Chapter 279 278 people

At night, the flower hall in the back garden of Prince Yu's mansion was still brightly lit at this moment.

King Yu was sitting on the upper chair at this time, holding his arm on the armrest and falling into deep thought, and the other people in the room were also performing like him.

The eunuch Li Fang, who was standing on the side of King Yu, and Gao Gong and others who were sitting in the upper hand were either frowning or lowering their heads to think.

The atmosphere in the room was so quiet that there was no sound, and it was night again, making the whole environment look even quieter.

"Haaa."

At this moment, the superior King Yu couldn't help but yawn.

He had already gone to bed at this point in the past, but today he stayed here until now because of Gao Gong and Li Fang's news.

The key is that staying here seems to be of no use. He thought for a long time and could not think of anyone in the capital who could recommend the position of the Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

To get to the top, you must at least have a third-rank official or a third-rank official, and those of the fourth-rank almost have a lot of fun.

If the position is up, that is, the left and right ministers of the Sixth Ministry are on the top and the right ministers will be on the role of the Minister of the Shangshu. Their people are qualified to take the position of the Minister of the Shangshu. However, they have to jump to the position of the Shangshu two or three levels directly, which is quite difficult.

The yawning sound of King Yu naturally alarmed everyone else, and everyone turned their attention to King Yu at this time.

After being watched by everyone, he had just lost his composure. King Yu felt a little embarrassed and hurriedly sorted out his regular clothes and said to Gao Gong: "Master Gao, are you sure the news sent by Guangde? Mr. Gu felt it was not very reliable. There was no news in the court. How could he know?"

In order to divert everyone's attention, King Yu began to talk about everything.

In fact, when I saw the note at the beginning, King Yu was a little reluctant to believe what was on the note.

How long has it been since Wei Guangde arrived in the capital?

Their Prince Yu Mansion is a native of the capital, and he has not received such news. How could Wei Guangde know first?

Although Gao Gong said it when he came to the evening, he believed Wei Guangde's words completely, and King Yu also chose to believe it.

If he can't trust others, can he still trust Gao Gong's vision of looking at others?

But at this moment, he had nothing to say and covered up the scene just now.

"Prince, there is no need for Wei Guangde to deceive us in this matter."

Gao Gong just smiled faintly.

King Yu nodded immediately, "What Master Gao said makes sense. Even if I am an orphan, I can't think of a suitable candidate, hey."

Gao Gong understood that he repeatedly screened the people who were close to Prince Yu's Mansion several times, but he couldn't find anyone. He sighed, "If you really can't find a suitable one, just follow Guangde's intention, as long as the people from the Yan family are not allowed to continue to occupy this position."

"Transfer the news to Xu Huating, his relationship will be broader. Perhaps someone may choose it. Then he will recommend the person we choose to serve as the Minister of the State Council."

At this time, Chen Yiqin also spoke.

"Let us think about it for another two days. There is no such thing in the court now, which means it is still very secretive, otherwise there will definitely be some hint in Guangde."

Wei Guangde has never asked them to move quickly, so Gao Gong believes that there should be very few people who know about this.

"If it can be achieved, Guangde will be the first priority."

King Yu nodded and said.

This information is very important. In the past, what Prince Yu’s mansion lacked was to obtain information in time to respond. Although he didn’t know where Wei Guangde found the news, it also shows that although he was a official for a short time, he had already established his own information channels, which was very amazing in this regard.

The Prince Yu Mansion is not like the Jinyiwei, which can freely arrange people to follow, investigate, and grasp everything they want to master.

The financial and manpower of the Prince Yu Mansion decided that they could only carry out targeted intelligence collection work.

For palaces, the operation is even more difficult and the risk is too great.

In fact, the Yu Palace has never found a trustworthy person around Emperor Jiajing. Many times, relying on the face and affection of King Yu to find Huang Jin for help.

Huang Jin's attitude towards this highness has always been very humble, but this is not someone that King Yu can win over. Huang Jin always goes to Emperor Jiajing.

The strategy decided by Prince Yu's Mansion was only known by Wei Guangde from Yin Shidan on the evening of the second day.

He thought that Wei Guangde did not have any responsibilities from Prince Yu's Mansion, so he naturally could not go to Prince Yu's Mansion to attend the meeting. He could only let Yin Shidan inform him afterwards, which also revealed that Prince Yu's Mansion had accepted him as a strong backbone.

"I can't even find a fourth-rank official in the capital?"

Although the Shangshu is a second-rank official, as long as the position is suitable, Emperor Jiajing nodded, and the fourth-rank official can also be promoted to the second-rank official, but most of the time he will still pick him up from the left and right ministers of the six ministries and the five temple ministers.

Wei Guangde now has a little real understanding of the strength of Prince Yu's Mansion in Beijing, and he is indeed very weak.

It’s no wonder that the Ministry of Revenue can also block the salary and annual gifts of Prince Yu’s mansion, and Prince Yu has no choice.

All the useful relationships are low-level officials, but as long as someone above speaks, the people below naturally dare not be able to make peace in private.

After frowned slightly, Wei Guangde continued to ask: "What about outside the capital? For example, where is Nanjing?"

Wei Guangde knew that there were six ministries in Nanjing. Most of the officials there were lost power in the court or prepared for promotion, so they went to Nanjing to raise their official positions first. Therefore, there were a large number of idle staff in the six ministries in Nanjing, and some of the six ministries must have surrendered to Prince Yu’s Mansion.

