Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 542 Personnel Adjustment (Part [-])
Investigating and finding a suitable scholar in Guo Daxing County attached to the capital as a candidate for the "prepared son-in-law" is very important to the emperor, but it is not particularly important in the eyes of Gao Pragmatic. That's it for selection and observation.

After all, according to what Zhu Yijun gave him, it was enough to choose one person in the eighth year of Wanli, because the time for the wedding of the three princesses was set by the Empress Dowager Li in the ninth year of Wanli, so there was plenty of time.

Gao Yushi's current main task is to act as a lubricant between Guo Pu and Zhang Siwei, with the purpose of contributing to the stability of the court's overall situation—well, this is nonsense, the real purpose is to stabilize the overall situation of the Gao Party , and don't over-stimulate the heart school.

These two purposes are generally in conflict.

In order to stabilize the overall situation of the Gao Party, it is not only enough for Gao Yushi to come forward and do some internal lubrication. Internal lubrication can only temporarily cover up the contradictions, and cannot eliminate the contradictions at a deep level.To eliminate contradictions, or at least temporarily eliminate contradictions, the key is to have new cakes to distribute.

The so-called "Gao Party" is indeed a political group guided by practical learning, but practical learning only emphasizes the application of the world, enriching the country and strengthening the army, and it does not emphasize being a public servant of the people. , They must also be made to feel that they have "aspirations". This ambition is nothing more than a future, and a future is nothing more than a promotion.

However, the official position system of the imperial court is always in the shape of a pyramid. The higher you go, the higher the position, the fewer positions there are. There is a radish and a pit. If you want to make up for it, you will inevitably occupy someone else's pit. How can it be so easy? ?

If it is said that "others" retire and let themselves out of the pit, that's fine. If someone is begging for nothing and refuses to retire or die, what can you do, not just stare.

What's more, even if someone retires to become an official, or simply dies in office, if this pit is released, it doesn't necessarily have to be someone from your high party to take the top. Isn't there a big boss in the Xinxue lineage?

Besides, although the big bosses of the Xinxue lineage are not as powerful as the high-ranking members of the real school lineage, there are far more disciples in the Xinxue lineage than the actual studies-when did the Xinxue line rise?

But what about practical learning?From Qiu Jun to Wang Tingxiang, this is only the fact that the theoretical school of practical learning is laying the foundation for practical learning. It is Gao Gong Gao Xinzheng who has really promoted practical learning to the whole country. There is a tendency to catch up.Even in some people's opinion, with the continuous promotion of Gao Gong's New Deal, the effect of the New Deal has gradually been praised by many scholars, and practical learning may even replace mental learning, and it may become a new trend in scholarly circles.

However, for this view, Gao Yushi feels that it is still too optimistic. Gao Gong’s new policy may not have too much impact on the interests of scholars from some families in the north where tax evasion is not too serious, but for some areas in the south Scholars, the influence is too great. I am afraid it will be difficult for them to favor the New Deal because of the benefit of "the country is rich and the people are strong", regardless of the large losses of their own families, or the large number of donors who paid for his education. loss.

But at the same time, some industrial and commercial owners who became rich because of the high-profile New Deal—such as maritime merchants, silk merchants, cotton merchants, porcelain merchants, and even tea merchants, etc. open), and the scholars they support must be supporters of the Gaodang, and once they become officials, they will basically become Gaodang.

The Gao Party, in fact, is the Party of Practical Learning, the Party of Reform.

However, the supporters of the Gao Party’s industrial and commercial owners are still in their infancy and have just enjoyed the dividends of the New Deal. For the time being, they have no ability to influence the top management, and the support they provide to the top management is still negligible.

Gao Wushi knew that if they were to be able to help, they would have to wait at least ten years. Without the ten-year gestation period, they would not be able to provide Gao Dang with much fresh blood.

Therefore, the Gao Party must stabilize the next ten years.If it is stable, the Shixue Party has gained a firm foothold in the political arena of Ming Dynasty since then;

In other words, the foundation of the current Gao Party is actually very weak, relying entirely on the power of the imperial power.But the school of Xinxue is different, because the current Xinxue has long gone astray, they are now only talking about their conscience, but they are actually serving their own interests, so especially in the southern area, various ideas of the supremacy of private rights have begun to appear .

For example, Li Zhi, a self-proclaimed heretic thinker, puts personal interests as paramount. Although his thinking also includes claims such as the sanctity of private property, national interests are completely ignored. Can't agree more.

From a highly pragmatic point of view, private property is of course sacred and inviolable, but how can national interests be ignored?If the national interest cannot be preserved, how can you protect your private property?If the country can't afford to support soldiers or relieve disasters, how can private property be safe?
Ask the people near the towns on the Nine Borders, do they think it is a good thing that the country cannot afford soldiers?Ask the people in those prefectures and counties in the north who have been looted by refugees, do they think it is a good thing that the country cannot provide disaster relief?That is to say, the South is neither trapped by alien invasion nor by the disaster of the small ice river, so it has no personal experience of these pains, and all day long it thinks about its own petty profits, even a little tax that is almost nonexistent They all resisted.

So to put it bluntly, the imperial court is now nothing more than a dispute between practical learning and mental learning. High pragmatism actually wants to pull some from the position occupied by the mental learning line to the plate of the practical learning line, and it can't be forced too hard. Let the court fall into serious party struggle.

This is the most testing method.It is necessary to show the strength of the high party, but also to leave a leeway, and slowly change the power balance between the two sides by boiling frogs in warm water.

Therefore, after careful discussions with Guo Pu and Zhang Siwei, Guo Pu, the first assistant, came forward to make a personal statement, and transferred Wu Dui, the governor of Xuanda at the time, to be the minister of the Ministry of War, and was the first to submit it to the emperor's desk.

In fact, from the perspective of the government and the opposition, Wu Dui's other qualifications are enough, but he has a disadvantage, that is, his time as governor is too short. Compared with some previous Ministers of the Ministry of War, Wu Dui served as governor of Xuanda for only two years. , which is a bit too short.

However, the emperor still chose to support the cabinet and the chief assistant as always. Only one day later, Zhu Zhu came down: "According to the proposal, Wu Dui will be promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War."

Next, Wu Dui's resignation came up immediately, it was nothing more than claiming that he had little qualifications and could not take on the important task of the soldier, and asked the emperor to take it back.

It is impossible to take back the order, not to mention that Wu Dui's resignation was nothing more than some doubts from the government and the opposition, and he had to go up. Zhu Yijun was not ignorant.

So the emperor's imperial decree was issued immediately. First, he praised Wu Dui's previous achievements, especially his role in promoting Alda's tribute, and his contact work with the Mongolian right wing after the completion of the tribute. It is "effective", so "it is not allowed to resign, it is advisable to take up the post immediately."

Wu Dui had received a high-practical notice a long time ago. Of course, it would be no problem to take up his post immediately. After tidying up a bit, he left the border of Xuanda where he had been staying for nearly ten years (he was the governor of Xuanfu for a few years first, and later took over as governor of Xuanda) , Shi Shiran came to Beijing to take up his new post.

With Wu Dui's appointment as Minister of the Ministry of War in place, Gao Dang's second move will also begin, that is, Guo Pu will still come forward, and Zhang Siwei will second, asking the emperor to add cabinet ministers.

(End of this chapter)