"Lord Wang, Adjutant Yun Na sent an urgent official letter, saying that it came from the capital." It was already close to midnight when Li Yuntian, who was full of alcohol, returned to his residence, and one of the guards had been waiting for a long time, and bowed down to hand Li Yuntian an envelope sealed with fire paint.

Judging from the format of the envelope, Li Yuntian didn't have to guess to know that it was related to the struggle between the inner court and the civil official group in the capital, so he yawned and opened the envelope, wondering what kind of trouble the inner court and the civil official group had reached in the capital.

However, when he opened the letter inside, Li Yuntian couldn't help but be slightly stunned, because this letter was not given to him by Wutang, but an edict issued to him by the orthodox emperor, asking him to rush back to the capital as soon as possible to resolve the dispute between the inner court and the civil official group.

At the end, the letter was stamped with the seal of the Orthodox Emperor, which means that this letter was actually an edict of the Orthodox Emperor, and due to the urgency of the situation, he used the channel of the Jiangwutang to transmit the news to Li Yuntian.

Li Yuntian originally thought that the orthodox emperor would be able to hold out until the end of the year and then let him return to Beijing, but he didn't expect that he would be recalled in September, which shows that the situation in the capital is not optimistic.

In Li Yuntian's view, this edict of the orthodox emperor came at the right time, and with the smooth completion of the land business in Incheon Port, he could say goodbye to Park Gaode and Kim Jong-seo, and the only way to return to China to deal with business affairs was to return to Daming.

As for Li Jue's case, Li Yuntian is not worried, anyway, with the involvement of Li Ji, Huang Xi and others, this case will only become more and more complicated, and it will be difficult to conclude for a while, so he will wait and see what happens, and let the two sides fight to the death.

At noon the next day, after learning the news that Li Yuntian was leaving, Park Gaode held a banquet in a restaurant to see Li Yuntian off, and Jin Zongrui specially rushed to see him off.

In order to show his respect for Li Yuntian and to avoid any unnecessary trouble on the road, Jin Zongrui specially asked dozens of cavalry to escort Li Yuntian to Incheon Port and watch Li Yuntian board the ship and leave.

Li Yuntian knew that Jin Zongrui was not only doing this to escort him, but also to monitor him, wanting to see if he really left, and only after controlling his whereabouts would Jin Zongrui really put his mind at ease.

Since the trade between the Ming Dynasty and the Korean State was not opened, the ships of the Ming Army Naval Division were docked on the wharf of Incheon Port, and those Ming merchants and Korean merchants who entered and exited through the Incheon Port were all ships of the Ming Army Naval Division, and held the entry and exit survey issued by the Jiangwutang, which was similar to the passport of later generations.

Li Yuntian had already made plans to return to China, boarded a three-masted warship of the Ming army, left Incheon Port, and headed straight for Tianjin Port.

Knowing that Li Yuntian boarded the ship and returned to Daming, Jin Zongrui suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, perhaps because he owed Li Yuntian a huge amount of money, Jin Zongrui's existence felt uncomfortable, and now he could deal with Li Jue's case with peace of mind.

Originally, Li Jue's case was very simple, but because it involved the struggle between Li Jue's faction and Li Jue's faction, the case became more and more complicated, and those witnesses kept changing their confessions under torture, which simply made the case a confused account.

The two classes of nobles in Seoul who focused their attention on Li Jue's case would never have imagined that Li Yuntian, who was supposed to be in Seoul, would quietly rush back to the Ming Dynasty, let alone know that there was a huge political conflict in the Ming Dynasty.

"What is the situation in the capital?" After arriving at Tianjin Port, Li Yuntian got off the boat and asked a military attache of the Lecture Martial Arts Hall who had been waiting on the dock to greet him.

"Wang Ye, the prisoners of the Guozi Prison have been writing in front of the palace gate for two days in a row, asking for Lord Li's release, and the Chinese military officials have also pleaded with Lord Li one after another."

The military attache who lectured on martial arts bowed down and followed behind Li Yuntian, and said in a deep voice as he walked, "Not only that, the people of the Criminal Department seized the property of Wang Zhen and others, the deputy chief of internal affairs, and sent their families to prison, and the Beizhen Fusi then also arrested some people from the six departments and sent them to prison, and now the two sides are quarreling over this, and the emperor has recently stopped the dynasty on the grounds that he is ill." ”

The corners of Li Yuntian's mouth couldn't help but reveal a helpless wry smile, it seems that the situation in the capital is more serious than he imagined, the inner court and the civil official group have even made trouble to the point that they do not hesitate to arrest each other's people and put them in prison, if it were not for Wang Zhen and the others who were in the inner chamber and the criminal department had no right to arrest people, I am afraid that Wang Zhen and the others would also be put in prison by the civilian official group.

