The Prosperous Era of Longwan

"His actions can be forgiven, but his heart can be punished."

Regarding Wei Guangde's evaluation, King Yu just repeated it and then nodded slightly.

"Will Father punish him?"

After a while, King Yu asked again.

"The palace has not issued an order until now. His Majesty must have seen his thoughts, so he will not let him succeed."

Wei Guangde replied. After finishing speaking, Wei Guangde simply lowered his head to hide the confusion on his face.

He knew that Hai Rui was going to jail. Although it was still related to the memorial, he did not think that Emperor Jiajing was angry with him because of the memorial, but for other reasons.

Wei Guangde's small actions did not hide from King Yu's eyes. When Wei Guangde lowered his head and could not see his facial expression, he knew that Wei Guangde was not telling the truth.

But there is no one else here, so he shouldn't be like this.

Immediately, King Yu's eyes caught sight of Li Fang beside him.

Apart from the two of them, the only eunuch left in the room was Li Fang.

Wei Guangde had something to say that he couldn't say in front of the eunuch, so he could only

King Yu himself is not stupid, so he can naturally think of Wei Guangde's concerns.

It's just that Wei Guangde lowered his head at this time and didn't know what was going on in the room.

"Li Fang, go and see how my mother-in-law's sacrificial supplies are being prepared."

King Yu spoke to Li Fang, who was standing aside.

"Yes, Your Highness."

Li Fang was stunned for a moment and immediately bowed and replied, then exited the room.

At this time, Wei Guangde also raised his head and looked at King Yu with some surprise, and then at Li Fang who was exiting.

"Earlier you said that my father would not punish Hai Rui for the crime of disrespect, but it seems to me that you still have something to say.

Now there are only you and me here. If it comes out of your mouth and into my ears, no third person will know about it. "

King Yu said calmly.

"Why do you need to ask these questions, Your Highness?"

Wei Guangde hesitated a little, feeling that it seemed inappropriate to say those words to King Yu.

No matter how Emperor Jiajing treated Prince Yu, Wei Guangde could feel that Prince Yu still had deep feelings for Emperor Jiajing, perhaps because there were too few relatives around him.

No matter what, Emperor Jiajing was still his father, the father he hadn't seen for many years, just separated by that wall.

This time, King Yu did not answer, but stared at him.

Wei Guangde knew that not telling him about his ugly Yinmao today would not only make King Yu unhappy, but might even affect his status in King Yu's mind.

Perhaps, this is what those people call "accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger."

"Your Highness, this is what I just thought of."

Wei Guangde had no choice but to meet King Yu's eyes and said: "His Royal Highness asked if His Majesty would deal with Hai Rui, I don't think so.

But His Majesty's lack of anger does not mean that he will not teach Hai Rui a lesson, but it will only make him suffer a little. "

"How to say?"

King Yu became interested and asked.

Although he knew that telling him would make Prince Yu feel uncomfortable, Wei Guangde could only say: "How does Your Highness feel about His Majesty?"

Before he could answer, Wei Guangde asked him a question, and the question he asked was so sensitive. For a moment, King Yu's face no longer had the calm look before, but became extremely troubled.

Wei Guangde didn't wait for King Yu to think about how to answer this question before he said, "Actually, everyone in the palace knows your Royal Highness's character. I just want to say that His Majesty's feelings for His Majesty are just like His Majesty's feelings for His Majesty."

Hearing this, King Yu frowned, but his eyes were still fixed on Wei Guangde.

"I am certain that His Majesty believes in the motto of 'two dragons never meet', so he has been unwilling to see you. It is not because he is as hard as iron, but because he is worried about your safety.

Having already lost two princes, His Majesty cannot bear another blow. "

Wei Guangde's words made King Yu's eyes twitch slightly, and then he blinked quickly several times before he managed to calm down.

However, he also heard something unusual in Wei Guangde's words, and his face immediately became anxious.

"What do you mean by this? My father is in his prime, do you know what you were talking about just now?"

"Your Highness, haven't you ever thought about why Your Majesty has been supervising the progress of the school's recording library in copying the "Yongle Dadian" recently?"

Wei Guangde lowered his head and said in a sad tone.

"Stop talking. I'm asking you what to do with Hai Rui, I'm not asking you to talk nonsense here."

King Yu said sharply.

"His Majesty will deal with Hai Rui, but not now, but when he runs out of energy. He should read this book again, send Hai Rui to prison, and pardon him when His Highness ascends the throne. In this way, he can gain The wise people in the world praise him and the court has the support of the clear stream."

Wei Guangde still lowered his head and did not raise it because he was worried that King Yu would see his expression.

Well, Wei Guangde thought that his acting skills were not good enough, so he just lowered his head and pretended to be sad.

In fact, when King Yu heard about this in the morning, Li Fang, Yin Shizhen, and even Gao Gong all sent back notes. Without exception, they all believed that the emperor would capture Hai Rui, send him to prison, and torture him to find out who was behind it.

