prosperous age

Chapter 556 Chapter 555

In the capital, the main house in a small courtyard next to the Imperial College.

A stack of books is neatly stacked on the desk, and a young man in white pheasant official uniform is flipping through the books in front of the desk.

While flipping through, maybe I found a mistake, so I stopped to pick up the pen to draw lightly on the book from time to time.

When you have finished reading the book in your hand, put it on the other side, where there are already two stacks of books.

One pile has a little more, while the other pile has only a few copies.

He placed the sketched book on the smaller stack of books, and then he reached out to pick up another book from the side and continued to look through it.

Naturally, Wei Guangde was the one who read the book. As Emperor Jiajing delegated the selection of candidates for transcription to the school transcription officers, the progress of transcription of "Yongle Dadian" also accelerated.

Today, Wei Guangde spends his time here. He wants to read all the books he has accumulated during this period. If there are mistakes, he must naturally tick them off, open the binding and re-transcribe.

Wei Guangde had already read all the books he was assigned, and with his photographic memory, he was able to do the proofreading work with ease, making him the easiest one among the ten branch school officers.

"grown ups."

A person came in outside the door, it was the scribe Lu Bu who had been following him all the time when he was in the Imperial Academy.

I saw Lu Bu standing bowed in front of the book case, and whispered: "The servant of Prince Yu's mansion has already arrived outside the door, saying that he has something important to tell."

Wei Guangde put down the book and asked casually, "Did you ever ask why?"

"It is said that the Minister of General Affairs received a memorial from Lin Run, the censor of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, impeaching Yan Shifan and Luo Wenlong for plotting to rebel."

Lu Bu replied in a low voice.

"Rebellion? Yan Shifan?"

Wei Guangde sat upright, then waved his hand and said, "Let him in."

Not long after, a servant followed Lu Bu into the room.

"It turned out that Eunuch Zhang came here, and he was far away from welcoming him. I don't know what happened to Lin Yushi's impeachment?"

The servant who came in was Zhang Jing, a member of the palace, who followed Li Fang all the time. Although his rank was not high, his status was not low, so Wei Guangde naturally knew him.

Seeing that he was coming, Wei Guangde smiled and cupped his hands at him.

This Zhang Jing is about the same size as Chen Ju, but Chen Ju is posing as Gao Zhong, while Zhang Jing recognizes his godfather as Zhang Hong, who is also a famous eunuch in the Prison of Rites.

Recently, Gao Hong's health has been ill. According to the news from Chen Ju, it is possible that Zhang Hong will take his place.

As for how Zhang Jing entered Yuwang's mansion, it is actually not surprising. After all, the change of imperial power has basically been settled. The favor of the king will still have a certain status in the inner court in the future.

"Master Wei, you haven't come to Prince Yu's Mansion these two days, the news came in a hurry today, so Eunuch Li and Lord Yin asked me to send the news directly."

Seeing Wei Guangde cupping his hands at him, Zhang Jing immediately returned the salute, and then quickly told the news sent.

"I just received the news that Nan Daolin Yushi impeached Yan Shifan and fled. He did not go to Leizhou to be punished. Instead, he turned back to his hometown in Jiangxi halfway, and his party members Luo Wenlong and others did the same.

According to the memorial, Yan Shifan and Luo Wenlong not only did not repent after they arrived in Jiangxi, but also wantonly slandered the emperor and the court. Also being bullied. "

Hearing what Zhang Jing said, Wei Guangde couldn't help but straighten his body immediately.

It seems incomprehensible to raise dead soldiers, in fact, they are desperadoes, but in this era, there are more or less such existences in the homes of high-ranking officials and dignitaries, which is nothing.

However, Zhang Jing actually said that there are more than [-] desperadoes in Yan Shifan's network, which is no small matter.

At least, he, a native of Jiangxi, had never heard of this rumor.

Why raise so many people?
These people are armed with two battalions. In Jiangxi, there are really few guards who dare to say that they can destroy them.

"Are you so courageous?"

Wei Guangde couldn't help exclaiming.

Such a big matter was not reported by the Jiangxi government, but by the Nanjing censor, which made Wei Guangde think deeply about the great influence of the Yan family in Jiangxi.

"The palace asked you to come and inform me, but you want me to discuss it?"

Wei Guangde asked.

Regarding this matter, Wei Guangde didn't know what the Prince Yu's Mansion could do, did he want to take this opportunity to kill Yan Shifan?
After the fall of the Yan family, King Yu has been secretly investigating the events of that year, the event that made him lose face.

Seven or eight years have passed, and King Yu has not let go, which shows how hard it was to King Yu at that time.

