prosperous age

Chapter 312 Chapter 311
Wei Guangde happily accepted the two revolving lanterns that Gao Gong handed over, held them in his hands for a closer look, and then handed them to Xu Jianglan who had already attracted his attention.

When Gao Gong came over just now, Xu Jianglan had already noticed it. When Gao Gong approached, he gave a Wanfu salute, but his eyes were fixed on the two lanterns.

In fact, there are also craftsmen in Wei Guogong's mansion who can make revolving lanterns, but this skill is still very advanced nowadays, and only the palace and the Xungui family have the resources to specialize in raising such craftsmen. No.

As for the folks, there are not many craftsmen who can make revolving lanterns. Even if they appear, they will be recruited by the major families to serve their own families. They usually make lanterns for the mansion, and during festivals, they make lanterns for the occasion to add a festive atmosphere.

Therefore, the lanterns bought by Wei's family were just ordinary lanterns, but there were no delicate things like revolving lanterns.

The characters on the lantern were drawn from the Three Kingdoms. Wei Guangde took a look and handed the lantern to Xu Jianglan.

"Don't thank me, Your Highness ordered."

Speaking of this, Gao Gong bowed slightly to Wei Guangde and said: "It's actually my fault, forget about this, in the future, I will give the rewards of Prince Yu's Mansion in the solar terms to Shan Loan, and then send them to your mansion. Have a glass of wine."

"Haha, what does Master Gao say, Guangde welcomes you to visit at any time, don't say anything about festivals."

Wei Guangde shouted at Gao Gong, and then looked at King Yu who was not far away. Lord Yu was also looking at him, and seeing each other would not erase the spark of love. Wei Guangde saluted him very respectfully.

After all, this is a public place, so it's really inconvenient for him to go over and have a chat with His Royal Highness King Yu.

Wei Guangde still wanted to keep his identity as Yuwangdang low-key, but Gao Gong didn't seem to want to give him this chance.

"Since we met by chance, it's just right, Shandai and I will go to meet His Royal Highness King Yu."

Speaking of this, Gao Gong approached Wei Guangde and whispered: "Your Highness has been thinking about what you said that time for a long time."

Wei Guangde's heart skipped a beat when he heard this. He did say something at the beginning, but it was just what he thought he should be prepared to do. Seeing that saying it doesn't mean the time has come.

Wei Guangde complained in his heart that he was acting blindly, and now he got himself into it.

In fact, the last time Yin Shizhen had dinner with Yin Shizhen, Yin Shizhen had asked him about it, Yu Wangfu already regarded Wei Guangde as a know-it-all, thinking that he had his own channels to collect some confidential information.

Regarding this, Wei Guangde could only complain secretly in his heart, but he couldn't say anything yet.

After Gao Gong said that, Wei Guangde knew that avoiding it was not an option, so he said with a smile, "That's fine."

Now that we have met, it's okay to greet him in the past, but no one noticed that Wei Guangde's smile is so bitter.

"Siblings and sisters should also go over and give the princess a present."

Gao Gong said this out of good intentions, they all belong to King Baoyu, and if King Yu succeeds in the future, the current Princess Yu will naturally become the future empress.

Moreover, Gao Gong also knew that Wei Guangde's wife was the daughter of the Duke of Wei's family in Jiangnan. In fact, there was also a blood relationship between the Duke of Wei's mansion and the royal family, but only a few generations later.

The current princess may no longer marry the Xungui family after the election, which is also a sign of the stability of the dynasty, and there is no need to stabilize the regime through marriage.

On the contrary, powerful foreign relatives will become factors that cause turmoil in the court.

For meeting Princess Yu, Xu Jianglan has nothing to do.

Xu Jianglan naturally knows about the current situation of the second king in the capital, and he also knows that Wei Guangde is more optimistic about King Yu.

In fact, since Prince Zhuang Jing died of a sudden illness, King Yu should logically be in the throne, but Emperor Jiajing never nodded his head.

It was precisely because Emperor Jiajing did not recognize that King Yu was the prince, that aroused King Jing's little thoughts.

Gao Gong led Wei Guangde and his wife into the crowd of King Yu's mansion. After saluting to King Yu, Xu Jianglan was taken behind by eunuch Li Fang to meet Princess Yu and others, while Wei Guangde stood respectfully in front of King Yu.

"Several times before, it was all thanks to the help of good loans that I was able to get through the difficulties in Prince Yu's Mansion. I thank you here."

King Yu said that he wanted to salute like Wei Guangde, just now he bowed from a distance, Wei Guangde could still pretend to accept it, but not this time.

