prosperous age

Chapter 315 Chapter 314
The Jinshi of Bingchen Branch in Beijing can be said to have collectively ended up participating in this seemingly irrelevant debate, and the news spread throughout the major yamen in Beijing in an instant.

Those who responded quickly understood it in an instant, and it must have been summoned by the passerby, and those who responded slowly also gradually understood.

Wei Guangde is considered an outstanding person among Jinshi of that subject. This outstanding person naturally does not mean how good his writing is or how talented he is, but that he is too good at doing things.

On the day when the Chuanlu Ceremony ended, this Wei Guangde took the same year to the yamen of the Ministry of Rites to plead for the victims of the Shanxi earthquake. After that, he went out with others to patrol the border and made another military exploit, and impeached the general officer Yes, and ended up being dismissed from office.

As for the subsequent impeachment of King Hui, that's nothing, after all, he's just an empty shell prince.

This time, for the sake of the victims in Liaodong, Wei Guangde asked for sea transportation as soon as possible.

Well, to be honest, many officials first knew that Wei Guangde had submitted a letter asking for sea transportation, and only the next day did they know that Shangshu Shangshu also proposed the idea of ​​sea transportation to Liao Dynasty at the imperial court meeting held in Xiyuan yesterday afternoon.

What the hell, it's weird that Wei Guangde and Jia Yingchun thought of going together.

As for the later, Wei Guangde simply asked for leave and hid at home. From others' point of view, he didn't want to get involved in the battle between Prince Yu's Mansion and Yan Mansion, so after seeing someone impeaching him, he simply avoided it for a while.

Such a person is considered smart.

Those who have written the most letters now can tell at a glance that most of them are officials who are biased towards Prince Yu's Mansion, and those who oppose are mostly frequent visitors of Yan Mansion.

As for Prince Jing's Mansion, it has been automatically ignored.

These days, although King Jing's Mansion is very popular in the capital, it relies more on the influence of Yan Mansion, and its own influence is not great, so many people regard Yan Mansion and King Jing's Mansion as equal status, but He would not think that Yan Mansion is a vassal of King Jing's Mansion, and naturally he would not think that this is a battle between King Yu's Mansion and King Jing's Mansion.

Although in essence, this is actually the case.

Many officials were still applauding Wei Guangde's retreat. When they liked it, they didn't expect that his contemporaries would also end.

The news spread, and soon someone found out that Wei Guangde had summoned these new officials to a banquet the night before these new officials went to school.

The timing was too coincidental, and it was obvious that Wei Guangde was behind the planning of this collective evacuation.

"Father, I've said that kid a long time ago. I'm afraid he's a white-eyed wolf. We treat him so well, but he keeps fighting against us."

At this time, in the cabinet duty room, looking at the pile of memorials sent by the general secretary, Yan Shifan, the eldest son of Yan, became angry, "Others can understand what's going on, and I'm still going to hide him at home when he hides at first." He said he was a smart kid, but he was stabbed in the back."

"Donglou, how deeply are you involved with Water Transport?"

Sitting on the seat and looking at the memorial in his hand, Yan Song had no choice but to ask with a sigh.

"I have nothing to do with Water Transport. Dad, you can't wrong a good person. Is it someone who is talking nonsense in front of you? Let's see how I deal with him."

Yan Shifan replied disapprovingly.

"Although I don't know all about those things, I have heard about them more or less."

Yan Song said here, put down the memorabilia in his hand, rubbed the center of his eyebrows and continued: "This is different from the past, you know what the situation of the disaster victims in Liaodong is like from the memorabilia, and disaster relief is like putting out a fire.

As these people said, at least the [-] shi of Taicang rice will be shipped to Liaodong by sea, and the critical situation there will be brought under control first.

It's not easy to immigrate in border towns, and the losses there can't be too great, otherwise your majesty will blame you, and your father and I won't be able to bear it. "

"Father, you can't open this hole."

When Yan Shifan heard his father say that again, he became anxious, and continued to persuade Yan Song as he did two days ago.

Through the maintenance of the water canal, Yan Shifan can get a lot of money every year, and even in the dry season of the canal, other merchant ships are restricted from passing through the locks, but the merchant ships with Yanfu lanterns still have priority over water ships. Passing through various river gates, the benefits behind this are also great.

It's just that Yan Shifan can't talk to Yan Song about these things.

In Yan Song's eyes, those yellow and white things are useless, he only likes calligraphy and paintings of famous people.

Yan Shifan does not reject this kind of calligraphy and painting, after all, they are all silver, and they are worth a lot of silver, but he also attaches great importance to those small and long-term big businesses.

