Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 459 Juzheng's Sigh
In the western suburbs of the capital, Xu Jue rode his horse and galloped. None of the ten or so riders behind him could have imagined that this ugly steward who looked like a toad in human form had such superb riding skills.

Xu Jue didn't have time to consider the feelings of his followers, he was just anxious now, he was in a hurry to send Zhang Ge's reply back to the capital, and let his master know the real danger at the moment.

When he was ordered to meet Zhang Juzheng, Feng Bao didn't know that he had been assigned a palm seal. At that time, Feng Bao was provoked by Li Wenjin, and in a fit of anger, he asked Chu Zhiyuan to frame Gao Yushi.

That's all Xu Jue knew about the situation at the time, but he rushed to Tianshou Mountain and told Zhang Juzheng about the situation. Zhang Ge, who had always been calm and composed on weekdays, suddenly lost his temper, saying "absurd", "childish", " There is no city" and so on, a lot of scolding, which frightened Xu Jue, who was not a subordinate of Mr. Zhang Ge at all.

After finally waiting for Zhang Juzheng to get tired of scolding, Xu Jue tremblingly asked him why he was so angry.Zhang Juzheng was discouraged at first, but now he was angry again, and while cursing, he gave Xu Jue a simple analysis of the situation.

The cursing words are too inconsistent with Zhang Ge's tone, so I won't go into details, but mainly talk about Zhang Juzheng's point of view.

Zhang Juzheng believes that now is the key point of power transfer. No matter how much favored and trusted Gao Gong was back then, and even before Longqing died, Gao Gong made decisions on major national affairs, but after all, the current emperor is Zhu Yijun, and Concubine Li Gui is the emperor's biological mother. Has complete influence - or control - over the emperor who is only ten years old and has not been in charge.

At this time, unless Li Guifei herself has a huge scandal, which is so big that Gao Gong can use it to dethrone Li Guifei, otherwise Li Guifei is equal to the imperial power!

What scandal can Concubine Li Gui have?Then there is still a man who can get in the palace and make peace with her?Even when the two palaces meet with foreign courtiers and workers, there must be a lot of eunuchs and maids waiting beside them!

Let alone?Unless a male mosquito is also a man.

So the only possibility disappeared.In other words, Gao Gong poses no threat to Concubine Li Gui.

Since Concubine Li Gui is not in danger, as long as Feng Bao insists on obeying her in everything, he is already invincible. Chaos, this palm print will be his sooner or later.

Zhang Juzheng sighed and taught Xu Jue: "You should have heard some of the conversations between this cabinet and your master. Don't you understand some of the meaning? In your master's situation, as long as you wait peacefully, That palm print is definitely his. I know he has a deep hatred for the uncle and nephew of the Gao family, but if you can't bear it, you can make a big mess. It's them who should be anxious now. Why is your master so anxious? As long as your master is not in a hurry Well, if you sit on the Diaoyutai and don't move, they must move! And if they move, there will be openings, and it will be convenient for your master to take action and defeat the enemy with one blow!"

Xu Jue may be a little clever, but in terms of the overall situation of the country and the high-level competition, he can only bow his head and listen to Zhang Juzheng. After hearing this, he suddenly realized, and asked quickly: "Then what should my master do now? "

"What should I do?" Zhang Juzheng sighed: "You go back as soon as possible to see if you can stop it in time. If you can, that's the best. Your master just needs to stay quietly. No matter how uncle and nephew Gao move, he Don't even respond, just serve the imperial concubine well."

Then he paused, and said again: "If it is already too late, we must deal with it decisively."

"How to deal with it decisively?" Xu Jue asked again.

Zhang Juzheng got angry again, and said coldly: "Whoever is involved, kill them first! As long as your master is fine, there is still room for things to change."

Xu Jue didn't dare to ask this question any more, he said a few times, changed the subject, and asked Feng Bao another matter that he was worried about: "My lord has one more thing to ask: When will you be able to return to Beijing, Mr. Ge?"

Zhang Juzheng said: "Let's pass two days, such things as visiting the Emperor Daxing's mountain tomb will not go wrong."

Xu Jue responded and was about to leave. He didn't want someone from outside to report that the new eunuch in charge of Changping had transferred Meng Chong, the mausoleum worker, to see him.

Zhang Juzheng asked in surprise, "Meng Chong? Which Meng Chong?"

Someone came to report: "It is the former chief eunuch Meng Gong who is in charge of the official seal. It is said that he has resigned from his position as the chief official in charge of the official seal, and has come to provide a mausoleum worker for Emperor Daxing."

Zhang Juzheng was taken aback and asked, "Who is the seal of the Supervisor of Rites now?"

The visitor didn't know Xu Jue's identity, so he simply replied, "It's Feng Gong, the former admiral of the East Factory."

Zhang Juzheng's complexion changed drastically, he glanced at Xu Jue, and said with a serious face: "I'm afraid something will happen in Beijing, Meng Chong is here... I'm afraid it might not be as simple as a transfer of mausoleum workers."

Xu Jue was also anxious, and said, "Master Ge, why don't the villains go through the back door first?"

"You wait for a while." Zhang Juzheng took a deep breath, collected his mind, and said: "I'm not in a hurry, just wait for me to test Meng Chong's tone, and then make a decision."

As a result of this temptation, Zhang Juzheng felt more and more that something was wrong.

Of course, Meng Chong would not tell Zhang Juzheng that he was promoted to the mausoleum worker after being persuaded by Gao Pragmatically because he knew that Concubine Li Gui had appointed Feng Bao as the palm seal, but he also knew that with his own ability, he would deceive Zhang Juzheng with lies. He was afraid that it would be self-defeating, so he simply gave a brief account of what happened on the bright side.

After Zhang Juzheng listened, he immediately felt that something was wrong.The palm seal of the supervisor of ceremonies is something Feng Bao has been thinking about but has never been able to get. Why did Meng Chong give up the job of palm seal?Standing behind him was Gao Gong. If Gao Gong hadn't nodded, would Meng Chong have resigned?
But why did Gao Gong nod?This is completely unreasonable.If Gao Gong was willing to let Feng Bao do the palm print, he would have recommended him to do it a long time ago, why wait until now?In the current situation, even if Gao Gong personally recommended Feng Bao, it would be the same as when Xu Jie recommended Gao Gong to join the cabinet.
There must be something wrong here, although it is still difficult to judge the specific situation due to limited information, but Zhang Juzheng insists that in all likelihood, Gao Gong is retreating to advance!

Meng Chong didn't care about all these things, and after briefly describing these things, he began to talk about the mausoleum construction, from the topographic geomantic omen to the five elements of yin and yang, from the climate and solar terms to the spring, drought and autumn floods, In a word, he attached great importance to the construction of Emperor Daxing's mausoleum, and insisted on taking Zhang Juzheng to conduct on-the-spot investigations and conduct detailed investigations...

Zhang Juzheng was entangled by him, but he was too eager to say, he seemed to ignore the mausoleum work, so he had to take a bath, change his clothes and go down the mountain with Meng Gong.After hearing this, Meng Chong was satisfied and went to the flower hall to meet him.

As soon as Zhang Juzheng waited for Meng Chong to leave, he immediately called Xu Jue out, confessed to Xu Jue very seriously, and then sighed: "Meng Chong must have a mission when he came here. Our cabinet has already guessed that it is what."

Xu Jue was very surprised, but he didn't see it at all, so he had to ask, "I don't know what the mission is?"

Zhang Juzheng looked helpless, and sighed: "Hold me, don't let me go back to Beijing."

(End of this chapter)