Chapter 410

When Jiajing heard Zhang Hao's words, he felt very moved. He originally wanted to let Lu Benan enjoy his old age, but unexpectedly, in the end, Lu Ben actually did such a confused thing, which made Jiajing very embarrassed.

Since he ascended the throne, none of the cabinet ministers seemed to have had a good result. Zhang Cong, Xia Yan and other cabinet ministers ended up miserably.

I didn't want to give those ministers a kind person. Those who had been before were helpful to the stability of the Ming Dynasty. Although Lu Ben did not make outstanding contributions, he had worked diligently for decades. Now, he has participated in the assassination of Zhang Hao, and he has been working against him in the matter of King Jin.

"Your Majesty, you make the decision. He was going to go home to support his old age. I don't care whether he died or not!" Zhang Hao said to Jiajing. Jiajing heard it, nodded, and then sat there and thought.

Soon, Lu Fang came to Zhang Hao's meal, and Zhang Hao sat there and started eating.

"You go back to the mansion in the afternoon and ask the vassal kings to send money. Now things have been decided. If you still send money, you can go and deal with them!" Jiajing sat there and said to Zhang Hao.

When Zhang Hao heard this, his eyes lit up immediately. He looked at Jiajing and asked, "Master, can I hammer them to death?"

"You also hammer them to death. Do you want to make my Ming Dynasty chaos?" Jiajing heard it, glared at Zhang Hao and said,

Zhang Hao heard this and laughed. Soon, Zhang Hao finished eating, wiped his mouth, left, and went home to stay.

Jiajing asked Lu Fang to send someone to call Lu Ben over. After receiving the oral order, Lu Ben immediately rushed to the Danfang. After arriving outside the Danfang, Jiajing asked him to come in.

"My memory, Lu Ben, kowtows to the emperor!" Lu Ben came to the tea table and kowtowed to Jiajing.

"Get up and sit down. Today we will have tea and chat with our monarch and ministers!" Jiajing said to Lu Ben.

When Lu Ben heard this, he kowtowed quickly, then stood up and said, "Thank you, the Emperor!"

"Well, you have worked hard. In the past few years, you have made contributions to the Ming Dynasty. Now you have written a memorial to retire and I have approved it, but it will take a few days to give it to you. In the past few days, you also need to be the last day class. You are still the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty!" Jiajing sat there and poured tea for Lu Ben and said.

"Yes, thank you, Your Majesty, I am ashamed!" Lu Ben stood there and said, "Havenly bowed to Jiajing.

"Sit down, we are just two of us, not that much etiquette!" Jiajing said to Lu Ben, and he also served tea and drank it. After drinking it, he also said to Lu Ben: "You drink tea too, it's okay, there's nothing wrong today!"

"Yes, Your Majesty, Thank you!" Lu Ben sat down with a little incomprehensible, and didn't know what medicine Jiajing sold, and when did Jiajing get along with him?

"I've retired and returned home, and I'm enjoying my grandchildren at home. I'm not sure what I think about the world every day. You've been working hard all the time. Even if I have no contributions in the past few decades, I'll remember it!" Jiajing said while making tea, but Lu Ben still looked at Jiajing without understanding, and he didn't understand what Jiajing was going to do.

"Look at this!" Jiajing said and handed over the file Zhang Hao gave him to Lu Ben.

Lu Ben took it and looked at Jiajing in confusion, but he still opened the bag and took out the information. The first page of the information was written with his name, and all his resume after he passed the Jinshi, including serving as the Imperial College Priest in Nanjing, etc., and the matter after entering the cabinet.

The first few pages were written well, but after they reached the cabinet ministers, they started to have things, including the benefits of those officials and the degree to which he participated in the specific matters. On the last page, they wrote about his affairs on King Jin, and collected 200,000 taels of Chu.

In addition, the assassination of Zhang Hao, the King of Chu also visited Lu Fang. The specific matters discussed have been recorded above. At this moment, Lu Ben's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he immediately knelt down and kowtowed to Jiajing and said, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty!"

"Get up!" Jiajing sighed, then stretched out his hand, and Lu Ben immediately gave the information to Jiajing, and Jiajing collected it.

"I originally thought that you would not change like those ministers in the end, but I didn't expect that you would still follow the old path of those ministers. I want to know why? Tell me!" Jiajing asked Lu Ben.

"Your Majesty, I'm confused!" Lu Ben stood up and bowed to Jiajing in shame.

"It's unreasonable to be confused. Xia Yan is like this, Zhang Zheng is like this, and you are like this, and Yan Song, I don't say it, you know that although Xu Jie has not found a big problem yet, it will be hard to say in a few years.

However, Xu Jie probably didn't dare to do it, and he didn't dare to do it. Zhang Hao was there, he didn't dare. He was afraid that Zhang Hao would deal with him and be dealt with by his son-in-law. It would be bad. And you, I want to know why you want to join them to oppose the King of Jin. In addition, Wei Hao was going to assassinate Zhang Hao because of money?

