In the end, Empress Zhou resolutely stood on Li Xin's side, supporting her in a decisive battle with the Manchu Tartars, asking for people, asking for money, no matter what the price is, as long as the Qing army outside the city can be defeated, and King Shen's coveting heart for the throne is broken, all the efforts are worth it.

After the deliberations of the Warm Cabinet, the cabinet ministers headed by the scholar Wei Zaode wrote a bullet seal overnight and initiated the impeachment of Li Shiwen. It is alleged that Li Shiwen colluded with King Shen and had bad intentions.

Li Shiwen also realized that he had said the wrong thing in the warm pavilion, but Jun was right, not children played between children, and what they said could be laughed at. Even if Empress Zhou is only a half-monarch, what she says is as difficult to collect.

After he came back to his senses, he couldn't wait to slap his two big mouths, why did he get dizzy when it came to Li Xin's matter? However, it was too late to say anything now, and he could only write a letter to Shi in regret and self-blame.

According to the practice at that time, the official who was at fault proposed to resign himself, and the court would give him a certain courtesy and face. If Lai is reluctant to go down in his official position, in the face of the courtiers rising up and attacking him, his fate can be imagined.

Li Shiwen almost finished writing the letter to Shi with old tears in his eyes. When he thought of devoting his life to the officialdom and only ending up in this end, he couldn't help but cry all night.

But the world is so cruel, some people are proud of officialdom, and some people are bound to be disappointed by officialdom. Since the officials have enjoyed the power and glory of being officials, they will inevitably have to bear the bitter consequences brought about by the defeat in the power struggle.

In this way, Li Shiwen became the third minister to be kicked out of the cabinet after Zhou Yanru and Fan Fucui.

The situation in the cabinet made Li Xin's cronies feel very uplifted, and the vitality that had been suppressed by these old guys for many years was finally vented for once.

Zhou Yanru is better, after this first assistant came to power, he did not openly fight against the Zhenyu Marquis and the Three Guards Army many times, and the most relieved was the resignation of Fan Fucui and Li Shiwen.

Everyone knows that Li Shiwen and Li Xin's festival are well known, and now this old guy has been driven out of the court, and looking at the cabinet, there is no one who can be the enemy of the Zhenyu Marquis.

Zaifu, who reigned when the Son of Heaven was not ill, is now the only one left, Liu Yuliang, and Liu Yuliang once had a good relationship with Li Xin, and after re-entering the cabinet, he has always kept a low profile and never said a word about the court situation.

In addition, although Yang Sichang is also a cabinet scholar, he first had a disobedient heart and refused to lead the army north to King Qin, which has lost the trust of Empress Zhou and is difficult to exert influence on the court.

Now the only active person in the cabinet is Wei Zaode, who has just been established, but because of his shallow seniority, he has no foundation, and even Li Xin is not as good as him. There is also a bearded Ministry of Rites Shangshu Jiang Dejing, this person is an old minister of the Three Dynasties, but unfortunately his mind is not in line with his reputation, and he has always stood on the same front with Wei Zaode, and when he impeached Zhou Yanru, Fan Fucui and Li Shi, both of them spoke in unison.

In the past, there was also a Hong Chengchou, who had ordered Zhu Youzhen to be locked up and imprisoned before he fell ill. Therefore, after Li Shi's resignation, there were only four auxiliary ministers left in the cabinet, namely Liu Yuliang, Li Xin, Jiang Dejing and Wei Zaode.

Li Xin's cronies suddenly discovered that the position of the Marquis of Zhenyu in the cabinet had become important overnight, and his right to speak was no longer the same as before.

Out of the instinct of rejection of civil officials, they also have a deep defensive attitude towards Jiang Dejing and Wei Zaode, and some people even proposed to pull Liu Yuliang over, and drive the old and young people who jumped up and down from the cabinet.

Li Xin scolded his subordinates one by one, seeing that the big war was imminent, and the day of the decisive battle would be two days later, and he still had the heart to engage in court battles?

