Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 928 Secrets (Part [-])
Gao Yushi was familiar with the name Wang Zhizhen, but he had only met Wang Chonggu a few times when he was still in the capital, so he didn't have a particularly deep impression on Wang Zhizhen.

Wang Chonggu is actually Gao Yushi’s uncle and grandfather, and he is called Uncle and Grandpa in Puzhou, where Wang’s family is located. Imperial orders and edicts are only commensurate with official names in person. After Wang Chonggu entered Beijing, there were only a few private visits, and he was able to get to know Wang Zhizhen.

However, Gao Wushi is very familiar with Wang Zhizhen's father, Wang Qian, because Wang Qian strongly advocated the establishment of the Wang family's private arsenal, and he took the initiative to come to Gao Wushi to discuss cooperation. The main direction of cooperation is to provide Jinghua with refined iron and steel .

Wang Qian's identity is Gao Yushi's cousin, but he was admitted to Jinshi only one year earlier than Gao Yushi. He was on the gold list in the fifth year of Wanli. , No. 30 of the second class seven (historical facts).

However, Wang Qian's official career was relatively mediocre. At the beginning, after the Hanlin Academy was disbanded, he served as the head of the Ministry of Industry. Not long after Gao Gong passed away, the Gao Party internally couldn't take care of him as a newcomer and allowed him to develop freely. Hangzhou discusses tax.

When I arrived in Hangzhou, I showed it. It happened to happen that there was a mutiny in Luomuying, Hangzhou. The mutiny army held the governor Wu Shanyan. After rushing over to appease, the matter was settled and Wu Futai was rescued.

However, Wu Futai did not have time to repay Wang Qian, and Zhu Yijun, who heard the news, believed that he was incompetent and sent Zhang Jiayin, the Minister of the Ministry of War, to replace Wu Shanyan and suppress the Zhejiang army that continued to cause chaos. Therefore, Wang Qian had no choice but to stay in Zhejiang and take charge of the tax reform. In terms of affairs, it has not yet returned to Hangzhou.

Wang Qian has two sons, the eldest son is Wang Zhizhen, who is not very good at studying, so he used Wang Chonggu's merits to protect thousands of households; He was still young, only thirteen or fourteen years old, and he stayed in his hometown in Shanxi to study—in fact, the Wang family still had a place for Yinguan Jinyiwei. With the title of Yin Guozi Jiansheng, one exam will be exempted.

Let’s not talk about Zhigan and Zhicai, just talk about Wang Zhizhen, who is two years older than Gao Yushi, twenty-two this year, and has been working in Jinyiwei for several years, but he is still a thousand households—he is a private official. Thousands of households are equivalent to standing still for a few years, roughly making soy sauce.

This seems a bit strange. Zhang Siwei was the second assistant a few years ago. It stands to reason that it is easy to take care of his nephew. Why does Wang Zhizhen use soy sauce?
In fact, Zhang Siwei also has his difficulties.

As we all know, there are only three of his juniors who are already in officialdom, one is his nephew Gao Yushi, one is his son Zhang Taizheng, and the other is his nephew Wang Zhizhen.

Gao Wushi has nothing to say, his future is optimistic about his future, so there is no need for Zhang Siwei to take care of it deliberately;
His son Zhang Taizheng was born as a serious Jinshi. He was the same year as Gao Yushi in the eighth year of Wanli, and ranked No. 4 in the second class.After the disbandment of the concubine, he has already served as the head of the Ministry of Rituals Temple to sacrifice to the Qing officials. Although he is just a sixth-rank idler with little money, the Zhang family is not short of money anyway. He just needs to follow the steps and take his time. For the time being There is no need for Zhang Siwei to be promoted.

So everyone in the world focused on Zhang Siwei's relatives in the Wang family. Last time, when Wang Qian, a cousin of the Ministry of Industry, was sent to Hangzhou to negotiate taxes, the censor impeached Zhang Siwei, saying that he was looking for beauty for his cousin. What's wrong, how could he have the heart to think of a way for Wang Zhizhen?
If the tree is big, it will definitely attract the wind, unless the tree grows in a particularly good location, on the leeward side of the mountain—for example, Gao Yushi, the mountain behind his tree is the emperor, and the general wind will not attract him.

