The Prosperous Era of Longwan

"Master, something big happened."

Lu Bu hurried into the lobby and shouted to Wei Guangde who was studying.

Putting down the book in his hand, Wei Guangde asked calmly: "Why are you so panicked that the officials want to arrest you?"

Wei Guangde's joke made Lu Bu's expression become extremely exciting for a moment. He had only just listened to some book offices discussing outside, saying that he was afraid of another earthquake in the officialdom, so he rushed in to report the news in such a panic.

Waving his hands in panic, Lu Bu said: "His Majesty the Emperor just issued a decree to send the Jinyi Guards south to capture Hu Zongxian, the former governor of Jiangnan to suppress Japanese invaders.

There are rumors outside that this time His Majesty the Emperor is going to completely liquidate the Yan Party, and no one who slipped through the net before will be able to escape. "

"His Majesty decreed that Hu Zongxian be captured?"

Wei Guangde understood. The news he had been waiting for finally came through.

"Why are you arresting Hu Zongxian? Is there any news?"

Wei Guangde was actually more curious about whether Xu Jie followed his own thoughts and found ways to frame Hu Zongxian.

You know, Xu Jie and Xu Ge have been following Yan Song and Yan Shifan for so long, so it is impossible that they have not learned this trick.

"I don't know. I just heard them say that the imperial guards have been dispatched."

Lu Bu replied.

"Okay, I'm fine here. You can go out and inquire again to see if you can figure out the reason."

Wei Guangde smiled and picked up the book he had put down and read it again while speaking.

"Yes, sir."

Lu Bu bowed, then turned around and left the house, following the stone road out of the yard.

When it comes to inquiring about information, if you stay in the courtyard, no information will reach your ears. Or you can only find out the information that the master wants to know by being with the scribes outside.

In Prince Yu's Mansion, King Yu Zhu Zaijing already knew from Li Fang that the palace had sent Jinyin Tiqi south to capture Hu Zongxian, and he also already knew the intelligence that Wei Guangde had sent to Prince Yu's Mansion.

"Traitors like Hu Zongxian should be punished according to national laws."

When he heard that Hu Zongxian had offered secret techniques to Emperor Jiajing, King Yu became very angry.

Because of Hu Zongxian's relationship with Yan Song, King Yu did not want to see him.

Previously, I wanted to take him down, but it was more because I had to clean up the Yan family and their outside members one by one. Hu Zongxian was in charge of the anti-Japanese war in several provinces in Jiangnan, and the military power in his hands was too strong.

After that, Hu Zongxian obeyed and Emperor Jiajing did not want to hold him responsible. King Yu gradually forgot about this person.

I just didn't expect that he, Hu Zongxian, would actually want to offer his secret skills to invite favors. It was really abominable.

"Your Highness, I just received news that Hu Zongxian's son Hu Songqi has been taken to Fusi, Jinyiweinan Town, and is only waiting to be questioned together with Hu Zongxian."

Li Fang told King Yu another piece of news.

King Yu nodded when he heard this, "Because of the annihilation of Wang Zhi, his family was given a royal guard and a thousand households. It was just right to take back all these rewards. Zhu Xixiao did the right thing."

"Tell me, why is Hu Zongxian so courageous that he dares to forge an imperial edict?"

King Yu said in a deep voice.

Forging an imperial edict directly touched the emperor's dignity. He didn't believe that Hu Zongxian had the courage to do it.

In King Yu's view, this matter must have been instigated by Yan Shifan.

"The news coming from the Jinyi Guards was that this matter was used when arresting the Japanese leader Wang Zhi. Lord Wei may also be aware of this matter.

Jin Yiwei's secret files only contained confessions from the guilty, but there was no real evidence. It must have been destroyed by Hu Zongxian and other traitors at that time, so it was difficult for Jin Yiwei to report the matter.

