The beginning of autumn has long passed, God still breathes a fiery breath, and the air is hot and sticky, which makes people extremely uncomfortable. Because the palace is newly built, the trees are not lush and lush, and the blazing sunlight casts down unobscured, making people feel even hotter and hotter.

Without outsiders to disturb her, Ma Xiuying would never wear heavy and cumbersome queen clothes, only wearing an ordinary woman's robe, hiding in a ventilated room, leaning on the soft couch and quietly listening to Xunying read history books. A cup of tea, a book, and the occasional nap are her best pastime in the afternoon.

It's a pity that today's good times didn't last long, and the tea brewed by Xun Ying had not yet cooled, and there were palace people who passed it on, and Song Lian asked to see him.

Under normal circumstances, foreign ministers are not allowed to enter and leave the harem, because Song Lian is responsible for teaching the prince to learn and handle the prince's wedding, and Zhu Yuanzhang allows him to walk in the palace.

Ma Xiuying asked someone to lead Song Lian into the hall, changed into Yanju crown clothes, and came out, "Bachelor Song has been waiting for a long time, why is this coming?"

Song Lian was wearing a black gauze hat and a unicorn robe, Xu was in a hurry, and the black gauze hat was slightly crooked, revealing a half-white bun. The bright red robe was faintly oozing some sweat stains on his body, and there were a few fallen leaves on it. The beard is also not as neat and supple as it used to be, but is glued into small handfuls. When he saw Ma Xiuying, he seemed to be relieved, his rickety body immediately straightened, knelt down and said, "Please save General Fei and General Zhou." ”

"What happened?" Ma Xiuying saw that he looked anxious and sweating profusely, and hurriedly asked the palace people to help him get up and watch his seat and bring tea.

Song Lian was in the mood to taste tea, stood up and didn't sit on the chair, and said hurriedly: "Today, General Fei and General Zhou in the court confronted the emperor and reprimanded the emperor for being unfair, and the emperor was furious and beat the two generals on the spot. The two generals were not satisfied, which angered the emperor again, and the emperor had ordered someone to escort the two generals back to their homes to reflect behind closed doors. The teacher was afraid that the emperor's impulse would cause an uncontrollable situation, so he asked the student to ask the queen to persuade the emperor. ”

"The harem is not allowed to interfere in politics, and it is inconvenient for the palace to come forward. Ma Xiuying was slightly embarrassed. I thought Song Lian was here for Zhu Biao's business, but I didn't expect it to be for the court. Last time, she had taken a great risk to help Tang He intercede, and she was hung by Zhu Yuanzhang for a few hours before she was able to meet her, which shows Zhu Yuanzhang's determination to let her interfere in political affairs. For this matter, Guo Hui almost framed her and Tang He, to be honest, she doesn't want to wade into these troubled waters at all now.

Song Lian frowned and frowned, and repeatedly said, "Now that hundreds of officials are rumoring and people's hearts are fluctuating, if we allow the situation to develop, I am afraid it will shake the foundation of our dynasty." Only the queen can listen to the words of the queen, please let the queen mother be informal, and focus on the society. ”

"You go through the details, and we'll think about what to do. Ma Xiuying groaned slightly, but decided to help, it was a matter of Daming Sheji, it was not her nature to stand by and watch, she didn't know it, and she couldn't be indifferent when others asked for it.

Song Lian sighed, and his thin face showed a sad and melancholy look, "Today's court court, the emperor has appointed six officials......

It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang had on the one hand rectified the rule of officials and restored economic production, and on the other hand, he continued to complete the great cause of unifying the whole country. He knows very well that it depends on military generals to fight the country and rule the world by civil ministers, and he is afraid that the military generals will be highly meritorious, so he wants to take back the military power from those heroes who have experienced a hundred battles. Just because the north has not yet been pacified, and there are other rebel armies in the south, it is inconvenient to withdraw the troops for a while, so they have to drag it all the time, but gradually they began to emphasize literature and light force in the court.

