prosperous age

Lu Bing left suddenly, and a lot of preparations were not handed over to Lu Yi. Many people who had to be secretly driven by Lu Bing because of their handles were lucky, and naturally they did not want to be with the Lu family again. Get involved.

Most of their handles are still sealed in Jin Yiwei's files, and unless they deliberately look for them, generally speaking, no one will find them.

Although Lu Bing fell, those enemies would not be able to bully them in the short term, but the Lu family is such a big stall, even if the emperor ordered Zhu Xixiao to be responsible for the safety of the Lu family, it is inevitable that they will not be able to take care of it after a long time.

And there is another sentence, that is, one emperor and one courtier. It may still be effective when Emperor Jiajing is still there, but once Emperor Jiajing is gone, it is uncertain whether Zhu Xixiao will carry out this order.

Lu Yi succeeded his father and became the commander of the Jinyiwei, but he knew better about the filth in the Jinyiwei. It is really very easy to punish people, and it is done in the form of enforcing the family law, and the outside world has no way of knowing.

Outside the capital, Jin Yiwei's command may be very good, but the situation is quite different in the capital. Unless you get an imperial edict, Jin Yiwei really dare not violate the law and discipline here where there are so many high-ranking officials, especially the former head of Jin Yiwei Lu. Both Bing and Huang Jin, the current owner of Dongchang, are cautious people, and they have always restrained their subordinates.

For civil servants, as long as they did not disobey the emperor, they were not afraid of Jinyiwei, and Jinyiwei would not take people at will, because there were no driving stickers issued by the palace and the Sixth Division.

When Lu Bing was alive, he had offended too many people. Even though he was good at dancing, he could not achieve perfection. For example, Yan Song, the current chief assistant, the Lu family and the Yan family only maintained superficial contacts. Over the years, various crimes such as embezzlement and breaking the law, selling officials and nobles have aroused Lu Bing's dissatisfaction.

Lu Bing, more often than not, played the role of his little eagle dog, always paying attention to whether those big figures in the court did anything harmful to the interests of the country.

The current Lu Yi will not let go of even the slightest chance to build relationships with the officials in the court, not to mention that Wei Guangde is someone Lu Bing once praised before, and he seems to be a trustworthy friend.

"Don't dare to dare, but Brother Lu will send someone to tell you if something happens, Guangde will do his best and go all out."

Naturally, Wei Guangde couldn't refuse Lu Yi's words face to face.

The Lu family has been in charge of Jinyiwei for many years. What are the enemies? Wei Guangde really doesn't dare to accept this hot potato, but this occasion cannot be refused, so he can only agree to it with a smile on his face, and he will do his best when the time comes.

After exchanging pleasantries, someone came to express their condolences, and Wei Guangde didn't delay too much, and then he took his leave and left, but when he was going out, he ran into Zhu Xixiao who came from Zuo Dudu's mansion unexpectedly.

The two people have different paths in culture and martial arts, but they met a few times by chance, but they were acquaintances, and Wei Guangde left the Lu residence after stopping at the door to say a few words.

This time, the Lu Mansion offered condolences and had a brief exchange with Lu Yi, but the other party did not leave a deep impression on Wei Guangde.

Maybe it's the flowers grown in the greenhouse, Lu Yi's feeling to Wei Guangde is very different from that of Lu Bing, the Lu family seems to be sinking.

For the next few days, Wei Guangde rested at home, quietly waiting for the imperial edict of reward from the imperial court.

Having done so many things in the south in the past six months, Wei Guangde thought to himself that he should be promoted to a higher level. He can look forward to a sixth-rank official position, or even a fifth-rank official position.

Went out to have a drink with the people from Prince Yu's Mansion, during which time, everyone was still brooding over Emperor Jiajing's execution of Guo Xiyan, as if they sensed a bad trend.

Even Gao Gong was silent many times during this banquet.

When Guo Xiyan's incident happened, Wei Guangde was not in the capital, so naturally he didn't know the details, that is, he knew some things from the residence newspaper.

During this exchange, Wei Guangde knew that Guo Xiyan Shangshu had nothing to do with Prince Yu's Mansion.

"It's kind of weird."

Wei Guangde put down his wine glass and said, "According to the logic, even if Guo Xiyan is guilty, there is no need to execute him immediately."

"I violated His Majesty's taboo, what else is impossible."

Yin Shizhen shook his head and said, "After respecting the prince, it is already a taboo in the palace to establish a prince. Guo Xiyan, who is so alive, is still talking about establishing an emperor and setting up a heir, and saying that the prince is jealous. If your majesty doesn't kill him, can you still let him go.

Since Long Zhigong is so well established, so many people will not die in history. "

"If you only admonish and establish a crown prince, you may just be kicked out of the capital and never hired. It is indeed a taboo to say that the king is jealous."

