Chronicle of Emperor Jing

"Since it's not because of him, what are you afraid of, Your Majesty?" Shen Mo was noncommittal to the emperor's answer, and knew the emperor's temperament even more, so he didn't believe his words at all, and asked again.

"I'm not afraid... I just don't want this matter to be involved in him by someone with a heart... well, actually, it's for him." Emperor Jing hesitated for a while, but still couldn't fool Shen Mo, and finally Openly admitting that he did this partly because of Wei Yan, um, it's as small as a fingernail, and it doesn't have much effect on the development of the matter.

If there is no Wei Yan, he doesn't care about whether to choose or not, he will definitely be like his ancestors, sitting on three thousand beauties is not enough.But now with Wei Yan, the more women he has in his harem, the more troubles he will have, and the less time he will spend with Wei Yan, which is definitely not in line with his wishes.

At least so far, he doesn't want to cause more trouble for himself. As for the future, the days are still long and people's hearts are fickle. Maybe he will have other ideas by then.

"Since it has something to do with him, he will have to face this situation one day. It is impossible for His Majesty to transfer him every time. Besides, in my opinion, he may not object to this selection." In Shen From Mo's point of view, Wei Yan is definitely not someone who would mind such things, and it is even more unlikely that he would object to the emperor's selection of beauties to fill the harem with heirs.

"Of course I know that he will not object. Not only will he not object, but he will also support it. He must wish that my harem will be filled with women, and then I will have no time to talk to him." Emperor Jing knew Wei Yan's thoughts very well. It was because he was too clear that he felt even more depressed.

Although he didn't do this to curry favor with Wei Yan, but Wei Yan would not only not appreciate it, but would definitely stand on the standpoint of an opponent and fight against him. This kind of thing really made Emperor Jing embarrassing.

Seeing that His Majesty was about to go crazy because of depression, Shen Mo immediately bowed wisely and left.

After a few days, the situation in Beijing became more and more serious.The courtiers' persuasion to Emperor Jing hadn't had any effect, but Emperor Jing ordered people to conduct a thorough investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but there were already some clues.

Under the joint trial of the Ministry of Punishment, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the Dali Temple, several senior officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs were imprisoned for crimes such as accepting bribes and dereliction of duty.Moreover, this thorough investigation seems to have a tendency to spread from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, making the entire officialdom in the capital start to panic.

Looking at the entire officialdom of the Jing Dynasty, there are certainly honest and upright officials, but the vast majority of officials have some tacit income.When this kind of matter is not investigated, hello, hello, everyone, if we really want to seriously investigate, five or six officials in the Jing Dynasty will have their heads cut off, and nine out of ten officials will be imprisoned.

In such a situation where there are so many rumors, how many officials dare to guarantee that they can withstand a thorough investigation by the court, and how many officials can sleep peacefully under the posture that the emperor has made it clear that he wants to investigate to the end?

A dispute about the royal housework suddenly became a pretext for purging officials and a death talisman that could make people lose their heads at any time. This was really something that no one expected at the beginning.

Probably some officials regretted in their hearts why they had to easily stroke the tiger's beard of Emperor Jing, but it was obviously too late to regret at this time, and compared to regretting or continuing to entangle the royal housework, it is better to do something about the accounts in their hands. Ping, cleaning your ass is the real priority.

Of course, Emperor Jing did not intend to kill the ministers who were useless in the court. He knew very well in his heart that corrupt officials were inexhaustible, and when the water was clear, there would be no fish. Killing depends on the purpose, everything, he has an account in his heart, and the reference is of course the performance of the ministers overtly and secretly a while ago.

However, he has no need or obligation to inform the ministers of these thoughts, so that the ministers can live this beautiful spring day into a chilling autumn every day, do their duty with trepidation, and dare not stand up at will, just for fear of a mistake, the emperor His eyes will fall on himself.

Under this general trend, the speech officials and censors who have been gossiping all day long quickly found new topics to speak about, making life even more difficult for those ministers with dirty buttocks.

Sure enough, offense is the best defense.Emperor Jing always believed in this point.

When Emperor Jing won the battle of wits and courage with his courtiers, Wei Yan still buried his head in the papers, and he really kept his ears off the affairs of the court, and only focused on doing the work at hand.With his hard work and forgetting to eat and sleep, there are only half of the documents waiting to be checked in the warehouse.

