Not only has the number of Donglin Party members been greatly reduced, but Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and others have also lost their positions, and without the grassroots imperial history to help Zhang Luo, what is the use of these high-ranking officials of the Donglin Party?

More than a dozen fierce officials of the Donglin Party, such as Shen Hezhe and Zheng Xiuhua, who were left behind by Wei Bao, were also sent by Wei Bao to serve in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the North Courtyard of Dali Temple.

At that time, Wei Bao was also afraid that Yang Lian, Zuo Guangdou and other Donglin Party ministers were still in the Duchayuan and Dali Temple, and would lead a group of Donglin Party officials, or neutral officials who were inclined to the Donglin Party, to be his enemies and obstruct his personnel changes to the Duchayuan and Dali Temple.

"Really?" Yang Xue listened to Wei Bao's words and was skeptical, "But others said that when you kicked out a few Donglin officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, it was unceremoniously. ”

"Invite someone out, can you be polite and invite out? I believe that with your father's mind, I do not disrespect him for such a trivial matter. Wei Bao smiled slightly, looking like a child.

Wei Bao's kind attitude also made Yang Zhiyi, Yang Zhiyan, Yang Zhifu, Yang Zhicai, and Yang Zhihuan speechless, although they are all students, that is, the meaning of Xiucai's fame, and they are older than Wei Bao, but where is Wei Bao's opponent for people like Wei Bao who have stepped into officialdom?

Wei Bao is now hypocritical, and his skills in acting on the spot are increasing day by day, all of which he learned from a group of cabinet ministers, which is really a thousand miles a day, how can he be compared with ordinary people.

Yang Xue didn't have anything to say, looked at Xiong Xin'er and motioned for her to come.

Xiong Xin'er has a martial arts, but her personality is very shy, she looked at Xiong Zhaoqi, and signaled to her brother that when she couldn't see Wei Bao, Xiong Xin'er often thought of Wei Baolai, but when she saw Wei Bao, Xiong Xin'er was very shy.

Xiong Zhaoqi said: "Master Wei, I want to ask you to help us take a look at my father's case, we can't enter Jinyiwei's Beizhen Fusi Prison now, it seems that they are about to convict my father." ”

Yang Lianzuo Guangdou, as well as Xiong Tingbi's case, Wei Bao probably knows a little bit.

In February of the second year of the Apocalypse, the imperial court arrested Wang Huazhen, dismissed Xiong Tingbi's official, and let him wait for investigation.

In April, Wang Ji, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Zou Yuanbiao, the imperial historian of Zuodu, and Zhou Yingqiu, the secretary of Dali Temple, reported the verdicts, and Xiong Tingbi and Wang Huazhen were sentenced to death. Later, when the execution was approaching, Xiong Tingbi asked Wang Wenyan to bribe the inner court with 40,000 taels of gold to ask for a suspended execution, but later violated the promise of 40,000 gold.

Wei Zhongxian was so angry that he vowed to kill Xiong Tingbi as soon as possible.

When Yang Lian and others were arrested and imprisoned, they falsely accused him of being bribed by Xiong Tingbi, so as to aggravate Xiong Tingbi's crime.

Later, the patrol arrested citizen Jiang Yingyang, saying that he and Tingbi's son went in and out of the prison and conspired.

Wei Zhongxian wanted to kill Xiong Tingbi as soon as possible, and the henchmen of the eunuch party, Menkexin, Guo Xingzhi, Shi Sanwei, Zhuo Mai, etc., catered to his intentions and kept urging.

It just so happened that Feng Quan was also disappointed in Tingbi, and when he was talking to Gu Bingqian and others at the banquet, he took out the "Liaodong Biography" printed in the bazaar and framed Tingbi to the Emperor of the Apocalypse, Zhu Youxiao, and said: "This is written by Xiong Tingbi himself, and he wants to exonerate himself." ”

Zhu Youxiao was annoyed, so he killed Tingbi in August of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, and showed his head to the public in nine military towns in the north.

Later, Yushi Liang Menghuan said that Tingbi invaded and stole 170,000 taels of military expenses. Liu Hui of the imperial history said that Xiong Tingbi's family had an output value of one million taels of silver, which should be confiscated as military expenses.

Wei Zhongxian ordered the strict recovery of the stolen goods, and all the assets of Xiong Tingbi's family were insufficient, and even his relatives and family were raided.

