The Prosperous Era of Longwan

"Go to the Ministry of Personnel. In the past two days, you can help me think about what positions Wang Ning, Yin Lexun, Liu Fenyong and others should take. After all, they all came from the palace."

The people mentioned by Prince Yu all came to Prince Yu's palace in the early days. In recent years, many of them were only the second-in-command in the yamen and had little real power.

However, since they had made their choice in the first place, and they would do their best as long as Prince Yu's palace asked them to do so, Prince Yu also regarded them as his confidants.

As for Wei Guangde, Emperor Longqing asked him to go to the Ministry of Civil Affairs and asked him to try to place these people. It seemed that he also meant to transfer the relationship between these officials from Li Fang's hands to his.

Is this to expand my manpower in the court?

Wei Guangde was suspicious, but he did not ask. Instead, he lowered his head and said, "I obey the order."

Wei Guangde thought that the conversation was almost over at this point, and whether he should say goodbye and leave, but before he could say anything, Emperor Longqing said again: "Think about it again, is it necessary to establish the crown prince now?" .”

"Prince? Your Majesty, is it the noble minister requesting that the prince be directly registered? Shouldn't it be a name given to the prince? I remember that although the late emperor bestowed a name on His Highness, he did not send an order to the Ministry of Rites and the royal family to register it on the jade certificate. "

Wei Guangde asked with a frown.

Emperor Jiajing did not allow Zhu Yijun's name to be on the jade certificate, and that was intentional. He was worried that if he was on the jade certificate, he would be a member of the royal family. When he saw him on the city gate tower, he would not let him follow in the footsteps of his brother.

Simply give him a name without issuing a jade certificate, so he cannot officially join the royal family.

"Yes, he said that the appointment of the crown prince and the naming of the prince can be done together."

Emperor Longqing explained, "I'm a little unsure."

Now he only has one son, Zhu Yijun. If there is no accident, that is, if Princess Chen has nothing to do, the Ming Dynasty will fall into Rang's hands in the future.

This is the rule of the Ming Dynasty in determining the crown prince. He is not as good as King Jing in all aspects, but he still has the support of many people, and that is why.

As the actual beneficiary, of course he cannot break this rule.

Moreover, he also likes Zhu Yijun very much, otherwise he would not have arranged the master early.

"Your Majesty, the queen has not been appointed yet. It is really not suitable to appoint a prince at this time."

Wei Guangde only thought for a moment before answering.

Although Princess Chen has no children, she is the successor chosen by Emperor Jiajing after the Zhang family. In any case, she must be the queen.

If the crown prince is hurriedly appointed now, it will be troublesome if Princess Chen has a son in the future. This is why Wei Guangde gave this advice.

Emperor Longqing nodded, "I figured it out. I just felt it was inappropriate at first. As soon as you mentioned the queen, I understood."

"If nothing happens during this period, you will go to the Recording Office and seize the time to complete the transcription of the ceremony. This is what my father asked me to go and personally told me that day. I must do it well."

Emperor Longqing then ordered again.

"I obey the order."

Copying books has been his job over the years, and he has become very skilled at it, but he reads too much and sometimes feels dizzy.

"The Ministry of Rites, the Hanlin Academy, and the Imperial College have sent all the people they can. The burden there is very heavy, so I will leave it to you."

Before Wei Guangde left, Emperor Longqing left his throne and walked to him to give instructions.

As a son, Emperor Longqing naturally had to do the things assigned by his father.

Leave it to Wei Guangde, he can rest assured.

After leaving the Forbidden City, Wei Guangde went directly to the Academy Recording Hall. He hadn't been there for a while.

Because Wei Guangde was always in the palace, Lu Bu did not dare to give him the fortune telling, so when Wei Guangde opened the fortune telling book, the front was completely blank.

But it doesn't matter, I just came out of the palace, marked the time when I was on duty, and the reason behind it.

"Who is in charge of the school records office now? Is it Zhang Shaoqing?"

Wei Guangde was naturally asking about Zhang Juzheng. He hadn't come during this time. Zhang Juzheng was in Taichang Temple again, so he didn't know if he had any business here.

"Master Zhang is in charge. He makes arrangements every day at Mao hour, and then hurries to Taichang Temple to run errands."

The clerk in the library replied hurriedly.

"Yes, there have been a lot of things going on in the DPRK and China recently."

Wei Guangde sighed.

"The same goes for Mr. Wei. Both Mr. Zhang and Mr. Zhang have busy lives, so they hurried back to the library when they had free time, which made me admire them very much."

The clerk flattered him with a smile.

In response, Wei Guangde just smiled. These officials would have fewer opportunities to deal with him in the future, and their future was just like that. There was really no need to have a close friendship.

When he walked into his yard, Lu Bu was still sitting in the yard in a daze. There had been so many changes during this period that he was a little confused for a moment.

There were days when no one contacted him, so he consciously did his part.

But Wei Guangde has been accompanying the new emperor in the palace, and he doesn't know if he will come back here.

If he doesn't come back, he doesn't know if he will still think of himself and move himself to follow him.

