I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Chapter 182 The Trembling Officials

"Father, what should we do next?"

Seeing that Yan Song had recovered to his previous state after a short rest, Yan Shifan hurriedly asked.

"Hey, this is the end of the matter, let's go to His Majesty's side!"

Yan Song sighed and said slowly.

"Father, is there no other way?"

Yan Shifan's face was full of despair, because he was familiar with the law of the Ming Dynasty, and he was even able to recite the law of the Ming Dynasty fluently!He couldn't be more clear about his fate.

To put it in a small way, this matter is the local officials' evasion and inaction, and to say it in a big way, it is provoking the authority of the emperor!The government orders issued by the emperor, but the officials under his command did not implement them. What do you want to do?Do you want to rebel?

This matter, for any emperor, is absolutely intolerable!

Therefore, Yan Shifan knew very well that many people would die this time.

"The matter has come to this, where is there any other way? Come on, follow me to His Majesty's place, and see how His Majesty will deal with us!"

Yan Song glanced at Yan Shifan, and said weakly.

……

In the capital, there were many people who heard the news, and Xu Jie was one of them.

"What did you say? Your Majesty already knows that the imperial court has not implemented the tax reduction and exemption for the common people all this time!"

After hearing the report from his subordinates, Xu Jie's face was full of horror, and the teacup in his hand fell in response, making the sound of broken ceramics.

"It's over, it's over, who on earth brought this up?"

With his hands behind his back, Xu Jie kept pacing the room, thinking about who might leak the secret.

By chance, Xu Jie raised his head and saw the Ru kiln vase that His Majesty gave him earlier, and woke up suddenly.

"Now it's not a matter of thinking about the candidate for the leak, you should hurry to His Majesty to plead guilty!"

After thinking about this problem, Xu Jie immediately ordered his subordinates to prepare the sedan chair. Before getting on the sedan chair, Xu Jie looked back at his mansion rather reluctantly.

Because Xu Jie didn't know if he would be able to come back.

"Have you heard? Both Mr. Yan Ge and Mr. Xu Ge have gone to meet His Majesty in sedan chairs and apologized to His Majesty!"

"Who said that, all five members of the cabinet have gone."

"Then why are you still standing there? The elders are all going to plead guilty to His Majesty. If we don't go, do we think that we will be turned over later?"

"Hey, wait for me!"

……

The Forbidden City, the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Jiajing got up and poured himself a cup of hot tea. After taking a sip, he asked Lu Fang, "How are you doing with the things I ordered you earlier?"

"Report to Your Majesty, the news has been released, and the officials are rushing this way now!"

Lu Fang, who was standing by the side, saw Jiajing asking, and quickly said respectfully.

"Well, let's hang them out for a while then."

Jiajing put the teacup aside, then picked up the cheat book of formation and began to study it carefully.

Time passed slowly like this, and gradually, on the square outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, densely packed ministers had knelt down.

As for Yan Song and the others, they knelt at the front with calm expressions.

"Well, if you can draw both the thunder method and the rain praying technique into talisman seals, then you can use them directly without reciting formulas."

Such an idea suddenly appeared in Jiajing's mind, and then he closed the secret book of the formation, and gave instructions to Lu Fang who was beside him.

"Lu Fang, go and get me some cinnabar and yellow paper. After the things are delivered, you can go out."

"The slaves obey."

Lu Fang bowed slightly to Jiajing, then walked away from the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

From Lu Fang's point of view, this is an excuse His Majesty gave himself to allow him to leave the Hall of Mental Cultivation openly, and the intention behind it is self-evident.

When Yan Song and the others saw Lu Fang coming out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, they thought that Lu Fang was delivering a message for His Majesty, so they couldn't help getting excited.

But Lu Fang ignored them and walked aside instead.

A moment later, when Lu Fang came back, she was still holding a tray in her hand, and because Yan Song and others were kneeling on the ground, they couldn't see clearly what was on the tray just by relying on the peripheral vision of their eyes.

