Chapter 400 399 Eunuch Feng Bao, Eunuch Bingbi
Zhang Juzheng asked about Wei Guangde’s whereabouts. Xu Jie smiled and said, “It’s too early to consider his affairs now. Even if he goes to Fujian to serve as a censor, it won’t matter. Representatives can only take the route of governor. Don't forget, they can also take the route of inspector. This is very important to Han. It has no impact on Guan Lin.
Besides, it’s hard to say whether the boy’s holy family will stay in Fujian for a long time.”
What Xu Jie said was naturally what he said at the beginning. The road to promotion from the local level to the Procuratorate is actually similar to the promotion to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which is not a problem.
But the most important information revealed in the words is Emperor Jiajing.
Zhang Juzheng naturally heard about it. Emperor Jiajing seemed to be paying some attention to Wei Guangde, but he had not been in the Hanlin Academy for a long time and had not had much contact with Wei Guangde. He went to the Imperial College very early and had a close relationship with Gao Gong.
Of course he knew what the teacher meant. He simply hoped that he would have more contact with Gao Gong, become friends with Gao Gong, and give him more help in his official career.
But now it seems that Gao Gong is a bit unreliable.
At this time, Zhang Juzheng was thinking about whether to have more contact with Wei Guangde while Wei Guangde had not left the capital.
On the second day, after Emperor Jiajing finished meditating in the Yongshou Palace, he stood up and walked out of the palace door to stretch his hands and feet. From a distance, he saw Gao Zhong and two young chamberlains walking away with a stack of memorials. Entered the palace gate.
There were several piles of such memorials every day, and Emperor Jiajing had long been annoyed 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 one.
The young chamberlain only needs to read the draft, and he will know the main content of the memorial, as well as the opinions given by the cabinet for reference. He only needs to bang the bronze chime to express his attitude. .
Not long after, the voice of the chamberlain reading out the memorial notes came from the main hall of Yongshou Palace, and from time to time there was the sound of bronze chimes.
“Wu Shan, the Minister of Rites, and Gao Yaozou, the Minister of Household Affairs. The construction of King Jing’s Mansion has been delayed for a long time. Please give your Majesty a special memorial.”
A chamberlain waited for a moment after reading, and then read: "It is planned to be completed within a time limit, Xu Jie."
After reading this, the chamberlain handed the memorial in both hands to Gao Zhong next to him, and took it There is another memorial at the bottom waiting to be read.
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 looked at the door of the palace with dull eyes.
Another half cup of tea passed, and then he said leisurely: "It has been so long and it has not been decided yet. Three months, three months to complete the interior of the King's Palace."
Then he withdrew his gaze and waved his hand, indicating to the waiter to continue.
After Emperor Jiajing finished speaking, Gao Zhong picked up the ink pen on the table and recorded the emperor's original words at the end of the memorial.
But just as the chamberlain was flipping through the memorials, Emperor Jiajing suddenly turned to Huang Jin beside him and said, "You can call Xu Jie over later, and call Yan Song over later."
< br>"Yes."
Huang Jin took a half step forward and agreed, then returned to his original position.
When noon was approaching, Xu Jie put down the memorial on his desk and took a sip from the teacup beside the desk. The tea was a little cold. Just as he was about to ask someone to come in and change it to hot tea, 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 said, and then stood up and straightened his official robe.
After a while, a chamberlain came into the room and said to him: "Your Majesty, please go to Xiyuan to see Mr. Xu Ge quickly."
"Why did your Majesty call me?"
In fact, at this time, Xu Jie had roughly guessed why Emperor Jiajing summoned him. It was just to ask him to take care of the reconstruction project of Prince 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 delivering messages.”
The waiter replied.
"Okay, I'll go right away."
As Xu Jie said, he replaced the scribe and asked him to call someone. Although it was almost lunch time, we couldn't ask the emperor to wait. .
Not long after, Xu Jie went out and got into the sedan chair, and the bearers carried him quickly to Xiyuan.
After Xu Jie entered the Yongshou Palace and saluted, Emperor Jiajing asked directly: "As far as you know, is Mr. Ren deliberately making things difficult for Prince Jing's palace? Is he deliberately looking for reasons to delay time?"
"Your Majesty, as far as Wei Chen knows, the matter regarding Prince Jing's Mansion is due to the palace chief's constant raising of conditions, which has led to the inability to reach an agreement in the peace talks. Ouyang Shangshu did not deliberately create difficulties."
Xu Jie hurriedly answered. road.
Emperor Jiajing wanted to investigate these matters. He only needed to talk, and Jin Yiwei could get relevant information, so Xu Jie only told what he knew.
Emperor Jiajing stood up, walked forward slowly, and kept approaching the Xu steps. He said: "From today on, you will be responsible for this matter. I will give you three months to complete the reconstruction project of Prince Jing's Mansion.
