"Honestly?"

Li Qingzheng couldn't help but smile bitterly after listening to Li Yuntian's words, Wang Zhen didn't give him a chance to explain at all in order to put him to death, not only determined that he had cut down trees privately and went home for personal use, but also deliberately looked for his violations of law and discipline and corruption and bribery in Guozijian.

"Li sacrificial wine, let the past pass, and when the truth is revealed, Li sacrificial wine can vent the resentment in his chest." Li Yuntian knew that Li Qingzheng felt aggrieved in his heart, so he smiled and comforted him, as the leader of the Qingliu of the imperial court, Li Qingzheng should be able to bear this little grievance.

"Since the prince has rushed back with all his might, what else can the lower officials say." Li Qingzheng couldn't help but smile helplessly when he heard this, although he didn't know the situation in the outside world, but if Li Yuntian rushed back from Korea, it would mean that the situation in the capital was already very bad, and he didn't want to make the situation more complicated.

"Li sacrifices a lot of wine, and this king admires it." Li Yuntian had long known that Li Qingzheng knew the general situation, so he smiled and said to Li Qingzheng.

"The prince is serious, and the lower officials are just adapting to the situation." Li Qingzheng waved his hands again and again when he heard this, in fact, he admired Li Yuntian even more, not only to be busy with state affairs but also to ease the power struggle in the court.

Li Yuntian did not stay in the edict prison for a long time, and after greeting Li Qingzheng, he said goodbye and left, if he wanted to calm the conflict between the inner court and the civil official group and the Xungui group, he still had a lot to do, and the interests of all parties had to be taken into account, so he still had to negotiate with those civil and military elites, and he could not just rely on Yang Pu and Hu Ying.

Because this conflict between the inner court and the civil official group and the Xungui group is getting worse and more intense, there is a danger of getting out of control, so not only Wang Zhen, but also the civil and military magnates in the capital are also worried about this, even if they can get rid of Wang Zhen, they will definitely anger the orthodox emperor, and there will definitely be no good life in the future.

As the orthodox emperor grows older, his monarchy is also increasing, so that those old and important ministers in the court have to pay attention to it, in the final analysis, the orthodox emperor is the master of the Ming Dynasty.

Li Yuntian's arrival undoubtedly gave the Inner Court, the civil official clique, and the Xungui clique a step down, so that everyone could end this conflict that was on the verge of getting out of control with dignity.

To tell the truth, Li Yuntian felt very helpless about this kind of mediation between various forces, he was now busy with the affairs of the Korean state, where did he have the energy to pay attention to these deceitful things in the capital?

Under the mediation of Li Yuntian in the past two days, the tense situation in the capital was contained, and the tense antagonism between the inner court and the civil official clique and the Xungui clique gradually dissipated.

In order to show the sincerity of both sides, the Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi and the Criminal Department successively released those who had been arrested because of the Li Qingzheng case, which made the Li Qingzheng case, which was in a uproar in the capital, slowly come to an end.

A few days later, the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town officially opened the court to try the case of Li Qingzheng's private felling of official wood, which was personally tried by Ma Shun, the Fusi envoy of Jinyi Weibei Town, and Li Yuntian and Wang Zhen were supervised by the imperial order.

In fact, Li Qingzheng's case is very simple, but the ancient wood branches in front of the Guozi Prison Yilun Hall are too lush to prune, otherwise it will affect the study of the prisoners, so Li Qingzheng asked people to cut off too many branches, and then take those cut branches home as firewood, after all, firewood was still used for cooking in ancient times.

As for Li Qingzheng's violation of law and discipline in Guozijian, although Wang Zhen tried his best to find out, he still found nothing, you must know that Li Qingzheng, the leader of the Qingliu, is not in vain, first of all, he is honest, otherwise he would not take those waste branches home and burn them as firewood, not to mention those ministry officials in the capital, even the petty officials who are a little powerful do not disdain to do so.

Although Li Qingzheng's case was tried by Ma Shun this time, Li Yuntian put forward many suggestions as a supervisor, and these suggestions played an important role in promoting the trial.

For example, Li Yuntian invited craftsmen from the imperial garden, who had extensive experience in the cultivation of trees and flowers, to determine whether the century-old trees in the Yilun Hall of Guozijian needed to be pruned.

If the people who were the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town came to try the case, they would definitely not think of this, and they would not do it, obviously this would exonerate Li Qingzheng.

Wang Zhen also felt a little helpless in this regard, in the final analysis, his reason for attacking Li Qingzheng this time was too far-fetched, and it would not be tenable at all if he studied it carefully, so he was not ready to use this matter to kill Li Qingzheng, otherwise it would be a blatant provocation to the civilian official group.

