However, man is a very strange creature, just before he entered this room, Tian Ergeng, who was standing in the square, thought that as long as he could live, even if he was exiled to the ends of the earth.

But when Chongzhen not only gave him a choice to live, but also gave him a chance to regain power, Tian Ergen found that he actually hesitated. Although reason told him that he should choose to leave the capital and leave this place of right and wrong as soon as possible, Tian Ergeng couldn't open his mouth.

Tian Ergeng felt as if he was back again, and the night before he decided to take refuge with Wei Zhongxian, his mood was also so reversed. His grandfather Tian Le was a famous minister of the Wanli Dynasty, and because of his side merits, he was promoted to the secretary of the military department, and was named a hereditary commander of Tongzhi.

Tian Ergeng admired his grandfather the most since he was a child, and wanted to establish a career like his grandfather, but he was the hereditary commander of the same branch, and as a brocade guard, he was destined to be a civil servant like his grandfather.

And if you want to get ahead in the brocade guard, you must gain the trust of Your Majesty. But except for a few Emperor Daming, most of them are otaku who live in seclusion in the deep palace, and even cabinet ministers are rare, let alone brocade guards like him.

In Tian Ergeng's view, the eunuch who took refuge in the emperor's trust was the emperor himself. In order to fulfill his life's ambition and no longer be a nominal brocade guard, he took refuge in Wei Zhongxian after thinking hard.

As he once imagined, after taking refuge in Wei Zhongxian, he rose step by step, from a no-name nobleman in the Jinyi Guard, to a hot Jinyi Guard commander and Zuo Du Governor.

Although he has gained the power he has coveted, his former ambition has also disappeared. The Donglin Party's suppression of Wei Zhongxian and the Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang parties did not distinguish between right and wrong, which led to the biggest party struggle in the Tianqi Dynasty.

After the death of Emperor Taichang, who had been dominant in the court since the death of Wanli, Wei Zhongxian became the most trusted person of the Emperor of the Apocalypse. At the beginning, Wei Zhongxian had no intention of making enemies with these Donglin people, he was a eunuch who had never entered the inner study hall, and he was able to become the first person in the palace by chance, Wei Zhongxian was already very satisfied.

What's more, Wei Zhongxian admitted that he didn't know anything about governing the country, and the Donglin Party was praised by the people of the world, and the early years of the Apocalypse were called the period of the Zhongzheng Ying Dynasty. Therefore, in addition to taking care of the life of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian did not interfere in the affairs of the foreign dynasty.

However, these so-called righteous men and gentlemen, except after suppressing the Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang parties in the court, they have no means to govern the country. Under the governance of the Donglin Party, the disaster of the Dongyu became bigger and bigger, and the Tusi soldiers from the southwest were transferred to Liaodong to fight, but they did not send military rations, which caused a rebellion of luxury for no reason.

After the Donglin Party made the originally stable Ming into a miasma, they refused to take this responsibility. On the contrary, he mobilized public opinion in Shilin, saying that the state affairs were corrupted because the apocalypse trusted the eunuchs, and the pro-villain was far from the virtuous ministers.

Wei Zhongxian is really sitting in the palace behind closed doors, and disaster comes from heaven. With such a big black pot lid up, how could he wear it. To be honest, after Wei Zhongxian followed the apocalypse to the sky, he was busy repairing the ancestral tombs and returning to his hometown, so he had time to pay attention to the affairs of the court.

Now that the Donglin Party has mobilized public opinion and wants to make him bear the blame, Wei Zhongxian has fought all the way up from a nameless white, and he knows very well that once he is convicted of causing trouble in the government, his fate will not be much better than Liu Jin.

It took Gonggong Wei a lifetime of struggle to climb to this position, but now he is inexplicably going to lose his head for the Donglin Party. This simply made Gonggong Wei angry, and Wei Zhongxian immediately ran to the Emperor of the Apocalypse to cry about his grievances.

And Tianqi really can't stand this group of righteous gentlemen who can only eat dry food and can't do personnel. With the acquiescence of the Apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian immediately gathered the civil officials of Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang who were suppressed by the Donglin Party, and launched a counterattack against the Donglin Party.

Tian Ergeng relied on Wei Zhongxian to take charge of Jinyiwei, and he also thought that the Donglin Party had done too much, so he obeyed Wei Zhongxian's order and attacked the Donglin Party.

But what Tian Ergeng did not expect was that the scope of this blow would be so wide and the duration would be so long. Involved in the party struggle, he is powerless to turn back. With Tian Ergeng's understanding of the political tradition of the Ming Dynasty, to this point, the Donglin Party can no longer coexist with them.

If His Majesty the Apocalypse lives for another two or three years, then there will be no Donglin Party members in this world. However, at the most critical moment, His Majesty the Apocalypse unfortunately passed away, if it weren't for the fact that Gonggong Wei was on the side when the Apocalypse fell into the water, Tian Ergeng would definitely think that this was a conspiracy.

In any case, the death of His Majesty the Apocalypse means that Gonggong Wei has lost the blessing of imperial power. The exhausted Donglin Party finally got a chance to survive, and the so-called eunuch party quickly disappeared under the arrangement of His Majesty the Apocalypse before his death.

