prosperous age

The first year of Longqing seems to have passed in this way in the Yuwang faction's ascension to heaven. If Gao Gong hadn't left the court sadly, the old Yu Yu should be able to control the court soon.

The so-called "one emperor and one courtier" is probably the same.

At the end of the year, the palace issued two orders in succession.

The first decree: Change Longqing Hall to Qingyuan Hall in the first year of Jianyuan, send governor Jiang Hua to sacrifice to Xianling; change Longqing Prefecture to Yanqing Prefecture, Wei to Yanqingwei, and change to 66 seals.

The second decree is because of a memorial written by Wei Guangde, saying that after Shizhou was captured and ruined, the descendants would have no firm will, begging to order the guards to build the city and dredge the pond, and work hard to settle it. "Shi" state is connected with "lost", the meaning is unknown, it is suggested to change the name.

In fact, the "stone" in Shizhou has the meaning of stability, as stable as a rock, and the implication is originally good, but the city happened to be trapped, which is called "lost", so it naturally aroused Emperor Longqing's interest.

This is also the news Wei Guangde got from Chen Ju. For some reason, it seems that everyone in the old Zhu family believes in gods and Buddhas.

It is said that from the beginning of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Sanfeng was searched all over, wanting to worship him as a national teacher and find the method of longevity. Later emperors such as Zhu Di and Zhu Houcong also supported the construction of temples.

Emperor Longqing didn't show it very much when he was in Prince Yu's Mansion before, but now that he is the emperor, he seems to be a little superstitious about Taoism.

It can only be said that genetic genes may be really powerful. Ever since Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk in order to eat, the old Zhu family seems to have been involved with these monks and Taoist priests, and the relationship is quite deep.

Emperor Longqing frowned when he read the memorials about "Shizhou" several times, saying that the place name was not good.

When the news reached Wei Guangde's ears, for the sake of the future, he naturally decided to do what he liked, and after thinking about it, he simply made a suggestion that the Shizhou should be Yongning Prefecture, which meant that there would be peace and tranquility forever.

It's not that he didn't think of using the name Yong'an Prefecture, but it has already been used in some places, so it's not easy to continue to use it, otherwise a place will definitely be renamed because of it.

Yongning, Yongning.

Emperor Longqing liked this name very much, so he changed the name of Longqing Palace and Longqing Prefecture together with Shizhou.

Afterwards, Wei Guangde found time to meet the deputy general of the Shenji Battalion who had just arrived in the capital. This was naturally Qi Jiguang, the former commander in chief of Fuxing Quanzhang in Fujian and Jinwen in Zhejiang. The deputy general of the Shenji Battalion he served was actually When he was an official in the capital, he was considered to have inherited his father's job.

As for the reason why Qi Jiguang came to visit Wei Mansion, Wei Guangde didn't quite know what was going on, but he still got to meet this great hero who will be extolled by later generations.

Contrary to the image in my mind, Qi Jiguang does not look like a military general, but more like a civil servant. Although I know that he has not obtained any fame, he seems to be a son when he was in his hometown, but he is born with a good skin.

Afterwards, Wei Guangde asked Zhang Ji to inquire about his whereabouts and found out that it turned out that he was worshiping the pier, and he first worshiped from Xungui's side. Bofu.

Of course, there will be no shortage of docks for the Ministry of War.

As for Wei Guangde, it should be related to his status. Even the civil servant who was favored by the court came from a military family and was related to Wei Guogong and Dingguo Gongfu.

It is not surprising that there are many people who are polite, old sayings always make sense.

In fact, how many officials in the capital know him, maybe they know him, but they have no contact with him. When he arrived in the capital, he visited the docks everywhere, and he quickly integrated into the circle of Beijing officials.

Of course, it is mainly the circle of military officers.

However, what surprised Wei Guangde was Qi Jiguang's financial strength in a short period of time. According to Zhang Ji's estimation, Qi Shen will give away more than two to three thousand taels of silver in the past half a month.

For some reason, when it comes to Zhang Juzheng, Wei Guangde always feels that he can't get close to him by nature, and he doesn't know whether it's because he knows Zhang Juzheng's final ending, so he is wise to protect himself or something.

Even though he wanted to deepen his relationship with Feng Bao, even though he had increased the number of walks, the effect was not satisfactory even to himself.

It's similar to Qi Jiguang, everyone has similar backgrounds, but talking to him doesn't feel as natural as talking to Yu Dayou, and they always want to be on guard against something.

On this day, Wei Guangde went to attend the birthday party of Liu Guangji, the minister of the Qing Dynasty official department in Fujian, and he got to know him because Wei Guangde has been paying attention to the situation in Fujian and Guangdong in recent years, especially when Fujian is about to open the sea.

Now the cabinet and the local government of Fujian have initially reached a resolution on opening the sea. It is expected that before the end of the year, the first merchant ship in Yuegang will be able to go to sea. Among them, Liu Guangji has also played a significant role, mainly involving tax distribution.