Gao Gong's meaning is also very simple, that is, King Yu wants to play a memorial to protect Hai Rui. Yin Shizhen has a similar opinion, only Li Fang holds the opposite attitude.

Perhaps this is also related to the fact that Li Fang is a eunuch, and all his wealth is tied to the royal family.

However, as King Yu said, although he recognized the content of Hai Rui's memorial, it did not mean that he would support him, let alone protect him, and even want to give him a good beating.

This is his true nature.

No matter how bad his father was, King Yu could not tolerate such accusations from his ministers.

When he heard Wei Guangde comment that Hai Rui had a "killable heart", he actually had the idea of ​​killing Hai Rui.

Although it was only for a moment, he suppressed her because the note he passed from Gao Gong showed that Hai Rui could not die now.

Wei Guangde said that Emperor Jiajing saw Hai Rui's intentions, so he would not be fooled. King Yu was happy in his heart, so that he would not have to do things he didn't want to do.

However, he didn't expect that when he asked out of curiosity, he actually heard another question from Wei Guangde, a question that no one had ever asked him, that is, Emperor Jiajing's health was probably in jeopardy.

What touched him even more was that Wei Guangde actually guessed that his father, who had always been unwilling to look at him, would actually do that in order to gain his reputation.

In fact, although King Yu said he didn't believe it, in his dream, he was still willing to believe that his father's absence from him was because of that motto.

"go out."

Wei Guangde, who lowered his head to think about what to say, suddenly heard King Yu's roar.

When he looked up in surprise, King Yu yelled at him again: "Go out and tell people outside not to come in. No one is allowed in. Please be quiet."

Wei Guangde did not dare to say anything. It was the first time he saw King Yu angry. He bowed slightly, bowed his hands to King Yu, and then stepped back towards the door.

He moved lightly, as if he was worried that if he moved too much, he would make King Yu angry again.

After leaving the house, Wei Guangde let out a sigh of relief.

When King Yu yelled at him just now, his eyes were already red, and his face looked very scary, changing from his usual gentle demeanor.

"No one of you is allowed to enter without His Majesty's summons."

Wei Guangde opened his mouth and ordered the few servants outside who were opening their mouths in surprise, "No one is allowed in, including the princess and Eunuch Li."

After speaking, he left Prince Yu's Mansion without looking back.

Wei Guangde believed that Hai Rui, who should not be met by anyone at this time, would be imprisoned in the future because of today's memorial, because as long as these two days passed and the palace did not issue an order to arrest him, they would think that the matter was over. .

If Wei Guangde had not known that Hai Rui would be caught in the end and would have thought this way, he would not have foreseen what would happen in the future.

However, although he told King Yu about his "analysis" and made King Yu furious, he felt that it was worth it.

King Yu was very affectionate and sincere. In fact, although he was resentful towards Emperor Jiajing, his feelings were ultimately more important than anything else.

And these words I said

It seems a little selfish.

Wei Guangde was sitting in the carriage with a wry smile on his face. He felt that he was a bit bad. He didn't really want to help King Yu, but just wanted to hold his thick thigh tightly.

But today's words, no matter where they are placed, have brought the father-son relationship between Prince Yu and Emperor Jiajing closer, without causing any discord.

Just as Wei Guangde said to King Yu, under the close watch of the entire capital officialdom, it seemed as if nothing happened in Xiyuan, and two days passed in the blink of an eye.

Emperor Jiajing did not send Jin Yiwei to capture Hai Rui, but Hai Rui fell down first because he had not eaten for two days.

Because Emperor Jiajing was expected to send someone to arrest him and imprison him, he was worried that his family and servants would be implicated, so he dismissed his family, and naturally no one would cook or boil water for him.

Fortunately, two days later, Hai Rui's colleagues came to the door and found out. They immediately called for a doctor to take care of him, and sent people to search around. Finally, they found Hai Rui's family and slaves outside the city, and called them back to take care of Hai Rui. Rui.

Just like the farce of cheating the imperial staff in the previous dynasty, although Hai Rui was not imprisoned for this, his reputation did rise in the official circles of the capital and the literary world. In addition to the good reputation accumulated in his earlier appointment as a county magistrate, with the promotion of Qingliu officials, " The name "Haiqingtian" began to spread throughout the capital.

Even as Hai Rui became famous in the capital, the government was still running smoothly.

In the past six months, Wei Guangde felt that he was a bit unlucky. Fellow Zhang Ke and his disciple Yu Dayou were impeached and dismissed from office.

However, after Hai Rui's appearance in "Public Security", it seemed that his luck suddenly turned around again.

First, the Xuanfu army reported that more than a thousand cavalry were captured and suddenly invaded the Xuanfu Longmen and other places. The commander-in-chief Ma Fang, the division commander Yuan Shizhu and others pursued them and beheaded the thirty-sixth level. When the news was heard, the Emperor Jiajing was overjoyed and rewarded the governor Zhao Bingran and others. Fang and other silver have their own differences.

