prosperous age

Chapter 257 Chapter 256
As the sky was getting dark, several servants hurriedly left the East Pavilion with a large stack of memorials in their hands. They wanted to send the documents processed by the cabinet this afternoon to the Supervisor of Rites for processing.

The eunuchs would re-read all the drafted memorials sent by the cabinet, pick out the important ones and submit them to Emperor Jiajing for decision, and some unimportant and established memorials would be directly approved.

Of course, the eunuch Huang Jin, the supervisor of ceremonies, was not working in the duty room at this time. He was still serving Emperor Jiajing at the moment. After all, he was an old man who had followed Emperor Jiajing for decades.

The eunuch Gao Zhong who is currently sitting at the top of the chief inspector of ceremonies is the chief official in this place at this time as the supervisor of the eunuchs.

The eunuchs below were carefully looking through the memorials sent by the cabinet and the drafts above, and then divided the memorials into several stacks and sent them to Gao Zhong and other eunuchs holding pens.

At the moment, Gao Zhong and the other two eunuchs holding pens are just drinking tea and chatting slowly, watching the eunuchs under him busy, and they also have to go over the final classified memorial.

For the memorials reported in the newspapers below, such as requests for disaster relief, petitions for gifts, and impeachment, there are established cases, and they can be sent to the corresponding yamen for processing according to the regulations.

Only some special memorials need to be picked out separately, so don’t look at the many memorials, but most of them are actually a kind of customary memorials, which are just things that the officials below go through the motions, and may even use the original memorials with a little polish before handing them up up.

It's just that Gao Zhong has been a little nervous about these special memorials for the past two days, but the supervisors all know that His Majesty seems to have a bad temper in the past two days, and they all think that they are worried about making mistakes, so they are more active.

"what"

At this time, a eunuch who was reading the memorial suddenly let out a surprise, then covered his mouth with his left hand, and raised his eyes nervously to look at the three eunuchs above.

"What's going on, it's such a fuss."

Gao Zhong just held the teacup in his spare time and blew lightly on the tea. An eunuch holding a pen next to him was already pinching the orchid and pointing at the accompanying eunuch and said.

The eunuch hastily put down the memorial in his hand and knelt down on the ground, panicked and said: "If you disturb the father-in-law, you will die forever."

"Speak about something."

The chief eunuch withdrew his hand, and said rudely to the attendant eunuch, "If it's nothing important, see if I don't tear your dog's mouth open."

"Yes, yes, godfather."

The eunuch didn't dare to get up, but picked up the memorial on the table again and raised it over his head and said: "This is the memorial of Wei Guangde, edited by the Imperial Academy, impeachment...impeachment"

"If it weren't for you holding the memorial, I would smash you to death with a teacup."

The eunuch Bingbi said very dissatisfied.

This person is his godson, and he is a little taken aback on weekdays, but he is still like this after such a long time, it seems that he has to send it out.

If it was someone from another family, he would be too lazy to do it. Naturally, he had to reprimand his own godson to prevent the two next to him from interfering.

This is the supervisor of ceremonies, and this kind of lack of responsibility cannot be tolerated.

"Yes, that's what my godfather taught me."

The eunuch kowtowed hurriedly.

"Tell me, who is Mr. Wei impeaching again? Last time I impeached Liu Dazhang, this time it won't be impeachment of Yintai, haha"

Na Bingbi overheard that it was Wei Guangde who impeached people. Thinking of Liu Dazhang who he had impeached before, at that time there was a disturbance in the Supervisor of Rites. Without him, the war in Xuanfu affected the sensitive nerves of the court.

Wei Guangde didn't realize it, but for a rookie in the officialdom, he dared to impeach the right governor and the commander-in-chief of the army on the battlefield, which made people laugh.

According to the unspoken rules, he is a new Jinshi, and such impeachment will usually only be passed by [-] boards each.

It's just that after the Xuanfu battle report was sent to the capital, the joke that I thought I could see had a 180-degree reversal. Wei Guangde won, and Liu Dazhang was dismissed.

This battle also made Wei Guangde, who was not in the capital, invisible, but he didn't feel it at all.

Now that Wei Guangde impeached someone again, the eunuchs of the Supervisor of Rituals are naturally very curious, who will be impeached this time?
"It's not the impeachment of Lord Yin, it's the impeachment of King Hui."

The eunuch hurriedly explained.

"King Hui?"

The eunuch Bingbi frowned slightly, and instead of continuing to speak, he looked back at the other two.

Gao Zhong nodded, making some kind of hint.

The eunuch Bingbi yelled and scolded: "You son of a bitch, send the memorial to our house to have a look."

