The Prosperous Era of Longwan

Regarding the Pan En matter, Emperor Jiajing's attitude was indeed doubtful, at least Wei Guangde thought so.

However, it remains to be considered whether he, and Prince Yu's Mansion, need to keep a certain distance from Xu Jie.

From this, Wei Guangde actually also thought that Emperor Jiajing might not be able to trust his chief minister anymore at this time, and he trusted the officials promoted by him more.

It seems that in this incident, Guo Pu, as the instigator, was able to pass easily.

There is no doubt that in the emperor's eyes, Guo Pu is his subordinate and the one who is truly loyal to him.

For no reason, Wei Guangde was a little envious of officials like Guo Pu who could write Qing Ci.

If you write Qing Ci yourself, you will be fooling Lou Zi, and others will be favored by the emperor.

However, thinking of the news that Zhang Juzheng mentioned just now, that is, the imperial censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate planned to report the Liao ship shipping. Wei Guangde was not sure whether it was Pan En's instructions who was behind it or whether it was the Shandong Chief Envoy or the water transport people who were doing it.

After all, at this time, how to divert the attention of the censors is also one of the ways to alleviate his current predicament.

Fortunately, Zhang Ji and the merchants had already begun to prepare for the imperial court to shut down shipping.

Wei Guangde no longer planned to resist. He really couldn't handle the group of people. He just wanted to make this time come as late as possible.

A few days later, the good news that all Japanese pirates had been wiped out in Xinghua Prefecture, Fujian Province, was sent to the capital. However, except for the Ministry of War, it seemed that no other yamen paid much attention to this news.

Now, their eyes have fallen on the vacant official position of Zuo Du Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and they are all wondering who will succeed Pan En and take over the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

After several days in Liuzhong, Emperor Jiajing of Xiyuan seemed to be unable to withstand the continuous impeachment by the officials of the Ministry of Science and Technology, and finally made a criticism: Pan Yunduan was changed to the head of the Nanjing Ministry of Industry, and Pan En was appointed to the official position.

Just as Zhang Juzheng revealed, nothing happened to Guo Pu and he passed the test safely.

Coincidentally, when Pan En became an official, he was naturally exempted from the inspection and self-reporting that he should have done. Instead, Xu Jie, the chief minister of the cabinet, Yuan Wei, the second assistant, Yan Na, the minister of rites, Gao Yao, the minister of the household department, etc., all used it to inspect themselves. Just beg.

This is also a very interesting phenomenon in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, that is, officials self-reflected, found out their mistakes, and then begged the emperor to remove them from their official positions and allow them to return to their hometowns to retire.

But now the factions at the center of the Ming Dynasty seem to have been completely broken.

Xu Jie and Yuan Wei in the cabinet, and Yan Na, Guo Pu, Gao Yao, Yang Bo, Lei Li and Huang Guangsheng in the six departments all seem to have their own faction. In the past, when Yan Song was in power, the spectacular scene of one party occupying three seats has been eliminated. Not here.

Therefore, after their memorials were sent to Xiyuan, Emperor Jiajing would personally reply with gentle words to persuade them to stay, as if they would not accept their words.

However, because he had known the inside story from Zhang Juzheng before, Wei Guangde just felt that the current Emperor Jiajing seemed to have become an emperor again. Perhaps he had truly realized his enlightenment and was no longer obsessed with Taoism.

At the beginning, in order to devote all his efforts to cultivation, he entrusted the power of the court to Yan Song.

In fact, for so many years, Yan Song worked hard to protect the country for him and did not cause any big trouble.

As for other disparaging remarks, there is no need to take them seriously.

Even if Emperor Jiajing doesn't need Yan Song to help him manage the government, Zhang Song and Li Song will still come out to do these things, and everything Yan Dang does will happen, but the executors will be changed, and the process will be different.

But now, Emperor Jiajing seems to have regained power, and Wei Guangde doesn't know whether this is good or bad.

But today, when Wei Guangde's carriage stopped in front of Prince Yu's Mansion, he opened the curtain and saw Li Fang standing outside waiting for him.

"Why did Your Highness call me?"

These days, Xu Jianglan is about to give birth, so in addition to going to the Imperial College to study, Wei Guangde only comes to Prince Yu's Mansion occasionally.

But today at noon, a servant from the palace came to the Wei family and asked him to go to the palace in the afternoon to discuss something with King Yu.

"It seems to be because of a memorial written by Zhao Bingran. I don't know the details."

Li Fang replied, and while Wei Guangde got out of the car, he extended his hand and asked Wei Guangde to go first.

Naturally, Wei Guangde would not be rude and hurriedly resigned, asking Li Fang to go first.

The two of them just pushed back and forth, and finally entered side by side.

"Zhao Bingran, governor of Zhejiang?"

Wei Guangde asked after raising his leg to cross the threshold.

"Exactly."

Li Fang replied.

"Is there another Japanese pirate attack in Zhejiang?"

Wei Guangdehu asked doubtfully.

The Japanese pirates in Zhejiang seem to have calmed down in the past two years. There are small groups of hundreds of people and there is almost no need to report them because the impact is very small and the local government handles them quickly.

