Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 186 Calling the Concubine (Part [-])
In his previous life, Gao Yushi once heard a sentence in a movie that made him love and hate: children only distinguish between right and wrong, adults only look at the pros and cons.

This sentence is loved because it is a truth; it is hated because it embarrasses many people.

Gao Pragmatic himself is one of them.

He once reflected on himself after hearing this sentence: Am I only looking at the pros and cons?

He later concluded that he didn't think he was "just looking at the pros and cons".But to be honest, when faced with a situation, he will first analyze the pros and cons. As for right and wrong, most of the time he will only persist when the "pros and cons" have little impact—at least not when life and death are at stake.

This made him quite frustrated, but helpless.After all, a pure view of right and wrong cannot guide people to success, only a proper compromise with interests will do.

In particular, he is a political person, and politics is the art of compromise.

"Compromise is the soul, if not the whole, of politics," Acton said.Dahl also said: "Democracy depends on compromise."

Ancient and modern, all over the world, this is the case.

Otherwise, why did Gao Gong compromise with Xu Jie?It's over if you just press it to death.

But behind the political struggle, there is no doubt that it is not driven by interests.It's just that some of these interests are more personal, and some are more national.

Gao Yushi never thinks that anyone should completely abandon personal interests to satisfy the country, and that is almost impossible—even if you are as pure as Hai Rui, who knows if you don’t value money but only love fame?Fame is also a benefit.

However, he also agrees with another point of view that seems to be completely different from the opposite: if the basic interests of the country are completely eroded by many individual interests, these personal interests will eventually be lost—isn’t that how the Ming Dynasty in history was destroyed by the Donglin Party and its behind-the-scenes forces? Are interest groups killed?

Therefore, if you really want to "do things", you can only compromise if you have to compromise.

When did morality die, where did the boats and cars fail to pass.But there is no evil in every inch of the church, and you can stand among the tigers and wolves.

Keep the bottom line in your heart and develop your means in the world.This is the rule that Gao Pragmatic has set for his time travel in this life.

It is one of the means to find opportunities for some old and veteran ministers to fight for the privilege of being a public servant in the Forbidden City.

Because the trip to the Hanlin Academy just now made him realize that as a kid who "luckily entered" to study with the prince without passing the imperial examination, even with "Longwen Whip Shadow" as a background, his reputation may not be so good go.Most likely, like Liu Kai, he was regarded by orthodox scholars as "a rich man who started his career".

Of course, Gao Pragmatism is going to take the imperial examination, which is what he planned to do, but it will take time after all. Although he is somewhat confident about the success of the imperial examination for some reasons, no matter how confident he is, he doesn't think so. I am now capable enough to take part in the examination and be named on the gold list.

Then during this period of time, the title above his head has always been a "prosperous minister", a "dandy", and what is great is a somewhat level dude.

Therefore, we must take a multi-pronged approach. First, as Sanbo said, you will take the scientific examination next year. As long as you take the examination by yourself, this kind of controversy and contempt will be greatly reduced, because it is impossible for others to say that you are pragmatic and not direct. A round of entrance exams is rubbish, right?There are also rules in the exam, no matter how good you are, you have to take the exam step by step.

Second, it is also very important to try to gain a good reputation for yourself, especially among scholars and civil servants.The tiger skin of reputation is sometimes better than the diamond mask in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, just like Hai Rui was impeached by various impeachments some time ago. Even if one person impeaches him for corruption and bribery.

Then the next question is, what kind of reputation does high pragmatism need?

Before today's "soft boycott" incident in the Imperial Academy, he was only making a fuss about "young people are tall". The great thing is that he used Liu Xian's "pacification" of Bailixia to smear himself with a trace of awe-inspiring and upholding justice. color.

But through today's events in the Imperial Academy, he found that this was far from enough, and he needed another camouflage color—a camouflage color that could complement Sanbo Gao Gong.

In other words, it is what Gao Gong is good at, and I don't need to work too hard, because as long as I become famous in the future, and continue to follow Gao Gong's route, no one will question it at all--family background, what is there? How strange?In this era, as a descendant, you have to follow the opposite route from your predecessors, which will really arouse people's doubts.

And what Gao Gong is not good at is what he has to spend his time and effort doing.

For example, Gao Gong has a quick temper and strict requirements. If the officials below do something wrong, he doesn't care what the occasion is.And when he feels that the officials below have done a good job, he will praise him if he says praise, and he will give you a promotion if he says he is promoted.

The former is a character that is obviously easy to offend, so there is no need to explain it.Even the latter is easy to cause controversy, because you can't promote everyone's official position, those who have not been promoted, how can they not feel jealous when they see that their colleagues yesterday are entrusted with important tasks today?As time goes by, Gao Gong may gain a bad reputation of "whether punishment or punishment depends entirely on happiness and anger".

This is just one aspect, and the other aspect is Gao Gong's handling of affairs. Although the starting point is to stand on the principle of doing things for the country, but because of his unusual relationship with the emperor, many positions seem to be standing directly beside the emperor. As we all know, from the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the present, the Ming Dynasty has been in the process of fighting for power between the emperor and the civil official group.

That's troublesome.Because this is equivalent to the fact that Gao Gong seemed to be fighting against the civil official group in many cases-it was also for this reason that Zhang Juzheng was later in history, so when he was liquidated by Wanli after his death, most civil officials all over the world supported and applauded.

The chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty is not easy to do, and this is one of the reasons: you are the hub of adjustment, if you are too close to the position of the emperor, you will offend all the officials, just like Zhang Juzheng in history; if you are too close to the officials, To offend the emperor, just like Xu Jie before.

Although Gao Gong is not the first assistant yet, he is no different from the first assistant in the first place, and he will be the first assistant in a short time, so he is also in this awkward position, but his personality is there, let him go I am afraid that there is no hope for a complete ball bearing—he has the world in mind and is determined to reform.

Therefore, Gao Yushi found that it is necessary for him to act as a lubricant during the current period to ease the relationship between Gao Gong and many non-high-level civil servants.Firstly, it is to make Gao Gong's various decisions less overtly and secretly resisted, and secondly, to form some good karma for himself.

(End of this chapter)