I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Under the guidance of the steward, everyone entered the Confucius Mansion through the door.

After passing through a long and narrow courtyard, you come to the second gate of Kongfu Middle Road. This gate was built in the Ming Wuzong period. A vertical plaque inscribed "The Gate of Saints" in Li Dongyang's handwriting.

After entering the "Gate of Saints", what is oncoming is a small, exquisite and unique screen door. Hanging on the screen door is a piece written "Gift of Light" that was awarded by Jiajing when Kong Shangxian succeeded Fengyan Shenggong. plaque.

When Hai Rui followed the butler's footsteps and walked here, perhaps he felt something in his heart, and subconsciously raised his head and looked at the plaque.

After passing through this door, everyone finally came to the Confucian Mansion Hall. The usual function of the Confucian Mansion Hall is the place where Yan Shenggong read the imperial decree and received officials, and sometimes even tried cases here.

After entering the lobby of the Confucian Mansion, Kong Shangxian was sitting at the head, pointing to the vacant seat at the side, and gave instructions to Hai Rui and Cao Feng.

"You all sit down!"

"Yes, thank you, Duke Yan!"

Seeing this, Hai Rui and Cao Feng bowed respectfully to Kong Shangxian before sitting down on their seats.

Not long after the two of them sat down, a servant came forward and brought them a bowl of hot tea.

Kong Shangxian, who was sitting at the top, saw this situation and made a gesture of invitation to the two of them.

"Two, why not try my unique tea from Confucian Mansion!"

After Kong Shangxian's words fell, Hai Rui and Cao Feng at the side picked up their teacups and took a sip.

Immediately, after tasting the taste of the tea in the cup, Cao Feng who was on the side couldn't help but his eyes lit up, and he immediately spoke in admiration.

"This tea is really good. It has a mellow taste and a long aftertaste. If you taste it carefully, there is still a hint of aftertaste. It's not bad!"

Hai Rui on the side didn't comment on the taste of the tea, but after taking a sip, he immediately put the teacup in his hand back to its original position.

Seeing this situation, Kong Shangxian, who was sitting at the top, couldn't hold back his inner curiosity any longer. He turned his eyes to Hai Rui and asked.

"Lord Du Yushi, I don't know what His Majesty's message is for you to come here this time?"

When Kong Shangxian finished speaking, the lobby of Kong Mansion suddenly fell into silence.

Even Cao Feng, who was at the side, subconsciously put all his attention on Hai Rui, completely unaware that he was holding a teacup in his hand.

Hearing this, Hai Rui turned his gaze to Kong Shangxian, immediately got up from his seat, and after paying respectful salute to Kong Shangxian, he opened his mouth and spoke word by word.

"Yan Shenggong, to be honest, His Majesty commissioned an official to tell you that if you want to survive, you should go to the capital!"

After Hai Rui's voice fell, Kong Shangxian only felt a chill coming from the soles of his feet straight to the top of the sky!

"Wh... what, this... this is impossible, I... I am Yan Shenggong, Your Majesty will never..."

Kong Shangxian kept murmuring, his face full of disbelief.

At this moment, I only heard a crisp sound of 'bang', followed the reputation, and saw that the teacup that was originally in the hands of Cao Feng, the governor of Shandong, fell to the ground at an unknown time, shattered on the ground, and turned into countless pieces. The ceramic shards and the tea in the cup just spilled on the ground, still steaming a little.

At this moment, the expression on Cao Feng's face was exactly the same as that of Kong Shangxian before.

Because the whole thing was too horrifying, at this moment Cao Feng, his face was pale, his whole body was trembling, and he had already fallen into a state of sluggishness.

Hai Rui had a panoramic view of the expression on Kong Shangxian's face, and immediately stepped forward, handing over the handwritten letter sent by Jiajing not long ago to Kong Shangxian.

"If you don't believe me, Yan Shenggong, just read this letter!"

"This is a personal letter that His Majesty sent to your subordinates not long ago!"

After Hai Rui finished speaking, after glancing at Kong Shangxian, he immediately went back to his seat and sat down.

At this moment, Kong Shangxian had already become distraught. His rationality told him that everything Hai Rui said was true, and that he had really offended His Majesty!

But maybe because of the last sliver of luck, Kong Shangxian opened the envelope tremblingly, and began to browse the contents on it.

