Politics is so cruel, once you start to show weakness, others will attack you, and they can't immediately rush up and wipe you out.

The emperor compromised with Ye Sheng and other officials, and transferred Shang Shi and Peng Shi to return to Beijing; And lifted the empress dowager's ban and rebuilt Renshou Palace for it.

These were two strong political signals, which meant that the emperor went on the defensive.

The middle- and lower-level officials who had been suppressed by the emperor for a long time entered the mode of beating the water dogs.

Especially the middle- and lower-level officials who are older have no scruples.

This is the negative effect caused by Zhu Qiyu's promotion of young people: in the promotion system of civil officials, the top positions have been occupied by Chen Xun, He Wenyuan, Luo Tong, Wang Ji and others.

Wang Wen and Jiang Yuan, 'young people' in their early fifties, have already stuck in the position of the next generation.

Compared with the positions of the six Shangshu and the top-ranked cabinet ministers, fifty years old is already very young.

Just now, the emperor promoted Xu Youzhen, who is in his early forties, to the cabinet.

And then there is Huang Pu, who has just reached the age of forty.

Even if it was easy to get through these people, twenty-five or sixteen-year-old He Yi, Yue Zheng and others would be at the age of succession.

There is also seventeen-year-old Wang Xian behind.

The emperor implemented the old, middle and young generations, echelon training method.

As a result, there was widespread anxiety among middle- and lower-level officials, and the emperor had only been on the throne for two years, and the good position was almost occupied.

Older middle- and lower-level officials basically have no hope of reaching the top.

The problem is that all of us are Jinshi and have read the books of sages and sages, and a few of them have no ambition or ambition at all.

Xu Youzhen in history, it was because the position of Jingtai Dynasty was blocked by others, especially Yu Qian occupied the position of the first minister, which pressed everyone to get ahead, so he chose political speculation to support the restoration of Zhu Qizhen.

Zhu Qiyu himself is also very helpless about this situation, there is no solution to this problem, and after weighing the pros and cons, he still has to grit his teeth to recruit henchmen and promote cronies.

The way to mitigate its negative effect is to try to pull the most talented people into the camp of cronies, which will test the eyesight.

Today's new science and technology is a huge test of Zhu Qiyu's eyesight.

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However, it is said that after receiving the edict, the inner court immediately made a major adjustment.

The royal eunuchs and the eunuchs who set up the eunuchs immediately rearranged the South Palace.

Clean the palace, arrange the houses, and prepare to welcome all the concubines of the emperor.

The internal officials and supervisors immediately began to prepare for the rebuilding of Renshou Palace.

On the same day, the three hundred little eunuchs were transferred from the Salary Division and the Bell and Drum Division, and were assigned to the Nangong, Kunning Palace, and Yinghua Hall on duty.

In short, the inner court acted extremely quickly, and Kim Young, Xing'an, once again became the leaders of the inner court.

After Jin Ying and Xing'an gained power, the palace people who used to treat each other coldly came up one after another. And Wang Cheng, Shu Liang, Zhang Yong, and Wang Qin looked a little lonely.

Publicly look at the faces of today's cronies and eunuchs, the palace people don't dare, but the cold words behind the scenes are indispensable.

Wang Cheng, Shu Liang and others had to follow the emperor's instructions and go to Chengjing's mansion to walk around. After all, the four of them must not be able to compare with Cheng Jing's understanding of the court situation.

If you don't have the ability, then respect the person who has the ability and humbly ask them for advice, which is the biggest advantage of Wang Cheng and others.

Empress Zhou neither consulted with anyone, let alone asked Empress Dowager Sun for instructions, and directly chose to kill most of the palace people in Kunning Palace, leaving only her own cronies.

is so capricious, the emperor's edict only said that the palace people of Kunning Palace would be replaced, but he did not say that they would all be killed.

Empress Zhou did her own thing.

By the time Queen Qian, Concubine Wan Chen and others got the news and rose up to dissuade them, all the palace people who had been tortured had already died.

