The Prosperous Era of Longwan

In the case of Nanjing Hu Ke, Cen Yongbin argued that the impeachment was ineffective. Chen Zhixian, the censor of Yunyang City, was corrupt and neglected his duties. He also said that the censor Liu Yijie was in charge of Yingtian, and Zhang Ke was in charge of Zhejiang. It was untrue that each of them accepted bribes privately and impeached them. Tong begged to be dismissed.

Zhixian was dismissed from his post, and he was ordered to stop his studies and live in peace and quiet. Because the Imperial Palace was ordered to return to the imperial court after the imperial censor was full, he ordered to strictly inspect the affairs to improve the conduct and discipline.

"Master, this is a letter from Mr. Zhang Ke Zhang to you."

On this day, Wei Guangde returned home and received a letter from the south from the housekeeper Zhang Ji.

"good."

Wei Guangde went back to the backyard first, and then went to the study, opened the envelope, and read it.

Soon, Wei Guangde shook his head and sighed.

Without him, Zhang Ke received the order and knew that he was dismissed. He felt that officialdom was boring, so he directly handed over his seal and returned to his hometown in Jiangxi.

Anyway, he still has the title of Jinshi on his head and his official position has been removed, but his family background has not been abolished. He can still live the life of an official when he returns home.

I wrote this letter to Wei Guangde just to tell him about this matter. It seems that he doesn't want to leave the mountain in the future.

"Nima, this glass heart."

Wei Guangde cursed secretly in his heart, but no one had returned to the capital, so no one else could hear him scolding him.

I wanted to write a letter to call Zhang Ke back, but thinking that he had just suffered a terrible disaster, I was still angry in my heart. It was better to wait for a while and the anger subsided before writing to him.

Wei Guangde gave up the idea of ​​replying immediately. Prince Yu's Palace had previously asked him, Li Fang, and Gao Gong, the Minister of Rites, to put pressure on Xu Jie, the chief minister of the cabinet, to end the dispute in Jiangnan as soon as possible.

Zhang Ke was just accidentally injured. I think he ran home directly. It was most likely because he was angry, and more likely because he had a new understanding of the dangers of officialdom.

It can only be said that Wei Guangde's name is now somewhat well-known in official circles. Whenever he is mentioned, people will think of Prince Yu's Mansion.

When it comes to Prince Yu's Mansion, officials used to think of Gao Gong, but now they think of Wei Guangde.

This was also a dispute in the south of the Yangtze River. The other party wanted to warn Prince Yu's Mansion, but actually chose to directly attack Wei Guangde's fellow villagers.

This Li Sui is really nothing.

Wei Guangde also cursed secretly in his heart.

But anyway, through this incident, Wei Guangde also realized that Jiangxi officials have been divided and are no longer monolithic.

When Yan Song was in power in the past, although some Jiangxi officials were not interested in him, such as Jinda and others, most people would still speak to Yan Song when they encountered trouble.

After Yan Song's fall, Jiangxi officials actually waved a butcher's knife against their fellow villagers.

During the great court meeting in the first month of the forty-fifth year of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing still did not show up. He only ordered Duke Zhu Xizhong to pay homage to the emperor's Xuanji Palace on his behalf. Instead of going to the palace, all the officials in court uniform went to the Huangji Gate to perform five bows and three kowtows. They still went to the palace. Congratulations, no banquet, and gifts of money.

Wei Guangde thought about it carefully. It seemed that he had never attended a court meeting in all the years he had been an official.

If you can see Emperor Jiajing at the court meeting, which is the palace examination held every three years, Emperor Jiajing will briefly miss it.

Perhaps, this is also because most Jinshi only have one chance to see Long Yan in their lifetime.

From November to the first month, it is the busiest time for the Ministry of Rites. There are many rituals and sacrificial activities to be carried out. Although many Jiajing Emperors will appoint nobles and ministers to perform rituals, the execution work is done by the Ministry of Rites and Taichang Temple.

Gao Gong's time in the Ministry of Rites was not short, and he was able to cope with so many activities with ease. After all, they were all done according to routine, and he only needed to allocate manpower well.

Although it is repetitive, Gao Gong still enjoys it. After all, this is the merit of the Ministry of Rites. As long as these ceremonial activities are done well every year, the ratings of the officials of the Ministry of Rites will be improved. For the people below, there is only hope for promotion, but for him, it means There is a chance to cross that threshold.

It has been three months since Yan Na took office. The cabinet is under the leadership of Xu Jie and Li Chunfang. Although there are no major mistakes, the efficiency of work is still affected.

The most important thing is that Li Chunfang is a little hesitant and lacks the courage that a cabinet minister should have.

During this period, Gao Gong worked very seriously in the Ministry of Rites, and his purpose was self-evident.

