"Thank you for saving me!" Xiong Tingbi hurriedly paid homage.

Wei Bao hurriedly said: "Lord Xiong doesn't have to be polite, this is what I should do." ”

"What should be done? Lao Yu has been in prison for the past few years, and he doesn't remember many things, does Lao Yu have any friendship with his father or grandparents? Xiong Tingbi thought that Wei Bao was talking about the friendship between the previous generation, anyway, he had absolutely no such person as Wei Bao in his impression.

Wei Bao smiled slightly: "Lord Xiong, don't misunderstand, we didn't have a relationship before, I was originally a child of a peasant family in the countryside of western Liaoning, and I don't have relatives who are officials in my family." I only won the Jinshi in the spring of this year, and then I won the Tanhua, and I was vacant in April, and it has only been three months since I entered the Shi. ”

"Dad, you don't have to guess, Lord Wei is for Xin'er to save you, he is not Donglin, nor is he Wei, but a celebrity around His Majesty." Xiong Zhaoqi knew what his father was guessing and took the initiative to help his father answer questions.

"For Xin'er?" Xiong Tingbi was a little surprised and a little embarrassed.

Staying in prison for three years has weakened his original hot temper a lot, otherwise hearing that the other party is just saving himself for his daughter will make him feel greatly hurt in face.

"Let Bear rest more, right? I will arrange for the best doctor to treat him, and if all goes well, within a month, I guarantee that a healthy bear will go home. Wei Bao said: "Let's go out first, don't affect the doctor." ”

Xiong Xin'er and Xiong Zhaoqi nodded, said goodbye to Xiong Tingbi, and comforted their father.

Xiong Tingbi saw his son and daughter, although he didn't say a word to Wei Bao, and he didn't say anything important, but Xiong Tingbi felt that this teenage young high-ranking official had a noble temperament that was different from ordinary people, and he didn't look like a teenager, not like a child from a peasant family, secretly surprised. At the same time, it was like taking a reassuring pill, although he couldn't understand what this officialdom boy who suddenly appeared and had never heard of before was, and why he wanted to save himself, but he finally saw the hope of getting out of prison alive.

Wei Bao went to visit Yang Lian next.

Yang Lian's situation is not as optimistic as Xiong Tingbi.

Yang Lian's ears were pierced, and he pulled an iron needle, and there was almost no intact place on his body.

It is a miracle that Yang Lian has survived until now!

Yang Xue and Yang Lian's sons were crying silently in the cell, and Yang Lian was intermittently asking how they could get into the prison.

Yang Lian still can't figure out where he is now? I thought he was still in the Beizhen Fusi Prison, but I didn't know that he had been imprisoned by the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

Yang Xue endured her grief and tried her best to speak clearly about how Wei Bao saved him.

This surprised Yang Lian, although he was seriously injured and died not long ago, Yang Lian's consciousness was still very clear.

"Is that him? What does he want to do? Yang Lian wondered: "Why did he save me?"

Before, it was Wei Bao who took the lead in driving a group of Donglin Party bigwigs out of the Duchayuan and Dali Temple.

It's no wonder that Yang Lian has such questions.

Yang Xue understood her father's doubts, and said with a red face: "Daddy, please rest assured, Wei Bao is not a eunuch, and he has no other meaning to save his father, he sympathizes with the people of Donglin, and his daughter is in charge of her own affairs, and she has privately promised him her life without asking her father." ”

"Huh? You! Hearing this kind of news, Yang Lian's performance is the same as Xiong Tingbi, first of all, he is embarrassed, and a little ashamed, he has stood upright in his life, but he didn't expect that after being imprisoned, the person who saved him was not from Donglin, but Wei Bao, who had nothing to do with the Donglin Party, and what was even more unbearable was that his daughter exchanged for lifelong happiness.

At this time, Wei Bao entered the cell, which was a clean and comfortable cell like an inn.

Yang Xue and Yang Lian's sons hurriedly came over to greet Wei Bao.