When Yan's family left the capital, many people's mouths were naturally pried open, and Yu Wang's Mansion also knew that the person who let the household department suppress Yu Wang's mansion's salary and year gifts was Yan Shifan.

It's just that people had already been punished at that time, and Yu Wang's mansion couldn't reach Guangdong, so it could only be left alone.

Maybe, King Yu still thought about revenge in the future, but he didn't expect such a thing to happen.

"Your Highness means, my lord is free today, please go to the palace to talk about it."

Zhang Jing bowed and replied.

"Got it, Eunuch Zhang, you've also seen that I still have a lot of things to do right now.

In the afternoon, when the matter here is settled, I will rush to the palace. "

King Yu's heart for revenge should have been rekindled by this news, and depending on the situation, the impact was indeed bad enough to kill Yan Shifan.

Yes, not to overthrow him, but to kill him directly.

After Lu Bu sent Zhang Jing away, Wei Guangde was still thinking about it.

Originally thought that the deal between Yan Song and Yan Song could be easily concluded, at least no one would continue to target them after his family fell, but I didn't expect Yan Shifan to be so fearless.

It's fine to escape from the army, but he dared to make such a big commotion in Jiangxi. I really don't know what he thinks.

When Yan Song left Beijing, Wei Guangde also went to see him off.

Don't talk about different positions. In fact, Yan Song has never had a position on the outside world. It's just that Yan Shifan has been helping King Jing, affecting the entire Yan Party, and they all support King Jing as their object of support.

And Wei Guangde went to send Yan Song off in the name of a fellow villager, so naturally he had nothing to do with Prince Yu's Mansion.

At that time, Wei Guangde once told Yan Song that it was enough to let Yan Shifan enjoy Leizhou, the sky was high and the emperor was far away, as long as there was no big commotion, the capital would soon forget about this person.

Unexpectedly, it seemed that others didn't take my reminder seriously, and what was supposed to come finally came.

At this time, almost a year has passed since Huang Taiji entered the capital.

During this period of time, nothing major happened in the imperial court, and it was running smoothly.

It's just that Ma Fang was punished for the looting of the Xuan Mansion. Even though he succeeded in smashing nests in Beisha Beach this time, and turned in more than 130 grades and some cattle and sheep, he was still severely reprimanded by the court.

Just thinking about the military exploits in the past and being ordered to "take the crime and make meritorious service", he lost the title of Zuo Dudu and still served as the general officer of the Xuanfu.

Under this blow, the Xuanfu army led by Ma Fang finally subsided for nearly a year, and never took the initiative to attack the Mongolian ministries.

In the Battle of Jidong, because the general Bai Wenzhi defended against the wall, the Eastern Captives were unable to attack day and night. Later, with the joint efforts of the guerrilla Dong Yiyuan and other soldiers to defend, the stone pass was safe and sound.

Although Donglu saw that the surprise attack failed, he repeated his old tricks and suddenly moved his troops to Shanhaiguan, intending to sneak attack while the guards were unprepared, but they still failed.

Donglu had to retreat after two consecutive siege failures. Dong Yiyuan, who had been unknown in Jizhen, took this opportunity to accumulate military exploits. Since then, he has the qualification to be alone all the way.

As for the matter of the Liao ship's shipping, it has naturally been concluded a long time ago, and it has been decreed to prohibit it years ago.

For a conservative king, Wei Guangde didn't think there was a chance to persuade Emperor Jiajing to carry out shipping, unless Wei Guangde was willing to share the benefits with the emperor.

Liao ship shipping has been officially banned by the government, but private smuggling activities have not completely stopped.

It is really that the profits are too great, and for the merchants in Liaodong and the capital who have already tasted the sweetness, it is impossible to stop.

And Wei Guangde, for the sake of his shares, contacted Zhang Xuegu in the same year of the Metropolitan Procuratorate in private.

This man was already on patrol in Shandong, and he just happened to help clear up the relationship, and used the power of the censor to negotiate some things with officials in Denglai in private.

Naturally, the merchant ship was disguised as an official ship, and continued to conduct maritime trade with the customs defense of the Denglai Navy, but the scale was reduced, and the voyage range was expanded to North Korea.

The business of Beihai Commercial Bank is no longer limited to the trade between Shandong and Liaodong, but has gone abroad and started to go back and forth between Daming and North Korea to supplement the profits lost due to the limited scale.

Wei Guangde really couldn't refuse the temptation of nearly a thousand taels of silver per month. This small amount of money can not only guarantee his luxurious life in the capital, but even have a surplus.

In the afternoon, Wei Guangde went to Prince Yu's Mansion by car, naturally to discuss the matter of Yan Shifan.

