One night in mid-September, Li Yuntian, who was dressed in civilian clothes, saw off Lei Ting in a secluded tavern located deep in the streets. I'll tell you that the fastest update of the novel is the eye. Hurry?

At the wine table, Lei Ting looked very happy, chatting and laughing with Li Yuntian, drinking a lot of wine between the staggered drinks, and in the end, her cheeks were flushed, and she was already a little drunk.

When she went out, Lei Ting almost fell, but was helped by Li Yuntian on the side and helped her to a carriage parked in front of the store.

"When are you coming to see me in Huai'an?" Before getting into the car, Lei Ting suddenly turned around and looked at Li Yuntian with a smile.

"I'm not sure, if I have the opportunity to go to Jiangnan, I will definitely go to Huai'an to see you." Li Yuntian smiled slightly, before the Shujishi Pavilion was dissolved, he was afraid that it would be difficult for him to have the opportunity to go out of Beijing again.

"It's settled." Lei Ting flickered her long eyelashes a few times, and stretched out her little finger to Li Yuntian with a smile.

Li Yuntian laughed when he saw this, hooked up with Lei Ting, and confirmed this matter.

"How nice it would be if you really were a liar!" Then, Lei Ting threw herself into Li Yuntian's arms, hugged his waist tightly, and said quietly with her eyes closed.

Li Yuntian couldn't take it off guard, and it was not easy to push Lei Ting away, so he had to stand there with an embarrassed expression.

Seeing this, the two big men standing next to the car hurriedly twisted their heads to the side, the two of them had followed Lei Xiaotian for many years, and naturally knew the truth of ignoring indecency.

"Remember, don't forget to come and see me in the future." After a long time, Lei Ting let go of Li Yuntian, smashed Li Yuntian's chest with red eyes, turned around and got into the carriage and left.

Li Yuntian stared at the distant carriage with a stunned expression, shook his head helplessly, and a wry smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, it seems that he owes another debt this time, and it is the most difficult debt in the world to repay.

At the beginning of October, the 27-day national funeral ended, and the capital regained its former prosperity and hustle, and the sound of laughter in the silk and bamboo in ** continued all night again.

In the first court after the national funeral, Zhu Gaochi asked the chamberlain to read out several edicts, the so-called once a son of heaven and a courtier, of course, the new emperor must appoint his cronies, and the former ministers of the East Palace have been reused.

Two of the most important edicts are related to the Cabinet and the Gyeonggi Governor's Office:

Yang Shiqi was promoted to the rank of scholar of Huagai Hall and the head of the Ministry of Rites, replacing Yang Rong as the first assistant of the cabinet, which also marked that the cabinet officially became the center of power of the Ming Dynasty.

During the Hongwu and Yongle periods, although the cabinet was an important institution to assist the emperor in handling affairs, it had the power to make decisions, but it did not have the power to execute, and the implementation of various resolutions depended on the major ministries.

Since the cabinet scholars are not more than the rank of the fifth grade, and they have no subordinate relationship with the major ministries and institutes, they cannot suppress the officials of the major ministries and institutes in the capital, and the implementation of those decisions is usually discounted or even delayed. The update is the fastest and most stable

In order to avoid this situation, there are only two ways to solve the problem, one is to promote the cabinet scholar to the rank of official of the second rank.

However, the cabinet was created by Emperor Hongwu, and the rank of the cabinet scholars was also determined by Emperor Hongwu.

Therefore, Zhu Gaochi thought of a way, that is, to promote the posts of those scholars in the cabinet and grant them the substantive posts of various ministries and institutes, so that the cabinet has both decision-making power and administrative power, and its authority is growing day by day.

For example, Yang Rong was a scholar of the Jinshen Temple and a scholar of the Taichang Temple, Huang Huai was a scholar of the Wuyingdian University and a political envoy, and Jin Youzi was a scholar of the Wenyuan Pavilion and the right attendant of the household department, and all three of them had actual positions.

