Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 408 Mingxiu Plank Road (Part [-])
In the western suburbs of the capital, see Xinzhai.

The current Jianxinzhai is four or five times larger than when the emperor bestowed it on Gao Yushi earlier. However, although the area is larger, the number of buildings inside has not increased much, and only two small buildings have been added to the original building complex. , separated by two courtyards.

One is in the West Wing, which is more exquisitely built, but elegant and simple in furnishings. It is for the teacher Guo Pu to live in.

One is in the east chamber, and it is more magnificently built, but the furnishings are not worthy of the name of Gao Yude Sancai Boy—not to mention anything else, just talking about the furniture inside, there is not a single piece of precious red sandalwood from the south. Even pineapple flowers and trees, which are not uncommon in the Ming Dynasty, were not used.

Highly Pragmatic The furniture here is all made of oak wood that is more common in the north.In fact, oak is not a bad wood. Maybe many people say that oak has never heard of it, so you can mention its other name, "oak" - people who know the history of the British Royal Navy will definitely not be wrong. The word felt foreign.

Of course, making oak furniture is not high-level and pragmatic. In order to save money, he would not be short of this kind of wood. After all, this was in the Ming Dynasty, and wood was still guaranteed, even if it was red sandalwood and pineapple wood from the south.He uses oak to make furniture because he has specially mobilized a group of carpenters who are getting familiar with the properties of oak and laying a foundation for future shipbuilding.

Not only that, Gao Yushi even transplanted a few large oak trees in Jianxinzhai to remind himself not to forget this matter.

The scale of Jianxinzhai has expanded a lot, but Gao Wushi vacated a large piece of white land and did not start construction, so Jianxinzhai looks a bit empty now, looking east from the east wing where he usually lives , is that open space.

There is a small three-story building in the east wing, called Shouxin Building, which is Gao Yushi's usual residence.Among them, the third floor is his bedroom, the second floor is the study room, and the first floor is the reception hall.

Although Gao Yude himself has no rank or rank, perhaps no one dares to treat him as a rank and rank official, after all, Xiao Ge is not called for nothing.Generally speaking, anyone who can come to pay a visit to high-pragmatic people can definitely be regarded as the number one person in the capital.But even so, most of these people can only go to the flower hall on the first floor.

Today, however, Gao Wushi met a visitor on the second floor of Shouxin Building.

This person is none other than Huang Mengyu, the former eunuch of Datong who rushed to the capital from Datong overnight.

Huang Mengyu is a person with fine details in both roughness and fineness, and Gao Yushi has known this for a long time, so he was not very surprised that Huang Mengyu came to see Xin Zhai first and paid homage to himself without even entering the gate of the capital after he came to Beijing.

As for Huang Mengyu's attitude, Gao Pragmatism is more satisfied--Huang Mengyu's greeting card clearly stated "Mu En's lackey Huang Mou paid his respects a hundred times".

Huang Mengyu is an eunuch, but he wrote this greeting card in the way that a military general faces civil servants, which is of course very particular.

Eunuchs are slaves of the emperor, so of course they shouldn't be the "running dogs" of some civil servants, that's purely taboo.But the eunuch Huang Mengyu was different. He was a frontier guard. According to the customs of the Ming Dynasty, even when this kind of eunuch was in charge of the court, he could still call himself a "subject", just like Zheng He did back then.

Here, the eunuch regards himself as a town official, and the court also recognizes it in this way.Of course, town officials also have civil and military distinctions, but according to Zhu Yuanzhang's ancestral precepts, eunuchs are not allowed to study, even if this rule has long been broken, how can the eunuchs who hold the pen be popular if they don't study?

But even so, although guarding eunuchs are doing the work of supervising the army, their status is still considered similar to that of military officials by default-it is impossible for civil officials to regard eunuchs as equals to themselves.

Therefore, Huang Mengyu played a cunning trick here, using such a greeting card as the military official's habit to express his position.

But what can best explain Huang Mengyu's long-term vision is not this self-effacement, but that he did not pass such invitations to Gao Gong like ordinary people, but to Gao Yushi.

It stands to reason that Gao Gong is the emperor's teacher, the chief assistant of the cabinet and in charge of the officials' affairs. He, Huang Mengyu, was also Gao Sheng and returned to Beijing to be the eunuch Bingbi. His status in the inner court is roughly equivalent to that of the cabinet. Qunsuke.With such an identity, even if he had to submit a nomination certificate, it should be handed over to Gao Gong as a matter of course.

But he did not hand it to Gao Gong, but directly handed such a letter of greeting that cannot be taken lightly to Gao Pragmatic, who is "no grade, no grade".

Gao Yushi couldn't help but sigh in his heart: If Meng Chong had Huang Mengyu's overall view and long-term vision, how could he be so mixed up in the original history? As soon as Long Qing died, he was immediately replaced by Feng Bao, and he disappeared from history. ?

