Chapter 125: Chongyang Conference (Part II)

Wang Xijue? Wang Xijue!

Shen Li's words exploded in the minds of all the participants like thunder.

Yes, compared to Xu Xuemo, Wang Xijue is the real heart school boss who should be most worried.

Although Xu Xuemo is also one of the current leaders of the Heart School, just like the people attending the congregation today, the leaders are also divided into several levels, what is Xu Xuemo in front of Wang Xijue?

Yes, Xu Xuemo's qualifications are far beyond Wang Xijue's, but the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty is not only about qualifications! If you only talk about qualifications, how did Gao Shipra, a champion of Wanli for eight years, become the left servant of the military department in a few years?

Wang Xijue is the eye of Shen Shixing's list, and he has been a historian of Hanlin since then, but he has not been a foreign worker in the position of a historian.

As early as the Longqing period, he took many students in the southern and northern Guozijian, and became the same examiner in the five years of Longqing, and also took charge of the affairs of the Nanjing Hanlin Academy.

In the Wanli era, he not only continued to act as an examiner, but also actually compiled the "Mu Zong Shilu" as the vice president of the "Mu Zong Shilu", and the president of the "Mu Zong Shilu" at that time was the first assistant Gao Gong.

In fact, Gao Gong's impression of Wang Xijue was not very good at that time, because Wang Xijue was different from Shen Shixing, he was never a low-key and forbearant person. Since he is not low-key and forbearing, but he is an important figure in the school of psychology, Gao Gong's impression of him is obviously not much better.

However, Wang Xijue's reputation in Shilin made Gao Gong have to use him as the vice president of the record, otherwise this "Mu Zong Shilu" may be violently attacked between the imperial court and Shilin - as we all know, Gao Gong is the first person in the Mu Zong Dynasty, and you still want to control the compilation of the "Mu Zong Shilu"? Then what you say and record here, I and other righteous men and gentlemen will definitely not believe a word! Not only do you not believe it, but you also have to criticize it and criticize it, and you will also criticize and criticize you, the head of the Mu Dynasty!

Therefore, this alone can see the importance of fame and prestige in the Ming Dynasty.

Isn't Gao pragmatic so quickly promoted to the decision-making level of the imperial court? He used "Longwen Whip Shadow" and his own triumphant song to win six champions, plus the compilation of "Daming Huidian" to become famous all over the world, and used the two decisive victories of "Annan Dingbei" to gain the prestige of the government and the opposition.

When his fame and prestige are enough, coupled with the emperor's recognition of his ability, others will not be able to contradict him in terms of "deeds", and he will naturally be able to rise to the top.

And Wang Xijue actually presided over the compilation of the "Records of King Sejong" (the compilation of revision and completion nature) after the compilation of the "Records of Muzong", so his work is not bad - compared with Gao Pragmatic, he is worse in martial arts, but his literary skills are completely comparable to Gao Pragmatic.

Well, I must say that something is missing, that is, the title of the six champions is indeed a little too bullish. Even though Wang Xijue is also from a role model, and he is full of peach and plums all over the world, he is still behind the high and pragmatic line in this "learning skill".

But he also has things that can't be compared with pragmatism, for example: he is a world-famous filial son.

The significance of filial piety in the Ming Dynasty no longer needs to be repeated, and Gao pragmatic has not had much chance to show his filial piety so far, so compared with Wang Xijue, who resigned and went home to "serve day and night" when his father was sick, he was far behind.

This is also a big advantage of Wang Xijue.

Even the wealth of his Taicang royal family may be second only to Gao Pragmatic, and it is not inferior to the Puzhou Zhang family.

Since it is not much worse than Gao Pragmatic, it is not much worse than Xu Xuemo...... What else is necessary?

Among the core figures of the Jingshi School who are present today, whether it is Guozi Priest Wine, Zhan Shifu Zhan Shi, they are all officials that Wang Xijue has done before, if he is recalled after the end of Ding Wei's observance system, he will definitely not continue to rotate in these positions, and he will inevitably go further.

"If Wang Taicang is recalled, at least one of the left attendants of the Ministry of Rites can be dispatched." Song Zhihan, the right attendant of the ministry, groaned: "But with his hopes in the government and the opposition and Shilin, if he falls behind Xu Jiading, it is a little unreasonable...... In my opinion, if he returns to the dynasty this time, the emperor may only consider letting him replace Pan Xinchang. ”

Song Zhihan's words completely affirmed Shen Li's opinion: if Pan Sheng wants to be a scholar, he will not be replaced by Xu Xuemo, but Wang Xijue, who is about to return to the dynasty.

Lu Shusheng, who is already 75 years old but has still been recalled to the court, spoke for the first time today: "Wang Yuanyu has both ability and political integrity, and he is a rare and promising person in the school of Xinxue. Although the academic expectations are high, they do not give many lectures; Although the article is good, it does not make much sense. If he returned to the court, it would have been appropriate to be a great uncle. But now the position of the great uncle has been given to Xu Shuming...... I thought it was just an accident, but now it seems that it may not be. ”

Lu Shusheng is old and has a high seniority, so he calls Wang Xijue and Xu Xuemo as words, rather than referring to them from their hometowns.

