I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

After reprimanding Yan Song and Xu Jie, Jiajing turned around, glanced at the officials headed by Ouyang Yijing one by one, his face was filled with relief, and he turned to speak.

"Well, I am very pleased that all of you, dear friends, speak out and dare to remonstrate and point out injustice to your face. You are worthy of your reputation as public officials. You are the backbone of my Ming Dynasty!"

When Ouyang Yijing and the officials behind Hu Yingjia heard the emperor's words, they immediately felt honored and puffed up their chests unconsciously.

After all, today's battle can be said to be a complete victory. Not only did he show his prestige as an official, but he also received praise from the emperor.

"Sure enough, it was the two traitorous ministers Yan Song and Xu Jie who deceived Sheng Ting and caused the court to fall into this situation!"

At this moment, this was the thought in the minds of most of the speakers present.

After that, Jiajing changed the topic and continued: "Let's leave this matter as it is today. After King Jing attends the ceremony of canonizing the queen, I will let him return to the fiefdom!"

Ouyang Yijing and Hu Yingjia who were not far away were embarrassed to say anything more when they saw that the emperor had already talked about this.

After using their eyes to stop those officials who wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to directly remonstrate with them, the two of them leaned down and respectfully responded: "I obey, Your Majesty!"

When the words fell, Jiajing looked around, waved his hand, and said casually: "Okay, it's time to go on duty, let's all disperse!"

After Jiajing finished speaking, without waiting for anyone to respond, he walked in the direction of where the dragon was parked.

"I will respectfully send you off to Your Majesty!"

Everyone looked at the emperor's leaving figure and reacted quickly. Then, under the leadership of Yan Song, the chief minister of the cabinet, everyone present knelt on the ground and watched Jiajing leave.

After Jiajing left, everyone got up from the ground one after another and dispersed.

……

Capital City, Yan Mansion.

After the sedan stopped, Yan Shifan got off the sedan first. Just when he wanted to help Yan Song out of the sedan as before, Yan Song waved his hand and stopped him.

"No need, I'll come down by myself!"

"Yes, father!"

After Yan Shifan heard this, he immediately stepped aside, lowered his head, and responded respectfully.

After that, Yan Shifan was seen following Yan Song step by step, heading towards the direction of Yan's study.

When they reached the steps, Yan Shifan stepped forward, carefully supported Yan Song, and then said: "Father, please slow down!"

Hearing this, Yan Song glanced at Yan Shifan, nodded, and did not refuse his support.

After helping Yan Song into the study, Yan Shifan couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. He could see that Yan Song was in a high mood today and did not look like he had been reprimanded at all.

Just when Yan Shifan was about to leave, he was stopped by Yan Song: "Yan Shifan, what do you think of what happened today?"

After Yan Shifan heard this, he thought about it for a moment before giving his response: "Father, I feel that King Yu is behind this, because he is the only one with this motive and strength in the government and the public!"

After hearing Yan Shifan's words, Yan Song nodded, then pointed to the empty seat aside and motioned for Yan Shifan to sit down.

Naturally, Yan Shifan did not dare to go against Yan Song's words. He did not dare to refuse at all and immediately sat down on the empty seat pointed by Yan Song.

Then, Yan Song's voice without any emotion was heard: "Well, you guessed it right, King Yu should be the one behind this matter!"

When Yan Song said this, he paused for a moment, with a hint of ridicule at the corner of his mouth, and continued: "Unfortunately, King Yu made a mistake. Not only did he fail to eliminate King Jing, a serious problem in his heart, but he also made himself suffer from His Majesty. disgust!"

Yan Shifan also quite agreed with Yan Song's words. He only nodded and said in agreement: "Father is right. King Yu's move is like shooting himself in the foot!"

After Yan Shifan finished speaking, a look of confusion appeared on his face, and he continued: "Father, I don't understand. Logically speaking, doesn't King Yu have Xu Jie to help him make plans? How could he suddenly make such a foolish move?"

Yan Song took in the expression on Yan Shifan's face, shook his head, and said slowly: "I can't understand it either!"

After that, Yan Song changed the topic, looked in the direction of Yan Shifan, and asked: "In your opinion, is it good or bad that my father was reprimanded by His Majesty today?"

When Yan Shifan heard this, he thought about it for a long time before he responded: "To tell you what my father said, this is a good thing!"

After Yan Song received Yan Shifan's answer, a look of interest appeared on his face. He looked in the direction of Yan Shifan and asked, "Oh, how can you see it?"

When Yan Shifan heard this, after carefully considering his words, he responded: "To answer my father's question, you told me before that as a minister, the most important thing is to share your Majesty's worries!"

