Whether it is said that Zhu Cihong is benevolent or a woman is benevolent, who told Chongzhen to only care about busy with state affairs, and he was stunned that there were not many sons left to choose from, and he made Zhu Cihong the prince early?

Among the rest of Chongzhen's sons who are still alive, Zhu Cijiong, the third king, was not being assigned to the Northeast Province, and Zhu Ci, the fourth Yongwang, likes to fight according to his tiger head and tiger brain, and it is not suitable.

The only one left is Zhu Cihong.

However, Zhu Cihong may be a little indecisive, but he has an excellent advantage, he likes to be on par with his father Chongzhen in everything, and he is convinced of the instructions of his model worker.

What he said just now was also Zhu Cihong's heart, after all, he had experienced the most difficult moment of the Ming Dynasty, and knew that at that time, his father and emperor relied on Brother Liu to overcome the difficulties.

Now that there is no war in the Ming Dynasty, the situation is much better than it was back then, how can he mess up and submit to the courtiers!

"So the ministers will rest assured, tomorrow the court will not indulge those courtiers, the Ministry of Industry is not for the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Officials is not for the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Punishment is not for the Ministry of Justice, it has its own East Factory, Jinyi Guard." Liu Hong gradually said with relief.

As for the cabinet, Liu Hongjian plans to deal with it personally, these guys are too old, he is worried that Zhu Cihong will not be able to start, anyway, his reputation among the courtiers has long been stinky, and it is not bad for the third time.

"There is another thing, Jin Yiwei came with news yesterday that the rebel Zheng Zhilong on the Nanyang side seems to have started a war with the Dutch." Liu Hong gradually sighed and said.

It seems that not only the Netherlands has passed in time, but also the large and small Francois countries, and the colonies of the three countries are triangular, which happens to surround Sulu, where Zheng Zhilong's station is located.

And the latest information, in order to swallow the fat of Sulu, the three countries intend to unite to exterminate Zheng Zhilong.

At the beginning, Lao Zheng was driven out of the Ming Dynasty, firstly, to remove the hidden dangers of the imperial court, and secondly, it was also a disaster for the water to flow downward, and let Lao Zheng go to Huohuo Foreigner's thoughts.

Zheng Zhilong's guy is actually a man with no ambitions, and it can be seen from historical records that after defeating the Dutch a few years ago, this guy began to buy a wide range of family businesses and did not want to make progress.

The generals under him also did the same, built Anping City with their bare hands, and collected protection money as their main business every day, and did not care much about the affairs of the Ming Dynasty or even the construction of slaves.

Zheng Zhilong's idea is very simple, to keep his family property, and this is also the reason why this guy chose to flee to Nanyang, and it is even more reason that after the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, he was fooled by his fellow countryman Hong Chengchou to surrender to the puppet Qing despite the dissuasion of his subordinates.

However, now that the Zheng family is really under siege, Liu Hongjian is a little reluctant to go, of course, the biggest reason for this is the little brother Zheng Sen.

As a national hero of later generations, how could he let the young Zheng Sen die in a foreign land before he could play his role?

The current predicament of the imperial court must be solved as soon as possible, otherwise it will drag on for a long time, and it will be unfavorable to major events, Liu Hong gradually said in his heart.

After leaving the Qianqing Palace, he had just left the noon gate, but he saw Fang Yuegong, who was swaying, had just arrived here.

"Yo, Lord Fang has just arrived, go back, the emperor is willing to see you count me as losing." Liu Hong gradually joked.

"You...... Old man ......"

"Lord Fang!" Fang Yuegong was so angry that his head was dizzy, and he almost fell to the ground, but fortunately, Wu Ganlai behind him moved quickly to help him.

What is this called? The first half of the sentence is a mockery, and the second half of the sentence is a naked personal attack, Fang Yuegong is sixty-four years old, where has he been so angry, he doesn't know how to refute it for a while.

"We are waiting for the sun and the moon to shine, and the heavens and the earth can be learned, so don't deceive people too much!" Wu Ganlai, the head of the household, said in a deep voice.

Wu Ganlai spoke politely, after all, he was rescued by Liu Hongjian when he was in Shanhaiguan.

