Affected by the great success of the Kuomintang's overthrow movement, the voice of dissatisfaction with Chen Zizhuang within the Donglin Party also became louder and louder. Nanming's constitutional system became increasingly ruthless like a business war, and both the Kuomintang and the Labour Party maintained their parties on the principle of exchange of interests, with members contributing to the party in exchange for all the resources they needed, so that Lui was quickly abandoned by his comrades after his defeat. The Donglin Party is slightly better, compared to the other two enemies who operate entirely by business rules, Chen Zizhuang seems to be very humane, nostalgic for old feelings, values friends, and handles party affairs is not completely a bargaining and mercenary appearance - this is the reason why Chen Zizhuang was not immediately ousted after losing the election.

Of course, due to the cruelty of the political struggle, the Donglin Party led by Chen Zizhuang has long been unrecognizable, for example, he resolutely drew a line with the faction of the old grandmaster Qian Qianyi for the sake of party interests. But this level of change clearly did not satisfy the radicals in the party, and a large number of Donglin members angrily pointed out that it was precisely because Chen Zizhuang could not adapt to the needs of the constitutional campaign and did not become as calculating as the Labour Party that they lost the election.

Today there is a guest to visit the anxious Chen Zizhuang, he is Ren Hongcheng's cousin Ren Botong, after the Chunhua War, Ren Hongcheng became a dazzling new star in the Donglin Party, the name is almost unknown in the territory of the Southern Ming Dynasty, and the prestige is chasing Chen Zizhuang. Unfortunately, Ren Hongcheng has taken an ambiguous attitude after losing the election, and in the past two days there has been a tendency to move closer to the anti-Chen faction, openly saying that "resignation by taking blame" should not be limited to government officials, and if a person is reluctant to even hold a position within the party, then it is difficult to imagine that he will have the courage to take responsibility for his mistakes after taking up public office.

This kind of statement is undoubtedly forced to the palace, Chen Zizhuang originally hoped that Ren Hongcheng could come forward to help him tide over the difficulties, if he defected, then the already precarious position of the party leader would definitely not be guaranteed, Chen Zizhuang worked hard to run the Donglin Party for nearly ten years, and felt that he had no merit and hard work, and the turbulent remarks of these comrades made him quite sad.

After inviting Ren Botong to sit down, and then serving tea, Chen Zizhuang said straight to the point: "If Brother Ling wants me to be in this position, then I can only abdicate and make way for Xian, and please tell me what this means." ”

After Ren Botong was captured by Xu Ping, after several ideological struggles, he finally did not die for the Ming Dynasty, and Xu Ping looked for a long time and did not find any bad deeds of Ren Botong, he was not an official in Guide for a long time, although he also received money, but compared to his peers, he was a good official. In the end, it was because he held several poetry meetings after taking office to persuade the gentry to help the victims, of course, the prefect of Ren knew that the people of Henan were living a poor life, but the taxes urged by the court were not paid, so he could only persuade the gentry to set up a few more porridge factories.

After Xu Ping heard about this, he felt that Ren Botong still loved the people a little, so he moved his compassion and let him go. Ren Botong was dismissed because he was not martyred, and he was also scolded as a scum of Donglin by the scholars who had not surrendered to Dashun at that time. After fleeing back to his hometown, Chen Zizhuang went to visit Ren Botong several times, and with the help of the former, he was gradually re-accommodated by the circle of friends.

After hearing Chen Zizhuang's words, Ren Botong sighed, he had talked to his dissatisfied cousin several times before coming, Ren Hongcheng was very dissatisfied with Chen Zizhuang, and felt that his great future had been delayed, and even if the people did not forget his heroic deeds in Chunhua in the next re-election, it would have been greatly diluted - if Chen Zizhuang won this election, he could have become the Minister of National Defense, then he had a great chance to win more honor for himself in the war against Shun.

"Brother Chen's words are serious," Ren Botong didn't want to be played by the other party with his hole cards in a word, but Chen Zizhuang said it so directly, Ren Botong really couldn't deceive or scare the other party: "Brother Chen still supports the leader of the party." ”

Chen Zizhuang spit out in one gulp, and his heart suddenly calmed down a lot.