"This time, the demands made by those officials to His Majesty are extremely reasonable and cannot be faulted. After all, the time that the vassal king can stay in the capital is very limited."

"If your Majesty does not take the opportunity to shift the responsibility to you and Xu Jie, then you will inevitably fall into an extremely embarrassing situation. Father, you said before that your Majesty is a person who misses old relationships, and he will remember these things. In my heart!”

After listening to Yan Shifan's analysis, Yan Song felt a little relieved on his face.

Then, Yan Song nodded, picked up the teacup on the side, took a sip, and said encouragingly: "Well, not bad, there is progress!"

Faced with Yan Song's praise, Yan Shifan felt a little at a loss. He stood up from his seat, bowed his hands to Yan Song, and said respectfully: "This is all from my father's teachings!"

Hearing this, Yan Song looked Yan Shifan up and down, waved his hand, and said: "Okay, go down, I still have things to deal with!"

When Yan Shifan heard this, he immediately looked stern and responded respectfully: "Yes, father, I will leave now!"

After that, Yan Shifan did not stay in the study for too long, but left directly.

……

Night falls, in the capital city, at King Jing's Mansion.

At this moment, Zhu Zaizhen was drinking wine alone in the room, with several dishes of appetizers placed on the table.

Zhu Zaizhen raised his head and drank all the wine in the cup. Then he picked up the chopsticks, picked up a dish, put it into his mouth, and tasted it carefully.

After a few glasses of wine, Zhu Zaizhen was already a little tipsy. Since the last time he witnessed the imperial concubine Shen successfully giving birth to a son for Jiajing, Zhu Zaizhen knew that the possibility of inheriting the throne had become extremely slim. .

After all, even if Zhu Zaiyuan unfortunately died while growing up, there would still be his third brother Zhu Zaiyu in front of him.

It is precisely because of this that Zhu Zaizhen's desire for the throne is no longer as enthusiastic as before.

At this moment, there was a knock on the door. Seeing this, Zhu Zaizhen put down the wine glass in his hand and said: "Come in!"

After the words fell, there was only a "squeak" sound, the door of the room was pushed open, and the butler of Prince Jing's Mansion stepped in, bowed to him and said: "Your Highness!"

Zhu Zaizhen heard the words and responded in a subtle way. Then, seeing the butler's expression of hesitation, he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows and asked: "What's the matter? What happened?"

When the housekeeper heard Zhu Zaizhen's words, hesitation appeared on his face. After thinking about it for a long time, he leaned down and said cautiously: "Your Highness, to be honest, I was near Zhengyang Gate today..."

Under the steward's narration, Zhu Zaizhen quickly understood the ins and outs of the matter.

Then, with a gloomy face, he raised his head, looked in the direction of the housekeeper, and gave instructions: "Well, I know, you can go down first!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

When the housekeeper heard this, he felt as if he had been granted amnesty. Without any hesitation, he immediately left the room and closed the door of the room with him.

Shortly after the housekeeper left, Zhu Zaijing could no longer suppress the anger in his heart. His face was full of resentment. He gritted his teeth and said word by word: "Third brother, you are really my good third brother." ah!"

After Zhu Zaizhen learned from the steward that an official in the court had appealed to the emperor, requesting that he be allowed to leave the capital immediately and return to his fiefdom, he quickly realized that this was his third brother Zhu Zaijing. Adding fuel to the fire behind the scenes.

After all, only by driving oneself back from the capital to the fiefdom can hidden dangers be completely eliminated.

Zhu Zaizhen couldn't understand why his third brother Zhu Zaijing still looked aggressive even though he had given in as much as possible.

"Father didn't say anything, is it your turn to point fingers?"

The more Zhu Zaizhen thought about it, the angrier he became, and he began to curse constantly: "When I was in power, how did you, these restless bastards, fawn over me?"

"Also, those damn officials also got involved in this matter. It's really abominable..."

After venting his depression, Zhu Zaizhen gradually calmed down. He knew very well that his departure from Beijing was already a certainty and there was no possibility of any change.

After all, Jun Wuxi said, this was a promise made by Jiajing himself in front of the officials and the cabinet.

At this moment, an idea suddenly flashed in Zhu Zaizhen's mind, and he suddenly thought of a question that he had deliberately ignored before.

"Since I can figure out who is behind it, how could my father not figure it out?"

"My father has personally said before that he doesn't want to see our brothers fighting against each other. However, there is no doubt that the third brother's behavior will be disliked by my father. This is obviously self-inflicted and he is shooting himself in the foot. !”

"Although I, Zhu Zaizhen, have no chance to inherit the throne, you, Zhu Zaijing, don't even think about it. After today's incident, my father will definitely be disappointed in you. Everything you have done in front of my father will be wiped out." In vain!"

