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Li Dongyang rushed back from home, although he took a half-day leave, but he had already predicted that something big would happen, and Li Dongyang couldn't sit still at home.

Entering the duty room, Liu Jian and Xie Qian were discussing something, Xie Qian looked a little displeased, and wanted to say something while holding up the case, but Liu Jian's face was as usual, as if he was comforting.

Seeing Li Dongyang come in, the two stopped talking, just now Li Dongyang took leave to go home, and now he rushed back in advance, Liu Jian naturally couldn't help but ask, and said to Li Dongyang with a smile: "Binzhi, didn't you say that there is something at home?" Does it matter? ”

Li Dongyang smiled faintly and said vaguely: "It's not a big deal, what?" Did Your Majesty make it clear from the recital that was handed over this morning? ”

Liu Jian cheered up and said: "This is what we discussed just now, the envoys of the vassal kingdom are almost here according to the rules of previous years, and now it is really rude for the Tile Spur Kingdom to make such a request, but they have a tough attitude, but they are helpless, Your Majesty must have fallen into a dilemma, hey, what do the Tile Thorn people want to do this time?" Could it be that this is to coerce me to give me a benefit? ”

Xie Qian said hatefully: "Tartar is hateful." ”

Tartars rarely say this kind of thing in the mouth of cabinet ministers, and the so-called prime minister's demeanor is like this, that is, no matter how rude the other party is, he cannot treat him rudely. However, this Xie Qian is also an outlier, he may not be without scheming, but his surname is upright, what do you say.

Li Dongyang pursed his lips and smiled, in fact, the origin of this matter is very simple, the country of Tile Thorn previously submitted a letter of state, expressing its willingness to send envoys to the court, this kind of thing is very common, don't look at the friction between the tile spur and the Ming Dynasty, and they have been fighting for many years, but when it is time to meet, they will not pull down at all, Mongolia has fallen into division and extreme weakness since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, although there has been a change in the civil fort, but this trend has not changed, and the entire Mongolia is extremely short of materials, Even the arrows they were best at riding and archery did not have iron to make arrow clusters, so they had to use cow bones and horse bones to sharpen arrowheads.

In this case, Mongols like Waspur are extremely dependent on the tributary system of the Ming Dynasty, don't look at the usual happy fights, but when it comes to paying tribute, Waspur comes every year.

Only this time, the situation was different, and the Waspur people bluntly put forward a condition, requiring the envoys of the Waspur to enter the Forbidden City from the Daming Gate and participate in the pilgrimage.

Daming Gate is the south gate of the Forbidden City, on the central axis of Yanjing, the ancients have always regarded the south as the honor, so this Daming Gate enjoys the status of "national gate". Like ordinary people's houses, Daming Gate is the middle gate of the house, and only the emperor can enter and exit.

From the Daming Gate into the Forbidden City to congratulate, it is impossible, you must know that whether it is the palace or the court, the etiquette is very important, in history, around the Daming Gate has caused an uproar, later generations because Zhu Houzhao has no children, after Zhu Houzhao's death, Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houyu inherited the throne, so it triggered the Great Rites Discussion Incident, once around Zhu Houxi's biological mother Princess Anlu to enter the palace from the Daming Gate and caused controversy, in the eyes of people at the time, Princess Anlu is just a concubine, and is not qualified to enter the imperial city from the Daming Gate. In Zhu Houxi's view, the concubine is his biological mother and the queen mother of the Ming Dynasty, and he must let his mother enter the Forbidden City from the Daming Gate.

For this matter, almost all political affairs were abandoned, and there was anger everywhere in the capital, and some people even shouted, 'The country has been raising soldiers for 150 years, and the festival of righteous death is said today.'" The words come out. This sentence looks enthusiastic, and people who don't know still think that there is a national disaster, and the life span of the Ming Dynasty is coming to an end. Immediately afterwards, Zhu Houxi did not give in and beat the minister with a cane at noon, which caused another bloody case that shook the government and the opposition.

This shows the power of the Daming Gate, this is a matter of principle, the Daming Gate only allows the emperor and the empress to enter and exit, if there is another person, it is just one more empress dowager, only they can enter and exit the Daming Gate, the rest of the time, the main gate of the Forbidden City has always been tightly closed, and even sometimes, ten or twenty years may not be able to open once.

Now the Watt Thorns actually handed in their credentials and asked the envoys to enter through the Daming Gate, which is simply a fantasy and a naked provocation. This incident made the entire court dumbfounded, and if they refused, they would definitely make trouble again, maybe it would make more trouble, and they took this opportunity to give the Watters an excuse to send troops. As for agreeing to the request of the Watts, it is almost impossible, and it is better to go to war than to set this precedent by the imperial court.

