The Prosperous Era of Longwan

When the palace sent the memorial that had been left for several days back to the cabinet, Emperor Jiajing's instructions quickly spread among the officials in the court.

He was tricked by the emperor again.

Yes, most of the courtiers who knew the contents of the Li Jian's approval felt humiliated and nakedly slapped in the face.

At first, a message was sent asking the ministry to recommend officials to go to Junzhou to investigate the case, but it was rejected later. Then it was reported that the emperor planned to use this year's new Jinshi to handle the case. The result was that a random censor from the Henan Province of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was selected. It’s settled.

Looking back, Emperor Jiajing actually did this not once or twice, but each time it was a warning.

Looking at this incident from Wei Guangde's impeachment to the outbreak of the impeachment trend, the emperor is really dissatisfied with the current courtiers.

Wei Guangde did not expect that Emperor Jiajing would do this. In the end, he turned around and handed the job over to the Metropolitan Procuratorate instead of actually using Xinke Jinshi to handle the case.

But when I think about it, I feel relieved. This is reasonable and saves a little face for the courtiers.

Just yesterday, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate had received the imperial order and left the capital to go south.

At this moment, Wei Guangde was sitting alone in the room reading letters from Nanjing.

The letter was brought by Xu Huai, and now he has become the messenger between Wei Guangde and Xu Bangrui, responsible for delivering messages back and forth.

Of course Xu Bangrui has read Wei Guangde's reply. In the letter, Wei Guangde also bluntly stated that he would help him fight for the hereditary title.

When choosing between Xu Bangrui and Xu Bangning, Wei Guangde would naturally side with the eldest brother of his unmarried wife. There is no doubt about this.

The marriage between the family and the Xu family has begun to go through the process and is completely settled. No matter when it comes, Wei Guangde can no longer get rid of his identity as the son-in-law of the Xu family. Sooner or later he will be involved in it, so why not take the initiative.

Although in Wei Guangde's view, marrying the Xu family would not be of great benefit to him, and might even have a negative impact on his future career, his parents had already decided on it, and there was nothing he could do to stop it.

In this letter, Xu Bangrui brought more information to Wei Guangde, including the relationship he had with his father Xu Pengju in Beijing.

Telling Wei Guangde this also puts him on guard, because he has already found out one thing, that is, after Wei Guangde led the Xuanfu army to defeat the Anda tribe in Baoan Prefecture, his father gave a large amount of money to the officials of the Ministry of War. A generous gift.

Wei Guangde understood this clearly after seeing this. He also wondered why the Ministry of War was obsessed with him in the first place and insisted on letting him leave the Hanlin Academy to serve in the Ministry of War.

The person in charge of pulling the strings in the middle is Wang Jihuai, the current assistant professor of the Imperial College.

Assistant professor of the Imperial College, such an official position is not actually an official. In the capital, such a person really doesn't attract anyone's attention.

But Wei Guangde was shocked by the other person mentioned in the letter: Li Bin, the eunuch of the Bureau of Ceremonies, Bingbi.

Although Wei Guangde did not have much contact with the inner court, he had heard the name Li Bin from Chen Ju. Among the Li Supervisors, he was Li Bin after Gao Zhong.

According to what Xu Bangrui said in the letter, Li Bin was greedy, so his father gave him a lot of gold and silver to be an insider. First, he used Li Bin to learn about the situation of Emperor Jiajing in the palace. The news was naturally Send it to Wang Jihuai and arrange for someone to report to Nanjing.

The second thing is, of course, to speak up and help delay the conversion when a minister of the DPRK "falsely accuses" the Duke of Wei.

This is Xu Bangrui's main relationship with his father in the capital that he has determined so far. As for the other nobles, there is no need to mention that. After all, they all have more or less connections since the founding of the country, so there is no need to repeat them specifically.

Xu Bangrui knew about these two people because of this sealing of orders. Even though his father Xu Pengju did it secretly, he could not avoid the prying eyes of interested people.

"This eunuch is incredible."

Wei Guangde muttered something silently in his mind and hid the letter. The contents on it were regarded as the secrets of the Duke of Wei's palace and could not be leaked.

Wei Guangde put these people aside for now, since he wouldn't meet them for a while anyway.

Wei Guangde met the eunuch of the Si Li Jian and the assistant of the Imperial Academy while walking on the road. It is estimated that they knew him but he did not know them.

But at this time, in Fusi, Jinyiwei North Town, Lu Bing was sitting behind the desk with his eyes closed and meditating.

