Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1058 The Emperor's Love

"The right servant of the Ministry of War and the right censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the governor of Liaodong District Zanli Military Affairs High Pragmatic Audience—"

Outside the Xinuang Pavilion of Qianqing Palace, following the loud announcement of the general on duty, a tall and pragmatic man dressed in red silk and sitting in a boa robe walked into the pavilion solemnly.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw a plump young man with a pleasant smile standing in front of the imperial case. It was Zhu Yijun who was wearing the emperor's uniform with a bright red background.

"The minister is high and pragmatic, and you can..."

"Excuse me, excuse me." Zhu Yijun chuckled, interrupted Gao Yushi's words with a wave of his hand, and walked over himself, grabbed Gao Yushi's arm, preventing him from prostrating smoothly, and said at the same time: "What, isn't it winter in Liaodong? Is it colder than the capital? I heard that it’s quite cold in the spring over there, you’re a dusty man, aren’t you sick?”

After all, they are classmates for ten years, so I don't even need to mention "Zhen".

Gao Wushi couldn't go on worshiping, so he had to withdraw his momentum and replied with a smile: "The emperor wants to talk about the weather, Liaodong is indeed a bit cold, but if you really want to say it, it is not much colder than the capital. But the Fuyuan in Liaoyang was originally a bit simple. After the minister arrived, he spent some money and installed earth dragons in the flower hall, study room, north room, etc., and it was not cold anymore."

The earth dragon mentioned by Gao Yushi is of course not a kind of dragon, nor is it a Chinese herbal medicine with the same name, but a relatively luxurious way of heating.To put it simply, some fire passages are dug out under the house, and furnaces are set up outside the fire passages to burn fires, and the heat flow through the fire passages increases the temperature in the room.

This heating method not only requires a lot of construction and renovation, but also consumes a lot of fuel because of its low energy efficiency.In ancient times, earth dragons were generally only used in palaces, palaces and other top-notch places of wealth and honor, but this thing itself is not illegal, as long as you have money and are willing to spend money, anyone can pretend to be it.

Naturally, Gao Wushi does not lack this kind of money, and it is actually cheap for him to burn earth dragons—the coal mine in Anshan has already started construction, and how much can he burn from morning to night for a mere nursing home in his area?negligible level.

Zhu Yijun was not annoyed at all when he heard this, instead he laughed and scolded: "As expected of Xinzheng Gaolongwen of '30 taels waved and sprinkled', if I had known this, I shouldn't have written your name in Zhu's criticism just now."

Gao Wushi was stunned and said, "What Zhu Criticism?"

Zhu Yijun waved his hand casually: "It's just a small matter. It was originally to give some hand stoves and other things to keep out the cold, but I thought you should return to Beijing today, so I gave your name to me as well." Added it."

Gao Wushi hurriedly said seriously: "I thank the emperor for his care."

"Well... If you want to talk about caring, I'm not humble. I really care about you." Zhu Yijun suddenly winked and said to Gao Wushi: "Guess I asked you to come back this time because I have some good things for you to do. ?”

Gao Wu said sincerely: What, a good thing?Are you sure you're not kidding me?There are two messes in front of you, you tell me it's a good thing?
Seeing Gao Wushi's astonished face, Zhu Yijun thought he couldn't figure it out, and pointed out with a smile: "Think about it, what major events have happened in the court recently, and you are very suitable to meddle in them?"

Gao Shishi wished he could roll his eyes when he heard it, and I'm a good fit to get involved?It’s true that I’m quite rich, but damn I’m not a philanthropist, and besides, I spend a lot of money!
However, the emperor's words still had to be answered, and they could not be ignored directly. Gao Wushi could only smile wryly and said, "Well, the emperor is talking about the kingdom of King Lu?"

Zhu Yijun was taken aback for a moment, and then shook his head immediately: "Yiyu is only 16 years old this year, and the affairs of Zhiguo are not in a hurry. How can the queen mother be willing to let him go to Weihui now? Besides, I am worried about my wallet now, so I can do it for a while. Not enough for the number of ceremonies, I am afraid that this matter will have to wait for a few more years... you can guess."

Huh?
King Lu is not planning to become a feudal clan yet?Then why did the world pay attention to accumulating money so early?
"Could it be that the emperor is talking about the war in Yunnan?" Gao Wushi tried to ask again.

"How do you get involved in the matter of Yunnan? It's in the southwest, and you're in the northeast, which is too far away! Besides, the temple in Yunnan is too small, and now it can't accommodate your big Buddha." Zhu Yijun looked disgusted, As if to say: "Why are you so stupid all of a sudden?"

It's not about King Lu, nor about Yunnan?

Gao Wushi was at a loss for a while, he couldn't help touching his nose, and said, "This... I can't guess it for a while."

