prosperous age

Chapter 253 Chapter 252
Wei Guangde wants to gain fame, but he doesn't want to go into battle shirtless. It just so happens that King Hui's former allies seem to have had a rift with him, so he can use Liang Gaofu's special status to listen to the emperor.

After the influence gradually penetrated into Emperor Jiajing's heart, he would expose King Hui's misdeeds by himself, and that would be the final lore.

As long as Emperor Jiajing sent someone to conduct a thorough investigation, it meant that there was no room for recovery, and those officials who had been bullied by King Hui would never let this opportunity go.

Wei Guangde had heard from Geng An that the king of Hui was really lawless to the extreme in Junzhou, and the officials were afraid of him. What he relied on was that the two kings of Hui were valued by Emperor Jiajing.

As for why Wei Guangde sent Geng An to deliver the knife to Liang Gaofu, it was not because Liang Gaofu had been away from Henan for many years, and he only knew that King Hui was lawless in the local area, but he couldn't elaborate on how bad it was, so there was Chen Ju It is said that Liang Gaofu said all the strange things.

After drinking with Chen Ju last time, Wei Guangde also realized that he had to go out more after the scriptures, not only to visit those officials in court, but also to contact his contemporaries more. Not much contact.

So on the second day, Wei Guangde brought a gift and went to visit the Yan Mansion. In the next few days, he kept visiting Jiangxi fellow villagers and officials he was familiar with. Let's go out to the city together on holidays.

During this period of time, Wei Guangde not only sent out the gifts he had received before in batches, but also spent hundreds of taels of silver to buy gifts himself.

When visiting seniors in the officialdom, you can't just go there empty-handed.

After Geng An left the city to meet Liang Gaofu two days later, he didn't come back for the past few days, presumably he lived in Tongmiao Temple.

Wei Guangde is now waiting for the news, and then waiting for Liang Gaofu to refine medicine, and then inquire about the situation in the palace through Chen Ju. Once the time is right, he can go to the memorial to impeach King Hui and start his second shot in the Ming Dynasty Hall.

Indeed, this is the second time that Wei Guangde has impeached an official. The first one was Liu Dazhang, the chief military officer of the Xuanfu.

It's just that Wei Guangde was still at the Xuanfu when the memorial was sent to the palace, so he didn't feel anything, and it was Zhang Ke who said it later.

He learned the news of Wei Guangde's impeachment of Liu Dazhang, the chief military officer of Xuanfu, from Bingke Shizhong, and he was really shocked.

You know, this was during the war, and he himself was still trapped in it, so he had a dispute with the local army chief.

In peacetime, civil servants are naturally powerful, and they can crush generals at will, but it is different in this wartime. As long as it is not intolerable, the court will temporarily suppress it.

In fact, when Wei Guangde published the impeachment report, he was immediately detained by Si Li, and it was not until the battle report was sent that he was approved and distributed to the cabinet and the Ministry of War.

However, the discussions that the imperial court wanted to increase silk production heard when entering and leaving the officialdom disappeared inexplicably.

According to the information Wei Guangde heard, the imperial court finally gave up the practice of promoting the matter by the imperial court, and switched to private guidance instead.

A few more days passed in the leisure and busyness. After Wu Shan summarized the records of Ganoderma lucidum in the ancient books collected by the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy, he finally sent it to Emperor Jiajing in the form of memorials.

"Caozhi has red, black, blue, white, yellow and purple, and its color is different, and its taste is also different. However, those who eat for a long time can lighten their body. Wang Chong's "Lunheng" Yunzhi was born in the soil, and the rustic atmosphere is harmonious, so the Zhicao is auspicious, and the fate is recorded. With benevolence, the grass grows the text. Yunhuanghuang Ganoderma lucidum is selected three times a year, and the ancient Yiyi Yunzhi has nine stems, and the golden green leaves and Zhushi are bright at night.

The Yellow Emperor's internal biography says: The queen mother sent immortals to sing the song of longevity for thousands of years, and gave the emperor a book written in stone and jade, and at the Langfeng Yaochi, he gave twelve scrolls of the map of the gods.However, it is rare in the world, and it is rare for people.Therefore, it has been regarded as Rui in the past dynasties.And the method of taking it has not been passed down.Looking up to the emperor's body and offering all the blessings of Xuan Xuan, the auspiciousness that can be achieved is endless.Fuzhicao will grow in due time, and there must be donors from far and near, and the land where it will be produced has not dared to predict. "

Wu Shan and others summarized six main classifications of Ganoderma lucidum, namely red Ganoderma, green Ganoderma, yellow Ganoderma, purple Ganoderma, white Ganoderma and black Ganoderma.

There are many myths and legends, long-term clothing can lighten one's body, and return the Queen Mother to grant the Jade Emperor Shenzhi Picture twelve volumes.

However, the most important thing is that the method of taking Ganoderma lucidum has not been recorded and passed down to the present day.

As for His Majesty's desire to find Ganoderma lucidum, Ganoderma lucidum mostly grows in inaccessible places, so it is difficult to find.