Next Go and inform Wu Shan to submit the regulations for King Jing’s state meeting and farewell ceremony as soon as possible. From now on, you will be solely responsible for the affairs of King Jing’s Mansion and coordinate the various ministries.”
“According to the decree.”
Xu. Jie bowed and replied.
Emperor Jiajing passed by Xu Jie, stood behind him, and suddenly said slowly: "In recent days, 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 twenty 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 leaving the vassal. A little more"
Speaking of this, Xu Jie's heart moved, and he continued: "Everything else belongs to others, and has nothing to do with His Highness King Jing."
"Oh? Haha, someone else, whose rumor is it?"
Emperor Jiajing Turning around, he said to Xu Jie.
At this time, Xu Jie also turned around to face Emperor Jiajing, still keeping his bowed posture and said: "Last time your majesty selected Qing Ci, Wei Guangde learned to write a Qing Ci, but he wrote it very poorly, so he was dismissed. It has been sifted, and many people have been laughing about it recently.”
"What are they laughing at?"
Emperor Jiajing asked with a relaxed expression.
“Wei Guangde’s Qingci poem is a bit imitative of Maozhong’s numeral couplets, but it is completely different.”
Xu Jie replied carefully.
“Wei Guangde also wrote Qing Ci this time. I’d like to check it out when I have time.”
Emperor Jiajing nodded and smiled.
"Your Majesty, Wei Guangde's Qing Ci is a little disrespectful, and I ask your forgiveness. After all, it is his first time writing Qing Ci, and his writing skills are still a bit lacking."
Xu Jie He said again hurriedly.
"Is it disrespectful? What is written, have you seen it?"
Emperor Jiajing's face changed slightly, but his tone became colder, and he asked.
"I happened to be in Wuyi Hall that day, and I remember what he wrote, 'One life is two, two begets three, and three begets all things. The human body is rare, but now it is obtained, and the great road is hard to understand, now it is clear. The earth follows the sky, and the sky follows the earth. Taoism is natural, desire and emphasis are Chinese in this life, this body is not '
Your Majesty is a man from heaven who has come down to the mortal world to experience, so he still needs to adjust his body. The wording is really inappropriate, so I screened out his Qingci at that time. ”< br>
Xu Jie said as soon as he opened his mouth.
Emperor Jiajing turned around once he was standing still and continued to walk slowly towards the entrance of the hall. He also whispered softly: "The human body is rare, but now it is obtained. The road is hard to understand, but now it is clear. If you don’t live this life with the desire to value Chinese, how can you survive?”
After reciting it softly twice, there was a chuckle at the corner of the mouth, "Except the first half, it is still a good word."
"His majesty's praise is also a blessing he has cultivated"
< br>While Xu Jie was talking to Emperor Jiajing, Huang Jin, who had been lowering his head behind him, raised his head and glanced at Xu Jie's back, but his face was calm and there was no emotion.
Xu Jie revealed the matter so quickly, which was beyond Wei Guangde's expectation. At noon, he asked Zhang Ji to send someone to contact Chen Ju in the palace and invite him to drink at Liuquan Residence in the evening.
In fact, Wei Guangde also knew that his Qing Ci, Chen Ju and the others must have known about it. After all, the scene that happened in Wuyi Hall in Xiyuan was just that the Qing Ci was eliminated, and Emperor Jiajing did not see it. , naturally there will be no follow-up.
Who knows, the following things will happen again. Because he was worried that Yan Song and his son would seize the opportunity to tease him out, Wei Guangde chose to find an opportunity to expose it.
It's just that Huang Jin didn't know it at this moment, so he looked at Xu Jie with such an unclear look.
After Xu Jie left, Huang Jincai came to Emperor Jiajing and said, "Your Majesty, it's time for lunch."
"Okay, I'll ask Yan Song to come here later."< br>
Emperor Jiajing said something, then shook his head and walked back to the throne, muttering a few words.
Huang Jin behind him only vaguely heard two sentences, "If you can't write Qing Ci, don't write it. It will make people laugh."
"Yes."
Huang Jin turned to Emperor Jiajing replied respectfully from behind.
He knew that Emperor Jiajing’s purpose of calling Yan Song later was naturally to keep him out of the Prince Jing’s Mansion project.
Speaking of it, Prince Jing’s Mansion can make demands for the palace renovation project. Even if the demands are excessive, as long as they do not exceed the limit, Emperor Jiajing will not refuse for the sake of giving his son some benefits.
It's just a matter of spending more money, but it's not for your son's enjoyment, so why reject him?
However, Prince Jing’s Mansion can make demands, but it cannot be used as a reason to delay the emperor’s decision-making indefinitely.
