Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 151 Luxurious Configuration (Part [-])
Emperor Longqing suddenly announced this matter today, even though Gao Wushi heard Gao Gong mention to him last night that he and Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Cheng, would "know the scriptures feast" together, that is, the two of them will concurrently serve as the Prince's Jingyan affairs Gao Gong did not mention the arrangements for other candidates last night, so Gao Wushi has just learned about it.

To be honest, the lineup configuration of the Prince's lecturer shocked him a bit. If you add in Shen Shixing who is really in charge of the specific affairs of the Prince's Jingyan, it can only be said that the luxury of this configuration is basically considered heaven.

Let's take a look at some of these people.

I won't introduce Gao Gong, but let's talk about Zhu Xizhong, the leader of the military officials who are listed alongside Gao Gong.

Zhu Xizhong, courtesy name Zhenqing, was the great-great-great-grandson of Zhu Neng, the Duke of Cheng in the Yongle Dynasty.He has been in charge of the rear and right mansions of the governor's mansion of the five armies, the general Shenji battalion, the admiral's 15th regiment battalion and the fifth army battalion, with an annual salary of 60 stone.During the Jiajing and Longqing dynasties, he has gone out of the city to sacrifice to heaven and earth on behalf of the emperor more than [-] times, and the rewards he has received are incomparable.

As a noble military official, how much favor does he have?Anyway, under the circumstances that he himself has been promoted to this level, his younger brother Zhu Xixiao is now the governor of Jinyiwei.

What's more worth mentioning is that from the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the present, there are a total of six people who have been named grand masters alive as military officials and nobles, namely: Zhang Fu, Zhang Mao, Zhu Yong, Xu Guangzuo, Guo Xun, and Zhu Xizhong.

The first five have already been buried in the soil, so Zhu Xizhong is the only honorable military official in Ming Dynasty alive to be added to the highest position of the three princes, the Grand Master.

The grand master is not terrible, but the living grand master is terrible, because this is equivalent to no reward in the official rank.Not to mention that his younger brother Zhu Xixiao is also in the Taibao, isn't it scary?
Of course, if history cannot be rewritten by Gao Yushi, Zhang Juzheng will also be a living grand master in the future, and he will be tied with Li Shanchang in the founding period, becoming the only two civil servants and living grand masters in the Ming Dynasty.However, the powerful ministers such as Yan Song and Xu Jie who took over as the chief assistant were no more than young masters.Now Li Chunfang, Gao Gong, Chen Yiqin, and Zhang Juzheng in the cabinet are just young Fu. Among them, Li Chunfang and Gao Gong joined in the first year of Longqing, Chen Yiqin joined in the second year of Longqing, and Zhang Juzheng joined in the third year of Longqing... As for Zhao Zhenji, he did not Mixed into the level of San Gong San Gu.

Next is Shishixing.Shen Shixing is qualified to serve as the "Tongzhijing Yanshi" in every respect: he was born as the No. 41 scholar in the [-]st year of Jiajing.In the Ming Dynasty, the number one scholar was granted to the Imperial Academy to compile and write national history, and Shen Shixing was of course no exception.After he entered the Hanlin Academy for several years, he entered the palace as the left concubine.Zuo Shuzi is the chief officer of Zuochunfang in the East Palace of the Crown Prince, and his job is like the emperor's servant.However, Shen Shixing's specific duty is not to serve the East Palace, but to manage the Hanlin Academy as the left concubine.After that, he moved to the right servant of the Ministry of Rites and became one of the three giants of the Ministry of Rites.

To paraphrase a high-practical past life, Shen Shixing's position in this position is called superb professional ability, rich experience in politics, full training in multiple positions, and the division of duties is just right.

perfect.

The only thing that made Gao Wushi a little puzzled was that Shen Shixing was the gold list in the 41st year of Jiajing, and Zhang Ju was his teacher. Why did Gao Gong agree to let Shen Shixing be in charge of the specific affairs of the Prince Jingyan?

Gao Pragmatically thought: I have to ask Uncle San about this matter when I go back later.

Then there are six teachers who actually teach the prince.

Chen Jingbang was No. 44 in the second best gold list of Yi Chou in Jiajing 7. He ranked very high, and his knowledge was no problem; the examiner that year was Gao Gong, so he was no problem.In history, this person later became Minister of the Ministry of Rites. This position is very easy to join the cabinet, but his luck may be a bit unlucky. In the 13th year of Wanli, when he was appointed as the Minister of Rites, he had a conflict with the cabinet chiefs, and he resigned and went home. .In the following years, Wanli sent people to visit him from time to time, but the chances were not good and he failed to recover.But in any case, since he is on the Yi Chou Ke Jinbang, it is not a big problem to count him as Gao Gong's school, or at least as a pro-Gao Gong school.

