prosperous age

Of course King Jing didn't know how terrifying the Fengyang High Wall was, and he wasn't interested in knowing, he just needed to know how terrifying it was.

Of course Zhu Wengui is far away. He is the second son of Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunqi. .

Emperor Yongle imprisoned Zhu Wengui in the "high wall" in Fengyang. Although there is no such thing as a high wall prison at this time, it has been managed according to the later model of the high wall, that is, it is completely closed and isolated from the world.

After Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen was restored from Nangong, the restored Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen deeply sympathized with Zhu Wengui who was innocently imprisoned for 50 years based on his own experience as a prisoner. Zhu Wengui was released in the same year and was already 57 years old. After serving behind bars for 55 years, he didn't even know a cow or a horse after he was released, and he died soon after.

The closest one, of course, is King Hui, who was deposed as a commoner a few years ago, and would rather commit suicide than go to the high wall of Fengyang.

Naturally, Wei Guangde was unaware of the conversations that took place in King Jing's Mansion. Under the influence of Chen Ju, he returned to the box and ate and drank for a while, then hurriedly said goodbye because of something at home, and left first.

What he was going to was, of course, Prince Yu's Mansion, and reminded them that at least during the period before King Jing left the capital to take up the vassal, King Yu's food safety must be strictly guaranteed.

In fact, ever since Wei Guangde informed that Lu Bing died of a different cause, under his reminder, Li Fang, the eunuch who served nearby, took charge of supervising King Yu's diet and daily life in person.

Wei Guangde naturally knew about these situations, but after all, it had been a long time, and he was still worried that Li Fang would be paralyzed for a while and make a big mistake.

When the carriage approached Prince Yu's Mansion, it crossed with an oncoming carriage, but at this time Wei Guangde couldn't care less about these, and he didn't even know that there was a carriage passing by.

Arrived at the side door of Prince Yu's Mansion, Wei Guangde was an old acquaintance here, so naturally he entered without any hindrance.

In the first year of junior high school, Wei Guangde felt something was wrong when he entered Prince Yu's Mansion.

He called a familiar servant beside him, and told him: "Go and invite Li Fang, Eunuch Li, to the study, I have something to look for him."

"Yes."

The people in Prince Yu's Mansion are naturally familiar with Wei Guangde and the lecturers, and immediately agreed to Wei Guangde's order, and quickly went to find Li Fang, but Wei Guangde did not continue to walk in, but went around to the study where they usually teach. .

Wei Guangde went to his valet room, did not ask the servant to bring tea, just sat in the room quietly waiting for Li Fang to come.

Today was not the time they had agreed to pay New Year's greetings to King Yu. They made an appointment tomorrow, but the incident happened suddenly, so he could only come here now.

"Master Wei, today is your day"

Not long after, Wei Guangde saw Li Fang entering the room with his hands in his hands.

Originally, no one should come here today, so there was no brazier in the room before, and the servants hurriedly moved a brazier after Wei Guangde came in, and Wei Guangde was stretching out his hand to warm the fire.

When Li Fang entered the room, she felt that the room was still a bit cold, so she immediately stopped at the door, turned around and shouted to the outside: "Who is outside, hurry up and bring in some braziers."

"Don't shout, Eunuch Li, come over and sit by the fire. I just got some news, so I took the liberty to come here, and I'll go back after I finish talking."

Wei Guangde said hastily.

Hearing what Wei Guangde said, Li Fang waved his hands outside, "Go and watch outside the yard, don't come here until you are told."

Not sure what news Wei Guangde was talking about, out of prudence, Li Fang called out all the servants in the courtyard, watched several people leave and stood at the gate of the courtyard, then turned around and sat down beside Wei Guangde, imitating Wei Guangde leaned forward and stretched out his hands to warm the fire.

"Master Wei, what kind of news are you talking about?"

After sitting down, Li Fang asked bluntly.

"My lord is going to Xiyuan today."

"Yes, I went there early in the morning, but the emperor still didn't summon me. I just knelt outside the palace gate and was invited back."

Li Fang's expression was slightly sad. He was the servant who was sent to work by Concubine Du Kang back then. Because he was smart and conscientious, Concubine Du Kang was sent by Concubine Du Kang to King Yu's side. After so many years, he naturally knew the prince's affairs very well.

The number of times the prince has seen the emperor since he was a child can be counted on his fingers. When he was a child, King Yu had to use his mouth to know what his father looked like.

Because last year, Emperor Jiajing confirmed that King Jing would become a vassal when he left Beijing, King Yu thought that he would be able to see Emperor Jiajing when he entered the palace this year, but unexpectedly, he was still blocked from entering Yongshou Palace.