So far, Wang Zhen is very satisfied with the development of Li Qingzheng's case, Li Qingzheng not only wore a flail to supervise the public in the country for three days, but also forced the civil official clique and the Xungui clique to join forces to deal with him.

After Li Qingzheng's case, Wang Zhen's power will undoubtedly develop rapidly, and those officials in the capital who are bent on climbing up will definitely take refuge in him after seeing that Wang Zhen has the power to compete with the civil official clique and the Xungui clique, so that the power of the inner court will be able to develop and grow.

Moreover, Wang Zhen is now actively courting officials of the imperial court and using the special power of the celebrant to approve the red in the major ministries and yamen of the imperial court.

Because the facts of the case committed by Li Qingzheng were so simple, it took Ma Shun only one morning to complete the trial.

According to the testimony of the royal garden craftsmen, as well as the miscellaneous servants, prisoners, and teachers of the Guozijian, Ma Shun ruled that Li Qingzheng's act of ordering people to cut the lush branches of ancient trees was for the sake of the normal teaching order of the Guozijian, and that there was nothing wrong with Li Qingzheng doing so as a priest of the Guozijian.

It's just that Li Qingzheng shouldn't take those cut branches home as firewood, which makes it extremely easy for the outside world to misunderstand this and think that he is using it for personal gain.

Therefore, Ma Shun ruled that Li Qingzheng was not guilty of the illegal felling of wood by the Guozi Supervisor, but he had to pay the cost of the felled ancient wood branches, after all, the trees in the Guozi Prison belonged to the official trees of the imperial court, and even the pruned branches and leaves could not be taken home without authorization.

At the same time, the 100 households of the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town, who were in charge of handling Li Qingzheng's case at that time, were removed from their posts by Ma Shun for investigation because they let Li Qingzheng wear a flail to show the public without finding out the truth.

In fact, everyone knows that the hundred households are just a substitute for the dead, if there is no Wang Zhen's approval, the people of Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi are full of food, and dare to treat Li Qingzheng like this!

However, since we want to end Li Qingzheng's matter, then we must need a substitute for the dead ghost to take the blame for Li Qingzheng's matter of wearing a flail to show the public, only in this way can the two sides have a step down.

After the trial, Li Qingzheng, who was acquitted, was released on the spot, and the prisoners gathered outside Fusi in Weibei Town, Jinyi, immediately cheered in unison when they heard this, inexplicably excited.

Li Yuntian personally sent Li Qingzheng to the carriage waiting outside the courtyard gate, and smiled helplessly after watching the prisoners happily huddle the carriage and leave, in his opinion, Li Qingzheng's case was completely a farce, and at the same time, it also showed the complexity of the situation in the capital.

Because the unlucky Baihu "committed" such a major mistake, he was demoted by one level and "expelled" to serve in the Fusi of Jinyi Weinan Town, which can be regarded as getting out of the whirlpool of right and wrong in the capital.

With the end of Li Qingzheng's case, Li Yuntian did not stay in the capital for a long time, but only participated in the subsequent restoration of the Great Dynasty, and then set off for Tianjin Port.

Moreover, since September, there have been more storms and waves at sea, and Li Yuntian arrived in Korea a day earlier, so the sea journey would be safer.

The orthodox emperor originally wanted Li Yuntian to go to Korea after the New Year, although this time Li Qingzheng's affairs subsided, but the struggle between the inner court and the civil official group and even the Xungui group will definitely continue, which means that the situation in the capital will still not be peaceful.

Unfortunately, the situation in Korea is also very tense, with the arrival of Kim Jong-seo and Choi Yun-deok, the two factions of Li Jue and Li Yong will fight to the death, so Seoul needs Li Yuntian to go to the town.

Compared with the situation in the capital, it is obvious that the situation in Seoul is more urgent, in Li Yuntian's opinion, Wang Zhen has achieved his goal through Li Qingzheng, Wang Zhen will not set off a big incident in the short term, and there is no need for the civilian clique to go to Wang Zhen's trouble now, which makes the situation in the capital generally stable.

As the Son of Heaven of the Ming Dynasty, the Orthodox Emperor should learn to control the situation in the court, instead of thinking about handing over the trouble to Li Yuntian, which is very beneficial to his growth.

However, Li Yuntian has a worry, that is, with the struggle between the civil official group and the inner court, the orthodox emperor's dependence on the inner court will increase, which is not a good sign in his opinion, which will make the inner court more and more powerful and gradually break the balance of power in the officialdom of the capital.

