Chapter 413 412 Printing

King Jing certainly didn't know how terrible the Fengyang high wall was, and he wasn't interested in knowing. He just needed to know how terrifying it was.

The one who lived far away was naturally Zhu Wengui. He was the second son of Emperor Jianwen Zhu Yunwen. He was two years old at the time. After the "Jingnan Campaign", his father Zhu Yunwen and his brother Zhu Wenkui were missing, and his mother Empress Ma committed suicide by burning herself.

Emperor Yongle imprisoned Zhu Wengui in the "high wall" of Fengyang. Although there was no high wall prison at that time, it was already managed according to the model of the later high wall, that is, completely closed and isolated from the world.

It was not until Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen was restored from the Nan Palace that the restored Ming Yingzong Zhu Qizhen felt deeply sympathetic to Zhu Wengui who had been imprisoned for fifty years innocently based on his own prisoner experience. In the same year, Zhu Wengui was released at the age of fifty-seven. After fifty-five years of life behind bars, he didn't even recognize cattle and horses after his release, and died soon after.

The most recent one was naturally the Hui Wang who was demoted to a commoner a few years ago, and would rather choose to commit suicide directly than go to the high walls of Fengyang.

Wei Guangde naturally didn't know about the conversation in the Jing Wang Mansion. At this moment, under the influence of Chen Ju, he returned to the box and ate and drank for a while, then hurriedly said goodbye and left first because of something at home.

He was going to the Yu Wang Mansion to remind them that at least during this period before the Jing Wang left Beijing to be a vassal, the food safety of the Yu Wang must be strictly guaranteed.

In fact, since Wei Guangde conveyed that Lu Bing's cause of death was different, under his reminder, the eunuch Li Fang, who was close to him, was personally responsible for supervising the diet and daily life of the Yu Wang.

Wei Guangde naturally knew these situations, but after all, it had been a long time, and he was still worried that Li Fang would be careless for a while and make a big mistake.

When the carriage was about to reach the Yu Wang Mansion, it crossed with an oncoming carriage, but at this time Wei Guangde had no time to care about these, and didn't even know that there was a carriage passing by.

Arriving at the side door of Prince Yu's Mansion, Wei Guangde was an old acquaintance here, so he naturally entered without stopping.

It was the first day of the new year, and Wei Guangde felt something was wrong when he entered Prince Yu's Mansion.

He called a familiar eunuch beside him and told him: "Go and ask Li Fang, the eunuch, to come to the study. I have something to ask him."

"Yes."

The people in Prince Yu's Mansion were naturally familiar with Wei Guangde and other lecturers. After receiving Wei Guangde's order, they immediately agreed and quickly went to find Li Fang. Wei Guangde did not continue to walk in, but went around to the study where they usually taught.

Wei Guangde went to his duty room and did not ask the eunuch to bring tea. He just sat in the room quietly waiting for Li Fang to come.

Today was not the time agreed by the lecturers to come to pay New Year's greetings to Prince Yu. They agreed to tomorrow, but the incident happened suddenly, so he could only come now.

"Sir Wei, you today..."

After a while, Wei Guangde saw Li Fang carrying a front swing into the room.

Originally, no one was supposed to come here today, so there was no brazier in the room before. It was only after Wei Guangde came in that the eunuch hurriedly brought a brazier. At this time, Wei Guangde was warming his hands by the fire.

Li Fang felt that the room was still a little cold when he entered the room. He immediately stopped at the door and turned to shout to the outside: "Who is outside? Hurry up and bring in a few more braziers."

"No need to shout, Eunuch Li, come and sit and warm yourself by the fire. I just got some news, so I came here presumptuously. I will go back after I finish talking."

Wei Guangde said hurriedly.

Hearing Wei Guangde say this, Li Fang waved his hand outside, "You go to the outside of the yard and guard. Don't come here unless I call you."

Not knowing what the news Wei Guangde said, out of caution, Li Fang called all the eunuchs in the yard out, watched several people leave and stand at the door of the yard, then turned around and sat down next to Wei Guangde, and also imitated Wei Guangde, leaning forward and warming his hands by the fire.

"Sir Wei, what news are you talking about?"

After sitting down, Li Fang asked bluntly.

"The prince went to the West Garden today, right?"

"Yes, he went there early in the morning, but the emperor still didn't summon him. He just knelt outside the palace gate and was asked to leave."

Li Fang's expression was a little sad. He was a eunuch sent to work for Concubine Du Kang. Because he was smart and serious, Concubine Du Kang sent him to Prince Yu. After so many years, he naturally knew everything about the prince.

The prince had seen the emperor only a few times since he was a child. When he was a child, Prince Yu had to rely on him to know what his father looked like.

