prosperous age

Chapter 557 Chapter 556
Yan's money is really hard to get.

In fact, Wei Guangde didn't think that he really wanted to take their family's things and go out of the city to send Yan Song away. He didn't expect that two days later, someone from Yan's mansion came to visit with a big box.

Wei Guangde knew that Yan Song was buying peace for himself, not the peace of the Jiajing Dynasty, but the Yu Dynasty.

He deliberately refused, but Yan Song had already returned to Jiangxi, and 3000 taels of silver was not low, and more importantly, who knew how long Yu Wang would have to wait to get that position.

Wei Guangde took a little luck, thinking that after King Yu took the throne, he might have forgotten about Yan Song and Yan Shifan, so this money is no different from the money picked up for nothing.

Even if King Yu is still brooding, he can use his majestic spirit to ask King Yu to let Yan's family go.

In any case, the Yan family is the Shoufu family, no matter how they are, they are all the faces of scholars.

The so-called punishment is not enough for scholar-bureaucrats, people have already left the court, and they are pure if they are out of sight.

But the situation is different now, Yan Shifan wanted to make this happen, and he didn't know if he wanted to test whether his neck was stiff or not.

Wei Guangde doesn't know what will happen to Yan Shifan's final outcome, but he knows that if the situation develops like this, neither Xu Jie nor King Yu will let Yan Shifan go easily.

Lin Run, but handed over the handle of the knife.

"Shan Loan, you know, Yan Shifan is not a son of man, he escaped half a day and ran back to Jiangxi to live the idle life of a rich man, and he even recruited thousands of strong men, what is he going to do?
It is child's play to set the state's laws and regulations. If such a person is not killed, it will not be enough to anger the people. "

Just as Wei Guangde walked to the center of the room to salute King Yu, King Yu had already spoken up above.

"Your Highness, I already know about it, but Yan Shifan has done it before.

Back then, His Majesty didn't impose strict punishment, but just sent him to the army. In fact, he had already leniently let him go to the southernmost place to enjoy himself for the rest of his life. He just didn't want him to come back, but I didn't expect him to be like this."

Wei Guangde sighed, although he didn't need Yan Shifan's life, but his position was that he must firmly stand on King Yu's side.

"I read Lin Run's memorandum, and it was easy for Yan Shifan to evade these two charges.

After escaping from exile, he can say that he misses his elderly father in his hometown, and his father's place is also the favorite. As for those people, he can also be said to be long-term workers recruited by his servants.

You think there is a way to make Yan Shifan's crime more serious. "

King Yu said at this time.

There are two official characters, for ordinary people, they are what they say.

But for people like Yan Shifan, you really can't just talk nonsense. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and their family still has connections in the court.

Regardless of Yan Song's resignation, although some of the party members cultivated by the Yan family in the court have been dealt with, not all of them have been dealt with cleanly, and many people have not been convicted, and most of them are dismissed from their posts and idled.

The past two years have passed, and some people have regained appointments from the imperial court through dredging relationships.

In dealing with Yan Shifan, Prince Yu's Mansion could not cover the sky with one hand.

Wei Guangde did not answer King Yu's question directly, but looked at Yin Shizhen and Zhang Juzheng who were aside, and they smiled wryly when they met his gaze.

Obviously, what they meant was the same as Wei Guangde's, knowing that King Yu hated Yan Shifan, but they might not agree to involve Prince Yu's mansion.

Previously, when Wei Guangde was outside the house, he heard Zhang Juzheng's words, and it seemed that his words were rather fierce, maybe he was trying to persuade King Yu.

Wei Guangde thought for a moment before saying: "Your Highness, I do not recommend you to intervene in this matter." '

"Why? He raises the dead, recruits servants, and slanders the imperial court everywhere. This is to rebel. Is it possible that such a person can only be left alone?"

King Yu was dissatisfied.

"The crime of Yan Shifan is determined by the court and His Majesty. It may not be a good thing for the palace to intervene in it."

While all the people in Prince Yu's Mansion were discussing the matter of Lin Run's impeachment of Yan Shifan, in the main room of the steward of Jinyiwei Xisifang, a commander of Jinyiwei wearing a python suit with an embroidered spring knife on his waist was anxiously pacing back and forth in the room.

This person is none other than Yan Shaoting, the second son of Yan Shifan.

Yes, although Yan Song was forced to resign from office, and many Yan Shifan and a group of party members were dispatched to live idle, Emperor Jiajing did not knock down all the Yan family in one blow.

Just kill the culprit, that's what he did.

And this Yan Shaoting, after the downfall of the Yan family, could still secure his official position as the commander of the Jinyiwei, and even became the steward of the Xisifang. Naturally, he also had a guard of honor, because he was still Lu Bing's son-in-law.

For such a person, Zhu Xixiao also thought that he didn't know what to do, and Lu Yi was still in command of the Fusi in Jinyiwei North Town, so he always had to give him some face.

