prosperous age

Chapter 279 Chapter 278

At night, the flower hall in the back garden of Prince Yu's Mansion was still brightly lit.

Yu Wang was sitting on the upper chair at this time, his arms propped on the armrest, lost in thought, and other people in the room behaved like him.

The eunuch Li Fang, who was standing beside King Yu, and Gao Gong, who was sitting next to him, were either frowning or lowered their heads in thought.

The atmosphere in the room was terrifyingly quiet, without a single sound, and it was night again, making the whole environment even more silent.

"Aha."

At this moment, King Yu involuntarily yawned.

At this point in the past, he had already gone to bed, but today he stayed here until now because of the news brought back by Gao Gong and Li Fang.

The key point is that staying here seems to be of no use. After thinking about it for a long time, he can't think of anyone in the capital who can recommend to compete for the position of Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

If you want to be in the top position, you have to be at least the third rank or an official of the third rank, and the fourth rank is almost meaningless.

If it is to go up in order, that is, the left and right ministers of the six departments will go up to serve as ministers. Their people are qualified to take the position of ministers, but it is quite difficult to directly jump two or three levels to the position of ministers.

The sound of Yu Wang yawning naturally alarmed the others, and everyone turned their attention to Yu Wang at this time.

Being watched by everyone, he lost his composure just now, King Yu felt a little embarrassed, hurriedly straightened his uniform, and said to Gao Gong: "Master Gao, do you think the news sent by Guangde is accurate? Mr. Gu thinks it's not very good It's reliable, but there is no news in the court, how did he know."

In order to divert everyone's attention, Yu Wang began to chatter here and there.

In fact, when he first saw the note, King Yu didn't quite believe what it said.

How long has Wei Guangde been in the capital?
Their Prince Yu's Mansion is a native of the capital, and they have not received such news. How could Wei Guangde know about it first?
Although Gao Gong said when he came over at night that he completely believed in Wei Guangde's words, King Yu also chose to believe it.

Can't trust others, can he still not trust Gao Gong's eyes?
But at this moment, he can only find something to say, and cover up the scene just now.

"My lord, there is no need for Wei Guangde to lie to us about this matter."

Gao Gong just said with a slight smile.

King Yu immediately nodded, "Master Gao is right, but I can't think of a suitable candidate for a while, hey."

Gao Gong understood that he screened out the people who were close to Prince Yu's mansion several times, but he couldn't find anyone. It will be fine if the people from the Yan family continue to occupy this position."

"Pass the news to Xu Huating, he has a wider relationship, maybe someone can be selected, and let him push the person we choose to be the official position of servant."

At this time, Chen Yiqin also spoke.

"Let's think about it for two more days. Now that there is no news about it in the imperial court, it means that it is still very secret. Otherwise, Guangde will definitely have a reminder."

Wei Guangde has never reminded them to act quickly, so Gao Gong thinks that there should be very few people who know about it.

"If it can be done, Guangde should take the lead."

King Yu nodded from above and said.

This information is very important. In the past, what Prince Yu's Mansion lacked was timely information to respond to. Although we don't know where Wei Guangde got the information, it also shows that although he has been an official for a short time, he has already established his own information channel. It's quite remarkable.

Prince Yu's Mansion is not like Jin Yiwei, who can randomly deploy people to follow and investigate, and grasp everything they want.

The financial resources and manpower of Prince Yu's Mansion determined that they could only carry out targeted intelligence collection.

As for Gongli, the operation is even more difficult and the risk is too great.

In fact, King Yu's Mansion has never found a trustworthy person around Emperor Jiajing, and often relied on King Yu's face and affection to find Huang Jin for help.

Huang Jin's attitude towards this Highness has always been very humble, but this is not someone that King Yu can win over, Huang Jin has always been towards Emperor Jiajing.

Wei Guangde only learned about the general strategy set by Prince Yu's Mansion from Yin Shizhen on the second night.

Thinking that Wei Guangde didn't have an errand in Prince Yu's Mansion, naturally he couldn't go to the Palace to attend the meeting. He could only let Yin Shizhen inform him afterwards, which also revealed that Prince Yu's Mansion had accepted him as its backbone.

"Can't even find a fourth-rank official in the capital?"

Although Shangshu is a second-rank minister, as long as the position is suitable and Emperor Jiajing nods, fourth-rank officials can leapfrog to be promoted to second-rank Shangshu, but most of the time they will still be selected from the left and right ministers of the sixth department and the ministers of the five temples.