Xu Guo also gradually realized that something was not quite right at this time, and frowned when he heard this: "Quan Lao (Lu Shusheng Pingquan) means that all of this has been planned from the beginning, and one ring is linked to the other, in order to completely eat the two important positions left by Pan Xinchang after he left? ”

Lu Shusheng nodded, but didn't say anything more.

Seeing this, Xu Guo took a deep breath and once again felt that he was under great pressure. As soon as Zhang Siwei left, the first assistant of the Xinxue faction actually made such a big move as soon as he took office? Did Shen Shixing really want to provoke an all-out struggle between the two factions? But this ...... It doesn't seem like Shen Shixing's style.

Gao Pragmatic has always been the most observant of words and feelings, he found that Xu Guo looked a little shaken, but he was still a little bit undecided, so he finally took the initiative to speak, and said: "Everyone in the world knows that immortals are good, but they can't forget their fame." Where will the past and the present meet? The barren mound is gone, and the grass is gone. Everyone in the world knows that the gods are good, only gold and silver can't forget. In the end, he only hated to gather much, and when he reached a long time, his eyes were closed. Everyone in the world knows that the gods are good, only the wife can't forget. Jun's birthday said kindness, and Jun died and went with others. Everyone in the world knows that the gods are good, and only the children and grandchildren can't forget it. There are many infatuated parents in ancient times, who has seen filial piety to their children and grandchildren? ”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and Xu Guo was even more confused, and said in surprise: "Why do you feel so emotional?" ”

"It's just a gratuitous emotion." Gao pragmatic smiled: "But then again, it's not completely gratuitous...... Sometimes, what you think in your heart and what you do in your hands are always very different. Especially for people in high positions, there are many people who can't help themselves, and many things you want to do and do if you don't want to do them. ”

Lu Shusheng said with great interest: "Truth-seeking, in terms of the smoothness of your study and governance, it seems that you shouldn't have these feelings, if the old man is not bad, you should be using this to say that Shen Rumo's move was forced to do it?" ”

Gao pragmatically smiled: "Quan Lao Gao has seen it, the juniors are just talking nonsense, and they can't be true." ”

said so, but no one thought that Gao Pragmatic would talk nonsense on such an occasion, he must have meant something, and the most reasonable guess was Lu Shusheng's question just now.

Han Ji suddenly thought about it: "I may have guessed something about what the truth meant. ”

When everyone looked at him, Han Ji said unhurriedly: "To be honest, those Jiangsu, Zhejiang and maritime merchants have united to put pressure on the officials from the local area. This pressure was passed layer by layer, and finally it was all on Shen Yaoquan's shoulders, so he, the first first assistant of the Heart School since Xu Huating and Li Xinghua, had to change his past style and become tough and eager. ”

When everyone heard this, they all felt reasonable, but Tu Menggui added: "Another possibility cannot be ruled out, that is, Shen Yaoquan is the same as Xu Huating back then, and he is only willing to make promises when he is not in power, which makes people think that he has a cowardly personality in order to preserve." But he didn't know that as soon as he was in power, he gave the order to do it......"

It seems that the incident when the master Gao Gong was forced to retreat by Xu Jie, the impression on Tu Menggui was too deep, so that he would also think of Xu Jie's when he looked at Shen Shixing now.

However, speaking of which, Shen Shixing and Xu Jie are indeed quite related, and they are both people from Su Song's area, not only classmates, but even township parties.

Of course, Wang Xijue and Xu Xuemo are also from this area.

At this point in the discussion, no matter what everyone thinks of Shen Shixing himself, at least this time everyone has reached a basic consensus on the actions of the Heart School, and there are only three words left.

What to do?

Xu Guo looked around at everyone in embarrassment, and sighed: "Ladies and gentlemen, if Pan Xinchang invites himself to take up his post and recommends Wang Taicang, who is about to return to the dynasty, to enter the cabinet, if Brother Ziyu and Brother Junze oppose it, there will always be a practical reason." However, Wang Taicang has been working in the Hanlin Academy and Zhan Shifu, and if he wants to say that he is not in office, it is not easy to do. ”

It seems that Xu Guo now also senses that at least the vast majority of the people present do not approve of the calm and calm approach to contingencies, so he has to remind them from another direction.

Wang Xijue has always been a Hanlin official, which means that unless he himself is angry with the emperor, it is basically unlikely that there will be any tricks.

Everyone thought about it, and after a while, Zhang Yigui, the priest of the country, spoke, and he asked tentatively: "Wang Taicang has several examiners, I don't know if there has been any fraud among them?" ”

Everyone couldn't help but shake their heads slightly, especially Lu Shusheng, who said directly: "First, Wang Yuanyu shouldn't be that kind of person; Second, even if there is, the matter is too far away, and now when I go back and investigate, what kind of flowers can I find? ”

Han Ji, who was in charge of the affairs of the Hanlin Academy, also said: "What Quan Lao said is very true, and there is another point, Wang Taicang is the same examiner as an examiner, and he is not the main examiner. It is important to know that the examiner of the fifth year of Longqing and the second year of Wanli ......"