"Hahaha, okay, okay!"

When Zhu Zaizhen thought of this, his face was filled with the joy of getting revenge. Then, he stroked his beard and gave instructions to the slaves outside the door.

"Come here, bring some wine. I won't come home until I'm drunk today!"

On the other side, inside Prince Yu's Mansion.

After Zhu Zaijing learned from his subordinates what happened near Zhengyangmen today, he reacted belatedly and felt deeply regretful.

His original plan was to ask those officials to submit a memorial to formally put King Jing's departure from Beijing on the agenda, and to explore Jiajing's tone along the way.

Unexpectedly, in this process, those public officials also got involved. A group of public officials led by Ouyang Yijing and Hu Yingjia gathered at Zhengyang Gate and brought the whole matter to the table.

There is a saying that goes very well, some things are not weighed, and are not weighed one or two, but if they are weighed, even a thousand pounds cannot stop it!

After all, the imperial court had many restrictions on those vassal kings who were already vassals.

Since Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, was in trouble, in order to prevent similar things from happening again, many harsh methods were established to deal with those vassal kings who had already surrendered.

There are also many restrictions on the time the feudal king can stay in Beijing.

Ever since King Jing received the imperial edict and entered the capital, the government and the public had turned a blind eye to the matter until the emperor revealed his intentions.

And when this matter was brought to the table by Yan Guan, Jiajing had no choice but to accept it with his nose pinched. As the emperor and the emperor, Jiajing could not violate the ancestral system in public!

At the moment, Zhu Zaijing couldn't even imagine what his image in Jiajing's heart would look like.

Then, Zhu Zaijing came back to his senses, looked at the servants aside, and gave instructions in a deep voice.

"Send someone immediately to invite Mr. Xu Ge and the others, go quickly!"

"Yes, Your Highness!"

After hearing this, the servant bowed to Zhu Zaijing and left quickly.

After that, Zhu Zaijing's face was full of anxiety, and he kept pacing back and forth in the room, muttering to himself: "How could this happen? Gu Mingming is fully prepared..."

After receiving the news, Xu Jie rushed to Prince Yu's Mansion without any hesitation.

On the way to Prince Yu's Mansion in the sedan chair, Xu Jie opened the curtain of the sedan chair and looked at the scenery on both sides of the road. At this time, he just felt confused.

He also had some guesses in his mind about what happened today. When people from Prince Yu's Mansion came to look for him, he understood that all his previous guesses were correct - this matter was really related to Prince Yu. !

"Prince Yu, Prince Yu, you have set a big trap now!"

After finishing his emotion, Xu Jie withdrew his gaze, lowered the sedan curtain, and told the sedan bearers outside to speed up.

……

After Xu Jie's sedan stopped at the entrance of Prince Yu's Mansion, he was quickly welcomed into Prince Yu's Mansion by the butler. Under the guidance of the butler, Xu Jie came to the study.

After entering the study, Xu Jie saw Zhu Zaicheng who looked anxious and didn't know what to do.

"I have met His Royal Highness Prince Yu!"

After Xu Jie entered the study, he looked in the direction of Zhu Zaijing, bowed and saluted.

"Mr. Xu Ge, here you go, sit down, sit down quickly!"

Seeing Xu Jie's arrival, Zhu Zaijing seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and quickly asked Xu Jie to sit down.

When Xu Jie heard this, he didn't refuse and sat down on the seat next to him.

Xu Jie just sat down on his seat when he heard Zhu Zaijing's restless voice: "Presumably Mr. Xu Ge has heard about what happened at Zhengyangmen this afternoon, right?"

Hearing this, Xu Jie nodded, and immediately responded: "Well, I did hear that. Not only that, I was still there!"

When Zhu Zaijing heard what Xu Jie said, he quickly realized that he had said the wrong thing.

But at this time, Zhu Zaijing could no longer care about anything else. He only saw him looking in the direction of Xu Jie and continued: "Mr. Xu Ge, to be honest, I sent someone to ask King Jing to leave the capital immediately. What an idea!"

Although Xu Jie had been mentally prepared before this, when he actually heard the news from Zhu Zaijing, he still couldn't accept it.

He suddenly stood up from his seat, with a look of disbelief on his face, looked in the direction of Zhu Zaijing, and said in a deep voice: "Your Highness, you are confused, this is a stupid move!"

Zhu Zaijing on the side suddenly panicked when he heard Xu Jie's words, and quickly explained: "No, Mr. Xu Ge, that's not what happened. Just listen to Gu's explanation!"

Under Zhu Zaijing's narration, Xu Jie finally understood the whole story, and his frown was slightly relieved.