The eunuch hurriedly closed the memorial in his hand and sent it to the chief eunuch.

After receiving the memorial, the eunuch opened it and looked at it hastily.

The memorandum was not too long, but there was a pleading paper between them. After reading the memorandum and the pleading paper, and then looking at the cabinet draft, it was naturally suggested to submit it to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for investigation, and then deal with it after the investigation results.

This kind of proposal is naturally based on the established rules of impeachment memorials. Naturally, it cannot be said that impeachment is what it is. There must be an investigation process. The court must confirm the right and wrong before making a conclusion.

After reading the memorial, the eunuch delivered the things.

General impeachment, civil strife, as long as it does not involve Beijing officials and officials above the fifth rank in other places, they can directly criticize it. Anyway, it is dog-eat-dog among civil officials, and they just need to watch the jokes aside.

But not anymore, now Wei Guangde is impeaching a prince.

Wei Guangde's status with Emperor Jiajing was not low, and all three Bingbi eunuchs knew this.

King Hui, it seems that he was very favored before, but he has been in some trouble recently, and he seems to be falling out of favor.

"This has to be submitted to His Majesty for a decision."

The eunuch next to him delivered the memorial to Gao Zhong after reading it. Gao Zhong was doing the errands of delivering the memorial these days. Only when Gao Zhong was unwell or for other reasons would it be their turn to deliver the memorial to Emperor Jiajing.

Gao Zhong took it over and read the memorabilia and pleadings carefully, and secretly smiled in his heart, this Wei Chuanlu was very methodical in his work, knowing what could be written and what could not be written.

"Leave me here first, and I will present it to His Majesty."

Now that this matter has come to an end, the steps of the Supervisor of Rituals have been completed, and the rest depends on whether Emperor Jiajing has the intention of pursuing the royal clan.

Although Wei Guangde didn't say that King Hui had acted arrogantly, he just pointed out that King Hui had run amok in the fief and had done a lot of things that hurt nature and reason. The Prince's Mansion also privately built Longevity Mountain to train dead soldiers.

Gao Zhong had known the news from Chen Ju beforehand, so he just pretended to twitch his face slightly, but the other two eunuchs didn't know, and they were quite frightened when they saw the pleadings.

What the prince did in the fief was reported by the local government, and what he did in the prince's mansion was watched by someone in their inner court.

I didn't hear a little wind beforehand, which means it's already very clear.

The person they sent to Prince Hui's Mansion may have had a problem, so the report missed a lot of important information.

Fortunately, these things seem to be out of their control. When the sky falls, there will be a big man to stand up to it.

The following eunuchs continued to screen the memorials they sent, divided them into two categories and sent them to the three eunuchs who held pens. It will be presented to Emperor Jiajing in a while.

After the supervisor of ceremonies finished processing the memorial, Gao Zhong said to the two young eunuchs behind him: "Take the memorial and follow me. Both of you rest first, and I will go to Xiyuan first." '

The office of the Supervisor of Rituals is not in Xiyuan, but in a row of rooms on the far east side of the Forbidden City near the palace wall. Two young eunuchs followed Gao Zhong out with a stack of memorials in their hands, heading straight for Xiyuan .

No matter whether the group entered or exited the Forbidden City or entered Xiyuan, they were not interrogated. After all, the leader was Gao Zhong. Although he was no longer the eunuch in charge of the imperial horse supervisor, his power in the palace was still the same.

After entering Xiyuan, he soon arrived outside Yongshou Palace. Gao Zhong didn't lead people to send all the memorials in immediately, but stood still outside and winked at the little servant on the side.

The little servant understood, walked cautiously to the palace gate and looked inside, then waved gently inside, passing some secret signals.

Not long after, a servant in Yongshou Palace came out lightly. When he saw Gao Zhong standing outside at the gate of the palace, he immediately stepped up to meet him.

"Godfather, my son greets you."

The eunuch was naturally Chen Ju. Seeing Gao Zhong coming now, he naturally knew what was going on.

It was around this time in the past that the memorials received by the supervisor of ceremonies were sent, but they all went straight in.

Today, the godfather called himself out first, and Chen Ju knew that the impeachment memorial that Wei Guangde talked about must be inside.

"How does His Majesty feel?"

Gao Zhong nodded slightly to Chen Ju's greeting, and then asked.

After following Emperor Jiajing for a long time, I also figured out this father's temper.

Writing a memorial is also a science, you need to find the right timing. If the timing is right, a big event can become a small one. If the timing is not right, a big event will become a big event, and vice versa.

Chen Ju answered Gao Zhong's question after thinking about it: "Your Majesty is not in a good mood this morning, you know that General Longhu is gone, and His Majesty has been in a bad mood for the past few days.

