prosperous age

Chapter 259 Chapter 258
Gao Zhong brought a few servants with today's memorial to the outside of Yongshou Palace, but stopped at the palace gate.

Outside the gate of Yongshou Palace, all the eunuchs and servants around Emperor Jiajing could be seen. Only Huang Jin was not here, and he should be serving His Majesty inside.

For the eunuchs who are close to Emperor Jiajing, Gao Zhong knew the situation in front of him. Emperor Jiajing must be taking the pill inside. , to absorb the power of the elixir, and cannot be disturbed by the outside world.

Under such circumstances, except for Huang Jin, the other eunuchs and servants in Yongshou Palace will be driven to wait outside the palace gate.

"Who's in there?"

When Gao Zhong came here, he asked a eunuch in charge.

"Eunuch Gao, Your Majesty is taking the elixir. I dare not disturb you. Besides Eunuch Huang, there is also Gao Shouzhong and Zhenren Gao to protect His Majesty."

"oh, I see."

Gao Zhong nodded after hearing this. This Gao Shouzhong is also one of the worshipers in the palace, and he is responsible for refining the elixir for Emperor Jiajing's daily practice, and guiding His Majesty to take the medicine.

Under such circumstances, they naturally dare not go in and can only wait outside.

Gao Zhong stood outside the Yongshou Palace, and the servants who had been densely packed at the gate of the palace before consciously separated to the left and right to make way.

Gao Zhong walked lightly along this road to the palace gate and looked inside for a while, then retracted his head, and asked the servant next to him in a low voice, "How long have you been out?"

"Grandpa, we have been out for a quarter of an hour."

This little servant is Chen Ju's godson. Although Chen Ju is only eighteen or nineteen, he has already taken in two or three godsons. When he is not in Yongshou Palace, the big things and small things that happen inside are the godsons. Go back and tell him.

It was only two quarters of an hour, it was a little early, and it couldn't be over in half an hour.

Gao Zhong secretly sighed in his heart, if he had known earlier, he might as well sit in the Supervisor of Rites for a while longer.

"What's the matter with the emperor, you don't eat elixir at this time in the past."

But Gao Zhong also wondered, this is not the time to take the elixir.

"The imperial lord took out those memorials two days ago and looked at them again. He was angry and broke his mood, so he took the elixir to calm his mind."

The little servant replied in a low voice.

"Oh."

Gao Zhong understood that Emperor Jiajing was no longer dissatisfied with King Hui's actions, but hated him deeply. King Hui must be finished.

The relationship of Emperor Jiajing's identity determined that he could not take the matter of the clan prince's usurpation lightly.

Thinking of this, Gao Zhong thought of Huang Jin. When he knew about this, he was still a little uncertain about His Majesty's attitude, but Huang Jin nodded after hearing this.

It seems that Huang Jin is really the No. 1 person in the palace who knows His Majesty well.

Finding a place by the door, Gao Zhong leaned against the palace door and squinted his eyes for a rest, it was still early anyway.

After an unknown amount of time, he felt someone gently touch him from behind.

Gao Zhong opened his eyes and looked behind him. It was Chen Ju, who was winking at him, motioning him to look in.

Gao Zhong understood that it should be His Majesty's meritorious service in Yongshou Palace.

Looking back to the inside of the palace gate, the gate of the main hall was indeed opened by Huang Jin. Emperor Jiajing was in front, and Gao Shouzhong walked out following step by step.

Seeing that Emperor Jiajing's complexion is rosy now, it seems that his skills have improved a lot.

But soon, the face of Emperor Jiajing, who had been kind and kind before, turned cold. It seemed that it was because Gao Shouzhong behind him said something there.

But at this time Gao Zhong didn't need to stay here any longer, he tidied up his robes and walked into Yongshou Palace. Chen Ju and other eunuchs and servants also filed in according to their grades, and entered the square of Yongshou Palace from both sides of the Royal Road .

"Don't care about Hui affairs."

Gao Zhong walked in front, walking towards Emperor Jiajing with a happy face, ready to flatter his majesty after meeting and saluting, to make His Majesty happy, but when he got closer, he heard these words from Emperor Jiajing.

Don't care about Hui's affairs, is Gao Shouzhong helping King Hui to excuse him?
It's only been a few days, it's impossible for the news to reach Junzhou and come back.

It seems that Gao Shouzhong has not taken less of King Hui's property on weekdays, otherwise he would not speak for King Hui at this time.

If you think about it, King Hui was favored because the previous generation joined Emperor Jiajing’s Taoist practice group. The third generation King Hui Zhu Houxuan got it from Emperor Jiajing because Tao Zhongwen said that he likes Taoism and is diligent in practicing. A real person seal of "Taiqing Fuyuan Xuanhua real person", the original intention is to assist oneself in practicing Taoist skills.

