Chapter 431 The three-party meeting finally takes place!

"His Majesty!"

In the Wanshou Palace Hall, Lu Fang cried out in pain.

He knelt on the ground, listening to Jiajing's secret decree, but his whole body was trembling and his hands were shaking.

Originally, Lu Fang just thought that the emperor wanted to establish the Loyal and Brave Bandit-Suppression Camp so that Yan Shaoting could deal with the current situation in the south more calmly.

But now there is the emperor's secret decree.

This loyal and brave bandit-suppression camp was clearly a plan set up for after the emperor's death!
just now.

Only then did Lu Fang understand why this battalion of soldiers was named this way.

Loyal and brave.

That means loyalty to the royal family and courage to the royal family.

As for the word "suppress bandits".

I'm afraid it was in response to the secret decree that was sent to the court by the ministers and villains.

When the throne changes, the officials in the court will inevitably become disloyal.

At that time, this loyal and brave bandit-suppression camp would probably come in handy to stabilize the political situation and ensure the smooth transfer of imperial power.

only……

The emperor actually placed such an important task on Yan Shao in the form of a secret decree.

Although it can be seen that the emperor trusts Yan Shaoting.

But Lu Fang was extremely conflicted.

This involves the succession of imperial power!
Seeing that Lu Fang had not moved, Jiajing frowned and shouted coldly: "Go quickly!"

After scolding, Jiajing frowned again and coughed several times with a painful look on his face.

Lu Fang did not dare to hesitate any longer. He quickly got up, went to the side, ground ink and held the pen himself, wrote the secret decree, and then handed it to Jiajing with trembling hands.

Jiajing looked up and confirmed that the contents of the secret decree were correct.

Only then did he look at the large red lacquered wooden box on the imperial desk that contained the imperial seal.

"Reprint it..."

Lu Fang held his breath, opened the wooden box, took out the jade seal with both hands, stuck it with red mud, and pressed it on the secret decree.

Watching Lu Fang do all this.

Jiajing then smiled and looked at Lu Fang: "Remember, if Yan Shaoting is not in the capital at that time, you will find an opportunity to make a decision and send the secret decree in advance. If he is in the capital, tell him to summon the troops to the capital!"

While speaking, Jiajing coughed several times in succession.

Nowadays, the secret edicts have been changed to imperial seals.

Lu Fang could only nod with a tense expression.

He carefully hid the secret decree in the Wanshou Palace.

Then he returned to Jiajing.

"Master, can you please summon the Divine Doctor Li from the Academy to come to the palace to ask for pulse diagnosis?"

Lu Fang didn't dare to mention the imperial physician of the Imperial Medical Bureau.

In the emperor's mind, the Imperial Medical Bureau was not trustworthy.

Jiajing nodded, but then shook his head and said, "Don't make such a big fuss. When we find an opportunity in a few days... ahem... when Yijun goes to the academy, I will ask Guo Yuchuang and others to take people to the academy and let Li Shizhen take a look for me... ahem..."

After finishing speaking.

Jiajing seemed to be extremely tired.

Soon, he fell asleep leaning on the throne.

Looking at the sleeping emperor, Lu Fang had a sad face and could only take a blanket and cover the emperor carefully.

……

Changping Academy.

According to the schedule, the academy should be full of classes today and all students should be in class to study.

But at this moment, all the teachers and students of the academy gathered in the square in front of the academy, divided into classes and lined up in an orderly manner.

in front of them.

There were twenty emergency medical students in white coats.

Everyone carried a medicine box on their back.

At the edge of the square, there were more than a dozen large carts loaded with boxes of herbs.

Zhu Zaigui stood between the two groups of people, leading three old masters: Nie Bao, Wang Ji and Qian Dehong.

He took the lead and bowed to Li Shizhen, who was standing in front of the medical students who were obviously about to go out.

Then Li Shizhen led his students to return the greeting.

Zhu Zaigui's face was solemn, and he spoke in a deep voice: "All students have completed their studies today, and you will be ordered by the court to go to the Nine Border Army to serve the country and ensure that the border soldiers will not be injured again. Such great virtues will be remembered forever by the country, and I am here to thank you for your contribution to healing the people!"

Talking.

Zhu Zaigui bowed again.

The students returned the greeting again.

then.

Nie Bao, Wang Ji and Qian Dehong, led a group of teachers from the academy and the students present, and began to sing the farewell song that had been sung for thousands of years for the twenty medical students who had graduated.

The song is full of vicissitudes, as if it came from thousands of years ago across time and space.

Countless Changping residents gathered around the square in silence.

There were many people in the crowd with red eyes and tears in their eyes.

Children from wealthy families would only study classics in Changping Academy.

All of Professor Li Shizhen’s students in the emergency department are from Changping.

The saying "a mother worries about her child even when he is a thousand miles away" is just like this.