Now Wei Guangde has a little real understanding of the strength of Prince Yu's Mansion in Beijing, and it is indeed very weak.

It's no wonder that the Ministry of Households can also block the salary and yearly gifts of King Yu's mansion, and King Yu has nothing to do.

The connections that can be used are all low-level officials, but as long as someone above speaks up, the people below naturally dare not make accommodations in private.

After slightly frowning, Wei Guangde continued to ask: "What about outside the capital? Like Nanjing?"

Wei Guangde knew that there was a Sixth Ministry in Nanjing. Most of the officials there were officials who had lost power in the court or were preparing for promotion. There must be some people who have come to seek refuge in Prince Yu's Mansion.

Judging from the weakness of Prince Yu's Mansion, it is difficult to say that those with a slightly higher rank who came over were all officials who lost power because of this, and were relegated to Nanjing Six Departments to retire.

But at this time, it is an opportunity for them to recover.

Of course, Wei Guangde was just treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor. He said casually, after all, he didn't know who were the people standing on the side of Prince Yu's mansion?

"Nanjing?"

When Yin Shizhen heard Wei Guangde mentioning the officials in Nanjing, he seemed to be stunned for a moment. Obviously, they had never thought about Nanjing before.

The small imperial court in Nanjing is a nursing home. Generally, those who are transferred there can only serve as elderly people until they become official. This is considered decent given by the imperial court.

No officials are willing to serve in Nanjing, only officials who need to go to Nanjing for gilding, officials who have been promoted will go there, but the time of service is very short, and they will be transferred to new posts within a few months.

Because of such an impression, Yin Shizhen and the others really didn't think about selecting candidates from Nanjing at first, but only focused on the one-acre-three-point land in the capital.

Being reminded by Wei Guangde, Yin Shizhen really thought of a candidate.

This person turned to Yuwangfu earlier, because he was impeached by Henan Governor Chen Hui when he was in Henan.

In order to help him reduce the punishment, Prince Yu's Mansion tried their best to get him through this difficult time safely, but he was exiled to Shandong Yanyun Tongzhi. Later, because of his achievements in military affairs, he would fight against the bandits in Shandong.

According to his meritorious service, he was moved to inspect the envoys, and the left and right envoys were all in Shaanxi.He worshiped the right deputy capital censor, governor of the others, and was promoted to the position of the right servant of the Ministry of War, the governor of the three-sided military affairs.

But at this time, as the right servant of the Ministry of War, with the sign of Prince Yu's Mansion on his head, he was naturally suppressed by the upper echelons, and the result was to go to Nanjing for promotion. After a few years, he gradually faded out. The eyes of everyone in Prince Yu's Mansion.

Reminded by Wei Guangde, Yin Shizhen suddenly remembered that there is actually such a person in the palace, and he is qualified enough to compete for the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.

Wei Guangde noticed the change in the expression on Yin Shizhen's face, and immediately guessed that there might be something going on, so he asked, "Is there such a candidate?"

"Ahem. I can't find it in the capital, but Guangde, when you mentioned Nanjing, I really thought of such a person. He was also the first to come to the prince's side, and he is considered an old man."

"What position is it now?"

Wei Guangde didn't want to hear about this person's past, but what he cared about now was whether this person was qualified enough to compete for the position in the sixth department of the capital.

"Well, he is now the Minister of the Nanjing Household Department."

Hearing what Yin Shizhen said, Wei Guangde quickly searched the memory in his mind and knew who he was talking about.

Jia Yingchun.

Of course, Wei Guangde didn't know what this person's ability was, this was the first time he heard this person's name.

But no matter what, to be able to climb to the position of Shangshu, there should be no doubt about his ability.

It should be said that he was also the first group of people who received the bonus from Prince Yu's Mansion. It is estimated that those who joined in the early days got the benefits of promotion.

"Is the Nanjing Ministry of Household Affairs transferred to the Beijing Ministry of Industry?"

Wei Guangde muttered a few words in his mouth, and then asked Yin Shiyan: "Is this person reliable?"

After all, they have been demoted to Nanjing for many years, so it is hard to say whether they have other thoughts.

Tigers and leopards are unbearable to ride, and people's hearts are separated from their belly.Hugh will talk about and make friends with your confidantes.

Yin Shizhen shook his head, of course what he wanted to express was not that Jia Yingchun was unreliable, but that he didn't know.

"I have to go back and ask. After all, whether he has had any contact with the palace in recent years, only Eunuch Li knows."

As King Yu's personal secretary, Li Fang naturally has the most secrets in Prince Yu's mansion, maybe even Gao Gong doesn't know as much as he does.

