Chapter 463 The emperor is sick
Hu Yuanyu: "What's the matter?"
Xu Wei said slowly: "According to the two schools of Buddhism and Taoism, according to our Confucianism, it is to exist without any silence. Although we do not believe it, we are respectful. The so-called red flowers, green leaves, white lotus roots, the three religions were originally one family, and they should be tolerant of each other. However, there were still ministers in the court who asked long live to reflect on themselves and review the mistakes of being addicted to Xuan Cultivation. Some even said that once Your Majesty has been forever, he will expel all the monks and stop building all palaces."
"What, why is this happening?" Hu Yuanyu suddenly became nervous: "Who is it, who is it?"
"Who else can be it? It's just a few current cabinet masters. Long live spent tens of millions of dollars to build a palace, which has caused complaints from Lu. Another point, Master Hu, don't forget..." Xu Wenchang deliberately stopped.
"What's up?"
Xu Wei: "King Yu did not practice Taoism, and Concubine Li often went to the temple to burn incense and worship Buddha."
"Ah!" Hu Yuanyu stood up suddenly and exclaimed: "I have forgotten this."
That's right, the reason why the Hu family and son have today's glory is all due to the favor of Emperor Jiajing. Seeing that Jiajing had a few years of life, if he died and changed to an emperor, their status would probably plummet.
After tasting the taste of power, how could Hu Yuanyu give up?
This is what our father and son have been able to survive for twenty years, so we must not just let it go!
Hu Yuanyu clenched his fists hard.
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Seeing that the Chinese New Year was about to celebrate, it finally stopped after many days of heavy snow.
When the sky is dawn, a red sun hangs high.
The sound of firecrackers came faintly in the city, and the breath of the New Year became stronger and stronger.
Wu Jie has had a headache these days, not because of Hai Rui. This guy is just a tough guy and a weird personality. He is not a person who is easy to get along with.
It is impossible to let him write a memorial to apologize.
Wu Jie had no idea about this. As far as he knew, according to real history, Jiajing would die within a year. Once Jiajing died, Hai Rui would be released by the ascended King Yu.
Lord Hai just stayed in prison for a few more months, and then he was naturally unscathed, so he just thought he had been in seclusion and had been recuperating.
All Wu Jie needs to do is to deal with it casually and delay the case.
Speaking of which, he did a good job, because Hai Rui looked down on him at all. As soon as he opened his mouth, Hai Rui cursed and then made a long speech. Wu Jie couldn't resist it and had to withdraw silently and throw the trouble to Zhao Zhenji.
But it was this old Zhao who made Wu Jie so angry that he was like a fight. Lord Zhao was originally the leader of the Qingliu. He had to fight for winning or losing in everything.
At the beginning, Zhao Zhenji felt that Hai Rui wrote a letter to the great way, and he still had a few respects to Hai Rui in his heart. He also followed the etiquette of being a minister and advised Hai Rui to submit a memorial to apologize.
But he didn't expect that Hai Rui had the energy to debate with Zhao Zhenji.
The focus of the debate is which one is the king, minister, and country. What are the etiquette and duties of the ministers?
Both of them were from Jinshi and were well-educated. This debate continued endlessly, and they turned the Beiya Tianzhu into a sutra.
For the men of the Beiya, the quotation of these two people is simply Martian text. They don’t understand or speak. After listening too much, they are even more restless and afraid of avoiding it.
This struggle lasted for several days, and it seemed that there would be no winner in the short term.
Wu Jie felt that it would not be more concise to continue like this, so he stepped forward to persuade him, but was scolded by Erre at the same time, making the boss bored.
When Wu Jie got up early this morning, he thought of meeting these two people again, and he felt unwilling to go there.
After dribbling at home for a long time, I couldn't stand it by the moth, so I reluctantly went to Xiyuan, preparing to go to the emperor's place as a duty, and then go to make an appointment with Lord Zhao to go to the Beiya.
Speaking of which, since taking over the Hai Rui case, Wu Jie has never been here or seen the emperor!
The cabinet's plan to move Qi Jiguang to Liaodong has been approved, and the emperor personally approved the red town, and the official move will begin to be officially moved after the New Year.
As for the salary owed by the court, King Yu was also a capable person. He didn't know where he borrowed 300,000 taels of silver and finally made up the money he owed.
The political situation at the end of the 44th year of Jiajing showed a brief stability, as if all officials had never happened before.
The man named Yuzi is also strange. He wants Wu Jie to stay by his side all day, and he can't stand his idle appearance.
When I arrived at Xiyuan, I saw Chen Hong coming over quickly: "Mr. Wu is here. Your Majesty is about to pass on you. I will put the case at hand first, and I will have the will."
Wu Jie and Chen Hong were completely turned aside and said in a formal manner: "It turns out to be Eunuch Chen, I don't know what His Majesty's will?"
Chen Hong said with a stern face: "Your Majesty asks you to do nothing, and focus on editing the "Xingdu Zhi" in Yuxi Palace."
The so-called "Xingdu Zhi" is actually a local chronicle. Xing is the name changed later, which is the fief of Emperor Jiajing's father. It was originally called Anlu, but later it should be Chengtian. It was then changed to Xingdu, which is the place where Longxing is, and the place where the emperor is.
