"Presumably you have heard that the prince of Zhenguo turned the tide in the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion and the court trial had to be suspended, but it is not a secret, the emperor's murderous intention has made the governor forge the records of the trip of the prince of Zhenguo in the palace on the sixth day of August, and changed the time of the prince of Zhenguo's departure from the palace to three o'clock on the sixth day of the first month, so that as long as the bottom of those records arrives in the lobby of the governor's mansion of the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Mansion, the prince of Zhenguo will definitely die!"

Jin Ying glanced around at Wang Jin, Fan Hong and Yang Qing present, and said expressionlessly, "What do you think of this?" ”

"Lord Chief, the miscellaneous family once dealt with Zhenguo Gong in Jiaozhi, Zhenguo Gong treats people modestly, handles things fairly, has both civil and military skills, not only confuses the Jiaozhi rebels with personal danger but also governs Jiaozhi in an orderly manner, he can be said to be loyal to my Ming Dynasty, and he also treats us equally, unlike those civil and military officials in the DPRK and China who are contemptuous and ridiculed!"

Wang Jin naturally groaned when he heard this, and said quietly, he was the number two person in the inner court, so he naturally had to take the lead in expressing his attitude.

"Although the miscellaneous family has not met with Zhen Guogong a few times, they have been dealing with Zhen Guogong for several years, and Zhen Guogong has never been in the way of the tax revenue of Jiaozhi's overseas trade, and then fills his own pockets, which the miscellaneous family admires very much." Immediately afterwards, Yang Qing also made his position clear in an orderly manner, and it can be seen that he, like Wang Jin, also has a lot of good feelings towards Li Yuntian.

"Three adults, Zhen Guogong's blue recitals in Wenyuan Pavilion are all sorted out by the miscellaneous family, and the miscellaneous family has also dealt with Zhen Guogong a lot, from those batches of blue miscellaneous families, it can be seen that Zhen Guogong is a broad-minded, talented, and stable capable talent, regardless of the size of the affairs, the blue recitals are properly handled, so that the court and the people have benefited a lot."

Fan Hong glanced up at Jin Ying, Wang Jin and Yang Qing, and then said with emotion, "The miscellaneous family thinks that no one in the court today can become the minister of the humerus, and no one can be the right of the Zhenguo Gong who is both civil and military!" ”

"The miscellaneous family, like the three, also feels that Zhenguo Gong is a rare talent, who is humble and has both ability and political integrity, and works hard and conscientiously for the affairs of the imperial court."

After listening to Wang Jin, Yang Qing and Fan Hong's words, Jin Ying's brows furrowed slightly, and then he looked at the three of them with a stern expression, and said word by word, "The miscellaneous family thinks that Zhen Guogong is the best candidate to assist the crown prince in the court!" ”

"That's what I mean, my lord." Hearing this, Wang Jin, Yang Qing and Fan Hong couldn't help but glance at each other, then bowed down and said to Jin Ying in unison.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the miscellaneous family is not trying to interfere in the affairs of the court, but for the sake of the emperor and the crown prince."

Jin Ying breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this, and then explained solemnly, "The reason why the emperor wants to enhance the power of our inner court is to compete with those arrogant and arrogant civil and military officials in the court, now the prince is young and the emperor is in poor health, once the emperor still doesn't know how those courtiers force the prince in the court, Zhenguo Gong is the prince's teacher, loyal to the Ming Dynasty, if he stands behind the prince, no one dares to be rude to the emperor!" ”

Wang Jin and the three of them bowed their heads when they heard this, and they agreed with Jin Ying's words very much, if Emperor Xuande had not been forced by those civil and military officials in the court who relied on the old and sold the old, he would not have thought of using the ceremonial supervisor to fight against him, but this also created the rise of the inner court.

"Lord Steward, where did this Fang Liang come from, why did he be so ruthless to the Duke of Zhenguo?" After pondering for a while, Fan Hong asked with some puzzlement, Wang Jin and Yang Qing also looked at it curiously, the three of them had discussed this question for a long time just now and there was no result, and it was not clear which force Fang Liang was secretly colluding with in the capital.

