I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Chapter 22 Difficulties
"Master Commander, here is the entire confession of the pirate leader Xu Hai!"

The figure who was in charge of interrogating Xu Hai before knelt down on the ground and offered the confession in his hands.

Lu Bing took the confession, glanced roughly, and nodded: "Well, you did a good job, go back and rest."

"My lord, I still have something to say to Xu Hai."

"If you have anything to say, just say it now, don't dawdle." Lu Bing frowned, with displeasure on his face.

He walked up to Xu Hai and whispered in his ear: "I'm lying to you, in fact, your family members who hid there were killed by Jin Yiwei as early as last night."

"After all, someone has to pay for the sins you have committed. Thank you for letting your family reunite early. Tell me, am I very kind?"

After Xu Hai heard the news, his pupils shrank suddenly, and then he wanted to break free as if he was going crazy, his eyes were red, and his expression was crazy: "I will kill you, I will kill you, ah!"

"My lord, my subordinates have finished speaking."

"Well, let's go." Lu Bing didn't look up, and his attention was completely on Xu Hai's confession.

After getting Xu Hai's confession, Jin Yiwei mobilized most of its strength to investigate one by one, follow the clues, and arrest a large number of officials. At first, there were hard-line officials who wanted to refuse to admit all kinds of denials. After trying Jin Yiwei's methods, obediently I opened my mouth.

In order to seek leniency and reduce punishment, the arrested officials began to bite each other one after another. As a result, the truth of many old things came to the surface. With a large number of officials imprisoned, the entire government and the public were in turmoil, and almost everyone was in danger.

……

The Forbidden City, the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

Trembling, Lu Fang knelt down on the ground, and handed over the memorial presented by Lu Bing, commander of Jin Yiwei, to the emperor.

Jiajing took the memorial from Lu Fang, which was densely packed with the list of convicted officials. After a cursory glance, he ordered: "Okay, let's go here! Tell Lu Bing to stop, and if we continue to be implicated It's going to cause chaos."

"Your Majesty is holy!" Lu Fang couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief when he heard the words. His purpose of coming today was to persuade the emperor to let Jin Yiwei stop being involved. Now that the emperor said it himself, it saved a lot of trouble.

"Your Majesty, Lu Bing encountered a difficult problem during the interrogation process, and it was difficult to decide for a while, please Your Majesty..."

"Oh, what's the matter?" Jiajing couldn't help feeling a little curious when he heard this.

"Your Majesty, the problem Lu Bing mentioned is on the last page of the memorial."

Jiajing turned the memorial to the last page, and an unexpected name appeared: Zhao Wenhua.

Zhao Wenhua, a Jinshi in the eighth year of Jiajing, the head of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and the adopted son of Yan Song, also offered Baihua Immortal Wine to his predecessor, saying that it can prolong life, and he was very favored.

"The cabinet meeting will be held later. Isn't this Zhao Wenhua the adopted son of Mr. Yan Ge? We should leave this problem to him." Jiajing smiled with a relaxed expression.

"What are you still doing? Let's go."

Lu Fang was stunned for a moment, and then followed Emperor Jiajing step by step. Lu Fang knew very well in her heart that this Zhao Wenhua could not escape death!
……

In a blink of an eye, Jiajing came to the cabinet, and before entering the door, he heard a noise from inside.

"I bah, traitor!"

"You are the traitor. Jin Yiwei has implicated so many people! If it continues, there will be chaos."

"Hmph, it's just a matter of borrowing Jin Yiwei to rectify the administration of officials. These corrupt officials would rather not!"

"you!"

Jiajing led Lu Fang into the cabinet slowly, and when the emperor came in, Yan Shifan and Gao Gong, who had been arguing fiercely before, stopped talking, stared at each other, and saluted the emperor.

Immediately afterwards, Yan Song and Xu Jie, who were with the old gods, and Zhang Juzheng, who was silent at the side, also saluted.

