Fang Youdu said solemnly, and the rest agreed.

Ye Xianggao sighed and then said, "The Cabinet and the Ministry of War are both willing to be the best. He has been in charge of military service for a long time and has passed the Yulin War. He is also a man of knowing the military... But this is not an important matter. What is important is that the court has planned to be the left minister of the Ministry of War for a while. He asked to leave his post for the sake of the impeachment of the king. It is different from the dethrone of the court after the impeachment. Therefore, the court asked him to live in his first position and then take over as the Minister of War. This matter is a major plan of the court. Censors must not speak too much because of prejudice!"

If the emperor said this, Ke Dao would definitely not accept it, and would even submit a memorial to refute the emperor, and would never give the emperor face. The civil servants of the Ming Dynasty fought against the emperor too much, but when they were the chief minister of the Dao and did not lose their power, they would say this when they were not crazy in Ke Dao, as long as they were not crazy, they could only accept it. Unless there was a great revenge in front, it would be difficult to obey.

When the level of the situation is right, it is okay for others to agree. Anyway, Yuan Keli has to stay at home for at least a few months. At that time, the limelight for their impeachment of Yuan Keli has passed, and there is no saying that they have lost face.

The matter was right, Ye Xianggao was still waiting to chat with these people, but turned around and saw the house manager waiting outside. He knew that there was nothing important about the matter. The person in charge would not come, and now he was serving tea and seeing off the guests.

"This old man is so angry recently." After going out, he walked through the Ye Mansion and headed towards the front courtyard. Song Shixiang said with an unhappy look: "Have you had anything unhappy recently?"

"I guess it's still a party struggle." Fang Youdu said nervously: "It's time to find a dagger."

When talking about this, the Donglin Party members present were in a strange mood... No matter what they thought, since they joined the party, they would definitely be in the same group. If Yang Lian and the others were unlucky, these Donglin juniors would certainly not be able to fall into it. It is normal to demote the officials and go home. It is normal to get rid of the official position and get the official position home. It is a bit miserable if something is taken into consideration by the eunuch party and a decree is taken into the imperial prison.

"Oh, I see walking." Song Shixiang was a little depressed. He was good at party struggles, but now this matter has nothing to do with him. This time, the main players of the Donglin Party were all in battle. The leaders of Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other powerful generals, Han Du and other officials were in charge of the central government. Even Dukes and Bosses who wrote letters were from the six ministers, Zuodu Censors, and local governors. They were all famous or long-standing big-name figures. For the younger generation like them, they were indeed not the turn of them to charge.

If Donglin failed to make a name for himself, they would definitely be implicated. I think they would be very frustrated.

At this time, everyone saw that the Titang official came. Song Shixiang was inconvenient to speak. Fang Youdu had no hindrance. He immediately grabbed the Titang official and said, "What's the important thing? Come to the Shi Prime Minister's Mansion at this time?"

"Master Fang," said Titang: "Of course it's the matter in Da Pankou!"

"I guessed it was like this." Fang Youdu said: "How is the movement of the Northern Territory?"

"The Governor Wu said in the newspaper that the Beilu came, but we wanted us to transfer the annual city rewards to the Chahar tribe to the Chahar tribe. 120,000 yuan a year, not one or two taels less."

"It's outrageous." Fang Youdu still has the most basic sense of national identity. He was furious and said, "The Ming Dynasty gave the reward to Xilu City because Altan was pacified and accepted the title of King Shunyi. For decades, there were no military wars in the Datong area. He has been invading the border for decades. How can he be qualified to receive the reward to this city!"

"You can't say that." Song Shixiang said: "What the court is most worried about now is the Eastern Barbarians. If the Northern Barbarians only ask for some silver, it's better to give it to them. Anyway, they have been giving Lin Danhan silver in the past two years."

Fang Youdu said: "I guess I will give it to you, and the court should not be willing to cause trouble. Moreover, Lin Danhan led his troops directly to Jizhen this time, which shows that he is very determined and annoyed that he has inserted the Han troops. It is another layer of trouble. Every year, he prepares border autumn and spends more money than the city rewards."

