"It's ridiculous!" After reading it, Xia Mu laughed again. Feng Bao suddenly shuddered, crying with a sad face, laughing was more ugly than crying, and couldn't help but plead: "Lord Xia-!" ”

Emperor Jiajing asked with a calm face: "What?" ”

Xia Mu blinked his eyes, as if he was asking and as if he was talking to himself: "Stone is not grass, how can it grow?" If Your Majesty does not seek the Tao and seek the Buddha, won't they say that the stone that can grow is the manifestation of a certain Buddha! And how do they know that now the people of Jiangxi are not living, everyone abandons and scolds the government, the day before yesterday, Beizhen Fusi got a report, a small group of Japanese slaves cholera Jiangxi River, the governor of Jiangxi actually abandoned a group of people, with eighteen little wives escaped, how can this son say that the longevity stone, it is clearly to coax Your Majesty, are they not a fool, blind, deaf when Your Majesty is not successful, and even the stone and grass are not clear? Since he is coaxed here, I don't know that my lord Sheng Ming, how can he be coaxed by a villain full of absurd words? ”

Emperor Jiajing coughed twice in embarrassment, almost recognizing that there were stones that could grow in this world, and at this moment, seeing Xia Mu secretly joking and ridiculing, he couldn't help but scold: "Get rid of a useless thing, let Jinyiwei take it together." ”

As he spoke, he looked at Feng Bao: "Keep reading!" ”

Feng Bao's hands trembled, and then read the third paragraph: "The governor of Taiyuan Prefecture, Shanxi, Yu Shi Wu Kesi: The villagers of Longquan, Taiyuan Prefecture, suddenly turned into a female form and married the villagers. The villagers talked about it, saying that the change of male to female was a sign of yin and yang, and prayed for the province. ”

"It's really so big in the world that men can become women? If you want silver, you need silver, and you can deceive the emperor with all these vain things! Xia Mu lowered his head and smiled silently.

Princess Ning'an saw that her father's face became more and more displeased, and she felt uncomfortable, so she smiled and said, "These bullshit officials, make these messy mansions to blaspheme the saints." It really defiled the ears of the saints. ”

Jiajing took it and looked at the newspapers, then slammed the newspapers on the coffee table in front of him, and while holding the teacup to drink tea, he reprimanded him dissatisfiedly: "What a bullshit!" ”

Although Princess Ning'an is young, her heart is clear. Although the anecdotes in these three briefings sounded interesting, judging by the emperor's face, they seemed to have violated the taboo. She glanced at Xia Mu vaguely, and saw that this person had won the emperor's heart, and couldn't help but be secretly curious.

Xia Mu had been paying attention to the subtle changes in Jiajing's expression. After seeing the cold for a while, Jiajing suddenly asked, "What do you think of the briefing that you just read, Xia Mu?" ”

Xia Mu smiled, glanced at Zhu Xizhong, who continued to pretend to be dead, it really didn't matter to hang high, and then looked at Huang Jin, who was drenched in cold sweat, and asked with a smile: "Big companion, you say." ”

"Absurd." Huang Jin knew Xia Mu's intentions, pretended to be a gesture, and snorted angrily, and these four words popped out of his mouth coldly.

"Yes, Otomo is right, it's absurd!" When Feng Bao saw Huang Jin say this, he immediately had a number in his heart and hurriedly agreed.

The corners of Xia Mu's mouth rose, and he smiled again and said: "Mountains can walk, stones grow tall, men become women, this is a rare folklore, the original Chinese mountains and rivers are strange, there are no surprises, and it is not surprising." ”

"Hikari said it right!" Zhu Xizhong, who has always been cold and introverted and unsmiling, shrugged his eyebrows at this time, and suddenly said in an awe-inspiring tone, "It is not surprising that some absurd and bizarre things have happened, but the strange thing is that such absurd and bizarre things are actually published in the newspaper of the General Administration Department!" ”

Zhu Xizhong highlighted this remark, and Emperor Jiajing was stunned for a moment. Xia Mu on the side also knew that he had seen a good show today, he was not used to watching these bullshit officials smuggle and shoot horses, he didn't want this Zhu Xizhong to have such a set, thinking that he might not have Zhu Xizhong's instructions when he entered the palace today, it seems that he was taken by Zhu Xizhong as a robbery, and deliberately wanted to take the mansion newspaper to talk about things, and insinuated to point to the General Administration Department in charge of Yan Shifan.

