Wang Ji smiled bitterly and nodded, "I understand, Master Wei's mouth, you can say that you are alive if you are dead, because you do have a good word." ”

"Yes, everyone likes silver, but it's just a different way to get it. Persimmon picks a soft pinch, of course I know that officials and big households are embarrassed, collude with each other, and defraud the people is very simple, and support the people, redress grievances for the people, and make enemies with big households, and corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and there are many resistances. But it's the same with a habit! For the sake of the world, for the sake of future generations, please take the judicial officials on the right path! Wei Bao said with emotion.

Wei Bao actually talked to two eunuch party officials about the world and future generations, which seemed a bit funny at first glance, but Wei Bao felt that it was much more reliable to do these things with eunuch party officials than to talk about these things with Donglin party officials who were sanctimonious and could only talk.

"Okay, I'll ask to see Nine Thousand Years Old at night, and if Nine Thousand Years Old agrees, I have nothing to say!" Wang Ji finally relented.

Wei Bao was overjoyed and shook Wang Ji's hand: "Thank you, Lord Wang, you have done a great good deed!" ”

Wang Ji smiled bitterly: "Don't say that, I'm afraid that there will be too many people to offend, and I won't be able to return to my hometown in the future, so I can only hide in the mansion of the Jingshi, and I have to get a family to protect me, otherwise, I will be killed sooner or later." ”

"Never! The judicial clarity will drive the officials to rule the Qingming, and there are more people who are willing to do practical things, and they will get better, even if they are a few people who are crazy, they are no match for the good people in the world. These things can only be done by doers like Lord Shoufu and Lord Wang, and Donglin people will never be able to do the right thing! Wei Bao said.

Generally, Wei Bao does not slander the eunuch party, nor does he slander the Donglin party, today he is relieved, and he can't help but complain about the Donglin party.

Shoufu Gu Bingqian was quite touched: "This is indeed the case, how many practical things have you done after the nine-thousand-year-old assistant Your Majesty ascended the throne?" The treasury of the Ming Dynasty is abundant, the frontier is stable, and natural disasters continue to occur in various places, but the imperial court has always had silver relief. ”

"Not only that, if Lord Wang can work with me to clarify the rule of the three law divisions, so that the officials can enforce the law impartially and be honest and disciplined, then the money we get from the criminals in the future to reduce their responsibility is not called corruption, everything has strict regulations, this can actually be whitewashed! Not only have everyone's welfare increased, but the money has also been cleaned, so why not? Over time, in the future, everyone will squeeze their heads to join the judicial yamen, and our criminal department will not be ranked on the tail of the sixth department, and its status will only suppress the Ministry of Industry. Wei Bao said.

Wang Ji and Shoufu Gu Bingqian nodded, it was indeed so.

Next, the three chatted a lot more happily and talked about many specific restructuring plans.

Wei Bao is still very good at talking, as long as he follows his general direction, some small details, he can do whatever Wang Ji and Gu Bingqian do.

Wei Bao believes that as long as Wei Zhongxian agrees, the Ming judiciary will soon enter a new era.

Wei Bao doesn't look forward to the second half of the fifth year of the Apocalypse, there is still a whole six years of the Apocalypse, and most of the seven years of the Apocalypse, in the more than two years of Wei Zhongxian's reign, there will be any rebirth and improvement of Daming, at least curing Daming's illness a little, there is no problem.

Wei Bao felt that Da Ming was far from terminally ill.

Gu Bingqian, Wang Ji and Wei Bao said goodbye.

Late that night, Wei Zhongxian quickly sent someone to summon Wei Bao.

Wei Bao originally thought that Wei Zhongxian would summon him tomorrow, but he didn't expect it to be so soon.

As Wei Bao looked for Wei Zhongxian, Wei Zhongxian looked for Wei Bao more often, Wang Qiuya, Wu Xuexia and Princess Zhenming were no longer as worried as they were at the beginning, and they all believed that Wei Bao could handle the relationship with Wei Zhongxian.

Before Wei Bao left, they just gave a few words of advice.

Wei Bao didn't feel that the three girls were verbose at all, but enjoyed this warm feeling very much, and even Princess Zhenming seemed to care more and more about herself, which also made Wei Bao very pleased.

He was thinking that if the man who Princess Zhenming had married to her was not a political marriage, but had a true relationship, he would send Princess Zhenming back, and he had no shortage of women, so there was no need to break up other people's lovers.

