As the sky was getting darker and night was about to fall, Taichang finally finished the answer sheet at hand.

He couldn't help but stand up and stretched his waist.

Alas, it was really tiring to handle government affairs. He sat in the imperial study room this day and did not move, so he inspected more than 20 officials in person and processed more than 80 answer sheets.

This small court in Nanzhili is truly a famous holy place for retirement, and there are very few capable ministers and officials who can be used with value.

He inspected more than 20 officials in person, and most of them were classified as good people just because they were honest and honest and did not go along with others. If they really talk about their abilities, they would not be able to use them at all.

It would be fine if these people were promoted a little, but they were too lazy to attract them as their confidants and promoted them in person.

In addition to Xiong Mingyu, the doctor of the Ministry of Personnel Examination and the Censor Huang Gongfu, who was truly recruited by him as a confidant, was promoted in person. These two were also rare capable officials.

Without hesitation, he promoted the two of them to the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the left assistant censor of the Censorate in person to show his favor.

The two of them were also quite sensible, and immediately showed their loyalty and wanted to be close friends who would follow him to the death.

As for the remaining sixty people, most of them are mediocre people, most of whom are just waiting to die, and there is no need to be promoted.

This is just that he didn't draw the fork. The ones he drew were really problematic. These people are really brave and dared to deceive the emperor in person. They can't say that they want to establish their authority again.

He was standing there rubbing his sore shoulders when Wu Wan'er suddenly jumped in.

When she saw Taechang getting up, she couldn't help but say in surprise: "Master, you're done!"

Taichang smiled and nodded and said, "Yes, I finally finished my work today."

Wu Wan'er couldn't help but clap her hands and said, "Okay, okay, I thought I'd bring you the food again."

Taichang walked over with a smile, patted her back, and said pamperingly: "Why, the food is ready? Let's go and have a meal together. By the way, what delicious food did you cook tonight?"

Wu Wan'er blushed slightly and said, "Your Majesty, you know, what I am good at is stewing vegetables. I stewed chicken and turtle at noon, and I can only stew fish and meat at night. But I added mutton to the fish and bamboo shoots to the meat. They are all special stews in our Huizhou, which are so fragrant."

She is indeed good at stewing, because the focus of stewing is on ingredients, and it is not as difficult to master the heat as it is to stir-fry. Basically, just put the main ingredients and auxiliary ingredients into the pot in order to stew it in a certain time order.

Taichang actually likes to eat stews made by Wu Wan'er, because Fengyang Prefecture, the birthplace of their Zhu family, is not far from Huizhou Prefecture, and the ingredients for cooking are actually similar. Before Zhu Yuanzhang became rich, he was so poor that he often went hungry that he had basically no oil for cooking, so he could only stew it.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang also liked to eat stew, and this habit has been passed down among his descendants.

Taichang was really hungry after working hard all day. He heard that there was also fish and mutton stewed, so his saliva almost flowed down.

They didn't eat very well these days. When they were in Suzhou Prefecture, they could buy good ingredients, but when they encountered danger, their lives would be gone. They had no intention of buying delicious dishes. They were safe when they were in Zhenhaiwei. However, there were only river fish and seafood in the Acropolis, and there were not many ingredients. This is different in Jinling City. There was no problem with what they wanted, and there was no problem with safety. Wu Wan'er naturally wanted to buy all the ingredients and show off her skills.

It was quite warm to eat together, but the place to eat was really too big.

As he ate, Wu Wan'er couldn't help but sigh: "Master, the house in this palace is indeed big enough, but there are too few people, and it feels a little scary to live in it."

Well, there are actually quite a lot of people in the palace, but there are indeed not many people in the Jinling Palace.

Because the palace maids in the imperial palace in the capital were all left by the Wanli Dynasty, and were basically trained by Concubine Zheng, Taichang did not dare to bring them out at all, and there were not many eunuchs under his command. Therefore, in addition to Cao Huachun and Liu Shiyou, he brought a few eunuchs from the original Ciqing Palace.

