61. Chapter 61 It’s cold, it’s time to break up the family

Author: Taixu Laodao

Chapter 61 It’s cold, it’s time to break up the family

Yan Song has been in charge of the government for more than 20 years. He is over eighty years old and his royal family is strong.

Outsiders don't know that this power was gained by getting up early and working hard in the dark, and it was obtained by a lifetime of trembling. He feels at ease.

There are three hundred and sixty-five days a year, and there are at least three hundred days when Yan Song must get up early and rush to the Xiyuan Cabinet at the beginning of the morning to check in. He is always ready to be summoned by Jiajing. The state affairs of the court are often determined by the words of the monarch and his ministers.

The intention is fulfilled.

There were so many memorials and remonstrances against Yan Song. According to statistics, the most frequently used words were eight words: "If you block the way of speech, you will separate the monarch and his ministers!" This refers to this phenomenon.

Because Yan Song went to court early, it became the rule of the Yan family to get up early.

Mao hour in winter is the time when the rooster raised in the courtyard crows three times.

Listening to the crow of chickens everywhere, more than eighty people, as usual, dressed in carved python robes, walked out of the living room supported by two maids. The eight-carrying sedan in the yard immediately leaned there, and the curtain of the sedan was lifted from the living room.

Pulled it aside.

Yan Song was helped slowly to the sedan chair. The concierge on duty that day ran in from outside the courtyard gate, went straight to Yan Song, knelt down and said, "Mr. Ge, Eunuch Lu is here!"

Yan Song was already a little deaf, but since he practiced the Quanzhen Mind Technique, he felt like he was rejuvenated. He immediately raised his ears and said, "What did you say? Which Eunuch Lu is here?"

The concierge immediately replied: "Master Ge, this is Lu Fang, Eunuch Lu."

"Open the middle door and come in quickly!" Yan Song ordered immediately without having time to think carefully.

Lu Fang had already appeared at the gate of the courtyard. He had already completed the Sunflower Book, and his appearance became more and more feminine. He was smiling, and behind him was a eunuch holding a jar of forty-year-old flower sculptures.

Xu Jie arrived not long after. Lu Fang sent someone to call him when he left Xiyuan.

All the attendants were sent out. Yan Song was sitting at the main seat at the square table in the dining room next to the big living room, Lu Fang was sitting at the guest seat at the top, and Xu Jie was sitting at the guest seat at the bottom.

Yan Song had actually used breakfast, but Lu Fang and Xu Jie still came with empty stomachs.

Fortunately, there are chefs on duty in the kitchen of the Prime Minister's Mansion twelve hours a day, so whether it is a formal banquet or casual snacks, everything can be prepared at any time.

In the blink of an eye, exquisite hot and cold dishes of four meat and four vegetables were placed on the table. Three overlapping drawers of small steamers were steaming. From the first drawer, you could see six steamed buns of different shapes and colors:

The white ones are refined noodles, the black ones are fine buckwheat noodles, the yellow ones are glutinous millet, fine grains and coarse grains, meat stuffings and vegetarian stuffings, omnivorous food, it can be seen that this old man's kindness will maintain health.

In front of each person is a pair of ivory chopsticks, a blue-glazed wine glass from an official kiln in the Yuan Dynasty, and a celadon-glazed plate from an official kiln in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Just last night, none of the three of them expected to have breakfast together here.

At this moment, all three of them knew that this breakfast was like six steamed buns in a basket. No one knew whether they were meat or vegetarian until they were bitten.

The jar of forty-year-old wine that Lu Fang brought was placed in front of his table. There was no attendant, so he just stood up and picked up the jar of wine.

Xu Jie immediately stood up, and Yan Song held on to the edge of the table as if he was about to stand up as well.

"Old Yan Ge, please take a seat."

Lu Fang stopped Yan Song, but Xu Jie stood opposite him, holding the wine jar: "This jar of wine is from the cellar of the first year of Jiajing. That's when the emperor succeeded to the throne, and that's when our family started to follow the emperor."

, forty-two years passed in the blink of an eye.”

After saying that, he poured a full glass for Yan Song, but only half a glass for Xu Jie. Then he poured only half a glass for himself and put down the wine jar.

As the saying goes, a cup of tea is a good thing, and a serious opening statement made the two elders at the peak of power in the Ming Dynasty prick up their ears.

This unconventional way of pouring wine made the two of them even more upset.

At the same time, I secretly thought about whether I had made any big mistakes recently.

Yan Song and Xu Jie both looked at Lu Fang.

Lu Fang: "It has not been easy for the emperor in the past forty years, and it has not been easy for Mr. Yan Ge in the past twenty years. Mr. Xu Ge joined the cabinet later, about ten years ago, and it has not been easy. As for our family, there is only one servant beside the emperor.

That's all, it's not worth discussing. Although the three of us have different positions, we all drink the emperor's wine. Whether it is bitter or sweet, sweet or astringent, we don't know it from our mouths. Mr. Xu Ge."

Xu Jie still stood there: "Eunuch Lu, please enlighten me."

Lu Fang: "We poured a full cup for Mr. Yan Ge and half a cup for ourselves. We only poured half a cup for you. Do you mind?"

Xu Jie: "Yan Ge is always the chief minister, and he always bears the burden of the court. I can drink half a cup with him, which is more than enough. But the burden of the palace is all on the shoulders of Lu Eunuch, and it should not only be on his shoulders."

Pour half a cup."