In a short moment, everyone reached a consensus, but for them it was just a chat. After all, it was just a censor, and it was not them who were in power.

...

The next day, Ye Xianggao arrived at the cabinet and sent someone to the Da Nei to ask for your meeting.

Recently, the party struggles between the two parties have seriously affected government affairs. Ye Xianggao felt that the atmosphere in the palace was getting worse and wrong. He had not seen the emperor for nearly a month. It was normal during the Wanli period. There were once cabinet ministers who had not seen the Wanli Emperor for more than a year from taking office to leaving office... But it was still very abnormal during the Tianqi period. Tianqi often met cabinet ministers and ministers, and the emperor could insist on speaking Japanese. This was also recorded in the notes of relevant officials at that time. However, in recent months, the emperor had not even held a lecture, nor had he summoned cabinet ministers to consult state affairs. This situation of isolation between China and abroad made Ye Xianggao very uneasy, and it was easy to remind people of the past during the Wanli period.

This invasion of the Northern Capitol was a rare opportunity. Ye Xianggao hoped that the emperor would be alert and summoned the cabinet ministers to discuss military and national affairs, rather than just listening to the eunuchs' opinions in the inner court. This is not only related to party disputes, but also to the military and national affairs.

The cabinet ministers can send the secrets directly. If nothing unexpected happens, the emperor will see them in person. After Ye Xianggao asked someone to send the memorial, he sat in the cabinet with great worries and began to write a ticket for daily memorials every day.

After looking for a while, Ye Xianggao's face showed a faint anger. He coughed lightly, and a Si Zhilang immediately came in and asked, "What are the instructions of the Master Pavilion?"

"Please come here."

Si Zhilang responded and went out to invite Wang Wenyan. In fact, Si Zhilang was a serious Jinshi and his status should be above the white-body Zhongshu like Wang Wenshu. However, Si Zhilang was very respectful to Wang Wenyan. After entering Wang Wenyan's separate office, he said that he was to stand with his hands crossed and wait quietly.

"How is the face of the elder?" Wang Wenyan was not anxious, but first looked at several memorials in front of him, and then asked casually.

Si Zhilang replied: "The Master of the Pavilion seems to be unhappy."

"Haha, it's normal." Wang Wenyan owed her body, stretched her waist, stood up, and said with a smile: "Okay, I'll go see the elder."

When Ye Xianggao saw Wang Wenyan, he said to himself: "Didn't you tell you not to attack again for now, and defend for a while. Will you talk about it after I have met the emperor and figured out the holy intention?"

Ye Xianggao had many memorials in front of him, most of which were submitted by Donglin Party members or ministers who had close ties with the Donglin Party. There had been 10 or 20 memorials before, all of which were bullet stamps that concentrated their efforts to impeach Wei Zhongxian. After being sent to the Sifu, they were sank to the sea. Of course, they were directly "stayed" and made a fuss.

Ye Xianggao felt that it would be of no use to continue like this. Moreover, he had not seen the emperor for too long. He had no bottom line in his heart. He had already asked people to greet Wang Wenyan. He told him not to encourage everyone to submit memorials recently. As a result, this person violated the situation and did not raise any objections. However, in recent days, officials of the Donglin Party or officials close to Donglin have been imposed on Wei Zhongxian. In the past two months, the Donglin Party and the Eunuch Party have broken up. Donglin is no longer satisfied with attacking ordinary members of the eunuch Party or Wei Guanghui, Gu Bingqian and others. Instead, he directly pointed the firepower at Wei Zhongxian himself, and also attacked Keshi. Many memorials were used to refer Wei Zhongxian and

Keshi's relationship was very unbearable. They said that these two people were filthy in the harem and even murdered the prince. At this level, the emperor left Wei Zhongxian alone. The Dongchang man had already monitored the residences of Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou Huang Zunsu and others. Every day, they could see men wearing white leather boots wandering outside the mansions of these Donglin Party members. Many people were so scared that they dared not come to the door. These people who were monitored were all hard bones, and no one cared about this matter at all. Outside Yang Lian's mansion was the most surveillance household, but he didn't take it seriously. He went to the yamen normally and went home to study and drink. The sound came out, and even those soldiers admired it.

