prosperous age

Chapter 265 Chapter 264
When Lu Bing mentioned the big fish he wanted to catch, Wei Guangde was the first to rule out Huang Jin.

If it wasn't Huang Jin, then the remaining No.1 pick would be Gao Zhong, whom he had bribed with money.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde's face was uncertain.

The change in the expression on Wei Guangde's face naturally couldn't be hidden from Lu Bing, the corner of his mouth raised a little, and a smile appeared on his face.

When Wei Guangde saw Lu Bing's expression, he felt more certain in his heart. Although he was not sure what Lu Bing was laughing at, what Wei Guangde was thinking at the moment was that it was time to cut off with Gao Zhong.

Unexpectedly, Gao Zhong also shared a share of the money for buying the house, no wonder he was so relieved of himself.

I just gave him two silver coins, not just 1000 taels as he thought.

To Wei Guangde's surprise, Lu Bing seemed to have seen through him, but shook his head after laughing, "It's not the person you think."

Did Lu Bing know that he and Gao Zhong were together?

When Wei Guangde heard Lu Bing's words, his first reaction was that Lu Bing or Jin Yiwei knew about the money he gave to Gao Zhong and Chen Ju, so he made this statement.

But if you think about it carefully, it is true.

After leaving the capital, Lu Bing's eyes can only see various information through the reports of his subordinates, which may not be true and accurate.

People's hearts are far away, even if Lu Bing thought about it, he couldn't believe that those Jinyiwei Qianhu and secret agents who were out would strictly follow his rules.

Jin Yiwei's internal treatment of such people is called enforcing the family law.

But in the capital, Lu Bing's eyes were naturally brighter.

Maybe Lu Bing didn't pay too much attention to him at the beginning, anyway, Wei Guangde didn't cause any trouble, so naturally there was no need to help, it was all about the imperial examination, whether it was the national examination or the palace examination, it was a grand ceremony for the state to use his talents. Lu Bing didn't have the guts to take care of him.

It's just that after Wei Guangde got out of the imperial examinations, he obviously gained the emperor's attention, so it was impossible for Jin Yiwei not to pay attention to his every move, and naturally his dealings with Chen Ju couldn't be hidden from their eyes.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde's heart suddenly moved, and he asked without thinking: "Is the big fish Li Bin?"

Naturally, Wei Guangde didn't know whether Li Bin was executed or died of old age, but now he was guessing who the big fish that Lu Bing valued was better than just talking nonsense, maybe Lu Bing could confirm the candidate with a little word of mouth.

Who is to blame, of course it is Li Bin.

Lu Bing cut off the father-in-law's Austrian aid in the palace, which is also a help to the brother-in-law, but it's very boring no matter how you think about it.

When Wei Guangde said Li Bin's name, his eyes turned to Lu Bing, observing the subtle expression on his face.

Sure enough, although the muscles on Lu Bing's face did not tremble, there seemed to be a flash of light in his eyes.

It was really him.

Wei Guangde was very sure that the big fish Lu Bing was talking about was Li Bin, the eunuch who was in charge of ceremonies and Bingbi. Thinking about it, Xu Bangrui also said in Xu Bangrui's letter that Li Bin was greedy for money.

There was a little surprise in his heart. Although he knew that being an official should not show emotions when he first entered the officialdom, he was not strong enough to prevent people from seeing his inner activities easily, and his face showed it unconsciously. Come and go quickly.

Naturally, Wei Guangde's fleeting joyful expression was captured by Lu Bing, and he asked calmly, "Why, do you have a grudge against Li Bin?"

"How is it possible, I have never seen it in my impression."

Wei Guangde immediately denied it.

He should have never met Li Bin, so naturally he couldn't say why, and it would be best to just deny it.

Thinking about it, he felt afraid that Lu Bing might notice something easily, so he simply continued: "I heard from Chen Ju, Eunuch Chen, that Li Bin, the supervisor of ceremonies, is very greedy for money, so you can find him if you have trouble."

"Hehe. Don't you know who is more likely to come to the outer court? You will go to him."

After listening to Wei Guangde's explanation, Lu Bing really smiled, and he thought about it.

It seemed that inside the Supervisor of Rituals, Huang Jin was able to suppress the people below with a harmonious surface, but in private, Gao Zhong and Li Bin might have gotten a little too close.

Of course Lu Bing knew that Wei Guangde was hooking up with Chen Ju, but he didn't care.

If he didn't have that status, he would have to curry favor with the people in the inner court if he wanted to secure his position in charge of Jinyiwei.

When we left Beizhen Fusi, it was already the first light of the day, and we went to Jinyiwei, Lu Bing didn't even prepare a meal for Wei Guangde.

Fortunately, the carriage was still parked quietly outside the gate of Beizhen Fusi, and Wei Guangde was not allowed to walk all the way back by himself.

Not knowing exactly what Lu Bing was thinking, Wei Guangde got into the carriage, and with the sound of hooves, the carriage drove out of Mao'er Alley towards Nanxunfang.

