Li Yuntian, as the official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, naturally received a report from Yang Ji as a bad township, he couldn't watch Yang Ji continue to do evil like this, otherwise Yang Shiqi would inevitably be implicated, so he asked the superintendent of the Imperial Court to tell Yang Shiqi about Yang Ji's evil deeds.

It's a pity that Yang Shiqi just wrote a painless letter to Yang Ji, and did not strictly control him, which made Li Yuntian feel very helpless in his heart.

Li Yuntian, who is busy with official business, has no energy to focus on Yang Ji, he has a lot of important affairs to deal with, as Yang Shiqi's disciple, all he can do is to remind Yang Shiqi that he can't take action against Yang Ji, otherwise it will not only hurt his feelings with Yang Shiqi, but will also be regarded as ungrateful.

What is especially important is that once he arrests Yang Ji, it will cause serious harm to Yang Shiqi, and the local magistrate has not reported Yang Ji's evil, so it is really inconvenient for him to take action.

In Li Yuntian's view, Yang Ji's matter is not only a state affair but also Yang Shiqi's family affair.

Although Li Yuntian was busy with official business, he did not give up his attention to Yang Ji, after he came back from the Japanese State to conquer the Japanese invaders, in view of Yang Ji's rampant and lawless in the local area, he finally couldn't hold back the worry in his heart, and found an opportunity to euphemistically inform Yang Shiqi of the matter.

In order to make Yang Shiqi pay attention to this matter, Li Yuntian suggested that Yang Shiqi learn the truth in the name of returning to his hometown to sweep the tomb.

Li Yuntian is not only Yang Shiqi's protégé, but also the right deputy of the Imperial Palace, Yang Shiqi realized the seriousness of the situation, so he decided to go to his hometown to investigate.

Yang Ji was terrified when he learned the news of Yang Shiqi's return to his hometown, like many powerful children who are not afraid of heaven and earth are afraid of their father, Yang Ji is also very afraid of Yang Shiqi.

Therefore, Yang Ji convened the party to discuss the countermeasures, and made careful arrangements, not only arranging personnel to spread his good deeds in the township in the post station, but also personally going to meet Yang Shiqi hundreds of miles away.

After the two met, Yang Shiqi saw Yang Ji "felt hat and oil boots, simple and reasonable", a villager's ordinary attire, plainly dressed, loyal and honest, extremely sensible, not like the rumored evil image.

Moreover, in addition, all he heard along the way were words praising Yang Ji's virtuous and friendly love, as well as the praise of Yang Ji by the officials of the prefecture and county, so he was invisibly satisfied with Yang Ji in his heart and thought that what Li Yuntian said was untrue.

In fact, those prefectural and county officials also have suffering, who eats the ambitious leopard and dares to tell Yang Ji in front of Yang Shiqi, isn't it? Moreover, many people also acted as Yang Ji's accomplices to evil, counting on Yang Ji to give him a few kind words in Yang Shiqi so that he could be promoted and make a fortune.

As for the neighbors, they didn't dare to go to Yang Shiqi to sue Yang Ji, Yang Shiqi was the first assistant of the Ming Cabinet, and was called the prime minister among the people, and the people had an inexplicable fear of Yang Shiqi in their hearts.

Coupled with the fact that Yang Shiqi is Yang Ji's son, and the warnings of the county officials, the people will not dare to cause trouble, and in everyone's opinion, the father will definitely protect his son.

When he arrived at the old mansion at home, looking at the depression without the slightest luxury furnishings, Yang Shiqi was even more relieved, how could he know that this was deliberately done by Yang Ji to show him, Yang Ji has a luxurious mansion elsewhere, a group of slaves, and his life is extremely luxurious.

In a conversation with Yang Shiqi, Yang Ji lied that he was seeking justice for the villagers and preventing the local officials from offending them by committing crimes, so he was framed.

In addition, Yang Ji was also involved in the disputes of various forces in the court, saying that some people slandered him out of jealousy of Yang Shiqi's power to damage Yang Shiqi's reputation.

Yang Ji swore to Yang Shiqi that he had always been law-abiding in his hometown, and had never done anything to oppress the good or violate the law, otherwise the local officials would have already reported his evil to the court, and the people would have sought revenge from Yang Shiqi.

Naturally, it was impossible for those accompanying prefectural and county officials to expose Yang Ji's crimes in front of Yang Shiqi, and they all said that Yang Ji was law-abiding and kind.

Because of Yang Ji's clever words and the flattery of local officials, Yang Shiqi naturally believed it and thought that Yang Ji had been framed by others, so he earnestly told him to continue to do things for the people and never bow to those evil forces.

Yang Ji was submissive on the surface, but in his heart he was overjoyed, and finally confused Yang Shiqi, and by the way, he recommended Yang Shiqi several officials' "merits" in the local area, so that those officials were promoted soon after, and both parties were happy.

When Yang Shiqi returned to the capital, Li Yuntian had already set off for the Western Regions, and this trip back to his hometown made him not believe that Yang Ji would do evil in his hometown.

As a result, who would dare to tell Yang Shiqi the truth about Yang Ji's evil deeds in Jiaxing? So "the evil of the son is no longer heard."

As the first assistant of the cabinet, Yang Shiqi has always been virtuous and honest, and treats people like a mirror, but unfortunately because of his doting on Yang Ji, his mind has been blinded, and then he will inevitably protect his shortcomings, and protecting his shortcomings is tantamount to conniving at Yang Ji.

"Ancient Miscellaneous Records" said that Yang Shiqi "loves his son", the word "mud love" is used very precisely, and Yang Shiqi, who fell into the quagmire of "mud love", became stupid and confused in Yang Ji's matter.

