The Prosperous Era of Longwan

In the capital, there is a small courtyard next to the Imperial College.

A stack of books was stacked neatly on the desk. In front of the desk, a young man wearing a white swan official uniform was looking through the books.

While flipping through, I might have discovered an error, so I would stop and lightly sketch on the book from time to time.

When you finish reading the book in your hand, put it on the other side, where there are already two stacks of books.

One pile contained slightly more, while the other contained only a few copies.

He placed the sketched book on the pile of relatively few books, then reached out to pick up one from the side and continued to read.

Naturally, Wei Guangde was the one who read the book. As Emperor Jiajing delegated the task of selecting candidates for transcription to the transcribers, the progress of copying the "Yongle Dadian" was also accelerated.

Today, Wei Guangde is spending time here. He wants to read all the books accumulated during this period. He will naturally highlight any mistakes and open the binding to copy them again.

Wei Guangde had already read all the books he had been assigned. With his photographic memory, he was very comfortable doing this registration work, becoming the easiest one among the ten branch officials.

"grown ups."

A person came in outside the door, it was the scribe Lu Bu who had been following him when he was in the Hanlin Academy.

Lu Bu was seen bowing and standing in front of the desk, and replied in a low voice: "The servant of Prince Yu's palace has arrived outside the door and said that he has something important to tell me."

Wei Guangde put down the book and asked casually: "Have you ever asked why?"

"It is said that the General Affairs Office received a memorial from Lin Run, the censor of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate, impeaching Yan Shifan and Luo Wenlong for plotting evil and intending to rebel."

Lu Bu replied softly.

"Rebellion? Yan Shifan?"

Wei Guangde sat upright, then waved his hand and said, "Let him come in."

Not long after, a chamberlain followed Lu Bu into the house.

"It turns out that Eunuch Zhang came here and was not welcomed at a distance. I wonder what happened to Lin Yushi's impeachment?"

The chamberlain who came in was Zhang Jing, a member of the palace, who had been following Li Fang. Although his rank was not high, his status was not low. Wei Guangde naturally knew him.

Seeing him coming, Wei Guangde smiled and cupped his hands at him.

This whale is about the same size as Chen Ju, but Chen Ju's is Gao Zhong, while Zhang Jing's godfather is Zhang Hong, who is also a famous eunuch in the Li Jian.

Gao Hong has been ill recently. According to news from Chen Ju, Zhang Hong may be taking his place.

As for how Zhang Jing entered Prince Yu's palace, it's actually not surprising. After all, the change of imperial power has basically been decided. The eunuchs in the palace will naturally send their disciples and disciples to Prince Yu as much as possible, hoping to get King Yu's favor will still have a certain status in the inner court in the future.

"Master Wei, you haven't been to Prince Yu's Mansion in the past two days. Today's news is a bit urgent, so Eunuch Li and Master Yin asked me to send the news directly."

When Zhang Jing saw Wei Guangde giving him his hand, he immediately returned the gift, and then quickly told the news he had sent.

"I just received the news that Yan Shifan, the censor of Nan Daolin, fled and did not go to Di Leizhou to be punished. Instead, he returned to his hometown in Jiangxi halfway. The same was true for his party members Luo Wenlong and others.

According to the memorial, Yan Shifan and Luo Wenlong not only did not repent after arriving in Jiangxi, but also wantonly slandered the emperor and the court. They even groomed dead soldiers and gathered more than 4,000 people to pursue evil deeds. Not only did the local people suffer, but even the local officials suffered. Also bullied. "

After hearing what Zhang Jing said, Wei Guangde couldn't help but straighten his body immediately.

Raising dead men is actually an outlaw, which seems incomprehensible, but in this era, there are more or less such existences in the homes of various dignitaries, so it is nothing.

However, Zhang Jing actually said that Yan Shifan had more than 4,000 desperadoes in his network. This was no small matter.

At least, he, a native of Jiangxi, had never heard of this rumor.

Why raise so many people?

These people are armed with two battalions. In Jiangxi, there are really not many guards who dare to say that they can destroy them.

"Are you so brave?"

Wei Guangde couldn't help but exclaimed.

Such a big matter was not reported to the Jiangxi government, but by the censor of Nanjing. Wei Guangde couldn't help but think deeply about the great influence of the Yan family in Jiangxi.

"The palace asked you to inform me, but you want me to come over to discuss it?"

Wei Guangde asked.

Regarding this matter, Wei Guangde didn't know what Prince Yu's Mansion could do. Could it be that he wanted to take this opportunity to kill Yan Shifan?

After the fall of the Yan family, King Yu has been secretly investigating what happened that year, a major event that made him lose face.

Seven or eight years have passed, and King Yu has not given up. This shows how big a blow it had to King Yu at that time.

