prosperous age

Chapter 256 Chapter 255
The Forbidden City is the central axis of the city of Beijing. A long straight road outside the Chengtian Gate ends at the Daming Gate. If it continues to extend outward, it is the inner city gate Zhengyang Gate.

The straight road outside Chengtian Gate happened to divide the important government offices of the Ming Dynasty into east and west.

The yamen in the east is naturally adjacent to East Chang'an Street, and the yamen in the west is adjacent to West Chang'an Street.

The Hanlin Academy is located at the outermost part of the concentration area of ​​government offices in the east, so it is very convenient to go up and down, but today it is a little far away for Wei Guangde.

The General Secretary is located on West Chang'an Street, with the back of the Five Armed Forces Governor's Mansion, and Fengtianmen can be seen from the main gate of the Yamen.

The purpose of placing the Secretary of General Affairs in this position is naturally to allow the Secretary of General Administration to send the memorial to the palace as quickly as possible and submit it to the emperor for review.

The full name of the Tongzheng Division is the Tongzheng Envoy, and its chief is the Tongzheng Envoy, who is in charge of internal and external chapters and subjects' sealed appeals.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the prime minister had great power, having a subordinate relationship with various departments of the central government, and had the right to review the memorials before the emperor handled them, and select some of them to submit.

In such an environment, the yamen of the imperial court actually obeyed the orders of the prime minister, that is, Hu Weiyong.

The unbearable Zhu Yuanzhang executed Hu Weiyong and abolished the prime minister system that had lasted for thousands of years.

However, after losing the classification and handling of memorials by the Ministry of Education, the emperor gradually collapsed in the face of mountains of disorganized memorials every day. Finally, in July of the tenth year of Hongwu, the General Administration Department was set up to specialize in memorials.

The power of the General Administration Department is to split up the prime minister's arrangement and submit various memorials to the emperor. Disasters, disasters, etc.”; during the administration of the Chang Dynasty, the Chief of the General Administration Department and the General Administration Envoy have to report to the emperor all kinds of affairs in the court; when discussing major policies, prisons, and meeting the ministers of civil and military affairs, the General Administration Envoy is eligible to participate .

During the four dynasties of Hongwu, Yongle, Hongxi, and Xuande, the General Secretary has always been valued by the court, because it is an important way for the emperor to control the direction of the officialdom under his rule. Whenever there is trouble, it will inevitably start from the General Secretary.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the authority of the Secretary of the General Administration should be said to be quite large, especially in the face of the emperor for a long time. In addition to the normal submission of memorials, the General Administration of Envoys would often meet with the emperor directly to submit emergency memorials in case of emergencies.

However, after Yingzong ascended the throne at the age of nine, the power of the government fell into the hands of the three ministers of the cabinet, and the general governor lost the right to meet the emperor alone to report, and could only rely on the cabinet to follow orders. This gradually became a common practice.

Yang Rong, on the grounds of the health of the Eucharist, intervened in the number of reports made by the General Secretary during the Chang Dynasty, saying that only eight things were allowed to be said in the morning court every day, and the cabinet had to be informed in advance.

Later, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty neglected political affairs and rarely reviewed memorials. Everything was handed over to the cabinet and the supervisor of rituals.

The Qing Dynasty followed the Ming Dynasty, and the general administration system was also retained, but its status in the Jianghu was low, and it became a redundant department in the eyes of courtiers. During the Reform Movement of [-], it was dismissed as a model of useless departments by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao. It was abolished during the New Deal in the late Qing Dynasty.

But these things have no effect on Wei Guangde at present, today he is going to send the memorial to the Secretary of General Administration, the cabinet and Xiyuan.

The current Chief Envoy of the General Administration is Yan Song's godson Zhao Wenhua, but Zhao Wenhua is not in Beijing at this time, but went to Zhejiang for the second time to command the war against Japanese.

After Wei Guangde signed the pledge at the gate of the Imperial Academy, he went straight back to his private room and sat for a while, taking out the prepared memorabilia and pleadings to read carefully.

He read it countless times last night, repeatedly deliberating on the wording in the text, trying to make no mistakes.

In the memorandum, Wei Guangde described in detail the matter of Geng An who was sued by Lu Yu, and also included the attached Geng An pleading paper in the memorandum, in order to avoid being taken away or dropped.

Although Chen Ju said that there should be no King Hui in the court, Wei Guangde still took precautions.

After drinking half a pot of tea, he got up and Shi Shi ran out of the office, out of the Hanlin Academy, and walked towards the Secretary of the General Administration.

Walking east along West Chang'an Street, the majestic Fengtian Gate on the right gradually becomes clear. There are a large number of guards standing upstairs and downstairs as before, which is the same as the palace examination half a year ago.

Six months ago, he was just a commoner, or a famous scholar.

Half a year later, he was already a petty official.

