After Xue Guoguan's death, he was confiscated with 50,000 taels of stolen silver and his home was confiscated. However, only more than 600 taels of accumulated wealth and an ancestral home were confiscated. Many people felt that although Xue Guoguan was not a good person, he was not punished.

His crime and the circumstances were really tragic. He was guilty of a crime that would not lead to death. Party formation was unavoidable, and corruption was definitely a false accusation.

The role of Fushe in the overthrow of Xue, although relatively obscure, was still spread among the government and the public. The Donglin people celebrated it, while the opposition in Donglin hated it. Now that Fushe has penetrated deeply into

The core of the political struggle was to push forward one of his own representatives to serve as the chief minister. After careful study, Zhang Pu and his assistants in Taicang felt that the most suitable candidate was the former chief minister.

Assisted by Zhou Yanru.

Zhou Yanru originally had many friends in the Donglin Party, but he was not selected for the election in the early years of Chongzhen, so he joined forces with Wen Tiren to break up with the Donglin Party members. Later, he himself was ostracized by Wen Tiren.

For the sake of interests, he also stood against Wen Tiren and was more consistent with the Donglin Party members. He had a few years of leisure and lived in his hometown of Yixing. His neighbors were full of Donglin bigwigs, and he had many contacts. On the surface,

It seems that everyone has put aside their past feud and become good friends again.

The decision-makers in Fushe believed that by fully recommending Zhou Yanru, they could make him their political spokesperson without causing too much alarm to the opposition. Moreover, because Zhou Yanru's qualifications were unusual, he would be appointed as the chief minister as soon as he entered the cabinet.

, a lot less trouble than others.

After the decision was made, the people who restored the society went out in all directions. Not only did they find the backbone of Donglin in the government and the opposition, such as Qian Qianyi, Hou Xun and others, but they also found the famous eunuch figures Feng Quan and Ruan Dacheng. The society was restored.

When Ruan Dacheng is needed, he immediately smiles at him; when he is not used, he frowns. But Ruan Dacheng is as if his skin is itchy. He does not remember the lesson and is lost in his mind. This is no longer crazy, but a monster. He can only shake his head and be speechless.

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To mobilize a chief minister to come out is a very big project. It requires not only smooth access to personnel, but also the use of large amounts of funds. However, this problem will not be difficult for the gentlemen who restore society. The wisdom of the people is infinite.

, not to mention a gentleman? So Fushe adopted the method of issuing shares, offering 10,000 taels per share, and rewards will be given separately when the matter is successful.

So they pieced together everything. They even sent people to Runing to look for Wu Shigong, the military attaché of the Donglin Party. However, because Wu Shigong was in Liaodong, officials in Runing could not make such an important decision, so in the end, no result was found.

We collected 200,000 taels of activity funds and transported them all to Beijing to pay bribes.

This amount of money, which was close to an astronomical figure at the time, certainly played a huge role. In terms of personnel, it mainly relied on Wu Changshi's activities in the capital. Because Wu Changshi had a close relationship with the eunuchs, he was very familiar with the situation in the palace and was able to invisibly control the situation.

To exert influence on Emperor Chongzhen is known as "holding the handle of the court with one hand and breathing through the throne of the emperor"; because he had just eliminated a dignified chief minister, the ministers did not dare not to look at him differently. In addition, he had two hundred thousand taels of silver as his influence.

Backup. After some activities, it actually worked.

Emperor Chongzhen didn't know when he began to miss his former chief minister. The courtiers seemed to often mention Zhou Yanru's loyalty and ability inadvertently. By February, everything seemed to fall into place. Emperor Chongzhen's state affairs were becoming increasingly difficult.

With few assistants around him, Chen Gang finally acted "arbitrarily" and decided to re-appoint several former cabinet ministers.

He summoned his former assistant ministers Zhou Yanru, He Fengsheng, and Zhang Zhifa to Beijing to join the cabinet to help with government affairs. Zhang Zhifa probably knew a little about the inside story and felt that it was boring to follow Zhou Yanru. He did not come to Beijing because of illness. Zhou Yanru and He Fengsheng went to Beijing immediately after being ordered to do so.

, respectively came to the capital in September of this year to take up posts.

However, Zhang Pu, the leader of the Fushe, was a young man who had gained his ambition and showed his sharpness. Not only did he look down on some of Zhou Yanru's teacher's behaviors, but he also often asked him to do things according to Fushe's wishes. Therefore, Zhou Yanru hated this student deeply.

It's just for the sake of taking advantage of your weak talents. How can you really change your mind and change your past mistakes?

Although Zhou Yanru was once the number one scholar, he was greedy for money and sex. There was a young woman whose husband had died in a wealthy family in Dongting Mountain in the East. She couldn't bear the loneliness and colluded with outsiders to marry herself. Of course, the wealthy family was not willing to sue her.

When he arrived in the county, he was afraid of getting married, so he had to give the young woman to Zhou Yanru in full make-up.

At this time, Zhou Yanru was "favored at first sight". At that time, the imperial court announced that he would be promoted to the chief minister. He was addicted to beauty and delayed going to Beijing to serve as an official. Zhang Pu took the county's arrest warrant and found Zhou Yanru.

, regardless of the etiquette between teachers and students, he threw the arrest warrant in front of him, and Zhou Yanru couldn't help but become furious.

But Zhang Pu didn't buy his account at all: "This is just a trivial matter, you don't need to get so angry. If you refuse to come out now, I'm afraid something worse than this will happen in the future."

Zhou Yanru, an old cunning man, immediately changed his face when he heard this. He said to Zhang Pu pleasantly: "Without your words, I wouldn't have seen this." He even addressed the students as you respectfully. So he brought

He asked that young woman to take office. This incident seemed to be a "little thing", but the resentment was very deep.

Moreover, Zhang Pu also threatened Zhou Yanru with this matter, and wanted to use Zhou Yanru as a puppet to manipulate the government and the appointment and dismissal of officials. This made Zhou Yanru hate Zhang Pu to the core.

What Zhang Pu didn't know was that after learning that Zhou Yanru had been reinstated as the chief assistant, his favorite disciple Wu Changshi had already changed his family. When Zhang Pu got the conditions agreed by Zhou Yanru, he happily returned to his home in Taicang, and that night he fell ill with abdominal pain.

The pain was endless, and he died in the west.

That was when Wu Changshi sent Zhang Pu to Jiuquan with a dose of medicine. When Zhou Yanru came back, Zhang and Wu were both the ones who planned and accomplished great feats. However, in the struggle for power and profit, Wu Changshi held the power in his hands and did not want Zhang Pu to taste it.

Ding Yizhen came up with this poisonous plan. Of course, behind Wu Changshi, you can still see the shadow of Zhou Yanru's sinister smile.

But no one dared to expose this obvious conspiracy publicly. Fearing Zhou Yanru’s murderous hand and clinging to Zhou Yanru’s power, the gentlemen of Fushe and the Donglin Party collectively lost their voices, but they still flattered Zhou Yanru. And Zhang Pu’s funeral

It was deserted and deserted, and all his "friends" and "comrades" during his lifetime were nowhere to be seen. It really made him die in peace!
Chapter completed!