prosperous age

Chapter 262 261 Come With Us

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

Played by the emperor again.

Yes, most of the courtiers who knew the content of the supervisor's approval of the scandal felt humiliated and slapped them in the face.

At the beginning, it was rumored that the ministry would recommend officials to go to Junzhou to investigate the case, but it was rejected later, and then it was rumored that the emperor planned to use this year's new division jinshi to handle the case. It's settled.

Thinking back, Emperor Jiajing didn't play like this once or twice, each time it meant a strong warning.

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

Wei Guangde did not expect that Emperor Jiajing would do this, and finally turned around and handed over the errand to the Metropolitan Procuratorate instead of actually appointing Xinke Jinshi to handle the case.

But after thinking about it, I was relieved, this was reasonable, and it left a little bit of face for the courtiers.

Just yesterday, the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate had taken the emperor's order to leave Beijing and go south.

At this moment, Wei Guangde was sitting alone in the room reading the letter 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 had read Wei Guangde's reply letter, and in the letter Wei Guangde also bluntly expressed that he would help him compete for the hereditary title.

Choosing between Xu Bangrui and Xu Bangning, Wei Guangde will naturally stand on the side of the eldest brother of the unmarried daughter-in-law, there is no doubt about it.

The marriage between the family and the Xu family has already begun to go through the procedures, it is completely settled, no matter when he, Wei Guangde, will not be able to get rid of his status as the son-in-law of the Xu family, and he will be involved sooner or later, why not take the initiative.

Although in Wei Guangde's view, marrying the Xu family is not of great benefit to him, and may even have a negative impact on his future career, but his parents have already made a decision, and he has no way to stop it.

In this letter, Xu Bangrui gave Wei Guangde more information, including his father Xu Pengju's relationship in Beijing.

Telling Wei Guangde this is also to make him a little bit on guard, because he has already found out one thing, that is, after Wei Guangde led the Xuanfu Army to repel the Ida Ministry in Baoan Prefecture, his father sent a lot of money to the officials of the Ministry of War generous gift.

Wei Guangde understood this passage, and he also wondered why the Ministry of War was obsessed with him and insisted on letting him leave the Imperial Academy to serve in the Ministry of War.

The person in charge of threading the needle is Wang Jihuai, the current assistant teacher of Guozijian.

Assistant teacher of Guozijian, such an official position is actually not considered an official. In the capital, such a person really does not attract attention.

It's just that the other person mentioned in the letter surprised Wei Guangde, Li Bin, the eunuch who was in charge of ceremonies and Bingbi.

Although Wei Guangde didn't have much contact with the inner court, he had heard the name Li Bin from Chen Ju. In the Supervisor of Rites, he was Li Bin after Gao Zhong.

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

The second thing is, of course, when a minister of the court "framed" Wei Guogong's mansion, he spoke up and helped delay the conversion.

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

Xu Bangrui knew about these two people because of the appointment. Even though his father Xu Pengju kept it secret, he couldn't keep people from prying on him.

"This eunuch is terrible."

Wei Guangde said silently in his heart, hide the letter well, the contents on it are the secrets of Duke Wei's mansion, and they must not be leaked out.

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

The eunuch of the Supervisor of Rituals and the teaching assistant of the Imperial Academy, Wei Guangde met each other on the road, probably they knew him but he didn't know them.

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

The words from Huang Jin in the palace confused him who thought he was familiar with Emperor Jiajing's nature. He didn't know whether the emperor's investigation into Wei Guangde's marriage was because he valued Wei Guangde, or to remind him to pay attention to monitoring Wei Guogong's mansion, or simply wanted to pay attention to the entire honorable group. Closely monitor them.

Lu Bing was naturally aware of what happened just now. The emperor was very dissatisfied with the ignorance and negligence of the people in the court. This was hitting people again.

In fact, Emperor Jiajing's attitude towards Wei Guangde has always confused him, which is completely different from the emperor's previous style.

Thinking of receiving a letter from a good friend last year, asking him to take care of this junior, Wei Guangde still needs his care, so he climbed on the boat of Emperor Jiajing.

Jin Yiwei actually has records of Wei Guangde's whereabouts since he came to Beijing, and Jin Yiwei also found out about the fact that he thought he was secretly going to see Gao Gong and other people in Prince Yu's Mansion and sent the meeting ticket, but he didn't report it.

Can a concubine be considered an official?

Later, I met with Chen Ju in private and passed some notes. Although I don't know what was written on the notes, I can roughly guess from what happened before and after.

Lu Bing could only be amazed that the Wei Institute could produce such a wonderful work. Generally, Jinshi from the Wei Institute are relatively straight, and it is really rare to see someone as flexible as Wei Guangde.

Scholars who have been admitted to Jinshi often have the so-called strength of character and integrity. They keep their mouths open and shut up to cultivate righteousness, and they don't bother to get involved with eunuchs in the inner court.

Those who can get along with eunuchs and eunuchs are often veterans in the officialdom who have experienced officialdom. 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 more or less.

I didn't expect Wei Guangde to understand these things just after entering the officialdom, he is really not an ordinary person.

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

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

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

"My lord, all the files of Wei Guangde are here."

The school lieutenant carefully put the file in his hand on the desk and clasped his fists.

"You go down first."

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

These days Wei Guangde was off duty, and he often drank and had fun with his colleagues after off duty, and now Wei Guangde was a little annoyed by such social activities.