But now it is clear that Princess Zhenming has adapted to life by his side, which cannot be disguised.

Princess Zhenming is not a personality who can disguise herself, she is quite smart, and she can protect herself for so many years in the complex palace political struggle, it is impossible not to be smart.

Princess Zhenming is also very kind, as can be seen from the following official documents handled by the president secretariat of many Tiandihui, generally Princess Zhenming does not shake her hands, but if Princess Zhenming shakes her hands, she feels that the budget given by Wu Xuexia and Wang Qiuya is too tight, and Princess Zhenming, who was born in the real upper class, is more sympathetic to the farmers who farm.

Wei Bao came to Wei Zhongxian's private house, Wei Zhongxian was already sleepy, if it weren't for the fact that Wang Ji said something a little amazing, Wei Zhongxian really didn't want to look for Wei Bao.

Not only what Wang Ji said shocked Wei Zhongxian, but more importantly, Wang Ji's attitude, Wei Zhongxian was very surprised to find that Wang Ji was actually persuaded by Wei Bao?

Wei Bao mobilized people to deal with the Donglin Party, which is what Wei Zhongxian wants to see, but Wei Zhongxian doesn't want to see Wei Bao change the people around him, especially Wang Ji's age and official rank is so high.

If people like Wang Ji can be persuaded by Wei Bao, it will be difficult for other high-ranking officials of the Wei family to guarantee that they will not get along with Wei Bao in the future, which Wei Zhongxian does not want to see.

If Wei Bao is his own nephew, nephew or something, there is no close relationship, the most important thing is that Wei Bao is not, not only is not, Wei Bao is not even a hardcore Wei family, at most he is just a neutral faction inclined to his faction.

That's not going to work.

In terms of building a team, Gonggong Wei is very attentive, more than anything else, compared to the ardent desire for silver, it is obvious that Jiuqiansui attaches more importance to fame and power, otherwise there would not be a wave of building shrines for him in various places.

In addition to the closest relatives, the hardest relationship is the godsons of Father-in-law Wei, known as the "Five Tigers", "Five Biao" and "Ten Dogs".

The "Five Tigers" are all Wenchen, namely Cui Chengxiu, Tian Ji, Wu Chunfu, Li Kuilong and Ni Wenhuan, who are mainly responsible for making suggestions.

The "Five Biao" were all military attachés, including Tian Ergeng, Xu Xianchun, Sun Yunhe, Yang Huan, and Cui Yingyuan, who were mainly responsible for killing people and setting fires for execution.

As for the "Ten Dogs", including Zhou Yingqiu, Taifu Shaoqing, Cao Qincheng and others, they ran errands.

This is the core twenty people with Father-in-law Wei, in addition, there are ten children, twenty children, forty monkey grandchildren, five hundred righteous grandchildren, and a large number of goods who want to be grandsons but can't.

Of course, under the "Five Tigers" and "Five Biao", there are countless people who are licking dogs for them, and there are countless of them, anyway, even Grandpa Wei himself can't figure out how many dog minions he has.

There were too many people, so they were given a unified name "Eunuch Party" by the Donglin Party.

Cui Chengxiu, the boss of the "Five Tigers", was originally a corrupt criminal, and after losing his position, he defected to Father-in-law Wei and was adopted as an adopted son.

Li Kuilong, one of the "Five Tigers", made an accident when he was an official, was expelled by the leader, recognized Gonggong Wei as his godfather, and then rose all the way to become the left deputy capital Yushi.

Another "Five Tigers" Wu Chunfu has a similar experience. When he was an official before, he was dismissed because he failed the annual assessment, and a few years later, he hugged the thigh of Gonggong Wei and became the secretary of the Ministry of Industry.

If the "Five Tigers" are all corrupt and traitorous people, the "Five Biao" who were born as military attaches are all people with personalities.

Tian Ergeng, the eldest of the "Five Biaos", the head of Jinyi Wei, known as the "eldest son", is keen on all kinds of torture, especially likes to throw people into a cauldron to boil.

Xu Xianchun is also one of the leaders of Jinyiwei. This man has a crazy hobby: after killing people, he will dig out the throat bones of the deceased and play with them as collectibles.

Wei Bao is familiar with Tian Ergeng and Xu Xianchun, and after officially joining the company, he also had dinner with them a few times.

