The officials, who were still fighting for the position of the Mining Supervision Bureau, suddenly became quiet after Chongzhen's opinion was finished.

Although the position of the Mining Supervision Bureau is good, no one wants to take it upon themselves to peacefully resolve the Xishan miners' riot. As Huang Daozhou said, there are many shady scenes in Xishan Coal Mine, but those who dare to engage in such shady scenes at the feet of the Son of Heaven are not supported by powerful and wealthy families.

The reason why everyone supports the policy of extermination is nothing more than that they want to burn all the shady curtains clean with a fire. If you want to appease these miners, you will inevitably expose the dirty methods of some people, and it will be a troublesome matter whether you deal with it or not.

Even Huang Daozhou is just thinking about taking this opportunity to make these powerful people more restrained, and by the way, to crack down on the Yellow Party that is gradually forming in the DPRK and China. Let him really tear his face to face with the powerful people behind these private coal mines, and he is also insensitive.

What's more, the powerful people behind these coal mines are not only those eunuchs, but also the Donglin party. Huang Daozhou thinks that he is a person who wants to save his fortune, how could he cut off his good future for a few coal mines.

Seeing that the officials of the court and the central government suddenly fell silent, no one came forward to recommend. Zhu Youzhen couldn't help frowning, he called the names of the loudest people who had just shouted, and asked them to continue the recommendation just now, but these people immediately changed their tunes and retreated.

Zhu Youjian listened for a while, and then said impatiently: "If Zhuqing does not have a suitable candidate to recommend, then this investigation team will let the palace send someone alone." ”

The emperor's proposition was naturally unacceptable, and it was not easy to take back the power of the mine supervisor from the Wanli Emperor, and there were some officials here who were involved in the Xishan coal mine industry, how could they let the palace independently investigate the miners' rebellion.

Han Yi thought for a while, and then recommended to the emperor the current pedestrian Ling Yiqu, the fifth year of the Apocalypse, a native of Zhili, Huzhou. This person has nothing to do with the eunuch party, and his reputation is also very good, plus there are several Donglin party members who are good friends with him, Han Yi thinks this is a suitable candidate.

Although Ling Yiqu was a friend of the Donglin Party, he was not a member of the Donglin Party. Therefore, even if something happens, it will not implicate the Donglin Party, but if there is an achievement, Han Yi believes that the Donglin Party will have enough influence on him.

At this time, it showed that there was a lack of talent in the hands of Huang Liji and others, and the Donglin Party was able to launch a Lingyi Canal, but Huang Liji and others couldn't think of a suitable candidate for a while.

When the Ministry of Rites Shangshu came to Zongdao as a last resort, he remembered his own Yang He in the same year, Yang Xiuling was a native of Wuling, Huguang, although he was a Jinshi in the thirty-second year of Wanli, but his official career has not been smooth, and it is only the imperial history of Zuo Tuodu.

However, Yang He is quite upright, when Princess Shouning's son-in-law Ran Xingrang was beaten and bullied by Liang Yingnu, the palace maid in charge, and the eunuch Peng Jinchao, etc., the princess sued many times and could not come to Shenzong, and Xingrang hung his clothes on the Chang'an Gate and left. The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were reluctant to intervene in this troubled water, and only Yang He mentioned this matter when he wrote to Emperor Shenzong.

However, Yang He's official career stumbled, and he lived the life of a squire at home most of the time. The Donglin Party did not want to see him, and Wei Zhongxian did not want to see him either.

Therefore, at the beginning of the year, he reinstated himself as the imperial history of Zuo Yidu, and after thinking about it for a long time, he felt that he could let this senior fellow suppress Ling Yiqu and let him show his face in front of the emperor.

Chongzhen is not very familiar with these two candidates, but he has no objection to them. It was enough for him to be able to send this joint investigation team and let the palace intervene to quell the incident of the miners' riot.

After leaving the Wenhua Palace, Zhu Youzhen asked Wang Chengen to call the palace candidates and Wu Huai who participated in the investigation team.

Wang Chengen found Zhang Yixian, who had been neglected for a long time, Chongzhen's instructions to Zhang Yixian did not exceed his requirements for Tu Wenfu, and he also made it clear that Zhang Yixian and Wu Huai would obey Tu Wenfu's arrangement after they arrived at Mentougou.

Zhu Youzhen added at the end, "By the way, tell Tu Wenfu for me that some of the actions in the strike incident deviated from the original plan, and I am acceptable."

But there are some things that I will not accept, and the number of strikers is so large that it is inevitable that there will be a mixture of good and bad, and it is normal for some unpredictable things to happen.

But that doesn't mean that those who fish in troubled waters can go unpunished. These miners must know that I support them because they are demanding justice, not because they are outnumbered.

