Chapter 602 Chapter 601 Qianqing Palace

Wei Guangde could see through Hu Yingjia's thoughts, he was just gambling.

Before, Hu Yingjia and Hu Rugui instigated their followers to let their party member Wei Shiliang impeach Zhang Yongming. They not only used the previous illegal behavior of the imperial censors who were away to attack Zhang Yongming, but also falsely accused Zhang Yongming of accepting bribes and other crimes.

Although the impeachment was not successful and Zhang Yongming was dismissed, they still won by falling seriously ill and resigning.

Impeaching Zhang Yongming was equivalent to offending Xu Jie, the chief minister of the dynasty.

At the beginning, Wei Guangde was still wondering in his heart whether Hu Yingjia and his people had eaten bear hearts and leopards to do such a thing, but now he understood.

In fact, they saw that Gao Gong and Xu Jie often disagreed in the cabinet, and concluded that the relationship between Xu Jie and Prince Yu's Mansion was probably not as close as the outside world imagined.

Perhaps, Hu Yingjia and his people had made preparations for both situations before.

If they can make friends with Prince Yu's Mansion through Wei Guangde, they will go all out to Prince Yu's Mansion and become the vanguard of the struggle between Prince Yu's Mansion and Xu Ge Lao.

With Prince Yu as their backer, they can naturally continue to oppose Xu Jie boldly.

On the other hand, if Prince Yu is unwilling to accept them, they will directly stir up the muddy water in the court, and impeaching Gao Gong will become one of their options.

Whether the impeachment of Gao Gong succeeds or not, it will attract the attention of officials to Gao Gong.

At that time, if Xu Jie can take this opportunity to get rid of Gao Gong, there may be a chance for them to ease the relationship with Xu Ge Lao.

But for them, their life-saving talisman is actually to put on a layer of "clear stream" on themselves.

Not afraid of the powerful, whether it is Xu Jie, the prime minister of the dynasty, or Gao Gong, the teacher of Prince Yu, they dare to speak out and impeach without fear of violence, which is the righteousness of a real man.

At this time, many officials in the outer court have not seen the plan of Hu Yingjia and others, and only think that they are seeking their own death.

It was extremely unwise to offend the prime minister of the dynasty and provoke the ministers who were the heirs.

Everyone was watching coldly, wanting to see what the final fate of Hu Yingjia and others would be.

Would Xu Jie and Gao Gong dare to attack Hu Yingjia and others openly at this time?

Wei Guangde was not sure, but he knew that Gao Gong was indeed very fierce. He directly dug up some old things between him and Hu Yingjia and accused Hu Yingjia of taking revenge for personal gain.

"Master, please come to Prince Yu's Mansion later."

At this time, Lu Bu walked in from the door and whispered to Wei Guangde.

"Is the prince back?"

Wei Guangde frowned slightly and asked.

"I just returned to the city."

Lu Bu replied in a low voice.

"I know."

Wei Guangde put down the manuscript in his hand, picked up the teacup next to him and took a sip, and then said to Lu Bu.

After the winter solstice court meeting, the news that Emperor Jiajing was in poor health had quietly spread in the court.

Just today, the Emperor Jiajing's approval has been announced, and Gao Gong is naturally fine. However, Hu Rugui and others still continue to impeach Gao Gong, and continue to impeach him. This should be because the Emperor Jiajing is not in good health.

Wei Guangde shook his head, and estimated that the news of the Emperor's health should have caught Hu Yingjia and others off guard.

You know, they calculated Wei Guangde before, but they did not take Prince Yu's Mansion seriously at all.

But now the situation is different. The emperor is still sick, so the ministers of Prince Yu should be more afraid, after all, they are about to see the power of the state.

If the news of Emperor Jiajing's poor health had been announced earlier, Hu Yingjia and others would never dare to touch Gao Gong.

The party struggles of the Ming Dynasty

Wei Guangde sighed in his heart.

In the past, he thought that only those who entered the cabinet dared to play any party struggles, but this time Hu Yingjia taught him a lesson. In fact, low-level officials are not inferior in party struggles.

Of course, in the afternoon, when Wei Guangde finished his work and went to Prince Yu's mansion to meet Prince Yu, the news came that Hu Rugui and others were ordered by the emperor to reprimand, and all the memorials impeaching Gao Gong were kept.

Today, Gao Gong just received the order and returned to the cabinet to do his job, and Hu Rugui and others impeached him one after another. It is said that Gao Gong's expression was very wonderful at that time.

The words were passed by Lu Bu, and Wei Guangde felt that it should be very credible. It is estimated that Xu Jie was secretly happy at that time, and perhaps he really put aside his prejudice against Gao Gong temporarily.

With an old fox like Xu Jie, he would definitely not take action against Hu Yingjia and others at this time, because Hu Yingjia and others were too popular at this time.

And whether Gao Gong would take the risk of the world's disapproval and choose an opportunity to retaliate, Wei Guangde was really unsure.

