Chapter 1144: The Stakes
"Xianggong, the inner court, the cabinet, and the six ministries have been fighting fiercely recently, and it seems that Xianggong has been busy again after he comes back." Zhou Yuting saw that Li Yuntian was very indifferent to the matter of entering the knighthood, and it could also be said that she was confident, so she smiled slightly and said.
Two months ago, the people of Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi suddenly searched the mansion of Yang Yu, the left attendant of the Ministry of Works, in the name of corruption and bending the law, and found a large amount of property in his home, and Yang Yu was also sent to prison.
The reason why Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi took action was because Dongchang got Yang Yu's corruption report and verified it, and then reported it to the orthodox emperor, and with the approval of the Empress Dowager Zhang, Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi intervened to thoroughly investigate the case.
The superintendent of the East Factory was served by the chief eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, so Yang Yu's imprisonment this time was naturally the masterpiece of the ceremonial supervisor, and its purpose was to respond to the cabinet's impeachment of the Jiangning Weaving Town Guard Lieutenant Governor for enriching his own pockets and meddling in local affairs, resulting in the beheading of the Jiangning Weaving Town Guard.
If it weren't for the eunuchs who ran to plead with the Empress Dowager Zhang, the case of Jiangning Weaving Town Guard Zhongguan would inevitably implicate more chamberlains.
Yang Yu is still locked up in the edict prison of Fusi in Jinyi Weibei Town, and the people of the celebrant want to put him to death, while the people of the cabinet and the six ministries are working hard to protect it, so that the Empress Dowager Zhang also felt embarrassed by the game for a while.
Since Emperor Xuande reformed the official system of the six ministries, the right attendant of the six ministries has gradually become the title of the official sent by the imperial court to the local Shangjing, which has greatly increased the authority of the left attendant, and he is the only deputy of the six Shangshu.
Since the orthodox emperor ascended the throne, he has never investigated and dealt with officials at the level of the six ministries, and if he wants to be ruthless to Yang Yu this time, it will undoubtedly be a heavy blow to the cabinet and the six ministries, which is not what the Empress Dowager Zhang wants to see.
Although the Empress Dowager Zhang was not good at managing the affairs of the dynasty, the means of balancing the various forces in the court were still adequate, otherwise she would not be able to command the harem, let alone make the Chinese military officials of the dynasty awe her.
Now that the Ming Dynasty is peaceful and thriving, the Empress Dowager Zhang doesn't want to make Yang Yu's affairs too big, she just wants to take the opportunity to knock the cabinet and the six ministries, but she can't ignore the eunuchs who are loyal to the celebrants.
Therefore, the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family has been silent about how to deal with Yang Yu, and is ready to leave this matter to Li Yuntian to handle, Li Yuntian has a good relationship with the inner court and the civil official group, and if he is involved, he will definitely be able to make this matter good.
"If you adults are not so strong on weekdays, the celebrant will not make a comeback." Li Yuntian already knew about Yang Yu, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
The reason why the celebrant was able to gain power again was mainly because the civil official group pressed the imperial power step by step, and wanted to bypass the Zhang Emperor Dowager to decide the government affairs of the court, after all, in the eyes of the civil officials, the country here is the responsibility of the scholars, although the Empress Dowager Zhang is the lord of the harem with a noble status, she should not interfere in the government affairs, which is expressly forbidden by Ming Taizu.
If Emperor Xuande was still alive, the Empress Dowager Zhang would not bother to intervene in the power struggle in the court, but now that the orthodox emperor is young, how can the Empress Dowager Zhang rest assured that the power of the court will be in the hands of the courtiers? Especially the powerful civilian bureaucracy.
In this way, the rise of the celebrant is a logical thing, and the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family, who is in the palace, can only use the celebrant to balance the civil and official group in the court.
As for the noble group in the court, there are much fewer grievances and entanglements with the celebrant eunuch, which also has a lot to do with the Empress Dowager Zhang.
The Empress Dowager Zhang has a close relationship with the nobles in the court, and the nobles are not as easy to control as the civil officials, and there is no big conflict of interest with the celebrant eunuch, so the celebrant will naturally not offend the noble clique while fighting with the civil official group.
"Xianggong, how do you plan to deal with Yang Shilang's case?"
Zhou Yuting naturally knew that the reason why the celebrant was able to make a comeback was related to the civil official clique's attempt to control the political situation in the DPRK and China, so she opened her eyes and asked with interest, now the officialdom in the capital is focused on Yang Yu's case.
"Take a step back and open the sky, everyone knows that the Empress Dowager wants this case to be a big deal, the key is that no one wants to be soft to the other party, and the only way to do it is to come forward and make peace with the mud." The corners of Li Yuntian's mouth showed a helpless smile, to be honest, he was busy with official affairs in his hands, and he didn't have much energy to focus on the battle in the imperial court.
Because Li Yuntian had to participate in the imperial court the next day, he chatted with Zhou Yuting for a while and then hugged Zhou Yuting and fell asleep.
Early the next morning, when the sky was still bright, Li Yuntian was shouted by the maids, yawned, washed and changed clothes, and entered the imperial city, preparing to wait in the West Thousand Steps Corridor.
When Li Yuntian arrived, when the Daming Gate outside the West Thousand Step Corridor, many civil and military officials had already gathered in front of the Daming Gate, and they were gathering in groups to discuss something in a low voice.
"King Chungmu is here!" As soon as Li Yuntian's carriage stopped in the open space on the right side of the Daming Gate, a shout rang out from the crowd in front of the Daming Gate.
Immediately, the civil and military officials in front of the door hugged Li Yuntian's carriage with a cheer, surrounded Li Yuntian, who had just gotten off the carriage, and rushed to greet him.
