I'm really not the carpenter emperor

So Zhu Youxiao was thinking about other candidates.

This person must be brave and courageous, loyal, and also familiar with battle formations and good at training soldiers.

The candidate Zhu Youxiao has already been chosen, there is no one else but Qi Jin, a descendant of the Qi family in Dingyuan, who is currently unemployed at home.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao was in a good mood.

At this time, there are still a lot of talents available. If it is a few years later, it will be very difficult.

However, this good mood did not last long, and was soon interrupted by the cabinet's second assistant Han Kuang.

In his hand, he held a memorial jointly signed by all the ministers, and handed it to Zhu Youxiao.

Zhu Youxiao frowned and opened the memorial, and found that it was the cabinet and the Sixth Ministry's court push that had finally arrived.

The last time Fang Congzhe's resignation was approved, there was a vacancy for the position of the chief assistant. After the meeting of the cabinet and the six ministries, three candidates were recommended to Zhu Youxiao as the chief assistant. In order, they were Ye Xianggao, Han Kuang and Liu Yixie.

Don't even think about it, these three are all from the Donglin Party.

Han Kuang is a veteran of the Donglin Party. He has been in the cabinet since the 36th year of Wanli and has a high prestige. Although Liu Yixiu is also from Donglin, it is very controversial.

The Donglin Party tried their best to squeeze Fang Congzhe from the position of chief assistant, not to let Liu Yixiu take advantage of it, but to push him up, mostly to make up for it.

The most important thing is Ye Xianggao.

This person is the current leader of Donglin, Yang Lian's words are the first, and Ye Xianggao has the most prestige. Not long ago, Wei Zhongxian set off a big case against the Donglin party members in Beijing, and he never thought of directly dealing with Ye Xianggao.

Chapter 27 The First Year of Apocalypse

In a blink of an eye, December will be over.

Compared with November, when major events came one after another, December seemed much calmer. The Donglin Academy case was not over yet, and many people had already started preparing for the Aoshan Lantern Festival in the near future.

In the middle of the night, most of the streets in the supposedly silent Beijing city were lit up, and the streets were busier than during the day with people coming and going, saying congratulations to each other.

The Forbidden City is also brightly lit.

Due to the particularity of today, all the concubines in the harem gathered in the Compassionate Ning Palace, chatting and laughing with Concubine Liu after the canonization ceremony.

Concubine Liu was calm by nature, even if she was revered as a concubine by Emperor Tianqi, and after entering the Palace of Compassion and Ning, she held the seal of the Empress Dowager, her temperament was still the same as before, without any impetuousness.

For this, many concubines are convinced.

Even Xi Lixuan and Concubine Zheng came to the Palace of Compassion and Ning today. After all, Concubine Liu is the concubine hand-picked by Emperor Tianqi, and she is already the master of the harem.

If you don't take a look at such a festival, it's not justified in terms of emotion and reason.

In front of the Qianqing Palace, Wei Zhongxian was directing the maids and eunuchs from the Sixth Bureau of the Twelfth Superintendent to make arrangements back and forth.

"Hey, what's the use of having long eyes? Didn't you see that the lantern was hanging crookedly?" Li Chaoqing, the eunuch with the handprint of the Shengong Supervisor, was so busy that his feet didn't touch the ground.

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned his head and seemed to see something again. He hurried over and patted each of the little eunuchs who were chatting at the corner.

"What are you doing, is it time to relax?"

"Yuan's day is coming, and Eunuch Wei will come to meet the emperor soon. When the old man sees that our Jingong Supervisor is not doing well, before we kill our family, our family will take your life first." .”

These words were basically scaring people, but the young eunuchs were all so frightened that they knelt on the ground and shivered.

Li Chaoqing was also a little surprised, and said triumphantly: "You know you are afraid, don't kneel down, get up and arrange!"

Suddenly, he suddenly thought of something, these little eunuchs were laughing and laughing on weekdays, it was not the first time to scare them like this, but they had never been so afraid of themselves.

Thinking of this, Li Chaoqing felt a gust of wind blowing behind him, shivered for a while, turned around quickly, was startled, and spit out a few words stiffly:

"Wei, Eunuch Wei..."

When he said this, Li Chaoqing also scolded those guys behind him thousands of times in his heart. When Eunuch Wei came, he didn't even call us home!

It's over, it's over, this little life is going to be gone!

Wei Zhongxian let out a soft "hmm", obviously not in the mood to get angry with these palace supervisors and eunuchs arranging the inner court, he asked lightly:

"How is the arrangement? It will be the first day in half an hour. The emperor will go to the Compassionate Ning Palace to meet Concubine Liu later. Don't mess it up."

Li Chaoqing wiped off his sweat, hunched over and said, "The East and West Sixth Palaces are in a hurry to make arrangements, and the servants are watching in person at the Qianqing Palace. After all, it was Eunuch Wei's order, so there can be no mistakes."

