One night at the end of May, in a magnificent house in the south of the city, Li Yuntian and a person sat around the wine table and drank heartily, chatting and laughing.

With Li Yuntian's current identity and status, there are very few people who can sit with him and drink so comfortably, and Yang Yungui is one of the few people who has a close personal relationship with Li Yuntian, and can be said to be Li Yuntian's right-hand man.

Yang Yungui is an old man who followed Li Yuntian when he was in Hukou County, Jiujiang Prefecture, Jiangxi Province, with a long and talented character, originally a cynical lawyer, and was later subdued by Li Yuntian, first serving as the official of the Hukou County Torture Room, and then following Li Yuntian into Beijing and serving as an economic undertaking in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

On the surface, Yang Yungui is the inheritor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but he also has another identity, that is, Li Yuntian's intelligence chief, who is specifically responsible for collecting intelligence from the two capitals and thirteen provinces, and has now established a complete intelligence system in the north and south of Zhili and Jiangxi, Huguang, Shandong, Guangxi, and Shanxi, and the intelligence network of the other provinces is being improved.

At the same time, Yang Yungui is also a special instructor of the six colleges under the jurisdiction of the Wutang, and in the past few years when Li Yuntian has been absent from the capital, he has actually been in charge of the affairs of the six colleges of the Wutang, and he has worked hard and made great achievements.

"Far away, the situation in the Metropolitan Procuratorate can be stabilized so quickly, you should take the first credit." While talking and laughing, Li Yuntian raised his wine glass to Yang Yungui, and said with a smile, "Now there are a lot of things to talk about Wutang, you should come to Wutang to help me." ”

No one would have thought that the report letter that Han Liang received was not from Niu Fei's political enemies, but from Yang Yungui, no one would have guessed that Yang Yungui, who was low-key in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, would have so many secret secrets of Niu Fei.

Originally, Yang Yungui did not regard Niu Fei as the object of his attention, but as Niu Fei became more and more publicized in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the cabinet camp Gu Zuobu Yushi frantically suppressed the six camp imperial history, he was keenly aware that the situation in the Metropolitan Procuratorate was in danger of getting out of control.

Obviously, Yang Yungui did not think that Emperor Xuande wanted to let the cabinet camp control the situation in the Imperial Procuratorate, which was not conducive to the balance of power between the cabinet and the six camps.

This means that although the imperial historians of the cabinet camp Gu Zuobu are now in high spirits, they will definitely be unlucky in the future, and after a comprehensive analysis of the court situation, Yang Yungui believes that Li Yuntian, who had already quelled the Jiaozhi rebellion at that time, is likely to be entrusted by Emperor Xuande with a heavy task to quell the chaos in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Therefore, Yang Yungui arranged for someone to keep an eye on Niu Fei day and night, and secretly investigated him, in his opinion, once Emperor Xuande changed his attitude towards Gu Zuo, then Niu Fei is undoubtedly the best "bird".

Facts have proved that Yang Yungui's decision was indeed prescient, and the first thing Li Yuntian did after being recalled to the capital by Emperor Xuande from Jiaozhi was to settle the dispute between the cabinet of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the six ministries, and the Niu Fei information he provided to Li Yuntian made Li Yuntian take Niu Fei in one fell swoop.

After Niu Fei became a prisoner, the imperial historians of the cabinet camp of the Metropolitan Procuratorate Gu Zuobu immediately stopped, and if the imperial historians of the six factions took the opportunity to impeach them, then their situation would become very difficult.

However, fortunately, Emperor Xuande was quite angry after the Niu Fei incident, and he was angry at the court not long after, and then handed over the important task of comprehensively investigating whether there was corruption in the imperial history of the Imperial Procuratorate to Li Yuntian, the imperial history of the left capital.

Although it seems that Emperor Xuande wants to set off a storm of rectification of the rule of officials in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the imperial historians of the Metropolitan Procuratorate secretly can't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

For the imperial history of the cabinet camp, Li Yuntian is their own family, and of course he will not take his own family out of his mind regardless of his feelings.

And the imperial history of the six camps, except for a few people who are hostile to Li Yuntian such as Ma An, more or less have a friendship with Li Yuntian, plus Li Yuntian cleared Ma An regardless of his previous suspicions, so the imperial history of the six camps is also relieved, thinking that Li Yuntian will definitely not be as unsentimental as Gu Zuo.

Originally, after Niu Fei's accident, the people in the six departments of the court should chase him and beat him fiercely, and then attack the people in the cabinet camp.

But in fact, the people of the Sixth Department did not get too involved in Niu Fei's incident, it was not that they didn't want to take the opportunity to attack the cabinet camp, but they were really forced to do it, because Li Yuntian not only found out that Niu Fei was greedy for ink, but also involved Su Zhonghe.

Once the people of the six ministries attack the cabinet camp on the matter of Niu Fei, then the cabinet camp will definitely take Su Zhonghe as a matter, the criminal department is not only the ministry yamen ranked second only to the ministry and the household department among the six departments, but also the judicial center of the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the cabinet and the sixth ministry actually reached a tie on the Niu Fei matter, and the two sides were afraid of each other, so no one could help anyone.

In other words, the biggest winner of Niu Fei's case was Emperor Xuande, who not only strengthened the power of the cabinet in the Imperial Procuratorate, but also avoided a large-scale conflict between the cabinet and the six ministries, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

"Brother Li, I understand your kindness, and you also know that I am used to being lazy on weekdays, and it is okay to be an official, but I am exempted from being an official." Hearing that Li Yuntian wanted him to go to the martial arts hall, Yang Yungui smiled and picked up his wine glass and touched it with Li Yuntian, and politely refused Li Yuntian's suggestion.

