The Imperial Study Room of Jingren Palace.
About a long distance from the imperial court, two embroidered piers were lined up on the left and right.
The person sitting on the embroidered pier on the left is rickety and old-fashioned, and it is the current chief assistant He Tiren; in contrast, Xu Furen on the embroidered pier on the right has silver hair, but his whole person shows a high-spirited look. gas.
At this time, the two of them were holding several copies of the memorials in their hands, and they carefully considered them carefully.
It was quiet in the imperial study, only the lid of the bowl in Emperor Guangde's hand tapped lightly on the teacup again and again, making a ding-dong sound.
slap~
I don't know how long it took, the lid of the bowl slammed down, first knocking heavily on the edge of the teacup, and then sliding along the way, covering the rising water mist tightly.
At the same time, Emperor Guangde also opened his slightly closed eyes, looked at the two old officials in front of the imperial case, and said, "Okay, let's discuss it."
Hearing this order, He Tiren hurriedly took off his eyes and looked up at Xu Furen, who was diagonally opposite. He was about to signal the other party to speak first, but there was a rush of footsteps outside, followed by the sharp voice of the steward eunuch. :
"Reporting to Your Majesty, Beizhen Fusi Hu Xianzhong claimed to have urgent official business, and he must report to His Majesty immediately - now he is waiting for an order outside Jingren Palace."
"Xuan!"
Emperor Guangde's voice could not be heard ups and downs, but only in this way was the precursor to the great thunder.
Obviously, if Hu Xianzhong was just making a big fuss, or the things he reported were not within the emperor's attention, Longyan would be furious to greet him.
But he said that the steward eunuch took his order away and brought Hu Xianzhong to him in a short time.
As the nephew of the former chief eunuch Dai Quan, this Hu Xianzhong is also a talented person. He is only capable and shrewd, but he is more than a step behind Sun Shaozong's old superior Lu Hui.
After he entered the door, he was stunned when he saw the two patriarchs, and after kneeling on the ground to pay homage, he hesitated to say anything.
This forward-looking look is not very pleasing at first.
If it really matters, he, as the chief spy, can ask the emperor to back away.
If you feel that what you are playing is not a secret, you should not be concerned about the two elders.
Hesitating like this is not only less decisive, but also less stable.
Emperor Guangde waited for a while, and when he saw where he was still looking ahead, he finally ordered impatiently: "What are you going to do, don't hurry up!"
Although Hu Xianzhong has a sloppy temperament, he is still not lacking in the ability to observe words and expressions. Hearing a bit of displeasure in the emperor's tone, he doesn't care about any more entanglements at the moment, and he quickly kowtows:
"Your Majesty, I have just received the news that many officials from the court are gathering in Ningguofu under the name of arranging the funeral for Jia Jing, but it actually means slandering the saint!"
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere in the imperial study suddenly became a little dignified.
The impatience on Emperor Guangde's face disappeared, but what was replaced was Gu Jing Bubo's stereotype:
"How did they slander me?"
"This… "
Subconsciously, Hu Xianzhong wanted to turn his head to look at the two patriarchs. Fortunately, he was finally smarter this time. As soon as the neck moved, he set it right.
He took a deep breath and said cautiously, "They told the story of Jia Jing, who just died, and believed that the alchemists were all liars, and they also said that the alchemists of all dynasties were most... ."
"what!"
Emperor Guangde raised the corner of his mouth, revealing a sneer that was hideous and disdainful, and then asked, "What else did they say?"
Although Hu Xianzhong couldn't see the sneer, he still shivered unconsciously, and his mouth became more and more uneasy: "Also... and... Someone mentioned the Tiangou eclipse two years ago, and complained again... Complaining that the imperial court did not cultivate morality, and even led to rebellion in the southern border."
Before he finished speaking, he felt that there was one more person beside him.
Hu Xianzhong stole his eyes and saw He Tiren kneeling trembling not far away, poking his white hair on the ground, and said in a trembling voice: "Your Majesty entrusts the government to the minister, but the minister is dazed and incompetent, and the southern border is in chaos. , please also ask your majesty to grant the old minister..."
"Elder He Ge doesn't need to do this!"
Emperor Guangde interrupted his resignation in time, and while signaling Qiu Shian to help him, he said: "Since I received a warning from God, I have asked myself about the government and people's livelihood, and I have never been slack! , Dizhi, the elders of the pavilions, and the six ministers all know nothing about it!"
"Nowadays, a group of rotten Confucians who don't even dare to remonstrate directly, imitating the black-hearted old man, guarding other people's corpses and making a lot of noise, just want to make me bow their heads? I want to ask my cabinet's chief assistant to invite himself?!"
"It's a joke of the world!"
At first it was just a confession, but at the end it was a thunderous roar.
It's no wonder that the southern border and Liaodong have not been peaceful recently, and the undercurrent is also turbulent in the DPRK.
And Hu Xianzhong was terrified when he heard it, but when it was time for him to make meritorious deeds, he hurriedly kowtowed again: "Your Majesty, calm down, this minister will send someone to bring those traitors who are arguing about the government and see if they have been instructed!"
Who knew that his loyalty was rewarded with the emperor's long silence.
He knelt down and waited for a quarter of an hour before he heard Emperor Guangde sighing after the imperial case, and raised his voice to command: "Qiu Shi'an, you go to Ningguofu to pass on my will: Jia Jing is inactive in white clothes. In the country, recite the merits of his grandfather, and posthumously confer the post of five rank, and the Guanglu Temple will give sacrifices according to the above rules, and the kings and the following will allow him to sacrifice and hang in the court."
After a pause, he added: "Then I ordered the Ministry of Rites to put his life book on the cloth and hang it outside the gate of Ningguo Mansion, so that the people in the capital can see what kind of people they are offering sacrifices to!"
This move really sucks.
First, it affirmed the rationality of the people's mourning, and then spread Jia Jing's life in broad daylight, so that the people thought that those officials went to the mourning because Jia Jing had been a Taoist priest for more than ten years.
After all, apart from this, Jia Jing has no other deeds that he can take.
When Qiu Shi'an took the order, Emperor Guangde turned his attention to Xu Furen again, and asked meaningfully: "Xu Aiqing, how do you think I will deal with it?"
Xu Furen hurriedly got up and said, "Your Majesty is kind and wise, and he handled it very appropriately!"
Emperor Guangde nodded with a smile that was not a smile, suddenly remembered something, and muttered: "I remember a few years ago, there was a funeral in the Ningguo Mansion, which attracted many princes and nobles in the court to express their condolences - he How can a dead person be more valuable than a living person?"
The three courtiers below were not sure what to do when Emperor Guangde waved his sleeves again and repelled Hu Xianzhong, who was kneeling in the middle, and repeated the old saying: "Okay, let's talk about the Korean state and the northern captives. thing."