Chapter 238 237 Someone is coming

The day after Wei Guangde returned to Beijing, there were traffic in front of Jiujiang Guild Hall, and people came and went, but he did not wait for the order to summon Xiyuan.

The Xiyuan did not issue an order, but it did not mean that no one would look for Wei Guangde.

Near noon, two sedan chairs were stopped outside the Jiujiang Guild Hall. Gao Gong and Yin Shidan got out of the sedan chair one after another, and brought two guards to the Jiujiang Guild Hall with a box.

Wei Guangde did not entertain them in the lobby of the guild hall, but introduced them to the small courtyard where they lived.

"Guangde, congratulations, the news of the victory in Baoanzhou has been heard, and the prince and us are both very happy. It is not easy, not easy."

After entering the house and sitting down, Gao Gong smiled.

Wei Guangde hurriedly said modestly: "I dare not be praised by Gao Da Ren. It is the current emperor who is prosperous and prosperous. The soldiers of the border can only win with their lives. What the subordinates do is insignificant."

"Mr. Wei is humble, how could it be insignificant? The border soldiers are so powerful. I will not invade the Tartars everywhere in recent years without a solution. It is your credit and you will not be able to take it away. The prince and we all know it."

Yin Shidian interrupted with a faint smile.

Wei Guangde pretended to be embarrassed and laughed dryly.

Then the two asked Wei Guangde about the progress of the war in this trip to Xuanfu. To be honest, although Wei Guangde reported the combat process, the words were still not as intuitive as the person involved said in person.

"This Liu Dazhang deserves to be damned. He was still very brave and good at fighting when he was in Liaodong. Why did he feel so unbearable when he arrived at Xuanfu? He was a right governor, afraid of the enemy and fearful battle, and was embarrassed."

Hearing Wei Guangde said that he was deeply encircled by Ma Fang's troops, he planned to take advantage of the opportunity of Altan's troops to mobilize troops to support Altan Khan, and to capture Altan's military camp with all his might. The entire army then led his troops to rescue Ma Fang's troops, but was stopped by Liu Dazhang, Yin Shide couldn't help but curse.

"Don't be impatient, Guangde won the final victory."

Gao Gong couldn't stand Yin Shidai's a little irritable temper and said, "Stop it."

Yin Shidan then stopped talking in disappointment. Gao Gong was always above him in the palace, so no matter when, Shangguan was always Shangguan.

Later, Wei Guangde said that he would let Dong Yiyuan take action to control Liu Dazhang and suppress the commotion of Liu Dazhang's personal soldiers. Gao Gong nodded with his pension, and Yin Shidan applauded again.

Before we knew it, it was lunch time, and Wei Guangde asked Zhang Ji to inform the club that he would deliver the wine and food inside at noon today, so they would not go out to eat.

When dealing with people from Prince Yu's Mansion, Wei Guangde thought it would be better to be a little low-key.

Although the arrival of Gao Gong and Yin Shidan can't be hidden from others, they can avoid it a little, at least those who are unintentional will not know about it.

In fact, after receiving the notice that Gao Gong and the others came, Wei Guangde knew that it was Prince Yu's Mansion showing goodwill to him, and perhaps there would be some action in the afternoon or tomorrow.

"It's lunch time, look, we've forgotten everything we've been chatting."

When Gao Gong heard Wei Guangde call for wine and food, he suddenly realized and smiled. Then he called the guards outside the door to carry in a wooden box.

Wei Guangde knew at a glance that it should be the money he lent to them before, and that was the money he had paid back.

It is natural to repay the money, and there is no reason to refuse.

Judging from this, the financial crisis in Prince Yu's mansion should have been resolved. It seems that the eldest son Yan Shifan, Yan, is too smart and too greedy for money, and he can get everything.

Even Wei Guangde could figure it out. A person as smart as Yan Shifan would never have thought that he would dare to take the rime from the fire. It was because God wanted to destroy him and would have to make him crazy first.

However, Gao Gong's words stunned Wei Guangde.

"Guangde, here is 2,500 taels of silver. Two thousand taels were borrowed from you at the beginning, and now you are rewarded. There are still five hundred taels to be given interest according to the market practice."

"This is not necessary. I didn't think about collecting any interest from the royal palace at the beginning. I just saved it and helped me."