Wang Eryu of Dongxia Zhixian extorted Erqi and Zhen from Xiong Tingbi's son, and if he couldn't get it, he would beat someone. Xiong Tingbi's eldest son, Xiong Zhaoqi, committed suicide, Xiong Zhaoqi's mother cried out for injustice, and Er Yu stripped off her two maids' clothes and beat them forty boards.

Anyone who knew about it from far or near sighed and resented.

Yang Lian and Xiong Tingbi originally had nothing to do with each other, they were just people that Wei Zhongxian couldn't get used to, so Wei Zhongxian's subordinates naturally put them together to solve it.

Wei Bao counted the days, it was already very close to August, although Yang Lian and the others had not been moved by Wei Zhongxian yet, but last time Wei Zhongxian said to himself that he would do it immediately, and asked him not to do much.

"Brother Xiong, the case directly managed by the Fusi of Beizhen, our Metropolitan Procuratorate has no way to ask about it, you must know that Jinyiwei is the emperor's personal guard." Wei Bao said indifferently. Although he saved the brothers and sisters of the Xiong family, it was just a gesture, and he didn't want to have too much to do with the Xiong family.

Xiong Xin'er is good-looking, but Wei Bao now has a strong immunity to beauties, Wang Qiuya and Princess Zhenming are both good-looking, and Wu Xuexia is a world-class beauty, not to mention the disaster to the country and the people, anyway, it is difficult for a woman to surpass Wu Xuexia purely from the perspective of appearance.

Xiong Zhaoqi and Xiong Xin'er heard Wei Bao say this, their faces were full of gloom, they also knew that it was useless to look for Wei Bao, otherwise they would have looked for Wei Bao a long time ago.

"Big brother, drink together at noon, Brother Xiongtai, Miss Xin'er, Miss Yang, a few Brother Yang, don't leave at noon, I'll let people put the banquet in the yamen." Wei Bao is not afraid that others will see him get together with Xiong Tingbi and Yang Lian's children, he just needs to try not to get involved in their affairs.

On the contrary, the more Wei Bao dared to get involved with the children of the hardcore Donglin Party like Yang Lian, the more he could make other Donglin Parties have a good impression of him.

And Wei Zhongxian will think that he is playing on the spot, even if the other eunuchs are unhappy that they are getting together with the children of the hardcore Donglin Party, as long as Wei Zhongxian has nothing to do with it.

"Lord Wei is busy with official business, we don't dare to chatter." Xiong Zhaoqi hurriedly said. No matter how good Wei Bao's banquet is, it is useless to eat a meal of wine, they are mainly here today for something, otherwise they really won't look for Wei Bao casually.

Yang Zhiyi also said: "Yes, Master Wei doesn't have to be polite, we will go home and tell my father what Lord Wei meant." ”

Yang Lian Zuo Guangdou and others were driven away by Wei Bao last time, on the one hand, Wei Bao's rogue spirit was too arrogant, they didn't want to tear their faces to fight with a scoundrel, on the other hand, they were framed last time, Yang Lian's daughter Yang Xue didn't sue anyone at all, but everyone was implicated, including many neutral officials who tended to the Donglin Party, Yang Lianzuo Guangdou and others couldn't explain, after discussion, in order to avoid deepening the contradiction and deepening the misunderstanding, so it was actually the Ducha Yuan and Dali Temple that took the initiative to leave.

Wei Bao smiled: "If you refuse to stay and eat, you just don't give me face, it's time to eat, I also have to eat, if you are worried that your family will worry about going back late, I will let the messenger go to your house separately to report the news." ”

Several people saw that Wei Bao was so enthusiastic about retaining, and that they had said that they could only stay, and they thanked Wei Bao one after another.

Wei Bao seems to be in a good mood and talks and laughs all the time.

The weather in July was very hot, Wei Bao asked the back kitchen of the government office to prepare wine and good food, and the back kitchen of the government office was greatly strengthened after Wei Bao came, because Wei Bao was in charge of the experience department of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the left temple of Dali Temple, and these living expenses were all from his hands.

In addition, in order to show integrity, now the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple of the account, out of the account, all publicized in the internal, the dirty silver in the account is vaguely expressed in government expenses, out of the account of the silver, each paragraph is written clearly, buy wine, buy vegetables, travel expenses, overtime food expenses are listed in great detail.

