Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1554 The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea, Each Showing Their Abilities (Part [-])
Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue got their wish the next day when they saw the highly pragmatic means of handling it.

First, Gao Wuben, the governor of Jinyiwei Nanzhen, went to the shuffle early in the morning, saying that he had heard that his father Gaocai was old and weak, and it was difficult for him to walk.Because there are only a few servants in the family, it is difficult to take care of him properly. As the only son, he is an official outside, which is very unfilial.Therefore, I would like to resign from my job and take up various jobs, and return to my hometown to take care of my father.

Not only that, before Gao Wuben waited for the approval of the imperial court, he handed over the Great Seal of the Zhenfu Division to the deputy envoy Luo Sigong, and left with the crown on his own.

At the same time, Wang Zhizhen, the governor of Beizhen, went to Shu. Because Jinyiwei had discovered signs of misbehavior before the Northwest Rebellion, he never insisted on a thorough investigation and asked for punishment.At the same time, he also said that he always blamed himself for thinking about the wide spread and serious consequences of the disaster in the Northwest.

These two incidents are of course a major event. After all, the Fusi of the Nanbei Town directly took the crown and the other resigned. The main leaders of the two actual executive agencies of the entire Jinyiwei left their posts at the same time. The impact is of course at the level of the capital.

However, if these two news are compared with Yang Wei, the Minister of the Ministry of officials, who asked to resign, it would be drizzle.

The crown prince, Taifu, and official secretary Yang Wei once again begged for the bones of his illness—the reason for saying "again" is that he would resign for this reason almost every six months after he took office, because of Yang Wei's age. Indeed, he is already 75 years old (false age) this year, and has already passed the theoretical retirement age.

But since he would ask for resignation once every six months, it stands to reason that there is no need to care about resigning now. Anyway, according to the custom, the emperor must "not allow gentle words and comfort".

But this time the situation was different, he went to the office early in the morning to ask for resignation, and the Inspector of Rituals responded very quickly, and issued an edict in the morning—yes, it was warm words of comfort, and he refused to resign.

However, in less than an hour, Yang Wei's second request for resignation came up again, insisting that he was dazzled and deaf, and his mind was confused, and he could no longer serve the court, so he insisted on resigning.

Around noon, the supervisor of ceremonies conveyed the imperial edict for the second time, this time it became a sincere consolation, and he was still not allowed to resign.

In the afternoon, Yang Wei’s third letter of resignation continued to be sent to the Supervisor of Rites, saying that he had reached the point where "rice and noodles are hard to get in, and porridge is covered with beards". (He was a Jinshi in the Jiajing Dynasty), promoted by Mu Temple, and Xu Rongchong is expected to take on important tasks now.

At the same time, he also mentioned that Duke Guo Anyang insisted on asking Seventy to return to his hometown. He was his role model. Rehabilitation will be accepted at an advanced age.Now that the country is safe and peaceful, His Majesty's Weijia is everywhere, and the court is full of power, how can there be no choice for heavenly officials?Therefore, I can be regarded as living up to the entrustment of Fengpan Gong, and it is time to retreat bravely.

Generally speaking, it can be regarded as a decision to resign after going to Sanshu in one day.Normally, the emperor should have agreed at this time.

However, the emperor didn't have such "rules". Instead, he sent out the newly released "Seal of Power in Hand and Supervisor of Ceremonies"—that is, Chen Ju, the eunuch who is the agent of the Ceremony Supervisor, and Zhang Cheng, the admiral of the East Factory, who was also freshly released. Three imperial physicians went to visit Yang Wei's residence.

As a result, after all, Yang Wei only said that he was a "declining disease", and his so-called symptoms "difficult to eat rice and noodles, porridge covered with beard" are not sick, but old - old can be pretended, let alone a seven-year-old. For a teenage old man, although this oldness is not entirely true, as long as you exaggerate a little, it is impossible for the imperial doctor to force you to say that you are very strong, and you can kill a cow with one punch.

Therefore, when the palace city was about to close, the emperor finally issued a decree. After a series of praises in retrospect, he decided: the prospective prince Taifu and the official minister Yang Wei resigned to take care of him. , and gave a red silk python robe, a batch of various precious medicinal materials, and Yin Yizi Guozijian to study.

This resignation is obviously of a high standard, because resignation is generally allowed, and it is very good to "give it a pass, and give it to the Linli like a story", which means that the state will send an official car to take you home, and guarantee that your treatment will not change. - There is no difference between retirement salary and working salary.

However, the emperor here gave Yang Wei the python clothes when Yang Wei had no obvious special merit. You must know that it is easy to wear a red silk flying fish suit after the civil servant ranks up, but it is not easy for the python clothes, because according to the general custom In terms of people, most of the python clothes are given to civil and military officials with great military merits.

The Ming Dynasty paid much attention to military merits, so in most cases, military officials wore python clothes more than civil servants. Civil servants wearing python clothes was not only a great reward, but also almost equivalent to wearing military medals on their bodies.

