The Reborn Duke of Ming Dynasty

"Yuande, you look good today, but you have a sad face, did you encounter something?" Zhang Juzheng's voice came from behind Zhang Fan.

It is still very early now, and all the officials are waiting outside the palace gate to enter. Although Longqing is not going to the morning court now, the time of the morning court has not changed, it is still the same.

"Teacher," he turned around and saw that it was Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Fan bowed to him, "Something happened, right?"

"How do you say it?" Zhang Juzheng asked, it was really rare for Zhang Fan to have such an expression of revealing his thoughts, so he couldn't help asking.

"Yesterday, His Majesty summoned the students again," Zhang Fan said, "I saw that His Majesty's complexion is getting better every day, especially yesterday, when we met, he looked the same as before, and he was completely fine. and...Although His Majesty didn't say anything yesterday, the students feel that His Majesty seems to be planning to come to court today, "

"Hey, this is a good thing. It's not bad for His Majesty to come to court. In this case, why do you still look so sad?" Zhang Juzheng asked suspiciously after hearing Zhang Fan's words. Suddenly, he seemed He also thought of something, and said in surprise, "You...you don't think..."

Nodding his head, he seemed to agree with Zhang Juzheng's conjecture. Zhang Fan said: "What kind of body is your majesty now? The students have mentioned it to the teacher before. It seems that your majesty is doomed. But now, the imperial physician Wang Youcai The said time has come, I'm afraid..."

"You mean..." Although Zhang Juzheng already had a plan in mind, he still spoke intermittently, "...Huangguang...Huangzhao,"

Without nodding or speaking, Zhang Fan just remained silent, as if acquiescing to Zhang Juzheng's words.

"This..." After Zhang Juzheng got the answer, he didn't know what to say for a moment. Suddenly, he asked Zhang Fan seriously, "Why are you talking about this now? Why didn't you come to my house yesterday?" tell me above,

"Teacher, the students are also helpless," Zhang Fan said with embarrassment, "At first, the students also thought it was a good thing. After they came out of the palace yesterday, they were still very happy in their hearts. When my mother said that a family next door went to my father, my mother heard the scene. It is said that the old man was nearly [-] years old and had been in poor health before. Suddenly he was able to get out of bed and walk around, but he passed away the next day. When my mother said it was a flashback, the student remembered that His Majesty's condition is similar to this."

Zhang Juzheng didn't listen carefully to Zhang Fan's explanation, but kept his head down thinking about something. After a long time, he raised his head and said to Zhang Fan: "Who else did you tell about this?"

"The students just arrived, no, I just talked to the teacher," Zhang Fan explained.

"Fortunately," Zhang Juzheng nodded, "Since I only found out about this matter, it's even more impossible for Gao Gong to know about it."

"What are you going to do, teacher?" Zhang Fan hurriedly asked seeing that Zhang Juzheng seemed to have already made plans.

"There is a plan," Zhang Juzheng said, "that is, let's do nothing, and do whatever we want when the time comes. It's best to pretend that we don't know anything,"

Hearing what he said, Zhang Fan thought about it secretly, and asked, "What does the teacher mean..."

"Well, that's right." Zhang Juzheng nodded, and said with a serious face, "Let's stop in silence, but I don't know how long Your Majesty will be able to shine this time."

"What if something happens today," Zhang Fan asked, "No one can say for sure about such a thing."

"It's also possible," Zhang Juzheng thought for a while, and said, "But even if something happens today, we'll just pretend we don't know anything."

"What about Mr. Gao?" Zhang Fan asked. Naturally, he wasn't asking Gao Gong, but Gao Yi. "Should I tell him about this matter now, so that he can be prepared?"

"No, there's no need," Zhang Juzheng said after thinking about it for a while, "Now the time is coming, I'm afraid it's too late to tell him again, besides, we just wanted to pretend that we didn't know anything, but he was I really don’t know, so I don’t need to say it, I’ll explain it to him when the time comes.”

After listening to Zhang Juzheng's words, Zhang Fan wanted to say something more, but the sound of drums came from the palace gate tower, and it was time for the morning court.

Today's morning court is still the same as before, and the officials are also a little lazy, and since Long Qing has cultivated in the deep palace and has not come to court, even the censors have relaxed, and it is the same today, it seems that Long Qing is going to court No one knew what happened, even Zhang Fan who had seen Long Qing with his own eyes didn't hear anything from him, everything was just his guess.