Although he was worried in his heart, Li Yuntian was powerless now, in view of the huge pressure brought by the civil official group to the orthodox emperor, the inner court became a weapon used by the orthodox emperor to deal with the civilian official group, he could only wait and see what happened and could not intervene in it, otherwise I am afraid that the orthodox emperor would be jealous of him, after all, the orthodox emperor was no longer a carefree child, and had begun to prepare for the consolidation of imperial power.

Tianjin Port.

The three-masted warship Myeongyang was quietly parked at the pier, it was originally parked at the port of Incheon, and soon after Li Yuntian left the port of Incheon by boat, it came to the port of Tianjin, ready to send Li Yuntian back to Korea.

"This is an urgent report that has just been delivered." Just as the three-masted warship was about to start, a horse rushed to the dock, and the knight jumped down and threw a cylindrical cylinder on his back to the deck with all his strength, shouting at the soldiers on the deck.

Then the knight sat down on the ground, gasping for air.

The soldiers on the deck picked up the cylindrical cylinder and saw that it was the "letter cylinder" used by the martial arts hall to transmit information, so they hurriedly reported it to the military attache at a higher level.

"Lord Wang, this is an urgent report from the Wa Kingdom." Soon after, a major military attache came to the cabin where Li Yuntian was staying with a sealed envelope in his hand, and shouted a message to Li Yuntian, who was sitting on a chair and closing his eyes.

"Wa Kingdom?" Li Yuntian opened his eyes with some surprise, he didn't expect to receive the news of the Wa Kingdom at this time, according to the process of the lecture hall, the information from other places should be sent to the lecture hall in the capital first, and then distributed from the lecture hall.

This means that as soon as Li Yuntian left the capital on the front foot, the urgent report on the back foot was sent to the lecture hall, and the lecture on the martial arts hurriedly sent people to Tianjin Port non-stop, and finally sent the emergency report to the Mingyang before Li Yuntian left.

Li Yuntian felt that there was nothing worth paying attention to in the Wa Kingdom, unless there was a big commotion there, so he hurriedly opened the envelope and checked the contents of the letter.

"Good!" After reading the letter, Li Yuntian couldn't help but lay his palms on the table beside him, and let out a loud shout, with a look of surprise on his face.

In mid-July, the Eastern and Western armies, which had been in a state of confrontation between the Wa Kingdom, finally fought in Kyoto, and Yamana Mochitoyo and Nishikawa Katsumoto each sent reinforcements to Kyoto to participate in the battle, making Kyoto a huge battlefield.

As for the reason for the conflict between Yamana and Hosokawa Katsumoto, it is naturally related to the struggle for the power of the shogunate, Li Yuntian does not care why the two sides are fighting, the important thing is that the two sides have already started a war, which is something he has been looking forward to for a long time.

When Yamana Chitoyo and Hosokawa Katsumoto were exhausted, it was the time for the Ming Dynasty to intervene in the civil strife of the Japanese State, and then the Ming Dynasty would break out in the largest overseas war since the founding of the country, and Li Yuntian never thought that those Japanese would honestly surrender.

After learning the news that Yamana Chitoyo and Hosokawa Katsumoto had finally fought, Li Yuntian could finally let out a long breath in his heart, he had waited for this moment for too long.

The fight between Yamana and Hosokawa Katsumoto will not only plunge the Wa Kingdom into civil strife, but also allow Keiko Yamaguchi to take the opportunity to grow her power.

Since the forces of Yamana Mototaka and Hosokawa Katsumoto were not much different, the battle between the eastern and western armies was bound to become a protracted war, and the importance of logistics was highlighted at this time.

Although Keiko Yamaguchi is only a daimyo with little qualifications, she has an advantage that other daimyo in the Wa Kingdom do not have, that is, Li Yuntian's continuous support for her, and then food and money will become the two most powerful weapons that Keiko Yamaguchi can use on the battlefield.

In particular, the economic situation of the Japanese was worse than that of the Korean state, and due to the lack of materials, the Japanese people could only feed on the fish and shrimp in the sea, and it was difficult for the ordinary people to eat food, which made the Japanese malnourished and short, and even the Koreans were taller than them.

Therefore, if Keiko Yamaguchi wields the trump weapon of grain, I am afraid that the opponent will be powerless to parry, after all, everyone wants to eat fragrant rice balls, and Keiko Yamaguchi can disturb the opponent's military spirit with this killer weapon alone.

If food is Keiko Yamaguchi's killer weapon, then Keiko Yamaguchi is Li Yuntian's killer weapon to deal with the Japanese State, it is worth mentioning that sixty percent of the soldiers under Keiko Yamaguchi are ordinary people from the Ming Dynasty, which will become Li Yuntian's strongest reliance in the Japanese Kingdom.