prosperous age

Wei Guangde didn't know why Li Sui made such absurd decision against Yu Dayou.

But in any case, Li Sui is not giving face to himself, nor is he giving face to Prince Yu's mansion. He is bound to make some response, even if Li Sui is his fellow Jiangxi fellow.

Li Sui, styled Bangliang, named Kezhai, also known as Luoshan, was born in Fengcheng County, Nanchang Prefecture, Jiangxi Chengxuan Political Envoy, and was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Jiajing.

He was first appointed as an official and pedestrian, and then moved to the successive positions of director and doctor of the Ministry of punishment.

When Emperor Jiajing established the Crown Prince, he granted amnesty to the world. Li Sui once requested that all the ministers involved in the "big ceremony" case be included in the amnesty order. Shangshu Nie Xian was afraid and dared not, so he and his fellow officials asked the capital censor Wang Tingxiang for questioning, and Wang Tingxiang let them do this. Although the matter did not succeed, the critics praised him.

Soon after, he was transferred to the Ministry of Rites, where he disobeyed Shangshu Xiayan. Later, he was impeached and sent to prison, and demoted to Huzhou Tongzhi.

From then on, Li Sui bid farewell to the court and began to be an official abroad.

He moved to the prefect of Quzhou three times and was promoted to be the deputy envoy of Su and Song Bingbei. Later, he was promoted to be the inspector of Guangdong because of his meritorious service, and then the envoy of Youbu Zheng of Shandong Province.

In the 29th year of Jiajing, Ida invaded the capital and ordered Li Sui to supervise the military pay in Suzhou. He did not thank the emperor, so he asked Guanfang Yanfu to use a new official title. The emperor was angry at his rudeness and cut off his official status.

In the 36th year of Jiajing, Japanese invaders invaded Jiangbei. The court discussed that because the governor of Caodu and the governor had no time to deal with the enemy invaders, they asked for a special governor, so they ordered Li Sui to use his original official status to inspect the four prefectures of Fengyang.

Because of his meritorious service against the Japanese, Li Sui moved to the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing. At this time, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing was Zhang Jia.

Due to the Zhenwu camp mutiny, Zhang Jia resigned and was succeeded by Jiang Dong.

Soon, Jiang Dong was transferred to Xuanda as the governor, and Li Sui moved to Nanjing to be the Minister of the Ministry of War when he was full of rank in three years.

As for what happened this time, Wei Guangde naturally knew it well.

This Li Suisui does not look like a strict party, but he has a very good relationship with Ouyang Bijin. At the beginning, Ouyang Bijin took the credit for Yu Dayou's efforts to comfort the mountain people. , served as several ministers successively.

At the time of robbing Yu Dayou's credit, Li Sui was the procuratorate of Guangdong, and he should have spoken to stop such a matter after verification, and even impeached him.

But he didn't do that, naturally because he didn't want to offend Ouyang Bijin and the elder Yan Songyan behind him.

Although he is very reluctant to admit it, this is indeed an unjust case caused by fellow villagers.

Wei Guangde didn't know if there was Ouyang Bijin's shadow behind this, but he also knew that Ouyang Bijin was not affected by the Jiangxi Yan family incident this time.

To serve as a minister, the imperial court still has to give some dignity after all.

After dismissing the Yamen, Wei Guangde went to King Yu's Mansion, and soon saw King Yu, only Li Fang was beside him, but he didn't see Yin Shizhen.

But Wei Guangde is not surprised, now that the overall situation is certain, they don't need to guard the palace all the time and serve as counselors for King Yu at any time.

The current Yu Wang is no longer the precarious appearance of the past.

In the royal mansion, both Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng were busy with their own affairs, and as Zhan Shifu's lesser Zhan Shifu, Yin Shizhen also began to often ask about Zhan Shifu's affairs, in fact, he was also declaring the status of Yuwangfu. .

In fact, if Emperor Jiajing made King Yu the crown prince, Zhan Shifu would naturally obey King Yu completely.

Unfortunately not.

But now that Yin Shizhen is in charge of Zhan Shifu, the difference is actually close to nothing.

"What happened to Li Sui?"

Seeing Wei Guangde enter the room, King Yu asked directly.

Yu Dayou is a member of Prince Yu's Mansion, which is known to everyone in the officialdom in the capital, but he has become famous in Nanjing.

If Nanjing officials don't know the relationship between Yu Dayou and Yu Wang's mansion, Yu Wang doesn't believe it, let alone a minister in Nanjing.

Wei Guangde gritted his teeth, and finally said: "Your Highness, this matter may be done by the remnant Yan Party."

"Strict party? And strict party?"

Hearing Wei Guangde's words, King Yu's eyes widened immediately, with an expression of disbelief.

You know, at this time, even the officials in the DPRK who originally took refuge in Yan Song, now wish to step on Yan's house a few times, so as to separate themselves from their relationship.

The remnants of the strict party, I am afraid that they should hide and burn incense without being noticed. Do they still dare to take action against the people of Prince Yu's mansion?