In fact, the content of the memorial is still very objective, but there are also people who advised Emperor Jiajing not to take Ganoderma lucidum, because the way of eating this stuff has not been handed down, and it can be used as auspicious.

It didn't take half a day for the memorial to enter the palace, and the memorial was approved by the supervisor of ceremonies and sent to the cabinet for value.

In the imperial edict, there is a secretary who collects all Xuanyue, dragons, tigers, cranes, three sons, Qiyun, and the five mountains are still visiting.

As the news spread, not only the official circles, but also the people were boiling.

The emperor wanted to buy Ganoderma lucidum, which was a big business, and once he found it, he would be rewarded a lot.

The palace sent special envoys to collect Ganoderma lucidum to Yuanyue, Longhu, Heming, Sanmao, Qiyun Mountains and Wuyue Mountains. At the same time, local governments also visited the people.

When the boss has something good, he immediately busy his subordinates to mobilize the whole country to find Ganoderma lucidum.

These have nothing to do with the current Wei Guangde.

He knows about Ganoderma lucidum, and he has seen the pictures. It was in his previous life, but he has never seen it in this life.

He regretted that he did not prepare these legendary items earlier. Although Wei Guangde did not have Ganoderma lucidum in his hand to present to Emperor Jiajing, he thought of another thing that was extolled by later generations-thousand-year-old ginseng.

Officials and folks alike are looking for Ganoderma lucidum. Wei Guangde found another way and sent Zhang Ji to search for top ginseng collections in major pharmacies in the capital.

But what surprised Wei Guangde was that at this time in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, there seemed to be no shortage of ginseng.

Well, according to Zhang Ji's inquiries, there are a lot of ginseng sold in major pharmacies.

After inquiring about the source, I found out that most of the ginseng was produced in Liaodong. At this time, not only the Han people went to the Changbai Mountains in the north, and the Daxing’an Mountains to collect wild ginseng, but even the Jurchen people outside the customs were also frantically collecting wild ginseng, and used it to trade with the Ming Dynasty during the mutual market. In exchange for ironware, cattle, agricultural tools, cloth, grain and other production and daily necessities they need.

It’s just that there are not many Han people who dare to collect ginseng. The current Jurchens are tough, free from the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and live in a slave society, forming three classes: nobles, commoners, and slaves.

With the development of society, slave owners became more and more greedy. The Jurchens fought among themselves and plundered the Han people as slaves. Naturally, they would not be merciful to these Han people who ran out of the Han territory alone.

The news he heard reminded Wei Guangde not only of the palace dramas of the Qing Dynasty he had seen in his previous life, when superiors and subordinates would call themselves slaves when meeting each other. Thinking about it now, the so-called Great Qing Dynasty actually seemed to be a semi-slave and semi-feudal empire.

Taking time off, Wei Guangde also went to find those businessmen to inquire about the current situation of the Liaodong Jurchens. After all, they went south to destroy the Han people in later generations.

I used to be a grassroots citizen, so I can only think about it when I have nothing to do. Now that I am an official of the Ming Dynasty, I must do it as soon as possible to eliminate hidden dangers.

After chatting with several businessmen, the status quo of the Jurchen clan gradually took shape in Wei Guangde's mind.

The current Jurchen people can be roughly divided into three categories, two of which have formed a climate and appear in the form of tribes, that is, the Haixi Jurchen and the Jianzhou Jurchen.

Jianzhou Jurchen seems to be the tribe where Nurhachi belongs.

Wei Guangde still has an impression of this point.

The last category is the so-called wild Jurchens, which should be the earliest form of life of the Jurchens.

It is estimated that after contact with the Han people, some powerful families began to consciously absorb and annex some nearby Jurchen families, and gradually formed the Jurchen tribe.

From this time on, the Jurchens made the transition from a clan society to a slavery society.

Due to the bitter cold and difficult life in the north, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, some forces of the Jurchen tribe began to move south, and finally came into contact with the newly established Ming Dynasty.

Around the Hongwu period, they settled down in the Fengzhou area of ​​the Suifen River Basin.

In the first year of Yongle, Aha, the chief of Huligai, surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty established Jianzhou Guard here.

In the [-]th year of Yongle, the Ming Dynasty set up Jianzhou Zuowei, and its administrative office was also in Fengzhou.

In the seventh year of Zhengtong, the Ming Dynasty set up Jianzhou Youwei in the Santuhe area, and named Fancha, brother of Mengge Timur, as the commander.

So far, the Jianzhou Sanwei has begun to take shape, and has also become a powerful force in the north of the Ming Dynasty.

Another force that is second only to the Jianzhou Jurchen is naturally the Haixi Jurchen. Like the Jianzhou Jurchen, they continued to move south due to the harassment of the "savage" Jurchen and Mongolian cavalry.

In fact, the Haixi Jurchen ministries had already established contact with the Ming Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty, and like the Jianzhou Jurchen, they changed from the initial affiliation relationship to a tributary relationship.

The Haixi Jurchen completed their migration more than ten years ago, and formed the four tribes of Yehe, Huifa, Hada, and Ula, called the Four tribes of Haixi or the four tribes of Hulun.

