Yuxi Palace, in the house.

Jiajing asked, "What is your prescription for my heart disease?" ”

Shen Mo took out a thin booklet from his arms, put his hands into it, and said: "This is my senior brother's record before he died, as wise as the Lord, just browse down, you can know the mystery." ”

Chen Hong stood beside him, and naturally didn't bother Li Fang to come down, so he took the note and forwarded it to the emperor, but his eyes before turning around were so resentful that he seemed to eat people.

I didn't know that when I turned around and just took two steps, I heard the silence behind me and said: "Oh, this is a backup copy, and the original has been collected by the East Factory." Chen Hong's body stiffened when he heard this.

Jiajing's gaze turned to Chen Hong, and without waiting for the emperor to ask, Chen Hong hurriedly confessed: "There is indeed such a book, but these few years the master dragon is not in good health, so he hasn't taken care of the progress yet." ”

This explanation is also reasonable, so Jiajing stopped pursuing it, and then asked Li Fang to take the booklet and began to browse Lu Bing's last notes as usual. In fact, Jiajing understands the content of the previous many pages, because Lu Bing will report the situation at any time, so the emperor still knows his reaction after taking the medicine very well.

This is equivalent to reproducing the whole process of Lu Bing from accepting the 'medicine' to 'taking the medicine', every time he reads an additional page, the guilt in Jiajing's heart will be added, the self-blame will become more and more serious, and the expression on his face will become more and more painful.

Seeing this, Chen Hong was 'distressed' and said: "Master, your body is just right, but you want to mourn, let's not look at it first." ”

Jiajing sighed secretly, so he had no choice but to continue scrolling down, and after a while he turned to the last page -- on the fifth day of November, Lu Bing was short of breath, fatigued, had a splitting headache, a numb tongue, and bleeding from his mouth and nose after taking the medicine...... Then the memory came to an abrupt end, and after Lu Bing fainted for a long time, he died suddenly! But his image of enduring illness and torture and insisting on loyalty jumped on the paper, which made Emperor Jiajing feel more and more sad, and said with tears streaming down his face: "God does not bless the lonely, take me away than dry!" ”

Seeing that the emperor was so grief-stricken that he could no longer be stimulated, Li Fang glanced at the people in the house: "Let's all go out first, what can't you say until the master gets better first?" ”

Shen Mo and Chen Hong glanced at each other, so they had to withdraw first.

Only Li Fang was left in the fine house to accompany the emperor.

Li Fang persuaded Jiajing's emotions to calm down, he lay on the dragon bed weakly, staring at the dome of the main hall with blank eyes, and muttered: "You say, what's wrong with me?" When the Queen Mother died, it seems that she has never been so sad. ”

Li Fang didn't know how to reply, but fortunately, Jiajing asked himself and replied: "It seems that he is really old," and looked at Li Fang as he spoke: "If you are old, you are not the self you were back then...... Now I feel that what kind of killing decision and Qiankun reading talent? It's not as good as a pot of old wine, a few old people, talking about the past and the present, and the comfort of Lala's home. ”

Li Fang didn't dare to answer the emperor's words. He is a person who understands proportion, he has been by Jiajing's side for a long time, and he really knows too well about this extremely smart and sensitive emperor.

He even regretted not following the silence and they left...... After sighing, Jiajing was silent for a long time, Li Fang thought that the emperor was asleep, so he took a thin blanket and stepped forward to cover him. But seeing that Jiajing's eyes had not closed at all, he quickly knelt down and said, "Master forgive your sins." ”

Jiajing ignored him, but said lightly: "Lu Bing was not killed by me. The voice was calm and firm, and the emperor who had everything in his hands returned suddenly without warning.

"Of course not." Li Fang hurriedly replied: "How could the master say that." From the beginning to the present, he didn't dare to say more, for fear of making a mistake, and basically what he said was all nonsense.

"Don't disadmit it, that's what you all think in your hearts." Emperor Jiajing said slowly: "You think that Lu Taibao died violently after eating the pill I gave him, right?" ”

"Master, you can wronged the slave and maid, if the slave and maid have a little bit of this thought, let Lei split the slave and maid." Li Fang knelt on the ground and wailed.

