Chapter 662

Wen Tiren doesn't care whether the emperor gives him dignity, but he knows that these ministers in the court are the grass on the wall and fall with the wind.

When he was in power, everyone flattered him and flattered him. He wanted to lick his feet.

But if he was in trouble, these people would jump on him without hesitation, bite him and throw stones at him. The Emperor just kicked him away. What he was more afraid of was the subsequent liquidation and attack of the imperial court on him.

He wentiren is also a well-informed person. He also has many minions and followers. He immediately heard the secret news that the emperor kicked him away in such a hurry. The main thing is that he already has a candidate for a new chief assistant, which is Zhou yanru.

Hearing that it was his opponent Zhou yanru who joined the cabinet, he knew that the problem was serious, which made him more afraid and more worried.

In those years, in order to compete for the position of the first auxiliary, he and Zhou yanru joined hands to squeeze out Qian Qianyi, who was very popular. Zhou yanru was willing to take the position of the first auxiliary. Who knows, he was intrigued by Wen Tiren and left his job sadly. It is estimated that he has great resentment against Wen Tiren.

Wen Tiren heard that Zhou yanru entered the cabinet for the second time, mainly by virtue of the operation behind Zhang Pu and the reception of Wu Chang in the court. Finally, he took the path of a eunuch, which sent him to the cabinet.

When he heard the secret news, the emperor secretly ordered important officials and asked who could be an important task. They said: Although cabinet officials use both inside and outside, they rarely have the intention of being holy. It is quite ingenious for people to promote Yixing, or they can admire the vice, and the holy meaning is also the same. Therefore, Zhang Pu, an auspicious scholar, and Wu Changshi, a member of the Ministry of rites, operated it. Feng Quan in Zhuozhou, Hou Xun in Henan and Ruan Dacheng in Tongcheng were divided into any share, with silver and gold per share, at a total cost of 60000 Liang.

With Chongzhen's character, it is impossible to decide the candidate for the head and auxiliary of the cabinet just by the eunuch's briefing. In fact, if Zhou yanru can be reinstated, it must be that Chongzhen still likes him and wants to see the good and think of the good, so he can be used again for Zhou yanru,

Wen Ti Ren can see this clearly: "the call comes from the upper intention. At the beginning, there is no him."

Zhou yanru was pushed home by Wen Tiren and was very angry. At this time, he was overjoyed to be the head of the cabinet again. He was very grateful to Fu She. Zhang Pu once advised Zhou yanru to do ten things to save the time after he joined the cabinet. Zhou yanru promised: "I should be determined to do it to thank the princes."

When Zhou yanru came to Beijing and rejoined the cabinet, his first shot opened. Chongzhen summoned him for the first time. He talked about reducing taxes owed, exempting taxes caused by war, forgiving prisoners, employing people in many ways, and employing waste bureaucrats. Hearing this, Chongzhen was elated. He thought that he finally had a right-hand assistant who could help his own "ZTE cause". He sighed with joy: "he still did it!"

Zhou yanru did not break his promise. After he took office, he immediately implemented these policies, called the new deal.

Zhou yanru then announced that a large number of taxes owed by the people would be reduced, taxes in famine stricken areas would be exempted, prisoners would be released, the way for talents to be used would be opened up, and he proposed to recall town guards, military eunuchs and strike internal exercises. At the same time, he also advised Chongzhen that the old ministers (mostly Donglin Party members) who had been abandoned in the village before Chongzhen was put into use. For a time, Zheng sanjun, Liu Zongzhou and Ni Yuanlu returned to the dynasty successively. The top officials cited by Zhou yanru were mostly decent people, such as Xu Shiqi, Zhang Guowei and Li Banghua.

This kind of style, which is difficult to shake up in the twilight of the era of warm body and benevolence, makes many people feel that it is indeed the three fires of new officials and the new style of work.

Such a thing happened in the south of the Yangtze River in the Ming Dynasty. One person needed to carry the pot. This person was Wen Ti Ren. The emperor put all the responsibility on him and asked him to leave his post quickly. He was the first assistant for seven years and left his post sadly.

It should be emphasized that the cabinet of this dynasty, from the perspective of system design, does not have the status of prime minister at all, and its power, whether large or small, is always an imperfect Prime Minister power.

Because the national legal level does not stipulate the power dimension of the cabinet and the binding force on the emperor, it does not have the responsibility of civil leaders, and its nature is only the emperor's senior Secretariat. Therefore, its power depends on the degree of dictatorship of the emperor.

Chongzhen's control of power was also unique after Zhu Yuanzhang. He is different from Jiajing. Although Jiajing also played with Wen Chen as a puppet, he handed over all his affairs to the cabinet, Yan Song and Xu Jie. He only manipulated people, not things, so he had the expansion of cabinet power during Jiajing.

