"The queen mother, a little Shu Jishi even dared to talk about the important ministers of the court, and specially selected the emperor when he was seriously ill, so that the emperor became suspicious of the prince of Zhenguo, from this point of view, this person is definitely not simple, either a loyal minister or a traitor!"

When Jin Ying told what happened, King Yue listened silently on the side, and saw that Empress Dowager Zhang was quite shocked by Fang Liang's matter, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but flash a smug smile that was not easy to detect, and then her face turned pale, frowning and judging Fang Liang.

"Queen Mother, the slave also thinks that Fang Jinshi is a bit evil, and he was able to complete those two cases one after another to frame Zhenguo Gong, if it weren't for Zhen Guogong's unparalleled strategy, I'm afraid he would have already become a ghost under the knife!" Jin Ying hesitated for a moment when she heard this, and bowed cautiously and said.

To tell the truth, Jin Ying despised a villain like Fang Liang who secretly hurt people behind his back, and went to great lengths to frame Li Yuntian regardless of the safety of Daming for his own selfish interests.

Moreover, he was very surprised that Fang Liang could plan those two cases so perfectly, although he helped Fang Liang a lot on the orders of Emperor Xuande, but those witnesses who framed Li Yuntian were all found by Fang Liang, Fang Liang was just a Ji Ji Shi with no foundation, where could he have such ability?

Therefore, Jin Ying privately suspected that Fang Liang's background was not simple, and there must be a force in the court standing behind him, which meant that he had an ulterior motive in advising Emperor Xuande to be careful of Li Yuntian.

For this reason, Jin Ying asked Wang Jin to send a fan from Dongchang to secretly check on Fang Liang, but unfortunately found nothing, Fang Liang covered it up well and did not show the slightest flaw.

Jin Ying's only gain was that during the two court trials of Li Yuntian in the Gyeonggi Governor's Palace, Fang Liang was drinking tea with an unknown middle-aged man with an unknown appearance in a teahouse outside the south gate of the imperial city.

Dongchang's fan followed the middle-aged man, but he didn't think that the middle-aged man was not only alert but also acting strangely, and he threw the person who was following him away in three or two clicks, which made Dongchang unable to know the identity of the other party.

Jin Ying was sure that the middle-aged man was the person behind Fang Liang's forces that connected with him, as long as he caught that middle-aged man, he would be able to find out the details of Fang Liang.

In Jin Ying's view, the reason why the forces behind Fang Liang wanted to get rid of Li Yuntian was undoubtedly to control the government, which was a scene that the eunuchs in the inner court absolutely did not want to see.

Originally, when they learned that Li Yuntian was buried in the fire of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion, Jin Ying and other eunuchs in the inner court were quite depressed about this, but who would have thought that Li Yuntian would have escaped, so the inner court headed by Jin Ying is now equivalent to Li Yuntian's allies.

Since this is the case, Jin Ying naturally wants to find an opportunity to "stab" Fang Liang in front of Empress Dowager Zhang, Fang Liang is Li Yuntian's enemy, so he is also his enemy.

"Who is this Fang Liang?" Empress Dowager Zhang saw that Jin Ying was suspicious of Fang Liang's motives, so she asked quietly after a deep sigh.

"Empress Dowager, this person is not only brilliant, but also long-sleeved and good at dancing, left and right, plus his behavior is similar to that of Zhenguo Gong, so he is deeply favored by the emperor." Jin Ying bowed to Empress Dowager Zhang and replied with some regret, "The slave privately asked Dongchang to check on him, but unfortunately he found nothing." ”

"Chief Jin, do you mean that Fang Liang is deliberately imitating the Duke of Zhenguo?" King Yue frowned when he heard this, and asked with some surprise, if it wasn't for Fang Liang imitating Li Yuntian, how could he be treated differently by Emperor Xuande?