However, things were reversed early the next morning, and Wei Zaode and Jiang Dejing jointly wrote to Empress Zhou again, proposing that people could not move forward without a head, and it would be difficult for the cabinet to advance without the first assistant, so it was admonished that Li Xin should be the first assistant of the cabinet to have an overview of state affairs.

As soon as this proposal came out, the government and the opposition were in an uproar. Since the founding of the country, the first assistant of the cabinet has not been born as a jinshi, and it is unprecedented to let Li Xin, who was born as a horse thief, enter the cabinet, and now he is still being the first assistant of the cabinet, which is simply a big joke in the world.

However, there are those who slander and discuss in private, but none of them openly jump out to oppose it, and even some officials have seconded the proposal.

At this time, there was only one day left before the decisive battle against the Qing army, and just when most people decided to wait and see, Liu Yuliang, a cabinet scholar who had always been silent and silent, also came forward to write a letter, seconding the letter of Wei Zaode and Jiang Dejing.

Liu Yuliang's appearance was like the last stone that led to the breach of the embankment, and the officials who reacted actually wrote books one after another within a day, and the folds flew into the warm pavilion of the Wenhua Hall of the Forbidden City like snowflakes.

In the face of hundreds of letters, Queen Zhou, who has always been calm, is also difficult to calm down.

The crown prince Zhu Cihong thinks that what the people are referring to, and it should be allowed, otherwise wouldn't it hurt the hearts of the ministers?

Faced with her son's naïve thoughts, Queen Zhou couldn't cry or laugh angrily, and had the heart to teach the prince a hard lesson, but she couldn't help it.

The ministers unanimously turned to Li Xin, the marquis of Zhenju, and Empress Zhou was not only not half happy, but felt a chill all over her body, feeling an unprecedented fear.

Empress Zhou glanced at the hidden warm pavilion door, she didn't know how many eunuchs outside this door could be trusted, if she taught the prince a lesson today, if it was leaked out, what consequences would it cause, it was really unpredictable?

Since her husband Zhu Youzhen fell, Queen Zhou has lost her solid arm to protect herself from the wind and rain, and today she is directly facing the raging pressure, only to understand the pressure and pain that her husband has endured for more than ten years, no wonder Shengsheng forced a gentle and elegant young man into a suspicious and moody stranger.

Empress Zhou couldn't help sighing, the world said that the emperor was good, and the head fighting for that chair was bleeding, and the father and son killed each other, but only when he was in his position did he know the pain of this kind of high place. Looking around, there is no one who is not one's enemy, and no one is trustworthy.

The only crown prince Zhu Cihong she can count on and rely on is still a young man who is naïve by nature and has no city government. No wonder Zhu Youzhen once commented that "the prince is afraid that he is incompetent".

"Queen Mother, Queen Mother, do you agree to let the Marquis of Zhenyu be the first assistant of the cabinet?"

At this time, Queen Zhou's cold and watery eyes revealed a little warmth, and she gently supported the back of the crown prince Zhu Cihong's head.

"Of course, I have to agree, the Marquis of Zhenyu has the merit of calming the chaos, and he deserves to be the first assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty!"

Just when Li Xin had become the center of discussion between the government and the public, he was already in the new barracks in Nancheng. Adhering to the edict of Empress Zhou, the new recruits of the Beijing camp were established, and all the soldiers were selected by the good families of all households in Beijing, and all of them were uniformly trained according to the new army model, and after preliminary screening, a whole division of the new army was formed.

Li Xin trained the new army in Beijing with the method of the new army, which was opposed by a group of henchmen, and the new army was a sharp weapon for the three guards to kill the enemy, how could it be easily granted to the imperial court? If one day the donkey is unloaded and killed, will there be good fruit for them to eat?

Li Xin dismissed this argument, and in his opinion, whether an army had combat effectiveness was not in the weapons they held and the tactics used.

No matter how strong the new army is, in the hands of those civilian officials who only know how to play tricks and intrigue all day long, they will eventually be tossed into a flock of soft-footed chickens.

However, this new army has not even completed basic training, and it is impossible for them to cooperate in the decisive battle in the field one day later, and at most they can only maintain law and order in the city of Beijing