Wei Bao arched his hand and said, "A few brothers don't have to be polite. ”

Although he has not yet had a skin-to-skin relationship with Yang Xue, and his name has not been clearly decided, Yang Xue is already living in Wei Bao's mansion and is like Wei Bao's person.

According to the standards of this era, a woman and a man live together, regardless of whether they have a substantive relationship or not, whether they are officially married or not, she has been branded by this man and is the man's person.

It's not nice to say, this woman is already the man's private property.

No matter how noble her status is, even a royal princess.

Wei Bao then asked Lang Zhong, "Doctor, how is it?" ”

Lang Zhong is a good Lang Zhong, who is famous in Beijing, shook his head, "There is no cure, it is all up to Lord Yang's strong will to drag it out until now, if it is an ordinary person, it will not work for a long time." How long it can drag on now depends on Lord Yang himself. The old decay can only be said to have no spirit in the medicine stone. ”

When Yang Xue and several brothers heard the doctor say that the medicine stone was spiritual, they were even more sad, and they covered their mouths one by one and cried bitterly.

Yang Lian didn't seem to be affected, and beckoned to Wei Bao with great effort.

Wei Bao hurried over and leaned over and sat down on the side of Yang Lian's bed, "Lord Yang, do you have anything to say?" ”

Wei Bao is not surprised that Yang Lian will still die in the end, character determines fate, Yang Lian chooses to fight to the death with the eunuch party, and the eunuch party will be unshakable before Zhu Youxiao's death.

Yang Lian will definitely not be able to win against the Donglin Party, so even if Wei Bao can save Yang Lian this time, Yang Lian will still have to go to death after that.

Xiong Tingbi is different, Xiong Tingbi is a political victim, Xiong Tingbi has always had a desire to survive, and has always wanted to bribe Wei Zhongxian, but unfortunately there is no money.

Now that Wei Bao is such a variable, it is reasonable for Wei Bao, as a newly joined political body with a lot of energy, to finally save Xiong Tingbi.

After countless experiments, Wei Bao knows very well that he can't change the general trend of history, and the most difficult thing to change is politics and economics.

Because the politics and economy are too big, a general trend has been formed, not in a day or two, but for decades or hundreds of years, and even some problems have been from the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang, and even from the hands of the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties before, and they are not problems only in the Ming Dynasty.

For these big aspects, the rebirth of a small Wei Bao can be said to have no impact on the original history.

Yang Lian laboriously took out a strip of cloth full of blood words from his sleeve, and said with difficulty: "Everything I want to say is written on this, people of insight must set things right, and they can't succumb to castration." ”

Wei Bao was expressionless and did not answer, although this cell was full of his people, but Wei Bao was very cautious in doing things, except for acting in front of Wei Zhongxian, on other occasions, he basically didn't even act, and didn't show any ideas, this is the safest way to protect himself.

Yang Lian saw that Wei Bao didn't react, and said with difficulty: "Master Wei, I thought you were Wei Zhongxian's person, it seems that the old man guessed wrong, and I will compensate you for it, the old man hopes that you will never come to save the old man because of Xue'er." Since you can ask for Xue'er, you are my Yang Lian's son-in-law and my Yang Lian's son-in-law, you must take over the banner of Donglin and continue to fight against the eunuchs! ”

Wei Bao still didn't respond.

Yang Lian's sons nodded frequently.

Yang Lian didn't care how Wei Bao reacted, his vision was blurred, he couldn't see anything clearly, and said to his sons: "You remember, after the father's incident, you have to listen to Master Wei for everything, although he is young, he has a heroic spirit, your ability is not good, and your bare hands are not the material for being an official, have you written it down?" ”

The sons nodded their heads together, and they all said that they had written it down.

Yang Lian said goodbye and left.

"Daddy!"

"Daddy!"

Yang Xue and Yang Lian's sons immediately burst into tears.

Lang Zhong touched Yang Lian's pulse and said to Wei Bao: "Lord Wei, Lord Yang has gone." ”

Wei Bao snorted, still expressionless.

If it had been put in the past, someone had died, and so many children were crying, it would definitely have caused Wei Bao to feel sad.

