prosperous age

Chapter 602 Chapter 601

Of course Wei Guangde could see through Hu Yingjia's thoughts, he was just gambling.

Before, Hu Yingjia and Hu Rugui incited their party members to impeach Zhang Yongming. They not only made use of the fact that he had been out of court and violated the law before, but also framed Zhang Yongming for accepting bribes and other crimes.

Although the impeachment was not successful and Zhang Yongming was dismissed from office, they still won the victory because of a serious illness and proposed resignation.

Impeaching Zhang Yongming is tantamount to offending Xu Jie, the chief assistant of the dynasty.

At the beginning, Wei Guangde was still wondering whether Hu Yingjia and the others did such a thing because they had the guts to do such a thing, now I understand.

In fact, they saw that Gao Gong and Xu Jie often had disagreements in the cabinet, so they concluded that the relationship between Xu Jie and Prince Yu's Mansion was probably not as close as the outside world imagined.

Perhaps, with Hu Yingjia and the others, what they did before was also two-handed preparation.

If Wei Guangde can make good friends with Prince Yu's Mansion, then he will devote all his efforts to Prince Yu's Mansion and be the vanguard of the battle between King Yu's Mansion and Elder Xu Ge.

With King Yu as their backer, they can naturally continue to fight against Xu Jie boldly.

On the other hand, if King Yu is unwilling to accept them, he will directly stir up the muddy waters in the court, and impeaching Gao Gong will become one of their choices.

The impeachment of Gao Gong, whether successful or not, will draw the attention of officials to Gao Gong anyway.

At that time, if Xu Jie can take this opportunity to get rid of Gao Gong, there may be a chance to ease the relationship between them and Mr. Xu Ge.

But for them, their life-saving talisman still needs to put a layer of "clean stream" on themselves.

Not afraid of the powerful, whether it is Xu Jie, the chief assistant of the current dynasty, or Gao Gong, the teacher of King Yu, they dare to impeach without fear of violence, which is the loyalty of a man.

At this time, many officials in the outer court had not seen the plan of Hu Yingjia and others, and only thought that they were seeking their own death.

It is extremely unwise to offend the chief minister of the current dynasty and provoke the ministers who are hidden by the crown prince.

Everyone was watching coldly, wanting to see what would happen to Hu Yingjia and the others.

Do Xu Jie and Gao Gong dare to attack Hu Yingjia and others blatantly at this time?
Wei Guangde wasn't sure either, but he knew that Gao Gong was indeed quite strong, so he directly dug up some past events between him and Hu Yingjia, accusing Hu Yingjia of taking personal revenge and so on.

"Master, Prince Yu's Mansion will invite you to come over later."

At this time, Lu Bu walked in from the door and whispered to Wei Guangde.

"The prince is back?"

Wei Guangde frowned slightly and asked.

"The city I just returned to earlier."

Lu Bu replied in a low voice.

"understood."

Wei Guangde put down the manuscript in his hand, took a sip from the teacup next to him, and then said to Lu Bu.

After the winter solstice court meeting, news that Emperor Jiajing was in poor health had quietly spread in the court.

Just today, Emperor Jiajing's approval of the red has been spread, and Gao Gong is naturally fine. Hu Rugui and others still participated in the performance of Gao Gong one after another, and continued to impeach. .

Wei Guangde shook his head, guessing that the news of the emperor's body should have caught Hu Yingjia and others by surprise.

You know, they plotted against Wei Guangde before, but they didn't pay much attention to Prince Yu's Mansion.

But the situation is different now, the emperor is still ill, and the ministers of King Yu should be fearful, after all, they are about to see the authority of the state power.

If news of Emperor Jiajing's poor health had spread earlier, Hu Yingjia and the others would have dared not touch Gao Gong.

Party struggle in the Ming Dynasty
Wei Guangde sighed in his heart.

He used to think that only when he entered the cabinet would he dare to engage in party struggles, but this time Hu Yingjia taught him a lesson. In fact, low-ranking officials are not inferior in playing party struggles.

Of course, in the afternoon, when Wei Guangde finished his work and went to King Yu's mansion to meet King Yu, the news came that Hu Rugui and others were ordered by the emperor to apply for an imperial edict, and all the memorials to impeach Gao Gong were kept.

Today Gao Gong had just received the order and returned to the cabinet to do business, and Hu Rugui and others were impeached one after another. It is said that Gao Ge's expression was very exciting at that time.

The words came from Lu Bu, and Wei Guangde felt that the credibility should be very high. He guessed that Xu Jie was secretly laughing in his heart at that time, and maybe he really let go of his prejudice against Gao Gong for the time being.

With an old fox like Xu Jie, he would definitely not attack Hu Yingjia and the others at this time. It is really because Hu Yingjia and the others are too popular at this time.

As for whether Gao Gong would risk the displeasure of the world and choose an opportunity to retaliate, Wei Guangde is really not sure.

