Chapter 465 464 Heart Scholars

On the ninth day of the 41st year of Jiajing, the imperial examination was sent to the examination room by Lao Kan and others. Wei Guangde was a little busy for two days, so he handed over the matter to him. Otherwise, as the highest-ranking official in Jiujiang in the capital, this should have been done by him as a fellow villager.

Nothing else, the news brought by Chen Ju is indeed a bit of a big impact.

The first thing is that Lan Daoxing's words and deeds are strange, and we must find out the whole story.

As for the second thing, Wei Guangde hurriedly wrote a letter to Nanjing and Jiujiang early in the morning of the next day and sent someone to deliver it as soon as possible.

That night, Wei Guangde was not smart enough. He knew his condition very well, so he didn't do anything. However, when he woke up, although his head still hurt, it didn't prevent him from thinking about it.

Hu Zongxian wanted to install a deputy general on Yu Dayou's head, and the way Wei Guangde thought of was naturally to intercept Hu.

If you want to set up a new position, there must be a recommended candidate. I will communicate with the Ministry of War first and directly seek to get Yu Dayou to serve as the deputy general.

No matter what Yu Dayou has in all aspects, he fully meets the requirements for this position, so he doesn't know if Hu Zongxian will vomit three liters of blood after knowing this.

As for the matter of the reincarnation of the Poyang garrison, my father-in-law Xu Pengju was naturally dealt with. If he wanted to grab territory from the former military governor's office, it was still an important place in Jiujiang. I guess my father-in-law would definitely get angry.

What territory does the former army governor's office have? It is under the jurisdiction of Huguang Dushi, Fujian Dushi, Jiangxi Dushi, Guangdong Dushi, Huguang Xingdu Dushi, Fujian Xingdu Dushi, Xingdu Lukou and Zhili Jiujiang Guard.

Among them, the three governors in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong have all been taken away by Hu Zongxian, and even the garrison in the Southern Zhili were mostly separated. Now they look at Jiujiang Guard, the only direct garrison, which is to completely outspoke the rhythm of the former military governor's office.

Wei Guangde didn't know before that he was staying in the corner of Bengshan Fort. Now Wei's father is already a thousand households, and he has entered the guard command system and has known a lot more.

Jiujiang Guard not only protects Jiujiang, but also cooperates with Jiujiang Chaoguan to control the ships passing through this waters.

Many ships that are inconvenient to get the money to pay attention to will not be able to pass through Jiujiang without the acquiescence of Jiujiang Guard. This is also a gray income of Jiujiang Guard.

In fact, in the past, there were only some ships from Nanjing nobles coming and going, but now their business has expanded to the private salt field. The Duke of Wei in Nanjing took the lead and contacted the entire Yangtze River War.

How could it be easy to change hands with others in Jiujiang at such an important link?

What position is the Poyang garrison mentioned by Hu Zongxian? He is just a general who manages the Nanhu Water Camp. His main responsibility is to wipe out the water bandits in Poyang Lake.

In terms of rank, it is the first level of the Wei commander, which is equivalent to a guerrilla general. The person who serves as the Wei commander, a co-master, or even a thousand household officials.

In the Ming Dynasty's military general system, command was divided into three levels, and the lowest level was naturally the first level of guard command.

For example, the commander of Jiujiang Guard, Tongzhi and Assistant, belonged to the commander of the guard, and the official records of the Ming Dynasty were mostly called "commander".

The second level is naturally the yamen of the provincial capitals and departments, similar to the military district level in later generations, with multiple garrisons under their jurisdiction, which belongs to the first level of command. The highest official is the commander commander, and the second level is also the Tongzhi and the assistant rank.

The highest level is the commander of the governor, that is, the generals of the Governor's Office of the Five Army. The positions are left and right governors, co-magistrates, assistants. Those who have this position either serve in the south and north of the second capitals or hold the position of general officers in important towns on the nine borders.

According to Hu Zongxian, the Poyang garrison was upgraded to the generals, and was promoted to the level of command of the capital. In Jiujiang, the Jiujiang Guard, as the commander of the guard, naturally had to obey orders.

After thinking about the clues at home, Wei Guangde wrote a letter to Prince Yu's mansion. Naturally, after Prince Yu came out of the backyard, he told Prince Yu alone. Of course, he did not talk about the matter about Jiujiangwei.

When investigating the evil affairs between Lan Daoxing and Yan Song, he naturally asked Prince Yu's mansion to send someone privately, so he was too lazy to intervene.

Prince Yu’s Mansion is now in the capital, and there are quite a lot of people under it.

As he thought, King Yu had no good feelings for Lan Daoxing, or he hated all the alchemists who pretended to be a god in front of Emperor Jiajing.

This is not because of the teachings of Gao Gong and others. Perhaps their own life experience is the most important reason.

However, as Wei Guangde thought, after King Yu knew that Lan Daoxing was smearing Yan Song in front of Emperor Jiajing, the previous disgust on his face slightly dissipated.

"The father still trusts them very much now. It would be good if they could do something to rectify the court."

King Yu said lightly, "Just do what you said. I will ask Li Fang to send someone to check it out later, and by the way, if there is any grudge against the Yan family."

As for Yu Dayou's affairs, King Yu also expressed his support for no reason.

"Yu Dayou was originally the general of Zhejiang, but now he is just entrusted with the position of deputy general, which is very suitable."

King Yu said to Wei Guangde at that time, asking him to contact the people from the Ministry of War to operate the matter even though he was using the sign of Prince Yu's mansion.

In the past, perhaps King Yu was not concerned about these martial arts, but now the situation is different.