But now, the more he experiences, the more Wei Bao seems to look at life and death.

Xiong Zhaoqi and Xiong Xin'er cried with the Yang brothers and sisters.

Wei Bao didn't say anything, silently left the prison of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and went to work as usual.

At present, the entire Jingshi and the surrounding areas of the Jingshi are in full swing.

Almost all officials were involved in being investigated, and the number of officials in the Metropolitan Procuratorate was increased to 2,000 by Wei Bao last time!

Such a huge scale is unique in the history of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the largest number of people in history is only more than 300 people, usually only more than 100 people.

Wei Bao has increased tenfold.

Moreover, none of the more than 2,000 people ate white food to get empty salaries, and all of them were newly replaced officials.

Not to mention that everyone is a cadre, at least everyone has a clear mind.

Moreover, they spent so much money to buy officials, so they naturally had to increase the 'fee items' so that they could get back the original capital as soon as possible.

The censorship of other yamen officials by these officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the scholars in and around the capital was almost outrageous, picking out words word by word, looking for reasons for others to commit rebellion.

In this text inventory, Feng Quan is the chief official, and Wei Bao is just an assistant.

But now Feng Quan actually doesn't care about anything, Wei Bao is operating it all by himself, and most of the notoriety is recorded on Feng Quan's head.

It is better that the number of officials investigated at the beginning is a little smaller, and from today the large-scale investigation and punishment has begun, almost all officials have not failed, especially a group of low-level officials.

This caused the paralysis of many yamen.

However, this was not difficult for Wei Bao, who sent officials from the Metropolitan Procuratorate to the paralyzed yamen to temporarily take charge of the operation of the yamen.

On the one hand, a large number of officials are still being recruited, and a large number of officials are being sold, as long as there is a talent or above fame, they will have the opportunity to be suspended from the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

The price of such a blank check official position in the Metropolitan Procuratorate soared all the way, from the initial 1,000 taels of silver to 2,000 taels of silver the next day.

In the next day, it rose to three thousand taels of silver.

It is increasing at a rate of almost a thousand taels of silver every day!

Although there are many officials who have been investigated and punished, they really cannot keep up with the number of officials who have recently taken up temporary posts in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

When he took up a temporary post in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, he not only hoped that he would be able to further buy officials and enter the official career in the future, but also be able to avoid this written investigation.

What does this create a situation

Whether it is a corrupt official or not, whether it is the Donglin Party, or the Eunuch Party, or the neutral officials who do not rely on both ends are all collecting money and going to the door, preparing to take up their posts in the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

"Uncle, if you don't go on like this, if no one reins Wei Bao, in a few days, the entire Beizhili officialdom will change! All will be replaced! It's only been three days, and it costs at least 4,000 taels of silver to take up a temporary post in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and no one can tell how much silver Wei Bao has earned! And if it is done by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, almost all the people who have families in Beizhili will be bankrupt! In the future, the officials of Beizhili will all come out of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and they will all come out of Wei Bao's hands, and Wei Bao will be more powerful than his uncle! Don't be careful. Fu Yingxing said to Wei Zhongxian.

Wei Zhongxian nodded, he didn't expect Wei Bao to be so ruthless! There was such a big move.

Originally, it was just said that through the text inventory, the officials would be able to increase their memory, so that the officials, as well as those hardcore Donglin Party members, would not dare to arbitrarily go to the script in the future, let alone dare to talk nonsense in the script to be disrespectful to the emperor.

Who knew Wei Bao would do this?

Daming's speech is still very free, and it has been prevalent since then, and many vulgar and fiery men and women have detailed and vivid descriptions of the scenes, which can be seen in detail than the films of the island countries in later generations.

Moreover, almost all of these words are uncensored!

Therefore, it is too easy to find fault with the literati.

At the beginning of the text inventory, almost all the engraving shops stopped, and no one dared to write anymore.

Even the illiterate people on the street don't dare to talk nonsense when they see each other, and it is possible to commit taboos when you speak, saying that you are guilty of disorder.