"Li Sui has a very good relationship with Ouyang Bijin, the former Minister of Officials. When he was in Guangdong, he cooperated with Yu Dayou to deprive Yu Dayou of the credit for recruiting and rebelling the mountain people, and used it as capital for Ouyang Bijin's promotion."

Therefore, Wei Guangde explained to King Yu one by one what he knew and the results of his own analysis.

"No wonder, no one said in front of Gu before that this Li Sui is a matter of the strict party. It turns out that Ouyang Bijin, who he leaned on, is no wonder he can come back after being displeased by his father and emperor a few times. If there is no Yan Song behind him , no one will believe it.”

King Yu understood that Li Sui did not lean on Yan Song directly. Maybe he also saw the dissatisfaction of the government and the people with the Yan family, so he chose to seek refuge with his fellow villagers.

"The memorial has already been sent to Xiyuan. I heard that Li Ge's old ticket plans to 'verify and investigate'. It's not like there is no chance."

King Yu continued.

Li Chunfang's memorandum meant the best result, that is, to find out first whether Yu Dayou was at fault in this incident, and how long the process was, before punishing him.

As for how to operate, Yu Wang is full of confidence.

King Yu's Mansion wants to protect Yu Dayou, can Yushi not give this face?
"Your Highness, let this matter take its course and stop trying to protect Yu Dayou."

To King Yu's surprise, Wei Guangde chose not to keep Yu Dayou.

"Why?"

King Yu was puzzled and asked directly.

"Your Highness, it is inappropriate for the palace to interfere too much in the court's decision. I'm afraid that person will not like it."

Wei Guangde said bluntly, "Besides, Your Highness may not know that Yu Dayou is nearly sixty years old, but he has no children under his knees, all because of traveling around all the year round.

He is an only seedling in the Yu family, and he is old enough to have a son. If he is not given some time to rest, I am afraid that his old Yu family will have no successors. "

"what?"

King Yu was a little surprised, "Yu Dayou has no heir yet?"

"I have been in the army all year round, going back and forth to fight in various places. My Ming Dynasty military regulations, the general is strictly forbidden to take his family members with him when he goes out. How do you let him have a son?"

Wei Guangde shook his head and said with a smile, "Dayou devoted himself to the imperial examinations in his early years, but after he joined the army, he became obsessed with the art of war, studying marching and fighting, and seemed to be interested in women and men."

"You mean, let him be dismissed? Keep him at home and have a son?"

Punishment is definitely not enough, and the face of Prince Yu's Mansion is still necessary.

Dismissing from work and staying idle seems to be the best care for Yu Dayou.

"The minister thinks it is feasible."

Wei Guangde laughed.

"He is so old, can he do it?"

King Yu was a little unbelievable.

"He is the old son of his father, can your Highness say it?"

Wei Guangde said with a smile, "Where there is a will, there is a way. I believe Dayou should be able to do it."

"Do you have anything to do with the aspirants?"

Wei Guangde's words made King Yu dumbfounded, but his previous idea of ​​protecting Yu Dayou also disappeared now.

Yu Dayou made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty's southern and northern wars. He has no heirs at such an age, and the court has indeed failed him.

"Okay, no matter how the palace criticizes this matter, it will fall on you and Li Fang anyway."

While talking, King Yu said to Li Fang who was standing beside him: "This matter, there is someone in Shandai who needs help, you can do whatever you want, you are alone."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Li Fang hurriedly nodded and bowed in agreement.

"Then that's the end of it?"

Looking back, King Yu asked Wei Guangde again.

Wei Guangde shook his head this time, "It can't be done like this."

At this time, Wei Guangde bowed his hands to King Yu and said: "Your Highness, I don't know. A few days ago, my friend Zhang Ke was caught in a braid by someone in Nanjing and wanted to impeach him. At that time, I didn't realize the strangeness.

Now that Yu Dayou's incident happened, I only realized later that Zhang Ke's incident may not be so simple. "

Then, Wei Guangde told about the impeachment of Zhang Ke by Nanjing Huke to Shizhong Cen Yongbin, and even told King Yu in detail the cause of the impeachment.

"Those Zhejiang generals, although their personal morals were lacking, they were able to fight against the Japanese.

Yue Wumu once said that civil servants are not greedy for money, military generals are not afraid of death, and the world is not troubled by insecurity.

Although those Zhejiang generals received a lot of money, as long as they dared to fight to the death, they would not lose the general.

The imperial court can't let people risk their lives to fight the enemy to the death, and they must be punished for some money.

So Zhang Ke told those people that as long as he wins the battle, the previous crimes will be written off. If he loses the battle and is punished for both crimes, he will be in trouble. "

After Wei Guangde finished speaking, he waited for King Yu to express his opinion.

"Zhang Ke's words are indeed inappropriate."

King Yu shook his head lightly and said, "However, I have a general understanding of what the court cares about most, and I still have the ability to do things."

King Yu lowered his head and thought for a while before continuing: "Shan Loan, how do you plan to end this matter?"

"Li Sui is not young anymore, it's time to return to his hometown to take care of his life. The old one has left, and the young one is nothing to worry about."