Wei Guangde quickly refused and said that it would be good if he didn't give money to Prince Yu, and he still wanted to earn money from others?

Wei Guangde is not an old birthday star and doesn't want to die.

"That's not what I said. Where can I borrow money from the world for free? If there is really Guangde, I'll ask me for hundreds of thousands of taels."

Yin Shidai said with a joke.

"Ha ha."

Gao Gong just smiled when he heard this, and then said, "Put the money here, I don't care about the others."

Originally, we should have a welcome banquet for you when you returned to Beijing with the order, but today we are here, we don’t plan to pay for this wine.”

After the banquet, Gao Gong and Yin Shidecai said goodbye and left.

In the afternoon, as expected, someone from the King of Jing's Mansion also sent a gift, and invited Wei Guangde to visit the mansion for a lecture. However, at this time, Wei Guangde naturally had to find a way to refuse, but the words naturally involved the news that he needed to wait for the Xiyuan in the guild hall.

Wei Guangde was not summoned by Emperor Jiajing for a day, and he was breathless. He didn't know what the emperor was thinking, so he had to start guessing the emperor.

In fact, it is a very taboo topic to understand the emperor's heart. After all, no matter who is an emperor, he doesn't like his subordinates to understand his own temperament, especially this is even more so for this emperor who thinks he is very smart.

However, as a subordinate, no one does not think about the superior intention, unless he does not want to be this official, or simply just staying alone and waiting to die, and does not want to make progress.

Wei Guangde had just entered the officialdom at this time, so naturally there was no idea of ​​finding a place to support his elderly care. The cabinet was his current goal.

Wei Guangde began to carefully recall the Tang newspapers he had read before, hoping to sort out the character of Emperor Jiajing from it, so that he would like to his preferences in Xiyuan.

But after thinking for a long time, it seemed that it was no different from an ordinary emperor. If there was, it would be cruel and ruthless, and he would never be ruthless in killing people.

Yes, after recalling, Wei Guangde found that it was really rare that the minister who seemed to die at the hands of this day was not a rare one.

I won’t talk about the big ceremony. How many people are killed by the court stick?

After fighting with the ministers, the latter was still in a bad way, and the chief minister at that time was directly cut off the ranks. This seemed to be the first in the Ming Dynasty. The high-ranking officials and nobles that Zhu Yuanzhang killed at that time could not be compared with those behind. They were incomparable and had different purposes.

At the lunch banquet, Wei Guangde arrived and Gao Gong, and Yin Shidan said something intentionally or unintentionally, but they were obviously secretive.

It is not surprising that most courtiers only discuss with familiar and trusted officials in private.

Gao Gong and the others were determined to win over Wei Guangde, but after all, the contact time was too short, and they were not completely relieved. They could open it up. Moreover, Emperor Jiajing moved to Xiyuan after the "Renyin Palace Change", so naturally, if there was no major event in the morning court, it would be basically aborted.

The court officials had less time to contact the emperor, so their familiarity naturally decreased greatly. That is, the cabinet and the six ministers and nine ministers could still meet the emperor when they had something to do, and also when they were fasting and worshiping, they needed to offer Qing Ci, and the scholars from the Hanlin Academy also had the opportunity to meet the emperor.

Fortunately, Gao Gong was also an expert in writing Qing Ci. Yin Shidan, who only knows how to write poetry and articles, was not very popular with Emperor Jiajing.

However, Gao Gong was not willing to talk about these things at that time, but instead led the topic to other places, and Wei Guangde was helpless.

This is what they have not yet fully accepted. Now we are showing goodwill, just expressing our meaning, and we will also depend on the performance later.

Finally, Wei Guangde found that besides knowing that Emperor Jiajing liked to practice Taoism and liked Qing Ci, he seemed to have no idea. Then think about Yan Song. He must have outstanding features when he was liked by Emperor Jiajing so much.

Yan Song's experience is very interesting. He was born in the 16th year of Chenghua. In the 18th year of Hongzhi, he was admitted to the Jinshi of the Chinese New Year, and was the second place in the second place. He studied the Book of Songs and selected Shujishi, and was later awarded the editor.

At this time, Yan Song suffered a serious illness, which forced him to resign from his post and return to his hometown. During the ten years when Yan Song returned to his hometown to recuperate, it was the time when the eunuch Liu Jin was in power.

