prosperous age

Chapter 590 Chapter 589 Yu Dayou Was Impeached
"Master, something serious happened."

Lu Bu hurried into the lobby and shouted at Wei Guangde who was studying.

Putting down the book in his hand, Wei Guangde asked unhurriedly, "What's the matter of panic, the officials want to arrest you?"

Wei Guangde's joke made Lu Bu's complexion extremely bright in an instant. He just listened to the discussion of a few book offices outside, saying that he was afraid of another official earthquake, so he rushed in to report the news in such a panic.

Flusteredly waving his hands, Lu Bu said: "Just now His Majesty issued a decree to send Jin Yiwei to the south to capture Hu Zongxian, the former governor of the south of the Yangtze River to suppress the Japanese.

It is now rumored that His Majesty the Emperor is going to clean up the strict party this time, and I am afraid that none of those who slipped through the net before will be able to escape. "

"Your Majesty ordered Hu Zongxian to be arrested?"

Wei Guangde understood that the news he had been waiting for had finally arrived.

"Why Hu Zongxian was arrested? Is there any news?"

Wei Guangde was actually more curious, whether Xu Jie followed his own thinking and tried to find a way to frame Hu Zongxian and get rid of Hu Zongxian.

You know, Xu Jie and Xu Ge have followed Yan Song and Yan Shifan for so long, so it is impossible that they have not learned this trick.

"I don't know, I just heard them say that the court's Jinyiwei has been dispatched."

Lu Bu replied.

"Okay, I'm fine here, you go out and inquire again to see if you can figure out the reason."

Wei Guangde laughed, and picked up the book he had put down while speaking, and flipped through it again.

"Yes, sir."

Lu Bu bowed and said, then turned around and left the house, and walked out of the yard along the stone road.

Inquire about the news, if you stay in the yard, you will definitely not hear the news, or you can only inquire about the news that the master wants to know if you are with the clerks outside.

In Prince Yu's Mansion, King Yu Zhu Zaixi had already learned from Li Fang that the palace had sent gold and silver tiriders south to capture Hu Zongxian, and he also knew the information that Wei Guangde had sent to Prince Yu's Mansion before.

"Traitors like Hu Zongxian should be punished by the laws of the country."

Hearing that Hu Zongxian offered secret techniques to Emperor Jiajing, King Yu was furious.

Because of Hu Zongxian's relationship with Yan Song, King Yu himself did not want to see him.

He wanted to take him down before, but it was more because of cleaning up the Yan family and they had to clean up their party members outside one by one. Hu Zongxian was in charge of the anti-Japanese war in several provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, and his military power was too strong.

After that, Hu Zongxian obediently bound him and Emperor Jiajing didn't want to hold him accountable, so King Yu gradually forgot about him.

It's just that he didn't expect that Hu Zongxian still wanted to invite favors by offering secret techniques, which is really hateful.

"Your Highness, I just received news that Hu Songqi, Hu Zongxian's son, has been imprisoned in Jinyiwei South Town Fusi, and he is only waiting to be interrogated with Hu Zongxian."

Li Fang told Yu Wang another news from the side.

King Yu nodded when he heard the words, "At the beginning, because of the extermination of Wang Zhi, he gave his family a family of Jinyiwei, a thousand households, to attack him. It happened to take back all these rewards. Zhu Xixiao did the right thing."

"Tell me, why is Hu Zongxian so courageous that he dared to forge the imperial decree?"

Yu Wang said in a deep voice.

Forging the imperial decree, this directly touches the dignity of the emperor, he does not believe that this is something that Hu Zongxian has the courage to do.

From King Yu's point of view, this matter must have been instigated by Yan Shifan.

"The news from Jinyiwei was used when the Japanese head Wang Zhi was arrested, and Master Wei may also know about it.

Jin Yiwei's secret file only accepts the confession of criminals, but there is no real evidence. It must have been destroyed by Hu Zongxian and other rebels at that time, so it is not easy for Jin Yiwei to report this matter.

I think that's why Mr. Wei didn't mention it when he returned to Beijing to report on his duties. After all, he could easily be labeled as stalking and jealousy. "

Li Fang answered.

"If nothing happens once, you will naturally become more courageous."

King Yu sighed.

"His Royal Highness, do you want to post a message and let Lord Wei come over after the office is over and ask him about it?"

Li Fang asked.

"Forget it, he has been busy with schooling recently, and he is tired from running back and forth, so let him go back and have a good rest after the office."

King Yu shook his head and rejected Li Fang's proposal.

"By the way, take some time to find some copies of "Yongle Dadian" for Gu. I also want to see what books the father can't forget so much."

Speaking of what Wei Guangde is busy with now, King Yu couldn't help but think of "Yongle Dadian", and unconsciously aroused a little interest.

When Gao Gong gave him a lecture at the mansion, he also mentioned this book. After all, it was compiled by Xie Jin, Yao Guangxiao and others. Later, he knew that Emperor Jiajing liked to read this book very much, and he read it almost every day. King Yu couldn't help being interested.

