Early in the morning, Yuwang's Mansion.

Everyone in the room had bloodshot eyes, and from time to time guards came to report the situation, and Xu Jie, the deputy assistant of the cabinet, had not slept all night, and was napping on the table with one hand at the moment.

"Your Highness, last night's incident has been clarified, do you want to..."

The butler walked quickly to King Yu's side, and then looked at the direction where Xu Jie's was located, with a hesitant expression.

"Let Xu Ge sleep for a while, let's go out and talk." The household attendant on the side bowed his voice and motioned for everyone to go out.

"Yes." Zhang Juzheng, the secretary of the military department, arched his hand, lighted his steps, and followed everyone out of the room.

Yuwang Zhu Zaikun (Ji) is the son of Jiajing and Concubine Kang, and is not favored, and has not seen his predecessor for more than two years, and is also a supporter of the Qingliu faction.

Walking out of the room, a cold wind hit, the guards on the side saw this, and hurriedly put on the shoulders of the adults to protect themselves from the cold, today's snow is much smaller than yesterday, only sporadic snowflakes fall in mid-air.

"Say it." Yuwang looked at the butler and said in a low voice.

"Last night, the Jinyi Guard dispatched to arrest Tao Xianchang and his subordinates, and searched out millions of taels of silver, I heard that this time it was the commander Lu Bing who personally led the team!"

"What? Lu Bing! ”

A moment of silence ensued, and everyone present understood very well what it meant for the extremely powerful Jinyi Guard commander to personally intervene.

This is the will of the emperor!

After a long time, he still broke the deadlock with a high arch: "There is no need to talk about this matter anymore. ”

"In addition, the officials who went to the book yesterday were also killed by Feng Bao, the eunuch of the Dongchang Governor."

On the side, Zhang Juzheng, who had been silent for a long time, opened his mouth to remind.

"Hmph, do you need to talk about it? Behind this, it must be the Yan Party who is playing ghosts! Later, I will discuss it later, and I must refer to him in front of the Holy One. ”

Just as everyone was talking, an angry voice came from behind, looking back, I saw that Xu Jie didn't know when he woke up, he was wearing a single coat, and he came to the door with the support of the guards, a cold wind blew, everyone felt a chill, and couldn't help but shiver, and Xu Jie was dressed in a single coat, like an old pine, standing still.

"Elder Xu Ge!" All the people saluted.

"Yes, you guys! Don't call me a bad old man, ahem. ”

"Come on, hurry up and dress Xu Ge Lao!" Seeing this, King Yu hurriedly asked the guards to send a padded jacket to put on him.

"Take care of your body!" Zhang Juzheng bowed down, his face full of concern.

"Take care of your body!" The crowd bowed down again and repeated.

"Okay, okay, let's go back, the old man will have to go to the court later, no need to send it." Xu Jie stroked his beard with a smile, and with the support of the guards beside him, he got into a sedan chair and left.

"Then King Yu, I'll take my leave!"

Everyone said goodbye to King Yu, and then a sedan chair of different colors left from the gate of King Yu's mansion.

……

Yan Mansion, Yan Song finished breakfast, got dressed under the service of the maid, and was about to step into the sedan chair, when Yan Shifan stopped him.

"Father, it's cold today, please add more clothes!" Yan Shifan said, and put the cotton clothes on Yan Song's body.

Yan Song remained motionless during the whole process, his skin was tense, like a statue, for a long time, his eyebrows whitened by snowflakes moved, and he opened his mouth to urge: "Hurry up, my father can't catch up with the court!" ”

"Please also pay attention to the safety of my father." After doing all this, Yan Shifan stepped aside, watched his father get into the sedan chair, as if he was not at ease, and gave another advice.

"Okay." Yan Song replied, without any expression on his face.

It is said that it is the last dynasty, in fact, it is just to be on duty in the cabinet, and wait for the emperor to summon it at any time, the cabinet is on duty in turns, and the cabinet is generally composed of five people, two by two, taking turns on duty, and when encountering problems that cannot be solved, the first assistant or the second assistant of the cabinet can be called to solve, and today is the day when the first assistant of the cabinet and the second assistant of the cabinet are on duty.

