Emperor Wanli glanced at Zhu Changluo with a complicated expression, he was now a little resigned, and he no longer expected the courtiers to agree to him changing the crown prince, so he naturally had to think about the issue of succession, so Zhu Changluo dared to express his opinion, he was happy, but Zhu Changluo helped Guo Zhiyuan speak but made him a little unhappy, and his son and himself still had some tacit understanding!

However, Emperor Wanli was not good at vetoing Zhu Changluo's opinion in front of the courtiers, since he had decided to let Zhu Changluo take over in the future, at this time it was better to protect the face of the prince, so he waved his hand a little upset: "Let's discuss this matter again!" Retreat! ......" After saying that, he ignored the courtiers who looked at each other, and got up and left.

The distraught Emperor Wanli originally wanted to go to the beloved Zheng Guifei's bedroom to relieve his boredom, but halfway through it, he remembered that he had reused Guo Zhiyuan because of Zheng Guifei's recommendation, and he was going to Zheng Guifei, and Zheng Guifei probably wanted to help Guo Zhiyuan say good things, so he turned around halfway through and came to the palace for a walk in the imperial garden.

While taking a walk and thinking about Guo Zhiyuan, the more Emperor Wanli thought about it, the more annoyed he became, the crown prince and Zheng Guifei were both bought by Guo Zhiyuan, is there anyone else around him who can be trusted? Out of the corner of his eye, he glanced at Chen Ju, who had been bowing his eyebrows and following him to serve, Chen Ju had been serving by Wanli's side, but he was never pampered and arrogant, he was fair, and he was well-known in and out of the palace, maybe he could give himself some pertinent advice, so he asked in a deep voice: "Minister, what do you think of today's court discussion?" ……”

Chen Ju as the Wanli Emperor's side, Guo Zhiyuan naturally knows his influence, in his list of visits to Zhang Cheng, Chen Ju is at the front, but Guo Zhiyuan knows Chen Ju's personality, so Guo Zhiyuan did not let Zhang Cheng give Chen Ju a gift, but only asked Zhang Cheng to bring his own handwritten letter to him, in which Guo Zhiyuan will be honest with Chen Ju about the ins and outs of the war with the Japanese and the difficulties that Dongfan is currently facing, and show that he has no heart of disobedience. Everything he did was to revitalize the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Ju's impression of Guo Zhiyuan has always been good, and he has adhered to the principle of "ancestral law, sage truth" all his life, especially admiring a national hero like Yue Fei.

So seeing that Emperor Wanli asked his opinion, Chen Ju cautiously bowed down and replied: "The old slave lives deep in the palace, and the old slave does not dare to talk nonsense about such a major event in the court, but what the prince said seems to have some truth, Guo Zhiyuan defeated the Japanese and made a contribution to the country......

Emperor Wanli's brows furrowed even tighter when he heard this, and he brushed his sleeves unhappily without waiting for Chen Ju to finish speaking: "Even you helped Guo Zhiyuan's kid speak, could it be that you also benefited from him?" ……”

Chen Ju has served Emperor Wanli for many years, and is naturally one of the people who knows him best, as soon as he heard this, he knew that Emperor Wanli had moved to kill, so he was so frightened that he quickly knelt on the ground and sobbed: "Holy Mingjian, the old slave is already a dying person, what is the use of coveting the benefits of others?" ……”

In history, Chen Ju died in 1607, that is, he passed away more than a year later, at this time he was full of gray hair, and his mental state was much worse than before, Emperor Wanli looked at Chen Ju who was kneeling on the ground with white hair, and his heart could not help but soften, Chen Ju served him for many years, and he was still very loyal to him, so he slowed down his tone and waved his hand: "Factory minister, you get up, I believe you are ......"

Chen Ju trembled and got up, seeing that his most trusted companion had also aged so far, Emperor Wanli became more and more emotional in his heart, and sighed and said: "Factory minister, you don't blame me, now that the imperial treasury is empty, there is no one who can be reused in the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, who else do you say I can trust?!" ……”

The more Emperor Wanli spoke, the more angry he became, and he threw out Guo Zhiyuan's recital from his sleeve, and said angrily: "The most hateful thing is that Guo Zhiyuan, this kid, deceived me everywhere, didn't tell me the truth, and actually complained to me about the heavy losses, and asked me to expand the number of troops and build a shipyard, what does he want to do?" Is it really that I am a faint king? His heart can be punished! ……”

Chen Ju knew that Wanli was really angry, and naturally it was not good to speak for Guo Zhiyuan, but he didn't agree with Emperor Wanli's words in his heart, Emperor Wanli was suspicious by nature and liked to balance among the courtiers, so there would be a situation where there was no one available for the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty now, so he bent down to pick up the fold that Emperor Wanli fell to the ground, looked at it and carefully worded: "That Guo Zhiyuan deceived the monarch, he really should be killed, but the saint has to find a suitable reason to kill him, now he has just made a great achievement, if the saint kills him, There may be criticism in the government and the opposition, and the old slave heard that Guo Zhiyuan had paid the tax and silver paid to the treasury in advance, which means that he has no objection at the moment, Dongfan is just an overseas desert island, and it can't become a big climate, and whether to kill or not is just a matter of thought, it is better to slowly figure it out......"

This is talking about the sore spot of Emperor Wanli, he is short of money, the imperial court even owes millions of taels of military salaries to the troops, and there have been several mutinies in the border army, and there is no spare strength to launch a counterinsurgency war, and the Fujian Navy Division can't even deal with the Japanese pirates, let alone deal with Guo Zhiyuan, who has just defeated the Japanese pirate alliance. knew that he shouldn't have let Guo Zhiyuan go to Dongfan at the beginning, but now that the dragon has returned to the sea, it is really not so easy for him to clean up Guo Zhiyuan's little loach!

Thinking of this, Emperor Wanli couldn't help but sigh again, and waved his hand with some interest: "That's it, that's it, just let that kid be free for a while......" Speaking of this, Wanli suddenly frowned, thought of a new problem, frowned and said: "If you can't deal with this kid immediately, you have to make merit for this kid, I have never had such a victory in the war between the Ming Dynasty and the Japanese Kou, if it is for it, this reward can not be low." This kid is young, he is already in the Wupin Prefect's Mansion, and he is in charge of Dongfan alone, so that I am not easy to handle, if he is rewarded again, he will have more power in his hands, and then I am afraid that even I will not be able to suppress him! ……”

The more Emperor Wanli thought about it, the more he regretted it, once upon a time, Guo Zhiyuan was just a monkey who could toss in his eyes, and he would never be able to turn over his own Wuzhi Mountain, so he would let Guo Zhiyuan open a mansion in Dongfan to build a government, but he didn't expect this monkey to make such a big move after arriving in Dongfan, it has become a piece of his own heart disease, and he can't get into a seizure one day, and he will really kill himself!