The prince didn't dare to ask about the big and small affairs of the court, but he could communicate freely with the Taoist priests. Even if someone went to investigate, it was nothing more than that they were exchanging their cultivation experience.

Gao Zhong's heart was raised for a moment and then let go. It seems that His Majesty is extremely disappointed in King Hui. The fate of King Hui has already been doomed in the emperor's heart.

In the past, I only thought that Liang Gaofu was the only friend of King Hui, but I didn't expect Gao Shouzhong to speak for King Hui.

It seemed that King Hui was not an idiot either. He knew that he could not make friends with courtiers, so he focused on alchemists. These people had more opportunities to contact the emperor than most courtiers, and most of them were in private situations.

Approaching the emperor, before Gao Zhong had time to kowtow and salute, he saw Emperor Jiajing frowning slightly and asked, "So many memorials today?"

Behind Gao Zhong must be Chen Ju and others who brought the memorial. This battle is much more than the two or three people carrying the memorial in the past. Six or seven servants are holding the memorial.

"Returning to Your Majesty, most of them are impeachment memorials."

Gao Zhong bowed his head and replied.

"Take it in."

Emperor Jiajing understood what the extras were. In fact, he noticed yesterday that there were more and more impeachment memorials, all of which were directed at King Hui.

Afterwards, Emperor Jiajing glanced at Gao Shouzhong, but he didn't speak, but his meaning was very clear.

"Your Majesty has a lot of things to do every day, and you should also pay attention to rest. The poor Taoist will leave."

The emperor had to deal with the memorial, which was a major national matter, and naturally he, a Taoist priest, could not get involved.

Gao Shouzhong knew that King Hui was going to do something bad when he mentioned two words about King Hui before and got the answer from the emperor.

He used to keep King Hui's things, but this time when Wei Guangde impeached King Hui, he didn't take it seriously, but yesterday he heard that many courtiers had submitted impeachment memorials, and the stewards sent by King Hui in Beijing hurriedly found him. Please make peace in front of the emperor.

It hasn't happened for many years, thinking about the situation back then, Gao Shouzhong's subordinates naturally agreed to the gift.

It's just that I didn't expect that His Majesty directly rejected this matter today, without any intention of letting go.

After seeing Emperor Jiajing nodding in approval, Gao Shouzhong saluted Emperor Jiajing again, then slowly retreated to the gate of the palace, then turned and left Yongshou Palace.

After Gao Zhong took the memorial to the Yongshou Palace, Emperor Jiajing withdrew his gaze from the palace gate and turned back to the palace.

"Put the impeachment memorial to the end, and look at the others first."

Emperor Jiajing sat back in his seat and began to speak one after another.

Soon, the old scene was restored in the palace, the little eunuch began to read out the memorials and drafts, the Emperor Jiajing rang the chime to respond, and Gao Zhong knelt down on the short bench to approve the redemption.

After each memorial was processed, nearly an hour passed quickly.

Seeing that the little eunuch had no memorials in his hands, but there were still several stacks of unread memorials on the table next to him, Emperor Jiajing knew that those were all impeachment of King Hui.

"Have you checked it?"

Emperor Jiajing moved his body, leaned on the dragon chair in a comfortable position and asked.

"I checked, and the two fans from Dongchang who were present at the time also found it and confirmed that the matter is correct."

Huang Jin took a step forward at this time, bowed and said to Emperor Jiajing.

"You Dongchang don't accept this kind of thing?"

Emperor Jiajing said casually.

"Your Majesty, Dongchang only investigates matters in Jingjing, King Hui is in Junzhou, and only Jinyiwei can do it."

Huang Jin said a little aggrieved.

In fact, Dongchang was under his rule. According to Emperor Jiajing's preferences, as long as no major cases were involved, Dongchang would just watch from the sidelines and record them silently, and would not take any action.

More things are actually done by Jin Yiwei controlled by Lu Bing.

This is also a kind of tacit understanding between him and Lu Bing, after all, they both came from Anlu.

Therefore, in recent years, the presence of Dongchang in Beijing has been very low.

"What about the others? What happened to the ministers who presented the memorial these two days."

Emperor Jiajing continued to ask.

"The ministers from Henan are in contact with each other, and they are discussing the impeachment of King Hui. Many people know what King Hui has done, but they have not written a letter of impeachment. Now I see Qingliu from the Imperial Academy and the group of new scholars following Wei Guangde. I impeached King Hui in the memorial, and I also thought about impeaching him in the letter, but there is no abnormality found in other things for the time being."

Huang Jin carefully answered Emperor Jiajing's questions. Now is a sensitive period. Emperor Jiajing's trust in the ministers has dropped to a historical low. These days, even Yan Song has not been summoned.

"Who gave the memorials today?"

