I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Chapter 49 Ants
"I request Your Majesty to thoroughly investigate this matter!"

In the cabinet, the five cabinet elders all knelt down and begged Jiajing.

"Hmph, I don't believe it anymore. Your cabinet didn't notice it at all before this?" Jiajing looked at the many ministers kneeling on the ground and said coldly.

"Your Majesty, we are really not very clear about the situation here in Gansu! The officials who were sent to Gansu to monitor before took office either collude with local officials or find various reasons to transfer out of Gansu. No one wants to go to Gansu anymore." Xu Jie, the cabinet deputy, took the lead to stand up and excuse everyone.

"Your Majesty, what Elder Xu Ge said is true. At that time, the court's focus was shifted to exterminating the Japanese pirates in the southeast, and it really took care of a small Gansu." After Xu Jie spoke, Yan Song followed suit.

"Governor of Gansu or Wang Jien?" Jiajing looked at Yan Song and Xu Jie and asked.

"Your Majesty, Wang Ji'en has served as governor of Gansu since Jiajing 36, and his position has not been changed so far." Yan Song replied after recalling for a moment.

"Okay, your cabinet will write a letter and ask Wang Jien to return to Beijing to report on his work."

"May I ask Your Majesty, what reason should I use?"

"Do you still use me for any reason? Just find anything related to disaster relief."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

"Oh, by the way, the relief money in Gansu will be reissued at a reduced rate, and at the same time, we will send people to Gansu to investigate! If the tone of the top and bottom is exactly the same, then Wang Ji'en will be dealt with." Jiajing seemed to suddenly think of something, and hurriedly Then added.

"Yes." Yan Song and Xu Jie looked at each other and bowed to accept the order.

None of these people who have experienced ups and downs in the officialdom for decades, have weathered many hardships, escaped countless spears and hidden arrows, and finally became a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion and successfully entered the cabinet, none of them are idiots. They all know very well in their hearts that His Majesty's move is not to find out What, but to see what the current situation in Gansu is like.

It would be fine if the officials from top to bottom in Gansu did not have the same tone, but if the tone was consistent, it meant that the whole of Gansu had been managed by Wang Jien as a monolith, and he, the governor of Gansu, could not escape death!And during this process, His Majesty will definitely send Jin Yiwei to verify secretly.

"This Wang Jien is probably dead!"

Everyone thought so in their hearts, even though no one was willing to go to Gansu to serve as a supervisory officer, but as Ge elders, they had their own intelligence system, and they were well aware of what they were doing in Gansu.

It's just that this Wang Ji'en is very good at things, and he usually has a lot of filial piety. Both Yan Dang and Qingliu have collected money from him, so everyone turns a blind eye to him.

Now that the matter was accidentally exposed, and the emperor was also concerned about it, it was time to consider how to get out of it.

While everyone was thinking about how to deal with it, Jiajing spoke up, and turned his eyes to Yan Song and Xu Jie: "Let's leave this matter to you two!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Yan Song and Xu Jie took orders.

……

After the cabinet meeting, Xu Jie and Yan Song summoned their officials respectively, told them to deal with the relevant evidence, and cut off the officials from Gansu. The two bigwigs took the lead and selected several smart and capable officials to go to Gansu to investigate.

Together with the people sent by the imperial court to investigate in Gansu, there was also a transfer order for Wang Jien to return to Beijing to report on his work.

At night, Yan Mansion.

After Yan Shifan sorted out the criminal record files related to the clan, he knocked on Yan Song's door directly.

"Father, are you there? The file has been sorted out."

"come in."

Yan Shifan pushed the door and entered, only to see Yan Song wearing reading glasses and holding a telescope in his hand, observing the ground with relish.

"Father, what are you looking at?"

Yan Shifan put the compiled files aside and asked curiously.

"Shut up, I'm looking at the ants on the ground?" Yan Song said, throwing a few grains of rice on the ground.

"What's so interesting about this ant?" Yan Shifan muttered, then walked up to his father Yan Song, squatted down, and followed his father's example to observe carefully.

"Is there a lot of knowledge here? Look at this ant, which is so small in size, but can move things several times larger than itself. Isn't there an old saying that the embankment of a thousand miles collapses in an ant's nest."

"Do you have any insights?" Yan Song may be tired from watching, so he put the binoculars aside and took off the reading glasses he was wearing.

"Father means that we should cooperate sincerely like ants and concentrate our efforts to accomplish great things?" Yan Shifan said, and showed Yan Song the files he had sorted out.

"Wrong, what I mean is that His Majesty wants to crush us to death, just like crushing an ant!" Yan Song said, pouring out the boiling water that had just been replaced in the teacup.

In an instant, the ants who were struggling to carry the food before were scalded to death by the boiling water, and after struggling twice, they stopped moving.

"We must always be in awe of His Majesty. Everything we have is given by His Majesty. Otherwise, we will end up like these ants." After Yan Song finished speaking, he picked up the file that Yan Shifan had organized and read it. .

Yan Shifan looked at the dead ants on the ground, didn't know what he was thinking, and said after a long time: "My child knows."

"It's good to know, how is the public opinion in the capital recently?"

"Haier has already arranged people in various academies, tea stalls, and even the Imperial College in the capital in advance. The common people have long been very dissatisfied with the behavior of those clans, and they don't even need anyone to provoke them."

"Okay, take this back and polish it a little bit, and I will formally present it to His Majesty tomorrow!"

Yan Shifan took the dossier from Yan Song's hand, and seeing his father's trembling expression, he couldn't help feeling a little worried: "Why don't I bring this matter up to His Majesty tomorrow!"

"No, you don't have enough weight, I have to bring this matter up! I, Yan Song, have been the chief assistant of the cabinet for more than 20 years. Why haven't I seen such a big storm?"

"Don't worry, Your Majesty is our most solid backing!" Seeing that his son was still a little worried, Yan Song immediately added.

"Okay, I'll go back and polish it now, you should go to bed early."

"Ah."

……

Late at night, the Forbidden City, Ganlu Palace.

Jiajing did not choose to live in the Hall of Mental Cultivation tonight, but went straight to the Ganlu Palace where the imperial concubine Shen was.

"Come on, let me listen?" Jiajing hugged Shen who was busy making tea for himself, and said with a light smile.

"Your Majesty, my concubine is still making tea for you! Don't worry." Shen lay down in Jiajing's arms, blushing.

"Okay, okay, let's make the tea first!" Jiajing looked playful, looked at Shen who was collapsed in his arms, and said softly.

"Your Majesty!" Shen frowned coquettishly, but she was unwilling to leave.

"Recently, no matter who wants to plead with me through you, don't bother, you know?" Jiajing rubbed Shen's little hand and whispered.

"Is Your Majesty going to do something earth-shattering?" Shen lay down in Jiajing's arms, and kept drawing circles on Jiajing's chest with her fingers.

"Yes, it's a big deal." Jiajing nodded and looked into the distance.

"How big is it?"

"It's huge!"

"Then Your Majesty must be careful!" Shen's face was full of worry.

"Don't worry, I am the emperor, no one dares to do anything to me! It's just that I don't want you to get involved."

The two hugged each other like this, without talking all night.

(End of this chapter)