"Master Gao, this is the imperial edict issued by Yan Song, the former great scholar in Jiangxi censor Cheng Shou's family collection, to order twenty scrolls, three scrolls, one scroll of imperial poems, one scroll of imperial poems, and one scroll of imperial poems. Three Roads, two volumes of the Imperial Collection, three copies of the volume, two seals of the Imperial Collection, fifty-six scrolls of the Holy Edict, one hundred and seventeen seals of the Holy Edict, and one side each of the Silver Teeth Book."

Chen Yiqin entered Gao Gong's duty room and reported the documents he had just counted to Gao Gong.

"This should be sent to the inner treasury. Don't bother the two masters. Since you are the one who contacted Jiangxi to take stock, it is up to you to contact the palace and ask them to come and receive it."

Gao Gong glanced at the imperial gift returned by Jiangxi and asked curiously: "How much dirty silver was returned this time?"

The wealth of the Yan family previously reported on Cheng Shoujie is still impressive to this day. It is really beyond people's imagination.

But later, when it was the turn to hand it over to the warehouse, it was indeed delayed and extremely unfavorable.

"It's only a mere 200,000 taels, and there is also Luo Longwen of Nanzhili who has no family property, but the number reported in the newspaper is 50,000 taels less."

Chen Yiqin shook his head and said.

"Why is there such a huge gap?"

Gao Gong frowned and said.

The disparity between millions of taels and hundreds of thousands taels was so shocking that he couldn't help but be surprised.

"Who knows."

Of course Chen Yiqin didn't know the inside story, so he shook his head and replied.

Although he didn't know the answer, Gao Gong still kept the matter in mind.

Inadvertently, January has passed.

On the first day of February, Wei Guangde went out for duty. When he arrived at the school recording hall, he devoted himself to the work of school registration. He had no idea that the General Affairs Department was in chaos at this time.

The Councilor of the Department of General Affairs took the memorial from the skinny old man in front of him, looked through it quickly, and almost dropped the memorial to the ground.

"I'm talking about this sir."

"Hai Rui, head of the Yunnan Department of the District Household Department."

The thin old man cupped his hands and said to Shangguan Gong.

"I just pretended that I didn't see it today. Take it back quickly."

As he spoke, the counselor handed back Hai Rui's memorial.

There are so many taboo words.

If it is fair to say that he was a righteous king, clear about his ministerial duties, and sought peace and order in the world for all eternity, then what the hell is "the two kings do not meet each other" mentioned later.

Although everyone has talked about this in private, no one dares to put it on paper.

Accused the emperor of performing rituals in order to seek immortality, seeking immortality, draining the people's anointing, building construction projects indiscriminately, and ignoring the emperor for more than 20 years.

Appointing Yan Song to traitor to the Party

Jiajing means that every household is clean and has no money to use.

The Councilor of the General Affairs Department also had good intentions. He met the first person to submit a memorial this morning, and there was no one else around, so he wanted to return his memorial. However, he did not expect that when he handed it over, there was no place to accept it.

"Master Hai, if you really send this memorial, do you know the consequences?"

He had good intentions, but the other party was the head of the Household Department, so he was considered a good vacancy, and he wanted to make friends, so he reminded him repeatedly.

"When Rui came to Shu, he had prepared a coffin, bid farewell to his wife, dismissed his servants, and asked someone to take care of the funeral."

Unexpectedly, the old man in front of him answered like this.

"you sure?"

The Councilor of the General Affairs Department wanted to struggle again, so he reminded him again, "You criticize His Majesty throughout this memorial, but you know the consequences.

If the emperor is really angry, I'm afraid it will harm his family. "

"I have already thought about it. If the memorial is handed in today, I will go home and die."

"Why are you doing this?"

When the counselor saw that Hai Rui seemed to be really determined to die, he just shook his head contemptuously. He didn't understand why this sixth-grade leader was so crazy. He insisted on scolding the emperor in a memorial. I have received it in the past, but I have never seen a memorial using so many forbidden words.

Must be banned, 404.

"Come here, come and copy it." Seeing that Hai Rui was not going to take it back, the counselor naturally did not continue to remind him, but stared at Hai Rui with a dead look in his eyes.

After the two men came over from their experience, the counselor handed Hai Rui's memorial to them, "to copy it and keep it for their files as soon as possible."

"Yes, sir."

The two of them took the memorial and walked aside to start copying. When they turned around, they heard the counselor's reminder, "Hold your pen steady."

The memorial had been handed over, and the counselor signed the receipt and threw it directly to Hai Rui.

Hai Rui picked up the note that fell on the ground and put it in his arms. When he turned to leave, the counselor was still sarcastic and said: "Master Hai, I'm afraid you really have no chance of survival if you leave this memorandum up. What do you want to eat?" , let’s go eat today.”

Hai Rui just casually handed over his hand and strode out of the General Affairs Office.

Instead of going to the Ministry of Finance, he went home directly. He knew that after this memorial was published, he was afraid that he would be imprisoned soon.

Although he knew he was going to die, the scholar's ambition in his heart still encouraged him, and he persisted in completing the petition. He wrote down everything he saw and heard in the capital in the past two years in the memorial.

