Liu Cheng said the truth. Although Li Tingji went to the temple to become the "Ming Gong Master", the emperor did not approve him to retire and return home for one day, and he was a member of the cabinet one day. He was a small internal supervisor, so how dare he offend the Grand Secretary. Even the great masters of the Sili Supervisor, he had to be polite when he saw them.

Wanli's face had changed, and he couldn't hide his anger. He looked at Liu Cheng and said angrily: "To be honest, what's going on?" Although his voice was not high, his voice was stern. The palace maid and eunuch next to him listened and knelt in that grand manner and didn't dare to show up.

Liu Cheng was a little afraid to look at the emperor and whispered: "I...I dare not say it!"

Seeing him panic, Wanli slowed down and said, "You don't have to be so scared. Let me tell you everything from beginning to end. I really want to know why Li Tingji is unwilling to write an inscription for Guotai."

"This..." Liu Cheng whispered a few times, but he didn't dare to say it.

Seeing him like this, Wanli said angrily: "Say!"

Liu Cheng was shocked and glanced at Concubine Zheng with his eyes. Seeing her nodding, he mustered up the courage and said, "I dare not speak nonsense. Mr. Li not only did not want to write praises for the portrait of Guotai, but also said some hurtful words. I was so angry that I said a few words to him, but he scolded him out of the temple."

"What did he say?" Wanli's face was as heavy as water.

"He said...he said..." Liu Cheng was aware of the matter. If he knew what he said to the truth, the emperor and the imperial concubine would probably be furious, so he didn't know whether to say it or not.

"You said it!" Wanli was anxious and almost cursed.

Liu Cheng did not dare to delay any more and whispered: "Emperor, Master Li Ge Lao said that he was a saint's son, he read the books of saints and learned the principles of saints. The saint never taught his disciples to crawl under the feet of a woman, and the book did not teach him to be inclined to the enemy... He was a great scholar, governing state affairs, cultivating the hearts of saints, and the imperial concubine's request was really... unreasonable and rude..."

As soon as Liu Cheng finished speaking, Concubine Zheng had already pressed his chest with one hand, and was in great pain. She slowly collapsed and said powerlessly: "Your Majesty, my heart... This heart is really painful. I didn't expect that even Master Li looked at me like this. If I had known... If I had known that he would have thought so, how would I invite him... I would have embarrassed Your Majesty, and I felt very aggrieved..." As he said, Concubine Zheng could not say a word and was sobbing.

"Li Tingji is abominable!"

Wanli was also angry. Seeing that the imperial concubine was so sad, she hurriedly held her hand and comforted her: "Don't do this, I'll make the decision for you."

"How can Your Majesty be the master of yourselves?" Concubine Zheng smiled sadly.

"I... I'll just give up his official position!" Wanli said hatefully. If you don't ask Li Tingji to get out, it's really hard for him to speak out. If you don't give the imperial concubine face, you're not going to give him the emperor's face, which is unbearable.

"Forget it, Your Majesty, Master Li Ge has his character, why bother to force it?" When she heard that her husband was about to dismiss Li Tingji's official position, Concubine Zheng refused. Li Tingji was really going to be dismissed from his post, so the outside court would definitely attack her again. After all, this was caused by her.

"Old Ge Lao Li doesn't want to do it, so I'll ask others. Your Majesty, don't bother with him. You are the emperor, and there are a lot of them." Concubine Zheng smiled in a fake face.

"No, no, I can't just forget it." Wanli couldn't swallow this. I didn't let you go Li Tingji, but I didn't treat you badly. How could you treat my beloved concubine like this?

"The emperor really wants to give up his official position, wouldn't he fulfill his wish? I think it's too late for him to be happy?"

"Well?"

When Concubine Zheng reminded him, Wanli came to his senses and nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, you can't make him happy." After thinking about it, he ordered Liu Cheng to go to Li Tingji again and pass on his oral order, saying that Li Tingji is an honest official and I am happy about what I want. Anyway, Liu Cheng praised Li Tingji for him and did not mention the inscription of the imperial concubine.

