Chapter 262 261 Come with Us

When the palace sent the memorials that had been left for several days back to the cabinet, the instructions of Emperor Jiajing quickly spread among the officials in the court.

He was fooled by the emperor again.

Yes, most of the court officials who knew the contents of the imperial edict of the Ministry of Ceremonies felt humiliated and slapped in the face.

At first, the message was sent to the ministry to recommend officials to go to Junzhou to investigate the case, but they were rejected. Then it was reported that the emperor planned to use this year's new Jinshi to handle the case. As a result, he just picked a censor at random in the Henan Province of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and decided.

Looking back, Emperor Jiajing did this more than once or twice, and each time it was a strong warning.

Looking at this incident from Wei Guangde's impeachment to the outbreak of the impeachment trend, the emperor was really dissatisfied with the current court officials.

Wei Guangde did not expect Emperor Jiajing to do this. In the end, he handed the task to the Metropolitan Procuratorate instead of really using the new Jinshi to handle the case.

But thinking about it, I felt relieved. This was reasonable and left a little face for the court officials.

Just yesterday, the censor of the Censorate had already left the capital and went south with the emperor's order.

At this moment, Wei Guangde was sitting alone in the room looking at the letter from Nanjing.

The letter was brought by Xu Huai. Now he has become the messenger for Wei Guangde and Xu Bangrui to communicate, responsible for delivering messages back and forth.

Xu Bangrui had of course read Wei Guangde's reply, and in the letter Wei Guangde also bluntly stated that he would help him fight for the hereditary title.

In choosing between Xu Bangrui and Xu Bangning, Wei Guangde would naturally stand on the side of the eldest brother of his wife who had not yet married. This was beyond doubt.

The marriage between his family and the Xu family had already begun the procedure, and it was completely settled. No matter when, Wei Guangde could not get rid of the identity of Xu's son-in-law, and he would be involved sooner or later, so why not take the initiative.

Although Wei Guangde thought that marrying into the Xu family would not be of much benefit to him, and might even have an adverse impact on his future career, his parents had already made up their minds, and he had no way to stop it.

In this letter, Xu Bangrui brought more information to Wei Guangde, including his father Xu Pengju's connections in Beijing.

Telling Wei Guangde this was also to make him a little defensive, because he had already found out that after Wei Guangde led the Xuanfu Army to defeat the Altan tribe in Bao'an Prefecture, his father had given a generous gift to the officials of the Ministry of War.

Wei Guangde understood this after seeing this, and he was also surprised why the Ministry of War had an obsession with him and insisted on letting him leave the Hanlin Academy to work in the Ministry of War.

The person who was responsible for threading the needle and running around was Wang Jihuai, the current assistant teacher of the Imperial College.

The position of assistant teacher of the Imperial College was not actually an official position. In the capital, such a person really did not attract attention.

However, the other person mentioned in the letter surprised Wei Guangde, Li Bin, the eunuch in charge of the Imperial Household Department.

Although Wei Guangde did not have much contact with the inner court, he had heard of the name Li Bin from Chen Ju. In the Imperial Household Department, Li Bin was ranked after Gao Zhong.

According to what Xu Bangrui said in the letter, Li Bin was extremely greedy, so his father gave him a lot of gold and silver to make him an insider. First, he could learn about the situation of Emperor Jiajing in the palace through Li Bin. The news would naturally be sent to Wang Jihuai and then arranged to report to Nanjing.

Second, it was natural to speak out for justice when a minister in the court "framed" the Duke of Wei's mansion and help delay the conversion.

This is the main relationship of his father in the capital that Xu Bangrui has confirmed so far. As for other nobles, there is no need to say that. After all, they have more or less had some contact since the founding of the country, so there is no need to repeat it specifically.

Xu Bangrui knew these two people because of the imperial edict. Although his father Xu Pengju kept it secret, he could not prevent people from snooping.

"This eunuch is incredible."

Wei Guangde muttered to himself and hid the letter. The things on it were considered confidential information of the Duke of Wei's mansion, and they could not be leaked out at all.

Wei Guangde put these people aside for now. Anyway, he would not meet them for a while.

Wei Guangde would meet the eunuchs of the Imperial Household Department and the assistant teachers of the Imperial College on the road at best. It is estimated that they know him but he does not know them.

But at this time, in the North Pacification Division of the Jinyiwei, Lu Bing sat behind the desk with his eyes closed in deep thought.