The medical students who have completed their studies did not feel sad about leaving for a long journey, but were all full of expectations for that frontier.

Amid the singing, the students boarded the carriage.

In the corner in front of the academy.

Yan Hu, the unique Dragon and Tiger General of our Ming Dynasty, looked at the medical students who had left in the carriage with some envy.

Inclined.

A female medical student in a white coat suddenly stood in front of Yan Hu.

Yan Hu frowned immediately: "You...why are you here?"

Wang Xiuhong snorted: "I am seeing my classmates off."

Yan Hu's face inexplicably turned red, he looked away and said in a muffled voice: "I...I...I heard that you were originally going to leave..."

Wang Xiuhong glanced at this stupid bird.

She turned and looked at her classmates who had already gone far away.

"Yeah, I was going to leave..."

Yan Hu immediately widened his eyes and asked, "Then why don't you leave? It's still not too late!"

"..."

Wang Xiuhong turned around abruptly, and stared at Yan Hu with her bright eyes.

Just as Yan Hu's face was getting redder.

Swish.

"what!"

"You have no moral principles!"

"It hurts so much..."

With a scream, Yan Hu jumped up on the spot holding one foot, staring at Wang Xiuhong who had already run away with a face full of resentment.

Seeing the other party, he stopped again.

Yan Hu was about to hold his feet and go up to him to ask for justice.

Wang Xiuhong suddenly changed her attitude, blushed, and said softly: "Because of you, a fool..."

After finishing speaking.

The little girl was already filled with shyness, and she turned around and ran away shyly.

Yan Hu stood there blankly, watching the white coat that seemed to be quite 'good looking' disappear before his eyes.

On the other side, Lu Wenyan, who was originally just standing in front of the academy to watch the ceremony, quietly led Yunniang and others to look at the little movements between the brother-in-law and the daughter in the corner.

There was a knowing smile on Lu Gaoming's face.

Yunniang smiled and said, "Madam, I think you should start preparing the betrothal gifts now."

"Prepare!"

"Prepare!"

"Make good preparations, make a lot of preparations. We don't have to restrict the daughter to a prince or minister, but our Yan family must have many descendants!"

Lu Wenyan spoke with a smile on her face.

She is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Yan family and the future mistress of the Yan family. Her most important responsibility is to ensure the continuation of the Yan family's offspring.

Talking.

Lu Wenyan put away her smile and looked towards the south.

Although she understood it clearly in her heart, she suddenly felt a little worried. She was afraid that the Yan family would also have branches in the south...

……

Yan Shaoting now has no intention of expanding the Yan family in the Jiangnan area.

Because he had received news that Zhang Juzheng and Hai Rui were coming to Nanjing.

to this end.

Early in the morning, he took Liu Wan out of the city and rushed to the official road east of Zhongshan to wait.

In this way, it can be regarded as going out of the city ten miles to greet you.

On the official road ahead, apart from the merchants and common people passing by, there were no troops of the Yingtian Governor, the Governor-General and the Minister of Maritime Affairs, or the royal flags.

Yan Shaoting could only find a high place to enjoy the view of the Yangtze River.

Liu Wan led his men to stand guard at the side and spoke in a low voice: "The news from Captain Zhu this morning is that the people in the city have been sending people out of the city to deliver messages in the past few days. In the past few days, people from all over the city have begun to enter the city."

Yan Shaoting looked calm: "What are they doing recently?"

Liu Wan smiled and replied, "Except for the fact that on the second day after we entered the city, the Nanjing Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Justice jointly issued a document to arrest Huai'an Prefect Li Youzi on charges of dereliction of duty and failure to detect the rebels, and handed him over to the police to be brought to Nanjing, there was no other action."

Listen to this message.

Yan Shaoting just smiled faintly.

The people in Nanjing City became increasingly anxious and uneasy because they had not made any moves in recent days.

Capturing Huai'an prefect Li Youzi is probably the only solution they can think of now.

After all, he was assassinated by the White Lotus rebels, and the incident happened in Huai'an Prefecture.

Then Li Youzi, the prefect of Huai'an, must be the first to bear this responsibility.

As for whether the county magistrate under Huai'an Prefecture would be involved.

That is what the people in Nanjing need to consider.

But Li Youzi was also unlucky.

After all, when he went south this time, he had no intention of touching these county officials. He was heading for Nanjing City from beginning to end.

But now Li Youzi has been arrested and brought to Nanjing.

I'm afraid that Wang Ting, the governor of the Grand Canal who was left in Huai'an City, is completely at a loss.

However, because Wang Ting was the governor of the grain transport system, even if Nanjing wanted to take him down, it would have to write to the imperial court before they could make an idea.

"Now we just watch them fight each other."

In response to this, Yan Shaoting finally used the term dog-eat-dog to describe it.