Of course, the more important reason is that Gao Pragmatism itself is a relatively special tree, and he is a cash cow.

But Zhang Siwei had no chance to help Wang Zhizhen, but Gao Wushi had a chance now, and he was not afraid to take advantage of it.

Why?Because in the original history, in the 23rd year of Wanli, Wang Zhizhen himself could become the left governor of Jinyiwei!
What does this mean?It shows that although Wang Zhizhen is not very good at reading, he is still capable of being a man and an official, and his level of handling is not too bad. Isn't this the basis for promotion!

Besides, Gao Yushi didn't promote Wang Zhizhen, and he didn't have the right to do so. He just created a chance for Wang Zhizhen to show his face so that his name could appear in front of Zhu Yijun. Then it is unavoidably inferior and not good enough.

As for Gao Wuben, his cousin is more honest and responsible. If he was in some Qingshui yamen, he might be able to be a chief official, but in a place like Jinyiwei, Gao Wushi would not consider pushing him away at all. With the position of Shangtang official, Ting Potian can act as a deputy, maybe even a little lower.

But no matter what, Gao Wushi dared to find a way to push them, and he didn't worry about the emperor's suspicion—it wasn't because he was close to the emperor.

This is a "system" and "trend" issue.

The system refers to the unique system of yin officials in the Ming Dynasty (the yin officials have existed in all dynasties, but the Ming Dynasty has more characteristics); the trend refers to the special trend of "civilian officials shading military positions".

The system of shadowing officials in the Ming Dynasty has been briefly discussed in the previous article of this book, so I will not repeat it here, but just talk about the magical trend of "civilian officials shadowing military officials".

According to the research of "Ming Shilu", it can be found that the "civilian Yinwu" in the Ming Dynasty did not exist at the beginning, but originated in the Jingtai period.

In August of the first year of Jingtai (1450), Hou Jing, the minister of the Ministry of War in Guizhou at that time, "died in Puding through labor and fatigue", and Emperor Jing "give sacrifices and burials, so that his son Jinyiwei inherited thousands of households". Since then, in the second year of Jingtai , Jingtai five years, etc., this kind of "civilian Yinwu" records began to appear continuously.

However, a careful analysis of the records of "Wen Chen Yin Wu" during the Jingtai period shows that the situation of those civil officials Yin Zi's military positions at that time should be regarded as individual rewards for the meritorious deeds of the civil servants and the army, and the degree of institutionalization is very low (I will not list them one by one. example).

Afterwards, the Tianshun, Chenghua, and Hongzhi dynasties continued the former regime, regarded military contribution as the main measure, and used the shadow to describe the military positions of the children of civil officials.At that time, when the system of civil servants supervising and commanding troops in the Ming Dynasty was promoted, the number of border ministers who gained shade increased.

At that time, the specific conditions and implementation rules for civil servant Yinzi's military position were not listed in the ordinance. Judging from more than ten related cases since the Jingtai Dynasty, the ministers who received preferential treatment from civil servant Yinwu were still an absolute minority in the civil official group. "Atypical" category.But the ever-accumulating cases of civil servants Yinwu also constitute an institutional norm similar to the "case law".

As a "case law", the typical story of Yinzi's military career in the former court is often cited by later generations as the basis for reopening Yinzi's grace.For example, Yu Mian, the son of Yu Qian, originally served as the deputy Qianhu of the front guard of the government army, but in the Chenghua Dynasty, Yu Mian "refused to be a military officer since Chen, and became a member of the military department".But this is still a special case.

However, from the beginning of the Zhengde Dynasty, the number of civic officials who pretended to be indiscriminate military merits to slander their hereditary military positions increased suddenly.

