For Li Yuntian, Li Anmin and Zhao Ning'er's family affair was just a small episode, and he was busy with a lot of affairs when he returned to Beijing this time, in addition to arranging the affairs of the Wutang and the Metropolitan Procuratorate during the inspection of Nanyang and the Western Regions, he also had to maneuver between the inner court and the civil official group to reconcile the contradictions between the two sides.

Under Li Yuntian's appearance, the "urban construction tax" has won the approval of the civil and official clique, which does not mean that Li Yuntian's face is big enough, the key is that Li Yuntian is an expert in business, and the theory of competing with the people for profit is simply untenable in front of Li Yuntian.

However, the "urban construction tax" is not levied on all merchants, only merchants whose turnover reaches a certain standard are paid, in fact, it is mainly aimed at those wealthy merchants, and has no impact on small merchants and hawkers.

At the end of each year, the tax bureau will allocate half of the "urban construction tax" to the local yamen as funds for local construction.

It was through a series of bargaining and compromises that the storm of tax increases in the capital finally came to an end under Li Yuntian's watchful eyes, and both the inner court and the civilian clique were quite satisfied with this result.

Li Yuntian's return to the capital this time clearly felt the rapid expansion of the power of the inner court in the past two or three years, and taking the Metropolitan Procuratorate as an example, there has been a history of defecting to the inner court camp.

Speaking of which, Li Yuntian's Zuodu Imperial History is really incompetent, although he is the chief official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he has not been seen in the Metropolitan Procuratorate all year round, and the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are handled by several officials.

But Li Yuntian can't resign from this position, not to mention that he was born as a civil official and has always held the position of a civil official, and after resigning from the imperial history of Zuodu, there will be no suitable position for him in the imperial court, and the orthodox emperor needs to use Li Yuntian to deter civil and military officials, so he needs Li Yuntian to stay in this position.

In fact, according to his qualifications, Li Yuntian is now fully able to enter the cabinet, and in the next two years, he will replace Yang Pu as the first assistant of the cabinet, but it is a pity that Li Yuntian is not only the imperial history of the left capital, but also in charge of the lecture hall, and the affairs of the governor Jiaozhi and Guangxi, so he can only assist the cabinet in handling affairs as a scholar of Zuo Chunfang.

With Yang Pu's advanced age, the cabinet can be said to be leaderless, and the newly promoted auxiliary ministers cannot be compared with Yang Pu in terms of ability and seniority.

This is also something that can't be helped, the cabinet really played a role in the period of Emperor Xuande, and the outstanding ability of "Sanyang" made the cabinet quickly climb to a peak, and at this time it will inevitably be plagued by the disconnection of talents, which is the so-called prosperity and decline.

Fortunately, there is still Li Yuntian, a scholar of Zuo Chunfang who is not an auxiliary minister of the cabinet, and he will come to the cabinet after Yang Pu returns to his hometown, so that the cabinet will not be affected too much.

As the most important force in the capital, the inner court, in Li Yuntian's opinion, after all these years of secretly accumulating strength, its wings are now full, and it is enough to compete with the civil official group.

Among the four giants of the inner court, Wang Zhen, who is naturally in charge of the ceremonial supervisor, is the most prominent, although his ranking in the inner court is below Song Dashan, the head of internal affairs in the Forbidden City, but because Song Dashan is low-key, this makes him the face of the inner court.

The civil official group can be said to be contemptuous and jealous of Wang Zhen, despising Wang Zhen for being a eunuch who is sorry for his ancestors, and jealous of Wang Zhen's red power.

However, compared with history, Wang Zhen's authority has been reduced a lot, mainly because his power in the East Factory has been restricted by Lu Rong, the governor of the East Factory, and he cannot call the fans of the East Factory to act as he wants.

Lu Rong, as the deputy head of internal affairs in the Forbidden City and the eunuch Bingbi, the second eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, originally had a lot of power, and he was a fellow villager of the Empress Dowager Sun, so he fought very hard with Wang Zhen around Dongchang in the inner court.

After all, Lu Rong is the factory governor of the East Factory, and his strategy and scheming are not inferior to Wang Zhen, so after some competition, Wang Zhen gave up the dominance of the East Factory with interest, but he can also mobilize the people of the East Factory to act on weekdays, and Lu Rong still has to give Wang Zhen this little face.

Let Lu Rong balance Wang Zhen is a wonderful move played by Li Yuntian in the inner court, among the four giants of the inner court, Song Dashan, who ranks first, is a secret chess of Li Yuntian, and he will not be used unless he is a last resort, although Song Dashan usually acts low-key, but the people in the inner court are very jealous of him, you must know that he is the leader of all the eunuchs in the Forbidden City, once he is angry, the consequences are unimaginable.

As for Jin Ying, one of the four giants of the inner court, the so-called son of heaven and a courtier, since the death of Emperor Xuande, he has been in a state of "retreat", and he is more low-key than Song Dashan on weekdays, and he knows very well the truth of Mingzhe to protect himself, so as not to be hated by others.

Therefore, among the four giants of the inner court, the people who give the civil official group a headache are Wang Zhen and Lu Rong, Wang Zhen's red and Lu Rong's East Factory make the civil and military officials very jealous, which can be described as the two killers of the inner court.

Due to the rise of the inner court, the Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division, who also served the emperor, was inevitably suppressed, and the Jinyi Weibei Zhenfu Division's Fusi was suppressed Ma Shun and the deputy Zhenfu envoy Zhang Dazhang relied on Wang Zhen and Lu Rong respectively to sit on the current throne, so they naturally obeyed the inner court.

