"What's going on, it's time!" Seeing the eunuch surnamed Shi Bingbi and the other two eunuchs walking into the lobby with a group of eunuchs, Chen Hong stood up and asked loudly, and when the eunuch surnamed Shi walked in front of him, he asked in a low voice, "Is there another will?" ”

Countless eyes in the lobby looked at the eunuch surnamed Shi Bingbi who walked to the door.

"Yes." The eunuch surnamed Shi Bingbi was very humble to him, and he lowered his voice and replied to the word, and then raised his voice, "There is a will!" He walked into the lobby.

Led by Xu Jie, the four members of the cabinet immediately stood up and picked up their cushions, let go of the top of the lobby, walked to the middle of the hall to put down the cushions, and knelt down on the cushions.

The Qingliu officials sitting on both sides saved trouble, but changed their sitting posture to a kneeling position on their respective cushions, and soon knelt on the spot.

Chen Hong and the other eunuchs had to kneel outside the door.

The eunuch surnamed Shi Bingbi stood on the south side of the north wall: "The emperor said: 'What kind of person is Hai Rui, he has no father and no king, and he has abandoned the country and his family. Self-isolation from the monarch's father, self-isolation from the court, no need to reason with him. Xu Jie, Chen Hong led the cabinet, and the celebrant to discuss the crime with hundreds of officials. Chin this. ’”

asked the ministers to write arguments, and they were busy for nearly a month, and then "there was no need to reason with him". However, when the ministers heard this change, everyone was numb as a stone, and there was no sudden feeling, as if the ship was going to the bridge and naturally lowered the mast. If the emperor does not change his will, perhaps they will be surprised.

Xu Jie and Chen Hong were named, and they should have taken the lead in expressing their position: "Ministers and servants lead the order!" ”

All kneeling officials: "Ministers!" ”

Chen Hong stood up: "Move the chair!" He strode in.

The celebrant and a few eunuchs followed him in.

Xu Jie and the others all stood up, and the officials sitting on both sides all stood up.

Eight chairs were immediately brought in and placed in a semicircle above the north wall.

Chen Hong and the other three eunuchs sat on the four chairs on the left, and Xu Jie and the other three members of the cabinet sat on the four chairs on the right.

Xu Jie looked at the other officials in the hall kneeling on the cushion: "Everyone should still sit on the spot." ”

The officials changed their kneeling position to a sitting position and sat back on their cushions.

"What did the emperor say?" Chen Hong looked at the eunuch surnamed Shi Bingbi, "Is it a crime or a conviction?" ”

Eunuch surnamed Shi Bingbi: "It's a crime." ”

"Let's talk about it." Chen Hong looked at Xu Jie, "Elder Xu Ge, what do you think, the cabinet has an idea." ”

Xu Jie raised his eyes and looked at the full hall one by one.

Chen Hong understands, and Xu Jie also understands that every word used by the emperor today actually has a deep meaning, and it must be subtle. As far as the word "on crime" is concerned, if it falls on the word "crime", it will inevitably be tried by the officials of the Criminal Department, Dali Temple, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but today none of the officials of the three law divisions are present, and the officials in the hall are all ministers of literature and science, so it can be seen that they can only be said from the word "theory". The Holy Will is very clear, although Hai Rui did not bring him, he still wants these officials to refute him, so that everyone in the world knows that the ministers think he is guilty!

Xu Jie slowly spoke: "Hai Rui's recital was distributed to you a month ago, and you have all written a recital to refute him. Let's just follow our own scripts. ”

But after Xu Jie's words were finished, the full hall was still like a pool of stagnant water, and no one spoke.

Xu Jie, Li Chunfang, Gao Gong and Zhao Zhenji will not force everyone to speak at such a time, it is a matter of good reputation, and if you don't say anything right, your notoriety will immediately spread all over the world. So all four were silent.

It was the turn of the celebrant to speak, and Chen Hong was the first to ask: "What's the matter, do you want to resist the decree?" Start with the first one on the left and speak one by one. ”

The first one on the left was Li Qingyuan, seeing Chen Hong's eyes staring at him, he picked up the recital on his lap: "Gonggong Chen, when we were ordered to write a recital to refute Hai Rui, we wrote it all. But Hai Rui himself in the future, who will answer what we ask? If there is no answer, how can we judge sin? ”

"That's a good question!" Chen Hong stared at him and sneered, and then glanced at the officials in the hall one by one, "What do you mean, what do you mean, if Hai Rui doesn't come, you won't be able to judge his crimes?" That's fine, I'll ask them one by one, and you will answer. Li Qingyuan! ”

Li Qingyuan: "The lower officials are here." ”

Chen Hong: "Is Hai Rui guilty or not?" ”

Li Qingyuan: "Guilty. ”

Chen Hong: "What crime?" ”

Li Qingyuan: "You shouldn't use disrespectful words to scold your father in the song." ”

Chen Hong stared at him: "Gone?" ”

Li Qingyuan: "The lower official has already answered. ”

Chen Hong: "I'm asking you now, is it right that he scolded the monarch's father?" ”

Li Qingyuan: "It's not right to scold the monarch's father. ”

Chen Hong: "Going around in circles, isn't it?" I want you to answer the words he scolded, the things he scolded, right? ”

Li Qingyuan: "There are all parents in the world, and even more so." ”

The Wenyuan Qingliu in the hall all showed approving looks, obviously everyone recognized Li Qingyuan's answer.

Chen Hong was annoyed: "What you want to answer are these two sentences, right?" ”

Li Qingyuan: "Back to Gonggong Chen, these two sentences, the first sentence was said by the sage, and the second sentence was said by Prince Yu to his subordinates in the first month of this year. If Gonggong Chen thinks it is inappropriate, we will take it back. ”

Chen Hong was stopped by him, his face immediately changed, and he turned to look at the eunuch surnamed Bingbi surnamed Shi who looked down at him: "You continue to ask!" ”

The eunuch surnamed Shi Bingbi cleared his throat: "Since everyone has written a recital to refute Hai Rui, I will take out the words in the recital and compile it into a book, and then the cabinet will send it to the provinces with a 'Di Bao', and the three law divisions can also convict Hai Rui with this." ”

Chen Hong's eyes slanted into a line and looked at the eunuch surnamed Bingbi. The eunuch surnamed Shi Bingbi was determined as usual, and Chen Hong had no idea, because he didn't know whether his words were his own idea or the emperor's orders just now.

Xu Jie made a timely decision: "I think Gonggong Shi is right." Otherwise, everyone will not be able to finish reading their own recitals in a few days. ”

"Then put away everyone's books." Gao Gong immediately echoed Xu Jie.

"Wait." Chen Hong knew that these people were going through the motions, and he was worried that he would not be able to pay the difference with the emperor in the end, "Some people's transcripts have already been transcribed and handed over to the palace, but some people's transcripts haven't been read yet." The king uses Ji! ”

He finally fixed his eyes on Wang Yongji, who had only rushed back to Beijing yesterday.