After all, Gao Gong was famous for his revenge.

Hu Yingjia and others should also be anxious.

Arriving at Prince Yu's mansion, after a few simple greetings with Prince Yu, Prince Yu indeed asked about Gao Gong, Hu Yingjia and others.

"Your Highness, does Brother Suqing have any idea?"

Wei Guangde did not comment on this. He did not know whether Gao Gong had made up his mind to retaliate, and anything he said at this time might be wrong.

"Master Gao did not send any news to the palace."

Prince Yu replied calmly.

"In that case, the palace will not move for the time being."

Wei Guangde said: "Your Majesty is not well now, and no matter what you do, it may affect the recovery of the Holy Body.

Forgive me for being blunt, this seems... Your Highness, when you have time, you might as well pray for His Majesty and wish the Holy Body good health."

"Then let Hu Yingjia and others go?"

Perhaps because he felt offended, Prince Yu obviously did not intend to let these people go easily.

The previous impeachment of Zhang Yongming only made King Yu unhappy, but now the impeachment of Gao Gong is a continuous impeachment. After he entered the city today, he heard that there was another impeachment memorial.

Although Emperor Jiajing issued an edict, King Yu did not calm down the anger and still seemed to be resentful.

"Brother Su Qing has not sent any news back, which shows that he understands clearly."

Wei Guangde had no choice but to say: "Now everything actually depends on how your majesty's body is doing. Hu Yingjia and others should be anxious because of your majesty's health.

It is hard to say that even if they receive the imperial edict, they will still go their own way and continue to mobilize their party members to impeach Brother Su Qing. "

"Are you in a hurry? If they are in a hurry, can they just ignore me, Prince Yu's Mansion?"

King Yu said angrily.

"Your Highness, please don't mess up. This may be what they want to see. Everything is on His Majesty's body. If His Majesty recovers, they will live in peace for a while."

Wei Guangde had no choice but to remind him more clearly.

"Let's wait a few more days to see if His Majesty will adjust the defense inside and outside the capital. A few days ago, he asked a governor of Jinyiwei to oversee patrols inside and outside the capital."

Wei Guangde said everything so clearly that King Yu couldn't figure out the meaning behind his words.

However, after this trip, King Yu seemed to have thought more openly and became much more open-minded.

People will eventually be born, old, sick and die.

This may also be the reason why Emperor Jiajing asked him to perform sacrifices.

Compared to his two older brothers, he is already very lucky.

After staring at Wei Guangde for a long time, King Yu finally showed a forced smile and said, "I know."

"By the way, there's one more thing. Your Majesty has already approved Chen Yiqin's recommendation of Wang Ting, the Minister of Rites of Nanjing, as the Zuodu Yushi of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and it will be sent to the cabinet tomorrow."

King Yu seemed to have just remembered and told the matter.

Wei Guangde nodded, cupped his hands to Li Fanggong and said, "Eunuch Li has to work hard these days. Information from all parties must be collected in a timely manner."

"I don't dare to take it as hard work."

Li Fang hurriedly returned the gift and kept talking.

In the following days, perhaps because of the encounter with Shen Chi, Hu Yingjia and others and his party members temporarily stopped impeaching Gao Gong, but continued to go to the fireworks restaurant to drink with Beijing officials to increase their sense of presence.

Li Fang would send notes to him every day to inform him of this news.

Before leaving that day, King Yu told Li Fang that the information collected every day must be sent to Wei Guangde three times a day by trustworthy people.

After all, Wei Guangde spends time in the school registration hall every day. He knows that Emperor Jiajing may not live long, but Wei Guangde does not dare to relax at all.

If someone is not good at this time, I am afraid that all the previous efforts will be wasted. Thinking about it this way, it is really not worth the gain.

I have to fight for another two months, either Emperor Jiajing will recover, or King Yu will come to power and I will find another opportunity to be transferred out of the school.

Wei Guangde was tired of staying here. If he hadn't felt that this place was where Emperor Jiajing paid constant attention, he would have found a way to leave.

The work is so boring.

Just keep it up for a while.

Wei Guangde also kept using these words to encourage himself, fearing that he would involuntarily relax at this time.

But just today, when the office was about to be dismissed, Wei Guangde received a note. The text on it was very simple. News came out from Xiyuan that His Majesty ordered Chi Fengxiang, the assistant minister of the Rongzheng and Military Department of the Beijing Camp, to return to the Ministry of Management.

Chi Fengxiang no longer stationed in the capital camp, but returned to the city, but his role as assistant commander of the military affairs in the capital camp became a temporary one, which meant that someone would soon take his place.

Associating with the Beijing Camp, the person who can hold this position must have the title of Minister of War. Of course, he will not think that he will be promoted again and directly go to the Ministry of War to serve as the Minister of the Left and Right.