When Commander Shen Mo Shen finally had a whim one day and thought of going to the library to see Wei Yan and check his work progress by the way, Commander Shen finally understood why the emperor had never had a good face when he saw him recently , and the real reason why the emperor troubled his ministers so viciously.

Because in essence, the young Emperor His Majesty is the kind of person whose life is difficult, so no one wants to live a good life.Unfortunately, he is also the one who has the power to bring this evil nature to life.

Shen Mo's original plan was to leave Wei Yan in the library for a year or so. If Wei Yan couldn't bear it halfway, it would be best if he ran away. If he could bear it and survive, at least It can also kill his spirit.

As far as he knew, Wei Yan was so favored that even the emperor's first confidant, Mr. Gao, took care of him as a half-master, which showed how important he was to the emperor.

The palace servants who served the emperor were all smart people, and they were all high-level in observing the emperor's heart, and they were used to talking with red and white, and ordering dishes when they saw people.What the emperor valued was naturally everyone's flattery, and no one dared to neglect him in the slightest. As long as the emperor showed a little indifference, these people might change their colors immediately.

As for wanting Gao Yong to serve him carefully as a half-master, even a queen would not dare to have such an extravagant hope.

Wei Yan had this kind of treatment, and Shen Mo naturally understood that it was definitely not how clever Wei Yan was, but how much the emperor valued him.

Even though Wei Yan was originally a prudent person, under the circumstances of being so favored, he would inevitably become a little arrogant. It is really a matter of preparation to sharpen his temper.

And although the emperor said beforehand, let him teach, but once a conflict really breaks out, it is self-evident which side the emperor will stand on. If the time comes, it will be too harsh for him Well, even if the emperor doesn't say anything, he will inevitably feel uncomfortable in his heart, and he wants to find fault with him from time to time, I'm afraid there will be a lot of trouble in the future.

In view of the above considerations, Shen Mo decided to throw Wei Yan to the document library first to temper his temper, but he really did not expect that his temper would cause such a big fight.

Even for an official who is proficient in handling such documents, it would take half a year to sort out the workload, but Wei Yan completed half of it in less than a month, and he did it in a decent manner. Imagine how much time and energy he spent here.

A person's time and energy are only so little, if too much is spent here, it naturally means that little is spent elsewhere, and it is impossible to cover everything.After checking Wei Yan's work progress, Shen Mo looked at the person who had lost weight in front of him, and sighed with a headache.

Without asking too much, he knew that the current troubles in the capital had nothing to do with the person in front of him, and he himself seemed to be one of the masterminds behind the scenes.However, both the person in front of him and himself are actually very innocent people.

I don't know if it's too late for him to make up for it now?

Shen Mo stroked the beard under his chin and began to meditate.

Forget it, useful or not, this is obviously the only thing he can do now.After figuring this out, Shen Mo really praised and comforted Wei Yan with gentle words, and told him that there is no rush to do the rest of the work, and finally sent him back to rest, and sincerely hoped that His Majesty the Emperor would be able to do it after seeing Wei Yan. Do more things, don't think about how to toss people when you have time or not.

Emperor Jing knew the news of Wei Yan's return to the palace for a rest at the first moment, and then he immediately put aside his official business, waved back a bunch of courtiers who had obviously suffered from neurasthenia due to his diligence in political affairs and clearing up officials, and drove back to the palace. palace.

During this period of time, Wei Yan went out earlier and earlier, and returned later and later, and was usually so tired that he had no appetite for dinner, so he just fell down and buried himself in a deep sleep. Jingdi, who had been severely injured, except Apart from letting everyone suffer like him, I really can't think of any other pastime to relieve their depression.

If you are the only one who is depressed, you can only think about it more and more depressed, but if there are a bunch of people who are more depressed than him every day, it is obvious that seeing others are so depressed, he will be less depressed. This is the so-called how Correctly turn your own depression into someone else's depression.

On this point, Emperor Jing felt that he was very successful. Anyway, these days, his purpose of using other people's depression to balance his mind has been fully achieved.

Now, the person who made him depressed came back, the person who was so busy every day that he would not come back until it was dark, he came back early, of course he didn't have time to mess around with other people, he left them and left.

Wei Yan was still resting in Emperor Jing's bedroom.

Originally, when the incident started to rage, Emperor Jing had the idea of ​​asking Wei Yan to move to the veranda room where he was on duty to rest, and to cover the eyes of others a little bit, but after careful consideration, he gave up again.

