Fan Li looked at Zhang Juzheng, and Zhang Juzheng also looked at him.
Zhang Juzheng's eyes are extremely complicated!
worship? envy?
Two completely opposite interests are revealed in Zhang Juzheng's eyes.
He indeed admired and envied Fan Li.
Zhang Juzheng had always believed that Fan Li dominated the Chu court and became the prime minister at the head of hundreds of officials at a young age mainly because of the strength of the Fan family.
The last time he was on a mission to the Chu State, he was shocked by Fan Li's awe-inspiring state in the Chengming Palace.
Afterwards, Zhang Juzheng thought about it and suspected that Fan Li had some kind of Confucian treasure hidden in him, so he deceived him.
After all, Fan Li had just started practicing and was only in the body-refining realm. This was an open secret among the Three Kingdoms.
However, not long after the incident, Lan Daoxing, the master of the Ming Dynasty, failed to conquer Wu Zhui.
The reason was that it was Fan Li's fault again!
Only then did Zhang Juzheng realize that he had underestimated the other party!
At this moment, the reason why he appeared in front of Fan Li was because the Ming Dynasty valued Fan Li as much as Emperor Jiajing!
"Master Xiao Zhang? What are you doing?" Fan Li asked with a smile.
Zhang Juzheng is a character with a promising future.
But now, his official rank is only the fourth rank, and even in the Ming Dynasty, he is a low-key person, let alone Fan Li, a high-ranking and powerful Duke of Jin.
At this moment, Zhang Juzheng appeared here, and Fan Li estimated that he was probably an errand boy.
really!
As soon as Zhang Juzheng opened his mouth, his embarrassing position was exposed.
"Mr. Jin, I, His Majesty the Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty, have invited me."
After saying that, Zhang Juzheng's face turned red, as if he was embarrassed that he was just an errand boy.
He turned sideways and raised his hand in a 'please' gesture.
"Jiajing wants to see me?" Fan Li muttered in his heart.
go?
Still not going?
I'm afraid... I have to go!
With that hero's power and strength, as long as he dared to refuse, he would definitely offend him.
The wrath of the Emperor of Heaven?
Fan Li can't bear it yet.
As for Xiang Ning, would he be unhappy when he heard about this?
Forget it, Fan Li couldn't care about the little girl's emotions, his own life was more important than anything else!
"Lead the way."
Fan Li followed Zhang Juzheng.
But he didn't notice that there was an imperceptible sneer at the corner of Zhang Juzheng's mouth.
He didn't even know that Zhang Juzheng's subordinates, who had arranged in advance, had made a special trip to Emperor Chu's palace to report the news that he had been summoned alone by Emperor Jiajing.
Emperor Chu's palace.
"What?! Fan Li went to see Emperor Jiajing behind my back?"
Xiang Ning was stunned and looked at the person in front of him in disbelief.
The visitor was an official of the Ming Dynasty, and his position was humble.
If I were to have the same knowledge as him, it would only damage the emperor's majesty.
"That's right, I'm here to inform His Majesty the Emperor of Chu, so that you won't be troubled if you can't find Duke Jin for a while."
Although this person was only a seventh-grade official, he held his head high and held his chest high, without even kneeling down.
There is quite an attitude of 'I am a minister of the superior state, but I do not bow to the master of the inferior state'!
It happened that at this time, there were still guests in Emperor Chu's palace.
Emperor Han, Liu Xie.
"I understand, please step back."
Xiang Ning glanced at Liu Xie awkwardly and waved the Ming official to leave.
The latter smiled coldly and walked away proudly.
"This man is rude, he should be cut into pieces!"
Liu Xie looked angry for Xiang Ning.
But he reminded: "Don't be impulsive. If you really want to hurt the other person, it will just give Jiajing people an excuse."
Xiang Ning couldn't laugh or cry.
Without the latter sentence, even she would have suspected that Liu Xie was sowing discord.
"Why did Fan Li agree to meet Jiajing?" Xiang Ning still had questions in his mind.
Just as she was thinking about it, she heard Liu Xie say something earth-shattering.
