Before the advent of the Spring Festival in the ninth year of orthodoxy, the most lively event in the capital is the happy event of the Zhongwang Mansion, after Zhou Yuting entered the palace and pleaded, the Empress Dowager Sun issued a decree to marry Li Yuntian and Lin Xin, and Lin Xin became Li Yuntian's concubine as the lord of the Ryukyu Kingdom.

It wasn't until the Empress Dowager Sun made the decree to give marriage that Li Yuntian, who had been in the dark, knew that the in-law that Zhou Yuting found for Lin Xin was the Zhongwang Mansion, and his heart suddenly had mixed feelings, and he was secretly glad to have such an understanding princess.

On the day of the wedding, all the civil and military magnates in the capital went to drink the wedding wine, although Lin Xin was only a concubine but got the marriage of the Empress Dowager Sun, so this marriage is extraordinary, plus Li Yuntian is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, holding military and political power, those imperial relatives and civil and military officials in the capital naturally want to join in this excitement.

Even the eunuchs of the inner court sent congratulatory gifts, but it was inconvenient for them to appear at the wedding banquet, which shows that Li Yuntian is very popular in the officialdom, and it also reflects his steadfastness and tactfulness from the side.

Among all the guests who congratulated them, the nobles who had participated in the Battle of the Western Regions had already regarded themselves as Lin Xin's maiden family, and they had dealt with Lin Xin a lot in the Battle of the Western Regions, so they were naturally very happy to see Lin Xin marry into the Zhongwang Mansion: with Lin Xin becoming the link between them and Li Yuntian, then their relationship with Li Yuntian would be one step closer.

Lin Xin has not been in vain by Li Yuntian's side over the years, with the opportunity to go around with Li Yuntian and make friends with many civil and military officials, she has woven a huge relationship network, and as she marries into the Zhongwang Mansion, this relationship network will be even stronger.

In February of the ninth year of orthodoxy, after the imperial doctor's diagnosis, Lin Xin became pregnant, Li Yuntian immediately asked Lin Xin to go home to recuperate with peace of mind, and handed over the affairs at hand to Yun Na, who had been with Lin Xin for half a year.

Yun Na successfully graduated from the lecture martial arts hall last year, and after passing Lei Ting's assessment, she was transferred to Lin Xin's side, and she started to give Lin Xin a start, and she was already qualified for the position of Li Yuntian's adjutant.

Compared with Lin Xin, Yun Na's ability is not weak, but because she is from the Western Regions and has a different appearance from the people in Guannei, Li Yuntian can't bring her if he wants a private visit to Weifu, otherwise Lin Xin will inevitably attract the attention of the outside world, and Li Yuntian's private visit to Weifu will be in vain.

Due to the heavy affairs of the lecture martial arts hall and Li Yuntian's official affairs are increasing, Li Yuntian feels sorry for Lei Ting and is ready to let Lin Xin go to the lecture martial arts hall to help Lei Ting after giving birth.

Lin Xin was originally Lei Ting's assistant, and it seemed logical for her to help Lei Ting, and it would be much easier for Lei Ting to share Lei Ting's pressure with her.

In fact, it is not easy to become Li Yuntian's adjutant, taking Lin Xin as an example, Lin Xin is not only innocent and has nothing to do with all the forces in the capital, but also spent a lot of time by Lei Ting's side to familiarize himself with the affairs at hand, and was able to obtain this position after being recognized by Lei Ting.

Yun Na has endured more tests than Lin Xin, although she used to be a spy in the Timurid Empire, but it was because of Lu Tianxing's framing that she hated Da Ming, and now the knot with Anna has been untied, so she is an excellent candidate for this position.

Compared with when she was in the Western Regions, Yun Na has matured a lot, and she is more beautiful, with a unique charm of a woman in the Western Regions, a cheerful and enthusiastic personality, and a very good dance in the Western Regions, so she is very famous among the students of the martial arts hall and even the powerful children of the capital.

If it weren't for the fact that Yun Na was brought back by Li Yuntian from the Western Regions, which made those powerful children in the capital fearful, many people would definitely be jealous of her and fight, even if they ate the bear's heart and leopard guts, they would not dare to rob Li Yuntian of women.

Although it is a little embarrassing to say, because Li Yuntian's adjutant not only has to deal with the official documents submitted to Li Yuntian, but also is responsible for Li Yuntian's food and daily life, women are more suitable for this position than men.

In fact, Yun Na does not directly deal with the official documents at hand, Li Yuntian has an elite staff team by his side, and the official documents from the Lecture and Martial Arts Hall are processed by him first, and then into Yun Na's hands, and Yun Na will then hand them over to Li Yuntian according to their priorities.

What Yun Na really wants to do with all her heart is to ensure Li Yuntian's daily diet, daily life, itinerary arrangement, and security matters, and it can be said that Li Yuntian's life is in her hands.

Therefore, the women who can become Li Yuntian's adjutant have a great relationship with Li Yuntian, Lei Ting needless to say that the two have experienced life and death together, Lin Xin and Yun Na are both favored by Li Yuntian, and they have a soft spot for Li Yuntian, which makes Lei Ting feel at ease to hand over Li Yuntian to the two.