"Lord Wang, the miscellaneous family also thinks so, the merchant Yang Fu in the Bafang Warehouse Musket case is holding the letter of commitment used to frame Zhen Guogong and those counter-letters are all from Fang Liang's hand." Jin Ying nodded when she heard this, and said something else.

Fang Liang once told Emperor Xuande about the case of the arquebus in the Bafang Warehouse, and according to what he said, the letter of commitment written by Yang Fu in his hand was said to be written by Li Yuntian, and he forged it in imitation of Li Yuntian's handwriting, and Jin Ying was the first time that he was such a powerful master of imitation.

In Jin Ying's view, the biggest difficulty in imitation is not the likeness but the likeness, the likeness can only be fooled by those laymen, and the likeness is the key, Fang Liangneng has Li Yuntian's font is ninety percent godlike, which is already quite powerful.

"Queen Mother, it seems that Fang Liang came prepared, I don't know what his purpose is." With Jin Ying's corroboration, King Yue was overjoyed, so that the suspicion on Fang Liang's body could not be cleared, which was exactly what he wanted to see, and then looked at Empress Dowager Zhang with concern.

"No matter what his purpose is, we must find out his details!" Empress Dowager Zhang was a little upset at this time, and said expressionlessly, Emperor Xuande had just passed away and this kind of upsetting thing happened, which really made her feel uneasy.

"Queen Mother, the sons can guess Fang Liang's purpose." King Yue pondered for a moment when he heard this, and said tentatively, "Zhenguo Gong is both civil and military and the prince's teacher, and the prince will definitely rely on Zhenguo Gong to govern the court in the future, and once Zhenguo Gong has an accident, then the balance of power in the court will be broken, and the courtiers are worried that the courtiers will take advantage of the prince's young age!" ”

King Yue's meaning is very clear, after the crown prince ascends the throne, it will be the weakest time for the monarch's power, Li Yuntian not only occupies a high position in the Wenchen group and the Xungui group, but also has a good popularity, coupled with his loyalty to the prince, if he reconciles with it, he can alleviate the contradiction between the monarch and the ministers, and ensure that the prince can control the overall situation instead of being at the mercy of the courtiers.

Now that Li Yuntian died inexplicably in the fire of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion, then the most benefited from it is the courtiers who mourned in the main hall of the Qianqing Palace.

Empress Dowager Zhang's eyebrows were tightly furrowed, King Yue's worries were exactly what she was worried about, don't look at Emperor Xuande's appointment of twelve auxiliary ministers, which seemed to balance the political situation in the court, but there was one thing that could not be changed, that is, the natural opposition between the monarch and the minister.

Therefore, the twelve auxiliary ministers must also take into account the interests of their respective camps while being loyal to the crown prince, and none of the auxiliary ministers are alone in the court, otherwise they will not be able to gain a foothold in the court, which means that they must represent the princely power to challenge the monarchy in order to seek more rights and interests.

In the imperial court, Li Yuntian can be described as a maverick person, from his entry into the military can be seen from his military and stick to the traditional form, and he focused on the frontier of the Ming Dynasty, opening up territory for the Ming Dynasty, guarding the border and defending the people, rarely involved in the struggle for power among all parties in the court.

What particularly made Empress Dowager Zhang appreciate was that Li Yuntian never abused power, even in the Jiangwutang and Xiaowu Army, there were many personnel from external camp forces, such as Jiangwutang absorbed the princes and nobles of the imperial court, and the senior generals of the Xiaowu Army were appointed by Emperor Xuande, this measure actually formed a great constraint on Li Yuntian, ensuring that Emperor Xuande controlled the Wutang and Xiaowu Army, and also made him less restrictive.

In Empress Dowager Zhang's view, Li Yuntian and the civil and military officials in the court had a completely different program of governance, Li Yuntian vigorously promoted the new policy in the Jiangwutang and the border areas, while the ministers of the court and the central government were still conservative, and there was an essential difference in the interests of the two sides.