The words from Huang Jin in the palace made him a little confused even though he thought he was familiar with the character of Emperor Jiajing. He could not understand whether the emperor checked Wei Guangde's marriage because he valued Wei Guangde or reminded him to pay attention to monitoring the Duke of Wei's mansion, or simply to closely monitor the entire noble group.

Lu Bing naturally knew what had just happened. The emperor was very dissatisfied with the current situation of people in the court being idle and neglecting their duties. This was another warning.

In fact, the attitude of Emperor Jiajing towards Wei Guangde had always confused him. It was completely different from the emperor's previous style.

Thinking of the letter he received from a good friend last year, asking him to take care of this junior, and Wei Guangde still needed his care, he had climbed onto the boat of Emperor Jiajing.

The Jinyiwei actually had records of Wei Guangde's whereabouts after coming to Beijing. Even the Jinyiwei found out about his meeting with Gao Gong and other people from Prince Yu's Mansion, which he thought was very secretive, and sent a meeting ticket, but they didn't report it.

Is a Shujishi also an official?

Afterwards, I had a private meeting with Chen Ju and passed some notes around. Although I don’t know what was written on the notes, I can roughly guess it from what happened before and after.

Lu Bing could only be surprised that such a strange person could come out of the Wei Institute. Generally, the Jinshi who came out of the Wei Institute were relatively upright, and it was rare to see someone as flexible and flexible as Wei Guangde.

Scholars who have passed the Jinshi examination often have the so-called character and integrity. They open their mouths and shut their mouths just to maintain their righteousness and disdain to get involved with the eunuchs of the inner court.

Those who can hang out with eunuchs and eunuchs are often experienced officials. They know that if they want to be successful as officials, they must rely on the power of the inner court, so naturally they have to take the initiative to contact the eunuchs.

I didn't expect that Wei Guangde would understand this just after he entered the officialdom. He was really not an ordinary person.

Before, Lu Bing had only seen Wei Guangde from a distance, but he didn't really know him, let alone talk to him.

But now, Lu Bing wants to get to know Wei Guangde and have a chat with him so that he can make a more accurate judgment about him.

At this moment, a school captain came in, holding a stack of files in his hand.

"Sir, all of Wei Guangde's files are here."

The lieutenant carefully put the file in his hand on the desk and crossed his arms.

"You go down first."

Lu Bing nodded slightly and replied, then picked up the stack of pamphlets on the table and read through them.

Wei Guangde was on duty that day, and he often drank and had fun with his colleagues after being off duty. Now Wei Guangde was a little tired of such social activities.

Wei Guangde directly declined today's activities and wanted to go home to read and take a rest early, so he went straight out of the Hanlin Academy gate after getting off duty.

It was just a beautiful thought. After leaving the door and walking not far, after exiting the official street and entering the Nanxunfang alley, Li San behind him suddenly called Wei Guangde in a low voice.

"Master, we forgot something, let's go back."

Wei Guangde was stunned when he heard the words. He didn't even know what he had forgotten, but Li San's words did reach his ears very clearly.

As soon as Li San reminded him, Wei Guangde noticed that there were several civilian servants in front of the alley. This was an abnormal situation.

Most of the people living around here are officials. The family members are usually very particular about their clothes. They don't wear civilian clothes. They usually wear the clothes of the servants at home. They are very uniform, just like the clothes of Li San, Zhao Hu and others. It's the same, that is, Zhang Ji is a little bit special.

But the people in front of the alley were wearing all kinds of clothes, and they didn't look like they were servants from people nearby.

When it comes to whose master they are, their appearance and temperament are obviously not the same. They look more like guards.

"Oops."

The first thing Wei Guangde thought about in an instant was whether it was King Hui who sent him to take revenge on him. After all, he took Geng An in and was the first person to write a memorial to impeach him.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde stopped and turned to Li San and said, "It's a good thing you reminded me, otherwise it would be true."

When speaking, Wei Guangde did not look at Li San, but looked behind him. However, when he said this, he knew it was a bit late. A carriage appeared behind him and was slowly driving towards them. There were several people around the carriage. He is also a person who serves the common people.

There is a wolf in front and a tiger behind. This is blocked.

Wei Guangde was surrounded by Li San and Zhao Hu, and Zhang Ji was sent out to see ginseng again today.

There are a lot of ginsengs of ordinary years, decades old, but Wei Guangde doesn't want these ginseng. He is not very interested in ginseng that is hundreds of years old. What he wants is at least close to 200 years old. The older the better.

Yesterday I heard that a pharmacy received a 300-year-old ginseng from Liaodong, so Zhang Ji went over to check it out at noon.

The current situation is that there are people in front and behind, about ten people, which is much more than the three people on their side.

