prosperous age

Chapter 181 Chapter 180
After the imperial examination was over, Wei Guangde and the others rarely had a period of leisure.

For the Jinshi who are interested in the Imperial Academy, this period of time is naturally on pins and needles, but for most people, they actually knew that they were running with them, so who would care more.

But soon, Wei Guangde was shocked by a major event, which made Wei Guangde feel for the first time that it was not so easy to be a Beijing official.

This matter also needs to be said that during the February examination, Li Mo, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, proposed a topic for the examination strategy, which included "Han Wu conquered the four barbarians, but the country was wasted; Tang Zong attacked Huai Cai, but the late business will not end." In a word, Li Mo was framed by Zhao Wenhua, the servant of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and Li Mo was impeached by Shang Shu for defaming the imperial court and improper employment.

Li Mo lacks political allies, especially since Emperor Jiajing no longer likes him, so Li Mo doesn’t have any political allies Some people speak up for him because they admire him as a human being.

Li Mo was dismissed from office and imprisoned, and soon died strangely in prison.

But the matter is of course not over yet, if someone is arrested, he must give an explanation, because Li Mo is an official of the Ministry of Rites, so Emperor Jiajing ordered the Minister of Rites, Wang Yongbin, to hear the case.

Under normal circumstances, the emperor had obviously believed in the words of impeachment, and Li Mo was already dead, so naturally he would no longer have any scruples, and he should act for the emperor's will.

However, Wang Yongbin, who was arranged by Emperor Jiajing, was also a stubborn person. He believed that Li Mo was innocent and insisted on not handling the case according to the instructions of the emperor and the cabinet.

After Emperor Jiajing lost his patience, he directly changed Wang Yongbin's Minister of Rites to Minister of Nanjing's Ministry of Officials, and promoted Wu Shan, the left servant of the Ministry of Officials, to take over Wang Yongbin's position.

Originally, this personnel adjustment had been planned long ago, but changing Wang Yongbin from the position of Minister of the Ministry of Rites in Beijing to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Officials in Nanjing is already humiliating him.

The Minister of Officials is known as a heavenly official, and controls the promotion of officials. The popularity of the Ministry of Rites must be higher than that of the Ministry of Rites. However, the Minister of Rites is more noble and closer to the position of the cabinet. Therefore, most officials who have the opportunity to hit the throne of the cabinet rush for this position.

But Nanjing No. [-] is not so good at it.

He could have served as No.1 under the cabinet, but now he was thrown to Nanjing.

Wei Guangde still couldn't believe it when he heard the news.

Thinking about half a month ago, after the royal street praised the officials, they went to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites to meet the great uncle. It was completely unexpected that the old man would encounter such a disaster.

In the final analysis, Li Mo offended Yan Song and Zhao Wenhua, and Zhao Wenhua took Li Mo down. Wang Yongbin, who was fair, did not want to frame his colleagues, so he lost points with Emperor Jiajing and included himself in it.

Everyone is rumoring that it was actually Yan Song who made the shot, but a fake Zhao Wenhua.

Well, anyway, it would be good if the pot of shit was put on Yan Song's head, that would be Qingliu, although there was no trace of Yan Song's hand in the whole thing.

However, it is also true that Li Mo repeatedly contradicted and conflicted with Yan Song on the problem of understanding, and it is not known whether there is really his acquiescence.

Before entering the officialdom, the Li Mo case taught Wei Guangde a good lesson.

But at this time, Wei Guangde was really worried when he read the letters from home in his room.

The letter was naturally a letter from home from Jiujiang, and was entrusted to a businessman traveling to and from the capital.

Seeing the content in front of the family letter, Wei Guangde smiled happily. Dad and the others already knew that he had passed the test, and they didn't know his palace test results when he wrote the letter, but they were already trying to save face for his parents.

The following content made Wei Guangde scratch his head a bit, and it is a good thing to give him money, but the family plans not to hand over the money to himself, but to help him buy fields, and the elder brother also wants to buy fields. Hang it under your own name, what the hell is this?

Wei Guangde intends to find an opportunity to report the matter of "spawning into the mother", and wait until he is appointed an official, and when he has a suitable reason, he can't report this matter for no reason.

However, looking at the family letter in his hand, Wei Guangde was a little embarrassed again.

To put it bluntly, it is to transfer the money that the common people should pay in the past to the landlord, and let the landlord pay this part of the tax.

Those with more land pay more, and those with less land pay less.

Although I have become an official and have the cover of an official, this tax can be escaped in the name of "tax exemption", and it will all fall on other landlords, but what about in the future?

If my son and grandson are not candidates for the imperial examination, these fields will have to pay more taxes.

