There is no impermeable wall in the world, even if Xu Jie and the other four important ministers are unwilling to reveal it, they can't stand those palace maids and little eunuchs who will talk too much. What's more, such a big thing can't be covered.

At this moment, this news has slowly spread throughout the capital through those well-informed people, and it is fermenting in this lively teaching department.

"We were all deceived by him!"

"For two or three months, we were actually kept in the dark!"

"We all thought that he went to Songjiang to mess around for the sake of his concubine, but we didn't know it...... They are a gang that captures smuggled salt! ”

……

Starting from the lobby of the Department of Education, more and more officials are involved in this topic.

"It's 10,000 stones, it's really unheard of!"

"There is the military involved in Tianjin, and there must be a group of squires in the southeast, this is really a big smuggling case!"

"Can this kind of thing be done by these people? I think there will definitely be a big guy in the DPRK and China who is going to fall! ”

……

A group of officials hiding in the private room upstairs already knew better, and several rather powerful middle-aged officials seemed to discuss matter-of-factly.

"Chen Fengyi's gang is really a joke!"

"They thought they could attack Lin Haoran, but they didn't want to be counted a little earlier!"

"Lin Haoran's move to Huainan must have been stared at by them, and now that he can do this, he really deserves the name of Lin Operator!"

……

In a courtyard at the back, several elderly officials who seemed to be quite knowledgeable were sighing one after another, and they had already re-measured Lin Haoran's wisdom.

"If Lin Haoran returns to the court, he will definitely be appointed as the squire of the six departments!"

"A six-part squire who is only twenty-two years old is too young!"

"Gan Luo worships the prime minister at the age of eight, and Huo Qubing leads the army at the age of sixteen, how can these days be spent with common sense?"

……

But it is not limited to the Department of Teaching Workshops, in the mansions of officials in the entire capital, Lin Haoran is already being discussed, and even Lin Haoran's amazing future has already been discussed.

After being in the officialdom for so long, many officials are naturally able to see some things.

Lin Haoran went to Huainan to rectify the salt administration this time, as long as he can make some merits, he will definitely be a Beijing official of the third grade. Now that there are such "great achievements", these six squires are already a sure thing.

It was on this night when the full moon was in the sky that the whole capital seemed to whisper.

Lin Haoran was already a man of the hour, but now when he was rectifying Huaiyan, he made such a big move. Even if he has been far away from the capital, he is still the protagonist of the topic tonight, and he is always the brightest star in the Ming Dynasty.

When the news reached the Wu Mansion and the Lin Mansion, there was another burst of laughter, and earlier, Wu's mother followed her daughter to Zhang Luo for a sumptuous meal, and Wu Shan drank half a pot of wine happily.

Lin Haoran has many peers, old subordinates and protégés in the capital, and after learning that Lin Haoran has made such great achievements, he has begun to look forward to Lin Haoran's return to the dynasty and take the six servants in his pocket as soon as possible.

The city of Nanjing, however, is a different story.

Compared with the capital located in the north of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing City was the first to learn the news: Yu Shi Lin, the left deputy capital of the salt patrol Qincha, mobilized Songjiangwei and Zhenhaiwei to climb Chongming Island overnight to attack the salt baron's den, intercepted the smuggling salt ship coming in from Haikou, and seized a total of 10,000 stone of salt.

When the news of the seizure of 10,000 stone of smuggled salt came, the entire city of Nanjing was immediately mourned, especially to some nobles in Nanjing.

When the Ming Dynasty was founded, Zhu Yuanzhang adhered to the principle of not establishing a king with a different surname, and canonized a total of 6 princes in Nanjing, namely Li Shanchang, the Duke of Korea, Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, Li Wenzhong, the Duke of Song, Feng Sheng, the Duke of Wei, Deng Yu, and the Duke of E, Chang Yuchun.

It's just that Hu Weiyong's case was discovered, the Duke of Korea was abolished, Feng Sheng, the Duke of Song, was implicated in the Lanyu case, Feng Sheng was given death, and the title was abolished, so there were only 4 dukes left in Nanjing.

Chang Mao, the son of Chang Yuchun, the Duke of Eguo, was renamed Zheng Guogong, and after his death, he was judged to be the Blue Jade Party, which affected the title of the founding duke, and his nephew Chang Jizu's title was reduced.