"Don't he likes to write a resignation? I'll let him continue writing it. Anyway, it's just not accurate, and he's so angry." Wanli felt that this method of revenge was good, so he laughed unconsciously.

Concubine Zheng also had a smile on her face, but she felt sad in her heart.

Jin Zhong came back from the cabinet and said that Ye Xianggao asked the emperor not to go on a hunger strike. He would definitely urge the subordinates to investigate the Yunnan incident thoroughly.

"Look, I won't be ruthless. Can his Fuqing husband pay attention to me?"

Wanli was very proud. He actually valued Ye Xianggao very much and had a good attitude towards this Dufu. However, because Ye Gaoxiang was the leader of the Donglin Party and was involved in party struggles, Wanli was reserved for his opinions. Most of the time, Ye Xianggao made ten opinions, and Wanli only accepted two or three.

"After the matter in Yunnan is investigated and dealt with, Yang Rong is fair and punished those guys so that they know that I will never tolerate some things."

Wanli was about to instruct Jin Zhong to give instructions to local mining supervisors to withstand the pressure and local interference and ensure that the amount of the mine and silver tax was completed this year, but found that Liu Cheng ran back with a panic look on his face.

"So fast?"

Concubine Zheng and Wanli were both stunned.

Wanli asked, "What did Li Tingji say? He scared you like this."

"Your Majesty, something is wrong, then... Li Tingji ran away, ran away!"

"Running?!"

Wanli and Concubine Zheng were both dumbfounded: the Grand Secretary of the Cabinet ran away like that!

Li Tingji really ran away. After submitting the 123rd resignation letter but failed, he finally caught a chance to ridicule Concubine Zheng. He thought the emperor would call him out in anger, but he didn't expect that the emperor would not allow him to leave, but instead sent an eunuch to praise him.

So, the old master of the temple Zhuge finally collapsed. He risked his beheading and hired a carriage to go out of the city and returned to his hometown in Fujian, taking the blame for resisting the imperial edict.

When leaving, I left a sentence to the eunuch: "Please tell the emperor that the old minister will go!"

After listening to Liu Cheng's statement, Wanli didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Jin Zhong was also amused and crying, and the grand cabinet minister just resigned without saying goodbye?

"Puff!"

Concubine Zheng suddenly laughed, laughing very happily.

Wanli looked at her blankly: "Why are you laughing at?"

"It's nothing, I just think it's funny." Concubine Zheng forced herself to smile.

"Everyone can't get along with me. These scholars are really angry with me!" Wanli couldn't make him laugh and was still sulking.

"Emperor, do you want to send someone to recover Mr. Li?" Jin Zhong asked for instructions.

"Chase!…"

Wanli waved his hand and was about to ask Jin Zhong to send someone to chase him, but his hand stopped in the air, then slowly lowered, and sighed, "Forget it, it's going to rain, mom wants to get married, let him go."

"Ge Li has decided to leave. I see that he said it on purpose. Oh, let him go back to his hometown. Your Majesty, the people all know that the forced melon is not sweet."

Li Tingji's resignation made Concubine Zheng feel better. He guessed that the other party was not really ridiculing her, but wanted to anger the emperor and let him return home. Seeing that her husband was a little lost, he couldn't help but persuade him to speak a few words. The eunuch outside brought a box into the hall and reported that his uncle Zheng Guotai had something to present.

"Where has Cathay Pacific been?" Wanli knew that his brother-in-law went to Jiangnan to hire a great scholar. He looked at the box curiously and asked Concubine Zheng: "What did he send back?"

"I don't know either." Concubine Zheng was also curious. It was rare for her younger brother to send someone to deliver things back. She thought she had some treasure on the way.

I took the box over, placed it on the desk, opened it with Wanli, but found that there was a test paper inside.

The couple picked up the paper, looked at each other after reading it.
Chapter completed!