Chapter 263 Chapter 262 Oolong

Wei Guangde followed the captain into the carriage, and Li San and Zhao Hu were ordered to go home and not go out.

In response, Wei Guangde just shook his head at them, suggesting that they should not do anything.

Getting on the carriage was like entering a closed space, and Wei Guangde already felt a little weak in his hands and feet.

He couldn't figure out what he had done wrong. After repeatedly pondering in his heart, the only thing that might be exposed and make Emperor Jiajing angry might be the matter of asking Geng An to contact Liang Gaofu.

Perhaps Geng An was not able to leave the capital at all, and was intercepted by the Jinyiwei halfway?

After Wei Guangde thought he was caught by the Jinyiwei, he naturally had to reflect, criticize and self-criticize, thinking about how to confess to minimize the guilt at that time.

Wei Guangde was not sure whether what he did was considered deceiving the emperor. He felt that it was not, and he should not have asked Geng An to make up lies.

People, after being arrested, often have this mentality, reflecting on what problems existed in the past.

At this moment, Wei Guangde, who had lived two lives and had never been arrested by the violent department, inevitably began to look for possible violations of the law.

Although he also knew that in the Ming Dynasty where he was now, the "Ming Dynasty Law" was just like that, and everything depended on the Emperor Jiajing's thoughts.

The curtain of the carriage was lowered, and Wei Guangde could not see outside, but he could still roughly tell whether the carriage was going straight or turning.

According to the position where he got on the carriage, the carriage should have been going north along Nanxunfang Avenue, and then turned two corners. Wei Guangde felt that he was near Andingmen Street at this time, and the bell and drum tower was probably in the left front.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde suddenly felt as if he was dead. This was taking him to the North Zhenfu Division.

Not far from the North Anmen Gate of the Forbidden City was the bell and drum tower. Between them was a Maoer Hutong, where the legendary dragon pool and tiger's den-the North Zhenfu Division of the Jinyiwei was located.

Wei Guangde had awe for the Jinyiwei, and naturally he had inquired about the location of the Jinyiwei.

There are three Jinyiwei offices in the capital, namely the Command Office, which is located in the area closest to the city wall outside Fengtian Gate. There are many government offices there, and it is located at the outermost of the government offices.

The remaining two are the South and North Zhenfu Offices. The South Zhenfu Office is located in Dengshikou, which is a department for internal supervision. Its functions are similar to those of the East Factory. The North Zhenfu Office is where he is about to go.

The imperial prison, the North Zhenfu Office is the imperial prison.

The carriage drove into Maoer Hutong and stopped outside the North Zhenfu Office.

Wei Guangde pretended to be calm and got off the carriage, straightened his official robe, and followed the captain to the gate of the North Zhenfu Office with a barely maintained image.

Once you get here, don't think about turning around and running away. Since you are here, make the best of it.

At this time, Wei Guangde had already made up his mind to die. He looked at the Jinyi Captains on both sides with contempt, but he was thinking in his heart, if he was tortured, would he confess or not?

Forget it, let's tell the truth.

A real man born between heaven and earth should have integrity. If he is wrong, he should admit it. There is no need to suffer physical pain.

Soon, the captain took Wei Guangde through the main hall and went directly to the second hall. Wei Guangde was so scared that he thought he was going to be imprisoned directly, and he didn't even have to go through the court. How much solid evidence was needed.

He followed the man to the second hall with trembling legs, but just turned slightly there and walked a few steps to stop in a wing room next to it.

The captain turned around and said to him with a smile that Wei Guangde thought was sinister: "Sir Wei, please come in. The Grand Commander is waiting for you inside."

After saying that, the captain even stretched out his hand and made a gesture of invitation.

Looking at the room, Wei Guangde guessed that Lu Bing was waiting for him when he heard the captain say that the Grand Commander was inside, but he still didn't understand how serious his crime was that he had to be personally judged by the leader of the Jinyiwei.

Did the ancients also know about time travel?

However, without thinking time, Wei Guangde walked directly into the house. Although his legs were still trembling, he could not lose his integrity as a civil servant and was still heroic and high-spirited.

"Sit down."

Surprisingly, after Wei Guangde entered the house, he was not greeted by a tiger bench or pepper water. The adult in the python costume asked Wei Guangde to sit aside.

Of course, if there was really pepper water in the house, Wei Guangde might not be afraid, but would cheer.

Wei Guangde had never eaten pepper since he came to the Ming Dynasty, and he didn't know when pepper was introduced to China. Anyway, Wei Guangde, who was originally from Bashu, felt extremely uncomfortable.

There was no expected questioning. The commander of the Jinyiwei, Lu Bing, the left governor of the rear army governor's office, who was sitting behind the desk, asked Wei Guangde some questions casually, seemingly just chatting and talking about family matters.

