Emperor Wanli recounted in detail the content of his conversation with the Empress Dowager Zhou. Empress Dowager Li was overjoyed when she heard this, and Emperor Wanli was greatly surprised! However, he still reacted, so when Empress Dowager Li stopped laughing, he asked, "Queen Mother, is Zhou Niangniang deceiving me?" ”

Empress Dowager Li shook her head with a smile and said, "She didn't deceive the Long Live Lord, but there is something special about it!" Although she said that she gave you five people, and also said that these people should listen to your instructions, there is an implicit premise, that is, you have to get the Imperial Horse Prison and these people to be obedient! This Sister Zhou, her mind is still so heavy after so many years, no wonder her body is not good! ”

Only then did Emperor Wanli understand the implicit meaning of Empress Dowager Zhou's words! In other words, she was happy to see Emperor Wanli take over the Imperial Horse Supervisor, and was willing to hand over her own people to him for use. But she will definitely not help Emperor Wanli to master the Imperial Horse Prison, all this has to be done by himself!

Thinking about this, Emperor Wanli said angrily: "How can Zhou Niangniang be like this? Isn't this a joke? ”

Empress Dowager Li restrained her smile and said, "How can this be considered a joke? Long Live Lord should also know that Sister Zhou doesn't really have much to say in this harem, so the only people left in his hands are used to maintain her current status! Her willingness to hand over these people to you is already a great favor! ”

Emperor Wanli said dejectedly: "I know, I shouldn't say that!" But the queen mother, you should support me, right? ”

But Empress Dowager Li avoided answering and said: "The mourning family thinks that Long Live Lord should talk to Mr. Zhang about this matter first!" ”

Emperor Wanli said unhappily: "Queen Mother, why don't you help me and Mr. Zhang?" ”

Empress Dowager Li said: "Long live Lord, there are some things that you have to do in person, do it, so that you can know the real trick!" In this way, in the future, Long Live Lord will not be in a hurry! ”

Emperor Wanli patted his leg sullenly and said, "Okay, I'll talk to Mr. Zhang in the next few days!" ”

After this incident was said, the mother and son naturally had to talk about some light things. Emperor Wanli also had a dinner at Empress Dowager Li's place by the way.

In the following days, Emperor Wanli kept typing the draft, thinking about how to persuade Zhang Juzheng. I even thought of what movements to use and what expressions to use! But the only thing he didn't expect was that although the palace had been carefully cleaned several times, and indeed removed a lot of spies outside the palace, it was still like a sieve when it was inside!

So what he, Empress Dowager Zhou, and Empress Dowager Li said quickly spread to Feng Bao. And after Feng Bao was depressed and angry, he felt a burst of fear! Because Emperor Wanli's actions were a clear signal of distrust to him!

As a eunuch, the emperor's trust is crucial! Feng Bao also thought about obeying Emperor Wanli's wishes and handing over the Imperial Horse Supervisor, but he felt that losing the Imperial Horse Supervisor would reduce his importance in Emperor Wanli's heart! So he hesitated again!

And Feng Bao, who is keen on power, naturally doesn't want this kind of thing to happen, so he uses another reason to convince himself! That is the alliance between him and Zhang Juzheng!

He felt that Zhang Juzheng was able to achieve such a great feat, and it was completely with his own help that he did it! And he believed that no one could resist the temptation to control the phase for a long time, and he concluded that at Zhang Juzheng's age, it would be easy to control the phase for another twenty years! So as long as he is in power in the harem, Zhang Juzheng needs his support, so on the other hand, Zhang Juzheng will definitely support him!

Thinking of this, Feng Bao finally made up his mind and decided to keep the Imperial Horse Supervisor. Then he wrote a letter and sent it to Zhang Juzheng. After getting Zhang Juzheng's affirmative reply, he finally put his mind at ease and waited for Emperor Wanli to make a move.

Six days later, Emperor Wanli, who finally mustered up the courage and felt that he was ready, slipped out of the palace in the afternoon. The reason why he left the palace at this time today is because Zhang Juzheng is resting today. He was going to talk to him about it at Zhang Juzheng's house. He felt that in a more relaxed conversation atmosphere, the probability of success was higher than that of the monarchs and ministers in the temple.

Emperor Wanli was dressed in civilian clothes, and under the urging of the guards in the same casual clothes, he soon came to the door of Zhang Juzheng's mansion. He was amazed by what he saw!

Because a large number of people gathered in front of Zhang Juzheng's mansion, the whole mansion is more lively than the vegetable market! Some of them are wearing official uniforms, and some are wearing civilian clothes, but even if they are in civilian clothes, you can know that they are officials by looking at their body shape and temperament! And the little guys around them are carrying all kinds of gifts in their hands, and the number of gift boxes is really a lot!

Emperor Wanli asked in surprise, "Zhang Jia, what's going on?" Are all these people asking to see Mr. Zhang? ”

Zhang Jia said: "It looks like it should be! It is estimated that these officials also heard that Mr. Zhang was taking a break today, so they came to ask to see him. ”

Emperor Wanli looked at the various gift boxes in the hands of those little guys, pouted and said, "It seems that these people have really worked hard to drill the camp!" These gift boxes are already luxurious, but aren't the contents even more valuable? By the way, you said that Mr. Zhang would not be a big corrupt official, right? ”

Zhang Jia smiled and said, "How is this possible! With Mr. Zhang's status today, why covet these people's things! He just asked for it directly from Long Live Lord, can you still not give it? ”

Emperor Wanli nodded and said, "This is also true!" ”

However, although Emperor Wanli said so, there was already a bit of haze in his heart! When he saw the battle of hundreds of people outside Zhang Juzheng's mansion, he felt that Zhang Juzheng's might was unparalleled! After all, so many people asked him to do something, but he didn't see the ministers come to beg him!

They will refute themselves with the scriptures! And they bowed their heads in front of Zhang Juzheng! Thinking of Zhang Juzheng's reprimand for himself, he felt very uncomfortable!

At this time, Zhang Jia assigned a guard to call the door first. When the guard led the order to squeeze into the crowd and march towards the gate of the mansion like waves, many officials noticed him. Someone stopped talking to each other and began to comment on the guard.

Someone said: "Another rammer who doesn't know the number of etiquette and doesn't know the level of his identity!" Did he think he would be able to enter the mansion by signing up for his name? That's the joke! ”

"That's it! The door of this prime minister's house is not so easy to enter! ”

"Look at this person, it should be sent by the group of people outside, but these people didn't bring gifts, could it be that they are familiar with Zhang Xiangye?"

Amid the chatter of the crowd, the guards finally crowded to the gate. But before he could get close to the porter, he was stopped by the porter impatiently reaching out and saying, "Squeeze what, don't come forward!" This is the important place of the Prime Minister's House, and it must not be collided! ”