If the empire's borders are long-lasting, it is impossible to not have a general who can fight. Now he has realized the importance of finding these generals.

If you want to be able to enjoy happiness in the harem and not be disturbed by border affairs in the future, then you must prepare for the future, find these people, and enable them in the future.

Yes, in King Yu's opinion, facing and solving problems is that simple, just find the right solution.

Wei Guangde's teaching with King Yu for nearly a year was actually to make King Yu utilitarian, hoping to solve the problem in the simplest way.

If the Tatars in the north want to cause trouble, they will find excellent generals to guard the border. If the Tatars dare to come, they will fight back to see who can waste their money.

As for the most important thing about the border army becoming stronger, it is sufficient military pay. According to Wei Guangde's words, the interests of the empire have been divided up by the royal nobles. If you want to steal money from them, it may cause chaos in the empire.

Civil strife is the most annoying thing about King Yu.

In this case, ignore the benefits that have been allocated and turn your attention to other aspects.

The Tax Division, Bureau and River Institute were not distributed to the vassal kings, but the interests of the salt tax were also divided by the court and royal nobles, and there were other things, but they had long been divided.

But it doesn't matter. Without these, just focus on what is still in the hands of the court, one is the money gate and the other is the market.

The empire had so many goods from south to north every year, but the cash gate only received hundreds of thousands of taels of silver taxes, which was not enough, and definitely not enough.

Since the barbarians liked my Ming goods, they should sell them to them, so that they could buy them from the Japanese pirates and the court would participate in the distribution of interests.

When the coastal merchants opposed it, they let the royal nobles deal with them. If they could not suppress it, they would threaten them by taking back the benefits they gave them.

This is an exchange, exchanging interests for interests.

If you want to protect the benefits you have, you have to oppress those businessmen. Anyway, they have already had a very skilled routine when they do this for a long time.

In the past, Gao Gong taught King Yu about the great truth, so that King Yu could know what etiquette, righteousness, integrity, shame, loyalty and filial piety were. Wei Guangde told him about the interests behind the great truth.

Any business is actually a process of interest exchange. Participants weigh the pros and cons to make the final choice, and the principle is nothing more than a trick to hide the facts of interest exchange.

What King Yu had to do was to keep his eyes open, see the true face of the participants, and balance their interests without affecting himself.

Wei Guangde was not sure about the impact of his words and deeds on King Yu, but King Yu's reaction was very suitable for his needs, so he naturally bowed to obey his orders.

Soon, Li Fang, who was waiting outside the door, was called into the house by King Yu, and arranged a task to investigate the recent situation of the alchemists such as Lan Daoxing.

Although Li Fang was a little confused, she still acted as orders.

In the next two days, Wei Guangde visited the residences of Yang Bo, the Minister of War, and the two ministers.

Although Yang Bo was the Minister of War, the system set by the Ming Dynasty was not a one-man rule. If Yang Bo's will was contrary to the two ministers, they could of course write to impeach.

Of course, Wei Guangde didn't want to see these, so he targeted the three big men of the Ministry of War from the beginning.

Just as Wei Guangde was running for Yu Dayou's affairs, a carriage was parked outside the gate at a Taoist temple outside Beijing. The curtain was lifted to reveal an old man over 60 years old. He barely got off the carriage with the help of his entourage next to him.

The old man got out of the carriage and looked back at the carriage, and said with a hint: "It's so old, it's so hard to get off the carriage."

"Master, let's take a sedan chair next time."

A follower whispered in the old man's ear.

The old man just shook his head, looked at the gate of the Taoist temple and asked, "Has he arrived?"

"It's already here."

The follower replied.

"Then let's go in."

The old man said and walked towards the gate of the Taoist temple.

As the old man approached, the door seemed to have a sense of sensation. A wooden door gently opened inward, revealing a gap that was just enough for a person to enter. The old man and a few followers walked into the Taoist temple from here.

The carriage that stayed outside the door had already restarted without any haste and continued to move along the avenue, but there were few figures around the carriage.

The carriage was stopped and left, and soon there was a panting figure on the way of the carriage. After running to the Taoist temple gate, he looked around, then looked down at the rut marks on the road, and then continued to chase in the direction of the carriage.

And behind a big tree on the roadside in the distance, a figure quietly watched everything that happened in front of the Taoist temple gate.

"Your Highness."

Wei Guangde was called here by Li Fang. After coming in, he found that there was no one else in the room except King Yu.

"Please sit."

King Yu seemed to have come back to his senses after hearing Wei Guangde's words, and said to him with a reluctant smile.

"What did Yang Shangshu of the Ministry of War say?"

After Wei Guangde sat down, King Yu asked.

"Shangshu Yang of the Ministry of War and the two ministers of the ministers have agreed. If His Majesty asks the Ministry of War to select the deputy general of Nangan, they will recommend Yu Dayou to this position."

Wei Guangde smiled relaxedly.

The lobbying in the past two days was very smooth. Perhaps it was for the sake of Prince Yu's Mansion, and perhaps it was also because of the fact that Yu Dayou did have strong command capabilities. The Ministry of War was not resistant to recommending Yu Dayou.

"That's good. Gu will have to use Yu Dayou in the future. It's really great to be able to upgrade the grade back first."

After King Yu nodded slightly, he turned his head to look at Li Fang beside him, "Let's talk."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Li Fang agreed, then took a step forward and told the two of them about some clues they had discovered in recent days.

"The people below did not find any connection between the Yan family and Taoist Lan."

Wei Guangde said in surprise.
To be continued...