"I heard that now if you want to buy a vacant title in the Metropolitan Procuratorate, you have to go through the back door! Even the gatehouse of the Metropolitan Inspectorate was on fire. Wei Zhongxian sighed, "But this is what His Majesty asked Wei Bao to do, and our family also nodded at the beginning, this is just the beginning, it's not good to tell Wei Bao to stop, and doesn't the Metropolitan Procuratorate send silver to the inner treasury of the Great Interior every day?" ”

"Although he sends tens of thousands of silver taels every day, no one can say how much he actually gets, why is it only such a small amount of money?" Fu Yingxing said.

"Let's not talk about this matter first, it's impossible for him to do this without causing chaos, doesn't it mean that many big families have already united against the Metropolitan Procuratorate? Yushi is not allowed to go to the township. If Wei Bao is only engaged in officialdom, let him flutter for a while, anyway, he promised our family that he would stop doing it for only a month, and then go to Tianjin Wei with peace of mind, first set up the yamen of the Yamen of the Governor of Haiphong, and then he will go to Liaodong with Gao Di. Wei Zhongxian said: "If Wei Bao provokes a popular uprising, then it is even better, our family just took the opportunity to stop!" ”

"I'm afraid he doesn't know how much silver he can get this month!" Although Fu Yingxing has a good relationship with Wei Bao now, he is red-eyed after all.

In fact, Wei Bao not only asked the Imperial Procuratorate to send silver to the palace every day, but he also sent silver to Wei Zhongxian's mansion every day.

And every time the money is sent, there will be a list of how many people have paid and how it is distributed, all of which are clearly written.

But even so, Fu Yingxing was still red-eyed.

Wei Zhongxian smiled: "Isn't there a list?" He didn't dare to pit our family's silver, why don't you think about it, if there is no Wei Bao, where can we get so much silver?"

"Wei Bao is a ghost, I'm just a little unwilling. Uncle, what if Wei Bao provokes a large-scale civil uprising? Now the officials are completely suppressed by him. But the relationship between the officials and the gentry everywhere is to break the bones and connect the tendons! How many people are against Wei Bao? Fu Yingxing said.

"That's not what we care about, didn't we just say it? If there is a big mess and it is just stopped, Wei Bao will not blame us. Wei Zhongxian smiled: "However, according to our family, Wei Bao can't make a mess!" Although there are not many of them, only four hundred, the servants of his capital inspection institute and Dali Temple are much more useful than Jinyiwei! The most important thing is that he Wei Bao does get money, he neither raids the house nor blackmails, but directly asks people to resist the head of the family who is looking for, and sends the head of the house to the prison of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the family has to pay obediently! And Wei Bao didn't attack everyone, he specifically stared at people with some property. Hehehe. ”

"Uncle, you didn't understand what I meant, I'm afraid that once there are many people, for example, tens of thousands of people making trouble, it will not be a trivial matter, the more people Wei Bao kills, the more trouble will be, not to mention that many rich people have money, and if they spend money to make trouble, it is not as good as the hungry people to make trouble." Fu Yingxing said.

"You, in vain you have been by my side for a few years, you are not as good as Wei Bao, a person who has only been in the company for a few months. Rich people can't make trouble, do you think, Wei Bao and they start extorting money every time they take the head of the family away, and the head of the house doesn't make trouble with others? When the family is about to go bankrupt, and then put the head of the family back, they have no strength at this time, and they can't make trouble if they want to. Wei Zhongxian explained.

"But Wei Bao can't arrest the entire rich family of Daming at once, right? Beizhili is now making such a fierce effort to investigate the text, Shandong, Henan, Shanxi, Jiliao, these rich households in the surrounding areas don't know how to take precautions, do you start preparing now? Fu Yingxing asked: "Wei Bao, he only cares about silver, and if something big happens, he doesn't want his uncle to help him finish it, I'm worried about affecting my uncle." ”

"Our family hasn't thought about it yet, it's still the same sentence, it's his Wei Bao's business if something happens, just throw Wei Bao out if he can't do it, and he can't worry about him. Others want to move our family, unless they come to the Forbidden City. Wei Zhongxian said disapprerovingly.

