Gu Zuo was a jinshi in the second year of Jianwen, and served as the superintendent of the imperial history, the Yin of the Shuntian Prefecture, the envoy of Guizhou according to the inspection and the envoy of the general government.

After appointing Gu Zuo as the imperial history of the right capital, Emperor Xuande was worried that he would not be able to subdue the arrogant imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate, so he not only ordered him to thoroughly investigate Liu Guan's corruption and perversion of the law, but also gave him the power to inspect the imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate, punish the offenders and remove the incompetent, and recommend officials to send the Ministry of Officials to fill the vacancy of the imperial history of supervision.

During Liu Guan's departure from Beijing to inspect the river, Gu Zuo vigorously investigated his violations of law and discipline, and soon found a lot of evidence, and at the same time, Zhang Xunli, the superintendent of the imperial history, and others took the opportunity to impeach Liu Guan, and listed Liu Guan's son Liu Xian's corruption and perversion of the law.

Emperor Xuande was furious about this, and sent Jinyi Wei to arrest Liu Guan, who was patrolling the river outside, and after escorting him back to Beijing, he took out the evidence found out by Gu Zuo and the impeachment of him in the imperial history, and then sent him to the edict of Fusi in Beizhen.

Originally, Emperor Xuande planned to punish Liu Guan with capital punishment to set an example, but due to the intercession of Yang Shiqi, Yang Rong and Jian Yi and other important ministers, he was finally spared from death, let Liu Hui drop Liaodong and ordered Liu Guan to accompany him.

In the sixth year of Xuande, Gu Zuo successively deposed Yan Riqi, Yang Juzheng and other 20 superintendent imperial historians, demoted them to the guards of Liaodong as officials, and eight imperial historians were demoted, three imperial historians were dismissed, and more than 40 people were recommended to fill the vacancies of Jinshi Deng Rong, Guozisheng Cheng Fu, Kong Wenying, the county magistrate in Beijing, and the official Rui of the teacher.

For the officials recommended by Gu Zuo, Emperor Xuande asked them to first experience three months in the Imperial Procuratorate, and if they were competent enough to supervise the imperial history, they would be treated.

Yang Juzheng and the other six people were not convinced, and wrote to Emperor Xuande to plead, thinking that Gu Zuo framed Zhongliang and was so happy, which made Emperor Xuande furious and sent those who were demoted to officials to the border.

Subsequently, Emperor Xuande promoted Gu Zuo to the imperial history of the left capital, and gave him an edict again, ordering him to restrain the words and deeds of the imperial history of the imperial court, and to picket and depose the greedy and arrogant officials, so that Gu Zuo's authority in the court became more and more powerful.

Although Gu Zuo was trusted by Emperor Xuande, he also became the target of the court, and was impeached by many officials one after another.

What especially troubled Gu Zuo was the increasingly tense atmosphere within the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he wanted to do his best to control the situation in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, so he replaced Yan Riyi, Yang Juzheng and others by thunderous means, but unfortunately the result was counterproductive, but it intensified the contradiction between him and the supervision of the imperial history, so that the people of the Metropolitan Procuratorate were panicked and had no intention of government affairs.

Now, the imperial historians in the Imperial Court are clearly divided into three major factions, one is the imperial history recommended by Gu Zuo to fill the vacancy, the other is the imperial history of the cabinet members, and the other is the imperial history of the officials of the Six Ministries, among which the number of imperial histories from the officials of the Six Ministries is the largest and the most powerful.

I don't know if it was intentional or unintentional, Yan Riyi, Yang Juzheng and others, who were removed by Gu Zuoyan, were all protégés of the six ministers of the court, while Xie Heng and other cabinet members were born in the imperial history, but they were safe and sound, sitting firmly in Diaoyutai.