Chongzhen, on the other hand, had to do everything himself, especially in the financial and military fields. The cabinet wanted to be expert? It's impossible. Wu Lun is Wen Tiren or Zhou yanru. They have several lives. They dare to seize power in Chongzhen's hands. They really don't want to live.

The emperor Chongzhen is the one who is really responsible for all this.

The Ming Dynasty can be called a dilemma at home and abroad. This is the most dangerous time. At this time, he resolutely changed his phase, hoping to find a capable person to lead the court out of the dilemma.

However, Emperor Chongzhen forgot one thing, that is, the system of the Ming Dynasty also has many restrictions on the first and auxiliary. Compared with the previous dynasties, this capital is far inferior. As an emperor, he likes to manage everything.

Although Zhou yanru put forward a series of reform policies after he took office, these policies also won the hearts of many people. It seemed that the spring of the Ming Dynasty was coming.

However, the most serious problem has not been fundamentally solved. The most serious problem in Daming is the lack of food and money.

He was already very short of money and food. After the Liu family cut off the canal, he was even more short. Now, his Jiangnan and Huguang are facing the attack of the Liu family army. What does this mean? This means that their grain producing areas will be lost. Once they lose these places, they will completely decline.

Therefore, among the series of new policies proposed by Zhou yanru, everything else can be discussed, but the tax reduction is absolutely impossible. Once the tax is reduced, so many officials of the imperial court eat horses. Where should they get them? What do they eat and use?

Daming has long relied on the transportation of the Grand Canal, which has become a practice, which also makes the Ministry of household habitually receive materials and taxes from here. Since they did not send materials here, they changed to land to mobilize materials from Shanxi, Henan, Hebei and other places to Beijing.

Although they have changed their strategy, it is winter in the north, when it is very cold, and it is not the time to collect taxes. These measures are not effective. The key to Daming is the lack of food. Only with enough food can we survive the current difficulties.

And now militarily, they are also in an extremely dangerous situation. This dangerous situation is mainly reflected in that Liu Jun is besieging the vital area of Daming Jiangnan, and they can only sit and watch without any support.

The current heavy army group in the Ming Dynasty is mainly concentrated in Baoding camp in hongchengchou and Tianjin camp in Yang Sichang. It is mainly to contain the Liu family in Shandong. In addition, it is deployed in Jiubian town. There are still a large number of border troops here. As long as the emperor calls, it can still assemble a large army.

Another place is in the southwest. They also gathered more than 100000 troops in the southwest to encircle and suppress the chaos of She'an. Now the chaos of She'an has basically been settled and has become a grasshopper in the autumn. They just plow their homes and sweep away their holes. Now they can't kill all these minions, So they ordered Zhu Xieyuan, the general in charge of suppressing bandits, to quickly send troops back to the north and return to the south of the Yangtze River.

But all these measures and strategies need one thing to support, that is, Liang Xiang. The imperial court is short of both food and sound. It is very short. Without these things, it is not easy to want the soldiers to work hard.

When the imperial court was so short of food and pay, Zhou yanru, as the first auxiliary of the cabinet, took office as a new official, which immediately put forward the tax reduction policy, which won the support of the people and the favor of the imperial court, but it could not solve the problem of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, if you have no food and no sound, how can you let others go to the battlefield to work for you?

These things were originally a headache for Wen Tiren, but now that Wen Tiren has left his post, he doesn't need to worry about these things, but let the new Zhou yanru worry.

Originally, Wen Tiren was worried about the same thing. Once Zhou yanru was in power, he would first liquidate him and take revenge on him. He estimated that it would be difficult for him to leave the capital alive, but there was one thing that he did not expect, and Zhou yanru did not expect.

Zhou Yan, like him, is sure to avenge his resignation from the cabinet when he was kicked out of the cabinet. Therefore, he has all figured out. After he is in power, he will avenge his grievances. The first thing to clean up is Wen Tiren, a traitor, a rotten man. The advantage of killing traitors is leverage, that is, he can be neutral and powerful in the imperial court immediately, We can also take the opportunity to attack political enemies and kill more with one stone. Why not?

But after Wen Tiren took over, he found a problem, that is, after taking over the cabinet, the problem here is a myriad of things. There are so many things. He has no time and no time to do those things of revenge.

Because when he first took the position of assistant, countless people asked him for money and food. Whether it was Baoding camp or Tianjin camp, they all claimed that they were extremely short of food.

In the important town of Jiubian, they have been in arrears with food and salaries for three months. According to the feedback of many people, this is a mutiny. In such a cold day and such a difficult environment, the soldiers work hard and still owe their food. This also makes these soldiers very angry and angry. If one is not handled well, it is a mutiny.

The main problem of the Ming Dynasty now is the lack of food and pay. In addition, it is the lack of enough soldiers. Their military defeat has brought a series of disadvantages. These disadvantages and problems are what he, the head and auxiliary of the cabinet, needs to solve. So many bad things make him unable to do other things at all.