Chinese people like to use wood to build houses, even the palace is no exception, wooden houses do have their advantages, such as rapid construction, beautiful, and relatively low cost, but the disadvantages are also obvious, such as not resistant to erosion of time, but from the perspective of residence, the biggest disadvantage is that it is afraid of fire. Especially when the weather is dry and dry, it is really a little bit, and a piece is burned.

Therefore, there are often fires in China, especially the imperial palace with wooden buildings, which is the hardest hit area, which dynasty has several times, but it is extremely rare to be as frequent as the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

According to the statistics of the Division, in the forty-one years since the Imperial Pole, there have been 21 fires in the Imperial Palace, the most serious one, the three major halls of the Forbidden City were burned, and even the queen was burned to death. This is not counting the several times the emperor encountered fire in the palace, so people privately gave Emperor Daojun a nickname, called "Huode Xingjun".

Of course, such frequent fires will not be for no reason, it is directly related to Jiajing's daily activities, this emperor burns incense and alchemy in the palace all day long, burns paper and sees, which one is not full of fire? Of course, if the emperor practiced by himself, it would not cause so many fires, but he also raised a large group of Taoist priests in the palace, everyone was smoky together, and explosions often occurred, and it was strange that fires were infrequent.

The reason why I say this is because in March of the forty-first year of Jiajing, a few days after the end of the Spring Festival, another fire broke out in the Yuxi Palace where the emperor lived.

There is nothing to say about the cause of the incident, or the emperor's cultivation went wild, and a rune paper lit the curtain in the corner of the wall, and the flames quickly burst out. I went to the roof of the house. There is a way to become a good doctor after a long illness. Jiajing had already exercised in the fires again and again, and shouted: "It's water!" While packing up the important seal notebook and precious elixir, he rolled a bag with a piece of yellow satin, and when Huang Jin and Chen Hong rushed in, he tied the burden in a knot, and even a beautiful bow.

So Chen Hong carried the burden, Huang Jin carried the emperor, surrounded by a group of small eunuchs, and ran to the outside of the house.

Jiajing was calm, looked at the fire and said, "Yuxi Palace can't be saved, don't bother here." Let's do our best to keep it somewhere else

At this time, the eunuchs came with buckets, urns, and water dragons, and began to spray water to fight the fire, but the east wind was howling, and the fire was humbling by the wind, and the more it burned, the more fierce it became. There is no way to extinguish it.

The unfortunate Wan Xin is that after Jiajing suffered many fires, he paid great attention to external fire prevention, and all the doors in the palace abandoned wood and were built with bricks, and there were fire escapes between the palaces, so although the fire was large, it did not spread, and the casualties were not serious.

But I saw that the sleeping palace where I lived was burned down. Jiajing was still very sad, especially when he thought of so many magic weapons and treasures, all of them were burned. He was even more worried, and sat in the open space with a blanket, sighing incessantly.

At this time, Huang Jin said softly on the side: "Your Majesty, Xu Ge is here." ”

Jiajing nodded, glanced at Xu Jie, and said, "It's really fast?" Haven't slept yet? ”

Xu Jiegong said: "Yes, there are several provinces that must go back tomorrow, so Weichen rushed all night." He said: "The earth is upstream, first ask the emperor to go to the Wuyi Hall to rest." ”

"How can it be cold with such a big fire?" Jiajing shook his head and refused Xu Jie's kindness.

Xu Jie had no choice but to accompany the emperor to stand there, Jiajing glanced at him and said, "You go back on an errand first, don't delay your official business."

"The Emperor of Heaven and Earth is the greatest." Xu Jie said: "At this moment, the emperor's bedroom is burned, and the lord is worried about Zhongzhong, how big things are for the courtiers to put aside, and he must solve problems for His Majesty wholeheartedly." This is the most important matter in Weichen's view. Obviously he was a sycophant, but he said righteous words, as if he was refuting the emperor. Jiajing didn't feel that it was a sycophant at all, but he still felt very useful, and nodded movingly: "It's rare that Aiqing has this heart." Seeing that Xu Jie was still standing, he instructed Huang Jindao: "Move a brocade pier for Xu Ge Lao." ”

Xu Jie hurriedly thanked him, but Jiajing said: "You can sit in the future, such a heavy state affair is on you alone, and I can't bear to suffer more from my Dinghai Divine Needle." ”