Wang Yongji, who was sitting at the end of the first row on the left, responded: "The lower official is here." ”

Chen Hong: "It seems that your recital has not been submitted. ”

Wang Yongji: "Yes." Xia Guan's recital was written in a hurry last night and was finished this morning. ”

Chen Hong: "What does your recital say about Hai Jui's sin?" ”

Wang Yongji picked up the notebook: "Go back to Gonggong Chen, and report to Xu Ge Lao, the transcript of the lower officials is written about the beginning and end of the case of the miners' riots caused by officials in Kaihua and Dexing counties due to the greed of officials, and ask the cabinet master to forward it to the emperor." ”

"Tail exposed, didn't you?" Chen Hong grabbed the handle, glanced at Xu Jiehe and Gao Gong, and then stared at Wang Yongji, "On February 17, the ministers went to the congratulatory table, and Hai Rui went to the book of insulting the monarch's father. Today's will is to ask everyone to refute Hai Jui's recital, but you have a recital to investigate the corruption of ink. The two of them work well together! Wang Yongji, let me ask you, how did Hai Rui discuss the music with you? ”

Seeing that the turmoil was gradually calming down, Chen Hongbian was about to set off a big wave again, and the ministers and the celebrant were all disgusted, and they couldn't reveal it on the surface, and they were all silent there.

Chen Hong actually didn't want to be free of wind and waves, he really figured out the emperor's thoughts to the extreme. For more than 20 years, the emperor has lived in Xiyuan Xuanxiu, and pushed Yan Song and his party in front, just to find a stand-in to block and kill those ministers who tried to rule together with the monarch and the ministers. Seeing this, he repeatedly expressed to the emperor that he was willing to be this stand-in, replacing Lu Fang. On the 28th of December last year, the ministers asked him to block the emperor for a while, and the emperor really praised himself. This year, there was an earth-shattering incident of Hai Rui, and none of the cabinet, the six ministries, the nine secretaries, and even the ministers of the Manchu dynasty were angry with the monarch's father. The law does not govern the people, not to mention that when it involves King Yu, others can slip off one by one. Only himself, if he doesn't catch a few people to use thunderbolt means to destroy this dynasty for the emperor, this palm print eunuch will not be long in coming.

Wang Yongji was also silent all the time. He thought about standing up and admitting that many of the words in Hai Jui's recital were his own ideas and sharing his charges, but first, he really did not discuss with Hai Jui in advance and could not be deceived, and second, if he admitted to conspiring with Hai Jui, it would aggravate Hai Jui's crimes. But he decided to speak for Hai Rui, and he couldn't let future generations not know the sincerity of Hai Gang Peak.

Wang Yongji slowly stood up: "Back to Gonggong Chen, Hai Rui has not discussed this with me. ”

Chen Hong: "It's you who our family looks down on." The report received by the celebrant supervisor was that Hai Rui was transferred to Beijing in July last year, and he had frequent contacts with him and had many long conversations all night. When Hai Jui was about to go to the court, you asked the Metropolitan Procuratorate for an envoy to go south to investigate the case. Now that Hai Rui has grabbed it, you are back, of course you can push it cleanly. But I felt that it was really unreasonable to write a recital to refute him, so I made a recital to investigate the case and get by. Wang Yongji, you are also a villain, right? ”

Wang Yongji is a natural ancient way of warmth, but he is not showing his edge in his life, and he can't be treated at the same time, so he is just seeking goodness, today Hugh said that it is his duty to do it for Hai Rui, and he has to rise up for Chen Hong's insult, but his tone is still peaceful: "I am an official of the Ming Dynasty, and I don't need to look down on Gonggong Chen." There are so many officials in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not that Gonggong Chen said that whoever is a villain is a villain. ”

Almost all the officials in the hall, including the eunuchs who were the celebrant and the eunuchs, sat up straight at the same time, unable to see but could feel it, and everyone cheered for his words in their hearts.

Chen Hong is Chen Hong after all, and at this time, he smiled back with shame on his face: "Then you go back to our house for those questions just now, why aren't you a villain?" ”

Wang Yongji: "Hai Rui's performance is not that I have not discussed with him, but that he has never been selfless in his life and work, and he is unwilling to consult with anyone. It was precisely because I had a friend with him that he tried his best to persuade me to ask the Metropolitan Procuratorate for that mission and go to the south to investigate the case. In this regard, Hai Jui deserves the style of an ancient gentleman, and I am willing to admit that I am a villain compared to him. But it's not the kind of villain that Chen Gonggong said. ”

"What did you say!" Chen Hong's voice sharpened sharply, "You said that Hai Rui has the style of an ancient gentleman!" ”

Wang Yongji: "Hai Rui dares to do things, and he doesn't cause trouble to others, but the ancient gentleman is like this!" ”

Chen Hong: "Did you hear it?" ”

Most of the people looked at the ground, but the four cabinet members had to look at each other, exchanging their views on how to express their positions.

Chen Hong was also staring at Xu Jie at this time, asking him to express his position.

Of course, Xu Jie must express his position: "Wang Yongji, the first of the five Lun is the monarch and the minister, today is about Hai Rui's great disrespect to the monarch's father, you don't need to say anything about the way of friends." ”

Chen Hong looked at Zhao Zhenji again: "Lord Zhao, this Wang Yongji seems to be the person you recommended when you were the governor of Zhejiang, tell me, what should he say just now?" ”

The Ming Dynasty was led by the celebrant and the cabinet at the same time, and the ceremonial supervisor had to push the responsibility to the cabinet if he wanted not to take responsibility, but now among the four members of the cabinet, Xu Jie, Gao Gong are the masters of King Yu, Chen Hong does not want to offend, Li Chunfang has always been a good man, Chen Hong can't find him, so every time he catches a Zhao Zhenji to top the cylinder. Zhao Zhenji was furious in his heart, and he had no choice but to reply: "What Elder Xu Ge just said is the right theory. ”

Chen Hong must be made by the cabinet: "How is it a positive argument? came out as a man, ate the king's lu, put aside the righteousness of the monarch and ministers, but talked about the way of friends. Lord Zhao is a famous minister of science in the Taizhou School, how to interpret the word 'friend' of Wang Yongji and Hai Rui here? ”

Zhao Zhenji was stumped, so he had to answer: "Officials in the court, regardless of their father, only talk about friends or friends. ”

"It's good to admit that it's a friend!" Chen Hong stood up suddenly, "According to the meaning of the cabinet, arrest this friend first!" ”

The people from the Criminal Department and the Suppression Division were just outside the hall, and when they heard the sound, two people immediately came in, and one of them twisted Wang Yongji: "Let's go!" ”

Wang Yongji was pulled up by the two of them, and the notebook resting on his lap fell to the ground, he stood strongly, looked at Xu Jie, and said loudly: "Elder Xu Ge, my notebook contains the situation of the eunuchs of the Mining Division under Gonggong Chen who are greedy for ink, please forward it to the emperor!" ”

This sentence made Chen Hong a little surprised and even more annoyed: "Take away!" ”

The two of them grabbed Wang Yongji and immediately escorted him out.

