On March 23, the 26th year of Wanli, two days before Xiao Ruxun led the army to kill Hukou, the sun was shining in Beijing.

Seriously, it was a rare sunny day for months, and the previous Jingshi had been shivering in the cold and dampness, and even the emperor's life was not very good, let alone the ordinary people huddled in low and dilapidated houses.

Now there is finally a rare sunny day, with a hint of spring, the people in the capital all take out their cold and damp quilts and bed sheets, hang them in their yards to dry, and dry away the dampness and musty smell of the whole winter.

Coincidentally, the people in the palace are also busy drying quilts, drying sheets, washing clothes, and so on, this big sun, the sun makes people warm and comfortable, the whole palace is in full swing to wash clothes and dry quilts, the big eunuchs command the little eunuchs and little palace maids below to dry things and wash things, under the gentle touch of the sun, everyone's face is filled with a smile like the New Year.

However, this joy of ordinary people has never been produced in the cabinet, and the joy of small people such as mediocre and laymen has always been something that can be experienced by scholars and masters who do not eat the fireworks of the world.

Speaking of which, the elders of the cabinet have been frowning for some time.

"Let's talk about it, now Shanxi Datong needs to be rebuilt, where the money will come from, let's talk about it."

Sitting in the position of the second assistant, Shen Cheng spoke, opening the tone of today's cabinet meeting.

Speaking of which, the war in Datong, Shanxi broke out suddenly, everyone was unprepared, and the result was very difficult for everyone to do, and 100,000 captives from the north went south, stirring up a mess in Datong Shanxi, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced and frozen and hungry.

Later, although Xiao Ruxun led his troops to fight over, Shanxi had been pacified in a short period of time, and the dog thief was on his way back to Beijing, Xiao Ruxun also came to report that he would pacify Datong in a short time and end the war.

They believe in Xiao Ruxun's military skills, there is no doubt about this, Xiao Ruxun has not lost a battle since he was born, and he is the most reassuring and capable general in the empire.

The emperor vouched for him, did not send a supervising army, and gave him real power, he not only became the first military general governor of the dynasty, but also became the first governor who went out to command more than 100,000 soldiers and horses without supervising the army, and this trust was not even obtained by civil officials.

Special treatment during the special period, everyone also regarded him as an emergency governor, and he withdrew immediately after the matter was completed, and returned to Myanmar to be the Marquis of Zhennan, so they didn't care anymore, what they cared about was nothing more than the post-war reconstruction of Datong Shanxi and the matter of adding cabinet members.

For these two things, the six ministers and the three ministers gathered several times to discuss solutions, but they still did not get anything.

It's the same today.

Zhao Zhigao, the first assistant, Shen Yiyi, the second assistant, Shen Li, the assistant minister, Cai Guozhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Shi Xing, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Yu Jideng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Song Yingchang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Xu Zuo, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and the top decision-making circle of the Ming Dynasty, composed of eight bigwigs, gathered again to further discuss the post-war reconstruction of Shanxi Datong and the work of adding cabinet members.

Well, Yang Junmin, the head of the household, didn't come to participate, otherwise it would have been nine people.

But it doesn't matter, it's the same whether he comes or doesn't come, no one cares what he thinks anymore, as long as he does it.

Everyone's resolution is something that he can't disobey as a household secretary, unless he wants to lift the table and stop doing it, that's right, he will be pushed to the end, and he will completely overturn the Jin Party and the Jin businessmen.

However, as far as the current situation is concerned, two things that could have been properly arranged separately, but the two things put together cannot help but excite the political animals.

It is instinct for political animals to exclude dissidents, there is no political animal in the world that does not like to exclude dissidents, and every one of the people in the highest decision-making circle of the Ming Dynasty is a first-class political animal, and they have long reached a consensus on the issue of dealing with the post-disaster reconstruction of Shanxi Datong and the addition of cabinet members.

This is not an ordinary government affair or an election, but a major political event.

Because these two things collided with the third thing - Jingcha!

The cabinet has already submitted the fold, and just waiting for the emperor's approval, the Jingcha storm will officially begin to sweep through the city of Beijing.

After decades of evolution, Jingcha has long since changed from a purely examination of the merits, abilities, and conduct of officials in Beijing to a tool for political struggle, and what brought Jingcha into such an abyss and could not extricate itself was the brutal political struggle between Yan Song and the civilian clique during the Jiajing period.

From that time on, under the promotion of Emperor Jiajing, intentionally or unintentionally, Jingcha became a means for the party to fight against differences, rather than a means of self-cleaning for the country to uproot incompetent and mediocre officials.

There is no essential difference between political struggle and the battlefield, which kills people and destroys them physically, while political struggle kills people and destroys them physically and spiritually.

In the circle of nine bigwigs, everyone is accustomed to such methods, and even the Jingcha six years ago everyone has experienced the purpose, and everyone still remembers the scene of the fierce struggle at that time.

At the moment, several things are mixed together, and the various affairs are intertwined, each of which can be related to other things, and each of which is not pure.

Shanxi Datong disaster relief, the emperor named Shen Cheng to preside, and Shen Cheng also confirmed that he would definitely preside over this work, as a ladder for himself to serve as the first assistant of the cabinet in the future.

But Shen has always been a native of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and he is the general spokesperson for the interests of the sworn enemies of the Jin merchants, and letting such a person preside over the disaster relief in Datong, Shanxi is like letting the big bad wolf carry out the poverty alleviation work for Little Red Riding Hood, which is simply more than Grimm's fairy tales.

Yang Junmin said 666.

Let Shen always preside over the disaster relief and crisis relief work in Datong, Shanxi, isn't this tantamount to unloading the Jin merchants in Datong, Shanxi Province to defend themselves and waiting for Shen Yiyi to slaughter? Isn't that just a man-made knife and me a fish?

As the only bigwig-level spokesperson of the Jin merchants in the court, Yang Junmin said that he could not accept it, and he once wrote to the emperor, asking the emperor to allow him to be responsible for disaster relief as the general person in charge of the disaster relief work in Datong, Shanxi, on the grounds that he was a household secretary and was familiar with various businesses.

Then Yang Junmin was tragic.