Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 100 First meeting Xu Jie
Early the next morning, Wang Daoqiu was woken up by Gao Yi and asked to go with him to the Hanlin Academy to have a meal.After all, although Wang Daoqiu's future work will mainly be in the cabinet, the decree has not yet been announced, that is, Wang Daoqiu's official position is still only a sixth-rank minister in the Hanlin Academy.Therefore, Wang Daoqiu had to go to the Hanlin Academy to order mao first today.

Following Gao Yi to the front yard, he saw his majestic Dawan horse in the stable, but now Gao Yi is with him, he rides the horse and lets Gao Yi walk. This is embarrassing.So Wang Daoqiu glanced over the stables and only walked forward.

When I came to the concierge, I saw the eldest son of the Gaoyi family, waiting there with his clothes on.As soon as he saw the eldest son of his family, Gao Yi said: "Liangzhen! The house at home is too big, so it's time to hire a concierge. These days, Sister Qiu is here during the day, and I let the eldest son of my family sleep with the concierge at night. "

There really should be a concierge, otherwise who will open and close the door when someone comes home or when there are visitors?Thinking of this, Wang Daoqiu said with a smile: "The job of a concierge may seem easy, but you must be honest and reliable, and treat people politely. I am not familiar with the capital, and I don't know such a person. I wonder if my brother is good. recommendation.”

"Well, well, when I lived in the outer city for my brother, there was a lonely old man living in the alley. He was a military household. His son died fighting on the front line, and his daughter-in-law ran away with them. He had to clean the streets at night to support his children. Sun Tzu. He is clean, honest and reliable, and he is kind to others, but he is illiterate..."

"It doesn't matter if you are illiterate, as long as you are reliable. Brother, please talk to him and see if he is willing to come to my house and be a concierge."

"Well, I think this should be no problem. He is over 50 this year. At this age, he has to go out in the wind and rain every day. This is really hard. To guard a gatehouse, at least there are tiles above the head and walls on all sides. "

"Okay, then it's settled, I'll trouble my brother about this."

"good"

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Just chatting all the way, Wang Daoqiu and Gao Yi came to the Hanlin Academy.The Ming Dynasty was the golden age of the Hanlin Academy. Its status was almost equivalent to the secretariat of the central government. It was responsible for all the writing work of the central government, teaching the royal sons and grandsons, and assisting the emperor when the emperor did not understand something. Solve doubts.

Often with the emperor and the cabinet bosses, I can brush my face, and my personal opinions and views on who and so can be directly conveyed to the emperor and the cabinet bosses.Therefore, although the Hanlin Academy does not have much power to mobilize people and property, it is because he is close to the emperor and cabinet bosses.Just like those leadership secretaries in later generations, their chances of promotion are much greater.Therefore, the Hanlin Academy is a place where every new scholar, begging grandpa and grandma, is trying to get into the workplace.

Following Gao Yi, we soon arrived at the Hanlin Academy.Pointing to the Hanlin Academy, Gao Yi told Wang Daoqiu that the Hanlin Academy was newly built more than four years ago.It was because after the Renyin Palace incident, Emperor Jiajing moved to Xiyuan, so the Hanlin Academy moved to its original location next to Xiyuan.

Listening to Gao Yi's introduction, Wang Daoqiu and Gao Yi came to the entrance of the Hanlin Academy together. After punching in and signing in, Wang Daoqiu entered this holy place for scholars of the Ming Dynasty with a pilgrim heart.

Led by Gao Yi, the two quickly entered the main hall of the Imperial Academy where the morning meeting was held.At this time, there were already more than a dozen Hanlin officials standing here, chatting with each other in low voices.Sitting at the top was a short, thin, white and handsome middle-aged man. He was sitting at the main seat and drinking tea in a stylish manner.

As soon as he saw this middle-aged handsome guy, Gao Yi introduced to Wang Daoqiu in a low voice: "Liangzhen, that is the bachelor of our college who was transferred to us last month, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, as I told you. Mr. Xu Jiexu.”

Xu Jie, this thin, middle-aged handsome guy is the famous Xu Jie in Ming history!According to later historians, this guy is just like Zhang Juzheng. Those who said he was good praised him to the sky, and those who said he was bad criticized him as a piece of stinking shit.It’s so contradictory!

Knowing that this handsome middle-aged man was Xu Jie, a famous eccentric figure of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Daoqiu hurriedly went forward to salute, and said, "At the end of the postgraduate school, Wang Daoqiu will meet the head of the academy."

"Oh, it's Liangzhen, you're here, come on, come on, sit down, sit down."

Although Xu Jie had no contact with Wang Daoqiu before, he met Wang Daoqiu when he was sent to the Golden Palace, so he still knew Wang Daoqiu.So now when he saw Wang Daoqiu coming to pay his respects, he immediately put down the tea cup in his hand enthusiastically, stood up and greeted Wang Daoqiu to sit down.

