Unconsciously, the New Year of the sixth year of orthodoxy was spent in a lively and busy scene, and after the Lantern Festival, the yamen of the various ministries and courtyards in the capital resumed their daily routines.

On the first day of Li Yuntian's duty, he first went to the Metropolitan Procuratorate instead of the Martial Arts Hall, and his official position in the Metropolitan Procuratorate was promoted by the orthodox emperor by one level a year ago, and he became the Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, that is, the chief official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

In this way, Li Yuntian became the youngest chief of the Ming court.

As for the lecture martial arts, although Li Yuntian is in charge of the affairs of the martial arts hall, he is not the secretary of the martial arts hall, so he is not the chief official of the martial arts hall in the official sense.

According to the custom left by Emperor Xuande, the division hall of the lecture hall is served by the prince or the prince of the imperial family, but it is only in name and not responsible for specific affairs, and the daily operation of the lecture hall is handled by the chief instructor, and the chief instructor is equivalent to the second-in-command of the lecture hall.

In fact, Li Yuntian felt that his previous official position as the right deputy of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was very good, and he could concentrate on the affairs of the Wutang, but now that he has become the Imperial History of the Left Capital, it means that he has to shift the focus of his work to the Imperial Procuratorate.

The reason why this is so is not because Li Yuntian became a prince, and the title of Daming has little to do with official positions, and they belong to two different systems.

Although Li Yuntian has made great achievements on the battlefield, the Metropolitan Procuratorate belongs to the civil official system, so no matter how high Li Yuntian's title is, it is useless.

What really made Li Yuntian take charge of the Imperial Procuratorate was not only his prestige in the imperial court, but also the struggle between the inner court and the civil official group, as well as the title of the crown prince and the prince.

Before the Battle of the Western Regions, Li Yuntian had the title of crown prince and princess, and he was already the highest rank of first-rank official in the Imperial Procuratorate, which was higher than the official rank of Chen Zhi, the left capital of the Imperial Palace.

Now that Li Yuntian's official rank has been upgraded by one level, if he is still the right deputy capital imperial history, then he will put huge pressure on Chen Zhi in the official rank, and it is not in line with the etiquette of the imperial court.

What is particularly important is that with the intensification of the infighting between the inner court and the civil bureaucracy, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which has the power to supervise, is very important, and it can not only investigate civil officials but also impeach eunuchs, and can also supervise the military attaches of the imperial court, and its power is huge.

To tell the truth, Chen Zhi has been under tremendous pressure as the imperial history of the Zuodu, and his qualifications are relatively shallow among the officials of the various ministries and institutes in the capital, and his foundation is not deep, so not to mention that the coercion of the ministries and institutes in the capital cannot even be leveled within the Imperial Procuratorate, so sitting in this seat is like being roasted on a fire.

For the position of the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Imperial Procuratorate, the forces of all factions in the imperial court are staring at it to death, and it is not easy for any faction to obtain this position, and it is bound to be obstructed by other forces.

Therefore, among the officials in the capital who are qualified to serve as the imperial history of the left capital, Li Yuntian is the most suitable one, not only with a noble status but also with a good relationship with all forces.

Moreover, Li Yuntian is also from the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he knows the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate well, and the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are also in awe of him, so he is the best candidate for this position.

In this way, Li Yuntian, who originally had no intention of serving as the imperial history of the left capital, was promoted to the imperial history of the left capital by the orthodox emperor a few years ago, and officially became the chief official of most of the capital, which has a sense of catching ducks on the shelves.

The imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were all overjoyed when they learned that Li Yuntian had been promoted to the post of Imperial Historian of the Left Capital, although the Metropolitan Procuratorate had the responsibility of supervising civil and military officials, but there was also a power game between the various ministries and institutes in the capital.

If the qualifications and prestige of the Imperial History of Zuodu are insufficient to suppress other ministries, then the Imperial Court will be suppressed by other ministries and institutes, and the Imperial Historians will also be subject to many constraints in the performance of official duties.

After Chen Zhi became the imperial history of the left capital, the Imperial Court was in a state of being suppressed by various ministries and institutes in the capital, after all, no one wanted to be pressed on the head by the small seven-grade imperial history.

