Zhang Jia also figured it out at this time. Zhang Juzheng did have a reason why he couldn't retreat! I’m afraid I can’t even count how many people Zhang Juzheng offended during this reform! It would be fine if he was still in phase, but if he left phase, God knows what would happen?
Moreover, there were two people in the inner court: Feng Bao and Queen Mother Li. In particular, Feng Bao's desire for power was unparalleled among all eunuchs in the past! He would definitely not agree to Zhang Juzheng's withdrawal. Because no one can be sure whether the next person to take over as the first assistant will have such a good cooperative relationship with him. Therefore, he would rather try his best to keep Zhang Juzheng in phase than let him leave!
Thinking of this, Zhang Jia sighed and said: "What kind of thing is this? Why did Long Live Master have such a first assistant, such a great companion, such a..."
Liu Haojia silently completed the word "mother" that he didn't say in his mind and said: "Let's not talk about it for now. Why did Long live the Lord ask me to enter the palace this time?"
Zhang Jia's attention was diverted, and he finally regained some energy and said: "Don't you know Li Song? He was sent to inspect the pension village some time ago to inquire about the news. He entered the palace this morning and is now here. Lord Long Live is waiting there! Lord Long Live said he would listen to it together when you come, so as not to let him say it twice."
Liu Haojia perked up after hearing this! He was very interested in who planted so many spies, so he immediately urged Zhang Jia to speed up.
The two people went directly to Emperor Wanli's palace and sent everyone out, leaving only Emperor Wanli, Zhang Jia, Liu Haojia and Li Song with a look of dust on his face. Liu Haojia met Empress Wanli, and Emperor Wanli immediately said to Li Song: "Now that everyone is here, tell me everything you know!"
Li Song took the opportunity to look up and glanced at Liu Haojia. He knew this person, but he didn't expect that he would be trusted to this extent by Emperor Wanli now! Then he thought of the old eunuchs in Zhuangzi, the longevity tablets given to Liu Haojia by the old palace maids, and his ability to prevent smallpox in folklore. Li Song couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and retracted the idea of having a long-term relationship with Liu Haojia.
After sorting out his thoughts, Li Song said: "Long live my lord, this time I went to inspect the pension village and it was really fruitful! As Mr. Liu said, anyone who does anything will leave traces. The palace people who provide pensions provide Got a lot of news!”
After saying that, he bowed his hand to Liu Haojia, smiled, and expressed his goodwill. Liu Haojia also smiled in return. Emperor Wanli was very satisfied with the harmony among his confidants and smiled.
Then Li Song continued: "Many old palace people admitted that they had betrayed information to many people before, or some people were simply spies planted by outsiders. They also named many people they knew."
After saying that, he took out two documents from his arms and placed them on the table in front of him, and said: "The document on the left was given to me by Eunuch Zhang, and the one on the right is the list that I compiled from the old palace man. I have already given it to you just now. I have checked the two lists, and all the duplicate names in the list have been crossed out, and the ones that have not been crossed out are the people we did not find some time ago."
Emperor Wanli took a look at the roster and found that he didn't recognize many of the people, or had simply heard of their names. After all, the identity of these people is too far from his. It's normal for him not to understand. So he pushed the roster to Zhang Jia.
Zhang Jia took the roster and looked at it carefully. The more he looked at it, the tighter his brows became! Because there are several names on the roster that are in key positions! For example, the imperial dining room and pharmacy! Some of them are even the confidants of several big eunuchs in the palace! I just didn’t expect that they were also spies sent in from outside!
Zhang Jia read the roster and wanted to hand it to Liu Haojia. Liu Haojia shook his head and said, "Eunuch Zhang, I won't read it. I'm not familiar with the people in the palace, and I don't recognize who they are."
Emperor Wanli said: "Are there any new discoveries above?"
Zhang Jia said: "There are some people I can't deal with. They should be relatively low-level palace servants. They are insignificant, but some people have big problems!"
After that, he told the location of the people he recognized, and Liu Haojia broke out in cold sweat! He really didn't expect that after cleaning up the palace, there would be so many fish that slipped through the net! The most frightening thing among them was that there were actually lurking personnel in the Jing army, which was quite scary!
Of course Emperor Wanli and others also recognized this problem, so the room fell into silence for a while. Finally, Emperor Wanli broke the silence and said, "Tell me quickly, how to deal with these people?"
Li Song was eager to show off and said immediately: "I think this slave should be tortured immediately to see who sent them!"
Zhang Jia said worriedly: "Will this alert others? There may be many fish that have slipped through the net!"
Emperor Wanli turned to Liu Haojia and said, "What did Liu Aiqing say?"
Liu Haojia, who had been weighing it in his mind, had made up his mind at this time. He glanced at the nervous Li Song and said, "I am right to say what Eunuch Li said! Because now the palace has been cleaned up, and now I want to go to the palace from the palace." It’s already difficult to spread news outside! So taking them down shouldn’t cause too much of a problem! Especially since the people exposed this time are of high rank, they may have a lot of information that others don’t know. Maybe taking them down will open the door Break through and clean the palace thoroughly!"
Emperor Wanli slapped the table and said, "Okay! Zhang Jia, go and arrange your troops, arrest them all immediately, and then torture them severely!"
Liu Haojia said hurriedly: "There is no need to be so busy, it is better to be more cautious! Start from the periphery first, quietly take down the low-grade palace servants, and finally deal with those with higher grades! Especially Jing Jing People in the army must be careful, because once they incite the army to cause chaos, things will be very troublesome!"
Emperor Wanli said without thinking: "Okay, let's do it! Let Zhang Jia handle this matter, and Li Song will assist!"
Liu Haojia naturally would not compete for this job because he was not familiar with the palace. But Li Song was so excited! Because he took on such an important errand just after he came back from outside, it can be seen that this errand is still favored by Long live the Lord! This is proved by following Zhang Jia to do secret things!
Then the four people had a heated discussion on how to deal with these people! Especially Emperor Wanli was the most active! On the one hand, he hates these people and wishes to kill them with his own hands! On the other hand, participating in these things gives him a sense of accomplishment. Liu Haojia was not familiar with the palace, so he could only occasionally interject words and give reminders, so the matter was settled quickly.
