Chapter 581 The unhappy chief assistant
"Is Yuan Wei dead?"
Emperor Jiajing, who was meditating in the Monastery of Wanshou Palace, was shocked when he heard Chen Hong coming in and reported that the cabinet sent someone to report that Yuan Wei died on his way back to his hometown.
In the expectation of Emperor Jiajing, he also thought that Yuan Wei could survive in his hometown even if he didn't help.
You should know that Emperor Jiajing spent a lot of money to refine the furnace of immortal pills and used countless rare materials!
I don’t know how many kilograms of lead and mercury are used for the core material used for alchemy!
Moreover, for the quality of the elixir, Emperor Jiajing also transferred several professional Taoist masters from the Divine Medicine Palace who were good at precision purification to help him remove the impurities of the elixir that he used to do everything he could to clean up.
Originally, Emperor Jiajing would keep such a good pot of immortal elixir for himself at a critical moment.
But unfortunately, Li Shizhen's doctor's advice did not allow him to take pills anymore, so after Yuan Wei resigned, Emperor Jiajing remembered the contribution of Yuan Wei to write Qing Ci for him over the years.
I endured the pain of giving up my love and rewarded him with such a good elixir.
As a result, now that the immortal pill was given, he had no blessings to save him. He was really a person with little blessings.
Chen Hong looked at Emperor Jiajing's slightly shocked expression and replied carefully: "The Emperor takes care of his immortal body. Master Yuan Ge left the crane, which is his fate. Don't worry about this and damage his immortal body."
Emperor Jiajing sighed, "I was just an accident. I didn't expect that he would be gone halfway without even returning home. If I had allowed him to retire and return home early, he might have died."
Chen Hong hurriedly comforted him again: "Don't blame yourself, Emperor Yuan had already rewarded him with infinite glory before leaving the capital. Now that he died on his way back home, he has no regrets in his life."
Emperor Jiajing sighed again, "I sent an order to King Yu, let him discuss with the cabinet, posthumously title Yuan Wei and posthumous title. By the way, remember to tell King Yu that Yuan Wei has served as a master for many years and has made a lot of contributions. I will give his son a free official. This is also the last little honor I have given him."
After listening to Emperor Jiajing's words, Chen Hong replied immediately: "The emperor is so kind. If you know about the old master Yuan, he will definitely cry out for gratitude to thank the emperor for his grace."
Emperor Jiajing said, "Okay, go and pass the imperial edict. I want to be quiet again."
When Chen Hong's voice and steps immediately became lighter when he heard Emperor Jiajing say he wanted to be quiet again, he immediately stepped out of Emperor Jiajing's monastery and looked at Li Fang who was waiting at the door of the monastery.
At this moment, Chen Hong suddenly straightened his waist, looked cold, and said to Li Fang condescendingly: "The Emperor is reciting in the monastery, you are all here to serve carefully. If we know who you are reciting while the Emperor is reciting, it will make a sound, which will affect the Emperor's mood, our family will guarantee to tear your mouth one by one!"
Li Fang has long been used to Chen Hong's appearance. Although they went to Prince Yu's Mansion together, their life experiences are always different.
Chen Hong was favored by Emperor Jiajing early on, and stepped from Shunyi Industrial Park to Silijian and served in front of the imperial court.
Although Li Fang was promoted by Emperor Jiajing and became the eunuch of the Silijian, he was still in Shunyi.
Therefore, even though he has arrived in front of Emperor Jiajing now, he is still one step slower after all, and cannot be compared with Chen Hong, who is now the chief sealer of the Sili Supervisor and the admiral of the East Factory.
Therefore, Chen Hong is now posing in front of him and showing off his might. Li Fang can only bow his head and bear it obediently, and dare not confront Chen Hong in person, so that Chen Hong cannot get out of the way.
After all, since Emperor Jiajing started moving to Wanshou Palace, Chen Hong was extremely favored. He usually did not dare to take the initiative to enter the monastery to serve him without Emperor Jiajing's will.
But now Chen Hong was able to take small steps into the monastery without waiting for Emperor Jiajing’s order.
From this we can see that Chen Hong is really different from the past and has begun to gradually replace Huang Jin's role.
Li Fang lowered her eyebrows and bowed to Chen Hong, "Yes."
After hearing the "Yes", Chen Hong saw Li Fang's respectful look with his light, and he was extremely satisfied.
Then he also took confident and high-spirited steps towards Wenhua Palace.
After Chen Hong left, Li Fang took a look around and confirmed that he was the only one outside the temple, he also carefully entered the temple.
Emperor Jiajing heard the slight noise in the monastery and knew that Li Fang came in. He was not surprised at all. Instead, it seemed that this was something he was used to.
