The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 715 Difficulty and Struggle
Getting out of the crowd in front of the gate of Shuntian Mansion, Lao Xu quickly rushed to Gongxue, and showed the voucher left by Jiao Shun to the gatekeeper.

After the yamen servants checked the certificates, their attitudes immediately turned 180 degrees, but they told Lao Xu that Master Jijiu was not in the yamen right now, and had been called by the cabinet to the palace for inquiries half an hour ago.

As for the matters that need to be consulted, it is naturally the "On the Evaluation of the Academy of Engineering" that Jiao Shun handed in early in the morning.

To be honest, although Mr. Wang Zhe and Wang Ge felt that he was sure of winning, he did not despise Jiao Shun because of this. Instead, he made sufficient preparations in secret, taking all factors of engineering into consideration.

But he still didn't expect that Jiao Shun would come up with an ingenious strategy to directly expand this battle beyond engineering, and even turn the original contest between New Confucianism and engineering into a contest between New Deal and old-fashioned forces!

Caught off guard, the original strategy naturally became useless.

According to his thinking, it would be best to postpone this memorial for later discussion, but the cabinet has never been one person's opinion—especially after the establishment of the New Confucianism School, Wang Zhe became a minority in the cabinet.

Therefore, before finding out the reason for postponing the discussion, Xu Furen, a scholar of Wuyingdian, waved his hand, saying that this article can be handed over to the imperial court without any changes.

Then he deliberately blocked Wang Zhe with words: "Even people like Jiao Shun know the importance of enlightenment. Since the boss of Wangge said that the new Confucians are also Confucians, it is expected that they will not lose to some work-student students in this regard, right?"

Wang Zhe was dumbfounded for a moment.

This is the most embarrassing part of the memorial. Since he is a Confucian scholar, how can he not pay attention to enlightenment and be good at enlightenment?So when this big hat is put down, the New Confucianism must accept it even if it doesn’t want to.

But if they really swallow this dose of poison, most of the new Confucians who want to enter the Academy of Engineering in the future will inevitably have to face the front line of the struggle between the old and the new forces-let alone how many people can do it, even if they have this strength, as long as I am afraid that I may not have the courage to bear this pressure.

At that time, if there are very few people participating, then the new Confucianism's entry into the engineering school will naturally be anticlimactic.

What an unlearned Jiao Changqing!

Wang Zhe sighed deeply in his heart, but his face still showed the calm expression of the ancient well. He stroked his beard and said, "Because it involves enlightenment, we should be more cautious, and we must not act too hastily."

"Ha ha……"

Xu Furen laughed when he heard the words, and asked back: "If this is the case, the New Confucianism has only been established for less than half a year, so why rush to establish some engineering academy?"

"Old Xu Ge, I'm just talking about the facts."

"Isn't Xu..."

"All right!"

Ci Fu, who had not spoken all the time, put down the memorial in his hand, and said: "What Wang Ge said is reasonable, since it involves enlightenment, you can't pay too much attention to it——Let's do it first. Invite Jiao Changqing here, if there is anything unclear, let him explain it clearly in person, and then submit it to Yuqian at no later time."

These words clearly seem to be impartial, even in favor of Wang Zhe, but in fact they blocked Wang Zhe's attempt to discuss after the adjournment-although He Ge and Xu Ge also hoped to suppress and weaken engineering, but But I don't even want to see Xinru become bigger!
The two of them had the same attitude, and Wang Zhe was caught off guard by Jiao Shun again. He couldn't think of a good way to delay it, so he had to express his opinion and ordered Jiao Shun to interrogate him face to face.

It's just that after Jiao Shun was ordered to enter the palace, he was not led to Wenyuan Pavilion, but was taken directly to Qianqing Palace.

This was because the emperor was impatient and sent someone to urge the cabinet to judge Jiao Shun's memorial as soon as possible before Jiao Shun entered the palace.

Later, when he learned that the cabinet intended to summon Jiao Shun, the emperor simply invited the three cabinet ministers to the Qianqing Palace, and planned to hold an imperial meeting directly after Jiao Shun came, so as to decide on the establishment of the Engineering Academy as soon as possible.

