"My lord, this is purely slanderous, if the lower officials had so much silver, they would have changed to a big mansion a long time ago, why bother with three generations of a family crammed into a small courtyard!" Hearing the words "10,000 taels of silver", Ma An's face turned pale with a brush, and he hurriedly defended in a loud voice, this amount was enough for him to be executed by Ling Chi at the entrance of the vegetable market.

"Niu Yushi has found conclusive evidence of the crime from your home, do you still want to deny it?" Li Yuntian asked coldly while observing Ma An's face.

"My lord knows that the lower officials' family doesn't have so much money even if they smash pots and sell iron." Seeing that Li Yuntian's expression became cold, cold sweat suddenly oozed from Ma An's forehead, he knew that he was calculated by Niu Fei this time, so he got up in horror and said to Li Yuntian.

"You mean, Niu Yushi deceived this official? Could he have framed you in public? Li Yuntian didn't feel like Ma An was lying, so he groaned for a moment and asked expressionlessly.

Obviously, since Niu Fei dared to tell him that Ma An had 10,000 taels of property in his family, he must have come prepared, which means that there must be some details in this that Ma An ignored, so he secretly reminded Ma An.

"This ......" Ma An was speechless for a while, and couldn't help but reach out and wipe the sweat on his forehead with his sleeve, looking extremely anxious.

After Li Yuntian's prompt just now, Ma An realized that it was impossible for Niu Fei to open his mouth to Li Yuntian, because Niu Fei should know very well that Li Yuntian was not the kind of person who was easy to fool, so he would definitely not be untargeted, and the things found from his home must be worth ten thousand taels of silver.

"My lord, Xia Guan remembered, because Xia Guan loves calligraphy and painting but has no money to buy those authentic works, so he bought a lot of imitations in the old market in the capital and came back, could it be that Niu Fei regarded those imitations as genuine works?" Under Li Yuntian's gaze, Ma An's eyes suddenly lit up, and he remembered something, and hurriedly said to Li Yuntian.

The old market refers to the bazaar of calligraphy and painting antiques sold in the capital, located in the south of the city, is a very lively place, Li Yuntian has been there once before, and actually bought a few authentic works of calligraphy and painting in the Tang Dynasty and a few blue and white porcelain vases of the official kiln of the Yuan Dynasty, ready to be passed on as an heirloom, and after seven or eight hundred years are valuable objects.

"Do you know the vendors of the calligraphy and painting stalls in the old city?" Li Yuntian couldn't help but show a subtle smile at the corner of his mouth when he heard this, he finally realized the key to Ma An's case, so he asked quietly.

"Admit it, admit it, Xia Guan has to go once a month, and I have beaten them with many traders, and they have good imitations for Xia Guan to keep." Ma An nodded again and again, and said urgently, "It must be Niu Fei who regarded those imitations as genuine, and then framed the lower officials." ”

"This official has already asked people to receive the items that Niu Yushi searched from your home, whether they are true or false, and this official will find out at that time." Li Yuntian smiled slightly, stretched out his hand and pointed to the dishes on the table and said, "This official has to enter the palace in the afternoon, so he can't accompany Brother Ma to drink, our task today is to finish these dishes on the table." ”

"The subordinate obeys." Ma An couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw this, it seemed that Li Yuntian believed what he said, so he arched his hand at Li Yuntian and said in a deep voice, his words seemed a little excited, he never thought that Li Yuntian would come to his rescue at a critical moment anyway.

In the afternoon, Li Yuntian entered the palace to see Emperor Xuande, carrying the embroidered spring knife with a golden handle and golden sheath given by Emperor Xuande, and the forbidden army on duty at the palace gate glanced at the imperial golden knife and let him enter the palace gate, without encountering the slightest obstacle along the way.

After Li Yuntian returned to Beijing, Emperor Xuande issued a decree, as long as he relied on this imperial golden knife, Li Yuntian could enter the palace to face the saint, and the forbidden army and the inner servants could not be stopped along the way.

In other words, as long as Li Yuntian holds this imperial golden knife, then he can come to the palace where Emperor Xuande is located unimpeded, and wait for Emperor Xuande's summons outside the palace, which can be described as a grace.

Emperor Xuande was playing in the imperial garden with the crown prince Zhu Qizhen, who was later the famous orthodox emperor, born in October of the second year of Xuande, that is, not long after Li Yuntian led his army to Jiaozhi to quell the rebellion.

Zhu Qizhen is the eldest son of Emperor Xuande, Emperor Xuande was very happy when he learned that Sun Guifei gave birth to a prince, and immediately issued an edict to amnesty the world, and exempted Xuande from one-third of the world's money and grain for three years to congratulate.

It is worth mentioning that Zhu Qizhen's mother is not Queen Hu but Sun Guifei, it stands to reason that only the concubine born to the queen can become the prince, but just four months after Zhu Qizhen was born, Emperor Xuande established the emperor's eldest son Zhu Qizhen as the prince on the grounds of stabilizing the Ming Dynasty, and became the prince of the Ming Dynasty.

Because Empress Hu was not in good health and it was difficult to have children, and Sun Guifei was the second concubine in the harem after Empress Hu, so in order to consolidate the Ming Dynasty, the courtiers gladly accepted Zhu Qizhen as the eldest son of the emperor as the crown prince.

At this moment, in the pavilion on the side, Sun Guifei, who was wearing a phoenix crown, sat on a cushioned stone chair and looked at the two with a smile.

Speaking of which, Sun Guifei became the queen and also caused an uproar in the capital, and if she wanted to become the queen, she had to abolish the original queen Hu Shanxiang.