Fortunately, the Jinyiwei organization is large enough to give him the real power of Qianhusuo, so Zhu Xixiao is not at ease, so he simply throws it into the Xisifang to start the work of arresting criminals and thieves.

Jinyiwei was formed by the merger of Yiluan Division and Gongwei Division during Zhu Yuanzhang's time. It was compiled according to the standard guards, and it had five thousand households in the middle, left, right, front and rear.

Since then, Jinyiwei has expanded and incorporated some other offices, especially in major cities, but the core has always been the five initial establishments, also called core offices.

The core is responsible for the most fundamental honor guards and guards of the emperor. The honor guards are organized into the Royal Chair Division, Fan Shou Division, Qinggai Division, Banzhuang Division, Ax Division, Luanyu Division, and Horse Taming Division.

Perhaps the great grandfather felt that the ostentation was not enough, and later added the Banjian Division, the Geji Division, and the Archery Division, and included all the old and new ten divisions into the former thousand households to be responsible for the guard of honor.

Jinyiwei's guards are divided into Lishi, Xiaowei, and generals. The generals are also called Dahan Generals. When they were in Yiluan Division, they were called Tianwu Generals.

It sounds domineering, but it is actually a group of guards standing guard, but they are all dressed as gorgeously as generals, and they can be seen in some Ming Dynasty court scrolls handed down from generation to generation.

In the mid-Hongwu period, it was roughly promoted by the Hu Weiyong case and the Kongyin case. Jin Yiwei carried out a large-scale expansion because of the shortage of manpower exposed. After all, it was a major case that killed tens of thousands of people.

In this expansion, the Jinyiwei in the capital has added six thousand households in the upper middle, upper front, upper rear, upper left, upper right, and middle rear, and the original core five. Jinyiwei now has eleven thousand households Place.

At the end of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang added six thousand-household offices to Jinyiwei, namely the elephant training office, the field station, the left office of the horse army, the right office of the horse army, the front office of the horse army, and the rear office of the horse army. Seeing the purpose, it is also called a functional place, with a dedicated guard.

The seventeen thousand-household offices became the backbone of the Jinyiwei in the capital, and lasted until the fall of the Ming Dynasty. These seventeen thousand-household offices in the Jinyiwei.

As for the Zhen Fu Division, it is the standard unit of the guard, responsible for the punishment of the guard and the household registration of military craftsmen. The first level is matched with two towns and governors, starting from the sixth grade.

Since the development of Jinyiwei, Nanjing Jinyiwei has only one Zhenfu Division, while Beijing Jinyiwei has two units at the same level, Beizhen Fusi and Nanzhen Fusi. The Zhenfu Division and Nanzhen Fusi are still responsible for the punishment and military status of the guard. Archives, Beizhen Fusi is in charge of the edict prison.

In addition, Jinyiwei also has a civil department responsible for sending and receiving official documents of the institution, which is the experience department. Since Jinyiwei often involves confidential documents, the experience department is generally directly managed by the top leader of the guard.

Shen Lian, the Jinshi who was killed by Yan Song's henchmen, was the experience of Jinyiwei's experience department.

In the Chenghua Dynasty, Jinyiwei added two new yamen, namely the Dongsifang and the Xisifang, among which the Dongsifang arrested crimes and the Xisifang arrested robbers.

Of course, these two units are also somewhat related to the Dongji Incident Factory set up by Zhu Di in the Yongle Dynasty.

Dongchang, the function of arresting crimes can be seen from the name. Jin Yiwei is actually working in the factory, but the leader is an eunuch, and the reputation and credit go to the eunuch, which is equivalent to Jin Yiwei doing black work. It's not right.

The reason why during the Chenghua period, Jinyiwei specially added the two rights of arresting crimes and catching robbers is also because the public security environment in the Ming Dynasty during this period, especially in the capital city, was really extremely poor.

Can you believe it? During the Yingzong period, the official seal of the Minister of Rites was stolen, and the official seal was stolen three times in a row by one person.

It is estimated that Lord Shangshu offended someone, but the official is always guarded, so he stole the official seal of the yamen because it was inconvenient to take revenge.

Losing a seal is a felony. Yingzong talked about human feelings in the first two times. After all, the minister of the Ministry of Rites is not an ordinary person, but Hu Wei, a tumbler who has gone through the Six Dynasties.

Hu Wei was a second-class Jinshi in the second year of Jianwen. After that, he went through Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, Zhengtong, Jingtai, and finally died in Tianshun.

However, Yingzong lost his official seal three times in a row, and Yingzong couldn't bear it, so he was sent to prison, but "not long after, the seal was obtained and he was reinstated."

The above is that the stories are mutual revenge communiqués, so the most exciting thing happened during the Chenghua period.

One day, a thief jumped over the imperial city and entered the inner palace of Xiyuan to steal things. The thief was caught by Dongchang, but Cheng Huaqi went crazy. Xiyuan is his dojo.
Although Jiajing has been practicing alchemy in Xiyuan for a long time, the foundation of Xiyuan Daoist Temple was actually built during the Chenghua period, and compared with Chenghua's belief in religion, Jiajing's Taoism is nothing at all.

