"Prince, salute all of you." After Jin Ying finished reading the holy decree, Emperor Xuande glanced at the ministers standing in front of the window, and said to the prince while coughing, showing his respect for him.

"This king has seen all of you." Hearing this, the prince solemnly bowed to Yang Shiqi and Zhang Fu and other twelve ministers and bowed his hand.

"Prince Chitose Chitose Chitose." Yang Shiqi, Zhang Fu and others hurriedly bowed in return, shouting in their mouths.

"Father, why is the Duke of Zhenguo not here?" After the prince got up, he glanced around at the magnates on the scene, and asked Emperor Xuande with some doubts, saying that in his heart, he actually wanted Li Yuntian to assist him in governing the government, and he felt very relaxed with Li Yuntian.

At this time, the crown prince did not know that Li Yuntian was buried in the fire of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion, so he felt very strange that Li Yuntian was not seen on such an important occasion, and no one had told him that Li Yuntian was imprisoned in the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion Prison, he always thought that Li Yuntian did not enter the palace to teach him his studies because he was busy with official business.

"Zhenguo Gong went to the field on an errand at the behest of his father, and when he came back, he would assist you with all Aiqing." Emperor Xuande's face showed a hint of a smile, and he quietly found a reason.

"Great, I can listen to Zhenguo Gong talk about those strange things overseas." The prince suddenly became happy when he heard this, and then realized that his behavior was a little inappropriate, and hurriedly looked at Emperor Xuande timidly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I hope you can assist the prince as you assist me, and the Ming Dynasty will rely on you Aiqing in the future." Emperor Xuande smiled disappreciatively, after all, the prince is still a child, and sometimes it is inevitable to reveal the nature of a child, and then his eyes swept over the ministers who were standing in the room, and raised his voice and said.

"The emperor can rest assured, the ministers will do their best and die!" The important ministers at the scene all bowed down and replied, their voices were uniform, they were all old ministers who had been up and down for many years, and they naturally knew what to say at this time.

Emperor Xuande heard this, a mocking smile flashed at the corner of his mouth, don't look at the fact that these ministers have expressed their loyalty to the prince one by one, but no one knows what they have in private, maybe they will soon be able to distinguish which of them is sincere and who is false.

"You guys stand down, I'm tired, I want to stay with the Queen Mother and the Queen for a while." Emperor Xuande is not in the mood to pay attention to these messy things in the court now, he just wants to spend more time with his family, and said quietly.

"The emperor is blessed with Jin'an, and the ministers are retiring." Yang Shiqi, Zhang Fu and others hurriedly saluted Emperor Xuande, bowed and retreated, leaving Emperor Xuande and Empress Dowager Zhang, Empress Hu, Empress Sun, the crown prince and some important concubines and princes and princesses in the room.

Although Emperor Xuande asked Yang Shiqi and Zhang Fu and others to retreat, no one dared to leave the Qianqing Palace, not even the side hall on the side, so they gathered in groups in the open space in front of the Dongnuan Pavilion to wait for the news, and whispered in private.

The Son of Heaven is about to go on a big trip, who would dare to slack off at such a moment? If you don't do it well, you will be caught by someone and impeached on charges of great disrespect.

If you pay attention, you will find that the civil and military elites on the scene inadvertently stood in five camps.

Its Chinese official group has two camps, namely the cabinet camp and the Liubu camp, while the Xungui group has a more complex camp, with three, namely Jing Nan Xungui headed by Zhang Fu, the founding nobles headed by Song Hai, and Jing Nan Xungui headed by Zhou Zheng and Zhang Hao.

In other words, Jing Nanxungui had already diverged at this time, and Zhou Zheng was enough to fight against Zhang Fu.

It is worth mentioning that the nobles of the Xiaowu Army faction are naturally on the side of Zhou Zheng, Zhou Zheng is Li Yuntian's father-in-law, and they definitely support Zhou Zheng.

Speaking of one thing, there is a very interesting thing, Wang Ji, the second assistant of the military pavilion, was not in the camp of the nobles, but got together with Hu Ying and others.

Because the military cabinet merged the original military department, there have always been civilian officials from the original military department in the military cabinet, and in order to restrain the nobles in the military cabinet, Emperor Xuande deliberately left the position of the second assistant of the military cabinet to the military attache from the civilian background, in other words, Emperor Xuande will transfer some civilian officials from the civilian group to the military cabinet as military attachés.

Wang Ji used to have a close relationship with Hu Ying, although he was in the military pavilion, he still regarded himself as a civilian official like those military attaches in the military cabinet, and he was born in the sixth department, so he naturally got close to Hu Ying.

These five camps are the five largest factions in the court, with a common interest base, cooperation and contradictions with each other, and maintain the operation of the government.

If subdivided, the cabinet camp is divided into Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong, Yang Rong has always been dissatisfied with Yang Shiqi as the first assistant, and Yang Shiqi also has a lot of complaints about Yang Rong's personality, when Emperor Xuande abolished Empress Hu, Yang Rong did not have a lot of ideas, because the two of them fought openly and secretly in private, but they maintained restraint in the face of the threat of the six ministries, and they were unanimous with the outside world.

Yang Pu has the least seniority among the cabinet members, so he has the least power, and usually knowingly remains neutral in the fight between Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong.