After the Yan family left the capital, many people's mouths were naturally pried open. Prince Yu's Mansion also found out that the person who had allowed the Ministry of Household Affairs to suppress the salary and annual gifts of Prince Yu's Mansion was Yan Shifan.

But at that time, people had already been punished, and Prince Yu's palace couldn't reach Guangdong, so it could only let it go.

Perhaps, King Yu wanted to wait for revenge in the future, but he didn't expect that such a thing would happen.

"Your Highness, if you have free time today, please go to the palace to discuss it."

Zhang Jing bowed and replied.

"I understand, Eunuch Zhang, as you can see, I still have a lot of things to do at the moment.

In the afternoon, when the matters here are settled, I will rush to the palace. "

King Yu's desire for revenge should have been rekindled by this news, and depending on the situation, the impact was indeed bad enough to kill Yan Shifan.

Yes, not knock him down, but kill him directly.

After Lu Bu sent Zhang Jing away, Wei Guangde was still thinking about the matter.

I originally thought that the deal between Yan Song and Yan Song could be easily concluded, at least no one would continue to target them after his family's downfall, but I didn't expect Yan Shifan to be so fearless.

Even if he escaped from being exiled, he actually dared to make such a big fuss in Jiangxi. I really don’t know what he was thinking.

When Yan Song left Beijing, Wei Guangde also went to see him off.

Don't talk about different positions. In fact, Yan Song has never had a position with the outside world. It's just that Yan Shifan has been helping King Jing, which has affected the entire Yan Party. They all regard King Jing as their support object and give full support.

And Wei Guangde went to see Yan Song off in the name of a fellow villager, so naturally he had nothing to do with Prince Yu's Mansion.

At that time, Wei Guangde once told Yan Song that just let Yan Shifan enjoy himself in Leizhou. The sky is high and the emperor is far away. As long as there is no big commotion, this person will soon be forgotten in the capital.

Unexpectedly, it seemed that no one else took my reminder seriously, and what was supposed to come finally came.

At this time, almost a year had passed since Huang Taiji entered the imperial capital.

During this period of time, nothing major happened in the court, and it was running smoothly.

It's just that Ma Fang was punished for the looting of Xuan Mansion. Even though he succeeded in destroying the nest on Beishatan Beach and surrendered more than 130 levels and some cattle and sheep, he was still severely reprimanded by the court.

Just thinking about his past military exploits, he was ordered to "pay for his crimes and perform meritorious service". He was deprived of the title of Zuo Dudu and still served as the chief military officer of the Xuanfu.

Under this blow, in the past nearly a year, the Xuanfu army led by Ma Fang finally stopped and never took the initiative to attack various Mongolian ministries.

In the battle of Jidong, because the general Bai Wenzhi defended against the wall, the Donglu were unable to attack day and night. Later, with the joint efforts of guerrilla Dong Yiyuan and other soldiers to defend, the stone pass was safe and sound.

Although Donglu saw that he could not make a surprise attack and failed, he repeated his old tricks and suddenly moved his troops to Shanhaiguan, intending to make a sneak attack while the defender was unprepared, but he still suffered a failure.

Two consecutive defeats in the siege forced the Donglu to retreat. Dong Yiyuan, who had been unknown in Jizhen, took this opportunity to accumulate military exploits. After Wei Guangde's operation, he was not only promoted to the third level, but also promoted from guerrilla to general. From then on, he had the qualification to be alone in his own way.

As for the Liao ship shipping issue, it has naturally been concluded long ago, and the order was issued years ago to ban it.

For a conservative-minded king, Wei Guangde did not think there was a chance to persuade Emperor Jiajing to carry out shipping unless Wei Guangde was willing to share the profits with the emperor.

Liao ship shipping has been officially banned by the government, but private smuggling activities have not completely stopped.

The profits are really too huge, and for the merchants in Liaodong and Beijing who have already tasted the benefits, they simply cannot stop.

Wei Guangde, for the sake of his own shares, privately contacted Zhang Xuegu, who was in the same year of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

This man was already on patrol in Shandong and happened to help smoothen the relationship. He used his authority as censor to negotiate some matters with Denglai officials in private.

Naturally, the merchant ships disguised themselves as official ships and continued to conduct maritime trade with the defense of the Denglai Navy, but the scale was reduced, and the navigation range was expanded to North Korea.

The business of Beihai Commercial Bank was no longer limited to trade between Shandong and Liaodong. It went abroad and began to travel between Ming Dynasty and North Korea to supplement the profits lost due to limited scale.

Wei Guangde really couldn't resist the temptation of nearly a thousand taels of silver per month. This little money not only guaranteed him a luxurious life in the capital, but even left a surplus.

In the afternoon, Wei Guangde took a car to Prince Yu's Mansion, naturally to discuss Yan Shifan's affairs.

