prosperous age

Chapter 599 598 Reminder
When he arrived at the school record hall, Wei Guangde got out of the car, and a follower took an umbrella and walked quickly into the hall.

After signing the booklet at the porter, Wei Guangde soon arrived at his yard, and Lu Bu was already waiting outside the gate.

"It's raining so much, what are you waiting here for?"

Wei Guangde said casually, and went in without looking back, Lu Bu took the umbrella from Wei's entourage and quickly chased after him.

If it wasn't for the rain, the followers of the Wei family wouldn't even be able to enter the school record hall.

After entering the duty room, Lu Bu has already tidied up the inside, and all the manuscripts that need to be proofread today have been put away.

Having followed Wei Guangde for several years, Lu Bu certainly knows the working habits of adults.

Not long after sitting down, Lu Bu brought hot tea and left the room.

Wei Guangde took a sip of tea, nodded, put down his teacup, and started working.

After an unknown amount of time, Wei Guangde finally finished proofreading the first manuscript of the day. After putting it away, he got up and walked around the room, moving his hands and feet.

It was still raining heavily outside the house, and I inadvertently glanced outside the door, and saw Du Lubu trotting in from the gate of the courtyard, the coir raincoat on his body was still dripping.

"Why, went out again to hear some news."

Wei Guangde laughed.

"My lord, there is no news today, only some memorials from other places came to Beijing, which aroused a lot of discussion among everyone."

Lu Bu hastily replied.

"What's causing everyone to talk about it?"

Wei Guangde asked curiously.

"It's the thing about Huguang two days ago."

Lu Bu said, but seeing Wei Guangde's puzzled eyes, he suddenly understood that his master might not know about this matter.

"Master doesn't know about the Huguang Chengtian Guards making trouble?"

"Tell me, I really don't know."

Maybe both Lu Bu and Zhang Ji felt that Hu Guang had nothing to do with his master, so they didn't tell him about it.

Now that Lu Bu started, Wei Guangde knew that something happened there, so he naturally wanted to ask about it.

"In order to ask for food and fodder, the Huguang Chengtian Guards gathered a crowd into the yamen of Chengtian Mansion and beat up the clerks."

Lu Bu explained the matter to Wei Guangde, and then said, "Previously, the governor impeached Hu Jiong, the commander of the village, failed to manage the grain and Cao Ming, and Zhu Shuai was not strict in his palm seal, and Zheng Wenmao, the magistrate of heaven, used excessive punishment. It's a crime."

"Zheng Wenmao actually beat the leader to death for this. It really passed. It caused an uproar among the sergeants. He deserves to be humiliated."

Wei Guangde commented, "How did His Majesty approve the reply?"

"It seems to say that the sergeant's game is to humiliate the defender, so that the garrison will strictly arrest the chief villain and punish him. Jiong and others will go to the censor to ask."

Lu Bu frowned and thought for a while before saying, he should have seen the manuscript, so he knew the emperor's reply.

"Oh."

Wei Guangde just shook his head lightly when he heard the words, the perpetrator Zheng Wenmao was fine, the emperor only held the general responsible for negligence of duty.

The emperor always handled things like this, so it's no wonder that the military officer of the Ming Dynasty didn't have any face in front of civil servants.

"In addition, there was news from Sichuan yesterday that more than [-] thieves from Renshou also entered the city to rob the treasury, murdered and seized the treasure, and then fled to Yongbo. Sichuan Governor Tan Lun and Governor Li Tinglong impeached Lu Yin and Governor Zhou Da for this matter. Wait for the officials involved in the accident."

Lu Bu told Wei Guangde all the news he had heard recently. Anyway, the master is resting at the moment. When he really wants to school, how dare he tell him these things and disturb the master's work.

After two more days like this, the rain in the capital finally subsided, but reports of disasters in surrounding prefectures and counties also followed one after another. The mood of the capital officials did not feel relieved because of the reduced rain, but became more sad and worried.

After the heavy rain in the capital finally stopped, Nanzhili reported that the Yellow River broke its embankment again in Peixian County, flooding thousands of miles, and countless people were affected by the disaster.

At this time, the construction of the new river, which Zhu Heng advocated, was not completed. For a while, the officials of Kedao in Beijing went to impeach Zhu Heng, thinking that the new river would never be completed, and what Zhu Heng did was wrong to the country and the people.

For a while, Zhu Heng became like a mouse crossing the street in the capital.

And the situation of his opponent Pan Jixun was not good either. Both he and Zhu Heng were ministers of water control, and the Yellow River breach caused a catastrophe.

Regarding Zhu Heng's current encounter, Wei Guangde and others can only stand by and watch at the moment, and it is really difficult to participate.

In fact, the management of the Yellow River has been a difficult problem since ancient times, and it has not been completely cured.

Different from the course of the Yellow River seen by later generations, in this era, the mouth of the Yellow River is not in the Bohai Sea, but is divided into three branches. The south branch is divided into three branches. Changyuan and Dongming rushed into the Zhangqiu Canal, and one branch went east from Zhaijiakou in Kaifeng to Guide, went straight down to Xuzhou, and joined Sishui into the Huai River.