Now they and Jia Yingchun have changed from arguing about sea transportation to sea transportation to Jiliao. It seems that the other party seems to have taken a step back, but Yan Shifan is still vigilant, feeling that this is the other party's means of retreating to advance, and the purpose is to get on the forbidden sea. Open a hole.

With the first time, there will naturally be a second time, and a third time. In the end, sea transportation will completely replace water transportation. Will he still have the money he earned from water transportation?
It is unlikely that the imperial court will continue to spend money on repairing the river. The sea is boundless, and there is no need to repair it at all. As long as the waterway is found, the boat can run. How much money will be saved.

The two talked for a long time in the value room, but in the end Yan Song still didn't endure his son's persuasion, but just voted on these memorabilia as "violating the ancestral system".

"By the way, Dad, you look at the position of the Tongzheng envoy, how about letting Hanzhang do it? He is also named Zhongshu Sheren now, anyway, nothing will happen to the Tongzheng envoy, just Sending and receiving memorials, we also need reliable people to keep an eye on us."

At the end of the day, Yan Shifan suddenly remembered the request from his friend Luo Longwen a few days ago.

Yes, Luo Longwen's promiscuity with Yan Shifan was not fruitless, and the money he spent changed him into an official uniform, but now he is a little dissatisfied with the vacant title of Zhongshu Sheren, and wants to be a real job official.

Tongzhengshi is a Tongzhengshi, with a high official position but nothing to do. Speaking of which, he was once one of the Jiuqing, but now he has no status, but it is still quite bluffing.

"He wants to be the co-administrator?"

Yan Song turned his head to look at his son, and asked.

"Yes, father, you see that Hanzhang was as filial to you and mother as a child in the past. He is a trustworthy person, you see."

Yan Shifan hurriedly said with a smile that his father was convinced by himself, and he is in a good mood at the moment.

"Got it, let's see."

Yan Song replied.

Yan Song likes calligraphy and paintings of celebrities, but in fact there is one other thing he loves most, which are the four treasures of the study that all literati need.

Well, this Luo Longwen happened to be the famous ink maker of the Ming Dynasty at this time, not made by his craftsmen, but the ink made by himself.

Such things are naturally Yan Song's favorite.

There is a saying that treats people softly and eats people with short mouths. Hearing that Luo Longwen wanted to go to the Tongzheng Envoy to be the Tongzheng Envoy, Yan Song really couldn't bear to refuse him.

Just like what Yan Shifan said, the General Secretary is really not a key to the yamen, because their job is to collect officials' memorials, and after transcribing them for the record, they send the memorials to the cabinet and the job is over. Opportunity makes it difficult for him to make mistakes.

The debate on whether to send grain to Liaodong by sea continued to expand. Jia Yingchun from the household department made two memorials in three days to request sea shipment, claiming that all [-] shi of Taicang rice had been collected and could be shipped to Tianjin at any time.

After a lot of noise, the Metropolitan Procuratorate finally settled down and selected officials who went south to purchase disaster relief food.

Now that all parties have completed the preparations, we are waiting to see whether the imperial court will choose which side Xiyuan will choose in the end, whether to transport disaster relief money and food by land according to the usual practice, or open the sea route to Liaodong as Jia Yingchun said.

The debate continued. With Wei Guangde's joining in the same year, the number of memorials supporting the opening of the ocean line overwhelmed the opposing faction in a short period of time, but Xiyuan remained the same, and no news came out for a long time.

It's not that Wei Guangde didn't send someone to contact Chen Ju, but nothing happened, and Chen Ju didn't reply him any news.

For more than half a year, Wei Guangde and Chen Ju had less and less contact. Even though Wei Guangde sent him the meeting ticket twice, it did not change Chen Ju's attitude at all, which made Wei Guangde flustered.

In fact, Chen Ju's attitude towards Wei Guangde is similar now.

On the night of the Lantern Festival, Chen Ju followed the Emperor Jiajing and held a lantern to illuminate the road. The Emperor Jiajing's sudden question, "Wei Guangde and Prince Yu's Mansion are very close" made Chen Julei very upset.

These days, all the eunuchs and servants knew that Emperor Jiajing seemed to favor King Jing more, and the rewards were more and better than those given to King Yu.

As for going to see King Yu on the tower during the Lantern Festival, in fact, this kind of action was also done to King Jing in the past, so the servants like them couldn't tell who the emperor was pretending to be?

In fact, let alone them, even Huang Jin couldn't figure it out.

It is said that the emperor's heart is for King Yu, but it doesn't look like this in the past.

Anyway, from Huang Jin's point of view, Emperor Jiajing seems to be similar on both sides, except that he is a little bit partial to King Jing, and King Yu's mother and concubine are still out of favor
They have not skipped the prince and thought of the grandson like Wei Guangde. After all, no matter whether it is King Yu or King Jing, they are only in their 20s. There is no question of after.

