prosperous age

Chapter 400 Chapter 399

Zhang Juzheng asked about Wei Guangde's whereabouts, Xu Jie smiled and said: "It's too early to think about him. Even if he went to Fujian to serve as a censor, it doesn't mean that he can only be a governor. Don't forget, he can also be an inspector. That road has no effect on Hanlin officials.

Besides, it's hard to say whether that kid's family will stay in Fujian for a long time. "

What Xu Jie said was, of course, that he was promoted from the local area, and he went to the procuratorate, which was actually similar to the promotion of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is not a problem.

However, the most important information revealed in the words is Emperor Jiajing.

Zhang Juzheng naturally heard that Emperor Jiajing seemed to be concerned about Wei Guangde, but he had not been in the Imperial Academy for a long time and had little contact with Wei Guangde. He went to the Imperial College very early, but he had a close relationship with Gao Gong.

Of course he knew what the teacher meant, and he just hoped that he would get in touch with Gao Gong more, become friends with Gao Gong, and help him in his official career.

But now it seems that Gao Gong is a bit unreliable.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng was thinking in his heart whether he should contact Wei Guangde more while Wei Guangde had not left the capital.

On the second day, after finishing a meditation session in Yongshou Palace, Emperor Jiajing got up and walked out of the palace gate, stretched his hands and feet, and saw Gao Zhong and two servants carrying a stack of memorials into the palace gate from a distance.

There are several stacks of such memorials every day, and Emperor Jiajing has long been irritated by such work.

Fortunately, although it seems that there are many memorials, it is actually processed very quickly, and he does not need to read every book.

The little servant only needs to read the draft, and then he will know the main content of the memorandum, as well as the opinions given by the cabinet for reference. He only needs to knock on the bronze chime to express his attitude.

Not long after, the voice of the servants reading out the scriptures could be heard in the main hall of Yongshou Palace, and the sound of bronze chimes could be heard from time to time.

"Shangshu Wu Shan of the Ministry of Rites, and Gao Yaozuo of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the construction period of King Jing's Mansion has been delayed for a long time, so I would like to ask Your Majesty to show you."

A waiter waited for a while after reading it, and read again: "The work will be completed within a time limit, Xu Jie."

After reading this, the servant handed over the memorabilia held in both hands to Gao Zhong next to him, and picked up another memoir below to wait for the reading.

Gao Zhong took it and spread it on the desk, looking at Emperor Jiajing on the throne, waiting for the emperor's signal.

However, after reading it, Emperor Jiajing did not knock on the bronze chime for a long time, but stared blankly at the entrance of the hall.

Another half a cup of tea time passed, and then he said leisurely: "It's been so long and it hasn't been settled, three months, within three months, the King's Mansion will be completed."

Then he looked away, waved his hand, and signaled the servant to continue.

After Emperor Jiajing's words fell, Gao Zhong picked up the ink pen on the table and recorded the emperor's original words in the memorial.

However, when the servant was flipping through the notes, Emperor Jiajing suddenly turned his head and said to Huang Jin beside him, "Call Xu Jie over for a while, and call Yan Song over later."

"Yes."

Huang Jin took a half-step forward to agree, and then returned to his original position.

When noon was approaching, Xu Jie put down the memorabilia on the desk, took a sip from the teacup next to the desk, the tea was a bit cold, and was about to ask someone to come in for hot tea, when the clerk outside the door suddenly came in and bowed and said, "Mr. , there is an edict in the palace."

"Please come in."

Xu Jie spoke, and then got up and straightened his official robes.

After a while, a servant came into the room and said to him: "Your Majesty, please go to Xiyuan to have an audience with Mr. Xu Ge."

"What did His Majesty call me for?"

In fact, at this time, Xu Jie had roughly guessed why Emperor Jiajing summoned him. It was nothing more than asking him to arrest the errand for the reconstruction project of King Jing's Mansion. This matter was handed over to Yan Song. He didn't know what kind of problems he would encounter next. .

"I don't know, the villain is only responsible for spreading the word."

The waiter replied.

"Okay, I'll go right away."

As Xu Jie said, he exchanged for the clerk and asked him to call for someone. Although it was almost lunch time, he couldn't ask the emperor to wait.

Not long after, Xu Jie went out and got into a small sedan chair, and the bearer carried him quickly to Xiyuan.

After Xu Jie entered Yongshou Palace and saluted, Emperor Jiajing asked directly, "As far as you know, did Fu Ren deliberately make things difficult for King Jing's mansion? Did he deliberately find a reason to delay the time?"

"Your Majesty, as far as I know about the matter of Prince Jing's Mansion, it is the Chief Minister of the Palace who is responsible for continuously raising the conditions, which has resulted in the inability to reach an agreement in the peace talks. Ouyang Shangshu did not deliberately make things difficult."

Xu Jie hurriedly replied.

Emperor Jiajing wanted to investigate these matters, all he had to do was talk, and Jin Yiwei would be able to retrieve relevant information, so Xu Jie only told what he knew.