"Let's talk to the prince as soon as possible to see if there are other people in Nanjing who can be used. It's best to clean up as soon as possible. If there is a chance, use the talents there."

Wei Guangde felt that since there was one Jia Yingchun, there might be a second or third one. These people were encumbered by the palace and demoted to Nanjing for retirement. Maybe some people would be unwilling and choose to leave the Yuwang Palace in the end.

Therefore, those who use Nanjing still need to choose carefully, and at the same time try to give them a chance to resume, so as not to chill people's hearts.

Yin Shizhen naturally understood Wei Guangde's thoughts, and nodded slightly, "I'll go back and talk about this right away, and I really should give them some consideration."

Although it was getting late, Yin Shizhen hurriedly bid farewell to Wei Guangde and went to find Gao Gong.

The most involved in the confidential affairs of King Yu, one is Li Fang, and the other is Gao Gong.

Beijing and Nanjing are thousands of miles apart, and it would take a month to deliver a message, so they didn't have much time to waste.

If you really choose to push Jia Yingchun to the position, you must first confirm whether he is still the same as before. These investigations will take time.

After that, it will take a long time to build momentum for him in the capital, so there is no time to delay.

Discuss with Gao Gong first, and then go to King Yu to discuss it. This is the order Yin Shizhen thought of, step by step.

Gao Gong's home is not far from here. It can be said that most of the residences of these officials of the royal family are around the Yuwang Palace, which is also for the convenience of the prince's summoning.

Gao Gong received Yin Shizhen, and after knowing Wei Guangde's thoughts from him, he naturally thought of Jia Yingchun.

When Jia Yingchun joined Prince Yu's Mansion, Gao Gong hadn't given lectures in the Palace yet, so his qualifications were older than him.

However, this person only knew about it, and only met him twice when he was the Minister of the Ministry of War, and he had very little dealings with him.

"Go to the palace and ask Mr. Li."

Gao Gong thought about it and said to Yin Shizhen.

It didn't take long for the two of them to meet Li Fang in the outer courtyard of the palace.

At this point in time, it is natural not to disturb King Yu's rest. In fact, Gao Gong and Li Fang have discussed and dealt with something, and King Yu will not have any opinions.

King Yu has been able to come to the present, in addition to the thought of fighting for himself and his mother and concubine is having an impact, the promotion of Gao Gong, Li Fang and others is also inseparable.

In fact, as far as King Yu himself is concerned, he is a relatively lazy person who is more content with pleasure. Such a person is more suitable to be an idle prince.

But the matter of the emperor's family is not that simple.

It was so late, Gao Gong and Yin Shixuan came to him and thought there was something serious about it. When they heard that they asked Jia Yingchun in Nanjing about the connection with the palace, although it was strange, Li Fang still nodded, "Yes, every year. We have exchanged several letters."

"How is the person? After all these years in Nanjing, is he still trustworthy?"

Gao Gong hurriedly asked, Gao Gong is such a person, he is more impatient in doing things.

Hearing this, Li Fang didn't dare to answer right away, but after thinking carefully, he hesitated and said: "It should be okay, after all, the prince took a lot of effort to get him off the hook, read his letters over the years Nothing has changed, as before, there are gifts for various festivals."

After finishing speaking, Li Fang stared at Gao Gong and Yin Shizhen, wondering why they asked such a question, there must be something wrong with it.

Regarding Li Fang's curious eyes, Gao Gong naturally would not hide it, "Didn't Zhengfu go to see Guangde today? Guangde mentioned an idea, that is, from Nanjing to see if there is a suitable competition for the position of the six ministers in the capital candidates."

It is enough to say this, Li Fang will understand what they mean.

"Snapped."

Sure enough, when Gao Gong's voice fell, Li Fang had already slapped her thigh, "Hey, look at my brain, Zaza didn't think of this at the time.

There are still several of us in Nanjing who have been dispatched there. Before, we thought that we would go there to retire, but Zaza never thought of taking the opportunity to get them back. "

"Yeah, what Guangde means is that we have to check the people in Nanjing. If they are still the same as before, we will help them build momentum in the capital and try to take this opportunity to win the position of minister of the Ministry of Industry."

Gao Gong nodded in response.

"Yes, yes, I will go to the letter and find out. We will refer to it for details, and arrange for someone to go to Nanjing to investigate. We will make all the preparations we need to make."

"Over there, my lord."

"My lord is resting, we can settle this matter"

(End of this chapter)