prosperous age

Chapter 278 277 Passing the Message

After getting in touch with Gao Gong, Yin Shizhen and others, Wei Guangde already knew that the Yan family had indeed supported King Jing clearly, although he still couldn't understand why they made such a choice.

Even if Yan Song is old and confused, Yan Shifan won't, he is very shrewd, he shouldn't have made such a mistake.

Unless he had already got some hint from Emperor Jiajing, that's why he made such an unwise choice.

It is impossible for the father and son of the Yan family not to understand the consequences of supporting King Jing, which is to stand on the opposite side of the literati all over the world.

According to the system, if there is a descendant and no descendant, King Yu should be ranked first no matter what.

This is the truth, irrefutable.

However, Wei Guangde thought of coming here mainly because he felt that Yan Song might not give up his old face to Emperor Jiajing this time to save Zhao Wenhua.

As a native of Jiangxi, Wei Guangde visited Yan's house quite a few times, and Wei Guangde had heard of the uproar at Yan's house in the past two months.

Zhao Wenhua did not know where to get a good wine, it is said that long-term drinking can prolong life.

Naturally, he had already given it to Yan Song, and after returning to the capital last year to be promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Industry, he took the opportunity of meeting the emperor to give some to Emperor Jiajing. It is said that Emperor Jiajing was very happy after drinking it.

However, after hearing that Yan Song already had it, he was a little unhappy, and even talked about it with Yan Ge alone, which made Yan Ge lose face with the emperor.

Although it didn't seem that this incident caused a break between the Yan family and Zhao Wenhua, Wei Guangde also heard that Zhao Wenhua took a lot of effort to calm the anger of the Yan family.

There is a gap, the Yan family is afraid that they will not sincerely protect Zhao Wenhua this time.

It didn't happen at that time, a big reason was that the Yan family had already promoted Zhao Wenhua to the throne of Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and there must be a reason to take him down.

Yes, after Wei Guangde heard about this, he felt that the Yan family's letting go of Zhao Wenhua was probably a strategy, a strategy to paralyze Zhao Wenhua. Anyway, Zhao Wenhua was the right-hand man of the Yan family and his son.

The imperial court is not owned by the Yan family, so naturally one can't take down a minister casually, that would be too disrespectful to the emperor.

No matter at any time, no matter to anyone, as the emperor, he will not allow his subjects to control the court like this.

If the Yan family doesn't care about Zhao Wenhua's life or death, then the seat of Minister of the Ministry of Industry must be vacant.

Of course Wei Guangde didn't think that he had a chance, but felt that there was no talent in Prince Yu's Mansion.

Wei Guangde didn't believe that with such a big court, no one would secretly serve in Prince Yu's Mansion.

As long as you have enough qualifications and grades, you can operate it.

In fact, the power of Prince Yu's Mansion in the court has always been weak, and the support for them mainly comes from low-level officials.

Most of the high-level officials would not express their views publicly because of their ranks, and could only speak in secret, if there was anything to help.

Although Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry is one of the six ministries with a low status, it is still one of the six ministries.

If Prince Yu's Mansion takes the opportunity to make a layout early, it may not be impossible to succeed when the time comes.

Taking a step back, even if there is no suitable person and the position cannot be won, as long as someone from Huang Yan's family is disturbed to take over, it will be considered a victory.

Chen Ju was at home, Wei Guangde naturally couldn't leave him and go to Yin Shizhen or Gao Gong to hint about this matter, and he could only act the next day.

On the second day when he was on duty, before Wei Guangde entered the Imperial Academy, he gave a note to Zhang Ji who accompanied him, asking him to contact Gao Gong or Yin Shizhen to pass the news on.

He has been in contact with many people in Prince Yu's Mansion, and he can see that the Prince Yu's Mansion is headed by Gao Gong, and Yin Shizhen doesn't seem to have much power to speak.

In the afternoon, Zhang Ji sent back the news that the note had been handed over to Mr. Gao. After reading it, Mr. Gao asked Wei Guangde to go to the last restaurant to talk later.

In fact, Gao Gong was puzzled when he saw the note from Wei Guangde. He could fully understand the meaning of the note, but he was completely unclear about what happened behind the scenes, so he had to ask Wei Guangde to meet later so that he could ask him in person.

"Wenhua will leave soon."

Wei Guangde wrote these six words on the note. Wenhua naturally refers to Zhao Wenhua. There is no one with the same name as Zhao Wenhua among the officials in the capital. Resigning soon naturally implies that he will lose his official position.

The use of Li characters instead of Sheng characters also points out Zhao Wenhua's fate.