If you do an internal affairs assessment and evaluation, the current Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple are definitely the most formal yamen in all the yamen of the entire Ming Dynasty, whether it is silver that can see the light or not, dare to list it for publicity, which is not simple in itself.

Wei Bao asked people to put the banquet on the promenade, there is a promenade, there is shade, very leisurely.

From where they sit, they could see a large group of officials waiting to give gifts and silver at the entrance of the yamen, and 1,500 of the more than 5,000 people were made, and there were many monks and few porridges.

Most of the gift-givers are the candidate officials themselves, or accompanied by servants, or not accompanied by servants, anyway, the candidate officials themselves must be there, for fear that they don't know when they will be summoned by Lord Wei, if they are not there, whether it is to give money or to deal with it, it is inconvenient.

As long as an official of the Metropolitan Procuratorate came out, he would be surrounded by a large group of people and ask Master Wei what he was doing now and what he was free.

"Brother Xian, you are too majestic now, the Ducha Yuan and the Yamen of Dali Temple have been made by you the hottest yamen in Beijing, so many people are waiting to give you gifts." Li Chengnei said.

Wei Bao smiled slightly: "I never accept gifts. "I only accept cash.

Wei Bao said, glanced at Yang Xue, carefully observed Yang Xue, the more she looked, the more she tasted, she was in excellent shape, sexy and solemn, melon seed face, eyebrows curved like the moon, eyelashes like curtains, although her eyes were smaller, they were as clear as autumn water, and her skin was very white, as delicate as warm mutton fat jade.

In Daming, men and women are not allowed to share the same table, so next to the table of Wei Bao, Li Chengnei and other big men, Yang Xue and Xiong Xin'er sat alone at a small table.

Although Xiong Tingbi and Yang Lian have nothing to do with each other, the two families used to live very closely, so Yang Xue and Xiong Xin'er often play together, and the relationship between the two girls is good.

Yang Xue already knew that Wei Bao had saved the Xiong family brothers and sisters, talking to Xiong Xin'er in a whisper, sneaking a glance at Wei Bao from time to time, and her impression of Wei Bao was quite good, last time she was taken captive by Rong Keqin's son Rong Zhengyu to the prison of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, although Wei Bao did not help her, but she judged that Wei Bao was not a member of the eunuch party, and Wei Bao tried to stop Rong Zhengyu, which also left a good impression on Yang Xue.

Rong Zhengyu's father is a member of the second rank of the Metropolitan Inspection Academy, the right capital of the imperial history, second only to the same is the second grade of the left capital of the imperial history, such a person is also ranked first in the Ming Dynasty, second only to the cabinet ministers, Wei Bao can't be provoked, Yang Xue can also understand.

At the beginning of the reception banquet, hot pork, chicken, mutton, donkey meat, and seven or eight catties of braised carp were served on the table, and no matter how much appetite there was, I couldn't help but drool.

Yang Xue and Xiong Xin'er sometimes secretly look at Wei Bao, and Wei Bao will also secretly look at the two girls, their eyes inevitably often meet each other, and they find that Wei Bao looks at them, and the faces of the two sixteen or seventeen-year-old girls have been shrouded in shameful crimson.

Xiong Zhaoqi and Yang Zhiyan and others were still very restrained at first, while Wei Bao and Li Chengnei talked and drank with each other because of their very familiar relationship.

As time went by, Xiong Zhaoqi and Yang Xue's brothers naturally gobbled up.

Yang Lian's life is very poor, Xiong Tingbi is a little better, and he has lived a good life when he is released to Liaodong during the period, and there are endless delicacies from the mountains and seas every day, but he is very strict with his children, and there is not much silver at home, plus Xiong Tingbi has been locked up for more than three years, and the family has long been poor, and the current life of the Yang family is similar to that of the Xiong family.

Xiong Xin'er and Yang Xue originally took care of their image, but the dishes were too rich, which made the meat on the faces of the two girls bulge.

The most enjoyable thing to eat is Li Chengnei, Li Chengnei is a good wine, although life is better now, but the wine here in Weibao is free, and the wine is good, so I drink it openly.

Li Chengnei disliked Wei Bao's slow drinking, and while constantly persuading him to drink, he poured it again without waiting for Wei Bao to finish drinking, and in the end it was not enjoyable, so he simply asked people to take a bowl and dry it directly against the black-edged bowl.