In fact, if Emperor Jiajing really entrusted him with this position, he would be very frustrated.

Being Minister of the Ministry of War was not his pursuit.

Wei Guangde was not very interested in the successor. The person who took over at this time must be someone who Emperor Jiajing thought was upright enough, or even stubborn, because only such people could be trusted by him at this time.

Such people may be suspected of being stubborn and pedantic, but they are the most abiding by the system.

That night, when the last note of the day was delivered to the Wei Mansion, Wei Guangde knew that at this time, the officials in the DPRK seemed to smell something different from Chi Fengxiang's return to his headquarters.

In the fireworks and wine alley tonight, what the officials talked about the most was the matter of co-managing the military affairs of the Beijing camp and the new candidate for co-coordinating the affairs.

"Gao Gong returned to Prince Yu's Mansion?"

Seeing the content behind, Wei Guangde frowned slightly. He didn't expect Gao Gong to go to Prince Yu's Mansion at this time. Ordinarily, he should be more cautious at this time. If there is no big deal, he should stay in Wuyi Hall instead of running around.

Wei Guangde was a little dissatisfied with Gao Gong, but he felt miserable when he saw the news Gao Gong brought.

Emperor Jiajing's health was really failing.

He has been lying in bed for two days. Although he can still intervene in the government affairs, he can only make judgments by relying on the eunuchs in the palace to read the memorials, and he can no longer do it with the imperial pen.

And all this was because Huang Jin was waiting beside the bed, otherwise the cabinet ministers would also be worried about the loss of imperial power.

Huang Jin was sent to Prince Xing's Mansion to accompany the crown prince since he was a child, and he served beside Emperor Jiajing. The emperor's trust in him was unquestionable.

For so many years since Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, Huang Jin has always carefully restrained himself and his family, not daring to abuse his power wantonly. He has always had a good reputation in the court.

And just today, Huang Jin discussed an important matter with Xu Jie, Li Chunfang and other cabinet ministers in Wuyi Hall, that is, he and the cabinet ministers took turns to ask Emperor Jiajing to move back to Qianqing Palace.

Qianqing Palace has been the sleeping palace of the Ming Dynasty emperors since Emperor Chengzu Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing.

After the Renyin Palace Incident, Emperor Jiajing moved away from here and never returned, perhaps because that night left a deep impression on him.

The name of Qianqing Palace comes from the "Tao Te Ching", the original text "In the past, those who obtained the one, the sky obtained the one to be clear, the one to be peaceful, the gods obtained the one to be spiritual, the valley obtained the one to be full, all things obtained the one to be born, and the princes obtained the one to be the world's integrity."

In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor was the Son of Heaven, the representative of God and Haotian, representing the sky, and the emperor's position was extremely honorable, which was called the only one, which meant the only one of the sky. The rising of clear air was called the sky, and the descending of turbid air was called the earth. Therefore, Qian was the sky, which meant clear.

In the Tao Te Ching, there is a saying that the heaven is pure because it is one. To show that the emperor is the only and most noble one in the world, his residence is named Qianqing Palace.

It has been 25 years since Emperor Jiajing moved away from here and has not returned.

As the emperor's bedroom, the emperor who died of old age must die there.

Although it is a bit treasonous to say this to the emperor, seeing the body of Emperor Jiajing, even Huang Jin, who is most loyal to him, can't help but bring up this matter.

"Huh"

Wei Guangde breathed a sigh of relief. It has finally come to this time.

However, unlike some novels Wei Guangde has read before, King Jing is dead, and Prince Yu has no brothers alive. He is the only son of Emperor Jiajing, and there is no doubt about his succession to the throne.

Stable, still insist on stability. As long as he does not do anything wrong to offend the emperor, Prince Yu's position is an iron camp, and no one can shake it.

Pass the note to the candle next to him, and the candlelight instantly ignites the note.

Wei Guangde kept guiding the flames forward and backward, letting it completely devour the note, and then threw it away, letting it fall to the ground with the wind.

Xiyuan, Yongshou Palace.

"Your Majesty, I have been out for more than 20 years, it's time to return to the Qianqing Palace."

Huang Jin knelt beside the dragon couch and whispered to Emperor Jiajing on the bed.

Emperor Jiajing certainly understood what Huang Jin meant, he knew that his time was really up.

It was all in vain after all.

No matter how hard he tried, he could not escape his fate after decades of cultivation.

He closed his eyes slightly and said between his mouth: "Change Wang Bengu, the left assistant minister of the Ministry of Justice, to the left assistant minister of the Ministry of War, to assist in the military affairs of the Beijing Camp."

Seeing Emperor Jiajing open his mouth, Huang Jin was still a little happy, and hurriedly leaned over to listen, but he didn't expect that Emperor Jiajing's order was this, to let Wang Bengu replace Chi Fengxiang to control the Beijing Camp.

"As ordered."

Although a little disappointed, Huang Jin still whispered in the emperor's ear.