prosperous age

Chapter 385 384 Something Big Has Happened

Yan Song, Xu Jie, and Gao Yao walked out of Xiyuan with their own minds. The news that Emperor Jiajing would choose a fief to build a new palace has spread rapidly in the inner court. I believe that by night, everyone in the official circle of the capital will know it.

However, it was already past lunch time, and he didn't get a meal in the palace, so he was already hungry at this time.

The three of them are not too young now, and now they are out of the gate of Xiyuan, so they are naturally in a hurry to find a place to eat.

At this time, the banquet at the Metropolitan Procuratorate had long since ended. After receiving the order, Huang Guangsheng would use his time in the capital to visit the Ministry of War. After all, he was also the Minister of the Ministry of War now.

After leaving the restaurant, they didn't walk very far and walked into the private room of a nearby teahouse. This was a meeting place arranged by Wei Guangde.

If it was someone else, Huang Guangsheng would have ignored him at all, but what Wei Guangde wanted to talk about was about Yu Dayou, he was an old acquaintance anyway, Huang Guangsheng felt that he could still help within his ability.

In fact, in the restaurant before, although Wei Guangde didn't say much, he could understand that he is now the governor of the three provinces, and it seems easy to arrange a general.

But what Huang Guangsheng didn't understand was that Yu Dayou was in the north. Based on the rumored relationship between him and Li Wenjin, staying here shouldn't be too bad. Why did Wei Guangde come to find him an errand.

Not long after, after going around to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Wei Guangde left the yamen with the pretext of going to Zhan Shifu, and went to the teahouse he had agreed with Huang Guangsheng.

Today was also a bit of luck, Wei Guangde hadn't been to the Metropolitan Procuratorate for more than a month, and he had planned to come over today to take a look, but he didn't expect to meet Governor Huang coming to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to change the brand, so the previous scene happened.

"Master Huang has been waiting for a long time."

After Wei Guangde entered the room, he was polite first.

"Where, I just arrived too."

Huang Guangsheng didn't put on airs. Although he didn't have any backing in the Beijing government, he had a lot of friends in the same year. It's just that the official position is not high now, and it doesn't help him much, but the news is still very well-informed.

As for Wei Guangde, he naturally didn't just get to know Wei Guangde through the Dibao, but also knew through the communication with his friends in the same year that this person is very favored, and even if he can't be a friend, he must not be an enemy.

So if Wei Guangde asks for help, to be honest, as long as it is not too big, he will seriously consider it, not to mention that the person Wei Guangde asks him for help is still his fellow villager, a classmate who studied in his early years.

Although Yu Dayou and Yu Dayou are not in the same academy, Jinjiang County is so big, and they often discuss a subset of classics and history together, so it is not an exaggeration to say that they are classmates.

At the beginning when Yu Dayou committed a crime, Huang Guangsheng didn't know the details at first, he only knew about it through the mansion report, but by now, he has fully understood what happened.

On the battlefield, Yu Dayou did not make a big mistake, everything was caused by Hu Zongxian, the governor of the Japanese suppression.

Although he didn't know the inside story, but they were all big officials in the frontier, Huang Guangsheng naturally knew that Hu Zongxian's purpose in doing so was definitely not as simple as what the newspaper said.

Soon, the two talked about the matter that Wei Guangde mentioned at the banquet earlier.

"Zhifu is my hometown. I used to know each other in the county, but I haven't seen him for more than ten years. At that time, I was still in Guangdong, and he was also in charge of suppressing the Guangxi rebellion under the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi Mr. Ouyang."

In front of Wei Guangde, Huang Guangsheng directly stated that he and Yu Dayou were old acquaintances. He was very frank, and his purpose was naturally to hope that Wei Guangde would not go around and talk about his purpose directly.

"Since Mr. Huang and General Yu know each other, I will also directly explain the purpose of looking for Mr. Huang."

Although Wei Guangde didn't ask Yu Dayou, but from his analysis of Huang Guangsheng's situation in the morning, he also guessed that Yu Dayou and Huang Guangsheng probably knew each other.

"General Yu's loyalty to the imperial court can be learned from the sun and the moon. His ability to command operations, whether it is suppressing rebels in Guangdong and Guangxi, or suppressing Japanese in Zhejiang, and resisting Mongolian Tartars on the nine sides, fully demonstrates that he is qualified to be a member of the army. The ability of the general."

Speaking of this, Wei Guangde stared at Huang Guangsheng, and said word by word: "This time General Yu led the Datong army to attack Bansheng City, and repelled the chasing soldiers of the Ida Department, but such a record cannot be recovered. In his post, Guangde complained very much for General Yu.