The Yehe tribe got its name because it lived in the Yehe River in the northeast of Kaiyuan, and because it was close to the Mashi Beiguan established by the Ming Dynasty, so the Ming people also called it Beiguan.

Huifabu got its name because it lived in Huifa River.

The Hada tribe lived in the Xiaoqing River Basin. The Xiaoqing River was also called the Hada River, because of its name, and because it was close to Guangshun Pass, Ming people also called it Nanguan.

The Wula tribe got its name because it lived in the Wula River Basin, and its government is located in the city of Wula.

In this way, outside the Liaodong Army Town, a third force other than Mongolia was formed, the Jurchen tribe, and the tribal forces also increased rapidly with the continuous trade with the Han people.

After understanding the basic situation, Wei Guangde went into the library of the Hanlin Academy to look up the records. During the Ming Yingzong period, the Ming Dynasty reduced the tribute policy. 50 people, which caused great dissatisfaction among the Jurchens.

Unable to obtain income through tribute, the Jurchen chose to grab it by themselves.

At that time, Dong Shan, the leader of Jianzhou Jurchen, gathered Jianzhou Jurchen and some Haixi Jurchen tribes, about 1.5 people, and began to invade Liaodong.

When they arrived in Liaodong, they robbed wildly, including people and livestock.

In the Ming Dynasty, envoys were sent to question, and they immediately expressed their surrender, that is, "the Yang obeys the Yin and violates."

In the third year of Chenghua Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen sent an envoy to bring Dong Shan an imperial decree and gave Dong Shan a final warning.

Dong Shan repeated his old tricks, pleaded guilty, and went to Beijing to admit his mistakes in person, but asked for more rewards, which was rejected by the Ming Dynasty.

So Dong Shan was furious and threatened to go back and lead Jurchen to attack the Ming Dynasty.

If Dong Shan really returns to Jurchen, it will definitely become a serious problem for the Ming Dynasty, just like Emperor Tianzuo of the Liao Kingdom returned Wanyan Agu for a reason.

The Jurchen people lived in the cottages in the white mountains and black waters, and were good at mobile warfare and guerrilla warfare. The Ming army had nothing to do with them, and they adopted a conservative defensive policy for a long time.

At that time, Gao Gang, the head of the Ministry of Rites, suggested to Emperor Chenghua that Dong Shan be detained. Chenghua Emperor followed his suggestion and ordered Zhao Fu, the general soldier of Guangning, to detain Dong Shan and others.

As soon as this incident happened, Dong Shan stabbed the Ming army with a knife and wanted to escape. After hearing about it, the Jurchens who accompanied him also rushed out with knives. They were intercepted by the Ming army and arrested on the spot.

After this incident, Li Fu and Li Bing, the general soldiers, believed that the war was inevitable, so they went up and asked for a conquest.

In September, Emperor Chenghua ordered the Liaodong army to attack the Jianzhou Jurchen, and warned the Haixi Jurchen not to get involved.

Subsequently, Li Fu and Li Bingbing marched towards Jianzhou Jurchen in five ways, and the North Korean side also sent 1 people to help.

On September [-], the North Korean army broke through the Huli Gai Department, and its chief Li Manzhu was captured.

The army of the Ming Dynasty also entered Jianzhou, beheaded thousands of captives, and recaptured 1165 people who had been looted. Soon after, Emperor Chenghua ordered Dong Shan to be executed.

After the Jianzhou Jurchen suffered a disastrous defeat, they did not stop the war, but continued to harass Liaodong.

In the 15th year of Chenghua, Emperor Chenghua once again united with North Korea to launch a siege against the Jurchens in Jianzhou.

In this battle, the Ming army beheaded 695 people, captured 486 people, broke through countless stockades, obtained thousands of cattle and horses, and countless armors.

You must know that the initial population of Jianzhou Jurchen was only 12000 during the Chenghua period, and it was the smallest of the three major Jurchen groups. After this battle, it can be said that the losses were quite heavy.

"Han Shu The Huns' Biography": "Gu has already plowed his court, swept his house, and put it in the counties and counties."

Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's military attack on the Jurchens in Jianzhou was also called "Liting Sweeping Points" or "Chenghua Liting".

After the two encirclement campaigns, the Jianzhou Jurchen Department suffered a huge disaster and had to stop the war with the Ming Dynasty.

The descendants of Dong Shan and Li Manzhu chose to bear the burden of humiliation and endure hardships. They once again accepted the canonization of the Ming Dynasty, traded with the Ming Dynasty, and vigorously imported cattle and farm tools to develop agricultural production in order to restore their strength.

Up to now, what Wei Guangde knows from the businessman is that it seems that Jianzhou Jurchen has developed again, and the population has far exceeded that of the past.

But at this time, another more explosive news came. Zhang Juyou, a small man from Wanping County, Beijing, picked five ganoderma lucidum on Qianling Mountain and dedicated them to Emperor Jiajing.

Emperor Jiajing was naturally very happy to get the auspiciousness of Ganoderma lucidum, and rewarded him with "gold, silk and silver coins".

(End of this chapter)