Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1308 Xinzheng New Deal (Part [-])
The meeting in the small meeting hall of the Household Department is not open to the public, and even the Secretary (Cong Jiupin) who usually acts as a "clerk" is not allowed to participate, and it is completely a closed-door meeting.In other words, unless the three Hubutang officials who attended the meeting today leaked their secrets, it is impossible for the outside world to know the content of the meeting.

Such a level of secrecy has disappointed many people who had already planned to "seek out" high-level practical trends.But fortunately, there were more than one or two people who came to find out the news. Now that everyone is disappointed, they are not so disappointed in comparison.

However, the uncertainty about Gao Pragmatic's movements still makes many people feel uneasy, and the atmosphere in the capital's officialdom is always vaguely depressing.

The chief minister of the cabinet, Shen Shixing, was a little restless today, although he tried his best to maintain his prime minister demeanor, making himself look the same as usual.However, the cabinet room is still extremely quiet, not to mention the ordinary officials, even the scholars who observe politics are very cautious, and they dare not even take a breath for fear of being alarmed, which seems normal , In fact, Mr. Yuansuke is obviously distracted.

"Bo Xiu, how long will it take for Wang Taicang to arrive in Beijing?" Shen Shixing, who sat on the grand master's chair and pretended to read the memorial carefully for a while, suddenly couldn't help asking a political scholar in his room.

The Jinshi Guanzheng known as Boxiu is quite young, and he looks only two or three years older than Gao Yushi, and he must not be in his thirties.

He was different from other Jinshi who observed politics, and he didn't show much timidity. He heard Shen Shixing's question, and replied calmly: "Yuanfu asked the students yesterday, and the students said that it will take more than ten days." One day and Yuanfu asked again, and the students had no choice but to say, 'It will take more than ten days'."

Shen Shixing frowned when he heard this, but he knew that the "Bo Xiu" in front of him was quite famous among scholars, and the pilot test was early, so youthful spirit was inevitable.For the sake of being a junior in Nanbang, Shen Shixing usually doesn't bother to care about the occasional collision in his words.

"Hehe, it's my cabinet's photoshoot. Thank you, Bo Xiu, for reminding me." After all, Shen Shixing was an important minister of the prime minister, so he didn't intend to say anything more.

However, "Bo Xiu" seemed to have more to say, and continued after hearing the words: "After all, this place is at the feet of the emperor. Although Gao Situ's soldiers are strong, Yuan Fu doesn't have to be so lost."

Shen Shixing's habitual smile on his face froze, and he couldn't help frowning: "What does Bo Xiu mean by this, why is this cabinet lost its soul?"

Na Boxiu smiled, pointed at the memorabilia on Shen Shixing's table, and said, "Yuanfu, you read the memorabilia upside down for a long time, but you don't know what is the meaning in it? If not, what is it if it's not a loss of soul? "

Shen Shixing lowered his head abruptly, only to realize that the memorial on his desk was upside down, he couldn't help but blushed, and cursed himself that he really lost the city this time, and made such a joke.But soon, he was extremely dissatisfied with the political observer named Boxiu in front of him—you are so outspoken, what an official you are, I don't think you should be called Boxiu, but Dezu!

The ancestor of De, Yang Xiu's character is also.

However, although Shen Shixing was angry, he was the chief assistant of the cabinet after all, and he was also a senior scholar. As for that."

Na Boxiu was straight-hearted, he was not annoyed when he saw Shen Shixing, on the contrary he seemed willing to consult him, and asked, "If Yuanfu doesn't give up, the student is willing to listen to Yuanfu's concerns."

Shen Shixing was even more displeased, and secretly said: This son is mad and rebellious, and if he has developed his temperament, he may have no hope of official career in the future, so he can only be a hermit in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.

With this kind of view, Shen Shixing almost lost his intention to win him over, and said indifferently: "It's not a big deal."