"Hahaha, whatever you say, it's still the same sentence, anyone who dares to neglect government affairs, no matter what position he holds, this king will catch it correctly!" After speaking, Liu Hong gradually did not hesitate, and got on the horse and left the palace directly outside the noon gate.

Sure enough, just after noon on the second day, news came from the palace, saying that the ministers of the early court had died again, intending to obstruct the reform of the imperial examination, Zhu Cihong was furious and directly put the cabinet Fang Yuegong, Ni Yuanlu and others in prison.

Meng Zhaoxiang, a scholar of the Zhongji Temple and a scholar of the Criminal Department, disobeyed the order with a trumped-up argument, and Zhu Cihong directly rewarded Meng Zhaoxiang with twenty court rods, and then ordered Dongchang Fanzi to arrest nearly one-third of the courtiers in the court into the black prison of Dongchang.

The remaining backbone people submitted an application to return to their hometowns with beggar bones, and Zhu Cihong even allowed them all with a stroke of his pen.

If you talk about bitterness, the most bitter are Li Banghua and Han Yu.

Li Banghua has always said that he was sick and finally chose not to help each other, but in the eyes of the courtiers, the two did not help Liu Hongji, so that the subordinates of the Li Mansion had to be pointed at and despised by the past scholars when they went to buy vegetables on the street.

And Han Yu was struggling with government affairs, the entire cabinet, Shoufu was sick, Fang Yuegong, Ni Yuanlu, and Meng Zhaoxiang were all imprisoned, and in addition to that, there were only Liu Hongchuan, a scholar of Wuyingdian University, and Zhang Tianlu, a scholar of Dongge University, left in the cabinet.

Needless to say, Liu Hongjian didn't go to the cabinet at all, so he can be ignored.

The rest is Zhang Tianlu, a member of the East Palace Party, but this guy is a bit unreliable at both ends, which makes Han Yu very depressed, and all government affairs are pressed on his shoulders.

At the beginning, this guy also followed Fang Yuegong to wave his flag and shout, intending to work with Donglin to stop the reform of the imperial examination, but since Liu Hong gradually took over the Inspectorate, this guy directly died down.

Not only that, Chen Taiying, the right deputy of the Inspectorate, also relented, and wrote a letter of guarantee in Jinyi Wei Prison, no longer preventing the reform of the imperial examination, and bent on dealing with government affairs.

There is no discipline, this is Han Yu's final evaluation of this group of East Palace Party members.

Moreover, he is the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Rites is one of the most fierce yamen who oppose the reform of the imperial examination, and those who can serve in the Ministry of Rites are those who regard the etiquette system as more important than their lives, which also makes Han Yu very headache.

In response to this, Liu Hong's reply was to see what happened to Ye Xianggao, the commander of the light pole during the Wanli period, and by the way, he proposed to transfer Han Yuping to the Ministry of Officials to serve as Shangshu.

The Ministry of Officials is in charge of the promotion and assessment of officials in the world, and it is the most important yamen among the six ministries, Liu Hongji's meaning is very clear, now that most of the officials in the DPRK and China are in prison, and those who resign, you Lao Han looks at the promotion, anyway, there are many reserve officials, it is really not good, and Kaienke is re-recruited.

Han Yu had nothing else to say, gritted his teeth and took the mess.

By the end of April, the turmoil over the reform of the imperial examination system spread throughout the Ming Dynasty, and the expected courtiers did not relent, and the protests intensified.

As if organized, the capital often saw a group of scholars angrily accusing the people of the traitorous court.

Beijing, April 26, morning up, Anguo County Palace.

Liu Delong has not been sleeping very well recently, so that he got up from bed just after dawn, and a few days ago I heard that Meng Zhaoxiang was imprisoned by His Majesty, which made Liu Delong feel embarrassed.

In the past few days, he has also figured out that he is not a person from the court, so there is no need to forcibly interfere in his son's affairs, not to mention that the imperial examination is led by His Majesty, and he doesn't want to be in prison.

When he went out, Liu Delong stretched his waist and suddenly realized that the smell in the air was a little wrong.

Liu De snorted heavily, how could he ...... What does it smell?

"Master, grandfather, it's not good! The gate of our county palace and the walls on both sides have been splashed with dung! The family members of the nursing home came to report in a panic.