For example, Gao Yushi, he was awarded the python robe because of his several military exploits, and even now he is wearing the sitting python robe - the highest grade of the python robe in the official system.

Yang Wei did have military merits in his early years, because he had served as the Bingbei Road in the Xuanfu (sub-Shoukou Beidao Bingbei Deputy Envoy) a long time ago, and later served as the governor of the Xuanfu, the governor of Shaanxi, and the governor of Shanxi—— It was at this time that I got online with Zhang Siwei, and also made contributions in the matter of my tribute, ensuring the stability of the border.

However, these credits are all merits of defending the soil, and there are not too many leaders recognized by Ming Dynasty as support, not to mention that it was a matter of many years ago, and those who should be rewarded have already been rewarded, so now this python robe is more rewarding. unexpected.

As for the rare and precious medicinal materials, such as Yin Yizi Guozijian's study, it is not worth mentioning in front of Bog Yi.

So on the next day, Yang Wei went up again to ask for resignation of the boa garment and the grace—the medicinal materials were taken away, because the emperor's gift was actually more face than heart.It is said to be a batch, but for example, in the case of ginseng, there may be only one root, and the others are similar, and the total amount is not much money.

But this time, the emperor was very firm and refused to resign.Yang Wei resigned again, but the emperor continued to refuse to resign, so Yang Wei had no choice but to bow to him.Then he didn't wait for a day, and that afternoon he packed his bags and went back to Shandong in the "official car".

Why did the resignations of Gao Wuben, Wang Zhizhen and Yang Wei happen so quickly? Let’s not worry about this, because Gao Wushi has done more than that.

The next day, Wang Zhizhen, who had already submitted his resignation but had not yet received a reply, went to the school again. While continuing to resign, he also wrote: "The commander of Jinyiwei has been absent for some time. During the Northwest War, Jinyiwei clearly Some clues were found, but in the end they failed to insist on a thorough investigation. This is also the reason for the vacancy of the commander of Jinyiwei.

Therefore, he asked the emperor to consider candidates for the commander of the Jinyiwei as soon as possible, and recommended Li Wenquan, the governor of the Chinese army, as the commander of the Jinyiwei. He also suggested that the emperor promote Wuqingbo Li Wenquan as Wuqinghou "Like a story".

This memorandum was a bit powerful, and it shocked many speech officials for a while, and they handed over the memorandum one after another, impeaching and denouncing Wang Zhizhen for ignoring the ancestral system, and begging for favor.

What happened to Wang Zhizhen being scolded and impeached this time?In fact, the main problem is not that he recommended Wu Qingbo Li Wenquan as the commander of Jinyiwei.

This is because of Li Wenquan's identity.Who is Li Wenquan?He is the eldest son of Li Wei, the former Marquis of Wuqing, and Li Wei is the father of the emperor's biological mother, the Empress Dowager Li.In other words, Li Wenquan was the emperor's uncle.

The commander of Jinyiwei is no different from other official positions in the imperial court. There is only one characteristic and requirement for his position: the emperor's trust.

Although the Ming Dynasty has always had the habit of suppressing foreign relatives, speaking of it, special institutions such as Jinyiwei should not be run by foreign relatives.However, as I said before, Jin Yiwei now has a lot of children of civil servants, and the tendency to be civilized is very strong. It is less and less like a violent institution that can deter civil officials. From the emperor's heart, this situation is not good. Not normal, nor should it be.

However, the reality is that more and more civil servants are awarded military honors, but as long as he is not enough to be knighted, according to the usual practice, he has to keep enshrining his children in Jinyiwei, so this trend cannot be changed .

As a result, the emperor had no choice but to keep appointing cronies to control the top echelons of Jinyiwei, and put the children of civil servants in the guard on idle jobs, or simply "with salary"-only take money and not go to work.

Under such a general trend, it is not surprising that foreign relatives enter Jinyiwei as a means of balance.In most cases, civil servants will have a tacit understanding of this and will not strongly object to it—after all, it is Jinyiwei, and the specialness lies there.

Since Li Wenquan has a special status, it is not too much of an arrangement to be the commander of Jinyiwei. Why is Wang Zhizhen still getting sprayed?The reason is that he suggested that the emperor raise Li Wenquan to be Wuqinghou.

Li Wei was the Marquis of Wuqing back then, and Li Wenquan, as the eldest son, was demoted to a first class when he took over the title. This was in accordance with the rules for foreign relatives to take over the title, but there was an episode in this incident at that time.Li Wei died of illness five years ago. Originally, Li Wei's widow, Wang Shi, asked the emperor to let Li Wenquan take the title of Marquis directly.

At that time, the emperor insisted on doing special things. In order to express his filial piety to the Empress Dowager, he insisted on letting Li Wenquan attack the marquis, so there were crowds in the outer court. , but the imperial court has its own regulations, and it cannot be "triggered into a law and opened the door of luck" just because Li Wenquan is a close relative.

However, Gao Wushi and Wuqinghou's family had a secret dividend agreement long ago, and it has always been a bond of interest, so Gao Wushi did not say death about Li Wenquan's title, but added a paragraph at the end, to the effect that Li Wenquan It's not impossible to be promoted, but you have to make contributions.

