prosperous age

"One life is two, two is three, and three is all things. The human body is hard to come by, and the Dao is difficult to understand, and now it is clear.

The earth follows the sky, the sky follows the earth, the Tao follows nature, desire and respect for this life, how can we live without this body. "

Wei Guangde was not in a hurry to leave when he handed in his own green poems. Anyway, he was very free, so he stood aside and read the green poems written by others, and listened to others' evaluations of his works by the way.

Well, Wei Guangde was a little disappointed.

The overall evaluation is not high, but Wei Guangde felt that after reading other Qingci works presented by the Imperial Academy, he felt that he was still in the middle, not the bottom.

At this time, Wei Guangde had already forgotten the guilty conscience on the road.

It was only after seeing Yuan Wei's disdainful gaze that he felt Yuan Wei's evaluation of his Qingci, "shit doesn't make sense".

The little eunuch took his leave after accepting the Qing Ci from the Qi Imperial Academy, and Wei Guangde couldn't stay in the courtyard anymore, so he followed the little eunuch out of the Imperial Academy.

When Wei Guangde came out, it was almost noon, and the temperature should be the highest in the day, but now it's winter after all, and Wei Guangde felt chills all over when he walked outside, so he quickened his pace.

Although it was cold, the market in the capital was bustling as usual, and the gossip said that salaries and rewards for all officials would be distributed on time this year, which stimulated the prosperity of the market.

I don't know if it should be said that thanks to the blessing of Altan Khan, the money collected by the household department from various places has been transported to the capital one after another. The military expenses that should have been used for combat, except for part of the military expenses that were deducted by Emperor Jiajing at this time, the rest It is just enough to supplement the salaries of all the officials in the capital during the New Year's Day.

Wei Guangde has already heard that the Ministry of Household Affairs has reserved this year's salary and rewards in advance, so there will definitely not be the embarrassing situation of the previous years.

Therefore, although it is gossip, sometimes it is extremely true.

Slipping Dada, Wei Guangde went directly to the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

At this time, there is a small mountain at the junction of Zhangzhou, Fujian and Raoping, Guangdong, which is called Hushan.

Although Hushan is not a famous mountain or river, because it is located at the junction of two provinces, with high mountains and narrow roads, easy to defend and difficult to attack, it has always been a battleground for military strategists.

Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, Zhangzhou Prefecture has built a pass called Baisong Pass on Hushan Mountain, and set up a patrol department to guard the place, responsible for inspecting pedestrians, cracking down on smuggling, and arresting thieves. pass.

During the Taiping period, there were constant businessmen coming and going here, and the business routes were also busy. However, due to the suppression of Japanese in the south of the Yangtze River these years, merchants and merchants were subject to heavy taxes, which greatly reduced the number of caravans here, and it is no longer what it used to be.

Even today, in Xiaoguan City on the mountain, there are drums beating and firecrackers going off, making it very lively.

In Guancheng, dozens of musicians wearing red wedding clothes lined up neatly on both sides of a high platform in the city, playing joyful music, and a large group of strong men in different colors came out from the Guancheng official office in the distance, surrounded by them. A middle-aged man wearing a black gauze wing crown and a yellow robe walked slowly towards the high platform.

Wherever the man in yellow passed, people on both sides of the street prostrated themselves on the ground and bowed.

But among the kneeling crowd, a few men kept raising their heads, peeking at the group of people passing by, the group of coiled dragons on the yellow fir worn by the leader was very eye-catching.

...

After these people passed by, the crowd didn't get up for a long time, and there was still room to kneel down, only those few men kept looking around.

Soon, several eyes focused on a man who looked like a merchant in clothes, but the merchant shook his head slightly, then lowered his head and blended into the crowd, and he was no longer seen at a glance.

With the demonstration of the businessman, the others no longer looked left and right, and learned that way one after another, maintaining the same movements as the people around them, and blending into the crowd.

When the man in the yellow Panlong gown walked under the high platform, the crowd behind him stopped and slowly formed a neat formation, kneeling behind the yellow fir man.

At this moment, the festive and joyful music came to an abrupt end, all the musicians also knelt down on the ground, and everyone in Baisong Pass knelt towards the high platform.

The man stood under the high platform for a long time, as if he knew that everyone behind him had already knelt down, so he gently touched the hem of his long gown with his left hand, and walked up the stairs, his movements looked calm and dignified.

When the man stepped onto the high platform, he turned around slowly. At some time, a jade pendant appeared in the man's right hand. He raised his right hand high, and shouted to the crowd kneeling down under the platform: "Heaven has given me a great responsibility. For the owner of the flying dragon."