Perhaps in order to avoid suspicion, Xie Heng and others have been unusually low-key in the Metropolitan Procuratorate recently, and have not participated in the grievances and grievances of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

To be honest, although Xie Heng and the others belonged to the middle faction, they didn't have a good impression of the imperial histories recommended by Gu Zuo, after all, Xie Heng and the others were all two top jinshi, so they didn't look down on those imperial histories who were born in their hearts, and thought that they were not qualified to serve as imperial histories.

Today, gathered in the courtyard to prepare for the impeachment of Gu Zuo is the imperial history of the official family of the Liubutang, and in recent days, several imperial historians have been thrown into the edict by Gu Zuo, and they are now in danger of everyone, in order to protect themselves, they must carry Gu Zuo to the end, and fight to the death.

As Ma An said before, the annual Tan Jing and Bing Jing of the Imperial History of the Imperial Court of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are the most abundant among the court officials, and in addition to Tan Jing and Bing Jing, there are also a lot of foreign wealth, if Gu Zuo really wants to investigate, I am afraid that none of them will be able to escape, so he will naturally have to fight to the death.

On the surface, what happened in the Inspectorate was an entanglement between Gu Zuo and the imperial historians, but in fact, it was a battle between the cabinet and the six ministries.

The six departments have already suffered a big loss in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and more than 30 close imperial histories were rectified by Gu Zuo at once, so naturally they would not sit idly by, staring at Gu Zuo and continuing to suppress the imperial history of the officials of the Six Ministry, so they naturally wanted to brew a counterattack.

It can be said that Li Yuntian came back at the right time at this time, once those imperial historians from the official family of the Six Ministries jointly impeached Gu Zuo for using power for personal gain and the party fighting against differences, then the Metropolitan Procuratorate will not only become a joke from the outside world, but also lose face.

What is particularly important is that this will inevitably lead to another struggle between the cabinet and the six ministries, and the affairs of the Metropolitan Procuratorate will also come to a standstill, and the affairs of the two capitals and the inspection of the localities will have to be stopped, which will have a huge impact.

In fact, the deterioration of the relationship between the cabinet and the six ministries was already reflected in the Taihe Hall yesterday, when Li Yuntian proposed to prepare for the establishment of a water division, Yang Shiqi, the first assistant of the cabinet, expressed his support, while Hu Ying, who was also in charge of the affairs of the Ministry of Rites, expressed opposition.

Generally speaking, although there is a gap between the cabinet and the six ministries, they are united in the face of the nobles in the court to defend the interests of the civilian clique.

At that time, Li Yuntian thought that Yang Shiqi was thinking about the long term and because of his mentor, so he supported the preparation of the water master, but now it seems that it is not the case.

After experiencing the affairs of today's Metropolitan Procuratorate, Li Yuntian keenly realized that Yang Shiqi's agreement on the preparation of the water division in the Taihe Hall was not simple, which was not only to support his proud protégé, but also to give a blow to the Sixth Division.

In the final analysis, Li Yuntian is an orthodox two-rank jinshi, so supporting Li Yuntian's preparation for the establishment of a sailor did not harm the interests of civil officials, on the contrary, if Li Yuntian can command the Daming Navy, it will be a supreme honor for civil officials.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Xungui group has been pressing the civil official group, and now Li Yuntian can control the military with literature, which really makes the civil officials raise their eyebrows, and it will surely become a beautiful talk in the history of the Qing Dynasty in the future.

Strictly speaking, the matter of preparing for the establishment of a water division has evolved into a struggle between the two major factions within the civil government because of Li Yuntian's special status, and whether the money from the household treasury is given to Li Yuntian to prepare for the construction of the water division, or allocated to the local government to build bridges and pave roads, and to provide disaster relief to the people, it is an internal affair of the civilian official group.

Otherwise, Yang Shiqi would never have opened his mouth to support the preparation of the sailor, although it is indeed a good thing in the long run, but it will undoubtedly promote the power of the nobles, and then damage the interests of the civilian group.

