Chapter 205 It seems that a Kunkun died
Xiyuan, Longevity Palace.
Emperor Jiajing was fiddling with the whisk in his hand idlely, as if he was still thinking about some problems.
"Recite Zhang Juzheng's speech to San'er again."
Emperor Jiajing then ordered Huang Jin to recite what Zhang Juzheng said when he met Zhu Zaijing for the first time.
Huang Jin replied yes, and then read the secret report record about Zhang Juzheng's first meeting with Zhu Zaijing.
After Huang Jin finished reciting this time, Emperor Jiajing had another smile on his face, "Interesting, really interesting. This Hanlin Academy is really talented."
Then Jiajing The emperor seemed to have remembered something again. He lowered his head and put the whisk in his hand aside. Then he opened a corner of the futon he was sitting on and pulled out an unknown memorial.
Emperor Jiajing opened the memorial and read it again, and then said to himself: "No wonder he said such things, it turns out it is you."
Emperor Jiajing looked at his hand After reading this "On Current Affairs", I finally remembered who this Zhang Juzheng was.
No wonder Xu Jiehui worked so hard to recommend this person to be a lecturer in Prince Yu's Mansion. It turned out that he had taken a fancy to Zhang Juzheng's talent and learning early on.
Huang Jin listened to Emperor Jiajing's soliloquy, and he whispered from the side: "Emperor, do you want your servants to go and knock?"
Emperor Jiajing waved his hand, "No, Let him teach me. I want to see what new ideas he can bring to the ancient sage emperor's edicts on governing the country."
Huang Jin smiled slightly: "The emperor is really kind, Zhang Juzheng is so overestimating his abilities. Even the emperor can forgive him. "
Emperor Jiajing said with a smile: "I am giving young people a chance. Look at how old people like Yan Song, Zhang Zhi, and Xu Jie are, and they are still there. Why are you pretending to do your best? Are you just waiting to gain enough fame and then fight with me?”
"I have seen through these people a long time ago. They follow the rules every day. How can I not know the rules? They like to use these to pressure me. Will I pay attention to them? What a joke!"
"If I don't Understand the rules, there is a drought in Henan and Shandong, so I will not exempt the summer and autumn taxes? The court is also a family, and it also needs to make fire and eat. But the court can only receive so much money from the treasury every year."
"They don't want to think of anything. To provide more money for the court and maintain dignity, do you want me to run the country on an empty stomach? "
"They tell me the rules every day, but they don't know who taught them these rules?" br>
“Now that young people have ideas, I will definitely not stop them. I want to see how these young people do things. I hope you won’t disappoint me.”
After Emperor Jiajing said these words, he lay comfortably on the futon in the golden tent and stopped thinking about these things.
But some things just don’t go as planned.
Just when Emperor Jiajing wanted to relax, a young eunuch came from outside Xiyuan and reported the news in a hurry.
The little eunuch trotted all the way to the Wanshou Palace in the wind and snow and informed the guards in front of the palace gate.
After a while, Huang Jin came out and took a look at the little eunuch.
The little eunuch immediately handed a rolled note to Huang Jin respectfully.
Huang Jin glanced at it and said calmly, "Go down, you don't have to stare at me anymore."
Then Huang Jin took the small note into the Wanshou Palace. Abandon.
Huang Jin shouted softly to Emperor Jiajing: "Emperor, Zhang Zhi is dead." Emperor Jiajing couldn't react in particular when he heard the news, so he simply said, "Oh."
"When his family announces his funeral, just let the people from the Ministry of Rites handle it. As for the posthumous title... I'll think about it again."
After hearing what Emperor Jiajing said, Huang Jin replied, "Yes, I will write it down." "
Zhang Zhi, the second assistant of the Jiajing Dynasty, had a reputation as a virtuous man. He couldn't bear to see Emperor Jiajing's practice of xuanxuan. Whenever Emperor Jiajing asked the ministers to write Qing Ci, Zhang Zhi always responded. It was "poorly written", for which Emperor Jiajing was also very unhappy with him, so over time Zhang Zhi became unpopular with Emperor Jiajing.
Now the man is gone, but in the heart of Emperor Jiajing, his death is like the death of a very ordinary Kunkun, and it will not cause any waves at all.
But now that he is dead, Emperor Jiajing has to consider adding more people to the cabinet.
Otherwise, the cabinet would only contain a bachelor, Yan Song, which would be very detrimental to Emperor Jiajing's balance.
So, at this time, the issue that Emperor Jiajing was considering was not what kind of favor Zhang Zhi should give after his death, but whether Xu Jie should be formally replaced by the new cabinet members.
To be honest, Emperor Jiajing was actually quite conflicted about filling Xu Jie into the cabinet.
Everyone knows how much Emperor Jiajing hated Xu Jie in his early years.
Back then, Emperor Jiajing beat many people to death because of "great etiquette" matters.
Otherwise, considering that the impact would be too bad and there would be no way to end it in the future, it would be a pity to just beat him to death at the Meridian Gate based on what Xu Jie said at the beginning.
So later Emperor Jiajing could only resent Xu Jie's name engraved on the pillar, and wrote the sentence "Xu Jie, a villain, will never be used" to express his indignation.
But I don’t know since when, this Xu Jie has become sensible, speaks eloquently, and works reliably.
As a result, Emperor Jiajing gradually let go of the prejudices in his heart, accepted Xu Jie with the emperor's magnanimity, and gave Xu Jie a new opportunity. Only then did Xu Jie achieve his current status and identity.
But even so, this does not mean that Emperor Jiajing really forgave him, otherwise Emperor Jiajing would not have allowed Xu Jie to temporarily join the cabinet to take orders if Zhang Zhi was ineffective.
But now that Zhang Zhi is gone, it is impossible for the cabinet to have only one bachelor. Otherwise, wouldn't this become an "independent prime minister"?
Besides, Yan Song is just "obedient" and is far from "easy to use".
If only Yan Song was placed in charge of the cabinet, although Emperor Jiajing was not worried that Yan Song would threaten the imperial power, Emperor Jiajing was worried that the people below him would slack off because they were dissatisfied with Yan Song.
Therefore, there must be a "leader" in the cabinet who can unite the reputation of the scholars. As long as there is such a "leader", these literati and poets cannot slack off, they must do what they should do.
So, at this time Emperor Jiajing also had to consider the issue of letting Xu Jie join the cabinet in advance.
After thinking for a while, Emperor Jiajing changed his posture again and flicked the Taoist whisk in his hand again.
“Forget it, let’s do it next year, it won’t be short of these days anyway.”
Emperor Jiajing simply put the matter behind him, and then said to Huang Jin: "Get an elixir. I suddenly feel that my thoughts are clear, and I feel like I have a breakthrough in my cultivation. I want to seize this opportunity."
When Huang Jin heard this, he quickly went to the treasure on the side. An amber-colored reddish elixir was poured out of the gourd, and it was carefully presented in a hexagonal gold box.
Emperor Jiajing sat upright, stretched out his hand, pinched the heavy metal elixir with unknown ingredients, swallowed it in one gulp, and then began to practice in a posture of holding the yuan and guarding one.
(End of this chapter)