For today's event, Wei Guangde directly shied away from wanting to go home to read and rest early, so he left the gate of the Imperial Academy directly after his duty.

It's just a beautiful thought, after walking out the door and not far away, after leaving the government office street and entering Nanxunfang alley, Li San behind him suddenly called Wei Guangde in a low voice.

"Master, we forgot about things, let's go back."

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

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

Most of the people living here are officials, and the family members usually dress very carefully. They don't know how to wear civilian clothes. They usually wear the clothes of the servants in the family. 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 the servants of the people nearby.

As for who the master is, their appearance and temperament are obviously different, and more people are like guards.

"Oops."

Wei Guangde thought for a moment, first of all, whether King Hui sent him to retaliate against 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, "Fortunately, you reminded me, otherwise it will be true."

When speaking, Wei Guangde didn't look at Li San, but looked behind him, but he knew it was a bit late when he said this, and a carriage appeared behind him and was slowly driving towards them. There were still a few people around the carriage. A man who is also a civilian servant.

There are wolves in front and tigers in back, which is blocked.

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

There are many ginsengs in ordinary years, decades old, but Wei Guangde doesn't want these ginsengs, even those century-old ginsengs. He is not very interested. He wants at least 200 years.

I heard yesterday that a pharmacy received a 300-year-old ginseng from Liaodong, so Zhang Ji went to see things at noon.

The current situation is that there are people in the front and back, a dozen or so, which is much more than the three on their side.

In the capital, the guards around Wei Guangde only carry waist knives, not the bows and arrows, especially the bird guns, which cannot be seen, even if those around him have the status of Jiujiang guards. Yes, and they will not say that they are soldiers.

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

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

He can pull the bow and arrow now, but he is not very accurate and practiced less.

His preference for bird guns has also affected his father and elder brother, as well as his uncle Wu Zhankui. He has fought Japanese pirates several times, and the power of bird guns is obvious to all.

Although archers are still included in their team according to the regulations, the role of these archers has changed from the previous strategic strike force to a task similar to that of a sniper. Destroy the opponent's morale.

In the past, Wei Guangde would definitely choose a direction to break through, first finish hitting the blunderbuss, and then rush over, but now he is bare-handed, with only two waist knives at hand.

Although the other party couldn't see any weapons in his hand, Wei Guangde believed that he must have come prepared, not unprepared.

Fortunately, there are high walls on both sides of the alley here. At first glance, there are no houses and cottages, so there is no need to worry about the ambushes and crossbowmen on both sides.

Wei Guangde didn't bother to pretend to be nonsense, so he stopped talking after half a sentence, just looked at the people approaching on both sides, thinking in his heart whether to rush back to the house to get the guy or run back, just pass two alleys Go to Guanshu Street, where there are soldiers patrolling the city, Jinyiwei and other yamen people, and it will be safe to get there.

However, I was also cursing myself in my heart for not being careful, and even offending royal family members like the prince, and dared to walk home so swaggeringly, even if I took a carriage, I just rushed over.

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

The curtain on the carriage was lifted, and a man dressed as a guard in Jinyi got out of the carriage. Shi Shiran walked up to Wei Guangde, cupped his fists and said with a smile, "If you dare to ask, it disturbed Mr. Wei."

"Jin Yiwei? I haven't had an affair with you, have I? I don't know today, what does this mean?"

Wei Guangde panicked when he saw that it was Jin Yiwei.

Who in the capital does not know that the leader of Jinyiwei is Lu Bing, who belongs to Emperor Jiajing's hardcore.

What does it mean to stop yourself with Jin Yiwei?
Emperor Jiajing wanted to attack him?
I never thought of rebelling, I'm different from other time travelers.

Wei Guangde felt a little wronged at the moment. In the past, when reading novels, most of the other time travelers had to make troubles when they went back to the past. Achieving a kingly hegemony.

Wei Guangde's era is not the time for rebellion.

If it is worn on the body of Altan in the 29th year of Jiajing, you can also go to Panheng near Tongzhou, find a road into Beijing, and try to fight.

At that time, the Ming army was indeed at its weakest combat effectiveness, and the leading generals were not good enough. In fact, they still had a little hope of breaking into Beijing.

But Wei Guangde didn't have that luck. He became a military household. Fortunately, his family has hereditary military positions.

"Your Majesty Wei doesn't need to ask any more questions. I'm just following orders. Please, Master Wei, come with us."

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

Perhaps it was because of professional habits, asking Wei Guangde to go with him directly, this should be the most spoken sentence Jin Yiwei said to the court officials.

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

Yes, Jinyiwei has procedures and rules for picking people, but you can't just take people casually.

This is the capital city, the only explanation for daring to block his way so unscrupulously is that the order came from the mouth of the emperor.

Wei Guangde didn't even bother to ask them for a driving ticket, he just pointed to Li San and the others behind him and said: "They are just my followers, there is no need to go with them."

Although Wei Guangde hadn't figured out where he provoked the emperor until now, the scene in front of him made him powerless to resist.

A monk can run away but can't run away from the temple, even if he can run out, can he get out of the huge capital?
If you run away, you will bring disaster to your family, so follow along to see what's going on.

It's just that he killed a prince, and he's not the emperor's own son, so there's no need to retaliate afterwards.

(End of this chapter)