This means that the two sides will be in a situation of complementarity and mutual restraint for a long time to come, which is undoubtedly good news for the crown prince.

As King Tongyue said, Li Yuntian's death upset the balance of the two largest forces in the court, and caused the officials of the five prefectures and six departments in the court to lose the greatest constraints, which was especially unfavorable to the young prince.

Empress Dowager Zhang thought of Yang Shiqi and Yang Pu, the two were the old ministers of the East Palace during the period when Emperor Hong Xi served as the crown prince, and they were her most trusted ministers, but even if the two were loyal, they had to take into account the feelings of their subordinates, and it was impossible to do anything that harmed the interests of the ministers, otherwise they would definitely be isolated.

This made the Empress Dowager Zhang a little dilemma for a while, and she didn't know how to deal with the current grim situation, as a person in the harem, she couldn't go against the ancestral teachings of Ming Taizu to interfere in the government, otherwise she could listen to the government like the Empress Dowager Cixi in the Qing Dynasty.

In contemplation, Empress Dowager Zhang's eyes couldn't help but fall on King Yue and Jin Ying, she wanted to give the prince a new boost in the court, so she could only rely on the royal family and the inner court.

However, Empress Dowager Zhang has many concerns about this, the ancestral system that Ming Taizu has clearly determined prohibits eunuchs from interfering in politics, and now the iron card prohibiting eunuchs from interfering in politics is still hanging in the harem, as the lord of the harem, she knows better than anyone the danger of eunuchs interfering in court politics, and it will definitely bring disaster to the country and the people in the long run.

Moreover, the eunuchs had to rely on the imperial power to make a difference, and the crown prince was too young to provide him with shelter, and the Empress Dowager Zhang was not easy to interfere in the affairs of the court, which made Jin Ying unable to compete with the courtiers.

The imperial family was also forbidden to engage in politics by Ming Taizu, and all of them were supported by the state, so a prince like King Yue was just an idle prince in the final analysis, and there was some trouble if he wanted to use the royal family to assist the prince.

Even so, the difficulties faced by the royal family are much smaller than those faced by the eunuchs, after all, the royal family has a noble status, even if they enter politics, there will be a lot less resistance, and the royal families of the previous dynasties can participate in politics, and there are precedents to follow.

"Let Dongchang quickly find out the details of Fang Liang, and we must find out who is behind him." Empress Dowager Zhang was full of thoughts, and after pondering for a while, she made up her mind, and said to Jin Ying in a deep voice, she was very curious about who was secretly making trouble.

"The minions obey." Jin Ying bowed to Empress Dowager Zhang when she heard this, and secretly rejoiced in her heart, this good day was over.

After instructing Jin Ying, Empress Dowager Zhang led Jin Ying and King Yue to the main hall, and King Yue knelt down in public to persuade the prince to mourn, showing his loyalty with practical actions.

Subsequently, Empress Dowager Zhang officially announced that King Yue returned to Beijing this time to receive her edict, so that he could come to the capital to see Emperor Xuande for the last time, and he had fulfilled his brotherly feelings.

In this way, King Yue returned to the capital openly, and no one could catch his handle of "returning to Beijing without authorization".

The ministers at the scene have been up and down in the sea for many years, and naturally they can see at a glance that this is an excuse for the Empress Dowager Zhang to return to Beijing without authorization, and it is obvious that the Empress Dowager Zhang was shocked by the sudden appearance of the King of Yue, otherwise she would not have hurried to check with Empress Sun and the prince.

King Yue is the concubine of Empress Dowager Zhang, and it is understandable for Empress Dowager Zhang to let King Yue come to see Emperor Xuande for the last time, so no one will deliberately care about this matter.

Moreover, Empress Dowager Zhang's attitude towards King Yue's return to Beijing has inadvertently affected the mood of the courtiers, making the hearts of the ministers about King Yue ripple.