Zhou Yanru calmly handed the memorial to Qian Shisheng, a bachelor next to him. This Qian Shisheng was a member introduced when Wen Tiren was in charge of the cabinet, but he was not Wen's party member, but one of Donglin Yuanxian, who worked with him that year.
Gu Xiancheng, Gao Panlong and others were equally famous. They valued Neo-Confucianism academically and were proficient in the theories of Zhou Dunyi and Zhu Xi.
During the Tianqi period, when Wei Dazhong was imprisoned for embezzlement by Donglin Party Minister ** Xing, this Qianshi was promoted to rescue Zhao, and Wei contributed a lot. In the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, Wen Tiren felt that he could not help himself, so he led
When Donglin Yuanxian entered the cabinet, he expected Qian Shisheng to put the country first and suppress Donglin so that the government orders would go smoothly. However, after Qian entered the cabinet, he resisted Wen Tiren in every possible way, which made Wen's calculations come to nothing. (Author's note: This person was mentioned in "Jiashen".
After the "Revolution", he raised troops in his hometown to fight against the Qing Dynasty. After being defeated, he fled to Buddhism and became a monk. It was considered unworthy of integrity, but judging from his performance on stage, he was really a good Donglin.)
Although Qian Shisheng became famous very early and was also the Yuanxian of Donglin, his status within the Donglin Party is not as good as Qian Qianyi, let alone Zhou Yanru, who has been the chief minister for four years. The reason why Zhou Yanru first asked
He only did it for the sake of being the oldest, and before coming to Beijing, Zhang Pu also told him that Qian Shisheng had secretly helped a lot in the affair, so Zhou Yanru had a great liking for Qian and had already killed him.
Excluded from the cabinet list.
"Since Xuanmo became the governor, Henan has been increasingly corrupted. He doesn't want to take the blame and perform meritorious deeds, but instead impeaches the soldiers and horses that the imperial court aided in the suppression. What's the big deal? Doesn't he think Henan is not chaotic enough?"
Qian Shisheng did not say what he said thoroughly or clearly. He only accused Xuanmo but did not mention the person he was impeaching. It sounded very much like he was protecting Shi Dayong. Of course, Zhou Yanru heard this strangely and said Shi Dayong to the commander-in-chief of Lushun.
Naturally, he was very familiar with Dayong. After all, his fall from power four years ago had something to do with Shi Dayong. At that time, this person was just a general in Jinzhou, but now he is the commander-in-chief of Lushun. He also heard that he had troops in Dengzhou.
He is not sure whether self-respect is true or false. After all, he is a wealthy man who retired to his hometown and retired to his hometown, and he is not the chief minister who is still on stage. What should he do with so much leisure? Isn't it enough?
Well, even if Shi Dayong is a treacherous and evil person, the one who should have a headache is Wen Tiren, the chief assistant on stage. When will it be his turn to be a low-ranking person who can just eat carrots and worry about it?
However, today was the first day that he returned to the cabinet and was on errands. Zhou Yanru didn't want to make a mistake, let alone give others a handle. Qian Shisheng didn't give him any good advice for his reference. He was good at calculation and naturally knew that there was something else going on.
Hidden truth, naturally he would not make any judgments casually, so he looked at the other members of the cabinet.
They are He Wuzou, Zhang Zhifa, Huang Shijun, Kong Shijun and Xue Guoguan.
He Wuzuo actually served as a chief assistant, but only a few days ago, in the first year of Chongzhen, he was promoted to Zuochunfang as a lecturer at the Jingyan Banquet, and later promoted to a Shaozhanshi and a bachelor's degree, and was promoted to a Zhanshi.
In the fifth year of Chongzhen, he was promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, and in the sixth year he was promoted to the minister of the Ministry of Rites. During this period, due to Wen Tiren's illness, he was appointed as a bachelor and acting chief minister for thirteen days. He was a staunch anti-Wen faction in the cabinet and had been delayed for four years.
Wen Tiren was behind Wen Tiren, but Wen Tiren could only be so angry that he had no way to deal with him, because there was no way to drive him away. As long as he asked people to impeach He Wuzu, several times the memorials to impeach him came to the cabinet.
