I, Jiajing, successfully cultivated immortality

Just when Lu Fang thought that the matter was over and was about to say goodbye to Jiajing and leave, Jiajing's rather calm voice sounded in his ears.

"By the way, Lu Fang, I have a letter here, you deliver it to Hai Rui for me!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Upon hearing this, Lu Fang immediately took the envelope from Jiajing's hand with extra respect, and responded respectfully.

Immediately afterwards, Jiajing seemed to suddenly remember something, and followed up with another sentence.

"By the way, this letter goes the way of Jin Yiwei and must be delivered to Hai Rui as soon as possible. Do you understand?"

Seeing that Jiajing attached so much importance to this letter, Lu Fang did not dare to be negligent in the slightest. After carefully putting away the letter, she replied in a deep voice.

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, this servant will not disappoint your trust!"

After Jiajing received Lu Fang's assurance, he nodded in a subtle way, and immediately responded.

"Ah."

After that, Lu Fang was seen walking away from Qianqing Palace with hurried steps.

……

On that day, when the sky was about to completely darken, the three members of the cabinet finally dealt with all the affairs that needed to be dealt with today.

After that, I saw Yan Shifan dragging his tired body back to Yan's mansion in a sedan chair.

As soon as Yan Shifan got off the sedan chair, he saw Yan Song leisurely lying on the reclining chair in the yard. Beside the reclining chair, there was a small table with various pastries and steaming tea.

Immediately, Yan Song slowly got up from the reclining chair, and after moving his limbs at random, he turned his gaze to Yan Shifan and asked.

"Why did you come back so late today? Is there a lot going on in the cabinet?"

After Yan Shifan heard this, he came to his senses belatedly and immediately answered Yan Song's question.

"Returning to father, there are indeed a lot of affairs in the cabinet today, which caused the child to be busy until now!"

When Yan Song heard this, the expression on his face didn't change much, he just pointed with his finger, and ordered those exquisite pastries on the plate on the table.

"Try it, this is the pastry that was just delivered from the kitchen. After all, no matter how good the cakes at this house are, they are not as good as those in the palace!"

After listening to Yan Song's emotion, Yan Shifan immediately stepped forward, picked up a piece of pastry, and put it in his mouth.

After Yan Shifan tasted the pastries, he picked up the teapot, poured himself a cup of hot tea, and immediately drank it down.

After that, Yan Song's rather flat voice rang in Yan Shifan's ears: "By the way, did you three encounter anything when you were on duty in the cabinet today?"

As soon as Yan Song's words fell, Yan Shifan responded without thinking.

"Father, to be honest, when the three of us were on duty in the cabinet today, Zhao Zhenji personally came to the cabinet!"

Hearing this, Yan Song suddenly showed suspicion on his face, glanced over Yan Shifan's body, and then asked.

"Zhao Zhenji, what is he doing in the cabinet? Could it be that someone has been impeached again?"

Facing the extremely puzzled expression on Yan Song's face, Yan Shifan nodded, and immediately spoke.

"Well, father, you guessed right. To be honest, the reason why Zhao Zhenji came to the cabinet today is because someone in the court impeached Hai Rui!"

After Yan Song listened to Yan Shifan's narration, a suddenly enlightened expression appeared on Yan Song's face, he nodded, and immediately spoke.

"Hmph, I knew that he, Zhao Zhenji, would go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, as long as it didn't involve his actual interests, he wouldn't bother to move!"

After saying this, Yan Song turned his gaze to Yan Shifan, and continued to ask questions.

"By the way, have you found out the details of those officials who impeached Hai Rui?"

Yan Shifan heard the words, and after thinking for a moment, he immediately gave the answer: "Father, I feel that most of the officials who were impeached by Shangshu obeyed the orders of Yan Shenggong!"

"After so many years of management, the influence of those families in the court has long been intertwined, and their strength cannot be underestimated!"

"After all, no matter what, they are also famous families with the title of "Four Sages and Three Sages".

After listening to Yan Shifan's analysis, Yan Song nodded and immediately expressed his approval to Yan Shifan.

"Well, Yan Shifan, what you said makes sense!"

