The Most Powerful Man in the World

Under the cover of dozens of ships of the opponent, even the four forts suffered disaster. Although the fort is extremely thick, it is not a problem to take a few shots. The artillery placed on the key forts is now Several doors were destroyed.

Cheng Yan braved the coalition shelling to look out of the port, and saw the darkness, hundreds of ships rushing over together.

The surrounding forts were also suppressed at the moment, and there was almost no strength to fight back. With a sigh in his heart, Cheng Yan released the signal bomb.

Immediately, fireworks exploded in the air, and as the fireworks exploded, the sound of shelling came from the port.

Immediately, several coalition warships were hit by artillery on the spot, either the warship caught fire or the hull shattered.

Several new warships rushed out from among the many merchant ships docked in the port, and rushed towards the coalition warships not far away.

This sudden blow made the coalition forces a little stunned, but seeing that there were only a few warships rushing out, Governor George and Earl Harry breathed a sigh of relief.

Not to mention that there are too many battleships with such ferocious firepower, if there are twenty or thirty ships, they are afraid that they will consider retreating.

But there are only three or five warships, and Governor George and Earl Harry really don't care.

The two battleships tangled together.

Cheng Yan is a qualified general, but he is not a qualified naval general. With the advantages and disadvantages of the new warships built by the Ming Dynasty, the best way to fight is to keep a certain distance and fight with them, not like Now the two sides are fighting together.

As the distance gets closer, more battles are made, and the artillery has no place to be used, which is equivalent to giving up its own strengths to fight against others.

With a large number of people, several battleships surrounded a battleship, no matter how heroic the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were, the two fists were no match for the four hands.

Seeing this scene, Cheng Yan couldn't help but slammed his fist on the fort, only the blood dripping from his fist was still an unknown appearance, and said with red eyes: "How about the evacuation of the personnel?"

At this moment, a messenger said to Cheng Yan: "General, [-]% of the people in the port have been evacuated..."

Cheng Yan, with red eyes, turned around abruptly to look at the soldier and said, "Why are there still people who haven't evacuated!"

The soldier was taken aback by Cheng Yan's expression, and trembled: "Then... those people refused to evacuate, and they were hiding on the boat one by one. We were short-staffed, and we couldn't force all of them for a while. Evacuate people!"

At this moment, Cheng Yan noticed that several attacking warships gradually fell into the siege of the other side after sinking several coalition warships. Yan gritted his teeth and said, "In that case, it's life or death, let them go."

Cheng said seriously: "Everyone withdrew from the port and established a defense in Qingtian Town. It is necessary to block the enemy who will invade in the future outside Qingtian Town."

Jingshi

Since Gu Dayong, the director of the Slijian, committed suicide, the Silijian has not had a new director of the Silijian for a while. Although it is said that a group of servants do not know how many people are staring at the position below that person and above the ten thousand people , but everyone knows that the emperor is in a bad mood at the moment, and naturally no one will come forward.

The seat of the director of the Slijian is vacant, and the officials are naturally happy to see it. Without the director of the Slijian, it is natural to have less repression on the civil and military officials. Although the Silijian has other sizes besides the director There are as many as dozens of eunuchs, but in addition to being in charge of assisting the emperor, these people have no right to approve the memorial and use the seal.

The seat of the chief minister of the lijian can be vacant, and the officials will not have any comments, but the seat of the chief assistant of the cabinet cannot be vacant.

Jiao Fang was assassinated on Changjie Street, and his body and bones were injured. Obviously, it is not suitable for him to continue to be the chief assistant of the cabinet. After all, as the chief assistant of the cabinet, he should lead the civil and military officials and assist the emperor. Jiao Fang lies on the sick bed every day, but is Greatly wrong.

Recently, there have been rumors in the capital that Jiao Fang's corpse is serving a vegetarian meal, occupying the position and doing nothing. It is obvious that the civil and military officials are already planning to replace the cabinet's chief assistant.

The chief assistant of the cabinet can be described as a high authority. Once he becomes the chief assistant of the cabinet, it will reach the peak that an official can achieve in his life.