I think it was for this reason that Mr. Wei did not mention it when he returned to Beijing to report on his work. After all, it was easy to be accused of being framed by jealousy. At that time, Hu Zongxian had just been criticized by hundreds of officials for offering the auspicious white deer. "

Li Fang answered.

"Once nothing happens, you will naturally become more courageous."

King Yu sighed.

"Your Highness, do you want to post a message asking Mr. Wei to come over after leaving the office and ask him about this matter?"

Li Fang asked.

"Forget it, he has been busy studying recently and is tired from running back and forth. Let him go back and have a good rest after office hours."

King Yu shook his head and rejected Li Fang's proposal.

"By the way, take the time to find some copies of "Yongle Dadian" for me. I also want to see what book made my father so fond of it."

Speaking of what Wei Guangde was busy with now, King Yu couldn't help but think of "Yongle Dadian", and he unconsciously became interested.

When Gao Gong gave him a lecture at his residence, he mentioned this book. After all, it was compiled by Xie Jin, Yao Guangxiao and others. Later, he learned that Emperor Jiajing liked this book very much and read it almost every day. It was impossible for King Yu not to be interested.

Especially when I heard that the last time there was a fire in the Yongshou Palace in Xiyuan, when Emperor Jiajing ran out, he only took the "Yongle Dadian" with him, and all other treasures were burned in the fire.

"Yes, Your Highness."

It was a good thing that His Highness wanted to read a book, and Li Fang agreed immediately.

"By the way, Your Highness, I heard some good news today."

At this time, Li Fang seemed to suddenly remember it and spoke to King Yu.

"What good news, please tell me quickly to make me happy."

King Yu was in a good mood at this time. Hearing Li Fang say that he still had good news, he immediately replied happily.

"This good news came from the Ministry of War, and it has basically been confirmed."

Li Fang was naturally excited when she saw King Yu so happy, and told him the good news he had heard in rapid succession.

"In mid-August, the captor chief Huangtai Jishuai broke into Ximalin from Xuan Mansion with his light cavalry. When his troops passed by Anzhuang Fort in small groups, they were discovered by Jiang Rudong, the commander of Anzhuang Fort. He led 200 sharp soldiers to ambush him. Outside the fort.”

Hearing this, King Yu suddenly became energetic and interjected: "But did you hurt the thief chief?"

King Yu can be sure that the Ming army must have failed to capture or kill Huang Taiji in setting up an ambush this time, otherwise Bian Zhen would have gone to Beijing with great fanfare to report his merits.

Huang Taiji, this kid actually imitated his father, An Dahan, and dared to break into the border wall and plunder around the capital, which directly caused the capital to be shaken and the whole city to be under martial law. He deserved it.

"It's a pity. At that time, Jiang Rudong didn't know that the opponent was Huang Taiji, so he led his troops to besiege the captives. The thief chief was also brave and dared to go out and charge straight into the battle. Our soldiers fought hard and made him fall off his horse. At the critical moment, the thief chief protected him. Life-saving protection rescued him.

But even so, the thief's helmet and sword were taken away by our soldiers. I heard that Chief Huang was seriously injured and lay in silence for several days before he regained consciousness.

The Ministry of War has already investigated and confirmed this merit, and is planning to request that Jiang Rudong be promoted to the second level and rewarded with 12 silver flags. Cai Zheng, the fallen officer and soldier under his banner, will be promoted to the second level, and his son will be rewarded with silver. "

When Li Fang continued to tell the rest of the story, King Yu also sighed softly.

"It's a pity. It's such a good opportunity, but no wonder Jiang Rudong, after knowing the inside story, he probably regretted it to death."

King Yu was very considerate and excused Jiang Rudong.

"Who says it's not the case? At that time, the governor of Xuanfu wanted to punish him. Fortunately, the general general of Xuanda took over the matter and sent a report to the Ministry of War. The Ministry of War also sent Yuanwailang to Xuanfu to understand the battle situation and inspect the seizures on the spot. This matter will only be confirmed after detailed information is sent back.”

Li Fang said again.