As soon as he entered the palace, Wei Guangde saw Feng Bao hunched over, struggling to protect a young child learning to walk in the palace.

"Eunuch Feng, why don't you ask them to do it? Taking care of children is not an easy task."

This young boy is naturally Zhu Yijun, the third son of King Yu, and he is already running around in the palace like a tiger.

The toddler stage is the most frustrating for children. If they are not careful, they will fall. Wei Guangde knows this very well.

Whenever he takes a child with him, what he fears most is that the child has to go to the ground to learn to walk. The pain is even worse than having him patrol the border.

"Master Wei is here, His Highness is in the room over there."

Feng Bao now focused all his attention on the little prince. The relationship between Prince Yu and Princess Chen was not very good, because Princess Chen often warned him to stay away from beauty.

Seeing that if Princess Chen could not give birth to a prince, then once the child in his hands grew up, he would probably be the one in the palace in the future. Feng Bao did not feel tired at all, but felt pain and happiness.

Wei Guangde was already standing in front of them, and then he squatted down and looked at Zhu Yijun and said: "Your Highness has been well taken care of by you. I must let His Highness reward you."

While speaking, Wei Guangde had already reached out to take Zhu Yijun from Feng Bao, and led him slowly forward.

What Feng Baoneng could see, Wei Guangde also knew very well. Although he didn't know whether this would be the future emperor, he still had to invest.

Thinking that this person was Feng Bao, who grew up serving the emperor and got the title of "Da Fang", Wei Guangde didn't think there was anything wrong with trying to please this kid.

"I heard that Concubine Li was ill a few days ago. I wonder if anyone has seen her."

While teasing the little prince, Wei Guangde asked Feng Bao.

"Your Majesty, everything is fine. It's just happened again."

Feng Bao said cheerfully.

"What? Another one?"

Wei Guangde was shocked. Concubine Li was pregnant again, so he wondered whether the one in his hands was the future emperor. After all, the death rate of children was quite high these days.

"I just asked the imperial doctor to diagnose and confirm my pulse yesterday. It's normal for Mr. Wei not to know."

Feng Bao said in a low voice.

"Then Eunuch Feng's responsibility is even greater. It's true that Concubine Li deserves to be rich. There are so many women in His Highness's backyard, so she can give birth to children for His Highness."

Wei Guangde couldn't help but sigh that Li Caifeng was really lucky. King Yu was blessed with so many beauties in the harem, but she could give birth to a child for him, so she was not destined to be the queen mother.

Because of the birth of Zhu Yijun, Li Caifeng, a palace servant, had been canonized as the concubine of King Yu by Emperor Jiajing's decree, and her status in the palace also increased.

Seeing Feng Bao's chrysanthemum-like smile, Wei Guangde added: "People say that a blessing in disguise is a blessing in disguise. I think Eunuch Feng really agreed with this statement."

"Haha, how dare you, how dare you."

Feng Bao had already put aside the old matter of being assigned to Emperor Jiajing, and now he only focused on taking care of Concubine Li and the young prince. His future depended entirely on these two.

If he continues to stay in the palace, his position as Chief Eunuch is enviable, but after all, there are too many eunuchs above him. He is the lowest ranking eunuch among the Chief Eunuchs. He really doesn’t have much power at all, and even Chen Ju must deal with it carefully.

Not to mention Huang Jin, there are Gao Zhong, Zhang Hong, Chen Hong and others in front, so there is little hope.

He was sent to Prince Yu's Mansion, but he also felt that it was good to find another way out.

Although he did not dare to say it out loud, in his heart, Feng Bao naturally wished that Emperor Jiajing would die soon, so that his status in the inner court could be greatly improved if he returned.

There is nothing to talk about with little Zhu Yijun at the moment. The child is too young, so I just tease him for a while. The main thing is to chat with Feng Bao, which can be regarded as liberating him and relaxing for a while.

Returning Xiao Zhu Yijun to Feng Bao's hands again, Wei Guangde straightened up to relieve the pain in his lower waist, and then he and Feng Bao said goodbye to see King Yu.

When Wei Guangde entered the room, Wang Yu, Zhang Juzheng and others were already talking here.

Wei Guangde noticed as soon as he entered the room that King Yu seemed to be a little excited, apparently because he had seized the opportunity to take revenge on Yan Shifan.

Wei Guangde had made up his mind before. If King Yu was not so vengeful, he could try to help Yan Shifan settle the matter and see if he could be fished out and let him go back to Jiangxi and not show his face again.

But looking at King Yu's expression, he knew that even if Yan Shifan could escape this time, he would still be blamed when King Yu came to power.

The three thousand taels of silver that Yan Song sent to him after he left seemed a bit difficult to handle and was hot to the touch.