Wei Zhongxian knows all these things.

Cao Qincheng in "Ten Dogs", a native of Jiangxi, once served as a magistrate, was notorious for corruption, was almost killed, and became the godson of Wei's father-in-law, because he was too flattering, even several other children and grandchildren thought he was disgusting.

Later, Cao Qincheng did something wrong and wanted to be expelled from the Wei Gate by Duke Wei, Cao Qincheng heard it and cried loudly: "The righteousness of the monarch and the minister can be cut off, but the kindness of Duke Wei and my father and son, I will never dare to forget it!" The lines are very touching, but the acting skills are too exaggerated, and Father-in-law Wei was so disgusted that he couldn't stand it, and insisted on driving him back to his hometown.

Another "Ten Dogs" Zhou Yingqiu, a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu, as far as Wei Bao knows, this may be the only one among the children and grandchildren of Gonggong Wei who takes the technical route.

Zhou Yingqiu's family cooked good dishes, especially braised pig's trotters, which was a must. Coincidentally, Wei Zhongxian's nephew Wei Liangqing is particularly fond of eating pig's trotters.

So Zhou Yingqiu often invited Wei Liangqing to come to his house to eat pig's trotters, if Wei Liangqing was unwilling to deign to go, Zhou Yingqiu would work part-time to deliver takeaways and personally deliver pig's trotters to his house.

Day after day, the pig's trotters bought Wei Liangqing's stomach, and then touched his heart, and then moved Wei Zhongxian and adopted him as his godson.

Wei Bao persuaded Wang Ji not to worry, but what Wei Zhongxian never expected was that Wei Bao actually persuaded Gu Bingqian, this is the first assistant.

Gu Bingqian, the cabinet minister who first defected to Wei Gonggong, is also a native of Kunshan, Jiangsu, and is shameless.

This Lord Gu was only admitted to the Jinshi at the age of 45, and he stayed up until he was over 70 years old and blended into the cabinet.

At that time, the Donglin Party was the most popular, and Gu Bingqian also wanted to squeeze into other people's circles, but was disliked by the other party.

Because although there is no big mistake in Master Gu's resume, there is also a lot of corruption in small fights.

The Donglin Party attaches great importance to reputation, reputation, morality, and integrity, and people like Gu are all corrupt bacteria, how can they blend into the circle of the Donglin Party?

Wei Bao has long studied that the Donglin Party is not without corrupt officials, but it is more obscure, usually let the family do it, and rarely come forward in person.

Not as flamboyant as the eunuchs.

If he couldn't join the Donglin Party, Master Gu turned his head and went to Gonggong Wei.

However, is Grandpa Wei's door easy to enter?

Master Gu has a ruthless move.

One day, Master Gu, who was in his seventies, led his youngest son to see Father-in-law Wei, and said with sincerity: "Father-in-law Wei, I originally wanted to be your godson. It's just that my beard is white, I'm afraid you don't like it, so it's better to let my son be your grandson and do your filial piety. ”

's words coaxed Grandpa Wei to be happy: good, good, good, good. Where is it rare for Gonggong Wei to add a grandson, what is rare for him is Gu Bingqian's status as a cabinet minister.

With Old Man Gu, Gonggong Wei is equivalent to having his own people in the cabinet dominated by the Donglin Party.

In the future, he knows exactly what the Donglin Party wants and what it plans to do.

A dignified cabinet minister, he recognizes the thief as his father, and is extremely shameless. But jumping out of the moral level, looking at the speculative mentality of officialdom, it is just the norm.

After saddle up for Father-in-law Wei, Lord Gu contributed a lot, and the return was naturally great.

After the collapse of the Donglin Party, Gu Bingqian successfully sat in the position of the first assistant of the cabinet and the leader of the civilian official group.

Since then, this old eunuch has worked closely together, and his magic power is boundless, and the cabinet has gradually become the personal tool of Grandpa Wei.

Lord Gu Bingqian's other cabinet colleague, Lord Wei Guangwei, is sinister and cunning.

Gu Bingqian asked his son to be the grandson of Father-in-law Wei, this operation was a little shy, and Wei Guangwei was much more open than him.

When Wei Guangwei went to find Father-in-law Wei, he said that he was also surnamed Wei, so he and Father-in-law Wei not only had the same surname, but also fellow villagers.

