The Prosperous Era of Longwan

The Yan family's money is really hard to get.

In fact, Wei Guangde never thought about taking their belongings and leaving the city to see Yan Song off. Unexpectedly, two days later, a servant of the Yan family came to visit with a big box.

Wei Guangde knew that this was Yan Song buying peace for himself, not the peace of the Jiajing Dynasty, but the peace of the Yu Dynasty.

He deliberately refused, but Yan Song had already returned to Jiangxi, and the weight of three thousand taels of silver was not low. More importantly, who knew how long King Yu would have to wait to ascend to that position.

Wei Guangde held a bit of luck, thinking that after King Yu took the throne, he might have forgotten Yan Song and Yan Shifan, so the money would be no different from the money he picked up for nothing.

Even if King Yu is still resentful, he can still use his royal courage to ask King Yu to let the Yan family go.

No matter what, the Yan family is the chief assistant family. No matter what people are like, they are all scholars.

It is said that the punishment is not good enough for the scholar-bureaucrats. They have left the court and cannot be seen.

But the situation was different now. Yan Shifan wanted to die and had to do this, and he didn't know if he wanted to test whether his neck was hard or not.

Wei Guangde didn't know what would happen to Yan Shifan in the end, but he knew that if things were to develop like this, neither Xu Jie nor King Yu would let Yan Shifan off easily.

Lin Run handed over the hilt of the knife.

"Shandai, you know, right? Yan Shifan doesn't deserve to be a son of a man. He actually escaped for a long time and went back to Jiangxi to live the idle life of a rich man. He even recruited thousands of elites. What is he going to do?

People who regard the country's laws as child's play will not be outraged if they are not killed. "

As soon as Wei Guangde walked to the center of the room and planned to salute King Yu, King Yu above him already spoke.

"Your Highness, I already know that Yan Shifan has gone too far.

Your Majesty did not impose severe punishment at the beginning, but only sent troops to be exiled. In fact, you have opened a wide range of restrictions and allowed him to go to the far south to live a happy life. He just didn't want him to come back again, but I didn't expect him to be like this."

Wei Guangde sighed. Although he did not need Yan Shifan's life, his position was that he must stand firmly on King Yu's side.

"I read Lin Run's memorial, and Yan Shifan could easily evade these two charges alone.

After escaping from the army, he could say that he missed his elderly father in his hometown. His father was also the worst offender. As for those people, he could also say that they were long-term workers recruited by his servants.

You think there can be a way to make Yan Shifan's crime more serious. "

King Yu spoke at this time.

There are two official Chinese characters, and for ordinary people, what they say is what they say.

But for people like Yan Shifan, you really can't make random accusations. A skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and their family still has connections in the court.

Even though Yan Song had already become an official, although some of the party members cultivated by the Yan family in the court were dealt with, not all were dealt with, and many of them were not punished, and most of them were dismissed from their posts and lived idle.

Two years have passed, and some people have regained their appointments by the court through clearing up relationships.

When it comes to dealing with Yan Shifan, Prince Yu's Mansion cannot cover the sky with one hand.

Wei Guangde did not answer Prince Yu's question directly, but looked at Yin Shizhen and Zhang Juzheng aside. Both of them smiled bitterly when they met his eyes.

Obviously, their intention was the same as Wei Guangde's. They knew that Prince Yu hated Yan Shifan, but they did not necessarily agree to let Prince Yu's palace be involved.

Previously, when Wei Guangde was outside the house, he heard Zhang Juzheng's words, which seemed to be quite intense, perhaps to advise King Yu.

Wei Guangde thought for a moment and then said: 'Your Highness, I do not recommend that you get involved in this matter. ’

"Why? He raises dead soldiers, recruits servants, and goes around slandering the imperial court. This is all to rebel. Can we just let such a person go as he pleases?"

King Yu said dissatisfied.

"Yan Shifan's crimes are decided by the imperial court and His Majesty. It is not necessarily a good thing for the palace to interfere in it."

While everyone in Prince Yu's Mansion was discussing Lin Run's impeachment of Yan Shifan, in the main room of the Jinyiwei Xisi room manager, a Jinyiwei commander wearing a python suit with an embroidered spring knife hanging on his waist was pacing back and forth anxiously.

This person is none other than Yan Shaoting, the second son of Yan Shifan.

Yes, although Yan Song was forced to become an official, and Yan Shifan and many of his party members were sent to live idle, Emperor Jiajing did not bring down the entire Yan family in one fell swoop.

Kill only the first culprit, that's what he did.

After the fall of the Yan family, Yan Shaoting could still hold the official position of commander of the Jinyi Guards and became the steward of the West Division. Naturally, he also had a guard of honor, because he was still Lu Bing's son-in-law.

For such a person, Zhu Xixiao also felt that he didn't know what to do. Lu Yi was still serving as a commanding officer in Fusi, Jinyiwei North Town, so he had to give him some face.

Fortunately, the Jinyiwei organization was large enough and gave him real power over thousands of households. Zhu Xixiao was not too relieved and simply sent him to the Xisi room to do the job of catching crimes and thefts.