However, because Li Yuntian did not want to make any trouble about the preparation of the sailor division at that time, he intervened in time and took the initiative to cover the cost of preparing for the establishment of the sailor, which allowed a conflict between the cabinet and the six ministries to be spared, making it seem that the military cabinet was competing with the six ministries for funds.

"Which one is in the yamen?" After learning the ins and outs of the matter, Li Yuntian immediately realized the intricacies of the situation that the Metropolitan Procuratorate was facing now, not only the contest between the cabinet and the six ministries, but also the grievances of the old and new imperial historians, so he pondered for a while and asked Xie Heng, ready to find someone to discuss how to deal with it.

Although Li Yuntian is now a popular person in front of Emperor Xuande, and he has the respect of Zhenwu Hou, he is only the imperial history of the left and right capitals after all, and there are four officials of the Imperial Court of the Left and Right Metropolitan and the Imperial Envoy of the Left and Right Vice-Capitals.

"Lord Yushi Wang of the right capital and Lord Chen of the left deputy capital are on duty in the yamen today, Lord Gu of the left capital Yushi entered the palace to wait for the decree, and Lord Zhang of the right deputy capital Yushi went out on official business." Xie Heng thought about it and replied in an orderly manner.

The current four officials of the Imperial Court are Gu Zuo, the left imperial history, Wang Yucheng, the right imperial history, Chen Tianxun, the left deputy imperial history, and Zhang Yunhai, the right deputy imperial history.

Among them, Wang Yucheng, the right imperial historian, and Chen Tianxun, the left deputy imperial historian, are Li Yuntian's old acquaintances and his old superiors in the Imperial Procuratorate.

Wang Yucheng is a well-known centrist in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, has nothing to do with the cabinet and the six ministries, has a gentle temperament, is obscure, and is an out-and-out good man in the eyes of the people.

Last year, Emperor Xuande transferred Wang Yucheng to Nanjing in order to transfer Gu Zuo to the Metropolitan Inspectorate.

In the eyes of the outside world, the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate is a place for the elderly, but just when people thought that Wang Yucheng was going to fall out of favor, at the beginning of this year, Emperor Xuande transferred him back to the capital to continue to serve as the right capital of the Beijing Imperial Inspectorate, hoping that he could alleviate the feelings of those who were dissatisfied with Gu Zuo's supervision of the imperial history.

As for Chen Tianxun, Li Yuntian dealt with him even earlier, when Li Yuntian was framed by Cui Hui who patrolled Jiangxi, it was Chen Tianxun, who was the right deputy of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, who led the officials of Dali Temple and the Criminal Department to the three halls for trial, and then returned Li Yuntian's innocence.

Chen Tianxun was promoted to the left deputy capital of Emperor Xuande two years ago, and he had a close personal relationship with Yang Shiqi, and he could be said to be the most important member of the cabinet camp and an important minister of the imperial court.

For Li Yuntian, Chen Tianxun's attitude towards the current situation in the Metropolitan Procuratorate is crucial, after all, he can influence the cabinet's position on this matter.

Since Gu Zuo and Zhang Yunhai were both transferred back to the capital from other places, Li Yuntian had never dealt with each other before, and when Li Yuntian came to serve in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Gu Zuo served as an envoy in Guizhou, and when Gu Zuo was transferred back to the capital to serve as a general political envoy, he went to Jiaozhi again.

Two years ago, Zhang Yunhai served as a left political envoy in Zhejiang, and after Chen Tianxun was promoted to the left deputy imperial envoy, he took over the post of the right deputy imperial envoy.

It is worth mentioning that Zhang Yunhai was Langzhong of the Ministry of Officials before serving as the political envoy of Zhejiang, and he had a close personal relationship with the officials of the Ministry of Officials.

It was precisely because of this close relationship between Zhang Yunhai and the Ministry of Officials that he was transferred out of the capital by Emperor Xuande, so as not to hinder Gu Zuo's actions in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which made the Sixth Ministry almost lose the right to speak in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and could not do anything about Gu Zuo's rectification of the officials in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.