"Zhen Wuhou, you are not only a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, but also the Zhen Wuhou of my Ming Dynasty, both civil and military, can there be someone on your right in the court today?"

Emperor Xuande had long expected that Li Yuntian would refuse, so he said with a smile, "In my opinion, the prince's teacher is none other than you!" ”

"The minister is afraid, and he must do his best to teach the prince what he has learned, so as to live up to the emperor's trust." Li Yuntian saw that Emperor Xuande had made up his mind, so he no longer shirked and knelt on the ground to thank Emperor Xuande.

Seeing this situation, Song Dashan and Wang Zhen, who were standing on the side, couldn't help but light up in front of their eyes, and their eyes showed a thoughtful look.

As early as last year, Empress Dowager Zhang urged Emperor Xuande to determine Zhu Qizhen's enlightenment teacher, so that Zhu Qizhen could be taught as soon as possible, but this matter has been dragged by Emperor Xuande, and now it seems that Emperor Xuande has already found a good teacher for Zhu Qizhen, and at the same time, he has also found a trustworthy minister of humerus for Zhu Qizhen.

Obviously, if Li Yuntian becomes Zhu Qizhen's teacher, then he will be Zhu Qizhen's most considerate courtier, and he will definitely be reused by Zhu Qizhen in the future.

Most importantly, Emperor Xuande greatly admired Li Yuntian's talent in government and military affairs and his way of dealing with the world in the officialdom, and he hoped that Zhu Qizhen could learn these talents and experience from Li Yuntian and better govern the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Moreover, Emperor Xuande has great trust in Li Yuntian, and in his opinion, he can avoid the siege of the King of Han twice in two days, regardless of life and death, and send him and Emperor Hongxi an edict, which is enough to show his loyalty to the Son of the Great Tomorrow, otherwise as long as he takes refuge in the King of Han once, then the Ming Dynasty will belong to the King of Han.

What's more, Li Yuntian stood up twice when the Ming Dynasty was in danger, not only the tragedy of the battle of Heiniu Town, but also the tragedy of going alone to Jiaozhi to quell the rebellion, which were incomparable to the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

Therefore, when the ministers of the court reminded Emperor Xuande to guard against Li Yuntian, who was in charge of the military and political power in Guangxi and Jiaozhi, so as to prevent Li Yuntian from supporting his troops and not losing his tail, Emperor Xuande completely ignored it.

Compared with those civil and military ministers who relied on the old and sold the old in the court, Emperor Xuande was obviously more in love with the hard-working Li Yuntian, not only there was a friendship between the two monarchs and ministers, but also Emperor Xuande rushed from Nanjing to Beijing on the way to the two of them were friends of life and death who had shared hardships, which was unmatched by the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, the concubines will retire first." Empress Sun knew that Li Yuntian had official business to discuss when she came to see Emperor Xuande this time, so she then bid farewell to Emperor Xuande and led Zhu Qizhen out of the imperial garden, with Song Dashan and Wang Zhen bowing and following behind.

"Your Majesty, after today's minister's investigation, it was found that the shape of the Imperial Court was not optimistic, and even between Lord Gu and Lord Chen, there was a disagreement." Li Yuntian and Emperor Xuande reported in a deep voice while strolling in the imperial garden.

Li Yuntian's statement here is very euphemistic, how could Emperor Xuande not know about the battle between the cabinet and the six ministries in the court, but as the son of heaven of the Ming Dynasty, this is exactly the scene he is happy to see, the more powerful the courtiers fight, the easier it is for him, the son of heaven, to control the situation in the court.

Since ancient times, the monarchy and the vassal power have been in a subtle wrestling state, the last thing the emperors of the previous dynasties want to see is the courtiers in a group of harmony, although it seems that the court and government are harmonious, in fact, it is not conducive to the emperor's control of the court, because the courtiers are easy to form a group to fight against the imperial power if there is no contradiction between each other.

Unless there were domineering emperors like Tang Taizong, Song Taizu, or Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle, who had a strong and arbitrary agenda, they could not suppress the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty at all, and even an emperor like Emperor Hongwu abolished the post of prime minister in order to consolidate the monarchy.