When Yan Song said this, he immediately changed the subject, sneered, and then said to himself.

"If you put it in the past, these tricks they played were easy to succeed. After all, not many officials are willing to offend them. If you turn a blind eye to this matter, it's over!"

"It's just a coincidence that they met Hai Rui. Hai Rui can't tolerate any sand in his eyes. He will really investigate to the end. What's more, he rushed to Shandong this time By His Majesty's will!"

"Hmph, just relying on them, they also try to compete with His Majesty. They really don't know how to die!"

When Yan Song said this, his face was full of contempt, and his tone was full of ridicule towards these families.

After listening to Yan Song's analysis, Yan Shifan on the side also suddenly realized, and immediately mustered up the courage to confirm to Yan Song.

"Father means that His Majesty will take action against those big families soon?"

When Yan Song heard Yan Shifan's words, an unusually firm look suddenly appeared on his face, and he replied in a deep voice.

"Well, that's right, His Majesty will definitely take action against these big families!"

When Yan Song said this, he paused for a moment, looked away from Yan Shifan, and said quietly.

"Also, the fate of these big families is not much better than the families that participated in coastal smuggling back then!"

Hearing this, Yan Shifan shuddered involuntarily, a feeling of palpitation emerged in his heart, and his breathing became rapid.

Because what happened to those coastal smuggling families back then was that His Majesty personally ordered Hu Zongxian to mobilize elite soldiers to confiscate all of them and exterminate their families.
"Is it possible that the original tragedy will be staged again?"

Thinking so, Yan Shifan met Yan Song's gaze.

But soon, he read the answer to this question from Yan Song's gaze: "It's all true, Your Majesty will really do this!"

After getting the exact answer from Yan Song, Yan Shifan felt a little hard to accept for a while: "After all, no matter what, it is also a family with the title of "Four Sages and Three Sages"!"

Just as Yan Shifan was still in his mind, when heaven and man were fighting over this idea, Yan Song's voice without a trace of emotion rang in his ears.

"Yan Shifan, please remember that in my Ming Dynasty, there will always be only one sun, Your Majesty!"

"You must not disobey His Majesty's wishes. If one day, His Majesty finds that we are not useful, then our Yan family will end up in the same fate as them!"

After Yan Song finished speaking, he added firmly.

"No, no, our fate is far worse than theirs!"

After Yan Shifan listened to Yan Song's reminder, he was silent for a long time, and immediately replied in a deep voice: "Yes, father, the child knows!"

Seeing that Yan Shifan had listened to his words, Yan Song nodded in relief, and immediately said to himself silently.

"After all, I have dreamed about this scene before. My Yan family was ransacked, you were taken to the market and beheaded, and I, Yan Song, begged for food in the tomb, and eventually died of poverty and illness!"

After that, Yan Shifan's anxious voice rang in Yan Song's ear again.

"By the way, father, what should we do next?"

Hearing this, Yan Song turned around, glanced at Yan Shifan, and after thinking for a moment, he immediately gave instructions.

"It's very simple. We just need to get things done right now. As for other things, we don't need to get involved at all, understand?"

When Yan Shifan heard the words, a sincere expression appeared on his face, he lowered his head, and responded respectfully.

"Yes, father, the child knows!"

Hearing this, Yan Song withdrew his gaze from Yan Shifan, and turned to speak.

"Okay, you've been tired all day today, you'd better go back to your room and rest!"

"Yes, Father!"

After Yan Shifan responded, he turned around and left without stopping at all.

……

At the same time, Shandong, Jinan Prefecture, and government offices.

Ever since Hai Rui interrogated all the members of the captured Zeng Clan in Jiaxiang County, he followed the information he got from them non-stop, followed the clues, destroyed many strongholds of the White Lotus Sect, and captured many White Lotus Sect members high level.

Immediately, they learned more secrets from the senior officials of the White Lotus Sect.

At this moment, Hai Rui, Governor of Shandong Province Cao Feng, Commander Zhang Yuan, and Jin Yiwei Baihu Guan Rui gathered together to discuss the next countermeasures.

