On September 15 of the third year of Chongzhen, Cao Huachun, the master of ceremonies and the governor of Dongchang, formally submitted his resignation to Chongzhen on the grounds of old age and frailty and recurrence of old injuries.

The next day, September 16, Chongzhen issued a holy decree without warning, ordering Qin Shuhuai, a scholar of An Guogong and Wuyingdian University, to serve as the governor of Dongchang, and the government and the opposition were in an uproar.

Since the founding of this dynasty, the position of Governor of Dongchang has always been filled by eunuchs, and no able-bodied person has ever held this position.

This is clearly against the ancestral system!

Zhou Yanru and other Donglin party members were ecstatic after receiving the news.

Because Chongzhen's move is bound to be met with a unanimous backlash from the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, not only the Donglin Party, but also many non-Donglin Party civil officials and military generals with heavy troops.

Zhou Yanru immediately decided to seize this opportunity to make a big fuss, interpreting this matter as Qin Shuhuai coercing the emperor to violate the ancestral system by force in order to seize power and cause chaos to the dynasty.

What kind of concept is this? This is tantamount to telling the world that the emperor has been kidnapped by Qin Shuhuai, and the emperor's order is Qin Shuhuai's order! He, Qin Shuhuai, wants to blackmail the Son of Heaven to order the princes to do Cao Wei's deeds!

At that time, the world will be shocked, and it will inevitably attack it in groups, and the emperor's order will not be able to leave the Forbidden City!

In this way, the governor of Donglin can not only justifiably resist the disobedience of the order and do his own thing, but can even unite a large number of bureaucrats and generals to resist Qin Shuhuai together!

As the so-called traitorous Qin Shuhuai does not die, it is difficult for officials in the world to obey the emperor's orders!

At the moment, as long as the Manchu Dynasty resists Qin Shuhuai together, then Qin Shuhuai can only use his 40,000 martial arts coalition army, how can he fight with the world's soldiers and horses?

And as long as there is chaos, the only force that can take the lead in various places is Donglin!

I, Donglin, still control the world steadily!

If he Qin Shuhuai is afraid, if he dares to lead the martial arts alliance to attack the defenders in various places, then it will inevitably arouse the anger of the Manchu Dynasty even more, and when the time comes, the soldiers and horses of the world will converge in one place, and it is not impossible to jointly crusade against Qin Shuhuai in the name of "Qingjun Side"!

In any case, my Donglin will be invincible! If this development is really carried out, Donglin's power will inevitably rise to a higher level after this incident, and then it will be the abolition of the emperor and the establishment of a new one!

The Donglin Party is burning!

That night, Zhou Yanru, Qian Qianyi, Chen Shang, and others secretly plotted in the Zhou Mansion all night! Zhou Yanru's two beautiful maids went in and out more than a dozen times just to fetch them hot water. Except for these two maids, Zhou Yanru didn't let anyone into the house, and even the guards at the door had to stand ten meters away from the door!

The mountain rain is coming, and the wind is full of buildings!

In the Hou Mansion, Qin Shuhuai also stayed awake all night, and also gathered people to plan countermeasures.

After Chongzhen's appointment was issued, Qin Shuhuai's system did not react at all.

This proves that the system believes that before he is recognized by the hundred officials, he is not counted as the governor of the East Factory.

And in order for the hundred officials to accept it, it is necessary to first eliminate the Donglin Party that advocates the ancestral system. As long as they die, the officials will inevitably accept this "innovation."

However, this did not conflict with what he was going to do, so Qin Shuhuai had already prepared.

Late at night, Qin Shuhuai summoned the bigwigs of various factions in the martial arts, as well as the leaders of Jinyiwei and Dongchang.

Among the Jinyi guards, Luo Yangxing and Wanyun Mountain have arrived. As for the East Factory, the new head Li Daliang, Zhao Keli, the head of a thousand households, and the head of the twelve stalls are here.

Before appointing Qin Shuhuai as the governor of Dongchang, Chongzhen and Cao Huachun had already talked to them in depth, asking them to do their best to assist Qin Shuhuai. Cao Huachun brought the east factory very well, and most of the fans were loyal to the emperor, now that the emperor and the governor have spoken, and they have been fighting with Qin Shuhuai for a long time in the south and the north, it can be described as a life and death tribulation, and they have accepted Qin Shuhuai without much resistance.

In terms of Jinyiwei, Luo Yangxing is a shrewd person, and he can see at a glance that the Donglin Party is not Qin Shuhuai's opponent, so he did not hesitate to stand on Qin Shuhuai's side.

The hall was brightly lit, and everyone looked at Li Daliang standing in front of a map, explaining each step and what everyone should do in a detailed and orderly manner.

I have to say that as an old fan of Dongchang, Li Daliang has a unique insight into the proposition of "how to become an official", and everyone who said it was convinced and nodded frequently.

After Li Daliang finished speaking, it was the turn of Jinyiwei to command Luo Yangxing.

Luo Yangxing's family has been brocade clothes for generations, and his father is also the commander of the brocade guard, so he also has a professional opinion on the proposition of "how to catch being an official", which no one can match.

The professional opinions of these two people are really unique and creepy at the same time.

Even the martial arts people present felt a chill behind them when they heard it.

Ruthless, really ruthless!

It's dawn.

On September 17, it was cloudy, and a cold air entered Beijing, and the people in the capital wore thick cotton clothes.

It's cool and autumn!

A power struggle related to the future of the Ming Dynasty has officially begun.

At the end of the day, Xu Guangqi, a scholar of the Ministry of Rites and a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, together with Qian Dezhao, a waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Chen Shang, a waiter of the Ministry of War, Wang He, an inspector of the Imperial History, and 56 officials from the Criminal Department, the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Officials, and Dali Temple, knelt together outside the Qianqing Palace, and cried loudly together in the north wind.

The cry was terrible and terrible, piercing people's hearts.

About half an hour later, Wang Huade belatedly went out to ask what was going on, Xu Guangqi as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, bluntly said, "The emperor does not follow the ancestral system, changes the dynasty without permission, and actually seals the position of eunuch to a sound minister, in the long run, I am afraid that the etiquette will collapse and the country will not be a country!"

While crying and talking, he hit his head on the ground again, causing blood to flow from his forehead, which was very tragic.

When the other officials saw this, they all cried bitterly in unison, and the cry shook the sky.

In fact, Xu Guangqi is not a pure Donglin party, because he is not from Donglin, but has a good relationship with Donglin. But as a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, seeing that Chongzhen did not follow the ancestral system and gave the position of the governor of Dongchang to a healthy person without authorization, he thought that he could not sit idly by.

What does the Ministry of Rites do? Isn't that what it does?

Moreover, he also thought in his heart that it was extremely dangerous for Chongzhen to do this.

First, the power of Dongchang is very large, and it is the barrier of imperial power, and its importance is undoubted, so it must be led by a person who has no roots and no children. Second, Qin Shuhuai is now powerful, if he leads Dongchang again, if he wants to rebel in the future, wouldn't it be like a tiger?

So Xu Guangqi came to cry, not for the Donglin Party, but purely because of his duty!

But the Donglin Party saw him and secretly contacted a large number of Donglin officials to accompany him to cry together.

This was their first move, on the one hand, to put pressure on Chongzhen, but more importantly, to make a gesture that the ministers of the DPRK and China opposed the appointment, so as to influence local officials and generals.

However, the strange thing is that Zhou Yanru did not appear this time crying.

This is only the first move in the Donglin Party combination punch.

Early in the morning, dozens of horsemen in the capital secretly set off and rushed in all directions.