The Prosperous Era of Longwan

“Dong Dong Dong”

There was a knock on the door, and then another maid outside the door shouted: “Madam, the master should get up.”

Then there was a rustling sound in the room, and after a while, a lady inside was heard saying: “I know.”

At this time, Wei Guangde was sleeping soundly, and suddenly he was pushed by the beauty next to him, and the laughter said in his ear: “Master, it’s time to get up, today is the winter solstice, and there is a big court meeting.”

Wei Guangde gradually opened his sleepy eyes and looked out the window. It was still pitch black.

But soon, the three words “big court meeting” appeared in his mind, and he sat up suddenly and said: “Ask them to come in and change my clothes. You should sleep a little longer. It’s still early.”

As Wei Guangde dressed and washed up with the help of the maid in the room, the sky was still gray and there was no light.

It has been a long time since it has been like this.

Although the two Empress Dowagers were strict with the young Emperor Wanli and Zhang Juzheng also arranged heavy schoolwork, he was still his beloved son.

So after the cold winter, in addition to the regular courts that had been cancelled, the court meetings on the first and fifteenth of each month were also cancelled, and the imperial court meeting on the fifteenth was only held at the Huangji Gate on the first day of each month.

However, there were three particularly important court meetings that could not be cancelled in the Ming Dynasty, namely the Winter Solstice, the New Year's Day and the Wanshou Festival.

In principle, these three court meetings were not for official business, but for congratulating the emperor.

Such an environment made Wei Guangde, who was already accustomed to "getting up late" and only went to the cabinet to "report for duty", somewhat uncomfortable.

After Wei Guangde had some breakfast, drank a bowl of meat soup, went out to get on the sedan chair, and the sedan chair was carried to the imperial city with a slight fan.

Along the way, there were constant carriages and sedan chairs merging into the street, with lanterns in front and behind, like a fire dragon winding towards the imperial city.

There were Wei Mansion logos on the lanterns in front and behind Wei Guangde's sedan chair, so when approaching the gate of the imperial city, many sedan chairs had already stopped by the roadside, but Wei Guangde's sedan chair was still moving forward in the middle of the road.

When they arrived outside the gate of the imperial city, Wei Guangde got out of the sedan chair, holding a small hand warmer in his hand.

"Second Assistant."

"Wei Ge Lao."

As soon as Wei Guangde appeared, officials around him kept saluting.

Wei Guangde also smiled in return, but he looked a little out of place with a hand warmer in his hand.

Fortunately, it was still dark, so it didn't attract much attention in the dim light.

Wei Guangde went to the front and went directly into the "court room" outside the Meridian Gate to wait.

"Ziwei is here first."

When he entered the door, Wei Guangde saw Zhang Siwei was already inside, so he greeted him, and also greeted a few other people, and then sat in the middle to rest.

When the time came, Wei Guangde led the civil and military officials into the Meridian Gate first, and then they lined up according to their ranks on the south side of the Jinshui Bridge, waiting for the whip to blow, and crossed the bridge in order until they reached the Huangji Gate Danbi. At this time, the civil officials were on the left and the military officials were on the right. The two teams continued to pass through the left and right gates and continued forward. The Huangji Hall came into view again.

At this time, the musicians in front and behind the square outside the Huangji Hall began to play music. Amid the sound of stringed instruments, Wei Guangde and other court officials had already walked to the Danbi, standing on both sides of the imperial road, waiting for the emperor to arrive.

At this time, the sound of bells and drums disappeared, leaving only the sound of the whip. As the emperor's carriage appeared, it was directly lifted to the white jade Danbi. The little emperor Zhu Yijun came down, stood under the yellow umbrella and looked at the waiting ministers, then turned around and climbed the steps, slowly entering the Huangji Hall.

The three major halls usually do not hold ceremonies, and they are only held here during the three major court meetings.

In the past, the court meetings on the first and fifteenth days of the lunar month were mostly held at the Huangji Gate.

Because it was one of the three major court meetings, almost all officials in Beijing had arrived, including the nobles who often did not attend the court, and they all appeared in the team in neat clothes.

After the emperor took his seat, Wei Guangde led the civil and military officials and nobles to walk slowly onto the jade platform and enter the Huangji Hall again, with the officials of the Honglu Temple singing "Enter the class".

Only officials of the fourth rank and above had the opportunity to enter the hall. The fifth and sixth rank officials had already filled the jade platform, and the rest could only retreat under the jade platform.

This was the grand court meeting, a major ceremony that all civil and military officials in Beijing had to attend, and it was the focus of everyone's attention.

Afterwards, Wei Guangde led the class and followed the process until the ceremony ended. As the ministers sent him off respectfully, Wei Guangde looked up at the back of the little emperor who was limping away, and his heart fell into thought.