When Jiao Shun arrived in a hurry, the emperor had already read the memorial with the assistance of Concubine Wu, and was about to ask Wang Zhe for his opinion. When he heard that Jiao Shun had arrived, he hurriedly ordered him to come in to see him.

As soon as Jiao Shun entered the door, the emperor, who was half-slanted on the dragon chair, couldn't help admiring: "Aiqing really lived up to my expectations, this enlightenment is chosen, well chosen!"

"The minister is ashamed and dare not take it."

Feeling Wang Zhe's scrutinizing eyes, Jiao Shun bowed slightly towards the throne, and raised his voice calmly: "I was also inspired by the elder Wang Ge to discover the biggest shortcoming of engineering. I never thought that engineering and Confucianism There is no way to be inclusive, if we can use enlightenment to break down prejudices and bridge differences, so that scholars, farmers, businessmen, and businessmen can work side by side without conflicting with each other's strengths, then it will be a blessing for the world, the imperial court, and all the people!"

"Good good!"

Unsurprisingly, these righteous words attracted the emperor's praise. At the same time, he turned his one eye to Wang Zhe: "What does Wang Ge think of Jiao Jijiu's words?"

Wang Zhe looked away from Jiao Shun's face, turned sideways and said in a respectful voice, "Jiao Jijiu said that the public is loyal to the country, and the minister seconded it."

Ever since he learned that the emperor was going to hold an imperial meeting, he knew that nothing could be done—he could still fight in the cabinet, but in front of the emperor, if he hesitated for a second on this issue, he was doing it for the sake of the New Confucianism. Dig graves.

To put it bluntly, the so-called Neo-Confucianism is nothing more than an impromptu imperial association army assembled in order to compete for the leadership of the Holy Family and the New Deal. If the emperor cannot show the courage to take chestnuts out of the fire, then why would the emperor believe in the New Confucianism?
The emperor was naturally very happy with Wang Zhe's statement, and immediately discussed with everyone the duties and obligations of the Academy of Engineering, as well as the rank and treatment of academicians and engineers.

But the emperor's excited state didn't last long. It took only a quarter of an hour. Before he could get any results from the discussion, he yawned again and again, and his one eye opened suddenly. All of a sudden, in the end, tears flowed unconsciously.

Seeing this, Mr. Cifu He Ge hurriedly stopped the discussion meeting, saying that the specific details of the establishment of the Engineering Academy still need to be considered by the cabinet before submitting to the imperial court.

The emperor announced the adjournment of the meeting, and the three court elders immediately bowed to leave, leaving only Jiao Shun to continue to face the saint in the Qianqing Hall.

After everyone left, the emperor yawned and said, "Aiqing's proposal is good everywhere, just relying on the achievements of enlightenment to evaluate academicians, won't it be too much time-consuming?"

In fact, the evaluation and promotion in the official arena, which lasts from one to three years is standard, but the emperor obviously can't wait that long.

"It's also easy."

Jiao Shun said with a smile: "Just set the rules and let the scholars participating in the evaluation act quickly. This can be regarded as adding some difficulty to the evaluation-under the stormy waves, the new Confucianists who can still enter the Academy of Engineering must be urgently needed for the implementation of the New Deal. talent!"

The emperor laughed out loud when he heard the words, quite proud of "the world's talents have entered my trap", he was about to say something, but he yawned a few times uncontrollably.

Looking at the emperor's appearance, and thinking about it, he seems to have less cough recently. Jiao Shun guessed that the emperor probably increased the dose of analgesic and cough medicine, and these two have always been the hardest hit areas of addiction. If it is not necessary, the imperial doctors will definitely not prescribe such a prescription.

Could it be that……

Jiao Shun felt a little heavy in his heart, although the emperor's recent eagerness for quick success made him a little dissatisfied, but Emperor Longyuan was kind to him after all, and if possible, he still hoped that Emperor Longyuan could live for two more years.

