The cabinet trio was decided, the six ministers were also selected, and the Nanjing imperial court finally began to function.

In the newly established imperial court, the situation in the Ming Dynasty is so complicated, and there are many affairs, and the three elders of Shi Kefa, Lu Zhenfei, and Wang Duo are busy every day, dealing with huge and complicated affairs. Chongzhen even stayed up all night to review the folds, and the degree of diligence was the same as before.

Feeling that there was a shortage of manpower, Wang Duo, a scholar, with Shi Kefa's consent, asked Chongzhen to ask for more cabinet members. On May 25, Qian Qianyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, became the fourth cabinet member. Wang Duo felt that his qualifications and prestige were not as good as Qian Qianyi, so he took the initiative to avoid it, and Qian Qianyi became the third ranked elder after Shi Kefa and Lu Zhenfei.

The imperial court was newly established, and there was a serious shortage of places in various departments, and in the following time, around the vacancies in various important departments, various cabinet members and a number of officials in Nanjing launched a fierce personnel struggle. Especially those officials who want to go further in their careers, they are trying their best to walk the way, worship the door and pull the relationship between the eight immortals and cross the sea to show their magical powers.

Gradually, the officials formed three factions, one was the Qing school headed by Shi Kefa, the first assistant of the cabinet, whose members included He Yingrui, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Lu Daqi, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and others; Then there is the Huaiyang Department of Lu Zhenfei, the second assistant of the cabinet, and the important members are Wang Yin, the head of the household department, Zuo Zhongyun, Yuan Kewang and others; The third faction is the Donglin faction headed by Qian Qianyi, including the old Wang Duo, Zhang Shenyan, the secretary of the ministry, and Gao Hongtu, the secretary of the household department.

Among the three factions, Qian Qianyi's strength is the strongest, and Lu Zhenfei's Huaiyang faction is the weakest. After all, Qian Qianyi is the leader of the Donglin Party, and his prestige among the gentry is extremely high, and many officials from the Donglin Party naturally move closer to him.

However, because in the Fuwang Rebellion, Qian Qianyi lost a lot of points at both ends of the head, which caused some officials who were very upright to look down on him as a person, and chose to vote for the Shoufu Shi Kefa, who had an upright character and noble character.

Although the Huaiyang system is the weakest, Lu Zhenfei is deeply trusted by Chongzhen, and his future prospects are exactly the same. And Qian Qianyi and Shi Kefa both belong to the Donglin Party, and the officials of the two departments were originally one family, so the situation in the entire court can be said to be complicated.

However, because the imperial court was newly established, there were too many interests for everyone to share, so there were not too many differences between everyone, and there was no too fierce party struggle, which can be regarded as a harmonious atmosphere for the time being.

There are two most important things in the imperial court now, one is how to face the strong enemy in the north, and the other is how to deal with the people involved in the rebellion of King Fu.

News from the north gradually came, and under the leadership of Wu Sangui, the Manchu army entered the pass, and Wu Sangui and the Manchu allied army defeated Li Zicheng's Dashun army at Shanhaiguan. The bandit leader Li Zicheng was forced to withdraw from Beijing, and the Qing army and the thieves were now engaged in a fierce battle in the north, and there would be no threat to the south for a while.

In response to the question of how to deal with Wu Sangui, the officials in the court were divided into two factions, one faction believed that Wu Sangui thought that Chongzhen was martyred, and in order to avenge Chongzhen, he borrowed troops to suppress thieves and was a great loyal minister. The other faction, led by the second auxiliary Lu Zhenfei, believed that Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs, which was equivalent to luring the wolf into the house, and in fact had betrayed the Ming Dynasty, and Wu Sangui was no longer a courtier of the Ming Dynasty, and he could not be counted on at all.

In the court, the two sides launched a fierce debate on this issue, and Lu Zhenfei was weak and was not the opponent of the other party in the debate. In order to support Lu Zhenfei, Chen Yue also made a twist and turn, saying that Wu Sangui would never return to Daming again, and joined the debate.