Wei Gonggong is a native of Suning, Hebei, Wei Guangwei is a native of Lexian County, Henan, and today a Henan person wants to climb a fellow villager from Hebei, but Wei Guangwei doesn't care and climbs hard.

And he also said: I have the same surname as you, the same clan, and a family. You're eight years older than me, so I'm your brother. But this is not over, he feels that Father-in-law Wei is too great, he is not worthy of carrying shoes, he has to surrender himself, he can't be a younger brother, only a nephew.

As for Father-in-law Wei, he also cares for this nephew very much and gives him a lot of power.

Since climbing up to Grandpa Wei, Wei Guangwei has often done two things, one is to draw circles, and the other is to draw dots.

Whoever he wants to promote, he draws two circles on whose name; If you want to kill someone, just point two dots under that person's name.

For a while, the people who knelt and begged him to draw circles almost collapsed the threshold of his house.

In short, those who climbed up to Wei Zhongxian and became the "eunuch party" are all very prosperous, and all of them have a well-known name.

How could Gonggong Wei himself be willing to be left behind. In fact, his good sons and grandchildren have been thinking about what kind of name is worthy of the greatness of Father-in-law Wei. Until a man named Liu Zhao appeared.

Liu Zhao has no ability for five cents, he can't learn anything, he can't do anything, and he can't even find the right way to tie up with Father-in-law Wei.

Later, there was really no way, the sword went sideways, bowed to Gonggong Wei five times, and shouted "nine thousand years old".

The emperor is long live, nine thousand years old, and he is indeed worthy of the Duke of Wei. Gonggong Wei was overjoyed and let Liu Zhao also return to the team. Soon, the resounding title of "nine thousand years old" spread all over the country.

Liu Zhao, relying on the credit of this name, has been able to achieve the military department and the prince Taibao.

Wei Bao persuaded Gu Bingqian and Wang Ji to make Wei Zhongxian very worried.

Wei Bao realized this immediately after meeting.

Wei Bao resolutely said what he said to Wang Ji and Gu Bingqian.

Wei Bao's eloquence is better than Gu Bingqian and Wang Ji, and more importantly, Wei Bao dares to say that he will not hide anything, this idea is also Wei Bao's own, and he can say it more clearly.

"Nine thousand years old, more money than in the past, the world will also spread the name of nine thousand years old, the beginning of the new policy advocated by nine thousand years old, in the future, future generations will also leave nine thousand years old good name, through the ages, isn't it? The three legal divisions will also be completely in the hands of the 9,000-year-old, and the unjust cases in various places will be cleared up, and the people's grievances will also be greatly alleviated. Wei Bao said.

Wei Zhongxian said noncommittally: "Our family said monkey cubs, do you plan to finish rectifying the three law divisions, and then start to rectify the Ministry of Officials, the Ministry of Households, the Ministry of Rites, and then the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry?" The Metropolitan Procuratorate, Dali Temple, and the Criminal Department are all in your hands, and you are about to catch up with the first assistant, no, aren't the first assistants of the cabinet all listening to you now? ”

Wei Bao fainted, "Nine thousand years old, you won't be angry because I didn't ask nine thousand years old in advance about this matter, right?" It was you who told me that there are many things that the people below will oppose, so I think, this time, first talk about moving the subordinates, and then tell the nine thousand years old, so that the nine thousand years old think that I use the name of the nine thousand years old to suppress the subordinates. ”

"Our family is not so stingy, but have you ever thought about acting as cranky as you? Do we have so many vacancies? Do you think that after you do this, the gang that was originally corrupt and bribed will change their minds overnight? Aren't you greedy? Do you know what the consequences of doing this are? Don't wait for the subordinates to return well, and they didn't take a few more silver, but they offended all the gentry and big families in the world first. At that time, the Donglin Party will just end us all in a nest. ”

Wei Bao took a breath, he really had to respect Father-in-law Wei's nine thousand years old, he thought about it so profoundly, and he really understood it, in fact, Wei Bao had also thought about this problem, but he didn't expect Wei Zhongxian to see it so clearly.

Wei Bao suddenly had a sentence in his heart, anti-corruption, death of the party; If you don't fight corruption, you will lose the country.

The officials at the end of the Ming Dynasty were very rich, as long as they copied a few houses, the money obtained could be worth the taxes of the Ming Dynasty for a year to several years. In the beginning, it was enough to copy only two or three stores a year.

