In the 24th year of Jianing, the old monk "Chan Zhao" from the Kujue Temple in the North traveled to the Imperial Capital of the Ning Dynasty and was granted an audience with Emperor Ning at the Imperial Extreme Hall.
During this time, for reasons unknown, the palace summoned Hu Junyan, the Director of the Imperial Observatory, Xu Shu, the Deputy Director, and Zhang Li, the chief disciple of the Huangshan Dao Court, to the palace overnight.
Zhang Li had long lived in seclusion at the Chongnan City God Temple, and Hu Junyan, usually in quiet cultivation at the Observatory, had already entered the palace early.
But as for Xu Shu, he was nowhere to be found despite extensive searching.
In the end, the Spy Department found the heavily intoxicated Xu Shu in Baishun Alley, carried him into the Forbidden City, and only carried him out again at midnight...
So, Chen Ji was not the first to enter the palace drunk to face the Emperor.
