There is a saying in later generations: You cannot blame the government for your hardships, and you cannot blame the society for your back.

Then, in the Ming Dynasty, we can only blame Emperor Jiajing.

After registering for Wu Jie, I planned to spend a few days at home to have a safe and peaceful Spring Festival. I then studied my homework and prepared for the February exam.

But I didn't expect that there would be so many things in the emperor's family.

Poor Wu Jie was just a liberal arts student in modern society, but after becoming a person around the emperor, he was actually treated as a financial accountant by Jiajing because he knew some basic accounting knowledge.

After working in finance for a few days in one go, and being born with disgusted with data, Wu Jie was tortured so much that everyone lost weight.

Although the Ming Dynasty had a Minister of Revenue, the country's financial power was controlled by Jiajing, which could be said to be useless. As the financial assistant around the emperor, Wu Jie had a headache when he looked at the numbers. Suddenly he remembered the method of Zhang Juzheng's later examination. He quantified the political achievements of officials with numbers, and the numbers he looked at every day were much more than he didn't know.

This point has to be admired. As a modern person, he has only a little advantage over the ancients in advance. As for administrative ability, power and wisdom, it is still far from it!

Gradually, as the Spring Festival approached, sparse sounds of firecrackers sounded in Beijing, and the air was filled with a faint smell of smoke. There was also a New Year atmosphere in the West Garden. Early in the morning, Jiajing asked Huang Jin to hang a few red lanterns under the eaves, and the red color was very eye-catching.

The Yuxi Palace project has reached its final stage, the main part has been completed, and only a few houses are still being painted.

But Jiajing could not wait any longer and moved back to the original monastery early.

The paint was not dry, so it made people unable to open their eyes. Fortunately, Jiajing was not afraid of the cold. In the winter, the doors and windows were still wide open and there was no fire. After being blown by the bitter north wind for a few days, the smell in the house finally returned to normal. It was only very cold. After staying there for a whole day, everyone, including Wu Jie, was so cold that their mouths were blue and black.

When the emperor moved back to Yuxi Palace, the craftsmen were extremely careful when they started work, for fear of alarming the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and they had to avoid seeing the sage. Therefore, the work of the finals slowed down and they didn't know when they would delay.

It’s strange that the Li family and his son have not been here for a while. Lu Xuan is in charge of daily affairs. But this guy seems to be stupid, how can he command the craftsmen?

He was in the palace and was just a decoration. When he saw the emperor last time, he saw Jiajing wearing a Confucian robe, and rushed up foolishly to ask the brother who was his surname and who was his fame and fame, and he wanted to hold a literary meeting.

As a result, he was surrounded by several eunuchs and was beaten up. Wu Jie felt so stupid that he couldn't bear it. He persuaded him for a long time before he stopped.

This incident also alarmed Jiajing. After asking, I realized that it was Lu Bing's grandson.

Jiajing sighed for a long time and stopped caring about it.

On this day, Wu Jie came to Xiyuan again. When he thought of Jiajing's room that was as cold as an ice hole, he felt a little scared.

When I reached the door, I hesitated for a long time. I planned to go to the nearby room to drink a bowl of hot soup before talking about it. Jiajing's voice came from the room: "Wu Jie comes in, something is wrong."

"Yes." Wu Jie made up his mind and lowered his head and walked in.

But I didn't expect that the ground dragon burned in the house today, as warm as spring. I stayed outside for a long time, and as soon as I entered the house, I was forced by the heat, and suddenly felt a wet feeling on my body.

"How come Jiajing changed his temper today? He never burned the fire."

Wu Jie was surprised. When he looked up, he saw that there was an old white-bearded man with seventy or eighty pairs in the room, and he was suddenly wearing a first-class official uniform.

This surprised him.

There was no prime minister in the Ming Dynasty, and the chief minister of the cabinet was only a second-rank official.

Most of the first-class official ranks are given titles, such as the Three Dukes, who are used to reward highly respected heroes and have no real power.

This was the first time Wu Jie saw a first-rank official after he traveled to the Ming Dynasty.

The man was very thin and old, and he was there to close his eyes and sleep, looking confused.