It is naturally impossible for Emperor Longqing to want to eat alone. The commercial tax of Yuegang is divided into three parts, one part is kept in the local area, and the other part is handed over to the household department. The emperor can only get a share of it, and it is an exclusive half of the share.

However, because there are people at the local and central levels, restrictions are imposed on the number of trading ships in Yuegang. There are only 44 ships in total, which naturally limits the total amount of commercial taxes collected.

It's just that Wei Guangde feels that since the opening has been opened, don't rush to expand it, and get used to it for a while before talking.

In fact, the best way is to make the maritime merchants in other provinces jealous, either by proposing to increase the number of open sea ports, or by increasing the number of ships, so that they can also successfully wash their hands.

Gradually implement the open policy, and you won't be fat once you eat it.

But today, Liu Guangji discussed with him in private, and wanted to release the local government as an official again, which stumped Wei Guangde a bit.

In fact, Liu Guangji was sent to other places at first. He started as an official in Linqing, and was later transferred to the household department as a member of the Foreign Lang and Langzhong. Now he wants to go back to the place.

Ordinarily, it is not impossible to give Liu Guangji a magistrate, and his rank can be upgraded to the fourth rank, but in today's chat, Liu Guangji revealed to Wei Guangde that he wants to rule a province and restart the "one whip method" that Ge Shouli stopped in the middle of the year .

Yes, Ge Shouli, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, strongly pushed to stop a whipping method, and the officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs rebounded the most, and Liu Guangji was one of them.

Today, in the conversation between Liu Guangji and Wei Guangde, they kept emphasizing the benefits of this method, and they also repeatedly pointed out that they had the support of many colleagues in the Ministry of Household Affairs, which made Wei Guangde cautious.

Hubu Langzhong is someone who can wrestle with a provincial governor in the capital, and he will definitely not be willing to arrange for the magistrate to go.

Beijing officials, when they meet local officials, they generally meet the officials at the first level.

Wei Guangde's attitude wavered when he introduced the one whip method, but he knew that in his hometown of Jiangxi, it seemed that this policy was implemented pretty well. Many prefectures and counties did this, but they all stopped now because of Ge Shouli.

From this, Wei Guangde couldn't help but think that it would be better to help him. It happened that there was a vacancy in Jiangxi.

So, the next day, Wei Guangde went around the Ministry of Officials, knowing that Yang Bo and others did not have a candidate for the Jiangxi Chief Envoy, and his words also revealed that he wanted to recommend a candidate.

Although they didn't get an affirmative answer, these were all tacit matters, because they were all silent, which actually meant acquiescence.

In the afternoon, Wei Guangde went to Chen Yiqin's residence to discuss the matter again, and when he returned to the residence that night, he asked the hired master to prepare a memorial to recommend Liu Guangji as the governor of Jiangxi.

In the next few days, Wei Guangde was not in a hurry to take out the memorial, but met with Liu Guangji several times in a row, and sent the memorial to Shangshu Yang Bo's desk after everything was in order.

After finishing the matter, Wei Guangde finally received the transfer order, changing the right servant of the Ministry of Officials to the left servant of the Ministry of Rites, and Yin Shizhen was transferred to the Ministry of Officials.

It's better for the county magistrate to take care of it now. In fact, Chen Yiqin temporarily stopped this decree and helped to delay it for a few days.

In the blink of an eye, on the first month of Xinhai in the second year of Longqing, Emperor Longqing performed the ceremony of worshiping the sky, and visited the Fengtian Hall in the palace. Celebration ceremony, no declaration of form, no congratulations for married women, no banquet for officials, and money for festivals.

The first year of Emperor Longqing's ascension to the throne has finally passed, although it is not satisfactory, but that's it.

Wei Guangde knew that Emperor Longqing still had regrets in his heart, and of course the main reason was Gao Gong's leaving the court.

At the beginning of the first year of Longqing, everything went smoothly. While busy with the funeral of the Emperor Daxing, he also dealt with the gifts from the ministers who advised him in the previous dynasty.

It's just that after the funeral, everything seemed to go wrong. Gao Gong resigned, the border defense fell, and things that worried Emperor Longqing happened one after another.

In the new year, Emperor Longqing naturally hoped that everything goes well and there will be no more twists and turns.

But on the throne, Chen Yiqin, Wei Guangde and others noticed the way he casually looked at Xu Jie.

They made some small moves in private, but they were all carried out with the acquiescence of Emperor Longqing, and they were naturally aimed at the person who had the most say in the court today.

On the way out of the palace, Chen Yiqin, Yin Shizhen and Wei Guangde got together by coincidence and talked about the way Emperor Longqing looked at Xu Jie at the Zhengdan Grand Court Meeting today while walking.

"Brother Yifu, when His Majesty summons you in two days, please remind Your Majesty no matter what, a little unbearable will lead to great chaos."