Chen Yiqin also echoed.

At the beginning they also had similar ideas, but they gave up in the end because they felt that it was not safe and would easily offend the emperor. Now Guo Xiyan has used her own blood to prove that their original judgment was correct.

"I heard that last year in Jingchao, he asked Mr. Yan Ge for help, but Mr. Ge refused to agree and let him be dismissed from office. Perhaps he wanted to cause a fight between us and Yan Song. His intentions are to be punished. Your Majesty is right to kill him. .”

Yin Shizhen then said.

"Brother Suqing, what are you?"

At this time, Wei Guangde noticed that Gao Gong was sitting there drinking with his head bowed, but he didn't answer the question, and felt strange, so he spoke.

Wei Guangde's words naturally attracted the attention of Chen Yiqin and Yin Shizhen to Gao Gong.

Gao Gong couldn't continue to remain silent, so he raised his head and smiled at them, then turned to Wei Guangde and said, "I heard that your errand has been finalized, Zuo Chunfang Zuo Zhongyun of Zhan Shifu, sixth rank, hehe, your promotion Speed, and this age, there is no one else."

Gao Gong opened his mouth to speak, but changed the topic, and didn't talk about Guo Xiyan. Perhaps Guo Xiyan had already been executed, and in his opinion, there was no need to talk about it.

"congratulations."

Yin Shizhen said immediately, clasping his hands while talking.

"Any other supervisory errands?"

Although Chen Yiqin had a smile on his face, he continued to ask, looking more anxious than Wei Guangde.

"No, the age is there. The main thing is to study in the Imperial Academy."

Gao Gong looked at Wei Guangde and said with a smile, "Your Majesty didn't send you out, which means he still thinks highly of you."

To be honest, Wei Guangde still felt a little regretful when he heard about this official position, because Zuo Zhongyun was a sixth-rank official, not the fifth-rank official he expected.

"Happy together."

Naturally, Wei Guangde would not show any dissatisfaction at this time, he hastily returned the salute to Yin Shizhen first, and then bowed his hand to the others.

"By the way, who is Shangshu Hubu? Has it been decided yet?"

Chen Yiqin continued to ask.

This time Ma Kun fell into the Nanjing Zhenwu Camp mutiny, and there were rumors in the court that who would take over, but the decree had not been seen, so Chen Yiqin asked Gao Gong. After all, he is not a low-level official now and can get in touch with many information they do not know.

"Gao Yao, the left servant of the household department, has the highest probability of being promoted. Mr. Yan Ge recommended Wu Peng to be relocated, and Ouyang must be promoted to be the minister of the official department. However, the adjustment of the six departments is too large, and three departments are involved at once. It is estimated that His Majesty will not agree."

Gao Gong said lightly, but then shook his head and said: "Zoushu should have been sent to Xiyuan, it's hard to say how it will be finalized, just wait."

Speaking of this, Gao Gong seemed to think of something, and said to Wei Guangde: "By the way, this time the uncle has also moved to Youchunfang Youzhongyun, in charge of the Guozijian Division, and I will invite him to the next banquet. You can move around more."

The uncle Gao Gong said is naturally Zhang Juzheng. He entered the officialdom nine years earlier than Wei Guangde, but until now he is only the editor of the Seventh Rank of the Imperial Academy, and Wei Guangde is on the same level as Wei Guangde in the Imperial Academy.

But obviously, Zhang Juzheng and Wei Guangde were still equals after the decree was issued, but he had taken the first step to enter the imperial court.

Although Guozijian is not a powerful yamen, it is noble after all, and since then his work is no longer mainly in the Imperial Academy, but in Guozijian.

Wei Guangde thought to himself, no wonder he went to the Imperial College since last year. At that time, he was only holding the official position of Jiancheng, not in charge.

It's different now, Guozijian Siye, this special thing is to create a fast lane for him to upgrade.

Guozijian set up one person for sacrificial wine, from the fourth rank, and two Siye, from the fourth rank.

Zhang Juzheng was a sixth-rank official in charge of the Imperial Academy, so it was only natural for him to be promoted in the future. As long as he had the opportunity, he could go up. Xu Cifu's methods were really clever.

Now Guozijian's sacrificial wine is Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng is now his rightful deputy.

Thinking about it further, Xu Jie himself supported King Yu's supremacy, and he sent his favorite student to work under Gao Gong. With the relationship between King Yu and Gao Gong, as long as Zhang Juzheng was appreciated by Gao Gong.
"hiss"

This old fox is planning to get the moon first and seize the fruits of victory.

When they were in the Imperial Academy, Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng also had many contacts. After all, they were both working in the same yard, and they didn't see each other when they looked up.