Jiajing sat cross-legged on the cushion, with a kind attitude, and was talking to the old man in a low voice.

But the old man was still very confused. When he answered the emperor's words, he was also distorted, as if he didn't take it to heart.

It is obvious that Emperor Jiajing had been talking to the old man for a long time and had used his patience to the extreme.

Seeing Wu Jie come in, Jiajing breathed a sigh of relief, pointed at Wu Jie, and pointed to the first-rank high-ranking official: "Wu Jie, you are here just right. This is the Grand Master of the Clan Mansion. You are discussing King Jing with me. You can discuss with the Grand Master and draw an order for me later."

After saying that, he closed his eyes.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Wu Jie realized that this old man was the prime minister in charge of royal family affairs. No wonder he wore a first-rate official uniform.

When he walked to the old man, took a stack of official documents from him, and only took a look, Wu Jie was stunned and suddenly felt something was wrong.

In general, there are two things in this stack of official documents. One is that the imperial envoy impeached King Jing to embezzle the land of the people in the Hubei vassal states and demanded that the court handle it according to law.

Another thing is that King Jing wrote a letter saying that he was going to Beijing to pay New Year's greetings to his father, and the people had already walked into Hebei.

The first thing is easy to do. Since the cabinet transferred the impeachment note to the Zongren Mansion, it is probably because it does not want to go through judicial channels to avoid hurting the court's face. At worst, the Zongzheng Mansion will come forward and ask him to return the land. Then, the emperor issued another edict and scolded him.

However, there was a problem in this matter. In the memorials impeached King Jing, they didn't know that the muscles had been violated, and they actually touched King Yu. They said that they were both princes and his own blood. When King Jing was in the vassal state, His Majesty rewarded so much wealth. King Yu's salary was only enough for himself and his family, the daily expenses and wages of the servants in the mansion, and the guards, and this salary could not be received as scheduled.

King Jing could do whatever he wanted in the vassal states. However, King Yu Zhu Zaiye could only be depressed in his mansion. He and his family were also under the surveillance of the Jinyiwei. The spies closely observed the movements of Prince Yu's mansion, from the prince to the servants, allowing the prince to live in an environment that was as if he were house arrest.

Your Majesty does this as a great injustice.

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The imperial envoys of the Ming Dynasty had a special talent that could infinitely raise a thing that was as big as a sesame and mung bean, and finally lead the fire to the emperor.

Wu Jie thought for a brief moment, picked up his pen and wrote a very short imperial edict on the paper instead of Jiajing. The general idea was that the emperor knew that King Jing was not having a good life. However, the court had its own system, and the salaries of the vassal kings had certain rules, and they could not be changed at will. As a result, King Jing ordered that he would return all the embezzled land to the people and would not disturb the people in the future.

Although this kind of official documents are all ancient, the format is probably no different from that of modern society. Wu Jie learned this major, but it was not difficult for him.

From beginning to end, Wu Jie controlled the nature of this matter within the scope of King Jing's misconduct.

If it goes up to the legal level, it will be complicated to deal with it. Isn’t this causing trouble for yourself?

I have to say that King Jing is a villain. However, evil people will be punished by evil people. He and King Yu compete for the position of crown prince. Will Emperor Longqing spare him after he ascends the throne in the future?

After writing, Wu Jie handed over the imperial edict to the emperor.

Jiajing took a look and suddenly smiled faintly: "You don't offend anyone, you please both sides. It's good to be a young man, but if you think about not offending others as soon as you encounter something, it's wrong. Well, I can't stand this kind of troubles during the New Year, so I can't stand such troubles. It's accurate, and I'll send it to the original text."

Wu Jie didn't expect that Jiajing would guess his thoughts and was a little impressed. Jiajing was really good at judging people's hearts. After all, King Jing was the emperor's son, and I was afraid he would not use legal means. What should I do if I, an outsider, do with their own family affairs?

Compared to the second thing, King Jing's embezzlement of the people's land is nothing.

In order to compete for the crown prince, King Jing and King Yu have already become a powerful force.

