Optimus One Pillar of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 80

Yin Zhengmaosheng was helpless, Wang Daoqiu and the others laughed happily, but the most embarrassing one at this time was Gaoyi.Even though this incident was purely accidental and Gaoyi had no fault at all, from now on his former good brother Yin Zhengmao would have to call him "Dad" in terms of his title.

Because this was really embarrassing, Gao Yi had no choice but to pretend to be nothing, and calmly said to Wang Daoqiu and the others: "Brother Yi, brother Shuda, and brother Liangzhen, you know what will happen this time?" Exam, where did you get in the exam?"

Gao Yi asked the right question, Zhang Juzheng and Yuan Hong became happier after hearing Gao Yi's words.Because Gaoyi asked them if they knew, which place they got in the exam, wouldn't this be the same as telling them that they had passed the Jinshi exam?

So after hearing Gao Yi's question, Yuan Hongyu and Zhang Juzheng hurriedly stepped forward to ask Gao Yi where they ranked in the exam.Wang Daoqiu, who already knew that he had passed the Huiyuan exam, went to comfort the fat man who had already heard from Gao Yi's words that he had failed.

Gao Yi gave Yuan Hongyu and Zhang Juzheng a hard time, and finally told them where they ranked in the exam this time.Gao Yi changed his tone and asked Wang Daoqiu who was comforting the fat man: "Brother Liangzhen, don't you want to know where you got in the exam this time?"

"Who else would Huiyuan be than me?"

When Gao Yi asked him if he didn't want to know where he was in the exam this time, Wang Daoqiu couldn't hold back his enthusiasm and blurted out the truth.

After Gao Yi listened to Wang Daoqiu's arrogance, he sincerely sighed at Wang Daoqiu's confidence: "Brother Liangzhen, you are indeed a genius that is rare to see in a century. To be honest, brother Liangzhen, as a brother, During the nine days and seven nights of the exam, I only saw you eating, sleeping and going out. I never saw you writing to answer questions. At that time, my brother thought that you were busy with chores outside before the exam and did not study your books properly. You just did it in the exam room. There are no more questions! But later it was found that the examiner who collected your row of examination papers, Gao Gong and Gao Suqing, said that when he collected your papers, he had paid attention to the questions you answered and the drafts you made. Gao Suqing said that For those questions you took, he can guarantee that your scores will never fall outside the top ten. Sure enough, the final results are out, brother Liangzhen, you are a top student in high school!"

"What, Brother Liangzhen is the Huiyuan of Jinke?"

"Brother Zixiang, are you joking?"

"Weird, Huiyuan! It's incredible, it's incredible."

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As soon as Gao Yi made public the matter of Wang Daoqiu's high school reunion, Yuan Hongyu, Yin Zhengmao, and Zhang Juzheng were shocked.Then there was a lot of chatter.

Regardless of whether they believed it or not, the good news of Yuan Hongyu and Zhang Juzheng was delivered to them one after another by the messengers.Finally, after the good news of Wang Daoqiu's high school membership was delivered to Wang Daoqiu, everyone looked at Wang Daoqiu like a monster.

At this time, Wang Daoqiu didn't dare to show off, so he tried hard to suppress his urge to brag under the eyes of his friends.Pretending to be a low-key third grandson, he walked up to Gao Yi and asked in a condescending manner: "Brother Zixiang, do you know who my room masters are?"

"I know! Your four room masters, Gao Gong, Gao Suqing and Lu Shusheng, Lu Yuji, are all in the same year as me, and they are all working with me in the Hanlin Academy now. As for your other two room masters, they are both The Procuratorate and the Ministry of Punishment. They were also members of the Imperial Academy back then, but when my brother entered the Imperial Academy, they happened to be transferred to be officials. So my brother is not familiar with them, so you will go to learn from them when the time comes. When the time comes, just ask Gao Suqing, they are in the same room and approve the papers, so they should be familiar with it."

"Okay, that's okay. Brother Xiang, can you please take me to pay a visit to Gao Suqing and Lu Yuji, two room masters who are familiar with you?"

