Chapter 335 An Unexpected Ending

u001bBecause the Minister of Revenue Luo Chengde was old and weak, and was sick and bedridden, unable to preside over the work, Zhu Youjian asked him to retire. When the various factions were rubbing their hands and preparing to fight for the vacant position of the Minister, Zhu Youjian directly appointed Qian Qianyi to take over.

Qian Qianyi had been unable to defend himself before because of the matter of entering the palace to meet the emperor, and he had a little unpleasantness with a group of Donglin party members. This time it was directly hammered, and he didn't know how to explain it.

Qian Qianyi felt that he might have been cheated by the emperor, and the kind of cheating was very bad, but he couldn't explain it at all and felt very wronged.

Of course, the emperor just didn't mean it, otherwise, it would be impossible to promote him, and he even jumped two levels and directly promoted him to the Minister. This was also his life goal that he had always wanted to achieve with his life. He was almost at the peak of his life and was only one step away from entering the cabinet.

Alas, I am really more wronged than Dou E.

But his Donglin Party members didn't think so. They were so angry that they yelled and cursed Qian Qianyi for deceiving them for his own selfish interests. He was a big traitor to the Donglin Party and must be expelled from the party.

The Donglin Party leaders couldn't suppress the overwhelming force. After an urgent discussion, they decided to expel Qian Qianyi, the big traitor of the Donglin Party, from the Donglin Party.

It is said that the more talented and capable people are, the more they have their own personality and temper. Qian Qianyi has his own personality and temper. He can tolerate being misunderstood, but not only his parents, children and relatives, but also his ancestors were cursed ten thousand times by his party members. He was so angry that he vomited blood on the spot, swung his sword and cut off his robe, and broke off all ties with his former party members. He joined the royalist faction in anger and became the second troublemaker like Ruan Dacheng.

In the court afterwards, he and Ruan Dacheng cooperated with each other. He strongly opposed whatever the Donglin Party supported, and supported whatever the Donglin Party opposed with all his strength, not for anything else, but to vent his anger and disgust the Donglin Party.

However, he also knew that his bottom was not clean. Even if the two sides had a war of words or even a physical conflict, some things would not be brought to the table. Once they did so, it would break the rules and they would never stop.

Qian Qianyi was not only very famous, but also one of the leaders of the Donglin Party. He had his own disciples and supporters. These people followed him to join the royalist faction, which not only weakened the strength of the Donglin Party, but also strengthened the strength of the royalist faction.

Zhu Youjian's purpose of digging a hole for Qian Qianyi was just to create internal strife in the Donglin Party so that they would have no time and energy to toss, but he did not expect that the final result would be such a result. It was really unexpected.

Well, since Qian Qianyi surrendered, he was also happy to accept it. After all, Qian Qianyi also had certain talents, and what he lacked most was all kinds of talents.

Perhaps Qian Qianyi realized, or perhaps he saw through, and knew that only by clinging to the emperor's thick dragon legs could he, like Ruan Dacheng, be deeply favored by the emperor and become an evergreen tree in the officialdom.

Therefore, in addition to deliberately currying favor with the emperor, he also let his concubine Liu Rushi often enter the palace to play with Concubine Yuan and Concubine Xiang to enhance the friendship between sisters.

He believed that it was impossible to jump two levels and become a second-rank official by relying on his reputation and talent alone. The greatest credit was still his concubine Liu Rushi who often entered the palace.

If I guessed correctly, Liu Rushi had "encountered" the emperor.

If the emperor revealed a little bit of interest, he would not hesitate to offer Liu Rushi to the emperor.

He was willing, so there was no green.

The Donglin Party was injured by Qian Qianyi's betrayal, and its morale was greatly frustrated. In addition, Zhu Youjian became more and more arbitrary and strong, so he acted more restrained, and many new policies that benefited the country and the people were successfully passed.

However, the Donglin Party did not give up on the issue of taxing merchants. They still made trouble in the newspapers, intending to deceive the ignorant people who could not read a single word, and guide public opinion to put pressure on Zhu Youjian to compromise.

Cutting off someone's financial resources is no different from killing their parents. The Donglin Party lost their biggest cake. They were really angry and resentful. If Zhu Youjian was not the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he would have been killed hundreds of times if he had been hiding in the heavily guarded palace.

In their hearts, only a puppet emperor who was obedient and gave up power was in their interests.

"Qian Aiqing, you were also one of the leaders of the Donglin Party. If you have any ideas, speak them out boldly. I will forgive you."