On Chinese New Year's Eve, as soon as it gets dark, the city of Beijing is covered by the sound of firecrackers and fireworks.

The palace is a little quiet, it's not that Emperor Longqing doesn't like to be lively, on the contrary, his favorite thing is to put Aoshan lanterns to watch fireworks. Now when I hear the crackling outside the palace, my heart is itching to death. It's just that he is still in mourning, and the more he celebrates, the more people are staring. was inevitably noisy by the official, so I had to endure it.

However, in addition to the fact that fireworks are not allowed, there is still a joyful New Year's atmosphere in the palace. Everywhere hung red colors, hung all kinds of palace lanterns, the trees were hung with satin, the flowers and greenery are beautiful, people are like being in Qionglou yùyu...... At first glance, the emperor is not short of money.

Now is the time for the people to prepare for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and the palace is no exception. It is rare for the emperor's family to dine together on weekdays. Only on the New Year's Day, will the concubines be gathered together for a reunion dinner. The dinner was held in the Qing Palace, and the emperor should have one table per person, but Longqing couldn't be the master of the foreign ministers, and he could still have the final say in the palace. He said that who would be called a lonely widow in this big festival? It's called setting a dining table, and the wife and children are sitting together, lively.

At this time, a large banquet table surrounded by a golden embroidered dragon table was already set up in the hall, and the palace people began to make dishes...... Because the royal family, like ordinary people, pays attention to a sumptuous New Year, so before serving hot dishes, only all kinds of meat, vegetarian, sweet and salty snacks, as well as cold and cold dishes, a total of 63 products, as well as two carved lacquer fruit boxes, four Su cakes, abalone snails and other fruits, noodles and so on.

The position of various meals on the table and the distance between each other also have size requirements, so the dishes have been distributed since the end of the Shen Dynasty, and they have not been finished until now.

The emperor's family has gathered in the Qianqing Palace, and they can't sit there and wait, so the concubines accompanied the queen and drank tea and chatted in the Xinuan Pavilion; Although Emperor Longqing likes NV people, he is not a friend of FÙNV, and he can't stand the noise of these NV people together, so he took the crown prince Zhu Yijun to Dongnuan Pavilion for temporary refuge.

Of course, it's not just to avoid NV people. As an emperor, although Longqing himself is not competent, he hopes that his son can become a good emperor in the future, so he attaches great importance to his education. took advantage of the little time before the meal to take the prince to feel the atmosphere of the study.

It's just that what makes him blush is that although there are many books in the upper study, they don't seem to be turned over, and then look at the big plaque of 'Evening Clothes and Food', Longqing feels quite ashamed of the prince's adoring gaze. At this time, Chen Hong's voice sounded from the mouth of the mén: "Master, the congratulatory watch of the ministers has been delivered." ”

Long Qing suddenly felt that this was an opportunity to show his diligence and establish a tall image in the prince's heart, so he asked the prince to sit beside him and said in a deliberately deep voice: "Take it in." ”

The two eunuchs used a clamp rod to prop up the roller blinds, and saw Chen Hong himself holding a stack of concerto, followed by nine eunuchs, each of whom also held a xiǎo mountain-like concerto.

Under Chen Hong's command, the eunuchs neatly stacked those red-skinned notebooks on the long cases in the upper study. After the eunuch retreated, Chen Hong presented a blue book to the imperial court: "There is still such a careless guy who dares to write a congratulatory table in blue skin, it seems that his skin is itchy." ”

"Forget it, the New Year is impetuous, and it is inevitable that there will be one or two careless." Long Qing was about to show the emperor's leniency, so he smiled disapprerovitively: "Just throw it aside and show me something else...... Let's read two copies. ”

"Yes." Chen Hong put the notebook aside and picked it up casually: "Weichen Criminal Department left to the matter Tian Yun to congratulate the emperor on the new year......"

Long Qing took a nap as soon as he heard this kind of official article, just to set an example for his son, so he endured the discomfort and listened to it, but after listening to half of it, his face was wrong. What kind of congratulatory watch is this? In addition to the first few sentences, which are regarded as congratulations, the next thing is to say that since the emperor ascended the throne for more than a year, under your wise leadership and the exhaustion of Xu Ge Lao, there is a good situation today. But now there are some people who are afraid that the world will not be luàn, and they are doing things in secret, wanting to stir up the court and then muddy the waters. Please The emperor must cherish the current situation, do not be deceived by these people, trust the current ministers, and jointly maintain the peace of the court. In the end, he scolded those 'yīn plotters' as public enemies, and was determined to stand against them......