Since the Yongle Emperor set the capital in Beijing, the officials were divided according to their duties, with a total of nine yamen and nine small yamen.

The nine yamen are the six departments of officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, plus the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the General Administration Department and the Dali Temple.

The nine small yamen are Zhan Shifu, Taichang Temple, Taifu Temple, Guanglu Temple, Honglu Temple, Hanlin Temple, Guozijian, Shangbaosi and Yuanma Temple.

The palm seals of the Nine Great Yamen are customarily called the Great Nine Qings. The director of the Nine Little Yamen, commonly known as Xiao Jiuqing. These 18 yamen constitute a complete central government management body.

The so-called cabinet chiefs, since the time of Xiaozong, have actually represented the emperor and exercised the power to manage the country through these eighteen yamen. The first thing that any chief assistant should do when he takes office is to rectify these eighteen yamen and find candidates for court officials.

However, Yan Song was different from other chiefs, he was not satisfied with replacing all the officials of these yamen with his cronies, but hoped to turn these yamen into tools for him to deceive the Holy Hearing and dictate dictatorship. Therefore, after taking office, he handed over the general administration department of the national state capital to the emperor's residence to his son Yan Shifan.

Yan Shifan only has money in his eyes, and in previous years, the major official residence newspapers reported the property or disaster situation in various provinces, and he could use it to present strange things to the emperor, favor the emperor, and secretly accept money.

The anecdotes of those local officials won the emperor's please, and they were naturally expected to be promoted. For many years, there have been four sentences in the officialdom of the capital: "The big Jiuqing has a big ninety-nine, the small nine-nine has a small ninety-nine, the eighteen yamen is open to the south, and the hall official follows Yan Fu." ”

In just 28 words, it can be said that it is a wonderful expression of the cattiness in this.

This year, Zhu Xizhong happened to be ordered to go to Nanjing to worship his ancestors, and met Xu Pengju, the Duke of Xu Guo, and the two inadvertently talked about the official residence report, Xu Pengju had a distant nephew who was dismissed by the governor of Jiangxi in the palace newspaper because he did not give a gift to Yan Shifan. Zhu Xizhong has been careful since then, he must eradicate this kind of accumulation of shortcomings and report Xu Peng for revenge!

Thinking back at this time, Zhu Xizhong hurriedly knelt on the ground and said: "It stands to reason that the ministers are loyal to the emperor and obey the government. In the long run, not only will the emperor's blessing be just an empty word, but the prosperity of the country that the people of the world are praying for is just a flash in the pan......"

Zhu Xizhong should be in his duty to serve the emperor, but he was a prominent official and was deeply used by the emperor, but he also won the suspicion of the emperor, so he saw that the emperor wanted to recruit Xia Mu into the palace to speak today, so he asked Feng Bao to find it, saying that the emperor wanted to listen to the palace newspaper and wanted to use Xia Mu's hand to revoke the palace newspaper.

I didn't think that Xia Mu's mouth would actually set off a holy anger!

At this moment, the gimbal was silent. Facing the meticulous Zhu Xizhong, Xia Mu had a dual mood of dependence and awe.

