After thinking about it for a while, Tao Xiuxuan said: "You go back, I have to prepare the medicine these days."
Qin Dewei couldn't help but ask: "How long will it take?"
To be honest, this kind of contradiction of being cold and cool in words and deeds, being both pure and lustful, makes Qin Dewei a little bit eager to conquer.
Tao Xiangu replied: "The medicines are not only for my grandfather, but also for my wife. She just came here to seek medical advice.
In my opinion, it is best to wait until your wife is happy before talking about the dual cultivation, otherwise I am afraid that you will not have enough energy to take care of both."
Qin Dewei sighed, what he said makes sense. You can't go too far as a person. You must take into account the mood of the wife.
Tao Xiangu struck while the iron was hot and said: "It just so happens that during this period, you first get a few Taoist scriptures..."
"Goodbye! I'll come get the medicine in two days! You can also prepare some for me!" Qin Dewei turned around and left.
After coming out of Tao Xiangu's residence, Qin Dewei ran around and visited Gu Qiongzhi and Wang Lianqing. Anyway, they were quite happy at both places.
By the time we returned to the main room, it was already approaching midnight.
Needless to say, it was a hard work. When he woke up and saw the sky was bright outside, Qin Dewei just didn't want to get up.
I originally thought of just lying down until lunch, but the maid reported at the door of the bedroom: "There is a man named Fang You, who claims to be a member of the library in the cabinet, and is asking for an audience at the door."
Qin Dewei straightened himself out, washed up and changed his clothes, and then went to the front hall to meet the guests.
He guessed in his heart that the imperial edict to restore him to Wenyuan Pavilion was probably issued. Emperor Jiajing would not go back on his word and drive the Jiajing men out of Wenyuan Pavilion, right?
Sure enough, Fang Sheren saw Qin Dewei, and after saluting, he said: "There is an edict coming to the pavilion, and Master Mingtang will return to Wenyuan Pavilion!"
Qin Dewei yawned and gave instructions: "I won't pass today. You can draw up a note of thanks for me and give it to me when I arrive tomorrow."
There is no way, the feudal dynasty is so troublesome, no matter what treatment the emperor gives you, you have to write a letter of thanks. Fortunately, I have more secretaries now, and these streamlined memorials can be ghostwritten.
Fang You accepted the order, then took out the note from his arms, presented it to Qin Dewei, and explained: "While Master Zhongtang is recuperating at home, rumors are spreading in the pavilion!
I have secretly observed that the names of the people recorded in these letters all have words of gloating about others' misfortune, or they are advocating that Zhai Luan, the former great scholar, has returned to the throne!"
Qin Dewei: "..."
I never expected that there are such talents around me.
Although Qin Zhongtang doesn't mind trivial gossip, he still can't let people say a few words behind their backs when he's talking about others?
They are just a group of government officials with no future, and they are not ministers. What influence can they have?
That's what it means for a prime minister to be able to support a boat. There is no need to care too much about small people. Qin Dewei is already halfway in the cabinet after all.
But it was not easy to dampen the enthusiasm of his subordinates to do things, so Qin Dewei still took Zazi over and looked at it seriously.
Now that I’ve seen it all, here’s a trick to kill the chicken and scare the monkey, Qin Zhongtang thought, while casually pointing out a person’s name, Fang You asked: “Does this Zhang Xunye have a solid backing?”
Fang Sheren said with a strange expression: "This is the son of Zhang Fujing, the former chief minister. There was news the day before yesterday that Mr. Zhang Ge has passed away and Zhang Xunye has left Beijing to attend the funeral."
Qin Dewei was stunned for a moment and sighed: "As the saying goes, the wheels of history are rolling forward, and so many characters have disappeared."
According to the laws of history, with the biggest threat Zhang Fuking gone, Xia Yan, the current chief assistant, has begun to act more arrogant... As for the consequences of Xia Yan's arrogance, everyone who understands history knows it.
Suddenly Qin Dewei became nervous again, "Who did the emperor send to worship Mr. Zhang Ge? It couldn't be me?"
He knew very well Zhang Fuking's status in the mind of Emperor Jiajing.
Zhang Fujing was like the "first love" of Emperor Jiajing. Even if they quarreled and broke up later, the impression was indelible.
Fang Youxian replied: "The emperor resurrected Zhai Luan as the censor of Youdu and the minister of the Ministry of Rites, and ordered Zhai Luan to go south."
Qin Dewei breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't want to run long distances again, at least not this year. Besides, it was already summer, so running long distances to the south would definitely be a chore.
Then Fang You hesitated and said: "Although the emperor intends to delay, when Zhai Luan returns to the capital again, I am afraid that your Excellency will not be able to sit safely in the middle hall of Wenyuan Pavilion."
Qin Dewei yawned again and said nonchalantly: "There must be a road to the mountain before the car, let's talk about it then!"
Fang Sheren was suddenly a little excited. If Zhai Luan returned to Beijing, there would be another fight for the central hall of Wenyuan Pavilion! Just thinking about it made his blood boil.