The words from Huang Jin in the palace confused him, who thought he was familiar with Emperor Jiajing's character. He couldn't figure out whether the emperor was checking Wei Guangde's marriage because he valued Wei Guangde, or to remind him to pay attention to Wei Guogong's mansion, or simply to monitor the entire Xungui Group. Monitor closely.

Of course, Lu Bing knew very well what had just happened. The emperor was very dissatisfied with the current behavior of the people in the court who were careless and neglectful of government affairs. This was another attempt to beat people up.

In fact, Emperor Jiajing's attitude towards Wei Guangde has always puzzled him. It is not at all the emperor's past style.

Thinking that he had received a letter from a good friend last year, asking him to take care of this junior, Wei Guangde still needed his care, so he climbed aboard Emperor Jiajing's boat.

Jin Yiwei actually kept records of Wei Guangde's whereabouts after he came to Beijing. Even when he went to see Gao Gong and other people from Prince Yu's Mansion in a very secretive way, Jin Yiwei also found out about the meeting tickets that he went to, but did not report it.

Can a commoner be considered an official?

Afterwards, I had a private meeting with Chen Ju and passed some notes around. Although I don’t know what was written on the notes, I can roughly guess it from what happened before and after.

Lu Bing could only be surprised that such a strange person could come out of the Wei Institute. Generally, the Jinshi who came out of the Wei Institute were relatively straight, and it was rare to see someone as flexible and flexible as Wei Guangde.

Scholars who have passed the Jinshi examination often have the so-called character and integrity. They open their mouths and shut their mouths to maintain their righteousness and disdain to get involved with the eunuchs of the inner court.

Those who can hang out with eunuchs and eunuchs are often experienced officials. They know that if they want to be successful as officials, they must rely on the power of the inner court, so naturally they have to take the initiative to contact the eunuchs.

I didn't expect that Wei Guangde would understand this just after he entered the officialdom. He was really not an ordinary person.

Before, Lu Bing had only seen Wei Guangde from a distance, but he didn't really know him, let alone talk to him.

But now, Lu Bing wants to get to know Wei Guangde and have a chat with him so that he can make a more accurate judgment about him.

At this moment, a school captain came in, holding a stack of files in his hand.

"Sir, all of Wei Guangde's files are here."

The lieutenant carefully put the file in his hand on the desk and crossed his arms.

"You go down first."

Lu Bing nodded slightly and replied, then picked up the stack of pamphlets on the table and read through them.

Wei Guangde was on duty that day, and he often drank and had fun with his colleagues after being off duty. Now Wei Guangde was a little tired of such social activities.

Wei Guangde directly declined today's activities and wanted to go home to read and take a rest early, so he went straight out of the Hanlin Academy gate after getting off duty.

It was just a beautiful thought. After leaving the door and walking not far, after exiting the official street and entering the Nanxunfang alley, Li San behind him suddenly called Wei Guangde in a low voice.

"Master, we forgot something, let's go back."

Wei Guangde was stunned when he heard the words. He didn't even know what he had forgotten, but Li San's words did reach his ears very clearly.

As soon as Li San reminded him, Wei Guangde noticed that there were several civilian servants in front of the alley. This was an abnormal situation.

Most of the people living around here are officials. The family members are usually very particular about their clothes. They don't wear civilian clothes. They usually wear the clothes of servants at home. They are very uniform, just like the clothes of Li San, Zhao Hu and others. It's the same, that is, Zhang Ji is a little bit special.

But the people in front of the alley were wearing all kinds of clothes, and they didn't look like they were servants from people around here.

When it comes to whose master they are, their appearance and temperament are obviously not the same. They look more like guards.

"Oops."

The first thing Wei Guangde thought about in an instant was whether it was King Hui who sent him to take revenge on him. After all, he took Geng An in and was the first person to write a memorial to impeach him.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde stopped and turned to Li San and said, "It's a good thing you reminded me, otherwise it would be true."

When speaking, Wei Guangde did not look at Li San, but looked behind him. However, when he said this, he knew it was a bit late. A carriage appeared behind him and was slowly driving towards them. There were several people around the carriage. He is also a person who serves the common people.

There is a wolf in front and a tiger behind. This is blocked.

Wei Guangde was surrounded by Li San and Zhao Hu, and Zhang Ji was sent out to see ginseng again today.

There are a lot of ginsengs of ordinary years, decades old, but Wei Guangde doesn't want these ginseng. Even those ginsengs that are hundreds of years old are not of much interest to him. What he wants is at least close to 200 years old. The older the better.

Yesterday I heard that a pharmacy received a 300-year-old ginseng from Liaodong, so Zhang Ji went over to check it out at noon.