It was also a conditioned reaction. When Wei Guangde heard that the memorial was from Zhejiang, he would immediately think of Japanese pirates.

"It may have something to do with the Yiwu soldiers. Today, Governor Zhao sent a memorandum to Beijing. I think it is about the Yiwu soldiers. After that, His Highness will send someone to find you."

Li Fang smiled lightly, and then asked with concern: "Mrs. Wei, will you be here soon? Why don't you treat me to a drink by then?"

"Please, definitely please."

Wei Guangde smiled, but he was also suspicious in his heart. What did Yiwu soldiers mean?

This Zhao Bingran can make Yiwu soldiers look good.

But everyone has arrived at Prince Yu's Mansion, and they should be able to find out when they see Prince Yu soon.

Not long after, under the leadership of Li Fang, they passed directly through the front yard and walked to the back.

"Your Highness, you haven't gotten up yet?"

Wei Guangde asked with a mean smile.

"Hey, what are you thinking about? Your Highness got up early."

"Hey, Eunuch Feng."

The two of them walked to a small courtyard adjacent to the backyard of the palace and stood in front of it. When they were about to go in, Wei Guangde saw Feng Bao and two chamberlains, who were also holding several pieces of fine silk in their hands and hurried over to them. As they walked in, Wei Guangde smiled and said hello again.

"Master Wei, Eunuch Li, please accuse me. I didn't pay attention before."

Feng Bao might have been in a hurry before, so he really didn't notice them.

Hearing Wei Guangde's shout, he hurriedly stopped and turned around with a flattering smile on his face.

"What are you"

Wei Guangde asked one more question out of curiosity.

"Is this a reward from the princess to Li Xuanshi?"

It was Li Fang who answered.

"Yes, these ten high-quality horses were given to Li Xuan by the princess as a reward. I will send them over here."

Feng Bao said with a smile on his face.

"Eunuch Feng has worked hard. Please serve Li Xuan well. We are all waiting for the prince's wedding banquet."

Wei Guangde smiled.

After the death of Prince Yu's eldest son, Prince Yu's heirs have always been the most concerned topic among the people in the palace.

King Yu also favored the people in the palace, but there was no movement.

Fortunately, at the beginning of the year, it finally came out that the palace man next to the princess was happy.

Although the child has not been born and the gender is unknown, it is still a great joy for the palace.

For some unknown reason, the princes of Lao Zhu's family were more prolific than the last, but when it came to the emperor's lineage, Emperor Hongzhi was a single successor at that time, and Emperor Zhengde was extinct immediately.

The throne was handed over to Emperor Jiajing, who gave birth to a few more children, but many of them died in infancy, and now only King Yu and King Jing are left.

King Jing, there has been no news since his wedding. Now that he has gone to the fiefdom, there has been no news of his future wife.

King Yu did have an eldest son, but he died young. It had been two or three years, and someone was finally pregnant again, which naturally made Wei Guangde and other officials in the palace happy.

At the beginning, he gave all his strength to King Yu. In addition to the fact that King Yu occupies the long name, the more important thing is that King Yu has a son, but King Jing does not.

King Yu has no heir. Not to mention Wei Guangde, even Gao Gong now feels unsure.

According to the imperial doctor, this lady from Palace Li should have been pregnant at the end of last year. Whether it is a boy or a girl will be known in August or September this year.

And Feng Bao, after Li Xuan became pregnant, was sent to her by King Yu to take care of her food and daily life.

Seeing Feng Bao leading people into the backyard, Wei Guangde couldn't help but smile, secretly thinking that this might be the inertia of history.

In fact, everyone in Prince Yu's palace is now staring at Li Xuanshi's belly, wanting to know whether she is pregnant with a boy or a girl. Wei Guangde can probably guess it because Feng Baodu was sent there.

Thinking about future generations, Wei Guangde's appalling historical knowledge all knew that Feng Bao had a good life following a certain emperor.

Needless to say, even if Li Xuanshi doesn't give birth to a prince this time, the next one will definitely be her.

Otherwise, it is difficult to imagine how Feng Bao could get ahead.

In Prince Yu's Mansion, with Li Fang here, there should be no place for Feng Bao in any case.

Wei Guangde knew about Feng Bao in later generations, and he had a prosperous life with Zhang Juzheng in the Ming Dynasty, but he never knew that Li Fang existed.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde glanced at Li Fang next to him and said nothing.

In Li Fang's eyes, Wei Guangde's actions only thought that he was happy because the prince had a wife, but he didn't think much about it.

"Master Wei, let's go in. The prince should be inside already."

Li Fang smiled at this time.

Wei Guangde nodded, "Eunuch Li, please go first."

"Stop being modest and let's do it together."

Li Fang chuckled.

"Okay, let's go together."

Wei Guangde also smiled.

I saw King Yu in the room. King Yu was sitting on a chair, with one hand on the desk supporting his chin, as if he was thinking about something.

Seeing Wei Guangde enter the room, King Yu put down his hand and asked with a smile: "Shandai, when you say that soldiers are soldiers, do you really have a geographical definition?"