This made Li Yuntian feel very disappointed but helpless, after all, the eunuchs were closer to the emperor and more likely to be favored by the emperor.

However, there are also places where Dongchang and Jinyi Wei whips are out of reach, that is, the martial arts hall, which has served the emperor since its establishment, and it can be said that the royal forbidden army is a series of its own, and even those nobles of the Ming Dynasty can not be touched, and can be equipped with embroidered spring knives that can only be used by Jinyi Wei, and the dragon's grace can be seen.

In addition, the person in charge of the martial arts hall is Li Yuntian, so the people in the inner court are naturally afraid of three points, and whoever is full of food and supports will go to Li Yuntian for trouble, it is not asking for trouble.

What is particularly important is that the territory of Jiangwutang is not in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, it is a remote frontier area that some inner courts and civil official groups do not look down on, and there will naturally be no conflicts if there is no entanglement of interests.

In fact, Li Yuntian is going to inspect the Western Regions and the South Seas this time, and there is also the implication of avoiding the power struggle in the capital, and now that the inner court and the civil official group are in full swing, if he is in the capital, he will inevitably have to go to the maneuver, in that case, he must not be annoyed to death, where does he have time to care about those disputes that are cut and unorganized?

Therefore, he just took the opportunity to avoid these complicated affairs in the capital when he came back, and when he came back, it was the time of the Eastern Expedition to the Japanese State, and these disputes between the court and the Chinese government waited until the Japanese State was pacified, and then he freed up his hands to deal with them.

"Lord Wang, Yu Qianyu, the left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, came to pay a visit." A few days after Li Yuntian returned to the capital, he was dealing with the official documents in the public room of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in the afternoon, when a guard came in to make a report.

"Please." Li Yuntian felt a little strange, put down the official document in his hand and ordered in a deep voice, feeling a little strange in his heart, he only saw Yu Qian two days ago, but Yu Qian didn't show that something was wrong at that time, he didn't expect to visit today, I don't know what happened.

"Lord Wang, I'm disturbing your official business." Soon, Yu Qian was led into the door by the guards, and said to Li Yuntian with a smile.

"Tingyi, you're a rarity." Li Yuntian got up with a smile to greet him, and motioned for Yu Qian to sit down in the seat on the side, the two of them are Jinshi of the same department, so Li Yuntian will not put on the prince's shelf, in fact, he usually doesn't like to put the prince's majesty out.

"Lord Wang, the lower officials have nothing to do but go to the Three Treasures Palace, and I hope the prince can help if there is one thing." After Yu Qian sat down in his seat, he took out an official document from his sleeve and handed it to the guard on the side, who hurriedly handed it to Li Yuntian.

"Reduction and exemption of silver tax in Ningde and Jianning!" Li Yuntian took the official document and looked at it, looking at Yu Qian with some surprise, but he didn't expect Yu Qian, as a dignified Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Rites, to take care of these small things.

"The prince still remembers that before going to North Korea, the official was ordered to investigate the riots in Fujian and Zhejiang, and after a thorough investigation, the official found that the local mine environment was bad, and the miners lived like slaves, coupled with the serious taxation, which eventually led to the miners' riots, and the people who resisted the tenants formed the Fujian and Zhejiang riots."

A wry smile flashed at the corner of Yu Qian's mouth, and he said to Li Yuntian: "After Xiaguan returned to Beijing, he once hoped to reduce the taxes and silver of the silver mines in Ningde and Jianning, but he was stuck by the celebrant supervisor, and Xiaguan had no choice but to ask the prince for help and find a way for those miners to live. ”

"This king knows that the living conditions of those silver mines are bad, and now the Ming Dynasty ships a lot of silver from overseas every year, and since the domestic silver resources are scarce, then the mining of silver mines should be stopped and it should be reserved."

Li Yuntian couldn't help but bow his head slightly when he heard this, if it was a mine under the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce, it would be okay to say, as for the miners of the mines in other places, they were no different from slaves, he had also wanted to take care of this matter but had never had the opportunity to intervene, and now Yu Qian just gave him this opportunity.

"Lord Wang, do you mean to close the silver mines in the territory of Daming?" Yu Qian's eyes suddenly showed a look of surprise when he heard this, but then it became clear that now Daming's fleet has to transport a large amount of silver from overseas every year, which is enough for the consumption of the Daming market, and the quality of this silver is better than the quality of Daming's silver mines.

It is worth mentioning that it was precisely because the Ming Dynasty shipped a large amount of silver from South America that the profits earned by the Ming through the trading of silver were sharply reduced, and then a series of chain reactions were generated.

"According to the king, the re-mining of those silver mines is a complete waste of manpower and material resources, and it will also cause serious damage to the local environment, so it is better to shut them down and let those miners engage in agricultural labor."

Li Yuntian smiled and nodded, in his opinion, those silver mines had become a cash cow for local officials to grab wealth, if those guys had any complaints, he wouldn't mind sending Yu Shi to check the accounts of the silver mines in the local area.

"Xia Guan thanked the prince for those miners." Yu Qian suddenly showed an excited look on his face when he heard this, such a big gesture can only be done by Li Yuntian, you must know that there are complex interests involved, so he immediately got up and said to Li Yuntian.

"Tingyi, when did you become such a mother-in-law, mother-in-law, sharing worries for the emperor is our business." Li Yuntian couldn't help but smile and said, "Since you are here, then we have to get together at night and rest when we get drunk." ”

"The subordinate obeys." Yu Qian also laughed, after so many years, he found that Li Yuntian had not changed at all, and he did not slack off those fellow subjects back then because he was in a high position, which is also an important reason why those fellow subjects like to follow Li Yuntian to do things, this friendship of the same department is hard to buy.