In the capital, the guards around Wei Guangde only carry waist knives with them, not bows, arrows or blunderbuss. Especially the blunderbuss, which cannot see the light of day, even if the few around him have the identity of Jiujiang Guardsmen. Yes, they will not be said to be soldiers.

Although everyone does this, officially it is called "private soldier", which is not a big or small crime.

The reason for this is also related to Wei Guangde's preference for fire guns.

He can actually draw a bow and arrow now, but he's not very accurate and has had little practice.

His preference for blunderbuss also influenced his father and eldest brother, as well as his uncle Wu Zhankui. They fought against Japanese pirates several times, and the power of blunderbuss was obvious to all.

Although archers are still included in their team in accordance with regulations, the role of these archers has changed from the previous strategic strike force to a task similar to that of snipers. It is no longer a projectile to disrupt the opponent's formation before the two armies engage in battle. Destroy the opponent's morale.

In the past, Wei Guangde would definitely choose a direction to break out, shoot the cannons first, and then rush over, but now he is bare-handed and only has two waist knives.

Although the opponent couldn't see any weapons in his hands, Wei Guangde believed that he must have come prepared and would not be unprepared.

Fortunately, there are high walls on both sides of the alley here. There are no houses or buildings at first glance, so there is no need to worry about ambushing crossbowmen on both sides.

Wei Guangde didn't bother to pretend to talk nonsense, so he simply stopped talking after half a sentence. He just looked at the people approaching on both sides, thinking in his mind whether he should rush forward, rush back to the house to get the guy, or run back, just two alleys away. When we get to Guanshu Street, there are patrol soldiers, Jin Yiwei and other people from the yamen there, so we'll be safe there.

But I was also cursing myself in my heart for not being careful, for provoking a royal family member like the prince, and for daring to walk home so arrogantly, even if it was a carriage, I could just rush over.

However, the people on both sides did not continue to approach them, and stopped about ten steps away.

The curtain opened on the carriage, and a man dressed as a royal guard in brocade got out of the carriage. Shi Shiran walked up to Wei Guangde, clasped his fists and said with a smile: "I dare to ask, but I have disturbed Mr. Wei."

"Jin Yiwei? I haven't had any trouble with you, have I? I wonder what this means today?"

When Wei Guangde saw that it was someone from Jinyiwei, he felt panicked.

Who in the capital doesn't know that the leader of Jinyiwei is Lu Bing, who is a die-hard member of Emperor Jiajing.

What does it mean to intercept oneself with Jinyiwei?

Emperor Jiajing wants to attack him?

I never thought about rebelling. I am different from other time-travelers.

Wei Guangde felt a little wronged in his heart at this moment. When reading novels in the past, other time-travelers mostly had to make trouble when they returned to the past. However, those time travels were in or near troubled times, so they had the opportunity to take advantage of the chaos. Achieve a king's hegemony.

The era Wei Guangde wore was not the time for rebellion.

If it were worn on the body of Altan in the 29th year of Jiajing, he could still wander around Tongzhou, find a road into Beijing, and try to fight.

At that time, the Ming army was indeed at its weakest in terms of combat effectiveness. In addition to the incompetence of the leading generals, there was actually some hope of breaking into Beijing.

However, Wei Guangde didn't have that luck and became a military household. Fortunately, his family had a hereditary military position. Otherwise, let alone studying, it would be good if he didn't starve to death.

"Master Wei, there is no need to ask any more questions. I am only doing this under orders. Please come with us, Master Wei."

The man said something very rude to Wei Guangde in a humble tone.

Perhaps due to professional habits, Wei Guangde was asked to go with him directly. This was probably what Jin Yiwei said the most to the court officials.

Well, maybe he didn't think it was anything, but when the words reached Wei Guangde's ears, he instantly understood that he was invited to tea by Emperor Jiajing.

Yes, there are procedures and rules for Jin Yiwei to take people, and they cannot take people casually.

This was the capital, and the only explanation for blocking his way so unscrupulously was that the order came from the emperor.

Wei Guangde didn't even bother to ask them for their driving tickets. He just pointed to Li San and others behind him and said, "They are just my followers. There is no need to go together."

Although Wei Guangde had not yet figured out where he had provoked the emperor, the scene before him made him unable to resist.

A monk who can escape cannot escape from the temple. Even if he can escape, can he escape from the huge capital city?

If he runs away, it will bring disaster to the family, so it's better to follow him and see what's going on.

It was just a prince who was cheated, and he was not the emperor's son, so there was no need to retaliate afterwards.