In other words, in this era, the water of the Yellow River entered the Yellow Sea.

All this was caused by the Yellow River breaking through Kaifeng and Jinglongkou in the second year of Hongzhi.

So far, there have been five incidents of the Yellow River being diverted due to breaches in history. The first diversion was in the fifth year of King Zhou Ding (602 BC). The old road moved 40 kilometers to the east, passing through Huaxian, Daming, Xiajin, and Qinghe, and entering the Bohai Sea from Cangzhou and Huanghua. It was called Hanzhi River in history, and it ran for 613 years.

The second major diversion occurred in the third year of the founding of Wang Mang at the end of the Western Han Dynasty (AD 11). "The river broke through Wei County (northwest of Puyang today), and several counties to the east of Qinghe River." The river course moved 80 kilometers eastward, passing through Puyang and Qingfeng. , Yanggu, Liaocheng, Linyi, Huimin, until Lijin enters the Bohai Sea, known as the Eastern Han River in history, and traveled along the river in 1037.

Due to the favorable terrain of the river course and Wang Jing's efforts to control the river, there has been no flood in the Eastern Han, Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties.

The third major diversion was in the eighth year of Emperor Renzong's Qingli reign (1048 A.D.), when Hejue entered the Bohai Sea from Qingxian and Tianjin.

The fourth major diversion of the Yellow River was in the fifth year of Jinzhangzong Mingchang (1194 A.D.), when the Hejue Yangwu Guanglu Temple Village Zhoushi Dike, eastwards entered the Cao, Dan, Xiao, and Dang rivers, and entered the Yellow Sea through the Qingjiangkou Yunti.

It was the fifth diversion since the second year of Emperor Xiaozong Hongzhi, and only five diversions have been made.

Don't talk if you don't understand. This is Wei Guangde's consistent point of view, so although he supports Zhu Heng, it is only because of fellow villagers, not that he thinks that Zhu Heng's method is good and can control the flood.

But now that things have developed, Wei Guangde also feels that the Yellow River seems to have been thoroughly rectified.

Later generations have a very popular view on the Yellow River, that is, because population activities destroy the water and soil in the upper reaches of the Yellow River, resulting in serious soil erosion.

However, Wei Guangde thought about these reasons for two nights, but in the end he still didn't write a memorial and hand it in, because he really didn't know how to argue.

King Yu has not yet ascended the throne, so what he said actually doesn't have much advantage over the emperor.

When the time comes to let the Ministry discuss, how should he explain that there are many kinds of trees upstream?

Even if it is proved that the thing can reduce the total amount of sediment carried by the Yellow River, it is impossible to achieve the effect in the short term, and the imperial court needs to pour a lot of money into it.

Spending money on planting trees is not as good as spending the money on building river embankments. Wei Guangde believes that he will definitely lose in such a debate.

Still don't show ugliness.

Wei Guangde made up his mind to shrink his head. The difference in concept made it impossible for what he knew to have a market in this era, and would not receive widespread support.

However, Xiyuan was not approved for red, and after choosing to stay in China, Zhu Heng seemed to feel the support of the emperor, and kept writing everywhere to speed up the progress of Xinhe Engineering, hoping to complete the project as soon as possible to show results and get rid of his current unfavorable situation.

However, Pan Jixun was still persistent in Shangshu, and tried his best to restore the old course of the Yellow River and the Grand Canal.

It was in the midst of such turmoil that Ouyang Yijing handed over the memorial to the impeachment of Guangxi General Military Officer, Gongshun Marquis Wu Jijue, and urged Chen Xungui to lead the troops to harm.

On the same day, Wei Guangde received a note from Gao Yao, Minister of the Ministry of Households, Zhao Bingran, Minister of the Ministry of War, and Xu Jie from the cabinet.

"Ha ha."

After reading it, Wei Guangde just shook his head and chuckled, then put the note in a box beside him.

After the office was dismissed, he sent someone to bring a message to Ouyang Yijing, "Wait to go to the military department."

Someone had been planning to transfer Ouyang Yijing from the household department to the military department before, and this time he suddenly impeached the Guangxi military officer, just to give them a reason. Since he likes the military, it is natural for him to transfer to the military department.

From Gao Yao, Zhao Bingran and Xu Jie's notes, Wei Guangde saw that they had reached a consensus.

Just based on the relationship between himself and Ouyang Yijing, he passed the news to himself first.

Zhao Bingran.
Wei Guangde guessed that Zhao Bingran would agree, probably because of the pressure from Xu Jie and Gao Yao. After all, he is new here, so it is not easy to offend the chief assistant of the court and the Minister of the Household Department for many years.

The time has passed for several months without knowing it, and it has entered October of the 45th year of Jiajing.

"Master, Hu Rugui, an anthology doctor of the Ministry of Officials in your same year, and the official department sent a joint post to Hu Yingjia in the matter. I invite you to go to Xianggui Garden for a drink at night."

While talking, Lu Bu handed a post to Wei Guangde.

Wei Guangde took it over and glanced at it, then asked casually, "Can you tell me what's going on here?"

"No."

Lu Bu replied.

"understood."