I saw Mr. Huang in the ministry today, thinking that there are many rebellions in Huguichuan, I wonder if Governor Huang can arrange a position for General Yu? "

Huang Guangsheng met Wei Guangde's eyes very calmly, then sighed and said: "I know about Zhifu's matter, and I will complain for him, but Tingshu's court has already made a decision, and there is no official reinstatement , even if the reward goes on, he is only a hundred households now, how can I find a job for him?"

Letting governor-level officials pay attention to it and affecting generals at the level of a hundred households is a bit of a fuss.

After hearing Huang Guangsheng's words, Wei Guangde didn't answer immediately, but asked with great interest: "Master Huang, I heard that in the past few years in Sichuan, your lord has also worked hard to solve the Miao problem. Does your lord think it's important to be the governor now?" , is it easier to solve the problem of three provinces than to solve one province?"

Although he didn't know the details of the situation, Wei Guangde also believed that during Huang Guangsheng's tenure in Sichuan, he definitely did not calm down the local forces with just a few words, but must have used some means.

These methods, in addition to lure and temptation, must also include the threat of force. After all, no matter what you do, there are two sides. There are those who gain and those who lose, and they will definitely oppose it violently.

However, in the past few years, it has been said that Sichuan is fairly peaceful. Wei Guangde doesn’t think it’s easy to deal with these vested interests. To ask them to vomit the interests they have obtained, apart from some compensation for interests, there must be some things that cannot be seen in the memorandum.

"Huguichuan is very big. If you don't have a powerful army to suppress and refuse to accept, you have to implement some policies, and it may not be easy to appease the local people."

Immediately afterwards, Wei Guangde threw the biggest bargaining chip.

His meaning is very simple. In the past, when you attacked local forces in Sichuan, maybe some methods were useful. After all, you were the governor, the biggest official in the region.

But now you have three provinces in your hand, the territory is bigger, and the problems are more complicated. If you want to implement what you said, you don't have a reliable army as a deterrent, and I'm afraid it will be difficult to achieve.

This reliable army is not only powerful, but also obedient.

Yu Dayou and him are fellow villagers, and they help each other at critical moments. It would be too easy to make Yu Dayou obedient. As for guaranteeing combat power, do you still need to doubt it?

Yu Dayou’s experience in the battlefield, including suppressing rebellion, suppressing Japanese and fighting against Tartars, has achieved outstanding results. It is a bit exaggerated to say that he is invincible and invincible. generals.

Yu Dayou not only knows how to fight, but also trains soldiers, and is very good at commanding miscellaneous soldiers.

Wei Guangde had paid attention to the war against the Japanese in Zhejiang before, but in fact he didn't have much interest in Qi Jiguang, who was highly praised by later generations.

Yu Dayou can lead the guards to win battles, but Qi Jiguang can't.

Of course Qi Jiguang could also fight, but he asked himself to bring recruits, that is, recruits who were trained according to his requirements. For this reason, Hu Zongxian specially gave him a large amount of military expenses to train soldiers, and Tan Lun received the same treatment.

Now, I heard that the recruits led by Tan Lun and Qi Jiguang are now the main force in the battle against the Japanese in Zhejiang.

However, the formation of two new troops naturally made the funds for the suppression of Japanese in the south of the Yangtze River more tense.

The soldiers of Tan Lun and Qi Jiguang were recruited instead of guard soldiers. Not to mention the high salaries, the rewards were also a lot. Although they won the battle, the money was spent like water. , Hu Zongxian has added it twice.

This, in fact, also reflects Yu Dayou's superiority over Qi Jiguang.

The same soldiers, Yu Dayou can lead to fight, but Qi Jiguang can't.

Now, Wei Guangde wants to point out in front of Huang Guangsheng, let Huang Guangsheng choose the pros and cons, whether to transfer Yu Dayou to Huguichuan, and become a sharp knife in his hand.

Of course, Huang Guangsheng knows the difficulty of appeasement, and he even understands the difficulty of it better than Wei Guangde.

If Huang Guangsheng hadn't considered using Yu Dayou before, then after Wei Guangde's proposal, he would naturally have to seriously consider it.

The matter of Yu Dayou involved Hu Zongxian, the governor of the south of the Yangtze River to suppress the Japanese. Huang Guangsheng was naturally not afraid, but Yan Song, the chief assistant of the dynasty standing behind Hu Zongxian, even he had heard about it.

Helping Yu Dayou is actually standing on the opposite side of Yan Song, and the hidden risks are still very high.

At the very least, although all the officials scolded Yan Song and Yan Shifan in private, no one dared to scold them face to face, after all, there was only one Yang Jisheng.

After drinking a few cups of tea and talking so much, Huang Guangsheng of course didn't agree to it in one gulp, saying that he still needs to think about it.