"Okay! Brother Wei knows the homes of Brother Suqing and Brother Yuji. They have just left Gongyuan and should be resting at home now. Brother Wei will take you there now."

"Okay, then there's Brother Lao Zixiang."

"It doesn't matter. I'm free today anyway. When my disciples find out my address tomorrow, they should come to pay me a visit. By then, I won't be able to leave. Come, dear brother Liangzhen, Then let’s set off now!”

"Work and work."

After being polite to Gao Yi, Wang Daoqiu, led by Gao Yi, bought some pastries and tea on the road, and first went to the nearest Lu Shusheng's house along the way.Lu Shusheng, whose courtesy name is Yu Ji and whose nickname is Pingquan, was born in Huating, Songjiang, which is now Shanghai.This Lu Shusheng was a strange person among many officials in the Ming Dynasty.The strange thing about him is that he neither loves money nor is greedy for power. He is very willful in his official career. In his nearly 40 years of official career, he actually only worked for 12 years. The rest of the time was spent on paper work. , quit.

For example, the last time he "quit the job", Zhang Juzheng, who was the chief minister at the time, specifically revealed to his younger brother Lu Shude in order to retain him: "The minister of the imperial court is Pingquan." Translated into vernacular, Zhang Juzheng's words are: : The imperial court is about to appoint your elder brother Lu Shusheng as a cabinet scholar.

Zhang Juzheng planned to use his position as a bachelor in the cabinet to let Lu Shusheng stay. This can be said to be full of sincerity!As a result, after Lu Shusheng heard what his brother had said to Zhang Juzheng, he said with an arrogant look: "I used to be a historian and stayed away from the court for 20 years. Do I still want to be a prime minister? Winning me over with such false courtesy , what’s the point.”

Look, this Lu Shusheng is so stubborn that Zhang Juzheng can't keep him even with his position as prime minister.Therefore, the Ming Dynasty’s final assessment of this guy who had been an official for nearly 40 years, had only done serious work for 12 years, and had received free salary for more than 20 years was: Lu Shusheng was upright and upright, and he dedicated himself to his duties while in office.
It is much more when you are on free wages than when you are working.But even so, this Lu Shusheng has been praised by everyone from the private sector to the government. Just say this person is strange, right?

Following Gao Yi, Wang Daoqiu came to Lu Shusheng's house. He didn't have the dignity of a dignitary. Lu Shusheng's house was just a small courtyard of residents in Beijing, with five or six rooms. There was a vegetable field on the open space, and he usually grew some fruits and vegetables. There are also several laying hens in the yard.

Lu Shusheng is in his 30s this year. He has a typical image of a Jiangnan literati with fair skin and short stature.He didn't talk much, and when he received Wang Daoqiu, he was informal with his words and smiles, which made Wang Daoqiu think that this person was very rigid, liked to put on airs, and was very conceited.

So Wang Daoqiu had no intention of making friends with him, and as he was polite enough, he winked at Gao Yi, signaled Gao Yi to come and say a few words quickly, and then left quickly.

After leaving Lu Shusheng's house, Gao Yi took Wang Daoqiu to Gao Gong's house.

Gao Gong, courtesy name Suqing and nickname Zhongxuan, was born in Xinzheng, Henan Province. He was the chief minister of the Ming Dynasty cabinet during the Longqing Dynasty.He was a Jinshi in the 20th year of Jiajing's reign, and was later selected as a Shujishi to study in the Hanlin Academy.After that, he stayed in the Hanlin Academy for 11 years. In the 31st year of Jiajing, he was selected as the tutor of King Yu Zhu Zaijing and was responsible for teaching King Yu.

Later, he fully supported King Yu in his fight for the throne and invested in original shares. When King Yu ascended the throne in the 45th year of Jiajing, Gao Gong also successfully received the dividends after the company went public, and took the position of general manager of the Ming Dynasty. His status in the company Second only to Chairman Long Qingdi.

Later, the old chairman Long Qing passed away and was immortalized, and the new chairman Wanli took over.The boss's wife, Queen Mother Li, who is now the cute little girl Sanniang, thinks that the tall girl is old, ugly and disobedient.So whenever they disagreed, Lao Gao Gong was driven back to his hometown in Henan and asked to eat him.Then he was replaced by a handsome and capable middle-aged handsome guy, Zhang Juzheng.