Wei Guangde answered carefully, and when he got here, he didn't know when the dagger was revealed, and the swordsman outside the door rushed into the house.

When Wei Guangde entered the yard, Lu Bing's eyes never left Wei Guangde, and he kept watching his every move.

After he entered the house, he observed him even more closely.

Wei Guangde's appearance was only average, with regular features and a dignified appearance. He looked like an official, but he was a little young and lacked the authority of an official.

After entering the house, Lu Bing noticed that Wei Guangde's appearance was still a little different from ordinary people, that is, this kid's face seemed to combine many advantages of being an official.

The rhinoceros bone on the forehead, which extends from the brow bone to the hairline, is still very obvious and slightly raised. The nose is also very plump, the eyebrows are thick and dense, and the eyes are very bright.

Lu Bing is not proficient in physiognomy, but he has practiced some Taoist things with Emperor Jiajing before, including physiognomy.

He had seen Wei Guangde from a distance before, but he didn't see him carefully.

Emperor Jiajing promoted Wei Guangde to be the current imperial examination candidate at the beginning. As a confidant of Emperor Jiajing, he and several eunuchs who were close to him knew that it was a reward for Wei Guangde's military exploits.

So at first, he didn't pay attention to Wei Guangde, and thought that his official position was humble, and he didn't arrange anyone to get close to Wei Guangde to monitor him.

After the battle of Baoan Prefecture, Lu Bing began to pay attention to him, but soon he found that most of Wei Guangde's family members were from Jiujiang Prefecture, which was a bit impenetrable.

After observing closely, Lu Bing, relying on his half-baked face-reading skills, had some guesses about the favor of Emperor Jiajing to Wei Guangde.

Lu Bing knew that he was half-baked, but Emperor Jiajing was more sophisticated in this regard than him, not to mention that there were many experts in this regard around the emperor.

Wei Guangde, who was sitting on the chair, was asked more and more inexplicable questions by Lu Bing, all of which were unreliable questions, as if he was very familiar with him.

Although Wei Guangde's nervous mood gradually eased after a conversation, the doubts in his heart grew.

In the interval between Lu Bing's questions, Wei Guangde finally asked the doubts in his heart, of course he would not ask directly.

"May I ask Governor Lu, today the Jinyiwei took me to the Northern Pacification Division, do you have the imperial edict from the palace and the six departments' approval?"

In fact, when the Ming Dynasty was established, everything had rules and regulations. Even in the early stages, after various problems arose, the court would quickly adjust the regulations according to the actual situation.

Although the Jinyiwei was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang, he also imposed many restrictions on them. They were not lawless and wanton as depicted in later movies and TV series.

Take the Jinyiwei's privilege of "patrol and arrest" for example. Because the Jinyiwei was reformed from the Gongwei Division, its original duties have been retained, that is, to be the direct guard of the emperor and the emperor's personal guard.

Naturally, when the emperor wanted to issue orders, the most direct way to use armed forces was to let the Jinyiwei take action.

The earliest clear record of the imperial edict was in the Yongle Dynasty.

"On May 10, the tenth year of Yongle, the emperor sent a letter to select 120 people including Liang Hong, a student of the Imperial Academy, to learn to translate foreign characters. Hong was the only one who asked for exemption, and the Ministry of Rites reported it. The emperor was angry and sent them to Jiaozhi."

It means that in the fifteenth year of Yongle, the officials of the Ministry of Rites used the "Emperor's Letter" as evidence to select more than 120 people including Liang Hong to be translators, which naturally deprived these people of the opportunity to make further progress in their official careers. Therefore, Liang Hong was very dissatisfied and refused the call. The officials of the Ministry of Rites had no choice but to tell the emperor Zhu Di, who was furious and exiled Liang Hong to Jiaozhi to guard the border.

From this record, we can see that the "Emperor's Letter" should have been used as a proof of the emperor's order at that time, which was similar to the existence of an imperial edict.

In the record of "Setting up a drum for hearing outside the Meridian Gate" in "Huang Ming Tong Ji Fa Chuan Quan Lu" written by Chen Jian, there is this entry: "The drum for hearing was set up outside the Meridian Gate, and one censor was ordered to supervise it every day. If there was a grievance or a secret, the drum was allowed to be beaten. The censor would then report it.

If there was no such thing or if there was an extradition, it would not be allowed. Later, it was moved outside the Chang'an Gate, and one member of the Six Departments and one Jinyiwei officer were ordered to take turns to beat the drum and collect the petitions. Once the imperial edict was issued, the captain on duty would be sent to take the imperial edict, prepare the imperial edict, and escort the petition and the plaintiff to the relevant government office for questioning.