After being silent for a while, he mustered up the courage to ask again, "How does Your Majesty deal with the matter of the palace newspaper?" ”

Emperor Jiajing was busy cultivating immortals and seeking Taoism on weekdays, and rarely listened to this mansion newspaper, and he directly ordered the cabinet to do something. ”

Zhu Xizhong pondered for a while, then turned to Feng Bao and said, "Gonggong Feng, the emperor's question, please ask you to answer it." ”

Feng Bao didn't know the true intention of Zhu Xizhong to bring the Di Bao, but he didn't dare to offend this powerful spy leader, coughed slightly, cleared his throat and replied: "Long live Lord, the slave has been in the master of ceremonies for many years, during this period, the servants have read the Di Bao of the General Administration Department, and the contents of those Di Bao should be the duties of the ministers and officials in various places, informing the provinces of Bu, Fu, and Santai, the officials of the prefectures, prefectures and counties, as well as the governors of the nine borders, the river officials, the Cao officials, the salt officials, what are they doing every day, are they all rewarding, strictly punishing, judging and opening the block, and guarding one side, As long as you look at the newspaper, you can roughly know the situation of the world's officials. ”

"Hmph, why has my newspaper become a strange legend now?" Jiajing's face sank, and he was slightly angry in his heart, "Could it be that they think I'm old, they only ask for the truth, and they dare to snub me and do some strange things to fool me without asking about national affairs?" ”

Everyone hurriedly knelt down, and the mountain shouted: "The ministers are terrified, and the ministers deserve death!" ”

Emperor Jiajing scolded here, felt that his mouth was dry, so he stopped and drank a few sips of tea.

Princess An Ning has lived in the pavilion for a long time, how have she ever seen a man other than the emperor, today's Xia Mu's performance deeply shocked her, and when Xia Mu spoke, she stared at the governor Jingying Rongzheng without blinking her eyes. Only then did she discover that Xia Mu's voice was full of charm and temperament was so seductive, that she couldn't help but think about it.

Xia Mu didn't notice the change in Princess An Ning, and just stood there pretending to be dead.

At this moment, Emperor Jiajing pondered for a moment, glanced at Zhu Xizhong, and then looked at the newspaper in his hand, and immediately knew what was wrong with it, and laughed out loud: "What a Zhenqing, you can't get used to these subordinates doing some strange things to fool me, so you tell me clearly, and you have to say it to the mouth of the hairy boy who borrowed Xia Mu." ”

"The minister is also bitter to say it!" Zhu Xizhong changed his coldness, and his voice became docile, "The Holy Jane is in the emperor's heart, and he is arbitrary, so everything naturally can't be hidden from His Majesty's eyes." ”

Emperor Jiajing pondered for a while, and then ordered: "Let the General Administration Department strictly manage the Di Bao ......" halfway through his words, he changed his words, "Let Zhenqing manage the Di Bao, I can rest assured." ”

After speaking, he looked at Xia Mu again and asked, "Xia Mu, what reward do you want?" ”

At this time, Concubine Yun Guifei on the side saw the appearance of Princess An Ning, her mind moved, and she interjected and said: "The Holy Ri has a lot of opportunities, can't you even forget the marriage of your own daughter, from the perspective of the concubine, this Lord Xia is young and promising, and the age is also appropriate, why not marry An Ning to him, and make him a grandfather of the country!" ”

Xia Mu gasped when he heard this, he really wanted to marry Princess An Ning, so what about Xu Xiyi? I wanted to hurriedly say: "But the subordinate already has a wife, and it is Xu Xiyi, the eldest granddaughter of his mentor Xu Jie." ”

Jiajing frowned when he heard this, and when he saw Princess Anning's lost appearance, he scolded angrily: "You kid, I promised my daughter to you, but you used the excuse that I personally gave the marriage, did Xu Jie dare to resist the decree, if you are a concubine, marry his granddaughter as a child, and it is also the imperial grace of his Xu Mansion!" ”

Before Xia Mu could answer, he suddenly saw the eunuch on duty on the platform recklessly break in, knelt down and said:

"Long live the master, Dongchang sent someone to send a hundred thousand urgent Miza in."

"Say what?" Jiajing asked with a frown.

"The brocade guards of the Fusi of Beizhen have fought with the guards of the storage warehouse."

Hearing this, Xia Mu and Zhu Xizhong's faces changed dramatically at the same time.