Because last year, Emperor Jiajing confirmed that Prince Jing would leave Beijing to be a vassal, Prince Yu thought he should be able to see Emperor Jiajing this year when he entered the palace, but he didn't expect that he was still blocked outside when he arrived at Yongshou Palace and couldn't enter.

Although he heard that Prince Jing was also blocked back later, Prince Yu was not feeling well at the moment.

Wei Guangde didn't have much affection for Prince Yu. In his opinion, everything he did for Prince Yu was just for his own bright future after Prince Yu ascended to the throne, so he didn't feel the sadness in Li Fang's voice.

"I came here today because I heard about an incident in the West Garden. When Prince Yu left the West Garden, did he meet the concubines in the harem who came to pay their respects?"

Wei Guangde said as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Yes, when we were at the palace gate, the concubines were about to leave Xihua Gate. What happened?"

When she said this, Li Fang's tone suddenly became a little hurried.

Among the concubines of Emperor Jiajing, there is a person of high status, and that person is the biological mother of Prince Jing. Could it be that...

It's not Li Fang's fault that he didn't think too much. It's true that Prince Yu's mood changed a lot before and after accompanying Prince Yu into the palace today, and he was more or less affected by Prince Yu.

"no."

Wei Guangde waved his hand hurriedly and said: "Today, Concubine Lu Jing suddenly brought up something when greeting His Majesty. She wants to change the fiefdom for King Jing and find a place around Beizhili to build King Jing's fiefdom."

"What, how is this possible?"

Li Fang immediately screamed and lost her voice.

Fortunately, Wei Guangde immediately continued: "Your Majesty did not agree and reprimanded Concubine Lu Jing on the spot."

Later, Wei Guangde told Li Fang exactly what he heard from Chen Ju, and Li Fang's face became more and more happy as he listened.

"Haha, okay, this is a good thing, I have to tell Prince Yu."

Before Wei Guangde finished speaking, Li Fang couldn't help but be happy. She clapped her hands and stood up to leave, but was held back by Wei Guangde.

"Eunuch Li, I didn't come to you to deliver this good news."

Wei Guangde said solemnly: "Although King Jing's idea of ​​changing the fiefdom was rejected by His Majesty, this also completely forced him to a dead end.

Now there are only two paths before King Jing, either to go to De'an and join the feudal clan, or to make a desperate move. I am actually here to remind you, don't blame me for nagging, King Yu's safety is more urgent than ever now. "

"Huh? Oh."

Li Fang came back to her senses and understood what Wei Guangde meant.

He is not a fool, and his future depends entirely on King Yu.

Although Wei Guangde brought up this annoying topic again, the current situation looked good.

A dog jumps over the wall in a hurry, and a rabbit kicks off an eagle. The most fearful thing is that King Jing will fight for his life when he sees that there is no hope of succeeding to the throne.

Wei Guangde told Li Fang at the beginning that if King Yu really had a problem, Emperor Jiajing would most likely not dare to have it, because he only had one son left and would never be punished.

"Mr. Wei, I understand your pain, don't worry, I will be keeping an eye on this matter during this period, and there will never be any mistakes."

Li Fang still stood up and bowed deeply to Wei Guangde.

"Well, I'll leave now and come back tomorrow to pay New Year's greetings to His Highness."

Wei Guangde smiled, then stood up and said goodbye to Li Fang.

Li Fang escorted Wei Guangde out of Prince Yu's Mansion, and waited until he got on the carriage before hurriedly returning to the inner courtyard of the Prince's Mansion.

In more than a month's time, King Jing will leave the capital, and the only prince left in the capital is King Yu. Even if others have other thoughts, they are beyond their reach.

King Yu is in a bad mood now. Although Wei Guangde came to remind him, didn't he also bring good news?

Then tell King Yu about this and make him happy too.

The current King Yu is still worried about gains and losses. Although his status seems to have been established, Emperor Jiajing did not make him the prince after all.

At this time, King Jing, after Zheng Huiren left, sat alone in the side room for a long time, and then called in a close servant.

"Forget it today, go to Yan Mansion tomorrow and inform Yan Donglou that I am ill and won't go there to play these days."

"yes."

The chamberlain hurriedly bowed and agreed, and when King Jing waved his hand, he slowly exited the side room.

"The Yan family is finished, don't have too much contact with them."

At this time, King Jing was still thinking about Zheng Huiren's advice when he left.

Just after being reminded by Zheng Huiren, King Jing suddenly realized that the purpose of Yan Shifan getting close to him and making suggestions for him was not because he was frightened by his domineering aura and surrendered. Just trying to survive from death.

With Yan Shifan's reputation in the capital, he will definitely be liquidated in the future. Zheng Huiren even bluntly said that either King Yu would liquidate him or he would do it himself. Yan Shifan was actually not allowed to stay.

What he did was destined not to be like other ministers, who could cut off those ties by becoming an official.