The notebook lay alone on the floor.

The eyes of the whole hall all looked at Xu Jie.

Xu Jie slowly stood up, walked over in person, picked up the note that Wang Yongji had dropped, walked back slowly, and handed it to Chen Hong: "He is handling the Qin case, so please ask the celebrant to submit this note to the emperor." ”

Chen Hong didn't expect that he would be put on a table by Wang Yongji at this time, looking at the notebook handed over by Xu Jie, he didn't pick it up, and he didn't pick it up.

There was a whispering uproar everywhere in the hall.

"Silence!" Chen Hong roared, took the notebook in Xu Jie's hand, and the hall fell silent again.

Chen Hong said to Xu Jie: "Since the cabinet said that there is no ** crime here, according to your intentions, I will extract the words refuting Hai Rui from everyone's recital, and hand them over to the three law divisions to convict him." There is also this Wang Yongji, as well as Huang Jin in the palace, Zhu Qi and Qi Dazhu of the Zhenfu Division, all of whom are friends, and they discussed the crime together and prepared a vote to report to the emperor! After saying that, he walked straight out, and the other three eunuchs had no choice but to follow him out.

The ministers were all left here, many people looked at Xu Jie, and many people looked at Zhao Zhenji with contempt.

Chen Hong didn't expect to be put in a position by Wang Yongji in the end, and Zhao Zhenji didn't expect to be put in a position by Chen Hong like this today. The embarrassed man had already left, and the embarrassed man had no choice but to look at Xu Jie with a red face, hoping that his teacher would defend him a few words.

Xu Jie, how could there be a gap at this time, and he looked at Li Chunfang and Gao Gong: "Together with the three law divisions, let's do it according to the wishes of the celebrant and the celebrant priest." ”

From the main hall to the passage to the door of the retreat, there were many eunuchs and palace maids standing in a row, one by one with their mouths closed, listening attentively to the imperial doctors in the retreat reporting the names of the medicines on the unilateral prescription.

Chen Hong strode in from outside the hall at this time, and the eunuch and the palace maid did not dare to make a sound, and quietly knelt down.

Chen Hong also stopped by the passage and listened attentively.

The voice of the imperial doctor came from the house: "Korean ginseng five coins, codonopsis ten coins, angelica five coins, tangerine peel nine coins......"

"Is it perfect?" Suddenly, Jiajing's manic voice interrupted the unilateral voice of the imperial doctor, "Huang Jin! ”

Chen Hong immediately walked in with his robe, but saw the two imperial doctors kneeling in front of the imperial bed and trembling.

Jiajing lay on the bed, his eyes closed, and called out again: "Huang Jin! ”

Chen Hong hurriedly leaned over and knelt down in front of the bed: "Master, the slave is here." ”

Jiajing still closed his eyes: "Tell these two wastes to get out!" ”

Chen Hong immediately showed a look, and the two imperial doctors got up tremblingly and hurriedly retreated.

Jiajing still closed his eyes: "Go and find out the unilateral that Li Shizhen gave me." ”

Chen Hong was stunned and asked softly: "May I ask the master, what Li Shizhen?" What unilateral? ”

Jiajing slowly opened his eyes, turned his head on the pillow on the high cushion and saw Chen Hong kneeling in front of the bed, with a strange look of disappointment in his eyes.

Such a look was the last thing Chen Hong wanted to see, and he immediately said in a trembling voice: "If these two imperial medicine masters are not satisfied, the servants will immediately go and find another one." ”

Jiajing stopped looking at him, looking at the top of the bed and looking at the place where he was distracted.

Chen Hong held his breath and looked at him.

"What about sin?" Jiajing asked, still looking at the top of the bed.

"Back to the master." Chen Hong immediately replied, "The hundred officials wrote the recital, but they didn't want to speak anymore. What's even more infuriating is that Wang Yongji didn't even write a recital of Hai Rui, but instead presented a recital that said that the mining department in the palace was greedy for ink, making it clear that he was working against his master. The minions have already captured the king. ”

"What do they mean?" Jiajing's gaze looked at Chen Hong.

Chen Hong: "The meaning of the cabinet is to extract all the words in the hundred officials' refutation of Hai Rui's book and hand them over to the three law divisions for conviction tomorrow." The minions were a little worried that those people would condemn Hai Jui for the sake of their own reputation, and defile the master's holy name. ”

Jiajing's eyes rolled up again, revealing that strange look: "Take a pen and paper." ”

"Yes." Chen Hong immediately stood up and walked to the side of the imperial case, put the paper, pencil and inkstone box into a tray, held it and stepped back to the bed, put it on the bed table first, helped Jiajing to sit down, and then picked up the tray and presented it to the past.

Jiajing leaned on the head of the bed, picked up the red pen, thought about it, and wrote two words on the imperial note, "good rain". Then, with a trembling hand, he opened the page, and wrote two words on the other page, "Bright Moon." Put down the pen: "I'm talking about two people here. Give it to King Yu and ask him to summon Xu Jie, and they will see it together. ”

"The minions will go at once." Chen Hong immediately answered with the tray in his hand, and then asked Jiajing softly, "Slave, please ask the master again, who are they referring to Xu Jie?" ”

Jiajing stopped looking at him again, and looked at the top of the bed: "If Lu Fang was here, this sentence would not be asked." ”

At this time, Jiajing suddenly mentioned Lu Fang, and the head kept looking up at the top of the bed motionless, as if Lu Fang was lying on the top of the dragon bed!

Chen Hong's body immediately seemed to be numbed by electricity, and when he replied, he actually stammered: "Slaves, slaves are stupid...... Slaves, slaves understand ......"

Whether it was stupid or understood, even Chen Hong himself didn't know at this time, put the tray back on the imperial case, and walked out of the fine house sleepwalking with the two imperial notes.

The two imperial notes were placed on the bookcase of King Yu, and because it was a secret will, Chen Hong sent away the eunuch on duty in King Yu's mansion and temporarily served as an envoy to serve King Yu. I saw that he wrung a face towel and wiped Yuwang's face, picked up a fan and stood behind the bookcase to fan Yuwang who was sitting there. King Yu also sat there silently pondering the four words written by Jiajing, and Chen Hong waited quietly by his side.

Since that time, King Yu had a thunderous anger at Chen Hong, Chen Hong knelt down and made a confession to King Yu, at this time King Yu no longer saluted him as before, in fact, he had accepted his surrender. Like the water of a mountain stream, although it is easy to rise and fall, once it flows into the river, it can never return to the mountain. Yu Wang thought so, and of course Chen Hong also understood this truth.

After a while, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng also came to Yuwang's Mansion.

"The ministers have seen the prince." The three of them saluted King Yu at the same time.

King Yu also stood up and turned sideways: "Masters, please sit down." ”

"Grandpa Chen." Xu Jie's three didn't expect Chen Hong to be here, so they hid their disgust in their hearts at this time, so they all arched their hands to him again.

