Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1077 Three "Future Chief Assistants"

In political struggles, there are few things that can be done immediately. Most of the time, it is necessary to prepare in advance, strictly control, carefully evaluate, and plan in detail, and finally to act decisively. Therefore, high pragmatism cannot put all your energy into The delay was on Liu Shouyou and Zhang Jing.

Gao Wuzhen is no longer "observing politics" and cannot go to the palace every day as in the past, so Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju are mainly watching Zhang Jing's side.

According to normal circumstances, since Zhang Jing will soon be appointed as the imperial horse supervisor, at least before he officially takes office, stability should be the first priority in everything, so as not to make any troubles at this time.

But Liu Shouyou's side is the key point. Not only is this person the liaison between certain forces in Jiangnan and Zhang Jing, but he also has a rather tricky identity as the governor of Jinyiwei. Be prepared to be countered before it backfires.

Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju have successively served or are currently serving as the admirals of Dongchang. Naturally, they used the power of Dongchang to deploy and control Liu Shouyou, and Gao Wushi has also suggested that Wang Zhizhen and Gao Wuben be involved.

At the same time, Gao Wushi also stepped up his investigation of Liu Shouyou. Under his instructions, the Jinghua Internal Affairs Department set up a special operation team headed by Gao Mo himself to monitor and investigate Liu Shouyou. Forensics.Within two days, there were more than 20 capable servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs who went from the capital to Macheng, Songjiang, Ningbo and other places.

Gao Wushi doesn’t have to and can’t do the next thing by himself. Apart from discussing with Gao Guoyan and confirming the distribution of the first issue of Yunnan War Treasure Banknotes, he just needs to wait for his disciples to pay homage to him at the mansion. .

Of course, Fangshi is the object that Xinke Jinshi must visit, but whether Xinke Jinshi will regard his Fangshi as a backer in the officialdom from now on, this is not necessarily the case.

For Xinke Jinshi, in addition to Fang Shi, there are also Zuo Shi. If they can directly vote under the Zuo Shi's sect, in most cases it is actually better than submitting to Fang Shi's sect.

The reason is very simple, the teacher is the chief examiner, and he is a great scholar of the dynasty!Wouldn't it be great to be able to worship under the old sect of the pavilion?It should be noted that most of the house masters are selected from the Imperial Academy, and sometimes they are just editors. Even if there is hope of promotion in the future, how can they compare with the elder who is already an extremely talented minister?
Therefore, it is actually very common for the students selected by the Fangshi to be "cut off" by the teacher.It's just that no matter how "cut off", the teacher-student relationship between the disciples and the room teacher is still established, and no one dares to deny it.

Gao Wushi was not afraid that the three people he had chosen would be cut off, because Xu Guo was the main examiner for this subject.Elder Xu Ge has a high status and is a high-spirited senior brother. Naturally, it is impossible to lose face and compete with the junior junior brother for disciples. What's more, the room master Gao Wushi only ordered three people, who would have the nerve to do it again?

"Master, the No. [-] master and the two Jinshi masters are here to pay their respects. This is their greeting card. Please have a look."

When Gao Wushi heard this, he was basking in the sun under the small pavilion facing Shichahai in the mansion.

This year is the 11th year of Wanli. Due to a leap in February, the sunshine in March is already quite warm and slanting on him.

There is a spring breeze blowing on the willows on the shore, and the water is like golden scales surging. It is rare for Gao Pragmatic to "steal a half-day leisure in a floating life", so he chose to meet three new students here.

Everything is so beautiful, it seems that the only thing missing is the company of a beautiful woman, and... a bottle of wine.

The company of a beautiful woman is just around the corner, and it should be possible after the Battle of Burma is over.

It's not impossible to get wine, after all, the scale of Jinghua's sea trade is not small, and it must be the first in Ming Dynasty in terms of "private enterprises".

However, Gao Yushi is not very happy to drink wine in front of outsiders. With his current status and reputation as a scholar, if he often drinks wine in public, it may cause a trend and indirectly raise the price of "foreign wine". status, and may even reduce Ming's foreign trade surplus to a certain extent, that is not what Gao Pragmatically wants.

Daming is a global gold-absorbing black hole. It is best to continue this situation for a little longer, so that more precious metals will be concentrated in Daming, so as to alleviate the so-called "money shortage" in history.

As for whether Daming would ease the "price revolution" in Europe to a certain extent if Daming attracts too much money, he can't worry about it for the time being.In the past, the price revolution in Europe was caused by the Spanish Empire loading too much gold and silver from the Americas back to Europe, but now these gold and silver will change hands to Ming Dynasty more than in history, and it seems that it can indeed relieve it...

