Lu Bing left suddenly, and many of the prepared back-ups were not handed over to Lu Yi, which made many people who had to secretly give him the help because they were caught by Lu Bing because they had to secretly give him luck, so they naturally did not want to be involved in the Lu family anymore.

Most of their handles are still sealed in the archives of the Jinyiwei. Unless they are deliberately searched, no one will find them.

Although Lu Bing fell down, those enemies would not be able to come to the house in the short term, even if the emperor ordered Zhu Xixiao to be responsible for the safety of the Lu family, over time, it is inevitable that there will be no time to take care of it.

And there is another saying, that is, the emperor and the ministers are all the time. Now when Emperor Jiajing is still there, it may still be effective, but once Emperor Jiajing is gone, it is hard to say whether Zhu Xixiao will still execute this order.

Lu Yi took over his father's position as the commander of the Jinyiwei, but he knew even more that the dirty things in the Jinyiwei were really easy to mess with people, and it was carried out in the form of implementing family rules, and the outside world had no idea.

Outside the capital, the commander of the Jinyiwei may be very glorious, but the situation will be very different when we arrive in the capital. Unless we receive an imperial edict, the Jinyiwei really dare not violate the law and discipline, especially the Jinyiwei's frontman Lu Bing and the current factory manager of the Dongchang are both cautious people and have always restrained their subordinates.

For civil officials, as long as they have not disobeyed the emperor, they are actually not afraid of the Jinyiwei, and the Jinyiwei will not take anyone at will, because there is no license issued by the palace and the Sixth Department.

When Lu Bing was alive, he offended too many people. Even if he was good at dancing, he could not do it perfectly. For example, the current chief minister Yan Song, the Lu family and the Yan family only maintained superficial contacts. In fact, because the Yan family has committed many years of corruption and abuse of power and selling official positions and titles, Lu Bing has been dissatisfied.

Lu Bing often acts as his little hawk, always paying attention to whether the big men in the court have done things that harm the national interests.

Now Lu Yi will not miss the opportunity to establish a relationship with the officials in front of him. Moreover, Wei Guangde or the person Lu Bing once praised before, seems to be a trustworthy friend.

"I dare not, but if there is anything, Brother Lu sends someone to say it, Guangde will do his best to do his best."

Wei Guangde naturally could not refuse Lu Yi's words in person.

The Lu family has been in charge of the Jinyiwei for many years, and they have any enemies. Wei Guangde really doesn't dare to take on this hot potato, but he can't refuse this occasion. He can only agree with a will and do his best.

After a few greetings, someone came to pay his respects. Wei Guangde did not delay much and immediately said goodbye and left. However, he met Zhu Xixiao who came from the left governor's office while leaving.

The two people had different paths in literature and martial arts, but they met several times by chance. They met each other. After stopping in front of the door and saying a few words, Wei Guangde left the Lu Mansion.

This time, Lu's family made a condolence and had a simple exchange with Lu Yi, but the other party did not leave too much impression on Wei Guangde.

Perhaps it was the flowers grown in the greenhouse, and Lu Yi gave Wei Guangde a very different feeling from Lu Bing. It seemed that the Lu family was about to sink.

A few days later, Wei Guangde rested at home, quietly waiting for the imperial edict from the court.

After doing so many things in the south in the past six months, Wei Guangde thought to himself that he should be promoted to another level. He can be expected from the sixth rank official position or even from the fifth rank.

I went out to drink with the people from Prince Yu's mansion. During the conversation, everyone was still worried about Emperor Jiajing's execution of Guo Xiyan, and seemed to notice a bad direction.

Even Gao Gong rarely appeared silent during this meal.

When Guo Xiyan happened, Wei Guangde was not in the capital, so he naturally didn't know the details of this, that is, he only learned some of the situation after reading the dibao.

Only after this exchange did Wei Guangde realize that Guo Xiyan’s memorial had nothing to do with Prince Yu’s mansion.

"This is weird."

Wei Guangde put down his wine glass and said, "According to reason, even if Guo Xiyan is guilty, there is no need to execute him directly."

"What else is impossible if you violate His Majesty's taboo?"

Yin Shidan shook his head and said, "After Prince Zhuang Jing, it is already a taboo in the palace. Guo Xiyan is so desperate that he still says that he has established an emperor and a crown prince, and that he is suspicious of the king. Can His Majesty let him go if he doesn't kill him?

Since the Dragon Mastery is so easy to establish, there will not be so many people in history."

"If you only advise the crown prince, you may be driven out of the capital and never hired. It is indeed a taboo to say that Wang Xiang is suspicious."