Because those officials were too enthusiastic and there were a lot of people, they surrounded Li Yuntian three layers inside and three layers outside, making it difficult for Li Yuntian to move an inch inside, and it took a lot of twists and turns before he was able to enter the Daming Gate.
"King Chungwu!" In a corridor room with Li Yuntian, Hou Chao was the top nobles of the Ming Dynasty, and when Li Yuntian opened the door curtain and entered, everyone was drinking tea and chatting there, and they all got up to greet each other when they saw this.
Although the nobles present are all Li Yuntian's uncles, but no one relies on the old and sells the old because of this, there is no other reason, Li Yuntian's title is exchanged for military exploits, so everyone is quite in awe of Li Yuntian, and naturally they have to treat each other with courtesy, even Zhang Fu, who is the oldest and most expensive teacher, got up to greet him, not to mention others.
"Your Excellency, please be seated." Li Yuntian smiled slightly and motioned for everyone in the room to sit down, but the others didn't sit down until he was seated.
"King Zhongwu, there are many vacancies in the Northwest Divisions, how should we deal with them in the eyes of the prince?" After a few words of greeting, Zhang Fu suddenly changed his voice and asked Li Yuntian seemingly casually.
After the end of the war in Kansai, many positions of military attachés in the northwest were vacant, and the defeat of the Western Expeditionary Army and the war in the northwest caused a large number of military attachés to die in battle or in the captive camps.
According to the Ming Dynasty's custom, since the Ming officers were hereditary, those vacant military attache positions should be filled by the male members of his family.
However, hereditary here refers to inheritance under normal circumstances, and the military attaches of those defeated armies are not so lucky, and they are thankful that they are not punished by the imperial court, where are they still qualified for hereditary military positions.
As a result, this situation existed not only in the Northwest Prefecture, but also in the Gyeonggi Prefecture and the Shanbuk Military Region, and most of the surviving military attaches were punished for being captured by the Western Expeditionary Army.
Compared with those unlucky military attachés, the 20,000 horses that Bai An brought back from Beishu Bali City and the 70,000 horses of the Liaodong Military Region were lucky, and they followed Li Yuntian to make great contributions in Guanxi and were able to be promoted to the rank of knight.
Due to the defeat of the Western Expeditionary Army, the cabinet members of the military cabinet did not know how to deal with this situation, and if it was left in the past, it would definitely be a new military attache to replace the previous military attaché from among the military attachés who had achieved military merit.
Obviously, almost all of the armies that followed Li Yuntian to victory in the Kansai region were related to the military attachés, and the military attachés of the military halls and the military attaches of the governors belonged to two yamen that were not subordinate to each other.
Since Emperor Xuande, the army of Jiangwutang has been regarded as a Praetorian Guard, so except for the emperor, the military cabinet has not transferred the power of the army under Jiangwutang, and it is necessary to pass the orthodox emperor to complete the transfer of military attachés.
The orthodox emperor was young, and the people in the military cabinet could only consult with Li Yuntian, who was in charge of the martial arts hall, and then jointly reported to the orthodox emperor.
At present, the biggest obstacle in front of the military cabinet is that the military hall and the governor's office belong to two different systems, so there is a big problem in the cross-system transfer of military attachés, that is, which system should be adopted by the guards under the several prefectures in the northwest.
According to the usual practice, after the military attache of the lecture hall is transferred to the Northwest Prefecture Division, the military system of the Northwest Prefecture Division should remain unchanged.
But now there are too many military attaches of the Wutang system transferred by the Northwest Governors, and the army of the Wutang system is obviously better than the army of the Governor's System in the Western Regions.
Even in the crushing defeat of the Western Expeditionary Army in the Eastern Chagatai Khanate, the soldiers of the Shanbei Prefecture and the Gyeonggi Prefecture resisted to the end, which can be described as heavy casualties, and their combat effectiveness and will to fight far exceeded that of the soldiers of the Northwest Prefecture.
Therefore, this poses a problem for the military cabinet, it is obvious that the military system of the military hall is superior, should those military attachés who teach the military hall obey the military system of the local guard?
Moreover, in the military system of Jiangwutang, there is no such thing as hereditary military ranks, but a military merit promotion system, which makes things very troublesome.
What is particularly important is that the military attache of the lecture martial arts hall is definitely unwilling to leave the system of the martial arts hall to serve in the Northwest Guard, although that can be mixed with a lifelong official position, but it also means that the hope of progress is lost, and the treatment is not as good as the lecture martial arts, who has enough to do this?
Because of the affairs of the Northwest Governor's Division, the military pavilion is under very great pressure, you must know that the Northwest Metropolitan Division is the territory of a series of nobles in the Governor's Mansion of the Central Governor's Office, and those nobles naturally do not want them to be under the command of the Lecture Martial Hall.
The members of the military cabinet were born in the Governor's Mansion, so they naturally hoped that the Governor's Mansion could keep the Northwest Governor's Office, but the performance of the army of the local guard in the war in the Western Regions was indeed inferior to that of the army of the Martial Arts, which made it difficult for them to do it.
Therefore, Zhang Fu, as the first assistant of the military cabinet, must first communicate with Li Yuntian and inquire about Li Yuntian's attitude, and it can be expected that the empress dowager of the Zhang family will definitely let Li Yuntian and the military cabinet solve the problems that the Northwest Zhudu Division is now facing.
Zhang Fu's voice lagged behind, including Zhou Zheng and Zhang Hao, the nobles in the room all looked at Li Yuntian, and they all wanted to know what kind of decision Li Yuntian would make.