Chapter 175: Closing the Door (1st Update)
With Lei Xiaotian's order, the big men in the room no longer hesitated, and one by one they rushed towards Li Yuntian with great momentum.
"Stand down!" Seeing this, Lei Ting immediately became anxious, she couldn't reveal Li Yuntian's identity, so in a hurry, she pulled out the dagger on her waist and put it against her neck, shouting at those big men.
This dagger was the one that had pierced Lu Tianxing's stout guards before, and when he entered the palace, he was confiscated by the pro-army in front of the Daming Gate, and when he left the palace, the pro-army returned the dagger to her.
"Stand down!" Lei Xiaotian was taken aback, he never expected Lei Ting to force him with his life, if Lei Ting did something stupid under impulse, then it would be too late for him to regret it.
Li Yuntian's face showed an embarrassed look, he also wanted to identify himself, but for Lei Ting's safety, he had to admit that he was a liar who pretended to be an official of the imperial court.
Obviously, the people that King Han hates the most now are Li Yuntian and Lei Ting, Li Yuntian is nothing, he is not only Yushi and Shu Jishi, but also Zhou Zheng's son-in-law, he is not afraid of King Han at all, and King Han has no good way to deal with him.
But Lei Ting is different, Lei Ting is just a common person, as long as the King of Han signals, naturally someone will go to Lei Ting and the Cao Gang for trouble, so the matter of Lei Ting helping Li Yuntian enter the palace to send the edict cannot be spread.
"Dad, I have something to say to you, let's go to the study." Lei Ting put down the dagger in her hand and said to Lei Xiaotian in a coquettish voice.
Lei Xiaotian glared at Li Yuntian coldly, walked to the door, Li Yuntian smiled bitterly, and chased out with Lei Ting.
"You went into the palace today to send the emperor's edict?" In the study room of the back house, after listening to Lei Ting's story, Lei Xiaotian stood up from the chair behind the desk and looked at Li Yuntian and Lei Ting with a shocked expression.
"Dad, look at this, this is the emperor's edict to me." Seeing that Lei Xiaotian didn't believe it, Lei Ting took out a piece of yellow silk stacked together from his arms and handed it to him.
Generally speaking, there are two forms of recording the emperor's orders, one is the holy decree, which is used on solemn occasions, and the other is the edict, which is closer to life.
The biggest difference between an edict and a decree is that there are handles at both ends of the decrees, while the edicts do not have handles, but they have the same system and have the same legal effect.
Since Zhu Gaochi agreed to give Lei Ting a marriage, he naturally had to record it in the name of the edict, otherwise he would be busy with official business and have every opportunity, and he would not forget about it in the future.
At that time, as long as Lei Ting takes a fancy to the children of which family and hands over this edict, then Zhu Gaochi will issue a holy decree to marry the two.
"Did you really see the emperor?" Lei Xiaotian carefully read the edict in his hand several times, and then carefully put it away, looking at Lei Ting with an excited expression, no wonder there was chaos in the city today, it turned out that Li Yuntian and Lei Ting sent the edict of Emperor Yongle into the palace.
"Not only did I see the emperor, but I also participated in the emperor's enthronement ceremony." Lei Ting nodded a little proudly, being able to watch the ceremony in the Taihe Palace, this kind of glory is not something that anyone can enjoy.
"Gang Leader Lei, I bothered you before, if you offend, look at Haihan." Li Yuntian got up and arched his hand at Lei Xiaotian, and said in a deep voice.
"Li Yushi's words are serious, Li Yushi is under the emperor's order, and he is in a hurry." Lei Xiaotian hurriedly hugged his fist at Li Yuntian, looking a little in awe.
To be honest, he never imagined that the young man in front of him would be the superintendent of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he was also admitted to the Shu Jishi, and his future was limitless.
