"Don't worry." Chongzhen was very calm: "I have already made a plan."

After hearing Chongzhen's plan, Wang Chengen dared neither to agree nor to disagree.

I could only kneel on the ground and kowtow hard.

Two days later in the evening, Chongzhen rarely summoned the chief minister of the cabinet, Fan Jingwen.

The moment he saw Chongzhen, Fan Jingwen was shocked.

Chongzhen was seen half lying on the bed, covered with a thick silk quilt.

His hair was disheveled and his face was as pale as paper.

At first glance, it gives people a feeling of being terminally ill.

But upon closer inspection, I found another clue.

It was midsummer.

Perhaps because it was too hot, Chongzhen's forehead was sweating continuously.

As the sweat dripped down his face, Chongzhen's face regained its color.

Fan Jingwen knew that he was about to leave office, and what happened afterwards had nothing to do with him, so he simply pretended not to see it.

"Your Majesty, I pay my respects to you!" Fan Jingwen saluted Chongzhen.

Chongzhen pretended to be weak and said, "Lord Fan, I promised that I would let you return home in glory before the end of the year. Now there are less than four and a half months to the end of the year, so we must prepare in advance."

"Thank you for your concern, Your Majesty!" Fan Jingwen bowed deeply again: "I have packed my luggage and can leave Beijing at any time."

"Cough, cough, cough!" Chongzhen coughed several times in anger. He said with a dark face, "I asked you to prepare for the handover of the cabinet, not to pack your luggage."

Fan Jingwen suppressed his smile and asked, "After I leave office, the position of the Prime Minister of the Cabinet will be vacant. Does Your Majesty have a suitable candidate?"

"Who do you think is more suitable?"

"I think the Minister of Revenue Xie Sanbin can take on this task."

Chongzhen did not express his opinion, but continued to ask: "What about the vacancy of the Minister of Works? Is there a suitable candidate?"

"I think the Minister of War Wang Jiayan can be transferred to the position of Minister of Works."

"What about the vacancy of the Minister of War? The current situation is different from that of the 17th year of Chongzhen. We should try not to have one person serve as the Minister of two ministries at the same time."

Fan Jingwen replied: "I have a candidate in mind, what do you think, Your Majesty?"

"who?"

"Shi Kefa, the Minister of War in Nanjing."