Jinyiwei was formed from the merger of Yiluan Division and Gongwei Division during Zhu Yuanzhang's time. It was organized according to the standard guard station and consisted of five thousand-household stations in the center, left, right, front and back.

Since then, Jinyiwei has expanded and incorporated some other offices, especially branches in major cities, but the core has always been the five offices when it was first established, also called core offices.

The core office is responsible for the most basic honor guard and escort of the emperor. The honor guard is organized into the Imperial Chair Division, the Fan Hand Division, the Qing Ge Division, the Banner Division, the Ax Division, the Luan Yu Division, and the Horse Taming Division.

Perhaps Taizu felt that the ostentation was not enough, so he later added the Ban Sword Division, the Geji Division, and the Bow and Arrow Division, and incorporated all the old and new ten divisions into the Qianqianhu Office to be responsible for the guard of honor.

The guards of the Jin Yiwei are divided into warriors, captains, and generals. The generals are also called Dahan generals. When they were in Yiluan Division, they were called Tianwu generals.

It sounds domineering, but they are actually a group of guards standing guard, but they are all dressed as gorgeously as generals. They can be seen in some Ming Dynasty palace paintings handed down from generation to generation.

In the middle period of Hongwu, it was roughly driven by the Hu Weiyong case and the Kongyin case. Because the shortage of manpower was exposed, Jinyiwei carried out a large-scale expansion. After all, it was a major case that killed tens of thousands of people.

With this expansion, Jinyiwei in the capital has added six thousand-household offices including upper middle, upper front, upper rear, upper left, upper right, and middle rear, as well as the original five core ones. Jinyiwei now has eleven thousand households. Place.

In the last years of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang added six more thousand-household offices to Jinyiwei, namely the Elephant Training Station, the Farming Station, the Majun Left Station, the Majun Right Station, the Majun Front Station, and the Majun Back Station. You can tell from the names. Seeing its use, it was also called a functional office, with a specialized guard office.

The seventeen thousand-household offices became the backbone of Jinyiwei in the capital and lasted until the fall of the Ming Dynasty. These were the seventeen thousand-household offices within Jinyiwei.

As for the Zhenfu Division, it is the standard unit of the guard station. It is responsible for the punishment and military household registration of the guard station. The chief officer is usually the Zhenfu. The first-level guard is assigned two guards to suppress the fu. From the fifth rank, the Qianhu Station The first level is equipped with two governors, starting from the sixth level.

With the development of Jinyiwei up to now, Nanjing Jinyiwei has only one Zhenfu Division, while Beijing Jinyiwei has two units at the same level, namely North Town Fusi and South Town Fusi. Zhenfu Division and Nanzhen Fusi are still responsible for the punishment and military status of the guards. Archives, Beizhen Fusi is responsible for imperial edicts and prisons.

In addition, Jin Yiwei also has a civilian department that is responsible for sending and receiving official documents of the organization, that is, the Experience Department. Since Jin Yiwei often involves confidential documents, the Experience Department is generally directly managed by the top leader of the guard.

Shen Lian, a Jinshi who was killed by Yan Song's gang members, was Jin Yiwei's experience secretary.

When it came to the Chenghua Dynasty, Jinyiwei added two new yamen, namely the East Sifang and the West Sifang. Among them, the East Sifang was responsible for investigating crimes, and the West Sifang was responsible for arresting thieves.

Of course, these two units are also somewhat related to the Dongjishi Factory set up by Zhu Di in the Yongle Dynasty.

Dongchang, as you can tell from its name, has the function of being a police officer. The people who actually work in the factory are Jin Yiwei, but the leader is a eunuch, so the reputation and credit go to the eunuchs. It is equivalent to Jin Yiwei doing illegal work. It can be called the name of the police officer. What is not right is not fair.

The reason why during the Chenghua period the Jinyiwei were specifically given the power of detecting crimes and arresting thefts was because the public security environment in the Ming Dynasty during this period, especially in the capital, was really extremely poor.

Can you believe that during the Yingzong period, the official seal of the Minister of Rites was stolen, and the official seal was stolen three times in a row by one person.

It is estimated that Lord Shangshu has offended someone, but the official's wife is always under guard. It is inconvenient to take revenge, so he stole the official seal of the Yamen.

Losing one's seal is a serious crime. The Yingzong talked about favors in the first two times. After all, this Minister of Rites is not an ordinary person, but Hu Ming, a roly-poly who has lived through six dynasties.

Hu Hui was the second-level Jinshi in the second year of Jianwen, and then passed through Yongle, Hongxi, Xuande, Zhengtong, and Jingtai, and finally died in the Tianshun period.

However, Yingzong couldn't stand losing his official seal three times in a row, so he was sent to prison. However, "not long after, he got the seal and was reinstated."

The above is a story about personal vendettas, so the most exciting thing happened during the Chenghua period.

One day, a thief jumped over the imperial city and entered the inner palace of Xiyuan to steal something. The thief was caught by Dongchang, but Cheng Huaqi went crazy. Xiyuan is his dojo. What should he do if the feng shui is broken?