But now, what he wants to win is naturally to gain more rights, so that he can live a better life in the Ming Dynasty.

Wei Guangde would not do something that would make Emperor Jiajing unhappy, it was not right but stupid, at least he would never do it if he had no chance of winning.

Wei Guangde has already figured out how to live a stable life in the Ming Dynasty, just like Hai Rui, this is one of the few Jiajing Dynasty celebrities that Wei Guangde remembers.

Hai Rui wrote a book about "Jiajing Jiajing, every family is clean". Wei Guangde didn't remember the specific name, but he only knew that Emperor Jiajing yelled at him to kill him after reading it.

Of course, it didn't work out in the end.

Regarding this matter, Wei Guangde had already thought about it. He would not do anything at the beginning. At that time, Emperor Jiajing was in a rage. Even if he knew that Hai Rui would not die in the end, he couldn't plead for mercy in anger. Knife.

It's better to wait until Emperor Jiajing's anger dissipates before writing a letter to intercede. Only by grasping the timing can we maximize the benefits and make a name for himself.

This is also one of the few opportunities that Wei Guangde has grasped, and he absolutely cannot afford to miss it.

Now this impeachment of King Hui, although Wei Guangde doesn't know what the final result will be, whether King Hui will fall because of this, but he only hopes to achieve his goal, which is to use the official brand of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

With the censor brand, his official authority should be much stronger in the future. At least if he was the censor at the beginning, Liu Dazhang would not dare to object to his opinions, and could only promise himself to himself.

When he reached the gate of Tongzhengsi, Wei Guangde went straight in without hesitation, and the guards outside the gate naturally wouldn't stop him, this is Tongzhengsi.

Entering the lobby, this is the place where the officials handed in the memorials, but at this time today, there seemed to be no one there. When Wei Guangde entered the room, he saw that it was empty, and he was the only one who came to hand in the memorials.

"Yo, Lord Wei is here."

Wei Guangde is now quite well-known in the official circles of the capital, even people who didn't know him before, after Wei Guangde returned to Beijing from the Xuanfu, they would find an opportunity to go to the Imperial Academy to recognize what he looks like.

The person who spoke was Huang Dacheng, the Right Counselor of the Secretary of General Administration, and the others were served by a few scribes.

"Master Huang."

Wei Guangde hastily bowed his hands, he came here, needless to say, he knew that he was submitting memorials.

According to the procedure, after the official submits the memorial, the Secretary of the General Administration will give him a note, recording the time and the name of the person who received the memorial, as well as the main content of the memorial.

Wei Guangde handed over his memorial, and stood quietly by the side without saying a word.

Here, Wei Guangde had already been here once last time, it was a thank you note after being rewarded.

However, in Wei Guangde's opinion, that note is not a memorandum, but a procedural thing, and he must thank the emperor for his reward.

In Wei Guangde's opinion, the impeachment memorandum submitted by me this time is something that has something to say, and it is a real memorandum.

Huang Dacheng took Wei Guangde's memorabilia and opened it, and the pleadings inside caught his eyes, he was surprised, but he also quickly browsed the pleadings, and then read Wei Guangde's memorabilia.

The impact is a bit big.

Wei Guangde started to impeach people again.

Well, the first time Wei Guangde entered the door, Huang Dacheng actually had such a premonition in his heart.

The first memorial of Wei Guangde seen by Huang Dacheng was naturally forwarded by Weng Pu, impeachment of the right governor, Xuanfu chief military officer Liu Dazhang's memorial, impeachment of first-rank military generals from seventh-rank officials.

Looking at the memorandum in his hand again, it has been upgraded, it has really been upgraded, this time it is the seventh-rank Zhima official who impeached the super-rank prince, and is still the Prince Hui who is extremely favored by the current Emperor Jiajing.

This Wei Guangde is so bold.

The story of Emperor Jiajing's stay in Xiyuan is only spread among court officials who are in contact with the emperor's servants. For most officials, they don't know that the emperor once scolded King Hui.

In their impression, they still believed that King Hui was a highly trusted courtier of Emperor Jiajing.

In fact, most of the Beijing officials have more or less connections in the palace, but most of these connections are not with the emperor's servants.

The news in the palace spread quickly, but it was not so fast that the Forbidden City was filled with chaos in an instant.

And the servants around the emperor also know how to measure, except for a very few channels that will inform, most of them will only spread after a period of time.

Then it was passed on word of mouth by the servants, and finally made known to all civil and military officials in the outer dynasty.

At this time, only the officials with eyeliner arranged around Emperor Jiajing knew the news that King Hui had fallen out of favor.

However, for those officials, whether or not to impeach a prince is irrelevant to their official career, so most of them did not take any action.

To be able to establish contact with the close ministers around the emperor, naturally he would not be an ordinary official in the court, at least he had to go up to the fourth rank.

For a low-ranking official like the Secretary of the General Administration, there is naturally no door.