The current situation is that there are people in front and behind, about ten people, which is much more than the three people on their side.

In the capital, the guards around Wei Guangde only carry waist knives with them, not bows, arrows or blunderbuss. Especially the blunderbuss, which cannot see the light of day, even if those around him have the identity of Jiujiang Guardsmen. Yes, they will not be said to be soldiers.

Although everyone does this, officially it is considered a "private soldier", which is not a big or small crime.

The reason for this is also related to Wei Guangde's preference for fire guns.

He can draw a bow and arrow now, but he's not very accurate and hasn't practiced much.

His preference for muskets also influenced his father and eldest brother, as well as his uncle Wu Zhankui. They fought against Japanese pirates several times, and the power of muskets was obvious to all.

Although archers are still included in their team in accordance with regulations, the role of these archers has changed from the previous strategic strike force to a task similar to that of snipers. It is no longer a projectile to disrupt the opponent's formation before the two armies engage in battle. Destroy the opponent's morale.

In the past, Wei Guangde would definitely choose a direction to break out, shoot the cannons first, and then rush over, but now he is bare-handed and only has two waist knives.

Although the opponent couldn't see any weapons in his hands, Wei Guangde believed that he must have come prepared and would not be unprepared.

Fortunately, there are high walls on both sides of the alley here. There are no houses or buildings at first glance, so there is no need to worry about ambushing crossbowmen on both sides.

Wei Guangde didn't bother to pretend to talk nonsense, so he simply stopped talking after half a sentence. He just looked at the people approaching on both sides, thinking in his mind whether he should rush forward, rush back to the house to get the guy, or run back, just two alleys away. When we get to Guanshu Street, there will be soldiers patrolling the city, Jin Yiwei and other people from the yamen, so we will be safe there.

But I was also cursing myself in my heart for not being careful, for provoking a royal family member like the prince, and for daring to walk home so arrogantly, even if it was a carriage, I could just rush over.

However, the people on both sides did not continue to approach them, and stopped about ten steps away.

The curtain of the carriage was opened, and a man in brocade robes serving as a school captain got out of the carriage. Shi Shiran walked up to Wei Guangde, clasped his fists and said with a smile, "I dare to ask, but I have disturbed Mr. Wei."

"Jin Yiwei? I haven't had any trouble with you, have I? I wonder what this means today?"

When Wei Guangde saw that it was someone from Jinyiwei, he felt panicked.

Who in the capital doesn't know that the leader of Jin Yiwei is Lu Bing, who is a die-hard member of Emperor Jiajing.

What does it mean to intercept oneself with Jinyiwei?

Emperor Jiajing wants to attack him?

I never thought about rebelling. I am different from other time-travelers.

Wei Guangde felt a little wronged in his heart at this moment. When reading novels in the past, most other time travelers had to make trouble when they returned to the past. However, those time travels were during or near troubled times, so they had the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos. Achieve a king's hegemony.

The era Wei Guangde wore was not the time for rebellion.

If it were worn by Altan in the 29th year of Jiajing, he could still wander around Tongzhou, find a road into Beijing, and try to beat him.

At that time, the Ming army was indeed at its weakest in terms of combat effectiveness. In addition to the incompetence of the leading generals, there was actually still some hope of breaking into Beijing.

However, Wei Guangde didn't have that luck and became a military household. Fortunately, his family had a hereditary military position. Otherwise, let alone studying, it would be good if he didn't starve to death.

"Master Wei, there is no need to ask any more questions. I am only doing this under orders. Please come with us, Master Wei."

The man said something very rude to Wei Guangde in a humble tone.

Perhaps due to professional habits, Wei Guangde was asked to go with him directly. This was probably what Jin Yiwei said the most to the court officials.

Well, maybe he didn't think it was anything, but when the words reached Wei Guangde's ears, he instantly understood that he was invited to tea by Emperor Jiajing.

Yes, there are procedures and rules for Jin Yiwei to take people, and they cannot take people casually.

This was the capital, and the only explanation for blocking his path so unscrupulously was that the order came from the emperor.

Wei Guangde didn't even bother to ask them for their driving tickets. He just pointed to Li San and others behind him and said, "They are just my followers. There is no need to go together."

Although Wei Guangde had not yet figured out where he had offended the emperor, the scene before him made him unable to resist.

A monk who can escape cannot escape from the temple. Even if he can escape, can he escape from the huge capital city?

If he runs away, it will bring disaster to the family, so it's better to follow him and see what's going on.

It's just a prince who was cheated on, and he's not the emperor's son, so there's no need to retaliate afterwards.