However, after communicating, Wei Guangde, apart from feeling that this person is very mature and prudent, didn't realize that he has such outstanding talent and so-called foresight.

It seems that Wei Guangde didn't see that Zhang Juzheng was much better than him except that he was dissatisfied with the local exploitation of the common people and wanted to make some changes.

Perhaps, this is the so-called ignorance of literati.

Anyway, Wei Guangde felt that he didn't see many things about Zhang Juzheng praised by later generations, what kind of reformer, maybe Zhang Juzheng thought of it at this moment, maybe he didn't have a clue yet.

On the carriage home after the banquet, Wei Guangde began to analyze Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng.

Gao Gong didn't have much impression, and it is estimated that his time on stage was very short. During his previous communication with Wei Guangde, Wei Guangde probably figured out his three tricks, that is, fighting corruption and promoting integrity.

In Gao Gong's view, Taizu's system was actually pretty good, but people have changed now.

As long as those corrupt people are deposed and the world is restored, everything will be restored, Haiyan, Heqing, Chongle and Taiping will no longer be a dream.

As for Zhang Juzheng, Wei Guangde seems to feel that this person is really similar to himself in many aspects, he is more content with enjoying himself, but he is also very angry, which can be seen from the fact that he has heard Zhang Juzheng complaining about the local yamen's increase of taxes many times.

Adding taxes is actually extortionate miscellaneous taxes. This amount of money is several times that of taxes and servitude, and it is also the main source of the burden on the people at the bottom.

Whether adding gifts is considered corruption, Wei Guangde certainly doesn't think it is.

That amount of money is actually similar to the land tax of later generations. The money left for local government offices only accounts for a considerable proportion of tax revenue.

In this era, the central government does not allocate office money to the local governments, and the local yamen have to find their own expenses.

How this funding comes from is naturally a tax increase on the basis of the regular tax.

When you meet a clean official, you will naturally know how to save money, reduce the burden on the people, and increase taxes less.

Such a thing, in a rich place, can afford it even if there are more miscellaneous taxes, but in a poor place, it can really drive people to bankruptcy, and finally to the point of rebellion.

The so-called "officials force the people to rebel" and "outrageous mountains and rivers make troublesome people", in fact, this is roughly the case.

It seems that the two people's ideas seem to be somewhat similar.

Wei Guangde's body swayed as the carriage moved forward, looking very much like the way he shook his head when he was studying.

However, Wei Guangde still feels that the thoughts of the two people at this time are only seemingly similar, but they are actually different in essence.

Gao Gong was thinking about getting rid of corrupt officials, while Zhang Juzheng was thinking about how to solve exorbitant taxes. It seems that corrupt officials and exorbitant taxes can be equated, but in fact the two are still fundamentally different.

"Different routes lead to the same goal" or "Different directions"?
Wei Guangde is not sure right now, so he can only continue to observe, anyway, there is plenty of time.

The current Zhang Juzheng's official position is about the same as his own, only sixth rank, and he is very small in the ranks of Beijing officials. Wei Guangde estimated that it would be impossible for him to rise to the top and become the pillar of the Ming Dynasty.

Anyway, when they get together in the future, they will call Zhang Juzheng according to Gao Gong's meaning, and then we will observe how powerful this reformer of the Ming Dynasty who has been praised and criticized by later generations is, and what is his political philosophy.

Other than the emperor and Yu Long Qihu, Wei Guangde has an impression of people in this era, but this is Zhang Juzheng.

It is said that this old man almost continued his life for the Ming Dynasty for 300 years. If it is not for educating students, the teaching will be messed up
Forget it, those are the assumptions of future generations, it's boring to think too much.

Within two days, Wei Guangde really received his promotion edict, just like what Gao Gong said, he was still promoted to his rank, and he would continue to study in the Imperial Academy.

Now Wei Guangde has a lot of titles, Zhan Shifu Zuo Chunfang Zuo Zhongyun, editor of the Hanlin Academy, imperial historian of the Metropolitan Academy, maybe a few more years to turn the editor of the Hanlin Academy into a servant Only bachelors have the chance to leave here.

The imperial decree issued on the same day also included Zhang Juzheng mentioned by Gao Gong, who was promoted to edit Zhang Juzheng of the Imperial Academy as Youchunfang Youzhongyun, and Guan Guozijian Siye. Now he has transformed into a veritable No. The small pond of the Imperial Academy.

Other promotions include Wang Zhi, the doctor of the Wenxuan Department of the Ministry of Officials, as the Shaoqing of Taichang Temple, and the admiral of the Siyi Pavilion; Zhang Yuanchong, the Zuo Buzheng of Jiangxi, was promoted to the right deputy capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the governor of Jiangxi.