Although Jiajing had been refining alchemy in Xiyuan for a long time, the foundation of Xiyuan Taoist Temple was actually built during the Chenghua period, and compared to Chenghua's religious practice, Jiajing's Taoism was nothing at all.

Thanks to the attention of Chenghua Emperor Zhu Jianshen, the important task of arresting thieves was officially delegated to the Jinyiwei. In order to increase the authority of these two units, Zhu Jianshen even returned the admiralship of the Wucheng Military and Horse Division from the Ministry of War to the Jinyiwei. The Jinyiwei commanding the Qianshi Admiral is equivalent to the Military and Horse Division becoming a subordinate agency of the Jinyiwei.

And Yan Shaoting is now commanding the Qianshi Admiral Xi Sifang as a Jin Yiwei, and the power he holds is not small.

But now he feels a deep crisis. This time Lin Run impeaches his father Yan Shifan. He knows that those who are dissatisfied with the Yan family will definitely use this to cause trouble, and the only thing he can do now is to inform Jiangxi as soon as possible. , let Yan Shifan leave there as soon as possible and go to Leizhou to serve his sentence. At least let Emperor Jiajing know that the Yan family still listens to the emperor's words.

The East and West Sifang recruited many green forest heroes and rivers and lakes heroes, in order to treat severe cases with strong medicine, which is called fighting poison with poison.

Among them, he had a hero nicknamed "Fei Cao Shang" who held the Xisifang No. 22 sign, so Yan Shaoting placed the task of delivering the letter on him.

For these people, Jin Yiwei certainly knew their identities, but they only gave them numbers. Once they entered Jin Yiwei, they were completely different from the past. They only had numbers and no names.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, he had already reached the point where he was impatient, when there were finally footsteps outside the door.

When footsteps were heard outside the door, Yan Shaoting shouted, "Let him in" without waiting for an announcement.

Although he was dissatisfied, Yan Shaoting knew that this was not the time to lose his temper.

After waiting for a thin but strong man outside the door to come in and greet him, Yan Shaoting handed him a written letter on the desk.

"Send the letter back to Yuanzhou Mansion in Jiangxi, and you will be rewarded generously."

If you entrust him with such an important thing at this time, even a fool would know what the letter is.

There is no more effective way to deal with the reckless recruitment of these things than to throw money at them.

Most of these heroes who took refuge in the government did not do it for power, but more for obtaining an official certificate and a talisman, so that they could have a sense of security when they committed crimes.

Of course, the premise is that the tasks assigned by the superior officer can be successfully completed.

And what do these people like most?

Of course it's money, something that allows them to live a luxurious and luxurious life.

When he heard that there was a big reward, the man couldn't help but show a hint of greed in his eyes.

Of course he knew who the letter was to and what was written in it, but did it have anything to do with him?

"As commanded."

He put the letter in his arms, clasped his fists and said, "Sir, I'll leave right away."

"Go quickly and be careful."

Yan Shaoting just ordered.

At this time, in Prince Yu's palace, Wei Guangde suddenly asked Li Fang next to Prince Yu: "Eunuch Li, I wonder how the cabinet is voted for?"

After the discussion just now, Wei Guangde already knew that King Yu had a strong desire for revenge.

Now that he knew it, for his own sake, Wei Guangde couldn't continue to think of ways to shirk the blame, and had to really help think of ideas.

"Xu Ge's old criticism is to 'leave it to the relevant department to investigate and deal with it'."

Li Fang replied.

Wei Guangde understood that this was the standard answer for the cabinet to deal with such problems, which showed that Mr. Xu Ge did not seem to have thought clearly about what to do.

"Did you send the memorial to Xiyuan?"

Wei Guangde continued to ask.

"It should have been handed over to the Supervisor of Ceremonies."

Li Fang was not sure either and just answered ambiguously.

"I'm afraid this matter will be difficult to handle."

Wei Guangde just sighed.

"Why?"

Before anyone else could speak, King Yu had already asked first.

"This matter is actually an issue in Guangdong. If the direct vote is to ask the Guangdong Prosecutor's Office to send people to arrest Yan Shifan and try it at the local level, we have more room for manipulation. There is still Lao Kan in the Guangdong Prosecutor's Office. Now, as long as you ask him to do things, you can get any results.

But according to Mr. Xu Ge's suggestion, it is very likely that the person was not left in the south of the Yangtze River, but brought back to the capital, where another meeting of the three divisions would be held to determine Yan Shifan's serious crime.

When investigating this case in the capital, without that person's nod, many charges would never have been laid. "

Wei Guangde shook his head and said.

Are Yan Shifan guilty of many crimes?

A lot can be said, but most of them will not lead to death.

According to King Yu's idea, the accumulated crimes were enough to warrant his death, but Yan Shifan's method of making money was taboo in the officialdom. Officials might be doing the same thing, but they would not be willing to punish him for it. Felony.

Then, the final result is likely to be to send Yan Shifan to a farther place, such as Qiongzhou.

Although he couldn't bear it, Wei Guangde also figured it out and did everything according to King Yu's wishes.

The fellow villagers don’t have much to worry about at this time.