The decision of King Jing to become a vassal was a matter decided by Emperor Jiajing. King Jing could make trouble, but others could not interfere.
Knocking, this is Emperor Jiajing’s intention to beat Yan Song and his son.
At Youshi, there was a private room on the second floor of Liuquanju, Yongfang, west of the capital. At this time, the window was pushed open, and a man was sitting in front of the window looking at the pedestrians coming and going on the street.
This person is naturally Wei Guangde, and today he made an appointment with Chen Ju for a drink here.
Chen Ju was not allowed to go to his house this time. In the past, when Chen Ju went to his place, he kept a tight veil, as if he was doing something shameful.
In other words, Chen Ju was a eunuch, otherwise he would have been captured by the officers and soldiers on night watch.
We met at Liuquanju. First, Wei Guangde heard that Liuquanju had recently received a batch of good wine, the finest Wuzhou Jinhua wine, and that Liuquanju had recently made two new dishes, which were said to be delicious. Wei Guangde naturally wanted to order them. Come and try the taste.
At three quarters of the hour, Wei Guangde finally saw a gorgeously decorated carriage approaching slowly.
Wei Guangde didn't care at first. It was not Chen Ju's carriage.
In fact, if he was not traveling far away, Chen Ju would hardly take a car or a sedan. What's more, when he was young, Yongfang was right next to Xiyuan, and it was only a few steps away from the toilet.
But Wei Guangde also knew that the carriage was traveling from east to west, and it was probably a high-ranking eunuch in the palace.
Taking a car or a sedan are actually the same, the main thing is to look at the people.
Generally, younger people will choose horse-drawn carriages, which are faster to come and go, while older people are used to riding in sedans. After all, riding in sedans is much more comfortable than riding in horse-drawn carriages.
But when the carriage arrived in front of Liu Quanju's door, the carriage stopped. Then the carriage door opened, and a man wearing the uniform of a fifth-grade 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 only saw Chen Ju standing next to the car and bowing his hands toward the inside. A 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 level of eunuch is he?
Wei Guangde saw Chen Ju talking to the man for a while, then the carriage door closed and moved forward again. Chen Ju slowly turned around, looked up at the sign on the door of Liuquanju, and then turned towards The door came through.
Wei Guangde had already stood up and walked to the door of the private room at this time, just in time to see Chen Ju going upstairs.
After Zhang Jicheng saluted Chen Ju at the door, he let Chen Ju into the private room.
"Brother Chen, I haven't been seen for some days. Come, please."
In the door of the private room, Wei Guangde said to Chen Ju who came in.
When in the civil servant circle, everyone will show disdain and disgust towards eunuchs, but if they really meet in private, most of them will take the initiative to say hello.
Of course, except high-ranking officials.
“We just met a few days ago. Hey, you’ve caused some trouble again, haven’t you?”
Chen Ju said jokingly, followed Wei Guangde's gesture and walked in, sat down, and behaved very casually.
"How can I cause trouble? Brother Chen doesn't know about me?"
Wei Guangde just smiled and then said: "I heard that Liuquanju received a new batch of fine wine today and developed another There are two new dishes, why don’t you invite me? I’m here to try it. I don’t know if Brother Chen has ever tasted it.”
“I haven’t had any wine, but I heard about the two dishes, one with cabbage and the other with fish head. I’ll try them later.”
Chen Ju said to Wei Guangde.
After a while, Zhang Ji asked the store owner to bring the food and wine and then closed the door.
"Just now I saw whose car the eldest brother came out in? That carriage was quite gorgeous."
Wei Guangde filled Chen Ju's wine glass, then filled the wine glass in front of him. He spoke.
"That's Eunuch Feng's carriage. Hey, the materials inside are really good. I don't know how many layers of blankets it has been covered with. It's really comfortable to sit on, more comfortable than sitting in a sedan chair."
"Which Eunuch Feng?"
Wei Guangde asked curiously. He had never heard Chen Ju mention it before.
In fact, Chen Ju would hardly take the initiative to talk about matters in the palace, even if Wei Guangde didn't ask.
"Feng Bao, eunuch Bingbi, the eunuch in charge of etiquette, is my godfather's subordinate."
Chen Ju replied with a smile.
"Eunuch Feng Baofeng?"
Wei Guangde was shocked. He remembered this name. It was said that this man, together with Zhang Juzheng, bullied the young Emperor Wanli quite a lot. Of course, the final outcome was certainly not wonderful.
After Emperor Jiajing, Wei Guangde could not remember what the reign of King Yu was, but in his impression, at that time, Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang seemed to be the emperor Wanli.
Prince Yu is still childless, and so is Prince Jing.
Feng Bao, Feng Bao.
Wei Guangde recited the name silently in his heart.
(End of this chapter)