After leaving Wang Yucheng, Li Yuntian went to meet Chen Tianxun, the deputy imperial historian of the left capital, as the newly appointed imperial history of the left capital, visiting the officials of the imperial court of the imperial court was his first task after taking office.

It is worth mentioning that although Li Yuntian is the new Zhenwuhou, no one in the Metropolitan Procuratorate calls him "Hou Ye", the reason is very simple, Zhenwuhou is the knight of the Wuchen, and it is super in terms of grade.

According to the custom of Yongle in the early years, Bo Zhilu lived below the Hou, above the first product, and his rank was the same as the Hou, which is what people usually call the super product.

Gong, Hou, and Bo can be in charge of the five prefectures and the six armies, and the general will be the commander of the general seal, and he will have jurisdiction over Caogang, but he shall not pre-empt the affairs of the Nine Secretaries.

If Li Yuntian's civil service in the Metropolitan Procuratorate was to act in the capacity of a town commander, not only would his name be unjustifiable, but the officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate would have to salute him, which would undoubtedly disrupt the order of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Therefore, the imperial court also customized Li Yuntian's situation, that is, the theory of civil and military division, that is, Li Yuntian studied his post in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Hanlin Academy, and discussed martial arts in the military cabinet and the martial arts hall.

Unlike Wang Yucheng, Li Yuntian and Chen Tianxun had a very good personal relationship, so the atmosphere of the meeting was harmonious and the conversation was more casual.

"My lord, I heard that someone is going to jointly impeach the emperor of the Imperial History of Zuodu, I don't know what your Excellency thinks of this matter?" After greeting for a while, Li Yuntian turned around, looked at Chen Tianxun silently and asked.

"As soon as this incident comes out, I'm afraid that my Metropolitan Procuratorate will become a laughing stock for the outside world." Chen Tianxun shook his head with a wry smile when he heard this, with a depressed look on his face.

"What do you think of the current situation in the yamen?" Li Yuntian saw that Chen Tianxun's words looked a little helpless, and immediately keenly realized that he was dissatisfied with the current situation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so he opened his mouth to ask.

"People are panicked, the grass and trees are soldiers, and they have no intention of government affairs." Chen Tianxun pondered for a while, summarized the current situation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate with twelve points, and then looked at Li Yuntian with a smile, "Fusheng, you came to take office in a hurry, did you come for the current chaos?" ”

"The selection of the two capitals and the imperial history has not been achieved for a long time, and the emperor is worried, so he asked the lower officials to come to investigate." Li Yuntian knew that his purpose could not be concealed from Chen Tianxun, and there was no need for him to conceal Chen Tianxun, so he smiled and bowed his hand to Chen Tianxun, "I hope that the Lord will help the officials." ”

"It is the official's duty to share the emperor's worries, and the official should help him." Chen Tianxun smiled and nodded when he heard this, and then frowned slightly, "I can't see that the two sides have a deep grudge now, and I'm afraid the entanglement is not so easy to resolve." ”

The two sides in his mouth naturally refer to the supervision of the imperial history of Gu Zuo's camp and the supervision of the imperial history of the camp of the officials of the Six Departments, Gu Zuo has successively organized more than thirty disciples of the Six Departments of the Sect, and now they are still pressing step by step, and the officials of the Six Departments will definitely not give up.

"Lord Zuodu Yushi acted a little hastily, and his methods were too upright, the Imperial Court was the emperor's eyes and ears in the court, and once there was chaos, the emperor's hearing and hearing would be blocked, which was contrary to the emperor's original intention of thoroughly investigating Liu Guan."

Li Yuntian naturally knew this, otherwise how could Gu Zuo be jointly impeached by the imperial historians? Therefore, after pondering for a while, he euphemistically pointed out the mistakes made by Gu Zuo after he took office as the imperial history of Zuodu.