Without further ado, when Wang Daoqiu followed Gao Yi to Gao Gong's house, he saw that the Gao Gong family was much better than the Lu Shusheng family just now.Although Gao Gong is not as good as Gao Yi now, he has been in the Hanlin Academy for six years and is still only a seventh-grade official.
But unlike the bitter children Gao Yi and Lu Shusheng, Gao Gong is a second-generation official. Gao Gong's father Gao Shangxian was a Jinshi in the 12th year of Zhengde. He served successively as Shandong Anchasi Qianshi, Shaanxi Anchasi Qianshi, Guanglu Temple Shaoqing.Although Gao Gong's father has been in official circles all his life, he can only be considered a middle-level person at best!But it is much better than ordinary people working hard in the fields, so Gao Gong's family has a good foundation left by his father, so the place where he lives is not bad. At least the door and the house are all painted and shiny, making people feel It looked clean and new.

Entering Gao Gong's house, the three sat down as guests and hosts. Gao Gong proctored Wang Daoqiu for nine days and seven nights. He was very curious about Wang Daoqiu.How can a person who is obviously lazy like a pig pass the Huiyuan exam?
So not long after Wang Daoqiu and Gao Yi sat down and everyone talked politely, Gao Gong began to test Wang Daoqiu one question after another.Of course, Gao Gong's administrative ability ranks among the top ten doers among the thousands of prime ministers throughout Chinese history.He was going to test Wang Daoqiu, and of course he would not ask Wang Daoqiu to do anything like the Four Books and Five Classics, or recite a piece of rote legal knowledge or historical knowledge.What he examined and taught Wang Daoqiu were all those strategies that could be used to govern the country and secure the country.

To be honest, if Gao Gong is like those old masters and now takes Wang Daoqiu's Four Books, Five Classics and Eight-Part Essay test on the spot, then Wang Daoqiu may have no choice but to find reasons and refuse to answer.After all, he couldn't look stupid in front of others and send his soul back to the library.

And test policy theory?Will future generations who have been baptized in the Internet society still be afraid of this?So as Gao Gong's social problems were thrown out one after another, Wang Daoqiu blurted out the experience and lessons that future generations would summarize hundreds of years later, looking at the essence of the problem from the phenomenon, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each solution, and the people it is suitable for. and environment.

What Wang Daoqiu said had nothing to do with youthful spirits, they were all old-fashioned ways to seek the country, and practical methods that could be used in real society.These cognitions, which are hundreds of years older than today's society, came out of Wang Daoqiu's words like water from the Yangtze River, gushing down from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.Soon, Gao Gong, the teacher who asked questions, became Gao Gong, a primary school student who listened to the class.
As Wang Daoqiu continued his long speech, Gao Gong felt very satisfied listening to many issues that he had not been able to understand before.Now after Wang Daoqiu's prompting, he immediately had an epiphany, just like a warrior who had opened up the Ren and Du channels.

After hearing Wang Daoqiu's famous sayings about governance, Gao Gong was completely convinced. He clapped his hands and shouted happily: "What a great blessing for the country, great blessing for the country. God bless me, Ming Dynasty! Mr. Huiyuan, to be honest, I said to you in the examination room I have a very bad impression. But after listening to Huiyuanlang’s speech today, I have to admit that I am indeed blind in the examination room. With Huiyuanlang’s great talent, those test questions are indeed not worth mentioning! Haha! Haha, our Ming Dynasty has outstanding people, and within a hundred years there will be an unparalleled genius. Huiyuan Lang, you are the capable minister given to me by God to govern the Ming Dynasty!"

After learning about Wang Daoqiu's talent, Gao Gong was convinced. With a smile on his face and without caring about his image, he said that Wang Daoqiu was his lifelong friend.

As for Gao Gong, Wang Daoqiu had a good impression of Gao Gong after he was familiar with history. He did not boast, had a practical spirit, and had good personal conduct.The rare shortcomings are probably a bit greedy for power and a lack of listening to other people's opinions.

(End of this chapter)