Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 808
Zhu Yijun's words surprised Gao Yushi a bit.There is a "radish" in every "pit" in Xuanda Shanxi, and it is impossible to vacate a position for Gao Yushi to take the top, so the meaning of "you go" can only be to preside over this matter as an imperial envoy.

But there is a problem here, that is, Gao Wuzhen already has an assignment on him, and he is going to preside over the Shanxi provincial examination.

In the eyes of later generations, the importance of presiding over the township examination may not be compared with the death of Al Da, let alone its influence.But in fact, in the eyes of the Ming people, presiding over a provincial examination is much more important than being an imperial envoy who canonize King Shunyi.

For the rural examination, the examination venues are located in the provincial capitals of each province, that is, the location of the chief secretary's yamen, and the examination venues for the northern and southern Zhili are respectively located in Yingtian and Shuntian prefectures, namely Beijing and Nanjing in later generations.Before the exam, the Chief Secretaries and the Erjing government hired two chief examiners and four co-examiners.

The duties of the chief examiner are to formulate questions, review papers, decide on the admission list, rank and report to the Ministry of Rites, while the same examiners are responsible for assisting in formulating questions and reviewing papers.

The chief examiners of this year's Shanxi provincial examination are Gao Wushi and Sun Jigao.

This is a somewhat unexpected arrangement, because with the emergence of this arrangement, a little institutional change has taken place in the appointment of examiners for the rural examination.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the chief examiners of the rural examinations in the northern and southern capitals were stipulated to use Hanlin officials, while the provinces used both instructors and senior Confucian scholars.In the third year of Jingtai, the examiners of the provincial examinations in the two capitals still used Hanlin, but the examiners in each province no longer used "senior Confucianism". Those who are proficient in literature and humble on weekdays" will act.

The original intention of this regulation is to make the examiners win candidates, but since the examiners are recommended by the cloth, the second division and the patrol censor, and the instructors have a humble position, they have to take care of the boss's entrustment, and some even take the initiative to show courteousness , resulting in divergent opinions among the candidates.So people kept suggesting that Beijing officials be sent to various provinces to take the provincial examinations, so that Du could be entrusted.

So in the seventh year of Jiajing, Emperor Shizong adopted the opinion of Zhang Cong, a great scholar, and sent two Beijing officials or Jinshi from each province to take the main examination. , not necessarily.

In the original history, it was not until the 11th year of Wanli that the Ministry of Rites raised this issue again, and finally formulated: Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Huguang, four provinces with a large number of scholars, will be edited by Hanlin, review and examine, and other provinces will send six. The department gives the affairs and the chief examiner of the Ministry of Rites.The same examiners are also required to be Fu Tui officials and county magistrates who were born as Jinshi, and the instructors are only "occasionally used" for embellishment.

However, what happened in the 11th year of Wanli in history has now been brought forward to the [-]th year of Wanli, and the pace is even greater.

Thinking about it carefully, it is not surprising, because in history Zhang Juzheng died in the tenth year of Wanli, and in the following year, Zhu Yijun began to counterattack and reckon, and at the same time put some things that he thought should be reformed on the agenda.When later generations mentioned Zhu Yijun's liquidation of Zhang Juzheng, they said that he was against the New Deal. In fact, this kind of statement obviously carried the political atmosphere of a certain period.

In fact, at this time, Zhu Yijun already had enough political insights under Zhang Juzheng's extremely strict and even extremely strict imperial education, and he was able to judge for himself which measures were necessary and which measures were problematic.So when his disillusionment with Zhang Juzheng was disillusioned, he began to use various actions to prove: Without you, Zhang Juzheng, I can still manage Daming well!

But soon, Zhu Yijun discovered that the reality was different from what he had imagined. The civil service group did not cooperate with him at all, especially the dispute over the country, which escalated this lack of cooperation into confrontation and conflict.

Zhu Yijun began to try to find a good solution from his father and grandfather two generations of emperors. In the end, he was disappointed to find that he could not simply imitate his father or grandfather.

His father, Emperor Longqing, has always been known for his benevolence. His philosophy of governing the country is very simple, just as he confessed at the end of his life: If there is anything difficult to solve, just ask Mr. Gao.

But ever since the incident with Zhang Juzheng—this emperor teacher who usually taught him to be frugal and not to be extravagant, he himself was so extravagant that the emperor couldn’t even imagine—Zhu Yijun couldn’t believe those courtiers who looked even worse than Zhang Juzheng They are gone.

Father has Mr. Gao, who will be my Mr. Gao?Can't learn.

So, learn from the emperor's grandfather?Wanli shook his head again, the emperor's grandpa's power skills are not incomprehensible, but what is his name behind him?The world only remembers Hai Rui's words: People in the world have not known His Majesty for a long time, but the ministers inside and outside know it!

Everyone in the world thinks that you are not a good emperor!All the ministers inside and outside know about this!
When Hai Rui wrote this "Public Security", Jiajing hadn't "closed the coffin", but this sentence happened to be "conclusive"!

It can be seen that the emperor's grandpa can't learn the tricks of power, otherwise sooner or later he will be "the people of the world have not treated His Majesty for a long time", and he will live in Tianshou Mountain in the future, how can he answer the ancestors of the past dynasties?
Zhu Yijun is as smart as Jiajing, but not as self-willed or even selfish as Jiajing, but he is not as open-minded as Longqing who can "tire Mr. with the world", so in the end he can only choose to be an ostrich - whatever you want , I will deal with the things that I think are necessary, and I will not answer the things that I think are not necessary.