There was not much content on the letter, only two short sentences, but when Kong Shangxian finished browsing the contents of the letter, his whole body felt like being struck by lightning, and the last trace of luck in his heart was broken, and he saw a look of despair on his face. Colorful, he put the letter in his hand aside tremblingly.

There is no other reason. On the letter paper, the content of those two sentences is.

"I already know what Aiqing said in the letter, and all the families involved in it will be dealt with!"

"Also, when the time comes, send a message to Yan Shenggong for me. If he still wants to live, he will come to the capital obediently for me!"

At this moment, the atmosphere in the lobby of the Confucian Mansion had dropped to freezing point, and no one in the room spoke.

After a long time, Kong Shangxian came back to his senses, turned his gaze to Hai Rui with the last sliver of luck, and after hesitating for a long time, he opened his mouth and said.

"I don't know if Lord Censor is willing to..."

Before Kong Shangxian finished speaking, he was coldly interrupted by Hai Rui: "Mr. Yansheng, I just followed His Majesty's order and came to give you these words. Since the words have been brought to you, then It’s not convenient for me to stay as a low-ranking official, so I’ll take my leave!”

After Hai Rui finished speaking, he bowed his hands to Kong Shangxian, and immediately left the lobby of the Confucius Mansion with Cao Feng.

In Hai Rui's view, now that he had delivered the words, the letter had lost its meaning. Therefore, Hai Rui did not choose to take back the handwritten letter from Kong Shangxian.

After the two walked out of the Confucian mansion hall, Cao Feng reacted belatedly. He turned his gaze to Hai Rui, his face was full of horror, and he asked.

"My... my lord, this, this, is it possible that His Majesty really wants to let Yan Shenggong go to the capital..."

Hai Rui took a panoramic view of the expression on Cao Feng's face, sighed helplessly, and immediately spoke.

"Lord Cao, we can't get involved in this matter. We just need to wait for the final result with peace of mind. Let's go!"

When Cao Feng heard what Hai Rui said, he couldn't help but show a helpless expression on his face. Immediately, he hurriedly followed Hai Rui's pace and walked towards the outside of Kong's mansion.

Before officially leaving, Cao Feng looked back reluctantly.

The scenery of the Confucian Mansion is the same as before they came. On the left and right sides of the gate, there are still the pair of two-meter-tall, lifelike stone lions with stone beads in their mouths.

On the black lacquered gate with red edges, there are inlaid suanni cattails, and the word "Confucian Mansion" written in gold letters on a blue background is hung on the gate. Everything is so magnificent!

Compared with when we came here, although the scenery is not bad, in Cao Feng's view, the Confucian Mansion at this moment has a little more inexplicable meaning.

Suddenly, Cao Feng's mind suddenly came up with such a sentence: "The Ze of the Gentleman, beheaded for five lifetimes!"

But soon, he threw this thought out of his mind, comforting himself like this.

"No, it shouldn't be. In the final analysis, Duke Yansheng just made a small mistake this time, and it shouldn't be so serious!" It just knows the details!"

"Yes, that's right, it must be so!"

After Hai Rui and Cao Feng left the Confucian mansion one after another, they saw Kong Shangxian slumped on the seat with blank eyes, muttering incessantly: "It's over, it's over, it's over!"

Until now, Kong Shangxian has no way to convince himself to accept this fact.

So what if the Confucian family has an incomparably lofty prestige in the hearts of scholars all over the world?

But in the final analysis, everything the Kong family currently owns comes from the emperor, and whether they live or die is nothing more than a matter of the emperor's words!
It's just that the previous emperors were either out of the need to consolidate their own rule, or out of the principle that one thing more is worse than one thing less. In short, they always turned a blind eye to what the Kong family did behind the scenes. Attitude!

Emperor Jiajing, on the other hand, had no such concerns at all. On the one hand, it was because when he first came to the throne, he overwhelmed the ministers through the great ritual debate and established his dominance.

On the other hand, as Jiajing has been in power for a long time, his position has become more and more stable. In other words, Jiajing does not really need the help of the Kong family and the other "Four Sages and Three Sages" families, and he can also stabilize the emperor s position.

It's just that there must be a Yan Shenggong, and even if this person is not him, Kong Shangxian, it will be someone else in the Confucian mansion.

It wasn't until this time that Kong Shangxian realized how ridiculous his previous thoughts were, and even regretted that he couldn't stand the temptation and agreed with the proposals of the other families.

However, there is no medicine for regret in the world, and Kong Shangxian, who had calmed down, began to rack his brains to think about the next countermeasure.

