prosperous age

Chapter 645 Chapter 644
Wei Guangde got the news from Emperor Longqing that he wanted to be transferred to the Ministry of Rites.

Thinking about the leisure of the Ministry of Rites, Wei Guangde is actually very satisfied.

Although the Ministry of Rites is not as lucrative as the officials, and has less power, but it is noble, which will be of great benefit to my future promotion.

Moreover, he transferred to the Ministry of Rites, and it will be Long Qingnian's first imperial examination and palace examination in the next year.

However, while he was collecting mistakes and omissions from Xu Jie's disciples while waiting to take up his new post in the Ministry of Rites, something happened to the Ministry of Rites.

Early this morning, Wei Guangde entered the Ministry of Officials as usual, and went into his own room after midnight.

Before reading a few official documents, Lu Bu hurried in and whispered in Wei Guangde's ear: "Master, just now there was an urgent report from Nanjing to Beijing, saying that there was a problem in the Nanzhili Township Examination this year."

"Nanzhili? This year, the imperial court sent Wang Xilie from the Imperial Academy to take the exam. What could happen?"

When transcribing "Yongle Dadian", Wang Xilie had been working as a branch officer. Wei Guangde had a lot of contact with him, and he felt like a pretty good person.

If something goes wrong in the township examination, it is likely to be a case of fraud in the examination room.

It was the first big exam since Emperor Longqing ascended the throne, and the emperor was very concerned about it. If this happened, it would be difficult for all parties to let go of their faces.

At this time, Wei Guangde couldn't help feeling a little thankful, fortunately, he didn't go to the Ministry of Rites right now, and he reckoned that there was already a panic over there.

Just as Wei Guangde thought, the Minister of the Ministry of Officials and the Minister of the Ministry of Officials had already gathered in Gaoyi's value room to discuss.

This matter is not small, and one has to think about how to deal with it before explaining it to the emperor. After all, the cause of the incident is the one in the palace.

It turned out that in the first year of Longqing's Nanzhili Township Examination, Emperor Longqing listened to the advice of the officials and made a bold reform, that is, to cancel the name of the township examination.

The problem of dish size has been around for a long time, and the cause is because of the Guozijian in the northern and southern capitals of the Ming Dynasty.

Guozijian students can enter the official position directly after graduating from school, but the official career prospects are not high, and the students who can enter the Guozijian must either have a family background or be a sub-list in the provincial examination, which can be regarded as some talent.

Naturally, they had great expectations for their future. Even if they entered the Imperial College, they were only for studying. They still hoped to pass the provincial examination, general examination, and even the palace examination to become dignified Jinshi of the Ming Dynasty.

After all, entering an official position as a Jinshi is the right way.

Since the candidates for the Shuntian Township Examination include students from various provinces and tribute supervisors, the examination rooms are numbered differently, and the numbers are used to determine their respective quotas. This is the problem of the size of the dish.

It is also because of this policy that since the implementation of Jiajing in the 13th year, the number of students entering the Guozijian has increased significantly.

This policy was formulated at the beginning, of course, mainly for those tribute supervisors to successfully obtain the quota for candidates. After all, most of these people are people close to the emperor. Passed the hospital test.

After becoming a supervising student, it is natural to think about continuing to benefit, so there is a policy of fixed quotas for the dish name.

In this Southern Zhili Township Examination, Emperor Longqing abolished the privilege of the Sanzihao, and allocated the number of candidates for the examination according to the candidates' scores, which naturally affected the number of candidates for the Guozijian.

In the rural examination conducted by Wang Xilie, the number of candidates for the supervisor dropped by more than [-]% compared with previous years, which caused strong dissatisfaction among the supervisors of Nanjing Guozijian.

After the list was announced, when the examiners Wang Xilie and Sun Ting came to the Confucian Temple of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, hundreds of people who gave birth to the first child of the Nanjing Guozijian were clamoring outside the door, and at the same time insulted Wang Xilie and other examiners blatantly.

In essence, this incident was caused by Emperor Longqing breaking the old rules and not giving preferential treatment to the candidates of the Imperial College.

But for these people, they can only vent their grievances on the examiners, so as to vent their anger after failing the rankings.

This incident had a great impact on Nanjing City that day. Even with the intervention of the Xuncheng Yushi and others, the supervisors still gathered and clamored for a long time before resting.

For such a big matter, Nanjing will naturally report it to the capital to see what the emperor wants.

In fact, Emperor Longqing's decree was originally intended to recruit high-quality talents for the imperial court.

The imperial court did not reduce the total number of students in Nanzhili because of this, and the number of recruits in Nanzhili was still the highest among the provinces of the Ming Dynasty.

But for those interns who failed the rankings, their preferential treatment was gone, and they naturally had to find a place to vent their anger.

If they knew in advance that there was no such preferential treatment policy, they would not have traveled thousands of miles to Nanjing Guozijian to study.

It is not easy to live in Beijing, and it is not easy to live in Nanjing.

The Ministry of Rites discussed for a while, but there was no good solution. The Ministry of Rites could suppress the official document, but the Secretary of General Administration would send it directly to the cabinet.