Well, the chief examiner of Longqing's fifth year was Zhang Juzheng in the original history, but due to the influence of high pragmatism, in this world, Guo Pu was the main examiner, Zhang Juzheng was the deputy examiner, and Wang Xijue was the right Zhongyun at that time, and he was the examiner of the second room in the "eighteen rooms".

As for the examiner of the second year of Wanli...... It's Zhang Siwei.

Therefore, to use the fraud case of the scientific field to engage Wang Xijue, it is to kill 3,000 enemies and lose 800 self-inflicted ...... No, it's a completely bad idea to kill 800 enemies and lose 3,000 yourself.

Zhang Yigui realized that his thoughts almost put Guo Pu, who had returned to his hometown, into it, and couldn't help but subconsciously shrink his head, and didn't dare to say more.

Next, everyone tried to find out Wang Xijue's past "bad deeds" to hit him, so that he had no chance to enter the cabinet, but after discussion, none of them were reliable.

Even in the end, Wang Xijue's daughter who claimed to be an immortal was taken out to talk about things, thinking that it could be used to say that Wang Xijue did not follow the teachings of Confucius, did not "respect ghosts and gods and stay away", and even his daughter was not well disciplined.

At this point, Gao Pragmatic finally couldn't stand it.

Where is this? Wang Xijue's daughter claimed to have won the Tao, although this matter did make people speechless, but his daughter died early because of the early death of the promised beloved, and she kept the festival and no longer married. In the outside world, this is the so-called "chaste martyr", and in terms of high pragmatism, this kind of thing is too much mental stimulation for a young girl, maybe the brain is not clear...... In his original days, it was mostly some schizophrenia or something, just a pathetic pathology.

Blame Wang Xijue for this? What's the matter, Wang Xijue didn't see that the man on the other side might have a hidden disease, so his longevity was not long, so he was not worthy of being a pavilion elder?

What a reason!

He married the daughter of the Wang family and is not the emperor to marry the princess, can you still tie the family back for a premarital medical examination?

Gao Pragmatic finally couldn't help coughing lightly, and waited for everyone to look at him before he said: "Everyone, in a pragmatic and humble opinion, instead of turning over Wang Taicang's old accounts, it is better to turn over Pan Xinchang's old accounts." Wang Taicang's old accounts are not easy to turn, but Pan Xinchang's old accounts are much easier. Moreover, even if the old accounts of Wang Taicang are successful, he can only be restricted, although the Xinxue faction is currently the most famous with him, it does not mean that he is the only one who can enter the cabinet. But if we change our thinking, we can directly turn over Pan Xinchang's old accounts and get him down...... At this time, can he still recommend people to the cabinet? ”

These words are simply an initiation!

Everyone suddenly realized: Yes, this is the tip of the bull's horns just now, why do you have to find trouble with Wang Xijue? Since people are interlocking, then I don't follow their train of thought, but directly kill Pan Sheng, the rings behind it, buckles or something, aren't they all in vain? Why hang yourself on Wang Xijue's tree?

A cadre of people immediately expressed their support, among which Zhang Mengnan, a pragmatic cousin, also spoke for the first time today: "What you say is very true!" Wang Taicang's current bad deeds are not good, but Pan Xinchang is different, this person can enter the cabinet, there is a problem in itself, it was forced to do it at the beginning, and it is not impeccable in terms of operational means. If I remember correctly, when he entered the court, there was a lot of controversy, and more importantly, even though there was a lot of controversy at the time of the court, he directly accepted the resignation without even asking, which can be used to talk about it. ”

Well, when Pan Sheng entered the cabinet, it was obviously presided over by Guo Pu, and Shen Shixing also agreed, so although the controversy was quite big when the court was pushed, the opinions of the cabinet were always unified, and the emperor recognized it.

It stands to reason that this is obviously nothing, after all, no matter how controversial it is, his court push is still passed. But now when it's time to settle accounts after the autumn, there is a lot to worry about: even if Tingtui reluctantly approves of you, but you don't take the initiative to resign under such controversy, then there is something wrong with your character! How can you be a cabinet elder?

As for why I didn't say it before...... I didn't pay attention at the time, what's the matter, unconvinced?

Party struggle is party struggle, and no matter how high-sounding it is, it is still party contention. Although there must be a compromise when it is time to compromise, but when it is time to fight, there is no need to say, just fight!

Xu Guo sighed in his heart, turned his head to Gao Pragmatic and asked, "Seeking truth, what do you think?" ”

Gao Pragmatic bowed slightly, and replied: "The cabinet ministers are exemplary officials, if there is a person of bad conduct, I think it should be impeached...... It should be impeached. ”

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