Forbidden City, Ganqing Palace.

This palace that has not been inhabited for twenty-four years suddenly became more popular. Jiajing was carried back here by the Luanyu and arranged it to the room in the middle.

However, this Ming emperor was no longer the emperor who was so fierce that he was, but an old man who could die at any time, just like an ordinary person who was dying.

After Huang Jinping retreated the little eunuchs, he also set out to light the sandalwood. He found that the heating in the room had not yet started, so he rushed out in anger.

Xu Jie, who was standing in front of the bed, looked at Jiajing's face that looked as if he was deceased. The face that had been disguised was torn apart at this moment, and his eyes burst into vicious gazes.

Looking back at that time, when he was twenty years old, he was the darling of the gods. Since Jiang Mian, the Grand Secretary of Wuying Palace, was appointed as the chief examiner of the examination, the two formed a teacher-student relationship.

As long as he stayed in the Hanlin Academy for more than ten years and with the support of his teacher, he would be able to enter the cabinet and become a virtuous minister like Yang Ting and a famous minister in history.

But he met a stubborn and selfish tyrant.

This emperor screened out officials like Zhang Cong who only knew how to flatter him through the great ritual battle, which forced him to retire as a mentor of the ritual guardian. He was even more retaliated by Zhang Cong and was sent to Fujian as a referee.

His career and ideals were all lost in front of this tyrant. Fortunately, his wife died. He continued to marry Zhang, the great-granddaughter of the former Minister of War, Zhang, and asked him to quickly re-climb with the help of the Zhang family's political resources. Get up.

When he returned to the capital, he knew that if he wanted to make a name for himself in this dynasty, he had to show enough loyalty and obey everything to the emperor.

In order to confuse Yan Song, who was more flattering than Zhang Cong, and in order to confuse this selfish emperor, he transformed into the most "obedient" minister.

He successfully replaced Yan Song and became the chief minister of the dynasty, which even destroyed Yan Song's family. However, no matter how many palaces the emperor wanted to build, he was satisfied with all of them.

Now that Zhang Cong is dead, Yan Song has also lost his family, Yuan Wei and Wu Shan, who threatened him, are also killed and injured, while Xu Jie is the high-ranking chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty.

As for this selfish tyrant, his life has come to an end. He is now speechless, and he will never be able to instruct him as the chief assistant to do things in the future.

In terms of wealth, he is already the first person today; in terms of power, he is the most powerful chief minister of the dynasty; in terms of reputation, he is already the virtuous minister in the mouths of officials and is destined to become a loyal minister admired by later generations.

He looked at Jiajing's sunken eye sockets and the death breath on Jiajing's face. At this moment, he should have cried, but he couldn't cry, but wanted to laugh here.

The smartest man in the Ming Dynasty? The smartest emperor in the Ming Dynasty?

These people are just a joke. The so-called smart people are actually out of reach. They are the smartest one in the entire Ming Dynasty, and they are the real king.

Huang Jin's footsteps sounded, and he quickly walked over. He felt the room warmer a lot. Then he let out a breath of turbid air and looked up at Xu Jie.

Xu Jie's expression returned to his original state, and he followed Huang Jin to make a small request.

Huang Jin had already collected a lot of Xu Jie's silver, but now Jiajing is about to die, Xu Jie has become his biggest reliance, so he agreed to Xu Jie's request.

In the West Garden, Wuyi Hall, the second auxiliary room, sandalwood rose up.

Gao Gong slept with Li Chunfang at night, and was pestering Li Chunfang during the day. Even if Li Chunfang came to the room to make a memorial, he stayed in the second auxiliary room with a stern face, staring at Li Chunfang without leaving any steps.

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Li Chunfang is a famous good-looking man. Although he is already the second assistant in the dynasty, his qualifications are not as good as Gao Gong, and he is even more twelve years away from Guo Pu.

Now facing Gao Gong's whole day of entanglement, he could only choose to calm down and sit at the table and concentrate on dealing with these memorials from the two capitals and thirteen provinces.

As Xu Jie was always with Jiajing, the important task of writing a memorial was quietly on him, the secondary assistant.

But when he saw that the Shuntian Inspector Lin Pingchang sued Tongzhou Governor Li Kehao, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. The officials at the foot of the emperor were like this, and it is conceivable what kind of virtue the local officials below had.

Gao Gong was crossing his legs and slowly drinking the hot tea ceremony: "Gei Master Li, what are the problems that we should correct most in the Ming Dynasty?"

"Grade Gao, I wonder what your ideas are?" Li Chunfang knew that Gao Gong would not talk about this topic for no reason, so she asked with a push.

Gao Gong took a sip of tea and immediately said: "The officials in the world are greedy, and the people are not living in a life. We live in high places without knowing the sufferings of the people! But we are all people who are familiar with the books of sages. The biggest disadvantage of a dynasty is corruption.

, and the method of governing the world is to rectify the administration of officials. If it can be vigorously rectified and the bad habits of the Ming Dynasty's officialdom can definitely benefit the people, and you can also leave the famous Qing officials!"

Li Chunfang finally heard Gao Gong's implication, and he hoped that the court could take advantage of the last edict to rectify the administration of the officials. But if he really wanted to rectify the administration of the officials, he would not have been able to govern many of the senior officials of the current dynasty, he was afraid that there would be few officials in the entire Ming Dynasty officialdom.

It's right.

Guo Pu suddenly walked out and said lightly to Gao Gong: "I just got a news: Early this morning, the emperor had moved to Qianqing Palace!"

Gao Gong's eyes immediately glared and said in surprise: "Move to the Qianqing Palace? Why is this?"

Guo Pu turned his head and looked at Li Chunfang who seemed calm, and then explained to Gao Gong: "Your Majesty... I'm afraid it's almost gone!"

"I had known for a long time that Xu Huating wanted to eat alone, so we will go to Qianqing Palace to face the saint!" Gao Gong put down the teacup heavily, and said angrily with gritted teeth.

Guo Pu also had this idea, but turned his head to look at Li Chunfang and said, "Gei Master Li, let's go to Qianqing Palace together!"

"Okay!" Li Chunfang knew that Guo Pu wanted to bind him and was also doing good deeds.

The three of them came to the palace gate, but they knew that the palace gate was closed, but they heard the Hanlin Army commander guarding the gate say: "Today, Zhong Chensi did not hit the bell, so we can't open the palace gate!"

Gao Gong guessed that this was actually Xu Jie's arrangement, and immediately said furiously: "He really wanted to leave us aside... No, the will requires two important officials, and he dared not make the will alone!"

Guo Pu turned his head and looked at Li Chunfang, and said thoughtfully: "He is probably looking for someone else!"
Chapter completed!