Due to the appearance of Yun Na, Li Yuntian has a beautiful scenery around him, which is not to say that Lin Xin does not have Yun Na's beauty, but Yun Na's appearance is very eye-catching because she is a woman from the Western Regions.

The reason why Lei Ting asked Yun Na to replace Lin Xin is that in addition to Yun Na being smart, alert and capable, and a trustworthy person, there is another meaning, that is, she hopes to reduce the number of private visits to Li Yuntian's microservice to avoid accidents.

In Lei Ting's opinion, with Li Yuntian's respect, there is really no need to go to the front line to take risks, some corrupt guys are outlaws, if it is not good for Li Yuntian, the consequences will be unimaginable.

One day in mid-February, Li Yuntian did not go to the Taihe Hall as usual, but handled the official business at hand in the lecture hall, mainly the mobilization of materials and the transfer of sailors' ships, and prepared to intervene in the civil strife in Korea.

"Lord Wang, at the court meeting today, the Criminal Division impeached the eunuch Shan Zeng, the eunuch of the Ministry of Ceremonies, Bingbi, for being arrogant and arrogant, and conniving at the domestic slaves to 'kill people during the day, seize people's property, and encroach on business taxes', and the emperor has ordered a thorough investigation of this matter."

With the door opened, Yun Na, who was dressed in military uniform, walked in quickly, came to Li Yuntian's side and said in a coquettish voice, compared with Lin Xin, who was calm by nature, Yun Na's personality was more cheerful.

"Oh?" Li Yuntian couldn't help but be slightly stunned when he heard this, and then shook his head a little helplessly, "This Lin Cong really doesn't stop. ”

Shan Zeng is the patriarch of the ceremonial eunuch, and Jin Ying and Wang Jin entered the ceremonial eunuch almost at the same time, although the reputation and power are not as good as Jin Ying and Wang Jin, but he is also quite powerful in the inner court, and now he is the object of Wang Zhen and Lu Rong's efforts.

In Li Yuntian's view, Lin Cong's courage in impeaching Shan Zeng is commendable, but his impeachment did not hit the nail on the head, and it was just a pain or itch for Shan Zeng, and it did not cause much harm to him.

After all, there are many powerful people in the capital, and there are even more domestic slaves who fight with people, and the people in the capital have long been accustomed to this, as long as the trouble is not too excessive, no one will pay attention to it, because this kind of thing can't be managed at all and can't be eliminated.

Regarding the incident of increasing the number of domestic slaves, Li Yuntian believed that "seizing people's property" and "embezzling business taxes" could condone domestic slaves to "kill people during the day," and Li Yuntian felt a little far-fetched and reluctant.

Shan Zeng is just a Bingbi eunuch in the inner court, not like Wang Zhen, Song Dashan and Jin Ying, who are the henchmen of the orthodox emperor, and take the initiative to provoke this kind of life lawsuit? After all, the power of the inner court is enough to suppress the civil official group, which makes the eunuchs of the inner court have scruples.

Therefore, nine times out of ten, Shan Zeng's house slaves are bullying others and killing people by mistake, and Shan Zeng cannot be implicated.

This means that Lin Cong's impeachment actually did not achieve its goal, at most the domestic slaves involved in the case were punished, and Shan Zeng would definitely not be implicated, but he was reprimanded by the orthodox emperor and ordered to strictly discipline his subordinates.

In fact, just as Li Yuntian expected, the murderous Shan Zeng slave was later sentenced to death by the Criminal Department, but Shan Zeng was not greatly affected, and was reprimanded by the orthodox emperor and fined for half a year.

"In addition, there was a riot among the miners in Fujian and Zhejiang, which spread to several mining areas, and the Fujian and Zhejiang capitals have sent troops to encircle and suppress them."

Yun Na knew that Li Yuntian had high expectations for Lin Cong, so she felt so emotional, and then continued to plead in a coquettish voice, "Tian Liu, a person from Yanping Mansion in Fujian, bewitched the people to refuse to pay the rent, killed and injured the officials and soldiers, and echoed the rioting miners. ”

"Miners are reversed?" Li Yuntian's brows suddenly frowned slightly when he heard this, it seems that Lin Cong has made a lot of limelight at the court meeting this time.

If Li Yuntian is not mistaken, Lin Cong's first step after serving as a criminal officer last year was to target the mining areas in Fujian and Zhejiang, and he submitted the "Letter of Request to Exempt Ningde County from Handling Other Errands in Addition to Running Silver Classes", stating that the working conditions of the Baofeng Silver Mine in Ningde County were poor and the amount of silver was heavy, and he hoped to reduce the amount of silver mined, but he was not approved by the orthodox emperor.

The civil and military officials in the court were quite unimpressed with Lin Cong's recital, thinking that Lin Cong had selfish intentions and deliberately exaggerated the hard work of the silver mine.

After all, Lin Cong is a native of Ningde County, and he opened his mouth to ask Emperor Xuande to reduce the mining volume of silver mines, which inevitably tasted of fame and reputation.

