Chapter 247 246 The Way of Survival of the Noble

"I understand what the eldest son means."

Wei Guangde thought carefully before speaking to Xu Huai below. Now his marriage with Xu Jianglan was only signed, and the three media and six recruitment procedures were not left. Naturally, he could only call Xu Bangrui the eldest son.

"You go down and rest first, I'll talk to Xu Huai here."

Wei Guangde turned to his servants at this time and said, Zhang Ji next to him was very sensible and led the way, leaving only Wei Guangde and Xu Huai in the room.

"The eldest son means, do you want me to move in the capital and shake things up, or something?"

Wei Guangde wanted to figure out Xu Bangrui's true thoughts, and then he could consider whether to do it and how to do it.

"Mr. Wei doesn't know anything. I'll talk about something else this time."

At this time, Xu Huai suddenly stood up and approached Wei Guangde and whispered.

Wei Guangde was startled by his mysterious appearance, thinking he was going to do something?

After hearing what Xu Huai said clearly, he was shocked again. Did he guess wrong? He didn't want to build momentum for him in the capital and recover the sealed imperial edict?

"Mr. Wei, don't think too much, it has nothing to do with that imperial edict.

My son is the eldest son of the Duke's Mansion, which is unshakable. Even if he wants to fight in the future, the court will send people to investigate. If the court determines that the second son is the legitimate son, our eldest son will naturally have nothing to say."

When Wei Guangde heard Xu Huai say this, he knew that Xu Bangrui did not want to make a fuss about that imperial edict.

This is the Duke of Wei’s Mansion. What’s the use of an imperial edict? In the end, it must be heard from heaven. Only when the emperor approves it can it be considered really effective.

Obviously, until then, Xu Bangrui would come out to fight against his second brother, after all, his mother's identity cannot be changed.

"Why did the eldest son ask you to come? Is it that he wants to tell me?"

Wei Guangde doesn't like this way of communication. He says whatever he wants. He makes it mysterious and thinks he wants to discuss rebellion.

"Mr. Wei doesn't know anything. After the imperial edict arrived in Nanjing, my son didn't care, but he didn't expect it."

When he said this, Xu Huai paused slightly, his face becoming very ugly.

When Wei Guangde saw this, he laughed in his heart. Who did this? Isn’t it just to express the seriousness of this matter in front of him?

Wei Guangde did not make a sound, and also looked at him with great concern, waiting for the following article.

Although the results were not ideal, Xu Huai quickly recovered and continued to tell what happened in Nanjing a few days ago.

It turned out that day, Xu Pengju, Duke of Wei, found Liu Cai, the Minister of War in Nanjing, with the purpose of sending his youngest son Xu Bangning to the Ministry of War to learn strategies and prepare for the future attack on the lord army.

The yamen where Liu Cai is located is in Nanjing, so he naturally heard about the bullshits in the Duke of Wei’s mansion.

Although he and Xu Pengju had a good relationship on the surface, civil servants never took the nobles very seriously. He also had his own standards for judging Xu Bangning's affairs.

Liu Cai disagreed with the imperial edict sent from the capital.

In fact, as long as the civil servants who know the whole story of the incident will not agree to grant Zheng an imperial edict.

Obviously, the imperial edicts on the Duke of Wei’s mansion were actually deceived by them.

But seeing that the road was completed, the adults in the Nanjing officialdom chose to remain silent. After all, the main thing involved was the inheritance of the Duke of Wei.

As of now, Xu Pengju is still lively and can't even get involved in that.

When it is really time to confirm the Prince of Wei, as long as the court does not recognize Xu Bangning's identity as a legitimate son, the eldest son Xu Bangrui will still inherit the title.

Xu Bangrui was not anxious about Zheng's edict, and the main reason was that he already knew the officials' plans.

But now I became a little anxious, and it was precisely because of the subsequent fermentation of this matter that I began to lose my control.

After Xu Pengju, Duke of Wei, saw Liu Cai hoped that he could open a back door for Xu Bangning and arranged for him to enter the Nanjing Military Department, he did not get the result he wanted. Liu Cai sternly rejected his request.

Not only did he refuse Xu Pengju's request, Liu Cai even advised him to change his proposition and do it according to the patriarchal system of the court, warning him that if he really loves his young son more, he should plan earlier and arrange a suitable position for him, so as not to let him go.

The two brothers were so uncontrollable because of the inheritance.

Faced with such an embarrassing scene, Duke Wei, Xu Pengju had to temporarily retreat and agreed to send his two sons to the Ministry of War to study.

In response to this, Liu Caicai nodded and agreed.

However, after Xu Pengju returned home and called his two sons, Xu Bangrui was completely indifferent to this, while Xu Bangning clearly refused.

Due to his brother's personality, he is not as domineering as he is outside. Now most of the young men in Nanjing are following behind his butt, and they are very majestic.

In such a living environment, he would certainly not agree to let him study in the yamen.

If you don’t do a good job, why are you going to be a sesame official?

Xu Bangning was unwilling to go, so Xu Pengju had no choice but to let go of this for the time being. Naturally, Xu Bangrui could not go to the Ministry of War to learn strategies.

However, Xu Pengju chose another method to operate at this time, and he was still trying to help his children improve.

The highest institution of learning in the Ming Dynasty was naturally the Imperial College. The capital was the two capitals in the north and south, and the imperial court's yamen also had two teams. Naturally, the Imperial College also had it in Nanjing.

Xu Bangning was unwilling to go to the Ministry of War, so he cleared his relationship and asked him to go to the Imperial College for a trip. In fact, he didn't need to go there, but it was just a name.

He saw that Liu Cai was seriously dissatisfied with his choice to raise his youngest son as his successor.