After taking the freshly refined elixir in the afternoon, His Majesty became aggressive again and even laughed a few times, but just now"

"What's going on now?"

Gao Zhong asked immediately.

"Earlier, the little general entered the palace again, yelled at His Majesty twice, and then ran away. His Majesty probably thought of General Longhu again, so he didn't speak much at the moment, probably because he was in a bad mood."

Chen Ju replied.

"not talking?"

Gao Zhong nodded. His Majesty's silence meant that he was not in a high mood, but he was still rational, and he would not lose his composure even if he encountered a big event. It was a good time.

If Emperor Jiajing was in a bad mood, this memorial would be unpredictable.

In any case, the previous generation of King Hui supported His Majesty's practice of longevity. If he missed the cat while talking about King Hui, thinking of this, His Majesty might choose to let him go.

Emperor Jiajing behaved very uniquely, not to mention Gao Zhong, even Huang Jin sometimes couldn't grasp the emperor's pulse, so they could only make a rough estimate.

"Go in and report."

Gao Zhong told Chen Ju that after Chen Ju turned around and entered the palace, he took out Wei Guangde's memorial from his sleeve and put it in the memorial held by the eunuch beside him.

It's not the first book, but it seems to be randomly placed in the middle of the memorial.

Not long after, Chen Ju went out again, and saluted Gao Zhong: "Godfather, Your Majesty asked you to send in the memorial."

Although Emperor Jiajing spent most of his time on cultivation, as long as he was not practicing behind closed doors, he would deal with the memorials sent every day, and generally would not procrastinate.

And it's strange to say that although the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty said that eating too much of the pills refined by His Majesty is not good for health, Emperor Jiajing has been taking them for decades, but his health has always been good. There is no imperial physician.

Several people entered the Yongshou Palace and soon entered the main hall.

Today, Emperor Jiajing did not rest in the main hall, but in the side hall, leaning on the bed, with a finely crafted jade ruyi in his hand, and a copper chime in front of the bed.

Standing by the side of the bed, Huang Jinshi just nodded slightly when he saw Gao Zhong coming in.

In fact, Wei Guangde guessed correctly. After Gao Zhong fell from power, he was transferred to the Supervisor of Ceremonies, so naturally he could only turn to Huang Jin here and obey him.

After thinking about what Wei Guangde said, Gao Zhong quietly discussed it with Huang Jin.

Huang Jin is Emperor Jiajing's absolute confidant, and he is loyal to the emperor. He knew that King Hui had left his fief to play, well, young man, it happened so many years ago, so he naturally didn't take it to heart.

But after Gao Zhong quietly told him about King Hui's arrogance, Huang Jin became very dissatisfied with King Hui.

It is a trivial matter to overrule the palace. You dare to build Longevity Mountain in the palace, and you dare to raise a large number of dead soldiers. What are you doing?
In fact, Dongchang has detected the news that some clans and dignitaries secretly raised the dead, but the number of people raised by those families is not many, mostly just a few people, far less than the hundreds of people that Wei Guangde said.

Although Wei Guangde only said that the news came from Geng An, he did not investigate. Don't be afraid of this. He will find out by sending someone to Henan when the time comes.

Moreover, what is even more frightening is that the manpower sent by the inner court actually concealed the news, which was something he could not tolerate as the admiral of the inner court.

As in the past, Huang Jin asked the two young eunuchs to read out the memorial in turn, and Gao Zhong was on the side table preparing to approve the award, and then waited for Huang Jin to seal it before sending it to the cabinet.

From time to time, there was the dull knocking sound of the copper chime in the side hall, and the memorials were processed in the tacit understanding of the monarch and his ministers.

"King Hui?"

When a young eunuch read Wei Guangde's memorial, Emperor Jiajing stood up and sat up noncommittally, shaking his head from side to side twice, and then said: "Show me the pleading paper."

Wei Guangde's memorial only talked about meeting Geng An and what he was suing. The memorial also mentioned that Geng An's pleadings were attached, and Emperor Jiajing became a little interested.

Perhaps after getting used to the courtiers' memorabilia, it might also be a pleasure to read what the Caomin wrote and know what those clans did in private.

However, as Geng An's pleading paper was handed over to him, his calm cheeks gradually darkened.

"Huang Jin, Gao Zhong, do you know what's on the pleadings?"

Emperor Jiajing's questioning was naturally not asking him if he had read the pleadings, but whether the inner court knew about King Hui's violation of the regulations.

When the words fell, Huang Jin immediately knelt down on the ground even though his face was bewildered, and Gao Zhong had already knelt down and kowtowed: "I don't know."

(End of this chapter)