Huang Mengyu's approach not only has a long-term vision, he knows that he will not get much promotion opportunities soon in the position of Bingbi eunuch, he must slowly polish his qualifications, and deepen the understanding and trust of the emperor's family towards him. It will take at least several years or even ten years, so there is no absolute need to rush to Gao Gong's side - at that time, even if everything goes well for Gao Gong, it will be almost time for him to retire in old age.

At the same time, this approach is very decisive, because it is betting on Gao Yushi, and Gao Yushi is only ten years old!

Normally speaking, even if he is highly pragmatic and academically unparalleled and his official career is smooth sailing, it may take more than ten years to have a chance to return this bet.

So, this is a big gamble!What he gambled on was that the two generations of Gao Gong and Gao Pragmatism could connect their time in politics, or even if their uncle and nephew could not achieve a seamless connection, at least there would be "high party" people among them who could do it. a transition.

Gao Wushi did have such preparations, so he urged Gao Gong to recall Guo Pu back to the capital for Qifu, because historically Guo Pu lived until the 21st year of Wanli!
But why did Huang Mengyu have such confidence?There is a little misunderstanding here: in Huang Mengyu's eyes, the link between the two generations of the Gao Party is not Guo Pu, who is a little older than Gao Gong, but Zhang Siwei, Gao's pragmatic uncle!

In Huang Mengyu's view, Gao Gong recalled Guo Pu back to Beijing Normal University, one of which is of course to continue to strengthen the Gao Party's ability to control the cabinet, and the other is to pave the way for recommending Zhang Siwei to join the cabinet!
As we all know, although the number of people in the cabinet is not customized, generally speaking, it is usually four to five people.And the current cabinet has only three people left: Gao Gong, Guo Pu, and Zhang Juzheng.

In fact, Huang Mengyu vaguely felt that the relationship between Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng was not as good as the outside rumors, so close. When Gao Gong asked Guo Pu to take charge of the "purge post road" proposed by Gao Wushi Shangshu, Huang Mengyu was a little bit Suspect.

However, even if there is no quarrel between Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, and the two are really close and good allies, it doesn't matter, because the cabinet is still short of staff, at least one more person should be able to fill in, and this person, in Huang Mengyu's view, In all likelihood, it should be Zhang Siwei.

Zhang Siwei is the best link between the two generations of the Gao Party in terms of age, seniority, closeness, and even ruling philosophy. Therefore, Huang Mengyu made up a timetable for the cabinet to take power:

If Gao Gong had retired at the age of 70 as usual, it would have been eleven or twelve years later. At that time, Gao Yushi was already in his early twenties. According to the level of his performance in the Daoist Examination, he would have already won the gold medal and officially entered the official career.

At this time, Gao Gong can rest assured that he will be an official and push Zhang Siwei up. At this time, Zhang Siwei is about 57 years old.Then Gao Gong's class continued to work until he became an official at the age of 70. Then another twelve or three years passed, and Gao Yushi was about 33 years old at this time.Gao Yushi has won the royal family, and he was born as a student of the crown prince. If he was a Jinshi early, he would be fully qualified to join the cabinet at this age!

Huang Mengyu himself is only 31 years old this year, and he will be in his early fifties after more than 20 years. Although he is already a grandpa for the folks, this is simply the golden age for people in the officialdom. Afraid that there will be no chance to do the seal of the supervisor of ceremonies?
Even, if you are lucky, you might be able to get what you want in Zhang Siwei's era!

Thinking of this, Huang Mengyu's gratitude to Gao Yushi became more real, and he said respectfully: "Shidu, you also know that I, Lao Huang, have stayed in the border town for a long time, and I don't know much about things in Beijing. He Yuanfu thinks highly of him and was able to return to Shenjing, and Lao Huang is really grateful in his heart, but... I don't know what to do to live up to your expectations, and I hope Shidu can give some pointers."

He didn't call Gao Yushi "Yu De", not because he didn't know that Yu De was the Crown Prince's official, and Gao Yushi had a better future than Shidu, but because this "Shidu" could show that he and Gao Yushi got acquainted Early, but old friends.

Gao Wushi smiled, and he didn't pretend to be polite to a smart person like Huang Mengyu, and said directly: "Old Huang, there are a few tasks for you, but we can talk about the others later, the most important one You have to remember it now."

"Please read and give pointers." Huang Mengyu nodded again and again, pretending to be listening attentively.

Gao Wushi looked him straight in the eyes, and said slowly: "Go and confront Feng Bao, make him think that you are the one we transferred back to the capital to replace him, and try to make him concentrate on you."

　In the past, I was always used to writing big chapters. Later, someone told me that writing like this is stupid, and it needs to be 2 yuan per chapter to be effective, so I kept pressing and planning to concentrate on being a [-]K Klan.Who knew... I almost couldn't hold back this chapter today.But if you think about it carefully, this is really useless. There must be so many chapters, otherwise the title of the chapter will be wrong.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)