In the hall, Hai Rui looked around and then spoke slowly.

"To be honest, before this, I never expected that the matter would be so serious!"

Cao Feng, governor of Shandong who was sitting at the top, couldn't help lowering his head when he heard the words, his face was full of shame.

Not long ago, Hai Rui submitted all the confessions and relevant evidence of the White Lotus Sect's senior officials to Cao Feng, Governor of Shandong Province.

And after Cao Feng read the evidence, his long-standing conjecture was also confirmed: "The local White Lotus Sect is rampant, and the root cause is the acquiescence of these aristocratic families, wealthy gentry!"

After all, the White Lotus Sect has done all the dirty work, and they just need to wait for the benefits to be shared.

After those common people were deceived into joining the sect by the White Lotus Sect, they tried their best to get them to sell all their property and devote themselves to the White Lotus Sect.

After squeezing the last drop of oil and water from them, he kicked them away and went to other places to find new victims.

There are even some families that do not let go of the people who have been squeezed out of their wealth. Those who can farm will be taken as tenants, those who only need to eat will be given as long as they can survive starvation, and those who are healthy will be taken as caretakers. He has been a family dog ​​for generations.

If it's really not good, just sell the person to the mine, and finally make a fortune!
Although Cao Feng had been aware of it before, he had always turned a blind eye to this kind of thing, as long as it didn't go too far!
In his opinion, as long as these aristocratic families can cooperate with him during his term of office, don't cause too much trouble for him, and let him spend his term of office safely.

When it's time to transfer back to the capital, everything here has nothing to do with me!
But the development of the matter was far beyond Cao Feng's expectation. He originally thought that those wealthy families just wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to annex more land.

But when he learned from the evidence submitted by Hai Rui that some of the aristocratic families had already hired retired school officials, secretly trained servants, and even had weapons hidden in their homes, he instantly understood the seriousness of the matter.

Although in the short term, these behaviors are nothing, and they can barely be justified by guarding the house in order to prevent bandits.

But now is an extraordinary period. First, the Zeng family, one of the "Four Sages and Three Sages", was found to be related to the White Lotus Sect. Furthermore, the left deputy capital censor Hai Rui, who was sent by the court to investigate the case, had already collected relevant evidence. , submitted to their own hands.

Just at this time, those noble families were found out, possessing various behaviors of hiding weapons and training servants. Let me ask, what do you want to do, is it possible that you want to rebel?
Cao Feng knew very well in his heart that Hai Rui, who was sent by the imperial court to investigate the case this time, did not have the name of an imperial envoy, but he was actually an imperial envoy!
Among other things, the fact that His Majesty was able to send Jin Yiwei to assist Hai Rui in investigating the case shows how much His Majesty attaches great importance to this matter!

At this moment, Cao Feng's face was extremely gloomy and he said to himself.

"This group of damned guys just annexed the land, but they dare to hide weapons privately and train servants. Is this something you can do?"

"If this matter is brought up, I, Cao, let alone keep the black gauze hat on my head, and it will be a good end if I don't be questioned by His Majesty!"

"If that's the case, then you can't blame me!"

Cao Feng thought so, a stern look flashed in his eyes.

Immediately, he came back to his senses, turned his gaze to Hai Rui, and asked respectfully.

"Sir, if this is the case, how should we deal with them next?"

After hearing Cao Feng's words, Hai Rui pondered for a moment before responding.

"According to the confessions of the captured White Lotus Sect executives, in addition to the Zeng family, many other families among the "Four Saints and Three Sages" are also involved!"

When Hai Rui said this, he couldn't help but sneered, and said to himself: "Hmph, the Meng family, the Zeng family, the Yan family, the Bu family, the Min family, and the Ran family, you guys are riding on the heads of the common people. None of the domineering tumors can get away!"

At this moment, Cao Feng's slightly embarrassed voice sounded again: "My lord, what did Yan Shenggong say?"

Upon hearing this, Hai Rui glanced at Cao Feng and said coldly.

"Before this, I wrote a letter to His Majesty, informing him of the situation here, and I'm sure I'll get an answer soon!" (End of this chapter)