"But the Donglin Party must be reformed, and this will not work at the moment," Ren Botong changed the topic and said the radical demand for his cousin: "Now the nepotism in the party must change!" ”

These words made Chen Zizhuang smile bitterly, yes, he is a bit of an eccentric old friend, but he must also have actual credit, the corpse vegetarian meal is definitely impossible, compared with the old Donglin group of the Chongzhen Dynasty, it is already a world of difference, otherwise don't want to survive in the constitutional system of Nanming, and the person who is saying this to himself, as well as his cousin, also seem to be the beneficiaries of taking care of his old friends.

"Yes, Brother She's always been taken care of by Brother Chen," without waiting for Chen Zizhuang to speak, Ren Botong himself admitted this first: "Now the people who criticize Brother Chen have probably been taken care of by Brother Chen, but now that their identities have changed, they don't want Brother Chen to continue to take care of them." ”

Most of the radicals are people who think they are capable, and they feel that the Donglin Party's momentum in recent years has mainly relied on their hard work, so they are very disgusted by Chen Zizhuang's remaining mentality of seniority, and believe that in order to reverse the unfavorable situation, they must learn from the Labor Party and the Kuomintang, and learn from their naked business model.

In Chen Zizhuang's opinion, this is simply picking up a bowl to eat, putting down the chopsticks and scolding his mother, he commented sadly: "This is not a gentleman's doing, I may have lost the election because of this, but ......"

"Brother Chen, with all due respect," Ren Botong interrupted Chen Zizhuang: "It's still what I just said, their status is different, it is true that they relied on Brother Chen's help and support to get to where they are today, but now some people think that Brother Chen is in their way." If Brother Chen can win the election, they will not rise up against you. However, they have not forgotten their previous kindness, so they will not ask Brother Chen to leave, but only ask for changes, if Brother Chen agrees, then they will not think that you are in the way. ”

Although he knew that Ren Botong was telling the truth, Chen Zizhuang still sounded very harsh.

"Speaking of gentlemen, this is also where many people, including the younger brother, are dissatisfied......" Ren Botong's big truth continues.

After Lui Zhiqiang lost the penultimate round, Miao Dafu immediately ran to comfort Lui Zhiqiang like a businessman without integrity and integrity, as if the two had not attacked and abused each other the day before, although this move did not win Lui Zhiqiang's cooperation, but it added a lot of impression points to Miao Dafu in front of the Kuomintang members; Compared with Dr. Miao, Chen Zizhuang is much more upright, although Lu Zhiqiang is no longer an opponent, but he can't immediately change his words to shoot the opponent's horses that he was still glaring at the day before, let alone play a big change of face like Dr. Miao, publicly claiming that Lu Zhiqiang is an admirable opponent, and the Kuomintang is a great party - at that time, Chen Zizhuang was still scolding him in his heart: If you really believe what you say, why have you scolded them for the past month?

But the more gentlemanly Chen Zizhuang lost the election, and the radical faction of the Donglin Party attacked him about similar to the Kuomintang attack on Lu Zhiqiang: Chen Zizhuang regards his face as more important than party interests, which is really unfortunate, we can only hope that he will not see his face as more important than the interests of the country, and unfortunately we don't know if this is the case, if he is really such a person and becomes the first assistant, then we are all sinners of the voters.

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Nanming's newspaper has always been something Xu Ping is concerned about, and the recent election of the first assistant has made Xu Ping look at it with relish, but he has drawn an optimistic conclusion from it: "Since ancient times, party struggle has been a great harm to the country, and there are many disasters that lead to the destruction of the country, and the Duke of Qi not only does not suppress party strife, but encourages it......"