"Lord Gu's original intention to rectify the rule of officials is good, and it is also to share the emperor's worries, but it's a pity that it is too much, and he didn't grasp the heat well." Chen Tianxun bowed slightly when he heard this, agreeing with what Li Yuntian said, and was also dissatisfied with Gu Zuo's actions in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

It was precisely because he did not agree with Gu Zuo's practice of chasing and beating hard, after helping Gu Zuo grasp a large amount of evidence of Liu Guan's violations of law and discipline, Chen Tianxun did not intervene in Gu Zuo's investigation of the imperial history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, thinking that Gu Zuo's methods were too radical.

With Gu Zuo's removal and replacement of more than 30 imperial histories, not only the imperial histories of the six camps, but even the imperial histories of the cabinet camp were dissatisfied with him.

There is a good saying, the lips are dead and the teeth are cold, the rabbit is dead and the fox is sad, although there are fights between the imperial history of the six camps of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the cabinet camp, but everyone usually does not play ruthlessly, and there is room for maneuver between each other, so that the fish will not die and the net will be broken, and both sides will lose.

Now, the imperial history of the six camps has been unlucky, as colleagues who used to work together, the imperial history of the cabinet camp is extremely complicated, although this is a good thing for them, it will greatly weaken the power of the imperial history of the six camps of the Imperial Procuratorate, but no one wants to see them profit in such a form.

In the final analysis, the imperial historian is also a member of the scholar class, in the eyes of the imperial historians, they have a transcendent status in the officialdom, and now they have been eliminated by Gu Zuo more than 30 people at once, which will undoubtedly make them feel that their interests have been touched.

To put it mildly, the imperial historians usually beg for a living in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, if there are so many problems in the imperial history of the six camps, then how can the imperial history of the cabinet camp be left alone?

Now Gu Zuo is in power in the Imperial Procuratorate, but if one day there is a Zuodu Imperial History of the Six Departments, then there is a chance that the Imperial History of the Cabinet Camp will be overturned, and they will be unlucky at that time.

What is particularly important is that Chen Tianxun, including Chen Tianxun, was very dissatisfied with Gu Zuo's recommendation of those officials who were not from the two ranks of Jinshi to serve as the imperial historian, which undoubtedly undermined the noble and pure bloodline of the imperial history.

In the eyes of the imperial historians, because the imperial history has the heavy responsibility of supervising hundreds of officials, is the emperor's eyes and ears in the imperial court, and is the important position of the country, the position of imperial history can only be held by two Jinshi, and the rest have no such qualifications.

However, the appointment of the two Jinshi as the imperial history is an unwritten rule that began to form in the Yongle Dynasty, which can be described as an unspoken rule of the Imperial Procuratorate, and the imperial court has no custom for this.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with Gu Zuo recommending officials who are not from Jinshi to serve as imperial historians, but he has broken the unspoken rules of the Imperial Procuratorate for nearly twenty years, which will inevitably cause resistance from the imperial historians.

To this day, the only imperial histories that Gu Zuo can rely on in the Imperial Court are those he recommends, as well as a few imperial histories who are usually unwilling, and because of his maverick style, a gap has gradually arisen between the imperial history of the cabinet camp and him.

This is also the reason why when Li Yuntian entered the Imperial Palace, he saw Xie Heng and the other cabinet camp imperial histories and the six camp imperial histories together in the courtyard.

The imperial history of the cabinet camp and the six factions belong to the thirteen imperial histories, so many of them are colleagues who get along with each other day and night, so many small circles have been formed in the cabinet camp and the six camps.

For example, Li Yuntian is regarded as the leader of the cabinet camp in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but at the same time, he has a very good personal relationship with Han Liang, the superintendent of Huguang Province, who belongs to the Six Divisions camp.

It can be said that the relationship between the imperial historians of the Imperial Court is also intricate, and various circles are intertwined with each other, and there are layers of entanglements of interests between each other.

Compared with the new imperial histories recommended by Gu Zuo, the imperial histories of the cabinet camp and the six camps actually belong to a big circle, and this big circle is the old-school imperial history.