Wei Guangde whispered to Chen Yiqin.

"You saw it too."

Chen Yiqin remained calm, just nodded slightly, and replied in a low voice.

"His Majesty looked at Xu Jie's gaze, and many people noticed it, but it's hard to say whether they can guess what it means."

Yin Shizhen muttered.

"So I have to cooperate with Mr. Xu Ge in the cabinet, lest things fail and there will be rumors outside."

Chen Yiqin said with a sigh.

"It's hard. Xu Ge is not stupid. Last year, I was only aware of the transfer of people from Ke Dao. This time, the Jingcha has to mobilize so many people. He will not be unaware."

Wei Guangde said in a low voice.

"What did Yang Shangshu say?"

Chen Yiqin asked suddenly.

"I handed over the first draft to Yang Shangshu, and there was no change in his face at that time."

Yin Shizhen replied that he is now in the Ministry of Officials, and he is in charge of Jingcha.

"Wang Ting is not worried. The main thing is the officials. Sometimes I feel that he and Xu Jie are on the same side, and sometimes I don't. It's really hard to figure out."

Chen Yiqin frowned and said.

"In my opinion, Yang Shangshu and Mr. Xu Ge are just a cooperative relationship, and there is some tacit understanding between them, so they should not be part of one party."

Wei Guangde said in a low voice.

If it was so easy for Yang Bo to choose who to take refuge in, he would not be able to stay in the position of minister now.

Emperor Jiajing used him first because he was not attached to the strict party, and later because he was not attached to the Xu party.

Now Yang Bo is also highly respected in the court, and the right to speak is actually no less than Xu Jie.

It's just a pity that he was not born in Hanlin after all. Although he has been an official to the Ministry of Officials, he still has no chance to join the cabinet.

Although the Ming Dynasty has never made explicit regulations, unspoken rules are also rules.

The most important thing is that Emperor Longqing was not Emperor Jiajing. Emperor Jiajing sometimes broke the rules when he did things. For example, he insisted on promoting Zhang Cong to the cabinet.

Emperor Longqing did not have such courage, he would choose to confront his courtiers.

What's more, although Yang Bo has always been close to Prince Yu's Mansion, he has never publicly stood in line, which even Xu Jie can't compare to.

How could Emperor Longqing break the rules for him?
Perhaps, just like the rumors in the court, the emperor in the late Jiajing period might really have the idea of ​​letting Hu Zongxian join the cabinet, and use foreign officials to contain Beijing officials, even though he was not qualified to be in the cabinet at all.

You know, when it was known that Emperor Jiajing intended to allow Hu Zongxian to join the cabinet, the ministers of the court were all trembling.

Because of this approach, Emperor Jiajing has a criminal record.

But when it came to Emperor Longqing, even the three of them would not believe that the emperor would let Yang Bo join the cabinet because it was against the rules.

The atmosphere became a little dull, and the three of them didn't say a word at this time, but walked slowly towards the palace gate.

Regarding Yang Bo, both Chen Yiqin and Yin Shizhen were uncertain, but they did not dare to think that Wei Guangde would give a definite answer like this.

Finally, when he was about to leave the palace, Wei Guangde finally asked after hesitant to speak several times: "Brother Yifu, did His Majesty tell you about Eunuch Huang before?"

Hearing this, Chen Yiqin glanced sideways at Wei Guangde, then shook his head, and said in a low voice, "I only heard about it later."

"Although His Majesty's will is only carried out within the family, but after all, Eunuch Huang took good care of Yu Yu at the beginning. Not long after he left, he abolished all the shadows given by the former emperor and the present. It seems that His Majesty is a little bit."

Wei Guangde only said in a low voice, but he still didn't say the word "unhuman".

"Until now, I still don't know what mistake Eunuch Huang made to make His Majesty issue the order to reform Yin."

Just a few days ago, Wei Guangde suddenly heard the news from the palace that Emperor Longqing suddenly revoked all the blessings of Huang Jin for some reason.

During the Jiajing period, Huang Jin's younger brother, Huang Xiu, had been cast as Jinyiwei Zhengqian household, and was later promoted to the commander of the post-military governor's mansion, and Jia Tejin.

When Emperor Jiajing passed away, it was Huang Jin and the academician Xu Jie who came to Yu's residence to welcome Zhu Zaihou, king of Yu, to the throne. Therefore, Huang Jin's nephew was the commander of Jinyiwei and hereditary.

However, within two months of Huang Jin's death, Emperor Longqing suddenly withdrew all the rewards and dismissed these people from their official positions.

Although it was a central decree, the news had already spread to the outer dynasty. Now it seems that even Chen Yiqin didn't know the reason, so Wei Guangde couldn't help but think about it.

"Shan Loan doesn't know?"

Yin Shizhen suddenly looked at Wei Guangde and asked.

Wei Guangde smiled wryly and shook his head. If he knew the inside story, he wouldn't ask Chen Yiqin today. (end of this chapter)