Ming Dynasty man

Chapter 727 Tutoring
Facts have proved that Li Jing's views on Li Anguo's transfer to Beijing and his promotion are correct.

Although Li Anguo has only been promoted by half a rank, but Li Anguo used to be a military officer in Qinghai and was in charge of local affairs. The promotion speed of the military is fast, and everyone has no objection, but it is different if he changes from a military position to a civilian position and enters the center .

You must know that some officials will not be able to rise to the fifth rank in their entire lives, but Li Anguo was promoted to the fifth rank at the age of 19, and he is the real power of acting for local government affairs across the country.Therefore, when Li Anguo was appointed as the left councilor of the General Administration, although no one in the government and the opposition objected, there was a lot of discussion in private, and they all believed that Li Jing promoted his son for personal gain.

In fact, Li Jing had already expected such a result, but Li Jing still agreed. He was really worried that Li Anguo would be promoted faster under Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng promoted Li Anguo to the fifth rank in only two years. One can imagine what rank Li Anguo will be when the war in Wu Sizang is over.Li Jing reckoned that Lu Xiangsheng could at least raise Li Anguo to the third rank or above.

Although Lu Xiangsheng is not a follower, it does not mean that he has no selfishness. The purpose of Lu Xiangsheng's doing this is to show Li Anguo that he supports Li Anguo.

Lu Xiangsheng is a smart man. He knows that Li Anguo will definitely take over Li Jing's position in the future. Even if Li Jing leaves office and let someone else be the prime minister, everyone with a discerning eye knows that this successor must be a transitional one. Li Anguo will take over in a few years. Lu Xiangsheng didn't think about himself but also for future generations. With today's promotion, Li Anguo must of course take care of Lu Xiangsheng's descendants.

Lu Xiangsheng had the same idea, and Huang Degong also had the same idea, which can be seen from Huang Degong's painstaking efforts to help Li Anguo solve his troubles after learning of Li Anguo's identity.

Lu Xiangsheng's and Huang Degong's minds, Li Jing's mind is like a mirror.

With Lu Xiangsheng and Huang Degong as the powerful frontier officials supporting his son, Li Jing was naturally happy, but Li Jing was much more mature than Lu Xiangsheng in thinking about issues.

After all, Li Anguo was too young, if Lu Xiangsheng really promoted Li Anguo to the level of Zheng Sanpin, then Li Jing would not be able to arrange Li Anguo's position in the future.

We must know that there are less than 200 real-time officials above the third rank in the Ming Dynasty, of which there are only a few dozen positions of the third rank, and the local official positions are only the procuratorial envoy and the governor of Shuntian Mansion. , Dali Temple Minister, the left and right deputy capital envoys, and the ministers of various ministries are the third rank.

If Li Anguo was promoted to the third rank, how would Li Jing arrange his position?Procuratorial envoys definitely cannot arrange punishment. This position belongs to the feudal official. Li Anguo is not qualified to take up this position, and Shuntian Fu Yin cannot arrange it. This position has offended too many people.

The Minister of Taichang Temple is in charge of ceremonies, music and sacrifices. Li Jing will definitely not let his son do this job. The Minister of Dali Temple is equivalent to the president of the Supreme Court. Of course, Li Anguo is not qualified to take up this position.

Not to mention the rest of the Tongzhengshi, the duties of the Tongzhengshi are to understand the situation, guard against the entry and exit of official documents, report to the subjects of the Quartet for their opinions, appeal for grievances or accusations of wrongdoing, etc. Yuan Keli once served as the Minister of Civil Affairs and Military Affairs and other important court affairs. Li Anguo was so young, how could he have the experience to handle these affairs?
As for the left and right deputy capital censors and ministers of various ministries, let alone the ministers. Now there are many new departments under the six ministries, and the ministers of these departments are actually ministers concurrently.

For example, Zhang Ao was the servant of the household department and also the minister of the Ministry of Population and Land. Yang Liufeng once served as the minister of the household department and helped Shen Zheng share financial, taxation, business and other affairs. A series of positions such as the head of the engineering department.

It is conceivable how much power the servants of the various ministries have. How can Li Anguo take up these important positions at such a young age?That's why Li Jingcai said that Li Anguo's promotion too fast is not a good thing.

Li Jing agreed with Yuan Shu to transfer Li Anguo to the capital, in fact, he was afraid that Lu Xiangsheng would not be able to arrange Li Anguo after he was promoted.

What Li Jing meant was to let Li Anguo start from a low-level position and let his son accumulate more experience. When he gets older and can handle various government affairs proficiently, it will be a matter of course for him to be promoted to these important positions.

It's a pity that Yuan Shu didn't understand what Li Jing was thinking, so he still promoted Li Anguo to a higher level, which caused Li Jing to be criticized by everyone.

Of course, Li Jing would not explain anything to everyone. The best way to eliminate everyone's criticism is not to explain, but to let Li Anguo make achievements.As long as Li Anguo makes achievements, these criticisms will be eliminated automatically.

……

Beijing Xiyuan Li Mansion.

On the night of Li Anguo's return to Beijing, Li Jing hosted a banquet to welcome his son.