If Tian Ergeng had never tasted power, then perhaps he would not hesitate to choose the latter path. But Tian Ergeng, who fell from the top of power, has always been a little unwilling. Now he has chosen to leave the capital, not only has he become a commoner who can be slaughtered by others, but also means that in the future, his name Tian Ergeng will be recorded in history as a member of the eunuch party, and there will be no more names of his branch in the genealogy of the Tian family.

Zhu Youzhen waited very patiently, he didn't mean to urge Tian Ergeng at all. The reorganization of the military cantonment is only the beginning, and it is important to regain the military power near the capital in his hands.

Although more than 300 years have passed, Zhu Youzhen has never forgotten the content of middle school politics classes, the so-called state is the violent instrument of class rule, and the army and police are the violent institutions of the ruling class to maintain class rule.

From the time he ascended to the throne, he had always wanted to get in touch with the army of the capital, which was the so-called Beijing army. However, it is clear that the nobles who controlled the Beijing army did not want the emperor to know the real situation of the Beijing army, so this would harm their empty interests.

By the seventh year of the Apocalypse, the Jing Army was no longer an army. It is more like a group of slaves hired by the state for low wages, and anyone who has power can call them for free. Under such circumstances, the mildly ambitious military households fled, and the foreign army became suspicious of the soldiers who entered Beijing.

Even the British Duke Zhang Weixian, who is loyal to the Ming royal family, can do nothing about it. The Beijing army has been completely rotten to the roots, and Zhang Weixian is not willing to go against the Ming royal family and the entire noble class, after all, the marriage between the nobles for more than 200 years has made the nobles of the Ming Dynasty a monster connected to the flesh and bones.

When Zhang Weixian instructed his subordinates in the Beijing army not to cooperate with Jinyiwei's investigation, Zhu Youzhen already understood. The British duke was loyal to the Ming royal family, not to him, Zhu Youzhen.

Regarding Zhang Weixian's actions, Zhu Youzhen chose forbearance and concession. He withdrew the Jinyi Guard team that investigated the Beijing Army, and began to bury himself in sorting out the internal affairs of the palace and the factory guard. Today, the 24 yamen in the palace have completely surrendered to their orders, and Zhu Youzhen has begun to prepare to make a big move against the factory guards.

For Tian Ergeng, Cui Yingyuan, and Xu Xianchun, former senior officials of the Jinyi Guard, Zhu Youzhen does not plan to keep them in the Jinyi Guard Center, or does not plan to keep them for the time being. First, these people have been manipulated by the Donglin Party and have become representatives of the cool officials. Continuing to keep them in the center of the Jinyiwei will only destroy the image of the Jinyiwei. Second, after these people go down, Zhu Youzhen can promote trustworthy people to come up.

But just kicking them out of Jinyiwei like this is too wasteful. Tian Ergeng, Cui Yingyuan, and Xu Xianchun, there are many first- and second-class high-ranking officials who have fallen over the years, and under the propaganda of the Donglin Party, they are famous outside.

At some point, notoriety is also a deterrent. For example, in the process of cleaning up the military cantonment, send other unknown people to go, maybe these guards officers and local gentry will try to do something. But if Tian Ergeng is allowed to do this, these officers and gentry will think about whether it is worth it to cultivate for a few acres of land and Tian Er. The hands of this former eunuch minions are stained with the blood of scholars.

As far as Zhu Youzhen is concerned, if the use of Tian Ergeng arouses local contradictions, he will not have any psychological burden to abandon Tian Ergeng, and the great thing is to postpone the dispatch to Yunnan for a few days.

When Zhu Youzhen was thinking about his plan, a hoarse and dry voice sounded, "Your Majesty, you are willing to serve Your Majesty and investigate the military cantonment near the capital." ”

Zhu Youzhen was in a trance, and suddenly sobered up from his thoughts. He looked at Tian Ergeng who was kneeling in front of him and grinned, and then said, "Have you thought clearly?" Cleaning up the military cantonment is not an easy task, there are so many powerful and wealthy families near Beijing, if you act illegally, even if you are the son of heaven, you can only ensure that your family is safe. But if you go down, you will give me and the mud, and plan to get through the tricks, even if the gentry and officials don't embarrass you, I won't let you go. ”

Tian Ergeng's forehead was rippling with sweat, but he slowly straightened his waist, raised his head to meet Chongzhen's gaze for the first time after entering the room, and said firmly: "Since Your Majesty personally promised to ensure that the minister's family is safe, then what else can Weichen ask for, he should go to the soup for His Majesty, and he will not hesitate." ”

Zhu Youzhen finally nodded with satisfaction, and instructed Wang Chengen: "Give Governor Tiandu a seat for tea, and I want to talk to him." ”

Tian Ergeng hurriedly excused himself and said: "How can there be a minister's seat in front of Your Majesty, the minister will never dare to lose his honor in front of the king." ”

Zhu Youzhen just said very calmly: "Don't think about it, I let you sit and talk because I need talents to do things, not to flatter my minions." When deliberating, regardless of the monarch and minister, only ask about reality. If you don't dare to speak freely when you and I are discussing, I think you should stop doing this errand as soon as possible, lest I use your head to block the mouth of the court. ”