"How's Lord Li doing?" After pondering for a while, Li Yuntian asked quietly, as the center of this storm in the capital, Li Qing is a crucial figure.

"Back to the prince, as far as my subordinates know, Lord Li's situation is still good, and the people in the prison don't dare to embarrass Lord Li." The military attache replied in an orderly manner, after all, Li Qingzheng has deep qualifications and is the head of the clear stream of the court, and the people in the edict prison are full of food to provoke him, in case they provoke those clear streams, they will not be able to eat and go around.

"Return to Beijing immediately." Li Yuntian stepped into a carriage waiting at the dock and commanded the military attache who followed him in a deep voice.

"Lord Wang, you are tired from the journey, and your subordinates have prepared a meal, so you should go back after eating." The military attache testified, but he didn't expect Li Yuntian to leave, so he hurriedly bowed down and said.

"Let's go back to the capital." Li Yuntian had the idea of eating now, waved his hand at the military attache and said, the top priority is to solve the increasingly violent turmoil in the capital.

On the surface, this is just a grudge conflict between the inner court and the civil official group, but in fact, the yamen of the major ministries in the capital have been deeply affected by it.

If Li Yuntian guessed correctly, in order to express his dissatisfaction with the eunuchs in the inner court, although the civil official group did not say it explicitly, it had actually stopped the operation of the civil officials and yamen in the capital, so as to exert pressure on the orthodox emperor, so that the orthodox emperor had to summon Li Yuntian back to deal with the aftermath.

The reason why the orthodox emperor is afraid of the civil official group is precisely because the civil official group controls the operation of the major yamen government affairs of the Ming Dynasty, and once they unite to resist the inner court, it will bring great trouble to the Ming Dynasty.

Originally, this situation could have been avoided, and the emperors of all dynasties had adopted a policy of co-opting and dividing the civil bureaucracy, so that it could not become a monolith, and thus could not pose a threat to the imperial power.

It's a pity that the orthodox emperor is too young, and those important ministers in the civil official group are all veteran ministers of several dynasties with deep qualifications, which makes it very difficult for the orthodox emperor to control the civil official group.

What is particularly important is that with the Inner Court on the historical stage of the Ming Dynasty, the civil official group naturally united against the Inner Court in order to protect itself, which also became a major obstacle between the orthodox emperor and the civilian official group.

It has to be said that although the emergence of the inner court is conducive to consolidating the imperial power, it also exacerbates the confrontation between the imperial power and the vassal power, which brings great confusion to the young son of heaven like the orthodox emperor.

At dusk, the Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

The orthodox emperor sat expressionlessly on the soft couch and flipped through the music in his hand, and several attendants on the side held a pile in their hands and stood there with their bows bowed.

"These pieces are all for Li Xijiu to intercede?" After putting down the music in his hand, the orthodox emperor stretched out his hand and rubbed the bridge of his nose, and asked in a deep voice to Song Dashan, who was standing on the side.

"Back to the emperor, these recitals were made by officials from all over the country, and they all pleaded for Li Saijiu." Song Dashan bowed to the orthodox emperor and replied in a deep voice.

"How can this be reasonable, before the crime of Li Xianjiu has been decided, they will give me a sparse punishment, this is to force the palace to fail!" The orthodox emperor threw the piece in his hand to the ground, and said angrily, in his opinion, his majesty was challenged.

"The emperor is angry!" Seeing this situation, the chamberlains and palace maids who served in the Qianqing Palace were so frightened that they hurriedly knelt down, and Song Dashan knew that the orthodox emperor was annoyed, so he bowed down and explained, "Li Xianjiu has a very high prestige in the court, and those officials who are sparse are more concerned about the situation of Li Xianjiu, and I am afraid that they have no intention of forcing the palace." ”

"Hmph." The orthodox emperor couldn't help but sneer when he heard this, Wang Zhen just sent Li Qingzheng to the edict, and as a result, the civil official group made a lot of trouble, don't those people know the truth that the whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister?

Moreover, the case of the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town is a royal case, who would dare to interfere with the trial of the Fusi of Jinyi Weibei Town during the period of Emperor Hongwu, Emperor Yongle and Emperor Xuande? Even if it is an unjust case, the officials in the court can only passively accept it, and it is just a big deal that the officials will make a statement at the court meeting.

But now, Li Qingzheng's case has not yet been tried by the Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi, and the civil officials in the court have given the orthodox emperor one after another, shouting grievances and pleading for Li Qingzheng, and they simply did not take the Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi in their eyes.