Although he is still young, Wei Guangde still has the habit of thinking long-term.

Reaching for the teacup, he found that the tea was already cold, and was about to call Zhang Ji to come in for more water, when he remembered that Zhang Ji went to see the courtyard in Beijing with the manager of the guild hall, so he had to give up.

Wei Guangde folded the family letter and put it in an envelope, and put it in his own box, then got up and went out.

At this time, the city of Jiujiang was once again full of music and firecrackers.

But this is what it should mean. After all, there are two tribute scholars in Jiujiang City this time, which means that two Jinshi have passed the imperial examination.

When the postman sent the palace examination results to the magistrate's yamen, the current Jiujiang magistrate frowned when he saw it.

Last time, the test results came out. According to the normal situation, the Lao family must have become rich. After all, Lao Kan's ranking is very high. If there is no accident, he is a proper second-class Jinshi, so he chose to go to the Lao family to congratulate him.

Well, the results of this palace examination did come with a big reversal. Wei Guangde, who was at the bottom of the list before, unexpectedly turned around and rushed directly to the No.1 position of the second class, becoming Chuanlu.

With two second-class players, the prefect of Jiujiang didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

The announcement outside was ready, and the people from the Dehua County Government also arrived, and the magistrate went out to arrange the manpower for the announcement.

Naturally, he wanted to go out to announce the good news in person, but it was completely different from the last time he delivered the good news for the meeting. This time, the magistrate must go to Wei Qianhu's house to congratulate him.

As for Laokan, the magistrate of Dehua County should just go there.

Wu Zhankui and Zhang Shigui were also terrified after receiving the notification from the Yamen of the prefect of Jiujiang. This ranking is too weird.

They did not doubt the authenticity of the happy news, whether it was a mistake in some part of the yamen, this matter cannot be mistaken.

All the officials of Jiujiang Wei went out to the Wei family to celebrate the congratulations, and went to the Wei family with the officials and servants in the magistrate's government office.

It's just that after the results of the palace examination were announced in the yamen, a few people with fast legs ran to the Wei family and the Lao family like crazy.

At this time, the street where the Wei family was located was still the same as usual, there were two servants standing outside the gate of the Wei family, one was Uncle Lin who had been guarding the door, and another young man followed behind him.

Apparently, the Wei family was also well prepared, and they were all waiting for the day when the news of the palace examination came.

There were three groups of people who came to Wei's house to report. At this moment, more than a dozen people were running out of breath, and the gongs, drums, and suonas were silent, and they just ran forward to see who ran faster.

Although they are not from the same group, they are all news from the yamen. You can't beat up the other two groups of newspapers and go grab the wedding money by yourself.

One-on-two may not be good, maybe you fight with one team and the other team runs away first.

The three groups all thought this way, wanting to speed up and run ahead, but the speed of the three groups was about the same.

No way, the leaders of the three groups negotiated while running, and soon reached an agreement to divide the happy money equally. After all, there are people behind everyone.

In the past few sessions, Jiujiang Mansion did not have any good news, so those who specialize in the newspaper business didn't care much anymore, thinking that it might be the same this time, and there was no success in the test.

Well, I didn't expect that four people passed the test this time, and there were two in Jiujiang Prefecture, but it made the officials of the yamen who had access to the good news very annoyed.

Naturally, they had already arranged their manpower early, and just waiting for the news of the success of the palace examination today, there was a picture of three people vying to announce the good news to the Wei family.

When they were approaching the door, the three groups consciously slowed down, breathing evenly, and began to blow and beat, making the atmosphere more festive.

The concierge, Uncle Lin, had noticed a dozen people running over there, and when he was approaching this side, he suddenly slowed down, and then began to blow and beat, and was about to enter the gate, which was naturally impossible.

It's just that they ignored the gatekeeper Uncle Lin's obstruction, and the three leaders in the three groups jumped and shouted towards the gate: "Congratulations to your young master Wei Guangde No. 1 in the second-class high school in the palace examination, and the Beijing News has won the yellow first class."

The three groups kept yelling at the gate. In fact, after they yelled the first time, Uncle Lin stopped them for a moment. The second time he made sure he heard it right, he ran into the house to announce the good news to Wei Qianhu went.

Wei Meng was sitting in the lobby, still planning to buy the land. He also heard the commotion outside, and thought it was someone getting a wife, so he didn't pay much attention.

After deciding to buy the land, the Wei family naturally arranged for someone to find a seller who was interested in selling the land.

Needless to say, I was lucky this time. I found sellers for two pieces of land, but the fields were not large.

The concierge, Uncle Lin, ran in, "Master, master, the second young master passed the No. 1 in the imperial examination."

