The Prosperous Era of Longwan

Zhang Juzheng asked about Wei Guangde's whereabouts. Xu Jie said with a smile: "It's too early to consider his affairs now. Even if he goes to Fujian to serve as a censor, it doesn't mean that he can only become a governor. Don't forget, you can also become an inspector. That road has no impact on Hanlin officials.

Besides, with that boy's holy family, it's hard to say whether he will stay in Fujian for a long time. "

What Xu Jie was talking about was naturally the way he was promoted from the local area. Going to the Procuratorate was actually similar to the promotion of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, which was not a problem.

However, the most important information revealed in the words was 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 help him 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 his meditation session in the Yongshou Palace, he stood up and walked out of the palace door, flexing his hands and feet. From a distance, he saw Gao Zhong and two young chamberlains walking into the palace door holding a stack of memorials.

There were several piles of such memorials every day, and Emperor Jiajing had long been annoyed by such work.

Fortunately, although it seemed like there were a lot of sparse memorials, it was actually processed very quickly, and he didn't 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 could be heard in the main hall of Yongshou Palace, and from time to time there was the sound of bronze chimes.

"Wu Shan, the Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Gao Yaozou, the Minister of the Ministry of Husbandry. The construction of Prince Jing's Mansion has been delayed for a long time. Please give me your Majesty's special memorial."

A chamberlain waited for a moment after reading, and then read again: "It is planned to be completed within a time limit, Xu Jie."

The chamberlain read this, handed the memorial he held in both hands to Gao Zhong next to him, and picked up another memorial below to wait for it 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's been so long and it hasn't been decided yet. Three months, three months, the King's Palace will be completed."

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."

"yes."

Huang Jin took a half step forward and said yes, then returned to his original position.

When it was approaching noon, Xu Jie put down the memorial on his desk, took a sip from the tea cup beside the desk. The tea was a little cold, and when he was about to ask someone to come in and change it to hot tea, the clerk outside suddenly came in and bowed and said: "Mr. , there is a servant in the palace delivering the order."

"Please come in."

Xu Jie said, then stood up and straightened his official robes.

After a while, a chamberlain came into the room and said to him: "Your Majesty, please go to Xiyuan to see Mr. Xu Ge as soon as possible."

"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 this, he replaced the scribe and asked him to call someone. Although it was almost lunch time, the emperor couldn't be asked 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 about the matter in Prince Jing's Mansion, the fault lies with the Chief of the Prince's Mansion for constantly raising the conditions, which has led to the failure to reach an agreement in the peace talks. Ouyang Shangshu did not deliberately create difficulties."

Xu Jie replied hurriedly.

Emperor Jiajing wanted to investigate these matters, and 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.

Go down 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 fully responsible for all affairs in King Jing's Mansion and coordinate with all ministries. "

"According to the order."

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. "Some more"

After saying 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, others, whose rumors?"

Emperor Jiajing turned around and said to Xu Jie.

At this time, Xu Jie also turned to face Emperor Jiajing, still maintaining his bowed posture and said: "The last time your Majesty selected Qing Ci, Wei Guangde learned to write a Qing Ci, but he wrote it very poorly, so he was screened out. The recent paragraph Many people have been laughing at this for a while.”

"What are they laughing at?"

Emperor Jiajing asked with a relaxed expression now.

"When talking about Wei Guangde's Qing Ci, it is a bit imitative of Maozhong's long couplets with numbers, but it is completely different from it."

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, the words in Wei Guangde's Qing Ci are a little disrespectful. Please forgive me. It seems that this is his first time writing Qing Ci, and his writing skills are still a bit lacking."

Xu Jie said hurriedly.

"Is it disrespectful? What is it 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 is born with two, two begets three, and three begets all things. The human body is hard to come by, and now it is clear. The great road is hard to understand, but now it is clear. The earth follows the sky, and the sky follows the earth. Taoism is natural, desire and respect Chinese language in this life, how can we live without this body.'

His Majesty is a man from heaven who has come down to the mortal world to experience, and he still needs to adjust himself. The wording is really inappropriate, so at that time, his Qingci was screened out. "

Xu Jie said as soon as he opened his mouth.

Emperor Jiajing's originally standing figure turned around and continued to walk slowly towards the entrance of the hall. He also whispered softly: "The human body is rare, now it is obtained, and the great road is difficult to understand, now it is clear.

Desire and emphasis on Chinese language lead this life, what will happen if this body is not saved. "

After reciting it softly twice, there was a slight smile on the corner of the mouth, "Except the first half, it is still a good word."

"Your Majesty's praise for his ability is also a blessing he has cultivated."

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 showed 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 the Wuyi Hall in Xiyuan was just that the Qing Ci was eliminated, and Emperor Jiajing did not see it, so naturally there was 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 take the initiative 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."

Emperor Jiajing said something, then shook his head and walked back to the throne, muttering a few words.

Behind him, Huang Jin could only vaguely hear two sentences, "If you don't know how to write Qing Ci, don't write it. It will make people laugh."

"yes."

Huang Jin replied respectfully towards the back of Emperor Jiajing.

He knew that Emperor Jiajing's purpose of calling Yan Song later was to keep him out of the Prince Jing's Mansion project.

Speaking of which, Prince Jing's Mansion could make demands for the palace's renovation project. Even if the demands were excessive, as long as they did not exceed the limit and for the sake of giving his son some benefit, Emperor Jiajing would not refuse.

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 could make demands, but it could not be used as a reason to delay the emperor's decision-making indefinitely.

King Jing's vassalage was decided by Emperor Jiajing. King Jing could make trouble, but others could not interfere.

Beat, this is Emperor Jiajing wanting 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 would always keep a tight cover, 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 patrol.

We made an appointment 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 come and try the taste.

At three o'clock in the morning, 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, unless he was 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.

However, Wei Guangde also knew that the carriage was traveling from east to west, and it was probably a high-ranking eunuch in the palace.

Whether you take a car or a sedan, they are actually the same, the main thing is to look at the people.

Generally speaking, 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 Liuquanju's door, it 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 to 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 grade he was.

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 walked towards the door.

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.

Zhang Jicheng at the door saluted Chen Ju and then let Chen Ju into the private room.

"Brother Chen, I haven't been seen for some days. Come, please."

At 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.

Except, of course, high-ranking officials.

"Didn't I just meet you a few days ago? Hehe, didn't you cause some trouble again?"

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 still 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 two new dishes. I would like to invite my elder brother to try it. I don't know if Brother Chen has eaten it."

"I've never had any wine, but I've heard people talk about those two dishes, one cabbage and one fish head. Let's 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 up Chen Ju's wine, then filled up the wine glass in front of him, and then spoke.

"That's Eunuch Feng's carriage. Hey, the materials inside are really good. I don't know how many layers of blankets there are. It's really comfortable to sit in. It's 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 Chief of Ceremonies, 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 couldn't 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.

King Yu is still childless, and so is King Jing.

Feng Bao, Feng Bao.

Wei Guangde recited the name silently in his mind.