"Don't talk so awkwardly, okay?" Lei Ting felt that Li Yuntian and Lei Xiaotian seemed a little cramped, so she smiled and said to Lei Xiaotian, "Dad, there is no imperial history here, you just treat him as that liar." ”
"Hugh is rude." Lei Xiaotian's face couldn't help but sink when he heard this, and he opened his mouth to reprimand.
Lei Ting is not deeply involved in the world, she doesn't know the strictness of the officialdom level, and she doesn't know the power of the imperial history.
"Miss Lei is right, there is no imperial history here, the Lei Gang Master can be a liar." Li Yuntian laughed when he heard this, since he was not ready to reveal his identity, he naturally would not put the imperial history in front of Lei Xiaotian.
When Lei Ting heard this, she immediately looked at Lei Xiaotian proudly, she had been with Li Yuntian for so many days, and she had already seen that Li Yuntian was not the kind of dull person, how could she care about this kind of subsection.
Now that Li Yuntian has spoken, then Lei Xiaotian is not easy to care, he has never met such a talkative imperial history.
Because it was late, Li Yuntian didn't stay long, and soon said goodbye and left, and Lei Ting and Lei Xiaotian personally sent him out of the gate.
Looking at Li Yuntian, who was riding away on a horse, Lei Ting bit her lip, and felt gloomy in her heart, with such good conditions as Li Yuntian, he would definitely have married a wife and had children.
On the way, Li Yuntian couldn't wait to go home, he was half a year old as soon as he left, and he was extremely concerned about Zhou Yuting and Lu Calyx in his heart, and he wanted to know whether Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou had a son or a daughter.
When he was in the palace today, he wanted to ask Zhou Zheng about the situation at home, but Zhou Zheng hadn't appeared since he left in the morning, so he had to give up.
Zhou Yuting and Lu Cao knew that Li Yuntian would come back in the evening, so they waited in the hall in the front yard.
When Li Yuntian saw Zhou Yuting's bulging lower abdomen, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, if it wasn't for Zhou Yuting being pregnant, he would definitely pick her up and turn around on the ground a few times.
What particularly excited Li Yuntian is that Chen Ningning gave birth to a son, and Zheng Wanrou is a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, he can now be said to have both children and daughters, and in another month or two Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou will come to the capital, and then he will be able to see his precious son and daughter.
Originally, Li Yuntian wanted to fall asleep with Zhou Yuting's belly around him at night, but as the saying goes, Xiao Biesheng is newlywed, and Zhou Yuting drove him to the green calyx's room, **** charming.
Early the next morning, when Li Yuntian was sleeping soundly with the green calyx in his arms, the door of the Li family was already full of businessmen and officials who had come to visit with gifts.
The fastest transmission in the capital is all kinds of gossip, so overnight, the matter of Li Yuntian's edict has spread all over the city's political and business circles, everyone knows that he has made great contributions to soar, plus he has a father-in-law with a heavy army, naturally someone will rush to tie up.
Li Yuntian had long expected this situation, so the door of the Li family was always closed, and the door was closed.
According to the regulations of the imperial court, Li Yuntian traveled with Emperor Yongle on an errand, so he would have a holiday to rest after he returned.
Besides, now the court is busy with the funeral and the subsequent funeral, which is something that those high-ranking officials and dignitaries need to worry about, and he can't fight with his little imperial history, so he can take advantage of this holiday to relax.
There is an old saying that if the wood is beautiful in the forest, the wind will destroy it.
Li Yuntian can be said to have been out of the limelight this time, so he has to keep a low profile next, be a man with his tail between his legs, and wait for the rumors to pass, so as not to attract envy.
For a few days, the door of the Li family was closed, and the officials and businessmen gathered in front of the door gradually dispersed, each of them wanted to find other ways to take Li Yuntian's line.
On September 6, the coffin of Emperor Yongle arrived in the capital, and Zhu Gaochi led hundreds of civil and military officials out of the city to welcome the funeral.
