After the dispersal of the dynasty, Huang Taiji was comfortable, and everything he was going to do was done, but the eldest son Haoge looked miserable all day long, just like his dead father.

Haoge went to Huang Taiji almost every day to cry and mourn, which made Huang Taiji very irritable, and he was thinking in his heart about how to replenish the troops of this stupid son's Zhenglan Banner.

When Huang Taiji first became the Great Khan, he once boasted that he would never confiscate the cattle records of other banner lords in the future, even if the flag owner was guilty and punished to hand over the cattle records of his subordinates, the handed over cattle records could only be distributed to other banner leaders within this banner.

In this way, it has become a little embarrassing now, the eldest son Haoge's blue flag was scrapped by the Ming army, what should I do? You can't let the blue flag be removed! Eight Flags Become Seven Flags?

The population of each flag is distributed, and now that the strong men of the blue flag have been wiped out, is it possible to let the old mother in the flag wear heavy armor to the battlefield? That's not realistic.

Since he couldn't draw the population from other flags, Huang Taiji could only draw some of the population of Niu Lu from his two yellow flags and give them to the Zhenglan Banner, barely making do with the Zhenglan Flag.

As a small follower who has been following Huang Taiji since he was a child, Prince Zheng Jierharang is very acquainted, Huang Taiji only gave a look, he drew out his blue flag and sent it to Haoge, Haoge was grateful to him and called him uncle.

Someone took the lead, and the other banners saw that they couldn't pretend to be stupid, so they had to pinch their noses and admit that they were unlucky, and casually sent out one or two Niu Lu, and Dolgon and Duoduo also sent a Niu Lu by themselves, but they were all old and weak soldiers who dragged their families with their mouths.

Originally, Hauge resolutely refused the favor of the two white flags, and shouted every day that he would never accept it! Later, however....... It smells so good!

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Daming, North Zhili.

The entry of Qing troops into the customs caused serious damage to the productive forces of the Gyeonggi region, and hundreds of officials in various places were busy with post-war reconstruction work.

Many officials of the Ming Dynasty were still very industrious, and they worked tirelessly to move the money and materials used by the imperial court for disaster relief to their homes, and their lives were greatly improved.

Zhu Cihong returned to the palace life before the expedition, getting up early every day to listen to the government in the morning, going to the Wenhua Hall to study in the lower court, and at noon he accompanied Chongzhen to carry out the noon court, meeting with important courtiers, and in the afternoon, he also accompanied Chongzhen to review the chapter and listen to the hadith.......

In short, the day is more tiring than the march, the march is physical work, now it is mental work, every day not only to remember the names and positions of some courtiers, but also to analyze and speculate what party they are and how to use them.

Through his understanding these days, Zhu Cihong knew that the current division of forces in the Ming court was roughly as follows: the Donglin Party represented the interests of the landlords, bureaucrats, and businessmen in the south of the Yangtze River, and the Eunuch Party represented the interests of the bureaucrats, landlords, and businessmen in Shandong, Huguang, Shanxi, and Beizhili.

The eunuchs were not all eunuchs, but political factions formed by bureaucrats attached to the power of eunuchs, including the Qi Party, the Chu Party, the Zhejiang Party, and the Xuan Party.

Although Cao Huachun was a eunuch, he was an anti-Wei faction back then, a hardcore of the Donglin Party, and a member of the Donglin Party, so the forces in the court were intertwined and very chaotic, and Zhu Cihong was also very troublesome to distinguish.

After Wei Zhongxian's death, the eunuch party suffered a major blow but still did not fall, mainly because there were too many people, and later Chongzhen deliberately supported the eunuch party to suppress the Donglin party, and the eunuch party gradually grew again.

According to Zhu Cihong's judgment, Wen Tiren must be a eunuch, as well as Xue Guoguan in the cabinet, because after Wen Tiren became the first assistant in the third year of Chongzhen, and since September of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the eunuchs have gone in all directions, and all the ministries of the foreign dynasty and the armies of the nine sides have arranged supervision troops.