Zhu Jie's loud enthusiasm also caused the Hanlin officials who were chatting in small groups there just now to immediately stop their own topics and all pay attention to Xu Jie and Wang Daoqiu.Xu Jie is now the first deputy minister of the Ministry of Personnel and concurrently the dean of the Hanlin Academy. His level is much higher than that of Wang Daoqiu, and he is still a powerful person who holds the power of national personnel.But even so, when facing Wang Daoqiu, an upstart in the officialdom, he still had no pretensions and a cheerful face, treating everyone as equals as if they were friends.

Sure enough, as written in the history books, this Xu Jie was a good person, never domineering towards his subordinates, and was very approachable.He is the kind of "super liar" who, even if you don't know his background, will be brainwashed by him and develop a liking for him as long as you chat with him for a few words.

To put it bluntly, Wang Daoqiu believed that Xu Jie and Yan Song were actually the same type of people in terms of how they behaved in the world.It's just that the two have different governance concepts. Yan Song always saves the country with softness and curves.When Xu Jie is not strong enough, he will pretend to be weak and flatter his grandson, but once he is strong enough, he will pounce on his opponent like a hungry tiger.Even if this opponent is the supreme imperial power, he has nothing to fear.

Knowing Xu Jie's background, Wang Daoqiu tried his best to show off his tricks. When Xu Jie asked for help, he did Tai Chi and pretended to be hypocritical.I won't disgrace the other person, but I won't shed tears of gratitude either, which will make me feel inferior.

Xu Jie has been an old fox for thousands of years. As the conversation progressed, Wang Daoqiu's attitude towards him became clear to him.Although this Liuyuanjidi was young, he was indeed a man that Xu Jie could not fool.So when the time came during the conversation, Xu Jie was very aware of current affairs and decisively gave up on deceiving Wang Daoqiu, and went to preside over the o'clock and morning meeting by himself.

Now in the Hanlin Academy, with the entry of this new generation of shujishi, a group of "old people" have been let out.The newly promoted Shujishi, after completing an induction ceremony, now go home to honor their ancestors.

A group of old people have left, and the newcomers are all on vacation. Therefore, in the Hanlin Academy, there are not many officials, and the lobby seems a bit deserted.

After ordering, the morning meeting begins, and the first program is Xu Jie introducing Wang Daoqiu to everyone.As soon as Xu Jie finished his introduction, all the officials in the Hanlin Academy glanced at Gao Gong secretly and snickered.Even Xu Jie himself was looking at Gao Gong and smiling meaningfully.

So many people looked at him and smiled maliciously. In fact, in Gao Gong's heart, there were ten thousand grass and mud horses galloping around.Mudd!More than a month ago, Lao Zhi was still someone's house engineer!But just over a month later, he became his immediate boss!Made, is there any reason for this?
He cursed in his heart that the thief was playing tricks on him, but in front of him, Gao Gong still pretended to be a man, holding his head high and facing people with evil intentions.

After an embarrassing induction ceremony, as the leader of Court No. [-], Wang Daoqiu made a lot of "false lies" as a matter of routine.Then Xu Jie announced that the morning meeting was over, and everyone went about their own errands.

After the crowd dispersed, Chujie smiled and said, "Liangzhen! Yesterday, the cabinet voted to promote you to Tongzheng envoy, Tongzheng, a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, and a cabinet secretary. He approved the red flag and handed it over to the Imperial Academy to draft the imperial edict. This task was handed over to the Imperial Academy yesterday afternoon when it was about to leave its duty. By the time the Imperial Academy finished drafting the imperial edict and sent it to the Supervisor of Rituals, it was almost dark. So about For your appointment, you have to let the Chief of Rites announce the decree first, and then go to the Ministry of Officials to go through the formalities. Forget it, let’s not talk so much, you go to Xiyuan with me now, and I will handle all the formalities for you .”

"Then there is Master Lao."

"Hey, it's a matter of great effort, Liangzhen, come with me!"

"Yes"

In this way, Wang Daoqiu and Xu Jie left the Hanlin Academy on foot and went to Xiyuan next door.

When he arrived at the gate of Xiyuan Palace, Xu Jie thought he would have to fight with the Jinyi guards guarding the palace gate to bring Wang Daoqiu in!Unexpectedly, Wang Daoqiu's reputation with Jin Yiwei was greater than that of him, the left minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.As soon as Wang Daoqiu arrived at the palace gate, without saying a word, the guards on duty all saluted him with clasped fists and greeted him loudly.

Yes, the other person's reputation was greater than his own, which made Xu Jie very embarrassed. At the same time, he also became a little curious about Wang Daoqiu's identity.

After entering Xiyuan, when he contacted the group of supervisors and supervisors, something happened that shocked Xu Jie even more.It's just that it was too late yesterday and I didn't go to announce the edict. Lu Fang, the censor of etiquette, actually came out in person to apologize to Wang Daoqiu.He also ordered the removal of ranks to settle all Wang Daoqiu's personnel relations.Then Lu Fang led Wang Daoqiu directly into Emperor Jiajing's Wanshou Palace.

(End of this chapter)