Zhu Youzhen looked coldly at Yuan Keli with a blank expression below, and the corner of his eyes swept the expressions of all the officials on the side from time to time.

After saying the four words of local tyrants and inferior gentry, Zhu Youzhen felt that the depression he had been in these days was suddenly swept away. Since his accession to the throne, although he has temporarily eliminated the party strife between the DPRK and China, it has also caused a consequence.

In the past, the people of the Ming Dynasty felt that the current world was not good, and there were eunuchs to resent, but now they suddenly lost the object they could resent. And the world around him doesn't seem to be getting better, so soon this spearhead will be pointed at the people in power in the imperial court, and even Chongzhen himself.

With the predicament that the Ming Dynasty is facing now, it is obviously impossible to quickly reform Shen Ke in the past hundred years, and the implementation of all reform policies will take time to verify, and even at the beginning, it may make their current life worse.

Therefore, Chongzhen needs to re-establish an object that needs to be defeated for the entire Ming society, one is to unite people's hearts, and the other is to distinguish between friend and foe.

To be honest, when Chongzhen said the words "Tuhao and inferior gentry", he was actually a little uneasy in his heart, but he soon found that the officials present did not have the right to stand up and argue with him about the definition of the word "local tyrant and inferior gentry".

Obviously, most of the people present didn't realize that they themselves would have something to do with the words local tyrants and inferior gentry, and most of the officials still thought in their hearts that what Chongzhen said was mainly aimed at Yuan Keli and other Donglin Party members.

Seeing that Yuan Keli had been silent for so long, Zhu Youzhen thought that this Yuan Shangshu was about to resign from him, and he was thinking about saying something to temporarily ease the atmosphere in the hall.

Last year, he needed Yuan Keli to represent the Donglin Party in the DPRK and China, so as to maintain the balance of power in the DPRK and China, so as to contain Huang Liji and others. But today, with Qian Qianyi's new Donglin Party, the value of Yuan Keli's existence is no longer great.

If Yuan Keli must stand with those Henan gentry and oppose the reform policy of the imperial court, then a break with Yuan Keli is naturally inevitable.

However, before Chongzhen could think about what to say, and when Yuan Keli didn't say anything, Han Yi finally couldn't help but come out and said: "Your Majesty, as long as they are local gentry who oppose the policies of the imperial court, they have become local tyrants and inferior gentry?"

In this case, in the future, won't the name of the local tyrant and inferior gentry become a means for those in power to crack down on dissidents? The minister thought that this blow was too big. ”

Zhu Youzhen said in surprise: "When did I say that those who oppose the policies of the imperial court are local tyrants and inferior gentry?"

I have said from the very beginning that only those who infringe on the interests of the people are the local tyrants and inferior gentry, what is the purpose of the reform policy issued by the imperial court? Isn't it for the sake of protecting the interests of the people?

If the policies formulated by the imperial court are not in the interests of the common people, then it is natural that they should be changed. But if the local gentry opposed the policies issued by the imperial court, not in the interests of the common people, but in order to protect their own private interests, shouldn't they be overthrown?

Turning the imperial court against the people at every turn, it seems that any policy issued by the imperial court is aimed at poisoning the people, and the people who spread such remarks do not have ulterior motives?

Or do you think, Mr. Han, that the officials above this court today are all moths of the country, and they must all be defeated?

I'm really a little puzzled, what is the purpose of you Donglin Party members who talk about the people every day, but you desperately want to defend those local tyrants and inferior gentry in the fish and meat township?

Could it be that everything you said to me in the past was duplicitous and insincere? Far from being a villain and a gentleman, hehe, in my opinion, a real villain is much cuter than a hypocrite.

No wonder Mr. Qian wants to rebuild the new Donglin Party, if the Donglin Party members are such hypocrites with different hearts, I have to reconsider, whether Jiangnan Academy should be re-banned, lest you harm my Ming Dynasty's talents. ”

After listening to the emperor's words and begin to point to the group of Donglin Party members, the old Donglin Party officials suddenly became anxious.

Although Qian Qianyi, who was named by Chongzhen, did not dare to come out to defend the Donglin Party, he also complained bitterly in his heart.

Although the emperor's name and surname separated the new Donglin Party from the old Donglin Party. But in this way, the old and new Donglin Party members, who were already full of contradictions, will have no chance to reunite from now on.

Qian Qianyi, who was ordered to form a new Donglin Party, split the loose Donglin Party according to the emperor's orders. However, he did not want to make a complete separation from the huge group of Donglin Party members.

After all, after the seven gentlemen before and after, the Donglin Party has become a model of righteous gentlemen in the hearts of the people of the world.

Although the new Donglin Party he is forming now can divide the forces of some Donglin Party members, it cannot inherit the lofty prestige that Donglin Party members have created among the people in the past.

Therefore, Qian Qianyi still hopes to slowly merge all the forces of the entire Donglin Party into his new Donglin Party, so as to truly grasp the power of this representative of the Jiangnan gentry class.

But after the emperor's sudden comment today, the new Donglin Party and the old Donglin Party have obviously become two people. Obviously, the new Donglin Party can no longer take over all the power of the old party, because it will go against Chongzhen's will.