Xu Jie was so moved that he almost cried, and said: "Weichen is not tired, not to mention Yan Ge Lao." I'm also staring at the cabinet all day long. ”

"It would be nice if he didn't make a mess." Jiajing said lightly: "The companion speaks three to four times, and I forget the next sentence after saying the last sentence, and I still can't hear it clearly." "Because Yan Shifan was in the mourning period, he couldn't enter the court room and played the right thing for his father, so it was difficult for the old Yan Song to do it, and it was difficult to approve the official documents of the various ministries and provinces, but sometimes Emperor Jiajing had a whim and asked the eunuch to call him and let the old Yan Song draft the decree and write a green word or something. Poor Yan Song's old eyes were dizzy, and his old head couldn't turn for a long time. Without Yan Donglou to take care of it, this time it can appear in its original form, and the performance is not in line with the will, and the green words are not in line with the holy will, which makes Emperor Jiajing very disappointed, so he has to hand these over to Xu Jie, so that Yan Ge Lao is no longer pragmatic. is only responsible for state consultation, that is, chatting with the emperor.

Xu Jie sighed and said: "Yan Ge is eighty-four after all, Wei Chen didn't dare to think that he could live to such an age, but his old man can still serve the emperor, this heart is incomparable to anyone." People asked Xi Ming eighty-two, but he forced others to be older, but fortunately, Jiajing didn't know which guy was in his eighties.

These words are obviously praising Yan Song's longevity and loyalty, but in fact, they are secretly belittling him as an old man with a corpse vegetarian meal, but Xu Jie is well versed in Jiajing's thoughts, so what he said made the emperor not hear it deliberately.

Emperor Jiajing couldn't help but nod and asked Huang Jindao, "Is Yan Ge old here?" Yan Song now regards Xiyuan as his home, lives in the small courtyard built by Jiajing all day long, and comes to gossip with the emperor all day long, but now that such a big thing has happened, he has not shown up, which makes the emperor a little dissatisfied.

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It wasn't until the sky was bright and the fire was about to be extinguished that Yan Ge was late enough to take advantage of his waist.

I saw that the scene was in a mess and smoke was everywhere. Old Yan Song's eyes widened and said, "Oh, why did it burn so badly?" Which damn one set the fire here? ”

Jiajing's face turned black at that time, ignoring him, and Huang Jin on the side whispered: "It wasn't who put it, natural disaster." ”

Yan Song sighed when he heard this: "Alas, Yuxi Palace has been burned down, what a pity. ”

Seeing that he kept regretting the burned palace. But without asking if the dragon body was safe, Jiajing snorted unhappily: "If it's gone, it's going to be rebuilt." ”

"The emperor said it easily, our treasury is empty now, and the three major halls have not been completely completed. The project was huge, the treasury was emptied, and there was no surplus manpower and material resources to rebuild the palace. "Xu is old, and old Yan Song can't care about his mouth anymore. Looking at Jiajing's impatient face, he was still chattering: "The money spent on repairing the palace over the years has indeed been spent more, burned and built. That's a waste of the court's silver, "Your Majesty, the old minister dares to say, don't you cultivate in the palace, right?" ”

Originally, the palace burned down, and it was very disturbing, and the partial-born old Yan Song was chattering on the side, which made Jiajing's face even darker.

As soon as Xu Jie, who was on the side, saw Yan Song, he stood up from the brocade pier, although he was happy to see that Yan Ge always said that there were many mistakes, but it was obviously more beneficial for the emperor to dissipate his anger. So he hurriedly came out and said to the mud: "Ge Lao." Now is not the time to talk about this, let's think about it first, what should the emperor's bedroom do? ”

When Jiajing heard it, yes, the place where I slept was burned, so I can't sleep in the open tonight, right?

"There are so many palace rooms in the West Garden." Yan Song thought for a moment and said, "The emperor can choose the one he likes to live in first." ”

Jiajing was noncommittal, and asked Xu Jiedao: "What does Xu Ge think of it?" ”

Xu Jie observed his words and looks, and already knew that the emperor was not interested in this plan, so he said slowly:

"It happened suddenly, and there was no preparation elsewhere, so I could only do what Yan Ge said at the moment." After a pause, he said: "But my emperor's festival gives, except for the Yuxi Palace in the West Garden, the palaces elsewhere have not been renovated, the buildings are old, and the scale is narrow, how can it be regarded as the king's bedroom?" Therefore, the minister thinks that the expediency is acceptable, but he cannot live for a long time. ”

"Well, that's what it means." Seeing that Xu Jie's heart was in good hands, Jiajing was very happy.