Especially when I heard that the Xiyuan Yongshou Palace caught fire last time, when Emperor Jiajing ran out, he only brought the "Yongle Dadian" with him, and all other treasures were burned in the fire.

"Yes, Your Highness."

It is a good thing His Highness wants to read, and Li Fang immediately agreed.

"By the way, Your Highness, I have heard some good news today."

At this time, Li Fang seemed to suddenly remember, and said to King Yu.

"What good news, tell Gu happy quickly."

At this moment, King Yu was in a good mood, and when he heard Li Fang said that he still had good news, he immediately replied happily.

"This good news came from the Ministry of War, and it has basically been confirmed to be correct."

Seeing that King Yu was so happy, Li Fang was naturally excited, and told him the good news he heard like a cannonball.

"In mid-August, the captive chieftain Huangtai Jishuai Qingqi rushed in from Xuanfu Ximalin, and his troops were scattered across Anzhuangbao when they were spotted by Jiang Rudong, the general of Anzhuangbao. outside the fort."

Hearing this, King Yu suddenly became energetic, and interjected, "Did you hurt that bandit chief?"

King Yu can be sure that the Ming army must have failed to capture or kill Huang Taiji in the ambush this time, otherwise Bianzhen would have gone to Beijing with great fanfare to report its merits.

Huang Taiji, this kid actually learned from his father, An Dahan, that he dared to break into the side wall and plunder around the capital, which directly caused the capital to shake and the whole city to be under martial law. He really deserves to die.

"It's just a pity. At that time, Jiang Rudong didn't know that the opponent was Huang Taiji, so he led his troops to besiege the Luqi. The bandit chieftain was also bold. He dared to go out to fight the fool. Our soldiers rose up and made him fall off the horse. At a critical moment, the bandit chieftain guarded him. Death Guard rescued him.

But even so, the thief's helmet knife was also taken away for our soldiers. After hearing that, Huang Chief was seriously injured and died for several days before waking up.

This time, the Ministry of War has checked and confirmed this merit, and plans to request an imperial edict to promote Jiang Rudong to the second rank, and to reward him with twelve flags of silver. "

When Li Fang continued to tell the rest of the story, King Yu also sighed lightly.

"It's a pity, such a good opportunity, but it's no wonder Jiang Rudong, after knowing the inside story, I'm afraid he regretted it to death."

King Yu was very understanding and excused Jiang Rudong.

"Who said it wasn't? At that time, the governor of the Xuan Mansion wanted to punish him. Luckily, the General Xuan took the matter to the fore and sent a letter to the Ministry of War to win the victory. This will only be confirmed when there is a detailed report back.”

Li Fang said again.

In the next two days, the news about Hu Zongxian's forged imperial decree spread, and there was an uproar in the court.

However, there are believers and there are unbelievers.

It's just that when people who doubted this matter knew what happened in Hangzhou, they were all silent.

In fact, at this time, local officials were selected and transferred back to Beijing every year to serve in the six departments and other yamen, and there were also many officials in Zhejiang.

Therefore, after the incident of that year was reported, many officials who had been officials in Zhejiang and heard about it also said that they had heard about it, but because there were only rumors and no evidence, naturally they could not speak casually.

However, in fact, everyone knows that when Yan Song was in power at that time, it was useless to report the matter, and Yan Song would find a way to suppress it.

As for not mentioning this matter in the future, it is naturally because no one asks about it, so naturally it will not be said casually.

In fact, if it weren't for the news, most officials would have forgotten about it.

As a result, the wind in the capital's officialdom has changed drastically, and most officials agree with this matter. As for the investigation of Hu Zongxian, naturally no one has any objection.

But in such an ordinary day, Wei Guangde received another piece of news that bothered him, Yu Dayou was impeached again.

Ever since Yu Dayou was transferred to be the commander-in-chief of Guangdong, the work on his hands is also complicated, not only to destroy the Chaozhou Japanese pirates, but also the pirate Wu Ping and the thieves. , Cheng Shaolu, Liang Daohui and others rebelled, and he also sent troops to collect them.

To deal with Japanese pirates and pirates, Yu Dayou naturally focused on encirclement and suppression, and pursued ruthless methods to annihilate them. However, for the rebellion of Lan Songsan, Wu Duan and others, Yu Dayou chose to appease them first, and sent troops to encircle and suppress them if they failed to appease them.

Yu Dayou had the experience of recruiting these minority tribes before, and then wiped out Japanese pirates many times. He was very famous, so Yu Dayou single-handedly recruited Cheng Shaolu, and Cheng Shaolu persuaded Liang Daohui to surrender.

Xie Chi, the general of Huizhou, fought with Wu Duan and others, but they couldn't win, so they said that "Yu's army" was coming, and Wu Duan and other leaders hurriedly fled back to the cottage, not daring to fight.

Soon, Yu Dayou really came to Huizhou and captured Wen Qi.

Wu Duan saw that Wen Qi had been captured, so he came to Yu Dayou's army with a plea and asked to attack the Japanese pirates to make up for his mistakes.