"Please come here." Gao Wushi said, sitting up a little bit, but muttered in his mouth: "Maybe the Europeans should award me a big medal in the future."

Not long after, a middle-aged man walked over with two young people.

The three of them were all wearing newly-collared Jinshi uniforms, and they followed Gao Jiajia Ding quickly without turning their eyes.

The one in the lead seemed to be in his late forties, with a clear and serious face, and he looked like an extremely serious person, especially this person's pair of saber eyebrows were not only thick black like ink, but also the corners of his eyebrows were particularly upturned, even if he was calm Sometimes it looks a little murderous.

The man on the left behind him looked 24 or [-] years old, with a Chinese character face, and looked dignified. Although he was not yet an official, he seemed to be born to be an official.However, although this person has a square face, Gao Yushi can tell from his overly clever eyes that he tried his best to conceal that this person has complicated thoughts and is definitely not straight-hearted.

The last one seemed to be younger, perhaps only in his early twenties, and he was also the most handsome.This person does not seem to be the same as the former two, one is really rigid, the other is fake quiet, although he is the youngest, he looks the most free and easy, he came to see the teacher, and he actually had the pleasure of looking around and admiring the scenery.

"Student Li Tingji on the pontoon, pay your respects to Mr. Entang."

"Student Fuqing Ye Xianggao, I pay my respects to Mr. Entang."

"Student Deqing Fang Congzhe, pay homage to Lord Entang."

These three people are all presents, Gao Yushi stood up with a smile, stepped forward to help them up one by one, and said: "Okay, okay, they are all outstanding talents, I am very pleased to be a teacher."

Today is different from usual, where we have to call ourselves "Master Entang" and at the same time call ourselves "Teacher", because this is the first time we have established a teacher-student relationship.

Entang is actually an exaggerated title. As the governor of a town, Gao Yushi usually calls himself "Headquarters". Normally speaking, it is more reasonable to call him "Enyuan".

The reason why the three disciples can call him "Entang" at this moment is because Gao Yushi has already been appointed as the right servant of the Ministry of War, and the servant is already at the level of "Shangshangguan" of the Sixth Ministry—as for him, he is not the real soldier of the Ministry of War. Everyone seems to be unaware of such things as Shangguan.

"Adult" is used here as a respectful title to determine seniority, and with Gao Yushi's self-proclaimed "teacher", the seniority and name between them will be confirmed in the future.

In terms of age, Gao Yushi is a little younger than Fang Congzhe, the youngest of the three of them, and 20 years younger than Li Tingji, who is the oldest in his early forties. Those who have mastered are teachers, and age is really meaningless.

A teacher is a teacher, and Entang is Entang.

The three of them each presented a pair of letters, each of which contained an article written by themselves.The meaning of this move is roughly "please advise me", the article can be an old work or a new one, there is no limit to this.

Gao Pragmatism also accepted it with a smile, and will take a good look at it when he has time.

Next, the three students offered thanks, but this was not a "teacher ceremony", but a thank you to Gao Wushi for selecting their papers as the room teacher.

As usual, gifts were not expensive, among which Li Tingji's gift was the lightest, just a knife of rice paper; Ye Xianggao gave half a catty of new tea from Wuyi Mountain, Gao pragmatically estimated that it should be Dahongpao; A specialty of his hometown Huzhou.

It was a coincidence that Gao Wushi drew lots before the review, and he won the review of the Nanbang paper. As a result, the three Jinshi selected included two from Fujian, one from Zhejiang, and Ye Xianggao, who was regarded as a scholar in history. The guy who is called "Senior Donglin" is really speechless.

However, Gao Yushi didn't particularly care about this point. After all, whether Ye Xianggao was considered Donglin in the original history was actually a little controversial.In fact, judging from his actions, he probably hopes that he can be "neutral from outside the situation", otherwise he would not recommend Fang Congzhe, a member of the Zhejiang Party, to succeed him before he took office.

It’s just that he was a concubine in the original history of Shen Shixing, and later recommended by friends from the south like Guo Zhengyu who leaned towards Donglin, which made Ye Xianggao’s debt of favor unending, and the matter of “covering Donglin” Just had to.

But the current situation is completely different. He has worshiped himself as a teacher, and he will not be able to wash away the foundation of this "Gao Clan student" in his life. "Senior Donglin", naturally there is nothing to do.