Fu Yingxing saw that Wei Zhongxian trusted Wei Bao so much now, and knew that it was useless to persuade again, so he sighed and said no more.

"Okay, don't look at Wei Bao's eyes when he gets some silver now, if he can really complete the removal of 100,000 soldiers and horses from Shandong, Jiliao, and Liaodong, no matter how much silver he gets, our family won't say anything." Wei Zhongxian said meaningfully.

Fu Yingxing nodded yes, "Yes, Wei Bao can be rich, but the military is not a soft persimmon, so he can pinch it." ”

"Exactly, so there is no need to look at Wei Bao anymore, if our family wants to use his knife, we must sharpen it. As for the officials who turned over the entire Beizhili officialdom in his hands, and they were all officials who came out of his hands, there was no need to worry. Although these people were able to enter the government because of Wei Bao, once they entered the office, they needed to look up, who was in power, they would naturally listen to the person in power! Wei Zhongxian said thoughtfully.

"That's what my uncle said. At least these people who came up from Wei Bao's hands, there is not a single Donglin person! Fu Yingxing gradually accepted Wei Bao's current approach. was enlightened by Wei Zhongxian, and also felt that for the Wei family, there seemed to be nothing wrong with Wei Bao acting so arbitrarily.

Wei Zhongxian saw that Fu Yingxing had figured it out, and said with a smile: "Okay, let's step back if it's okay." ”

"Uncle, I'm still a little worried, Wei Bao has made so many people who don't even have a reputation for making a name for themselves, will he spoil the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty? In the future, the entire Ming Dynasty will only care about making money, and if you earn money, you can buy officials, who is willing to bother with scientific research? If everyone doesn't take the scientific expedition seriously, will it have an impact? Fu Yingxing asked.

"Well, it's good that you can think of this layer. The impact is definitely influential, and our family has talked to Wei Bao about this before, and Wei Bao's answer satisfies our family. Do you know what he said? Wei Zhongxian asked.

Fu Yingxing shook his head: "I would like to hear about it." ”

"Wei Bao's kid said that at least Xiucai can become an official, which is enough, whether it is a person or a jinshi, it may not be much more capable than Xiucai. And the higher the fame, the easier it will be to be promoted in the future, so the impact on the scientific examination will not be great, even if there is an impact, there is a limit, we think what he said is good. As for the fact that everyone is becoming more enthusiastic about doing business, it is not necessarily a bad thing. At least not a bad thing for us. Only when everyone is keen to be a good businessman, the Ming Dynasty will have silver, and the common people will have silver. The reason why the ancestors put Shinong, industry and commerce, and scholars in the first place is for the stability of imperial power! But now that it's a troubled time, can't get enough to eat? How to stabilize the imperial power? Only let everyone eat first, and then come back to Pai Shi Nong Industry and Commerce! Otherwise, if the Ming Dynasty is gone, nothing will be empty talk. Wei Zhongxian said.

"Wei Bao is really a talent!" This time, Fu Yingxing was convinced, "Uncle, although Wei Bao looks a little uninhibited, he sees things very accurately. Won't you guard against him in the future? ”

"Preparedness? How not to be prepared? Wei Zhongxian said with a smile: "You and Mrs. Ke are both worried about this, in fact, this matter is the least worth worrying about, our family is constantly giving Wei Bao problems, and they are all big problems, he can't make every step without mistakes." Even if this kid has great luck and can solve any problem, but with the emperor in our hands and the army around the Jingshi, what tricks can he do? Don't worry that Wei Bao will rebel, the more powerful and wealthy people are, the less likely they are to rebel, rebellion is to be the enemy of the world, this kind of person is already either rich or expensive, and he is not a child of the royal family, how can he joke about glory and wealth? ”

"What my uncle said is that the rebels are really poor people who can't eat enough, and it is impossible for the rich and the gentry to rebel." Fu Yingxing nodded yes.

In this way, Wei Bao's text inventory went very smoothly, and in just a few days, he made the entire capital and the surrounding areas of the capital upside down.

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