"If only I could see clearly what Lu Fang gave His Majesty, maybe I could find a way to break the situation!"

At the moment, this is what everyone thinks.

"Your Majesty, the things have been delivered."

Lu Fang said respectfully after delivering the cinnabar and yellow paper.

"Well, yes, you go down first, no one is allowed to come in without my permission!"

"do you understand?"

Jiajing glanced at Lu Fang, and ordered in a deep voice.

"The slaves obey."

After Lu Fang finished speaking, she left respectfully. When she left, she also ordered the guards on the side to close the gate of the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Seeing Lu Fang coming out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation again, Yan Song and the others were overjoyed again, and said inwardly, "This time His Majesty must have sent Eunuch Lu here! Let me wait in."

Unexpectedly, Lu Fang came to stand in front of several people, and had no intention of speaking.

Seeing this, Yan Song gave Lu Fang a look. For this, Lu Fang just shook his head slightly.

"It's over now! Your Majesty doesn't even want to meet!"

"Your Majesty must have been extremely disappointed in me."

Yan Song thought so in his heart, his face was full of bitterness, and so did the rest of the people.

"At this moment, they desperately hope that they can enter the Hall of Mental Cultivation again and see His Majesty! Even if they will be convicted because of this, they will not hesitate."

"There is no other reason. The waiting process is too tormented. They don't know when His Majesty will punish them!"

Inside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Jiajing dipped a brush into cinnabar, secretly channeled his mana, and began to draw talismans on the cut yellow paper.

Prior to this, Jiajing had no experience in drawing talisman seals!In his opinion, the so-called talisman is to instill mana on paper in advance, and write the corresponding formula, which can be activated directly when it is to be used.

Therefore, although the talisman seals drawn by Jiajing are different from the regular talisman seals, the result is the same.

Jiajing's whole body was wrapped in lavender mana, and the formulas written on the yellow paper also exuded lavender light. After Jiajing finished the last stroke, he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Huh~ It's finally finished, this thing is too laborious!"

Jiajing put down the brush in his hand and said silently to himself.

What Jiajing inscribed earlier was Lei Fa's formula, a total of twenty characters.

"Well, the talisman seal has been drawn now, it's time to try it."

Jiajing thought so, and instilled mana into it, without reciting formulas during the whole process.

And at the moment when the lavender mana in Jiajing's body poured into the yellow paper, the sky that was originally extremely clear suddenly gathered a large swath of dark clouds.

All of a sudden, the sky was full of thunder and thunder, lightning flashed and thunder rumbled.

Immediately afterwards, a few thunderbolts as thick as arms were seen falling on the side of the square outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation!When the ministers looked along the place where the thunder struck, they saw that it was scorched black, and the floor tiles had already disappeared, leaving a hole emitting black smoke.

"Your Majesty is angry!"

I saw that among the many ministers kneeling on the square, I don't know who was the first to shout such a sentence.

"That's right, His Majesty was able to communicate with God when he was offering sacrifices, making it rain down."

"Right now, God must have sensed His Majesty's emotions, and sent divine thunder to punish us!"

"I also ask Your Majesty to forgive me, my minister is convicted!"

"I don't dare anymore, I will definitely work hard in the future!"

"I beg Your Majesty to spare this minister this time!"

For a while, many ministers who knelt down on the square before, disregarding the stone bricks on the ground, kowtowed heavily while telling their crimes, even though their foreheads were already bleeding profusely, they refused to stop.

In the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Jiajing couldn't help being overjoyed when he saw that his previous conjecture was confirmed, and then drew a few talisman seals, this time not only the thunder method, but also the formula for praying for rain.

"Well, sure enough, the drawing of talisman seals doesn't have to be rigid in form, as long as it is roughly the same."

After Jiajing finished speaking, he put away the hand-drawn talisman seals and said to himself silently.

(End of this chapter)