There is another person who has to be mentioned, this person is also a close minister of the East Palace when Zhu Gaochi served as the crown prince, he is Yang Pu, after Zhu Gaochi ascended the throne, he was released from the edict together with Huang Huai, and was promoted to a bachelor of Hanlin, and then took charge of Hongwen Pavilion, and was awarded the official Taichangqing.

However, it was not until Xuanzong succeeded to the throne and dismissed Hongwen Pavilion that Yang Pu was inspected into the cabinet and became a cabinet member.

The establishment of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office was really beyond everyone's expectations, and because it was in charge of Gyeonggi's defense, its status was above that of the Governor's Office of the Five Armies, with one Governor and two Deputy Governors.

Zhou Zheng's title was promoted by Zhu Gaochi by one level, from the Marquis of Zhongyong to the Duke of Zhongyong, and he served as the governor of the Gyeonggi Metropolitan Governor's Office, and at the same time resigned from the post of Zuodu Governor of the Left Army Governor's Office.

Lu Zhongqian and Zhao Shanhe served as the two deputy governors of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, assisting Zhou Zheng in handling matters related to the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, and both resigned from their posts in the Governor's Office of the Five Armies at the same time.

As for the vacancies left by the three of them in the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies after they left office, Zhu Gaochi selected reliable and stable people from among the nobles in the capital to fill them.

Knowing that he had become the deputy governor of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, Lu Zhongqian's face suddenly became a little ugly, Zhu Gaochi's move was obviously to rob him of his military power, not only made him lose control of the Jingwei, but also deprived him of his jurisdiction over the local capital.

As the saying goes, thunder, rain and dew are all emperors' favors, and Lu Zhongqian couldn't express his dissatisfaction in his heart, so he quietly followed Zhou Zheng and Zhao Shanhe out of class to thank Zhu Gaochi.

Although Lu Zhongqian had long thought that Zhu Gaochi would suppress him, he never expected that his attack would be so powerful, and the reason he was looking for would be so high-sounding.

The deputy governor of the Gyeonggi Governor's Mansion does sound quite bluffing, but with Zhou Zheng pressing on him, what can he do?

At this court meeting, those noble and important ministers were very low-key, and everyone knew that Zhu Gaochi had always been close to those civil ministers, so no one wanted to make trouble.

Since Emperor Yongle ascended the throne, Wenchen's momentum overwhelmed those nobles for the first time.

However, the harmony between Wenchen is not as the outside world thinks, because the national funeral of Emperor Yongle on the 27th has ended, so the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Lu Zhen wrote a book, asking Zhu Gaochi, who is still wearing filial piety clothes, to wear auspicious clothes.

Yang Shiqi objected to this, believing that although the national mourning has passed, the Ming Dynasty is based on filial piety, and in order to demonstrate Zhu Gaochi's filial piety, Zhu Gaochi should wear filial piety clothes for a few more days to fulfill his filial piety to Emperor Yongle.

Neither Lu Zhen nor Yang Shiqi could convince anyone, and in the end of the debate, they quarreled in court, which made the ministers in the hall also join the battle, and many ministers and officials such as Li Qing, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, supported Lu Zhen, and Huang Huai and other cabinet scholars naturally supported Yang Shiqi.

In the end, Shangshu Qianyi of the Ministry came out to play a round, taking into account the views of Lu Zhen and Yang Shiqi, which calmed down the controversy.

Li Yuntian, as the imperial historian on duty, witnessed the scene in front of him throughout the whole process, and he knew that the officials of the major ministries and institutes were absolutely unwilling to be suppressed by those scholars in the cabinet, and a power struggle between the cabinet and the officials of the major ministries and institutes had begun.

Although Li Yuntian declined Zhu Gaochi's reward, Zhu Gaochi rewarded him in another way, that is, to promote the title of Zhou Yuting to the first level, making her from the county lord of Yingrui to the lord of Yingrui, in order to show the emperor's grace.

