Chapter 285 284 Convenient with others and yourself

"Yesterday, the three provinces came to see me and talked about you to me."

Seeing Wei Guangde so young, Zhang Juzheng could not help but think of himself nine years ago and felt like he was chatting.

The three words he mentioned naturally refer to Zeng Shengwu. Although Zhang Juzheng did not admit it, Zeng Shengwu always saw him as a teacher and a student.

Last year, after Zeng Shengwu entered Beijing to pass the exam, he wrote a letter to him, which mentioned that his friend Wei Guangde, whom he met in his hometown, was passed by.

However, Zhang Juzheng actually didn't take Wei Guangde seriously at that time. Even after seeing Di Bao saying that Wei Guangde chose Shujishi, this was just a repeat of his path back then.

Choosing Shuji Shi is naturally full of envy for those who are eliminated, but for Zhang Juzheng, he naturally knows that choosing Shuji Shi is actually useless. It just means that you can, you are qualified to stay in the Hanlin Academy, but if you want to enter the cabinet through the Hanlin Academy, it will be useless without a noble person to support you.

As for him, it would be difficult for him to do a review and compilation by his mentor Xu Jie, who had not been intentional or unintentional help from the Hanlin Academy.

More Shujishis were transferred to other yamen after the museum selection, rather than staying in the Hanlin Academy.

In a short time, Wei Guangde broke the rules of the three-year selection of Shujishi and was directly appointed as an official by Emperor Jiajing. Later, he shone brightly in the battle of Xuanfu and became a rising political star in the Ming Dynasty. It was not until this time that he began to pay attention to Wei Guangde.

Of course, this attention is just to pay more attention to the news about Wei Guangde, and has not yet risen to the level of becoming a political opponent.

After all, everyone’s official positions are actually very humble, and it’s really a pity to say that they are opponents.

Seeing Wei Guangde today and seeing Wei Guangde's youth naturally made Zhang Juzheng think of himself. If Gu Lin, the governor of Huguang, did not deliberately put himself in the face of the imperial examination, he would have been younger and might have rushed to the capital without hesitation to participate in the imperial examination. It is unknown whether he became a thirteen-year-old Jinshi.

To take a step back, it should be that he had entered the Hanlin Academy at this age, perhaps Emperor Jiajing would look at him differently.

The reason why Gu Lin let himself fail the exam was that he hoped that Zhang Juzheng would be more tempered and become a great man in the future.

After that, Zhang Juzheng's journey to the imperial examination was smooth, which seemed to confirm what he said back then. In the past, Zhang Juzheng was still a little complacent about this, but at this moment, when he saw Wei Guangde, somehow a hint of dissatisfaction with Gu Lin appeared.

Zhang Juzheng returned from illness and returned to the court. For a seventh-rank official, he was just a little lively in the Hanlin Courtyard and did not last long.

On the contrary, after Wei Guangde's leave memorial was passed from the Tongzheng Envoy, it quickly fermented in the officialdom of the capital.

Officials with a keen sense of smell have long known that the Wei Guangde family should be a family of Duke Wei who married the Duke of Wei in Nanjing and was hereditary, hehe.

For a promising official like Wei Guangde, this marriage is actually not the best choice. If you choose a family in the civil service group to marry, it will be more conducive to Wei Guangde's career development.

But, naturally no one will say this.

The parents' orders and matchmakers' words, how should others care about this matter?

In the Yongshou Palace in Xiyuan, Emperor Jiajing did not refuse Wei Guangde's memorial, so he naturally nodded in agreement. The subsequent process of criticizing the dividend was natural.

Three great things in life are meeting old friends in a foreign land, and when you are on the list of gold, you will be in the bridal chamber at night.

In three days, the memorial submitted by Wei Guangde returned to him. The cabinet and the Sili Supervisor had already issued instructions. The rest was naturally Wei Guangde's request to meet Yin Tai and Yin's Office to determine the date of leave.

Naturally, Emperor Jiajing would not give Wei Guangde special care. They were approved according to the court's constitution, and the wedding period was 2 months in total.

However, in this era, due to the inconvenience of transportation, the court still had specific requirements for this. Simply put, the holidays were calculated from the moment Wei Guangde arrived at home, and the time spent on his way back to his hometown was not counted during the holidays.

In addition, the Ming Dynasty officials actually played the most important way to increase holidays, that is, they did not return after the deadline.

The Ming Dynasty punished officials for failing to return after taking leave or reporting false reports on false events. First, because everyone did this, and it was hard to say that it would be posted on one day. Second, naturally, if they did not return for a long time after taking leave, they would naturally be able to put their own people in the throne, and they would not be delayed in official duties.

During the reign of Emperor Taizu of Ming Dynasty, a system was established to visit relatives and worship ancestors, and other leave. In addition to the round trip, the leave was approved for one month. However, during the Hongzhi period of Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty, some officials reported that the leave was too short, so Emperor Xiaozong of Ming Dynasty ordered the time to increase the leave to two months.

The review and approval of returning home to visit relatives was the strictest during the Ming Dynasty's Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang during Hongwu. Officials at home and abroad needed to report leave. After Zhu Yuanzhang personally made a decision, the Ministry of Personnel will report it again.

During the reign of Emperor Renzong of Ming Dynasty, changes occurred. This kind fat man basically approved the memorials of the home and abroad officials to return home in the first year of Hongxi, which led to a wide range of officials who took leave and returned home after Hongxi.