Li Fang gently walked to Emperor Jiajing, bowed respectfully to Emperor Jiajing, and then took out a very well-sealed insulation pot from his close-fitting clothes.
"Imperial, it's time to use soup."
The "Tang" that Li Fang held was the medicine that Li Shizhen prescribed for Emperor Jiajing, but Emperor Jiajing was more taboo about the word "Tang", so every time Li Fang secretly brought the medicine in for Emperor Jiajing, he used "Tang" instead.
Moreover, this is also an important thing Huang Jin entrusted to him. No one can know a single point except him!
Therefore, every time Li Fang looked at the crowd and quietly entered the temple and presented "soup" to Emperor Jiajing.
Emperor Jiajing looked at the insulation pot that Li Fang carefully raised and nodded lightly, "Put it aside."
Li Fang hurriedly said, "Old ancestor said, this soup should be drunk while it is hot and should not be cold."
Emperor Jiajing laughed, "This old guy Huang Jin is quite generous. Forget it, take it over."
After hearing Emperor Jiajing's words, Li Fang couldn't help but feel relieved, and quickly raised the insulation pot in her hand higher, so that Emperor Jiajing could get it with his hand.
Emperor Jiajing connected the insulation can that Li Fang raised in his hand, and he could still feel the warmth on the tank body. It can be seen that Li Fang had tried his best to maintain the temperature of the insulation can.
Emperor Jiajing opened the plug of the insulation pot while looking at Li Fang and said, "I gave you an errand, do you dare to do it?"
Li Fang immediately bowed: "As long as it is the emperor's order, I will never hesitate at all."
Emperor Jiajing looked at the soup in the jar. Although he didn't want to drink it, in order to make himself live longer, he still endured the discomfort and became bored in one gulp.
Seeing that Jiajing had finished drinking the soup, Li Fang hurriedly brought a cup of tea to rinse his mouth from the side and handed it on, "Emperor, rinse your mouth."
Emperor Jiajing took the tea that was rinsing, took a sip and rinsed it in his mouth. Li Fang also took advantage of the gap and held a beautifully crafted spittoon in front of Emperor Jiajing.
Emperor Jiajing took advantage of the situation and spit out the mouthwash from his mouth into the spittoon.
Li Fang immediately put the spittoon aside, then raised a tray with a clean towel to Emperor Jiajing.
Emperor Jiajing picked up the towel and wiped the water stains on the corner of his mouth, tidied up his beard, and then threw the towel in his hand into the tray and let Li Fang hold it down.
Li Fang was packing these things seriously, and Emperor Jiajing also began to say, "I am going to make you an admiral of Nanhaizi and be responsible for the palace guards in Xiyuan. Do you have the confidence to do it well?"
Li Fang stopped packing things and turned around and knelt down, "I will never let down the emperor!"
Emperor Jiajing laughed and said, "Then I will make a decision. I will give you an order later, so you can take office."
Li Fang bowed again: "I thank you for your kindness." Emperor Jiajing saw Li Fang so excited and serious, and he said: "When you are fine, remember to go and see Huang Jin. Don't let him be bullied there."
Emperor Jiajing was still worried about Huang Jin, but at the moment, Chen Hong was more useful than Huang Jin.
So for the sake of what happened next, Emperor Jiajing could only aggrieved Huang Jin and asked Chen Hong to take the throne to do something. He was unwilling to let Huang Jin do things to protect Huang Jin's old age.
On the way to Wenhua Palace, Chen Hong did not stop at all along the way.
He also knew very well that after Emperor Jiajing, the master of the Ming Dynasty was his previous master, King Yu.
So when he came to King Yu's side, Chen Hong was also extremely respectful and did not look like a big eunuch in the palace.
"The prince is here, I am Chen Hong, I saluted you."
Chen Hong entered the Wenhua Hall and immediately saluted in flattery when he saw Zhu Zaiyan.
At this time, Zhu Zaiji was still sighing with Gao Gong and sighing at Yuan Wei's sudden death.
Although everyone knows that Yuan Wei will not live long, no one expected that he would die in such a hurry and didn't even hold on to his family.
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Zhu Zai Di vaguely guessed in his heart that Yuan Wei's death might be because Emperor Jiajing later sent someone to chase the elixir. However, even Zhu Zai Di could not raise the topic of such a taboo.
After all, if this is said as gossip, the consequences will be quite serious.
Therefore, during this period, Zhu Zaiji and Gao Gong were just sighing about the impermanence of life and had no other topics to play.
Now Chen Hong is coming suddenly, Zhu Zai-ji and Gao Gong look at him, and you don’t have to guess what he is doing.
Zhu Zaiji glanced at Chen Hong lightly, and he raised his hand slightly and said, "Get up, there are no outsiders here, so you don't have to be so cautious."