To define this place as a place of dragon development, we have to start with Emperor Jiajing's ascension to the throne. Emperor Wuzong of the Ming Dynasty should have passed it on to his son, but Emperor Zhengde had no descendants, so his brother would finally let his cousin Zhu Houcong inherit the throne, that is, Emperor Jiajing came to power.
This creates a problem of hereditary throne. If Zhengde's father, Xiaozong of Ming, was regarded as the imperial sacred of Jiajing, and Huangkao was the emperor's father, then what would Jiajing's biological father become?
If Jiajing's biological father was regarded as the imperial examination, then Emperor Xiaozong of Ming would become the imperial uncle.
A big problem arises here, which is the great etiquette in history.
The great etiquette was the number one political topic during the Jiajing period. Everyone made a fuss for three years, but in the end they surrendered to Emperor Jiajing and designated King Xing as the imperial examination. This means proclaiming that Emperor Jiajing inherited the throne from his father, not from Zhengde.
Because of this, the compilation of "Xingdu Zhi" has special significance, which is a flattery cultural project of the court to please Jiajing.
Unlike ordinary local chronicles, this book has too strong political significance.
"It seems that Master Zhang is editing this book, right?" Wu Jie couldn't help asking: "It's been almost a year since I compiled it. It takes a lot of effort to collect local historical materials, remove the drought and preserve the essence, cut the materials, and consider the words and sentences. Besides, I'm not familiar with the local chronicles in Xingdu. Why did Your Majesty think of asking me to edit it? What should Master Zhang do?"
In fact, Zhang Juzheng compiled the "Xingdu Zhi" by Xu Jie. First, Zhang Juzheng had a deep academic knowledge and worked in the Hanlin Academy for more than ten years, and presided over the compilation of the "Yongle Encyclopedia". This was just right. Second, this was a great thing to gain political capital. Xu Ge asked Zhang Juzheng to do it because he wanted to help him to gain political status.
Now it's changed to Wu Jie. If Zhang Juzheng knew about it, he wouldn't know what others thought.
Isn’t this offending people?
Almost in a moment, Wu Jie thought this was done by Chen Hong, and the poisonous plan used to differentiate himself and Prince Yu's mansion.
But then I thought about it, such a clever plan was not something Chen Hong could think of. Besides, this book is so important. Without Jiajing's approval, nothing else would be useful.
Sure enough, Chen Hong said coldly: "This is Your Majesty's will. How could our family know? You can ask Master Long Live."
After saying that, he left with a slightest sleeve.
Wu Jie's doubts were even more serious. For him, although compiling this book could obtain great political benefits, it was just a icing on the cake for him, and he offended Zhang Juzheng.
Why the emperor did this is worth pondering.
After entering Yuxi Palace, Wu Jie immediately felt the unusual inside.
The eunuchs were a little more than before, and they all seemed to face a great enemy. When they met Wu Jie, they searched strictly as usual.
There was also a samurai with swords standing outside the palace gate.
When I arrived at the temple where Emperor Jiajing lived, I smelled a strong smell of Chinese medicine at the end of my nose, which was different from the sandalwood that was full of sandalwood in the past.
Emperor Jiajing was lying on the bed, motionless, as if he was asleep.
This is very different from his previous image. In Wu Jie's mind, the emperor seemed to have never lie down. He was either handling official duties, or sitting cross-legged on a cushion and meditating on a qi, and the bed was a decoration for him.
Wu Jie saw a eunuch walking carefully to the bed with a full bowl of medicine, and slowly approaching Emperor Jiajing who was leaning against the head of the bed.
In the dim light, Jiajing leaned over and took a big sip, then stretched out his hands like dry firewood to take the medicine bowl, took a deep breath, and drank the big bowl of medicine juice in one gulp.
Then the sunlight projected into the house, Wu Jie finally saw Jiajing's face clearly and was immediately shocked.
The emperor's face was so dry that he could not see any luster. Even his dark and shiny hair was withered and a little gray.
As for the two arms that were naked outside, they were even thinner, covered with blue and red spots, and their skin became loose.
It seems that the emperor is sick and seems to be very sick.
This thought flashed through Wu Jie's mind and forced himself to suppress it.
It seems that historical records are correct. Jiajing only has one year to live. His body has completely decayed during the years of taking pills and his vitality is about to be cut off.
He probably realized this, otherwise, with his temperament, how could he take decoctions?
In the past, I was sick and painful, but it was just a pill. When I was seriously ill, I would stay away from the valley for two days, meditate and cultivate my energy, and recover for a few days.
Although he had been mentally prepared and knew that Jiajing would not live long, after two or three years of getting along, Wu Jie still felt a little sore and his eyes turned red. He strode forward, took the wet cotton towel on the eunuch, wiped his lips and beard for the emperor: "Your Majesty's dragon body is good."
Jiajing's eyes were full of haggard: "It turned out to be Wu Aiqing."
He struggled a few times with difficulty, pointed his finger at the eunuch beside him: "Help me up and wash me up."
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