"Well, you've done a good job, let's continue with the layout." After Wei Zhongxian finished speaking, he stepped straight into the Qianqing Palace.

Entering Qianqing Palace, Wei Zhongxian directly changed his attitude, stepped forward cautiously, and then shouted loudly:

"Slave Wei Zhongxian, see the emperor!"

There was no sound coming from the palace, Wei Zhongxian got up and took half a step forward, and found that Zhu Youxiao was holding a memorial in his hand, so he approached quietly and said in a low voice:

"Your Majesty, the inner court is all set up."

"It's Zhongxian who is here. Come, come, sit next to me." Zhu Youxiao held the test book in his left hand, and greeted the front with his right hand.

"Slaves don't dare." Wei Zhongxian chuckled and stood still.

"If I tell you to sit, you can sit." Just as Zhu Youxiao finished speaking, there was a solemn bell ringing outside the Qianqing Palace.

No matter the maids and eunuchs who were arranging lanterns and festoons everywhere in the palace, or the people in Beijing who were looking forward to it, they all froze for a moment.

Hearing these bells, Zhu Youxiao also sighed in his heart.

From now on, the Wanli Dynasty has completely become history, and the brand new first year of the apocalypse is here.

This is his own era. Will Daming be in his own hands and go on a different track from the history?

Hearing the bell, Wei Zhongxian felt that he could no longer refuse, half pushed and half sat on the side sleeper next to Zhu Youxiao, but only touching half of his buttocks.

"What is the emperor looking at?"

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao handed over the memorial to Wei Zhongxian, and snorted coldly: "Even in Yuan Ri, these people can't make me feel comfortable."

"The cabinet and the six ministries promoted Ye Xianggao, Han Kuang and Liu Yixiu as the new chief assistants. I don't know what to do. I want to hear your thoughts."

When Wei Zhongxian heard this, his expression became serious.

Zhu Youxiao said that he didn't know what to do, so he ignored it.

As the saying goes, companionship with the emperor is like companionship with the tiger, so sometimes you have to listen to the emperor's words backwards. Now when you ask your own opinion, you basically have a conclusion in your mind.

Indeed, Zhu Youxiao already knew in his heart who should be the chief assistant of the cabinet.

The cabinet and the six ministries recommended three people as the head and assistants, and all three were from the Donglin Party. On the face of it, it doesn't matter who they choose.

However, after a little deeper analysis, the three Donglin parties are not monolithic, and there is a lot of room for utilization.

The two people in front, Ye Xianggao and Han Yu, one is the current leader of Donglin, and the other is the elder of Donglin.

As for the third one, Liu Yixiu, he is an out-and-out "gentleman of Donglin". He will not benefit Zhu Youxiao at all, so he can give up directly.

After repeated consideration, Zhu Youxiao felt that under the current circumstances, the most suitable person to be the chief assistant was only one person, Han Yu.

First of all, because this person is from Shanxi, he does not belong to the hardcore Donglin Party.

Second, Han Yu's position in the Donglin Party is only behind Ye Xianggao, the leader. He has a high prestige, and his words have weight, and others are willing to listen.

Thirdly, Han Yu has an upright character, as long as it is the reason he believes in, he will stick to it to the end, no matter whether it is the result that the rest of the Donglin people want.

The candidate has been decided, but the current state of public opinion is still controlled by the Donglin Party, and Ye Xianggao's voice is much higher than that of Han Yu.

Before Ye Xianggao took the position, even Han Yu himself never thought of fighting for the chief assistant.

So Ye Xianggao had to let him occupy a seat before lifting Han Yu up as he wanted, otherwise the Donglin Party would have trouble getting through.

"My servant feels that if Ye Xianggao is not allowed to come forward to appease me, I'm afraid this situation will be difficult to deal with." Wei Zhongxian thought for a while before saying:

"My lord, the imperial court has just promulgated a new policy in the southeast. Xu Xianchun's supervising department sent a message back, saying that the merchants in the Beijing-Hangzhou area were making trouble, and several captains of the Fusi in Beizhen died. Let Ye Xianggao Come out."

In the final analysis, his idea is to get out the old man Ye Xianggao first, to stop the Donglin Party, and then everything can be discussed.

Zhu Youxiao nodded and said, "Is he still unemployed at home now? You go and send someone to tell him that I will restore him as the chief assistant of the cabinet."

"Slave obeys the order!" Wei Zhongxian yelled, and quickly retreated.

Chapter 28 Three liquidation cases

The Donglin Party members made so many actions before, the ultimate goal is that the Donglin Party wants to form a situation where the Ye cabinet is in power.

As the emperor, Zhu Youxiao must choose obedient ones.

After Ye Xianggao came to power, the Donglin Party will have more say in the court, but correspondingly, the pressure on the southeast to implement the New Deal will also be reduced.

