"What deer killed who's hand?" Lei Ting felt a little strange when she heard this, and looked sideways at Li Yuntian who was lying on the ground, not knowing what he was talking about. The update is the fastest and the fastest to the eye

"I heard my cousin say before that Wei Guogong has an opponent in the capital, and the two must have taken advantage of the emperor's northern expedition to fight fiercely, and the emperor must deal with this matter when he comes back.

Li Yuntian made up a reason in an instant, and explained to Lei Ting in an orderly manner, "As long as you do what you say, Lei Gang Master will definitely understand what it means." ”

"It's even affecting you now, and you can't go to the Ministry of Rites for the next few days." Lei Ting bowed slightly, and then looked at Li Yuntian apologetically.

Lei Xiaotian will definitely know about her escape at night, not only will he send someone to the nine gates of the capital to squat, but he will also let people go to the Ministry of Rites to find Li Yuntian's cousin, Li Yuntian's words to the Ministry of Rites will undoubtedly be self-defeating, and Lei Xiaotian's anger will not subside, and it is inevitable that he will take Li Yuntian out of anger.

"It's okay to be a few days late." Li Yuntian replied disapprehantly, anyway, the matter of the Ministry of Rites was made up by him, so of course he would not be in a hurry.

The room then fell silent, Li Yuntian and Lei Ting didn't know what to say, so they were thinking about their own thoughts, and the silence outside the window was quiet, and they could clearly hear the crisp sound of insects from the weeds in the courtyard.

Li Yuntian went out early the next morning, and when he came back, he not only had an extra beard on his face, but also held two coarse cloth shirts worn by ordinary people in his hands.

After the two changed into coarse cloth clothes, they went to a large compound in a civilian area, and Li Yuntian had already rented a room with Lei Ting in the courtyard in the name of husband and wife.

The landlord, an aunt in her 40s, declared to the neighbors that Li Yuntian and Lei Ting were her nephews and nieces and daughters-in-law, and that they had come to Beijing to find work.

In Li Yuntian's opinion, in addition to sending people to guard the nine gates of the capital, Lei Xiaotian will definitely send people to find out in the inns, small hotels and even big car shops in the city, so it is safest to live in the homes of residents.

In order to avoid suspicion from the people in the courtyard, Li Yuntian specially bought some bedding and daily necessities, cleaned up the small room briefly, and put on a posture of wanting to stay for a long time.

Lei Ting was surprised to find that the people in the courtyard were very enthusiastic, just like those sisters-in-law and aunts, chattering around her, praising her for being handsome, which made her a little overwhelmed.

Later, it was Li Yuntian who helped Lei Ting out of the siege and led her out on the pretext of going out to find work.

One of the biggest advantages of the compound is safety, there are people in the courtyard every day, and the relationship between neighbors is also very harmonious, so Li Yuntian can rest assured that he can put his burden in the room, and he can't run around the world with his burden.

After leaving the courtyard, Lei Ting asked a child to send the letter she wrote to Lei Xiaotian to the concierge of the Cao Gang in the Beijing Hall, hoping that Lei Xiaotian could calm the anger in his heart after seeing the letter, and at the same time report safety to Lei Xiaotian.

As the day of Yang Rong and Haishou's entry into Beijing approached, Li Yuntian noticed that there were more and more troops patrolling the streets, not only from Jingwei, but also with guards in bright armor.

The capital is divided into three cities from the inside to the outside, the innermost is the imperial palace, that is, the palace city, which is often referred to as the Forbidden City, followed by the imperial city, and the outermost is the capital.

Between the imperial city and the Forbidden City, there are temples, yamen, yamen, gardens, etc., which are inhabited by members of the royal family, such as the Zongren Mansion and the Royal Palace.

The area between the capital and the imperial city was a place where civil and military ministers and ordinary people lived, which is often referred to as the "capital".

The Imperial City and the Forbidden City were guarded by personal guards, while the capital city was guarded by the Jing Guard.