In fact, when Wei Guangde wrote this note, he guessed that Gao Gong would ask him to find out the reason, and it seemed that Zhao Wenhua's resignation had nothing to do with Prince Yu's mansion. What did Wei Guangde mean by passing this news?
The day passed quickly, Wei Guangde went home and changed into his regular clothes before going out, and took Li San's carriage to the appointed restaurant.

The restaurant is very close to Ten Princes' Mansion, on a not-so-busy street.

The carriage arrived in front of the restaurant, Wei Guangde lifted the curtain and looked around, but no one paid attention, so he got out of the carriage and walked quickly into the restaurant.

In fact, he knew that doing so was deceiving ghosts, and people with a heart could not hide it, but subconsciously, he still did it.

Entering the restaurant, Wei Guangde went straight to a private room on the second floor, and the waiter in the restaurant saw Wei Guangde and just dodged and hid.

This is the property of Prince Yu's Mansion. From the shopkeeper to the staff, they are all slaves of Prince Yu's Mansion. It's not the first time for Wei Guangde to come here, so he naturally knows him.

When Wei Guangde walked into the private room, the people inside were a bit unexpected, only two people were waiting inside.

"Sorry, I'm late, please don't be offended, Mr. Gao and Eunuch Li."

Seeing that it was the two of them, Wei Guangde immediately bowed his hands together.

Gao Gong and Li Fang also stood up and bowed their hands to Wei Guangde, then spread their right hands to signal Wei Guangde to sit down.

After entering the room, they didn't start talking, but waited for the shop assistant to serve the ordered wine and food and closed the door before starting to chat.

"Guangde, what do you mean by that note? I showed it to His Highness, what did Zhao Wenhua do?"

What happened yesterday was only due to time constraints. What was more important was that there were not many people around Emperor Jiajing on the tower at that time. Except for Huang Jin and Chen Ju, the other eunuchs stood far away.

Perhaps the eunuch who recognized the owner of that house would guess something later, but he should not have reacted so quickly. He would only think of the reason when Zhao Wenhua fell from power.

It is normal that Prince Yu's Mansion did not receive any news.

Wei Guangde didn't think that King Yu was really a little white rabbit, who didn't know how to win over the eunuchs around the emperor to inquire about the news.

Even if he really can't think of it, can people like Gao Gong and Li Fang not think of it?
"I don't know that the two adults know that the emperor ordered the Ministry of Industry to build a new alchemy room in Xiyuan two months ago?"

Wei Guangde asked calmly.

"I know, what's wrong?"

Li Fang replied, while Gao Gong just nodded slightly.

"You guys also know about the Zhengyangmen Tower."

This time Wei Guangde didn't ask, but said it directly.

"You mean, His Majesty is not happy about the poor repair of the alchemy room, and blamed Zhao Wenhua for the Zhengyangmen tower?"

Gao Gong said at this time, "The Zhengyangmen tower is actually not suitable for repair in my opinion.

Now that the imperial court is struggling to spend money, why spend huge sums of money to repair the gates of the inner city, and there are signs of resurgence of disasters in various places, it is time to make every effort to reorganize the government, and saving money will always be of great use. "

Although he and Zhao Wenhua are not on the same side, Gao Gong still expresses his opinion. He doesn't think what Zhao Wenhua did is wrong, on the contrary, he still supports it.

"Ha ha."

To this, Wei Guangde just smiled lightly.

If Chen Ju hadn't mentioned the part about the house, Wei Guangde wouldn't think that what Zhao Wenhua did was wrong, but with the reason of the mansion, Wei Guangde felt that Zhao Wenhua was looking for death.

If you live near the imperial city, you should keep a low profile, and you are so extravagant that you want to build a tall building. Who is this repairing for?

Hearing Wei Guangde's laughter, Gao Gong, who was still righteous before, stopped talking, but stared at Wei Guangde and waited for him to reveal the answer.

There must be something going on later, otherwise Wei Guangde wouldn't be laughing.

His laughter was not laughing at himself, it should be laughing at Zhao Wenhua.

"Master Zhao has a mansion near the imperial city."

Wei Guangde looked at Gao Gong and Li Fang at this point, and then continued: "This house has built a three-story pavilion in the past few days."

"Ok?"

"How dare he do that?"

The voice in the front is from Li Fang, while the question behind is from Gao Gong.

They already understood that Zhao Wenhua really wanted to kill himself.

You told the emperor before that the weather was bad and it was not convenient for construction, but he built a tall building at home. Isn't this waiting for the building to collapse?

What background does the Zhao family have?
There is a fart, the Zhao family has always been from a poor family, that is, Zhao Wenhua is smart, successful in studying and successfully turned around, how the current mansion Meiji came to be, of course he can figure it out.

As for the fact that some people in the court praised Zhao Wenhua for knowing people and being good at the job, it is nonsense. He did recommend Hu Zongxian all the time, and Hu Zongxian also successfully defeated the Xu Hai Japanese pirate group.