Seeing Huang Guangsheng's attitude, Wei Guangde knew that he was still hesitating, worried that this move would offend Yan Song and cause trouble for himself, but there was really no rush for this matter.

"Master Huang, the reason why I think of you is because you and General Yu are fellow villagers, and the second is that you have just been promoted to the governor. The imperial court must support the suppression of the rebellion in the three provinces. Among them, the selection of generals is to allow General Yu to rise again. Opportunity."

In the end, Wei Guangde expressed his thoughts.

Strictly speaking, the position of governor is a temporary appointment by the imperial court to control a place, and it is an official position in charge of local military and political power.

If it weren't for the frequent rebellions in Huguang and Guizhou in recent years, the imperial court would not have thought of setting up this position.

Since the rebellion was to be suppressed, elite soldiers and generals were also needed, so before each governor left Beijing, he would receive a strategy and the opportunity to choose generals at the Ministry of War, and even be summoned by the emperor.

What Wei Guangde thought of, of course, was to propose to use Yu Dayou at this moment. Even if he didn't want to be the commander-in-chief, he could be a general, at least he was qualified to lead a team alone.

"Isn't it good for Zhisu to stay at Xuanda?"

After leaving the teahouse, Wei Guangde went directly to Zhan Shi's Mansion. As for Huang Guangsheng, Wei Guangde guessed that he must also seek advice from his friends.

But before going out, Huang Guangsheng still asked the doubts in his heart.

"My lord Huang, I Da Khan broke his halberd twice at Xuan Da, and I expect that his next attack target will definitely shift, either to attack Shanshan and Shanxi, or to attack Ji Town, it is unlikely to continue to attack Xuan Da.

General Yu continued to stay in Xuanda and had no chance of gaining military exploits, but with his official position, if he was transferred to Jizhen or other places, he would not be reused. "

Wei Guangde answered Huang Guangsheng's doubts honestly. It wasn't that he didn't want Yu Dayou to stay in Xuanda, but that to get him back to work as soon as possible, he must have military exploits, but there is a high probability that there will be no major wars in Xuanda in the future.

Without military achievements, Yu Dayou could only stand still in the official position of a hundred households.

But before Wei Guangde reached Zhan Shi's mansion, he was stopped on the way.

The carriage was parked on the street, and there were noisy pedestrians outside the carriage.

Wei Guangde lifted the curtain of the car and looked over curiously, who dared to stop him on the streets of the capital.

"My lord, I am the long follower of Mr. Gao Gonggao."

At this time, Li San who was driving turned around and said to him.

"Let him come over."

Wei Guangde heard that he was Gao Gong, so he knew something must be wrong.

The man quickly walked to Wei Guangde's car, first bowed to Wei Guangde in the car, and then took two steps forward and whispered to Wei Guangde: "Master Wei, my master has said something important, it is urgent, please You go to the old place to meet right now."

"What's the big deal?"

Wei Guangde asked curiously.

Hearing that something big happened, although Wei Guangde didn't panic, he was still very curious.

Ask this question, if the person can answer it, it means that the matter is not very big, but if he doesn't know, it means that the matter is very important.

"I don't know. It was Prince Yu's Mansion who sent someone to meet the master, and the master hurriedly sent me over. I don't know exactly what to discuss with Mr. Wei."

The man quickly replied.

"Prince Yu's Mansion?"

Hearing that it was about Prince Yu's Mansion, Wei Guangde knew he couldn't be careless, and immediately nodded and said, "I know."

Ignoring the man's salute and farewell, he immediately said to Li San, "Go to the alley restaurant in Chongwenmen."

Wei Guangde didn't specify which restaurant on that street, but he knew that Li San should understand what he was talking about.

For these people who have been with them all year round, they know a lot of secrets about the boss, and many of them are information that others want to collect.

The carriage soon started on the road again, heading towards Prince Yu's Mansion.

To be honest, Wei Guangde, who was sitting in the car at the moment, was a little flustered.

Gao Gong asked someone to look for him, saying that there was something urgent, and somehow, he remembered the incident about the death of King Yu's eldest son.

Wei Guangde actually had some impressions, that is, many people in later generations said that Emperor Jiajing's son died a lot, it was because he took too much elixir, that is, the erysipelas accumulated in his body.

Although erysipelas did not seem to affect his body, the harm did exist, that is, there were many hidden dangers in the body of his descendants, which was the reason why Emperor Jiajing's heirs were difficult and had a high death rate.

Wei Guangde also heard from Gao Gong and Yin Shizhen that Lord Yu's health is actually not very good, and he has to take medicine to recuperate his body every year.

Well, what Wei Guangde thought in the carriage was, maybe King Yu is also a premature death, he is placing his bet on King Yu, if there is a problem with King Yu's health, then he will be in trouble.

(End of this chapter)