Early the next morning, when Li Yuntian got up and left his bedroom in the lecture hall, Keiko Yamaguchi was already waiting outside the door of the courtyard where the bedroom was located, her eyes were slightly swollen, and her expression was a little haggard, and it seemed that she had not slept all night.

"Chief Instructor, my subordinates have thought it through and decided to stay in the capital."

Seeing this, Li Yuntian knew that Keiko Yamaguchi had insomnia last night, and he must have made a decision, so he led her to a secluded place, and after the two of them were settled, Keiko Yamaguchi looked at him with a stern expression, and said in a resolute tone, "You said, I am already a member of the Zhenguo Mansion, and I will never leave until the Zhenguo Mansion is out of danger!" ”

"As much as I admire your courage, I have to say that you are stupid to do so."

A smile of relief flashed at the corner of Li Yuntian's mouth when he heard this, if Keiko Yamaguchi left for revenge, he would feel a little disappointed in his heart, then shook his head, and left without looking back, his steps became much easier, Keiko Yamaguchi was willing to stay to prove that she was by no means a ruthless and unrighteous person, which was undoubtedly good news for him.

Looking at Li Yuntian's distant back, Keiko Yamaguchi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, the whole person was much more relieved, whether to leave or stay with her for a long time, and finally decided to advance and retreat with the Zhenguo Mansion, because she found the feeling of home in the Zhenguo Mansion and didn't want to lose it again.

After breaking up with Keiko Yamaguchi, Li Yuntian took a carriage to the palace to participate in the cabinet deliberations, because he had the title of Zuo Chunfang University Scholar, which allowed him to not only justifiably assist the cabinet on errands, but also avoid resigning from the post of the right deputy of the Imperial Governor's Office.

After all, the scholars of Chunfang University are not cabinet scholars, and Li Yuntian is naturally not a cabinet member, and then cleverly avoided the restriction that cabinet scholars are not allowed to hold official positions in ministries and institutes.

In the final analysis, the cabinet is an institution set up by the royal family to consolidate imperial power, and as long as Emperor Xuande is willing, he can find a reason to let Li Yuntian enter the cabinet without resigning from his position in the Imperial Procuratorate.

"This is given to you by the emperor." After arriving at the Wenyuan Pavilion of the cabinet office, Yang Shiqi called Li Yuntian over and handed him the form that Liu Ren had handed over.

"Teacher, this is completely slanderous, the student has never done those things." Li Yuntian was very calm after reading it, put it away on the table, and said solemnly to Yang Shiqi.

"The trees want to be quiet and the wind doesn't stop!" Yang Shiqi sighed when he heard this, and instructed with a stern expression, "Now is an extraordinary time, you must be cautious in your actions, and you must not act rashly. ”

"Students understand." Li Yuntian knew that Yang Shiqi was worried about himself, so he bowed to Yang Shiqi and replied in a deep voice.

In Li Yuntian's opinion, Yang Shiqi couldn't have noticed that Emperor Xuande had become wary of himself after decades of ups and downs, so he told him to act cautiously, so as not to cause a catastrophe on impulse.

Unlike the civil and military officials in the capital, Li Yuntian was not powerless in the face of Emperor Xuande, and the Xiaowu Army was established by him, so he had irreplaceable prestige among the soldiers and middle and low-level military attachés of the Xiaowu Army, which made it very likely that Li Yuntian would be killed when he was put to death, which was not what Yang Shiqi wanted to see.

Speaking of which, Yang Shiqi and Li Yuntian have a teacher-student friendship for more than ten years, and the two have been officials in the same dynasty in the Taihe Hall for more than ten years, so he already knows Li Yuntian's character very well, and he knows that Li Yuntian is not a person who is afraid of death, otherwise he would not go to Jiaozhi and Liaodong to carry out those dangerous tasks of nine deaths.

It is precisely because Li Yuntian has already put life and death out of the way that Yang Shiqi feels uneasy in his heart, he does not think that Li Yuntian is a person who sits still and waits for death, and if he is cornered, he is likely to fight back, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

On one side is the monarch and minister, and on the other side is the teacher and student, Yang Shiqi felt very embarrassed to be caught in the middle, which made it impossible for him to intervene too much in this matter, so he could only use a tactful way to advise Li Yuntian, hoping that Li Yuntian would not be impulsive and should focus on the overall situation.

At noon, when Li Yuntian and Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu, and Chen Shan were discussing matters while having lunch in Wenyuan Pavilion, one of the eunuchs who was the secretary of the Xuande Emperor sent a pen eunuch to send an edict to stop the court once every six days on the grounds of ill health, and let the cabinet members, military cabinet members, six ministry officials, and governors of each prefecture perform their duties and listen to the announcement.

After receiving this edict, Li Yuntian's face couldn't help but show a gloomy look, it seems that Emperor Xuande's body can no longer forcibly support his participation in the court meeting of the Taihe Palace, if it is not a last resort, Emperor Xuande will not make this kind of helpless decision that will make the court situation turbulent.

Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu and Chen Shan were also shocked by this, although they knew that Emperor Xuande's health was not good, but they did not expect that their health was already so bad.

