"Where did Jie come from?" Yang Demin looked at the official who was kneeling in front of him panting with some doubts, and felt very strange in his heart, not to mention Hukou County, even Jiujiang Mansion has nothing that can be called a "great victory". Chasing the reckless wasteland, you have to be quick.

"Lord Qiqi, according to the prior deployment of our Li Zhi County, last night more than 1,000 people from the Baishui Town Inspection Division, the county government and the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce took advantage of the 50th birthday banquet of the bandit leader Long Ye in Poyang Lake to take down the bandit's nest in one fell swoop, and captured more than 1,200 people from the bandit leader Long Ye and Wu Dao Scar."

The official who came to report the news was a person from the Hukou County County Government, and he rode a horse all the way to the government to report the news, he didn't care about wiping the sweat on his forehead, and said in a loud voice, "When the humble post came, the battle situation was still being counted, and the specific number was not yet known. ”

Hearing this, the people in the back hall looked at each other, no one expected that Hukou County would quietly exterminate Long Ye, and also achieved such brilliant results, it was incredible.

"Good!" Yang Demin was the first to come back to his senses, slapped the table hard, and said with some excitement, "Come on, immediately post a notice and inform the whole city of this great victory!" ”

At the beginning, the bandits across Poyang Lake were Chen Youliang's subordinates, and after being defeated by Ming Taizu in Poyang Lake, they hid in Poyang Lake and became water bandits.

Later, those water bandits intermarried with local residents, and for other reasons, more and more locals joined the water bandits.

Now, Long Ye and Wu Daoscar, the two bandits on Poyang Lake, have been captured alive, and many water bandits have been captured, and the remaining small fish and shrimp have been unable to turn up the big waves, and the bandits in the waters of Poyang Lake have been eliminated in one fell swoop.

Emperor Yongle and Ming Taizu are the same, it can be said that they are all from the horse, so they have always attached importance to military merits, but it is a pity that Jiangxi is located in the inland and there is no possibility of military merit, and this time Long Ye and other water bandits were exterminated, which is not only a surprise for Yang Demin, but also an out-and-out military merit.

With this military merit, even if Li Yuntian has an accident, he can be spared death, and if Li Yuntian escapes this catastrophe without any trouble, then Yang Demin will definitely be promoted by virtue of his ability to suppress bandits.

Qi Wanlong and the others were buzzing there, on the surface, it seemed that Hukou County's victory was very simple, but in fact, they all knew that there were all kinds of things involved, otherwise how could those water bandits run rampant in Poyang Lake for such a long time?

It is as if such a great achievement can be achieved under the situation that Li Yuntian was won by Cui Hui, it can be described as a miracle, under Li Yuntian's **, the execution and cohesion of those people in Hukou County are second to none in Jiujiang Mansion and Jiangxi. The update is the fastest and most stable

"What? Hukou County exterminated the water bandits on Poyang Lake? When Cui Hui learned the news, he was thinking about countermeasures to deal with the current situation in the study of an official residence in Jiujiang Mansion, and he was taken aback when he heard this, staring at his subordinates who came to report the news.

"It's true, the government has already posted a notice, saying that the people of Hukou County raided the bandit nest of the big water Kou Long Ye last night under the arrangement of the magistrate of Hukou County, and not only captured the two big water robbers Long Ye and Wu Dao Scar, but also captured more than 1,000 enemies."

The subordinate wiped the sweat from his forehead, took a breath, and said, he had just run all the way back to tell Cui Hui.

"This guy really has a good hand!" Cui Hui's face changed a few times, and then he slammed his fist on the table, and a cold sentence burst out of his mouth, his face turned pale.

There is no doubt that this victory in Poyang Lake will definitely be used by Yang Demin, and it will have an unpredictable impact on Emperor Yongle at that time, and now it seems that it is difficult to bring down Li Yuntian.

Li Yuntian was not in Jiujiang City, because he was seriously injured in the buttocks, so he stayed in Ruichang County to recuperate, and was jointly guarded by the personnel of the Imperial History Yamen, the Jiujiang Prefecture Yamen, and the Jiangxi Provincial Yamen, and he was forbidden to have any contact with the outside world, and even Zhou Yuting could not visit him, waiting for the Yongle Emperor's holy judgment.

At this moment, Li Yuntian didn't know what the result of the bandit suppression was, he was more worried about the green calyx, which had shed so much blood in the lobby of Ruichang County that day, and he didn't know what the situation was now.

One thing Li Yuntian can be sure of, I'm afraid that the child in the green calyx's belly will not be able to be saved, and he only hopes that the green calyx can pass this pass safely.

In the past few days, Li Yuntian has been thinking about who is going to be so ruthless to him, but unfortunately he couldn't figure it out due to limited information, and then he was relieved, and the truth of the matter will eventually come to light.

One afternoon in early October, the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City.

Emperor Yongle sat on the soft floor and looked at the recital presented by the cabinet, coughing twice from time to time, which made the nerves of the inner servants on the side have been tense, and Emperor Yongle's body has deteriorated day by day in the past year, and people have aged a lot.

"Scholar of Chuanwen Yuan Pavilion has come to meet you!" After putting down a piece of music in his hand, Emperor Yongle opened his mouth and instructed a chamberlain standing in front of the door.

The chamberlain bowed down when he heard this, and walked out backwards, leaving quickly.

Emperor Yongle in the mouth of the Wenyuan Pavilion scholar is Yang Rong, Yongle 18 years to become a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion University, can be called the first assistant of the cabinet, is the Yongle Emperor's close ministers, encountered heavy affairs Yongle Emperor often to Yang Rong to consult, won his trust and respect.