As the saying goes, it depends on the owner to beat a dog, and after Li Yuntian enters the Imperial Palace, the yamen of the major ministries and courtyards in the capital will definitely give face to the imperial historians, and no one wants to provoke Li Yuntian.

Moreover, the people in all the major ministries and institutes know that Li Yuntian is not the kind of person who makes trouble for nothing, and he will not trouble them for no reason, which also makes them feel a lot more at ease.

"See the prince!" When Li Yuntian came to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Chen Zhi had already led the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to greet him at the gate of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and bowed down after seeing Li Yuntian.

This is the first time that Li Yuntian has come to the Metropolitan Procuratorate after he was promoted to the Imperial History of the Left Capital, and it can be regarded as a new appointment in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate naturally want to welcome Li Yuntian's arrival.

Chen Zhi is now serving in the right capital of the Imperial History, which is different from the yamen of the major ministries in the capital, and the right position still has the corresponding power, which is related to the need for manpower for the Metropolitan Procuratorate to supervise hundreds of officials.

Beginning in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the governors sent by the imperial court began to add the titles of the right capital of the Imperial History and the right deputy capital of the Imperial History, which had no real power, but only indicated the rank.

Although Chen Zhi has changed from the left capital to the right capital, he is slightly inferior in power, but he is very satisfied with this, with Li Yuntian in front of him, he thinks he can do things with peace of mind.

Surrounded by everyone, Li Yuntian entered the courtyard of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, since he was transferred to the capital during the Yongle period, he has served in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it has been fifteen or sixteen years in the blink of an eye, and he is the most senior person in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

You must know that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is the best gilded yamen for Ming officials, so those imperial historians who enter the scholars and what to do will definitely not stay in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for a long time, and when they have enough qualifications, they will be promoted, like Li Yuntian has been staying in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for fifteen or sixteen years.

When Li Yuntian was in Kansai, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and other yamen in the capital also changed a batch of fresh blood, and the newly promoted Jinshi came to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to train, and these rookies in the Metropolitan Procuratorate looked at Li Yuntian with a look of admiration in their eyes, and everyone wanted to be a mainstay like Li Yuntian in the city.

The so-called three fires of the new official taking office, although Li Yuntian is an old man of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but in the past, he was not in his position and did not seek his own politics, and the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were handled by the left and right imperial historians and the left deputy imperial history, so he didn't have to worry about this at all, and he didn't have time to pay attention to this matter.

But now it's different, Li Yuntian has become the leader of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he has to be fully responsible for the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he can't be idle if he wants to.

Therefore, as the chief official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Li Yuntian wants to straighten out the cases that the Metropolitan Procuratorate is responsible for, and since he is now in charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it is natural that he must clean up the cases for which the Metropolitan Procuratorate is responsible.

Although Li Yuntian rarely inquired about the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he knew that in recent years, especially after the Orthodox Dynasty, the Metropolitan Procuratorate had accumulated a lot of old cases for various reasons, and these cases had become the first fire after he took charge of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

For this reason, Li Yuntian ordered the investigation of the old cases of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and assigned the case to Chen Zhihe and the left and right deputy capital imperial historians and left and right imperial historians to supervise the case.

After the orthodox emperor ascended the throne, due to the weakness of the Imperial Inspectorate, the number of dispatches to inspect the imperial history also decreased, and even the dispatch of the imperial history to the local area was subject to many constraints.

Therefore, Li Yuntian had already consulted the orthodox emperor and obtained the permission of the Empress Dowager of the Zhang family, and was ready to select suitable imperial historians to inspect the sixteen provinces of the two capitals of the Ming Dynasty, including the Jiaozhi Political Envoy Division, the Mongolian Political Envoy Division, and the Liaodong Political Envoy Division.

As for the third fire, it is naturally the routine Liangjing brushing volume, and the so-called Liangjing brushing volume refers to the inventory of the files of the various yamen in the capital and auditing them, which is an important responsibility of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it is also an important means for the Metropolitan Procuratorate to restrain the major yamen in the capital.