At this point, Ye Xianggao felt that this game had reached a dead end, and it would not make much sense to hold on. He planned to face the emperor and wanted to solve the problem. However, Wang Wenyan and others could not understand his thoughts at all and did their own things. Ye Xianggao looked at Wang Wenyan with a calm face in front of him, and suddenly felt that he could no longer control these people.

"Don't be upset." Wang Wenyan smiled and took out a letter from his arms, saying, "This is a book from Mr. Qihe. I sent someone to give it to me the day before yesterday, saying that I would like to ask Mr. Ge to take a look."

"oh?"

He Gong is Zhao Nanxing. His qualifications in the Donglin Party are much higher than Ye Xianggao. Among the Donglin Party factions, Zhao Nanxing and Gao Panlong have the strongest forces. Liu Honghua, Wei Dazhong, who are in charge of the ranks, are all his followers. There are also Li Tengfang, Chen Yutingzuoquan, Zheng Sanjun, Li Banghua, Sun Juxiang, Rao Shen, and all have the same ranks as the four departments. Zou Weilian, Xia Jiayu, Zhang Guangqian, Cheng Guoxiang and others. It can be said that the cabinet and the six ministries also have local governors. Ye Xianggao was the chief assistant for many years and is quite powerful. The Ministry of Personnel, Kedao, and Temple Ministers, and Zhao, Nanxing, and Gao Panlong and others are stronger.

The guide of the party struggle in the fourth year of the Tianqi period, fire and suo were also caused by Zhao and Nanxing. In early February, the new year just passed, and the six-year Beijing Challenge began. Zhao, Nanxing and others waved their big sticks and began to "remove all evil" Beijing Challenge's plan. In ten months, the so-called "four evils", namely the heads and backbones of the three parties including the Qi Party and Chu Party, were listed among them. They were all dismissed or removed from office in the name of Beijing Challenge. In less than a month, more than 300 officials were dismissed and removed from office. In the past 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, the number of officials demoted and removed from office in Beijing Challenge was the most! The Donglin Party was happy when it waved the Beijing Challenge's big stick for many years, and the Kedao was also in control. The people attacked by the Donglin Party first wore a hat of evil, and then found an excuse to dismissed. It was refreshing, but it also forced all the people of the three parties to Wei Zhongxian.

In the border, it is still since the history of the Ming Dynasty, the rare case of a large number of civil servants serving eunuchs finally happened. Simply put, party struggles were the root buried in the Wanli period, and the main reason was to fight for the establishment of the prince. Because Wanli had a long unclear attitude and hesitated to establish Guangzong as the prince, civil servants split up and supported the princes as the mainstream, but there were also quite a lot of officials supporting Zheng and King Fu in order to support the Dragon. Over time, the cracks among civil servants were very obvious. During this period, there were three major cases of attacking, red pills, and seizing the palace, which made the disputes among various parties in full swing. By the fourth year of Tianqi, Zhao, Nanxing, Gao Panlong and others were too ruthless to give civil servants the rest of the parties a way to survive. More than 300 civil servants were demoted and too heavy to lead to a large number of civil servants defecting to eunuchs. This was a strange thing that had never happened in the Ming Dynasty in more than 200 years.

When later generations talked about Wei Zhongxian's overwhelming power, they always thought that he was a nine thousand-year-old eunuch who was better than his previous eunuchs. In fact, this was not the case. The most important thing was the severe division of civil officials themselves, and the party struggle was greater than everything. Under the pressure of Donglin, a large number of civil officials defected to eunuchs, corrupting the national affairs, and desperate for the party struggle. Later generations counted the responsibility of the fall of the Ming Dynasty on these Donglin party members who claimed to be righteous gentlemen. In fact, the reason was here, rather than the so-called nonsensical reason for resisting the collection of commercial taxes.
Chapter completed!