I only blame myself for being blinded by the throne in the past. Maybe it’s not that I didn’t understand it, but I just didn’t think about it deeply. I haven’t even achieved the status, so how could I give up a helping hand?

When did you first start thinking about competing for the throne?

King Jing not only fell into memories. When he left the palace, he and King Yu were treated the same. At that time, someone outside speculated like this, but he just laughed it off. It seemed that it was only after he met Yan Shifan that he started to have some feelings for each other. idea.

King Jing has completely given up now. He doesn't want to continue fighting for that position. If he continues to order that person to find opportunities to poison King Yu, maybe Jin Yiwei will take him to Fengyang with a driving sticker.

Thinking of this, King Jing stood up suddenly, called the attendant beside him, and whispered a few instructions, asking him to pass on the news as soon as possible, and then sat down again.

In a blink of an eye, it was the fourth day of the Lunar New Year. Early that morning, Wei Guangde dressed up and hurried to the Hanlin Academy. According to the calculations of Qin Tian Jian, the second quarter of Mao Shi on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year was an auspicious time, so all the yamen in the Ming Dynasty would be there. At this time, the "opening of seal" ceremony is held.

According to the time of later generations, it was not even seven o'clock, and it was not even working time, but in the Ming Dynasty, officials had already started work.

Wei Guangde had nothing to say, so he went to the Hanlin Academy to attend the ceremony. After that, he naturally sat around for a while, and then went to Prince Yu's Mansion with Zhang Juzheng.

Similar to the sealing ceremony, Hanlin Academy officials under the leadership of Yuan Wei asked for the seal again, and firecrackers were fired again in the yard.

The opening of the Yamen seal does not mean that the officials' New Year is over. In fact, it is just a ceremony. Don't forget that the capital will organize the Aoshan Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the year. Only after the Lantern Festival is over, in the eyes of officials and people, This year is truly over.

"What did you say to Wu Xueshi just now?"

After leaving the Hanlin Academy, Wei Guangde invited Zhang Juzheng to ride in a carriage with him to Prince Yu's Mansion. Zhang Juzheng asked in the carriage, "You looked very surprised at that time."

Wei Guangde smiled and said, "When I entered the Hanlin Academy, I was a disciple of Wu Xueshi."

"Oh."

Zhang Juzheng replied indifferently.

"I heard him say that after the new year, the president of the Hanlin Academy may be replaced by Li Chunfang, and Yuan Wei will be responsible for the ministry."

Wei Guangde continued.

"Yuan Wei is going to devote himself to the government and share the country's worries, haha"

Zhang Juzheng smiled.

In fact, he was much more sensitive to Yuan Wei's job changes than Wei Guangde. After all, his news came from his teacher Xu Jie. The reason why he asked Wei Guangde was actually just curious about his relationship with Wu Qing.

Although Wu Qing was also a bachelor, he was destined to have no great future. It was very strange that Wei Guangde was on good terms with such a person.

"You should have known it in advance."

At this time, Wei Guangde spoke again.

"I've heard about it before."

Zhang Juzheng nodded. He was more informed than Wei Guangde about the news in the court, but he also knew about it during his time in Prince Yu's Mansion. Wei Guangde had someone in the palace and was very well informed about the news in the palace.

On the second day of the Chinese New Year, he didn't know what happened in Xiyuan yesterday, but Wei Guangde knew it yesterday, and even knew it an hour after the incident.

Don't underestimate it.

Speaking of this, Zhang Juzheng remembered something again. He heard about it when he visited Xu Jie's house two days ago. Anyway, he was free, so he told Wei Guangde about it to kill time.

"In addition, I heard that after the New Year, His Majesty will summon the president of Nanjing Hanlin Academy and Qu Jingchun, the chief priest of the Imperial College, to return to Beijing. It's not clear how to arrange it specifically."

"Huh?"

Wei Guangde was surprised at first, and then joked: "Brother Uncle, you don't want to go to Nanjing to serve as the president of the Hanlin Academy."

"If I can serve as the president, I really want to go, hehe"

Zhang Juzheng said happily.

In fact, if there is a chance, he doesn't mind going around Nanjing.

He is young, and he is not going there to retire, but just to make a transition. If he really goes there, he will definitely be promoted to Hanlin Bachelor. Anyway, he has a teacher in the capital, and if there is a good official position vacant here, he will definitely be able to move back.

"How old is Lord Qu?"

At this time, such an experienced Hanlin Bachelor was transferred back from Nanjing, and Wei Guangde couldn't help but care about it.

"About fifty years old, the second place in the 23rd year of Jiajing."

"Oh."

Wei Guangde agreed. No wonder Zhang Juzheng knew that Qu Jingchun was one year older than Zhang Juzheng. When he participated in the imperial examination, he must have paid attention to the previous subject.