Jinyi Town Mountains and Rivers

Chapter 189
In the main hall of Yongshou Palace, there are three memorials and a piece of paper on Emperor Jiajing's desk.

The three memorials were presented by the Ministry of Criminal Justice to Wu Shilai, the principal Dong Chuance, and Yuanwailang Zhang Zhong.The content is surprisingly consistent: the impeachment of the chief assistant Yan Song for being greedy, arrogating power, and harming the country.

Dong Chuance was a fellow of Xu Jie's second assistant, and Zhang Zhong and Wu Shilai were students of Xu Jie.People with a little brains will understand that Xu Jie and King Yu are the ones who instigated them to participate in Yan Song.

But these three memorials have a common weakness: they are all rumors without any real evidence.

Participation without evidence can not even hurt the fur of the strict party.

"Going to war against Yan Song without evidence? Let me kill a chief minister? Xu Jie, Xu Jie, why are you so smart about this matter?" Emperor Jiajing cursed inwardly.

Emperor Jiajing liked to eat pills, his temperament was made cloudy and sunny by those weird pills, and his holy will often changed three times a day.

After Yang Lian died, he made up his mind to eradicate Yan Song and his son.

Emperor Jiajing glanced at the piece of paper next to the three memorials. He had made nine points of his determination, but only three points remained.

That piece of paper was a long list of strict party officials. This list was presented to Emperor Jiajing by Lu Bing, commander of Jinyiwei: Among the current officials in the two capitals and thirteen provinces, [-]% of the local governors were strict party officials.Beijing officials are senior officials of the third grade or above, and the strict party accounts for [-]%.

Emperor Jiajing was an extremely selfish person.He is shaken now.If Yan Song and his son were really eradicated, would so many strict party officials in the world jump over the wall in a hurry and commit chaos?

Emperor Jiajing only wanted to practice Taoism and become a fairy in peace and ease.He didn't want to make any changes in Nangong, and then spend all his energy to clean up the situation.No matter how smart a person is, his energy is limited.Emperor Jiajing hoped to devote his limited energy to seeking Taoism and cultivating immortals.

He was caught in a tangle: if the strict rules are imposed, the world will be in chaos.If you don't overthrow Yan, the power of the Yan Party has already threatened the power in his hands. . .

Finally, Emperor Jiajing made a decision: to help the spirit to ask divination, and let God make the decision for him, the emperor.

Emperor Jiajing ordered Lu Fang to move to Chaotian Temple.

He burned incense and took a bath in the Chaotian Temple, and after three days of fasting, he asked Lan Daoxing, the blue god, to help him hold the ceremony of helping the spirit to ask divination.

Emperor Jiajing entered the Chaotian Temple hall.

He first wrote a line on a piece of yellow paper, and that line was a question he asked the gods.

Later, Emperor Jiajing handed the yellow paper to Lan Daoxing, who lit the yellow paper and threw it in the brazier.

The yellow paper was burned, and Lan Daoxing suddenly twitched his limbs and foamed at the mouth.After a while, he sat up cross-legged on the ground with a "chuss": "I am the first ascendant Pangu Yuanshi Tianzun of the Supreme Enlightenment of the Yuqing Sacred Realm."

Among the few young Taoist priests standing by, there was a white and fat Taoist priest who was a new apprentice of Lan Daoxing.

This chubby little Taoist priest used to follow a "big fairy" in the rivers and lakes in Shandong.He secretly laughed in his heart: The Taoist priest's tricks of fooling the emperor with the upper body of the gods are exactly the same as my former master's method of coaxing money from the common people, it is really not very clever.

The question that Emperor Jiajing asked on that piece of yellow paper was a question that countless emperors of all dynasties had been thinking hard about: Why can't the world be governed?

Lan Daoxing, who was "possessed" by Yuanshi Tianzun, walked to a sand table next to the brazier.Picking up a branch with both hands, he moved the branch quickly with both hands, and a few words appeared on the sand table: Because the treacherous ministers are in power, the virtuous ministers don't.