King Jing's fief is in Hubei, but after it was enthroned, this guy has been residing in the capital and refused to become a vassal. He is afraid that once he leaves the center, if there is a three-digit or two-digit weakness in Jiajing in the future, once King Yu ascends the throne, he will be fine.

During his time in Beijing, King Jing could form a strong and become an ally, which caused some storms.

Later, Gao Gong and others couldn't stand it anymore, so they contacted a large group of officials and bombed him out of the capital in the first half of the year.

He has been in Hubei for only a few months, and now he wants to take advantage of the opportunity to visit relatives during the New Year to return to the capital.

He also came to take action first and then report, and asked for a reply to go back to Beijing to spend the New Year with his father, and his people had already arrived in Hebei.

Even the blind man could see that King Jing had no plans to go back this time when he came to the capital.

But the emperor is also a human being. People are reunited during the New Year. You must not let the emperor and his son reunite.

It was also because of this that the cabinet transferred this matter to the clan's mansion and let the emperor decide for himself.

"What do you think about King Jing's visit to Beijing?" the emperor asked slowly.

This matter is related to the court and is too involved. Jiajing is also embarrassed. He can't help but speak out for consultation, and his eyes fall on Da Zongzheng.

But after asking for a long time, I didn't hear a reply.

Looking closely, Da Zongzheng had closed his eyes and his head kept lit like a chicken pecking at rice.

Jiajing's voice became louder: "Uncle Emperor, wake up, I'm asking you."

The original name of the throne has a king, but in terms of seniority, Gao Jiajing's generation is still the same. Jiajing's voice is very loud, but the original name of the throne is snoring.

"This uncle, you can actually sleep at this time." The emperor smiled bitterly, turned his head to stare at Wu Jie, with a little green light flashing in his eyes: "You are not asleep, are you?"

This gaze was filled with a hint of expectation and a hint of weirdness.

It can be seen that Jiajing still wants to see King Jing.

As a father, he hasn't seen the boss for more than ten years because of the proverb that the second dragon will not meet, and this New Year will definitely be no exception.

If King Jing doesn't come, he will be alone and will have a quiet Spring Festival.

It is true that Jiajing is the emperor, but the emperor is also a human being. At another age, it is also a lie to say that he doesn’t want his son.

However, as the emperor, he was not easy to tell many things himself.

Wu Jie didn't understand how Jiajing thought, but he felt his scalp tingling. The family affairs of your Zhu family asked me what this insignificant little official did. In history, the dispute over the throne of the Tian family was the most cruel and we should not easily get involved.

This kind of thing is like betting on the bet, betting on the right side, soaring into the sky, becoming rich and prosperous. If you bet on the wrong side, you don’t know how to die.

The problem is that he doesn't need to bet at all. It's not difficult to just take the Jinshi exam step by step and enter the Hanlin level, and it will not be difficult to become a first-rank official in the future.

He couldn't hide in the battle between King Jing and King Yu, so how could he be involved?

This is a very good thing about this, so I just pretended to be asleep.

The main body has a special status and can rely on the elderly, but Wu Jie cannot.

Wu Jie: "This is your Majesty's family affairs, not something that foreign ministers can ask about."

Jiajing's face flashed with evil spirits: "I will ask you."

He was really angry, not for Wu Jie.

To be honest, he has really missed his son these days. As soon as he is old, he likes the fun of family life and the joy of family life with a lot of children and grandchildren.

But King Jing had offended all the civil officials in the court. If Jiajing really wanted to rude to King Jing to enter the capital, it is conceivable that the memorials of the civil officials would immediately overwhelm him, even if you are the emperor of the Nine Five.

Jiajing had no choice but to see Wu Jie, and when he saw Wu Jie, he suddenly felt excited: Wu Jie was always talented and extremely wise, so maybe he might not come up with a way.

"Yes." Wu Jie was helpless, and after a brief thought, he immediately had an idea. "Your Majesty, according to the system of the Ming Dynasty, every Spring Festival, vassal kings from all over the country would come to Beijing to meet the emperor. Due to the etiquette system, I asked Your Majesty, is King Jing the vassal king of the Ming Dynasty?"
To be continued...