Yan Song over there also understood, and said to the emperor: "That's what the minister means." ”

Seeing that he was still on the road, Jiajing's expression softened slightly, and said, "Since the side hall can't live for a long time, where should Lian go to live for a long time?" ”

Old Yan Song glanced at Xu Jie, and said in his heart, "Are you talking?" Who knew that Xu Jie deliberately saw him make a fool of himself, and he watched his heart there, as if he was fine, Yan Song had no choice but to think about it. Thought, thought, and really let him come up with an idea. He said: "Your Majesty, since the fire in the 36th year of Jiajing, the imperial court has invested a large amount of silver every year. In the rebuilding of the Great Internal Ban, the minister heard that it was basically completed today, and it had always been the will of heaven to return the emperor to the throne, so the fire was lowered. "The heart said that in this way, the emperor will be able to restore the court and govern the government. The ministers will no longer say that I only know that I am blindly flattering, and I don't know how to think about the country.

But after finishing speaking, he peeked at Jiajing's face, but saw that the emperor couldn't help but have a relieved expression on his face, but still looked like he wanted to eat people.

Rao is old and decrepit, slow thinking, and suddenly remembered why the emperor moved out of Ouchi. Since the twenty-first year of Jiajing, Renyin Palace has changed. After the emperor was almost murdered by a group of palace maids, he was full of fear and resistance to Ouchi, and he was terrified when he mentioned Ouchi, except for having to go back to participate in the ceremony and worship his ancestors every New Year, he would never set foot in Ouchi for half a step.

Now Yan Song actually suggested that the emperor return to Ouchi. It was precisely because he violated Jiajing's taboo that the emperor would give him a good face? ”，。 ，

Seeing that the emperor was angry, Yan Songden panicked. After thinking about it, he quickly changed his words: "If the emperor doesn't want to return to the Great Interior, then the Nangong has just been repaired, and it can also be used as His Majesty's bedroom" As soon as these words came out, the thunder was rolling, making everyone present dumbfounded, and said in their hearts What happened to Lord Yan today, why don't you pay for the death of the thunder?

If Da Nei is the taboo of Jiajing alone, then Nangong is the taboo of all the emperors of the Ming Dynasty, because after the change of Tumubao back then. Emperor Yingzong was also captured first, in order to resist the invasion and maintain the unity of the imperial court, the officials of the Ming Dynasty supported Yingzong's younger brother to ascend the throne as emperor, which was Emperor Jingtai. Later, the emperor in his hand expired and became invalid. Knowing that it was useless to keep Yingzong, he was very angry in his heart. In order to disgust the Ming court, he released Yingzong back. Jian Shu dry fine concave said dump Shan) different body clams", good to go outside

But Emperor Jing is enjoying being the emperor, how can he give up the throne? So the expired emperor Ming Yingzong was placed under house arrest in Chonghua Palace, that is, in the South Palace, so in Jiajing's view, the South Palace is a "place where the abdication is confined" is very unlucky. Now that you, Yan Song, want to put Lianfa there, do you want Lianfa to be placed under house arrest and abdicate?

Even eunuchs like Huang Jin and Chen Hong knew about this story, and Yan Ge Lao, who had always taken it as his duty to please the emperor, actually wanted the emperor to move to that ghost place, but he really didn't know what medicine he had taken wrong. They were so frightened that they lowered their heads, lest the city gate catch fire and harm the fish in the pond.

Sure enough, Jiajing was angry and poured his depression caused by the burning of the palace on Yan Song's head, and even cursed Yan Ge's direct female relatives with village scolding, Yan Song has served the emperor for 30 years, and he has won such an honor for the first time.

I saw Yan Ge Lao being scolded for his bloody spurt. Xu Jie, who had been watching coldly, realized that that once-in-a-lifetime opportunity had appeared! Although he knew that his proposal would cost the people and money, Yan Song suggested that the emperor make do, regardless of the motives. Objectively, it will save financial and material resources, and compared with it, he is more like a traitor at the moment. But Xu Jie couldn't care about it so much, he only knew that he had waited for fifteen years to defeat this person, and now that the opportunity finally appeared, he definitely couldn't let it go.