Zhu Yijun chuckled, then looked at the door with a guilty conscience, lowered his voice slightly, and said, "Chunwei!"

Chunwei?will try?
I finished the exam three years ago, and I was still the champion!Why do you mention this, you can't say that the previous test result is invalid, let me take the test again, right?Is there any law left?

Fortunately, this time Zhu Yijun didn't let Gao Wushi continue to guess, but continued: "I heard that you have taken in two disciples, but one is from Annan and the other is from Mongolia? Is there such a thing?"

"Oh, there is such a thing. One of the two children is the son of Ruan Huang, and the other is the son of Han Naji, but the main reason for accepting them as disciples is to reassure his father..."

"Of course I can see your intentions." Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said: "However, you are the number one scholar of my Ming Dynasty, and you can't only have two disciples from the vassal state. This is too shabby! So what I mean is , taking advantage of the fact that there are still two days left before the Spring Festival this year, I want you to come back as soon as possible to be an examiner, so that you can recruit a few disciples to support your facade and order you around."

Uh... Let me be the examiner?Or will you test the examiner?

Gao Wushi opened his eyes wide and asked, "Isn't your majesty joking? I'm the Gengchen Gold List in the eighth year of Wanli, and the Chinese style is only three years old. How can I be a good examiner?"

"Why can't you do it?" Zhu Yijun snorted softly: "You compiled the "Da Ming Hui Dian", now you tell me: Which one of the ancestors in the past has stipulated that the Jinshi who is on the top list cannot be the next one? Examiner?"

"Uh, there is no such thing, but the country has its own conventions, for example, the examiner has the qualification requirements of the examiner..."

"Aren't you qualified enough?" Zhu Yijun interrupted Gao Yushi's words, and asked back: "It's a custom in my court that the examiner must have served or currently served as a historian of the Imperial Academy—have you ever served?"

"It's natural."

Nonsense, I was born as the number one scholar, and my first job must be to edit and write in the Imperial Academy. This is an unshakable rule.

But Gao Wushi hastily continued: "In the early years of the Guo Dynasty, the only rule for the examiners of the imperial examination was to be born in the Imperial Academy, but later there were other requirements. For example, the selection of the examiners, one or two chief examiners, starting from the Jia and Long years. , has been limited to bachelors, and the eight examiners also have to be ministers or above, and the ministers are no more than... eh?" At this point, Gao Yushi was suddenly at a loss for words.

Zhu Yijun laughed, then blinked, and asked, "But what? Don't you, Gao Aiqing, have the title of servant?"

Gao Wushi was stunned at first, and then he asked suspiciously: "Your Majesty, wouldn't you say that when you added the right servant of the Ministry of War to the minister, you have already considered that this year Chunwei will let the minister come to 'mix' his hand?" Is something wrong?"

Zhu Yijun raised his chin triumphantly: "What, my hand, can it be regarded as far-sighted and extraordinary? Can it be regarded as 'caring'?"

Uh, I think you can only call it premeditated... Of course, caring is very caring.

In the Ming Dynasty, the teacher-student integration was a relationship of both prosperity and loss. Originally, in the original history, because of Zhang Juzheng and Ding You's seizing love, there was a scene where Liu Tai impeached Zhang Juzheng as a disciple, so that "teacher-student unity" It was a bit of a blow, but at the moment in history Zhang Juzheng was brought down by Gao Yushi, this drama will naturally end.

So in Daming right now, there is still no doubt that the teacher-student relationship is stable.In other words, if Gao Yushi really served as an examiner and selected a few Jinshi, then these Jinshi would have to live with the title of "Gao Longwen disciple" for the rest of their lives, and they would never be able to take it off.

Of course, the hat of "Gao Longwen student" is still a very good political bonus item, at least for now. Presumably no new scholar will refuse to wear it.

On the other hand, these Scholars will naturally be Gao Yushi's future political resources. Leaving aside the usual benefits, let's say that if Gao Yushi has the opportunity to join the cabinet in the future, one of these people will count as one, and they are all from him after he joined the cabinet. direct descendant.

The so-called political resources, this is one of them, and it is a very important one.

In this way, Zhu Yijun's self-proclaimed caring for Gao Yushi is not self-promotion, because his idea is to find an opportunity to add more capital to Gao Yushi in the political arena.

But Gao Wushi still had something to say, he asked, "Who is the chief examiner this year?"

Zhu Yijun said: "In the eighth year of Wanli, Shen Cifu was the chief examiner of the Gengchen Department. This year, Yu Ge was supposed to be the chief examiner, but Yu Ge declined—he is currently ill, and I heard that he is not serious. Since last month, I have been on leave and exempted from duty, and the last time I came to the cabinet was half a month ago."