Since it was a family banquet, several concubines and several young children sat with Li Jing.

Seeing Li Anguo's calm demeanor and clear speech, Li Jing nodded with a smile. It seems that this kid has been tempered well in the past few years.

Compared with her son's calmness, Shen Ying couldn't stop crying. The reason was that Shen Ying felt distressed as a mother when she saw her son's body was thin and his face was dark.

After seeing Li Anguo's situation, Zhu Huiyu looked at his son Li Xingguo from time to time, but worried that Li Xingguo would suffer like his brother after he entered the army.

When the food and wine were ready, Li Jing smiled and raised his wine glass and said to everyone: "Today, the family is reunited. Let's have a drink together, and at the same time clean up An Guo's dust."

Hearing this, Li Anguo hurriedly stood up, held up his wine glass and said, "Thank you, Father."

Li Jing raised his hand and pressed it, motioned Li Anguo to sit down, and then said with a smile: "Etiquette must be respected, and honor and inferiority must be distinguished, but we should not be too rigid. You and my father and son have not seen each other for many years. You are so humble, you don't look like you and me. Is the relationship between father and son divided?"

Li Anguo said with a smile: "Father, my son has been working outside these few years, and I have a deep understanding of my father's great talent. I respect my father from the bottom of my heart. I am proud of having a father like you. Father, my son respects you." You have a cup."

Li Jing smiled and raised his wine glass to touch his son, then drank it down.

Putting down the wine glass, Li Jing said with a smile, "That's right, I've learned how to flatter, and I've made progress."

Shen Ying glanced at Li Jing and said angrily, "Are you praising the child, or are you hurting the child?"

Li Jing smiled and said: "Of course it's a compliment. Do you think I'm hurting him by saying that he learned how to flatter? Then you are wrong."

Seeing that everyone was puzzled, Li Jing said with a smile: "I'll tell you why I said this to praise him. You children, especially Xingguo, listen carefully."

Li Xingguo hurriedly got up and said: "My child listen to your father's instructions."

Seeing this, the other children hurriedly stood up and said, "Listen to your father's instruction, my child."

Li Jing waved his hands and said with a smile: "Sit down, my masters are doing things, why are you so serious?"

After the children sat down, Li Jing continued: "Why do I say that flattering the Anguo Society is progress? Because you are my children, no matter where you go, you are sought after by others.

Xingguo, let’s just talk about you, those who know that you are my son, even if the important officials of the court see you, they will respectfully call you the second son, right? "

Li Xingguo nodded: "Yes!"

Li Jingjing nodded and continued: "These important officials of the court, except for the old brothers who were born and died with me in the early years, or those who are close to me, you will call them uncles, you don't pay much attention to the rest, right? "

Li Xingguo pondered for a moment and said, "Yes."

Li Jing said solemnly: "You don't even want to pay attention to them, and naturally you don't want to say nice things to them. Then do you know what those important court officials will think of you, what will they think of you? Slander your lack of education, and over time, they will hate you.

Although your father has the power over the world, he can't control what others think of you. Naturally, no one dares to be disrespectful to you or exclude you when your father is around. On the day of death, when that day arrives, without my protection, will they still respect you as much as they do now?Even if they dare not do anything to you, they will secretly trip you up.With so many people stumbling you, do you think you can be promoted in the future?
Don't think that flattering and saying good things will lose face to your sons and daughters. If you do this, others will think that you are humble and educated.

As parents, we often compare other people's children with our own children. We often say, whoever's children are well-educated, whoever's children are promising, and we all want our children to associate with such children.

If you give others the impression that you are educated and promising, they will let their children associate with you, and then they will help you, because helping you is helping their own children.I say that, do you understand what I mean? "

Li Anguo said with a smile: "Father means to be humble, don't think that father's power is in the hands of the government and everyone is arrogant."

"My son understands. In the future, my son must treat others with humility and set an example for my elder brother." Li Xingguo said hurriedly.

Li Jing nodded with a smile: "A child can be taught."

Turning to look at the other children, Li Jing smiled and said, "Do you all understand?"

"My child would like to obey my father's teaching." Several children hurriedly said.

Li Jingjing nodded, patted Li Anguo's hand lightly and said, "An Guo, you are the boss, you must set an example."

"Yes." Li Anguo said hurriedly.

Li Jing said to Li Xingguo again: "Xingguo, you are the second child. Your eldest brother may not be free after returning to Beijing. You have to give your younger brothers and sisters a good leader."

"Yes!" Li Xingguo said hurriedly.

Li Jing looked at the eldest daughter again and said: "As for the eldest girl, I am not worried. You are gentle and virtuous, and understand things well. After you marry the prince, you only need to be like your mother to be loved by all people."

Shen Ying glared at Li Jing after hearing the words: "Master, do you want my daughter to follow me and help the prince marry so many concubines?"

Hearing this, Li Jing hurriedly coughed twice, and then said with a smile: "I want my daughter to manage the house like you, there is no other meaning."

Shen Ying glared at Li Jing, and after a while, she sighed softly and said: "The prince is not bad in all aspects, but there is one thing, he is really too fat, fat people don't live long, the master has to think of a way Row."

(End of this chapter)