Thanks to Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen's attention, the task of arresting thieves was officially delegated to Jin Yiwei. In order to increase the authority of these two units, Zhu Jianshen even took back the power of admiral of the Wucheng Bingma Division from the Ministry of War to Jin Yiwei. Being commanded by the Jinyiwei and the admiral is equivalent to the Bingma Division becoming a subordinate organization of the Jinyiwei.

And now Yan Shaoting is the admiral of the Xisifang as the commander of the Jinyiwei, and the power in his hands is not small.

But now he feels a deep crisis. This time Lin Run impeached his father Yan Shifan. He knew that those who were dissatisfied with the Yan family would definitely use this to make trouble. The only thing he can do now is to inform Jiangxi of the matter as soon as possible. , Let Yan Shifan leave there as soon as possible and go to Leizhou to serve his sentence, at least let Emperor Jiajing know that the Yan family still listens to the emperor.

The East and West Division recruited and recruited many green forest heroes and rivers and lakes heroes, in order to treat severe diseases with strong medicine, which is called fighting poison with poison.

Among them, he had a hero nicknamed "Flying on the Grass" who held the No. 22 Xisifang plate under him, and Yan Shaoting assigned the task of delivering the letter to him.

For these people, Jin Yiwei certainly knew their identities, but they only gave them numbers. After entering Jin Yiwei, they were cut off from the past. They only had numbers and no names.

After waiting for an indeterminate amount of time, he had reached the point where he was getting impatient, when footsteps finally sounded outside the door.

When the sound of footsteps stood outside the door, without waiting for an announcement, Yan Shaoting shouted: "Let him in."

Although he was dissatisfied, Yan Shaoting knew that this was not the time to lose his temper.

After a thin but strong man outside the door came in to greet him, Yan Shaoting handed him a written letter on the desk.

"Send the letter back to Jiangxi Yuanzhou Mansion, and there will be a big reward at that time."

At this time, such an important thing is entrusted to him to do, and the fool knows what it is.

There is nothing more effective than throwing money at the reckless recruitment of these things.

Most of these green forest heroes who took refuge in the government were not for power, but more for obtaining an official credential, a talisman, so that they could have a little security when committing crimes.

Of course, the premise is that the task assigned by the Shangguan can be successfully completed.

And what's their favorite thing about them?
Of course it is money, something that allows them to live a life of luxury and lust.

Hearing that there was a great reward, the man's eyes could not help showing a hint of greed.

Of course he knew who the letter was for and what was written in it, but did it have anything to do with him?
"As ordered."

Putting the letter into his arms, he clasped his fists and said, "My lord, I'm leaving right away."

"Go, be careful."

Yan Shaoting just ordered.

At this time, in King Yu's mansion, Wei Guangde suddenly asked Li Fang who was beside King Yu: "Eunuch Li, I wonder how the cabinet voted?"

After the discussion just now, Wei Guangde already knew King Yu's strong desire for revenge.

Now that he already knows, for his own sake, Wei Guangde can't continue to think of ways to evade, he has to really help think of ideas.

"Xu Ge's old criticism is 'hand over to a supervisor for investigation'."

Li Fang replied.

Wei Guangde understood that this was the cabinet's standard answer to this kind of problem, which meant that Elder Xu Ge didn't seem to have figured out what to do.

"Have you sent the memorial to Xiyuan?"

Wei Guangde continued to ask.

"It should have been handed over to the chief inspector."

Li Fang was not sure either, and just answered ambiguously.

"I'm afraid it won't be easy to handle this matter."

Wei Guangde just sighed.

"why?"

Before anyone else could speak, King Yu had already asked the question first.

"This matter is actually a matter of Guangdong. If it is directly drafted, and the Guangdong Procuratorate sends someone to arrest Yan Shifan and try it at the local level, we have more room for manipulation. There is still trouble in the Guangdong Procuratorate. Now, as long as you entrust him to do things, you can get any results.

But according to Mr. Xu Ge's proposal, it is very likely that he will not leave him in the south of the Yangtze River, but will bring him back to the capital, and there will be another three divisions meeting to judge Yan Shifan's serious crime.

Investigating this case in the capital, if there is no nod from that person, many charges will not be settled at all. "

Wei Guangde shook his head and said.

Are there many crimes against Yan Shifan?
You can say a lot, but most of them are not worthy of death.

According to King Yu's thinking, those accumulated crimes are enough to kill him, but Yan Shifan's way of making money is a taboo in the officialdom. Officials may be doing the same thing, but they are not willing to punish him because of it felony.

Then, the final result is likely to send Yan Shifan to a farther place, such as Qiongzhou.

Although he couldn't bear it, Wei Guangde figured it out and did everything according to King Yu's wishes.

At this time, the fellow can't care much.

(End of this chapter)