Later generations said that Emperor Wanli had not attended court for decades. Seeing the emperor ascending the throne and leaving the court just now, Wei Guangde was thinking about something in his mind.

The leg disease of Emperor Wanli was no secret in the officialdom of the capital, but in the past, when he was young, young people did not walk steadily and were more lively, so it was not obvious.

But with the completion of the selection, Zhu Yijun also began to gradually learn to be steady.

However, what Wei Guangde saw today, in addition to the emperor's slightly immature and majestic performance, the discomfort when walking was also seen clearly.

Perhaps, he wanted to try his best to show the momentum and majesty that a monarch should have, but his limping greatly reduced his points.

Why did Emperor Wanli not attend court for a long time and only meet officials in the palace? It seemed that he was the same as Emperor Jiajing, but Emperor Jiajing was doing it to cultivate immortality in the Western Garden, while Emperor Wanli was not, he still lived in the palace.

After exiting the Huangji Hall, in the Zuoye Gate of Huangji Gate, Wei Guangde looked back at the spacious square and finally decided to go back to write a memorial to simplify the court meeting process.

Perhaps, Emperor Wanli's reluctance to attend court was also related to his leg disease.

Wei Guangde did not know why the later Emperor Wanli was "lazy in government affairs" and hid in the palace and did not come out to see people, but judging from his decisive actions in handling such important events as the "Three Major Expeditions", he was not a person who did not know the importance of the matter.

Moreover, since the Zhengde Dynasty, Chang Chao has actually become dispensable. Wei Guangde is also accustomed to this. Except for the DPRK meeting, other people's life canceled life.

After exiting Huangjimen, Bai Guan was going out of the palace and returned to the respective gates, and Wei Guangde went directly to the cabinet.

At this time, Zhang Juzheng was already in the pavilion, and he was still filial piety.

Wei Guangde did not go to discuss with Zhang Juzheng, but directly returned to the duty room, calling the reed grinding, but he conceived how to write this play, how to make the emperor's dynasty easier.

In the Ming Dynasty, when the "ambiguity", when the sky was just dawn, and in order not to be late, the officials would go out when they were not bright, and gathered outside the noon door and waited.

Although Wei Guangde wanted to delay time, it was still possible to think about it.

Write it, I am afraid that it will be criticized in the middle of the DPRK.

However, it was necessary to directly carry the emperor's royal driving to the royal seat, but let the emperor reduce the way to go to the upper seat after getting off the sedan.

After all, walking and walking, it really hurts the majesty of the heavenly family.

I was afraid of changes in this dynasty, only for Wanli.

Soon, Wei Guangde wrote a lot, and the Emperor Wanli Emperor's upper dynasty whether it was "Royal Gate listening to politics" or entered the hall, and the royal driver was directly lifted to the imperial gate or the Huangji Temple.

In this way, the emperor did not have to walk on the court's eyes.

However, there was no such change in the "Daming Code" before, and the cabinet will be discussed with Jiuqing.

Wei Guangde wrote a good play, carefully read it again, and looked at the pen and ink a little, so he got up and took the freshly baked play.

"Uncle, Ma, today, he has worked hard to show the majesty of the emperor, but he finally has a stubborn illness, so I have this to play."

In the first auxiliary duty room, Zhang Juzheng had watched Wei Guangde's play, and was groaning.

Wei Guangde had to take the initiative to open the silent atmosphere in the house.

"Good loan says that it is reasonable before I wait."

For a long time, Zhang Juzheng finally said.

"Royal driver is under the dragon seat, but it is not a violation of the control, and it can be avoided in the eyes of the courtiers."

Zhang Juzheng nodded and said.

"Does the uncle play with me playing with me?"

Wei Guangde asked solemnly.

Here, I just thought about letting Zhang Juzheng and him co -branded, so that no one would take this in the future.

As for in the palace, I know that Zhang Juzheng did not participate in various etiquette activities such as the Datonghui, and naturally, he also knew that this play was actually written by Wei Guangde.

Well, what really cares about the emperor is Master Wei.

"good."

Zhang Juzheng didn't think much about it. This little trick was actually useless. Zhang Juzheng didn't care.

Lifting the pen directly, signed his name next to Wei Guangde's signature, and laughed: "This play is directly sent to Si Li Jian.

At this time, neither of them mentioned the presence of the cabinet and a cabinet minister.

"By the way, Barkl went to Tianjin to return to Nanyang by boat, did the Ministry arrangement arrangement?"

Zhang Juzheng put down his pen and asked.

"It has been arranged. Before, the Nanhai Marine Division's warship was transferred to Tianjin. Later, he was escorted by the Nanhai Water Division Battleship to me to my Daming to participate in the emperor's wedding."