Qin Dewei remembered that he had only been paying attention to the Hanlin Academy and Zhan Shifu these past two days, and did not pay much attention to current affairs, so he asked again, "What other major affairs are there in the DPRK and China these days?"
Fang Sheren said very clearly: "I have paid special attention to it, and it is not a big deal."
Qin Dewei then asked: "If there is no big thing, what's the wonder?"
Fang Sheren was very surprised. It was expected that the ambitious Qin Zhongtang would "care" about current affairs, but why did he ask such a long-winded question?
In fact, Qin Dewei had no choice. The thoughts of time-travelers and those of his contemporaries were often not on the same page.
Many small things in the eyes of others are very important to Qin Dewei, and big things in the eyes of others are often nothing to Qin Dewei.
Therefore, Qin Dewei had to talk a lot and ask questions several times to avoid missing key events and inevitably seem verbose.
Fang You recalled it carefully, and finally picked one up and said: "If there is a strange thing, there is one. Sixteen years after the Ming Dynasty stopped paying tribute to Japan, Japan sent another envoy to pay tribute, and now it has landed in Ningbo.
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Bang! Qin Dewei jumped up and said subconsciously: "It's finally here!"
This shocked Fang Sheren, who didn't understand what made Qin Zhongtang so excited.
It's just a small matter of foreign countries asking for tribute. From east to west, from north to south, there are hundreds of various local kings. Who doesn't want to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty?
I heard Qin Zhongtang sigh again: "As the saying goes, the wheels of history are rolling forward."
These repeated words really confused Fang Sheren, who prided himself on being sharp. He didn't know how to respond. There were too many wheels in Qin Zhongtang's mouth!
According to rumors, Qin Zhongtang's thoughts, speech, and behavior are different from ordinary people, which is often difficult to figure out. The rumors are indeed true.
Without any more words, Fang You left. Qin Dewei sighed softly, Japan finally appeared in the sight of the Ming court again.
Who knows how much impact this Japanese country, which had had almost no impact on the Central Plains for thousands of years, had in the middle and late Ming Dynasty decades.
To talk about the current relationship between Ming Dynasty and Japan, we have to start from the second year of Jiajing.
Japan is currently in the early stages of the Warring States Period, and fighting has begun in the country.
In the second year of Jiajing, the Ouchi clan and the Hosokawa clan sent envoys to pay tribute to the Ming Dynasty respectively in order to compete for trade interests with the Ming Dynasty.
According to ancestral regulations, private individuals are prohibited from engaging in overseas trade. Only official envoys from foreign countries can pay tribute and have the nature of trade, which is called tribute trade.
This kind of trade implements the Kanhe system. Countries like Japan, which are relatively far away and need to be lenient, generally only allow one tribute every ten years, and also stipulate the number of ships and personnel.
The two Japanese envoys, one with the Kanhe issued by the Ming Dynasty during the Hongzhi period, and the other with the Kanhe issued by the Zhengde period, arrived at the designated port of Ningbo on time.
Although the Hongzhi Kanhe obtained by the Hosokawa clan's envoy had expired and became invalid, they bribed the eunuchs of the Municipal Shipping Department and gained the upper hand in the battle for tribute rights.
So Zongshe, the envoy of the Ouchi envoy, became angry and directly used force to kill the envoy of the Hosokawa envoy. He then burned, killed and looted in Ningbo and fled across the sea.
Finally, Zongshe floated to North Korea on the sea, and was chopped up by North Korea and presented to the Ming Dynasty.
This was the "Ningbo Tribute Incident" in history. Afterwards, Emperor Jiajing became furious and severed tribute relations with Japan as a punishment. It has been sixteen years now.
So when Qin Dewei heard the news that Japan had sent another envoy to land, he felt that Japan had finally appeared in the Ming court's sight again.
In addition, in the more than ten years since Emperor Jiajing severed official relations with Japan, the smuggling trade off Ningbo Prefecture can be described as "everything is booming and full of vitality."
Now the smuggling trade has reached its first peak, and has even formed a fixed stronghold on Shuangyu Island.
Private merchants of the Ming Dynasty, Japanese, and Francois mixed together, forming an extremely prosperous small city on the sea, with a permanent population of perhaps more than 3,000.
In the original historical time and space, more than ten years later, even Shuangyu Island, a sea trade window in the gray zone, was wiped out by the Zhejiang governor launching a naval campaign, and then the big Japanese pirates came.
Therefore, the "Ningbo Tribute Incident" sixteen years ago was like the first domino, and could be called the most important clue to the "big Japanese pirates" in the Jiajing Dynasty.
Qin Dewei didn't want to blame the Ming Dynasty for the continuous policy mistakes. People have limitations, so he could only try to grasp the moment.
On the next day, Qin Dewei put on a vermilion official robe, put on his black gauze hat, mounted his horse and headed to the right gate of Chang'an.
After dismounting and registering, we entered the imperial city, then entered the palace city, passed through the Zuoshun Gate, and returned to the loyal Wenyuan Pavilion.
Very good, there are smiles everywhere you look, and everyone seems to be a good person.
