Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1296 Changes in the court situation ([-])
Since the new Rongzheng Shilang has not yet been appointed, Gao Wushi is not in a hurry to give up the duty room of the Ministry of War. At least he will have no problem talking to Qi Jiguang and Ma Chengxuan for a while today.

When the two of them left, Gao Wushi also went to say goodbye to Liang Menglong and his colleagues and subordinates in the Ministry of War.

Gao Wushi is now a big secretary, and he is the object of all the ministries. He naturally received a warm response when he came to say goodbye. They all told him half-jokingly that they hoped that the Ministry of Households would take care of the Ministry of War and take care of them in the future.

This time, Gao Wushi was different from the past, and agreed very happily.Everyone was a little surprised, because in general Dasinong would be very reserved on this issue, and would not easily agree to give special care to a certain yamen, but he did not know whether Gao Wushi said this casually or really meant it. .

However, he couldn't explain, and everyone didn't dare to ask more questions. Only Liang Menglong smiled, knowing that Gao pragmatic's words were definitely not false.Gao Wushi has always attached great importance to military affairs. In the past, he didn't care about the Ministry of Household, and it was difficult to directly intervene. Now that he is a big secretary, many things will naturally be unfolded according to his own wishes.

The current situation of the cabinet and the seven ministers of the imperial court has undergone new changes. As one of the seven ministers, Gao Wushi has officially entered the decision-making level of the imperial court.

In the current cabinet, there are a total of six cabinet ministers. In order of order, they are Shoufu Shen Shixing, a scholar of Zhongji Temple, Xu Guo, a scholar of Jianji Temple, Zhang Xueyan, a scholar of Wenhuadian University, Wu Dui, Wenhuadian University scholar, Wu Dui, Wenhuadian University scholar. Yuange University scholar Wang Jiaping, Dongge University scholar Wang Xijue.

Although Sir Wang Xilin's Lin status is high, after all, Shilin's status cannot be brought into the cabinet. After entering the cabinet, he still has to follow the order honestly. At present, he can only replace the tail of Wang Jiaping's crane in the past.

In most cases, the ordering of the cabinet is like this step by step, only in very rare cases it will be different. For example, the cabinet minister is not a first-time leader, or the emperor clearly specifies the ranking in the edict - Gao Gong has been designated. .

Specifying the order is not the same thing as entering the cabinet with Zhongzhi. The latter will be despised by Shilin, but the former will not.Because before the emperor appointed the order, the cabinet minister also passed the court, and no one would question his qualifications.

The relationship between Wang Xijue and Zhu Yijun was obviously not that good, not enough for Zhu Yijun to designate a position for him, so he had to be the last of the group.

The changes of the seven ministers of the imperial court are not small. Now they are Yang Wei, Minister of Personnel, Gao pragmatism, Minister of Household, Xu Xuemo, Minister of Rites, Liang Menglong, Minister of War, Shuhua, Minister of Punishment, Shi Xing, Minister of Industry, and Shen Li, Censor of Zuodu.

However, although it is customary for the "Seven Ministers of the Imperial Court" to put the Censor of Zuodu at the end, please don't misunderstand.

Zuodu Censor is the management of the Ducha Yuan, known as the General Constitution, the Dadu Constitution, and the Sub-chaplain. His status is very special, but it is difficult to rank them clearly.Because the duty of the censor of Zuodu is to supervise hundreds of officials and discipline the world, his authority is closely related to the personality and style of the incumbent.

In general, if the censor of Zuodu is a person who can't rub the sand in his eyes, then the Zongxian is mostly afraid of people, worried about ghosts and ghosts, and it is difficult to think about his status; He is a good gentleman. Although this Lord Zongxian must be praised everywhere, his actual status is very worrying, and he may even have no sense of existence at all.

What kind of censor of Zuodu will Shen Lihui plan to be, no one can know now, including Gao Wuzhen.

In addition, Shi Xing's transfer to Minister of Works was also quite influential.Shi Xing was born in Dongming County, Daming Prefecture. From a geographical point of view, it seems that he should naturally be close to the Gao Dang or the current Shi School.

In fact, Shi Xing's teachers in his early years were not from Gao Gong and Guo Pu, and he left politics so early that he was open-mouthed when he was young. .

The thing is like this: in the 38th year of Jiajing, Shi Xing, who was only 22 years old, passed the Jinshi examination (as mentioned above, most of the Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty were around 30 years old), and his grades were relatively high, so he entered the cabinet to watch politics. Awarded Pedestrian Division Pedestrian.

In October of the first year of Longqing, Shi Xing was promoted to the official staff.After Emperor Muzong Longqing ascended the throne, Shi Xing did not know which string was wrong, and inexplicably gave advice and put forward six rules, namely, cultivating holy merit, teaching holy studies, watching the court diligently, speeding Yuyun, wide listening, and inspecting. slander.