The new cabinet is not the same as when the Donglin Party ruled the country when it first came to power. Except for Ye Xianggao and Liu Yixiu, Han Yu and Wang Zaijin are all hard-working factions wearing Donglin skin.

In the past, Xiong Tingbi was impeached, Fang Congzhe was excluded, and now Wei Zhongxian was promoted as an eunuch. These are all Donglin Party members who are rejecting dissidents and paving the way for Ye Xianggao to rise to power.

So no matter who is chosen to come up, as long as it is not Ye Xianggao, he will not be able to sit in this seat for long.

When he first came to the throne, Zhu Youxiao had forced Fang Congzhe to stay at the court meeting, but later found that it was of no use whether Fang's cabinet stayed or not.

At that time, Fang Congzhe had long lost his role in balancing the court.

However, Zhu Youxiao has another choice, which is to ignore the result of the court's recommendation and directly call the person he wants to be promoted.

Emperor Shenzong Wanli has done this kind of thing several times.

However, the situation in the court is different now. During the Wanli Dynasty, the Donglin Party hadn't reached the level it is now. Calling one of the other parties can directly restrain Donglin and balance the situation in the court.

In the current situation, even if Zhu Youxiao called one up, it would be nothing more than another Fang cabinet.

You must know that the cabinet is the same as the emperor. If you want to really speak effectively, you need to have power behind you.

The reason why Fang Congzhe became a puppet and had to ask for dismissal was because the Chu Party behind him had basically collapsed.

Now Zhu Youxiao does have the right to give up the results of the Donglin Party's court push and order anyone to come up at random, but this is of no use.

When he agreed to Fang Congzhe's resignation, he didn't want this result.

At present, Admiral Wei Zhongxian has only been in charge of Dongchang for a few months, and the party members in the court have not yet developed, and there is no guarantee that an obedient person will be appointed as the prime minister.

……

In the past few days, it has been the three-day small holiday on the first day of the Ming Dynasty.

After hearing the news that Emperor Tianqi appointed Ye Xianggao as the new chief minister of the cabinet, apart from Tiqi who went to pass the decree, the threshold of the Ye family was also kicked to pieces.

For many people, Ye Xianggao's reinstatement as the chief assistant of the cabinet was not a surprising thing, after all, Emperor Taichang had already decreed to restore him as the chief assistant of the cabinet as early as when Emperor Taichang was in power.

It's just that the emperor was gone before the imperial decree reached the Ye family.

Ye Xianggao once again got the opportunity to join the cabinet and take charge of the government. He looked calm on the surface, but he was extremely happy in his heart, so he acted quickly, and within a few days he went to the capital to take up his post.

On the day of entering Beijing, the leader of the Donglin Party was warmly received by the Donglin Party members, but there were still a small group of Donglin Party members who did not come for some unknown reason.

Among them, the most prestigious one is the cabinet minister Han Yu, and the reason given is simple and clear, he is seriously ill and cannot go.

On the bright side, Ye Xianggao waved his hand, as if nothing happened, but he was still quite dissatisfied in his heart. That night, Wang Tiqian came to Ye Xianggao's mansion and said that the emperor had summoned him.

Ye Xianggao had no choice but to drag his old body to the Qianqing Palace to face the saint without stopping.

Before Ye Xianggao came, Zhu Youxiao called another person, Old Wei who was interrogating prisoners in Dongchang, in order to play chess.

Old Wei didn't dare to refuse, he quickly changed his clothes and came over without stopping.

Wei Zhongxian had just taken his seat, and was about to lay down his hand, when he glanced out of the corner of his eye, and suddenly found that the book Three Kingdoms that was always placed beside Zhu Youxiao had disappeared.

Instead, there is a copy of "Zhao Gao Biography".

Zhu Youxiao put the book beside him, his intentions couldn't be more obvious, Wei Zhongxian's face was calm as usual, he seemed to be thinking about where to go.

But in his heart, there was already a wave of turmoil.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao asked with a smile: "Zhongxian, is this Go so difficult to play?"

"Your Majesty, the chief minister of the cabinet, Ye Xianggao, begged to see you!" Outside the door, a young eunuch who was in charge of ceremonies bowed and shouted.

Wei Zhongxian heaved a sigh of relief, got up quickly and said: "What are you still doing in a daze, hurry up and call Elder Ge to come in."

Seeing Wei Zhongxian's appearance as if he had received an amnesty, Zhu Youxiao smiled in his heart, but didn't point it out.

"Isn't today the first day of the holiday? Ge Lao came to me in such a hurry, what's the reason?"

Ye Xianggao was taken aback when he heard the words, and thought to himself, didn't you call your ministers to come?

"Going back to the emperor, this minister is for..." Having said this, Ye Xianggao suddenly saw that Wei Zhongxian was standing beside him wiping his sweat, and subconsciously changed his words:

"I miss the emperor too much."

Hearing this, Zhu Youxiao laughed loudly and motioned for the eunuch Si Li to move the chair for him.