Can't you afford to offend me?

However, with the previous incident, Xu Pengju became more cautious in operating the Imperial College, and on the contrary, he still asked both brothers to report to the Imperial College.

But in secret, he found another person to manipulate all this, and this person was Liu Shiyan, the sincere prince who was also a nobleman.

Duke of Wei and Chengyibo, one was the descendant of Xu Da, the founding hero of the country, and the other was the descendant of the civil servant Liu Bowen.

Xu Da and Liu Ji (Liu Bowen) are both important figures in assisting Zhu Yuanzhang in the decisive power. The relationship was still good. They worked together for a long time during their lifetime and were a friendship of hardships that shared life and death. However, there was a little change in Xu Pengju's generation.

After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he implemented two systems that influenced the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years.

First, the prince was enfeoffed as vassal kings in various places, and passed down from generation to generation to the country as an auxiliary guarantee for imperial power.

The second is to grant the founding heroes to be kings and marquis, so that their descendants can inherit titles from generation to generation and enjoy wealth forever to inspire future generations.

After Xu Da's death, his Duke of Wei was passed down from generation to generation, and Liu Ji's position as the master of sincerity was interrupted for some reason, but it was finally passed down.

In the 13th year of Zhengde, the title of Duke of Wei was passed to Xu Pengju. He was appointed by the court as the garrison of Nanjing, in charge of the Central Army Governor's Office.

In the 12th year of Jiajing, after the rank of Chengyi was interrupted for many years, it was inherited by Liu Yu, who was in charge of the former military governor's office in Nanjing and in charge of the training.

After Liu Yu and Xu Pengju were both heroes, they did not accept each other and finally had a conflict.

In the 18th year of Jiajing, when a soldier review meeting, Xu Pengju and Liu Yu had a big fight over the competition for the main and secondary seats.

In a fit of anger, Liu Yu led his troops away regardless of the situation, which caused a stir.

Afterwards, Duke Xu Pengju of Wei made a petition to impeach Liu Yu, causing Liu Yu to be dismissed, and the two families have become enemies from then on.

In fact, in terms of this matter, Xu Pengju was the position of admiral at that time, and Liu Yu was the admiral of Caojiang, which was indeed one level lower than Xu Pengju, and there was nothing wrong with the court's handling.

Since then, in Nanjing, the Xu family and the Liu family have been in a state of affairs and have caused many storms.

At least, from the outside world, the relationship between the two countries has completely broken down.

However, as the Liu family, which was once "my son's house" in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, had changed from a civil servant family to a military general family, and had led troops in Jiangnan for a long time.

Whether it is willing or not, in the eyes of the emperor in Beijing, the Liu family was a force that restrained the influence of the Duke of Wei family in Jiangnan.

However, after the Liu family changed from civil to military, the family members may have been in and out of the military for many years, and gradually became arrogant, domineering, and often caused trouble.

The Liu family will inevitably be dismissed after each crime. After a while, the emperor thought about the use of the Liu family and found a reason, or directly restored the Liu family's position on Xu Da's day of worship.

Liu Yu, the former generation's sincerity man, was finally dismissed from his post because of the storm with Xu Pengju, and he died of illness two years later.

Because Liu Yu's son Liu Hong died early, the Liu family only had his grandson Liu Shiyan after Liu Yu's death. According to the system, Liu Shiyan should inherit the title of sincerity. However, he was young at that time and pretended to be waiting for the sect to attack the clan for several years.

He only succeeded him after he grew up and became an adult.

However, it is obvious that Liu Yu had an explanation to his grandson Liu Shiyan before he died of illness.

Although the Liu family was not considered the top powerful in the Ming Dynasty at this time, they had great privileges. Liu Ji helped Zhu Yuanzhang so much that even if Liu Ji was poisoned for Hu Weiyong's unjust accusation, his son was often killed and had a title.

In the subsequent regime changes, the inheritance was interrupted.

Liu Ji's second son Liu Jing wrote a letter to Emperor Jianwen in the early days of the "Jingnan", but it was not adopted. After Zhu Di usurped the throne, he recruited Liu Jing into the dynasty. Jing said: "Your Highness will never escape the word "user" after a hundred generations."

Zhu Di arrested Liu Jing and was imprisoned. Liu Jing chose to commit suicide in prison. Zhu Di considered Liu Ji's contributions and did not pursue his descendants, but just stopped attacking the throne of sincere Count.

Although he lost the title of sincerity, Zhu Di often summoned the Liu family and gave rewards. It was not until the Jingtai period that Liu Lu, the seventh-generation grandson of Liu Ji, was awarded the position of hereditary doctor of the Five Classics, which was considered to be a re-enjoy the welfare of the nobles.

When arranging his son to the Imperial College, Xu Pengju secretly found his "mortal enemy" Liu Shiyan, the sincere man, to help him secretly.

I have to say that the nobles of the Ming Dynasty were not all brainless. At least these two people still know that if they were in Nanjing, I would be happy, everyone would be happy, then the emperor in Xiyuan would be afraid that he would not be able to practice the way of immortality with peace of mind.

It's right.

Nanjing City is the richest place in the Ming Dynasty, and it is not an exaggeration to say that half of the country is in control.

In order to eliminate that person's concern, it is obvious that the two companies are working together to make a decision.

But Xu Pengju, Duke of Wei, never expected that his son was one step ahead of him and buried his eyeliner around him early.

He just secretly monitored Duke Wei's every move and secretly informed him, but never helped Xu Bangrui do anything.

After Xu Bangrui learned the news in advance, he still chose to pretend to be deaf and dumb, showing that he was completely unaware of it before.

Life is like a play, all depends on acting skills.
To be continued...