prosperous age

On the matter of Pan En, Emperor Jiajing's attitude was indeed doubtful, at least Wei Guangde thought so.

It's just that whether he, as well as Prince Yu's Mansion, needs to keep a certain distance from Xu Jie remains to be considered.

From this, Wei Guangde actually thought that Emperor Jiajing might be really worried about leaving the government affairs to his chief assistant at this time, and he trusted the officials he single-handedly promoted more.

It seems that in this incident, Guo Pu, who was the instigator, was able to pass the test easily.

There is no doubt, because in the eyes of the emperor, Guo Pu is his subordinate and is truly loyal to him.

For no reason, Wei Guangde was a little envious of Guo Pu, a group of officials who could write youthful poems.

Writing Qingci by myself, the result is to stab Lou Zi, and others can get the emperor's attention.

However, thinking about the news that Zhang Juzheng mentioned just now, that is, there is a censor in the Metropolitan Procuratorate who intends to play a role in the Liao ship shipping. Wei Guangde is not sure whether it is Pan En's order to promote it behind the scenes, or the Shandong chief envoy or someone from the water transport is doing it.

After all, at this time, how to divert the attention of the censors is also one of the ways to alleviate his current predicament.

Fortunately, Zhang Ji and those merchants have already started to make preparations for the court to close the shipping.

Wei Guangde no longer intends to resist, he really can't bear those people, he just wants to make this time come as late as possible.

A few days later, the news that the Japanese pirates in Xinghua Prefecture, Fujian Province had been wiped out was sent to the capital, but it seems that except for the Ministry of War, other yamen did not pay much attention to the news.

Now, their eyes are all on the vacant official post of Zuodu Yushi in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and they are all looking to see who will succeed Pan En to take over the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

After staying in China for a few days, Emperor Jiajing of Xiyuan finally seemed unable to resist the continuous impeachment of the Kandao officials, and finally made a criticism: Pan Yunduan was changed to the head of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, and Pan En was appointed as an official.

Just like what Zhang Juzheng revealed, Guo Pu was fine and passed the customs safely.

Coincidentally, when Pan En became an official, the investigation he should have done was naturally omitted from Chen. However, Xu Jie, the first assistant of the cabinet, Yuan Wei, the second assistant, Yan Ne, the Minister of Rites, Gao Yao, the Minister of the Ministry of Households, etc., all took the opportunity to inspect themselves. Chen begs.

This is also a very interesting phenomenon in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, that is, officials reflect on themselves, find out their own mistakes and omissions, and then beg the emperor to remove them from their official positions and let them return to their hometowns for the elderly.

But now the center of the Ming court, the faction seems to have been completely broken.

Xu Jie and Yuan Wei in the cabinet, and Yan Na, Guo Pu, Gao Yao, Yang Bo, Lei Li, and Huang Guangsheng in the six ministries seem to form their own faction. When Yan Song was in power, the spectacular scene of one party occupying three seats had already disappeared. not there.

Therefore, after their memorials from Chen Qiba were sent to Xiyuan, Emperor Jiajing would reply in person, with gentle words to persuade them to stay, as if he refused to say goodbye.

However, because he knew the inside story from Zhang Juzheng before, Wei Guangde just felt that the current Emperor Jiajing seemed to have become an emperor again, maybe he had really enlightened now and was no longer obsessed with the cause of cultivation.

At the beginning, in order to practice with all his strength, he entrusted Yan Song with the full power of the court.

In fact, for so many years, Yan Song has been conscientious in defending the country for him, and has not caused any major troubles.

As for other derogatory words, in fact, there is no need to take it seriously.

Even if Emperor Jiajing didn't need Yan Song to help him manage the government, Zhang Song and Li Song would come out to do these things, and everything that the Yan Party did would still happen, but the executors changed, and the process would be different in severity.

But now, Emperor Jiajing seems to have seized power again, and Wei Guangde doesn't know whether this is good or bad.

But today, when Wei Guangde's carriage was parked in front of Prince Yu's Mansion, the curtain of the carriage was lifted, and he saw that Li Fang was already standing outside waiting for him.

"What is Your Highness calling me for?"

These days, Xu Jianglan is about to give birth, so Wei Guangde only comes to Yuwang Mansion once in a while besides going to the Imperial College to study.

But at noon today, a servant from the palace came to Wei's house and asked him to go to the palace in the afternoon, so that King Yu had something to discuss.

"It seems to be because of a memorial made by Zhao Bingran, but I don't know the details."

Li Fang replied, while Wei Guangde got off the car, he stretched out his hand and asked Wei Guangde to go first.

Naturally, Wei Guangde would not be rude, he hastily resigned, and asked Li Fang to go first.

The two gave way back and forth, and finally entered side by side.

"Zhao Bingran, governor of Zhejiang?"

Wei Guangde asked after raising his leg to buy the threshold.

"Exactly."

Li Fang replied.

"Zhejiang has Japanese pirates again?"

Wei Guangdehu questioned.

