Li Yuntian stayed in the capital for a total of more than 20 days, in addition to all kinds of entertainment in the capital, there is another important thing that has to be said, that is, Zhou Yuting entered the palace to greet the queen. It is recommended to read novels and read books quickly

Although Li Yuntian is Zhou Yuting's husband, he is only a small Zhengqipin Zhixian County, so naturally he can't enter the palace, so he has to wait outside the palace gate honestly, and he waited outside for a whole day, and Zhou Yuting came out of it in the evening.

Along with Zhou Yuting, there were also gifts held by several chamberlains, which were given to Zhou Yuting by Emperor Yongle and the Empress.

Only then did Li Yuntian know that when the queen held a banquet in the evening and went to the palace with Zhou Yuting to invite several noble daughters of Jing Nanxun, Emperor Yongle made a rare appearance and asked Zhou Yuting and others about some family matters.

Unlike Ming Taizu, he has always treated those nobles who followed Emperor Yongle Jingnan, which made the five mansions in the capital firmly suppress the six departments.

The so-called five prefectures refer to the five military governors under the jurisdiction of the Ming nobles, namely the former military governor's mansion, the rear military governor's mansion, the Chinese military governor's mansion, the left army governor's mansion and the right army governor's mansion, commanding the Ming army in addition to the emperor's own army.

The six ministries are the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Industry, which are served by civil officials.

In order to control the army of the Ming Dynasty and avoid the phenomenon of centralization, Ming Taizu not only stipulated that the governors of the five armies were parallel to each other and not subordinate to each other, but also that each government was divided into left and right governors, which limited the military power in the hands of the left and right governors to the greatest extent.

Moreover, the Governor's Office of the Five Armies only has the right to command the troops, but not the right to transfer troops, and the right to transfer troops lies in the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of War exercises the emperor's will to transfer troops, which makes the Governor's Office of the Five Armies and the Ministry of War control each other.

The battle above the Ming Dynasty was the power struggle between the five prefectures and the six ministries, that is, the contest between the Xungui group and the civilian official group.

Emperor Yongle relied on those nobles who were difficult to get married, and naturally showed kindness to the nobles, which made the Xungui group firmly gain the upper hand in the wrestling with the civil official group.

It was the open and secret struggle between the Xungui group and the civil official group in the court that made the Yongle Emperor more firmly control the situation above the court.

On the contrary, if the civil and military officials in the court were united, then the imperial power would be severely challenged unprecedentedly, and the emperor's control over the officials would be weakened.

Just imagine, if the Manchu civil and military forces opposed the emperor's governance, wouldn't the emperor be in a state of isolation.

On the way home, Zhou Yuting excitedly told Li Yuntian that she had been with Emperor Yongle for a long time today, which made Emperor Yongle very happy.

Originally, Zhou Yuting began to talk to Emperor Yongle about the family affairs of the Houye Mansion, but later she didn't know why she talked about the cases handled by Li Yuntian in Hukou County and the matter of Yangzhou City's lesson to the Yamen of Lianghuai Salt Road, and Emperor Yongle listened with a smile and did not interrupt her.

Among those noble children, Zhou Yuting is the one who pleases Emperor Yongle the most, not only she has been dancing with knives and sticks since she was a child, and has the temperament of a heroine among women, but more importantly, she is hearty by nature, scheming, and has always been quick to talk.

Li Yuntian couldn't help but feel depressed when he heard this, although Zhou Yuting had no intention of talking about herself to Emperor Yongle, but in the eyes of others, she undoubtedly became her asking Emperor Yongle for her own credit, and the words that spread out would inevitably be gossiped about.

"The saint's body is getting weaker and weaker, and he used to laugh with confidence, but now he has to cough a few times from time to time." As she spoke, Zhou Yuting's face suddenly darkened.

"Life and death are fate, wealth is in the sky, and some things just go naturally." Li Yuntian stretched out his hand to hug Zhou Yuting and comforted her softly, if he remembered correctly, next year would be the year of Emperor Yongle's great trip.

"Do you know that the emperor originally wanted to marry me, but I didn't think that my father had already married me to you." Zhou Yuting leaned on Li Yuntian's chest and was silent for a while, smiled slightly, and said, "If my father is one step late, I'm afraid we won't be able to see each other." ”

"Which son's son is so lucky?" Li Yuntian couldn't help but move in his heart when he heard this, and asked with a smile quietly.

"The emperor didn't say it, he just mentioned it, and I was embarrassed to ask." Zhou Yuting shook her head slightly, and then chuckled, "Fortunately, the emperor didn't give me a marriage, otherwise, if I get into trouble in the future, I won't have a husband to help me deal with the aftermath." ”

", don't have money to live in a shop?" Li Yuntian smiled, and was just about to speak, when a man's scolding suddenly came from outside the carriage.

"This big brother, you can do it, you can give a few more days, and when you see my fourth brother, you will naturally have the money to pay for the room." Immediately, a man pleaded bitterly.

"Do you think our inn is a good hall?" The man who spoke earlier sneered and warned in a loud voice, "Get out, don't delay our inn business, or break your dog's legs." ”

Then, the man cursed and walked away, and the voice gradually faded away.