"The prince said, please sit down all the masters." Chen Hong smiled humbly. While wondering in his heart, whether these three people are the "Xu Jie" that the emperor said.

Xu Jie's three sat down on the chairs by the south window, but Chen Hong still stood beside Yuwang and gently fanned him.

Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng all looked at King Yu.

Yuwang: "There is a will. ”

The three of them immediately stood up again, ready to kneel down to receive the order.

"No need to kneel." This time, it was Chen Hong who stopped them by opening his mouth, "There is no clear purpose, it is the emperor who wrote a few words to the prince, and asked Xu Ge Lao and several masters to consult together." Let's take a look. ”

Only then did the three of them see that there were two imperial notes placed in front of King Yu, so they all walked over.

There are only two words written on each imperial note, and the words are very large, and "good rain" and "bright moon" immediately pounce into everyone's eyes.

Seeing the puzzled eyes of the three people, King Yu explained: "The emperor said that these four words are about two people. ”

The three masters are all people who have read literary and historical classics intensively, read these four words, listened to Yuwang's explanation, and immediately pondered, one was thinking about the answer, and the other was thinking about how Chen Hong would speak here? They were silent for a moment.

King Yu saw the thoughts of the three masters: "The masters don't have to worry. Chen Gonggong has Chen Gonggong's difficulties, and some things are also a last resort. He has the emperor in his heart, and naturally he also has me. Whatever he has in front of him, just say it. ”

The three of them were a little surprised, but when they saw King Yu's determined eyes, they also believed it.

"I have a few words I would like to ask Gonggong Chen first." Xu Jie looked at Chen Hong.

Chen Hong: "Elder Ge, please ask." ”

Xu Jie: "When did the emperor write these four words, and what did he say when he wrote them?" ”

Chen Hong: "The two imperial doctors opened a unilateral prescription, but the emperor was not satisfied and blew them away." Then he asked the Metropolitan Procuratorate what it said about Hai Jui's crime. ”

Xu Jie and Gao Gong touched their eyes, first glanced at King Yu, and then looked at Zhang Juzheng.

Zhang Juzheng is known as a prodigy, and there is no second person in the world who is smart and enlightened, so Xu and Gao both want to hear his opinions. King Yu couldn't help but look at him at this time: "Master Xu and Master Gao are presiding over the trial of Hai Rui's case in the cabinet, and Master Zhang is an outsider, and outsiders can see it more clearly." Master Zhang, in your opinion, which two people are the emperor talking about? What does it mean to say these two people? ”

Zhang Juzheng still didn't answer immediately, and humbly waited for Xu Jie and Gao Gong to ask him to speak.

Gao arched his hand and waved: "The prince has said it, the bystanders are clear, you can speak up." ”

Zhang Juzheng looked at the four words again and spoke: "Then I will take the liberty." These four words are talking about Li Shizhen and Hai Rui. ”

All of them looked at him in unison, waiting for him to explain.

Zhang Juzheng: "'Good rain knows the season, when spring happens. The word 'good rain' refers to Li Shizhen. Because these two sentences contain both the word Li Shizhen, Li Shizhen is a native of Qichun, Hubei, and the word 'spring' of Qichun. When spring is the 'good rain'. The dragon body violated the harmony, the emperor wanted to summon Li Shizhen to ask for the pulse, but he was unwilling to summon him explicitly, the following two sentences were 'sneaking into the night with the wind, moisturizing things silently', which implied this meaning. This is to ask the prince to immediately summon Li Shizhen to Beijing. ”

"Well solved!" Chen Hong immediately remembered that the emperor had mentioned Li Shizhen's name when he was in the Jingshe, praised it from the bottom of his heart, and turned to King Yu and said, "Master Zhang, the liberation of the slave, also remembered." Lord, the emperor did mention Li Shizhen's name when he was in the house. Since the emperor wanted to summon Li Shizhen to ask for a pulse, and he didn't want the outside world to know, the slave immediately asked the people of the Zhenfu Division to do it secretly, and he was in a hurry for 600 miles to take Li Shizhen into Beijing. ”

King Yu: "Then bother Grandpa Chen to do it." Master Zhang continued. ”

Zhang Juzheng: "Since 'good rain' refers to Li Shizhen, 'Mingyue' refers to Hai Rui." "The moon on the sea" is an auspicious image, and there is a word "Rui" in it. But how could the emperor use these two words to talk about Hai Rui at this time? It's a little puzzling. ”

Gao Gong answered: "The Moon of the Great Ming! The emperor should have praised Hai Rui, does it imply that we are open to the net when discussing crimes? ”

Yuwang's eyes slowly lit up, and Zhang Juzheng and Chen Hong also showed their expressions of approval.

Xu Jie shook his head slightly.

Gao Gong looked at him: "What is the explanation of the old man?" ”

Xu Jie sighed lightly: "The meaning that Su Qing explained is naturally contained in these two words. But if we do what we do, we will miss a big thing. ”

Including Chen Hong, all the people were solemn.

Xu Jie: "My understanding, the word 'bright moon' has two other meanings. The first layer is 'Bright and Sunless'! ”

Everyone was shocked.

Xu Jie: "The Ming is also bright, but the word 'month' at the back is missing the word 'day'." The emperor is reproaching us ministers for not having him as a monarch in their hearts. Today, Hai Rui was not called to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the emperor already had this meaning. King Yu was the first to be gloomy, and Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng were also gloomy.

Chen Hong looked at King Yu.

Yuwang: "Gonggong Chen has something to say, please speak." ”

Chen Hong: "Then the slave said." Elder Xu Ge, do you mean that the second layer of your old man means that 'Mingyue' refers to 'execution after autumn'? ”

Xu Jie only nodded slightly.

Chen Hong: "Lord Wang, masters, if you have to trust me, I will say what is in my heart." ”

Yuwang: "I was about to listen to my father-in-law." ”

Chen Hong: "When the three legal divisions are convicted tomorrow, they must be sentenced to Hai Rachel and executed." ”

Neither spoke, nor objected, and everyone was silent.

Chen Hong: "The Ming Dynasty is now the emperor's world, and it will be the prince's world in the future, so the slave will say everything." Why did the emperor ask the servants to show this to the prince, and to show the masters, it was to see if the prince and the masters were of the same mind as the emperor. Hai Rui insulted the monarch's father so much, and the attitude of the officials was ambiguous, especially the king Yongji, who didn't even want to write a refuge from Hai Rui, and the emperor had a clear decree when he heard it, and Wang Yongji wanted to discuss the crime with Hai Rui. At this time, if the prince and the masters can't be angry with the monarch's father, it will really be 'bright and sunless'. Everyone can say that they will not kill Hai Rui, but the prince must kill Hai Rui. and that king Yongji will also be sentenced heavily. ”

King Yu is still silent, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng are also still silent.