At this time, there were two recitals in front of Emperor Yongle, one was the Jiangxi Governor Cui Hui, who impeached Yang Demin, the prefect of Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi, for shielding his subordinates and interfering with the handling of the case, and the other was on the prefect of Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi, Yang Demin, who asked him to send someone to supervise the handling of the case on the grounds that the case involving Li Yuntian, the magistrate of Hukou County, was widely implicated.

Cui Hui's recital is very normal, and sometimes it is inevitable that there will be some resistance when patrolling the imperial history to investigate the case, and he needs to write a book to let the emperor support him.

But Yang Demin's recital is more interesting, he did not excuse Li Yuntian, but asked to send personnel to investigate the case on the grounds that Li Yuntian's crime was serious, which is very unreasonable, no magistrate wants the case to get bigger and bigger, and it also stabbed to the sky.

In Yang Demin's recital, all the officials above the seventh grade in Jiujiang Prefecture signed a joint petition to implore Yongle Di to investigate the case.

If it is replaced by an ordinary magistrate, Emperor Yongle has absolutely no impression, but Li Yuntian is different, what happened in the past two years makes him remember this new science and technology scholar who is unwilling to boil his qualifications in the capital and is willing to be released.

Not only that, Li Yuntian is now the son-in-law of Zhongyong Marquis and Yang Shiqi's protégé, this matter seems to be just a dispute between Cui Hui and Yang Demin, but it actually involves a complicated situation in the court.

Emperor Yongle knows very well that as he gets older, there is already an undercurrent in the court, and all forces are ready to move, and the prince is modest, I am afraid that he will inevitably be swayed by those people in the future, so what he has to do now is to balance the interests of all forces in the court.

"Minister Yang Rong, meet the emperor." Soon after, an emaciated old man over half a hundred years old walked into the house, bowed to Emperor Yongle, and bowed his hand.

This old man was Yang Rong, a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, who was handling official business in Wenyuan Pavilion just now, so he rushed over immediately after receiving the summons.

"Yang Aiqing is flat." Emperor Yongle looked at Yang Rong with a blank hand, motioned for Yang Rong to sit down, and then asked people to give the two pieces to Yang Rong, and after Yang Rong finished reading them, he asked quietly, "Yang Aiqing, what do you think I should do with this matter?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks this is a good thing, although Cui Xunji and Yang Governor's Mansion have disputes, but they are all dedicated to the public, since Jiujiang Mansion implores the emperor to investigate this matter thoroughly, then the emperor might as well order someone to go down and inquire strictly, to see if the magistrate of Hukou County is a diligent and loving Qing official, or a huge greedy person who accepts and solicits bribes."

Yang Rong put down the piece in his hand, looked up at Emperor Yongle, and said methodically.

In fact, he had already seen Yang Demin's intention to write this recital, although it was not explicitly stated, but it was obvious that he did not trust the Jiangxi Patrol Imperial Shi Cui Hui, so he asked Emperor Yongle to send someone to supervise it.

"It's very agreeable." Emperor Yongle bowed slightly when he heard this, and asked, "Aiqing thinks it's better for someone to go down to investigate this case?" ”

"Weichen feels that Luo Qing, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, has deep qualifications and rich experience, and can be the chief judge, Qin Yue, the left Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and Chen Tianxun, the right deputy of the Imperial Palace, can be the jury, and let the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry send personnel to assist in the investigation of Hukou County." Yang Rong pondered for a moment and said what was in his heart.

Emperor Yongle was very satisfied with the candidate selected by Yang Rong, and immediately issued an order to let Luo Qing, the right attendant of the Criminal Department, Qin Yue, the left Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and Chen Tianxun, the right deputy of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, set off on a certain day, and together with the officials of the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry, they went to Jiangxi to thoroughly investigate the case of Li Yuntian's embezzlement of ink.

"Your Majesty, the minister has a few copies of the new pieces presented today, and I think the emperor may want to read them, so I brought them over." After Emperor Yongle finished issuing the holy decree, Yang Rong took out a few copies of the recital from his sleeve and put them on the table.

Emperor Yongle asked the chamberlain to take the few pieces and read them one by one, and the first few pieces were all about some strange things and anecdotes in the place, which was purely a smile of Emperor Boyongle.

After looking at the penultimate book, Emperor Yongle was slightly stunned, looking quite surprised, and then looked at the content of the musical.

"Hukou County, with the strength of one county, actually annihilated more than 2,400 water bandits in Poyang Lake, which is a bit exaggerated!" After reading the recital, Emperor Yongle frowned and looked at Yang Rong, not believing what was said in the recital.

It turned out that this piece was the great victory of the Jiujiang Mansion to suppress the bandits, and Yang Rong also felt a little incredible, so he took it to Emperor Yongle to see.

"Your Majesty, what is the truth of the facts, Luo Shilang and they will find out when they go to check it this time." Yang Rong had already thought of a countermeasure and said calmly.

"It's okay, if they dare to deceive me, I will never spare me." Emperor Yongle nodded expressionlessly, a cold light flashed in his eyes, what he hated most was those who falsely reported their military exploits.

As he spoke, Emperor Yongle picked up the last movement, and Yang Rong's eyes narrowed, looking at him quietly, checking the changes in the expression on Emperor Yongle's face.

"Sue the King of Han, his mind has been received, let him stay in the fief well." After looking at the cantata, Emperor Yongle's face became a little complicated, and he closed the cantata and threw it aside, and said to Yang Rong.

Yang Rong shook his head secretly when he heard this, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, hoped to come to the capital to serve Emperor Yongle in order to fulfill his filial piety, but Emperor Yongle refused, and it seemed that he was still wary of Zhu Gaochu to prevent him from competing with the prince again.

The flowing water in the capital is getting muddy with the aging of Emperor Yongle. One