Gao Yi took the two servants to the cabinet. At this time, the cabinet ministers were also on duty at Xu Jie and were discussing the matter.

"Arrest people, those who make noise must be severely punished, otherwise what will be the face of the court?"

The Ming Dynasty gave preferential treatment to scholars, but there were also many restrictions, especially for students to participate in politics.

If the saying "Family affairs, state affairs, world affairs, and affairs of the world" is extolled by later generations, if it was placed in the early and middle Ming Dynasty, it would be the reason for punishing crimes.

For scholars who have not entered official positions, the imperial court gives you preferential treatment to let you study with peace of mind, not to let you come out to scold others with a little knowledge.

Because scholars practice the law and also think, they are often able to see through the disadvantages of the times.

Four years later, that is, the fifth year of Longqing, Liu Yuanqing took part in the examination and wrote the policy theory because "the countermeasures are so outdated that the master dare not record them".

It can be seen from this that the Ming Dynasty treated scholars with a lot of precautions.

When the members of the Ministry of Rites arrived, the cabinet's opinions were almost unified, and that was to punish those who took the lead in making trouble.

"The official document mentioned that Wei Guogong did not send troops to maintain order after the incident, and let the supervisors make trouble."

"Impeachment, punishment."

Xu Jie interjected very simply this time.

Wei Guogong Xu Pengju, Wei Guangde's father-in-law, it is good to take this opportunity to beat him up.

Although Xu Jie knew that if he sued Xu Pengju for this matter, at most he would be ordered to pay a fine, and there would be no other punishments, but Xu Jie still wanted to do this.

Chen Yiqin below twitched his mouth when he heard the words, but didn't speak.

Xu Jie had nothing to do with Wei Guangde, so he had to find a way to rectify it in other places.

Wei Guogong's salary is only a few dollars.

Chen Yiqin did not come forward to speak for Wei Guogong's mansion, so there is really no need to waste saliva.

Soon, Zhang Juzheng drafted a bill to be released, "The two Beijing law officials arrested and ruled him as the leader, Shen Yingyuan, and several others sent as usual, offering sacrifices to Lu Tiaoyang, who has not been here for a long time, let alone guarding Wei Guogong Xu Pengju. Mi, Siye Jinda seized the salary for two months without strict seals, and asked the holy judge for the Jiansheng dish name."

The content of the punishment has been roughly discussed before, and Zhang Juzheng naturally drafted the handling method according to the old system, but as for the source of the matter, that is, the issue of "Sanzizi", he can only submit it to the Holy Tribunal.

This matter is not small, after Zhang Juzheng drafted the bill, the cabinet sent people directly to the palace, and Nanjing was still waiting for Beijing's reply, so they dared not delay for a moment.

In the afternoon, there was news from the palace that Emperor Longqing had approved the matter, but at the end regarding the issue of "San Zizi", perhaps seeing the hidden dangers in this, Emperor Longqing chose to take a step back and ordered that "the number of supervisors should be the same as before."

That is to say, in the next township examination, Nanjing Guozijian students will re-enable the number of dishes, and the system of fixed admission quotas will continue to be retained.

Wei Guangde just kept silent when he knew the news, he didn't feel that the father-in-law was being punished, mainly because he also saw from this incident that it was too difficult to change the imperial court's policy.

Reasonably speaking, it is fair to all candidates to cancel the name of the dish, but it has caused "unfairness" to some people when it comes to the students of the Imperial College.

It was really difficult to reform in the Ming Dynasty.

Because the vast majority of people don't like to change, they just like to follow the old routine, at least they are right.

Wang Xilie, the chief examiner this time, was right, but the Nanjing Township Examination incident was still a stain that he could not wash away in his life.

As the new battle report came, on the Shanxi side, after looting Shizhou, Xiaoyi, Pingyao, Taigu, Xizhou and other prefectures and counties, the Alda Department bundled Xu Gui.

It coincided with the continuous autumn rain, many horses died of illness, and the road was muddy.

As for the return of the Alta Department, there was no new battle report. It is conceivable that the Ming Army Garrisoned in Datong, Taiyuan and other places at that time did not have any invitations to fight, so the Alta Department left the Ming Realm safely.

The ministers could see it, and so could the Emperor Longqing in the palace, but everyone tacitly didn't say it.

However, the good news that Wei Guangde didn't want to see was sent to the capital one after another after the IDA Department withdrew.

"Don't copy it, I will throw away all the good news from Shanxi."

Wei Guangde picked up the note on the table and threw it to Lu Bu, shouting sharply.

Perhaps, to some officials, this is nothing more than meeting a lone Tartar in the local area, killing them and reaping the victory, but Wei Guangde knows that many of them are killing good people and pretending to be meritorious.

After the Shanxi people suffered from the war, they will suffer another military disaster.

It's just that, the entire Great Ming Dynasty Hall is silent, those who don't know continue their happy days, and those who know also pretend not to know.

Lu Bu was taken aback by Wei Guangde's change, and hurriedly bent down to pick up the discarded note on the ground and left the guard room quickly.