"Hahahaha!" Boxiu laughed loudly, and said, "It's nothing serious, Yuanfu actually insisted on Shuwen, if it spreads out, I'm afraid the world will make fun of it."

No matter how good-tempered Shen Shixing was, he couldn't bear it now, put away the last trace of his smile, and said in a stiff tone: "In the past, Li Shilu considered himself an old woman, and people in the world never laughed at me. This cabinet is worried about the government, and people in the world laugh at me alone." ?”

Li Shilu was Li Chunfang, the former chief assistant, and the matter of "self-identifying as an old woman" was originally caused by Hai Rui.At that time, Hai Rui was engaged in Xu Jie in Yingtian, and it was almost impossible to close the game, so Gao Gong made a decision to transfer Hai Rui to Nanjing.

It was Zhang Juzheng who took money from his teacher. After pleading with Gao Gong, Gao Gong considered the principle of "being an official is to do things" and thought that since Xu Jie was subdued, there should be no major obstacles to his own ideas. , so I agreed.

It turned out that other aspects of this matter were fine, except for Hai Rui, who was a little thoughtless——Hai Rui scolded others.

This excerpt scolded more harshly than "It's been a long time since the people in the world have not straightened your Majesty", because he scolded in the essay: "The men who hold court are all women!"

This is awesome, all the princes who are full of power are beaten into wives by Hai Gangfeng's words.

Gao Gong was the second assistant in the cabinet at the time, and his face turned dark when he saw this memorial, and the rest of the cabinet elders naturally didn't have a good face.It's just that although Gao Gong has a bad temper, he still adheres to the "principle". This principle is-in this case, the first assistant should be the first to express his position.

In the end, Li Chunfang smiled, laughed at herself, and said, "Haha, since we are all women, then I must be an old woman."

This statement was even more "beautiful" than Hai Rui's, and he actually accepted it like that.

Although Gao Gong and the others were stunned at the time, since Shoufu didn't pursue it, they naturally had no choice but to endure it.

This incident was actually ridiculed at the time, because from Yan Song to Xu Jie, the power of the cabinet was extremely heavy, completely crushing the six ministries. Sarcasm is powerless.

However, this matter turned around quite quickly. After Li Chunfang resigned and returned to his hometown, many people were not used to Gao Gong's dominance, especially Gao Gong's examination method (proposed and implemented before Zhang Juzheng's examination method in the original history) It has become a curse for many officials.

All of a sudden, many people began to miss Li Chunfang, the first assistant of the good old man, and even this incident was said to be Li Chunfang's generosity of "the prime minister can pull a boat in his stomach".Shen Shixing took Li Chunfang as an example at this time, which is an analogy to Li Chunfang, and the implication is that he is not the kind of person who has authority.

It's hard to say whether Bo Xiu understood the meaning behind Shen Shixing's words. Anyway, Bo Xiu replied: "Li Wending (Note: Li Chunfang died in the 12th year of Wanli, and his posthumous posthumous name is Wending.) Loyalty He deserves the title of "Prime Minister of Taiping". However, when Gao Wenzheng was determined to change his mind, when Ji Ting re-entered, he shouldered the great responsibility unswervingly. He not only replaced Li Wending as the prime minister, but also got Wen Zhengji's posthumous posthumous end. How can Yuanfu compare himself? Li Wending instead of Gao Wenzhengye?"

Shen Shixing narrowed his eyes slightly, and said in a nonchalant manner: "It seems that Boxiu was a Jinshi earlier. If Gao Qiuzhen entered the cabinet a few years later, you must go to him to watch politics, and you must be satisfied. .”

Unexpectedly, Bo Xiu also shook his head: "Gao Qiuzhen's body is full of copper stink, it's not like Wenzheng, I disdain it."

Shen Shixing was quite surprised, and thought to himself: "Then you are really capable. You have hated me, and you dare to hate Gao Yushi. I'm afraid this court doesn't want to stay anymore?"