But Wei Bao wanted to give it a try, Wei Bao felt that first, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, almost all the scholars and business gentry were corrupt, and for the imperial court, these people were the political basis for maintaining the orthodoxy of the Ming Dynasty, and they could not be offended or offended; Second, the political crisis at the end of the Ming Dynasty was a natural disaster and a man-made disaster, when the mainstream ruling class only cared about selfish interests, without the idea of monarchy, these people, whether they were eunuchs or Donglin parties, were only a conflict of political rights, and basically made no contribution to the country and the people. Third, the new trend of thought in the late Ming Dynasty had begun to cross the traditional Confucian ideology of Chang Zhongjun, and the theories of Gu Yanwu and Huang Zongxi could almost directly connect Wei Yuan and Lin Zexu in the late Qing Dynasty.

"Those people you just got up, in a few days, they will be the same as the original people, don't be at that time, replace a group of old people, and can't get back to the new people, we will cut off our own back road!" Wei Zhongxian frowned and said, "Wei Bao, what do you have in mind when you tell our family?" On the surface, you helped our family eradicate the Donglin Party and help our family make money, do you have any plans in secret? Want to bring down the Ming court? ”

Wei Bao said wrongly: "Nine thousand years old, if you think of me Wei Bao like this, I am more wronged than Dou E." ”

"What did our family wrong you? Your question is equivalent to why a person who is dying of starvation does not cut the flesh on his thighs to satisfy his hunger. Whoever is in power is not a castle in the air, they all have their own foundation. If you lose your basic support, you will die immediately, just like a fish can't live without water. What you say is the foundation that you want to replace it all. What's going on right now? The Ming Dynasty is not greedy, what kind of clean government do you want to do with your eyes closed, if you do it, you will drown, you didn't drown the Donglin Party, you drowned ourselves first, understand? Our family agrees that you will try to do it first in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, firstly, there are few people in these two yamen, and secondly, the officials of these two yamen are in Beijing, so it is easy to control, if you expand to the criminal department, can you not involve several other departments? Can it not involve the entire local officialdom? Don't do it, within two days, Daming was collapsed by you. Wei Zhongxian's tone became more and more stern.

Wei Bao felt that he was somewhat persuaded by Wei Zhongxian, and it was very likely that this was the case.

As a ruler, Wei Zhongxian definitely hopes for fine-tuning, focusing on fighting the Donglin Party, and does not want to turn the entire Ming Dynasty into a pool of clear water.

That's too risky.

Wei Bao secretly regretted that he shouldn't have talked to Wang Ji, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Gu Bingqian, the first assistant, but should have talked to Wei Zhongxian first.

I'm afraid that after spending so much saliva before, it was all in vain.

If you don't fight corruption, you will lose the country, and you will fight corruption and destroy the party.

The country was destroyed by the unchanged law, and the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were destroyed by the law.

The Northern Song Dynasty united Jin and Liao, and the Southern Song Dynasty united Meng and Jin.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the vassal king, King Fu refused to be killed, and the king of Chu still refused to be killed.

It's not that everyone is stupid, it's a lot of things, and it's indeed a dilemma.

"What's wrong? Why don't you speak? Is there nothing to say? Wei Zhongxian said coldly: "Have you not thought about these things, or are you deliberately trying to demolish our family's platform?" ”

Wei Bao was really speechless for a while, he didn't know what to say, he looked at Wei Zhongxian from the bottom up, and at this moment, Wei Bao even felt that Wei Gonggong was worthy of the four words of foresight.

"Does the nine-thousand-year-old feel greedy? Isn't the power concentrated and the rulers clear, and the power and wealth concentrated in the hands of His Majesty and the nine thousand years old? Isn't that bad? Wei Bao asked rhetorically.

"It's not bad, if it can be like that overnight, why don't we want to, but is it possible? How many new science and technology students are there? How many children are there in each yamen? And can these people catch up with the experience of those old officials? Is it child's play for you to be in the Ming Dynasty? Wei Zhongxian said: "Do you know why the Donglin Party has been stumbling for a while?" It's not that they're scared of our family, they want to see how long our family will let you stumble, and they want you to continue to make trouble! If you come to Hulai, the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple will not be handed over to you. ”

"Don't." Wei Bao was so frightened that he knelt down suddenly, "According to the meaning of nine thousand years old, let's figure it slowly, I have no intention of demolishing the stage." ”