When the carriage arrived in front of Wei Guangde's house, when Wei Guangde got off the carriage, he found several people standing there furtively observing the movement here, until the captain on the carriage made a gesture to them, and they dispersed in all directions.

After being rectified by the school lieutenant, Wei Guangde didn't like him no matter whether it was from Lu Bing's instruction or not. He just bowed his hands politely without saying a word, went up the steps with his hands behind his back, and knocked on the door of his house.

Soon, the door opened.

Wei Guangde hadn't had dinner yet, and he didn't greet the guard who opened the door, he just strode in, yelling for the cook to make him something to eat right away.

Wei Guangde's sudden return naturally caused Wei's house to be in a hurry for a short time. When Zhang Ji came back, he already knew the whole story from Li San and the others. Just let me know.

It's just that the people standing outside the door directly blocked them back, they could enter the door, but they couldn't get out.

Zhang Ji, Li San, Zhao Hu and other guards were in a hurry in the house, when there was a knock on the door, unexpectedly it was getting dark, and Wei Guangde and Master Wei came back by himself.

They were naturally surprised and delighted to see Wei Guangde, but they had nothing in the capital.

If Wei Guangde was really captured by Jinyiwei, they had no choice but to ask Tongnian and his colleagues, and they could only ask Zhang Ji to write a letter back to Jiujiang Mansion to report.

Wei Guangde was taken away by Jin Yiwei, the people in the house were not in the mood to eat, everyone delayed dinner tonight, luckily when Wei Guangde came back, he naturally started to make dinner immediately.

After Wei Guangde finished his meal, under Zhang Ji's curious questioning, he just said something unpredictable, "Don't ask what you shouldn't ask."

"What about Xu Huai?"

At this time, Wei Guangde thought of Xu Huai who came home two days ago, and asked casually.

"He went back to his room to rest after going out to eat, and he was also terrified."

Zhang Ji smiled on the side.

"Ah."

Wei Guangde then went to his study and asked Zhang Ji to grind ink for him, then took out a piece of letter paper and quickly wrote a letter to Xu Bangrui in Nanjing.

After the ink on the paper was dry, it was folded and placed in an envelope, which was carefully sealed.

"Xu Huai has a rest and forget it tonight, you hand over the letter to him tomorrow morning."

Pointing to the written letter on the table, Wei Guangde instructed Zhang Ji, and then asked about the ginseng.

Zhang Ji didn't understand why Wei Guangde cared so much about ginseng, he really didn't want to buy so many ginseng and keep it at home, and he had to store it carefully to avoid spoilage.

Although many dignitaries in Beijing bought ginseng from time to time, none of them hoarded it on a large scale like Wei Guangde.

However, Zhang Ji still answered Wei Guangde's questions honestly, explaining the details he had inquired during the purchase process, especially the ginseng in the capital market now relies heavily on the Liaodong line, and the supply of ginseng in the interior is almost completely cut off.

The days passed day by day, and soon it was more than half a month.

On this day, Wei Guangde arrived at the Imperial Academy, and around noon he heard the news from the courtyard that the censor who had gone to Henan had sent the investigation memorial back to the capital.

Good guy, it is said that there are hundreds of crimes committed by King Hui in Junzhou, but this is not the point.

Emperor Jiajing also found out the matter of super-controlling the palace and the Longevity Mountain in the backyard of the palace that Emperor Jiajing was concerned about, and it really happened.

It can only be said that the groundless rumors may not be without reason. The things Geng An heard in Junzhou, nine out of ten have the original prototype, but may be slightly deformed.

It is the Longevity Mountain, which was really built according to King Hui's construction standards of the palace.

When the Beijing Imperial Palace was built during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, according to the four stars of Qinglong, Baihu, Suzaku, and Xuanwu, there must be mountains in the north of Xuanwu, so the soil excavated from the Tongzi River in the Forbidden City and the South China Sea of ​​Taiye Pool was piled up into mountains and became the "township of Da Nei". Mountain", named Long Live Mountain.

In the process of privately expanding the Huiwang Mansion, it also referred to the four-star standard of the palace, and built a town mountain on the north side of the palace, which was also named Long Live Mountain.

This is a proper violation of the system, and even to the extreme, it means disobedience.

How could there be Longevity Mountain in the palace? Although King Hui called the palace to unify the people before the censor arrived in Junzhou, don't forget that there are people from the inner court in King Hui's mansion.

Although they saw that King Hui violated the rules in some places before, King Hui treated them well. Basically, they are slaves in the palace, and they are uncles when they leave the palace. They live happily in Junzhou , Naturally, I don't want King Hui to really fall.

But now, it seems that they can't keep the secrets. Even if the people in the palace don't talk nonsense, they still can't keep these secrets in front of the civil servants and give you a gossip.

It's just that Prince Hui's Mansion was too domineering in Junzhou in the past, and didn't take outsiders too seriously.

After the people in the palace went out, they dared to do anything and dare to say anything.

