If the famous Restoration Society organization in history still existed in this lifetime, then this time, the Ministry of Officials arranged so many famous people from Jiangnan Shilin to serve in northern Shaanxi and the three borders, which would definitely cause their dissatisfaction.

Perhaps, when the plan of the Ministry of Officials itself is still in the process of being brewed, it will be attacked by those officials who were born in Jiangnan Shilin in the DPRK and China, accusing them of the evil deeds of fighting against the party and fighting against differences.

But in this life, when Chongzhen was in the fourth year, the bigwigs of the Donglin Party in the court had already stepped aside.

A limited number of former Donglin Party peripheral figures, such as He Ruzhong, one of the vice presidents of Chongzhen's fourth year, also guessed Emperor Chongzhen's true attitude towards the Donglin Party.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen has a high opinion of the Donglin Party members who died in the party struggle in the last years of Wanli and the Apocalypse, not only restoring their reputation, but also giving them a lot of posthumous glory.

It's just that the grief of these former Donglin Party ministers in the Chongzhen Dynasty after their deaths has no effect on the Donglin Party people who are still alive now.

First, the mourning after the death of the former Donglin Party members could not be changed at all, nor could it shake Emperor Chongzhen's determination to continue to divide and belittle the living Donglin Party members through various methods.

Not only the former backbone ministers of the Donglin Party in the DPRK were successively reprimanded, such as Zheng Sanjun, Qian Xiangkun, Gao Hongtu, Qian Qianyi and others;

Moreover, during the Apocalypse, especially in the last years of the Apocalypse, those former Donglin Party ministers who resigned or lost their positions were not reinstated, such as Han Ying, Sun Shenxing, and so on, who were highly respected in the Shilin Qingliu.

Second, no matter how highly Emperor Chongzhen spoke highly of the dead Donglin Party ministers, he could not change Emperor Chongzhen's practice of further marginalizing the periphery or influence of the former Donglin Party under various lofty banners.

For example, Zhang Pu, Xia Yunyi, Wu Weiye, and even Shi Kefa and others were sent out one by one, and the farther away the better.

This approach of Emperor Chongzhen is, of course, completely different from the bloody methods used by the eunuchs to treat the ministers of the Donglin Party during the Apocalypse.

However, this practice also made it impossible for the Donglin Party elements and scholars between the government and the opposition to truly unite to fight.

Because in the past, especially during the Apocalypse, the Donglin Party always criticized the emperor in the name of righteousness and criticized the government, so that the Emperor of the Apocalypse and the ministers of the Non-Donglin Party were in a very morally disadvantageous position.

However, now, the person who stands on the side of righteousness and stands on the moral high ground is the current Emperor Chongzhen.

When Emperor Chongzhen personally stood up and divided the banner in the name of righteousness, or denounced or divided the Donglin party members of the government and the opposition, they had no capital to confront at all.

For example, this time, these scholars from Jiangnan Shilin, since they have passed the examination for Juren or Gongsheng and went to Beijing to participate in the examination held by the Ministry of Rites, it means that you have to serve the imperial court and the emperor.

Now that the emperor has personally admitted you after the palace examination, and handed over the judicial responsibilities of the people of a county in the Ming Dynasty, or a state capital, to you and put you in charge, is this considered the emperor's grace? !

If you dare to pick the fat and pick the thin, you don't want to go to the poor place, and you don't want to go to the remote place, what do you mean?

Once a new member of science and technology does this, it is equivalent to immediately losing his righteous name, and immediately falling into the situation of being morally pointed out by a thousand people.

So in the history of the Ming Dynasty, was there any kind of person who was not interested in the official positions assigned by the imperial court and was unwilling to go, so he refused to accept his resignation?

Of course, for example, Huang Zongxi's teacher Liu Zongzhou did this at the beginning, and there were also many Donglin Party members or fellow travelers of the Donglin Party in the last years of Wanli and the Apocalypse.

And the reason why they dare to do this is because they have found another higher moral starting point that is comparable to that of the loyal king.

This is filial piety.

Liu Zongzhou resigned on the pretext that his mother was sick and needed to go home to wait for his mother.

And this perfect excuse has also become the best reason for many courtiers to refuse many appointments in the imperial court.

In addition to this, there is a less-than-perfect, but even more lofty excuse.

That is a back road left by Confucian gentlemen for themselves, that is, the so-called Tao is a master, and if there is no Tao, it is hidden.

The original words of Confucius were: "If there is a way, then there is a way; If there is no way, you can be involved. ”

It probably means that when the country's politics are clear and the monarch abides by the Great Dao, the gentleman goes out to become an official and assists the holy monarch to govern the world; When the country's politics are dark and the monarch turns his back on the road, the gentleman can retire and wait for the opportunity.

Such a natural excuse used to be the reason why many Donglin Party members and fellow travelers of the Donglin Party were able to advance and retreat freely.

However, this excuse is not used at the moment.