The guards patrolling the capital were clearly contrary to common sense and illustrated the seriousness of the situation, and the prince used this way to exert pressure on the nobles who supported the Han king, and at the same time to spy on the guards.

At the same time, the appearance of those guards also gave Li Yuntian a message: the ministers sent by Yang Rong and Jin Youzi to the capital to pass on the edict had not yet arrived in the suburbs of the capital, otherwise those guards on the street would definitely retreat to the imperial city.

If Li Yuntian's inference is correct, the crown prince and the king of Han will definitely fight a duel to the death in the suburbs of the capital around the ministers who came to pass on the edict, and the guards will inevitably guard the imperial city at that time, where will they still have the heart to wander around the capital.

Whether it is the crown prince or the king of Han, who can control the ministers who pass on the edict and hold the edict of Emperor Yongle, then no matter what the authenticity of the edict is, who can submit to the hundred officials, and then break the deadlock in the capital and inherit the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty.

Since the king of Han occupied an overwhelming advantage in the capital of Hebei, the prince had a chance of winning only if he attacked in the suburbs of the capital, and unexpectedly grabbed the edict and the minister who passed on the edict, and then sent it to the capital as quickly as possible.

This is a rare piece of good news for Li Yuntian, as long as the minister who sent the edict enters Beijing after the early court on August 25, then he will have the opportunity to help the crown prince ascend to the throne.

If the minister who came to deliver the edict was clever enough, he would have delayed his entry into Beijing after August 25, and no matter how bad it was, he would have to wait until the end of the early dynasty before entering the city.

The reason why August 25 is mentioned is because the period of the Yongle Emperor was basically "six days and one dynasty", that is to say, an early dynasty was held every six days, and officials above the fifth rank in Beijing had to enter the palace to participate in the court meeting.

If Li Yuntian sends the edict to the palace on that day, then he can help the prince ascend the throne, and when the raw rice is cooked into cooked rice, the king of Han will be helpless.

There is a big dynasty, and naturally there is a small dynasty, and in normal times, the emperor deals with affairs as a "small dynasty", that is, summoning officials from various ministries and courts to enter the palace to ask questions.

In ancient times, the early dynasties were not like those filmed in some film and television works, with only dozens of officials standing in a small palace to perform to the emperor.

Every time the emperor goes to court, at least thousands of civil and military officials are present, plus the corresponding ceremonial personnel and guards, etc., and the number of people attending the court meeting is usually one or two thousand.

Because there are many officials in the last court, therefore, the people who are fortunate to stand in the main hall are some high-ranking officials and dignitaries, and the remaining officials can only stand in the square outside the hall, looking at the black press, the scale is grand, and the scene is magnificent.

Don't think that those officials standing in the square can be unruly, the inspector of the Imperial Court will patrol the square back and forth, picketing the words and deeds of hundreds of officials, talking, moving, coughing, spitting, and even farting will be reprimanded.

If it rains and snows, those officials standing in the square will be unlucky, and they can only wear hats and robes next to each other in the rain and snow, except for the emperor's decree, they can leave, and the strict hierarchy can be seen.

If the emperor has to hold an early dynasty every day, then the officials above the fifth rank in the capital have no time to do anything else, they have to get up at four o'clock in the morning to wait outside the palace gate, and those who live far away have to get up at two or three o'clock.

Outside the palace gate, when the fifth watch was over, the palace gate was opened, and hundreds of civil and military officials lined up to enter the palace, and stood in the main hall and the square to wait for the emperor's driver.

By the time the officials of the various ministries and institutes finished their affairs and dispersed the court, it was usually already afternoon, which made the officials of the previous court have no time to deal with the affairs at hand, so wouldn't the official documents of the various ministries and courts be piled up?

Throughout the history of the Ming Dynasty, except for Emperor Hongwu and Emperor Yongle, who were able to go to the early dynasty on time, other emperors seemed to do whatever they wanted, and they wanted to go to the court, and they were exempt from the court if they didn't want to.

The most famous is Emperor Wanli, who has not been to the early dynasty for twenty-three years, which is much more comfortable than the emperors of the Qing Dynasty.