Yan Song sat in the sedan chair, opened the sedan curtain from time to time, looked to the sides, for some reason, the road in front of him, which he had walked for more than 20 years, had a different feeling today.

"Elder Yan Ge, it's here."

Yan Song got up from the sedan chair and slowly got off the ground with the support of the guards, and not far away, Xu Jie's sedan chair also stopped.

"Elder Xu Ge."

"Yan Ge Lao."

"It's the two of us on duty today, really, it's such a cold day!"

"yes."

The two cabinet elders saw each other, and after a few words of greeting, they shook off the hands of the surrounding guards, like close friends for many years, supported each other, and walked into the cabinet tremblingly.

Walking into the cabinet, the warmth of the room made the two of them regain consciousness after being frozen by the cold wind, and after roasting the fire for a while, the two began to put on reading glasses and correct the folds.

"This one is for the celebrant."

"Call this back and let him rewrite it!"

"This one is approved."

"Write something, hit it back!"

……

The efficiency of the two of them was extremely high, and in a short time most of the original piles of twists and turns on the table were handled.

"Look at it, this is Hu Zongxian's recital, it says that there is a lack of salary, let's allocate the salary as soon as possible." Yan Song said, handing the fold to Xu Jie.

Xu Jie took the fold, read the content, and sighed: "Hu Ruzhen is difficult, the burden of the southeast is on his shoulders alone, I asked the household department to allocate the silver as soon as possible." ”

"Hmm."

Yan Song responded, as if he suddenly thought of something, and continued to ask.

"This year's Tan Jing and Bing Jing have been sent, right?"

"It's all down! Alas, the treasury has no money. Speaking of this, Xu Jie's face suddenly became sad.

"Alas, the state affairs are difficult, the people are difficult, we are difficult, and the emperor is also difficult, let's stay up again!" Yan Song put down the corrected recital in his hand and comforted him.

……

In the Ganlu Palace, Jiajing looked at the Shen family who was still sleeping in the quilt, recalled the battle situation last night, and couldn't help but smile on his face, and after a light kiss on Shen's forehead, he got dressed and walked out of the door under the service of the palace maid.

"Your Majesty, Jinyi Wei Lu Bing has already controlled all the people, this is the account book, please take a look." Lu Fang had been waiting for a long time, and when he saw Jiajing coming out, he hurriedly handed over the account book.

Jiajing took the account book, glanced at it hastily, and then returned it to Lu Fang, chuckling: "You also wear more clothes, it's a cold day." ”

"Slave, thank you for your pity!" Lu Fang said that he was about to salute, but was stopped by Jiajing.

"You go and call Yan Song and Xu Jie to me, I have something to discuss with them."

"Chen, let's go and invite Elder Yan Ge and Elder Xu Ge!" Lu Fang bowed slightly, and then made a gesture to leave.

As soon as he took two steps, as if he suddenly remembered something, he hurried back and said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, what should you do with those monks?" ”

When Jiajing heard this, he raised his eyebrows: "You go and tell Lu Bing, according to my Ming law, what should be closed, what should be killed, what should be killed!" ”

"Yes, I'll go."

After Lu Fang finished speaking, he bowed down and walked away quickly.

Looking at Lu Fang's departing figure, the corners of Jiajing's mouth rose slightly: "Hmph, three million and eight hundred thousand taels!" It solves the urgent need. ”

……

"Huh, today's twists and turns are almost done, Xu Ge Lao should rest for a while."

Yan Song put down the fold, picked up the tea bowl on the side, and took a sip of tea.

"Well, it's time to take a break."

Xu Jie said, his index finger lightly pressed his temple, and he lay down on the chair without any image.

"Hey, the two elders, the master of ceremonies, Gonggong Lu, asks to see you!" Just as the two elders were resting, a guard came to report.

The two of them glanced at each other, both wanting to read something from each other's eyes, and then got up from their seats and said to the guards: "Hurry up and invite Gonggong Lu in!" ”