Only the news came out that the household department had been promoted and the position was vacant.

Although Du Ge Shi Zhong is only half a rank higher than Ge Shi Zhong, he is a powerful figure in the Six Branches and the boss of the Hu Branch.

For Ouyang Yijing, who had been in the position of Hu Ke Shizhong for more than two years, it was naturally a rare opportunity for promotion.

Why is the location of the Sixth Section so popular? It is because it is the closest place to the emperor among all the imperial offices.

In the early Ming Dynasty, six departments were established: officials, rites, households, workers, soldiers, and criminals, with the power to supervise the six departments.

The office space of the Sixth Section is very special. In the Ming Dynasty, there were only two official offices in the palace. One was the Wenhua Hall, the duty room of the cabinet, and the other was the duty room of the Sixth Section, because the duty room of the Sixth Section was a long The gallery-shaped house is commonly known as "Liuke Corridor", which fully illustrates the specialness of Liuke.

Another special point is that in the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Civil Affairs organized inspections for officials below the third rank, and inspections were conducted by the emperor for officials above the third rank. However, as the highest-ranking official, only the six subjects of the seventh rank were inspected directly by the emperor. .

"The six subjects are responsible for serving, regulating and admonishing, repairing ques, collecting relics, and inspecting the affairs of the six ministries and 100 departments. Whenever an edict is issued and implemented, important matters will be reviewed and minor matters will be promulgated by the department. If there is any failure, the seal will be returned to the executive. All internal and external seals will be issued. Submit it, copy it out in categories, submit it to the department, and refute any errors."

The Sixth Section gave such great power to the affairs. Although they did not have the position of prime minister, they had certain powers. Therefore, because the officials here were closest to the emperor, their promotion speed was very fast. Some people even came directly from the seventh grade. An example of Pinyi leaping into the rank of a third-grade official.

And if you are not very capable and have bad luck, you can change your position and join the thirteen supervisory censorship, and you will have the opportunity to be promoted to governor of various places, which is also a good way to get promoted.

Wei Guangde was almost sent out of the capital by Gao Gong at the beginning. In fact, the bait he prepared was to be sent to Fujian as a patrol censor, and he would choose an opportunity to win the position of governor for him.

Ke Dao is a place where you can really rise to the top if you seize the opportunity and you have low status and power.

Ouyang Yijing was still very helpful to Wei Guangde, so this time Wei Guangde rewarded him by giving Hu Kedu the position in Shizhong.

In order to ensure that nothing went wrong, Wei Guangde not only requested from Prince Yu, but also mobilized his connections in Prince Yu's palace to persuade Guo Pu, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and also won the support of Zhang Yongming, censor of Zuodu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"Promoted to Nanjing Caojiang Youqiandu Censor Hong Chao was elected as the right vice-capital censor and governor of Nanjing's grain reserve; Guanglu Temple Minister Ren Shibing was appointed as Shuntian Prefecture Governor; Shanxi Dao Censor Wu Ti was promoted to Taichang Temple Shaoqing Admiral of Seyi Guan and Hu Ke were all given the title of Shangbao Siqing by Zhongxing Shouting, and Wu Zun, the Shaoqing of Nanjing Taipu Temple, was renamed Shaoqing of Nanjing Taichang Temple."

Wei Guangde was reciting the edict he had just issued today, and Hu Kedu was informed that Xing Shouting was promoted from the seventh rank to the fifth rank Shangbao Secretary by two levels, and the position was finally vacated.

However, Ouyang Yijing's promotion decree has not yet been issued, and there are still variables in everything.

However, because of the support of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Wei Guangde also felt that the probability of errors should be very low.

"Sir, Mr. Ouyang sent someone to deliver a message asking you to go to Goulan Hutong at night."

Wei Guangde took the post sent by Ouyang Yijing from Lu Bu with a wry smile on his face.

Now that this person has seen his immediate boss being promoted, he is also very itchy.

"I understand, please get ready outside, I'll be out in a moment."

Wei Guangde didn't want to make any omissions at this time, so he simply stopped reading the book and went to the Ministry of Personnel first to visit Guo Pu and Guo Shangshu.

Thinking of the note Chen Ju handed over two days ago, he just passed the news and made Guo Shangshu happy.

In half a month at the latest, the position of Heavenly Official will be replaced.

After going to Guo Pu's place, Gao Gong also had to go there. After all, he also had to move, so he had to make some preparations in advance.

When seeking a job for Ouyang Yijing this time, whether it was Guo Pu or Zhang Yongming, Wei Guangde did not ask Mr. Xu Ge to come forward. Instead, he visited directly in the name of Prince Yu's Mansion.

After knowing that the two Henan guys were going to join the cabinet together, Wei Guangde felt that he had understood Emperor Jiajing's plan.