Although I heard that King Jing was blocked back in the same way, but King Yu was not feeling well at the moment.

Wei Guangde didn't have much affection for King Yu. In his opinion, all he did to King Yu was for the purpose of having a bright future when King Yu came to power in the future, so he didn't feel the sadness in Li Fang's voice.

"I came here today because I heard about an incident that happened in Xiyuan. When King Yu left Xiyuan, did he encounter concubines from the harem to pay his respects?"

Wei Guangde opened his mouth and said.

"Yes, when I was at the palace gate, the concubine was about to leave the Xihua Gate, what's the matter?"

When saying this, Li Fang's tone suddenly became a little hasty.

Now among the concubines of Emperor Jiajing, there is a person with a high status, and that person is King Jing's biological mother, could it be...
It's no wonder that Li Fang didn't think too much, it's because before and after accompanying King Yu into the palace today, King Yu's mood changed a bit, and he was more or less affected by King Yu's side.

"No."

Wei Guangde hastily waved his hands and said: "Today, Concubine Lu Jing suddenly raised something when she was paying her respects to His Majesty. She wanted to change the fiefdom for King Jing and find a place near Beizhili to enshrine King Jing's kingdom."

"What, how is this possible."

Li Fang immediately screamed and lost her voice.

Fortunately, Wei Guangde immediately continued: "Your Majesty did not agree, and even reprimanded Concubine Lu Jing on the spot."

Later, Wei Guangde told Li Fang exactly what he had heard from Chen Ju, and Li Fang became more and more happy when he heard it.

"Haha, okay, this is a good thing, I have to go and tell King Yu."

Before Wei Guangde finished speaking, Li Fang couldn't help but clapped her hands and got up to leave, but Wei Guangde grabbed her.

"Eunuch Li, I didn't come to you to deliver this good news."

Wei Guangde said solemnly: "Although King Jing's idea of ​​changing the fief was rejected by His Majesty, it also completely drove him to a dead end.

There are only two roads in front of King Jing now, either obediently go to De’an and become a vassal, or put all his eggs in one basket. In fact, I am here to remind you this time, don’t blame me for nagging, the safety of King Yu is now more urgent than ever. "

"Huh? Oh."

Li Fang came back to her senses and understood what Wei Guangde meant.

He is not a fool, and his future depends entirely on King Yu.

Although Wei Guangde brought up this annoying topic again, the current situation looks good.

The dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, the rabbit kicks the eagle, and the most fearful thing is that King Jing will fight for his life when he sees that there is no hope of succession.

Wei Guangde told Li Fang at the beginning that if something happened to King Yu, Emperor Jiajing would most likely not dare to do it, because he only had this one son left, and he would never punish him.

"Mr. Wei, I understand your painstaking efforts. Don't worry, I will personally watch this matter during this time, and there will never be any mistakes."

Li Fang still stood up and gave Wei Guangde a deep bow.

"Well, I'll leave first, and I'll come back tomorrow to wish His Highness a New Year."

Wei Guangde smiled, then got up and said goodbye to Li Fang.

Li Fang sent Wei Guangde out of Prince Yu's Mansion, and did not rush back to the inner courtyard of the Palace until he got into the carriage.

In more than a month, King Jing will leave the capital, and King Yu is the only prince left in Beijing. Even if other people have other thoughts, they will be too far away.

King Yu is in a bad mood now, although Wei Guangde came to remind him, didn't he also bring good news?
Then tell King Yu about this, and make him happy too.

The current Yu Wang is actually still concerned about gains and losses. Although his status seems to have been established, Emperor Jiajing did not make him a prince after all.

At this time, King Jing, after Zheng Huiren left, sat alone in the wing room for a long time, and then called in a trusted servant.

"Forget it today, let's go tomorrow, go to the Yan Mansion to inform Yan Donglou, and say that the king is ill, so I won't go there to play these days."

"Yes."

The servant hastily bowed and agreed, and he slowly exited the room while King Jing waved his hands.

"The Yan family is finished, don't have too much contact with them."

At this time, King Jing was still thinking about Zheng Huiren's advice when he left.

Just after being reminded by Zheng Huiren, King Jing suddenly came to his senses. The purpose of Yan Shifan getting close to him and making suggestions for him was not that he was intimidated by his domineering aura and surrendered. One is just trying to survive.

With Yan Shifan's reputation in the capital, he will definitely be liquidated in the future. Even Zheng Huiren said bluntly that it was not King Yu who liquidated him, but he would do it himself. In fact, Yan Shifan cannot be kept.

What he has done is destined not to be like other courtiers, who can cut off those ties by becoming an official.

