prosperous age

Wei Guangde left Prince Yu's Mansion.Hurry back to the school records hall.

Although the time for Dianmao has passed, Lu Bu has already signed his name on the Dianmao book. Although he can identify it carefully, he can still find that it is a ghostwriter, but who will care about such a thing?
Such things, in fact, were commonplace in the Ming Dynasty, and the clerks would usually sign for them when their lords did not arrive in time.

In their work, there are also daily projects that imitate the signature of the master.

Of course, this kind of situation doesn't happen very often, it usually happens only once in a while, and everyone in the yamen naturally pretends not to see it, and whoever is late is late.

As for the supervision of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, it depends on who it is.

If you offend someone, or are targeted by the Kodao spokesperson, this is naturally a reason for impeachment, but this type of impeachment is not painful except for losing face.

The normal situation is to be called to scold by the superior, and the serious one is to be ordered and fined.

Wei Guangde has always been an official in all aspects, even if he is tricked by others, he will not show his face. He is not sure that he can knock down the opponent all at once, so that he cannot stand up, Wei Guangde will not make a move easily.

Moreover, every time he makes a move, it is often just through various channels in advance to mention the other party's pain points in a very subtle way, so those who are plotted by him may not even think that Wei Guangde is among the people who deal with him. of.

Such a person, it is difficult for people to have the heart to deal with him. He is also the censor of Fujian Dao, and no colleagues will target him for nothing, not to mention that there is Prince Yu's mansion standing behind him.

Now Wei Guangde goes to work every day, reads books, school books, gets off work, and then goes home, occasionally invited to go out to drink and listen to music with his colleagues.

This is the life of a Beijing official, every day goes round and round, muddling through life in the court, struggling with seniority.

More than ten days passed like this, but Wei Guangde didn't take what happened last time to heart. He firmly believed that he didn't like Hu Zongxian returning to court, and Xu Jie would definitely not be willing either.

In fact, with Hu Zongxian's qualifications, the governor who has been in the south of the Yangtze River for several years already has the conditions to join the cabinet, but he is from the top three and does not have the status of a nobleman, so it will be difficult to join the cabinet.

But who doesn't know, who did Emperor Jiajing rely on to stabilize the imperial power after he ascended the throne?

Even Wei Guangde was worried that if Emperor Jiajing gave Hu Zongxian a minister of the Ministry of Rites to take charge of the Imperial Academy, would the Beijing officials directly call Hu Zongxian "Old Huge".

During this period of time, the cabinet has been supported by Xu Jie and Li Chunfang, and Emperor Jiajing's intention to arrange replacements has not been seen for a long time. Xu Jie is actually very anxious to sit in the position of chief assistant.

After receiving the news from Prince Yu's Mansion more than ten days ago, he was also frightened into a cold sweat.

Hu Zongxian, how did you get offended in the first place?
It's not that Emperor Jiajing's words "Zongxian is not a strict party, and it has been removed for several years without fault" overturned all the allegations about Hu Zongxian.

Later, it was said that Hu Zongxian's successive impeachments actually started with Hu Zongxian offering auspicious auspiciousness to Bailu, and after that, officials continued to impeach him for being corrupt.

Hu Zongxian's status in Emperor Jiajing's heart was not low. After all, the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River was handed over to him, and he was asked to do his best to suppress the Japanese.

At least in the eyes of Emperor Jiajing, Hu Zongxian has the ability to be able to stand on his own and stabilize the situation in the south of the Yangtze River when the Japanese pirates are at their craziest. This is his ability.

Thinking about his own situation, Xu Jie was really worried that Hu Zongxian would join the cabinet and fight himself in the ring.

Although Xu Jie has been in the imperial court for many years, he has really lost a lot in terms of the holy family. He was not as good as Yan Song before, so is he going to be overwhelmed by Hu Zongxian?

But he is also waiting, waiting for his arrangement to completely eliminate this hidden danger.

He was the one who sent Yan Shifan to the guillotine, and he was the one who made the charges this time and wanted to kill Hu Zongxian.

Count the time, things should arrive.

In the past two days, Xu Jie was a little restless in the cabinet, because the things he asked for had not been delivered, and he didn't know if there would be any changes in Xiyuan.

The effect of delivering things before Emperor Jiajing opened his mouth and after he opened his mouth is very different.

At this moment, the Zhongshu Sherentong reported outside the door: "Old Xu Ge, Mr. Zhang Yongming, the censor of the left capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is asking to see you."

Hearing Zhang Yongming's arrival, Xu Jie was overjoyed, and immediately said, "Please invite him in."