The next morning, Zhu Gaochi officially determined the name of the year, set the next year as the first year of Hongxi, and issued an amnesty decree, and at the same time announced a state funeral for Emperor Yongle.
There was a lot of vegetarianism in the capital, the sound of laughter was forbidden, ** closed one after another, and the wine in the restaurant was also sold in limited quantities, and the whole city was shrouded in a mournful atmosphere.
According to the custom, the time of the national funeral is twenty-seven days, and Li Yuntian, as the imperial historian, was fortunate to guard the spirit of Emperor Yongle for three days.
When Li Yuntian returned home after guarding the spirit, Zhou Yuting excitedly showed him something - the jade horse statue that she gave to the imperial concubine.
Yesterday afternoon, the crown princess, the former imperial concubine, personally came to the mansion to visit the pregnant Zhou Yuting, and brought a lot of gifts and supplements, including this priceless jade horse statue.
At this moment, Zhou Yuting can accept the jade horse statue with peace of mind, and her mood is naturally extremely comfortable, which also shows Zhou Zheng's status in Zhu Gaochi's heart.
Since Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, the Jingwei stationed in the capital was handed over to Commander Zhou Zheng, and the Jingwei stationed outside the capital was led by Zhang Hao and Niu Shihao.
Of the 50 Beijing guards in Beijing, 30 were stationed inside the city and 20 were stationed outside the city, and Zhou Zheng now commanded 60 percent of the Beijing guards, which fully demonstrated Zhu Gaochi's reliance on him.
For Zhu Gaochi, nobles like Zhou Zheng, Zhang Hao and Niu Shihao who were loyal to the Ming Dynasty were more trustworthy, although Lu Zhongqian and others were forced to surrender in the Taihe Hall that day, but once the King of Han waited for the opportunity to fight back, then these people would definitely echo secretly.
As the saying goes, on the side of the couch, how can you allow others to snore?
Li Yuntian saw this point and wrote to Zhu Gaochi at an inopportune time, proposing that Zhu Gaochi rectify the Jingwei in Beijing, take back the command of the Jingwei from the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, and establish the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, which is specially responsible for the defense of the capital, so as to facilitate the management and transfer of the Jingwei in Beijing.
As for the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, it was only responsible for the affairs of the local guard office, so that the nobles in the Governor's Office of the Five Armies could no longer interfere in the defense affairs of the capital, thus ensuring the safety of the capital.
In this way, the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Government and the Five Military Governor's Offices are both internal and external, which complement each other and restrain each other.
Zhu Gaochi admired Li Yuntian's mention very much, and Emperor Yongle put Jingwei under the jurisdiction of the five military governors, and one of the biggest purposes was to hope that the five military governors could contain each other and ensure the safety of the capital.
During the reign of Emperor Yongle, the nobles of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies were firmly suppressed by Emperor Yongle, and they were naturally honest.
But after the death of Emperor Yongle, Zhu Gaochi could not surrender to those arrogant soldiers and fierce generals who had made great achievements in Jingnan like his father, and coupled with the Han King Zhu Gaochu watching from the sidelines, then the disadvantages of the five military governors sharing the military power of the capital were undoubtedly revealed, that is, he could not control the Beijing guards in the capital.
Therefore, Li Yuntian's establishment of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion won Zhu Gaochi's sacred heart, so that he could firmly control the defense of the capital.
There is no doubt that once the Gyeonggi Governorate was established, it was the Houjun Governor's Office that was hit the hardest, which had twenty Gyeongsuiwei in the capital.
The second is the Left Army Governor's Office, which has 17 Jingwei, and the remaining three Governor's Mansions are not greatly affected because there are not many Jingwei in the capital.
During the state funeral, Zhu Gaochi had already begun to deal with matters related to the establishment of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, and selected candidates to serve as the governor and deputy governor of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office among the princes of the imperial court.
Li Yuntian's move not only eliminated Zhu Gaochi's troubles, but more importantly, ensured the safety of the capital and took the first step in reforming the Ming army. One