If there were military and civilian people who threatened the people being reported, the Jinyiwei officers on duty would be allowed to arrest and investigate. Those who instigated and instigated them would be punished. The case reported could not be filed."

Since there is no clear time for this record, it can only be said that the imperial edict may have been used during the Hongwu period.

But what is certain is that the Jinyiwei needed to hold the imperial edict to arrest people, which means that they had to obtain the emperor's permission to do so.

Wei Guangde found many of the questions Lu Bing asked him boring, but since he was in the Jinyiwei, he was not asked what crime he had committed, so he naturally had to find out what was going on, so as not to make a wasted trip.

"Imperial post, what are you asking about the imperial post?"

When Lu Bing heard Wei Guangde asking about the imperial post, he said it indifferently at first, but then he seemed to understand something?

Lu Bing blinked at this moment, and the elder's airs he had before disappeared, and the corners of his mouth raised to reveal a smile, "Did they arrest you?"

"Huh?"

Wei Guangde was puzzled and didn't know how to answer.

"Haha, I asked them to invite someone, and you invited them, haha."

Lu Bing laughed happily at this moment, "No wonder I saw your legs were still shaking when I entered the door, so this is the reason."

"When you Jinyiwei arrest people, don't you send someone with the imperial post to 'invite'?"

Wei Guangde understood a little after listening to Lu Bing's previous words. Damn, it seems to be a mistake.

If I had known this, I would have asked for the imperial seal in the alley, and everything would have been clear.

"It seems that you have something shameful to do, otherwise you wouldn't be so scared that your legs are shaking."

However, Lu Bing's next words frightened Wei Guangde again, "Confess or not?"

It seemed like an unintentional sentence, but when Lu Bing, who had been in charge of the Jinyiwei for decades, said it, the deterrent power was still very strong, at least Wei Guangde couldn't resist it.

Fortunately, Wei Guangde saw that Lu Bing was still smiling and knew that it was just a joke, but he was even more curious. Commander Lu was making a fuss. Your surname is not Wei, and my surname is not Lu. My wife's surname is also Xu.

Before coming in, Wei Guangde was still wondering if his collusion with Xu Bangrui was exposed, but he didn't know what taboos were involved.

However, at this time, Wei Guangde naturally would not confess anything, and said helplessly: "I am still wondering what the Jinyiwei did to me, but I don't know what instructions Commander Lu has for me?"

"Nothing, I just want to see you, after all, it's an old friend who asked you to. You have been in the capital for almost a year, and I haven't seen you alone, and you haven't given me a gift."

Lu Bing answered casually.

"Old friend? Who?"

Wei Guangde asked curiously. He heard that someone had asked Lu Bing to take care of him, but he didn't know which friend knew Lu Bing, so he naturally didn't know about this matter.

In fact, even if he knew, he would try to avoid it. Jinyiwei is not a good government office. Who would visit Jinyiwei for no reason?

"You are very brave. When he was just a scholar, you should have shot him."

Lu Bing still smiled.

Hearing this, Wei Guangde instantly thought of a person, that is Yu Dayou, whom he met after destroying the Japanese pirates. It seems that he heard his father mention that Yu Dayou had a friend in the capital who would take care of him.

"Is it Yu Dayou, Mr. Yu?"

Wei Guangde was not sure. His father did not say that the person knew Lu Bing. If he could not get it from Lu Bing, Wei Guangde would never believe it.

Seeing Wei Guangde's unbelieving expression, Lu Bing smiled and said, "I met him more than ten years ago. At that time, he volunteered to go to Datong, Shanxi to fight against the Tartars. I went to Shanxi to do business and met him by chance."

"Oh."

Although Wei Guangde didn't know whether it was true or not, he thought he would not make it up because there was no need.

I didn't expect that the big black guy had a friend like Lu Bing. He must be very successful. No wonder my uncle seemed to envy him.

Yu Dayou is really a talent, a rare talent in the guard, and he is both civil and military.

"Haha, so that's the case. Uncle Yu didn't tell me about this before. He just said that he has friends in Beijing who will take care of him, hehe"

Although Wei Guangde has only met Yu Dayou once, he still chooses to climb up the ladder.

Yu Dayou actually wants to win over Wu Zhankui and Wei Meng to go to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to help him fight. Wei Guangde still knows it, but his father and others didn't agree.

But it's really nice. I have to remember to find a chance to return it later.

Thinking of this, Wei Guangde asked curiously: "Why did Uncle Lu call me here this time? It can't be because my nephew didn't come to ask for a meeting."

"Tell me about your family arranging a marriage for you. When was the marriage arranged?"

Lu Bing had nothing to ask. He asked the person involved first. The people below would also send news from Nanjing. The authenticity could be confirmed by the two copies.

Although Wei Guangde was surprised, he still told what he knew.