Two glasses of wine, Li Chengnei opened the chatterbox, although he is the younger brother of Dong Li Niangniang, but he has been farming in the township for many years, in the final analysis, he is still a rough man, if it were not for Zhu Youxiao's father Emperor Taichang ascended the throne, the status of Dong Li Niangniang has improved, according to the etiquette system, Li Chengnei should be arranged to go in and out, otherwise Li Chengnei may still be farming in his hometown.

Li Chengnei talked about nothing more than his three sons, Wei Bao listened with relish, but everyone rarely reacted.

"Brother, Leshui and Paradise are in Weijiazhuang, I am very relieved, they will follow you in the future, you see that Leshan is not young, and he is also 14 years old, is it arranged to be a miscellaneous official in which yamen first?" Li Chengnei said to Wei Bao.

Wei Bao smiled: "I can arrange this, but Leshan doesn't even have a talent to show his fame, isn't it delaying the child to do things now?" ”

"I can see it through, Leshan is the same as me, very dull, it's not the material for studying, let alone showing talent, it's just that children are in trouble, just get involved in which yamen as soon as possible, in the future, you find an opportunity to tell Your Majesty, in the end, it is Your Majesty's cousin, see if you can give an order to a seven-rank official, I will be content, you are now in charge of the cabinet scholar, there is this convenience." Li Chengnei said.

Wei Bao smiled, secretly thinking that Li Chengnei seemed to be very arrogant, but in fact, his mind was quite delicate, and he thought a lot, but unfortunately, he knew his own affairs, and he had also been to the cabinet a few times to see if there was anything to do, but several cabinet ministers were very polite to him, but no one arranged anything for him to do, where did he have the opportunity to meet the emperor.

"Don't worry about this, since my brother said it, it's on me, I'll pay attention to it, if it doesn't work, I'll go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate or Dali Temple first." Wei Bao Road.

Li Chengnei meant exactly this, and said with a smile: "That's good, I'll go back and tell your sister-in-law, your sister-in-law must be happy, Leshan is really not the material for studying, otherwise I will let him go to Weijiazhuang to study, the two of us are not young, and we always have to keep a son by our side, right?" It is impossible that all three sons are not around. ”

Wei Bao nodded, "Big brother, don't worry!" ”

"I'm relieved!" Li Chengnei said softly: "It's good to be able to go to the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and let Leshan follow you in the future, you don't know, these days, even I have a lot of people who go to the door, want to give me gifts, ask me to bring you a message, they are all people who run for officials." However, I didn't receive any money from one person, I said that they should go directly to you if they have anything, it's useless to look for me, and I'm not from the Metropolitan Procuratorate, nor from Dali Temple, I don't know what the situation is. ”

Wei Bao smiled and nodded: "Big brother is doing this well, this silver is not easy to take casually, you really don't know what the specific situation is." We don't just accept the silver when we see it, we also have to meet the standards, and only those who can do things need to be able to do things, and the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Dali Temple Yamen do not raise idlers. ”

"Yes, yes, my brother is the material for being an official, I can't even do it well with dozens of people under me, you are in charge of two such big yamen alone, hundreds of people, and now it is expanded, and it will be the largest yamen with more than 2,000 people in the future! It's almost time to catch up with the number of Jinyi Guards. Li Chengnei smiled.

"What are more than 2,000 people? If you want to manage me, the more officials, the better! Those who should be removed from eating empty salaries will be removed, and the positions that should be released will be put on people, too many people are floating in things, and too many people are eating empty salaries, if everyone in the Ming Dynasty officials has something to do, and everyone who has something to do to contribute, it is not such a situation for a long time. Wei Bao sighed.

No matter what time it is, the rule of officials is the most important.

Li Chengnei also nodded yes, and gave Wei Bao a big bowl of wine.

He used a large bowl, and Wei Bao just toasted with a small wine glass very elegantly.

After Wei Bao finished drinking, Guo Wenliang immediately poured him full of wine, and Guo Wenliang was really interested in Wei Bao.

Wei Bao even decided to let Lin Wenbiao investigate him more after a while, and if he has been loyal to himself, he will absorb Guo Wenliang into the Heaven and Earth Society!

Recruiting his own people in the officialdom first, and then absorbing these people into the Heaven and Earth Society, this is Wei Bao's two-step plan.

Therefore, Wei Bao also specially prepared a department of the Heaven and Earth Society - Wei Department!

The Wei Department is a department dedicated to the officials of the Ming Dynasty, which is a level higher than the Eunuch Party and the Donglin Party.