What kind of mess is this? Long Qing endured the discomfort, reluctantly finished listening to one copy, and asked Chen Hong to take another one to change his mood. Who knew that it was still this tone, and even the tone of his speech was very different, which made Long Qingqi crook his nose.

"Change!" Before he finished listening, Long Qing said with a long face.

Chen Hong hurriedly took another copy, and when he read it, it was still a bird...... Not only are the statements exactly the same, but all three of them are from the same place, the Six Branches...... Because the recital of the Six Corridors arrived last, it was placed on the top.

"Change to the ...... of the individual Yamén" Longqing's face was almost out of the water...... After listening to the same argument three times, no matter how slow his mind was, he thought about it - isn't this just putting pressure on himself to be polite to Xu Ge Lao and not trust others?

This is not too much, even if so many people say it together. If it is usual, Long Qingxiao will pass, maybe he will consider it. But all he has now is a belly of anger...... Just wish me a Happy New Year?! What do you mean by these things in your greetings? Don't want me to have a good New Year?

How else to say it, what about the eunuch who is the most cheating father? It was the two of them who flickered, so that Xu Ge Lao made a mistake in judgment, and it would be self-defeating.

Chen Hong read another copy of the household department, and it was still about this kind of argument.

Long Qing's face was completely blackened, and he no longer looked like a holy monarch, and brushed his sleeves and said, "Don't read it!" As he spoke, he picked up the prince and said, "Go to eat, otherwise you will be full!" Halfway through, he turned back and commanded, "Look at all these greeting books one by one, and see if they all think so!" ”

"Yes......" Chen Hong hurriedly responded.

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Let this matter be stirred, Longqing's Chinese New Year's Eve dinner did not eat painfully, a few days of the New Year, Suo xìng put aside these broken things, concentrated on playing with his son, playing with the concubine, let the eunuch play, in short, it was painful and happy for half a month.

In fact, during this period, there are many activities as usual, such as New Year's Day, when the ministers want to pay New Year's greetings to the emperor, and the emperor wants to give red envelopes to the ministers; After that, it is necessary to sacrifice heaven and earth, worship the temple and so on...... But when I met Longqing, the lazy emperor, hehe...... Last year, when the emperor had just ascended to the pole, the minister could still cover it, and even coaxed and deceived him, so he finally didn't lose his manners. But this year, Longqing's wings are stiffer, and his rebellious psychology is stronger, so he directly doesn't listen to Xu Jie's hum, and closes the big mén to celebrate his New Year.

Even the ministers paid New Year's greetings, they all kowtowed outside the emperor's pole, and they didn't see the emperor's shadow at all, and of course there was no way to talk about rewards...... Let some Qingliu who are full of hearts waiting for the reward be lost, and secretly make up their minds that they must go to the book after the New Year, and scold this picking...... Oh no, the Emperor of the Ridiculous.

In a daze, it was the fifteenth day of the first month in a blink of an eye. This winter was surprisingly dry, except for a few snowflakes in the winter, and there has been no snow since then, and as a result, this Lantern Festival is dry and sunny, and you can't even see the clouds in the sky.

This makes the light market in the capital more prosperous than any other year. Qipan Street, Shichahai, in front of the temple, in front of the former mén, the Temple of Earth...... Dozens of bustling headlight markets have transformed Beijing into a city that never sleeps. When you look up, you can see the sky lit up by lights, and the colorful fireworks blooming everywhere in the sky.

Long Qing once again experienced the depression of Chinese New Year's Eve, and only ate a few Lantern Festivals in the evening before withdrawing from his rice bowl. When the eunuchs saw that the emperor was depressed, they asked him to set off some fireworks to play. Although Longqing was very excited, he also knew that he was too lazy to talk about the New Year, Ming'er was the sixteenth day of the first month, and if he was out of line, he would be drowned by the spitting star of the official.

Thinking of Yanguan, Long Qing finally remembered those hateful greeting watches, asked people to find Chen Hong, and asked, "Have you finished reading the greeting watches?" ”

Chen Hong smiled bitterly: "I've finished reading." "He has been watching it for more than ten days, and he thinks the emperor has forgotten.

"What's going on?" Long Qing asked.

"There are 937 officials above the seventh grade in Beijing...... "Chen Hongru said as a treasure," said Chen Hong: "Among them, there are four hundred and thirty copies of the simple congratulatory table; Five hundred and six copies of the grievances for Xu Ge. "Actually, Xu Jie made Yang Bo bitter this time...... Lao Xi'er expected that Xu Jie's people would speak for him in the congratulatory table. asked his people to help Xu Jie's talk, plus those who heard the news and hurriedly followed the trend, they actually made such a big lineup......