In addition, Tu Wenfu told the head of the miners' union that it is necessary to resolutely draw a line with the black sheep who incite the workers to deliberately destroy property or harm innocent people, and expose their true colors in front of the workers. ”

Chongzhen didn't talk to the two for a long time, and soon Zhang Yixian and Wu Huai left the palace with the holy oracle, and Yang He and Ling Yiqu had already accepted the order of the cabinet at this time, and the four of them met outside the gate of Huiji, and after a few words, they decided to go out of the city and go to Mentougou as soon as possible.

Two days later, Zhang Yixian and Ling Yiqu returned to the capital first, and reported to Chongzhen and the cabinet that the Xishan miners had first rioted and then struck, and that the miners were willing to resume work under the pacification of the investigation team sent by the imperial court.

However, the miners' union, which presided over the strike, put forward several conditions for canceling the strike, and the members of the investigation team and Tu Wenfu, who was in charge of the palace industry in Nishiyama, could not decide, so they sent the two of them back to ask for instructions.

The cause of the miners' riot was that a private mine did not provide sufficient support for the mine, which led to the collapse of a section of the mine and a mining disaster.

At that time, there were more than ten people working in the mine who did not have time to escape, and the miners outside the cave asked the mine owner to call people to save people, but the mine owner refused.

Coal mine is a very cooperative and united type of work, in the dark mine, it is easy to get injured, without the help of workers, even if they disappear in the tunnel, no one knows, so the workers of the coal mine have always been very united.

On weekdays, the miners were so mean in their lives that they endured it, but when the workers still had hope of survival, they were so coldly abandoned by the miners, and finally these miners couldn't bear it anymore, and no one knew if they would be the next to be abandoned.

The miners contacted the nearest coal miners and rioted that night.

The rioting miners killed the mine's overseers, burned down the mine's buildings, and set fire to some of the coal heaps that had not been transported in time.

In the early hours of the morning, the rioting miners decided to attack other mines and contact more miners to start an uprising. At this time, the trade union established by the miners of the Xishanguan Coal Mine finally exerted its influence.

Some of the miners, who were deeply influenced by the union, strongly advocated for two prominent miners in the union to be the leaders.

The miners' union, which received the contact from the rioting miners, immediately reported to Tu Wenfu, who was staying in Xishan.

Tu Wenfu assessed the situation and found that if left unchecked, it would only allow the rioting miners to continue in tandem, incite the miners who had long been dissatisfied with the mine owners, and eventually cause unlimited damage.

The suppression of the rioting miners would allow them to transfer their resentment against the private miners to the palace, and even the union members who had just become close to the palace would turn away from morality.

Tu Wenfu felt that such an ending was completely inconsistent with the emperor's needs, and for him, how many miners were killed or injured, and how many losses those private mine owners suffered, would not make him feel anything in his heart.

But if the emperor loses trust in him because he can't fulfill the emperor's orders, that's what makes him feel afraid.

Tu Wenfu made the decision in a very short time to let the miners' union take over the command of the rioting miners, squeeze out the miners' leaders who were inciting violence, and turn the riot into a strike.

Compared with the unorganized and small number of rioting miners, the union with an organized system and the participation of a large number of members of the official miners' union, the few small miners' leaders who originally started the riot were quickly marginalized.

Tu Wenfu, who had a large amount of materials in hand, began to form a mine protection team with the backbone of the trade union after the trade union grasped the situation, and recruited a training battalion stationed in Shijingshan to block the main road to the capital.

By the time the team arrived, the situation was largely under control. However, Tu Wenfu deliberately delayed the investigation team for a day so that the union could bring the entire Xishan mining area into its sphere of influence.

Tu Wenfu's strategy was successful, and now the miners of the entire Xishan mining area have joined the miners' union, fully meeting Chongzhen's requirements for him.

But the incident happened suddenly, and the method he used was not reported to Chongzhen, so he was quite frightened, so he asked Zhang Yixian to tell the emperor the whole thing on his behalf.

After Zhang Yixian finished speaking, Wang Chengen has been paying attention to Zhu Youzhen, wondering how the emperor will react to Tu Wenfu's failure to act according to the plan discussed with the emperor in advance this time.

Zhu Youzhen also fell into thinking, if he blamed Tu Wenfu for this matter, I am afraid that the eunuchs in the palace will become perfunctory in the future.

But if you compliment, it doesn't seem to be appropriate. Although the eunuchs in the palace were submissive in front of him, after leaving the palace, they were unscrupulous.

Zhu Youzhen thought for a while, and felt that with his own intelligence, he probably couldn't think of a way to get the best of both worlds.

He simply didn't think about it anymore, Zhu Youzhen said: "Tu Wenfu changed the plan drawn up by Tong Yi without authorization, and he didn't ask me for instructions before changing it, so he should be punished, demoted to one level, and fined him for 3 months." ”

Wang Chengen and Zhang Yixian's heads suddenly bowed, not daring to make a sound. But soon Zhu Youzhen continued: "However, he was able to make regular changes according to the changes in things, so that the final result did not exceed expectations, which shows that he still has merit."

If there is an excessive punishment, meritorious service should naturally be rewarded, he will be promoted to the next level, and he will be rewarded with a python robe and 500 taels of silver..."