Xu Jie said loudly: "Gonggong Chen is extremely right! Lord, just let Gonggong Chen return to the palace to reply to the two meanings we have drafted. ”

King Yu still looked at Xu Jie silently.

Xu Jie made his own decisions: "The dragon body violates the harmony, it is urgent to summon Li Shizhen, Gonggong Chen should hurry back to the palace to restore the decree." ”

Chen Hong still looked at King Yu, waiting for his meaning.

King Yu sat there stunned: "Then let's go and re-instruct." ”

"Then the minion is gone." Chen Hong said that he did not forget to kneel down and kowtow respectfully to King Yu, and then stood up and walked out quickly.

"It's a pity for a loyal servant. and a king took it. After saying this, King Yu closed his eyes.

Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng looked at each other again, and the three of them showed the same tacit understanding at the same time.

Xu Jie looked at Zhang Juzheng: "Taiyue, what do you think, you might as well talk to the prince again." ”

Zhang Juzheng: "I understand what Elder Ge means. At this time, Hai Rui was convicted, killing or not killing, and not killing is killing. ”

King Yu opened his eyes suddenly: "How do you say it?" ”

Zhang Juzheng: "Father-in-law Chen has some things to say here. In fact, the emperor's four words all contain the meaning of not killing Hai Rui, but we have to see what the prince and us think. If the prince and we both intercede for Hai Rui, Hai Rui will definitely die. If the prince and we both think that Hai Rui deserves to die, and the favor comes from the top, the emperor may not kill Hai Rui. ”

King Yu was still worried in his heart: "How can you see it?" ”

Zhang Juzheng: "Lord Wang, please think about it, Hai Rui's serious illness was diagnosed by Li Shizhen, and before Hai Rui went to the house, Li Shizhen sent his family away. At this time, the emperor not only did not have any intention of blaming Li Shizhen, but also wanted to invite him to come to check the pulse, which is the meaning of Aiwu and Wu. The word 'good rain' not only refers to Li Shizhen, but also naturally contains the word 'sea'. Xu Ge Lao explained well, the word moon has no day, the emperor is afraid that the prince and the ministers do not have a monarch father in their hearts, and now the prince and the ministers all say that Hai Rui should be killed, this is the word "month" with the word "day". Tomorrow, although the three law divisions sentenced Hai Rui to death, Wang Yongji was sentenced to exile. Present to the Emperor. If the emperor does not approve, Hai Rui will not die. If Hai Rui does not die, Wang Yongjiben can also reduce his guilt. ”

King Yu suddenly became a little enlightened: "Master Xu, is that what you mean?" ”

Xu Jie: "Cleverness is no more than Taiyue." ”

Gao Gong continued: "Then we will simply condemn Hai Rui to death here, and sentence him to death by hanging for his son insulting his father." Whether to kill the 'son' or not is just a word of the 'father'. ”

"This crime is good, just use this crime!" Yuwang made a decision.

The three legal divisions will be tried, and as usual, the criminal department will finally write the results into a crime and submit it to the emperor.

Chen Hong walked from the passage of the main hall with the crime case of the Criminal Department, and when he entered the first door, he saw the back of a eunuch at the end of the passage, kneeling on the ground to boil medicine, so he did not enter the fine house, and asked: "Who opened the unilateral party, has the master tested it?" ”

The man was still boiling medicine there with his back to him, and Chen Hong wanted to go over when he saw that the man dared not reply, and his back was familiar.

"Come in!" Jiajing's voice came from the retreat, Chen Hong didn't dare to delay any longer, and glanced at the back of the medicine eunuch again, so he had to enter the retreat with the crime in his hand.

Jiajing's complexion is better today, and he has gotten out of bed and sat cross-legged on the futon. Chen Hong shouted with a smile when he entered the door: "Master, the criminal department has decided the crime." As he spoke, he walked over and presented his hands to Jiajing.

Jiajing didn't answer, just looked at the notebook.

Chen Hong flipped the cover: "Master Qi, the charges of the three law divisions are very clear, that Hai Rui was sentenced to death by hanging on the charge of his son insulting his father's great disrespect, and he was executed after the autumn." The king used to draw his eyes without a father, and sentenced him to 80 streams and 3,000 li of rods for the crime of being a friend, and he was also distributed after the autumn. ”

Jiajing looked at Chen Hong: "Do you think they are very fair?" ”

Chen Hong was stunned for a moment: "If the master thinks that they have not been sentenced correctly, the slave will send it back and ask them to resentence." ”

Jiajing: "Do you want them to give them a heavier sentence or a lighter sentence?" ”

Chen Hong: "Thunder and rain are not heaven's grace, and the master will tell them how to judge." ”

Jiajing looked at him and smiled gloomily: "Why don't you just say that the good people let you do it, and the wicked let me do it!" ”

Chen Hong fell to his knees: "The minions, and the ministers don't dare to have this thought." ”

Jiajing: "I used all my thoughts on the heavens and seas, and I said that I didn't have this thought." I ask you, what is the meaning of 'good rain knows the season', and what is called 'bright moon on the sea'? Why didn't you say these words to me yesterday? ”

Chen Hong's face changed, and he was stunned like a stone.

Jiajing: "After leaving Lu Fang, someone here wants to learn from Lu Fang." Chen Hong, you have to learn from Lu Fang for this bit of virtue, and you don't even have a shadow. Lu Fang and my son don't hide anything from me at all, but you want to hide it from me. You think that Lu Fang was driven away by me as a result of doing that, that's stupid. That's not stupid, that's called 'the little rod takes, the big rod goes'. Lu Fang always knew in his heart that no matter how many people called him Ancestor, he would always be a minion. Who do you think you are? 'Will be a daughter-in-law and hide it at both ends', Princess Yu Li is my daughter-in-law of the Zhu family, and she can't hide it. You also want to be the daughter-in-law of my Zhu family, touch your shelled egg face, is it qualified? ”

Chen Hong put the crime in his hand on the brick floor, raised his hand and slapped himself, and then beat again.

"Stop making a show!" Jiajing drank him, "If you really want to slap your mouth, you will go to the ceremonial supervisor and the punishment department to slap it." ”

"Master!" Chen Hong panicked, "The slave didn't dare to deceive the master, he really looked at the master's dragon body and violated the harmony, and he couldn't bear to make the master angry again......"

"Bring me a red pen." Jiajing no longer listened to him.

Chen Hong's mind was in chaos, and he replied in a trembling voice: "Yes." I didn't dare to get up, I walked to the front of the royal case on my knees, picked up the imperial pen, but didn't forget to dip the zhu ink in the red box, and walked back to Jiajing with both hands and knees.

"Crime!" Jiajing took the imperial pen.

Chen Hong hurriedly picked up the crime on the ground again, put it on his head with his hand, and leaned over.

Jiajing picked up the royal pen and drew a big "×" on the crime! Then he threw the pen on the ground.

As a rule, the emperor drew a tick on the submission of the Criminal Department, and if the criminal was pardoned, the crime would be remanded for retrial.