Wei Guangde laughed.

A few days ago, under Wei Guangde, the king of Sulu State Barker saw the Emperor Wanli at the premise of the first day. The little emperor was also very interested in this king from Nanyang and asked him a lot.

After that, the little emperor used Sulu Kingdom as a contribution to Daming's troops and contributed to the army.

In general, these rewards were decided after the cabinet was discussed.

After all, thousands of soldiers and horses cross the sea to fight in Luzon.

In addition to Barker's brought back a little Daming's silver dollar, most of the silver purchased various products of Daming in Beijing Division.

It is rare once, although it will come two years later, but there is the grace of the emperor in his hand, just taking this opportunity to buy products and other products, this is to bring back to Nanyang Dafa.

Wei Guangde didn't care about this, but he was reluctant to support the Ministry of Li.

It is funny, the fur of the fur of the great and expensive ministers in Daming Jingcheng has been purchased a lot by Bacch.

It should be noted that Sulu Kingdom is in tropical, how can there be a chance to wear fur.

In this regard, Wei Guangde was willing to see it.

Those fur, he also has a shares, almost doubling.

"By the way, did you read the playbook sent in yesterday?"

When Wei Guangde intends to leave the duty room office, Zhang Juzheng suddenly asked again.

"Uncle is talking about the annual account?"

Wei Guangde asked with a smile.

"Yeah, I did not expect to work hard for a year, the finances of the Daming House still lost their finances."

Zhang Juzheng sighed.

"Hehe, not actually."

Wei Guangde said with a smile, and said in Zhang Juzheng's puzzled eyes: "I saw the account of the households this year yesterday, one of which was obviously wrong.

They calculated about 330,000 yuan in financial losses this year, but they were still holding 400,000 silver for the emperor's wedding.

The emperor's wedding has been postponed to the later years, what expenditure the silver is.

According to my opinion, this year the court's finances actually had a balance of 70,000.

70,000 silver, not much to mention, but in the past few decades, the court had a silver balance for the first time. At that time, a happy event was right. "

"hehe."

Zhang Juzheng heard the words and laughed at once, and then stroked the beard: "Good loan and I think of it, I will talk to Zhang Xueyan when I look back.

Zhang Juzheng attaches great importance to the fiscal revenue and expenditure, and has always been pursued to reverse the phenomenon of fiscal deficit that appeared in the later period.

It was just a few years ago, the court was a bit difficult to return, and the disaster in various places continued, which greatly limited the results of his compressed expenditure.

This year, the court played two battles. In fact, there were many reasons for the pre -dialing reserves and grass in the past two years. deficit.

The account is the set of accounts, but after adjusting the time of the accounting, the default accounts that the court could not enter into a slight surplus was not easy.

His views on Daming's finances coincide, naturally make the atmosphere in the house better, and the relationship between the two is closer.

Finally, Zhang Juzheng reached out to find a playbook from his sleeves and handed it to Wei Guangde.

"Good loan, this is what I think about these days, the public may wish to take a look and mention opinions."

Wei Guangde just stunned a little, then reached out and opened it, and opened it.

Without looking at the content, Wei Guangde guessed it.

What Wei Guangde didn't expect was that Zhang Juzheng's counterattack was so fast. When he returned to the cabinet for less than two months, he intends to start the person who had already slandered him.

In fact, Zhang Juzheng's "seizing love" is not only the opposition, but the discussion of Shilin is also very great. They all believe that it should not be the first to destroy the ceremony system with the cabinet. Therefore, no matter whether it is official or folk, many people have said ugly words.

For folk public opinion, ordinary people do not understand, they are in Shilin.

Shilin's public opinion can represent the people of the world, that is, public opinion.

Zhang Juzheng was going to study politics, and naturally he put the goal in these Shilin and retaliated some of them.

Of course, Perhaps Wei Guangde was more concerned, Zhang Juzheng may not be the case.

But at this time Wei Guangde looked in his eyes, and there were so many speculations.

What is the old system?

Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang is deeply conflict about the concern of the scholars. Therefore, it is clearly stipulated that if it is about military affairs in the "Workers", the people, including "people of hundreds of engineering skills", also allow the country to go to the country. Readers do not allow discussing politics.

Who are the scholars who have not been famous?

In fact, it is a scholar, including the talented talent, and the name refers to the more than the scholars.

It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang's regulations have blocked the way that most scholars discuss the country.

This is the old system.

But in the Wanli Dynasty, Taizu's statement had been thrown into the trash.

Readers can talk about state affairs happily, because the readers have criticized the government's political time and often published some radical discussions.

Obviously, because of the previous "testing law" and this "emotion", Zhang Ju's reputation in the people had plummeted, and he had to suppress his way of saying. (End of this chapter)