"Grandpa Guo, this afternoon, a eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, accompanied by Marquis Wu Ping, took the emperor's edict and transferred away the musket battalion and the artillery battalion." In the evening, when Li Yuntian returned to the lecture hall in a gloomy mood, Chen Muyi, the captain of the guards, told him bad news.

As he spoke, Chen Muyi handed the edict he was holding to Li Yuntian, and the Marquis of Wuping, Liang Shaojie, and the eunuch Bingbi relied on the musket battalion and artillery battalion that they transferred from the Xiaowu army camp outside the city.

Li Yuntian quietly took the edict when he heard this, smiled a little helplessly after glancing at it, and secretly said in his heart that it was dangerous, and asked Chen Muyi to put the edict away.

In the edict, Emperor Xuande transferred the musket battalion and artillery battalion to Juyong Pass on the grounds of strengthening the defense of Juyong Pass.

The musket battalion and artillery battalion are Li Yuntian's direct subordinate troops, and no one in the Xiaowu Army can be mobilized except him, whether it is the military attaché or the soldiers inside, they are all his descendants.

To tell the truth, Li Yuntian never expected Emperor Xuande to attack the Xiaowu Army so quickly, and immediately transferred the most important troops in the Xiaowu Army camp outside the city, which can be said to have caught him off guard.

To Li Yuntian's relief, the commanders of the musket battalion and the artillery battalion received the edict of Emperor Xuande for the first time, and it was transferred in Layue, although they felt strange but did not refuse to carry out the edict on the grounds of asking Li Yuntian for instructions, but obediently followed the requirements of the edict, brought arquebuses and Franc machine guns and immediately left the camp to Juyong Pass.

Fortunately, the commanders of the musket battalion and the artillery battalion complied with Emperor Xuande's edict, otherwise it would have caused Li Yuntian a big trouble, and it would also make the Xiaowu army passive.

In the final analysis, the Xiaowu Army belongs to the royal family and not Li Yuntian, if the chief officer of the musket battalion and the artillery battalion refuses to carry out the edict after receiving the edict and asks Li Yuntian first, then the Xiaowu Army will undoubtedly become Li Yuntian's private soldier, how can Emperor Xuande sit idly by?

Li Yuntian has actually been aware of this problem for a long time, so he has been taking precautions, since the establishment of the Jiangwutang and the Xiaowu Army, he has always emphasized that the Jiangwutang and the Xiaowu Army were formed by the imperial order of Emperor Xuande, and they are a solid barrier to protect Emperor Xuande, so that the people of the Jiangwutang and the Xiaowu Army regard themselves as the forbidden army of Emperor Xuande, so that they will not make irreparable mistakes at a critical moment.

At the same time, Li Yuntian and Emperor Xuande have always complemented each other, and with the support of Emperor Xuande, Li Yuntian rapidly expanded the power of the Xiaowu Army, so the soldiers of the Wutang and Xiaowu Army actually thought that they were the forbidden army of Emperor Xuande, so they naturally would not disobey Emperor Xuande's orders.

After all, Li Yuntian didn't want to monopolize the power of the martial arts hall and the Xiaowu army, he knew very well that although this was done for a while, he would definitely die without a place to be buried, "The world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister" This sentence is not just talking, if anyone dares to offend, the consequences will be unimaginable.

But then again, it has been Li Yuntian who has been giving orders all these years, and Emperor Xuande has never issued an edict, but Li Yuntian often emphasizes that they are Emperor Xuande's forbidden army, which makes the people who speak Wutang and Xiaowujun involuntarily regard Emperor Xuande and Li Yuntian as one in their hearts, so they will obey their orders no matter whose order they have.

But once Li Yuntian and Emperor Xuande break up, then the situation will be different, although Emperor Xuande is the son of heaven of the Ming Dynasty, but Li Yuntian is the invincible "god of war" who lives and dies with the soldiers of the Xiaowu Army, and it is difficult to say how many people will be loyal to Emperor Xuande.

In fact, Li Yuntian was not afraid that Emperor Xuande would remove his military power in the Xiaowu Army, but was worried that Emperor Xuande would order the Xiaowu Army to deal with him, and even he would not be able to control the situation at that time.

Although the Xiaowu army is strong in combat and is the most elite army of the Ming Dynasty, if the command of this army is not in the hands of Emperor Xuande, then how can Emperor Xuande let it exist?

However, Li Yuntian knew very well that Emperor Xuande would never abandon the Xiaowu Army unless it was absolutely necessary, after all, the Xiaowu Army had already shown its strength in Jiaozhi and Liaodong far beyond the strength of the Ming Army's guard troops, and Emperor Xuande needed the Xiaowu Army to assist the young prince later, and become a killer weapon in the hands of the prince to deter the ministers.

At the same time that Li Yuntian learned that the musket battalion and the artillery battalion had been transferred away by Emperor Xuande, in a secluded alley in the south of the capital, three figures stopped in front of the courtyard of an ordinary family.

The leader of the man, dressed in a black hat with a low brim pressed so low that he couldn't see his appearance clearly, stepped forward and knocked on the door rhythmically.

Soon, the door creaked open, and a middle-aged man took a look at the three of them, let them in, and closed the door after a careful look into the alley.

"You stay here." After entering the courtyard, the man in the black coat walked straight to the main house facing south and north, pushed the door and turned his head to give a word to the two people who followed behind.

