"Mr. Qishan and Wen Taichang's advice is still very pertinent, the rectification of the science and road such a major matter can indeed not be put in the hands of one person, although the rank of the science and technology officials is not high, but it is related to the rule of my Ming officials, if the science and technology officials are of inferior morality, how can they be expected to picket other officials. The secretary is still the secretary, what is the position of Mr. Qishan after his recovery? ”

Zhou Yingqiu hurriedly came out and replied: "Your Majesty, after the reinstatement, Liu Qidong should be the governor of Shuntian Mansion." ”

Zhu Youzhen stared at Zhou Yingqiu and said: "Mr. Qishan's moral articles are well-known in the country, what does the ministry think about arranging Mr. Qishan in the secular official of Shuntianfu?" ”

Zhou Yingqiu was dumbfounded and couldn't answer for a while, and finally could only bow down and plead guilty and said, In recent days, the number of officials recalled by the imperial court is too large, and he has not checked them one by one, this is the list of officials drawn up by his subordinate Wen Xuan Shilang.

Seeing that Zhou Yingqiu, who had no responsibility, pushed his responsibility to his subordinates, Zhu Youzhen, who was already dissatisfied with this corpse vegetarian minister, suddenly became angry and said: "Are you my official secretary? Or is your subordinate a secretary? As the head of the six departments, the selection of talents is the top priority, but you are the secretary of the ministry but you are fiddled by your subordinates, and you want to say that this is not your problem? So, is it my problem? ”

Zhu Youzhen was angry, Zhou Yingqiu was suddenly frightened and sweaty, and had to take off his hat and ask Chongzhen to resign and return home.

It is nominally that Ying Qiu was in charge of the Ministry of Officials last week, but this is just a signboard pushed by Wei Zhongxian and Cui Chengxiu. When Cui Chengxiu was in the court, Zhou Yingqiu was just a rubber stamp for Wei Zhongxian and Cui Chengxiu.

After Wei Zhongxian and Cui Chengxiu were expelled from the capital, the officials ignored this empty Shangshu at all, and some of them directly fell to the Donglin Party, while the others took a neutral wait-and-see approach.

Shuntianfu controls the capital, and the location is not unimportant, how dare Zhu Youzhen hand over this position to the Donglin Party. The Jing Army, Jinyi Guard, and Shuntianfu are the three most important departments that control the capital, although it seems that the force in the hands of Shuntianfu is not as strong as the first two, and it seems that the status is low.

But whether it is the Beijing Army or the Jinyi Guard, they are not professional soldiers in later generations, they are all military households with their families in tow. If they want to live in Beijing, they will inevitably have to eat, wear, live and travel, and these are the powers of the Shuntian Mansion.

Therefore, Shuntianfu is the force that can really control the capital, although the officials of this era still do not understand how to use administrative power to suppress the first two.

Although Zhu Youzhen knew that Zhou Yingqiu was incompetent, he never thought that this eunuch henchman could not even restrain his subordinates, so that his subordinates could push Liu Zongzhou, the leader of Donglin, to the position of Shuntian Mansion Yin.

The reason why Zhu Youzhen exiled Wei Zhongxian and Cui Chengxiu, and left Zhou Yingqiu, the secretary of the ministry. On the one hand, because the position of the official secretary was too important, he drove Zhou Yingqiu away, and he couldn't find someone he could trust to do this position.

On the other hand, under the circumstances at that time, driving away Zhou Yingqiu would only let the official book fall into the hands of the Donglin Party. Therefore, Zhu Youzhen simply let Zhou Yingqiu occupy this position first, and then slowly look for a suitable candidate.

However, Zhou Yingqiu's incompetence made Zhu Youzhen see the danger. If all the officials of the Ministry have fallen to the Donglin Party, then even if he changes the chief official, it will be difficult to open up the situation for a while. The Donglin Party members, who control the promotion of officials in the world, can completely transfer non-Donglin Party officials out of the capital and then set up six departments.

It was Zhu Youzhen who finally made a move on Zhou Yingqiu, and as soon as Zhou Yingqiu asked for resignation, Zhu Youzhen agreed. Zhu Youzhen directly nominated Xu Guangqi for the post of temporary acting secretary of the ministry, the tradition of the Ming Dynasty, the appointment of the secretary of the ministry has always been the power of the emperor, and those who dare to have the power to steal will definitely be impeached by the officials.

In the past, at most, the cabinet would have proposed a few candidates for the emperor to choose. But now that Chongzhen has directly nominated Xu Guangqi, it is equivalent to skipping the step of preparing the cabinet list, which is a bit flawed in the procedure.

This flaw made the Donglin Party dissatisfied, but Xu Guangqi's qualifications were enough to serve as the secretary of the ministry, and the Donglin Party could take the opportunity to drive away Zhou Yingqiu, the leader of the eunuch party, so Zhu Youzhen's nomination was quickly implemented.

After explaining the matter of the official book, Zhu Youzhen refocused his attention on Liu Zongzhou and Wen Zhenmeng.

Only then did Chongzhen open his mouth and say to the officials at the court meeting: "The master once said: I am three provinces and my body. However, after I became an official in the Ming Dynasty, I abandoned the teachings of the sages, either looting the people or bribing the officials in order to be transferred to the United States. When have they reflected?