"Your Majesty, Emperor Chu, if Fan Li wants to rebel, why not kill him in Lucheng? Three of my loyal ministers can be lent to Your Majesty to hoe the traitors!"
Xiang Ning opened his mouth and looked at Liu Xie with a dull expression.
"Well... thank you Your Majesty, but I don't think it's enough."
Kill Fan Li?
Please!
The experts in the escort team this time were all selected from the capital garrison.
The garrison is the core force of the Fan family!
If you kill Fan Li today, there is no guarantee that the garrison masters will force the palace tomorrow!
Besides, although Xiang Ning was confused, he really didn't think there was any need to argue with Fan Li about this matter.
"What if he is doing it for my own good?" Xiang Ning even had this thought.
Seeing that Xiang Ning's attitude was not tough, Liu Xie shook his head and sighed helplessly.
"Um? What's wrong, Your Majesty?" Xiang Ning asked.
Liu Xie said regretfully: "His Majesty the Emperor of Chu is still young, too kind-hearted, and too trusting. I think I also trusted Dong Zhuo at the beginning and transferred him from the local area to the capital to help me eliminate the ten permanent servants."
Liu Xie sighed.
"But what's the result? After the destruction of the ten permanent servants, Dong Zhuo took over the power alone, and his tyranny was even greater than that of the ten permanent servants!"
Thinking of old things, tears of regret flowed from Liu Xie's eyes.
He gritted his teeth and said: "If Dong Zhuo is not satisfied with holding the power and dares to behave like Duke Jin today, I will kill him at my own risk!"
Xiang Ning felt a little embarrassed after hearing this and thought: Can you do it?
If you could do it, how could you endure it until today?
Moreover, Dong Zhuo had few disobedient actions on the side of the Han Dynasty...
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Emperor Ming's palace.
Fan Li walked into the main hall and looked up at the imperial steps, but there was no dragon chair, but a futon made of gold thread.
On top of the futon, a middle-aged man who looked like a Taoist priest was sitting, breathing calmly and with a majestic appearance!
It's Emperor Jiajing.
"You don't wear dragon robes, but you wear Taoist robes?"
Fan Li looked up at Emperor Jiajing, thoughtfully in his heart.
At this time, Zhang Juzheng, who was leading the way, had already retreated voluntarily.
In the huge palace, there were only two people, Fan Li and Emperor Jiajing.
Fan Li was just thinking about how to say hello to the emperor of another country, but Emperor Jiajing spoke first.
"You are still a minister of the Chu Kingdom. I will spare you this one time. You don't have to kneel down and bow down."
Fan Li suspected that he was hallucinating.
Damn it!
Why did this old wall lamp say such disgusting words in such a condescending tone?
When did I say that I would kneel down to you?
Xiang Ning has never seen me kneel down!
Finally, Emperor Jiajing slowly opened his eyes, seemingly ending his meditation.
He looked at Fan Li, a smile slowly appearing on his face.
"With your cultivation in the Body Refining Realm, when you look up at me, do you think I look like a mortal, or do I look like a god?"
Fan Li said in his heart: "I think you look like a psycho!"
But Fan Li replied: "Your Majesty is indeed extraordinary."
"Hahaha! You are really tactful. No wonder you are so prosperous in Chu State." Emperor Jiajing laughed loudly: "Among my ministers, you are the first one who dares to answer my questions without intuition!"
Fan Li heard the question in his words and said doubtfully: "Um... Your Majesty, I am a minister of Chu State..."
Emperor Jiajing didn't wait for him to finish speaking, and waved his hand and said: "That won't be the case from now on! I specially recruit you to be an official in the Ming Dynasty and join the cabinet... But you don't have the qualifications yet, so you can be ranked at the bottom and wait for the qualifications." .”
Fan Li finally understood.
It turns out that Jiajing is here to poach someone?
But isn't this old guy too stingy? He was the head of hundreds of officials in Da Chu. He was worshiped as prime minister and granted the title of Duke of Jin.
Surrendering to the Ming Dynasty, although he can still be called a 'prime minister', he is only the last cabinet bachelor?
Where in the world can anyone take a salary cut, be demoted, or change jobs? ? ?