"No, you're all wrong!" Jiajing ignored him at all, and said to himself: "He was fine at the beginning, which means that my pill is fine, and it was the medicine that was later dropped by someone, so he was poisoned!" That's right, that's right! It must be so! He suddenly did it, his eyes widened, his thin palms clenched tightly into fists, slammed heavily on the quilt, and roared: "He was killed by someone!" Then he fell down again, and lay there snorting and panting.

Li Fang hurriedly got up and carefully said to the emperor: "The master is angry, the master is angry, isn't this investigating?" Sooner or later, it will come to light. ”

"Who's checking?" Jiajing stared at him.

"Chen Hong." Li Fang whispered: "Didn't you give an order to Chen Hong to investigate this matter strictly?" In the past few days, he has taken Dongchang Fanzi to turn the capital upside down, and he is still under martial law in the palace, Taoist priests, eunuchs, and palace maids are examined one by one, looking at this posture, he can solve the case without saying it......" He said, his voice became smaller and smaller, because Jiajing's face became more and more ugly.

"Who gave him the power?" Jiajing questioned, then glared at Li Fang angrily and said, "Why don't you leave him alone?" How did this Ouchi manager be?! ”

"He pressed the slave and maid with the holy decree," Li Fang said with a pale face: "How dare the slave and maid disobey the emperor's will?" He said with tears in his eyes: "It was only this time that I was able to see my master, and it was the slave who asked Lord Shen to take the topaz Ruyi given by the emperor, so that Chen Hong retreated......"

"It's useless!" Jiajing snorted angrily and said, "If you count a hundred years forward, or even two hundred years, is there a big internal manager like you?" What's the use of being benevolent? You have to be able to control the scene at the critical moment! ”

Li Fangwei said yes. But he really can't control the scene? I'm afraid not. Even if he didn't have that topaz Ruyi, if he insisted on breaking in, those eunuch guards would not dare to stop him, the chief of the inner house for more than thirty years.

The reason why he was extremely weak and allowed Chen Hong to perform arrogantly naturally had his own plans, and in the final analysis, people's positions determined his attitude. Li Fang is also a eunuch herself, and when she looks at problems and thinks about problems, she naturally has to consider it from the position of eunuchs, and for the eunuchs, the revitalization of Dongchang is in line with the overall interests, and Li Fang is naturally willing to see it.

So when Dongchang expanded his power and suppressed Jinyiwei, he was silent and let Chen Hong work hard in the front desk to dislike people, and he just waited for the time to be ripe, so he took Chen Hong down so that he could pick this peach.

In the final analysis, there are not many good birds in this world, especially in the yamen and the palace.

Now, Li Fang felt that Dongchang had risen to the ground, and it was impossible for Jinyiwei to recover his majesty, and when it was time to pick peaches by himself, he told Emperor Jiajing all the things that Chen Hong had done under his indulgence, hoping that Jiajing could help him get rid of this ambitious opponent when he was in poor health and emotionally unstable.

He pondered that just by besieging the Forbidden Palace and blocking the Holy Hearing, it would be enough for Chen Hong to die eight times, and then he would never go against him again.

But he still underestimated Emperor Jiajing, even if he was seriously ill, Jiajing's brain was not confused, his eyes flashed with a faint light, his expression was unpredictable, he looked at Li Fang and said, "Have you read the record of Taizu?" ”

"I have read it, and when I am literate in the inner study hall, I have to memorize every day." Li Fang didn't know why.

"Do you remember clearly?" Jiajing asked.

"Go back to the master, I still remember it." Li Fang said softly.

"Then I'll test you in two paragraphs." Jiajing closed his eyes and said slowly: "Taizu said: 'I look at the Zhou ceremony, and there are less than 100 people in the temple. 'What do you say later?' "The 'eunuchs' of the 'temple' are also.