It is often said in later generations that Wanli did not go to court and did not manage politics. The court lacked a large number of officials, and the central government almost came to a standstill.

This is miraculous, the central organization has come to a standstill, and it can still win the three major signs?

In fact, most of the officials who are lacking in the center are officials of science and Taoism, as well as idle officials who have no difference at all. To fill the vacancies, that is to say, multiple people receive salaries.

When did the court center of the Wanli Dynasty "come to a standstill" for a day?For major events such as police dispatch to the frontier and domestic disasters, Zhu Yijun’s imperial edicts are always approved and issued in the first place. They are often delivered to the Secretary of General Administration the day before, and Zhu’s approval from the Supervisor of Rituals comes down the next day—how can it be more efficient?

In fact, Zhu Yijun is very similar to the Spanish King Philip II who was almost at the same time. They both said, "I'm sorry that I don't have time to meet you. Please write to me to explain what you want to express, and please try to use concise words." .

The only difference is that Philip II would get annoyed and complain when he saw some useless letters, but Zhu Yijun couldn't even find anyone to complain about.

In this life, without Zhang Juzheng's "righteous man but not himself" emperor teacher, replaced by the more "protective" Gao Gong and the upright Guo Pu, Zhu Yijun did not feel the taste of betrayal, and now he is focused on the former On that day, Gao Yushi and the sentence he mentioned: Now is the real Wanli era!

It is precisely because of this that what happened in the 11th year of Wanli in the original history was brought forward to the [-]th year of Wanli.

Now, it has never happened before in history to use a senior official of the Hanlin Academy like Gao Yushi to preside over the Shanxi rural examination. How is it not a big deal?

Even for Zhu Yijun, this is also an important task to sublimate the "Gao Gong Reform" to the "Wanli New Deal". The imperial decree has already been issued, how can it be changed at will?

At this time, Zhu Yijun saw that Gao Wushi's face was different, and he also thought that he might have misunderstood, so he hurriedly said: "The matter of the township examination will not be delayed, you should go with Sun Jigao, and I will send someone from Sun Jigao to tell him and let him work harder. , is responsible for setting the questions and taking the middle and ranking."

"Then what did the emperor say when he asked me to go to Mongolia?" Gao Wushi asked.

"I'm dead. For such a big event, the Mongols will definitely hold a Kulitai meeting. It can't be convened in a short while... You can see that I answered the site over the years. Yongxiebu in the east, In the middle is his headquarters in Tumed, and to the west there are Dongtao, Xitao, and Qinghai. These are all territories and tribes controlled by Alda. Since the Kulitai Conference is going to be held, they must also send people. Normally, it would take about two months, and the township examination would have been completed by then."

Gao Wu said honestly: This is good, I have only been back to Beijing for half a year, and I have been "transferred" again. After finishing these two things, I guess at least half a year has passed...

However, the emperor trusted him so much that he couldn't refuse to refuse, so Gao Yushi had no choice but to accept the decree to thank him.

After finishing the business, Gao Wushi planned to end the meeting and leave, but Zhu Yijun stopped him, hesitating to speak with a look of hesitation.

Why do you act like you're constipated?
Seeing his expression, Gao Wushi couldn't help being a little funny, and joked: "Your Majesty, if you are not the Ninth Five-Year Lord, just by looking at your expression, I must think that you are planning to borrow money from me."

Zhu Yijun was taken aback for a moment, obviously he was not familiar with the term "borrowing money", and then he came to his senses and scolded with a smile: "Nonsense, what do I borrow money for?"

Gao Wu said sincerely: "That's not necessarily true. Your Spanish colleague borrowed money. I don't know how much he has borrowed. He has already been insolvent several times. I think in the future, if you are short of money when you go to the three major levies, you can contact me." It doesn't matter if you borrow something, or even if you don't come out, just bring me a few edicts and seal a few pieces of unshitty wild land to me.What's more, you don't need to take out the barren land yourself, just give me a name and I can go there by myself.

Zhu Yijun didn't know that Gao Yushi was distracted and went hundreds of thousands of miles away. Seeing him smiling and not saying a word, Zhu Yijun's face collapsed, and he said with a wry smile: "Yao is about to grow old, and I have already made a plan to make her Princess Yongning. The Empress Dowager Cisheng has already started planning to find her a son-in-law captain...she wants to see you."

She wants to see me?Which one, you can tell me clearly, is it the princess or the queen mother?
Gao Wushi couldn't ask directly, so he turned a corner and asked with a surprised face: "The queen mother wants to see the minister?"

"It's not the Queen Mother. What is the Queen Mother seeing you for? Yao Yao wants to see you." Zhu Yijun said angrily.

Gao Wushi was taken aback: "His Royal Highness wants to see me...meet my minister?" He hastily confirmed, "Does the Queen Mother know?"

Zhu Yijun's face became even worse: "How could the queen mother know, who would dare to tell her? Yao Yao came to me quietly and said that she must see you before the big wedding. I... well, I really don't want to agree. But she begged hard, what can my own brother say?"

Gao Wushi's face collapsed, and he said in his heart: So you sold me?The little princess wrote a poem last time, which caused me to be sent to Guangxi to feed mosquitoes for a year. Now again?
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