The disposal of Xu Da's wife Zhang and Tang He was a sign that Zhu Yuanzhang was ready to use military generals, which caused panic and dissatisfaction among military generals, and the generals were unwilling to sit still, and they rushed to echo and attack civil officials.

Most of the military generals and heroes were Huaixi people who followed Zhu Yuanzhang to fight the world first, Hu Weiyong took the opportunity to win over many Huaixi military generals, and the Huaixi ministers headed by Li Shanchang often had disputes with Jiangnan civil officials in the court, and the struggle between the two factions became more and more intense.

As mentioned earlier, the civil and military officials impeached each other in the imperial study piled up a mountain, Zhu Yuanzhang left these recitals in the middle of the book, and decreed that Chang Yuchun's daughter be the crown princess, just when the military generals thought that he had the heart to tie over the military general group, he also named the daughter of Lu Ben, the secretary of Taichang Temple, as the prince Liangdi. This balancing technique was not played well, the civilian officials were at ease, but the generals were even more angry, and some generals simply responded passively.

Zhu Yuanzhang's character is to eat soft rather than hard, and the more generals are like this, the more angry he becomes, and he warned and reprimanded a group of generals who were passive in response to the war. For example, Fei Ju, who went to the northwest to recruit the remnants of the Yuan army and returned in vain, and Lu Zhongheng, who pacified the military and civilians of Suzhou Prefecture but did nothing, even demoted some military generals.

Zhou Dexing, Zheng Yuchun, Fei Ju, Lu Zhongheng and others are all old friends for more than ten years, and when they saw their friends being trained and degraded, they were unconvinced, and they wanted to ask Zhu Yuanzhang for an explanation at that time, but they were finally persuaded by Tang He.

The situation did not end there. By the middle of August, the Zhongshu Province invited the establishment of six departments: officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, and the ministry set up Shangshu, Shilang, Langzhong, Yuanwailang, and the director.

Zhu Yuanzhang allowed him to play, summoned the ministers in the Fengtian Palace, discussed the affairs that the six departments should be in charge of, set up the Zhongshu Commander-in-Chief of the six departments, and selected officials from among the ministers to appoint the officials of the six departments, and announced their official positions today.

This was originally a decision for the benefit of the country and the people, but the bad thing was that most of the officials of the six ministries appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang were civilian officials, and there were few military generals, especially the military department, which also installed many civilian officials by him, which led to the indignation of the military generals finally broke out.

Because at the beginning of August last year, Xu Da led a large army to capture Dadu, drove away Emperor Yuan Shun, and destroyed the Yuan Dynasty. Unexpectedly, Zhu Yuanzhang's obvious bias and unfair rewards when appointing the officials of the six ministries suddenly drenched the enthusiastic generals with a cold heart like a basin of ice water.

The military generals who had been resentful for a long time were noisy in court, and Fei Ju and Zhou Dexing, who had an upright temperament, bluntly said that Zhu Yuanzhang was unfair, and whether they were hiding their bows.

This remark violated Zhu Yuanzhang's taboo, and he suddenly became angry and ordered the two of them.

The two were dissatisfied and resigned, and their words were quite intense.

Zhu Yuanzhang was unwilling to be threatened, so he took off the official uniforms of the two of them and ordered the two to reflect behind closed doors.

Other officials' pleas for the two generals were also rejected by Zhu Yuanzhang. The rabbit died and the fox was sad, although the ministers did not dare to say more, they inevitably gave birth to a trace of dissent and sighed about their future fate.

After leaving the court, Hu Weiyong deliberately guided the Huaixi military generals who did not dare to accuse Zhu Yuanzhang to point the finger at the civil officials in Jiangnan and vent their anger at the other party.

The generals surrounded the civil officials and scolded them for bewitching Zhu Yuanzhang, if it wasn't for the palace, I'm afraid these people would have fisted each other. But although they didn't do it, they already had a tendency to be incompatible with each other. Liu Ji was worried that in the long run, the monarch and the ministers would be discordant, and the officials would be overturned, which would affect the stability of the imperial court, so he specially called Song Lian to ask Ma Xiuying for help to resolve this grievance.