Yang Yungui's ambition is not in the officialdom, otherwise he would have participated in the imperial examination and relied on his fame and fame, instead of becoming a lawyer.

The reason why he followed Li Yuntian back then was because Li Yuntian could make the people of Hukou County live a good life, so he became the official of the Hukou County Ya Punishment Room, and did his best to help Li Yuntian do things.

Today, the Baishui Town Freight Yard has become the largest commodity trade market in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the business of Hukou County is changing with each passing day due to the existence of this market, and the people have benefited a lot from it, and they have lived a rich and stable life.

Yang Yungui admires this very much, although he is arrogant, but he has to admit that Li Yuntian is simply a business genius, and he admires him very much for turning his hands into clouds and raining in the shopping mall.

Now, Li Yuntian wants to use Jiaozhi as a support point to push Emperor Xuande to abolish the ban on the sea, and reform the Ming Dynasty's taxation and commerce.

Yang Yungui knew that what Li Yuntian had done would have a huge impact on the future of the Ming Dynasty, and once successful, it would make the Ming Dynasty's military and economy flourish and stand proudly on top of the world.

Therefore, in the face of Li Yuntian's invitation, Yang Yungui decided to stay in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and continue to take charge of the intelligence network for Li Yuntian as the manager of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"Youyuan, I've wronged you." How could Li Yuntian not know Yang Yungui's intentions, he couldn't help but be moved in his heart, and raised his wine glass at him and drank it all.

Now, the people who follow Li Yuntian have been promoted and made a fortune, not to mention anything else, Li Manshan and Li Daniu alone have become the number one people in the capital in just six or seven years.

With Yang Yungui's talent, if he stayed by Li Yuntian's side to do things, his current achievements would definitely be above Li Manshan and Li Daniu, but he was willing to secretly run Li Yuntian's intelligence network in obscurity under the post of the governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and he was not moved by fame and fortune at all.

Li Yuntian naturally would not let Yang Yungui pay there in vain, he not only let the people of the Yang family enter the Kyushu Chamber of Commerce as deacons, but also several children of the Yang family are also the first phase of the martial arts hall, and they have made great contributions in this Jiaozhi counterinsurgency, and they have been awarded the hereditary hundred households.

Yang Yungui smiled when he saw this, and drank all the wine in the cup as soon as he raised his head, Li Yuntian is now a dignified marquis, but he still calls him a brother and a brother, and he feels that he is not with the wrong person based on this alone.

On the first day of the first month of June, the pennant of the lecture hall was unfurled, the gongs and drums were noisy, and many students wearing black military uniforms stood in the dark on the colonel's field, and they gathered there to chat excitedly.

Today, the first and second phases of the lecture hall have officially graduated, and they will get their official military rank today and become a real military attache of the lecture martial arts.

It is worth mentioning that the second phase of the lecture martial arts hall was recruited by Li Yuntian after he went to Jiaozhi, and there were more than 1,500 people in total, of which more than 700 were recruited from the two capitals and thirteen provinces by the new style of martial arts, more than 200 were the sons of the Ming royal family and nobles, and the other 600 were promoted by Li Yuntian from the Xiaowu army, and entered the lecture hall to study together with the people who took the martial arts examination in Tongguò.

Today, the second phase of the lecture hall has completed the course, and they will be awarded the rank and saber together with the first batch of students.

Different from the first lecture on martial arts students, because Li Yuntian won three big victories in Anliang County, Luoyepo and Langjiang Mansion in Jiaozhi at that time, the second martial arts examination of Jiangwutang aroused a warm response in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, attracting a large number of young people to apply for the examination, fully ensuring the quality of students.

Moreover, the royal family and nobles of the Ming Dynasty also changed their views on Li Yuntian and the lecture hall because of those three big victories, and many people sent their sons-in-law to the lecture hall.

Especially those nobles in the court, they even told the children who entered the martial arts hall to abide by the rules and never make trouble in the martial arts hall, so as not to be driven out.

As the senior military attache of the Ming Dynasty, the nobles naturally knew the sinister nature of Li Yuntian's rebellion, but no one expected that Li Yuntian would use those remnants of the rebel generals to win three battles in a short period of time, forcing the Jiaozhi rebels to retreat to the Jiaozhou Mansion to take a defensive position.

Obviously, Li Yuntian's military talent is beyond the imagination of the nobles of the DPRK and China, and even the British minister Zhang Fu did not hesitate to express his appreciation and affirmation of Li Yuntian's military talent in public.

Since Li Yuntian won three big victories in Jiaozhi, in the eyes of the nobles, he has gained a firm foothold in Jiaozhi, which means that Li Yuntian has spent the most difficult period in Jiaozhi, so they are optimistic that Li Yuntian can achieve the final victory of Jiaozhi counterinsurgency.

And once the Xiaowu army succeeds in quelling the rebellion, Li Yuntian will definitely be able to increase his official ranks, and the specifications of the martial arts hall will also rise, and under Li Yuntian's promotion, it will become the highest school for military attachés in the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, those nobles let the children of their families enter the lecture hall not only to give Li Yuntian this face, but also a kind of identity and status to show off, after all, no one wants to be marginalized in this matter.

In fact, the happiest person in the face of this situation is not Li Yuntian, but Emperor Xuande.

Although Emperor Xuande trusted Li Yuntian, he preferred to see the brave and warlike Xiaowu army with the royal family and the sons of the nobles in charge, so that he could be more assured and prevent the Xiaowu army from being overwhelmed because of Li Yuntian.