This reminded Wei Guangde of another person. Wei Guangde had heard people mention it before, but he had no impression of it. The person he didn't know until after entering the Hanlin Academy was Zhang Juzheng.

When we arrived in the Ming Dynasty, when Wei Guangde first heard Zhang Juzheng, Zeng Shengwu was talking about Mr. Taiyue. At that time, Wei Guangde thought he was an old Hanlin. When he was old, he retired and returned home to take care of his old age, so he didn't think much about it.

After entering the Hanlin Academy, I realized that the Mr. Taiyue mentioned by Zeng Shengwu was actually the famous Zhang Juzheng.

Zhang Juzheng, whose courtesy name was Shuda and his pseudonym was Taiyue, was named Zhang Baigui in his youth. He was from Jingzhou, Huguang. In the 26th year of Jiajing, Zhang Juzheng was the ninth Jinshi in the second grade and was selected as a Shujishi. He was twenty-three years old that year.

The three years Zhang Juzheng was the Shuji Shishi happened to be the most intense political struggle in the Ming Dynasty. Yan Song defeated Xia Yan and became the chief assistant, and Xia Yan died in the streets.

Wei Guangde didn't know if his experience during that period taught Zhang Juzheng a lesson. Anyway, Zhang Juzheng returned to his hometown in Huguang a few years ago in the name of recuperation.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde didn't realize that he wanted to make a name for himself and take the position of chief minister. Should he also learn from Yan Song and Zhang Juzheng and go home to recuperate.

Yan Song is really powerful. In fact, in my impression, it seems that he is not as fierce as Zhang Juzheng, and he is directly a powerful existence. It seems that in the novel I have seen, Zhang Juzheng directly scolds the emperor, just like scolding his son.

It was a great time when I was alive, but it seemed to be very miserable after death, which caused me and harmed my family.

However, in my impression, later generations praised him absolutely. Although there were mistakes, the contributions were far greater than the mistakes. Some people even directly said that this person extended his life to the Ming Dynasty for a hundred years.

As for the reforms Zhang Juzheng carried out, Wei Guangde couldn't remember them clearly. Anyway, they must have touched the interests of the powerful. Although he handled some things very smoothly, it was touched when touched, and in the end he was counterattacked.

Or Yan Song, this person has the ability to govern. You see, the government's treasury is insufficient, but it is still operating. This means that they still have a set of things, whether it is to tear down the east wall or something else, anyway, the court can still maintain its operation under a serious deficit, and there are also natural disaster relief in various places, but it is definitely not enough.

However, Wei Guangde felt that Yan Song's most powerful thing was to give money to Emperor Jiajing.

Although the imperial court lacks resources, it seems that as long as Emperor Jiajing asks for money, Yan Song can find ways to satisfy himself.

This money was finally used to the emperor's Taoist practice, either by fasting and worshipping, or by granting the construction of Taoist temples.

Emperor Jiajing likes money and likes to be photographed as long as he meets his needs, everything is easy to say.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde's eyes lit up and then dimmed again.

The money he asked for was not a decimal, and he had to have a name. The emperor would not plunder the people's wealth and had a bad reputation.

Besides, I probably spent all my money twice.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde looked at the box under his feet and curled his lips, but it was still a little too small.

During the night, Wei Guangdejing thought about how to please Emperor Jiajing, and how to play the good things about him, and also thought about how to solve the problem of insufficient treasury. This was a bit troublesome and difficult to solve.

To solve the treasury problem, we must find a way to collect money.

But the reality is that the wealthy cannot raise taxes, and the poor cannot collect taxes. If they are forced to rebel, they will rebel.

Rebellion is always linked to heavy taxes and corrupt officials. The people are not forced to do so, but they really don’t think that they want to rebel, but they are all for the sake of their meals. Rebellion is actually for the sake of their meals.

But then again, because no one introduced Emperor Jiajing's preferences, Wei Guangde still didn't expect to say anything to him to make the emperor happy and reward himself with something more.

In the end, Wei Guangde could only bite his teeth and make up his mind. Let's talk about it when he sees the emperor.

If you use force to fight against force, and then follow the emperor's words, you will be unhappy if you don't believe it.

Besides, I am a seventh-rank sesame official, so I won’t make the emperor angry. After all, he picked it up with one hand, so this time it was considered a missed face.

The disciple of the emperor, hehe.
To be continued...