Don't look at Li Yuntian's left and right between the forces of all parties in the capital, it seems that the relationship with all parties is handled well, but after all, the officialdom is deceitful, and those politeness and exchanges between the two sides are just false and wronged, once it comes to the conflict of interests, will it not secretly black hand Li Yuntianxia.

Fang Liang is just a small gentleman, if there is no one behind him to support him, how dare he offend a powerful person like Li Yuntian?

I have to say that Fang Liang's timing to attack Li Yuntian was very good, and he chose the period when Emperor Xuande's condition was deteriorating, and made a metaphor that made Emperor Xuande shudder, comparing Li Yuntian to Zhuge Liang, a virtuous minister through the ages in the hearts of the people, but it is undoubtedly a great disaster for the emperor to have a powerful minister like Zhuge Liang.

Therefore, Emperor Xuande resolutely wanted to get rid of Li Yuntian in order not to make the crown prince the lord of Shu, after all, the Ming Dynasty was the most important, and Li Yuntian's position in the civil official group and the Xungui group made Emperor Xuande quite uneasy.

"The miscellaneous family hasn't seen Fang Liang's details clearly now, but this person is ambitious and ruthless, I have to guard against it later." Jin Ying didn't see what Fang Liang's background was, and said with a frown when he heard this, since he was serving beside Emperor Xuande, he had a deep understanding of Fang Liang's insidious viciousness.

"Lord Steward, Fang Liang can't worry about it now, the top priority is how to let Zhenguo Gong avoid this catastrophe."

Wang Jin saw that Jin Ying's evaluation of Fang Liang was so unbearable, and after a deep sigh, he frowned and said, after all, tomorrow the inner court will submit the forged relevant records to the lobby of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion, if he can't come up with a countermeasure in advance, then Li Yuntian will be charged with secretly possessing arquebuses, forming a party for personal gain, and attempting rebellion, and no one will be able to save him at that time.

Hearing this, Yang Qing and Fan Hong couldn't help but look at Jin Ying, among the four people at the scene, Jin Ying knew Emperor Xuande's thoughts best because he was a close attendant who served by Emperor Xuande's side.

"The reason why the emperor is suspicious of the Zhenguo Gong is that he is worried that the Zhenguo Guild will become a powerful minister who bullies the young master, so if you want the emperor to change his mind, you still have to start with the prince." Jin Ying had already been prepared, and after glancing at Wang Jin and the three of them, he said with a stern expression, "Let's let you know that the Duke of Zhenguo is not Zhuge Liang of Western Shu, but the Duke of Zhou of Western Zhou!" ”

Duke of Zhou, surnamed Ji Mingdan, was the fourth son of King Wen of Zhou, the younger brother of King Wu, who twice assisted King Wu of Zhou in the Eastern Expedition to King Xu, and made zuò lile.

Because Ji Dan's fiefdom was in Zhou, the lord was the Shanggong, so he was called the Duke of Wei Zhou, an outstanding politician, military strategist, thinker, and educator in the early Western Zhou Dynasty, and was respected as the "Yuan Sheng" and the pioneer of Confucianism.

The exploits of Zhou Gong's life are summarized in the "Shangshu Da Biography" as: "One year to save the chaos, two years to conquer Yin, three years to practice dying, four years to build Hou Wei, five years to camp into Zhou, six years to make ceremonies, and seven years to become king." ”

In the seventh year of the regency of the Duke of Zhou, many important rules and regulations were formulated, and the patriarchal system, the feudal system, the primogeniture inheritance law, and the Jingtian system were improved.

Seven years later, the Duke of Zhou returned to the throne of Chengwang, formally establishing the primogeniture system of the Zhou Dynasty, the most distinctive feature of these systems is that the patriarchal blood ties are the bond, the family and the state are integrated, and the government and ethics are integrated, laying the foundation of the Zhou Dynasty for 800 years.

Cao Cao once praised in the poem "Short Song Xing" that "the mountains are not tired of being high, the sea is not tired of being deep, the Duke of Zhou is spitting and feeding, and the world is returning to the heart", which shows that the Duke of Zhou has a far-reaching influence on later generations, and has become a famous minister who assisted the young lord through the ages, and is regarded as the foundation for the creation of the 800-year Zhou Dynasty.