Although in the fourth year of Chongzhen, there were still some people in the Ming Dynasty who kept writing to criticize the gains and losses of the government and criticized the emperor for doing something wrong and doing it outrageously, but Emperor Chongzhen's victories in the northwest, Monan, North Korea and southern Liaoning made more people shut their mouths.

Since his accession to the throne, his gradual financial prosperity and a rare series of military victories have made Emperor Chongzhen's prestige rise amid various criticisms and accusations.

By May of the fourth year of Chongzhen, no minister dared to resign under the pretext of "hiding if there is no way in the state".

If anyone does this, he will probably never have the opportunity to recover and return.

If filial piety is still used as an excuse to escape to the northwest borderland, then in the face of the increasingly powerful emperor now, as well as the Metropolitan Procuratorate that is gradually controlled by the emperor, and the Six Departments Corridor that is gradually controlled by the first assistant of the dynasty, they may not have the opportunity to soar in the future.

In this way, a four-year new science and technology jinshi distribution plan for Chongzhen with obvious wind direction was successfully passed at the Forbidden City Jianji Hall court meeting on the morning of the first day of May without much discussion between the government and the opposition.

Those former fellow travelers of the Donglin Party who were in the center of the Jingshi also couldn't help but speak because they had already seen through the current emperor's mind.

The most typical characters, in addition to Huang Zongxi's mentor Liu Zongzhou, the Zhengqing of Dali Temple, also have the Minister of Military Aircraft Ningcheng Bosun Chengzong, and the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Imperial Procuratorate Li Biao, and even the official Shangshu Chengji, who personally implemented the strategy of Emperor Chongzhen and approved the distribution list.

When these people occupied the righteous position in the Donglin Party, they all belonged to the fellow travelers of the Donglin Party.

However, fellow travelers are just fellow travelers after all, not really their own people.

Because the Donglin Party seems to be a group that comes together because of moral identity or political opinions, but in fact it is a network of interests linked by geography and the relationship between teachers and students.

People like Liu Zongzhou, although they were born in Shilin, Jiangnan, have always been outside the circle of the Donglin Party and are not allowed to enter.

Because he is a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang, he is still separated from the circle of scholars in Nanzhili.

As for Sun Chengzong, Li Biao, and Cheng Jiming, let alone these people, because they are all from Beizhili.

Among them, Sun Chengzong was a native of Gaoyang County, Baoding Prefecture, Beizhili (later Gaoyang, Baoding, Hebei), Li Biao was a native of Gaoyi, Zhending Prefecture, Beizhili (later Gaoyi, Hebei), and Cheng Jiming was a great celebrity of Beizhili Daimyo Mansion (later Hebei Daimyo).

These people from Beizhili will never be able to become real Donglin Party members, at best, they are only fellow travelers of Donglin Party people in a certain period.

Back then, because of their fellow villagers with Wei Zhongxian, although these people were devoted to the Donglin Party, they were not trusted by the Donglin Party, and they were not pleasing to both sides.

Now these characters from Beizhili, one after another, are trusted and reused by Emperor Chongzhen.

If you count Li Guobo, who was also born in the Baoding Mansion of Beizhili, then at present, in the political arena of the Ming Dynasty, there seems to be a more powerful group than the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party back then.

If these big people who were born in the land of Gyeonggi in Beizhili can be counted as a party, then the so-called Chu Party, Western Party, Zhejiang Party, Eunuch Party and Donglin Party that have risen above the court since the Wanli period in the Ming Dynasty are not as powerful as the current Gyeonggi Party.

Under such circumstances, although everyone saw through Emperor Chongzhen's careful thinking about rectifying the "remnants" of Donglin, none of them stood up to say that Emperor Chongzhen's careful thinking was broken.

For these people, whether it is the Xuanxuan Eunuch Party during the Apocalypse or the vigorous Donglin Party, it has long been a thing of the past.

Now the Jingshi court of the Chongzhen Dynasty has long exceeded the pattern of eunuchs and Donglin.

And those who are still stuck in the rut of the past and can't see the current pattern clearly are the ones who will be eliminated sooner or later.

Although Huang Zongxi's mentor Liu Zongzhou is rigid and pedantic, after many years of ups and downs in the sea of his eunuchs, especially after he personally experienced the vicious struggle between the eunuch party and the Donglin party, which caused the Jingshi court to fall apart and be stormy, he has already recognized the current situation.

His Majesty the current emperor does not want to be eunuchs, but he also does not want Donglin.

Moreover, after so many years, His Majesty the current emperor has quietly and personally cultivated another group of doctors who seem to be loose and powerless, but actually have the same opinion.

This unflattering loose group that was sandwiched between the eunuch party and Donglin back then actually defeated Donglin in the eunuch party, and now the saint has become the biggest winner of the Chongzhen Dynasty after fighting the eunuch party!

Now, as long as Li Guoyan, Sun Chengzong, Li Biao, Cheng Jiming and others do not take the lead in opposing the emperor's decision, anyone else is destined to have no effect.

After seeing this clearly, Liu Zongzhou's cognition of His Majesty the current emperor suddenly deepened, and he no longer dared to regard this young emperor in his early twenties as a naïve lord of age.