It was a yellowish jade pendant, and what the man showed to everyone in the audience was the four small characters "Flying Dragon Lord" engraved on the jade pendant.

Suddenly a sharp cry sounded from the audience: "Long live, long live."

The shrill voice seemed to be a signal, and everyone began to follow, shouting "Long live, long live" in unison

The man looked at the tsunami-like shouts of the audience, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth unconsciously, and he closed his eyes slightly, as if enjoying the atmosphere.

This is him, Zhang Lian's enthronement ceremony, although very simple, but he really did it.

From this moment on, he is the emperor, the emperor of Feilong Kingdom.

After a long time, Zhang Lian seemed to feel that the atmosphere was getting better, so he stretched out his hand and made a downward movement. With his movement, the shouts from the audience gradually decreased until they disappeared.

"From now on, the yuan will be changed to "Zao Li", and I will be the emperor, named "Flying Dragon Master", and the country will be named "Flying Dragon"."

Xiyuan was on duty, and at this time the books were covered with a table of green words.

In addition to those written by officials in Xiyuan, officials of the Imperial Academy and the Ministry of Rites sent these Qing Ci to participate in the selection process. Ten outstanding poems were to be selected and presented to Emperor Jiajing for use in the sacrificial sacrifice prepared by Xiyuan tomorrow.

Yan Song and Xu Jie were sitting on the left and right of the duty room, and Li Chunfang, Yan Ne, Gao Gong, and Yan Shifan were standing below.

"Let them figure out the task of selecting Qing Ci, and we can take a look at the selection after a while."

At this time, Xu Jie glanced at the dozens of words piled up on the book, and said to Yan Song.

"Alright, you guys have selected ten or twenty sets of excellent badges, Shaohu and I will have a look."

Yan Song nodded and replied.

At this time, Yan Song was already in his seventies and eighties, and his energy was low. The key point was his eye disease. It was very difficult to see things.

...

And Xu Jie is much younger than Yan Song, but he is also in his sixties, and I heard that he looks like a lake now.

With the two people talking, Yan Shifan moved to the side of the book without hesitation, picked up the green words on it and began to look at them one by one, and then divided the green words he had read into two stacks, naturally good and bad Well placed separately.

Behind him, Li Chunfang, Yan Na and others had no choice but to suppress their dissatisfaction, looked around, and pretended not to care.

The green words on those books were drawn to him by Yan Shifan from the very beginning, and he didn't intend to let them read them at all. The meaning is also very clear, that is, he will judge the pros and cons, and you will go through the motions later That's it.

Gao Gong beside them also frowned slightly, and wanted to fight, but seeing the behavior of Li Chunfang and Yan Na, and thinking of the two sitting above, it was meaningless to fight.

It is to judge the pros and cons of Qing Ci. If there are a few people on his side who are good at writing Qing Ci, it is really not as good as the opposite side.

Among the people in Prince Yu's Mansion, Yin Shizhen can write excellent Qing Ci, but Chen Yiqin and Wei Guangde can't. Wei Guangde even said bluntly at the wine table that he can't write that kind of thing.

There are not many good writers of Qingci, so naturally they are not afraid of Yan Shifan deliberately suppressing people in Yuwangfu during the selection process.

In fact, those Qing Ci poets who could finally be sent to the Yongshou Palace should be those people. It is not an exaggeration to say that they are the royal poets of Emperor Jiajing.

The Jiajing Dynasty, especially in the middle and late period, has a very distinctive feature, that is, the saying of "Qingci Prime Minister".

If Qing Ci is well written, it will be easier for Emperor Jiajing to remember it, and naturally he will be promoted quickly.

Look at the few people in the Xiyuan guard room at this time, that person is not the one who made Emperor Jiajing's heart happy because of a pair of green words.

Qingci, in the Jiajing Dynasty, it was not simply writing, but expressing an attitude to the Emperor Jiajing, actively learning, writing Qingci, that is to move closer to the emperor and express one's loyalty to the emperor.

Anyway, this will make Gao Gong figure it out, let Yan Shifan be proud if he wants to, I believe Li Chunfang and Yan Na may not be happy in their hearts.

These two people neither voted for Yan Song, nor leaned towards King Yu, they belonged to the centrist faction with the largest proportion in the court, and Yan Shifan offended them, in fact, it seemed that it did no harm to him.

It seems that it is really unnecessary to be strong.

At this moment, Gao Gong wished that Yan Shifan would go too far.

After a while, Yan Shifan read through the pile of green poems and picked out twenty works that he thought were excellent.