In the next two days, news spread that Hu Zongxian had forged an imperial edict, and there was an uproar in the court.

However, it exists among believers and among unbelievers.

However, when those who suspected this matter learned about the incident that had happened in Hangzhou, they all remained silent.

In fact, at this time, local officials were transferred back to Beijing every year to serve in the six ministries and other yamen, and there were also many officials in Zhejiang.

Therefore, after the incident that year was reported, many officials who had been officials in Zhejiang and heard about it also said that they had heard about it, but because there were only rumors and no evidence, naturally they could not say anything casually.

However, in fact, everyone knew that Yan Song was in power at that time. Even if he reported the matter, it would be of no use. Yan Song would find a way to suppress it.

As for not mentioning the matter later, it was naturally because no one asked about it, so he would not say it casually.

In fact, if this news had not spread, most officials would have forgotten about it.

As a result, the trend of officialdom in the capital changed drastically, and most officials recognized the matter. As for the investigation and prosecution of Hu Zongxian, naturally no one raised any objections.

But on such a normal day, Wei Guangde received another piece of news that bothered him: Yu Dayou was impeached again.

Since Yu Dayou was transferred to Guangdong General Military Officer, the work at hand has been complicated. It is necessary to exterminate Chaozhou Japanese pirates, pirates Wu Ping and other thieves. At this time, Guangdong also has ethnic minority leaders Lan Songsan, Wu Duan, Wen Qi and Ye Danlou. , Cheng Shaolu, Liang Daohui and others caused rebellion, he also had to send troops to collect them.

When dealing with Japanese pirates and pirates, Yu Dayou naturally focused on encirclement and suppression and pursued ruthless means to annihilate them. However, when it came to the rebellion caused by Lan Songsan, Wu Duan and others, Yu Dayou chose to appease them first, and only sent out troops to encircle and suppress them after they failed to appease them.

Yu Dayou had experience in recruiting and surrendering these ethnic minority tribes before, and then annihilated Japanese pirates many times. He was very famous, so Yu Dayou single-handedly went to recruit Cheng Shaolu to surrender, and asked Cheng Shaolu to persuade Liang Daohui to surrender.

Huizhou General Xie Chi fought with Wu Duan and others, but could not win, so he said that the "Yu Family Army" was coming. Wu Duan and other leaders hurriedly fled back to the stronghold and did not dare to fight.

Soon, Yu Dayou came to Huizhou and captured Wen Qi.

Wu Duan saw that Wen Qi had been captured, so he went to Yu Dayou's army to plead guilty and asked to attack the Japanese pirates to make up for his mistakes.

After the internal troubles were eliminated, Yu Dayou went all out to suppress the Japanese pirates. With Wu Duan and others who had recruited him as the vanguard, they successively wiped out the Japanese pirates in Zoutang, Qisha, Jiazi and other places. More than 2,000 Japanese pirates who were lucky enough to escape retreated to Jinxidu, Haifeng.

Yu Dayou led his army to surround it for two months. The Japanese pirates were short of food and tried to escape, but they were defeated by deputy general Tang Kekuan who set up an ambush and killed the three Japanese pirate leaders. General Wang Zhao and others later arrived and wiped out all the Japanese pirates.

So Yu Dayou led his troops to move to Chaozhou and surrendered the bandits Lan Songsan, Ye Danlou and Wu Ping.

At this time, the pirate leader Wu Ping built a city in Nan'ao to rebel, built hundreds of ships, gathered more than 10,000 people, and plundered the coastal counties.

Yu Dayou from Guangdong then cooperated with Qi Jiguang from Fujian. Yu Dayou led the navy and Qi Jiguang led the army. The two attacked Nan'ao and defeated Wu Ping's pirates. Wu Ping went to his hometown in Phoenix Mountain alone.

Qi Jiguang stayed in Nan'ao, and Yu Dayou sent his generals Tang Kekuan and Li Chao to attack, but they failed. Wu Ping snatched a civilian ship and fled to the sea. As a result, Yu Dayou was impeached by the censor.