Hearing that more than half of the officials were shouting for Xu Jie, Long Qing's face was a little yellow, this is a demonstration of Chi Luǒ Luǒ! But after a change of thought, he said: "Four hundred and three plus five hundred and six, it is nine hundred and thirty-six, why is there still one short?" ”

"The remaining one is the blue sè at that time." Chen Hongmian changed slightly: "It's not a congratulatory ......"

"What's that?" Long Qing frowned and said, "Don't swallow and spit out. ”

"Yes...... Bullet stamps. Chen Hong's voice was lowered: "Hu Kezuo gave Zhang Qi in the matter, and impeached the ...... of the first assistant of the cabinet, Xu Jie."

"Nian ......" Long Qing closed his eyes, even if it was to relieve hatred, he wanted to hear it.

"Yes......" Chen Hong took the blue sè recital and whispered for the emperor: "Zhang Qi is careful to play in the matter of the left of the micro-minister's household department...... Impeachment of the cabinet scholar Xu Jie's disloyalty and injustice. ”

The six things are:

First, when Xu Jie was the first emperor, he was a cabinet minister for 18 years. The first emperor worshiped the gods and built a lot of buildings, Xu Jie's all agreed, and he also wrote green words, alchemy pills, and praise Xuanxiu for the first emperor.

Second, as soon as the first emperor died, he planned to write the "Edict" to count the mistakes of the first emperor. This is disloyalty.

Third, Xu Jie and Yan Song have worked together for fifteen years, and they have married each other, and they have not said a word. He knew that Yan Song's father and son were Jiān ministers, but they still regarded themselves as slaves, which was a wagging tail and begging for mercy.

Fourth, and the Yan clan was defeated, but Xu Jie attacked him behind his back and killed his son. This is related to people's unbelief, disloyalty and unbelief in the festival has been a loss for a long time.

Fifth, the border gate was in a hurry many times before, and the emperor repeatedly announced it, but the order turned a deaf ear.

Sixth, since Xu Jie became the first assistant, he has been indifferent to state affairs, ignoring them, and only caring about pulling relationships everywhere, expanding contacts, eliminating dissidents, and attacking colleagues to consolidate his position. People in the world only know that there is Xu Jie, but they don't know that there is His Majesty for a long time......

This bullet is written very sharply, and each charge is very weighty, such as the impeachment of the "Edict" by Shu Zhong, which has been questioned by Gao Gong and Guo Pu when they were in office, and other matters have also hit the nail on the head, but all six articles add up, not as good as the last sentence 'People in the world only know that there is Xu Jie, but they don't know that there is His Majesty ......for a long time'

In fact, this is not Zhang Qi's originality, when Zou Yinglong was strict, there was a sentence of 'the people in the world only know that there is Song, but they don't know that there is His Majesty'...... In short, this sentence is always indispensable in the text of the crusade against the right jiān.

It's not that the person who wrote the bullet chapter lacks literary talent, but this sentence is too lethal and tried and tested, so why change it to a new one?

Now it's people's turn to use it to stab Jī Longqing, and sure enough, the emperor is overwhelmed. Long Qing is an emperor who is self-aware and knowledgeable, and he knows that the so-called 'the world only knows that there is a rank, but does not know that there is a majesty', which is not an exaggeration...... In fact, Xu Jie's "Jiajing Edict" made countless people cry with gratitude, and then acted more to win people's hearts, and his reputation spread all over the world, and he has long become the savior of the Buddha.

Relatively speaking, Long Qing knew that his role was indeed negligible...... So after seeing this sentence, he did not jump like his father, his uncle, and many predecessors, but fell into deep thought.

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The needles in the warm pavilion could be heard, and Emperor Longqing was still pondering. Chen Hong looked at him quietly, at this moment in the eyes of the old eunuch, this emperor has the appearance of an emperor, if he is emotional, Chen Hong will be very disappointed.

This night, Longqing lost sleep again.

Early the next morning, Chen Hong came to wait outside the palace, today is the sixteenth day of the first month, the day when the hundred officials return to the court, he must know if the emperor has any plans.

With two red eyes, Long Qing only said one sentence: "Mingfa." ”

"Yes." Chen Hong responded softly. went back to the celebrant and asked him to copy two copies of the Qi bullet seal and stamp the guard of the celebrant and the celebrant guard...... This means that it is a legal transcription, and it is guaranteed to be word for word. However, he ordered the original to be archived, and two copies, one to the cabinet and one to the secretary-general to be copied to the various ministers.

After doing all this, the old eunuch looked a little dazed, the emperor's attitude was greatly beyond his expectations, he didn't expect that so much foreshadowing had been done in the early stage, and the emperor still didn't seem to have any idea of moving Xu Jie.