However, they also have an advantage, that is, when accepting officials' memos, they can immediately understand the changes in the officialdom.

As long as there are two or three memorials on the impeachment of King Hui after Wei Guangde, the clever people will understand what it means.

It's just that at this time, after reading Wei Guangde's memorial, Huang Dacheng's face was expressionless, and he wrote a note step by step to accept Wei Guangde's memorial.

Wei Guangde took the note and read it once, then folded it and put it in his arms, thanked Huang Dacheng before turning and leaving.

The moment he turned around, Huang Dacheng's face, which had been imperceptible before, twitched slightly, and looked at Wei Guangde's leaving back with the eyes of an idiot.

In fact, it is not that the Secretary of General Administration has not received the memorial to the impeachment of King Hui.

Since the third King of Hui, Zhu Houxuan, flattered Emperor Jiajing and gained favor, he framed some local officials for his friends below, and was impeached many times by local civil officials and the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

However, after these memorials were sent to the Secretary of General Administration and sent to the cabinet, most of them ended in vain.

After a long time, everyone can see that there is something wrong. King Hui's background is a bit big, and he can't sue him.

The current king of Hui, Zhu Zaixi, is the same as his father. He voted for Emperor Jiajing, recommended alchemists, offered elixirs, and then was impeached by civil officials. Naturally, there was no result. The position of the prince is still secure. keep doing it.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Beijing officials, King Hui really couldn't move him.

As time goes by, no one pays attention to King Hui's crimes anymore, and it's just a waste of time to keep staring at him if he can't be sued.

Huang Dacheng did not expect that today he actually received the memorial to impeach King Hui in his hand. After hesitating for a while, seeing that Wei Guangde had already left the gate of the General Secretary, he got up and walked into the Yamen with Wei Guangde's memorial in his hand. go.

Of course he wouldn't help King Hui with anything, but he had to tell his superiors, the left and right officials in charge, that Zhao Wenhua, the official in charge of the yamen, was not here, and the left can participate in government affairs on his behalf.

Whether to hand in, when to hand in, these are all particular.

Of course, it is impossible to conceal it and not report it. It just depends on when it will be submitted to the cabinet for processing, and whether it needs to be sent to an adult alone.

"Impeach King Hui?"

"Yes, my lord, this is the first time Wei Guangde has been successfully impeached, so he thinks he is the number one lawyer, hehe"

"Don't worry so much, handle it according to the rules, send it to the cabinet, no matter who handles it has nothing to do with us."

"Yes."

Wei Guangde did not cause much trouble in the General Administration Department in the memorial, and only a few words of dialogue solved his most worried problem.

In Wei Guangde's opinion, no matter how arrogant a person like King Hui is, he would know that other than the emperor in the current dynasty, Yan Ge is the old man. Don't they know how to send gifts to the Yan family to keep them safe?
What Wei Guangde was most worried about was being suppressed by Yan Shifan. No matter whether Yan Song confiscated the benefits of King Hui, he would not deliberately suppress the memorial, but would choose the right time to deal with it.

But Yan Shifan was much more courageous, and he was also famous for taking money to do things. Wei Guangde thought that King Hui would ask the Yan family to take care of him. After all, King Hui really had a dirty ass.

But what made Wei Guangde miscalculate was that King Hui really had nothing to do with the Yan family. Perhaps in the eyes of King Hui Zhu Zaixun, it was enough for him to handle his relationship with the emperor well.

He is a prince, and only Emperor Jiajing can determine his future.

The Yan family is extremely powerful, and that is only for civil servants.

As long as Emperor Jiajing still favors and trusts him, no matter how civil servants impeach him, will he still be afraid of these people if he is a dignified prince of the Ming Dynasty and grandson of the Zhu family?
Wei Guangde's memorial was sent to Dongge together with other memorials at noon, and after a simple screening by the scribes, it was sent to the public rooms of Yan Song and Xu Jie respectively.

Wei Guangde's memorabilia was sent to Xu Jie's room, and when he was reading the memorabilia in the afternoon, Xu Jie naturally saw it.

It's just that Xu Jie didn't directly make any instructions on the note, but picked up the memorial and went to Yan Song's office.

After Yan Song read Wei Guangde's memorial, he was silent for a moment, and said to Xu Jie: "Look for the convention, just have the secretary check it.

I remember that there were many memorials to the impeachment of King Hui in the past few years, but I haven’t seen them in recent years, hehe
Anyway, it’s nothing more than staying in China, we can do whatever we want. "

"What Ge Lao said is that I was worrying too much."

Xu Jie whispered on the side, and then bid farewell to Yan's father and son and went back to his own public house to prepare tickets, and the matter was considered over.

In fact, Xu Jie didn't know whether the Yan family had any connection with King Hui, so after seeing Wei Guangde's memorial, he sent it there as soon as possible. Since the Yan family didn't care, he could follow the rules.

(End of this chapter)