Although Chen Hong didn't see Jiajing's Zhu Pi, he knew that he had drawn a fork on it, he was stunned, and asked in a trembling voice: "Master, is this a collusion or not, please make it clear to the master, and the slave can also pass on the decree to the cabinet and the criminal department." ”

Jiajing: "Aren't they going to guess?" Let them guess! ”

"Yes." Chen Hong's answer was like a mosquito and a fly.

Jiajing: "Don't you also guess, guess who I will send to the prison and look at that Hai Rui and Wang Yongji." ”

Chen Hong immediately kowtowed on the ground: "The slave knows that he is wrong, the master's heart is bigger than the sky, where can the slave guess." I beg my master......"

"Guess!" Jiajing shouted.

Chen Hongding was there, so he had to make a guess, and said for a long time: "Echo master, long live the master, did you ask the slave to go to the prison......

"Guess again." Jiajing's voice became more and more gloomy.

Chen Hong began to sweat on his forehead, his brain had been used to the extreme at this moment, and he finally remembered Jiajing's words just now, "Lu Fang always understood in his heart when he left, no matter how many people call him ancestor, he himself will always be a slave", and then he realized that it must be the person who suppressed Lu Fang against himself, who had already aroused Jiajing's male suspicion, gritted his teeth and raised his head and replied: "Back to the master, the edict of the Zhenfu Division has always been under the control of Zhu Qi, and the master does not mean to let go of Zhu Qi and Qi Dazhu." still let Zhu Qi take care of the edict prison, and let Qi Dazhu take care of Hai Rui and Wang Yongji. ”

Jiajing's face looked better, and his voice softened: "Didn't you say that Zhu Qi and Qi Dazhu were all connected with Hai Rui?" ”

Chen Hong: "Slaves deserve to die." The slave was also anxious at that time, worried that the palace and the palace were colluding with the disloyal master. After a few months, the servants all asked and understood, except for Wang Yongji, no one had anything to do with Hai Rui. Including Huang Jin, but he was a little more stupid, he collided with the master at that time, but in fact, he didn't have anything to eat. The slave also begged the master to release Huang Jin and let him still serve the master. ”

Jiajing smiled at this time: "You can't subdue with your little Taoism, I don't want to be this son of heaven a long time ago." Taking advantage of Hai Rui's affairs, Lu Fang's people in the palace used their own people, and I told you that Lu Fang had served me for more than 40 years, and he had never had his own people. If you can guess this today, there is still a cure. Deliver the message. ”

Chen Hong: "Yes. Sweaty and got up, he walked out.

Jiajing looked at the place where Chen Hong was kneeling just now, and saw that it was all wet, but cold sweat also flowed down from his forehead at this time, and he was dizzy: "Huang Jin, bring the medicine to ......."

The back that Chen Hong saw when he entered the hall was indeed Huang Jin, who had been pardoned by Jiajing at some point, and immediately called back, still on an errand in Yuxi Palace.

At this time, Huang Jin came in from the door of the fine house with the medicine, his face was bruised, one leg was still lame when he walked, and he saw Jiajing's face covered with cold sweat, and hurriedly limped over: "Master! ”

"Slow down." Jiajing held his hands and paid attention to him, "Beware of falling." ”

Seven days after the secret summoning of Li Shizhen to Beijing, he arrived in Nanjing. Li Shizhen wanted to leave, and Hai Mu was unwilling to stay in Gaofu anymore. What's more, at this time, Hai Rui's promise to come to Nanjing in early May has passed, and there is no clear reason for the peace letter, after all, Hai Mu is also a very clear-hearted person, and she does not inquire about Li Shizhen and others, and is determined to take her daughter-in-law back to her hometown in Hainan. Whether it is a blessing or a curse, the heirs of Haimen must be brought back to the land of their ancestors to give birth safely.

"Mrs. Tai! Mrs. Tai! The housekeeper in Gao Hanwen's house knelt down in front of Haimu at the door of the backyard into the front yard, "Your old man and his wife will leave like this, and the little job will be lost." Wait for one day, two days at most, and the little one will send someone to invite the lord and lady back. You've seen the old man and the lady go again! ”

Hai Mu carried a cane in her right hand, a burden on her left shoulder, and an umbrella in her left hand, and was stopped by the steward on her knees.

The sea wife has a big belly, and she is carried by the mute girl Yuqing, and she also carries a burden on her left shoulder, standing beside her mother-in-law.

The most difficult thing was Li Shizhen, who was also carrying a medicine bag, and an entourage was standing behind him with a wooden box on his shoulder.

The kickers and dyers in the front yard of the workshop stopped what they were doing, and all looked at them.

The steward knelt there and raised his head: "What is the inconsiderate service, or is there any subordinate who shows Mrs. Tai and Mrs. face, and tells the little one." Mrs. Tai has a lot of them, so you must not leave like this. At this point, he hurriedly turned his head and shouted to the two foremen: "Don't come here to help persuade him!" ”

The head of a kicker and a dyer hurried over and knelt beside the steward.

The dyer: "Mrs., it's been a few months, and the stones have been heated." Mrs. Montay and Mrs. look up to us subordinates, and the big guys are reluctant to let you go, and it is not too late to stay for a while and wait for Master Hai to take office in Nanjing. ”

The kicker looked back at the workers in the yard and shouted, "Everyone kneel, keep Mrs. Tai!" ”

They were all busy people, sweat and stains all over their faces, and they all knelt down in the courtyard when they heard the greeting.

Hai Mu was obviously also moved at this time, looking at these people who worked all day long, she was speechless for a while, and only slowly turned to look at Li Shizhen.

Li Shizhen didn't know how to speak, and lowered her eyes.

Hai Mu looked at everyone: "You all know your kindness. But every man has his own home, and you are all those who have to provide for your family, so keep busy with yourselves. Imperial Physician Li, call them away for me and let us go. ”

Li Shizhen had no choice but to look at the steward and the two foremen: "No one can stop Mrs. Tai from leaving, and it has nothing to do with you, I will go and make it clear to your lord and wife." Prepare a vehicle to take Mrs. and Mrs. to the dock. ”

The steward looked at Li Shizhen: "Can't you stay for another day or two?" ”

Li Shizhen: "I have an urgent matter to go to Beijing, and Mrs. Tai is unwilling to stay." Let's prepare a car. ”

The steward had to stand up, and the two foremen had to stand up with him.

The steward took the umbrella in Hai Mu's hand and the burden on her shoulder, and walked down the steps with her: "Do your own thing." ”

The workers all over the yard stood up and watched as Hai Mu and her party walked through the stone path in the middle towards the gate.

Two boats, one is Li Shizhen's passenger ship, and the other is a big ship carrying goods, at this time, Li Shizhen's entourage walked across the gangplank with a wooden box and got on the passenger ship, but Li Shizhen followed the mother and the wife of the sea and walked on the big ship that transported goods.