Emperor Jiajing got up, walked slowly forward, kept approaching Xu Jie, and said in his mouth: "Starting today, you will be responsible for this matter, three months, I will give you three months, and the reconstruction project of Prince Jing's Mansion will be completed.

When you go down, you will inform Wu Shan, and you will play up the regulations for King Jing's National Conference and farewell ceremony as soon as possible, and you will be fully responsible for the affairs of King Jing's mansion in the future, coordinating all ministries. "

"According to the order."

Xu Jie bowed and replied.

Emperor Jiajing passed by Xu Jie, stood still behind him, and suddenly said slowly: "Recently, have you heard any rumors about King Jing outside?"

Xu Jie, who was still bowing at this time, still kept his upper body leaning forward [-] degrees and replied: "I have never heard any rumors about King Jing, but I have heard that King Jing has entered the palace many times in recent days because he is about to leave the feudal clan. more"

Speaking of this, Xu Jie's heart moved, and he continued: "The rest belong to others, and have nothing to do with His Royal Highness King Jing."

"Oh? Hehe, someone else, who's the rumor?"

Emperor Jiajing turned around and said to Xu Jie.

At this time Xu Jie also turned to face the Emperor Jiajing, still maintaining a bowed posture and said: "The last time Your Majesty selected Qingci, Wei Guangde learned to write a Qingci, and the writing was very bad, so he was screened out. A lot of people are making jokes about it."

"What are they laughing at?"

Emperor Jiajing asked with a relaxed expression at the moment.

"Wei Guangde's Qing Ci is a bit imitating Maozhong's long couplet with numbers, but he has learned four different things."

Xu Jie replied carefully.

"Wei Guangde also wrote Qing Ci this time, so I'll look for it when I have time."

Emperor Jiajing nodded and smiled.

"Your Majesty, Wei Guangde's Qing Ci was slightly disrespectful. Please forgive me. After all, it is his first time to write Qing Ci, and his brushwork is still a bit poor."

Xu Jie hurriedly said again.

"Disrespectful? What is it written in, have you seen it?"

Emperor Jiajing's face changed slightly, but his tone of voice became cold, and he asked.

"I happened to be in Wuyi Palace that day, and I remember what he wrote, 'One life is two, two is three, and three is all things. The human body is rare and now we have it. The Dao is difficult to understand and now it is clear. The Tao follows nature, and if you want to live in the Chinese language, how can you live without this body.'

Your Majesty is a heaven and a man who went down to practice in the mortal world, where he still needs to save himself, the words he used were really inappropriate, so he screened out his green words at that time. "

Xu Jie opened his mouth and said.

Emperor Jiajing, who was standing still, turned around again, and continued to walk slowly towards the entrance of the main hall, and said softly in his mouth: "The rare human body is now obtained, and the great way is difficult to understand.

If you want to live in this life with the heavy Chinese language, how can you live without this body. "

After reading it softly twice, there was a slight smile on the corner of his mouth, "Aside from the first half, it's a good word."

"His Majesty's praise is also a blessing from him."

When Xu Jie was talking to Emperor Jiajing, Huang Jin, who had been lowering his head behind him, looked up at Xu Jie's back, but his face was calm and he couldn't see any emotion.

It was beyond Wei Guangde's expectation that Xu Jie disclosed the matter so quickly. He only ordered Zhang Ji to send someone to contact Chen Ju in the palace at noon, and invited Liu Quanju to have a drink at night.

In fact, Wei Guangde also knew that Chen Ju and the others must have known about his Qing Ci. After all, the scene that happened in the Wuyi Hall in Xiyuan, but the Qing Ci was removed and Emperor Jiajing did not see it, so naturally there was no follow-up .

Who knows, the following things will happen again, because Wei Guangde chose to find an opportunity to take the initiative to pierce because he was worried that Yan Song and his son would seize the opportunity to shake him off.

It's just that Huang Jin didn't know it at the moment, so he looked at Xu Jie with such ambiguous eyes.

After Xu Jie left, Huang Jin came to Emperor Jiajing's side and said, "My lord, it's time for lunch."

"Okay, call Yan Song here later."

Emperor Jiajing said something, then shook his head and walked back to the throne, muttering a few more words.

Huang Jin who was behind him could only vaguely hear two sentences, "If you don't know how to write Qing Ci, don't write it, it will make people laugh and be generous."

"Yes."

Huang Jin replied respectfully to Emperor Jiajing's back.

He knew that Emperor Jiajing's purpose for calling Yan Song later was to keep him out of the project of Prince Jing's Mansion.

Speaking of which, King Jing's Mansion can make requests for the reconstruction project of the Prince's Mansion, even if the request is a bit excessive, as long as it does not exceed the limit, Emperor Jiajing will not refuse for the sake of giving his son a little benefit.

It's nothing more than a matter of spending more money, but it's not for my son's enjoyment, so why refuse him?
However, King Jing's Mansion can make requests, but it cannot be used as a reason to delay the emperor's decision indefinitely.