The reason why Emperor Xuande made such a big move in the Metropolitan Procuratorate was to balance the power of the cabinet and the six ministries, although the status of the cabinet was significantly improved after the Hongxi Dynasty, but it still could not stand shoulder to shoulder with the deep-rooted six ministries, so he took the Metropolitan Procuratorate and used the cabinet to suppress the six ministries.

It's just that now it seems that the shape of the Metropolitan Procuratorate has gotten out of control, and Emperor Xuande underestimated the cruelty of the power struggle between the cabinet and the six ministries, so he had to take measures to remedy it, and this task naturally fell on Li Yuntian's head.

After listening to Li Yuntian's proclamation, Emperor Xuande's brows suddenly frowned slightly, and he immediately became keenly aware that Gu Zuo's actions in the Metropolitan Procuratorate had aroused the dissatisfaction of the old-fashioned imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and if left unchecked, it was likely to cause a more severe conflict in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"Zhen Wuhou, what do you think should be done about the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate?" Frowning and pondering for a while, Emperor Xuande asked quietly.

In Emperor Xuande's view, the biggest difference between Li Yuntian and other courtiers is that he never gives himself a problem, and once he encounters a problem, he will come up with a solution, unlike those ministers in the court who have to make their own ideas when they encounter trouble, and cannot come up with effective countermeasures.

"Your Majesty, now the people of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are panicked and have no intention of doing government affairs, if they are left unchecked, it will inevitably cause chaos in the court." Li Yuntian pondered for a moment and replied with a solemn expression, the chaos in his mouth naturally refers to the fact that the cabinet and the six ministries attacked and dumped each other through the matter of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"I think it's time to put an end to this!" Emperor Xuande nodded when he heard this, and asked casually, "In your opinion, how to deal with the aftermath is the safest?" ”

"Your Majesty, if you want to settle this matter, you must make all parties happy and convinced." Li Yuntian already had a countermeasure in his heart, and replied in an orderly manner, "In the minister's opinion, Lord Gu's methods are too extreme, and some of his subordinates take the opportunity to do evil, so only by severely punishing those who take advantage of the opportunity to stir up trouble can the current predicament be resolved, which can not only knock the mountain and shock the tiger, but also appease the people." ”

"Making waves?" Emperor Xuande couldn't help but stop when he heard this, and looked at Li Yuntian with some surprise, he knew what Li Yuntian meant, because Gu Zuo's momentum in the Metropolitan Procuratorate was too strong, so he wanted to suppress him, so as to calm the anger and complaints of the old-fashioned imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and end the turmoil in the Metropolitan Procuratorate. But some don't understand what Li Yuntian means by "making waves".

"Your Majesty, the minister received the news, Lord Gu's subordinates seem to be a little flamboyant in the Imperial Procuratorate, and the specific matters are being investigated, and they will report to the emperor after they are investigated."

Li Yuntian said that the person who made waves was Niu Fei, and based on experience, he felt that Niu Fei was not that kind person, otherwise he would not have forced Ma An to a dead end, but he did not have conclusive evidence now, so he could not speak to Emperor Xuande.

"I'll leave this matter to you." Emperor Xuande bowed slightly when he heard this, if he were someone else, he would definitely fall into the well at this time, and Li Yuntian had never played with other people's rights and wrongs in front of him, and he spoke with detailed evidence, which made him very pleased.

"Obey." Li Yuntian bowed his hand to Emperor Xuande and replied in a deep voice.

"By the way, how much tax silver can I go to sea this time?" Emperor Xuande thought of something, so he raised his steps and asked seemingly casually as he walked, the sea in his mouth naturally referred to the second overseas trade organized by Li Yuntian in Jiaozhi.

Originally, Emperor Xuande really didn't take this overseas trade seriously, after all, according to the class ranking of farmers and businessmen, the social status of merchants was at the bottom of society, and it was a lowly occupation that was not earned for nothing, so Emperor Xuande naturally would not come into contact with commercial matters.