In addition to the usual picketing and impeachment of the officials of the department, it is necessary to organize the officials to leave their posts and re-study the words of the saints every once in a while. Therefore, I plan to open a school for the training of officials in the university, and all officials who need to be promoted, or who are transferred, must enter the school for a short period of study, to review the words of the sage, and not forget the original intention before the promotion.

Mr. Qishan's moral character is respected by the world, and Shen Du said that he also happened to go to the distractions in the hearts of those officials, I think that Mr. Qishan will serve as the principal of this official training school, is this principal's rank? Just add the title of the Ministry of Rites.

As for the matter of sorting out the department, the right deputy capital Yushi first sorted out the rules, and then Mr. Qishan, Wen Taichang, and the right deputy capital Yushi voted on it, and then reported it to me for knowing. There are two moral people to check it, I believe that no one should question it, and the two of them will also collude with the right deputy capital Yushi, right? ”

Starting with an anachronistic recital by Liu Zongzhou, Chongzhen seems to be quite active at the court meeting today.

Sort out the officials of the department, remove the official department, establish an inexplicable official training school, and put together Mr. Qishan, Wen Taichang, and the right deputy Yushi.

Whether it is Huang Liji and other cabinet members, the remnants of the eunuch party, or the Donglin party, they are all confused now, and they don't know what Chongzhen wants to do.

Sorting out the Kedao controlled by the Donglin Party, can it be said that Chongzhen attacked the Donglin Party? However, it seems too child's bald to let Mr. Qishan and Wen Taichang, the two leaders of Donglin, review and crack down on the Donglin Party's words.

The removal of Zhou Yingqiu, the head of the eunuch party, and the replacement of Xu Guangqi, a scholar with a more neutral position on the Donglin Party, does not seem to be good news for the eunuch party.

But what Chongzhen means is that the officials of the ministry manipulate the officials to break the rules. It is conceivable that after Xu Guangqi takes office, this ministry will definitely have to be cleaned. However, many officials in the Ministry of Officials have defected to the Donglin Party before, and now the purge of the Ministry of Officials does not mean that they are still dealing with the Donglin Party?

After today's court meeting was dispersed, there was no discussion in the ranks of the officials who had withdrawn from the DPRK, and the officials today walked quietly.

Huang Liji was about to pass through the Huiji Gate and walk towards the cabinet duty room in the Wenyuan Pavilion, but a eunuch stopped him here and said: "Elder Huang Ge, Your Majesty has a message, please go to the Qianqing Palace to talk about it." ”

Huang Liji glanced at the middle-aged eunuch with his eyes, and asked with some suspicion: "Is Your Majesty officially summoned?" ”

"No, Your Majesty's statement to ask the elder pavilion to talk is not a summons. Please move. The eunuch just briefly explained a few words, and then bent down to ask Huang Liji to leave.

Along the way, Huang Liji knocked on the side and asked a few words, wanting to understand what Chongzhen talked about from this eunuch. However, although the middle-aged eunuch was extremely humble to Huang Liji, he didn't tell Huang Liji anything.

This made Huang Li a little surprised, but he knew that just a few months ago, what kind of virtue these eunuchs in the palace were, not to mention that he took the initiative to ask, even if he didn't ask, these eunuchs who wanted to please him would take the initiative to reveal the emperor's news to him.

In the past, the palace was like a sieve, and any news could quickly reach the ears of people outside the palace. As long as there are civil officials with some political ambitions, they will try to make friends with several eunuchs in the palace, because only these people who get along with the emperor day and night can best understand the emperor's preferences.

And after understanding an emperor's preferences, it is easier to gain the emperor's trust. Although it took several generations for the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty to keep the imperial power in the capital, in the totalitarian society of the Ming Dynasty, where the imperial power had developed to the extreme, without the emperor's mandate, the civil officials could not obtain legal administrative power.

Theoretically, civil officials could resist the transfer of imperial power to the local government by listening but not obeying. But without the emperor's consent, it was illegal for a civil official to issue any decree of administration. Therefore, in the face of reality, both the emperor and the civil clique must compromise with each other.

The emperor was angry, he could hide in the palace and not come out, and engage in a passive strike. But in a centralized country like the Ming Dynasty, if the emperor strikes for a day, the local area will be chaotic. The civil officials who held the administrative power of the Ming Dynasty also had to bow to the emperor.

For the sake of some unnecessary conflicts, the best thing to do is to know the emperor's personality and mood on a daily basis, as well as the affairs of the emperor's concerns. This is also the reason why the cabinet ministers of the Ming Dynasty often had to make friends with internal servants, because there was a practical need.

Huang Liji befriended Wei Zhongxian in the palace, and he also followed this unspoken rule. Without the cooperation of Wei Zhongxian, who controls the celebrant and supervisor, what else can the cabinet do? But the Donglin Party members beat him into a eunuch because of this, which also provoked Huang Liji's counterattack against the Donglin Party.

After Wei Zhongxian stepped down, Huang Liji's eyes and ears in the palace were gone. However, Huang Li can understand that this is a son of heaven and a courtier, and no emperor will retain the cronies of the former emperor to be responsible for his own safety.

Because he was afraid that when the throne was handed over, the handover of the inner servants would arouse Chongzhen's suspicions. Therefore, Huang Liji has always been cautious in the past few months, and has not tried to find another eunuch in the palace to understand the situation in the palace.

But today, he felt that Chongzhen's suspicion should not be so big, so he thought about exploring the news in the palace.