It's a pity that everyone ignored one thing, that is, it was precisely because Lin Cong was from Ningde County that he knew about the poor conditions of the silver mine, so there was that Shangshu.

Although Li Yuntian did not know the specific amount of silver produced by the silver mine in Ningde County every year, he knew that the silver output of the Fujian silver mine in the orthodox year was more than half of that in the Yongle year, and it was difficult to achieve this goal in terms of the mining and smelting technology of the Ming Dynasty, so the living environment of the miners could be imagined.

However, it is worth mentioning that the fuse of the miners' riot in Fujian and Zhejiang was not the poor living environment of the miners, but the local yamen's desire to confiscate the mines that were stolen by the people into official ownership, so the riot was triggered.

However, the poor living environment of the miners was undoubtedly the accelerant of the riot, and the miners in Fujian and Zhejiang joined the riot team because they were dissatisfied with the status quo, which made the Fujian and Zhejiang three divisions tired of coping and had to ask the imperial court for help.

The orthodox emperor was furious at the rebellion of the miners and tenant farmers in Fujian and Zhejiang, and ordered the military cabinet to go to quell the rebellion, and it was necessary to quell the chaos in Fujian and Zhejiang as soon as possible.

At the same time, the orthodox emperor asked Yu Qian, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, to go to Fujian and Zhejiang to thoroughly investigate the details of the riots and see if there was any dereliction of duty in the local yamen.

The military cabinet did not dare to slack off, and immediately discussed the matter of transferring troops to encircle and suppress these two riots, so as to avoid further expansion of the situation.

Yu Qian left the capital the next day, took a boat down the canal, and rushed to Fujian and Zhejiang.

Before leaving, Li Yuntian set up a banquet to see Yu Qian off, and told him to be very careful on this trip, after all, the riots in Fujian and Zhejiang were huge, and if there was any chaos, Yu Qian would have to worry about his life.

It is worth mentioning that Yu Qian did not go to Fujian and Zhejiang alone, and he was also connected with the eunuch Cao Jixiang of the inner court, Cao Jixiang was Wang Zhen's disciple, and served as the supervisor of the official army to exterminate the miners and tenant farmers in Fujian and Zhejiang.

The Ming Dynasty's use of eunuchs to supervise the army began with the Yongle Emperor, and its purpose was naturally to balance the nobles in the court, and Emperor Hongxi and Emperor Xuande promoted the eunuchs who guarded the military places from the middle officials to the eunuchs, all in order to control those nobles with great achievements.

For example, in the Luchuan War, a rebellion broke out in Luchuan since the beginning of orthodoxy, and the Ming Dynasty spent a lot of money on several expeditions and suppressions, among which the people who served as supervisors were both civil officials and eunuchs, and Cao Jixiang went to Luchuan as a supervisor.

It should be pointed out that the people who served as the supervisors of the army in the Ming Dynasty were not all eunuchs, but also civil officials, mainly imperial historians or officials of the six departments, in order to restrain the military generals.

In addition to Emperor Xuande and Emperor Zhengxun's trust in Li Yuntian, they all regarded the army of the Jiangwutang family as a forbidden army of the lineage, and it was also related to the special military system of the Jiangwutang and the special nature of the war in which the army of the Jiangwutang family participated.

Since the establishment of the Xiaowu Army, the war that he participated in was not a major war related to the safety of the Ming Dynasty, when the Ming Dynasty was already at a military disadvantage, whether it was Emperor Xuande or the Orthodox Emperor, where was he still in the mood to send a supervisor to the Xiaowu Army.

Moreover, the Xiaowu Army implements a strict promotion system, which is completely different from the hereditary system of the Weisuo Army, which also means that it is difficult for the generals of the Xiaowu Army and the Sailor Division to control the army.

For a variety of reasons, Emperor Xuande did not send a prison army to the Xiaowu army and the naval division, and the Empress Dowager Zhang did not do so, which put the army of the Jiangwutang family in a transcendent position.

Of course, this transcendent position of the Xiaowu Army and the Sailor was the result of Li Yuntian's hard work, and he knew very well that only by reassuring the emperor could he reduce those unnecessary restrictions and prevent the inner court from reaching into the army of the Wutang family.

Li Yuntian now has no mind or energy to focus on the riots of miners and tenants in Fujian and Zhejiang, he is busy with how to deal with the affairs of the Korean State, where he has the time to take care of other things, compared with the Korean State, the riots in Fujian and Zhejiang can only be regarded as a trivial matter.

However, the situation in the capital was changing, which did not make Li Yuntian feel at ease, and with Lin Cong's impeachment of Jin Ying and Shan Zeng at the court meeting one after another, the contradictions between the inner court and the civilian clique were stimulated again, and Wang Zhen launched an offensive in order to counter the civilian clique.

In other words, in order to establish his position as the celebrant and the inner court, and also to deter the aggressive civil official group, Wang Zhen had to teach the civil official group a lesson, so that they knew that the inner court that was ordered by the emperor to run errands was not easy to provoke.