There is a Wei system now, and there will be a Wei system in the future.

Wei Bao knew that sooner or later, the Wei family would replace the Wei family.

He is secretly accumulating power now, and when that day comes, he can make the Wei family hide in the Donglin Party and become the biggest political force in the world.

The speaker has no intention of listening, Yang Xue's brothers are all talents, Xiong Zhaoqi is even more lifting, Yang Xue and Xiong Xin'er immediately moved their minds.

Xiong Xin'er is a little better, her father is now imprisoned in Jinyiwei Prison, and he is a prisoner of the imperial court, I don't know if Wei Bao can arrange an errand for her brother.

Yang Lian is still fine, and Yang Xue naturally wants to mention it for her brothers.

"Master Wei, I heard that you are all in the Imperial Court and Dali Temple, as long as you are a child of this yamen, you can become an official if you have a talent and fame, right?" Yang Xue asked.

Wei Bao smiled: "Yes, there is a precedent for this, this is the case with my secretary Guo Wenliang Guo, but it requires familiarity with yamen affairs, many years of work, and strong ability." ”

Guo Wenliang heard Wei Bao put gold on his face like this, and he straightened his chest very proudly, in front of a big beauty like Yang Xue, any man who is touted will be secretly proud.

"My father has been in the Metropolitan Procuratorate for many years, and my elder brothers have been in contact with the Metropolitan Procuratorate since childhood, although they have not been a small official, but they are also familiar, as for the ability of my brothers, it depends on whether Master Wei gives him a chance to understand, right?" Yang Xue understands the officialdom very well, and her words are tactful but in place, and she gets to the point of the matter.

When Yang Xue's elder brothers heard about their own affairs, they all stopped their chopsticks and looked at Wei Bao.

Xiong Xin'er and Xiong Zhaoqi were also very concerned about Wei Bao's reaction.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, but did not answer.

You don't need any talent to be an official, being an official is nothing more than thick black learning, like Wei Bao, who probably knows some future directions, can be an official with his eyes closed.

Now Yang Lian is about to be unlucky, what to do to support the Yang family at this time?

And the Yang family definitely can't take out the silver, there were more than a dozen hardcore Donglin Party who didn't take the silver before, that's what it looks like, it's still like that?

Now that the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple have been stabilized, and their positions have been secured, there is no need to pretend at all, so Wei Bao has to consider being able to win over people who can become his own people this time, and the second is to make money!

None of Yang Xue's elder brothers met the requirements.

Because Yang Lian himself is the boss of the Donglin Party, his children must think very highly of themselves, and it will be very difficult to absorb them into the world in the future.

It's not good, I helped them get in for free, and they thought they wanted to tie up with Yang Lian and join the Donglin Party.

Wei Bao didn't answer, but Yang Xue didn't give up, "Master Wei, I heard people call you Wei Qingtian, saying that you are selfless and think about the people, it's not that I favor my brother, my brothers are all very honest and self-controlled, and very talented people, my father has been very strict with us since I was a child." ”

"I'm involved in recruiting people, but I'm not solely responsible, let's talk about this matter, if you're interested, you can leave a name here with Master Guo first." Wei Bao smiled.

As soon as Guo Wenliang heard what Wei Bao meant, he immediately knew that Wei Bao didn't want to help a few men in the Yang family, so he hurriedly smiled: "Yes, Lord Wei is not alone, you can leave your name here first, and I will definitely remind Lord Wei to pay more attention to a few people." ”

Several brothers of the Yang family hurriedly thanked Wei Bao and Guo Wenliang.

Yang Xue is very shrewd, although she has never entered the officialdom, although she is just a woman, she can understand the meaning of the other party's words very well, as soon as she heard Wei Bao say this, she knew that Wei Bao did not plan to help, and her pretty face immediately turned cold.

Wei Bao glanced at Yang Xue silently, his impression of this girl was not very good, too realistic, too shrewd, such a girl was relatively rare in ancient times.

There is no loss without pursuit, and Wei Bao didn't care too much about Yang Xue's reaction.

After eating for a while, Wei Bao said to Li Chengnei that he should go to his official hall to have a cup of tea, and the wine and food were almost finished.

Li Chengnei was also happy, his face was red and his neck was thick, and because Wei Bao promised to help Li Leshui solve the problem of errands, he was in a good mood, and said loudly: "Okay, good, thank you for your hospitality, go have a cup of tea." ”