Because Emperor Xuande's edict was not only issued to the cabinet, but also received Emperor Xuande's edict to suspend the dynasty, which made the officialdom of the capital in an instant uproar and panic.

For the vast majority of officials in the capital, since they could not get in touch with Emperor Xuande, they could not have imagined that such an unthinkable thing would happen all of a sudden, you must know that Emperor Xuande is now in the prime of life, even if he is ill, it will not reach such an unbearable state.

Subsequently, the officials in the capital realized that one thing would be inevitable, that is, the change of dynasty, with the current situation of Emperor Xuande, it seems that it will not last long, because if there is a little possibility, Emperor Xuande will not suspend the dynasty.

After the initial consternation, the officialdom of the capital became lively, and the palaces of the high-ranking and powerful officials became crowded, and many officials visited every day.

Obviously, after the death of Emperor Xuande, the power of the court will fall into the hands of important ministers of the court, because the seven-year-old prince has not been able to govern himself for a long time, and the officials in the court naturally have to take this opportunity to find a backer, so as not to fall into passivity in the officialdom in the future.

As the youngest and unlimited nobleman of the Ming Dynasty, Li Yuntian naturally became the focus of the officials in the capital, and there was an endless stream of people who came to visit, but unfortunately, because Li Yuntian was no longer in the palace of the country, Zhou Yuting ordered the door to be closed, so that those officials could not even enter the mansion, so they could only leave in a huff.

On the afternoon of the day when Emperor Xuande issued the edict, the cabinet members, the military cabinet members, the officials of the six ministries and the governors of the five armies were summoned by Emperor Xuande to the Dongnuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace.

"Zhen Guogong, you are busy with government affairs on weekdays, and I only know the importance of your body until now, you can't be tired, it will be an irreparable loss to me at that time."

When it was Li Yuntian's turn, Emperor Xuande coughed and smiled at him and said, "I have made up my mind, you immediately step down from the post of the right deputy of the Imperial History of the Imperial Palace, and concentrate on the affairs of Wutang, Jiaozhi and Guangxi, and in addition, I have decided to put you in full charge of the expansion of Beijing City, and appointed you as the governor, hoping that you can build a magnificent and magnificent capital for the Ming Dynasty." ”

"I will obey the holy decree, and I will do my best to bow down and die." Li Yuntian looked at Emperor Xuande with a haggard expression, and felt sad for no reason, thinking of some past events when he escorted Emperor Xuande into Beijing to inherit the throne, and then bowed solemnly to Emperor Xuande and said.

"The successor to the post of the right deputy capital imperial historian will be discussed and reported to me at that time." Emperor Xuande smiled when he heard this, and turned to Yang Shiqi and Jian Yi.

Generally speaking, there are two ways to appoint the officials of each ministry, one is the emperor's imperial order, and the other is to consult with the cabinet members and the six ministers, and then two or more candidates are handed over to the emperor for the emperor's choice.

Of course, this is the situation when the emperor is strong, and if the emperor is weak, then he is likely to compromise with the courtiers and appoint the courtiers to recommend them.

Sometimes, even if the emperor has a certain important position in mind, the emperor will usually let the important ministers discuss and recommend, so that the important ministers will compete with each other, which is exactly what the emperor wants to see.

After all, there were too few emperors like Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle who could make decisions and firmly suppress their courtiers, so in many cases, the emperor had to provoke the courtiers to fight in order to consolidate his power, so as to firmly grasp the military and political power of the imperial court.

In history, there are countless examples of emperors being suppressed by powerful ministers, the most famous being Cao Cao and Emperor Han Xian in the Three Kingdoms era, Zhuge Liang and the Empress of Shu.

Emperor Xuande's seemingly inadvertent move has actually provoked a struggle between the various factions of the court's official group, and the position of the right deputy of the Imperial Court is an out-and-out important position, if any force can take it into its arms, it will undoubtedly increase its strength.

Li Yuntian saw that the cabinet members and the officials of the six ministries present all had excited looks on their faces, and he couldn't help but shake his head secretly in his heart, and a trace of imperceptible bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and his expression was a little gloomy.

There is no doubt that Emperor Xuande asked Li Yuntian to step down from the post of the right deputy of the Imperial Palace, which was boiled in warm water, obviously for his own good, and also handed over the important task of expanding the city of Beijing to him, in fact, he was relieving him of his post little by little.

At the same time, Emperor Xuande successfully threw out the bait of the right deputy capital of the Imperial Palace, triggering a factional struggle within the court's official group, which not only deepened the grievances between the factions, but also successfully diverted the attention of the outside world from Li Yuntian's resignation as the right deputy capital imperial history, and quietly weakened Li Yuntian's power.

It can be said that Emperor Xuande's "favor" to Li Yuntian this time made Li Yuntian actually "rise and fall secretly" in his position, and exchanged the important position of the right deputy capital for a nominal "governor", which really outweighed the losses.

Since the relationship between Emperor Xuande and Li Yuntian still seems to be close, only Zhang Fu, Zhou Zheng, Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong, Yang Pu and Jian Yi noticed the strangeness, and their brows involuntarily furrowed slightly, while the others were ignorant of this, and they did not know at all that the relationship between Li Yuntian and Emperor Xuande was not as simple as they had seen, and there had been subtle changes.