"So, this year's chief examiner is Mr. Xu Ge?" Gao Wushi asked.

Zhu Yijun nodded and said: "That's right." Then he added: "This is another reason why I asked you to return to Beijing quickly. Although Mr. Xu Ge is a prudent person, he is Gao Wenzhenggong's student after all. Fang, the possibility of the paper being rejected should be very small - of course, with your Gao Longwen's literary name, it is very unlikely that the paper you selected would be rejected."

Gao Wushi knew that Zhu Yijun's words must be reserved, because Xu Guo not only has the status of "Gao Wenzheng's disciple"?He is still the No. [-] figure in the current Gao Party except for Zhang Siwei, the chief assistant, and he is also a senior brother of Gao Pragmatic. Is he full of food, or is his brain convulsed, so he rejects Gao Pragmatic's paper?
Zhu Yijun took advantage of the opportunity of Xu Guo as the chief examiner and asked Gao Yushi to be a fellow examiner (a total of eight fellow examiners), which made it clear that Gao Yushi would choose his future team.

It seems strange that the emperor asked his courtiers to build his own team, but under the political system of Ming Dynasty, it is not surprising that Zhu Yijun did so.

Because the elders of Daming, even if they are the first assistant, if they are just a loner, they can't do anything. They have to have a large group of people willing to follow him.

Not to mention, Yan Song, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, and even Zhang Juzheng in the original history, which one of the chief assistants with real power is not full of peaches and plums?
To put it bluntly, even a good gentleman like Li Chunfang actually has a large number of disciples. The reason why Li Chunfang appears to be "powerless" is that the holy family is far inferior to Gao Gong, and the second is that his personality is too soft and too "sloppy". "So much so that the disciples are afraid that if there is a problem after doing things for the master, they will be abandoned by the frightened master.

And now?Zhu Yijun regarded Gao Yushi as his future chief assistant many years ago, but Gao Wushi couldn't be the chief assistant without any helpers except the holy family, so helping Gao Wushi get a group of students earlier is not only Taking care of Gao Yushi is also helping Zhu Yijun himself.

As for the fact that the Gaodang seems to be full of talents now... Yes, the Gaodang or the Real School is indeed very strong now, but the foundation of this strength was laid many years ago. None of Gao Gong, Guo Pu, Zhang Siwei and others have a A big-ticket disciple?

Especially Gao Gong, he has not only served as a fellow examiner several times, but also as the chief examiner. In addition, he has also been in charge of the official department for many years. He has so many disciples that he can line up from the capital to Tianjin Port. How can such a high party not be strong?

But after all, they are all left by the older generation. Gao Yushi is much younger than his senior brothers. In the next few years, I am afraid that there will be no one under his command. How can he not lay the foundation in advance?

Zhu Yijun has talked about this, so what else can Gao Wushi say?I had no choice but to thank you sincerely.

"Thank you, you don't want to see outsiders." Zhu Yijun finally put away his smile at this time, and said with some distress: "I asked you to go back to Beijing, although it is mainly because of the matter of Chunwei, but there are indeed several troublesome things I need you to help me make up my mind."

Gao Wu said honestly: It seems that the two matters of Lu Wang and Yunnan still cannot be escaped, but from his tone, it seems that he is not planning to ask me to come forward, but he himself is really undecided and wants to ask me for reference.

He said sternly: "It is the duty of a minister to share the worries of the emperor. If the emperor really has something difficult to solve, the minister will naturally do his best to advise the emperor."

Zhu Yijun nodded, his face became serious, he frowned, walked squarely, and muttered: "The first thing is the war in Yunnan that you mentioned before. The Yunnan side said that Burma sent 20 troops to invade. It was provoked by others, even if we don't want to fight, we still have to fight, but the treasury is really empty right now, this battle..."

Seeing that Zhu Yijun had said this, Gao Wushi stopped, and asked, "Does your majesty want to ask whether the scale of this battle should be controlled, and even if it is going to be fought, it should be closed as soon as it is good?"

Zhu Yijun's expression was a bit ugly, but he still nodded heavily: "That's about it... In fact, I really want to teach this Burmese, who has become more and more dishonest in recent years, a good lesson, but the current major affairs of the imperial court are in Jiliao. The warehouse is empty, and it is really powerless to fight a battle in Yunnan..."

Gao Wushi pretended to ponder for a moment, and then slowly said: "I think that Burma should not only be beaten, but should be beaten hard."

"Sure enough." Zhu Yijun smiled wryly, "I knew you would have this attitude... But the problem now is not that I refuse to fight, but that if we want to defeat the opponent's 20 army, we have to use a hundred thousand or so. ? Where can I get money to support this [-] army?"
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