Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 175 Wuchen Stars (Part [-])
Through the few conversations with Zhao Zhigao just now, Gao Wushi has already roughly understood why the Imperial Academy is so deserted today, and thought that I am now a famous man in the capital, right?

Look, the imperial nobles are extremely dissatisfied with me, a yellow-mouthed boy with no fame, who works in the same yamen as them, but because I have produced the book "Long Wen Bian Ying" at this age, they consider it as the original I want to "teach" me a lesson, but I still feel a bit reluctant to do it—it's not that they think they are not good enough, but that they have such knowledge as a young child. As seniors, it is only reasonable for them to praise and support them. , if you come forward to suppress it instead, your reputation will be stinky.

The nobles of Hanlin do not have real power in their hands. If this crucial reputation still stinks the streets, wouldn't they have nothing to rely on?So they are obviously very dissatisfied in their hearts, and they can only use this kind of soft means of avoiding to show their position, and they can't really jump out and go off the field to see themselves. It's been stinking for thousands of years, isn't it because someone is stupid!
That is to say, an honest and kind person like Zhao Zhigao would hold his nose and still come to work, but if he hadn't just had a correct attitude and a very low posture, wouldn't Zhao Zhigao look very ugly towards him?

However, after seeing Zhao Zhigao, but not seeing the other future elders of Wuchen Division, Gao Yushi felt somewhat regretful, but after thinking about it, he was relieved: It doesn't matter if you don't see him today, anyway, whether you accept it or not Well, my "working relationship" is still affiliated with your Imperial Academy, and I will be able to get in touch with you sometime in the future.

Besides, there may be another very important reason why Wuchenke was so powerful in history... Gao Gong fell from power.

At first glance, the downfall of Gao Gong and the superiority of the Boshin Division Scholars are completely irrelevant, and they seem to have nothing to do with each other, but it is not the case. The relationship between these two events is very great.

Let’s take a look at the timetable first: In April of the 44th year of Jiajing, Li Chunfang joined the cabinet as Minister of Rites and a Bachelor of Wuyingdian; The Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion entered the cabinet at the same time; in February of the first year of Longqing, Chen Yiqin, Minister of the Ministry of Rites of Jin Dynasty and Bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion, joined the cabinet, and Zhang Juzheng, Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Officials of Jin Dynasty and Bachelor of Dongge, joined the cabinet.However, because Gao Gong failed in the battle with Xu Jie, he asked to be appointed as an official in May of this year and was approved to withdraw from the cabinet.

Readers have probably noticed that before the second year of Longqing, Gao Gong had already resigned and returned to his hometown in Xinzheng.

What does this mean?Qiu Wei, which represents the second year of Longqing, has nothing to do with high arches.

Coincidentally, in July of the second year of Longqing, Xu Jie was also approved by Emperor Longqing, who was increasingly dissatisfied with him, to return to his hometown in Songjiang.So Li Chunfang, who was ranked behind him, made up for him one by one, and became the chief assistant of the cabinet as if he was taking advantage of it.

At that time, there were only three cabinet ministers in the cabinet, and they were Li Chunfang, Chen Yiqin, and Zhang Juzheng according to their rankings.So in this year's autumn, Li Chunfang was the chief examiner, and Chen Yiqin and Zhang Juzheng were the two highest-ranking fellow examiners.As for the other fellow examiners, their status is different, but even the highest among them obviously cannot be compared with Chen and Zhang.

In the early and middle period of Wanli period, in the official circles where seniority was serious, the Jinshi in the late Jiajing period and the Longqing period were in the "years to fight". Many Gao Gongs were implicated, and their official careers suffered major setbacks, or they were completely destroyed. Only a few people were spared.

These people either seemed to have little ties to Gao Gong, or Zhang Juzheng thought it was a rare talent, or they simply surrendered and became dog lickers—of course, most of them just pretended to be dog lickers, but actually waited secretly. Timing, ready to counterattack and reckon at any time-for example, Zhang Siwei obviously did this.

But no matter what, many people who were all-powerful during Gao Gong's administration were "buried with him" because of Gao Gong's downfall. Song Zhihan, Tu Menggui, Cheng Wen, Han Ji, Luo Zun, Zhang Mengnan and others, who is not like this?Only because Shen Li and Xu Guo were still in the Hanlin Academy until Gao Gong stepped down, they were spared from catastrophe.

Gao Gong has been "teaching" for so many years, and his disciples and old officials say that they are all over the world. It is definitely not bragging. Apart from the above, there are many others. It is impossible to count how many people were involved in the end. Maybe Zhang Juzheng himself Can't figure it out.

Since the brilliance of the Jinshi of the Wuchen Division is more or less related to the downfall of Gao Gong and the loss of the support of the Jinshi of the Yichou Division, once I help Gao Gong stabilize his position at the time of the acquaintance of Long Wan, let him continue to The ruler ruled the world, and finally became an official with honor.Then the competitive pressure of Wuchen Branch will be much greater in the future, and it will not be so easy to say whether it will still have the glorious performance in history.

But even so, the career prospects of a few talented people in this department are still relatively optimistic, especially Zhao Zhigao's attitude is now showing signs of softening, Gao Yushi thinks...it is an opportunity.

Of course, this opportunity does not refer to wooing Zhao Zhigao. In history, Zhang Juzheng was so powerful, but he was not able to woo this person. Gao Yu is a mere brat, even under the guise of Gao Gong, he may not be able to woo Zhao Suiyang, so why bother asking for trouble? ?
The "opportunity" he thought of meant that Zhao Zhigao's attitude towards him would improve first, and then the other officials of the Imperial Academy knew that he had communicated with him today, and most of them would come to ask him about it. According to Zhao Zhigao's temper just now , he is unlikely to speak ill of people behind their backs.

And if you have a "happy conversation" with yourself, it is almost certain that he will sing praises for himself-as I said earlier, the elders in the literary world are usually willing to encourage and praise the younger generation who have both ability and political integrity .The truth here is actually very simple to put it bluntly: if you are really promising in the future, will you remember my support and support back then?If you are worthless in the future... who will remember you?I don't even remember you as a person, and naturally I don't remember how I praised you.

Therefore, praising the juniors is a good moral and necessary cultivation of a senior.On the contrary, if you suppress the junior, you can only get a bad name-if this junior is better than you in the future, will you be slapped in the face or not?

This is the reason for the so-called bullying the old rather than the young.

Therefore, Gao Wushi immediately took out the methods he used to serve the leaders in the past, flattered Zhao Zhigao and the Imperial Academy, and made Zhao Zhigao, a poor Hanlin who had never received such treatment, very happy. He was still quite young, and Editor Zhao was just short of beheading chicken heads, burning yellow paper, and forming eight worship friends with this Wangnian acquaintance.

(End of this chapter)