When Chongzhen first ascended the throne, he supported the Donglin Party and recalled the eunuchs of the Eunuch Party from other places one by one and put them to death.

As for the newly appointed secretary of the military department, Yang Sichang, it is difficult to judge, and Zhu Cihong temporarily classified him as a eunuch.

His judgment was that Lu Xiangsheng was a member of the Donglin Party, and Lu Xiangsheng was not allowed to take over as the secretary of the Ministry of War, and the cabinet's suggestion must have given Chongzhen a great reference.

The only thing that surprised Zhu Cihong was that the Hou Sui of the Hubu Shangshu was not the Donglin Party! This is a character who exists in the list of Wei Zhongxian's "Donglin Point Generals".

In the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), Wei Zhongxian's comrade Wang Shaohui, the left deputy capital of the party, imitated the way of "Water Margin" and compiled one hundred and eight people from the Donglin Party as "Donglin Point General Record", which is called a!

Di Sui Xingtong Gibbon Shanxi Dao Yushi Hou Sui, this is the name left by Hou Butang on the "Donglin Point General Record", and I don't know what kind of Liang Zi he married Wei Zhongxian back then, and put him on it.

Hou Sui's eyes on people are called a poison, and he recommended four cattle to the imperial court: Yuan Chonghuan, Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Zuo Liangyu, each of whom was a famous figure in the late Ming Dynasty.

In fact, it is very simple to judge whether a minister is a member of the Donglin Party, Donglin has two significant characteristics, one is that he was born as a Jinshi, and he has no Jinshi reputation in the officialdom, sorry, we Donglin don't want you, of course, Hou Sui was born as a Jinshi.

The second characteristic is that I have lectured at Donglin Academy, or studied at Donglin College, that is to say, at least it has something to do with Donglin Academy, which is pure Donglin.

The second-class Donglin, or Donglin-like, although it does not have the above two characteristics, claims to be Donglin, and the relationship with the Donglin people is iron enough, and the Donglin people also admit that they are political allies or have common political demands and propositions.

For example, Huang Daozhou, Ni Yuanlu and others, but these two Donglin bigwigs are now in the stage of being laid off, and they were all cleaned up by Wen Tiren.

Again, I have helped Donglin people, lectured in other places, and interconnected with Donglin Academy.

In addition to being born as a Jinshi, Hou Sui does not have any other special features, not even first-class again, not even a Donglin periphery.

After studying the government during this period of time, Zhu Cihong also found a problem, there are not many Donglin Party members in the court, or there are almost no Donglin Party members who can speak in the court.

There is a lot of water in the sentence of Donglin misleading the country, at least it did not exist in the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Donglin Party mainly made a lot of trouble in the Nanming period, and they were very responsible for the demise of the Nanming.

The Donglin Party is now so miserable, many people have begun to find backers again, such as relying on Zhu Cihong to become a princeling, and the crown prince attacked the Jin merchants, damaging the interests of the eunuch party, which is the same as the goal of the Donglin people.

Zhu Cihong is also thinking about whether to find an opportunity to promote these people, after all, if he wants to use them to continue to fight with the eunuchs and help him eradicate his political enemies, he needs to give some sweetness, otherwise he is just a white wolf with empty gloves, who will mess with him.

The tree wants to be quiet and the wind does not stop, and there has never been a person in the world who can be completely free from political struggles and yet can rise to the top.

Those who can avoid this kind of struggle for the time being are either not in a very high position, not obvious in their goals, and not envied, or they are people who work professionally and find it difficult to move to the next level.

The court battle of the Ming Dynasty is not as brain-burning as imagined, it is nothing more than standing in line, and then using morality and etiquette to attack the opponent, showing their talent in making a fuss in front of the emperor, and performing to see who can take the lead in convincing the emperor.

Of course, people who understand psychology have great advantages, such as Wen Tiren, who is an expert in psychology and is good at grasping Comrade Zhu Youzhen's heart rate, which is a must in political struggle.