The emperor of the Qing Dynasty insisted on going to the court every day in view of the ancestral training, but in fact, there were also big dynasties and small dynasties, and it was impossible to get more than five civil and military officials in the capital to the palace every day.

The reason why the emperor of the Ming Dynasty was able to not go to court, but the Ming Dynasty was able to operate normally in an orderly manner, was due to one of the pioneering efforts of Emperor Hongwu - the cabinet.

The elders and officials of the cabinet submitted the processed pieces to the inner court every day, and the eunuchs of the inner court supervisors then reviewed those pieces on behalf of the emperor with a red pen, so that the cabinet and the inner court shared the emperor's duties.

After Lei Ting finished delivering the letter, Li Yuntian took her to a market, entered a grocery store and handed a pickup order to the boss behind the counter.

The boss glanced at the pick-up list and handed a bag to Li Yuntian, Li Yuntian opened it and saw that it was a set of official uniforms of the sixth grade, and there was also a small copper seal similar in shape and size to his supervision imperial history seal, and a small piece of bright yellow ribbon.

After checking the contents inside, Li Yuntian tied his baggage and left silently with Lei Ting, who looked surprised.

"Do you know that buying and selling official uniforms privately is a big crime!" When she arrived at a secluded place in the bazaar, Lei Ting stopped and whispered suspiciously.

"I won't hide it from you now." Li Yuntian knew that he couldn't hide the matter of the official uniform from Lei Ting, so he looked at her seriously, "If I can't report to the Ministry of Rites the day after tomorrow, then I will lose the qualification to replace my cousin as a scribe, your father will definitely send someone to guard the Ministry of Rites or the gate of the Imperial City, if I go, I will definitely be arrested by him, so I made this decision." ”

"Why didn't you sue me earlier, if you sue me earlier, I wouldn't have dragged you into the water." Lei Ting was slightly stunned when she heard this, then stomped her foot and said urgently.

She now understands why Li Yuntian couldn't sleep last night, it turned out that she was worried about the errand of the Ministry of Rites, although the Ministry of Rites is a Qingshui Yamen, but it is also one of the six departments of Daming Hall, and it is not easy to enter the errand inside.

"It's okay, as long as I can enter the Ministry of Rites and go through the entry procedures, then the Lei Gang Master can't do anything about me." Looking at Lei Ting, who looked anxious, Li Yuntian smiled and comforted her.

In any case, he returned Lei Ting's favor, and at the same time prevented Lei Xiaotian from defecting to Wei Guogong, which can be regarded as doing something meaningful, preventing the Cao Gang from falling into turmoil, and then affecting the luck of the Ming Dynasty.

Lei Ting was a little relieved and followed Li Yuntian to the vegetable market in the market.

Li Yuntian found a vegetable vendor in the vegetable market who specially delivered vegetables to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites, and gave him two taels of silver, indicating that he had come from the countryside and wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to deliver vegetables to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites to see the world.

Seeing Li Yuntian's honest appearance, the vegetable seller agreed after checking the broken silver in his hand, he had seen a lot of rural buns like this before, and warned Li Yuntian not to run around after entering the Ministry of Rites, but to follow him closely, otherwise it would be troublesome if something happened, Li Yuntian only responded.

Originally, Li Yuntian planned to follow the vegetable vendor into the Ministry of Rites, and then change into official clothes at the Yamen of the Ministry of Rites, go straight to the palace to see the prince, and read the edict of Emperor Yongle in front of the Manchu Dynasty civil and military, and then settle the matter in one fell swoop.

However, what he didn't expect was that Lei Ting was also clamoring to go with him, she was worried that Li Yuntian would be mistaken by Lei Xiaotian's people to avoid Li Yuntian's future, and she could relieve him at that time.

Li Yuntian knew that Lei Ting had good intentions, and seeing her resolute attitude, he had to agree to her, with Lei Ting's cover, it was undoubtedly easier to avoid the eyes and ears of King Han, and after the completion of the work, he could also give Lei Ting a great fortune. One