Tomorrow is New Year's Day, which is the ancient Spring Festival, and today is New Year's Eve.

The martial law order issued by Chongzhen has been quietly lifted, and the ignorant people are always happy. After the martial law order is lifted, the people are as if they are lifted and have great enthusiasm for celebrating the New Year.

The streets were full of bustling crowds, and fireworks kept ringing, which was a prosperous scene of fireworks and silver flowers all the time.

The Chinese people are always full of optimism. Maybe they have had a lot of hardships in the past year, but after all, it’s the New Year, and if you have money or not, don’t you have to have the New Year happy!

But this is not the case for the civil and military officials in the court who participated in the verge of the court.

Starting from the afternoon, the news that the former cabinet chief Han Du and the Minister of Rites Zhou Yanru were arrested by the Dongchang. Some civil and military officials who did not know the truth even thought Chongzhen was pursuing their old accounts of being involved in the knockout, and everyone was panicked.

At night, news of the assassination of the emperor was heard from the palace. The civil and military officials could no longer sit still and rushed to the palace to ask for his Majesty, but they were all blocked outside the palace by the guards in the palace.

At first, some ministers were a little happy, thinking that Chongzhen was assassinated and was about to fail, so they blocked the palace ban.

But soon again news came, Chongzhen was just a little frightened, and it was fine. He would attend the Zhengdan Grand Court meeting as usual tomorrow.

This made the ministers who were ill-hearted and were too lazy to manage their expressions, showing a look of disgust.

After the court officials dispersed, the ministers who had participated in the matter of knocking on the palace rushed to Qian Qianyi's mansion. They were worried that Chongzhen would pursue the old accounts and were all worried.

Qian Qianyi said straight to the point: "Everyone, the influence of the original knock-on incident has gradually faded. Your Majesty does not seem to punish us, but now he has been killed by assassinating the king and killing the emperor, which has caused another stir in the already calm court. What do you think about this?"

Huang Daozhou and Ni Yuanlu also came to Qian's house to attend the meeting. They were extremely despised Qian Qianyi and the officials who were greedy for life and fear of death.

But after Wen Zhenmeng, Wang Shoulu, Lu Chengyuan and Yao Ximeng died, they felt that the Donglin Party was weak and needed to unite all the forces that could be united, so they temporarily put aside the grudges in their hearts and often joined the officials of Kouque.

The officials mistakenly thought that Huang Daozhou and Ni Yuanlu, the two formerly upright Donglin Party members, were as greedy as they were, so they naturally accepted them happily. After all, everyone was all the same, and the general trend was to join in.

Huang Daozhou was very resentful about Chongzhen's execution of Wen Zhenmeng, Wang Shoulu and Lu Chengyuan. He said angrily: "When today, Zi is becoming more and more stupid and violent, and his actions are far from those of the wise kings of all dynasties, it is natural that chivalrous people will act as the king and kill the emperor."

Qian Qianyi frowned when he heard this and said unhappily: "Master Huang, please be careful, and Is Your Majesty the cause of your minister?"

At this time, Qian Qianyi didn't know that Zhu Youjian had decided to drive him out of the cabinet and demote him to Shanghai magistrate. If he knew that he had been demoted from Chongzhen from a first-rank cabinet assistant to a seventh-rank sesame official, he would probably have the heart to curse.

Huang Daozhou still wanted to refute, but Ni Yuanlu grabbed Huang Daozhou's sleeve and said, "Youxuan, be at ease, don't be impatient. What Mr. Qian said is reasonable. The king is the main body of our scholars. You must know that thunder and rain will never be resentful at that time."

"Hmph!" Henan Dao Censor Hou Xun snorted coldly and said angrily: "Meng Sheng said: If a king treats his ministers as his brothers and feet, then his ministers regard him as his loyal kings as his ministers as his dogs and horses, then his ministers regard him as his countrymen as his ministers as his ministers as his earth, then his ministers regard him as his enemy.

When today's son now regards us as a mustard of grass, killing us as we want to kill, do you still want us to regard this foolish monarch and a tyrant as his father? I deeply hate that the chivalrous people today have failed to kill this gangster!"

"Enough!" Qian Qianyi angrily rebuked: "Does the Censor Hou want us to die without a place to die? Your Majesty likes to use factory guards, which shows that like the late emperor, he is also a monarch who likes to use the room. How can we know that there is no eyeliner for your Majesty among us?"

As the censor, Hou Xun was his specialty, but how could he accept Qian Qianyi’s reprimand?

He pointed at Qian Qianyi's nose and cursed: "If you hadn't been against the enemy and betrayed your allies, Wen Zhenmeng, Wang Shoulu and Lu Chengyuan, how could the three masters, end up with different bodies and heads!"

Qian Qianyi was already guilty of the murder of Wen Zhenmeng, Wang Shoulu and Lu Chengyuan, but after he broke through the bottom line of principles, he already understood how to act as a qualified politician, which was shameless enough.

So in the face of Hou Xun's righteous rebuke, Qian Qianyi not only did not blush at all, but instead said with a striking remark: "I was furious when I saw Your Majesty that day. If we still forced His Majesty to the palace as planned, I am sure that there were definitely more than three heads hanging on the city gate tower."

Hou Xun was almost blown up by Qian Qianyi's shamelessness. He furiously said: "As disciples of Confucius and Mencius, we are the only way to sacrifice our lives for righteousness. Even if we are different from each other, we are a hundred times better than being alone at this moment!"

Qian Qianyi was criticized and looked discouraged and said with great emotion: "I, Qian Qianyi, deserve the right place to be in the world. The change of stance at that time was also to protect more just alliances.

Even if I could do it again that day, even if the three adults Wen Zhenmeng, Wang Shoulu and Lu Chengyuan died because of me, I had a clear conscience and I still chose to do that!"

Hou Xun had never seen someone as shameless as Qian Qianyi, and said angrily: "I, Hou Xun, are ashamed to be with you, a hypocrite. I, different from my thoughts, do not plan for each other, so say goodbye!"

After Hou Xun left, the ministers had no intention of continuing to discuss. Seeing that the night was getting dark and they had to get up early tomorrow to attend the Grand Court meeting, they went back to their own houses to find their mothers.

...

Just two hours later, the New Year's Day of the first year of Chongzhen arrived on time.

This day was the first New Year's Day dynasty after Chongzhen ascended the throne. The New Year's Day dynasty, also known as the Great Dynasty or the Zhengdan Dynasty, was the largest court meeting held by the court in the year.

Although there have been major political incidents such as hundreds of officials knocking on the palace, scholars breaking into the palace, assassinating the king and killing the emperor in the past few days, it was the first New Year's Day dynasty after Zhu Youjian ascended the throne, and officials of the Ministry of Rites had already conducted rehearsals and preparations as early as early December.

On the first day of the first year of Chongzhen, at the third update, Zhu Youjian began to let the palace maids keep fiddling with him. He wore the brand new and complex emperor clothes and paired with the emperor's sword, which made him look particularly wise and powerful.

Chengtianmen Square was also crowded with civil and military ministers, and there were crowds of people everywhere.

"Dangdangdang!"

After three bells rang, the civil and military ministers began to line up to prepare to welcome the arrival of the dynasty of the first year of Chongzhen.
Chapter completed!