I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Chapter 5
In the early morning, Prince Yu's Mansion.

Everyone in the room had bloodshot eyes, and guards came to report the situation from time to time, and Xu Jie, the second cabinet assistant, hadn't slept all night, and was currently dozing off with one hand propped on the table.

"His Royal Highness, the matter of last night has been found out, do you want to..."

The butler quickly came to King Yu's side, and then looked at Xu Jie's direction, showing hesitation.

"Let Xu Ge sleep for a while, let's go out and talk." Gao Gong, the servant of the household department, lowered his voice and signaled everyone to go out.

"Yes." Zhang Juzheng, Minister of the Ministry of War, arched his hands, walked lightly, and followed the crowd out of the room.

King Yu Zhu Zaiyi (ji) is the son of Jiajing and Concubine Kang, and he is not favored. He hasn't seen his predecessor for more than two years, and he is also a supporter behind the Qingliu faction.

Walking out of the room, a gust of cold wind hit. Seeing this, the guards at the side hurriedly put on fur shoulders for the adults to keep out the cold. Compared with yesterday, the snow was much smaller today, and there were only sporadic snowflakes falling in midair.

"Let's talk." King Yu looked at the housekeeper and said in a low voice.

"Last night, Jin Yiwei dispatched and arrested Tao Xianchang and all the alchemists under him, and found several million taels of silver. I heard that the commander Lu Bing will lead the team this time!"

"What? Lu Bing!"

There was a moment of silence immediately after, and everyone present understood what this powerful commander of Jin Yiwei's personal action represented.

This is the emperor's will!
After a long time, Gao Gong broke the deadlock: "There is no need to talk about this matter."

"In addition, those officials who submitted the letter yesterday were also beaten and killed by the eunuch Feng Bao, the admiral of the East Factory."

On the side, Zhang Juzheng, who had been silent for a long time, reminded.

"Hmph, do you need to say it? The Yan Party must be playing tricks behind this! I will discuss it later, and I must ruthlessly read him a book in front of the Holy One."

Just as everyone was talking, an angry voice came from behind. Looking back, I saw Xu Jie woke up at some time, dressed in single clothes, and came down to the door with the help of the guards. A gust of cold wind blew by. Everyone felt a chill, and couldn't help shivering, while Xu Jie was dressed in single clothes, like an old pine, standing still.

"Old Xu Ge!" Everyone saluted.

"Okay, you guys! Don't call me, a bad old man, for business discussions, ahem."

"Come here, quickly add clothes to Mr. Xu Ge!" Seeing this, King Yu hurriedly asked the guards to bring a cotton jacket to put on him.

"Please take care of your health!" Zhang Juzheng said with a bow, his face was full of concern.

"Please take care of your health!" Everyone bowed and repeated.

"Okay, everyone, let's go back. The old man has to go to court later, so there's no need to see him off." Xu Jie stroked his beard with a smile, and with the help of the guards around him, he got into the sedan chair and left.

"Then King Yu, I will take my leave too!"

Everyone bid farewell to King Yu one after another, and immediately after that, sedan chairs of different colors left from the gate of King Yu's mansion.

……

Yan Mansion, Yan Song finished his breakfast, got dressed under the service of the maid, and when he was about to step into the sedan chair, Yan Shifan stopped him.

"Father, it's cold today, please add more clothes!" Yan Shifan said, and put the cotton coat on Yan Song.

During the whole process, Yan Song remained motionless, his skin tensed, like a statue. After a long time, his eyebrows stained white by snowflakes moved, and he urged, "Hurry up, father will soon be late!"

"Father, please pay attention to safety." After doing all this, Yan Shifan stepped aside, watched his father get into the sedan chair, and gave another warning as if worried.

"Okay." Yan Song replied without showing any expression on his face.

It is said that it is going to the court, but in fact it is only on duty in the cabinet, waiting for the emperor to call at any time. The cabinet is on duty in rotation. The cabinet is generally composed of five people, two by two, and they are on duty in turn. When encountering problems that cannot be solved, they can Call the first or second assistant of the cabinet to solve the problem, and today is the day when the first and second assistants of the cabinet are on duty.