When Li Fang heard this, his old face, which had just been a little bloody, turned pale again, and recited with difficulty: "In later generations, there are more than thousands, because of the chaos of the steps. This Cao Zhi can be sprinkled and swept to give the mission...... Don't make too much ...... unless you have another appointment"

Although it was a cold winter, Li Fang's sweat beads rolled down, and he almost collapsed in the ground: "The slaves and maids are not strict, so they are all arrogant, and all the mistakes are the slaves' faults, please punish the master!" I felt sad in my heart, and secretly said that this was really lifting a stone to shoot myself in the foot, and I completely blew the lamp and pulled out the wax.

Who knew that Jiajing said: "But as wise as Grandpa Cheng, he created Dongchang and gave you the power of justice; Wise as Emperor Xuan, but set up an 'inner study hall' to teach you eunuchs to read, so that you have the capital to engage in politics; even the grandfather, who was most opposed to eunuch interference in politics, also set up a royal horse prison before the founding of the country, so that you can command the forbidden army, and the divine martial arts, wisdom, and wisdom are no more than Taizu, Chengzu, and Xuanzong, and they will not see the harm of eunuchs interfering in politics, so why do you want to create conditions for you? ”

"Because we are faithful." Li Fang heard what Jiajing meant, and her heart settled down for a while, and she replied softly: "The slaves and maids are all rootless people, and the home is this palace, unlike those ministers, who are so half-hearted. ”

"Hehe......" Jiajing smiled noncommittally: "Because the emperor is alone, and the number of civil and military generals is huge, they have knowledge, strategy, skill, and countless classmates of the same year, to let the emperor alone, deal with so many disobedient guys, except for Emperor Taizu, no one has this ability." Saying that, he glanced at Li Fang and said: "That's why I need your help, as you said, you have no descendants, and you are notorious, anyone may have a heart of disobedience, only you will never have ......"

"Master Shengming." Li Fang smiled bitterly: "We are away from the emperor's shadow, and we are immediately inferior to leprosy dogs, so we will never betray our master." ”

"So don't doubt Chen Hong's disobedience," Jiajing glanced at Li Fang and said, "He doesn't have that guts." At best, he just wants to overwhelm the Jinyi Guard and replace you as the manager. ”

"Your Majesty's cave candle is shining brightly, and you can see everything." Li Fang was disappointed in his heart, he knew that he couldn't move Chen Hong, who made Jiajing love the most, was the balance game.

After saying it for so long, Jiajing was tired, but he still insisted on saying slowly: "But Taizu's words of warning are still in my ears - 'This Cao is one or two out of a thousand, and the evil is always a thousand. Use it for the ears and eyes, that is, the ears and eyes to cover it, and use it for the henchmen, that is, the heart disease. The way to control is to make them fear the Fa, not to make meritorious. Fear the law and check it, and if you have merit, you will be arrogant......" said and instructed Li Fang: "Do you understand? ”

"Slave beware!" Li Fang was about to break his head, and nodded vigorously: "The slave and maid lead Chen Hong to receive the punishment!" ”

"How is it punished?" Jiajing asked lightly.

"Chen Hong vainly speculated on the holy will and created tension, which is really an abuse of power, and he was eighty years of cane and claustrophobic for a month to set an example." Li Fang said in a trembling voice: "As the chief manager, the slave and maid are not strict in control, and they should be punished together." ”

"You're seventy, even if they don't dare to fight hard, they'll have to die." Jiajing shook his head and said, "Just forgive this crime." He said softly: "I am in the Shou Palace in Yangcuiling, and I don't know how I am repairing, you go and help me keep an eye on it." ”

The so-called Shou Palace, is the mausoleum of Emperor Jiajing, in Tianshou Mountain, a hundred miles away from the capital, the emperor actually let him, the chief supervisor of ceremonies, go there as a supervisor, this is not exile and what is it?

Li Fangru was struck by lightning, he was stunned there, he didn't expect that after the emperor woke up, his first edict was to punish himself. I suddenly felt that the glitz and glitz of most of my life were gone, only the ruins and broken walls remained, and the world was extremely gray, as if the end was coming.