After Zhou Zheng became the governor of the Gyeonggi Governor's Office, he immediately began to rectify the fifty Jingwei stationed inside and outside the capital.

Li Yuntian came up with an idea for Zhou Zheng to disperse the officers above the fifth rank in the Jingwei and distribute them to various troops, so as to disrupt the control of the army by various factions to the greatest extent, and also minimize the resistance of the officers, and then buy him valuable time to integrate the army.

Not only that, Li Yuntian also proposed that Zhou Zheng implement a martial arts evaluation system in the Gyeonggi Governor's Palace, rewarding those soldiers who had excellent results in the assessment, and punishing those who were bad in the assessment, so as to win the support of grassroots soldiers.

In mid-October, the Li family became lively, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou rushed to the capital from Baishui Town, and a large group of people lived in the mansion.

Li Yuntian saw his two sons and a daughter, both chubby, tiger-headed, and extremely cute.

The three little guys don't have names yet, Li Yuntian is the Yunzi generation in the Li family, and the next generation is the An generation, so Li Yuntian named Chen Ningning's son Li Anguo, the eldest son of the Li family, and Zheng Wanrou's son is Li Anmin, the second son of the Li family.

Since the girl did not have a requirement for seniority, Li Yuntian won Zheng Wanrou's opinion and named Zheng Wanrou's daughter Li Yuyao, the eldest daughter of the Li family.

Originally, Li Yuntian was still thinking with great interest about tasting the milky fragrance of the two when he went to Wushan Yankuai with Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou in the evening.

But it's a pity that Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou weaned the three little ones when they were 100 days old, and asked the nurse to feed the little ones, so now the two of them have no milk, which makes Li Yuntian feel a little interested.

The Kyushu Chamber of Commerce has now entered the track of rapid development, not only making a name for itself in the Jiangxi business community, but also opening up the market in the Huguang area, and opening branches in Wuchang and Changsha.

Of course, the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce can enter the market in the Huguang area smoothly, and it is naturally inseparable from Li Yuntian, the supervision of the imperial history of Huguang Province, and the officials of Huguang Province of all sizes must give the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce some face, otherwise, once the inspection of the imperial history is down, it will not be able to eat and go around.

Although it was not explicitly stated, Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou divided the market in the Huguang area into the Yangtze River, with Chen Ningning in charge of the area north of the Yangtze River in the Huguang area, and Zheng Wanrou in the area south of the Yangtze River, so as to avoid malicious competition between the Chen family and the Zheng family.

Chen Ningning and Zheng Wanrou are now full of energy, both want to beat each other in business, although the two are not members of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, but the members of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce are all looking forward to the two of them, and the two have gradually established a special status in the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce.

In addition to the Huguang market, the next target of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce is the most prosperous Nanzhili area in the Ming Dynasty, and the breakthrough point they chose is not Yangzhou, but Suzhou.

The reason is very simple, Yangzhou is a gathering place for businessmen from all over the world, Kyushu Chamber of Commerce has no foundation in Yangzhou, and no one can rely on it.

Suzhou is different, the prefect of Suzhou is the former Jiujiang prefect Yang Demin, who has a close relationship with Li Yuntian, and is also an old acquaintance with the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, and with his support, it will undoubtedly be much easier for the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce to enter the Suzhou business community.

Therefore, the next task of the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce is to take Wuchang Mansion, Changsha Mansion and Suzhou Mansion as the center to radiate influence outwards and start the name of Kyushu Chamber of Commerce.

The current magistrate of Hukou County is Qian Cheng, the former magistrate of Pengze County, and the reason why Qian Cheng can become the magistrate of Hukou County is because of Yang Demin's strong recommendation.

Although Qian Cheng's ability is limited, his biggest advantage is that he is self-aware, and he has a very good personal relationship with Li Yuntian, and he is relieved to have Li Yuntian in charge of Hukou County, and those previous administrations in Hukou County can be implemented. One