After the internal troubles were resolved, Yu Dayou went all out to suppress the Japanese pirates. With the recruited Wu Duan as the vanguard, he successively wiped out the Japanese pirates in Zoutang, Qisha, Jiazi and other places. More than 2000 Japanese pirates escaped by chance and retreated to Haifeng Jinxidu.

Yu Dayou led an army to surround it for two months. The Japanese pirates ran out of food and planned to escape, but they were defeated by the lieutenant general Tang Kekuan who set up an ambush and killed three Japanese pirate leaders.

So Yu Dayou led his troops to Chaozhou, and recruited the bandits Lan Songsan, Ye Danlou, and Wu Ping to surrender.

At this time, Wu Ping, the leader of the pirates, built a city in Nan'ao to rebel, built hundreds of ships, gathered more than 1 people, and plundered coastal counties.

Guangdong Yu Dayou cooperated with Fujian Qi Jiguang. Yu Dayou led the navy and Qi Jiguang led the army. The two attacked Nan'ao and defeated the Wuping pirates. Wu Ping went to Phoenix Mountain alone.

Qi Jiguang stayed in Nan'ao, and Yu Dayou sent generals Tang Kekuan and Li Chao to attack, but they failed. Wu Ping snatched the civilian boat and fled to the sea.

When Wei Guangde heard the news, the impeachment had already been launched, and it was first delivered to the Nanjing War Department. Li Sui, Minister of the Nanjing War Department, believed that Yu Dayou led a great victory to encircle and suppress the pirates.

It was only because the General Military Officer of Guangdong was involved and the matter was so important that the memorial to the impeachment of Yu Dayou was seconded in the name of the Nanjing Ministry of War and sent to the capital for the emperor to decide.

Wei Guangde also got the news from Prince Yu's Mansion, because it was approved by the Ministry of War in Nanjing, the matter was not handled by Yang Bo of the Ministry of War, but was directly sent to the cabinet for drafting.

"This old bastard Li Sui is really looking for trouble for nothing."

Wei Guangde put down the note in his hand, feeling a little headache about this matter.

Victory or defeat is a common matter for military strategists, how can Yu Dayou be directly deprived of his official position just because of the first battle.

For such a big matter, Yu Dayou didn't send him any news. If he had known about it earlier, he could have arranged it in the court. At least ask Xu Jie or Li Chunfang to hold their hands high and speak well for Yu Dayou when the ticket is drafted. .

The report on this matter has already reached the cabinet, and Wei Guangde has no right to freely enter and exit there.

According to the speed of the cabinet, this kind of memorial to impeach the general of a town must be dealt with first. I am afraid that this matter has already been drafted.

The yard next door is Zhang Juzheng's valet, but Wei Guangde looked at the note on the table, but couldn't be interested in going to talk to him about it.

late.

Even if Zhang Juzheng made peace in front of Xu Jie, the memorial at that time might have already reached the Emperor Jiajing.

Sitting silently at the table and thinking for a while, Wei Guangde deliberated on possible proposals for the cabinet.

There is a high probability that this impeachment memorandum will be approved, because it contains the opinions of the Nanjing Ministry of War, and the probability of direct rejection is very small, unless the plan is made early and Xu Jie and Li Chunfang will do a good job.

As for the result, it may be dismissal, or it may be Shen Chi.

Nanjing Ministry of War
Since King Yu gradually gained power, almost all the members of Prince Yu's mansion who were originally sent to Nanjing have been transferred back to the capital, or sent to various places as officials. It really doesn't matter in Nanjing.

This is why Wei Guangde has always ignored the Nanjing Six Departments. He always feels that the officials there are retired and do not care about world affairs, so they have been neglecting to manage relationships.

Unexpectedly, it tripped him up on this matter.

Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, even the old father-in-law Wei Guogong Xu Pengju dared not easily provoke him, so he was really helpless at this moment.

"Come on, let him go. It can be regarded as a reminder to Yu Dayou. If someone impeaches him in the future, let's see if he wants to tell me in advance. Such a sudden attack will be difficult for gods to save."

Wei Guangde thought about this matter in his heart, and he would know the result when everything was approved by Xiyuan. The worst result is dismissal.

It's good to let Yu Dayou go home and stay for a while, anyway, Daming has been fighting everywhere these years, and a general like Yu Dayou who can fight may not have a bright future.

After leaving the office in the afternoon, Wei Guangde went out of the school records hall and got on the carriage, instead of rushing home, he told the driver, "Go to Prince Yu's Mansion."

Although accepting his fate and following the emperor's disposal, Wei Guangde would not let Li Sui, Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, let him go easily.

Those who can serve as ministers of the Ministry of War naturally understand that victory or defeat is a common matter in military affairs, and it is absolutely incompetent for such ministers of the Ministry of War to decide the fate of a town's commander-in-chief with one victory or defeat.

To move Li Sui, it is better to seek the consent of King Yu first.

(End of this chapter)