Jiajing glanced at him with pity and comforted: "You are still the head of the inner house, but my longevity palace has to be repaired quickly, and I really don't feel at ease if I don't send someone trustworthy." ”

The words are all here, what else can Li Fang say, Mu Ran kowtowed, tears flowed down, and he choked up: "The slave obeys the order, when the slave and the maid are not there, the master must take care, eat on time, and don't forget to take medicine......"

Jiajing was also very uncomfortable, took a deep breath, waved his hand and said, "Go, let's see each other again, go early and return early." ”

Li Fang kowtowed to Jiajing three times, and said in a trembling voice: "The slave and maid are retired." "With all my strength, I got up from the ground and moved out of the hall step by step, hoping that decades of dedicated service would make the emperor suddenly change his mind and say, 'Don't go'.

But although Emperor Jiajing was full of reluctance, he pursed his lips tightly, and it was not until Li Fang walked to the door that he opened his mouth and said, "By the way, call Chen Hong and Shen Mo in." ”

Li Fang heard Jiajing speak, and the light of hope suddenly lit up in her heart, but after listening to his words, she broke into powder again, nodded, and said dejectedly: "The slave knows." ”

"Also," Jiajing seemed to play him to death, and said in a paragraph: "Huang Jin has done a good job in the past few years, let him come back to take charge of the Imperial Horse Supervisor." ”

Li Fang was a little comforted in her heart, and said softly: "The slave maid is going to pass the decree." Then he withdrew from the main hall of the palace.

Looking at the direction in which he disappeared, Emperor Jiajing muttered: "Don't blame me, blame you for thinking too much, blame Chen Hongyuan for not being able to fight you, blame you for being the ancestor......" He is an emperor who is full of vigilance against eunuchs, but because Lu Bing was there before, and Jinyi Wei was in town, he didn't worry about the eunuchs coming at all. But now that Lu Bing is gone, the Jinyi Guard has also withered, and for the inner court, which has the right to control the Janissaries, Dongchang, and Honghong, he has to guard against it.

And Li Fang has been the chief of ceremonial supervisors for decades, respected by all the eunuchs as the 'ancestor', and has absolute authority over the eunuchs, but he pretended to be bullied by Chen Hong, wanting to deceive his sympathy in order to achieve the goal of getting rid of Chen Hong. For this, Emperor Jiajing, who is well versed in power and scheming, is a clear man. He can't tolerate being deceived, for his own dog, he wants loyalty and control, and would rather change two young dogs to fight in the celebrant than use this kind of dominating old dog.

In this competition that only super masters are capable of participating in, even if your strength is only one line behind, you can only accept the fate of defeat...... Li Fang went out like a walking corpse, glanced at Chen Honghe who was waiting outside, and smiled weakly: "Go in, Your Majesty has summoned you." ”

Shen Mo saw that his whole body was about to collapse, and asked with concern, "Father-in-law, what's wrong?" ”

Li Fang ignored him, glanced at Chen Hongdao, and said, "Congratulations, Gonggong Chen, I will take more care of you in the future." With that, he stumbled away.

Chen Hong was stunned for a while, and then his face was full of surprise, and he secretly shouted in his heart: "Could it be that I am going to take the throne?" Then he ran excitedly into the main hall, and when he entered the door, he was so excited that he almost tripped over the threshold, and staggered into the house.

Shen Mo shook his head, looked at Li Fang's lonely back in the distance, his heart was in chaos, and he didn't know whether it was good or bad waiting for him.

Taking a deep breath, he was about to step inside, but he saw four 'Han generals', with long and thick court staffs, forked Chen Hong out of the hall and threw him on the ground with a bang.

The four court rods were taken back, but the four feet of the four Han generals were stepped on the backs of his two hands and two back ankles respectively, and Chen Hong was immediately stepped on tightly in a large zigzag shape.

The eyes of the four Han generals closed, and then the four court rods slammed into Chen Hong's back. The sound of the cane that made the teeth tremble and Chen Hong's heart-rending howl immediately sounded in front of the gate of Yuxi Palace.

Silent shuddered, quickly retracted his gaze, and walked towards the golden hall to meet his fate......

(To be continued)