According to the "Bie Ji of Yanshan Hall", in the fifth year of Zhengde "Ningxia Ping", Bian Gong bestowed favor on the cabinet scholars Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe, Liu Zhong, Liang Chu, etc., and the cabinet ministers all added officials.Although the Tweet this time did not invite the elders and military ministers, Bian Gongen and the cabinet really "since this year".

In the eighth year of Zhengde, "with Shandong and Henan thieves flat, cabinet scholars Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe, Liang Chu, and Fei Hong's brocade clothes were hereditary to Zhengqian households, and they resigned."

After that, in the 12th year of Zhengde, the imperial court "recorded the achievements of Datong Fishing King Mountain and Shanzhuang Ping in the southwest of the town", and supervised the eunuch Zhang Zhong "to add 24 stones of Lumi, and one of his brother and nephew was Jinyi Weizhengqian household", and "the commander-in-chief Liu Huizi, the governor of the left, has a thousand households as deputy, and Ding Fengzi, the admiral, has a hundred households, all of which are hereditary.

The battle was originally due to the fighting of the generals Hang Xiong and others, and the eunuch Zhang Zhong returned to the court early, without any credit, but because of the request of Wang Qiong, Minister of the Ministry of War, "so Zhong will be rewarded again and join Qiong" .At that time, Wang Qiong "combined with Quan Xing" and pretended to be the leader of the army many times, "several successes".

In July of the 13th year of Zhengde, Emperor Wuzong opened the "Yingzhou Royal Prisoner's Merit Promotion" and rewarded the children of Yin's ministers and generals. Hundreds of households.The editors of "Ming Wuzong Shilu" thought that Tweeting Jiayin was "the one whose military exploits are beyond this."

However, in the same month, Wu Zong rewarded his ministers such as the eunuch Gu Dayong, the minister of the Ministry of War Wang Qiong and other civil servants, the governor Zhu Tai and other military officials in the name of "the governor of military affairs, the mighty general Zhu Shou, and the six divisions to exterminate the captives". Fortunately, Yin Qi's children are Jinyiweiqian and Baihu, and in the name of "planning and deciding, and working together to succeed", the cabinet Yang Tinghe, Liang Chu, Jiang Mian, and Mao Ji "each Yin's nephew and nephew Jinyiwei hereditary Zhengqianhu".

In short, in the Zhengde Dynasty, some civil servants followed the ministers and used their military exploits indiscriminately.

Afterwards, Emperor Jiajing took over the Datong, and in order to win over the courtiers, he launched a large-scale fraud by embracing him. Among them, the orders of the cabinet minister Yinzi were particularly unscrupulous, and the ministers under the influence resigned one after another.

However, this momentum can no longer be stopped, especially since the middle and late period of Jiajing, the Ming Dynasty's border incidents have repeatedly occurred, which made the imperial court more normal to recruit the children of civil servants to serve as military officers.

Cabinet ministers, members of the Ministry of War, local governors, martyrdom gentry, etc. were rewarded with various meritorious services. In the original history, this trend continued for a long time until the end of the Ming Dynasty.Since the mid-to-late period of Jiajing, important cabinet ministers such as Xia Yan said that "the nobles made their own hereditary brocade clothes", Zhai Luan "walked on the nine sides with old friends" Yin Jinyi, and other cabinet elders and important ministers such as Yan Song, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng, etc. , all with the meritorious service of the Tweeting Army, and won the Yinzi Brocade Clothes.

More importantly, the emperors did not have any distrust of the descendants of these ministers, and they even trusted them very much. For example, the current Liu Shouyou, the future Wang Zhizhen, Wu Mengming (the grandson of Wu Dui), and many of these Jinyiwei governors It is after the civil servants and officials.

Since the system and trend are already like this, why should Gao Pragmatic be worried?
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ps: After yesterday's chapter, some book reviewers worried that Gao Yushi's relatives taking power in Jinyiwei would affect the emperor's trust in Gao Yushi, so here is a little more explanation.There is still a little non-institutional human nature left. The next chapter says, I will take a shower first.

(End of this chapter)