After all, Gao Gong has a reputation for vengeance.

Hu Yingjia and the others should also be in a hurry.

When we arrived at King Yu's mansion, after a few simple greetings with King Yu, King Yu really asked about Gao Gong, Hu Yingjia and others.

"Your Highness, Brother Suqing, do you have any ideas?"

Wei Guangde was noncommittal about this, he didn't even know whether Gao Gong had made up his mind to retaliate, and what he said at this time might be wrong.

"Master Gao did not send any news to the palace."

Yu Wang replied very calmly.

"In that case, the palace will not move for the time being."

Wei Guangde said: "Your Majesty's body has not recovered yet, no matter what you do, it may affect the recovery of the Eucharist.

Forgive me for speaking bluntly, this seems... Your Highness might as well pray for His Majesty when you are free, and wish the Eucharist well and well. "

"Then let Hu Yingjia and the others go like this?"

Perhaps because he felt offended, King Yu obviously did not intend to spare these people easily.

The impeachment of Zhang Yongming before was just to make King Yu unhappy, but now the impeachment of Gao Gong is still a continuous impeachment. After he entered the city today, I heard that there was another impeachment memorial.

Although Emperor Jiajing issued an edict, King Yu did not relieve his anger because of this, and still seemed to be brooding.

"Brother Suqing didn't send any news back, which means he understands it."

Wei Guangde had no choice but to say: "Now everything actually depends on the condition of His Majesty's holy body, Hu Yingjia and others should be anxious because of His Majesty's body.

No way, even if they received the edict, they would still go their own way and continue to mobilize their followers to impeach Brother Suqing. "

"Are you in a hurry? Can they ignore me like this in Prince Yu's Mansion if they are in a hurry?"

King Yu said angrily.

"Your Highness, don't mess around. Maybe this is what they want to see. Everything is on His Majesty's body. If His Majesty recovers, they will live in peace for a while."

Wei Guangde had no choice but to remind more clearly.

"Let's wait a few more days to see if His Majesty will adjust the defense inside and outside the capital. A few days ago, Jin Yiwei, a governor, was given an overview of the patrols inside and outside the capital."

Wei Guangde's words are so clear, Yu Wang can't think of the meaning of the words.

But with this trip, King Yu seemed to want to open up, and his personality became much more open-minded.

People, after all, have a day of birth, old age, sickness and death.

This may also be the reason why Emperor Jiajing asked him to sacrifice.

Compared with his two elder brothers, he is already very lucky.

After staring at Wei Guangde for a long time, King Yu finally showed a forced smile and said, "Gu knows."

"By the way, there is one more thing. Before Chen Yiqin recommended Wang Ting, Minister of the Ministry of Rites of Nanjing, as the Zuodu Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. His Majesty has already approved it, and it will be issued to the cabinet tomorrow."

King Yu seemed to have just remembered, and said the matter when he opened his mouth.

Wei Guangde nodded, and cupped his hands to Li Fang who was beside him and said, "Eunuch Li still has to work these days, and information from all parties must be collected in time."

"Don't dare to work hard."

Li Fang hurriedly returned the salute, talking repeatedly.

In the next few days, perhaps because of the encounter with Shen Chi, Hu Yingjia and others and their party members temporarily stopped their actions to impeach Gao Gong.

These news, Li Fang will send a note every day to inform him.

Before leaving that day, King Yu told Li Fang that the information collected every day must be sent to Wei Guangde by a trusted person three times a day.

After all, Wei Guangde now spends his time in the school records hall every day, knowing that Emperor Jiajing may not have a long life, but Wei Guangde dare not relax in the slightest.

At this time, if one is not good, all the previous efforts will be wasted. Thinking about it this way, the gain outweighs the loss.

He had to endure another two months of hard work, either Emperor Jiajing's dragon body would recover, or King Yu would come to power, and he would find a chance to be transferred out of the school's recording hall.

Wei Guangde was already tired of staying here, if he didn't feel that this place was the place that Emperor Jiajing paid close attention to all the time, he would have thought of a way to leave long ago.

Work is just too boring.

Just boil it again.

Wei Guangde also kept using these words to cheer himself up, afraid that he would involuntarily relax at this time.

But just today, when the office was about to leave, Wei Guangde received a note with a very simple text. There was news from Xiyuan that His Majesty ordered Chi Fengxiang, the assistant minister of the Jingying Rongzheng and Military Department, to return to the Ministry.

Chi Fengxiang was no longer stationed in the Beijing Camp, but returned to the city, but his assistant manager of the Jingying Rongzheng became a temporary representative, which meant that someone would soon replace this position.

Assistant Manager Jingying, the person who can hold this position must be the Minister of the Ministry of War. Of course, he will not think that he will be promoted again, so he will go directly to the Ministry of War to serve as the Minister of the Ministry of War.

In fact, if Emperor Jiajing really entrusted him with this position, he would be very frustrated.