You actually have a lot of money. After you discount the gifts you give to you during festivals, you also have a lot of property. Why is it unsafe for the later years?" Jiajing saw Lu Ben and continued to ask.

"Emperor, me, me!" Lu Ben didn't know what to say.

"Sit down, just now, Zhang Hao told me that you are going to retire and go home. Whether you die or not is not that important. As for me, I can tell you now that I will exempt you from death and I don't plan to punish you, but I want to know why this is the case. Is it really wrong? Is it because I was harsh on you? Is it really not worth your careful assistance?" Jiajing told Lu Ben that he had exempted him from death and did not plan to pursue him, but asked several questions in succession.

"Emperor, I am ashamed, I am, my, my, my, my!" Lu Ben knelt down at this moment, cried bitterly, and kowtowed without listening.

"I have said that I will avoid your death penalty. Why do you want to do this? Get up and talk to me. This afternoon, we are the two of us, let's talk carefully, and I will see how many problems we have. In addition, you also want to talk to me, what do you think about the future of the Ming Dynasty!" Jiajing said to Lu Ben with a calm face.

"Thank you, I'm ashamed!" Lu Ben said to Jiajing with tears on his face.

"Sit down and say, there is not so much attention. We are in the throne and minister, and you are leaving. I want to listen to your heart, listen to your true words, and listen to your heart!" Jiajing continued to say to Lu Ben, and after that, he drank with tea.

"Yes, then, that's the minister, I'll be brave enough to say that I'd better thank the emperor for his unjust sin!" Lu Ben nodded and bowed to Jiajing.

"Yeah, OK!" Jiajing nodded.

"In fact, for King Jin, it is not a matter of not saving it at all. It is because Zhang Hao investigates King Jin, which involves many ministers in the court, and some ministers are close to me. I know that King Jin should die, and I also know that King Chu and others are doing this wrong.

However, Zhang Hao's existence threatened those civil officials. To be serious, it threatened the dignity of our civil officials. Therefore, I did not say that I must get rid of Zhang Hao. As long as they remove Zhang Hao, I will not object, but I will not say that I will participate in it. I just watched silently. After they killed Zhang Hao, I will do my best to do the next thing.

In fact, these are all caused by selfish thoughts. I and Zhang Hao have no selfish grudges. I even say that I still admire Zhang Hao very much. I admire Zhang Hao’s killing of those corrupt officials.

However, when I arrived at this position, there were many officials below. No matter whether those officials were good or corrupt officials, they said to the outside world that they were all their people, so I had no choice but to stand up and oppose Zhang Hao.

But Zhang Hao did the right thing. The Ming Dynasty needs an official like Zhang Hao and needs him to kill him. If he doesn't stop it, the Ming Dynasty will be over. Maybe this generation will not be over, but the accumulated contradictions will break out one day.

Moreover, I have not paid attention to what Zhang Hao did in Shuntian Prefecture. It is really good. The reason why those assassins were arrested was because Zhang Hao was kind to the people. When those assassins were arrested, I sighed that the Ming Dynasty needed Zhang Hao, and the people of the world needed Zhang Hao, and Zhang Hao could not be lost like this. These are all God's will!" Lu Ben sat there and said to Jiajing.

Jiajing nodded and signaled him to drink tea. After Lu Ben picked up the tea and finished drinking it, Jiajing continued to pour it on him.

"Your Majesty, why are you not guaranteed in your later years? In fact, I have no plans to ask for these 200,000 taels, but it is not possible to not. Those vassal kings actually control many ministers. If the ministers do not accept them, then those ministers will listen to the vassal kings and attack them. The ministers can only accept them.

They dared not go to find Xu Jie, because Xu Jie was Zhang Hao's father-in-law, and they dared not go to find Yan Song. Because Yan Song heard from the emperor, they looked for me. I couldn't sleep for several nights after receiving so much money. Later, I saw that there was nothing wrong, so I didn't take it seriously, but I couldn't control the matter of the King of Chu later." Lu Ben continued.

"Well, you really can't control this!" Jiajing nodded and said in agreement.

"The Emperor just said, why every cabinet who serves as the chief minister cannot fall well? In fact, the key is that the cabinet minister has too much power, especially the chief minister. Although everything needs to be reported to the emperor, the cabinet has handled many things. The cabinet's opinion is the emperor's opinion.

The ministers below dare not disobey, so many ministers want to curry favor with the chief minister of the cabinet. Everyone knows this, not only that.

In fact, the cabinet needs to increase its number from three to seven. At the same time, no cabinet minister is established. Anything needs to be signed by more than four ministers, and can be implemented below. If something cannot be explained, report it to the emperor and let the emperor make a decision. This is actually better and greatly weakens the power of the cabinet ministers!" Lu Ben continued to talk to Jiajing about his thoughts.
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