As for Chen Shan, he was the leader of the group of officials who came out of the East Palace, although their number was relatively small, but they were all in important positions in the imperial court, and they were the most trusted courtiers of Emperor Xuande.

Chen Shan is self-aware, his strength lies in learning rather than governance, and those small chamberlains in the Inner Book Hall are teaching him, so he rarely intervenes in the affairs of the cabinet, and never intervenes in the dispute between Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong.

The six camps are mainly divided into two factions, one is the civil official headed by Hu Ying, and the other is the civil official headed by Guo Jin, the secretary of the ministry.

Moreover, Guo Jin has the support of Liu Zhongfu, the head of the household department, so he naturally has to break hands with Hu Ying.

Liu Zhongfu actually has a good relationship with Hu Ying and Guo Jin, and the reason why he chose to support Liu Zhongfu is actually quite helpless, because since the death of Guo Zi, the secretary of the household department, the household department has been managed by Hu Ying, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, that is, Hu Ying exercised the power of the household secretary, and it was not until Emperor Xuande that Liu Zhongfu was promoted to the head of the household department.

In the eighth year of Xuande, Guo Zi, the secretary of the household department, finally took office, and Emperor Xuande dismissed the dynasty and sent the Ministry of Rites to give sacrifices, and the Ministry of Labor made a coffin for funeral, and gave it to the Guanglu doctor (Zhengyipin) Zhuguo, and said "loyalty".

Guo Zi was in a high position and did not seek personal gain, and was the minister of the four dynasties, from beginning to end, extremely favored, which was rarely seen in the Ming Dynasty.

Due to the very importance of the position of the secretary of the household department, Emperor Xuande did not have a suitable candidate for a while, so he let Hu Ying, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, take care of it, anyway, there are not many things in the Ministry of Rites Hu Ying can fully deal with.

Although the Ministry of Rites does not have as much power as the Ministry of Households, because the Ministry of Rites is in charge of the Ming Dynasty ritual system and presides over the imperial examination, the status of the Ministry of Rites has always been very high.

Historically, among the six Shangshu, the Ministry of Rites usually entered the cabinet, which shows that the Ministry of Rites Shangshu had a pivotal position among the civil officials, so Hu Ying was able to subdue those officials of the Ministry of Households.

Hu Ying has been operating in the household department for nearly two years, and must have supported a large number of cronies in the household department, and Liu Zhongshiki, as the secretary of the household department, must eliminate Hu Ying's influence in the household department in order to take charge of the household department, so that he will definitely form an alliance with Guo Jin to jointly fight against Hu Ying.

Guo Jin and Liu Zhongfu are two wonderful moves laid by Emperor Xuande, and if there are two people, the power of the six departments will be balanced, which will be more conducive to the prince's control of the court in the future.

If the three camps of the Xungui group are subdivided, that is, Zhou Zheng and Zhang Hao are the leaders of each faction, and because of the close relationship between the two, they naturally formed an alliance.

Among the three camps, Zhang Fu is the most powerful, and two-thirds of the Jing Nan nobles are all looking forward to him; Song Hai: Secondly, although the founding fathers are not as powerful as before, their strength is still not to be underestimated; If Xiaowu Army is added, then the camp of Zhou Zheng and Zhang Hao will become the strongest one in the Xungui Group.

It is worth mentioning that sixty percent of the generals of the reorganized troops of the Northern Military Region and the Liaodong Military Region are from the camp of Zhang Fu and Song Hai, and Emperor Xuande has already begun to lay out the military of the Ming Dynasty.

It's a pity that Emperor Xuande's reign is too short, if there are another ten years, he will become the greatest son of heaven in the history of the Ming Dynasty except for the founding ancestor, creating a prosperous era of the Ming Dynasty.

"The emperor is a guest!" Just when Yang Shiqi, Zhang Fu and the others were anxiously waiting for news in the cold wind, an inner attendant came out of the Dongnuan Pavilion and shouted at everyone.

"Your Majesty!" Hearing this, the ministers who were gathering together to whisper immediately quieted down, and then knelt down one after another, kneeling down and saluting His Excellency Dong Nuan, and wept bitterly one after another.

Soon, there was a cry in the entire Forbidden City, whether it was the palace maids or the concubines, they all knelt on the ground and faced the direction of the Qianqing Palace, and the crying shook the sky.

To people's surprise, Emperor Xuande's last edict turned out to be to seal the Venerable Master of Yunxia Su Bolang as the national teacher, and let Su Bolang preside over his funeral, which made Su Bolang's prestige reach an unprecedented height.

With the news of Emperor Xuande's death announced by the imperial court, the original joyful capital suddenly fell silent, every household took off the festive red lanterns and red window paper, and hung a vegetarian on the door to show mourning, and the entertainment venues in the city were closed for business, waiting for the expiration of the 27-day filial piety period.

On the surface, due to the death of Emperor Xuande, the capital is shrouded in a sad atmosphere, and the situation is calm and calm, but not only the officials in the officialdom, but many people know that this is just the calm before the storm, in the final analysis, the prince is young, and those ministers in the court will inevitably fight openly and secretly for the right to speak in the Ming Dynasty, and they will fight each other, which will inevitably set off countless turmoil.