prosperous age

Chapter 317 Chapter 316
Just as Wei Guangde picked up the hangover soup, Zhang Ji brought the high-arched long hair here, and when he entered the door, he shouted eagerly to Wei Guangde: "Master Wei, Prince Yu passed away just now."

"Clang."

The bowl fell to the ground and shattered, Wei Guangde looked at the visitor in disbelief.

"Really, if you speak falsely, even if you are a high-ranking person, I will order someone to beat you to death."

When he was speaking, Wei Guangde was already gnashing his teeth a little bit, and his eyes showed a cold light, which made the long follower's back feel chills, and he felt a little creepy.

After walking on the battlefield a few times, Wei Guangde would exude a murderous aura all over his body when he unknowingly felt murderous. This might be the so-called murderous aura.

But after being away from the battlefield for many years, Wei Guangde has never had such a situation.

Now, he wanted to kill people, so this was the first time he broke out in front of people.

Not to mention that Chang Sui was frightened, even Zhang Ji at the door could not help shrinking his neck.

"Master Wei, I don't dare to talk nonsense. It was Master Gao who asked me to pass the message when he went out."

Intimidated by Wei Guangde's aura, the long follower had already lay down on the ground, muttering non-stop.

Seeing him like that, Wei Guangde knew it wasn't a fake, he just frowned slightly and said in a low voice, "Tell me what's going on in detail."

"Yes, I said, I said earlier, my master had already fallen asleep, but a servant from Prince Yu's mansion came in a hurry, saying that he wanted to meet the master.

After we met, I said a few words, and the master hurriedly changed his clothes and was about to go out, saying that he was going to Prince Yu's mansion. When he was about to leave, he asked me to come here and tell you that the son of King Yu is dead.

Little ones dare not talk nonsense."

"stand up."

Wei Guangde's mind is in a mess right now, and he doesn't know how to describe it.

The importance of Prince Yu's son, Wei Guangde mentioned it to Gao Gong in a private occasion, after the cat urine drank a little too much.

Gao Gong naturally understood Wei Guangde's meaning in seconds. If he didn't think of this link before, it's okay to say, now that someone has pointed it out, he naturally understands the meaning.

How did Emperor Jiajing get the throne? It was not thanks to his cousin who has no descendants. Otherwise, he is still staying in Anlu, maybe it is also the way of practicing Taoism.

With such an experience, it will inevitably fall into his eyes.

Only two of the sons died. The older one had a son, his own grandson, and the younger one was about the same age as the older son. The two brothers married one after the other, but they had no son.

Even though King Yu and King Jing were still young, Emperor Jiajing couldn't help thinking this way.

The importance of Prince Yu's son Zhu Yizhen is naturally beyond doubt.

It's important, it's really important.

This extra little person may be the straw that broke the camel's back.

Only Wei Guangde and Gao Gong knew about this matter, and Gao Gong dared not mention it to anyone.

After getting the news tonight, Gao Gong knew something important.

Yesterday, I heard that the son had a cold, so Gao Gong asked King Yu to ask the best doctor for diagnosis and treatment, but he didn't expect to return to such a field.

Therefore, when he rushed to Prince Yu's Mansion in a hurry, he did not forget to send someone to send news to Wei Guangde.

But at this time, what can Wei Guangde do?
People are gone, what else to say?
These days, before children grow up, the premature death rate is really high, which is why Chinese people have the habit of having children.

Live as long as you can, and live more.

Waving his hand, Wei Guangde said to the man: "I see, you should go back first."

Having calmed down, Wei Guangde leaned back on the chair, feeling that he had lost the strength to sit upright.

He dared to draw a clear line with them at this time, when the Yan family was so powerful, not only because he vaguely remembered that the Yan family ended badly in the end, but more importantly because he was convinced that the last laugh should be King Yu.

Although I don't have the memory of this period of historical knowledge, but after watching the TV series "Kangxi Dynasty" and "Yongzheng Dynasty", isn't that what Hongli is like?

There are still rumors in later generations that it was because Kangxi liked Hongli that he passed the throne to the fourth son Yongzheng.

Don't tell me if you're right, later generations still say that Yongzheng's throne did not come rightly.

History, there are too many mysteries, who knows that what is sworn in the history books is true?
At that time, wasn't there someone who reversed the case for King Zhou?

It is said that folk legends and Sima Qian's "Historical Records" have deceived the people of the country for thousands of years. Zhou Wang's defeat of Zhou itself was a movement of princes conspiring to rebel.

Now, an important support for King Yu's ascension is gone, and Wei Guangde feels like crying.

At this time, Wei Guangde could not go to Prince Yu's Mansion, and he could not even go out.

He went back inside with the help of Zhang Ji. He just wanted to sleep now, and when he woke up, maybe nothing happened. Everything that happened before was a hallucination produced by himself in a drunken state.