Minister of the Ministry of War is not his pursuit.

Wei Guangde was also not very interested in the candidate for succession. At this time, the person who will be appointed must be someone who Emperor Jiajing thinks is upright enough, maybe even stubborn, because at this time, only such a person is enough for him to trust.

This kind of people may be suspected of being stubborn and pedantic, but they are the type of people who abide by the system most.

That night, when the last note of the day was delivered to Wei's mansion, Wei Guangde knew that at this time, the officials of the court and China seemed to have smelled something different from Chi Fengxiang's return to the Ministry.

In the fireworks and wine alley tonight, the most talked about among the officials was the matter of assisting the Beijing Camp Rongzheng, as well as the new candidate for the assistant.

"Gao Gong returned to Prince Yu's Mansion?"

Seeing the following content, Wei Guangde frowned slightly, he didn't expect that Gao Gong would go to Prince Yu's Mansion at this time, it should be more cautious at this time, he should stay in Wuyi Hall if there is no major issue, instead of running around.

Wei Guangde was a little bit dissatisfied with Gao Gong, but he felt miserable when he saw the news Gao Gong brought.

Emperor Jiajing's health was really failing.

He has been lying on the bed for two days, although he can still intervene in government affairs, but relying on the eunuchs in the palace to read the memorials, he can only make judgments, and the imperial pen can no longer do it.

And all of this is because Huang Jin is waiting by the bed, otherwise the cabinet ministers would be worried about the fall of the imperial power.

Huang Jin, since he entered the palace since he was a child, was selected and sent to Xing Wang's mansion to accompany his son to study, and to serve beside Emperor Jiajing, so the emperor's trust in him was naturally beyond doubt.

And Emperor Jiajing has been on the throne for so many years, Huang Jin has been cautiously restraining himself and his family, not daring to abuse power wantonly, and has always had a good reputation in court.

And just today, Huang Jin discussed a major event with Xu Jie, Li Chunfang and other cabinet ministers in Wuyi Palace, that is, he and the cabinet scholars took turns asking Emperor Jiajing for instructions to move him back to Qianqing Palace.

Qianqing Palace, since Ming Chengzu Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, has always been the palace of the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

And after the change of Renyin Palace, Emperor Jiajing moved away from here and never went back again, perhaps because the impression that night left on him was too deep.

The name of Qianqing Palace comes from the "Tao Te Ching", the original text "Those who got one in the past, the sky got one to be clear, one to be peaceful, the gods to get one to be spiritual, the valleys to be full, all things to be one to live, and the princes to get one to live. And think that the world is chaste."

In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was the son of heaven, the god of heaven, the representative of Haotian, representing the sky, and the position of the emperor is extremely respected, so it is called the only one, which means the only meaning of the sky. , That's why Qian is the sky, which means Qing.

In the Tao Te Ching, Tian Deyi is clear, in order to show that the emperor is the only and most honored person in the world, his residence is named Qianqing Palace.

All in all, Emperor Jiajing moved away from here and has not been back for 25 years.

And as the emperor's palace, naturally, as the emperor who died in bed, of course he will die in that place.

Although it was a bit treacherous to say this to the emperor, seeing the body of Emperor Jiajing, even Huang Jin, who was the most loyal to him, couldn't help but bring up this matter.

"call"

Wei Guangde heaved a sigh of relief, finally this time has come.

However, unlike some of the novels that Wei Guangde had read before, King Jing died, and King Yu did not have any brothers alive. He was the only son of Emperor Jiajing, and there was no doubt about inheriting the great treasure.

Steady, still insist on being steady, as long as you don't do wrong things and offend Longyan, King Yu's status is an iron-clad camp, no one can shake it.

Pass the note to the nearby candle, and the candle instantly ignites the note.

Wei Guangde kept directing the flame back and forth, allowing it to completely devour the note before throwing it away, letting it fall to the ground with the wind.

Xiyuan, Yongshou Palace.

"My lord, it's been more than 20 years since I came out, it's time to go back to Qianqing Palace."

Huang Jin knelt beside the dragon couch and whispered to Emperor Jiajing who was on the couch.

Of course, Emperor Jiajing understood what Huang Jin said. He knew that his time had really come.

After all, it was empty.

No matter how hard he tried, he could not escape his fate after decades of Xuan Xiu.

He closed his eyes slightly, opened and closed his mouth and said: "Change the left servant of the Ministry of Punishments to Wang Bengu, the left servant of the Ministry of War, and assist in the military administration of the Beijing camp."

Seeing Emperor Jiajing open his mouth, Huang Jin was still a little happy, and hurriedly listened to him, but he didn't expect that Emperor Jiajing ordered this, to let Wang Bengu replace Chi Fengxiang to control the Beijing camp.

"According to the order."

Although a little disappointed, Huang Jin still whispered in the emperor's ear.

(End of this chapter)