Chen Yiqin also agreed.

They had similar ideas at the beginning, but in the end they gave up, they felt that it was not safe and easy to offend the emperor. Now Guo Xiyan used his own blood to prove that their original judgment was correct.

"I heard that he asked Mr. Yan for help in the Beijing inspection last year, but Mr. Yan did not agree and asked him to be dismissed from his official position. Perhaps it was to cause a fight between us and Yan Song. His heart was punished, and His Majesty was right to kill him."

Yin Shidan then said.

"Brother Suqing, are you?"

At this time, Wei Guangde noticed that Gao Gong was sitting there and drinking down, but did not answer the words. He was surprised and said.

Wei Guangde's words naturally attracted the attention of Chen Yiqin and Yin Shidan to Gao Gong.

Gao Gong couldn't continue to remain silent, so he looked up and smiled at them, then turned to Wei Guangde and said, "Your errand has been settled. Zuo Chunfang Zuo Yun of the Zhan Shi Mansion, the sixth rank, haha, your promotion speed and age are still the same, there is no one else."

Gao Gong spoke but changed the subject and did not talk about Guo Xiyan. Perhaps Guo Xiyan had been executed, so in his opinion there was no need to talk about it.

"Congratulations."

Yin Shidan immediately said, bowing while saying something.

“Are there any other regulatory errands?”

Although Chen Yiqin smiled, he continued to ask, looking more anxious than Wei Guangde.

"No, the age is there, mainly studying in the Hanlin Academy."

Gao Gong looked at Wei Guangde and smiled, "Your Majesty didn't send you out, which means he is optimistic about you."

To be honest, Wei Guangde still felt a little regretful when he heard about this official position, because Zuo Zhongyun was a sixth-rank official, not the fifth-rank he expected.

"Happy together."

At this time, Wei Guangde naturally would not show any dissatisfaction. He hurriedly returned the favor to Yin Shidai first, and then bowed to the others.

"By the way, who is the Minister of Revenue? Has it been decided?"

Chen Yiqin continued to ask.

This time, Ma Kun was in the Nanjing Zhenwu Camp mutiny, and it was rumored in the court that who would take over, but he had never seen the order, so Chen Yiqin asked Gao Gong, after all, his official position is not low now and he can access a lot of information they don’t know.

"The left assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue is the most likely to be promoted. Ge Lao Yan recommended Wu Peng to be transferred, and Ouyang Bi was promoted to the Minister of Personnel. However, the six ministries were too large to be adjusted, and three ministries were involved in one go. I guess His Majesty would not agree."

Gao Gong said lightly, then shook his head and said, "The memorial should have been sent to Xiyuan. It's hard to say how to make the final decision, just wait."

Speaking of this, Gao Gong seemed to remember something, and said to Wei Guangde: "By the way, this time, Uncle Da has also moved to Youchunfang Youzhongyun to manage the Imperial College. I will call him up next time the banquet, so everyone can walk around more in the future."

The uncle in Gao Gong's mouth is naturally Zhang Juzheng. He entered the officialdom nine years earlier than Wei Guangde, but he is still only a seventh-rank editor of the Hanlin Academy, and is on par with Wei Guangde in the Hanlin Academy.

But obviously, although Zhang Juzheng and Wei Guangde were in the same rank after the order was issued, they had taken the lead in getting out of the first step into the court.

Although the Imperial College was not a powerful yamen, it was precious after all, and since then his work was no longer mainly in the Hanlin Academy, but in the Imperial College.

Wei Guangde thought to himself, no wonder he ran to the Imperial College since last year. At that time, he was just holding the position of a supervisor, and he was not in charge.

It’s different now. Imperial College Supervisory Industry, this special cat created a fast lane for upgrading.

The Imperial College held one person to pride wine, from the fourth rank, two from the fourth rank, and from the fourth rank.

Zhang Juzheng was a sixth-rank official and was a corporate supervisor of the Imperial College. It would be natural to upgrade later. He could go up as long as he had the opportunity. Xu Cifu's methods were really clever.

Now the Imperial College Priest is Gao Gong, and Zhang Juzheng is now his legitimate deputy.

Thinking further, Xu Jie himself supported King Yu to take office. He sent his favorite disciples to Gao Gong. With the relationship between King Yu and Gao Gong, as long as Zhang Juzheng is appreciated by Gao Gong.

"hiss"

This old fox is planning to get the moon first and seize the fruits of victory.