Originally, this kind of memorial can be written very "formatted". The emperor basically didn't take it seriously after reading it, but Shi Xing didn't. His position in the memorial was a bit problematic, as if he was treating Emperor Longqing as a villain first. Very rushed again.

This is a bad dish. Emperor Longqing was originally a good-natured man, but after seeing it, he became furious. He gave Shi Xingchen a "sin of slander" and sentenced him to sixty sticks.

Although Gao Gong, the emperor's teacher, was not the first assistant at the time, according to the general situation, he could and should usually come forward to protect Shi Xing. Unexpectedly, Shi Xing's memorial also contained some implicit accusations, as if It means that Emperor Longqing is so unbearable, and Gao Gong, the emperor's teacher, should take full responsibility.

Gao Gong originally thought that it was just that Shi Xing couldn't figure out the situation. He wanted to endure it, but his disciples checked and found that it was not the case at all.

What is the actual situation?It was Xu Jie who controlled the way of speech and Gao Gong's fighting method at that time. Although Shi Xing was not Xu Jie's direct descendant at first, as a young official, he really thought that Gao Gong was Xu Jie's ignorant of good and bad, despite all the money. Kindness and vengeance for the generation, so indignant and sparse, scolding the emperor clearly, but in fact scolding Gao Gong.This made Gao Gong annoyed at once.

Gao Gong's temper was not good, and it was at a critical juncture in the battle with Xu Jie. Shi Xing, the hairy boy, jumped out to be cannon fodder, wouldn't Gao Gong simply fulfill him?So Gao Gong no longer cared about Shi Xing's "behind the list", not to mention supporting one, and directly attached the signature to the emperor's decree.

So Shi Xing suffered sixty court sticks, was dismissed from office on the spot, and denounced as a citizen.

Think about the concept of a scholar receiving sixty scepters under normal circumstances—a serious beating with twenty scepters is enough to kill someone, but Shi Xing just passed out of a coma after being subjected to sixty scepters.

In fact, this was Gao Gong's greeting to Meng Chong, the eunuch in charge of the printing industry at that time, and asked him to make arrangements and teach him a lesson, not to kill anyone.Meng Chong was recommended by Gao Gong, so naturally he did not dare to go against Gao Gong's wishes. He did it beautifully.

Besides, Shi Xing himself, under the support of his friend Mu Wenxi from his hometown, finally woke up after a day and night of care.

At this time, Shi Xing thought that he should be a talented person in Xu Jie's eyes, but who knew that Xu Jie didn't react at all, and he didn't take it at all.

When Shi Xing heard the news, half of his waist was cold on the spot, and he almost died of anger.However, he did have a temper at that time. Although he was seriously injured, he refused to stay in the capital and returned to his hometown with Mu Wenxi.Later, Gao Gong was stunned by Xu Jie. He returned to his hometown for more than a year before returning to Beijing. After returning to Beijing, he was a cabinet minister and a heavenly official. He was so busy that he forgot about Shi Xing. Rehabilitate Shi Xing or something.

The time arrived in June of the sixth year of Longqing, when Longqing died and Wanli came to the throne.According to the custom, the Ministry of Personnel proposed to use officials who were convicted of words during the Longqing period, and Shi Xing was among them.

In August of the same year, Shi Xing arrived in Beijing. At this time, Gao Gong had already lost his anger. Instead, he "compensated" Shi Xing and let him be promoted from the former official to Shaoqing Shangbao.

In August of the second year of Wanli, because Shi Xing had smoothed the edges and corners at this time, and knew that Xu Jie's dispute with Gao Gong was not what he imagined, his attitude towards the Gao Dang began to change, so Shang Bao Si Shaoqing was changed to the right temple of Dali Temple, and soon he was promoted to the left temple of Dali Temple.

This is of course a manifestation of Gao Gong's will, because Shang Baosi is a Qingshui yamen, but the level is okay. Gao Gong put Shi Xing in Shang Baosi, one is to compensate for his grade, and the other is to observe Shi Xing's manner.If Shi Xing is still stubborn and unrepentant, of course Gao Gong has a way to rectify it.

But since Shi Xing had "knowing his mistake", Gao Gong of course still adhered to the principle of supporting the younger generation, and used him again.

However, Shi Xing may not be completely relieved from the previous oppression. Although he has generally leaned towards the Shi School since then, he is not completely on the side of the Shi School at times, especially after Gao Gong's death.

For example, when he was in the Ministry of War, he once impeached Gao Wushi, who was then governor of Liaodong: at that time, Gao Qiushi planned to kill Ye He Erbeile, and Shi Xing impeached him for arbitrarily taking up border provocations.Shi Xing believed that Ye He's matter did not reach the point where he needed to kill people in this way.