Although he is a Jinyiwei secret agent, he also knows that only by following a good leader can he be successful and prosperous. If he leaves Wei Guangde, he would be a little unwilling. After all, he is now a person with a third salary.

The money from Captain Jinyi, the money from the scribes and the money given by the Wei Mansion alone were enough for him to live a comfortable life in the capital.

If he can't run errands by Wei Guangde's side, and he doesn't know when he will be arranged to go out again, then he will only have the money of a school captain.

While he was thinking wildly, Wei Guangde's figure appeared at the gate of the courtyard.

Lu Bu rubbed his eyes and hurriedly stood up to greet him, "Master, you are back."

"Well, it's not bad. I'm not lazy."

Looking at the clean yard, Wei Guangde smiled and then ordered: "Send over all the manuscripts that have accumulated these days. I will see how many there are first."

"Manuscript?"

Lu Bu was stunned. He didn't expect that even after King Yu ascended the throne and became the emperor, Wei Guangde and Master Wei were actually sent back to take care of copying books.

"Sir, Mr. Zhang did not distribute the previous manuscripts to us, but gave them to other departments for recording."

Lu Bu explained hurriedly.

"Master Zhang has good intentions. Otherwise, this room would be filled with manuscripts, haha."

Wei Guangde understood that Zhang Juzheng was not sure about his next stop, so he assigned the manuscript to other rooms for processing, which saved him a lot of trouble.

"When they are distributed tomorrow, let them follow the previous rules and distribute the manuscripts equally to all parties."

Wei Guangde ordered Lu to preach.

It's okay if you have nothing to do today. It's good to take a half-day break, just in time to understand the current situation in the school admissions office.

"I heard that there have been many more writers and scholars. Are there any branch officers in each branch? Will the Hanlin Academy send more people here?"

Wei Guangde asked.

"Yes, there are hundreds of people added. Many of them are graduate students of the Imperial College, who are copying at the Imperial College. There are also many branch officers, including editors Sun Ding, Hu Jieyin, Jiang Jin and others."

After all, Lu Bu had stayed in the Hanlin Academy for a long time, and he was quick to mention people's names.

"Well, that's good."

Wei Guangde nodded. It was better to have someone else. Otherwise, it would be an impossible task to complete the task of copying the ceremony in three months.

"Sir, please sit down first and I'll boil water for you to make tea."

Wei Guangde had already entered the room and sat down. Lu Bu said hurriedly and ran out to do his work.

After Lu Bu went out, Wei Guangde began to think about what Emperor Longqing had told him and how to arrange those people.

We didn't get real power before, and we definitely can't do it now. We have to give them errands.

Scooping some water into the inkstone, Wei Guangde began to grind the ink himself.

When Lu Bu came in with tea, Wei Guangde had already polished the ink. After Lu Bu went out, he spread out a piece of paper and recalled the information about those people and their positions.

You must be promoted, and even if your rank cannot be changed temporarily, you still have to be transferred to a government office with real power, especially an important government office.

With the idea in mind, Wei Guangde picked up his pen and started writing. This way, he would write it first and then revise it, which would be safer and avoid mistakes.

"Wang Ning, the young minister of Guanglu Temple, moved to Taichang Temple and was in charge of Shangbao Secretary. Yin Leshun, the foreign minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple. Liu Fenyong, the foreign minister of the Rites Department, was the minister of Shangbao. Wu Zidong, the head of the Ministry of Rites, was the minister of Shangbao. Shaoqing served in the imperial office and served as secretary Zhou Weifan, who served as the chief secretary of Guanglu Temple. Wu Zi, the chief secretary of Honglu Temple, became the chief minister of the right temple of the temple.

I kept adding names and deleting them, and it took me a long time to roughly decide on their official positions.

The days went on like this, and Zhang Juzheng came over after learning that Wei Guangde had returned to the school registration hall.

"Shandai, I'll leave the matters here to you. Taichang Temple has a lot of affairs these days, it's really..."

Zhang Juzheng still maintained his usual elegance and said to Wei Guangde when they met.

"Uncle, I know all this. Just go and do your business. I'm here and nothing will go wrong."

Wei Guangde laughed happily.

Zhang Juzheng already knew that his participation in drafting the edict had made the relationship between him and Gao Gong so bad that there was almost no room for recovery, but what could he do?

He couldn't calm down in front of that huge temptation, not to mention that it was what his teacher asked him to do.

In fact, Zhang Juzheng had already reacted when he was writing, and he was just pretending to be dumbfounded in the next few days.

On the one hand, it is the huge benefit given by the teacher, but the price is to hate Gao Gong; on the other hand, it is to make enemies with the teacher, but you may not get Gao Gong's benefits.

How to choose? The benevolent sees benevolence and the wise see wisdom.

After getting in touch with Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng did not think that he was easy to get along with, otherwise he would not often say those words to Wei Guangde in Prince Yu's Mansion.

Zhang Juzheng knew the people in Prince Yu's Mansion very well. On the surface, everyone was happy, but in fact, most of them had strong opinions about Gao Gong.

Therefore, being hostile to Gao Gong may not be the hidden cause of being hostile to the entire King Yu. Naturally, he should remain the same towards Wei Guangde.