However, even Chongzhen had illusions about Wu Sangui, thinking that he was forced to borrow troops to suppress thieves, not really betraying the Ming Dynasty. In Chongzhen's heart, the thief is far more hateful than the Mantar. The Mantars only need some property of their people to retreat, but the thieves want to take away his country.

The city of Beijing was broken, the queen committed suicide, and the whereabouts of the three princes are still unknown, which is already an eternal pain in Chongzhen's heart. He hated the thieves and hated it to the heart, so Wu Sangui, who led the Qing soldiers into the customs, was not hateful at all in Chongzhen's heart, on the contrary, Chongzhen still had a trace of appreciation and gratitude for Wu Sangui. If there is no Wu Sangui to borrow the Tartars to suppress the thieves, the thieves will gain a firm foothold in the north, and the next step will definitely be to send troops to the southern expedition, how can he sit in Nanjing safely?

Since Wu Sangui was a loyal minister, he naturally could not chill the heart of the loyal minister, and after discussion, the imperial court decided to send a delegation of Zuo Maodi, a squire of the military department, Chen Hongfan, a former chief soldier, and Ma Shaoyu, a member of the military department, to Beijing.

The first is to declare the decree to Wu Sangui, entitle him as the Duke of Jiguo, hereditary replacement, and send 50,000 taels of silver and 100,000 stones of grain to reward the Guanning army, which was transported by Shen Tingyang, the Zhengqing of Taifu Temple. Shen Tingyang once supervised the transportation of grain by sea and had extremely rich experience.

The second task of the mission was to negotiate with the Manchu court about the joint suppression of thieves, and to test the bottom line of the Manchu Qing to see if they intended to occupy the territory of the Ming Dynasty or to make a fortune and leave as before. It is not impossible to see if the Manchus can be negotiated to return Beijing to Beijing, and to pay some silver taels for this.

The second major event of the imperial court was naturally to deal with the aftermath of King Fu's rebellion, King Fu was arrested, and a number of accomplices were arrested one after another, so it was time to put an end to this rebellion.

After deliberation, the cabinet asked Chongzhen for approval, and decided that the three departments of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate would jointly try the rebellion of King Fu, and the Jinyi Guard Yamen would be responsible for supervising and assisting. The impact of King Gainfu's rebellion was extremely high, and the standard of the trial was extremely high.

In fact, the rebellion of King Fu is extremely simple, and it is not complicated to deal with, King Fu is irrefutable for the crime of rebellion, according to the precedent of King Ning's rebellion, King Fu Zhu Yousong was executed, except for King Fu's domain.

Ma Shiying, the mastermind of the Fuwang Rebellion, has committed suicide, and the male of his family is assigned to serve in the army, and the female is a slave. The mastermind eunuch Lu Jiude, divided by the Ling Chi Criminal Code.

Xincheng Bo Zhao Zhilong and Sincerity Bo Liu Kongzhao participated in the rebellion, and they were all executed and confiscated their family property.

However, in the handling of Xu Jiujue, the Duke of Wei, and other nobles, there were great differences among the adjudicators.

Li Zhan, the imperial historian of the right capital, insisted that Xu Jiujue did not participate in the rebellion of King Fu, and that the Marquis of Pingnan's treatment of Xu Jiujue was unfair, and Xu Jiujue should be acquitted.

Lu Daqi, the secretary of the criminal department, thought that Xu Jiujue chose to obey when King Fu ascended the throne, perhaps he was forced by King Fu's military might, but those who are courtiers cannot be loyal to the king and submit to rebellion, which is a betrayal in itself, plus Xu Jiujue responded to King Fu's call to recruit some township soldiers when the Pingnan army attacked the city, so he was not innocent.

When King Fu ascended the throne, Lu Daqi was one of the few people who did not choose to submit, so he had the confidence to say this, but in the eyes of other officials, if he was convicted because he gave in, then most of the officials in the imperial court were guilty, and if he chose to dispose of Xu Jiujue, he might also dispose of himself for the same reason in the future. Therefore, the officials of Dali Temple and the Metropolitan Procuratorate strongly opposed the disposal of Xu Jiujue.

There was a great disagreement between the two sides, and the trial reached a stalemate.