"First of all, His Majesty only asked me to go to the capital, and did not say that he would punish me. In other words, there is still room for relaxation!"

"In addition, I am in the court, and I have Elder Yan Ge and Elder Xiao Ge as my support. As long as they can come forward and say a few good words for me in front of His Majesty, this matter should pass soon!"

Kong Shangxian thought so, only to see him calling his servants and giving orders.

"Go and invite Madam to me right now, and say you have something important to discuss with her!"

"Yes, sir!"

After the servant responded, he turned around and left. Not long after, Mrs. Yan, accompanied by the maid, came to the lobby of the Confucian Mansion.

As soon as Mrs. Yan entered the lobby of the Confucian Mansion, she immediately saw Kong Shangxian who was frowning.

Although she didn't have any feelings for Kong Shangxian, out of his wife's concern, she still asked a symbolic question.

"What's wrong, what happened?"

When Kong Shangxian heard the words, he sighed helplessly, and immediately handed over the handwritten letter that Hai Rui left earlier to Yan Shi.

"Oh, what happened back then, you can see for yourself!"

After Yan took the letter from Kong Shangxian's hand, he began to browse the contents above.

Although since ancient times, there has been a saying that a woman's lack of talent is a virtue, but Yan, as a child of a top official family, has received extremely strict education since childhood, so it is not a problem to be able to read and write.

Yan Shi just glanced at the content on the letter paper, and was suddenly terrified, and then he came back to his senses, and there was a little trembling in his tone.

"Here...what to do next, His Majesty has to..."

Kong Shangxian saw the expression on Yan's face, and his face was full of helplessness: "Oh, now that things have come to a point, I can only go to your father for help!"

After listening to Kong Shangxian's proposal, Yan couldn't help biting her lips, her face full of confusion.

In terms of love and reason, since she got married, she actually has nothing to do with the Yan family. On weekdays, in order not to arouse the emperor's suspicion, the two families try not to communicate with each other except for some necessary emotional ties.

But now, because of these dirty things of the Kong family, his father who had just joined the cabinet and his grandfather who was still the chief assistant of the cabinet were involved, which made Yan quite entangled.

And Kong Shangxian at the side seemed to see the hesitation in Yan's heart, and immediately comforted him.

"Don't worry, it's just for your father to say a few good words in front of His Majesty, nothing else will be involved!"

Kong Shangxian finished speaking. After thinking for a long time, Yan finally nodded and agreed to Kong Shangxian's proposal.

"Well, I'll try to write a letter to my father first. As for whether my father will agree, I can't control it!"

Seeing that Yan finally agreed to his proposal, Kong Shangxian couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and immediately responded.

"Well, no matter what the final result is, let's try it first!"

……

Since then, another two days have passed.

In the evening, Yan's study.

At this moment, Yan Song was wearing presbyopic glasses, looking at the book in his hand quite intently, while Yan Shifan was standing not far from Yan Song anxiously.

Time passed so slowly, I don't know how long it has passed, I saw Yan Song took off the reading glasses he was wearing unhurriedly, then looked at Yan Shifan beside him, and asked.

"Tell me, what's the matter?"

Seeing this situation, Yan Shifan couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief, and after organizing the words in his mind, he lowered his voice and said.

"Father, there is news from Hai Rui!"

"Oh, is there any new development over at Hai Rui?"

When Yan Song heard this, he couldn't help becoming interested, and immediately shifted his gaze to Yan Shifan, asking questions.

"Father, not long ago, this Hai Rui dispatched local guardsmen to confiscate the homes of all the families of the "Four Saints and Three Sages" on the grounds that they had colluded with the White Lotus Sect!"

"Currently, all the members of the families involved in this case are being escorted to the capital!"

"There hasn't been any news from Yan Shenggong's side. It is said that Hai Rui went to Yan Shenggong's side with Shandong governor Cao Feng after this. It is unknown what the two sides talked about!"

When Yan Shifan said this, he immediately changed the subject and added to Yan Song.

"In addition, father heard that Hai Rui confiscated property from those families. It is conservatively estimated that it is at least 8000 million taels!"

"In addition, there are countless items such as antiques and curios, house deeds and land deeds. According to preliminary statistics, the land previously occupied by those families is about 36 mu!"

After listening to Yan Shifan's report, Yan Song's expression didn't change much, but he glanced at Yan Shifan rather plainly, and said with emotion.

"It seems that His Majesty has taken action after all!" (End of Chapter)