Emperor Jiajing took another piece of yellow paper and wrote the following words: "Who is the traitorous minister, who is the virtuous minister?" Then he handed the paper to "Yuanshi Tianzun" Lan Daoxing.

Lan Daoxing closed his eyes and took the yellow paper. "Pa", Lan Daoxing snapped his fingers, and the yellow paper actually gave birth to a cluster of flames, which turned into ashes in an instant.

Then Lan Daoxing moved the branch between his palms and wrote on the sand table: traitorous ministers are like Yan Song, virtuous ministers are like Xu Jie.

Emperor Jiajing took the third piece of yellow paper and wrote the third question: "In this case, why are the villains not punished by heaven?"

When Lan Daoxing half-closed his eyes and peeked at this question through the thin slits of his upper and lower eyelids, he was extremely nervous.But he didn't panic, he just took the yellow paper silently, snapped his fingers, and rubbed the medicinal powder secretly on his fingers.The third piece of yellow paper was also burned to ashes in an instant.

Lan Daoxing drew the third answer with branches on the sand table: "Leave it to the emperor himself."

After reading the answer given to him by God, Emperor Jiajing once again made a firm determination.

He bowed to Lan Daoxing on Yuanshi Tianzun's upper body.This signifies the end of Fuqi Wengua.

Lan Daoxing fell to the ground with a bang, his limbs twitched again, foaming at the mouth.After a stick of incense, he got up and kowtowed to Emperor Jiajing: "I report to Emperor Longevity that Yuanshi Tianzun has returned to the throne of heaven."

Emperor Jiajing nodded, and then moved back to the palace.

After Emperor Jiajing left, Lan Daoxing let out a long sigh of relief.

The three answers he gave Emperor Jiajing "on behalf of" Yuanshi Tianzun just now, almost all of them can kill Yan Song.

Two days ago, He Liu of Jinyiwei led Liang Shanghong to the sky to see Lan Daoxing.

Liang Shanghong complained to his father, Lan Daoxing, about the actions of Yan Party officials in Beizhili, and asked his father to join the Yuwang Party and punish Yan Yan.

Lan Daoxing asked He Liu to tell King Yu: "The poor will swear to his death to assist the prince and eradicate the traitor."

There are three reasons why this "blue fairy", who even Emperor Jiajing respected him three points, took refuge in King Yu: First, his daughter and son-in-law are now in the hands of King Yu.If he rejects King Yu, King Yu can justifiably punish a bandit leader and his wife Yazhai.After all, blood is thicker than water, and he didn't want to see his daughter decapitated.

Second, most of the pills that Emperor Jiajing took were refined by him.He knew Emperor Jiajing's body very well, and it was only three or five years before Long Yu passed away.King Yu is the heir apparent, and if Lan Daoxing wants to leave a way out for himself, he can only obey King Yu.

The third reason is also the most important reason: Although Lan Daoxing is a charlatan who makes a living by demagoguery, he has a conscience in his heart.He used to be a poor scholar who admired Yangming's mind, but he became a Taoist priest because of the pressure of life.Over the years, he saw that the strict party was in power, the country was corrupted by corruption, and the people were in dire straits.In the depths of his heart, in fact, he has long been [-]% resentful towards the strict party.

The little Taoist brought a basin of water and told Lan Daoxing to wash his hands.

Add a few drops of nitrate to the water.This was because Lan Daoxing secretly smeared the powder on his hands.If you don't wash it with salt water, it will cause skin ulceration.

While washing his hands, Lan Daoxing thought to himself mockingly: the way of fooling the ignorant people can actually fool the emperor.In the final analysis, the common people and the emperor are both human beings.All people want to become immortals and live forever.The desire to attain Taoism and become an immortal can devour the minds of ordinary people, and it can also devour the mind of an emperor.

(End of this chapter)