Chen Zhe and Xu Ping have similar views, in fact, Li Shun's officials have similar views, and their positions lead them to read what they want to believe from Nanming's news, and the difference between Chen Zhe and Xu Ping is: "Is it that Gong Qi is confused?" Is it completely incapable of controlling the government? ”

This idea Chen Zhefei from today, the recent changes in the political situation in the Southern Ming Dynasty have made Chen Zhe's view even heavier, the Duke of Qi ran to Hangzhou when the war was not over, away from the government to live a good life, from a historical point of view, there are not many kings who have died to this point. And Chen Zhe recalled that when he was learning the art of war under the guidance of Huang Shi, the other party was quick in thinking and humorous in his words, and he was really puzzled as to how it had become like this in just ten years.

"I don't know." Although Xu Ping has not received Huang Shi's personal guidance, but he has read Huang Shi's book, and can experience the author's flexible thinking and rigorous logic, which Xu Ping admires very much, not to mention that Huang Shi himself he has seen is not at all related to the dim, but the facts are in front of him, and Xu Ping can't help but believe it: "Anyway, I don't know that there were times when the party was so fierce than Qi Gong in the past dynasties." Qi Gong's subordinates are not even two parties now, but three big parties, many small parties, God, how can the Chaogang be so chaotic? ”

Partisanship means cronyism, it means intense corruption, it means paralysis of the country – it acts in partisan interests at the expense of the country.

This is Xu Ping's understanding of party struggle, and it is also the consensus of Dashun civil and military officials.

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The Ming army broke through Kunming, and the remnants of Gao Yi Power broke through and retreated into Sichuan, which was another major defeat for the Shun side since the Ming-Shun War, losing a large number of loyal old base troops, and also causing the Sichuan vassal to directly face the Ming army's troops. Originally, Sichuan was not only unable to count on the reinforcements from Sichuan to Huguang, but also needed to consider sending reinforcements to Li Chengdong to help him resist the attack of the Ming army, and as for the tribute from Sichuan, it could not continue to be collected.

When the news of Kunming's change of hands reached Nanjing, the Labour government, which had just taken office for a short time, immediately announced the successful end of the Fourth Northern Expedition, which was the first good news since the establishment of the new government, and the offensive that was being launched in Huguang was the Fifth Northern Expedition.

At the same time, Chen Zizhuang announced the appointment of Ren Hongcheng, a well-known Chunhua hero and a well-known man in the Nanming Dynasty and the military, as the party premier, responsible for summing up the lessons learned from the defeat and reforming party affairs.

"Our goal is to overthrow the Labour Cabinet in five years," according to Huangshi's order, although Nanming continued to use the title of cabinet, but no longer gave the title of scholar, the first assistant and the ministers were cabinet members under the new system of Nanming, assisting the ruling ministers in running the country, Ren Hongcheng clearly put forward his political goals at the first party meeting: "If I can't do it, I will take the blame and resign." ”

"The situation is very serious, first of all, I don't think Lee Soon will last for five years, and this victory will greatly increase the prestige of the Labour Party and greatly help them win the election again." Ren Hongcheng looked at the comrades present, all of them did not smile, and their expressions were serious: "Our most important task is familiar to everyone, that is, to closely monitor every move of the Labour Cabinet, never let go of any of their mistakes, dereliction of duty, cronyism, and waste of state funds, and to expose their bad deeds of failing to live up to the trust of the voters." ”

This work is indeed as Ren Hongcheng said, everyone is very familiar with it, over the years, you have been fighting for each other in the local area, all of them are looking for the ruling party, for the second election of the first assistant in five years, these Donglin parties are even more gearing up.

"In particular, if it can be found that he is corrupt and perverted the law, we can immediately initiate the impeachment motion and directly overthrow the Governor," there have been precedents for the impeachment of the Governor before, and if the evidence is conclusive, even the members of the same party as the Governor will not all defend him, but there will be many members of the Governor who support the impeachment for the sake of votes in order to draw a line with the Governor who has perverted the law: "Even if there is nothing wrong with the Governor, if the Governor can be impeached, it will be of great benefit to future elections." ”

He went on to say that the second focus of the Donglin Party's work was: "In the course of the fight against Shun, we must do our best to support the country in the fight, and we must not cause trouble to the cabinet because of partisan opinions, otherwise the voters will be angry with us and bring a devastating blow to the party, and we must prove to the voters through these works that the defeat of Lee Soon is not the credit of the Labour Party." In addition, as I said earlier, Li Shun estimates that it will be difficult to hold out for five years, so the sooner he defeats them, the better, so that by the time of the next election, the people will almost forget about it, far better than delaying the time and making the voters' joy not over. ”

Then there is the important issue of party diplomacy.