So what if he changed the place, unless he didn't touch Wei Yan again, it would be impossible to hide this kind of thing from the people around him, so in the end, he still did what he should, without any change.

Soon, Emperor Jing returned to the bedroom, he hurriedly stepped into the inner hall, walked to the side of the couch, saw Wei Yan heard the noise he made, moved his eyelids, and seemed to want to open his eyes and say something to him , he hurried forward to appease:

"It's me, it's okay, if you have anything to say, wait until you wake up."

Emperor Jing spread his arms, and the maid waited for him to take off his clothes, and then lay down beside Wei Yan, hugging him to catch up on sleep.

At this time, the spring outside the hall was bright and beautiful, and the bed was full of sleepiness. In such a warm moment, there was no need for words to be disturbed, and everything could be said after waking up.

However, if Emperor Jing knew what Wei Yan would say after waking up, he probably would rather that Wei Yan would not speak again from now on, lest those harsh words would come out of Wei Yan's mouth.

Wei Yan's first topic after waking up was to discuss with Emperor Jing the suggestion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to fill the harem with a wide selection of beauties.It's not that Wei Yan doesn't know what happened in the court these days, but he has always refused to think about the relationship between what happened and him, and he was too busy to take care of himself, and he didn't have the energy to take care of others. care about those things.

Now that he has leisure, he naturally has the leisure to worry about such things, and Commander Shen's sigh, and the worried eyes that looked at him, and repeatedly told him to pay attention to rest, and spend more time with the emperor when he has time. , Don't ignore the emperor just to bury your head in work, etc. The long-winded words have already explained a lot of things.

He didn't think that the emperor rejected the Ministry of Internal Affairs' paper because of him, which finally caused an uproar.But if he said that it had nothing to do with him, even if he dared to say it, he still couldn't justify it in his heart.

In fact, if you want to get to the bottom of it, you can more or less find some relationship with the things in this world.With His Majesty's temper, even if he was affected by him and caused him to seriously clean up the administration of officials, it is not impossible that a large number of people will be killed in the end.

When he refuses to think, he can easily escape desperately. Once he starts to think, he can't help but bear what he can't bear. This is Wei Yan's old problem, but he still can't change it.

Persuasion is not something he is good at, especially when facing the emperor, because His Majesty always has the ability to use certain actions to make things deviate from the original direction, but his recent fatigue makes the emperor unable to bear to force him He shut up, so now, although the emperor looked very displeased, he still let him continue.

"So, what do you mean to say, I should approve the report from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and then pardon those moths who have absorbed the people's fat and people's anointing?" Finally, Emperor Jing concluded Wei Yan's long remonstrance.

"That's not what I mean. I thought that the papers presented by the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the beginning were not wrong. As for the officials who were found to have accepted bribes and dereliction of duty, they should naturally be punished according to the law, but this does not mean that their original papers were wrong. These are two things, and His Majesty should not confuse them. Since the Ministry of Internal Affairs was not wrong at the beginning, His Majesty should have approved their proposal."

The emperor's summary is far from what Wei Yan wants to express. What he really means is that right is right and wrong is wrong. The emperor can't think that the right thing is wrong just because this thing is wrong. Wei Yan He couldn't help feeling that he really didn't have eloquence, otherwise, he would definitely be able to explain the truth to the emperor.

Although he couldn't express the reason behind it clearly, he was sensitively aware that the courtiers must have forgotten the original reason in the emperor's anger, just like every time he persuaded him, he would do as the emperor wished, Soon I don't know where I went.

"So, do you also think that I should choose all the beauties from all over the world to fill my harem?" Emperor Jing asked him with a sneer in his heart, but remained calm on his face.

"Your Majesty, it is His Majesty's responsibility to expand the harem and extend the emperor's heirs." Wei Yan replied seriously.

In his heart, he really thought it was the emperor's duty.

"It is indeed my duty to prolong the emperor's heirs, but it is neither my duty nor a good thing worthy of praise from the world's insightful people to fill my harem with beauties from all over the world. Wei Yan, if I can prove you wrong, Should you also be punished?" Emperor Jing continued to ask with a smile on his face.

"Chen..." The determined smile on the emperor's lips made Wei Yan hesitate, but after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and nodded. He didn't think it was wrong, and he didn't believe that the emperor could prove it was wrong ,"yes."