Under Gao Gong's eager eyes, Yan Shifan was not as strong as before. He directly handed in the works he had selected for Yan Song and Xu Jie to choose, but moved sideways to let Li Chunfang, Yan Na and others make a contribution. A "please" gesture.

The three of them stood behind the books and began to flip through the green poems, but Gao Gong soon found a bad work among the pile of green poems selected by Yan Shifan, and he couldn't help but frown slightly. Look at the signature again - Wei Guangde.

At night, in a woods outside the city of Baisongguan, several strange figures met in the woods.

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"My lord, Zhang Lian dared to proclaim himself emperor blatantly"

An impatient man has already spoken.

"I know, it's really bold enough to not be afraid of the crimes of the Nine Clans. Also, I heard that when Zhang Lian rebelled, he killed all the Zhang clan's chiefs. Can you verify this?"

The person who spoke was the man who pretended to be a merchant during the day, and it seemed that he was also the leader of this group.

"It's true. I checked the documents of the Raoping County Yamen before. Zhang Lian was from Xiacang, Wushi Village, Shangrao, Raoping County. He used to be a treasurer in the Yamen, but he colluded with the bandits in the kapok village and was discovered by his family. He wanted to take down the Jiaoguan, so he killed the patriarch and some clansmen, ran into the bandits' den and became the second head of the family."

"Even if their Zhang family still knows what is good or bad, the family's life is saved."

The leader just nodded, and then asked the person next to him: "Has the matter of that jade pendant been verified?"

The person who was asked immediately clasped his fists and replied: "The humble officer found out that the jade pendant was indeed fished out of a square pond in the county seat of Raoping County. Many people went to the pond to salvage because of the rumors, but in the end only Zhang Lian got the jade pendant from the pond, and there were quite a few people present at that time."

"Hehe. The tricks of the rivers and lakes are just to deceive the ignorant people."

The leader sneered.

This kind of thing, if you think about it casually, you can understand the inside story. It is nothing more than that this thing was carved by Zhang Lian, who hid it somewhere in the pond, and then broadcast rumors. After no one found it in the pond, he showed up. Pick up, a means to confuse the people.

"He made such a trick, but the magistrate of Raoping didn't even notice it. Later, this matter will have to be reported to the Qianhu Office, and the county magistrate will be prosecuted for negligence of duty."

"My lord, what should I do next? Shall I sneak in tonight?"

As he spoke, the man stretched out his hand to wipe his neck.

"I've seen it two days ago. The government office is heavily guarded and it's not easy to attack."

Speaking of this, the leader said with a sullen expression: "I came here to investigate their collusion with the Japanese pirates, but I didn't expect to see the thief jump out and become the emperor. If the news spreads to the capital, he will be reprimanded for his ineffectiveness. Did not find out in advance, sent a large army to encircle and suppress."

"Then who knows, this is a poor country."

"No, there have been a lot of rebellions in Fujian over the past few years, many of Zhang's thieves are from Fujian, and the Fuzhou Thousand Households Office is negligent."

"Yes, it should be from Fujian."

"Wait, is this Baisong Pass under the management of Zhangzhou Prefecture or Chaozhou Prefecture?"

Hearing the leaders of the Zhang thieves mentioned by his subordinates, many of them were from Fujian, they hurriedly waved their hands to shut up their subordinates. Thinking that this place is at the junction of two provinces, they forgot to find out whether this place is under the jurisdiction of the other side.

"This place should be under the jurisdiction of Fujian. I haven't seen the news of banditry reported in Raoping County. It should be under the jurisdiction of Zhangzhou Prefecture."

"do not know."

Hearing that his subordinates were about to start chattering again, the leader waved his hand, "Forget it, the news is almost done, it doesn't matter whether Zhang thief colluded with the Japanese pirates, anyway, it's right to be a rebel, the harm is far from the Japanese pirates above.

After packing up, we went back to Guangzhou overnight to report the matter. As for whether to care about it or not, that is something that Qianhu adults should consider. "

By this time, this person probably realized that their target Zhang Lian this time was indeed a Cantonese, but the location of Baisongguan seemed to be the territory of the Fujian capital, not under the jurisdiction of Guangdong.

Although it is said that "the matter has nothing to do with oneself, hang it high", but it also depends on what the matter is.

He really didn't dare to hide this rebellion.

Reporting to the capital city will definitely result in a fee, but whether to report or not is not within the scope of his duties, it is decided by the Lord Qianhu of Jinyiwei in Fucheng.

Immediately, a group of people quickly left the woods and rushed down the mountain, thinking of running in the direction of Raoping County.

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