It was a matter decided by Emperor Jiajing that King Jing was a vassal. King Jing could make trouble, but other people could not intervene.

Beating, this is Emperor Jiajing wanting to beat Yan Song and his son.

In the time of You, there was an elegant seat on the second floor of Liuquan Residence in Yongfang, the west hour of the capital city.

This person is of course Wei Guangde, and today he invited Chen Ju to have a drink here.

This time, Chen Ju was not allowed to go to his house. In the past, when Chen Ju went to his place, he was always covered up, as if he was doing something shameful.

In other words, Chen Ju was an eunuch, otherwise he would have been taken down by the officers and soldiers who were watching the night long ago.

About to be in Liuquanju, one is that Wei Guangde heard that Liuquanju has recently received a batch of good wine, the top-quality Wuzhou Jinhua wine, and that Liuquanju has recently made two new dishes, which are said to be delicious, so Wei Guangde naturally wants to try the taste.

At three quarters of the unitary hour, Wei Guangde finally saw a gorgeously decorated carriage approaching slowly.

Wei Guangde didn't care at first, it wasn't Chen Ju's carriage.

In fact, if he hadn't traveled far, Chen Ju would hardly have known how to take a sedan chair, not to mention that Yongfang was next to Xiyuan when he was young, and it was only a few steps away from the convenience door.

But Wei Guangde also knew that the carriage was coming from east to west, probably it was a high-rank eunuch in the palace.

Whether to take a car or a sedan chair is actually the same, it mainly depends on the person.

Generally, the younger ones would choose a carriage, which would be faster to come and go, while the older ones were used to sitting in a sedan chair, after all, sitting in a sedan chair was much more comfortable than a horse-drawn carriage.

It's just that when the carriage came to the gate of Liuquanju, the carriage stopped, and then the door of the carriage opened, and a man in the uniform of a fifth-rank eunuch jumped out of the carriage, without waiting for the driver to set up the horse stool.

Wei Guangde took a closer look and saw that it was Chen Ju. He could only see Chen Ju standing beside the car and bowing his hands towards the inside. An eunuch also appeared at the door of the car, but he couldn't see the clothes he was wearing, so he didn't know what kind of eunuch he was.

Wei Guangde saw Chen Ju chatting with the man for a while, the carriage door closed, and moved forward again, while Chen Ju turned around slowly, looked up at the signboard on the door of Liuquanju, and then walked towards the gate.

Wei Guangde had already got up and walked to the door of the private room at this time, just in time to see Chen Ju going upstairs.

After Zhang Ji at the door saluted Chen Ju, he let Chen Ju into the private room.

"Brother Chen, I've been gone for a few days, come, please."

In the private room door, Wei Guangde cupped his hands and said to Chen Ju who entered the door.

When in the civil service circle, everyone will show disdain and disgust towards eunuchs, but if they really want to meet in private, most of them will take the initiative to say hello.

Of course, except for high-ranking officials.

"Didn't I just meet you a few days ago, hey, you've caused some trouble again, haven't you?"

Chen Ju joked, followed Wei Guangde's gesture and walked in, sat down, and behaved very casually.

"There's nothing wrong with it, Brother Chen doesn't know me yet?"

Wei Guangde just smiled, and then said: "I heard that this Liuquanju has a new batch of fine wine today, and developed two new dishes, why don't you invite elder brother to try it, and I don't know if elder brother Chen has eaten it."

"I haven't drunk the wine, but I've heard people say about the two dishes, one cabbage and one fish head, try it later."

Chen Ju said to Wei Guangde.

After a while, Zhang Ji asked the store to deliver the food and wine, and then closed the door.

"Just now, I saw who's car the eldest brother came out of? That carriage is quite gorgeous."

Wei Guangde filled Chen Ju's wine and filled the wine glass in front of him before speaking.

"That's Eunuch Feng's carriage. Hey, the materials inside are really rich. I don't know how many layers of blankets are laid on it. It's really comfortable to sit on, even more comfortable than sitting in a sedan chair."

"Which Eunuch Feng?"

Wei Guangde asked curiously, but he had never heard Chen Ju mention it before.

Actually, if Wei Guangde didn't ask about the matters in the palace, Chen Ju would almost never take the initiative to talk about them.

"Feng Bao, Eunuch Bingbi, Supervisor of Rituals, my godfather's subordinate."

Chen Ju replied with a smile.

"Feng Bao, Eunuch Feng?"

Wei Guangde was shocked in his heart, he remembered the name, it is said that this person, together with Zhang Juzheng, bullied the young Emperor Wanli very badly, and of course the ending would definitely not be happy.

After Emperor Jiajing, Wei Guangde couldn't remember what the title of King Yu was, but in his impression, Zhang Juzheng, Qi Jiguang and the others seemed to be Wanli at that time.

King Yu is still childless, as is King Jing.

Feng Bao, Feng Bao.

Wei Guangde silently recited the name in his heart.

(End of this chapter)