The Japanese pirates in Zhejiang seem to have stopped in the past two years. There are also small groups of hundreds of people, and there is almost no need to report, because the impact is very small, and the local government will deal with it quickly.

It was also a conditioned reaction, when Wei Guangde heard that the memorial was from Zhejiang, Wei Guangde would immediately think of the Japanese pirates.

"It may have something to do with the Yiwu soldiers. Governor Zhao sent a memorial to Beijing today. I think it is about the Yiwu soldiers. After that, His Highness will send someone to look for you."

Li Fang smiled lightly, and then asked concerned: "Madam Wei, hurry up, why don't you invite me to have a drink or two?"

"Please, please."

Wei Guangde smiled, but he was also suspicious, what does Yiwu Bing mean?
It is impossible for this Zhao Bingran to write about Yiwu soldiers.

But everyone has arrived at King Yu's mansion, and they should be able to know when they see King Yu in a while.

Not long after, under the leadership of Li Fang, they went directly across the front yard and walked to the back.

"Your Highness is still up?"

Wei Guangde asked with a mean smile.

"Hey, what are you thinking, Your Highness woke up early"

"Hey, Eunuch Feng."

The two walked to a small courtyard near the backyard of the palace and stood still. When they were about to go in, Wei Guangde saw Feng Bao with two servants. Walking in, Wei Guangde greeted again with a smile.

"Lord Wei, Eunuch Li, I'm sorry, I didn't pay attention earlier."

Feng Baoxing might have left in a hurry earlier, so he really didn't notice them.

Hearing Wei Guangde's shout, he hurriedly stopped and turned his head, smiling obsequiously.

"you are"

Wei Guangde asked one more question out of curiosity.

"Isn't this a gift from the princess to Li Xuan?"

It was Li Fang who answered.

"Yes, the princess rewarded Li Xuan for these ten horses of high-quality materials, and I will send them over."

Feng Bao said with a smile on his face at the moment.

"Eunuch Feng has worked hard, please take care of Li Xuan, we are all waiting for the prince's wedding wine."

Wei Guangde laughed.

After the death of Prince Yu's eldest son, Prince Yu's heir has always been the most concerned topic in the palace.

King Yu did not favor the palace people less, but there was no movement.

Fortunately, at the beginning of the year, it finally came out that the palace man next to the princess was happy.

Although the child was not born and the gender is not yet known, this is also a great joy for the palace.

For some unknown reason, the princes of the old Zhu family were more likely to have children than the other, but when it came to the emperor's lineage, Emperor Hongzhi was a single heir at that time, and Emperor Zhengde died immediately.

The throne was handed over to Emperor Jiajing, and he still gave birth to a few, but many died, and now only King Yu and King Jing are left.

King Jing, there has been no news since his wedding, and now that he has gone to the fiefdom, there has been no news of his future.

King Yu did have an eldest son, but he died young, and after two or three years, someone finally conceived again, which naturally made Wei Guangde and other officials in the royal family happy.

At the beginning, he devoted all his energy to King Yu, except that King Yu occupied the long character, and more importantly, King Yu had a son, but King Jing did not.

King Yu has no heirs, not to mention Wei Guangde, even Gao Gong now feels that he has no foundation.

According to the imperial physician, this Li Gongren should have been conceived at the end of last year, and it will be known whether it is a boy or a girl in August or September this year.

And Feng Bao, just after Li Xuanshi became pregnant, was sent to her by King Yu to take care of her daily life.

Seeing Feng Bao leading the people into the backyard, Wei Guangde couldn't help smiling, secretly thinking that maybe this is the inertia of history.

In fact, everyone in Prince Yu's mansion is now staring at Li Xuan's belly, wanting to know whether she is pregnant with a boy or a girl, and Wei Guangde can probably guess it, because Feng Bao has been sent there.

Thinking about future generations, Wei Guangde's appalling historical knowledge all knew that Feng Bao was a person who had been doing well with a certain emperor.

Needless to say, this Li Xuanshi, even if this child can't give birth to a prince, then the next child will definitely be her.

Otherwise, it's hard to imagine how Feng Bao could get ahead.

In Prince Yu's mansion, with Li Fang present, there should be no place for Feng Bao anyway.

Wei Guangde knew Feng Bao in later generations, and he had a prosperous life with Zhang Juzheng in the Ming Dynasty, but he never knew that there was Li Fang.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde glanced at Li Fang beside him, but didn't say anything.

As for Wei Guangde's actions, in Li Fang's eyes, he only thought that he was happy because the prince had a son, but he didn't think much about it.

"Master Wei, let's go in, the prince should already be inside."

Li Fang smiled at this time.

Wei Guangde nodded, "Eunuch Li please first."

"Don't be humble, let's go together."

Li Fang laughed.

"Okay, together."

Wei Guangde also smiled.

Seeing Yu Wang in the room, Yu Wang was sitting on a chair, with one hand on the desk and his chin propped up, as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing Wei Guangde enter the room, King Yu put down his hands and smiled and asked: "Shan Loan, do you really have a regional term for being a soldier?"

