After a while, Emperor Jiajing spoke
"Did you give Feng Bao something again?"
"Yeah" Lu Bingying said
"Do you know that it is a capital crime for foreign ministers to befriend eunuchs?" Emperor Jiajing said with no expression on his face
Lu Bing stood respectfully under the bed: "The minister is a minister, not a foreign minister."
Upon hearing this, Emperor Jiajing was silent for a moment and said, "Can you be guilty?"
Lu Bing walked to the open space in front of Emperor Jiajing's bed and knelt down and said: "Weichen is convicted."
"Oh, then tell me." Emperor Jiajing's figure was enveloped in incense smoke.
"Weichen did it in vain." Lu Bing replied, bowing his head
"Why? Humph!" Emperor Jiajing swept away the smoke in front of him with a whistle. "Do you know why I dismissed Chen Hong?"
"Weichen knows that His Majesty Xie's intention to maintain." Lu Bing leaned on the ground and continued to reply.
Emperor Jiajing said angrily: "Maintenance? Do you think I am defending you? You are wrong! What I am defending is my own face! You are my breast brother, and no one in the country or the country knows that you are my cronies! I don't want to be a slave. I scolded my cronies in front of me, saved my face and slapped myself in the face!"
"Chen, ten thousand deaths." Lu Bing paused.
After Jiajing said this, she seemed to be calmer, looking at Lu Bing who was lying on the ground, she seemed a little unbearable, and said, "Get up!"
Lu Bing got up, smoothed the hem of the flying fish robe, and stood quietly.
Jiajing calmed down a bit and continued: "I put you in the Dongchang Thousand Households Office. I just hope you can live better. It's fine now. You still cause these things. Are you okay?"
Lu Bing stayed silent, because he knew that the emperor must have already thought about it in his heart, and it would be useless to say more at this moment.
Jiajing pondered and said, "You don't need to pay attention to what Chen Hong said about this matter. You don't have to worry, and I won't believe what he said. I have my own decision on what the facts are. I just need to tell. You, stop here! I don’t care about people who are dead, but people who are not dead can’t die again. You, understand?"
Lu Bing bowed and said, "Weichen understands."
Emperor Jiajing stopped making a sound, and the palace fell silent, only smoke filled.
For a moment, a voice came from the smoke: "I, I understand your mind... But now, the time is not yet... I will not do anything for you, only if you really show the strength that can make me make up your mind. Only then will you do what you want me to do." The Emperor Jiajing paused and continued: "I don't want to have power that is not in my control, do you understand
Lu Bing handed over: "...understand..."
"Well, you go down."
"Weichen retired."
Lu Bing exited from the Jiajing Emperor’s bedroom and the Xi Nuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace. Feng Bao saw that he was about to go up and talk, and when Lu Bing looked wrong, he quietly stopped, gently closed the door of the bedroom, and then stepped aside.
Lu Bing walked outside the palace in deep thought. He understood the battle, and it seemed that he had won the battle, but in fact he had lost. It seemed that the emperor did not pursue him for killing the people in Dongchang, but in fact the emperor decisively and severely stopped his actions, and at the same time made all his subsequent plans in vain.
Originally, he was looking at Chen Hong's expansion of power over the past few years, and there were frictions with various forces inside and outside the palace, and it seemed that Dongchang only knew Governor Chen and didn't know Emperor Zhu. So I felt that as long as I took the lead, all the forces would be able to take the initiative together and overthrow Chen Hong. And the emperor would be happy to see the result, and the worst would not kill himself for this. But I didn't expect that the emperor did not make the move he expected in the end. Although the emperor didn't kill himself like the worst plan, he also let his wishful thinking roll all over the floor.
Lu Bing didn't know what Chen Hong said to the emperor, but he could probably guess it. It was nothing more than saying that he was protecting his shortcomings and inciting Jinyiwei. The crime is big if you say it is big, and it is small if you say it is small. To put it big, to cause such a commotion in the capital is a rebellion. To say that it is small is nothing more than the friction between Dongchang and Jinyiwei that has never been broken.
But that sentence must have touched the emperor's heart and made the emperor decide to stop this incident.
Lu Bing thought as he walked outside the palace.
Spring flowers bloom in March, and the flowers in the palace are also vying for beauty. Lu Bing wanders here, and his mood gradually relaxes.
Suddenly I heard one eunuch say to another eunuch: "Hurry up! Be careful that the master chopped off your head when it's too late!"
Hearing this sentence, Lu Bing suddenly became enlightened!
"Be careful that the master cut your head!" This sentence is often said by the eunuch in the palace, but it also breaks the secret.
Yes, Chen Hong is no more than an eunuch, no matter how powerful he is, he is just a slave!
Thinking of this, Lu Bing couldn't help but exhale. He remembered that Emperor Jiajing said: "It is a capital crime for a foreign official to befriend an eunuch." And he took the sentence: "A minister is a minister, not a foreign minister."
I am afraid that this sentence saved myself, otherwise the result will be worse than it is now.
Why did the emperors like to use eunuchs in all dynasties? It's because the eunuchs are the best people in the emperor's control! Give him the right to give it, take it back if he doesn't want it, no matter how tall the eunuch sits, without the favor of the emperor, wouldn't he just kill him if he wanted to? Especially the eunuchs are born against the civil official group! Since Jiajing Emperor became the throne, most of the hardship he has suffered has been given by the civil official group! A "great etiquette" that took several years, many times were dangerous, so the Emperor Jiajing was very wary of the civil official group. Although the Tingzhang finally allowed Emperor Jiajing to seize the real power in the last few times, the scholars both inside and outside of the court still secretly criticized Jiajing's brutality. At this time, a powerful eunuch is really easy to see!
Now there is Chen Hong as the target of various forces, which is exactly what Jiajing Emperor wants to see, so that Emperor Jiajing can be a high-ranking judge. Although the actions of Chen Hong in the past few years have made Jiajing Emperor a little annoying, he has not yet reached the point where he cannot control it. Therefore, Emperor Jiajing would not allow himself to dismount Chen Hong now!
And when he confronted Chen Hong with fanfare, didn't he just tear down the emperor's platform? How could the emperor not be secretly angry? The emperor said that he didn't want to have power that was not in his control... He was the emperor's most reliable sword, so the emperor didn't want to be a force out of control. And putting his own knife next to Chen Hong's neck in advance can also help Chen Hong converge. At the same time, the emperor expected that if he wanted to deal with Chen Hong, he would have to win over someone, and that person would be Sun Hong, the imperial horse superintendent who had the largest armed forces in the palace! Then he unknowingly became a pawn that the emperor played next to Sun Hong!
"Awesome" Lu Bing couldn't help but wiped his cold sweat
Lu Bing had always known that Emperor Jiajing was extremely clever, and that the wise Shenwu was comparable to Hongwu, and now he found that what he saw was only the tip of the iceberg. How powerful is the wrist that governs the world!
"This matter can only end here." Lu Bing thought to himself: "It's a pity that Wu Jinjiang's head, I had known that he would not let him report the letter. I took the head down first to avoid future troubles."
Lu Bing already understood that the emperor's behavior in front of Chen Hong, and the fact that Chen Hong left him alone, also wanted Chen Hong to understand that his holy family was unfailing and warned Chen Hong to stop.
And I have to stop, but if you want to come to Wu Jinjiang, you can't make a big wave, so let him go first!