So after hearing Emperor Jiajing talk about the relationship between Prince Yu's Mansion and Wei Guangde, according to Gao Zhong's intention, he began to distance himself from Wei Guangde, worrying that the final bet would go wrong.

For an eunuch like Gao Zhong, it doesn't matter if he presses the wrong treasure, after all, he is not young, but for Chen Ju, there is nothing he can lose.

At this time, in the official circles of Beijing and China, officials from both sides not only kept writing memorials to accuse each other, but also constantly lobbied colleagues and friends around them to support their opinions.

It was under such a political environment that at night, a small sedan chair quietly appeared at the back door of Xu Jie, a cabinet minister of the current dynasty. He got out of the sedan chair in a hurry, looked around before stepping into Xu's mansion.

Knowing that there was a visitor, Xu Jie just smiled and shook his head. Naturally, Xu Jie had already guessed the reason for his visit, and also knew that there would be such a day.

Like the Yan family's attitude towards King Jing's Mansion, Xu Jie is also relatively independent and does not rely entirely on King Yu's Mansion, although he has never refused a request from King Yu's Mansion.

In official affairs, Xu Jie chose to fully support Yan Song's political views most of the time. Although he caused dissatisfaction among many court and central ministers, Xu Jie also had his own difficulties.

Up to now, he has not seen that Emperor Jiajing has too much dissatisfaction with Yan Song. Yan Song's family members are still untouchable, so as the second assistant of the dynasty, he can only choose to compromise.

However, the premise of being wronged is that Yan Song has not seriously violated his interests, and he will fight Yan Song when his interests are damaged, otherwise it will be too fake.

In fact, Yan Shifan had tested Xu Jie's limits many times, constantly touching Xu Jie's interests, and gradually let go of his guard only after confirmation.

Therefore, as long as there is no need to ask him for many things discussed in Yu Wang's mansion, Xu Jie doesn't know, and he doesn't want to know.

Like Huang Jin and others, Xu Jie has not yet grasped the pulse of Emperor Jiajing.

Perhaps, in this world, only Yan Song and Yan Shifan knew what Emperor Jiajing was thinking.

From the second day onwards, more officials who had not participated in the debate began to leave, but it was not too surprising to the officials and nobles who had been watching the battle.

In the past, Xu Jie would always choose to support King Yu's faction, but in fact, it has already been rooted in the hearts of everyone.

Perhaps, this is also a kind of balance, although it is very fragile.

Prince Yu's Mansion has the support of Xu Jie, the second assistant of the current dynasty, and Yan Song, the chief assistant of King Jing's Mansion. When Xu Jie fully supports Yan Song's ruling, Xu Jie will become cautious when encountering matters involving Prince Yu's mansion. He will even publicly oppose it, although his influence is far less than that of Yan Song's faction.

By this time, the end of this battle is over, and everything can only wait for the final decision of that Xiyuan.

But at this time in the Yongshou Palace, on the huge imperial book case in front of Emperor Jiajing, there are stacks of memorials on the left and right, which makes people feel dizzy.

The one on the left is a few stacks more than the one on the right. There are so many people.

How much does the Jiajing Emperor's Ministry of War value the so-called ancestral system? In fact, almost all the Ming emperors do not value this. They weigh the pros and cons more.

Regarding Liaodong affairs, they naturally have their own trade-offs.

Time, can't afford to delay.

"As Wei Guangde said in Zoushu, it is less than [-] miles from Haikou to Youtun River and Tongbao. Among them, Caobodian, Yuetuo, Sangtuo, Jiangnufen, and Taohua Island can all berth, and the distance is only four or five. Ten miles away, you can avoid the worries of turmoil and thieves."

Hearing Lu Bing's answer, Emperor Jiajing nodded slightly, but then he heard Lu Bing continue to say: "It's just, according to the investigation, the remaining ships of the Denglai Navy in Shandong are insufficient, and they are too old and unusable."

After Lu Bing finished speaking, he lowered his head slightly.

"Is there any way to solve it?"

Emperor Jiajing on the throne frowned slightly upon hearing this, and then asked.

"Sea ships are insufficient, but the disaster is urgent. We have to spend a certain amount of relief money to build sea ships first. The most urgent thing is to send the [-] shi Taicang rice to Tianjin Tonghe and other places under the supervision of officials to attract merchants and traffickers, and to supervise each other. goods."

These were all discussed by the documents and others in Jinyiwei, so Lu Bing immediately replied.

Emperor Jiajing nodded when he heard the words, his brows stretched.

Although he didn't express his opinion on the spot, he didn't shake his head and refuse directly. After all, it was a matter of life and death for the people of a town. He was the emperor, so he naturally had to shoulder this responsibility.

(End of this chapter)