At this time, Emperor Jiajing suddenly looked at Gao Zhong and asked, Gao Zhong was the one who knew the content of the memorial in the room, and he must have read all the memorials sent here.

"Today, people from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Rites, and the Ministry of Punishment have all written letters, and there are also many scientific achievements."

Gao Zhong hurriedly answered the emperor's question without daring to delay.

"Hehe, they're all old foxes. They wait until the others are almost finished before they follow suit. Haha, they're all good servants of mine."

A smile suddenly appeared on Emperor Jiajing's face, but Huang Jin and Gao Zhong couldn't help but tremble when the smile fell on Huang Jin's and Gao Zhong's eyes.

"Go back and sort out the list of ministers who submitted the letter. I want to see who they are."

Emperor Jiajing gave Gao Zhong instructions.

"Yes, Your Majesty, Xin Ke Jinshi is still observing politics, do you want to sort out a copy?"

Except for Yijia and Wei Guangde, the Xinke Scholars have not been conferred yet, but the group of the Ministry of Punishment may be appointed and released in the near future, so Gao Zhong wants to confirm, after all, more than 20 people in this batch of Jinshi have followed up on impeachment For the memorial, are they considered ministers in the emperor's mind?

"Let's list it separately, and ask the Ministry of Officials for the list of officials."

After saying this, Emperor Jiajing looked at the pair of memorials, not intending to listen to them at all, and waved his hands, "All of them are in the middle."

Still no reply, no matter whether it is approved or rejected, this means that there will be more disturbances.

The courtiers are like this. For some things, if the emperor doesn't give a response at the beginning, they will be more interested, and they will keep writing letters repeatedly, and the situation will continue to expand.

To calm down, it takes a long time to wait until they are all exhausted.

To magnify the situation is to not respond first, and then deal with it when everyone is aroused.

This can also be regarded as the event of the Great Ceremony. Emperor Jiajing realized a common problem among courtiers. When others wrote about something, they would follow and follow.

As long as it is not a major military issue, the current Emperor Jiajing can handle it with ease.

You only need to delay for a while, wait for the courtiers to make a fuss, express their opinions, and take action at the climax of the letter if you want to deal with it.

Otherwise, it's too early to make a move, no matter how you choose, there will inevitably be people chattering behind your back.

It's easy to deal with those who don't want to deal with them, so just hang on and ignore them.

Therefore, the speed of government affairs in the Jiajing Dynasty in this era feels very procrastinated and very inefficient, but in the eyes of Emperor Jiajing, it is indeed the most effective method.

"Don't care about Hui affairs."

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, the story of Gao Shouzhong speaking with Emperor Hui in front of Emperor Jiajing spread throughout the officialdom in the capital within two days, and everyone could see the emperor's attitude at this time.

Contrary to the situation in previous years, Emperor Jiajing's words were tantamount to sending out a signal-Zhu Zaixun was finished.

More impeachment memorials rushed into the Secretary of General Administration like a flood. As a last resort, the cabinet directly arranged for people to sort the memorials, and directly sent all the impeachment memorials of King Hui according to the content of the previous draft to the Secretary of Rites.

At this time, Yan Song and Xu Jie were too lazy to take a look at such memorials.

For ten days or so, the wind direction of the entire Great Ming Dynasty Hall was aimed at Prince Hui's Mansion in Junzhou thousands of miles away.

At this time, King Hui had already received the news from the capital, and he was very anxious, but the water in the distance could not quench his thirst, so he could do nothing except prepare a few carts of belongings and send them to the capital immediately.

At the very least, King Hui dared not write a letter to defend himself before the emperor issued an order to question him.

How do you know that the imperial court in the capital is impeaching you? If you can't explain clearly, it is spying on the government.

Just when almost all officials in the capital were involved, the time for Emperor Jiajing to wait was ripe.

Although the impeachment memorials were not sent back to the cabinet, they ordered the cabinet to discuss with the six ministries and nine ministers to determine a candidate for the imperial envoy to go to Junzhou to verify the various bad deeds of King Hui.

Naturally, the imperial court cannot punish anyone just depending on the wind and rain, and the necessary review procedures are still required.

The news of this decree made the Beijing officials in Beijing very excited, as if it was their victory.

Going to Junzhou to verify King Hui's bad deeds is a good job. Who would not want to go to Junzhou to verify the bad deeds of King Hui?

The most active ones are the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Ministry of Rites and other departments. Originally, the Clan Mansion was the most suitable department to investigate a case like the Prince's. The Xunqi is in charge, but all the matters under its jurisdiction are handed over to the Ministry of Rites for handling, and the clan mansion exists in name only.

As for Wei Guangde, the instigator of the storm, he has naturally had a good time in front of his colleagues in the Imperial Academy and others in the past few days.

Both impeachments were successful, but Wei Guangde did not dare to be complacent, because Chen Ju never delivered the results of his plans.

(End of this chapter)