Unless Chongzhen is no longer on the throne, then they still have a chance to continue to integrate the forces of the old party. For the old Donglin party, Chongzhen's words are equivalent to showing that the new Donglin party betrayed them in front of the emperor.

After all, the establishment of the new Donglin Party was based on the judgment of the good and bad among the Donglin Party members. As long as the new Donglin Party exists for a day, these old party members will obviously become bad people in the emperor's mouth. Since they couldn't be jealous of Chongzhen, they had no choice but to turn their resentment to Qian Qianyi and the new Donglin Party he founded.

"Your Majesty, that's not what the minister meant. The minister was just worried that the policy issued by the imperial court was wrong, and the local gentry opposed it, so they would be suppressed by the principals under the pretext of being suppressed. Han Yi had to show weakness to Chongzhen and explained desperately.

"Last year, the cabinet set the goal of the imperial court reform, the highest goal is to establish a world of Datong, and the lowest goal is to solve the problem of food and clothing for the people of our Ming Dynasty.

All subsequent reform policies have been based on the above two goals. Since Mr. Han feels that there is a deviation in the reform, then I should ask for advice.

Is the goal of building a world of great harmony wrong? Or is the goal of solving the problem of food and clothing for the people of the Ming Dynasty not in line with your wishes? ”

Chongzhen bypassed the specific policy details and directly asked Han Yi whether the goal of the Ming Dynasty's reform was right or wrong, and immediately asked this official, who has always been known as benevolent, a disgraced head.

Yuan Keli had to step forward to relieve Han Yi and said: "What Han Taichang said is not what he meant, and the goal set by the imperial court reform is naturally correct.

However, when formulating reform policies around this goal, it is not always possible to formulate the right reform measures. Even if the right reforms are enacted, the officials below may not be able to implement them exactly as the envisioned by them..."

Zhu Youzhen interrupted him coldly and said, "When I was a child, I used to wrestle when I was learning to walk, but no one told me that because I had to wrestle, I shouldn't walk by myself.

Reform is like a young child learning to walk, as long as this direction is correct, one should not be afraid of wrestling. If we talk all day long, but do not put it into action, then how can the imperial court solve the problem of food and clothing for the people?

In the process of reform, we must allow mistakes, but we must also learn from them.

If you don't learn to walk if you are worried about wrestling, or if you don't learn a lesson from wrestling, you can't really learn to walk.

In order to truly achieve the reform goals set by the cabinet, we must continue to experiment and find a correct path.

Isn't that what it means for me to sit here with you to discuss state affairs? If it weren't for the sake of building this country and leading the people of the world to accomplish these two goals, why would the people of the world pay taxes to support us?

As for the fact that the executors have distorted the policies of the imperial court, or have implemented them ineffectively, isn't that your problem?

As ministers of the court, you hold the highest power in the country, but you tell me that you have no control over the actions of the officials below. So I'd like to ask you, if any of you think you're not up to the job, you might as well stand up now.

I will immediately let you go back to your hometown to enjoy the blessings, and this heavy political affairs in the court will be handed over to those who have the ability and willingness to serve the people of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Under Chongzhen's continuous reprimands, both Han Yi and Liu Zongzhou's faces were a little unbearable, but they really had the intention of begging.

But Yuan Keli calmed down instead, because he suddenly thought that if they were provoked by Chongzhen to resign today, the Donglin Party would completely lose their voice at the national meeting.

The number of court meetings held by Chongzhen has been reduced to once a month, and the general affairs of the court and the central government have already been decided at the cabinet meeting, while the slightly important affairs need to be discussed at the state meeting.

Although Qian Qianyi entered the cabinet on behalf of the Donglin Party, the current Qian Qianyi is obviously no longer able to represent the Donglin Party, but has become the emperor's echo worm.

The only three people who can really represent the Donglin Party at the Guoshi meeting are he, Liu Zongzhou and Han Yi, and once they resign, it means that the situation of the eunuch party dominating the DPRK and China will once again appear.

Thinking of Chongzhen's disgust for the Henan gentry and the Jiangnan gentry now, Yuan Keli naturally knew that once he left the position of the secretary of the criminal department, I was afraid that the struggle between the DPRK and the Central Committee against the Donglin Party would follow.

Even if he was deeply disgusted with the party struggle and was dissatisfied with Chongzhen's attitude towards the Henan gentry, he had to occupy the position of the secretary of the criminal department first to slow down the emperor's disposition of those gentry.

In everyone's surprise, Yuan Keli immediately made a decisive decision to Chongzhen and said: "What Your Majesty said is extremely true, after the minister returns, he will inevitably reformulate this year's work plan of the Criminal Department to ensure the smooth implementation of the policies issued by the imperial court. ”

Liu Zongzhou and Han Yi were stunned, and Yuan Keli hinted at them with their eyes and retreated. Zhu Youzhen looked at the criminal department secretary carefully for a long time before returning to his normal tone and said: "I'll wait and see, then please ask Mr. Guo to come forward and report on the work plan of the Ministry of Household Affairs this year." ”