Wei Guangde fell asleep in a daze, but Jingcheng did not fall asleep.

Not many people know that someone laughed out loud when they heard the news, asked someone to prepare a table of wine and food, and called a dancer.
Not many people know that a servant in Xiyuan was beaten to death in the garden just because he sent a message to Emperor Jiajing.
The news that Prince Yu's son Zhu Yizhen had died did not start to spread in the capital until the next day.

Because Prince Yu's Mansion has always been low-key and lives in seclusion, there are many people who don't know the identity of the prince.

However, at this time, almost everyone in the capital knew that the emperor's grandson was gone.

The matter fermented very quickly, and it ended very quickly. Prince Yu's Mansion handled the matter in a very low-key manner according to the system. There was no funeral ceremony, and everything was kept simple.

Wei Guangde only heard from Li Fang after the fact that Prince Yu aged ten years overnight, and Princess Yu is still crying all day long
No matter who it is, it is unbearable for a white-haired person to send a black-haired person, let alone such a cute little person.

That was King Yu's eldest son, Wei Guangde could only shake his head and put all this behind him.

He can't look back now, except for continuing to support King Yu, it is impossible to go back to the past, both King Yu and King Jing retreated.

Time flies, time flies, and a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

The Ming court operated as before, and was not affected by some irrelevant things at all.

It's just that what should come will always come.

That evening, Wei Guangde did not invite his colleagues out for a drink after he was off duty, but went home to have dinner with his wife, but the arrival of an unexpected guest broke the sweet atmosphere.

"Master Gao, please sit down."

Wei Guangde got the news that Gao Gong had passed the mansion, so he asked Xing Li to tidy up briefly, and went to the front yard to receive the guests by himself.

"Disturb Shandai and take a rest."

Gao Gong hadn't come for two months, and he was alone in the house today, which was different from the past, Wei Guangde was also curious.

Gao Gong works in Prince Yu's Mansion, his identity is sensitive, and he usually asks Wei Guangde to meet him elsewhere.

Even if they go to the mansion, there are often sufficient reasons, and they often invite friends to come to the Wei mansion to play the autumn breeze, giving people the feeling that they have no secrets to show others.

The servant girl brought tea, "Please", Wei Guangde stretched out his hand and gestured politely for Gao Gong to drink, and he listened attentively.

Gao Gong was not too polite, took a sip of the tea that was served, nodded slightly, "This tea is not bad."

"The businessmen from my hometown are very polite. Every time I come to Beijing to do business, they always bring me something from my hometown. This is the tea from my hometown Pengze."

Wei Guangde laughed.

"Give me two packs later, and I'll take them away."

Gao Gong said bluntly.

"Easy to say, easy to say."

Wei Guangde smiled and told Zhang Ji to prepare, then looked at Gao Gong curiously, waiting for his intention to dismiss others.

"Does Shan Loan want to work as an errand in Prince Yu's Mansion?"

After Zhang Ji left, Gao Gong stopped hiding and asked straight to the point.

"Prince Yu's Mansion? Why?"

Wei Guangde asked curiously.

"To tell you the truth, I entered Yuwangfu for 30 years in Jiajing, and it has been nine years since I passed my exams. I heard the news today that I may not be able to continue to work in the palace."

Gao Gong replied.

"where to?"

For those working in Prince Yu's Mansion, being labeled as King Yu's Mansion is not easy to arrange for such a position, not to mention that Gao Gong still has the title of Bachelor Attendant, could it be that he is returning to the Imperial Academy?

"The Yamen you stayed in, Taichang Temple."

Gao Gong replied, but then shook his head, "I really don't want to take care of that stall, I heard that the higher-ups want me to take care of the Guozijian's sacrificial wine, alas."

At the beginning, Gao Gong said that he was going to Taichang Temple, Wei Guangde thought that Gao Gong would probably be a fourth-rank Taichang Temple Shaoqing, but from Gao Gong's next words, it seemed that he was a third-rank Taichang Temple minister.

This official position does not have much power. After all, Taichang Temple is in charge of rituals, music and sacrifices, but the grade is not low.

And sitting on the position of Minister of Taichang Temple, he will be able to look at the position of Minister of Rites in the future.

Regardless of whether he is in charge of Taichang Temple affairs or not, as long as he is an official of Taichang Temple, he has a grade and a resume. Even if he is in charge of the Imperial Supervisor, he is still Taichang Temple Minister.

In an instant, Wei Guangde felt a little excited.

"really?"

The relationship between him and Gao Gong is not bad, and Gao Gong's occupation of the official position of Minister of Taichang Temple is actually a very obvious weather vane.

After Prince Yu's son passed away last month, what Wei Guangde was most worried about was what would happen to Emperor Jiajing. Now it seems that if it is not bad, there will be no change in Xiyuan's relationship with Prince Yu's mansion.