Officials in the DPRK who are qualified to compete for the top cabinet in the cabinet say that there are not many, but not many.

When it comes to ability, Wang Shouren and Yang Yiqing are naturally no weaker than anyone, or even stronger, but the two are a little bit worse, not to mention that Wang Shouren led the army to quell the chaos outside the customs, so naturally they have no advantage.

Wang Hua and Chen Ding have enough qualifications, but both of them are very old. With Jiao Fang's example before, the emperor may not use the old minister as the new cabinet chief.

In the early morning, hundreds of civil and military officials gathered.

At a glance, there are more than half of the officials in the hall that are densely packed.

Above the court hall, several officials were seen standing in the hall to impeach Jiao Fang's corpse for a vegetarian meal, imploring the emperor to remove Jiao Fang's cabinet from the position of first assistant, and to choose someone else.

Even if Jiao Fang is Chu Yi's confidant, and can be regarded as one of the core figures of the eunuch party, there are fights where there are people, and there are also factions within the eunuch party.

Jiao Fang represented the first batch of civil servants and military generals who depended on Chu Yi, then Wang Shouren and Yang Yiqing represented the officials who later depended on Chu Yi.

Although it is said that there is competition between the two sides on weekdays, they are all bound by Jiao Fang, Wang Shouren, and Yang Yiqing in the category of healthy competition.

Now that Jiao Fang has made it clear that it is impossible to sit down in the seat of the cabinet's chief assistant, it is naturally attracted to the court, and all the factions are eager to move.

Zhu Houzhao sat there, high above, watching the officials below criticize each other. If you say mine is wrong, I will expose your shortcomings, but Zhu Houzhao is very interested.

More than half a day passed, and many officials were blushing and thick-necked, as if if they won here, the emperor would choose the person they recommended as the chief assistant of the cabinet.

With a light cough, at this moment, the emperor, Zhu Houzhao, who just sat there and let all the ministers play, suddenly spoke.

Hearing Zhu Houzhao's deep voice, he couldn't refuse. His eyes swept across the crowd of civil and military officials like torches, as if he could read people's hearts. Many officials did not dare to look at Zhu Houzhao, and lowered their heads one by one to avoid them.

"The Duke of Jin, Yang Yiqing, who is both civil and military, and the Chinese and military of the dynasty, is unparalleled, and I have chosen him as the chief assistant of the cabinet..."

"Your Majesty, no..."

7 An official who was arguing with someone just subconsciously shouted, but what followed was Zhu Houzhao's stare, and he heard Zhu Houzhao's expressionless face, and said quietly: "Are you questioning my decision?"

Zhu Houzhao's voice was low and with infinite majesty echoed above the court.

Everyone lowered their heads and didn't dare to look at the emperor. The emperor was too majestic, especially the attitude that he couldn't refuse when he opened his mouth, which refreshed their understanding of Zhu Houzhao.

With a thud, the official fell to his knees as soon as his body softened, his forehead was covered in cold sweat, and he bowed his head to the emperor with a trembling body: "I...I don't dare, please forgive me!"

The five hundred and sixtieth eight chapters open eyes to see the world [1 more]

In the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, there are not many people who are qualified to compete for the first assistant of the cabinet, but they also exceed the number of hands.

There are distinct factions in the DPRK and China, and the strongest is the eunuch party with Chu Yi as its core. Jiao Fang, Wang Yangming, and Yang Yiqing are the backbone of the eunuch party in the eyes of the Manchu civil and military.

Chen Ding is a senior in the cabinet. If we really want to talk about seniority, he is definitely too old compared to Wang Yangming and Yang Yiqing.

The most important thing is that Chen Ding is not a member of Chu Yi's family, but a representative figure of some neutral officials in the DPRK and China who do not participate in factional disputes.

Jiao Fang's cabinet is destined to be replaced by others, and many people speculate that the emperor is very likely to appoint Chen Ding as the new cabinet's first assistant.