He resolutely stood beside King Yu, "Your Highness, I can't afford to be an official."

In front of King Yu, although he couldn't say anything, Wei Guangde had already regarded his relationship with King Yu as a relationship between a monarch and his ministers, but it was getting closer to King Yu, and Wei Guangde felt a little bit worried.

Although it was night, a large number of lanterns on Mount Ao illuminated the place very brightly. Wei Guangde felt a little bad when he saw King Yu's face. How could he have a pale face with no blood on his face? His Highness King Yu His body doesn't look very good.

Unconsciously, Wei Guangde made a comparison between King Yu in front of him and King Jing whom he met in Yan Mansion before, and he felt that King Jing's body seemed to be stronger.

It's not that Wei Guangde worried too much. Several sons died before Emperor Jiajing, so Wei Guangde didn't care. King Bieyu died before Emperor Jiajing, so all his homework would be useless.

He is determined to be a high-ranking official. Although Wei Guangde occasionally wants to make an official into the cabinet, but with the understanding of the officialdom, it is just a dream. There are a lot of people in the Imperial Academy. Only a few people can enter the power center of the Ming Dynasty.

Difficult, it is too difficult.

King Yu saw that Wei Guangde's attitude was very docile and respectful, so he stopped being polite to him, and just chatted casually, but he didn't say a few words, and he still couldn't avoid talking about that matter.

It can only be said that His Royal Highness King Yu was really pushed hard by his younger brother.

In terms of knowledge, King Jing's grades were already better than his when the two of them left the cabinet to study, and they were often praised by the professor.

In terms of eloquence, it is not comparable to the dull Yu Wang.

In almost every aspect, Yu Wang knew that he was completely defeated by his younger brother, that is, because he was born a few months earlier than him.

Invisibly, this aggravated King Yu's inner inferiority complex. If Gao Gong hadn't been encouraging and supporting him all these years, he would have asked his father to go out and become a vassal, and not to wade in this muddy water again.

"Your Highness, the time is not enough."

Wei Guangde can only say this now, "At the beginning, I thought that because of Yang Shun's matter, Yan Song would fall out of favor in front of His Majesty, but in the end you can also see that His Majesty did not convict him, and even Yang Shun was not dismissed from office and sent to prison. It's just a demotion."

"Well, when the punishment came out, I was also very disappointed."

When King Yu heard this, he knew what Wei Guangde meant, and under the premise that Yan Song's family was still there, no one could touch him, so naturally he couldn't ask King Fengjing to become a feudal vassal.

"Your Highness, don't worry, it's just a matter of time."

Wei Guangde said with a smile: "This time, Mr. Yan Ge used the matter of rectifying the military affairs to take down several hundred households of Jinyiwei in the border town and ask for punishment. I heard that for this reason, Governor Lu and Mr. Yan Ge are in Yongshou The palace is up."

"Can we talk to Governor Lu?"

"His Royal Highness be careful."

"His Royal Highness be careful."

As soon as King Yu started to speak, he was interrupted by Gao Gong and Wei Guangde in unison. Wei Guangde kept shaking his head, signaling him not to continue talking.

Although there are people from Prince Yu's Mansion all around, there are some things that can't be said casually.

"Captain Lu is the emperor's domestic slave." Wei Guangde just answered in a low voice and stopped talking.

King Yu knew that he was not good enough, so he usually didn't express his opinions much. He just thought of it when he was mentioned by Wei Guangde just now, and felt that the enemy of the enemy seemed to be a friend.

It's just that he didn't expect that Wei Guangde and Gao Gong opposed the words as soon as he uttered them. Naturally, he knew that he wanted to mess things up.

"It's all up to Master Gao to decide."

King Yu pondered for a while and said, "Master Wei, please remind me more."

"King Yu, there are a lot of people here, I'm still staying for a while, so I'll take my leave first."

After saying a few more words, Wei Guangde wanted to leave King Yu early, so he bowed and said goodbye.

When he didn't see it before, he thought about praising King Yu's stinky feet every day, but when he encountered it in public, he was worried about being looked at.

contradiction.

"Alright, Mr. Wei, go slowly."

King Yu's background is really embarrassing in the capital now, and many ministers who support him in their hearts keep a distance when they meet him. He understands this, and there are many taboos.

It is rare for Wei Guangde to come and stand here for so long and talk so much, after all, he does not have an errand in the palace.

I don't know what Xu Jianglan said later, anyway, when Li Fang brought her here, Wei Guangde saw Xu Jianglan's smiling face through the light veil.