Judging from the weakness of Prince Yu's Mansion, it is hard to say that those who rely on the slightly higher grades have lost their power because of this, and were demoted to the Sixth Ministry of Nanjing for retirement.

But at this time, it is a chance for them to resume.

Of course, Wei Guangde just treated the dead as a living horse and said casually. After all, he didn't know who was standing on the side of Prince Yu's Mansion?

"Nanjing?"

Yin Shidan seemed to be stunned when he heard Wei Guangde mention the officials in Nanjing. Obviously, they had never thought about Nanjing before.

The small court in Nanjing is a nursing home. Generally, the only thing that has been transferred to the hospital is to retire until the resignation. This is also considered the decent gift given by the court.

No official is willing to work in Nanjing. Only those who need to go to Nanjing gilding will go there, but the time for office is short and they will be transferred to a new position in a few months.

Because of this impression, Yin Shidan and the others didn't think about selecting people from Nanjing at the beginning, they only focused on one acre of three-point land in the capital.

After being reminded by Wei Guangde, Yin Shidan really thought of a candidate at once.

This man leaned towards Prince Yu's Mansion early because when he was in Henan, he was impeached by Henan Governor Chen Hui and was greedy and illegal, and his personal morality was detrimental. In order to maintain his official position, he threw himself into Prince Yu's mansion at this time.

In order to help him reduce the punishment, Prince Yu's mansion also tried his best to finally let him overcome this difficulty safely. He was exiled to the Tongzhi of Yanyun, Shandong. Later, because he made great achievements in military affairs, the Shandong bandits rose up and he brought troops to pacify him.

According to the merits, he was promoted to the Censor, left and right governor, all in Shaanxi. He was appointed as the Right Deputy Censor and Governor, and was promoted to the position of Right Minister of War and governor of the Trilateral Military Affairs.

However, at this time, as the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War, the sign of Prince Yu's Mansion was naturally suppressed by the upper class. The result was that he went to Nanjing to be promoted. It took several years in a flash, and thus gradually faded out of the sight of the people in Prince Yu's Mansion.

After being reminded by Wei Guangde, Yin Shidan suddenly remembered that there was actually such a person in the royal palace. He was qualified to compete for the position of Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Wei Guangde noticed the change in Yin Shidian's expression on his face and immediately guessed that there might be a chance, so he asked: "Is there such a candidate?"

"Ahem. I can't find it in the capital, but when you mentioned Nanjing, I really thought of such a person. He was the first to come to join the prince's side, and he was considered an old man."

“What position is now?”

Wei Guangde didn't want to listen to this person's past. Now he was concerned about whether this person was qualified to compete for positions in the Sixth Ministry of Beijing.

"Well, he is now the Minister of Revenue in Nanjing."

Hearing Yin Shidan say this, Wei Guangde quickly searched his memory and knew who the person he was talking about was.

Jia Yingchun.

Wei Guangde certainly didn't know how capable this person was. He heard the name of this person for the first time.

But no matter what, you should not doubt your ability to climb to the position of Shangshu.

It should be said that he was also the first group to receive the dividends of Prince Yu's Mansion. It is estimated that those who defected to him in the early stage have benefited from promotion, which is that those who invested in the school in recent years have probably not gained benefits, but have been dragged down.

"Is Nanjing's Ministry of Revenue transferred to Beijing's Ministry of Industry?"

Wei Guangde murmured a few words, then asked Yin Shidai again: "Is this person reliable?"

After all, they have been demoted to Nanjing for many years, so it is hard to say whether they have any other thoughts.

Tigers and leopards are not able to ride, but people's hearts are separated from their belly. Don't tell me about your confidant things and make friends with you.

Yin Shidan shook his head. Of course, what he wanted to express was not that Jia Yingchun was unreliable, but that he didn't know.

"I have to go back and ask. After all, if he and the royal palace have still had any contact in recent years, only Eunuch Li knows."

As King Yu's personal secretary, Li Fang naturally had the most secret matters in Prince Yu's mansion, and perhaps even Gao Gong did not know much.

"Tell me about it as soon as possible to see if there are any other people in Nanjing that can be used. It is best to clean it up early. If you have the chance, use the people there."

Wei Guangde felt that since there was one Jia Yingchun, there might be a second and a third one. These people were dragged down by the royal palace and demoted to Nanjing for retirement. Perhaps some people would be unwilling to accept it, and they might choose to leave the Prince Yu's Mansion in the end.

Therefore, those who enable Nanjing still need to make careful choices, and at the same time try to win the opportunity to resume, so as not to let people down.

Wei Guangde's thoughts were naturally understood and nodded slightly, "I'll go back and talk about this matter immediately, and I should really consider it for them."

Although it was getting late, Yin Shidan still said goodbye to Wei Guangde in a hurry and went to find Gao Gong.

The one who participated in the most confidential matters of King Yu was Li Fang and Gao Gong.

Beijing and Nanjing are thousands of miles apart. It takes a month to deliver a message, but they don’t have much time to delay.

If you really choose to push Jia Yingchun to the top, you must first confirm whether he is still the same as before. These investigations will take time.

It took a long time to build momentum for him in the capital, so there was no time to delay.

First, I would like to discuss it with Gao Gong, and then go to King Yu to tell me that this is the order that Yin Shide thought of, and walked step by step.

Gao Gong's home is not far from here. It can be said that most of the houses of the royal palace officials are around the Prince Yu's mansion, which is also to facilitate the prince's summoning.

After Gao Gong received Yin Shidan and learned from him about Wei Guangde's thoughts, he naturally thought of Jia Yingchun.
To be continued...