"Area? A soldier?"

Wei Guangde asked back with a frown, apparently not understanding what King Yu said.

"Look at this. This is the memorial that Zhao Bingran sent to the General Secretary of the General Administration today."

While talking, King Yu handed Wei Guangde a note on the desk.

Wei Guangde took it, looked at it carefully, and couldn't help laughing.

The note is actually the memorandum of Zhao Bingran, the governor of Zhejiang Province, saying that many provinces recruited soldiers from Yiwu in Zhejiang Province, and that those who caused chaos in Fujian, the people turned into soldiers, and the soldiers turned into bandits. Taoism has to pretend to recruit soldiers from other provinces and seek its roots instead. It must be done in many ways to turn robbers into soldiers and soldiers into civilians, that's okay.

Today, the people of Zhejiang are being driven away to save Fujian, and the ministers are afraid that Zhejiang is considered to be Fujian. From now on, please order all provinces to train together, so that everyone can use their homes to defend themselves. If they are urgent, they will be soldiers, and if they are slow, they will be farmers. There are two people who belong to each other between gathering and dispersing. Even if it is unavoidable, the recruiting must first be in the province, and then in the neighboring provinces. It is not allowed to specialize in one party to cause disaster.
In fact, Zhao Bingran told Tan Lun to send people from the Fujian government to Yiwu to recruit soldiers.

Tan Lun originally participated in politics in Zhejiang, but when he went to Fujian, his first move was to send people back to Zhejiang to recruit soldiers.

These days, recruiting soldiers naturally selects strong men, and strong men are labor force, whose value is immeasurable.

The recruiting of strong men from Zhejiang by Fujian will naturally have an impact on them.

However, regarding the matter of recruiting soldiers, it seemed that the Zhejiang government could not stop it openly, so it directly brought the complaint to the capital.

"Fujian went to Yiwu to recruit soldiers? Tan Lun did the same, too careless."

Wei Guangde said with a smile.

"I heard that not only in Fujian, most of Qi Jiguang's soldiers were recruited from Yiwu. The year before last, Zhejiang suppressed Japanese, and last year and this year, Fujian suppressed Japanese. The outstanding military exploits of the Zhejiang soldiers naturally attracted attention, so I heard that Nanzhili, Jiangxi and Guangdong all ran. There are recruits.

Now a large number of strong men in Yiwu have left, which has caused the place to be full of people. "

Li Fang cheerfully continued, "Earlier, I heard that Qi Jiguang called all the miners because of his strength, but after these few battles, everyone is Yiwu people who are not afraid of death. They are the best seedlings for soldiers. I heard that Ji Everyone in the town wants to recruit Zhejiang soldiers as guest soldiers."

"It's true that the miners have skills and strength, but the key to training soldiers is how to train. Of course, the salary is sufficient. If these two points are done well, it's no wonder that Qi Jiguang has achieved outstanding results in suppressing the Japanese."

Wei Guangde laughed.

He now understands why King Yu is looking for him, well, as a royal, he naturally thinks of being rich and powerful.

A rich country is more complicated and difficult to get, but a strong army is relatively simple. Perhaps in Yu Wang's view, choosing a good soldier is a strong soldier.

"In Shan Loan's opinion, is Yiwu soldiers good or bad?"

King Yu was more concerned about this, so he asked.

"I remember I heard Dayou talk about the Zhejiang soldiers at the beginning. He said that the Zhejiang soldiers were a mixed bag with uneven qualities. The guard soldiers had no training and no orders in battle, so their combat effectiveness was extremely low.

Locally, the soldiers from Lishui came from the mountainous areas. They were physically strong and brave in combat. They dared to charge forward, but they lacked resourcefulness and cared too much about gains and losses.

Taizhou soldiers are a group of tigresses, who are strong when they are weak, and weak when they are strong.

The Shaoxing soldiers did have courage and drive, but they were too shrewd and calculating, and because of the phenomenon of cannibalism, an army that was not united was not worthy of trust.

When he was the chief military officer in Zhejiang, it seemed that there were no soldiers from Yiwu. It should be the recruiting place that Qi Jiguang found later.

Since he has told the soldiers from all over Zhejiang these ways, it is not known whether the soldiers from Yiwu may really have merit.

It is probably the environment that makes a person. People who come out of a difficult environment can endure hardships and stand hard work, that's what it means. "

Wei Guangde first recalled Yu Dayou's words, then changed the subject and said: "However, I think that the selection of soldiers is of course important, but the training and rewards are more important.

Military training is not only about tactics, but also about discipline. Guangxi wolf soldiers are also brave, but they are unruly troops with lax military discipline, ruthless fighting, and even more ruthless plundering of the people.

If this kind of team encounters the enemy, if they are defeated in a single battle, it will be fine. If they cannot win, they will also disperse in a rush. This is the fault of lax military discipline.

As for the rewards, if you are a soldier, if you don't do it for money, who would abandon their family and children to work for their lives. "