Wei Guangde put down the post and continued with his work.

Hu Rugui and Hu Yingjia, like him, were both Jinshi in the 35th year of Jiajing, and they often met in the same year in the capital.

In their class, the most outstanding one was naturally the biography Wei Guangde, who embraced the thigh of Prince Yu's Mansion, and because of Wei Guangde's generosity, he had a very important voice in the same year.

And Hu Rugui had a lot of influence in the same year. After all, he was the doctor of the Department of Wenxuan of the Ministry of Officials, and it was a matter of future for civil officials.

As for Hu Yingjia, he has given everything to Shizhong, and he has a lot of power, but Wei Guangde doesn't think much of him, maybe because he manipulated Ouyang Yijingsheng to give everything to Shizhong, and it doesn't seem right to pull someone to do everything to Shizhong What a difficult thing.

If he can get people up, he will naturally have a way to get them down.

Especially with the recent news from Yuwang Mansion that Emperor Jiajing seems to be in poor health, and has not left Yongshou Palace to play in Xiyuan for nearly half a month.

After leaving the office, Wei Guangde went back home first, changed into his normal clothes and was about to go out for a banquet, when the doorman came to report, and the military department was in charge of the incident, Ouyang Yijing came, just outside the gate of the mansion.

Wei Guangde smiled, and then walked to the door to greet this military officer.

Well, the future of the generals under my command will largely depend on this one.

"Shan Loan is going to Xianggui Garden for a banquet?"

Who knows, the first thing Ouyang Yijing said when he saw Wei Guangde was if he would be invited by Hu Rugui and Hu Yingjia to drink at night.

"Could it be?"

Wei Guangde immediately became alert and spoke.

"Find a vacant room, and I'll talk to you."

Ouyang Yijing said in a low voice.

"follow me."

Wei Guangde took Ouyang Yijing to find an empty room, and all the servants were dismissed, so Wei Guangde said: "Brother Si Zhi came here specially for this matter?"

Ouyang Yijing nodded, "They also approached me before, but I rejected it. I heard that they spread invitations again today. I guess I will find you, the same year, as the leader."

"Why exactly?"

Hearing this, Wei Guangde knew that there might be a very important relationship. He just searched his memory. It seems that nothing major has happened recently, and it is still a major event related to the official department.

"What do Shan Loan think of Mr. Zhang Yongming, the censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate?"

Ouyang Yijing asked.

Although he felt strange in his heart, Wei Guangde still opened his mouth and said: "Yongming has always been pure and prudent. After Yan Song's resignation, the head of the constitution took it as his duty to straighten out the outline and dimension. He is a rare talent in the court."

After finishing speaking, Wei Guangde looked at Ouyang Yijing with a questioning look, hoping that he could give him an answer.

"Among those of us, we belong to the Kodao Spokesperson, who specialize in seizing people's black hats, but seizing people's black hats has to be done by a well-known teacher. Only when others do something wrong or provoke us somewhere.

As for Hu Rugui and Hu Yingjia, they rely on the power in their hands. Alas, I am too embarrassed to talk about some things in the six subjects. "

But Ouyang Yijing just started, and didn't continue.

Wei Guangde frowned, "Could it be that the Six Divisions and the Ministry of Officials can still manipulate officials, but it's impossible to be good at government?"

"If our sixth department asks for something, if we find an official from the sixth department or some other yamen, the other party will usually show some face, just like your family, I am afraid that you have received all kinds of gifts from the Fujian government."

Ouyang Yijing opened his mouth and said, "I, the military department will give me gifts, and those generals who are abroad will also give me gifts every season."

"Who are they going to attack this time? And want to pull me in?"

Wei Guangde probably understood that there was no good banquet tonight, and the son of a turtle hit his head with the idea.

Suddenly, Wei Guangde thought of the person Ouyang Yijing asked just now, looked at Ouyang Yijing with wide eyes and said: "They want to mess with Zhang Yongming?"

Ouyang Yijing nodded, "The Metropolitan Procuratorate is more powerful than them, Mr. Zhang is naturally not afraid of them, but often beats them, arousing their resentment. It can be said that many people from the Sixth Division and the Metropolitan Procuratorate have gathered together On their side, they plan to find an opportunity to jointly impeach Mr. Zhang.

That lord is from Xu Shoufu's side. I guess they are also afraid of causing dissatisfaction with Xu Ge, so they want to pull you in and borrow the tiger skin of Prince Yu's mansion. "

"It's so, they are too courageous."

Wei Guangde said with a frown.

"Brother Lao Si, otherwise, I'm afraid I might really fall into someone's tricks tonight."

Wei Guangde cupped his hands at Ouyang Yijing.

On the wine table, drink a few more glasses of wine, and promise to drink something if you can't be confused.

"Come on, let's have a banquet."

Wei Guangde shouted loudly to the outside, then turned to Ouyang Yijing and said, "They eat theirs, let's eat at home."

When he came out and saw Zhang Ji, Wei Guangde ordered him to send someone to send a message to Xianggui Garden immediately, saying that he had an occasional wind-heat and was not suitable for the banquet.

(End of this chapter)