Liu Wan laughed happily.

"You are really amazing. You didn't do anything, but you have completely confused those people."

Yan Shaoting shook his head: "Do you think they will be completely distracted by this? They are all veterans who have been in the government for more than ten years. Even if they did something illegal in the past, is there no way for them to get away with it?"

Liu Wan immediately frowned and asked: "What are you going to do next?"

Yan Shaoting put his hands on his belt and said with a smile: "Of course we will just sit back and watch, and wait for one or two of them to jump out and make an example of them. Then we can carry out what we want to do."

It is not feasible in the current officialdom to just kill everyone like Emperor Taizu did.

Yan Shaoting asked himself, even though he now had the power to govern the six provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, it was impossible for him to really kill all those who opposed him.

If that were really the case.

I am afraid that if I chop off those people's heads today, the court will recall me tomorrow to report on my work and be held accountable.

But now Zhang Juzheng and Hai Rui came uninvited.

This allows me to do things more calmly next time.

I just don't know whether Zhao Zhenji, who was promoted to Governor-General of Zhejiang and Governor of Zhejiang because of my Yan family and is now stationed in Hangzhou City, will respond to my going south.

Yan Shaoting has actually been paying attention to this matter for a long time and is still waiting for news from the other party.

on the official road.

It was not a large team, with only the flags of the Yingtian Governor and the Governor-General and Minister of Maritime Affairs flying. Zhang Juzheng and Hai Rui, escorted by less than 20 officers and soldiers, were riding in the same carriage and rushing to Nanjing City.

in the carriage.

Hai Rui lifted the curtain of the carriage and looked out over the official road, which was filled with top-quality irrigated fields.

He sighed and said, "I wonder how many of these fields are owned by the people and by self-cultivating farmers?"

Zhang Juzheng looked out along the curtain that Hai Rui had opened.

Although the grain-producing areas in the Central Plains have now shifted from Lianghuai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang to Huguang, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang are prosperous because of their merchants, this does not mean that Zhejiang has no production.

He shook his head and said, "This kind of land near the secondary capital has probably already been owned by the city's nobles and dignitaries."

Hai Rui asked again, "Uncle, do you think that those people can eat all the food produced by so many fields every year?"

The answer is obvious.

Zhang Juzheng shook his head with a cold face, feeling an indescribable resentment in his heart.

Hai Rui laughed, "They can't finish eating it. They can't finish eating it even if they eat it for ten lifetimes. But... the common people can't eat enough! The common people are still hungry!"

Zhang Juzheng withdrew his gaze from the window and frowned at Hai Rui: "You don't need to explain this to me. I know it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have agreed to your request and went to Songjiang Prefecture to check the ownership of the land. I will continue to do this!"

Hai Rui smiled, not sure whether he thought what Zhang Juzheng said was true or whether he thought Zhang Juzheng would one day be indecisive.

He changed the subject and said, "So we have to clear them out and make them vomit out everything they have eaten! But I have been thinking these days that clearing them out alone may not really solve the current problem, and it will not really make people live a good life. We can clear them out today, but others can continue to occupy them tomorrow. Therefore, we must have a foolproof method, and it would be best if we can put an end to it."

Zhang Juzheng glanced over and snorted, "Can you still manage for the rest of your life? Even if you can manage for the rest of your life, can you still manage what people think after your death? Or, have you thought of a solution?"

Faced with Zhang Juzheng's continuous questioning, Hai Rui simply shook his head.

"I can't figure it out."

"In fact, I also know my character. The position of the governor of Yingtian and the governor of the people is not something I can bear. Instead, I should be in charge of law and punishment, which is where I, Hai Rui, should go."

Zhang Juzheng raised his eyebrows.

He didn't expect that Hai Rui could see him so clearly.

In his heart, his view of Hai Rui was actually the same as he said.

The Ministry of Justice, the Dali Temple, and the Censorate are where Hai Rui should go.

A person as upright and self-disciplined as him should go to places like the Sanfasi, and be like a sword hanging over everyone's head.

But Zhang Juzheng was still curious and asked, "So, who is the person who is doing the work in Brother Gangfeng's mind?"

Hai Rui put down the curtain in his hand and turned to look at Zhang Juzheng.

He smiled.

"In my mind, the person who governs the people of the world should be your uncle..."

"And there's Yan Runwu whom we're about to meet!"

Zhang Juzheng's heart moved and a smile appeared on his face.

At this time.

A hearty laugh was also heard from outside the car.

"I'm glad to hear that Brother Shu and Brother Gangfeng are here together."

"I couldn't sleep all night yesterday, so I took people out of the city to meet you this morning."

"Finally, we've met you two!"

"Nanjing is busy with affairs right now, and I hope you two will come here and give us your talents and guidance to restore peace and tranquility to the people of the six provinces!"

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