After returning to his own crowd, Wei Guangde asked in a low voice.

"I saw the young master, such a cute little man."

"What young master?"

Wei Guangde wondered, where did such a young man come from Prince Yu's Mansion?
"He is the eldest son of King Yu."

Xu Jianglan gave Wei Guangde a white look through the light veil, which meant why you are so stupid, you can't even think of it.

"Oh."

Wei Guangde nodded, of course he knew that King Yu had a son, which was why he was more optimistic about King Yu before.

His Royal Highness Jing Wang, who was married in the same year as Yu Wang, has nothing to do until now, so what can you compare with Yu Wang?
Wei Guangde didn't believe it. The emperor's throne was originally picked up because Emperor Zhengde had no heirs. Emperor Jiajing didn't think about his grandson when he was considering passing on the throne.

Even if King Yu is wrong in every possible way, having a son gives him enough capital to choose a successor.

However, it seems that not many courtiers noticed this during this period.

"How is my uncle?"

Wei Guangde asked seemingly unintentionally.

"Very good, very lively, with big eyes looking around, so cute."

"Children, they are almost the same. We will give birth to one when we go back tonight. Ouch"

Wei Guangde spoke nonsense, but Xu Jianglan pinched him on the waist.

In fact, through the thick cotton coat, Wei Guangde didn't feel any pain at all, and he didn't even pinch his flesh, but he had to perform well when it was time to perform, so he still called out pain just right.

While everyone was looking at the lantern with great interest, not far away on the Fengtian Gate tower, in a dark place without hanging lanterns for lighting, a figure in Taoist robes slowly turned around.

"Let's go back."

A deep voice sounded, if Wei Guangde was here, even if he couldn't see clearly, he could still hear who the owner of the voice was.

Jiajing Emperor Zhu Houcong.

Emperor Jiajing had heard about the motto "two dragons will not meet" that was joked about by the outside world.

As for what they think is nonsense, but whoever they put it on, the crown prince died of a sudden illness not long after being sealed twice, can you still not believe it?
As the son of heaven, he naturally responds to heaven when he speaks and does things.

Maybe when he was young, he didn't think there was anything wrong, but there were so many strange things, Emperor Jiajing had to believe it even if he didn't believe it, which was also the reason why he practiced Taoism crazily.

Others laugh at me for being too crazy, but I laugh at others not being able to see through it.

This may be why Emperor Jiajing ignored the courtiers' opposition to his practice of Taoism.

Tonight, knowing that King Yu brought his grandson here to watch the lanterns, Emperor Jiajing also drove Chengtian Gate, so if you can see it yourself, it will be fine if they don't see it.

These years, this is also the only chance for him to see King Yu Zhu Zaixi.

If it was said that he might have been vacillating between choosing King Yu or King Jing before, then now he has no choice.

Just as Wei Guangde thought, no matter how capable King Jing is, the absence of a son means that he cannot take that position.

And the looming child in the crowd was also one of the purposes of his coming here this time.

He couldn't look carefully, but he knew that it was his grandson, and it seemed that Princess Yu was holding him in his arms at the moment, so he should be very happy.

As usual, only the chief eunuch Huang Jin was standing beside Emperor Jiajing, and two other imperial eunuchs were standing not far away.

"Pull back to the palace."

Huang Jin said something to the two eunuchs, one eunuch saluted to this side and ran away quickly, he was going to call Luan Yiwei to put Luan under the tower and get ready, the emperor will be there soon.

The other person was on the side in front of Emperor Jiajing, holding a lantern in his hand to illuminate the road ahead for the emperor.

But when he was going down the tower, Emperor Jiajing suddenly stopped, and asked in a low voice, "Wei Guangde is very close to Prince Yu's Mansion?"

"This, the servant does not know."

Huang Jin's voice sounded from one side, "I'll let the slaves go down and let someone check it out. I heard that he had contacts with Gao Xueshi and others from Yuwangfu. After all, they are all colleagues of the Imperial Academy. I don't know if they have been to Yuwangfu. .”

Huang Jin replied cautiously.

"Ah."

Emperor Jiajing groaned, and then strode down the tower.

In the distance, the Fengtianmen tower stands tall, and the silk and bamboo are long.

The city tower and both sides are brightly illuminated by various colored lights. The musicians on the city tower are playing the music of this era in cooperation with the musicians on Aoshan Mountain. A piece of singing and dancing is peaceful, the country is peaceful and the people are safe.

Except for Huang Jin and the two imperial eunuchs beside him, no one knew what happened at Chengtian Gate tonight.

(End of this chapter)