Brocade clothing as the country

Chapter 592

At the end of April in the tenth year of Wanli, news of the Qin case in Shanxi reached the capital. It took only 20 days from the time the imperial envoy arrived in Datong to when all the dust settled.

There are two arguments for this, one is that the imperial envoy is capable, and the other is that the conspiracy has long been exposed, and the imperial envoy's investigation is only to speed up the process.

Participating general Yu Siqiang defected to the Tartars, Yongsheng Bo Yu Yuangang committed suicide in fear of crime, although the palace deliberately suppressed it, there was still a lot of rumors about how rotten Datong is, but this is also expected by everyone Among them, the border town of Datong has always had a lot of weird things.

Cisheng Empress Dowager Li was in poor health in mid-April. Although the emperor often greeted him, Feng Bao and others still inquired about political affairs, but Empress Dowager Li obviously kept a low profile. Someone calculated the time, and it happened to be the time when the imperial envoy sent an urgent letter to the capital. .

On April 23, the Palace of Compassion and Ning in the imperial city of Beijing.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness Prince Lu has brought it!"

Cisheng Empress Dowager Li was reclining on the bed with her eyes closed, she heard the report from the female officer beside her, and said slowly:
"You stay, everyone else goes out, let him in."

After a few brief instructions, Jinxiu bowed and answered, not long after, the hall became much cleaner, King Lu walked in, and when he got to the place where the futon was in front, King Lu knelt down to greet her.

Empress Dowager Li glanced at Jinxiu, and Jinxiu hurriedly stepped forward to help Empress Dowager Li to sit upright, and after being quiet for a while, Empress Dowager Li sighed and said:
"Leaving you in the palace, I thought it was a time for our mother and son to get together more, but it's a pity that the treacherous villains outside took advantage of it to do evil. You are not too young, and if you stay in the palace like this, there will always be some kind of dissatisfaction." It's convenient, go to Weihui Mansion in Henan as soon as possible to become a feudal lord."

After finishing speaking, he was observing the reaction of King Lu and Zhu Yixuan. King Lu kowtowed obediently and said:
"Thank you for the queen mother's arrangement. I'm getting old and I want to go to Wei Hui as soon as possible. After all, it's my fief. It's good to get acquainted with him earlier. However, I want to ask my mother for a favor, and I still want to go to Wei Hui again." Stay in the palace for a while."

Originally, Empress Dowager Li nodded at the previous words, but when she heard the last request, Empress Dowager Li's eyes suddenly became stern, staring at King Lu, but King Lu didn't look up, just knelt there and said:

"I will go to the Fan, and I will not be able to accompany my mother like this in the future. July 22 is my mother's birthday. If I want to accompany my mother after her birthday, I ask my mother to agree."

The words were quite sincere, and Empress Dowager Li's stern eyes gradually eased. Looking at King Lu who was almost as tall as Wanli on the ground, Empress Dowager Li sighed and said:
"The Ai family agreed, your brother has grown up, and you have grown up too..."

After Lu Wang finished speaking, he chatted a few words of greetings, kowtowed and retreated. As soon as Lu Wang left, the female official Jinxiu hesitated, and hurriedly stepped forward and said:

"Your Majesty, Lord Long Live sent the Qin case to Your Majesty to read, just to urge your Majesty, King Lu will stay here..."

After being stared at by the stern eyes of the Empress Dowager Li, the female officer Jinxiu immediately dared not speak anymore, and the Empress Dowager Li said slowly:

"He is a child, so there are so many involvements. Didn't he check the place where he lives, and there is nothing. It's all the Yu family's reckless mess. What's the matter with Guan Yichun?"

Like the Compassionate Palace, the rest of the imperial city is still operating as usual. The so-called imperial city is actually a city. In addition to the residences of the emperor, concubines and the queen mother, the residences of the eunuchs are held. The hall of ceremony, the courtyard of storage and so on and so on.

In the southwest corner of the imperial city, the courtyards here are generally places for eunuchs who are seriously ill to recuperate. Of course, to put it harshly, this is actually a place waiting to die.

But now the status of eunuchs is getting higher and higher, and those with a little wealth and status can invite doctors from inside and outside the palace, and they can also get good medicine. , Many people died, and usually no one is willing to come here.

In fact, this place is cleaner than other places, because the palace is also afraid of the spread of epidemics. No matter whether there is anyone here, people come here every month to sweep and sprinkle lime for disinfection. Except for sweeping, the rest of the time is indeed very quiet.

In the quiet courtyard inside, there are several eunuchs today, the courtyard door is closed, and the house door is also closed. There are two eunuchs on duty in the courtyard, and there are two in the house. Burning incense, there is a Buddha statue, and two candles are lit beside the Buddha statue.

The doors and windows are closed, no light can come in, and the two candles in the room are useless, making it even more dark and mysterious. The standing man cleared his throat and said solemnly:
"In front of the Buddha, our family doesn't say anything false. We work as a nameless white at the Jiuxuan Niangniang Temple outside Nancheng. We live like animals every day. We don't know how long we can live. If you trust the Buddha, this is the only way to live." All the hardships are rewarding, not to mention entering the palace as an errand, and even got a position in charge, how did you get such a blessing, it’s not because of the Buddha’s effect... Li Quan, you have worked hard in the capital and Tianjin Wei, and today you also entered Gong, what is the reason?"