Emperor Xuande's views on commerce, especially overseas trade, mainly came from the tributary system dominated by the Ming government, and the Ming Dynasty in order to show the demeanor of the Celestial Empire and also understand that it was not easy for those vassal states to pay tribute once, so they usually gave those vassal states very favorable commercial conditions, and the emperor would give additional rewards, which has become a custom of the imperial court.

It is precisely because of this that overseas countries have flocked to the Ming Dynasty to pay tribute, in addition to admiring the prestige of the Ming Dynasty, the most important thing is the temptation of economic interests, so that there are many fake foreign envoys.

These tributary overseas missions consumed a huge amount of money in the Ming treasury, so much so that the Ming had to stipulate the period of tribute to the overseas tributary countries, or once every three years, or once every five years, or even once every ten years, and the number of missions was also limited.

Therefore, in Emperor Xuande's impression, overseas trade was a loss-making business, and when Li Yuntian asked for trade with the Nanyang countries to raise funds for the reconstruction of Jiaozhi, he did not think that Li Yuntian could make much money from it.

However, the actual result surprised Emperor Xuande, last year Li Yuntian asked people to send the tax silver handed over to Emperor Xuande for the first overseas trade to the capital, and the money and goods were as high as three million taels of silver, which was equivalent to a year's income from the treasury of the Ming Dynasty.

To tell the truth, Emperor Xuande's inner treasury did not have much silver, when the rebellion of the Han King was quelled, the silver in the inner treasury had been taken out, and the three million taels of money and goods sent by Li Yuntian undoubtedly filled the inner treasury of Emperor Xuande, so that Emperor Xuande, who was shy in his pocket, had a silver tael in his hands that could be freely supported, so that he would no longer bargain with the officials of the household department there because of money matters.

Don't look at Emperor Xuande as the Son of Heaven, but if the household department insists that he has no money, he is helpless, even Emperor Yongle was hit by Xia Yuanji, who was the head of the household department at the time, because of the money and grain problem of the Northern Expedition to Mongolia, and finally sent Xia Yuanji to prison, not to mention the young Emperor Xuande, who was subject to many constraints by the household department when making the money and grain of the user department.

Three million taels is indeed a huge amount of silver taels, but it is not enough for Emperor Xuande, who sits on the world, after all, there are many places for the Ming Dynasty to spend money.

Therefore, Emperor Xuande was quite concerned about the second overseas trade and wanted to know how much tax could be collected from it this time.

"Your Majesty, the scale of this overseas trade is larger than the last time, and according to the minister's estimates, the value of all the goods should be around 20 million taels." Li Yuntian pondered for a moment and gave Emperor Xuande an answer.

"Twenty million taels!" Emperor Xuande's eyes couldn't help but light up when he heard this, which meant that there would be five million taels of income in the inner treasury, which had exceeded the tax revenue of the Ming Household Department for a year.

"Your Majesty, my Daming silver mine is scarce, the quality is not good, the minister in Jiaozhi to implement the spread into the mu after the silver will gradually become the main currency circulating in the local market, with the development of the Jiaozhi economy is bound to need a large amount of silver to maintain the market currency supply and demand, then the economy of Jiaozhi will be in trouble."

Li Yuntian saw that Emperor Xuande's face showed a hint of joy, so he lost no time in saying, "I heard that the overseas Inca Empire has rich silver mines and is of high quality, if it can be mined and made into finished products and shipped back to China, it will solve the hidden danger of insufficient silver." ”

"Oh? I'll leave this matter to you, if it can be done, it will make a great contribution to my Daming. Emperor Xuande didn't expect that the Inca Empire was rich in silver mines, so after thinking about it, he said to Li Yuntian with a smile.

It is worth mentioning that agricultural products such as peanuts and potatoes grown in the Jiangwutang military farm from the Inca Empire have now become royal tribute, and the next step will be to promote cultivation throughout the country.

Therefore, Emperor Xuande knew that the Inca Empire was a great power in the Americas, and it was not easy to mine silver ore there, and I am afraid that only Li Yuntian had this ability in the Manchu Dynasty.

"Obey the order!" Li Yuntian also laughed when he heard this, he didn't shirk it, and calmly took over this arduous task after surrendering his hand to Emperor Xuande, as if he had a good idea of this matter.