The reconstruction of Prince Hui's Mansion was carried out according to the standard of the imperial palace, which is already a semi-open secret in Junzhou.

It can seal the mouths of the people in the palace, but it can't stop the mouths of the people outside the palace.

After being sent to the Secretary of General Administration, Zuo Tongzheng personally sent the memos of the censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to the cabinet by Zuo Tongzheng as soon as they were transcribed and archived, and handed them over to the old hands of Yan Songyan's cabinet.

Yan Song read the imperial censor's memorial and knew that King Hui was completely finished.

When the memorial arrived in Xiyuan, no one could keep King Hui, and his son was still smart.

A few days ago, someone from Prince Hui's Mansion sent two boxes of belongings, and wanted to ask Yan Song to take care of them, but his son, who loves money like his life, was uncharacteristically this time, and refused decisively.

Yan Song had also speculated about King Hui's fate before this, but he had not discussed it with his son. It can be seen that although Yan Shifan was greedy on the surface, he was actually very measured, knowing what could be taken and what could not be taken.

Of course, Yan Song would not just take the memorial to Xiyuan to report. He sent someone to call Xu Jie next door, and let Xu Jie also read the Yushi's memorial. The two reached an agreement on how to deal with it. As for the cabinet The third Lu Ben, forget it, he is still recuperating in the mansion, so there is no need to tell him about it.

After discussing, the two went to Xiyuan with the memorial to request an audience with Emperor Jiajing.

When Zuo Shu left the Department of General Affairs, the contents of the Zuo Shu had already begun to spread rapidly among the various yamen in the capital.

Without him, the locations of the yamen are too close, one government office is next to another, and the boundary between them is only the red wall.

After noon, the news from Xiyuan also spread. After Emperor Jiajing was furious, Xu Jie wrote the imperial decree in Xiyuan according to Emperor Jiajing's wishes. After Emperor Jiajing nodded, Huang Jin directly used the seal to complete the palace The procedure was then personally sent by Xu Jie to the Sixth Division for approval.

Naturally, the Sixth Division would not dare to stop such a big event, nor would it stop it at all.

So far, the content of the imperial decree has also been heard by the officials in the capital.

"King Hui Zaixi was guilty, and he was deposed as a commoner, imprisoned by a high wall, and the country was expelled."

After such a big event happened, all the six ministries and nine ministers naturally went to the cabinet in the afternoon to discuss the specific details. King Hui was abolished, and what about the other county kings, generals and other clan relatives of King Hui?

"Zai Yimin's crime of evil, rebellion, and planning to spy has been charged, and I can't bear to place a heavy penalty. Gu Gejue was reduced to a commoner, imprisoned by a high wall, and the world-sealed Dan Bao Zhangfu was removed, and his private wealth was taken away. The pavilion was demolished and violated. Maker. Send the British public Zhang Rong to report to the temple, and still write to the princes to know."

Yan Song watched as everyone present recounted the final disposal decision made by Emperor Jiajing of Xiyuan at noon, only the king of Hui was abolished as a circle of common people and imprisoned by the high wall of Fengyang, and the other relatives of the Hui family were sent to Kaifeng and placed by the king of Zhou.

Destroy the illegal buildings and inform other royal family members about it.

"The king of Hui, Zaixian, was guilty, and he was abolished as a commoner, imprisoned by a high wall, and the country was eliminated. Zaixian was cruel and violent since his father. There were years when the people of Zhongzhou felt as if they had fallen into charcoal, and they enshrined Xuande with their wishes Give the real person the golden seal, and the grace is unrestrained. No one dares to care about it. According to the officials, they often do things, and they are severely condemned, so the evil becomes worse and they die. *.Build the Longevity Mountain in the Fuzhong Pavilion, on which is said to perform martial arts ring with the Moon River, recruit strong men to row boats in the river, and come to watch it. More than [-] large and small halls and corridors were built privately, and more than [-] folk tombs were excavated. King Kuguan Zhang remonstrated, refused to listen, and killed them with sticks. He killed more than a dozen innocent people before and after. He tried his insignificant service and falsely claimed that Zhang Shide went straight to Nanjing. No way, fear of offending, so they secretly set up post cavalry envoys to wait for the movement in Beijing. They will rob the people Geng An's daughter, and she will hide her for An's house, and she will not release it. Yu Henan Fu presses the official report to explain the reason, and its violating the system. Stealing, concealing all kinds of illegal things with harmful intentions. Seizing the seal bestowed by King Gong and using his deeds to follow up and investigate, all have been verified."

Yan Song took out the decree sent by the six subjects for approval to use the seal just now, and let everyone look at it.

That night, Wei Guangde invited his colleagues and the same year to have a drink. He got rid of a prince with an impeachment memorial, and even directly expelled the vassal. He felt very good about himself at the moment.

It's just that the joyful mood didn't last long. More than half a month later, a memorial from Junzhou was delivered to the capital again.

"Zaiyi heard that he was ordered to kill his wife and concubine first, and then hanged himself to death."

(End of this chapter)