In addition, there are still two cabinet elders in the cabinet who are eligible to compete, otherwise, those officials will not jump out.

Now that the emperor has made a decision and directly chose Yang Yiqing as the chief assistant of the cabinet, many officials are naturally quite disappointed.

It was difficult for Chu Yi to resign and Gu Dayong took the top position. He thought that after Gu Dayong took the position, he would be able to suppress officials of Chu Yi's family.

Apparently Gu Dayong did the same, so a group of old-fashioned and stubborn officials gathered around Gu Dayong.

What everyone didn't expect was that Gu Dayong didn't hold on for a year, and he lost his life.

Gu Dayong's death caused the part of the officials gathered around Gu Dayong to lose their backbone.

Although it was said that most of the officials gathered around Gu Dayong were some stubborn officials who were quite hostile to officials in Chu Yi's lineage, but in addition, there were many officials who were just like the grass.

The chief assistant of the cabinet is related to the stability of the situation in the DPRK. If the officials of that department can compete for the position of the chief assistant of the cabinet, it is conceivable that the officials of this department will have a great increase in the right to speak in the court.

Zhu Houzhao's eyes showed a bit of awe-inspiring imperial majesty. He glanced at the officials below, and said solemnly, "Do you have any opinions?"

The emperor's reaction just now was seen by everyone, and even a fool could see that Zhu Houzhao had made up his mind, although it was said that the chief assistant of the cabinet needed to be recommended by hundreds of officials above the court, and then the candidates would be selected, and then the emperor would choose.

With the increasing power of civil ministers, although the emperor said he could still choose the chief assistant of the cabinet, when the candidates proposed by the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty were not the candidates that the emperor liked, the emperor had to be forced to Under the pressure of officials, choose among these people.

Today's Zhu Houzhao is in power, and the Sacred Heart is arbitrary, and no one dares to oppose it.

Facing Zhu Houzhao at this moment, all the officials felt the power of Zhu Houzhao. Although some officials did not agree with the emperor's choice of Yang Yiqing as the chief assistant of the cabinet, if they really wanted them to come out and object, to be honest, they I really don't have the guts.

If this was the case in the past, officials would have jumped out of custody, but Zhu Houzhao was no longer the emperor who could be bullied and manipulated by them. Zhu Houzhao, who had become more and more powerful in court affairs, gradually let him go. A group of civil and military officials gave birth to the feeling that Taizu and Chengzu were resurrected.

"Your Majesty Shengming, the ministers sincerely abide by His Majesty's decree!"

The emperor chose Yang Yiqing as the new cabinet chief. It was normal for officials from other factions to be unhappy, but officials from the eunuch faction were very excited.

In the eyes of others, they are eunuchs who are attached to Chu Yi and have a very bad reputation, but in their eyes, they belong to the King Wu Party.

After Jiao Fang was assassinated, especially after the news that Jiao Fang needed to rest, these Wu Wang Party officials who were attached to Chu Yi were naturally quite apprehensive.

Although they control the power above the court, this does not mean that they have no enemies and no opponents. Those old-fashioned and stubborn officials are very hostile to many of the policies they implement, and if they have the opportunity, they will impeach them.

During the more than half a year that Gu Dayong was in power, these conservative officials seized the opportunity to impeach them frantically, but with the support of Gu Dayong, they got rid of several officials of the Wuwang Party who held a certain amount of real power.Of course, this is also because of the problems of these Wuwang Party officials themselves.

As the saying goes, no one is perfect. If some small problems are infinitely magnified by opponents, sometimes they will become big problems.

After all, no one wants to be stared at every day.

If the position of the chief assistant of the cabinet falls into the hands of the opponent, it is conceivable that the life of the Wuwang Party will never be so easy.

Most of the power in the DPRK is concentrated in the hands of officials of the Wuwang Party. It can be said that if an official who is not the Wuwang Party becomes the cabinet's first assistant, anyone else, even Chen Ding, who has always remained neutral, becomes the cabinet's first assistant. On the Wuwang Party, it will restrict, restrict, and even divide the powers of the Wuwang Party.