In fact, Li Yuntian felt that Li Yuntian was excusable in Yang Ji's matter, after all, Yang Shiqi had passed his prime, his energy was not as good as before, and his mind had also undergone subtle changes.

Li Yuntian stayed in the Western Regions for several years, and after he came back, he was busy with official affairs such as the reorganization of the Northern Guard, so busy that he rarely returned home, and he didn't have the energy to care about Yang Ji's affairs at all.

Now, Yang Ji's matter finally happened in the east window, and he was stabbed to the court by the officials of the imperial court, so that the orthodox emperor sent someone to investigate thoroughly.

Obviously, the forces hostile to Yang Shiqi in the court will definitely take the opportunity to deal a heavy blow to Yang Shiqi, Li Yuntian can't help but worry about Yang Shiqi's safety, Yang Shiqi, who is already in his prime, can't withstand this toss no matter what.

"Lord Wang, those officials dared to impeach Yang Ge Lao in the main hall, there must be someone behind it." After reading the official document, Lin Xin couldn't help frowning and said, there must be someone behind the scenes behind this matter, but I don't know which force did it.

No matter who did this, it will be a great blow and damage to the power of the cabinet, and the strength of the cabinet has been damaged after Yang Rong's death, and now the cabinet is completely supported by Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu.

As for Ma Yu and Cao Nai, who have recently entered the cabinet, they cannot be compared with Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu in terms of prestige and qualifications, and they cannot compete with the various forces in the court at all.

"It's really annoying that the trees want to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop." Li Yuntian sighed, with a depressed look on his face, it seems that the cabinet is going to experience a catastrophe this time, and I don't know if Yang Shiqi can withstand the impact of this turmoil.

In the cabinet, due to the existence of Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu, the six departments were steadily suppressed, and after Yang Rong's death, the strength of the cabinet and the six departments has been equal, if Yang Shiqi has another accident, then the cabinet will be suppressed by the six departments, and the forces of the two sides can be said to be one or the other.

What worries Li Yuntian is that the successors of the cabinet are insufficient, because Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu are too good and have deep qualifications, which makes it difficult for the successors of the cabinet to reach their heights.

Before Yang Rong died, he began to select successors from the civil official group, and Ma Yu and Cao Nai were introduced into the cabinet by Yang Rong, although Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu tried their best to cultivate the two, but from the current situation, it seems that Ma Yu and Cao Nai could not compete with the six Shangshu.

In Li Yuntian's view, it is the best choice for all forces in the capital to be in a balance of power, and once this balance is broken, it will inevitably affect the stability of the court situation.

The next morning, Yang Pu hurriedly came to see Li Yuntian, he received an urgent report from the capital early this morning, knowing that Yang Shiqi had an accident, he was very anxious, so he came to Li Yuntian to discuss countermeasures.

In addition to Li Yuntian being Yang Shiqi's protégé, Li Yuntian also "powered" cabinet affairs, and can be said to be a cabinet member without the title of cabinet member.

In fact, as early as when Yang Rong was alive, Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu wanted to remove the word "power" from Li Yuntian and make Li Yuntian a real cabinet member.

However, if this happens, Li Yuntian will have to give up his post in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, because cabinet members cannot hold substantive posts in the yamen of major ministries and institutes because of their special status.

In the eyes of Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu, Li Yuntian is in the prime of life, and if he is in the cabinet, he can ensure that the cabinet will be worry-free for decades.

In order to achieve this, Yang Rong, Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu once proposed to the Empress Dowager Zhang to make a special exception for Li Yuntian and allow Li Yuntian to enter the cabinet as an official of the Imperial Procuratorate.

Although the Metropolitan Procuratorate is also one of the ministries in the capital, it is different from the six ministries in that it is responsible for supervising the affairs of civil and military officials, so it belongs to a very special department in the civil bureaucratic group, and has a close relationship with the cabinet and the six ministries, and has a transcendent position in the civil bureaucratic group.

It's a pity that this idea of Yang Rong and the three of them was blocked by the officials of the six ministries, and the officials of the six ministries naturally did not want Li Yuntian to enter the cabinet, so that the balance of power between the cabinet and the six ministries within the civil official group would be broken.

Due to the opposition of the officials of the six ministries, Yang Rong and the three had to give up this idea, after all, it was impossible for Li Yuntian to resign from his position in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, not only the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family hoped to use Li Yuntian to deter those corrupt and perverted the law, but Li Yuntian also needed the identity of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to promote his plan.

Therefore, this matter was not resolved in the end, which became a regret in Yang Rong's heart.

Yang Pu knows very well in his heart that Ma Yu and Cao Nai's strength is not good, and the cabinet now needs Yang Shiqi, the first assistant, to support the field, and once Yang Shiqi has an accident, the cabinet will be hit hard.

For this reason, Yang Pu went to the Yangzhou Division of Wutang for the first time to discuss a solution to this matter, and he also heard about Yang Ji's evil deeds.

It is certain that the Metropolitan Procuratorate will definitely intervene in Yang Ji's case, although Li Yuntian will avoid this case because he is Yang Shiqi's protégé, but as the Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, his attitude is very important.

Whether it is Li Yuntian or Yang Pu, they don't want to see Yang Shiqi being involved too much in Yang Ji's case, but there is nothing they can do about it.

The supervision of the imperial history who went to Taihe County, Jiangxi Province to investigate the case this time belongs to the camp of the six departments, and will definitely find out Yang Ji's evil deeds in the local area, so do you want Li Yuntian to exert pressure on him to conceal Yang Ji's evil deeds?

Yang Pu really can't imagine how much psychological suffering Yang Shiqi will suffer because of this incident, for an important minister of the court who is dedicated to the country, what is more embarrassing than not being able to protect his old age?