Wei Guangde replied.

The best way to deal with these officials is to deprive them of their official positions.

Some people may think that seizing officials without punishing them, and allowing them to return to their hometowns to continue enjoying the wealth gained through corruption is to indulge them.

In fact, for most people, they are unwilling to lose power.

Being an official for a long time, binding your life and power together, when you take away his power, life is really worse than death.

Even if some people can think about it and continue to enjoy life in luxury and lust after returning to their hometown, this is definitely not what they want.

Being an official can enjoy these same things, even richer, and the power will be more unscrupulous.

As for not punishing the crime, Wei Guangde did not want to break the unspoken rules of officialdom.

If you lose power, you can return to your hometown as an official.

Although he is walking very steadily now, there is no guarantee that Zhang Juzheng will turn his gun on him in the future.

Thinking of Zhang Juzheng's terrifying power in historical records, even the emperor could only tremble, Wei Guangde felt that there was nothing wrong with being cautious.

At that time, at least he still has a way to survive, and he can return to his hometown after serving as an official.

He is not clean himself.

It can be said that there were not many clean officials in the Ming Dynasty at this time.

Possibly, that is, Hai Rui is a slight exception. It is said that this person is really clean.

After leaving Prince Yu's Mansion, Wei Guangde sat in the carriage and thought about how to get Li Sui to resign. He couldn't just tell people if he didn't leave and just fuck you.

It's too direct, they are all officials, it's better to be more reserved.

After thinking about it, Wei Guangde had a calculation in his mind, and he asked someone to collect Li Sui's criminal evidence in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, preparing to impeach him, and Ouyang Yijing also used it in the matter to let him know what was going on.

Li Sui's friends in the capital knew about it, so they would definitely inform him, and let someone go over to persuade him.

They are all Jiangxi fellows, and Wei Guangde felt really embarrassed to directly wave the butcher's knife. How should he face other fellows in the future?
If you can bluff and surrender without fighting, let Li Sui take the initiative to resign without hurting the peace, which is naturally the best choice.

As long as Li Sui leaves the officialdom, those people will naturally feel the pressure.

He had a rough calculation in mind, but Wei Guangde couldn't think of a suitable candidate for the person who went to Nanjing to persuade him.

Back home, as soon as Wei Guangde entered the mansion, the butler Zhang Ji came up and said, "Master, Nanjing has replied."

"Oh."

Wei Guangde was taken aback for a moment, then he understood what it was, wasn't it Zhang Ke's matter.

I don't know if Xu Bangrui can handle it well so that Cen Yongbin will no longer impeach Zhang Ke.

Thinking about it, Wei Guangde took the letter from Zhang Ji.

He still went to the backyard to meet his mother first, then took a look at his wife and children, and then came to the study.

But before the letter was opened, Zhang Ji begged to see him outside the door again.

"What's the matter?"

After being called in, Wei Guangde asked.

"Eunuch Chen is here."

Zhang Ji replied in a low voice.

Chen Ju?

Wei Guangde immediately guessed the purpose of his visit, and immediately said: "Please come in."

Soon, Chen Ju was brought into the study.

"Brother Chen, please sit down."

Wei Guangde had already arrived at the door to greet them, and after the two sat down and Zhang Ji brought in the tea and left, Chen Ju expressed his intentions.

Guessed by Wei Guangde that Chen Ju came this time because of Yu Dayou's affairs.

"Your Majesty hasn't approved the red?"

Somewhat to Wei Guangde's surprise, Emperor Jiajing did not approve of the red flag in the memorial, but stayed in the palace temporarily, and it seemed that he hadn't considered how to deal with this matter.

"Eunuch Huang knows that Yu Dayou has a good relationship with you, and also has a deep relationship with Prince Yu's Mansion, so let me ask, what exactly do you mean?"

Chen Ju said bluntly.

Now that Chen Ju is not under the protection of Gao Zhong, his godfather, fortunately, he is under Huang Jin's subordinates again, and his position in the palace is still intact.

"Brother Chen, regarding this matter, I just went to the palace this afternoon and discussed it with His Royal Highness. I plan to let Yu Dayou go back to his hometown and stay for a while."

Wei Guangde didn't hide it either, and directly told Chen Ju what he said to King Yu.

"I really didn't expect General Yu to have no heirs. It really shouldn't be."

Chen Ju also said.

He also has no heirs, not because he has no time, nor because he doesn't work hard, but because he can't ask for it.

"After returning to the palace, I will pass the message to Eunuch Huang, but if you do this, will it chill General Yu's heart?"

Chen Ju spoke again.

"I will send someone to send him a letter to tell him, and bring him some money by the way.

He is too straightforward, so the whole career has ups and downs, alas."

Wei Guangde sighed.

"In the palace, Brother Chen will support you."

Wei Guangde cupped his hands at Chen Ju.

"Sure, let's talk about when your family will have dinner. I haven't had dinner since I left the palace."

Chen Ju said with a smile at this time, "By the way, take a look at your kid, I didn't see him last time."