As soon as he entered the palace, Wei Guangde saw Feng Bao hunched over, struggling to support a young child learning to walk in the palace.

"Eunuch Feng, why don't you ask them to do it? It's not easy to take care of children."

This young boy is naturally Zhu Yijun, the third son of King Yu, and he is running around in the palace right now.

The toddler stage is the most difficult for children, and they will fall if they don't pay attention, Wei Guangde has a deep understanding.

Whenever he takes the child with him, what he fears the most is that the child will learn to walk on the ground. The pain is worse than letting him patrol the border.

"Lord Wei is here, His Highness is in the room over there."

Feng Bao now puts all his heart on the little prince. The relationship between King Yu and Princess Chen is not very good, because Princess Chen often warns him to stay away from beauty.

Seeing that if Concubine Chen could not give birth to a prince, the child in his hands would probably be the one in the future palace once he grew up, Feng Bao didn't feel tired at all, but was pained and happy.

Wei Guangde was already standing in front of them, then he knelt down and looked at Zhu Yijun and said: "Your Highness is well taken care of by you, His Highness must reward you well."

While speaking, Wei Guangde had already reached out to take Zhu Yijun from Feng Bao, and led him forward slowly.

What Feng Bao could see, Wei Guangde naturally knew very well. Although he didn't know if this would be the future emperor, he still had to invest.

Thinking that this person is Feng Bao, who grew up serving the emperor and got the title of "Da Mix", Wei Guangde didn't think there was any harm in trying to curry favor with this kid.

"A few days ago, I heard that Concubine Li was in poor health. I don't know if anyone has seen it."

While teasing the little prince, Wei Guangde asked Feng Bao.

"Your Majesty is fine, but there is another one."

Feng Baole said happily.

"What? Again?"

Wei Guangde was startled, this concubine Li was pregnant again, so could this be the future emperor in his hand, after all, the child mortality rate is a bit high these days.

"It was only yesterday that the imperial physician was invited to check the pulse to confirm it. It's normal that Mr. Wei doesn't know."

Feng Bao said in a low voice.

"Then Eunuch Feng's responsibility is even greater. It's true that Concubine Li deserves to be rich. There are so many women in His Highness's backyard, which means she can give His Highness an heir."

Wei Guangde couldn't help lamenting that Li Caifeng was really lucky. King Yu was lucky to have so many beauties in the harem, but she was not destined to be the queen mother just because she could give birth to King Yu.

Because of the birth of Zhu Yijun, Li Caifeng, who is a palace man, has been canonized by Emperor Jiajing as the side concubine of King Yu, and her status in the palace has also increased.

Seeing Feng Bao's smiling face like a chrysanthemum, Wei Guangde said again: "Everyone says that you can lose your horse if you lose your fortune. I think Eunuch Feng really complied with this sentence."

"Hehe, how dare you dare."

Feng Bao had put aside the old matter of being assigned by the Emperor Jiajing, and now he was focused on taking care of Concubine Li and the little prince, and he could rely on these two for his future.

If he continues to stay in the palace, although the position of chief eunuch is enviable, there are still too many eunuchs above him. He is also the last one in the chief eunuch. Chen Ju had to be careful.

Not to mention Huang Jin, there are Gao Zhong, Zhang Hong, Chen Hong and others ahead of him, so there is little hope.

He was dispatched to Prince Yu's Mansion, but he also felt the benefits of it, and it would be a good place to find another way.

Although he didn't dare to say it out loud, in his heart, Feng Bao naturally wished that Emperor Jiajing would die sooner, and his status would be greatly improved by returning to the inner court.

There is nothing to talk about with little Zhu Yijun at the moment, the child is too young, just teasing for a while, mainly chatting with Feng Bao, which can be regarded as liberating him and relaxing for a while.

Returning little Zhu Yijun to Feng Bao again, Wei Guangde straightened up to relieve the pain in his lower back, and then resigned with Feng Bao to see King Yu.

When Wei Guangde entered the room, King Yu, Zhang Juzheng and others had already started talking here.

The first time Wei Guangde entered the room, he found that Yu Wang was still a little excited, obviously because he had the opportunity to retaliate against Yan Shifan's stimulation.

Wei Guangde had made up his mind before that if King Yu's revenge wasn't so strong, he could think about helping Yan Shifan make things right, see if he could get him out, and tell him to go back to Jiangxi and stop showing his face again.

But looking at King Yu's expression, he knew that even if Yan Shifan could escape this time, he would still be punished when King Yu came to power.

The 3000 taels of silver that Yan Song sent to him after he left seemed a bit difficult to handle, as it was hot.

(End of this chapter)