When Wei Guangde learned of the news, impeachment had already been launched and was first sent to the Nanjing Ministry of War. Li Sui, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, believed that Yu Dayou led a victorious army to encircle and suppress the pirates, but Zeng Ping actually let people run away, showing his incompetence in running the army, so he approved the matter.

It was only because the matter involved the chief military officer of Guangdong and it was so important that in the name of the Nanjing Ministry of War, the memorial to impeach Yu Dayou was seconded and sent to the capital for decision by the emperor.

Wei Guangde also learned about this news from Prince Yu's Mansion. Because of the approval of the Nanjing Ministry of War, the matter did not go through the hands of Yang Bo, the Ministry of War, but was directly sent to the cabinet for approval.

"Li Sui, this old guy, is really looking for trouble out of nothing."

Wei Guangde put down the note in his hand, feeling a little headache about this matter.

Victory or defeat is a common thing for military strategists. How can Yu Dayou be deprived of his official position just because of a battle?

Yu Dayou didn't send any news to him about such a big matter. If he had known about it earlier, he could have arranged it in the court. At least he asked Xu Jie or Li Chunfang to put in a good word for Yu Dayou when the vote was drawn up. yes.

The memorial on this matter has been sent to the cabinet, and Wei Guangde has no right to enter and exit freely.

According to the speed of the cabinet, this kind of memorial to impeach the commander-in-chief of a town must be dealt with first, and the matter has probably already been drafted.

In the yard next door was Zhang Juzheng's room, but Wei Guangde looked at the note on the table but couldn't find the slightest interest in going to talk to him about it.

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Even if Zhang Juzheng was approached to make peace with Xu Jie, the memorial would probably have already been in front of Emperor Jiajing.

Sitting silently at the table and thinking for a while, Wei Guangde reviewed the possible votes for the cabinet.

There is a high probability that this impeachment memorial will be approved, because it contains the opinions of the Nanjing Ministry of War. The probability of directly rejecting it is very small, unless you have made plans in advance and asked Xu Jie and Li Chunfang to do a good job.

As for the result, it may be removal or edict.

Nanjing Ministry of War

Since King Yu gradually gained power, almost all the disciples of Prince Yu's palace who were originally assigned to Nanjing have been transferred back to the capital, or have been sent to various places as officials. They really have nothing to do in Nanjing.

This is also the reason why Wei Guangde has always ignored the Six Ministries in Nanjing. He always felt that the officials there were old people and did not care about worldly affairs, so he had always neglected to take care of relationships.

Unexpectedly, this matter stumbled for him.

The Minister of War in Nanjing, even his father-in-law Wei Guogong Xu Pengju did not dare to provoke him easily. This time he was really helpless.

"Come on, let him go. It will also serve as a reminder to Yu Dayou. If someone impeaches him in the future, let's see if he wants to tell me in advance. Even gods can't save him from such a surprise attack."

Wei Guangde was thinking about this in his mind, and he would know the outcome when Xiyuan approved the decision. The worst outcome would be dismissal from office.

It's okay to let Yu Dayou go home and stay for a while. Anyway, there have been wars everywhere in the Ming Dynasty in recent years. A general like Yu Dayou who can fight may not have a chance to succeed.

After leaving the office in the afternoon, Wei Guangde left the school registration hall and got on the carriage. He did not rush home, but told the coachman: "Go to Prince Yu's Mansion."

Although he accepted his fate and followed the emperor's disposal, Wei Guangde would not let him go easily when it came to Li Sui, the Minister of War in Nanjing.

A person who can serve as the Minister of the Ministry of War naturally understands that victory or defeat is a common thing for military strategists. He actually decides whether a town's general soldier will stay or not based on a victory or defeat. Such a Minister of the Ministry of War is absolutely incompetent.

Before moving Li Sui, it is better to obtain the consent of King Yu first.