I only blamed myself for being blinded by the throne before, maybe it wasn't because I didn't understand it, but I didn't think about it, and I didn't win the position, so how could I give up a helping hand?

When did I start to have the idea of ​​fighting for the throne?
King Jing not only fell into memories, but when he left the palace, he was treated the same as King Yu. At that time, someone outside guessed so, and he just laughed it off. It seems that after getting acquainted with Yan Shifan, he started to have some idea.

King Jing has completely given up now, he doesn't want to continue to fight for that position, if he continues to order that person to find a chance to poison King Yu, maybe Jin Yiwei will take him to Fengyang with a driving sticker.

Thinking of this, King Jing suddenly got up, called his valet, and whispered some instructions to him to deliver the news as soon as possible, and then sat down again.

In the blink of an eye, it was the fourth day of the lunar new year. Wei Guangde was fully dressed early in the morning and hurried to the Imperial Academy. Because according to the calculations of the Qin Tianjian, the fourth day of the fourth day is the auspicious hour, so all the yamen in Ming Dynasty will be in At this time, the "opening of the seal" ceremony is held.

According to the time of later generations, it was less than seven o'clock, and it was not time for work, but in the Ming Dynasty, officials had already started work.

Wei Guangde had nothing to say, he went to the Imperial Academy to attend the ceremony in a proper manner, after that he naturally sat around for a while, and went to Prince Yu's Mansion with Zhang Juzheng.

Similar to the sealing ceremony, the officials of the Imperial Academy, under the leadership of Yuan Wei, invited out the seal again, and firecrackers were fired in the courtyard again.

The opening of the yamen does not mean that the officials' New Year is over, but it is just a ceremony. Don't forget that the capital will organize the Aoshan Lantern Festival on the [-]th. Only after the Lantern Festival is over, in the eyes of the officials and the people, This year is really over.

"What did you say to Xueshi Wu just now?"

Leaving the Imperial Academy, Wei Guangde invited Zhang Juzheng to take a carriage with him to King Yu's Mansion. On the carriage, Zhang Juzheng asked, "Seeing how surprised you were at that time."

Wei Guangde said with a smile: "When I first entered the Imperial Academy, I worshiped under Bachelor Wu."

"Oh."

Zhang Juzheng responded lightly.

"I heard from him that the head of the Imperial Academy may be replaced by Li Chunfang and Li Xueshi in the next year, and Yuan Wei will specialize in the ministry."

Wei Guangde continued.

"Yuan Wei is going to fully devote himself to the government and share the country's worries, haha"

Zhang Juzheng laughed.

In fact, Yuan Wei's job change, he is much more sensitive than Wei Guangde's news, after all, his news comes from his teacher Xu Jie, the reason why he asked Wei Guangde was actually just curious about his relationship with Wu Qing.

Although Wu Qing is also a bachelor, he is doomed to not have much future, so it is very strange that Wei Guangde befriends such a person.

"You should have known beforehand."

At this time, Wei Guangde spoke again.

"I've heard of it before."

Zhang Juzheng nodded, he was better informed than Wei Guangde about the news in the court, but he also knew during the time in Prince Yu's mansion that Wei Guangde had someone in the palace and was very well informed about the news in the palace.

When he was in the second year of junior high school, he didn't even know what happened in Xiyuan yesterday, but Wei Guangde knew about it yesterday, even an hour after the incident happened.

Not to be underestimated.

Speaking of this, Zhang Juzheng thought of something again. He only heard about it when he visited Xu Jie's mansion two days ago. Anyway, he was free, so he told Wei Guangde to pass the time.

"In addition, I heard that after the next year, His Majesty will call the head of the Nanjing Imperial Academy and the Imperial Academy to sacrifice Qu Jingchun back to Beijing. It is not clear how to arrange it."

"Ok?"

Wei Guangde was surprised at first, and then joked: "Brother Shu would not want to go to Nanjing to be the head of the Imperial Academy, would he?"

"If I can be in charge of the school, I really want to go, haha"

Zhang Juzheng said cheerfully.

In fact, if there is a chance, he doesn't mind going around Nanjing.

I'm young, so I'm not going to retire, it's just a transition. If I really want to go, I will definitely be promoted to a Hanlin bachelor. Anyway, there are teachers in the capital, and there are good official positions here, so I will definitely be able to move back. .

"How old is Master Qu?"

At this time, Wei Guangde could not let Wei Guangde not care about such an old Hanlin bachelor who was transferred back from Nanjing.

"You should be in your fifties, the second place in Jiajing's 23rd year."

"Oh."

Wei Guangde agreed, no wonder Zhang Juzheng knew that Qu Jingchun was one class earlier than Zhang Juzheng, and when he took the exam, he must pay attention to the last subject.