Yan Song sat in the sedan chair, opened the sedan chair curtain from time to time, and looked to the sides. For some reason, the road in front of him that he had walked for more than 20 years felt different today.

"Old Yan Ge, we're here."

Yan Song got up from the sedan chair, and slowly descended to the ground with the support of the guards. Not far away, Xu Jie's sedan chair also stopped.

"Old Xu Ge."

"Old Yan Ge."

"We are on duty today, really, it's such a cold day!"

"Yes."

The two cabinet elders met each other, and after exchanging a few pleasantries, they shook off the hands of the surrounding guards one after another, like close friends for many years, supported each other, and tremblingly walked into the cabinet.

Walking into the cabinet, the warmth of the room revived the two of them who had been frozen by the cold wind. After warming for a while, the two began to put on reading glasses and correct the memorial.

"Send this to the Supervisor of Rituals."

"Type this back and let him rewrite it!"

"This is the batch."

"Whatever you wrote, type it back!"

……

The efficiency of the two was extremely high, and in a short while, most of the memorials that had piled up on the table were processed.

"Look, this is Hu Zongxian's memorial. It says there is a lack of payment, let us pay the payment as soon as possible." Yan Song said, and handed the memorial to Xu Jie.

Xu Jie took the memorial, read the content once, and sighed: "Hu Ruzhen is in trouble, the burden of the southeast is all on his shoulders, I will ask the Ministry of Households to transfer the money as soon as possible."

"Ah."

Yan Song responded, as if he suddenly thought of something, and continued to ask.

"Have you handed out the Tan Jing and Bing Jing this year?"

"It's all been distributed! Alas, the treasury has no money." Speaking of this, Xu Jie's face suddenly became sad.

"Alas, the country's affairs are difficult, the people are difficult, we are difficult, and the emperor is also difficult, let's endure it!" Yan Song put down the completed memorial in his hand and comforted him.

……

In Ganlu Palace, Jiajing looked at Shen Shi who was still sleeping in the quilt, recalled the battle situation last night, and couldn't help showing a smile on his face. After lightly kissing Shen Shi on the forehead, he put on his clothes under the service of the maid , walk out the door.

"Your Majesty, Jin Yiwei Lu Bing has already controlled everyone. Please take a look at this account book." Lu Fang had been waiting for a long time, and when she saw Jiajing coming out, she quickly handed over the account book.

Jiajing took the account book, glanced at it hastily, then returned it to Lu Fang, and said with a chuckle, "You should also wear more clothes, it's very cold."

"Slave, thank you for your mercy!" Lu Fang said, and wanted to salute, but was stopped by Jiajing.

"Go and call Yan Song and Xu Jie to me. I have something to discuss with them."

"I'm going to invite Elder Yan Ge and Elder Xu Ge!" Lu Fang bowed slightly and prepared to leave.

Just two steps away, as if suddenly remembering something, he hurried back and said in a low voice, "Your Majesty, what should we do with those alchemists?"

Jiajing raised his eyebrows when he heard the words: "Go and tell Lu Bing, follow the laws of my Ming Dynasty, what should be closed, what should be killed!"

"Yes, I'm going right now, sir."

After Lu Fang finished speaking, she bowed and left quickly.

Looking at Lu Fang's leaving figure, the corners of Jiajing's mouth rose slightly: "Hmph, 380 million taels! It relieves the urgent need."

……

"Phew, today's memorial is almost finished, Mr. Xu Ge should rest for a while."

Yan Song put down the memorial, picked up the tea bowl at the side, and took a sip of tea.

"Well, it's time to take a break."

As Xu Jie said, he lightly pressed his temple with his index finger, and lay down on the chair without any image.

"Report, two elders, Eunuch Lu, the supervisor of ceremonies, please see me!" Just as the two elders were resting, a guard came to report.

The two looked at each other, wanting to read something from each other's eyes, then stood up from their seats, and said to the guard, "Please come in, Eunuch Lu!"

(End of this chapter)