When Qin Zhongtang entered Wenyuan Pavilion, Fang You and Fang Shiren presented several documents. Qin Zhongtang asked, "What are these?"
Fang You reported: "The copy of the memorial to the Japanese envoy in Ningbo also contains the emperor's approval and the relevant memorial submitted by officials today."
Qin Dewei is very happy, what does it feel like to have someone who is easy to work for? It's like this. You can think about your boss and you don't have to worry too much, you are ready.
Yesterday I just expressed my concern for the Japanese envoy, and today Fang Sheren collected relevant materials.
Qin Dewei flipped through it and started reading. The first thing he read was the transcript of local memorials.
Anyway, the Zhejiang patrol navy discovered three barbarian ships, flying Japanese tribute flags, claiming to be the envoys sent by the Japanese King Minamoto Yoshiharu to pay tribute.
Zhejiang Inspector Fu Fengxiang and others reported: He wanted to obey the Ming Dynasty, but he still went forward and refused, but his humble words and obedience were difficult to stop. We sympathized with his repentance and ignored his ignorance, and begged the ministry to give more details.
Discuss.
When Qin Dewei saw the three words "King of Japan Minamoto Yoshiharu", he was a little confused. After converting it to Ashikaga Yoshiharu, he suddenly realized that he was the father of the swordsman general Ashikaga Yoshiteru in Taiko Retsuden.
Anyway, the Ming Dynasty was not very interested in Japan's internal affairs, so it casually consecrated the general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu as the king of Japan.
Emperor Jiajing's instructions to the local memorials were: The barbarians have many treacherous natures and should not be credulous. The Ministry of Rites will join forces with the soldiers, the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Justice will discuss it in detail.
Qin Dewei was really itching to see it. Why didn't Emperor Jiajing come and ask himself, among the civil and military officials in this dynasty, who could understand Japan better than him!
Then Qin Dewei continued to look at the original memorial of today, which was written by Ding Zhan in the Etiquette Department.
The conclusion is: The Japanese barbarians came again to pay tribute and upheld the ancestral precepts, but refused to accept them, to show that the Celestial Empire was a country with no understanding of etiquette and righteousness!
Qin Dewei threw Ding Zhan's memorial to the ground and cursed: "A mediocre person is ruining the country!"
Not only was he scolding this memorial, but he was also scolding this person in history. In the future, this person would serve as Zhejiang Haidao, and he would also do a lot of stupid things, and he could even be used as a scapegoat by Yan Song for the rise of Japanese pirates.
Fang You quickly picked up Ding Zhan's memorial. This was the original memorial delivered today and would be delivered to the elders soon.
Asking Qin Zhongtang to read it in advance is already a side shot. You must know that Qin Zhongtang's direct dispatch to Wenyuan Pavilion was preceded by the words "no advance maintenance"!
Even with these few words, although the memorial passed through the hands of Qin Zhongtang, Qin Zhongtang was not qualified to offer any opinions on the memorial.
After Fang You asked for instructions, he went out with the original memorial, mixed with other memorials, and sent them to Xiyuan together.
The next day, Qin Dewei saw Emperor Jiajing's reply to Ding Zhan's Memorial: This book was sent to the Ministry of Rites for reading.
Zhu Pi was turned around in Qin Zhongtang's hands, and after being filed and filed, he sent it out again.
As a result, Qin Zhongtang felt even more uncomfortable. Documents appeared in front of him one after another. He obviously had many ideas, but he had no power to express his position or deal with them.
This feeling is like being able to see but not being able to eat, which is even worse than not being able to see! Damn it!
The imperial court is a place with rules. It is not your job, and you are not an official who can hear what is said. Since the emperor has not consulted you, then it is best for you to say less.
If everyone is free to dictate other yamen affairs, it will be chaos.
In particular, Qin Dewei, who has entered Wenyuan Pavilion, has a very sensitive position and can access almost all documents if he wants to.
If you frequently talk about memorials and criticisms, and if you really treat yourself as a cabinet scholar without concealing it, you will definitely be suspected by everyone.
Why did Qin Dewei talk so much at the beginning? It was because Hanlin Ci officials could often meet with the emperor. They had the duty of consulting and could discuss with the Emperor face to face. This was the privilege of Ci officials.
But now that the emperor lives in seclusion in Xiyuan, does not go to court and rarely sees outsiders, it will be difficult for the ministers to face the emperor. This was what Qin Dewei was most worried about at the beginning.
Moreover, Emperor Jiajing did not give him a silver medal, so Qin Dewei did not have the privilege of going to the Secret Service. For a person who likes to talk loudly, it is very painful to be unable to speak.
No matter what, this matter must be spoken out! Qin Dewei grabbed the pen and started writing the memorial.
Fang You couldn't understand, why did Qin Zhongtang care about such trivial matters? What's the point of paying attention to such a trivial matter as Japan's tribute envoy?
When walking in the palace, being cautious in what you say and do is the most basic rule.
If you reach out casually for such a trivial matter that has nothing to do with you, it will arouse the suspicion of others, especially the emperor, and the gain will outweigh the loss.