Li Yuntian opened the curtain and looked, only to see a young man with a burden on his shoulders in front of the inn on the street not far away, supporting a middle-aged woman, standing there with a sad brow, looking at a loss.

The two men were dressed in coarse cloth clothes with a few patches on them, and they looked like they were from poor families, and the middle-aged woman covered her mouth and coughed incessantly, as if she was sick.

If they can't find a place to stay, they will have to sleep on the streets at night, and if they are unlucky, they will be arrested and imprisoned by the soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses who patrol the city, and driven out of the city after dawn.

Even if they are not arrested and put in the prison of the Five Cities Terracotta Division, it is now February, and the capital is freezing cold, and the two of them will be frozen to death on the streets.

"Ask what's going on?" Li Yuntian's brows furrowed slightly, and he said to Li Manshan, who was following the carriage.

Although there are too many miserable things in the world, Li Yuntian can't manage them if he wants to, but now that he has encountered them, he can't ignore them.

Li Manshan quickly figured out the situation, it turned out that the mother and son were from the Daimyo Mansion of Beizhili, because the family's land was seized by a bully in the village a year ago.

The middle-aged woman's eldest son and third son were so angry that they got into a fight with the bully, injured the bully, and were sentenced to several years in prison by the county government.

The bully could not swallow the evil breath in his chest, so he let people burn down the middle-aged woman's home, and also made threats, the middle-aged woman and the second son were forced to be helpless, and had to come to the capital to join the fourth son who was a waiter in the palace.

Due to the poverty of the family, the middle-aged woman sold her trust to the capital when her fourth son was ten years old and became a domestic servant.

It is not easy to meet the palace attendants, you must first go to a department to register, and then wait for the time to meet.

The mother and son waited from the year to the new year, and sold everything they could sell, but there was still no news in the palace, and now they were penniless and were driven out by the guys at the inn.

The so-called dilapidated house rained overnight, and the middle-aged woman suffered from a cold a few days ago, which made the situation of the mother and son worse.

"Xianggong, they are quite pitiful, help them." After listening to Li Manshan's report, Zhou Yuting reached out and pulled the corner of Li Yuntian's clothes and said in a low voice.

"Give them a hundred taels of silver tickets." Li Yuntian groaned for a while, and commanded Li Manshan outside the window in a deep voice.

"One hundred taels?" Li Manshan was stunned, this money was too much, in his opinion, ten taels was enough.

"Let them buy a house in the courtyard of the city, and have a place to shelter from the wind and rain in the future." Li Yuntian bowed slightly to Li Manshan, and then lowered the curtains.

Li Manshan felt that Li Yuntian was not joking, and walked quickly towards the mother and son.

There are a lot of courtyard houses inhabited by civilians in the capital, because there are usually several families living in them, so they are also called miscellaneous courtyards, and a house in the miscellaneous courtyard is only fifty or sixty taels, one hundred taels is enough for the mother and son to buy a house to settle down, and the rest of the money can be used to make a small business or something.

"Xianggong, will a hundred taels be too much?" Zhou Yuting also felt that Li Yuntian's action was too generous, and asked suspiciously, although she sympathized with the mother and son, if she gave Li Yuntian such a method, the family would be emptied in a few years.

"I've heard that I've put a long line to catch big fish, and Xianggong is catching big fish." Li Yuntian smiled and hugged Zhou Yuting in his arms.

"Their mother and son are also big fish?" Zhou Yuting didn't understand what Li Yuntian meant, and asked suspiciously.

"Don't forget, they also have a fourth child in their family." Li Yuntian explained to Zhou Yuting with a smile, "If he knew that he had received such a great favor from us, he would definitely remember it in his heart." ”

"It's just an internal servant, and we don't need him to repay him!" Zhou Yuting felt that Li Yuntian seemed to look up to the fourth child too much, his mother and second brother hadn't seen him in the capital for so long, and they must not have mixed well in the palace, if it was a powerful chamberlain, how could it be so long to meet him?

Moreover, because the inner servant was purified and became neither male nor female, he was contemptuously called a "eunuch" by the civil and military officials, which shows that the low status of the servant could not help at all.

"Don't tell anyone about it." Li Yuntian saw that Zhou Yuting seemed to have some contempt for the inner servant, so he leaned into her ear and whispered, "The emperor and the crown prince are not in good health, once they die, then the imperial grandson will succeed to the throne, the imperial grandson is young, how can he control the civil and military relatives in the court who have been officials since the Taizu period?" ”

"Xianggong, are you saying that the imperial grandson wants to reuse the internal servants?" Zhou Yuting was taken aback when she heard this, and asked in amazement.

Although she didn't know why Li Yuntian said that the prince who was in the prime of life was not in good health, but since Li Yuntian said so, then there must be a reason for him.

If it is really as Li Yuntian expected, when the monarch is weak and the minister is strong, then the imperial grandson Shiyou Yankuai will reuse the inner servant, because that is the only person he can contact in the palace.

"Why don't you let the emperor's grandson reuse the inner servant." Li Yuntian nodded and said in a low voice, "Lady, have you forgotten Dongchang?" ”

Hearing the word "Dongchang", Zhou Yuting's eyes couldn't help but flash a surprised light, how could she forget about this matter. One