The next three: Shen Li, Xu Guo, and Gu Yangqian can be regarded as high-level acquaintances - the last time Gao Gong's disciples got together, there were three of them.To put it simply, Shen Li and Xu Guo both served as cabinet ministers later on, and Gu Yangqian was a little worse than the two of them, but he also served as the governor of Jiliao and North Korea's economic strategist (at that time, he was helping the North Korea to drive away the Japanese), and finally became an official in Beijing. Ying Rongzheng, the left servant of the Ministry of war.

Then Zhang Wei.Zhang Wei was a Jinshi in the second year of Longqing, and the chief examiner for this year was Li Chunfang, who put him on the list, you don't need to ask too much.

But here is a fact that may not be known to many people by the way: After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism was indeed established as the official ideology.However, during the years of Hongwu and Jianwen, although the seven classics and articles in the first round of the imperial examination were strictly limited to the scope of the Four Books and Five Classics, it did not stipulate that Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism must be the school, and Cheng-Zhu Chuanzhu was only one of the references.

In addition, the stereotyped essay had not yet been finalized at that time, and the form of the article was not very strict.Therefore, scholars still have some room to play when answering questions.During the Yongle period, the Ming court began to organize the compilation of "The Complete Book of Four Books", "Complete Book of Five Classics" and "Compendium of Xing Li", and promulgated it to the whole country. .Only then did it really begin to clamp down on the minds of scholars.

In the Zhengde and Jiajing years, with the rise of Yangming's philosophy of mind, the dominance of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism began to be challenged.Wang Yangming drew on Lao Zhuang and Buddhism's theory of mind and nature, and put forward the theory of "promoting conscience" and "unity of knowledge and action".He recruited many disciples and vigorously advocated lectures, which not only cultivated a large number of believers, but also made Yangming's philosophy spread rapidly.Yangming's philosophy of mind is not only widely spread among ordinary scholars, but also has many believers in the bureaucratic ranks of the northern and southern capitals.Xu Jie, Li Chunfang and other high-ranking officials believed in Yangming's Mind, and advocated giving lectures in the capital, which not only further expanded the influence of Yangming's Mind, but also made it gradually accepted by official schools and imperial examinations, and became a mainstream ideology.

Especially during the period from the mid-to-late period of Jiajing to the Longqing period, in fact, the influence of Yangming's theory of mind in the imperial examination has surpassed that of Zhu Neo-Confucianism.For example, in the examination in the second year of Longqing just mentioned, because Li Chunfang served as the chief examiner, the essays written by him used Wang Xue to explain the scriptures, and included the words of "Zhuangzi" in the essay.In fact, from the mid-Jialong period, the Tang and Song Dynasties had an important influence on the imperial examinations.Most of its members not only respect and believe in Yangming's theory of mind, but also integrate the thought of mind into stereotyped essays and policy theory.

Although Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng did not advocate giving lectures, they were actually influenced by the study of the mind. Therefore, Gao Gong mentioned to Gao Yushi earlier that he did not object to Wang Yangming's "truth study" at that time, but what he opposed was the "false study" that is now increasingly pragmatic. Psychology".Zhang Juzheng is more straightforward. He believes that the current psychology is purely thinking without doing anything. He has no scruples about the actual situation at all, and the unity of knowledge and action has completely become empty talk.

Long story short, let’s get down to business, since Zhang Wei is the Jinshi selected by Li Chunfang, he probably doesn’t have the same ideas as Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, but Li Chunfang is the chief assistant after all, and someone has to be involved in such a big event as the Prince Jingyan.

Finally, Chen Yubi.This candidate is very interesting, because he is Chen Yiqin's own son!But his qualifications are relatively low. He was a Jinshi in the Wuchen Division in the second year of Longqing.

It stands to reason that since Li Chunfang, Gao Gong, and even Zhang Juzheng all stuffed people into the prince's Jingyan lecturer, it is not surprising that Chen Yiqin plugged people.But Gao Wushi felt that things might not be that simple. After all, in his impression, Chen Yiqin's problem was only a little conservative, but he was still a decent person, and he couldn't talk about taking power, so he shouldn't do that.

What's more, even if Chen Yiqin is really a fortress, he can't be so obvious as his own son, right?Doesn't he, Mr. Chen Ge, have no disciples or confidants?
Therefore, Gao Pragmatism believes that there is probably a problem here.It's just that I don't have any information at hand right now, so guessing is meaningless, I have to go back and ask Sanbo to ask.

But no matter what, this time the Prince Sutra banquet, from the point of view of the Japanese officials, not only the officials themselves are already luxuriously equipped, I am afraid that the configuration behind them is even more luxurious!

(End of this chapter)