When Bo Xiu saw that Shen Shixing didn't speak, he was not polite, he said to himself: "Gao Qiuzhen is famous all over the world for his six top poems, but after that, he didn't have any good works handed down to the world. He spends his whole day doing lowly business, or setting up soldiers to kill. Can you be a model for Wenlin? From the perspective of students, this person has too much ingenuity and deep scheming. In order to win the holy family alone, he would not hesitate to deceive His Majesty to abuse the power of the people, steal the people's wealth, and do such a great feat, which is really not the right way."

Shen Shixing couldn't help being surprised, thought for a while, and asked: "Although your words are a bit serious, they are not without reason, but what I want to know more is why you said that he bewitched His Majesty to abuse people's power, cleverly Taking people's wealth, why do you say that he wants to do great things?"

If Gao Wu is here, he must know why this "Boxiu" thinks of him so.

In fact, this "Boxiu" and Gao Yushi have "three disagreements".

Boxiu is his name, his name is Yupan, also known as Shipu, he is from Hubei Public Security, and his name is Yuan Zongdao.

Although people with the surname Yuan were mentioned at the end of the Ming Dynasty, most people would probably think of Yuan Chonghuan first, but Yuan Zongdao had nothing to do with Yuan Chonghuan.

Yuan Zongdao was born on February 39, the 14th year of Jiajing, in Chang'anli, Gong'an County, Huguang.In the 1th year of Wanli, he ranked first in the Ministry of Rites Examination, No. [-] Jinshi (Chuanlu) in the Palace Examination, the next year, that is, this year, he was awarded Shu Jishi, served as editor of the Imperial Academy, directly entered the cabinet to observe politics, and was "assigned" to With Shoufu Shen Shixing around, it can be said that the future is promising.

Watching politics is to some extent an internship, and watching politics is to some extent similar to the leadership secretaries of later generations, which is incredible.

As we all know, "People around the leader should be treated as leaders", because it is not easy to see the leader in many cases, and only the secretary next to him can be seen.Whether the secretary's words and deeds are his own will, or the leader's instigation, no one else knows.If you don't know, then you can only treat it as the meaning of the leader, otherwise what should you do if something goes wrong?
One of the worst things in the officialdom is not being able to comprehend the intention of the leader, so the position of "secretary" has always been directly linked to the status of the leader.

Since Yuan Zongdao was able to observe politics by Shen Shixing's side, his status is of course very unique. Although he has not been here for a long time, many people outside have already been optimistic about his future.However, what I want to talk about here is why Yuan Zongdao can come to work as "secretary" for Shen Shihang.

There are two reasons: First, he is the No.1 in the second class.Since the whereabouts of the three tripods of the first class are clear, they all stay directly in the Imperial Academy, and are usually arranged to do things as soon as they enter, so the three tripods rarely come to the cabinet to observe politics. Scholars have become the first choice for observing politics.As Yuan Zongdao was number one in the top two, it was reasonable and reasonable to "assign" him to Shen Shixing.

The second is Yuan Zongdao's literary status.Although Yuan Zongdao is less than 30 years old this year, his status in Wenlin is quite high.The reason may be that it is relatively unique: when the retro school was at its peak, he single-handedly promoted Bai Juyi and Su Shi to become one of the representatives of the Gongan school.

Gong'an school is a literary school that emerged in the late Ming Dynasty. The "Three Yuans of Public Security" are the leaders of the Public Security School. From the perspective of later generations, Yuan Hongdao has the highest reputation and the greatest achievements, followed by Yuan Zhongdao, and Yuan Zongdao is second.

But that's something later, it's the evaluation of later generations. In this year—the 15th year of Wanli, Yuan Zongdao's reputation is the biggest among the three brothers.Not only because he is the eldest brother among the three Yuans, but also the first Jinshi among the brothers.

