Brocade legend

Chapter 16
After a while, Emperor Jiajing spoke
"Did you send something to Feng Bao again?"

"Yeah" Lu Bing replied

"Do you know that it is a death penalty for foreign ministers to make friends with internal eunuchs?" Emperor Jiajing said expressionlessly.

Lu Bing stood under the bed respectfully: "The minister is an internal minister, not a foreign minister."

When Emperor Jiajing heard this, he was silent for a moment and said, "Are you convicted?"

Lu Bing walked to the open space in front of Emperor Jiajing's bed, knelt down and said, "I am guilty of this crime."

"Oh, then tell me." Emperor Jiajing's figure was shrouded in incense smoke.

"A humble minister did something reckless." Lu Bing replied with his head bowed.

"Absurd? Hmph!" Emperor Jiajing swung his whisk to sweep away the smoke in front of him. "Do you know why I dismissed Chen Hong?"

"I know, thank you Your Majesty for your protection." Lu Bing continued to answer while lying on the ground
Emperor Jiajing said angrily: "Maintenance? Do you think I am defending you? You are wrong! What I am protecting is my own face! You are my milk brother, and everyone in the government and the public knows that you are my confidant! I don't want to be in a slave Rebuking my cronies in front of me, swept my face, and slapped myself in the face!"

"Minister, ten thousand deaths." Lu Bing nodded.

After Jiajing finished speaking, he seemed to calm down a little. Looking at Lu Bing who was lying on the ground, he seemed a little unbearable, and said, "Get up!"

Lu Bing stood up, smoothed the hem of Feiyu's robe, and stood quietly.

Jiajing calmed down a bit and continued, "I put you in the Dongchang Qianhu Office just to hope that you would feel better. How are you doing now? You still caused these things. Are you looking for trouble?"

Lu Bing remained silent, because he knew that the emperor must have already made up his mind, and it would be useless to say more at this moment.

Jiajing pondered for a while and said: "You don't have to pay attention to what Chen Hong said about this matter. You don't have to worry, and I won't fully believe what he said. I have my own decision on what the truth is. I just need to tell You, stop here! I don’t care about those who are dead, but those who are not dead can’t die anymore. Do you understand?”

Lu Bing bowed and said, "I understand."

Emperor Jiajing didn't make any more noises, and the palace became silent, only the smoke was lingering around.

After a while, a voice came from the smoke: "Zhen, I understand your intention... But now, the time is not yet... I will not do anything for you, only when you really show the strength that can make me make up my mind , I will do what you want me to do." At this point, Emperor Jiajing paused, and continued: "I don't want to have power that is not under my control, do you understand?
Lu Bing cupped his hands: "...Understood..."

"Well, you go down."

"Wei Chen retire."

Lu Bing withdrew from Emperor Jiajing's bedroom, the Xinuang Pavilion of Qianqing Palace. Feng Bao saw that he was about to go up to talk, but seeing Lu Bing's complexion was not right, he stopped quietly, closed the door of the bedroom gently, and then stepped aside.

Lu Bing walked out of the palace while pondering, he understood that in this battle, it seemed that he had won, but in fact he had lost.It seems that the emperor did not hold him accountable for killing Dongchang, but in fact, the emperor resolutely and severely stopped his actions, and at the same time made all his subsequent plans in vain.

Originally, this time he was targeting Chen Hong's expansion of power in the past few years, and friction with various forces inside and outside the palace, and Dongchang seemed to only know Governor Chen, but not Emperor Zhu.Therefore, he felt that as long as he took the lead in making the move, he would be able to attract all forces to fight together to overthrow Chen Hong.And the emperor must be happy to see the success, at worst he would not kill himself for this matter.But unexpectedly, the emperor did not do what he expected in the end.Although the emperor didn't kill himself like the worst plan, he let his wishful thinking roll to the ground.

Lu Bing didn't know what Chen Hong said to the emperor, but he could probably guess it. It was nothing more than saying that he was protecting his weaknesses and instigating Jin Yiwei.This crime is big if it is big, and small if it is small.To put it too big, causing such a commotion in the capital is rebellion.To put it mildly, it's just the never-ending friction between Dongchang and Jinyiwei.

But there must be that sentence that touched the emperor's heart and made the emperor decide to stop this matter.

While thinking, Lu Bing walked outside the palace.

Spring flowers bloom in March, and the flowers in the palace are also competing for beauty. Lu Bing strolls here, and his mood gradually relaxes.

Suddenly, one eunuch said to the other eunuch, "Hurry up! Be careful, the master will cut off your head!"

Hearing this sentence, Lu Bing suddenly realized!
"Be careful that the master cuts off your head!" This sentence is often said by the eunuchs in the palace, but it also tells the truth.

That's right, no matter how powerful and powerful Chen Hong is, he is nothing but a eunuch, a slave!

Thinking of this, Lu Bing couldn't help exhaling.He remembered Emperor Jiajing saying: "It is a death penalty for foreign officials to associate with internal eunuchs." And he answered: "A minister is an internal minister, not a foreign minister."

I'm afraid this sentence saved me, otherwise the result would be worse than it is now.

Why the emperors of all dynasties like to use eunuchs is because eunuchs are the best people the emperor can control!If you want to give him power, you can give it, if you don't want to give it, you can take it back. No matter how high you are as an eunuch, without the emperor's favor, don't you just kill him if you want?Especially eunuchs are born to oppose the civil official group!Since Emperor Jiajing came to the throne, most of the hardships he suffered were given by the civil official group!A "Grand Etiquette" that took several years was full of dangers many times, so Emperor Jiajing was very vigilant against the civil official group.Although the imperial staff finally allowed Emperor Jiajing to seize the real power in the last few times, scholars inside and outside the court and field are still secretly criticizing Jiajing's brutality.At this time, a powerful eunuch is really easy to see!
Now there is Chen Hong being the target of various forces, which is exactly what Emperor Jiajing wants to see, so that Emperor Jiajing can stand up and be a judge.Although what Chen Hong had done in the past few years had annoyed Emperor Jiajing a little, but it was not to the point where he could not control it.Therefore, Emperor Jiajing would not allow himself to pull Chen Hong down now!
And when I confronted Chen Hong with great fanfare, wouldn't that just demolish the emperor?How could the emperor not be secretly angry?The emperor said that he does not want to have power that is not under his control... he is the emperor's most reliable sword, so the emperor does not want himself to be a power that is not under his control.And putting his own knife next to Chen Hong's neck in advance can also make Chen Hong restrain himself.At the same time, the emperor expected that if he wanted to deal with Chen Hong, he would have to win over one person, and that person was Sun Hong, the imperial horse supervisor who had the largest armed force in the palace!Then without knowing it, I became a chess piece played by the emperor beside Sun Hong!
"That's amazing!" Lu Bing couldn't help wiping his cold sweat
Lu Bing had always known that Emperor Jiajing was extremely intelligent, and his wisdom and martial arts were comparable to that of Hong Wu, but now he realized that what he saw was only the tip of the iceberg.How powerful is the ability to rule the world!

"This matter can only end here." Lu Bing thought to himself: "It's a pity that Wu Jinjiang's head was known. If he had known about it, he would not have been allowed to report it. The head was taken off first, so as to avoid future troubles."

Lu Bing already understood that the emperor's behavior in front of Chen Hong, and sending Chen Hong away to leave him alone, was also to let Chen Hong understand that his family was not bad, and warned Chen Hong to stop.

And I have to stop, but I think Wu Jinjiang can't make any big waves, so let him go first!

(End of this chapter)