At this moment, the crown prince Zhu Qizhen will also face the same situation as King Zhou Cheng, to be precise, Zhu Qizhen is more severe than King Zhou Cheng's shape, because King Zhou Cheng was thirteen years old when he succeeded to the throne, and Zhu Qizhen was only seven years old.

Throughout history, the monarchy and the vassal power are in a pattern of one thing and the other, and once Zhu Qizhen ascends the throne at an early age, the power of the Ming Dynasty will definitely fall into the hands of those civil and military officials in the court.

Empress Dowager Zhang is a rare virtuous queen, although she has a very high prestige in front of the hundred officials in the court, but she abides by her duties and never interferes in the government affairs, and Empress Sun is not as good as the deposed Empress Hu in the eyes of the hundred officials, and she lives in the palace and does not understand government affairs, even if she wants to meddle in the affairs of the court and China, she does not have the ability, and there is also the Empress Dowager Zhang sitting in the harem, she does not have the courage.

It is worth mentioning that in order to prevent his relatives from interfering in politics, Ming Taizu has long taken strict measures to restrict, not only the marriage partners of the children of the royal family are the children of ordinary families, but also the sons-in-law of the princes such as the concubine and the guest of honor are not allowed to be officials, and the restrictions are extremely strict.

Empress Hu and Empress Sun were born into a family of ordinary local officials, and both parents and brothers were subject to many restrictions on their official careers, which made it impossible for Empress Sun to reuse her mother's family after the crown prince ascended the throne like those queens of the previous dynasty.

Ming Taizu's original intentions were naturally good, and it was taboo for foreign relatives to interfere in politics in previous dynasties, but once the monarch was weak and the ministers were strong, the imperial power would be under tremendous pressure and face the challenge of strictness.

Taking the current situation as an example, once Emperor Xuande dies, then neither the civil official group in the court nor the prince of the Xungui group will have no way to deal with it, and the power of the court will definitely fall into the hands of those civil and military ministers, and the ceremonial supervisors used by Emperor Xuande to restrain the courtiers will become decorations for a long time under the joint pressure of the cabinet, the military cabinet and the five governments and six ministries.

The reason is very simple, the inner court headed by the celebrant is attached to the emperor's cunzài, and after the crown prince ascends the throne, he is too young to levy in person, and the power in the court will definitely fall into the hands of the minister selected by Emperor Xuande, so that the celebrant will not be able to uphold the emperor's holy will and reject the cabinet and the military cabinet.

In other words, after the death of Emperor Xuande, the inner court was undoubtedly the most affected among the many forces in the capital, and it would be jointly suppressed by the Korean Chinese courtiers group and the Xungui group, after all, no one wanted to be subject to a group of eunuchs.

Moreover, if the civil and military officials in the court took advantage of the fact that the crown prince Zhu Zhanji was young and unable to personally conquer and abolished the celebrant on the grounds of Emperor Hongwu's ancestral system, and under the banner of preventing the eunuchs from interfering in politics, then it would be difficult for the eunuchs of the ceremonial eunuch to resist, and this was definitely not a scene that Jin Ying, Wang Jin, Yang Qing and Fan Hong hoped to see.

For the four Jin Ying, although they are somewhat reluctant to their current power, they are also loyal to the imperial power and do not want to see the crown prince Zhu Zhanji be restrained by the Chinese military officials of the DPRK in the future.

Although Empress Dowager Zhang will definitely come forward to support the celebrant at a critical moment, this is far from enough for Jin Ying and the four of them, in order to compete with the civilian and noble groups in the court, they must find an alliance in the court, and Li Yuntian, who implemented the new military and political system in the Ming Dynasty, is undoubtedly the best candidate.

There is no doubt that if Li Yuntian's new policies are to continue to be promoted in the Ming Dynasty, conflicts will inevitably break out with the civilian clique and the Xungui clique, and an ally is also needed in the DPRK and China, and this ally is the inner court headed by the celebrant eunuch.

The fundamental reason why Jin Ying summoned Wang Jin, Yang Qing, and Fan Hong to hold secret discussions tonight was that he wanted to establish an alliance with Li Yuntian, so that after Emperor Xuande's death, he could jointly fight against the civilian clique and the Xungui clique.