The eunuch kneeling below was Li Quan, who blinked his eyes when he heard the question from above, and answered:
"It's those dozens of taels of gold..."

"Think about it again, if you don't see Le Liu, if you don't follow him to believe in the Buddha, how can you have this chance to get gold, why did you enter the palace, why Le Liu was martyred, but you have the chance to get gold, and you can still come Arriving in the capital and being brought into the palace, is there no providence in the dark?"

Li Quan, who was kneeling on the ground, shook his head, and said vaguely:

"It's true, otherwise why wouldn't we have encountered this matter before..."

"This is all the result of Sanyang Buddha. Li Quan, Le Liu is teaching the Dharma in Tianjin. In order to avoid being harmed by traitors, he pretended to Maitreya. In fact, you worshiped Sanyang Buddha that day."

Li Quan rubbed his eyes, looked at the Buddha statue on the incense table above, and said in a voice:

"It's really the same, alas, disrespect and disrespect, the boy kowtowed to the Buddha, kowtowed to the Buddha!"

After kowtowing again and again, the eunuch next to the incense table said again:
"Since you believe in the Sanyang Sect, then we are close brothers and we should take care of each other. Do you know that worshiping the Sanyang Buddha has any benefits besides blessing?"

Li Quan, who was below, naturally shook his head, and the eunuch said:
"Although everyone is cut off, let's still think about what we did. There are many people in the palace who are married to each other, but they are playing a fake Phoenix, but they believe in the Three Suns Sect, but they can get rid of the root of life and death. Re-raised, to tell you the truth, there are more than a dozen brothers in our teaching, because of their sincerity, they have all grown up again, look at so many maids in this palace, we have this ability, we are the emperor! !"

Wumingbai entered the palace after self-castration, got enough food and clothing, and even gained wealth and status. People like them are physically disabled, but they still have desires in spirit. Looking at the thousands of flowers in the palace, how can they not be tempted? Pairing food is nothing more than an illusion. If it is really possible to grow again and carry on the family line, how many people are not willing to, people always have a glimmer of hope and want to grasp it. Believe it or not, there is no harm anyway. This promise can indeed confuse people's hearts.

After the above said so, I saw that the eyes of Li Quan who was kneeling on the ground seemed to be shining, and he said repeatedly:

"The young ones are willing to believe, the young ones are willing to believe, the young ones used to worship Buddha with sincerity, and from now on, they must devote themselves to Buddha and seek all kinds of benefits."

The eunuch standing beside the incense table smiled and nodded, stepped forward to help Li Quan up, and the two of them faced Sanyang Buddha together, the eunuch said:

"You are an honest person, and everyone sees it, so this lucky fate found you first. Although you have worshiped before, you did not recite the name of Sanyang Buddha after all. Even if you officially join the religion today, there are some testimonials that need to be reconciled with you." You say, if you don’t abide by these laws, it’s useless even if you are sincere, and the Buddha will still be angry. The first rule is not to lie about what you believe. Speak, if you do, you will be bombarded by five thunders, and your whole body will fester..."

The house began to talk about the rules one by one, and the atmosphere was quite solemn.

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The ups and downs of relatives are not very concerned in the capital, but Zhang Juzheng, the chief assistant of the cabinet, fell ill again, which is a great event in the capital.

This time I have been recuperating at home for four full days, and there was something wrong when I went to court. Although the weather was warm in April and May, it was not too hot, but the court clothes Mr. Zhang Ge wore when he went to court were clearly The gauze that I only wear in midsummer, what kind of disease did I get? Could it be that the symptoms of the hot wind are more severe?
Although the people dare not ask directly, they are inquiring everywhere in private. There are vague news that Mr. Zhang Ge's illness seems to be related to women. Everyone believes this statement. There are many concubines in Mr. Zhang's inner house. It is also well-known in the capital.

However, although he was ill, he was in good spirits, and everything was as usual.

Li Youzi, a scholar of the cabinet and Minister of the Ministry of Officials, asked to return to his hometown because he was too old to hold an important position. Emperor Wanli and Zhang Juzheng were both trying to persuade him to stay, but Li Youzi was determined to leave. The location of the hotel was run in the capital.

The other two cabinet scholars, Zhang Siwei and Shen Shixing's mansion of Zhang Juzheng's party, had a lot of guests who went to see them, and it was very lively, but this time, no matter whether it was Shen Shixing or Zhang Siwei, they were all behind closed doors. .

It was also during this time that when the Beijing camp was practicing, a military academy pointed at the deputy general of the Beijing camp, Xia Yuancheng, and cursed:
"Don't look at your prestige now, when that old man dies, you are nothing, and sooner or later someone will settle accounts with you."

This military academy was beaten with a hundred military sticks and was directly beaten to death on the school grounds. No one dared to persuade them, they just lamented that this general was drinking and gambling, and his death like this would be a good thing for his family.

(End of this chapter)