When we were in the Hanlin Academy, Wei Guangde and Zhang Juzheng had many contacts. After all, they were both working in the same yard, so they looked up and saw each other.

However, after the exchange, Wei Guangde did not realize how outstanding talent he had, except for his thoughts, but also his so-called foresight.

It seems that apart from having a lot of dissatisfaction with local exploitation of common people and intending to make some changes, Wei Guangde did not see that Zhang Juzheng was much better than him.

Perhaps, this is what is called literati's despise.

Anyway, Wei Guangde felt that he had not seen many things that later saw about commending Zhang Juzheng. Now he had not seen any reformer. Zhang Juzheng might have thought of it now, or he might not have a clue yet.

After the banquet ended, Wei Guangde began to analyze Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng on the carriage.

Gao Gong had no impression. He probably had a short time to come to power. In his previous exchanges with Wei Guangde, Wei Guangde had roughly figured out his three tricks, which was to fight corruption and promote integrity.

In Gao Gong's opinion, Taizu's system is actually quite good, but people have changed now.

As long as those corrupt people are dismissed and the world is bright and bright, everything will be restored. The sea is peaceful and the river is clear, and the joy of peace is no longer a dream.

As for Zhang Juzheng, Wei Guangde seemed to think that this person was really similar to him in many aspects and was more content with enjoyment, but he was also very angry. This can be seen from the fact that he heard Zhang Juzheng complain about the local yamen’s additional tuitions many times.

Adding taxes is actually a harsh tax. This amount of silver is several times more than taxes and service, and it is also the main source of burdens for the lower-level people.

Is it considered corruption to add tuition? Of course Wei Guangde doesn't think so.

That amount of money is actually similar to the local tax in later generations. The silver money left for local governments is only a considerable proportion of tax revenue.

In this era, the central government did not allocate office money to local governments, and they had to find the expenses of local government offices themselves.

How do you get this funding? It is naturally to increase taxes based on the regular tax.

When you meet a clean official, you will naturally know that you will save expenses and reduce the burden on the people, so you will be less taxed. If you meet a less honest official, you will be in trouble in the local area.

Such things can be afforded even if there are more miscellaneous taxes in a wealthy place, but when it comes to a poor place, it can really force people to lose their money and finally rebel.

The so-called "officials force the people to rebel" and "poor mountains and rivers lead to troubled people" are actually roughly the case.

It seems that the two people's ideas seem a bit similar.

Wei Guangde's body shook as the carriage moved forward, looking very much like he was shaking his head when he was studying.

However, Wei Guangde still felt that the two people's thoughts at this time just seemed similar, but in fact they had essential differences.

Gao Gong was thinking about deposing corrupt officials, and Zhang Juzheng was thinking about how to solve the problem of heavy taxes. It seems that corrupt officials and heavy taxes seemed to be equated, but in fact, there are still essential differences between the two.

"Different paths to the same destination" or "normal differences"?

Wei Guangde was not sure at this moment, so he could only continue to observe, anyway, it was time.

Now Zhang Juzheng's official position is similar to his own, only a sixth rank. He is very small in the queue of officials in Beijing. If he wants to get him to the top and become the pillar of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Guangde probably wouldn't have been able to do so for more than ten years.

Anyway, when they get together in the future, they will call Zhang Juzheng by Gao Gong. Then they will observe how powerful this Ming Dynasty reformer who had mixed praises and criticisms in the future was and what his political philosophy was.

Wei Guangde had an impression of the people of this era, except Emperor and Yu Long and Qi Hu, Zhang Juzheng.

It is said that this old man almost extended his life for three hundred years to the Ming Dynasty. If he hadn't educated his students, he would have been a mess.

Forget it, those are all assumptions of later generations, and it is boring to think too much.

Within two days, Wei Guangde indeed received the imperial edict for his promotion. As Gao Gong said, he still wanted to upgrade to his own grade. He still wanted to stay in the Hanlin Academy to study.

Wei Guangde now has a lot of titles. Zuo Zhongyun, Zuo Chunfang of the Zhanshi Mansion, editor of the Hanlin Academy, and censor of the Censorate. Maybe for a few more years, he can only have the opportunity to leave here by turning the editor of the Hanlin Academy into a bachelor's degree.

The imperial edict issued on the same day was also Zhang Juzheng mentioned by Gao Gong. He was promoted to the editor of Hanlin Academy, Zhang Juzheng to Youchunfang Youzhongyun, who was in charge of the Imperial College. Now he turned into a veritable No. 2 figure in the Imperial College, and he completely walked out of the small pond of Hanlin Academy.
Chapter completed!