Lu Fang just wanted to tease him with this sentence. After he finished speaking, he picked up half of his glass of wine and put it down directly in front of Xu Jie across the table: "Xu Ge always said this, our family even drinks half a glass of wine."

I have no qualifications. This is a half-cup toast to you. Two and a half cups add up to one cup. Mr. Xu Ge and Mr. Yan Ge are also tied."

No matter how deep Xu Jie was, he was already in shock: "I can't accept what Eunuch Lu said. If Xu has any fault or what the emperor's decree is, Eunuch Lu can please declare it."

After saying that, he left the seat, lifted up his robe and knelt down.

"Don't pay!" Lu Fang practiced the Sunflower Manual and was much more agile than those of them who practiced the True Heart Method. He walked around the table in one step and supported Xu Jie before he knelt down: "Let's make this clear.

Yes, the emperor didn’t know that I came this morning.”

Xu Jie half-bent his body and turned from startled to stunned, looking up at Lu Fang.

Yan Song's eyes also showed surprise and he looked at Lu Fang from across the table.

"Please sit down, sit down and talk later."

Lu Fang gave Xu Jie a hand and put Xu Jie on the chair. She walked back to the chair but did not sit down. She took out the tampered manuscript of "Journey to the West" from her sleeve: "There is something here. It's

It was rushed 800 miles from the southeast to the palace last night, but I didn't dare to submit it to the emperor. I asked the two ministers to take turns to look at it first, and then talk about it."

Then he handed the first half of the novel to Yan Song and the second half to Xu Jie.

The two of them immediately became serious, took the manuscript with both hands, and then each took out their reading glasses from their sleeves and began to read solemnly.

I don’t know how long it took, but two pairs of presbyopic eyes finally finished reading the novel.

Yan Song raised his head slightly and looked up in front of him in trance, while Xu Jie slightly lowered his head and stared at the two and a half glasses of wine on the table in trance.

"Let's play." Yan Song withdrew his gaze, not looking at Xu Jie, only looking at Lu Fang: "Some people are so courageous, they should be executed!"

Lu Fang turned her gaze to Xu Jie: "Have you heard what Mr. Xu Ge and Mr. Yan Ge said?"

Xu Jie slowly raised his head, which was so heavy: "If the Literary Prison is set off, the southeast will be in chaos! The opening of the sea is a major event for the Ming Dynasty and the emperor. There cannot be any trouble."

Lu Fang clapped her hands: "That's well said! Opening the sea is indeed important. Mr. Xu Ge, the emperor has seen this. If you are asked to conduct a thorough investigation, can you find out anything?"

Xu Jie shook his head: "Without evidence, no one can conduct a thorough investigation. At most, Wu Cheng'en should be blamed."

Lu Fang: "That's the sentence. What kind of crime can a failed Sui Gong student bear? If you want to bear the blame, you must have someone with enough weight to shoulder the blame. Otherwise, how can you stop this evil trend? The emperor will not be able to get through it."

Yan Song: "..."

Xu Jie: "..."

He didn't answer either of them, he only felt a chill on his back.

You said, okay, why are you writing something random! Didn’t Grandpa Taizu kill enough?

"Confucius is the leader of Confucianism, and Neo-Confucianism is respected by Zhu... Tianliang, it's time to break up the family."

"It is not an exaggeration to slander the Holy One and punish the three tribes."

Yan Song showed such a firm attitude, Lu Fang was naturally satisfied.

Xu Jie grimaced: "The Criminal Department will cooperate with the Jin Yiwei to search the second mansion. It is absolutely impossible to let the treasonous people go unpunished."

Needless to say, Lu Fang stretched out her hand and poured her half glass of wine in front of Xu Jie into Xu Jie's half glass of wine. Xu Jie's half glass of wine became a full glass of wine.

Lu Fang faced the direction of Yuxi Palace, and he seemed to feel that the emperor was also looking at him: "For this reason, we also express our feelings. Mr. Yan Ge has been drinking a glass of wine for decades, and that is the emperor.

This glass of wine is more difficult for Mr. Xu Ge. He has to drink both the emperor's wine and the wine of the officials. Two glasses of wine are not good. It is better to drink the emperor's glass of wine together. Both Mr. Ge have to drink it."

Xu Jiezhi was indescribable embarrassment. He looked at the glass of wine in front of him but didn't know how to hold it.

Yan Song had half-closed his eyes at this time, obviously waiting for Xu Jie to pick up the wine glass.

Lu Fang: "Do you think our glass is empty, so you don't want to drink it?"

The two of them were still silent.

Lu Fang: "Both the two elders are people who have great fortunes and great fortunes. Our family has no family, and the many godsons we have recognized are all fake. Even if the two elders are not doing it for their own wealth, they are doing it for the emperor and the Ming Dynasty."

Aren’t you still willing to drink this glass of wine?”

Xu Jie slowly picked up the wine glass with both hands and raised it towards Yan Song.

Yan Song also picked up his wine glass and faced Xu Jie.

Lu Fang stared closely, and both of them drank the full glasses of wine.

At the same time, Lu Fang secretly breathed a sigh of relief, finally completing Long Live Lord's mission.

With these words and actions, Lu Fang used his tactics to the extreme. Even politicians of Yan Song and Xu Jie's level could only be led by the nose.

From now on, everyone will drink the emperor's wine and talk about Confucianism and Neo-Confucianism, so there is no need to hook up with each other. Of course, there is no need to hook up with each other.

In the Ming Dynasty, there can only be one heaven, and that is the emperor! Sage Kong and Sage Zhu must give way.
Chapter completed!