The orthodox emperor is naturally very annoyed by this, everyone knows that there is imperial power behind the inner court, even though it is quite inappropriate for Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Si to arrest Li Qingzheng, but the thunder, rain and dew are all the emperor's favor, and the reaction shown by the civil official group in Li Qingzheng's matter is too great, and it has exceeded the bottom line of the orthodox emperor's tolerance.

In ancient feudal society, the emperor was the supreme ruler, how could he be attacked by the courtiers because he unjustly killed a person?

Therefore, although on the surface, it seems that those civil officials who are sparse are complaining about Li Qingzheng, but because Li Qingzheng's case is an imperial case, it has become a dissatisfaction with the orthodox emperor, and the orthodox emperor can not be annoyed.

If it weren't for the excesses of the civil official clique that angered the orthodox emperor, Li Qingzheng would have been released by the orthodox emperor a long time ago, after all, it is indeed unreasonable to punish the Qingliu leaders in the Ming Dynasty with the excuse of "destroying the official wood".

"Your Majesty, Lord Zhong is here." Just when the orthodox emperor was sulking, an attendant hurriedly came in and bowed down.

"Oh?" The Orthodox Emperor was slightly stunned when he heard this, he never expected Li Yuntian to come so quickly, and then his face was happy, "Hurry up!" ”

In the face of the increasingly fierce situation in the capital, the orthodox emperor was no longer able to control it, although he was dissatisfied with the aggressive civil official group in his heart, but he had no choice but to let Li Yuntian solve this matter first, so as not to end badly.

"Your Majesty." Li Yuntian was soon led in by the chamberlain, bowed down and saluted the orthodox emperor.

"King Zhong, you can be regarded as back, I am almost annoyed to death these days." The Orthodox Emperor stretched out his hand and motioned for Li Yuntian to sit down on the seat next to him, and said with a wry smile.

"Your Majesty, the minister has heard about the affairs of the capital, and the minister feels that this matter should not be delayed any longer, and it should be resolved as soon as possible." Li Yuntian knew that the orthodox emperor was in a very bad mood from the fact that the orthodox emperor had stopped the dynasty, so he said in a deep voice.

"What can King Chung do?" The orthodox emperor's brows furrowed slightly, he also wanted to solve Li Qingzheng's matter as soon as possible, but he couldn't let the inner court bow to the civil official group, right?

"Business on business!" Li Yuntian had been prepared and replied in an orderly manner.

"Business?" The orthodox emperor was slightly stunned when he heard this, and then nodded thoughtfully, the reason why Li Qingzheng's matter made such a big fuss was that the inner court and the civil official group both wanted to use this matter to overwhelm each other, and then the situation deviated from the original track and became more and more intense.

Therefore, what Li Yuntian has to do is to bring back the case of Li Qingzheng, who has deviated from the track, and take this matter seriously, only in this way can he convince the public.

But how easy is it to resolve things at this point? Looking at the Ming court, only Li Yuntian can suppress the inner court and the civil official group, and both the inner court and the civil official group have to give Li Yuntian this face.

Moreover, in this situation, the top brass of the inner court and the civil official clique do not want the situation to expand further, and both sides have shown enough hardline attitudes that if they continue to continue, it will cause turmoil in the imperial situation, and then the leaders who really force the orthodox emperor will be unlucky.

It is a pity that neither the inner court nor the civil official group has stepped down, which has led to the stalemate of Li Qingzheng's case here, and no one is willing to take a step back, nor can they retreat, after all, this involves the fundamental interests of both sides, and there is no way to retreat but to grit their teeth and hold on.

It is conceivable that as the situation escalates, the prisons of Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division and the Criminal Department will be overcrowded, and the two sides will definitely use the power at hand to attack the personnel of the other camp.

It was already midnight when Li Yuntian left the Forbidden City, and since the gates of the Imperial City had been closed, he had no choice but to stay in the lecture hall.

The military attache on duty in the martial arts hall was very surprised when he saw Li Yuntian, because Li Yuntian, who was in Korea, had never said that he wanted to come back, and the officialdom in the capital did not know that Li Yuntian had secretly returned to Beijing.

However, Li Yuntian did not stay in the lecture hall for a long time, and put on the prince's reckless dragon robe and set off to go to the celebrant to prepare to see Wang Zhen, Wang Zhen was the leader of the inner court in this Li Qingzheng incident, and Li Yuntian needed his assistance in order to successfully solve Li Qingzheng's affairs.

Of course, Li Yuntian was not worried about Wang Zhen bargaining with him, the reason was very simple, the orthodox emperor had already nodded and agreed to his solution, how could Wang Zhen dare to say more?