This can make Concubine Wan Chen's heart feel bad, she has been in the harem for so many years, is it easy to win over and buy a few palace people, Queen Zhou, do you know how much gold, silver and jewelry I spent, and I was beaten to death when I came up.

Empress Qian and Concubine Wan Chen quit, turned around and returned to Nangong to summon Xing'an, and asked the celebrant to play the emperor and impeach Empress Zhou for abusing lynching, which was unkind.

Xing'an's head instantly swelled to three times the usual size, isn't it pure and embarrassing: although the lives of palace people are as cheap as mustard, but as a queen, it is reasonable to kill one or two. If you don't go through the process and come up and kill a large group of people directly, it must be an abuse of lynching, there is no doubt about it.

The problem is that Empress Qian and Concubine Wan Chen did not go to appeal to the Empress Dowager, but directly asked the celebrant to play the emperor, which is also a bit unreasonable.

When this matter arrives at the Empress Dowager Sun, it will definitely be pressed down by the living mud. Empress Qian and Concubine Wan Chen bypassed the Empress Dowager and complained directly to the emperor, and Xing'an could understand.

But understanding is understanding, this troubled water is not easy to wade.

In the end, Xing'an said a lot of good things, but he just refused to write this script.

This time, Queen Qian and Concubine Wan Chen were all in trouble, Xing'an refused to follow and stand in line, Jin Ying was a close confidant of Empress Dowager Sun, and everyone didn't dare to look for it. Chen Xiang and Cao Jixiang were close associates of Emperor Gongrang, and now Emperor Gongrang is seriously ill and in a coma, and the two are unwilling to do their own thing.

Queen Qian and Concubine Wan Chen, as queens and concubines, can only find these eunuchs in charge of the South Palace, and it is definitely not possible to go directly to the celebrant to find someone, then there is a suspicion of interfering in politics.

Just when the two of them were helpless, the personal palace maid came to report, and the eunuch Ruan Xi, the eunuch of the imperial prison seal, asked to see him.

Queen Qian and Concubine Wan Chen looked at each other and smiled, they really wanted to sleep, so someone brought a pillow, Ruan Xi is also the master of ceremonies, and he is the newly rising eunuch of the inner court.

Isn't this appropriate, Queen Qian hurriedly ordered someone to announce it.

Ruan Xi saluted, and asked Empress Qian for instructions on how to change the furnishings in Nangong and how to place the concubines.

Empress Qian was patient, and after instructing these trivial matters, she asked Ruan Xi to report to the emperor Empress Zhou's abuse of lynching.

The two sides carried out a series of tugging, Queen Qian and Wan Chen tried their best to win over, and promised a lot of benefits, and Ruan Xi finally reluctantly agreed to play for the two.

But Ruan Xi took the advantage of really doing things, not only agreed to play, but also promised to go in person tomorrow and directly present the performance to the emperor.

Queen Qian and Concubine Wan Chen are eyebrows and smiles.

Nothing to say for a day.

On the second day, Zhu Qiyu had breakfast and came to Fengge to inspect politics.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw He Yishu leaning comfortably on a chair, drinking tea leisurely. Now there are six new scholars in the pavilion, plus the original Xu Zheng and Huang Jian, and the number of people who are stationed in Fengge to work has reached as many as eight.

Huang Pu, Yue Zheng, and Chen Jian have been in the military department for most of the time recently.

Most of the time, the oldest person in the Feng Pavilion was He Yi, so He Yi had already begun to enjoy his happiness. Of course, in his own words, it's called leaving more opportunities for newcomers to perform.

Zhu Qiyu doesn't care about this, no matter how you assign the task, as long as you finish my work with quality and quantity.

Everyone got up and saluted, and Zhu Qiyu asked Wang Yue: "How is it, after a day of tossing and turning yesterday, what happened in the city?" ”

When Wang Yue saw this, he hurriedly replied: "Your Majesty, yesterday hundreds of civil and military officials wrote hundreds of copies to express their sympathy for Emperor Gongrang, including more than 20 new scholars. ”

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