Soon, Zhang Yongming entered the cabinet to be on duty, bowed his hands to Xu Jiegong and said: "Mr. Ge, my Metropolitan Procuratorate received a memorial from Nanzhili patrol censor Wang Ruzheng today. Along with the memorial, the arresting officer A batch of letters, I have asked someone to bring all the things over."

"Oh?"

Xu Jie asked in surprise at this time: "Whose letter and what did it say? Where did Wang Yushi find it?"

"Wang Yushi is serving the criminal official Luo Longwen's family, and found his letters to Hu Zongxian and Yan Shifan in his home, some of which are letters."

Zhang Yongming was at a loss for words for a while, he didn't know how to introduce the situation, so he had to take out a memorial in his arms and hand it to Xu Jie, saying: "Master Ge, let's see for yourself."

Xu Jie took the memorabilia handed over by Zhang Yongming, opened it and read it carefully, his face was slightly startled at first, and then he became uncertain.

"Come on, please quickly invite Mr. Li Ge to come to my room."

After a while, Xu Jie suddenly yelled out the door.

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at Zhang Yongming and said, "Have all the letters been brought to the cabinet?"

Zhang Yongming nodded in agreement.

"Quick, bring in all the letters."

Xu Jie commanded anxiously.

"It's just outside the door. I'll ask someone to bring it in right away."

Zhang Yongming agreed, then walked to the door of the duty room, and told the people outside: "Hurry up and bring the box in."

At this moment, not far away, Li Chunfang, the second assistant to the cabinet, had already arrived.

Seeing Zhang Yongming at the door, Li Chunfang did not put on airs as a cabinet scholar, but rushed to him first, "Zhong Cheng is also here."

"Old Li Ge."

Zhang Yongming also hastily saluted Li Chunfang.

Standing in front of the door, Li Chunfang was not in a hurry to go in, but looked at the two school captains carrying a box towards Xu Jie's room, and asked a bit suspiciously: "What is this?"

The box was covered, and Li Chunfang didn't know what was inside, so she asked.

In fact, there is still a word that has not been said. It is best not to have ice and carbon in the box. It seems that it is too early to give these.

"The censor Wang Ruzheng discovered a batch of letters from Luo Longwen's home in Shexian County. They were letters between him and Yan Shifan, Hu Zongxian and others. Some of them were extremely sensitive. Wang Yushi was worried that sending them to the general secretary would cause unnecessary trouble and make them The imperial court lost all face, so it was sent directly to my Metropolitan Procuratorate."

Li Chunfang knew immediately after hearing the words that the letter in this box might be extremely hot, so she hesitated for a while.

By now, he knew why Xu Jie invited him over.

It should be that Xu Jie, an old fox, also found it difficult, so he was asked to come over and make a proposal in the name of the cabinet.

After the box was carried into Xu Jie's room, Li Chunfang followed behind tonight.

"Zishi is here, come and take a look at this."

Xu Jie knew Li Chunfang was coming when he was talking to Zhang Yongming, but he waited until he entered the room before yelling at him.

"Old Xu Ge, who is Zhong Cheng here to impeach?"

Having said that, Li Chunfang still walked over, took the memorabilia handed over by Xu Jie, opened it and read it carefully, and soon the corners of her mouth twitched.

Xu Jie didn't care about Li Chunfang's reaction, but Zhang Yongming kept paying attention, thinking he was surprised by the content of the memorial.

It's just that it's different from Zhang Yongming's thought. At this time, Li Chunfang's mind is only circling four words.

"terrible."

Yes, these four words are constantly circling in Li Chunfang's mind at this moment.

He was not a rookie who had just entered the official career, and he would not believe that someone would keep such a letter at home waiting for someone to search, especially if it was Luo Longwen, a criminal who had already been convicted.

Such a sensitive letter does not mean that it must be burned, but it must be stored in another location. This is enough to cause Hu Zongxian to die.

Li Chunfang had some doubts about the authenticity of the letter mentioned in the memorial, and there was something strange about it.

Withdrawing his gaze, he glanced at Xu Jie with a serious face, and then at Zhang Yongming who was both shocked and excited. The expressions of the two people were different, and they didn't look like they were in the same boat. For a while, Li Chunfang was a little confused.

He has now cleared his mind. When Yu Shi Wang Ru was ordered to search Luo Longwen's house, he found the letters he had communicated with other people. When counting these letters, he found the letter Hu Zongxian wrote to Luo Longwen, especially the letter inside Self-made "imperial decree".

Li Chunfang wanted to read that letter and the imperial decree right now.

His eyes involuntarily looked at the box that was placed in the center of the duty room, and there were seals on all sides of the box lid.

Apparently, when the things arrived at the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Zhang Yongming brought them here without even opening them for inspection, because the content of the decree was contained in the memorial.

"Zi Shi, what do you think?"

Xu Jie's voice sounded at the right time, and Xu Jie wanted to ask about his attitude.