Empress Hu is virtuous and virtuous, not only deeply liked by Empress Dowager Zhang, but also has a good reputation in the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military affairs, plus she is not at fault in the harem, so Emperor Xuande wanted to abolish Empress Hu It was really painful, and ordered the courtiers to look for historical precedents.

To the surprise of Emperor Xuande, compared with the positive attitude when supporting Zhu Qizhen, the courtiers were very indifferent to the abolition of Empress Hu, and they also encountered huge resistance, and Yang Shiqi, Yang Pu and Xia Yuanji and other ministers in the court opposed the abolition of Empress Hu on the grounds that Empress Hu was not wrong.

Although some other ministers did not dare to oppose it openly, they excused themselves on the grounds that the queen was the mother of a country and it was inconvenient for the courtiers to criticize it.

Because Emperor Xuande had made up his mind after the abolition, Yang Rong fabricated the 20 major crimes of Empress Hu and presented them to Emperor Xuande in order to make Empress Hu be abolished, as the basis for abolishing Empress Hu's throne.

However, Emperor Xuande was furious after seeing the 20 major crimes, and thought that it was insulting to Queen Hu's reputation, so he did not accept it, after all, the two had been husband and wife for many years, and Emperor Xuande had a sense of guilt in his heart after abolishing Empress Hu's throne, how could he ruin her reputation again.

Later, a minister gave Emperor Xuande an idea to get the best of both worlds, that is, to let Empress Hu take the initiative to abdicate, and then set up Sun Guifei.

In this way, Sun Guifei became the queen of the Ming Dynasty, and Empress Hu was given the title of "Jingci Immortal" by Emperor Xuande and moved to Chang'an Palace to live, and the etiquette treatment was customized according to the queen's order.

Not only that, Empress Dowager Zhang took pity on Empress Hu, so whenever the harem held heavy ceremonial affairs, she let Empress Hu be above Empress Sun, how could Empress Sun dare to provoke Empress Dowager Zhang and knew that Empress Hu was deposed by her, so she was willing to be under Empress Hu.

According to the "History of the Ming Dynasty", "After being abolished, the world took pity on it." After the proclamation, he also regretted. Taste self-explanation and say: This is a juvenile matter. ”

It can be seen that the person who edited the "History of the Ming Dynasty" expressed sympathy for the deposition of Empress Hu.

Emperor Xuande's move also created a precedent for the Ming Dynasty emperor to abolish the queen, and was successively imitated by later generations, Emperor Xuande had a total of two princes, the second son Zhu Qiyu, that is, the later Emperor Jingtai abolished its original queen Wang, and the eldest son of the orthodox emperor Zhu Jianshen, that is, the later Chenghua Emperor abolished its original queen Wu, I am afraid this is something that Emperor Xuande could not have imagined anyway.

The two chamberlains carefully followed Emperor Xuande and Zhu Qizhen, bowing down to serve there, both of them were old acquaintances of Li Yuntian, one was Song Dashan, the left eunuch of the Imperial Horse Prison, and the other was Wang Zhen, the right eunuch of the Imperial Horse Eunuch.

After Zhu Qizhen was born, Emperor Xuande wanted to find two internal servants to serve, so Song Dashan and Wang Zhen took the initiative to invite Ying to serve the prince.

For Song Dashan and Wang Zhen, this is a good opportunity for the two to lie dormant in the palace, the palace attendants are now the head of Jin Ying and Wang Jin and others who are the chief of ceremonies, Jin Ying and Wang Jin and others have been serving Emperor Xuande since he was a child, so they have won the trust of Emperor Xuande, so the two have no capital to compete with them at all, it is better to honestly serve the prince and focus on the future.

Li Yuntian saw that Emperor Xuande and Zhu Qizhen were having fun, so he didn't disturb the two of them, and walked to the pavilion to bow to Empress Sun.

Seeing this, Empress Sun smiled and stretched out her hand to lift her head upward, bowing slightly at Li Yuntian, with a very kind attitude.

Although Li Yuntian has been away from the capital for nearly four years, the relationship between Zhenwu Houfu and the palace is very close, Zhou Yuting and Zhu Yuxin often enter the palace to visit Empress Dowager Zhang, Empress Hu, and Empress Sun, which virtually makes the two sides get along very closely.

Song Dashan and Wang Zhen also noticed Li Yuntian, so they bowed to Li Yuntian one after another, and in terms of official positions, the grades of the two were far lower than Li Yuntian, the marquis.

"Zhen Wuhou, the prince has a lot of fate with you, I had two troubles back then, one is the rebellion of Jiaozhi, and the other is the prince of the Ming Dynasty, you not only took command of the expedition but I was also happy afterwards, do you say that this is the will of heaven." Emperor Xuande quickly noticed Li Yuntian standing aside, so he said to him with a smile.

"Your Majesty is blessed by the emperor." Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, bowed to Emperor Xuande, bowed and said.

"Come, prince, meet your teacher." Emperor Xuande couldn't help laughing, reached out and patted Zhu Qizhen's back, pointed at Li Yuntian and said.

"Zhu Qizhen has seen the teacher." Zhu Qizhen was already a four-year-old child at this time, and he was already sensible under the training of Empress Dowager Zhang and Empress Sun, and when he saw that Emperor Xuande had found a teacher for himself, he walked up to Li Yuntian and bowed his hand to him seriously, and said in a milky voice.

"The minister greets the prince." Li Yuntian hurriedly bowed in return, he didn't expect Emperor Xuande to let him be Zhu Qizhen's teacher, which is usually an honor that can only be enjoyed by important towns in the court or knowledgeable people, and then he bowed his hand to Emperor Xuande, and resigned after winning a row, "Your Majesty, the ministers have limited knowledge, and they dare not teach the prince, so please ask the emperor to find someone else." ”