"The Kuomintang is our natural ally, and although Miao Shoufu has taken our heads, the Kuomintang and the Labour Party are enemies in any case, and of course they are also with us, but we are consistent in overthrowing the Labour Cabinet, so we must try to mend the relationship with the Kuomintang. I think if necessary, we can consider joining forces with the KMT to form a government in five years, who will be the first assistant and how to distribute the ministers are negotiable, "The longer the Labor Party is the ruling party of the country, the more considerable the political resources they will get, and if the KMT and the Donglin Party cannot recover their disadvantages for a long time, then the businessmen and gentry who support them now may lose confidence in them and change their courts, which is something that neither party wants to see, so if the Labor Party is unusually strong in five years, Seeing that everyone had no objections, Ren Hongcheng said: "We should start hinting to the other party today that we have this will, so that the two parties can fully cooperate and establish good relations within five years, and after five years, if necessary, our alliance will also come naturally." ”

In general, this party meeting is only a work of outline, but Ren Hongcheng also has some specific tasks to explain.

"Everyone knows that there are people in the Labor Party who kowtow to the people at the polling place to beg for votes in order to run for the county ordinance; In order to run for the county magistrate, the Kuomintang has put forward civilian candidates; But this kind of thing has never been disdained by our Donglin Party, thinking that it hurts the body and sweeps the ground. This erroneous view is an important reason for our defeat, "Although Ren Hongcheng has reached an agreement with Chen Zizhuang, but the inner dissatisfaction has not been completely eliminated, this time he used his reputation to run and canvass for his party, but there are always some fellow parties who can't put down the gentry, resulting in their defeat in the election for members of the Constituent Assembly, and Chen Zizhuang actually thinks that they have not made a big mistake: "We are not officials appointed by His Majesty the Prison or the Duke of Qi, but elected by the people, Anyone should try to please the electorate as hard as they used to slap their ass. Those who can't pull their faces, I think they should be purged from our Donglin Party immediately, don't want to be officials if they are not close to the people, and go home as soon as possible! You can play prestige in front of your wife, concubines and children, but you can't put on a show in the Donglin Party, even if you paint your own white nose, as long as you can win the laughter of voters and attract votes. ”

Speaking of Ren Hongcheng, he named a few people, all of whom used to pay more attention to the physique of officials, and the party premier assigned them tasks one by one:

"You go to the proposal tomorrow and propose to change the name of Lanzhou ramen to Northern Expedition ramen...... You are also preparing a proposal to change the name of Yangzhou fried rice to unified fried rice......"

Although these people are not very reluctant, they don't want to be purged from the party, so they have to accept the order, and they are all members of the Constituent Assembly, so although Ren Hongcheng is a little unaccustomed to their style, he will not directly clean up so as not to weaken the strength of the party, but if they don't work hard, most of them will not be re-elected next time - these people have a dangerous number of votes. After they accepted the order, Ren Hongcheng seriously explained his intentions to everyone:

"First of all, now everything in the country is for the Northern Expedition and the great cause of reunification, so changing the name of the snack will also help to improve the people's morale, so that everyone can remember the soldiers who did not forget the Northern Expedition and shed blood and sacrificed for the great cause of reunification when they eat."

This is a justifiable argument and a rhetoric that can be used in a proposal.

"Yes, many people will find such a proposal ridiculous, and will mock the doctor who proposed it, but many more people will remember your name; This proposal may not change the name even if it is passed by vendors in various places, but you may feel that it is an interesting alias at this time, and the people will relish the origin of this alias when eating Northern Expedition ramen and unified fried rice, and your name will probably be brought out to be remembered by more people, so that many voters who are undecided at the time of voting will mark it under your name because of their deep impression of you! ”

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