The boss of the big ship immediately greeted him: "Mr. Li, the cabins for Mrs. Tai and Mrs. have been arranged, you can rest assured." ”

Li Shizhen: "Help my wife to rest in the cabin first." ”

Captain of the ship: "Madame, please come with me." ”

The boss led in front, and the mute girl Yuqing walked into the cabin with her sea wife in her arms.

The steward was still standing on the deck of the big ship with the jellyfish in his arms, with an umbrella and baggage in his hands.

Li Shizhen said to him: "You can go back too, I have something to say to the old lady." ”

The steward put the umbrella and baggage on the deck, and bowed deeply to the sea mother: "Then Mrs. will take care all the way." The dumb girl, the lord and the lady all said, and waited all the way for the lady and the lady to go to Hainan. We arranged the boat fare and meal expenses along the way, and when we arrived in Guangzhou, the boss of the car and boat over there would arrange it. ”

Hai Mu was silent, and only after a while did she say: "I owe you so much affection, how can I pay it back?" Imperial Physician Li, tell Ruxian that the money that the Gao family spent for us must be calculated clearly and returned to others. ”

What else did the steward want to say, Li Shizhen immediately looked at him: "You go back." ”

The steward shook his head again, then turned and walked to the gangplank, and walked to the shore.

Hai Mu immediately held Li Shizhen's hand: "Imperial Doctor Li, I won't ask you anymore, when you arrive in Jingshi, you have to bring me a letter whether it is a curse or a blessing for Ruxian." ”

Li Shizhen gloomyed for a moment: "I don't know what the situation is now, with Brother Gangfeng's person, there shouldn't be any trouble." However, I am a little worried about my sister-in-law's pregnancy. It's been seven months, and I'm afraid that I won't be able to go to Hainan and give birth on the road. I have already taught her some things about the delivery of the mute girl, and I have prepared the medicine, in case she goes into labor along the way, she will have to rely on Mrs. Tai to take care of it. ”

Hai Mu: "Heaven always has eyes, and it won't let me be left behind." ”

Li Shizhen: "Mrs. Tai is right. But it can be seen that the destiny of heaven still has to do its best, and it is right to be careful all the way. My late nephew has to say goodbye to you when you're old. As he spoke, he took a step back and knelt on the deck, kowtowing to the sea mother.

Hai Mu looked at his kneeling figure with a cane, and the strong man also shed old tears at this time.

Li Shizhen stood up: "Boss! ”

The owner of the big ship was already standing at the door of the cabin, and at this time he hurriedly came over and picked up the umbrella and baggage on the deck.

Li Shizhen: "Help the old lady into the cabin." I have something to say ahead, if you don't take care of it along the way, I can't spare you! ”

The boss smiled: "Mr. Li is serious, we will serve you wholeheartedly." ”

Li Shizhen looked at Hai Mu again, and Hai Mu also looked at him affectionately at this time.

Li Shizhen: "Mrs. Tai, please come in." ”

Haimu: "You go first, the old body can only stand here to give you a ride." ”

Li Shizhen stopped talking, took a deep look again, turned around and walked towards the springboard.

There are two kinds of executions in the Ming system: one is "never wait for the time", and the execution is immediately executed with a hook of the Zhu pen, also known as "beheading and execution" and "hanging execution"; One is the "autumn decision", which is to execute people and criminals on the day of the beginning of autumn, also known as "beheading prisoners" and "hanging prisoners". The Ministry of Criminal Justice decided that Hai Rui's death sentence would be executed after the autumn, and this day would be the beginning of autumn.

The sycamore tree in the courtyard of the Imperial Prison heard that it was planted when Chengzu Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing and designated this place as the Imperial Prison. At this time, the gallows had been erected under the plane tree, and the thick hemp rope twist was already hanging high on the crossbar of the gallows, and under the winch was a stepping stool.

The daylight of the beginning of autumn was particularly dazzling, and Zhu Qi, Qi Dazhu, and several Jinyi guards who were executed were all standing under the gallows at this time, all looking up at the plane tree whose leaves were already green and yellow.

The two executing Jinyi guards carried a piece of paper with incense burners, incense candles, and paper money on it, and carried it to the bottom of the big tree.

Qi Dazhu looked at the master with sad eyes: "Master, you always ask God, right?" ”

Zhu Qi still raised his head and looked at the canopy: "Shangxiang, ask God!" ”

The two executed Jinyi guards immediately lit the incense candles and handed the incense sticks to Zhu Qi.

Zhu Qiqing knelt down in front of the big tree in front of the incense case with incense: "God bless loyalty, damn and undamned, please go to the gods!" Zhu Bi kowtowed three times and inserted the incense stick into the furnace. He picked up the paper money on the incense table again, and then stood up.

Qi Dazhu and several other people looked at him.

Zhu Qi looked at Qi Dazhu: "Haigong is your benefactor, you can ask about this god." As he spoke, he handed the paper money to Qi Dazhu.

Qi Dazhu took the paper money and lit it on the incense candle, but his hand trembled a little, put it on the ground, and then knelt down, kowtowed three times, stood up suddenly, and walked to the trunk.

All eyes were on him.

Qi Dazhu shouted loudly: "God bless loyalty!" Then he slammed his palms into the thick trunk.

All eyes were lifted to the sycamore leaves falling from the trees!

Countless fallen leaves drifted towards the gallows, and one by one fell on both sides of the gallows, and none of them floated to the strands.

There were only two or three leaves left on the tree that were still floating in the air, Qi Dazhu's eyes lit up first, and the eyes of Zhu Qi and those people slowly lit up.

Two more leaves fell to the ground away from the gallows.

Then a gentle breeze blew, and the last leaf, which seemed to have descended to the bottom of the ring, was suddenly blown up again, and rose up to the gallows, where it floated.

That fallen leaf was slowly floating on the gallows, unwilling to fall!

The gust of wind that blew passed, and the leaves finally fell slowly, but next to the rope!

All eyes were stunned.

The fallen leaf slowly approached the ring, and slowly floated from the side of the ring, into the round loop of the ring, and passed through the loop before slowly falling to the ground—the gods showed that the person who was tortured today was lifeless!

Qi Dazhu's body softened and knelt down.

Although he was taking the medicine prescribed by Li Shizhen again, Jiajing's depression was already difficult, and he could no longer meditate on the futon at this time, leaning on the head of the bed, and his body was still covered with a quilt on a hot day.

The list of convicts in the autumn was full of imperial cases, and the injuries on Huang Jin's face and body had healed, but the leg was lame since then, and at this time he stood limp in front of the imperial case, picking the list of prisoners to be executed from above, and lined them up in order, his eyes were fixed on the list with the name of "Hai Rui" written on it. His hand skipped over the list, picked up the list behind Hai Rui, and placed it on the tray and limped towards the bed.

On the side of the bed, Huang Jin first picked up the red pen on the bed table and handed it to Jiajing, and then stretched out the tray.

Jiajing's usual two shining eyes were already like a layer of clouds, and at this time, he tried his best to look at the name on the tray, recognized it, and then hooked the red pen.

