Ming Dynasty: At the beginning, the house was ransacked and the ancestral temple was burned down.

Chapter 44 Is it too much?
  "Has the cabinet read this memorial?" Zhu Yijun asked the eunuch Zhang Jing who was accompanying him.

"Returning to the emperor, Wang Xijue currently has no official position. The people in the General Affairs Department were a little undecided, so they sent this memorial to the Secretary of Ceremonies first, which means it has not yet gone through the cabinet." Zhang Jing replied .

"No wonder..." Zhu Yijun breathed a long sigh of relief, as if he had escaped a disaster.

The contents of Wang Xijue's memorial were shocking. Even Zhu Yijun, who hated Zhang Juzheng the most, felt his scalp numb after reading it.

Open the coffin! It's the same existence as whipping a corpse! This is extremely disrespectful to the deceased!

If such a memorial were to be seen by the cabinet and known to the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, it would definitely cause considerable controversy!

Looking at the memorial in his hand, Zhu Yijun fell into deep thought for a long time. Time passed by, and no one knew what he was thinking.

After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Jing, who was accompanying the driver, almost dozed off, before Zhu Yijun finally made a move.

He handed the memorial in his hand to Zhang Jing and said calmly: "Make a new copy of this memorial and send it to the cabinet. Don't let anyone know who wrote it."

Zhang Jing didn't know what His Majesty the Emperor's intention was, and he didn't dare to ask any more questions. After taking the memorial, he retreated and followed the instructions.

No one knows what Zhu Yijun is thinking. In fact, even Zhu Yijun himself doesn't know what he is thinking.

After giving this order, he sat blankly on the dragon couch for the whole night. During this period, eunuchs and maids came to ask him why he didn't rest, but he remained silent, as if his soul had left his body. .

For the whole night, Zhu Yijun didn't close his eyes and sleep, and he didn't make any big movements. It wasn't until the bell rang to urge the morning meeting that he turned his head and moved.

"Your Majesty, it's almost midnight, it's time to go to court." The maid in charge of Zhu Yijun reminded carefully.

They slaves did not dare to urge the emperor to sleep, but for such a big event as going to court, they still had to urge him.

According to past circumstances, the young and diligent Emperor will insist on getting up and going to court even if he is unwell.

However, today's emperor changed from normal. Instead of getting up to wash up, he lay down on the dragon couch and could only say feebly:
  "I am not feeling well today. Please pass on the message and I will take a day off."

In fact, Zhu Yijun was not feeling unwell. He just didn't know how to face those people outside in a short period of time.

Zhu Yijun wanted to wait a little longer, although he didn't know what he was waiting for. Maybe he was waiting for good news from his brother Zhu Yijun, or maybe he was waiting for him to convince himself.

"Opening the coffin...is it too much?"

Zhu Yijun asked himself in his heart. He had asked himself the question and answered it all night long.

"Excessive. After all, he was my teacher. After all, he also did a lot for the Ming Dynasty. If it weren't for him..."

"No! It's not too much! On the surface, he persuades me to be thrifty and virtuous! In private, he is extravagant and has corrupt personal ethics! He uses power for personal gain! He is authoritarian and domineering! He forms cliques and chaos in government!

As Wang Xijue said, how could such a smart person not know that he would be liquidated after his death? How could he not have a backup plan in advance?
  The reason why he can't make money from copying is not because he is not greedy! It must be because he brought all his valuable family property into the coffin and buried it with him! That must be it! "

Zhu Yijun asked himself the question all night, and answered it all night. In the end, he agreed more with the latter answer.

In fact, he had already thought about it. If possible, he would open the coffin!
  However, opening the coffin will definitely attract a lot of criticism...

Zhu Yijun is entangled, he is a person who likes to be entangled, and he has been like this since he was a child.

When he was struggling in the past, either Empress Dowager Li would help him think of a solution, Feng Bao would give him some tips, or Zhang Juzheng would take his place in making the decision.

But now, Zhu Yijun only has himself, and he is an indecisive person at heart.

"Forget it, take a nap first. After you get up, you should have the answer to everything."

Zhu Yijun comforted himself in this way, but he didn't realize that he was actually escaping. …

Outside the Meridian Gate.

The ministers who needed to go to the Forbidden City in person for the morning court had been waiting here as early as Yinshi.

After learning that the emperor was unwell and could not go to court, they dispersed and went to the offices of their departments.

Shen Shixing and Xu Guo walked side by side to the Cabinet Office. They talked and laughed along the way, as if they were close friends for many years.

"Rumo, have you heard? Li Zhi and Jiang Dongzhi recommended Wang Yuanyu to the emperor and asked him to return to Beijing to serve." Xu Guo suddenly mentioned this matter.

"Is that so? That's good." Shen Shixing seemed very pleased and said with a smile:

"Yuan Yu and I were both Jinshi in the 41st year of Jiajing reign. He was first and I was second in the examination that year. He was second and I was first in the imperial examination.

At that time, many of my peers were joking, saying that the reason why he failed me in the imperial examination was because he was not as handsome as me, haha. "

Shen Shixing smiled and joked like this, as if the relationship between him and Wang Xijue was extremely friendly back then.

In fact, everyone knew that the relationship between Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue was, at best, just a matter of keeping within the well.

One is the current chief assistant who Zhang Juzheng values ​​the most and strives to promote; the other is a civilian who almost forced Zhang Juzheng to draw his sword and commit suicide and now has no official position.

Both of them were first-class Jinshis in the 41st year of Jiajing, and they were the two most dazzling rising stars that year. However, their experiences and their current situation are completely different.

"Haha, don't tell me, Wang Yuanyu is indeed not as handsome as you, and he is too hot-tempered." Xu Guo joked with a smile on his face, but he was like Ming Jing in his heart.

"Oh, what is handsome or not? Time flies so fast, and now everyone is an old man." Shen Shixing said with a smile.

"Rumo, there is something I don't know whether to say or not." Xu Guo suddenly changed the topic and became a little embarrassed.

Shen Shixing wanted to say, "If you don't want to talk about it, then don't talk about it," but this didn't fit his image of a good old man. He could only say with a smile:

"Weizhen, there are only two of you in the cabinet now. We are both cabinet ministers and we are all working for the emperor. We should work together in the same boat. If you have anything to say, just say it."

Shen Shixing's words sounded nice on the surface, but in fact they were warning Xu Guo. The translation is: "We are just working together for the emperor. I am not that familiar with you. I hope you will be wiser and don't Say anything to me."

Of course Xu Guo understood the meaning of Shen Shi's jargon, but he seemed not to understand, and still said: "Since you said so, Rumo, then I have nothing to worry about!"

Shen Shixing could only smile awkwardly...

Xu Guo was not polite and said what he wanted to say directly, regardless of whether Shen Shixing wanted to hear it or not:

"Rumo, do you know why Li Zhi and Jiang Dongzhi recommended Wang Yuanyu to the emperor? Their real purpose is to use Wang Yuanyu's hand to overthrow you, the chief minister of the cabinet!"

"Ha, that's it." Shen Shixing just said this perfunctorily.

However, Xu Guo refused to give up and continued to mutter: "At the latest by the end of the year, they will definitely elect Wang Yuanyu to the cabinet. By then, your situation will be even more difficult! In my opinion, it is best for you to elect him as well. The only way for one person to join the cabinet is..."

Xu Guo's voice continued. Shen Shixing listened with a smile on his face, but his heart was extremely cold.

Xu Guo's voice didn't stop until the two of them entered Wenyuan Pavilion.

Because the very conspicuous anonymous letter on the desk shocked both of them at the same time!
  (End of this chapter)