Hey~
It seems that we must step up our efforts to fool the little prince.

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The words are divided into two parts.

On the other side, the three elders left the Qianqing Palace together, and the road naturally divided into two groups.

In front were Mr. He Ge and Mr. Xu Ge who were talking in low voices, while Wang Zhe lingered behind alone, groaning silently. Now that the matter of evaluation was done, all he could do was to minimize the impact of this matter on the new Confucianism. engineering influence.

And to achieve this, the most simple and direct way is to preach that as long as you enter the Academy of Engineering, you can get high-ranking officials and generous salaries at your fingertips.

In fact, he has been publicizing in private for a long time, but the intensity of the propaganda is not so strong, and it is not so straightforward. Now, as long as the intensity and scope of the propaganda are expanded, as many people as possible should be able to win over.

Although it is inevitable that the people recruited in this way are mixed, and if they really enter the engineering academy, they may not behave as they imagined, but now we can only solve the problem of whether they are there or not.

With this in mind, Wang Zhe planned to take a temporary leave of absence and go home when he returned to Wenyuan Pavilion, so as to arrange this matter as soon as possible.

But before he could open his mouth, a cabinet official came to report, saying that Shuntian Mansion had captured a group of people who deceived people with lies and rumors. Because the matter involved the elders of the Wang Pavilion, Shuntian Mansion specially wrote a letter to ask for instructions. How to deal with it.

Hearing that there were rumors involving him, Wang Zhe ordered to take the writing to read it.

As a result, his complexion changed drastically upon seeing it, and he slapped the written text on the table angrily, gritted his teeth and said, "What a Shuntian Mansion, what a Jia Yucun!"

He hadn't heard about this until now, so it was naturally impossible for Shuntian Mansion to take people in advance, but Shuntian Mansion took people with such a big fanfare, the outsiders would definitely blame him for this matter!

If it was said that this was Jia Yucun's unintentional mistake, then Wang Zhe would never believe it.

At the moment, I am busy ordering people to inquire about the specific matters of this matter, as well as the current impact.

As a result, the subsequent news made Wang Zhe even more annoyed.

Especially the rhetoric of "only recruiting Jiangxi Township Party members" is clearly to put him on the fire!
It is true that most of the New Confucianism is from Jiangxi, but the reason is not that he only recruited Jiangxi Xiangdang, but that the appeal of the previous New Confucianism was not strong enough, and only his Xiangdang was willing to respond.

This statement of 'recruiting only township parties' is clearly a cause and effect!

But the problem is that most people only look at the results, and who goes back to analyze the causes behind it?
While Wang Zhe was angry, he hurriedly ordered someone to inform his confidants, and planned to have a meeting to try to make up for the impact caused by this incident-as for Jia Yucun, let's settle the score with him in the future!

When Wang Zhe returned home, all the confidantes he had summoned came to the door one after another, but there were fewer people than expected, and when they saw him, they all seemed preoccupied and hesitant to speak.

An ominous premonition arose in Wang Zhe's heart, and he immediately called his closest confidants to ask what happened.

"So that Elder Ge knows."

The man said with a sad face: "Li Shilang from the Ministry of Rites has just gone to the guild hall, calling on Jiangxi students and scholars to keep their bodies upright, devote themselves to learning, and must not be contaminated by evil tendencies."

When Wang Zhe heard this, he felt his chest throbbing and almost vomited blood on the spot.

Just now he was thinking of expanding the publicity so as to make up for the vacancies of those who flinched, but now, he was directly kicked out of the bottom of the pot by someone!

Once the Jiangxi Township Party started internal strife, he was too busy to take care of himself, so how could he have the energy to recruit talented people to compete with Jiao Shun? !

At that time, if only a few people enter the Academy of Engineering, not to mention snatching the control of engineering, it would be good not to make a wedding dress for Jiao Shun as a foil!
Thinking of this, he suddenly seemed to understand something, slumped down on the chair, shook his head with a wry smile, and said, "It's hard to compete with a lion, I still underestimated him."

(End of this chapter)