After checking off several lists, he looked at Huang Jin.

Huang Jin also looked at him deeply.

Jiajing: "What else?" Bring them all. ”

Huang Jin shook his head and limped towards the imperial case with difficulty holding the tray.

Since the pardon was returned, Huang Jin has not been restored to the position of the chief eunuch of the ceremonial eunuch, and has been on an errand beside Jiajing in the Jingshe for decades, and the system of two great eunuchs rotating day and night for decades has been changed to Huang Jin accompanying Jiajing for twelve hours day and night, and he will also lay on the floor next to Jiajing's bed at night. Therefore, it is difficult for Chen Hong to go to the Jingshe to see Jiajing now, and he must ask for a performance in advance, and he can only enter the Jinghe if he is allowed to play.

At this time, Chen Hong had been staying at the door of the main hall and walking back and forth, and the other eunuchs on duty were standing in the door of the main hall with their heads down, and they didn't dare to come out.

"To kill or not to kill?" Chen Hong stood outside the door of the main hall, looking at the sun above, "What time is it?" ”

In the main hall, a eunuch on duty had been staring at the leaking copper kettle, and then replied softly: "It's two o'clock." ”

Chen Hong turned around and walked into the main hall to look at the door of the house.

Suddenly, he heard Huang Jin's voice, as if he was reading a recital, and if he listened carefully, he was reading Hai Rui's recital.

Huang Jin's tone has completely lost the straightforward anger of the past, and he read very slowly: "Hai Rui, the chief minister of the Yunnan Qing Officials Division of the Ministry of Households, is respectfully playing: In order to speak bluntly about the first thing in the world, with the right monarchy, the minister's position, and the ...... of peace and order for all generations"

"Delay?" Followed by Jiajing's irritable voice, "Take it, I will see it myself." ”

Chen Hong tilted his head sideways and pricked up his ears. After a while, he heard Jiajing's voice again: "First call Chen Hong to send the list of those who should be executed to the cabinet." ”

Chen Hong immediately walked towards the door of the house, and when he walked to the door, he saw Huang Jin limping and holding a tray and walking towards the door of the house, and there was a stack of lists with red vermilion on the tray.

Huang Jin walked to the door, Chen Hong slowly reached out to pick up the tray, relying on Huang Jin's body to block, his eyes secretly looked at Jiajing on the bed from his shoulder.

The high standing lamp next to the bed was very bright, and although Jiajing's face was half blocked by Hai Rui's song at this time, it could still be seen from the exposed eyebrows, corners of his eyes and clenched gums that he was full of murder at this time.

Huang Jin no longer spoke to Chen Hong after this ordeal, and when he saw that he was spying on Jiajing at the moment when he was taking advantage of the tray, he simply put the tray on the threshold, limped around and walked towards the shrine, exposing Chen Hong to the door.

Chen Hong couldn't stay any longer, and hurriedly picked up the tray and prepared to quietly leave the door of the house.

"Chen Hong." Although Jiajing's gaze still stopped at Hai Rui's recital, the corner of his eye swept Chen Hong's figure.

"The minions are here." Chen Hong hurriedly knelt down.

Jiajing was still looking at Hai Rui's recital: "Didn't Xu Jie say that there is still an important recital for me to read?" ”

Chen Hong: "Back to the master, it seems to be." ”

Jiajing: "It seems that he was asked to send it immediately." ”

Chen Hong: "The slave understands. Then he stood up and went to the cabinet office with the tray in his hand.

Xu Jie, Li Chunfang, Gao Gong, and Zhao Zhenji, together with the three officials of the Criminal Department, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple, were waiting here early in the morning, and when they saw Chen Hong appearing at the door with a tray, they stood up together.

"Did Hai Rui hook?" Xu Jie, who had always been calm, couldn't hold his breath at this time, and asked when he saw Chen Hong.

Everyone looked at Chen Hong.

"It's all over here, I don't know." Chen Hong put the tray on the big case.

"Let's see if there is Hai Rui." Gao Gong said as he reached out and took a stack of lists, and quickly looked at them one by one.

Zhao Zhenji also took a stack and looked at it one by one.

Li Chunfang was next to Xu Jie, picked up a copy of the list left in the tray and handed it to Xu Jie, and when he finished reading it, he picked up another copy and handed it to Xu Jie.

Shen Shixing, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department, the Left Governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Zhengqing of Dali Temple were all sitting in front of the case on the left, and they all looked at the four members of the cabinet who were looking at the list.

Gao Gong saw the fastest: "I don't have it here." ”

Zhao Zhenji also finished reading the stack: "I don't have it here." ”

Li Chunfang handed the last one in the tray to Xu Jie, and Xu Jie, holding the list, stopped in front of him.

All eyes were on him.

Xu Jie slowly put the list back on the tray, turned to Shen Shixing and said, "Lord Shen, immediately send these lists to the Punishment Department, and execute them at three o'clock in the afternoon." ”

"Didn't you send the edict to prison?" Chen Hong asked urgently.

"Nope." Xu Jie looked at everyone at this time, "The emperor did not hook Hai Rui. ”

All eyes lit up and they touched each other.

Shen Shixing left his seat and walked over, picked up the list that had been placed on the tray again, and walked out quickly.

Seeing that Xu Jie and several other ministers were relieved that Hai Rui was not in the list, Chen Hong suddenly felt an indescribable taste in his heart.

"The emperor is pitiful." He said in his heart, and there was a look in his eyes that wanted to annoy them, "Ge Lao, whether you want to hook up or not, Hai Rui is on the notebook you want to present." The emperor is waiting for you, so I told you to send it over. ”

These words were said gloomily, and everyone seemed to see ominous things in his demeanor.

Xu Jie's waiting is at this moment, wake up to this time, there is still nearly an hour before three o'clock in the afternoon, will the emperor hook up Hai Rui at this last moment? It all depends on how he gets these playbooks, whether they can work, and how he speaks, and the emperor's mood at this time is very important. Thinking about this, he asked Chen Hong, "How is the Holy Body now?" ”

Chen Hong: "I've just seen some improvement after taking the medicine for the past few days, but it's not good today." Right now, I'm in bed watching Hai Rui's recital. Ge Lao, it is best not to show the emperor the taboo at this time. ”

Everyone looked at Xu Jie.

"Take care of me." Xu Jie replied to him, and turned to Gao Gong and Zhao Zhenji and said, "Su Qing and Meng Jing, give me the transcript of Hai Rui's wife's death in Leizhou reported by Guangdong and the transcript of 100,000 pieces of cotton cloth reported by Tan Lun. ”

Gao Gong and Zhao Zhenji both picked out a copy from the stack of notebooks placed in front of their desks and handed it to Xu Jie.

Chen Hong's eyes looked directly at the two notebooks that Gao Gong and Zhao Zhenji handed to Xu Jie.

Xu Jie took the notebook and left his seat: "Gonggong Chen, let's go." With that, he walked straight out.

Chen Hong had no choice but to follow him out.