Zhang Zhifa came to the cabinet in the fifth year of the Chongzhen Emperor's reign as the right minister of the Ministry of Justice. He was related to Wen Tiren's close confidant Cai Yichen, the left minister of the Ministry of Justice. However, he was born in Donglin, so he was called half a Wen Party member. His political stance leaned towards Donglin.
But in the cabinet, he did not want to offend Wen Tiren. He was a two-faced man and an anti-Temperate faction lurking in the cabinet.
Huang Shijun was the number one scholar. He ranked first in the palace examination in the Dingwei year of Wanli and passed the imperial examination. In the sixth year of Chongzhen, he entered the cabinet as Minister of Rites to replace Xu Guangqi who died of illness. He was a smooth and sophisticated man. After entering the cabinet, he was warm-hearted and benevolent. He was greedy by nature.
, he neither opposes Wen nor supports Dong Lin. He only cares about making a fortune for himself. Apart from his bad reputation, no one dislikes him.
Sitting next to Huang Shijun is Kong Zhenyun. Although this person is not the number one scholar in the imperial examination and his younger brother, he is also a prostitute. Like Huang Shijun, this concubine is also good at making money. The bigger the official position, the more money he can make.
His character is quite low, he really makes money and offends people everywhere.
Last year, a scholar from Beigui wrote a couplet after the test paper, saying, "The Ministry of Rites reopened the ranking list, and the number one scholar was ranked second. I was a little scared." The so-called "fear" is the homophonic pronunciation of "Huang Kong", Huang means Huang Shijun, and Kong means Kong Zhen.
Luck. One of the two is the number one scholar, and the other is the third flower, which is exactly what this couplet means.
Xue Guoguan was a Jinshi in the 40th year of Wanli, and was first awarded the official title of Laizhou. In the fourth year of Tianqi, he was promoted to the Ministry of Household Affairs, and there were several Jianbai. After Chongzhen came to the throne, Xue Guoguan was ordered to inspect northern Xinjiang and strictly investigate the generals' embezzlement of military pay. Later reasons
He had previously attached himself to Wei Zhongxian, but was imprisoned by Yuan Yaoran, the censor of Nanjing, and was dismissed from his post and returned home. In the seventh year of Chongzhen's reign, he served as the left minister of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of Dongge University, and joined the cabinet to assist the government.
Among everyone, Xue Guoguan was the staunchest supporter of Wen Tiren and the staunchest anti-Donglin. The reason was probably related to his background in the eunuch party. Of course, Xue Guoguan was also the first person Zhou Yanru wanted to expel from the cabinet. Regarding this,
Xue Guoguan knew very well that he would not be able to serve in the cabinet for a few days, so he was not polite to Zhou Yanru. He moved a brocade stool and sat far away, reading the memorial that had come from nowhere, and completely ignored Zhou Yanru.
What is Ru talking about here?
Seeing Zhou Yanru looking towards them, He Wuzu knew that Zhou wanted to listen to their opinions, so he coughed slightly and said, "Isn't Hou Xun the commander-in-chief of the Liaodong Army? Xuanmo didn't go to Hou Xun instead.
Why report it to the court?"
Hearing this, Huang Shijun sneered: "Don't Master He know what Hou Dazhen wants to do when he is busy in the capital and hangs out with the warriors?"
He Wuzuo was startled, shook his head and said nothing. Zhou Yanru was confused and frowned slightly. Kong Zhenyun saw it, stood up and flattered him and said with a smile: "It has been four years since the first assistant left the capital. He must not know about Hou Xun."
that matter."
Zhou Yanru smiled and nodded: "I would also like to ask Mr. Kong to explain it to me."
"Hou Xun was moving around and wanted to join the cabinet, but Wen Tiren looked down on him and thought of ways to prevent him from entering the cabinet. Hou Xun did not know what method he used to persuade the Liaodong Army to go to the Central Plains to suppress the bandits. For this reason, the imperial court granted him
Shi Dayong, the commander-in-chief of Lushun. Now that Xuanmo is impeaching Shi Dayong for setting up troops to plunder places, do you think Hou Xun is on Xuanmo's side or on Shi Dayong's side?"
"That's it." Zhou Yanru laughed out loud. Hou Xun is really an old-hearted person. He was half buried in the ground and still wanted to climb up. For this reason, he did not hesitate to lower his status and mix with the warriors.