This impeachment was of no use. Zhu Yijun neither agreed, nor did he deal with Shi Xing directly, but left the impeachment chapter.

Gao pragmatically knew about this, but he knew what Zhu Yijun meant at the time: Shi Xing did a good job on the whole, but after he was suppressed for a while, although he was occasionally a little bookish, but in terms of political views There seems to be some turning to "doves", notoriously disliking the sight of "unnecessary wars".

At that time, the Ministry of War was all the main war faction. Zhu Yijun thought that keeping a main and peace faction would be a bit of a wake-up call, so he didn't deal with this issue, and just talked about the matter with Gao Pragmat in private, so that Gao Pragmat would not understand the holy meaning.

Later, Gao Wushi entered the Ministry of War and found an opportunity to chat with Shi Xing about this matter. Shi Xing said that he did not blindly advocate peace, but that he was afraid that this battle would lead to the Liaodong War, and all the Jurchen ministries were completely reversed.The premise here is well known - the court ran out of money that year, and there would be big problems in another major battle.

In general, Gao Pragmatic thinks that Shi Xing is basically a neutral official who is slightly inclined towards the Shi School, but he may still have some concerns about the Gao family in his heart.It's not a big deal, and it's not a big deal.

Now that Shi Xing is the minister of the Ministry of Industry, whether it will have any impact on the court situation still needs to be discussed within the Shi School.Whether it is high and pragmatic, or Liang Menglong, it is not very accurate.

The only good news is probably that the emperor's Shou Palace (Wanli Dingling) is now at a critical juncture, and Shi Xing, the Minister of Works, will definitely add "Governor's Mausoleum Worker". Time to meddle in other things.

The problem of Shen Li and Shi Xing will be stopped for the time being, and there are two "Old Seven Ministers" who have to pay attention.

As I said before, Yang Wei, the official of the Ministry of Personnel, is a neutral faction. Because he has a very good relationship with Zhang Siwei, he has always behaved like a real school official.

However, the age of this celestial official is a problem - he is still two years away from the age when he should be appointed as an official.

Originally, this kind of embarrassing thing would not have happened, because the earlier plan within the Shi School was to let Shen Li serve as the Minister of the Ministry of Household for a good job, and when Yang Wei came to office, he would just fill this gap.Who knew that although Shen Li was an honest person, he was really not good at financial management. When the opening of the ban and the rebellion in the Northwest required a lot of money at the same time, he could not come up with any constructive opinions, so he was disliked by the emperor.

If it weren't for taking care of the face of the real school, it would be a little uncertain whether Shen Li could "pacify" the censor of Zuodu this time.

The last object that needs attention is Shuhua, the minister of punishment.Shu Hua's problem is relatively simple. The main thing is that his physical condition is really worrying. At present, he is in a state where a minor illness can become a serious illness. Once he caught a cold, he almost died. The emperor was worried that he would say no. He is quietly observing who can replace him - this was what Chen Ju quietly told Gao Pragmatic before, but Chen Ju did not know the results of the emperor's observation, and who the emperor took a fancy to.

The Department of Punishment was not the main position of the Shi School, and Gao Wushi and the others didn't have to get this position, but this kind of thing... It doesn't matter if I can't get it, but it's best not to get the Xin School.

This idea is always affirmative, so Gao pragmatic has to think about it.

Coming out of the Ministry of War, it was already late, and it was meaningless to go to the Ministry of Households. Anyway, today was just to hand over the powers and responsibilities of the Ministry of War, not the day when he was a big minister, so Gao Pragmat went directly back to Jinggongfang in Zhaohui. .

Gao Wushi has changed the name of this mansion in Zhaohui Jinggongfang several times over the years. After the imperial decree came down today, Jinghua, with its efficient operation, actually changed the plaque before Gao Wushi came back.

Now the plaque at the gate has been replaced with the four characters of "Shangshu Gaofu".

The words are written in the style of the pavilion, square and round, Gao Wuzhen looked a little puzzled at the door, and then took a closer look, only to find that it was his own handwriting, and couldn't help but startled.

The elusive Gao Mo suddenly greeted him. Seeing the master staring at the door plaque in a daze, he quickly explained: "This is the master's original work, but it was copied by the calligrapher from the master's calligraphy. No wonder the master is suspicious."

Oh I got it.Gao pragmatically nodded and asked, "Is there any guests in the house?"

Gao Mo smiled bitterly and said, "Yes, the boss's gang of grandfathers, princes, and uncles, the old slave almost couldn't say hello."

Gao Wushi put his hand on his forehead and sighed, "These people... well, I know what they're afraid of, so I'll go and comfort them."
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