Yuan Hongdao, the most famous in later generations, had to wait until the 19th year of Wanli to pass the Jinshi examination, while Yuan Zhongdao’s road to Jinshi was even more bumpy, and he was able to pass the examination only in the 44th year of Wanli. At that time, Yuan Zongdao had been dead for 18 years——Yuan Zongdao He died very early, and died suddenly in the 28th year of Wanli. It is said that he died of exhaustion and was only 40 years old.This may also be one of the reasons why his reputation in later generations is not as good as that of his two younger brothers.

The Public Security School is a literary school represented by the three Yuan brothers during the Wanli period in history, and it is also named because the three were from Public Security in Hubei.The main generals of this school also included Zeng Keqian, editor of the Imperial Academy, Jiang Yingke, Tao Wangling, Huang Hui and others.

Since Hongzhi, the literary world of Ming Dynasty has been dominated by the "former seven sons" headed by Li Mengyang and He Jingming, and the "last seven sons" headed by Wang Shizhen and Li Panlong.They advocated the old-fashioned arguments that "literature must be Qin and Han, poetry must flourish in Tang Dynasty" and "do not read books after the Dali calendar", which had such a great influence that "the world regards Li, He, Wang, and Li as the four great masters, and all of them strive to emulate their styles." .

Although Gui Youguang and other "Tang and Song School" writers fought against it, it was not enough to correct its abuses.However, the "heresy thinker" Li Zhi pointed out that "why should poetry be selected in ancient times? Why should literature be in the Qin Dynasty" and "articles are not available, but the current situation must be discussed first". forerunner.

Originally, the wind direction in the literary world was relatively fickle. After Gao Yushi became famous all over the world, many people thought that he would set off a change in the literary style. Who knew that Gao Yushi had no interest in this. Unexpectedly, there will be no masterpieces handed down from then on.”

Since the most hopeful change was the high pragmatism of the seven sons who were too lazy to interfere in the ancient style, Yuan Zongdao's opportunity came naturally. (Note: The focus of this book is not on literary history, so I am too lazy to analyze it here.)
Although he has gained a great reputation by criticizing the former seven sons (there are not many criticisms of the latter seven sons), but as the saying goes, "Wu Wu has no second, and literature has no first", Yuan Zongdao's attitude towards high pragmatism is not much better , I think that the contribution of high pragmatism to the literary world is dispensable-but I have made some elementary books, what kind of talent is it?
He loves Wu and Wu, hates Wu and Wu, and this kind of mood makes him dissatisfied with Gao Yushi's usual demeanor.He believes that Gao Pragmatic's personal involvement in business is to compete with the people for profit, encouraging the emperor to send troops to Burma and other places is an abuse of people's power, and the factual school's collection of business taxes is also exhausting the people's wealth, and the Monan War and even the Western Huaidong national policy are grand achievements.

He said these words to Shen Shixing without any concealment, and Shen Yuanfu realized that although this son said nothing, he could still be regarded as "one of his own people" in terms of thinking, so he couldn't help but recall the anger he had just shown him. put aside.

Shen Shixing encouraged with a smile: "Bo Xiu is indeed insightful, but now that practical learning is the way, and the emperor also... well, he also wants to fulfill the wish of the second ancestor and the ancestors. Although I am worried, I still don't know where to start. Just now ...you saw it too."

Yuan Zongdao raised his eyebrows slightly: "If you want to criticize an article, the article must be completed first. Otherwise, how can you criticize it? If you want to criticize a person, you must first do something. If there is nothing to do, there will be no harm. How can you criticize it?"

Shen Shixing's eyes flashed, and he pondered: "You mean... just wait and see what happens?"

Yuan Zongdao smiled and said: "Uncle Xinzheng's ability to achieve today's momentum, in the final analysis, is nothing more than the word "New Deal". Since it is a new deal, the old law must be changed. To change the old law, someone must be injured. Although the injury is painful, why not suffer? , How do you know Yuanfu’s great virtues? Therefore, why should Yuanfu worry about Xinzheng’s new policies? According to the students’ opinion, Xinzheng’s current prestige may be maintained if there are no new policies, but once the new policies are introduced, it will be the beginning of its downfall!”
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