It would be bad if the atmosphere was broken, and there was no corresponding punishment system at that time. Many officials and students did not return after the deadline. For example, during the Xuande period, the Minister of Rites had reported that there were more than 60 prison students who returned to their hometowns to visit their relatives and refused to return after the deadline.

During the Chenghua period of Emperor Xianzong of the Ming Dynasty, this behavior was further formulated and regulated. The 11th Chenghua regulations were stipulated that officials in Beijing who had left home for more than ten years could be allowed to take leave and return home, otherwise there would be no way!

Perhaps the conditions were too harsh. In the 23rd year of Chenghua, the emperor issued an edict to slightly relax the policy, changing from ten years to six years. If officials who did not return to their hometown for six years were allowed to take leave and return to their hometown to visit their relatives after passing the review.

In fact, one thing he forgot about Wei Guangde's leave memorial was that if Emperor Jiajing had not received the report from the Jinyiwei before, he would probably have called Wei Guangde's memorial back, that is, for officials to take leave and get married, they would need guarantees for classmates and fellow townsmen to take leave to get married.

It’s just that people like Wei Guangde are rare to get married before they pass the Jinshi exam.

For most Jinshi in this era, most of the high school age were around thirty, and the juren of this age had already gotten married.

There are many Jinshi in their twenties, but the Ming Dynasty did not engage in late marriage and late childbirth, so it was normal for men and women to get married for sixteen or seventeen years.

Once the system is relaxed, officials will take advantage of loopholes to seek personal gain. Emperor Chenghua opened a small hole, which was soon torn open by the officials and became a big gap, and could no longer be blocked.

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It should be noted that although there were tens of thousands of ships traveling on the canal during the Ming Dynasty, only merchant ships needed to pay tariffs, and as an important source of north-south transportation, canal ships were actually an important carrier.

Because eating and taking cubes has almost become an open unspoken rule in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, which led to the hardship of the canal soldiers, but they had a great relationship, so most of them were unwilling to ship the canal grain on boats.

In order to compensate them, the imperial court also gave preferential treatment, that is, the canal ships could bring 20% ​​of the private goods, and part of the freight of these goods and the evaded tariffs entered the pockets of these canal soldiers.

These tens of thousands of canal ships are the carriers of the main cargo on the canal, carrying the huge commodity trade from south to north of the Ming Dynasty, while there were many fewer private merchant ships.

Canal Chaoguan is directly under the capital yamen, so it is difficult for merchant ships to escape tax payment, but there is no way. The easiest and effective way is to ask Jinshi and Juren to use their identities to avoid taxes.

From Beijing to Jiujiang, their goods have to pass through Hexiwu along the way, including Lin Customs Clearance, Jining Pass, Xuzhou Pass, Huai'an Pass and Shangxin Heguan. As for the last Jiujiang Chuan Pass, there are ways to avoid them when they arrive on the ground.

With six cash gates, a boat would run down and require nearly a hundred taels of silver toll. They collected five large canal ships to transport goods, which were hundreds of taels of silver.

The merchants selected representatives to find Wei Guangde, and the person who came was naturally Lin Erye of Huitong Trading Company. The purpose was naturally to hope that their merchant ship could go south with Wei Guangde and take care of him.

In return, the Chamber of Commerce will give Wei Guangde a reward for preparing a cabin and 100 taels of silver on the ship, which means that Wei Guangde can not only not require shipments to return home, but also make a net profit of 100 taels of silver.

Nowadays, what everyone does, Wei Guangde also agreed to the local customs.

If you don’t agree, you can’t. According to the news revealed by Mr. Lin, most of the goods owners are merchants from Jiujiang. If you don’t agree, some rumors that are not good for you may be spread in your hometown.

Sometimes, it is not that everyone wants to take advantage of the court and harm the public and private, but it is a last resort.

Just talk about how valuable the hundred-two silver pattern is to Wei Guangde. In fact, Wei Guangde really looked down on this amount of money from the bottom of his heart, but he still had to agree and had a smile on his face.

Wei Guangde's ship was naturally at the forefront of the fleet. When passing through the Hexiwu and Lincust clearance terminals, Wei Guangde directly came out to contact the officials of the cashier.

As an external agency directly under the imperial court, Chaoguan did not spread news quickly in the Beijing yamen, but he still knew in advance that Wei Guangde had gone south. It really has rarely achieved impressive results against the Mongolian Altan tribe in recent years. The most eye-catching one seems to be the battle in Bao'anzhou last year.

Wei Guangde is now very famous all over the world, but he just doesn't know it.

Everything went smoothly. Wei Guangde carried all the procedures, and he could take it out at will, whether it was an official seal or a document. The official of the banknote checked and confirmed his identity and then let it go naturally.

They have long been familiar with such things. Not only Wei Guangde is the officials who come and go to the canal. Countless officials do this, and they do it themselves, so it is convenient for others to be convenient for themselves.

This seems to be an unwritten rule within the civil servant group of the Ming Dynasty. It is like the tax exemption of people with fame and fortune. Everyone actually tacitly understands it.

Driven by the north wind, the fleet quickly passed Huai'an and would pass through Zhenjiang and enter the Yangtze River waterway in a few days, which was already very close to my hometown.
Chapter completed!