Uncle Lin rushed into the hall without notifying him, Wei Meng first frowned, and then blushed instantly after hearing what he said clearly.

"The newspaper is right outside the door."

Seeing Wei Meng's performance, Uncle Lin said hastily.

He didn't know anything about the imperial examination, but after Wei Guangde passed the imperial examination, he asked someone to find out how the imperial examination and the palace examination were, and what the ranking was, so now he knows the second in the newspaper. A No.1 is indeed a bit illusory.

"Go out and see."

When Wei Meng came out, the three newspapers were still shouting congratulations in a hoarse voice, and many pedestrians around had already surrounded the gate of Wei's house.

Everyone knows that the second boy of the Wei family is taking the imperial examination in the capital, and the yamen has already announced the good news last time. At this moment, many onlookers are still discussing who is the number one official in the second class.

"Are you the newspaper at the Yamen?"

Wei Meng looked at them and said.

"Congratulations to Mr. Wei Guangde, Master Wei, No. 1 in the Second Class of High School in the Palace Examination, and the Beijing News has won the yellow first class."

When the three of them saw Wei Meng coming out, they all tacitly bowed and shouted in unison.

The corner of Wei Meng's mouth grinned, "Second A No.1, you are sure."

The words he said with a smile carried a strong killing intent on Jun Han.

This is really a scam, right? What Wei Meng was thinking about at the moment was this, and the money was stolen from him.

With a bad tone, the four soldiers who came out from behind also looked bad, staring at the dozen or so announcers.

The three leaders couldn't see it well, and they didn't dare to vent their anger. One of them said quickly, "Report to Mr. Wei, the news is absolutely true, we are all in this business."

He pointed at the onlookers, "We all live in Jiujiang City, and they all know us, so how dare they report the news about the imperial examinations indiscriminately."

When he said this, many passers-by around him knew them, and they knew that they were the ones who announced the good news in the past college examinations and rural examinations, and they all nodded to Wei Meng.

"Really won No.1 in the second class?"

Wei Meng still didn't believe it, and asked fiercely.

"Master Wei, Master Wei Qianhu, I dare not speak nonsense, it's true, it's absolutely true."

The newspaper said in a hurry, almost swearing to the sky.

"Come here, bring out the plate and give me a reward."

Wei Meng was excited, and before he entered the door, he told Uncle Lin, "According to what I said earlier, reward them with money, and give me the two plates of happy money."

After finishing speaking, he entered the gate without turning his head, and went to the backyard to tell his wife, the second child has saved face this time, No. 1 in the second class, this is going to be a Beijing official.

You can't buy land near Jiujiang with all your money. You have to take some money to the capital to let your son buy property there.

Wei Meng entered the door, and the three groups of annunciators cheerfully took five silver ingots and ten taels of silver ingots, and then two more soldiers each held a dustpan, which was full of bright yellow copper coins.

"Spray the happy money, the host family is very happy, let the happy money be distributed"

While shouting loudly, he suddenly raised the dustpan in his hand, scattered the copper coins inside into the air, and then fell to the ground and rolled around.

The passers-by outside and the newspapers all bent down in ecstasy to snatch the scattered copper coins. At this time, on the street, no matter if they were old people or children, men or women, they were all doing the same thing. The action is to bend down to pick up the happy money.

Not long after Wei Meng passed the news to the back, he heard the beating of gongs and drums outside the door, and immediately asked his servants to open the middle door to welcome them in.

The happy money that had been distributed earlier had been snatched away by the onlookers, but most of the people did not disperse and gathered in the street, all smiling happily watching the Wei family organize the celebration.

On both sides of the gate, Uncle Lin commanded a few soldiers to hang up the firecrackers. Wei Meng came out to see his colleagues, and the magistrate was also there. Wei Meng was only a little surprised, but didn't think much about it. No.1.

With the sound of firecrackers, everyone walked into the gate, and the prefect of Jiujiang announced the happy announcement to Wei Meng and others loudly.

"Happy News - In the 35th year of Jiajing's Bingchen Imperial Examination, he tried the world's tribute scholars, Wei Guangde was No. 1 in the second class of the middle school, and was awarded a Jinshi background."

After reading the happy news, the officials who came to announce the good news shouted neatly again: "Congratulations to your mansion Wei Guangde, Mr. Wei's high school biography, and the Beijing News has won the yellow armor."

The good news is just a notification letter, and there is no such thing as "Fengtian Chengyun Emperor".

Father Wei took the yellow note from the magistrate with both hands. The note is not big, but there are two dragons printed on both sides. He didn't even bother to look at it, he just stared at the five characters of "Second Armor No.1".

(End of this chapter)