This is Hu Zongxian's great contribution. Before the coastal pirates were serious and noisy, the main forces were two groups, one was Wang Zhi, and the other was Xu Hai.

Now the Xuhai Japanese pirate group has collapsed. As long as Wang Zhi and his gang are eliminated, there will no longer be a large group of Japanese pirates along the coast, just sporadic stragglers.

No matter what conspiracy Hu Zongxian used, it is an indisputable fact that Xu Hai's Japanese pirate group was wiped out. Even if the means are disgraceful, they are well-deserved from the overall situation.

Now Hu Zongxian's next goal has naturally shifted to Wang Zhi, how to get rid of this group of Japanese pirates is his top priority.

As for the remaining ones, even if a few small pirates join together to commit crimes, they are actually too powerful to be vulnerable. After all, they are temporarily gathered together.

But the DPRK is not without discerning people. Everyone understands why Zhao Wenhua supports Hu Zongxian. Hu supports the method of tax increase to suppress the Japanese, which means increasing military investment.

No profit can not afford to be early.

Zhao Wenhua's full support must have huge benefits in it.

The private room fell into silence, only the sound of Wei Guangde moving his chopsticks. At this time, Li Fang and Gao Gong were analyzing the feasibility of this matter.

Will Emperor Jiajing win Zhao Wenhua?

How will Yan Song react?
This is all something to consider.

"I forgot to tell you that a few months ago, Zhao Wenhua wanted to push the mountain, but he was severely punished by Mr. Yan Ge. Now the relationship between the two parties seems to be back to normal, but according to my observation, it may not be."

In the process of eating, Wei Guangde noticed that Li Fang and Gao Gong began to make eye contact from contemplation to two glances. Wei Guangde didn't intend to play charades, and directly threw another bomb, intending to blow them up completely.

"what happened?"

Gao Gong was the first to ask the question.

Wei Guangde told them about Zhao Wenhua offering wine to Emperor Jiajing, and he had already obtained confirmation from Chen Ju.

After all, the previous news came from the Yan Mansion, and Wei Guangde didn't dare to be 100% sure about it, but after Chen Ju's confirmation, Wei Guangde naturally knew that it was true.

"Zhao Wenhua is finished."

Hearing that this happened during the period, Gao Gong immediately made his own judgment.

Without Yan Song's help, Zhao Wenhua's future has already been determined.

No matter who it is, they will not show mercy to those who once showed dissatisfaction. Wei Guangde can guess the Yan family's attitude towards Zhao Wenhua, and naturally Gao Gong can also guess.

"I understand what you mean. Knowing this, I still have a lot of confidence. Who should I push to compete for the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry?"

By this time, Gao Gong had already understood what Wei Guangde meant, to see if anyone in Prince Yu's mansion was qualified to compete for the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry.

Wei Guangde knew that Gao Gong already understood what he meant, so he nodded and did not speak.

After Gao Gong said this, Li Fang also understood Wei Guangde's purpose in informing them of the news.

Thinking about it, it is true that Prince Yu's House is not unaware of their lack of voice in the court, but there is no way to do it. Once these officials promoted by Emperor Jiajing reach high positions, they will dare not publicly express their support for them. This is a big taboo for the emperor. His behavior can only be sneaky ventilation in private.

For example, Xu Jie secretly had contact with Prince Yu's Mansion, but everyone knew that Yan Song, the chief assistant, had the final say in the cabinet.

If someone from Prince Yu's Mansion can be arranged to take the position of Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry, no matter what, they will have their mouthpiece in the ministry meeting.

This is the candidate, it's hard to be sure.

Without him, the foundation of Prince Yu's Mansion is still too shallow, and not many third- and fourth-rank officials fall to them.

After a while, Gao Gong cupped his hands to Wei Guangde and said: "Thank you Guangde for sending this news, I will not ask you the source of the news, I know you will not lie to us about this matter.

That is, this, for a while, we can't think of what to do, and we need to discuss it when we go back. "

"Thank you Guangde, the prince will never forget your help."

Li Fang also answered on the side.

"Don't say that, I said before that I don't care about King Yu or King Jing. According to the system, King Yu is King Yu. If my elder brother is King Jing, I will support King Jing without hesitation."

Wei Guangde is still his usual rhetoric, he is a remake, according to the ancestral system, he should be King Yu, so naturally he also chooses to support King Yu.

On this issue, Wei Guangde also thought about it for a long time, and felt that it should not be too explicit, and he had to be a literati.

In this way, I didn't follow the trend and chose to support King Yu because of the great chance of King Yu's ascendance, but because of the ancestral system, "ritual" is like this, he just maintains the ancestral system.

(End of this chapter)