Hearing this, the two people bowed and stood outside the door expressionlessly, putting on a vigilant posture, looking like bodyguards.

In the main room, a big man with a full beard was sitting at a table full of steaming dishes, drinking alone, and the charcoal fire in the brazier next to him was red, which made the room unusually warm.

"Sit." The bearded man smiled slightly when he saw the man in the black coat, pointed to the seat opposite and made a gesture of please, his voice a little hoarse.

"What do you call Your Excellency?" The man in the black coat froze slightly after seeing the bearded man, and then took off the big man and hung it on the hanger beside him, and asked quietly after sitting down opposite the bearded man.

The man in the black coat was none other than Fang Liang, the master of the Hanlin Academy, who looked at the bearded man with a wary face.

"You can call me a hate." The bearded man smiled slightly, picked up the wine jug and poured Fang Liang a glass of wine.

"A-hate?" Fang Liang's brows couldn't help frowning, it was obvious that this was a fake name, and the bearded man was deliberately concealing his identity.

"The name is just a code name, there is no need to be true." Seeing that Fang Liang's eyes were even more vigilant, Ah Qiu smiled and raised the wine glass in his hand, "Congratulations on the success of your first plan." ”

"Who the hell are you?" Fang Liang didn't move the wine glass full of wine in front of him, and looked at Ah Qiu with a stern expression, "I won't cooperate with people who don't know the details. ”

"You don't seem to think so when you use that money." Ah Qiu immediately laughed when he heard this, and drank all the wine in the wine glass by himself.

Fang Liang's face suddenly changed, and his expression looked a little embarrassed, since he was admitted to the Jinshi, he had successively taken tens of thousands of taels of silver from Ah Qiu's side to make some connections in the capital, so that he could maneuver between the major forces in the capital with ease.

At that time, Fang Liang didn't know the identity of Ah Qiu's side, he always thought that the other party was a big businessman, and he took a fancy to his future career and then invested in advance, so he took the money with peace of mind, and both sides took what they needed.

However, judging from the current situation, he guessed wrong, this Ah Qiu in front of him will definitely not be a businessman, the reason is very simple, Ah Qiu is too arrogant after seeing him, a dignified Shujishi, and the businessmen will definitely not be like this, they will definitely get up politely to greet him.

"For the sake of us being in the same boat, I'll tell you who I am." Ah Qiu noticed the uneasiness in Fang Liang's heart, so he smiled and put down the empty wine glass in his hand, and said word by word, "Below is the prefect of the Dayuan Privy Council, and I have come to assist you in eradicating Li Yuntian on the order of Master Huan!" ”

"You...... Are you from Beiyuan? Fang Liang was taken aback when he heard this, he couldn't help but stand up, stretched out his hand and pointed at Ah Qiu and asked in great astonishment, he never thought that the man in front of him would be a person from Beiyuan, and he was also the prefect of the Privy Council.

Since Adai Khan was driven to Mobei by the Ming army, Mobei has appeared a three-legged pattern of Dehuan, Adai Khan and Taiping, Tuhuan, Adai Khan and Taiping have been greatly injured in the battle with the Ming army, and can no longer organize effective southward military operations in a short period of time, which makes the north of the Ming Dynasty enter a period of steady development.

Because Arutai, the Taishi of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, was beheaded by Emperor Xuande at Caishikou, Adai Khan named Tuhuan, the strongest in Mobei, as the Taishi of the Northern Yuan.

"Lord Fang, you can report me to the government, but my mouth is very loose, and I am afraid that I will say something that should not be said when the time comes." Ah Qiu had already anticipated Fang Liang's reaction, and after pouring himself a glass of wine, he said casually, "Lord Fang is now favored by the emperor, if he accidentally ruins his career, then it will be a pity."

Fang Liang's brows were tightly furrowed, his face was extremely ugly, he knew that Ah Qiu was threatening him, because he had received a lot of money from Ah Qiu's side, so as Ah Qiu said, he had already boarded Ah Qiu's thief ship, and it would not be easy to get off the ship again, because he couldn't explain the reason to the outside world at all.

"What do you want?" Therefore, Fang Liang quickly came back to his senses, and after a deep groan, he stared at Ah Qiu expressionlessly, wondering what his purpose was.

"It's very simple, except for Li Yuntian." Ah Qiu smiled slightly, a vicious look flashed in his eyes, and then said in an orderly manner, "If you assist the emperor in addition to his henchmen, then the emperor will definitely reward you heavily, and at the same time gain the emperor's trust, and then you will become a close minister by the prince's side, and the future is limitless." ”

"In this way, wouldn't I have become a sinner of the Ming Dynasty!" Fang Liang's heart trembled when he heard this, his face became extremely ugly, he finally understood why Ah Qiu wanted to approach him at this time, it turned out that he wanted to use his own hands to get rid of Li Yuntian and lay the foundation for the future southern invasion of the remnants of the Northern Yuan.

Obviously, once Li Yuntian was given death by Emperor Xuande, the Mongols and Jurchens in Liaodong, as well as the Mongols in the Hetao region and the Hala and Lin regions, could undergo mutations, and then the Northern Yuan could be divided and co-opted from them.

At first, Fang Liang was only thinking about how to deal with Li Yuntian, and then ignored Li Yuntian's great influence on the Mongols and Jurchens who returned to the Ming Dynasty.