Wei Guangde took out a stack of papers from the box next to it. It was an official document that Lu Bu copied from the Ministry of War that Qi Jiguang had played in the past, and what was written on it was the "mandarin duck combined attack method" he designed after his military training.

"Mandarin duck formation? Then let you take this formation to the Northland to try and see if it can withstand the offensive of the Tartars."

In the past few days, Wei Guangde has read all the materials of Qi Jiguang, and he specially left this stack of papers to be handed over to Chen Yiqin, and he gave it to Emperor Longqing during his interview.

Just yesterday, the Beacon Tower in Ji Town gave an alarm again, but I don't know what kind of war this time is.

Now the main force of Altan Khan is still in Shanxi and Datong, so it is unlikely that he has moved to Ji Town, otherwise Ma Fang of the Xuanfu could not have not warned in advance.

Outside of the Great Wall, apart from the threat of the Alta Khan tribe, that is, the Tuman tribe.

For the Tuman tribe, the strength is definitely not as good as that of the Alta Khan tribe, otherwise they would not obey the orders of the Alta Khan in name.

"An eventful autumn, an eventful autumn."

Perhaps it was because of the death of the Jiajing Emperor, the unstable position of the new emperor, and the continuous border wars since March, and Altan Khan boldly went deep into the hinterland of Shanxi to plunder.

Wei Guangde knew that the Mongols could not be allowed to develop, and the defense of the border towns must be strengthened as soon as possible, otherwise if they let them disturb for another two years, his status in Emperor Longqing's heart would be infinitely reduced.

I was sent by Emperor Jiajing to Prince Yu's Mansion, with the intention of giving military advice to Emperor Longqing. In addition to my status, I could reconcile the relationship between the emperor and the nobles in Nanjing.

In the afternoon, the news from Jizhen confirmed that the local barbarians invaded Jizhen and plundered Changli, and their soldiers were approaching Funing, Leting, Lulong and other places.

The barbarian tribes were brutal, killing, looting and burning wherever they went, the capital was shaken.

"The Tartars broke through the walls of Jielingkou and Luohan Cave. I heard from the Ministry of War that they are unstoppable, and Funing and other places may be dangerous."

Lu Bu was still in front of Wei Guangde, reporting the news he had obtained from the Ministry of War. Wei Guangde listened with his head down, without interrupting.

In his mind, he has already found the place name mentioned by Lu Bu in his memory. After all, when he was patrolling the border defense of Ji Town, he has a good memory, so he can naturally remember it.

The local barbarians attacked this time in the east of Jizhen, close to Shanhaiguan, and there was little threat to the capital. The Jizhen army should be able to arrive at the battlefield in about five days from the Santun camp.

"It's okay."

After some calculations in his mind, Wei Guangde came to a conclusion.

A field army without strong combat power cannot go out to sweep the Great Wall, and is passively defending everywhere. This is the end.

Zeng Xianzi once thought of forming a chariot battalion composed of large chariots as the main force to attack the grassland.

For some reason, Wei Guangde suddenly thought of the chariots that he had seen in Bao'an Prefecture distributed among various divisions of the Ming Army.

If the towns of the Ming army could set up a few such battalions of chariots and regularly go out hundreds of miles outside the Great Wall to sweep them, I wonder if it would be possible to restrain the unscrupulous actions of the Tartars.

Forget it, I'd better leave these matters to Qi Jiguang of the Northern Transfer to decide.

Wei Guangde didn't know what to do, he didn't know whether the Chariot Battalion could achieve Zeng Xianzi's idea and defeat the Tartar cavalry head-on.

For Qi Jiguang, Wei Guangde is not very confident either.

As far as Qi Jiguang's battle report is concerned, he is good at training infantry to fight in formation, which is the most needed general in the army.

But from the beginning to the end, Wei Guangde did not see him using a chariot. After all, the south is not like the north, there are no chariots available, so Wei Guangde is not sure whether Qi Jiguang can quickly learn how to use the chariot barracks.

After leaving the office in the afternoon, Wei Guangde went directly to Chen Yiqin's residence by car.

He had sent someone to pass a note to Chen Yiqin before, and went to look for him after he said he was gone.

The difference from the past is that Wei Guangde entered the Chen Mansion this time with a box in his hand.

Bringing things to the door, the concierge of Chen's mansion couldn't help but look at him twice.

Perhaps it was because Mr. Wei had never brought a gift before, so he was a little surprised at first sight.

"This box will be brought to His Majesty tomorrow."

Seeing Chen Yiqin, Wei Guangde said straight to the point, and handed the box to Chen Yiqin.

"what is this?"

Chen Yiqin asked curiously.

"Qi Jiguang played his method of training troops. I read it. It is quite ingenious. He has a lot of research on battle formations, but I don't know if it is also feasible for large army formations."

Wei Guangde replied.

"Still recommending Qi Jiguang?"

Chen Yiqin asked with a smile.

"I couldn't find anyone more suitable than him."

Wei Guangde replied.

(End of this chapter)