Li Dongyang was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "There has been no famine in the desert this year, presumably the people of the Watts are also relieved, it is precisely because of this that they have this confidence, they want to take this opportunity to humiliate the imperial court, and at the same time, they also want to take the opportunity to let the imperial court compromise and make concessions to them in other places." This hand is actually not clever, but speaking of which, it is a difficult problem for the imperial court, between me, this matter is still temporarily put on the shelf, the messenger of the Tile Thorn people has not yet arrived, and now they can only take one step at a time, presumably they want to enter the palace from the Daming Gate is fake, and it is true to ask for property. The more the court was in a hurry, the more they fell into their trap, and the surname Suo ignored this matter, and the problem was naturally thrown back to the Wathorn people, Liu Gong, I mean, let's go back to a letter of state later, the content of the letter of state, just like in previous years, the polite words are still polite, how to say or how to say, but their request, just as if they did not see it, did not hear it, did not mention a word, and tried their reaction. ”

When Xie Qian heard this, he said, "What if the Watt Thorn is more aggressive? ”

Li Dongyang said with a straight face: "No matter how aggressive they are, that is, they are rude first, and the court at least takes the righteousness." ”

Liu Jian nodded and said, "Binzhi's words are very pertinent, so let's do it." ”

As he was talking, someone from outside hurriedly came in, and said to Ai Ai: "My lord, it's not good, something happened to the Ministry of Engineering......

Hearing that something happened to the Ministry of Industry, Liu Jian's face changed slightly, but immediately, his face returned to normal. Xie Qian was stunned for a moment, obviously a little confused about the unscrupulous words of the scribe who came in, what could happen to the Ministry of Industry? The Ming Dynasty really hasn't heard of any yamen accidents.

Li Dongyang sat back in his case and didn't say anything, just calmly picked up a book and opened it calmly to watch.

"What's going on......"

The scribe did not hide it, but told it as it was.

At this moment, Xie Qian couldn't help it, snorted coldly, and said: "Getting worse, this is getting worse, this Liu Chengfeng is really bold, and now he dares to murder the minister, rushing into the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry to make trouble, is it tolerable or unbearable, if he continues to indulge like this, is he going to come to the cabinet and enter the palace?" ”

Xie Qian was scratched, and Liu Jian was also furious at this time, but the corner of his eye saw Li Dongyang's face calm, reading the book slowly. Liu Jian has worked with Li Dongyang for many years, how can he not understand Li Dongyang's surname? suppressed his anger and said: "This matter is bound to be thoroughly investigated to the end, come on, why don't you hurry up?" Inform the Criminal Department and Shuntianfu to take people. ”

Li Dongyang raised his face and said calmly: "Gong Liu, over there in Shuntianfu, I have already informed you, presumably at this time, Liu Chengfeng has been imprisoned in Shuntianfu." ”

When Liu Jian heard this, he couldn't help but say: "Why, Bin Zhi already knew about it?" ”

Li Dongyang sighed and said, "I know what, I don't know what, the cabinet is just watching from the wall." ”

Xie Qian slapped his hand on the case fiercely and said, "Watching from the wall? Li Gong, what do you mean by that? Do you want to even if that willow rides the wind? Now that he dares to make a move against the announcement, if the cabinet ignores it, how will the people of the world view you and me? What is a vegetarian meal if you and I are not corpses? What's more, that Liu Chengfeng is so domineering and does such a thing that the dynasty has never heard of since Taizu came, does Duke Li still want to tolerate it? I know that the brother of Duke Li ......"

Having said this, Liu Jian's face changed, and he shouted, "Yu Qiao, what nonsense are you talking about!" ”

Xie Qian was stunned for a moment, his swollen face changed in an instant, just now he was excited, and he actually told Li Dongyang's brother about the matter, which was clearly accusing Li Dongyang of favoritism, on this occasion, it was really inappropriate to say such things in front of Li Dongyang, and it might even cause a split between the cabinets.

Xie Qian's face was blue and white, saying yes, not saying no, and finally sighed heavily, brushed his sleeves and said: "That's what should be said, Li Gong think about it." ”

Li Dongyang smiled disapprerovingly, took a sip of tea, and said lightly: "My clan brother is indeed doing things under Liu Chengfeng, but today I asked the second prince to watch from the wall, not for personal feelings, do Liu Gong and Xie Gong know that Liu Chengfeng brought a fire gun to the Ministry of Industry this time?" ”

Fire Hammer ...... Liu Jian's face was stunned, and he immediately understood.

The bureau must be a bureau, because the bureau, which led to this conflict, this bureau...... Liu Jian narrowed his eyes and said lightly: "What you said is not wrong, this matter is not so simple." The cabinet must be impartial, but Liu Chengfeng made a big fuss about the Ministry of Works, and the cabinet naturally has to be punished, and now that Shuntianfu has taken people, it is okay, after a few days, Yu Qiao wrote a letter to impeach this Liu Chengfeng, but this rhetoric does not have to be too intense, as Bin Zhi said, we watch from the wall, and the bad debts of this bureau are not expected to be liquidated today. It's also ......."

Liu Jian seemed to be a little tired, put his hand on the handle of the chair and half-leaned back on the back chair, squinted his eyes, and continued: "This matter will be clear soon. ”

(To be continued)