Chen Hong hurriedly said, "Thank you, Prince."
Zhu Zaiji asked, "Yuan Wei is dead, what is Your Majesty's will?"
Chen Hong replied: "Your Majesty asked me to issue an order to the prince, and asked the cabinet to draw a posthumous honor for Master Yuan and a posthumous title. Then, let the prince choose a Yinpu official for Master Yuan's son, which can be regarded as the last honor the emperor gave Master Yuan."
Zhu Zaiji nodded and said, "Gu knows. Go back and report to Your Majesty. After Gu discusses with the cabinet, he will present the proposed posthumous title, posthumous title, and official position to supplement his son."
Chen Hong bowed again: "I obey the order."
Then Zhu Zaiji looked at Meng Chong beside him again, "Go and see Chen Hong off."
Meng Chong also responded, and then went to send Chen Hong back.
When Chen Hong saw Meng Chong coming, he did not show any arrogant expression. He knew very well that although Meng Chong was not as good as him in terms of position level, Meng Chong was the eunuch who was close to King Yu.
As long as one day in the future, King Yu becomes the only master of the Forbidden City, it is not impossible for Meng Chong to advance to the Sili Supervisory Bureau at an extremely fast speed and even replace his current status.
Therefore, when treating Meng Chong, Chen Hong also maintained a very friendly smile, as if the two were close old friends for many years, and were not as arrogant as Li Fang.
Zhu Zaiyan and Gao Gong looked at Meng Chong and Chen Hong's disappearing backs.
They both withdrew their gaze at the same time, and Gao Gong said, "Prince, can you let me inform the cabinet?"
Zhu Zai said, "No need, Yuan Wei has died. You are also the Minister of Rites and are qualified to discuss his affairs after him. Later, you go directly to the cabinet to discuss the honors and posthumous titles behind Yuan Wei. It can be considered as familiar with the working atmosphere of the cabinet in advance."
After hearing this, Gao Gong felt very excited and the time finally came.
Gao Gong bowed to Zhu Zai's name, "I obey the order!"
Zhu Zaiyu looked at Gao Gong's excited look and sighed slightly. He did this, which was actually a little compensation for Gao Gong, allowing him to enjoy the feeling of discussing important matters in the cabinet.
Have a good understanding of the differences between the Cabinet Grand Secretary and the General Secretary’s style of work.
After he goes to Nanjing, he can also enter the work state with ease.
Gao Gong excitedly bid farewell to Zhu Zaiyan and headed towards Wenyuan Pavilion, which was separated by a wall from Wenhua Hall.
In the lobby of Wenyuan Pavilion, the remaining three cabinet masters were also discussing the matters behind Yuan Wei in advance.
At the same time, they were also waiting for the summons of Emperor Jiajing or Zhu Zaiji, but they waited for Gao Gong.
Xu Jie, Li Chunfang, Yan Ne and the other two watched Gao Gong actually come to the cabinet at this time, which also surprised the three of them.
As the chief minister of the cabinet, Xu Jie looked at Gao Gong who almost didn't follow the rules and greeted him. He felt a little unhappy, thinking that Gao Gong was really becoming more and more unruly.
You should know that he is still a member of the cabinet. When he meets a cabinet grandson who is one level higher than his identity, he must give a tribute to him and a half, even if he does not give a full gift to show respect.
As a result, Gao Gong entered the Wenyuan Pavilion and just raised his hand to give a flat ceremony. Before the Secretariat of the Wenyuan Pavilion could report it, he came, as if he was also a Grand Secretary of the Cabinet here.
"Gao Shangshu, why are you here?"
Xu Jie didn't even shout the word Gao Gong, and directly used the name "Gao Shangshu" to ask the impolite Gao Gong.
Gao Gong looked at Xu Jie and raised his hand slightly, "I am here to discuss with you the matter behind Ge Lao Yuan. Do Yuan Fu, brother Zishi (Li Chunfang) and brother Minqing (Yan Ne) have any flaws?"
Xu Jie felt a little unhappy when he listened to Gao Gong's reply.
Li Chunfang and Yan Ne also heard that Gao Gong's tone was different from the past. It seemed that Gao Gong now really regarded himself as an existence that could be on par with the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet.
However, Li Chunfang and Yan Ne did not mind this matter too much. After all, the chief assistant was not the two of them. If Gao Gong was really embarrassed, then Xu Jie was incompetent. What should he do for them?
Moreover, Li Chunfang was also a key figure who recommended Gao Gong to go to Nanjing, and Yan Ne did not express any objection to this.
So the two of them must be unwilling to show themselves too much, so that Gao Gong, who went to Nanjing in the future, would hate them.
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