Gao Gong also thought through this point, so he came here at night to talk to Wei Guangde, and asked Wei Guangde if he would like to enter Yu Wangfu.

Wei Guangde is very cautious in doing things, it can even be said that he is too cautious, and he will not do anything he is not sure about.

From the things he did after becoming an official, it can be seen that he is a person who does not want to cause trouble.

But now, in Gao Gong's view, what King Yu actually needs by his side is such a cautious guy, who will help him watch over the mansion when he is not in the mansion.

Now, in the eyes of the two of them, the state of Prince Yu's Mansion is very good. As long as they follow the steps and make no mistakes, there is a high probability that the throne will fall on King Yu's head.

"Aren't there still Yifu and Zhengfu in the palace? Are they also going to be transferred?"

While Wei Guangde was delighted, he felt a little apprehensive.

Being able to be favored by Gao Gong is helpful for Wei Guangde to establish his status in King Yu's heart, but after Gao Gong left the palace, wouldn't there still be Chen Yiqin and Yin Shizhen?
"It's true that they are talented, but they are either less assertive, indecisive, or impulsive"

Gao Gong began to analyze Chen Yiqin and Yin Shizhen to Wei Guangde, he was less assertive and indecisive, naturally he talked about Chen Yiqin, and Yin Shizhen was naturally impulsive when things happened.

Chen Yiqin's personality is similar to King Yu's, and the two have common topics when they get together, but they can't help King Yu very much, while Yin Shizhen and Gao Gong are most afraid of bad things about him.

Seeing that Wei Guangde didn't object, Gao Gong said to Wei Guangde: "Since you don't object, then I'll try to work it out. It happens that you are also working as Si Zhilang in Zhan Shifu. If you can be promoted to Zhongyun or even Yude , then make a lot of money.”

Wei Guangde hadn't been promoted for a year, and he was naturally happy when he heard that Gao Gong had helped him run into Prince Yu's Mansion, and wanted to help him get promoted to Zhan Shifu's rank.

"Then there will be Mr. Lao Gao."

Wei Guangde quickly cupped his fists and said gratefully.

"I can only do my best, and it's hard to say whether it will be done in the end."

Gao Gong hurriedly said, after all, it was just his imagination, and in the end, without the official document, everything might change.

"By the way, there are people from the Imperial Academy in the Imperial Academy. During this period of time, I seldom go back to the courtyard, and I didn't notice any colleagues there."

After Gao Gong vaccinated Wei Guangde, he continued to speak.

"The rank of the Imperial College is generally not high, and most of the people in the Hanlin Academy have not passed the job even if they work part-time."

Wei Guangde smiled, then remembered something, and continued to speak: "By the way, Zhang Juzheng and Uncle Zhang are holding the position of the Imperial Academy, which happened last month. He has been going to the Imperial Academy more recently. After all, Judge the supervisor.

He is the proud disciple of Mr. Xu Ge in the cabinet, Mr. Gao can be very close to him. Speaking of it, if he hadn't suffered a serious illness in the capital, he would not be at the sixth rank now. "

When Wei Guangde talked about Zhang Juzheng, this old man was promoted by half a rank not long after he recovered from his illness and returned to Beijing. Only then did he know that Zhang Juzheng also had a backer behind him, Xu Jie, the second assistant of the cabinet.

Speaking of which, the relationship between Xu Jie and Prince Yu's Mansion is very close. No matter how you say it, the two sides can be regarded as friends rather than enemies.

In a few days, the palace's decree finally came out, but this decree only involved Gao Gong and had nothing to do with Wei Guangde.

As Gao Gong told Wei Guangde in private, Gao Gong spent nine spring and autumn years in Yu Wang's mansion, and after nine years of examinations, he was promoted to Minister of Taichang Temple, in charge of Guozijian's sacrificial wine.

Even though he had received the news of Gao Gong's promotion before, when the imperial decree reached King Yu's mansion, King Yu was still reluctant in every possible way.

During Gao Gong's nine years in Prince Yu's mansion, Gao Gong lectured on sutras and banquets.

However, just a few days after Gao Gong left the palace, Wei Guangde was entangled in the handling of affairs in Prince Yu's residence. He secretly thought that luckily he had not been assigned to work in Prince Yu's residence, so he might find Gao Gong in private, and maybe there was a possibility of recovery.

"There is no big or small matter in the government, and the envoys must be asked to ask."

Although Gao Gong has left, King Yu's dependence on Gao Gong has not changed in the slightest. The palace sends people to ask Gao Gong about everything in the palace. Wei Guangde reckons that the psychological shadow area of ​​the people in Prince Yu's mansion can't be calculated even if a mathematician is invited. Cleared up.
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(End of this chapter)