Since the orthodox emperor ascended the throne, the two capitals have basically become a form of going through the motions, and Chen Zhi, as the imperial history of the left capital, is not even an auxiliary minister, so naturally he has not stiffened his waist to check the accounts of the yamen of the major ministries in the capital.

However, Li Yuntian is different, although Emperor Xuande did not officially appoint him as an auxiliary minister, but everyone knows that Li Yuntian actually exercises the power of an auxiliary minister, and "powers" the cabinet and military cabinet affairs, which has formed a huge coercion on the major ministries and institutes in the capital, and even the officials must cooperate honestly.

Li Yuntian's three fires were a little bit louder, and the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were suddenly excited, and they were ready to do a big job one by one.

To tell the truth, in recent years, these imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate have lived a very aggrieved life, they are the best among the scholars, and they naturally hope to make a difference, instead of doing nothing.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has the responsibility of cleaning up military affairs, however, some affairs in the army involve confidential matters and should not be disseminated."

After Li Yuntian summoned Chen Zhi and the left and right deputy capital imperial historians and left and right imperial historians to arrange his three fires, he solemnly told them one thing, "Therefore, this king has already initiated the emperor, and will set up a special department in the Imperial Court to deal with military affairs. ”

The so-called Jinshi who were born in Jiangwutang refers to the people who have a background in Jiangwutang, who graduated from the colleges and universities under the Jiangwutang and then took the Jinshi examination.

Li Yuntian allowed the students who graduated from the colleges and universities under the Jiangwutang to participate in the imperial examinations of the imperial court, and in his opinion, the colleges and universities under the Jiangwutang were just an institution for cultivating talents for the Ming Dynasty, and he should not prevent the students from pursuing a better way out.

Moreover, in this way, it also invisibly promoted the promotion of new colleges and universities under the lecture hall in the Ming Dynasty, reducing the resistance of the scholar class.

Since the establishment of the subordinate colleges and universities of Jiangwutang, more and more students have participated in each imperial examination, and the students who have become Xiucai, Juren and Jinshi have also been more than one session.

Although the scholars and doctors had a lot of complaints about those students participating in the imperial examination, there was no way to stop them, because those students were not military attaches of the imperial court, so they could naturally participate in the imperial examination.

Li Yuntian felt that these students were lucky, the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty was still open at this time, and it was not as respectful of the Baguwen as it was in the middle and late periods, so it was easier for the students to pass the imperial examination to gain fame.

In this way, the scholar class is equivalent to integrating a group of fresh blood with new ideas, quietly changing the scholar class, and Li Yuntian hopes to promote his new academic system reform in this way.

Rather than fighting to the death with the scholar class, it is better to use this method of infiltration to fundamentally change the prejudice and hostility of the scholar class towards the new discipline.

In the face of Li Yuntian's salary draw, those scholars and doctors in the capital did not have a good way to deal with it, they originally thought that the candidates from the martial arts hall would lose the imperial examination.

But the reality is just the opposite, those candidates perform very well in the imperial examination, and their thinking is much more agile than that of ordinary candidates, so that there are more people who have achieved fame in one imperial examination than in another.

What is particularly disturbing to the scholars and doctors is that many young scholars in the world are now full of yearning for the major colleges under the jurisdiction of the martial arts, and then they usually take the martial arts examination of the martial arts hall before taking the imperial examination.

After entering the major colleges of the lecture hall, you can not only get the opportunity to study, but also free room and board, and after graduation, you can not only join the lecture hall to get the opportunity to be assigned work, but also participate in the imperial court's literary examination, which is often referred to as the imperial examination, so it has a great attraction to young scholars, especially those from poor families.

However, students from Jiangwutang are not allowed to take the Wenju examination indefinitely, and once they reach the age of 30 and have not obtained the status of a lifter, then Jiangwutang will prohibit them from taking the exam again, otherwise they will be expelled from Jiangwutang in the name of absenteeism.

In Li Yuntian's view, once he is over 30 years old, it will not be appropriate to take the imperial examination again, and he does not want the newly added officials in the imperial court to be middle-aged people who have already passed the age of establishment, and when they step into the official career and mature in the officialdom, they will no longer have the energy to take charge of the ruling party.