According to Zhu Zaijing, he originally planned to ask those officials to submit a memorial to formally put the matter of King Jing's departure from Beijing on the agenda, and also to explore Jiajing's tone.

Unexpectedly, during this process, those officials suddenly intervened, causing things to get out of hand and become what it is now.

"Huh, fortunately, His Highness Prince Yu is not too stupid. Otherwise, I, Xu Jie, could really consider changing my support target!"

After patiently listening to Zhu Zaijing's narration, Xu Jie looked away and thought this way.

In Xu Jie's view, King Yu's idea of ​​letting King Jing leave the capital is actually understandable. After all, cutting the grass requires eradicating the root, leaving no chance for the opponent to breathe.

In addition, there is nothing too wrong with King Yu's method of asking those officials to submit memorials, but the whole thing is unlucky. No one expected that these officials would interfere.

In this way, the matter was completely out of control. If you look at it from the emperor's perspective, you can easily draw a conclusion-this group of officials was instigated by King Yu!

And this undoubtedly greatly challenged the emperor's authority.

I'm not dead yet, and you're instigating Yan Guan to go against me. What do you want to do, do you want to rebel?

Just as Xu Jie's thoughts were racing, he heard a knock on the door, which brought him back to reality.

After Zhu Zaijing heard the knock on the door, he immediately ordered: "Come in!"

After the words fell, there was only a "squeak" sound, and the door of the room was pushed open. The people who came were none other than Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng.

As Zhu Zaijing's teacher, Gao Gong naturally could not sit idly by after receiving Zhu Zaijing's request.

But Zhang Juzheng was different. He just came to have fun. Besides, he was also curious about why Zhu Zaijing suddenly made such a stupid move.

Before Zhu Zaijing could speak, Gao Gong looked eagerly in the direction of Zhu Zaijing and asked, "His Royal Highness, what is going on? You are confused!"

Zhu Zaijing on the side heard Gao Gong's words and was about to explain, when Xu Jie took over, pointed to the empty seat beside him, and told the two of them: "Sit down first!"

After Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng took their seats one after another, Xu Jie began to describe the whole story in an orderly manner.

"Everyone, this is what happened. What do you think?"

After the words fell, Xu Jie picked up the teacup on the side, took a sip, glanced at Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng respectively, and said slowly.

After learning the whole story from Xu Jie's mouth, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng couldn't help but be stunned for a moment.

What they didn't expect was that the whole thing was just an accident.

King Yu did not expect that Yan Guan would end up at this time and make things get out of hand.

After thinking about it for a long time, Gao Gong stood up, faced everyone, and put forward his own suggestion: "Now, what we should be most concerned about is how His Majesty views this matter!"

"Although this is an unreasonable disaster, in His Majesty's opinion, it is not necessarily so!"

When Gao Gong finished his words, everyone present fell into silence involuntarily.

After all, from the emperor's perspective, the whole thing was that King Yu was instigating those officials behind his back to oppose him in public.

The emperor is generally very suspicious, so he will inevitably think of other things, such as rebellion and seizing power.

And once the emperor thinks in this direction, that person's death will not be far away.

Since ancient times, in order to compete for the throne, things like father killing his son and son killing his brother have occurred endlessly.

Thinking of this, Zhu Zaijing could not help but turn pale and tremble all over. At this moment, his face was full of panic that could not be concealed.

At this moment, Xu Jie raised his head, looked in the direction of Zhu Zaijing, and said solemnly: "His Royal Highness, what Mr. Gaoge said just now is very reasonable. What we should be most concerned about now is Yes, how does Your Majesty view this matter?"

"Since there is a misunderstanding, you should explain the matter clearly before the misunderstanding develops into a rift. You are His Majesty's son. As long as you explain it clearly, His Majesty will not care!"

When Xu Jie's words fell, Zhang Juzheng on the side also responded: "Yes, Your Highness Prince Yu, what Mr. Xu Ge said makes sense, you might as well explain the matter clearly!"

After Zhu Zaijing listened to everyone's consolation, a tangled look appeared on his face.

It is true that although this is the best solution, Zhu Zaijing is actually afraid of facing Jiajing.

After hesitating for a long time, Zhu Zaijing seemed to have made up his mind. He clenched his fists, faced the crowd, and said in a deep voice: "Well, what you said makes sense. It's getting late now. I'll go there early tomorrow morning." Meet Father and explain the matter clearly!"

Gao Gong took in the expression on Zhu Zaijing's face, and he couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief, and a trace of relief flashed across his face.

"After all, King Yu is also His Majesty's son. As long as the matter is explained clearly, there will definitely be no big problem!" (End of Chapter)