Zhu Houzhao ignored the reactions of these civil and military officials. He knew very well that everyone could not agree with his decision. If no one really opposed it, it would be a strange thing.

Zhu Houzhao's eyes fell on Yang Yiqing. Yang Yiqing was a little dazed at the moment. In Yang Yiqing's opinion, although his achievements were enough, he was not qualified enough. , did not hold out much hope.

In Yang Yiqing's view, Chen Ding and Wang Hua used to have a teacher-student relationship with the emperor. In addition, the two have been on the court for decades and have gone through several generations of emperors. Several dynasties old officials, but their qualifications are leveraged.

The result was beyond Yang Yiqing's expectations, the emperor did not choose Chen Ding, nor Wang Hua, but chose him.

Taking a deep breath, Yang Yiqing bowed to the Son of Heaven and said, "My minister Yang Yiqing, take the decree, thank Your Majesty for your grace, and I will do my best and die in return for the mighty kindness of Your Majesty!"

Zhu Houzhao nodded slightly. Zhu Houzhao knew Yang Yiqing's abilities. Not long ago, he asked Chu Yi about the candidate for the cabinet's chief assistant.

According to Chu Yi, who will be elected as the first and second cabinet in the cabinet, and how to arrange it, the key depends on the emperor's plans and expectations for the Ming Dynasty in the next few decades.

If the emperor wants to continue to implement new policies, then the candidate for the cabinet's first assistant must be selected from the Wuwang Party. Chu Yi recommended the first cabinet's first assistant to be Yang Yiqing, and the person to succeed Yang Yiqing is Wang Shouren.

The difference in age between the two is not small. Wang Shouren is only in his thirties. Although he is said to be both civil and military, he is a great talent, but when it comes to composure and governance ability, he is even worse than Yang Yiqing.

Therefore, Chu Yi first recommended Yang Yiqing, and after Wang Yangming has been honed in the court for several years, it is natural to succeed Yang Yiqing in the future.

Of course, if the emperor wants to stabilize the current situation and stop making new developments, as long as Daming maintains a stable development, then the candidate for the cabinet's first assistant must choose Chen Ding, the representative of the neutral faction.

Chen Ding is a representative of a part of the court that is impartial and maintains a neutral attitude in the court battle. Similarly, Chen Ding's character is also upright and honest. Although he is not pioneering, he is also Xiao Gui and Cao Sui. excellent candidate.

Among the candidates recommended by Chu Yi, Zhu Houzhao finally chose Yang Yiqing. Obviously, Zhu Houzhao is not satisfied with the current situation of Ming Dynasty. He wants to do better. In the Qin Emperor Han Wu.

"Report, Tianjin Guard Expedited Military News!"

As usual, the calm capital came with the sound of shouts and shouts, and many people on the long street avoided one after another, watching the messenger galloping with astonishment.

In just one stick of incense, three waves of orders were sent into the city.

In the early morning, when the chief and assistant of the cabinet were selected, it can be said that the biggest problem of this big court meeting has been solved.

While a group of civil and military officials were discussing some government affairs, suddenly outside the main hall, an internal waiter said sharply: "Tianjin Wei expedited military newspaper!"

All the officials were stunned for a moment, and looked at the entrance of the hall subconsciously, only to see a messenger kneeling outside the hall panting and trying to say loudly: "Your Majesty, there are enemies coming from the sea, and Tianjin Wei Port is in danger. !"

"what!"

Manchu Wenwu was shocked, even the emperor who was sitting there could not help frowning when he heard the words.

As the chief assistant of the cabinet, Yang Yiqing, who directly leads the Ministry of War, can definitely be regarded as the existence of one person under ten thousand people in the DPRK.

At this moment, Yang Yiqing looked at the messenger, stepped forward and stared at the other party and said solemnly: "What happened, please explain in detail."

This messenger was the first wave of people sent by Cheng Yan to come to Beijing to warn him. He didn't really know much about the incoming enemy, but after making a statement, he could probably let everyone know what happened.