Dressed as a widow, raising cubs, farming and building infrastructure in Ming Dynasty

After Liu Jin's purges over the years, the civil service forces in North Korea and China can now be roughly divided into four waves.

The first wave is Li Dongyang, the first assistant.Because of his original collusion with Liu Jin, Li Dongyang stayed after Liu Jian was transferred to an official position. He was considered a traitor among civil servants and was criticized verbally and written by many civil servants.Now that Liu Jin has fallen, Li Dongyang has also encountered a major career crisis and has repeatedly requested to become an official.

The second wave was the close civil servants supported by Emperor Zhengde who favored him.The leader is now Yang Tinghe, the elder of the pavilion.Yang Tinghe relied on Liu Jiancai to be appointed as the lecturer of the East Palace.However, his relationship with Liu Jian's party is far less close than that of Yang Yiqing and others.

The third wave is Liu Jian’s remnant party.For example, Yang Yiqing, Liu Jian's in-law, is now highly regarded.They suffered the most persecution under Liu Jin, and they hated Liu Jin deeply.

The fourth wave is the officials from the Jiangnan faction, the civil servants who originally relied on Mr. Xie Qiange.They were also brutally persecuted by Liu Jin and hated Liu Jin's comrades.

The third and fourth waves of civil servants are carrying out all-round persecution and struggle against Liu Jin’s party members.

Emperor Zhengde has been busy balancing strength to prevent one party from becoming dominant, and he is very busy.

The entire Ming Empire was like a carriage heading into the abyss, and the top civil servants were still fighting for the right to drive.

As an emperor, all he could do was try his best to turn the carriage around so that it could move in a more dynamic direction.

The two potatoes, one large and one small, are treasures that can add power to the carriage.

Emperor Zhengde waved his hand and looked at Yang Shen with bright eyes, "Yong Xiu, you go back and prepare well, and conduct detailed research on the feasibility of promoting these foreign products and the benefits they bring!"

Yang Shen's eyes flickered: "Yes. But now that the exam is approaching, my father may ask Yong Xiu to concentrate on preparing for the exam."

Emperor Zhengde patted him on the shoulder with a half-smile: "You should be well prepared for this matter. I will find a solution for you regarding the scientific examination!"

The purpose of selecting scholars through the imperial examination is to select talents who are the pillars of the country, not those nerds who only know the basics.

Because of Liu Jin's obstruction in the last meeting, Yang Shencai lost his reputation.

In fact, it was not so much Yang Shen's obstruction as it was Emperor Zhengde's instruction.

At the beginning, he was devastated by the unknown life and death of Liu Xuejiang, and he did not want to see his old friends with whom he had crossed paths.

Liu Jin grasped the essence of this and used the strategy to successfully depose Yang Shen.

However, no matter how loyal Liu Jin is, she still has her own little thoughts.In order to prevent Liu Jin from becoming powerful, he recalled Yang Tinghe who had been demoted to Nanjing.

After being deposed, Yang Tinghe became more mature and cautious, and his loyalty to the emperor further increased.

A few years have passed, and Yang Shen, a young and talented man who was full of energy at the time, has matured a lot after failing in the imperial examination and being frustrated in love.

Now is the time for Yang Shen to shine.

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The family of Li Dongyang, the chief assistant of the cabinet.

Li Dongyang sat in the ancestral hall, gently wiping a tablet with a white rag with slightly trembling hands, looking sad.

He is 63 years old this year and has no possibility of having children.

Li Dongyang cried and whispered while wiping: "Zhaoxian, do you still blame dad? Are you living well underground?"

"It's really hard for you to be reincarnated as my son, Li Dongyang. Your mother passed away just four months after you were born."

"Your father has had a reputation as a genius since he was a child, so he has placed high hopes on you. He will strictly teach you in your studies and supervise you personally. He will not dare to slack off for a day."

"I had high hopes for you as my eldest son. You have lived up to my cultivation. You can read at a glance and write articles in no time. Your literary reputation is very high, surpassing your father and me."

"You don't know how proud your father is of you!" "But when you grow up, you imitate others to be a ranger. You don't know how to control yourself. You spend every day looking for flowers and flowers, and you even ruin your health because of it! It makes me heartbroken!"

"In order to compete with me in the ring, you fell ill as soon as you took the exam, and you fell ill as soon as you took the exam, which embarrassed me!"

"I'm so angry!"

"For your future, I beg the emperor to grant you an official position."

"The emperor originally wanted to make you a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, but that old man Liu Jian got in the way!"

"The good-natured student of Zhongshushe became a student of the Imperial College!"

Li Dongyang coughed violently, exposing the veins on his pale face, making him feel lifeless.

After a while, he slowly calmed down his coughing, and began to ramble again: "You already hate exams, but now Enyin Imperial College has to take the imperial examination. If you fail once, you will die from exhaustion the second time." !”

Li Dongyang burst into tears, crying heartbreakingly: "Just to give me some air, my son, you are exhausted!"

"It was Liu Jian, that arrogant old man, who killed my son!"

"Zhaoxian, don't blame your father for being cruel, he has plans for you!"

Li Dongyang laughed again, with a ferocious smile: "Don't worry, my father has also avenged you. That old man Liu Jian, his family was deprived of official titles, and all his children and grandchildren who were officials died. died!"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

"Do you know? That old man refused to let my son Enyin become an official. His eldest son and grandson all relied on Enyin to serve the middle class people!"

"How can there be such a truth in this world? Only Liu Jian's family should be allowed to be the sole leader, and the other descendants of us should not be allowed to rely on kindness to pursue official careers?!"

"I just want to show him that if he asks others to cut off their children and grandchildren, I also want to experience the feeling of cutting off my children and grandchildren!"

"Son, don't blame dad for being cruel. Your peeing is a treasure in dad's heart. He forced you to work hard and improve all those years, and dad's original intention was for your own good. Don't resent dad. If it happened again, dad would never force you. , let you do whatever you want. Son, is the paper money dad burned for you enough? If not, you can give dad a dream, and dad will burn the whole house for you..."

Mrs. Zhu outside the ancestral hall listened to the chanting in the room and felt sad.

She is Li Dongyang's third wife. She comes from a famous family and is the daughter of Duke Chengguo.Married to the ugly Li Dongyang as his stepmother, and gave birth to a son and two daughters.

However, the son died when he was ten years old, and the eldest daughter was not raised until she was ten years old.The youngest daughter was raised and married to Kong Wenshao, the second-generation grandson of Confucius No. 60, "Yanshenggong".

However, as soon as Liu Jin died, the Kong family believed that Li Dongyang would fall sooner or later, and their 28-year-old daughter disappeared mysteriously in the Kong family.

Now that Mrs. Zhu is over fifty, it is impossible to have any more children, and she just feels that everything is in vain.

Although the master has adopted an heir, Li Zhaofan, he has no flesh and blood in this world. What hope does he have in life?

Mrs. Zhu raised her gray-haired head and looked at the snowy sky with a hint of ridicule.

Li Zhaoxian, the eldest son, almost exhausted all the love the master had for his children.

In his eyes, the other children are nothing more than mediocrity.

For the sake of this eldest son, he was even able to kill the family of Chief Assistant Liu Jian, causing their family to be destroyed.

Master, Master, you are really going too far!