Rightly or wrongly. Just ask about winning or losing!

Thinking of this, he took a deep breath of the air with the smell of fireworks, as if smelling the breath of the battlefield, then took a step forward, arched his hand and said in a deep voice: "The emperor is angry, and the minister has something to say." ”

"Speak!" Jiajing was also tired of scolding, sitting on the chair panting, obviously stunned.

Xu Jie used his usual tone and said slowly: "There is a way for the lord to worry about the humiliation of the minister, if the monarch's father can't even live and live, then it is really shameless to be a courtier." The minister felt that the side hall was narrow and ancient, and the Ouchi and Nangong had their own bad signs, and they were not a livable place for the emperor. ”

"Then where do you say Lian is going to live?" Jiajing said gently: "Even if you sleep on the street, Lian won't go to Ouchi and Nangong!" ”

"Yes." Xu Jie said softly: "Weichen just made an estimate a few days ago, and found that according to the cost of purchasing raw materials from the Ministry of Industry, the wood and stone materials purchased will inevitably have about thirty percent left after the three major halls are built, which is enough to rebuild Yuxi Palace; Moreover, tens of thousands of craftsmen have not yet been disbanded, and they can be ordered to transfer to build the Jade and Xi Palaces, which can be completed in three months at most. ”

As soon as he heard that it could be completed so quickly, and that there was no need to buy stones, Jiajing suddenly became happy, and patted Xu Jie's fan affectionately and said, "Zisheng, you are really Lian's Guan Zhong." "Zisheng is the word of Xu Jie,

Xu Jie was flattered and said: "I am afraid of the ministers" Jiajing said happily: "Huang Jin, the intention is to be made." ”

Huang Jin hurriedly moved a small table, spread a blank holy decree, and waited for the emperor's order. I listened to Jiajing and said: "The university scholar Xu Jie's poison is sincere and diligent, resolute and decisive, and he is very comforted, and he is specially promoted as a young master and a young master, and he is given a python robe!" ”

After listening to the emperor's words, Huang Jin quickly turned it into a gorgeous prose and turned it into a holy decree. After showing it to Jiajing, the seal is used, and the reward is considered to have taken effect.

Xu Jie was flattered and grateful. The first is endless. Who knew that what made him happy was still behind, and he heard the emperor say: "Your eldest son is an official in the capital, right?" ”

"By the grace of the emperor, the eldest son Yin got an official position and worked in Taichang Temple." Xu Jie said respectfully.

"Well, how old is it?" Jiajing asked.

"Thirty-seven." Xu Jie said softly.

"Well, it's okay, I can take charge on my own." Jiajing issued another edict: "Xu Bo is the Taichang Shaoqing and the head of the Ministry of Industry, and he is fully responsible for the rebuilding of the dormitory. This is clearly a benefit to the Xu family.

"Your Majesty, you can't do it." Xu Jie hurriedly said: "The eldest son is not from the right path of the imperial examination, and the second has never been in charge of any projects, how dare he rashly take on such a big responsibility?" ”

"Well, no one is born with it." Jiajing glanced at Yan Song and said, "Yan Ge's old son is not from a journey, doesn't he also become a second-grade master?" Why can't your son come out and do things? He smiled and said, "Say it again." What does he not understand, and you help take care of it, will there be any leakage? ”

Xu Jie's "reluctantly, settle down."

This scene of the gentleman and the minister getting along made Yan, who was left aside, completely frightened, and he finally realized. No matter how reluctant he is, the first assistant of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, the moment of metabolism has finally come to ......

Only the new people laugh, who listens to the old people crying? He finally realized the reality of Emperor Jiajing. When he was old and useless, he kicked himself away. For a while, Lao Yan Song's heart was full of sourness, and the strength in his body seemed to be drained, and he was suddenly paralyzed.

The people on the side hurriedly held him up, Jiajing glanced at the lost old Yan Song, and couldn't bear to say: "The old man has been working hard, send him back quickly." "Bar" is just a matter of persistence, leaving a sentence again. Tomorrow, if there are 100 more monthly passes, there will be 10,000 words, and if there are 200 more tickets, there will be 15,000 words. I'm going to see if I can get rid of the lazy worms