in his heart, he immediately said: "Why did Wei Daban resign, when the first emperor was here, he often talked to me about you as a minister of the humerus, and when he was funeral, he also specially asked me to reuse you, this first emperor has just returned, you have to resign, I am not allowed." ”

"Your Majesty, of course the old slave knows that the first emperor and the emperor are holy monarchs, and the old slave should have gone to the soup for the emperor, and his liver and brain were smeared, but since the first emperor returned to the sky, the ministers lost their protection, and the ministers of the court and the central government impeached the old slave in various ways, and even mentioned that they wanted to abolish the East Factory, although now the emperor loves the old slave, but the old slave really can't bear to embarrass the emperor, so he can only resign from the position of the governor of the East Factory Eunuch, if the master does not give up, the old slave is willing not to have any position, and serves the master day and night."

Sure enough, after listening to this, Chongzhen waved his hand indifferently and said: "A group of scholars and doctors are just making a few noises, why do you care about those?" Don't go to your heart, I should protect you. ”

"The emperor Mingjian, Dongchang itself is doing the work of picketing hundreds of officials and interrogating in prisons, and it is also the personal army of the Son of Heaven, so it is naturally easy to arouse the rejection and disgust of officials, but everything we do is for the emperor to better manage the government, so even if the old slave dies, Dongchang must not be abolished."

In the original time and space, Emperor Chongzhen, at the instigation of civil officials, overthrew the famous eunuch Wei Zhongxian, and at the same time, he almost completely destroyed the factory and health system, making himself a complete sub-XIAO, making the Donglin Party dominant, breaking the balance of power, and losing control of the bureaucracy.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen already had a plan in his heart, and the factory guard could not be abolished, after all, if he wanted to confront the civil officials and doctors who occupied the moral high ground, he could only rely on the badly criticized factory and health institutions as his own tools to a large extent. Bottom line: Someone has to do the dirty work.