"Region? Soldier?"

Wei Guangde frowned and asked, obviously not understanding the meaning of King Yu's words.

"If you look at this, you will understand that this is the memorial that Zhao Bingran sent to the General Affairs Office today."

While talking, King Yu handed Wei Guangde a note on the desk.

Wei Guangde took it and looked at it carefully, not only bursting into laughter.

The note was actually a memorial written by the governor of Zhejiang, Zhao Bingran, saying that all the provinces were recruiting troops from Yiwu, Zhejiang, and Fujian was causing chaos. The people turned into soldiers, and the soldiers turned into thieves. The reason for this is that gradually, all Fujianese people were thieves, and it was a symptom of the war. Tao has to pretend to recruit troops from other provinces and instead pursue its roots. It must recruit many parties to turn thieves into soldiers and soldiers into people. This is okay.

Now we are expelling the people of Zhejiang to save Fujian. I am afraid that Zhejiang will become Fujian. From now on, I ask all provinces to unite and train together, so that everyone can use their homes to defend themselves. If there is an emergency, they will be soldiers, and if they are slow, they will be farmers. , there is a destination between gathering and dispersing. Even if you have to recruit, you must first recruit from your own province, then neighboring provinces. You must not focus on one party to cause disaster.

A lot of words were said in a eloquent manner, but in fact Zhao Bingran sued Tan Lun and sent people from the Fujian government to Yiwu to recruit troops.

Tan Lun originally participated in politics in Zhejiang. When he went to Fujian, his first move was to send people back to Zhejiang to recruit troops.

These days, when recruiting soldiers, it is natural to select strong men. Strong men are the labor force and are of immeasurable value.

If Fujian recruits strong men from Zhejiang, it will naturally have an impact on them.

However, regarding the recruitment of soldiers, it seemed that the Zhejiang government could not openly stop it, so they directly brought the complaint to the capital.

"The Fujian side went to Yiwu to recruit troops? Tan Lun is the same, he's too ungrateful."

Wei Guangde said with a smile.

"I heard that not only Fujian, but most of Qi Jiguang's soldiers were recruited from Yiwu. The Japanese were suppressed in Zhejiang the year before last, and the Japanese were suppressed in Fujian last year and this year. The Zhejiang soldiers had outstanding military exploits and naturally attracted attention. So I heard that there were soldiers from South Zhili, Jiangxi and Guangdong. Recruiting soldiers there.

Now Yiwu's strong men are leaving in large numbers, causing an uproar in the local area. There is no one to farm the land, and the mines in the mountains can no longer hire anyone. "

Li Fang happily continued, "I heard earlier that Qi Jiguang recruited all miners because of their strength, but after these few battles, we all are Yiwu people who are not afraid of death and are the best young soldiers. I heard that Ji The other side of the town wants to recruit Zhejiang soldiers as guest soldiers."

"It's true that the miners have a lot of strength, but the key to training troops is how to train, and of course, the pay is sufficient. If these two points are done well, it's no wonder that Qi Jiguang has a remarkable record in suppressing the Japanese."

Wei Guangde smiled.

He now understood why King Yu was looking for him. Well, as a member of the royal family, he naturally thought of making the country rich and powerful.

A rich country is more complicated and difficult to make, and it is relatively easy to strengthen its troops. Perhaps in King Yu's view, choosing good troops means strengthening the army.

"Does Shandai think Yiwu soldiers are good or bad?"

King Yu was more concerned about this, so he asked.

"I remember hearing Dayou talk about the Zhejiang soldiers. He probably meant that the Zhejiang soldiers were a mixed bag and of varying quality. The guardsmen had no training and no orders to fight, so their combat effectiveness was extremely low.

At the local level, Lishui soldiers came from mountainous areas. They had excellent physical fitness and were very brave in combat. They dared to charge forward, but they lacked resourcefulness and cared too much about gains and losses.

Taizhou soldiers are a group of tigresses who become strong when they are weak and weak when they are strong.

The Shaoxing soldiers did have courage and motivation, but they were too shrewd and calculating, and they ended up killing each other. A disunited army is not worthy of trust.

When he served as the chief military officer in Zhejiang, it seems that Yiwu soldiers had not yet appeared. It should be the recruiting place found by Qi Jiguang later.

Since he has told these secrets to soldiers from all over Zhejiang, it is unknown whether the soldiers from Yiwu really have merit.

It's probably the environment that shapes the individual. People who come out of a tough environment are able to endure hardships and stand hard work, that's what it means. "

Wei Guangde first recalled Yu Dayou's words, and then changed the topic and said: "However, I think that troop selection is of course important, but troop training and rewards are more important.

Military training not only trains tactics, but also discipline. The Guangxi wolf soldiers are also brave people, but they are an army that is unruly. The military discipline is loose, they fight ruthlessly, and they plunder the people even more ruthlessly.

If this kind of team meets the enemy in a single fight, it will be fine. If it cannot win, it will disperse in a hurry. This is a fault of lax military discipline.

As for rewards, if you are not a soldier, who would abandon your family and children to work out your life if it is not for money? "