The officials walked into the Huangji Hall. Although they still stood on the left and right according to the civil and military ranks, they stood a little loosely. These days when there is no emperor, they are all like this, and no one will come to meddle in other people's business. I didn't see Gao Gong. Is the chief minister of the cabinet the one who took the lead in slacking off? Besides, even Zhang Juzheng, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, was the same, and the others naturally became more courageous.

Of course, the difference is that Gao Gong didn't know what was going to happen, so he did it naturally; while Zhang Juzheng was mentally prepared and deliberately acted loose.

These days, if Longqing does not come, the procedure of going to court will be simplified a lot. Except for some things that have to be written in the notes, if any officials have something to do, they will just stand up and talk. Of course, if there are many If someone stood up, it was naturally the person with the highest official position who spoke first.

However, if the two have equal official positions, it will be a bit difficult. Recently, there have been many quarrels in the Huangji Palace, mostly because of this kind of thing.

Today, the officials who entered the hall didn't want to waste any more time. As soon as they took their positions, someone stood up and was ready to speak.

But at this moment, a high-pitched drake's voice rang out.

"The emperor is here,"

Following the eunuch's shout, Emperor Longqing walked out wearing a royal robe with a spring-like appearance.

However, the officials seemed to be stunned by this scene. From the eunuch's voice just now, until Long Qing went to the dragon chair and sat down, all the people below stood still, looking stunned. With Longqing.

Seeing the scene below, Long Qing was delighted: "What's the matter, dear friends, are you a little surprised to see me?"

Sure enough, it was the emperor's majesty. When Long Qing spoke, the officials below who were still standing still just now immediately came to their senses. At this moment, they didn't care how loose their positions were, and immediately knelt down together. , Kowtowed on the mountain and shouted: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live, I wish my emperor dragon health and well-being,"

"No, let's all get up." Long Qing was really in a good mood today, and regardless of how undisciplined the courtiers below were when he came in, he asked them to stand up, "I feel good today." , I came to the court, but my body is still a little weak, if there is anything to do, just stand up and speak, there is no need to do any more rituals, so as not to waste my words, "

"Zunzhi," the officials shouted again, stood up, and hurried back to the place where they should have been standing, neatly arranged.

Looking at the actions of this group of people, Zhang Fan couldn't help feeling a little funny, but he glanced at Long Qing who was sitting on the dragon chair, and lowered the corners of his raised mouth.

The morning court has returned to the way it was two months ago. In fact, it really doesn't matter whether Long Qing comes to the court or not. Anyway, ministers who have something to say come forward to speak out, and Long Qing usually doesn't make announcements most of the time. Any opinions, at most, are "leave it to so-and-so to handle", or "let so-and-so stand up and speak out" and the like.

Taking advantage of this time, Zhang Fan observed the courtiers present, and they seemed to be quite normal. Naturally, some people were happy, some were not, and some were indifferent to Long Qing's coming to the court.

Leaving aside those who are happy and indifferent, the most representative of those who are not happy is Gao Gong.

In the days when Long Qing was not around, Gao Gong was in high spirits. Naturally, he dealt a severe blow to those "foreign parties" who were not on his side, but because of Zhang Juzheng's existence, during this period of time, Gao Gong did not go too far. It succeeded, but generally speaking, during this period of time, there are still a lot of people who were unlucky because of the high arch, much more than before.

Now that Long Qing is able to go to court, Gao Gong is naturally unhappy. He can no longer be like this in the past two months, whoever is black is black, and whoever is white is white. You can't just find an extremely ridiculous reason, it's like demoting an official who doesn't agree with you.

However, Gao Gong's madness is madness, but he hasn't lost his mind. There are some things he knows that no matter how unhappy he is, he can't change it, just like Long Qing can come to court now. Regarding this kind of thing, Gao Gong Apart from being helpless, Gong can only agree.

Compared with the past two months, today's morning court is naturally much more orderly due to the presence of Long Qing. With Long Qing present, he came one by one step by step, and no officials dared to openly quarrel or insult each other. It also went much smoother, and from the time point of view, it was much faster than before.

There are not many things to do today, and soon, the morning will be over.

Following the eunuch's "retreat", Zhang Fan felt relieved for some reason, he was really afraid that something would happen to Long Qing now.

And Zhang Juzheng still seemed not at ease, his eyes kept on Long Qing, even though he had stood up from the dragon chair.

"It seems that the teacher is worried about Thailand," Zhang Fan couldn't help but think so.

However, just as Zhang Fan thought so, a loud roar woke him up.

"His Majesty,"