No one knew what the emperor thought after reading it. Anyway, shortly after the high-level pragmatic essay was uploaded, he accepted the proposal and went to the Empress Dowager Cisheng to "plead guilty".

Nearly five years have passed since this incident, but Li Wenquan has not done any meritorious service—of course, besides the marquis, his official position is "the commander of the Chinese army with a salary."

Note that if the full title of this position is expressed in the way of later generations, it should be "The Left Commander of the Central Army Commander's Mansion" and put in brackets, and write two words in the brackets: with salary.

What does that mean?It is the name of the Chinese military governor Zuodudu, but not only does not do anything, but does not even go to work at the Chinese military governor's mansion - you are carrying such an extremely honorable status as the Chinese military governor's mansion Zuodudu, holding the high that this status deserves. The salary is, the specific affairs in charge have nothing to do with you.

In this case, even if Li Wenquan really has the ability, there is no place to display it, right?

But Gao Wushi's suggestion at the time was a trick in itself: he left a hole to say that Li Wenquan could be promoted to a noble if he made great contributions. Therefore, although the Empress Dowager Cisheng would not be completely satisfied, she would at least feel that "the future can be expected". The outer court is too noisy, so let's take a stopgap measure first.

Of course, the outer court also knew that this "payment" was irrelevant, so Gao Yushi's so-called Li Wenquan's meritorious service in the future could be promoted to a noble, it was purely a trick to fool the Queen Mother, and the princes of the outer court didn't take it seriously at all.

Sure enough, Li Wenquan couldn't get any credit at all later, so the queen mother hinted to the emperor, didn't Li Wenquan often replace the emperor to worship the previous emperors?This is also a credit.

The emperor seemed very honest, so he did it right away—then he was pushed back by the outer court: There were so many people offering sacrifices, and a large group of dignitaries who hadn’t made sacrifices before, why did he, Li Wenquan, make a sacrifice on behalf of him? Worthy of nomination?

The emperor was still very honest, and he went to report to the queen mother with kindness, so the queen mother was also dumbfounded, and this matter has been delayed until now.

But now Wang Zhizhen just brought up this issue, and he didn't even mention meritorious service at all, just using "filial piety" as an excuse, isn't this poking a hornet's nest?

However, only blind and deaf people don't know the relationship between Wang Zhizhen and Gao Yushi. If he did this suddenly, there must be Gao Yushi's instructions in it, so many impeachments also pointed the finger at Gao Yushi.

The reasons are of course varied, but obviously none of them are good.Gao Wushi acted immediately, decisively closed the confinement again, and immediately closed the door to thank the guests, and at the same time defended himself, talking a lot of unnutritious nonsense.

At this point in the matter, Gao's pragmatic behavior has aroused some doubts. Recommending a relative—even if it means asking the gunman to come forward to recommend a relative, it is not pleasant. Considering his usual way of protecting feathers, this move is obviously too abnormal .

However, those who impeached Gao Yushi did not know that when Wang Xijue visited Shen University Scholars' Mansion again that night, he was so angry that he scolded Gao Yushi for being shameless. And it also puts the Heart School in an extremely embarrassing situation.

Zhang Cheng originally wanted to take down the entire factory guard, but Gao Wushi handed over Jinyiwei and sent it directly to Li Wenquan, the emperor's uncle. Given Li Wenquan's special status, he obviously didn't take Zhang Cheng seriously, so Zhang Cheng could only be dumbfounded— —At least before Queen Mother Li passed away, he couldn't do anything about Li Wenquan.

However, Li Wenquan, as Li Wei's successor, has a very strong private interest bond with Gao Yushi. Although his loyalty to the emperor should be reliable, Gao Yushi will not let him rebel against the emperor. Why should he give up a lot of money? Can Yinzi go against Gao Yushi?

In this way, Jin Yiwei is actually still under the influence of high pragmatism, but the emperor can completely relax.

Why should the School of Mind be embarrassed?Because at the same time as being highly pragmatic and deflated, it was a good opportunity for the Mind School to invite favor and power, and they also planned to do so.However, Gao Yushi suddenly pushed Li Wenquan's hand. Is the Mind School going to impeach Gao Yushi from the standpoint of "righteousness" like those officials from the neutral school?
To impeach Gao Yushi at this time is to oppose Li Wenquan's nomination; to oppose Li Wenquan's nomination is to lose face to the emperor.

You don't even give the emperor face, so what kind of favor do you invite?So taking advantage of the situation and seizing power has become a dream.

But if you don’t scold, the School of Mind is a school of "moral practical learning". Their foundation is morality, not the "work" of the practical school. If you don't stand up and "uphold morality" at this time, you are ashamed to say Do you represent morality yourself?

Wang Xijue is angry here, he knows that Gao Yushi is countering the army: Although I want face, in the final analysis I pay more attention to reality; although you want to seize power, I know that you still want face in the final analysis.So... choose!
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