You know, the Jinling Palace is not ordinary big. Not to mention other places, the Ganqing Palace alone has thirty or forty rooms, including nine vertical, five horizontal, and five horizontal, and a few people live in it, most of the rooms are empty, which is indeed frightening.

Alas, the capital.

It would be great if the officialdom in Beijing was so easy to deal with as much as the Jinling officialdom.

The officialdom in Jinling is easy to deal with because the officials here do not have much power, and they are basically in charge of this province in Nanzhili, and there are no regular border troops here, so ten thousand imperial guards are enough to scare them so hard that they dare not move.

The capital is different. The power of the imperial officials is more than ten times greater than that of this. Moreover, they also control the border army, so they may play the trick of "clearing the king's side".

This is not a joke. When Wei Zhongxian massacred the Donglin Party members in history, Sun Chengzong, the general of Ji Liao, almost led his army back to Beijing to "clear the emperor's side".

Fortunately, Sun Chengzong was a rare person in Donglin who served the country and the people. He retired with an imperial edict. If any other Donglin had replaced him to control the military power in Liaodong, Donglin would probably really "clear the emperor" that time.

Alas, there is no way, so I can only let them bite the dog first, and wait until Wei Zhongxian, the mad dog, wins, and then cook it with a dead rabbit!

Although Wei Zhongxian, the mad dog, had not won, was already arrogant. He actually fooled Prince Zhu Youxiao and told him not to ask for advice from Nanzhili for advice.

Taichang took the secret report sent by Wu Mengming, and a sneer appeared on his face.

Wei Zhongxian, the mad dog, really thought he could cover the sky with one hand like Tianqi Chao!

Relying on the trust of Prince Zhu Youxiao, this guy held the power to criticize the red and seals alone, forcing the Donglin Party to compromise with him.

The Donglin Party did have no choice but to do this guy, because no matter any government order or appointment, without the emperor's approval of the red seal, it would be a piece of paper and would have no effect.

Now that Donglin wants to promote an official, Wei Zhongxian wants to promote an official. If Donglin refuses, he will not approve the red seal, so that Donglin cannot promote it.

Donglin had no choice but to make a deal with this devil, you one, me one, everyone took turns to come.

Of course, Wei Zhongxian was still very good at fooling people without gaining an advantage. He was even helping Donglin to deal with the Qi, Chu and Zhejiang Party.

Donglin was fooled by him and he was no longer vigilant at all.

Donglin deserves to be unlucky. What can this kind of trickery with a tiger do?

How did Wei Zhongxian get up in history? This guy climbed up step by step on his own body.

In order to enter the palace to curry favor with Wei Chao, after entering the palace, he curled with Wei Chao's immediate superior Wang An, and then snatched Wei Chao's wife Ke Shi, and kicked Wei Chao to Fengyang to guard the tomb. After he curled with Xi Li and Tianqi, who were more powerful than Wang An, he killed Wang An and took control of the East Factory and the Sili Supervisor!

When Tianqi was still in Xili's hands, he changed his name to Li Jinzhong and curled Xili. After Tianqi ascended the throne, he changed his name to Wei Zhongxian. He threw Xili out of the Ganqing Palace like throwing garbage.

If you dare to make a deal with such a person, who will die if you don’t die!

Of course, Taichang couldn't remind the Donglin Party that he wanted Wei Zhongxian to deal with the Donglin Party.

However, Wei Zhongxian seemed a little too arrogant at this moment, and even he was planning to do so. This is not possible.

In order to prevent Wei Zhongxian from biting him, he traveled thousands of miles to throw a serious warning to Wei Zhongxian, asking Wei Zhongxian to personally kill Chen Zeng and Shao Fuzhong's nine tribes.

Chen Zeng had long been seeking favor with Wei Zhongxian. Shao Fuzhong had already submitted a visit to Wei Zhongxian through the introduction of the eunuch party rookie Yao Zongwen, which were included in these secret reports of Wu Mengming.
Chapter completed!