Deng Zhen, the son of Deng Yu, the Duke of Weiguo, was implicated by Hu Weiyong's party, was given death, and his title was cut.

By the time of the Jianwen Dynasty, only two dukes of Wei and Cao were left in Nanjing.

Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong successfully avoided the Hu Weiyong case and the Lanyu case during the Taizu period, and his son Li Jinglong successfully inherited Cao Guogong, and the Cao Guogong Mansion ushered in the best period of development.

Because Wei Guogong married Zhu Di, the sister of Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, was Zhu Di's concubine, that is, the later Empress Renxiaowen, and the line of Wei Guogong was undoubtedly suspicious.

It is precisely in this way that Li Jinglong, the Duke of Cao Guo, was appointed as a general, let him lead an army of 500,000 to the north, and personally traveled by the river, performing the gift of "holding the hub and pushing the wheel", and giving him the right to "act cheaply".

During the Battle of Jingjing, Li Jinglong was defeated at Zhengcunba and Baigouhe, and lost hundreds of thousands of troops before and after, resulting in a reversal of the offensive and defensive situation, and he was recalled.

Many officials went to the court to impeach Li Jinglong for "losing his discipline and losing his teacher, harboring a bad heart, and should be killed", Huang Zicheng was ashamed and indignant, and asked the emperor to kill Li Jinglong to thank the world, but Emperor Jianwen did not listen to this.

The Yan army crossed the Yangtze River and approached the city of Nanjing, but Li Jinglong chose to "defect". Li Jinglong and Zhu Lu, the king of the valley, opened the door to open the Jinchuan Gate to welcome the Yan army, resulting in the loss of Nanjing, which is known as the "Jinchuan Gate Change" in history.

After Ming Chengzu Zhu Di succeeded to the throne, he granted special entry to Guanglu Doctor, Zuo Zhuguo, Prince Taishi, increased the age of Lu, and Li Jinglong was listed at the head of the ministers, so that the Duke of Cao Guo reached the peak.

The following year, Li Jinglong was impeached repeatedly by civil officials and nobles, and Zhu Di put him under house arrest with Li Zengzhi, his wife and dozens of sons, confiscated his family property, cut his knighthood and imprisoned, and died gloomily.

At this point, five of the six founding princes of Nanjing were abolished, and only the Duke of Wei remained.

It is slightly ironic that Xu Huizu, the Duke of Wei, refused to greet Zhu Di and was imprisoned for interrogation. He never pushed Zhu Di to be the emperor, and finally Zhu Di ordered Xu Huizu to return to his private house and remove his title and title.

However, the line of Duke Wei has the help of Duke Xu, and Empress Xu's intercession, and her son Xu Qin will restore the title of hereditary Duke of Wei, otherwise the line of Duke Wei will also wither.

Time quietly came to the Jiajing Dynasty, and Jiajing was deeply involved in the dispute over the great ceremony.

Guo Xun, an important minister, organized the compilation of a book "The Legend of the Famous Heroes and Martyrs of the Emperor Ming Dynasty" (commonly known as: The Biography of the Heroes and Martyrs of the Ming Dynasty), which describes the story of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who led the founding heroes to establish the Ming Dynasty.

In April of the 11th year of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing, out of political considerations, looked for the descendants of the founding heroes to be rewarded on the grounds that the heroes could not be weakened: the current emperor should rest with the country after the founding fathers, and after the edict was enshrined, Xuancheng Huaiyuan Marquis, Li Hou Linhuai Marquis, Deng Hou Kunding Yuan Marquis, Tang Hou Xianling Bihou.

It is precisely in this way that Chang Fu's grandson Chang Yuanzhen was named the Marquis of Huaiyuan and restored the hereditary lineage; Deng Yu's descendant, Deng Zhenkun, was named Marquis of Dingyuan and restored his hereditary lineage; Li Jinglong's descendant Li Xing was enshrined as the Marquis of Huai and restored to hereditary lineage.

The Mansion of the Duke of Wei, the deepest mansion in Nanjing, is brightly lit.

Xu Pengju, the Duke of Wei, called the "two younger brothers" of Linhuai Marquis Li Yi and Dingyuan Marquis Deng Jikun, and the three of them sat in the study, looking sad.