Fang Congzhe belonged to the Zhejiang Party in history, and was also the leader of the Zhejiang Party. However, he was the leader mainly because he offended the great eunuch of the inner court a long time ago, and then had to follow the old Wang Anshi and return to his hometown to take care of him for many years. He has a high reputation among scholars. Not long after returning to the court, he became the first assistant, and then he became the leader of the Zhejiang Party.

In history, Fang Congzhe has received a lot of criticism since he became the first assistant. Most of them think that he has not assumed the responsibility of the first assistant and is too weak, but he is so pragmatic that he feels that this statement is a bit biased.

The time when Fang Congzhe was the chief assistant was not in the early years of Wanli. At that time, Emperor Wanli had already discovered a magical way to deal with civil servants-whatever you say, as long as I am not happy, I will not respond.

This method looks like a joke, but in fact it is very powerful: all of you civil servants are indeed able to speak well, black can be said to be white, and dead people can be said to be alive, but I am not afraid now-you say what you say, so do I. If you don't say anything against it, I just ignore you, what can you do to me?Bite me?

In fact, why bother with Fang Congzhe, whoever was the chief assistant at that time was actually the same.Under the Ming Dynasty’s political system, as long as the emperor doesn’t cooperate, you can’t even make up for the vacancies in the central government. Officials have no hope of promotion, and even if they want to retire, no one approves it. Even if Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng are resurrected in this situation , not to mention Fang Congzhe.

Ye Xianggao and Fang Congzhe were both people who had been "independent" later, but the reason why Wanli allowed them to be independent was not because he believed that they could rule the world with their own strength.

On the contrary, the emperor just felt that their abilities were just on the level of "stabilizing the court", but they could not reach the level of "ruling the world".

The Wanli Emperor in history had seen Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng who were the rulers of the world, especially Zhang Juzheng's "I am not a helper, but a photographer" had such a profound impact on him that it was impossible for him to appoint any "Zai" again. The chief assistant of "Running the World".

At this moment, a smooth and shrewd Ye Xianggao and a gentle and restrained Fang Congzhe are naturally the best choices for Emperor Wanli.

As for Li Tingji...

Gao Wushi glanced at him, and shook his head secretly in his heart: Unless you have the chance of being a monarch and minister like my third uncle, your official career may not go well.

Gao Yushi did not judge casually, just from the thank-you gifts given by the three disciples today, it can be seen that Li Tingji is not a very good person.

Ye Xianggao delivered tea in a relaxed and casual style, but also practical; Fang Congzhe delivered pens, which was both elegant and refined, and also showed that he was born in Huzhou, a place where the literary style was at its peak.

In contrast, Li Tingji, as the second place in the list, only gave a knife of rice paper, simply acting in accordance with the usual rules, and he couldn't make people feel a little bit of heart, which was a serious loss of points.

Gao Wushi didn't think he had any opinion on his Entang, he was simply too rigid, and he only followed the rules in every word and deed.

This is not flexible. It stands to reason that if such a person does not have the support of an extremely powerful figure in the officialdom, he will definitely suffer a loss. It is only a matter of time.

However, Li Tingji's luck in history was not bad. He caught up with the so-called "Wanli slack in politics". No one was interested in targeting him as a "non-party person", and even let him become the chief assistant.

But Li Tingji found that he could do nothing as the chief assistant, so he was obsessed with asking for resignation, but he couldn't resign. He was so angry that he donated his house to the poor, let the whole family pack up and leave first, and he was alone. People ran to the temple to make do with it and settled down, concentrating on one thing: please resign.

Poor Li Tingji probably didn't know at the time that this idea hurt himself. He lived in the ruined temple for five years and wrote 120 resignation letters. The embarrassing nickname of "Miao Zhu Ge Lao".

In the end, Li Tingji completely collapsed, and he simply fired himself. On the charge of resisting the decree and risking his beheading, he fired himself—you don’t want my resignation, I will go back to my hometown in Fujian go.

Fortunately, Tangtang's first assistant ran home, and Wanli didn't bother to pursue it at this time, so he just let him go.Four years later, the impoverished Li Tingji died of illness. At this time, Wanli was extremely industrious. He immediately decreed to give him Shaobao, and his posthumous title was "Wenjie"—this shows two problems:

One is that although Wanli does not approve all kinds of things, it is not that he does not pay attention to the government, he actually pays attention to it all the time; the other is that he thinks that Li Tingji has "festival".

Gao Wushi looked at the three different people in front of him, and suddenly a ridiculous thought came to his mind: How did I hit on such three people with completely different personalities, and by coincidence, I hit three "future chief assistants" at once? "of?
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