"Why aren't you arguing anymore? I just listened to the two old elders outside, but they were arguing very fiercely!"

Jiajing randomly found a stool and sat down, looking at the two with a half-smile, while Lu Fang stood beside him with no expression on his face.

"Please forgive me, Your Majesty!" Gao Gong and Yan Shifan knelt down to plead guilty.

"Okay, get up, I'm not here to punish you today, but I have a problem that I want you to help me solve."

"What problem, please tell your Majesty, the old minister will do his best!" Yan Song spoke first.

"Mr. Yan Ge's words won my heart. It just so happens that Mr. Yan Ge can solve this problem today." After Jiajing finished speaking, he handed over the memorial that Lu Bing had handed over to Yan Song.

Yan Song took the memorial, put on the reading glasses tremblingly, and opened the memorial. Yan Song looked at the list of convicted officials recorded in the memorial and was deeply puzzled.

"Your Majesty is this?"

"Turn to the last page." After Jiajing finished speaking, he made a gesture to pick up the teapot on the table and pour himself a cup of tea.

"Your Majesty, please forgive me!" Yan Song knelt down suddenly after turning to the last page of the memorial and seeing the familiar name on it.

"Mr. Yan Ge, hurry up, I told you, I'm not here to punish you today! You see how to deal with it."

"Your Majesty, I am ashamed of you! Since ancient times, it is my father's fault to raise or not teach. I am lax in teaching, and my teacher is lazy! When I was serving as a sacrificial wine for Guoxue, he recognized me as his adoptive father. His half-teacher, now that he violated the court's law, how can I stay out of it?"

"Your Majesty, please punish me, Yan Song!" Yan Song knelt down on the ground with a sad expression.

"Mr. Yan Ge, please hurry up. There is a saying that you know people, know faces, but don't know your heart. Even Zhuge Kongming used Ma Di wrongly. What's the point if you misused Zhao Wenhua?"

Jiajing helped Yan Song up from the ground, and continued to add: "If you know your mistakes, you can correct them. There is nothing terrible about being good! It is not terrible to make mistakes, but what is terrible is that you will not recover from this setback. If you are timid, I still need you, Mr. Yan Ge, to support me in the Ming Dynasty."

"What Your Majesty just said, I will never forget it!" Yan Song sat back tremblingly, covering his face with his sleeves.

"Your Majesty, please entrust this dog to me to deal with. After all, I am his adoptive father. Since it was born by me, I should take care of it."

"I'm sure." Jiajing put down the teacup in his hand, and glanced at all the cabinet ministers.

"I suddenly remembered something, so I won't disturb you." After Jiajing finished speaking, he took Lu Fang out of the cabinet.

"Oh, by the way, I almost forgot to tell you! This matter is over here, and Jin Yiwei will not get involved again, so you can rest assured."

Just as Emperor Jiajing was about to step out of the cabinet, he paused and reminded in a low voice.

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Behind Jiajing, all the cabinet ministers knelt down and saluted.

……

At the end of the cabinet meeting, Yan Song and Yan Shifan, father and son, walked side by side.

And Yan Song walked very slowly, with a sullen face and frowning, as if he was thinking about something.

"Father, do you want to..." After Yan Shifan finished speaking, he made a gesture of wiping his neck.

"No, today's incident is obviously because the emperor wants to pick me out of this quagmire. Do you know what will happen if that memorial falls into Qingliu's hands?"

Yan Shifan tried to conceive for a while, but couldn't help shivering.

"Everything is done according to the laws of Ming Dynasty, Zhao Wenhua is dead, let him not open his mouth indiscriminately!"

After Yan Song finished speaking, he quickened his pace and walked to the front.

"Yes, father."

Yan Shifan nodded, trying to follow in his father's footsteps.

"You have to remember that in my Ming Dynasty, there is only one person who can call the wind and rain, and that is the emperor!" Before getting on the sedan chair, Yan Song stopped, stared into his son's eyes, and urged.

"Yes!"

(End of this chapter)