To say that he scolded the emperor, indeed, he felt that the emperor's performance in recent years was really not very good, and he did not have the atmosphere of diligent governance in the years when he first ascended the throne.

"Sir, this is a memorial."

"Copy it, copy it accurately, you didn't write it, I just asked you to copy it, so what are you afraid of?"

"This is a head-turner."

After Hai Rui left, almost everyone in the lobby of the General Affairs Department was attracted.

Regarding Hai Rui's memorial, although everyone felt that it was meaningful, the memorial was not written that way.

If you want to point out something wrong with the emperor, you can, to put it mildly, he is being treated so fiercely.

You have to know what to avoid.

"Could this man be a lunatic?"

"Can a madman win the Jinshi?"

"This rumor about the two dragons may directly kill him."

"Stop talking, copy it quickly, I will send it directly to the back."

The counselor who had accepted Hai Rui's memorial stood aside and urged him to move quickly.

"I'm still the head of the household department. I'm afraid I'll be a fool to become an official."

Some people thought of the previous conversation between the two and the official position of the person who presented the memorial.

In fact, among the officials in this yamen, who doesn't envy the official position of head of the household department? This is really making money.

It may not work in other places, but when the government in Yunnan comes to the capital to pay accounts, every time they don't take care of it and flatter their bosses, every move is worth money.

"I guess I have made too much money, so I am seeking death."

Soon, there was a fool in charge of the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the news of "Public Security Shu" was spread to other places from the mouth of the secretary of the General Affairs Department.

At first, everyone just passed it on by word of mouth, but the words mentioned in the book were all remembered by everyone. After all, it was forbidden.

Everyone thought that a lunatic was just talking nonsense, and the people in the General Affairs Department did not take it to heart. When the news spread, many people quickly poured in and copied the contents of the memorial. Only then did they realize that, This seems unusual.

Among the people who ran into the General Administration Department to copy the memorials, Lu Bu was among the people.

After Wei Guangde was studying at school, he heard Lu Bu talk about the exciting things he heard today. He knew that there was a chief executive named Hai in the Ministry of Revenue. He went crazy and wrote out almost all the faults of Emperor Jiajing without leaving any room for error.

Wei Guangde was reminded by Lu Bu, and he vaguely remembered that Hai Rui became famous because he scolded Jiajing in the memorial, saying "Jiajing, Jiajing, every house is clean".

Before, he asked Duan Mengxian to find an opportunity to help introduce him, but everyone seemed to have forgotten about it. When he heard Hai Rui's name again, this man had already submitted a suicide note.

Originally, Wei Guangde had only heard of this thing, but did not know the original text at all. In fact, later generations have not seen much of it.

However, in this life, Wei Guangde became curious and immediately asked Lu Bu to go to the General Affairs Department to make a copy. He wanted to see what was written in this so-called "Eternal Public Security Book" or "The Best Book in the World".

Lu Buzhan carefully copied Hai Rui's memorials. He was very cautious. With his status, he knew very well that if the things he copied were in the hands of the emperor, he would immediately be sent to prison, tortured and served, and the people involved would be traced and punished.

At this time, other officials in the General Administration Department also gathered together to discuss.

The general envoys had already sent Hai Rui's memorial to the cabinet. Hai Rui's outcome was certain, so they didn't have many worries about what they said.

"This fool, I heard that you asked him to take the memorial back before, hehe."

"Alas, this memorial has scolded both cabinet members. It's probably not good."

"Actually, I also feel that after Yan Song was dismissed as prime minister and Yan Shifan was sentenced to death, although everyone said that the world was clear and bright, the political affairs after Yan Song was dismissed as prime minister were similar to those before he became prime minister, and not necessarily much clearer."

"Be careful what you say, be careful what you say."

Some officials spoke arrogantly, and someone next to them immediately reminded them.

Lu Bu had a special status. After hearing the discussions of those officials, he did not dare to stay too long in the General Affairs Department. He quickly copied the "Public Security Manual" and ran away.

Soon, Wei Guangde saw the memorials copied by Lu Bu in the check-in room. As for the "Yongle Dadian" next to them, he threw them aside and read them again later.

Soon, Wei Guangde frowned. Hai Rui really dared to say it, and almost scolded the entire officialdom.

In order to take care of their own wealth and life, and to keep their black hats, it is not surprising that the ministers blindly catered to the emperor's needs, cheated, embezzled, and neglected their duties, leading to crimes.

Hai Rui understands the emperor?

Suddenly a voice jumped out of Wei Guangde's mind.

No, it should be Hai Rui who is very good at flattering.

It's no wonder that after so many people were scolded by a "Public Security Notice", Hai Rui was able to escape unscathed in the end.

Wei Guangde knew that Hai Rui did not die because of this, but lived well and gained a great reputation.

Although the whole article points out the faults of Emperor Jiajing, it also constantly excuses the emperor.

If I had seen it in my previous life, it would have been Hai Rui's turn to be in "Public Security", so I would have done it.