In the final analysis, it was just a fight between himself and Gao Gong, and it had nothing to do with anyone else.

There was no handover procedure. Zhang Juzheng himself no longer took care of the affairs of the school records office. He only went to the document room there to hand over the affairs to Wei Guangde and left in a hurry.

Wei Guangde would not interfere too much with the distribution of manuscripts in the collation office, and would only require equality. Of course, for highly efficient officials, the task of collating one or two manuscripts would be appropriately increased.

As for sealing yamen, there is no such thing as sealing yamen in the school registration hall at this time.

Two days later, on the Zhengdan Festival, the first month of the first year of Longqing, one hundred officials entered the palace to celebrate. The branch officials had a rare chance to take a break. The next day, the court meeting was delayed for another two hours, and everyone hurried back after it was over.

In this way, people from the Cabinet and the Ministry of Rites came here every day to understand the progress of the transcription, which made Wei Guangde very agitated.

However, he knew the reason. The Ministry of Rites needed to grasp the speed of copying books here and estimate the time when the book would be completed, so that it could determine the time in Yongling with the Ministry of Works.

Before the first lunar month, news finally came out from the palace. Emperor Longqing issued two decrees in succession. Zhang Juzheng was promoted to a bachelor's degree at the Hanlin Academy, and Zhang Juzheng was promoted to the right minister of the Ministry of Rites and a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy. Yin Shidan was promoted to a bachelor at the Hanlin Academy. Take charge of court affairs.

Wei Guangde's official position surpassed that of Yin Shizhen because he participated in the transcription ceremony. His diligent work satisfied Emperor Jiajing, and his efforts gave him two opportunities to improve his rank.

No matter what, Wei Guangde felt that he should still do his job well and not ignore this matter just because the old emperor died. After all, it was his last wish.

Wei Guangde had already handed the original note to Emperor Longqing through Chen Ju, but no decree was issued during this period.

Maybe Emperor Longqing was still busy stamping the imperial edicts with posthumous titles, Wei Guangde sometimes thought in boredom in the school records office.

"Sir, Hu Yingjia gave two memorials today."

Lu Bu was still the same as before. When Wei Guangde was studying, he went outside to inquire about the news in the court, and informed Wei Guangde when he was resting.

"In our ancestors' dynasties, all major military and state affairs were handled by subordinates. Since Emperor Yingzong came to the throne in the year of Chong, the assistant ministers occasionally created an example of expediency and made it the case in the early dynasty, and it has been followed unchanged. I also asked the former prime ministers to make suggestions when they entered the cabinet. When the officials entered various places, they could hear all the memorials in advance, and the imperial decrees of the country were ordered by the six officials in the palace to record them. The imperial edict also reflected the legacy of the previous generation and begged to expand the old canons. After that, when meeting the ministers, they must order the officials to update the records. When you come in, if there is anyone who is disloyal in making a report, listen to him or her and retreat to discuss it, then the minister will pay his dues and the holy body will be bowed and raised up."

Looking at the first memorial written by Hu Yingjia, a sneer appeared on Wei Guangde's face. He thought he could represent the six subjects with this?

It seems that the rights of the six subjects will be greatly increased. Who will agree? Do you dare to accept people with six subjects?

However, the development of the situation soon exceeded Wei Guangde's imagination. He did not expect that people from the Sixth Section of the Bait thrown by Hu Yingjia would dare to take it.

At this time, the ministers of the DPRK and the Central Government all submitted their resignations one after another. Xu Jie, Li Chunfang, Guo Pu, and Gao Gong, all of whom were academicians, each issued an imperial edict to retire. The emperor all issued edicts to retain him, and officials from various ministries also began to follow suit. In the first year of Longqing, This is where the Beijing investigation begins.

Yang Bo, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, was responsible for evaluating the officials in the capital. He personally demoted Zheng Qin and the censor Hu Weixin during the incident, while protecting the countryside. Shanxi people did not evaluate the inferior ones.

Ying Jia impeached Yang Bo for his personal anger, denigrated officials, and shielded his fellow villagers. Hu Weixin also went to Shu to expose Yang Bo's unfair inspection of officials, his manipulation and corruption for personal gain.

In response, academic scholar Gao Gong and others, who had long been at odds with Hu Yingjia, took personal revenge and accused Ying Jia and Weixin of "making false remarks as party members and officials, and planning to denounce them for the people", which caused an uproar in public opinion.

Ouyang Yijing, Xin Zixiu, censor Chen Lianfang and others were dissatisfied with the situation, so they jointly submitted memorials to the rescue, accusing Gao Gong and Xu Jie of being dictatorial. Ying Jia was able to avoid disaster and was transferred to Jianning as an official.

Wei Guangde didn't expect that the Kedao officials were so good at fighting that they would help Hu Yingjia speak for him even though he knew there was little chance of winning. Especially with Ouyang Yijing's participation, Wei Guangde didn't even hear his notification beforehand.

Although Ouyang Yijing handed over the note later, he didn't tell him because he didn't want to make it difficult for him. His participation in protecting Hu Yingjia was not because they were right, but to save Ke Dao's face.