Although no one has admitted it, in fact, the Metropolitan Procuratorate has formed an invisible confrontation between the old and new imperial histories, and the reasons for this are complex, and a simple cabinet camp and the six camps can be clearly distinguished.

In other words, the imperial history in the Imperial Court is now divided into three factions, one is the six-department camp, one is the cabinet camp Gu Zuobu, and the other is the cabinet camp Chen Tianxun, which is probably something that no one expected in advance, which made Emperor Xuande a big headache.

The reason why Emperor Xuande vigorously rectified the rule of the Imperial Procuratorate was that in addition to Liu Guan's rampant corruption and the corruption of the imperial historians' lives, there was another important reason, that is, to take the opportunity to enhance the influence of the cabinet in the Imperial Procuratorate, so that it could compete with the six ministries in the Imperial Procuratorate.

This is also the reason why Emperor Xuande asked Gu Zuo to recommend officials to serve as imperial historians, Gu Zuo has a close relationship with Yang Shiqi and Yang Rong, and is a member of the cabinet camp, otherwise how could he have jumped from a general political envoy to the imperial history of the left capital? You must know that the officials of the six ministries and the senior officials of various ministries and academies in Nanjing are all staring at the position of Zuodu Yushi, and there are many people whose qualifications and titles are higher than Gu Zuo.

It's just that Gu Zuo's methods are too extreme, which makes the Metropolitan Procuratorate fall into a chaotic situation, and even the cabinet camp is divided, which is really beyond Emperor Xuande's expectations.

"My lord, the lower officials feel that the matter in the yamen should end here, and if they really have to fight to the death, it will not be beneficial to anyone." The main reason why Li Yuntian came to see Chen Tianxun this time was to test his views on the current situation of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, since Chen Tianxun was also quite dissatisfied with Gu Zuo, then he no longer concealed it, and directly put forward his views to Chen Tianxun.

"Now, this matter is beyond your control." Chen Tianxun bowed slightly when he heard this, agreed with what Li Yuntian said, and then said with a wry smile.

On the surface, the chaos in the Metropolitan Procuratorate was caused by Gu Zuo, but the root cause was a confrontation between the Cabinet and the Six Ministries, even if Gu Zuo wanted to stop this dispute in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it would be in vain if there was no nod from the Cabinet.

Obviously, the cabinet elders will not let go of such an opportunity to suppress the six ministries, although Gu Zuo's behavior in the Metropolitan Procuratorate to rectify the rule of officials has had a heavy impact on the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but in the eyes of the cabinet elders, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is just a pawn for them to deal with the Six Ministries, the purpose is to weaken the strength of the Six Ministries, and the chaos in the Metropolitan Procuratorate will subside in the future.

"The emperor is already dissatisfied with the affairs in our Imperial Court, and the lower officials think that this is just an opportunity to end." Li Yuntian knew that the key to the matter was still in the cabinet and the sixth ministry, so he pondered for a while, raised his head and said to Chen Tianxun.

"As long as you can end this dispute in the yamen, this official will definitely support you with all his might." Chen Tianxun immediately laughed when he heard this, he finally understood Li Yuntian's intention to come to see him, it turned out that he was asking for his help, and he also wanted to end the chaos in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so he agreed in one bite.

In Chen Tianxun's view, the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate can only be solved by Li Yuntian, Li Yuntian is not only Yang Shiqi's protégé, his remarks are more acceptable to Yang Shiqi, and more importantly, he is a celebrity in front of Emperor Xuande, and he can use Emperor Xuande to exert pressure on the cabinet.

"Thank you, sir." Li Yuntian also laughed, and said to Chen Tianxun, after getting Chen Tianxun's approval, his purpose of coming to meet Chen Tianxun this time has been successfully completed.

With the support of Chen Tianxun and Wang Yucheng, Li Yuntian's next move in the Metropolitan Procuratorate will undoubtedly be much smoother, and some things will be easier to unfold.