"Old Xu Ge, it's better to open the box and check it, and then immediately bring this memorial and letter into the palace."

Li Chunfang replied without thinking.

"Okay, you and Zhong Cheng are here, let's open the box together to check the authenticity of the letter."

Xu Jie spoke, and got up and walked around the table while speaking.

The three people stood beside the box, walked around the box again, and confirmed that the seal was intact and that the box had not been opened before asking someone to come in, tear off the seal, and open the lid of the box.

There were half a box of letters piled up in the box, and they were not stacked randomly, but neatly put together. However, there was a letter on the top, which was just randomly placed on top.

Obviously, this was deliberately done by Wang Ruzheng, and it was specially put on the face to prevent them from searching for letters among the piles of letters in the box.

Backing away from the screen, Zhang Yongming bent down to pick up the letter.

The envelope looked thick, indicating that there were a lot of letter paper inside.

When Zhang Yongming pulled out those letter papers, the eyes of Xu Jie and Li Chunfang were attracted to them.

Zhang Yongming, as the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the largest supervisory official of the imperial court, naturally has the right to check such confidential things.

After carefully reading the contents of the letter, he was thoughtful at first, and then seemed to have a sudden realization, as if he had already understood Hu Zongxian's mood when he wrote this letter.

However, he didn't hand it to Xu Jie after reading the things in his hand. Instead, he read the beginning and the last name of the letter, as if he was trying to identify something.

After that, Zhang Yongming carefully checked both sides of the envelope before handing over the letter and the envelope to Elder Xu Ge.

"Old Xu Ge, you should take a look too, I have already seen it."

"it is good."

Xu Jie stretched out his hand to take the letter from Zhang Yongming, and acted similarly to him. After carefully reading the contents of the letter, he checked the letter again, and even glanced at the envelope with his name on it. Pass it to Li Chunfang.

During the whole process, Li Chunfang kept silent, but quietly observed Zhang Yongming and Xu Jie's every move, trying to see some clues.

It's just a pity that when the two of them read the letter and handed it to him, he didn't notice anything unusual.

After receiving the letter from Xu Jie, Li Chunfang read it carefully, and sometimes read some passages several times, and gradually understood the purpose of Hu Zongxian's writing this letter.

Looking at the final inscription, the words seem to be correct, and the seal seems to be true.

Don't wonder why Li Chunfang knew Hu Zongxian's handwriting and Hu Zongxian's private seal. When Hu Zongxian was prosperous, even if the capital was protected by Yan Song, the courtesy he should have was still indispensable.

Every year, Li Chunfang also received ice and charcoal tributes to the Hanlin Academy and their scholars' residences, such as annual gifts.

Li Chunfang still has an impression of the handwriting and seals on those greeting cards.

He took a deep breath, although he had doubts about this letter before, now he seems to have believed that this letter should be written by Hu Zongxian.

At that time, Hu Zongxian, it can be said that in order to curry favor with the Yan family, after Zhao Wenhua died and the Austrian aid from the capital was cut off, he began to use all means to contact anyone who could talk to the Yan family.

Because he knew that, as the governor of Jiangnan to suppress the Japanese, he had too much power and too much money in his hands.

Money touches people's hearts, and no one will turn a blind eye to those wealth.

If there is no support in the capital, Hu Zongxian's official career may come to an abrupt end at any time.

It is also an indisputable fact that Hu Zongxian embezzled military pay and lived a luxurious life. In fact, the inside story has gradually spread after Hu Zongxian was arrested and returned to Beijing.

Especially after his confidant guerrilla battalion general Wang Yingqi launched a military mutiny in Wulin, the military leaders in Zhejiang, large and small, have already explained some of the inside information through various channels in order to clear up their relationship with Hu Zongxian and others.

This is also the reason why he was stabbed directly in front of Emperor Jiajing in the first place, and it was the Emperor Jiajing who came forward to save him.

A huge amount of money was amassed by sending extra taxes such as "promotion" in Zhejiang, Zhizhi and other places, and requesting to retain salt and silver in Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces.

Some of the money was used to recruit battalions to encircle the Japanese pirates and distribute rewards, and some money was used to appease the Japanese pirates, but most of them were still for him to squander.

Regardless of whether it is the reward silver for the battalion soldiers or the cost of recruiting the Japanese pirates, there are huge holes.

Of course, when it was placed in front of Emperor Jiajing, what the emperor could see was to transfer all these holes to appease the Japanese pirates, and all the problems on the camp side were dealt with.

After all, by this time, the coastal provinces in the south of the Yangtze River were still war zones, and Japanese pirates harassed them from time to time.

In order not to shake the morale of the army, Jiangnan officials could only cover up the matter against their will.