It was late at night, and Gao Pragmatic was about to sleep, but Gao Mo suddenly asked to see him downstairs. Gao Pragmatic cheered up and asked him to go upstairs, Gao Mo said as soon as he saw the master: "Chengguo Gong sent someone to send a message, saying that the saint has not said whether he is committal." ”

Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but be surprised when he heard this, and secretly wondered: Could it be that the emperor is determined to knight me this time? This is not necessarily a good thing, it may be good for me personally, but the impact on the big picture is too bad. Not only Shen Shixing will definitely not be able to accept it, but I am afraid that Xu Guo will not be happy.

The current situation can still be maintained, and that is because a strange balance has been achieved: the Shixue school has a slight advantage in the upper echelons of the imperial court, but there are two mountains standing side by side, among which Xu Guo has the advantage of official position, and Gao Pragmatism has the advantage of strength.

On the one hand, the Heart School does not have an overall advantage in the upper echelons, but because only Shen Shixing, the only core is left, the rest of the people cannot shake his position, and can only unite under his wings, but appear to be more united.

Moreover, the current situation within the Shixue School is not due to any dispute between Xu Guo and Gao Shishi, but because of the formation of different governance ideas between the two factions.

Although Xu Guo and the officials who supported him were also reformers, they should be counted as conservatives or moderates among the reformers. They believe that the current reform intensity is already very strong, and there is no need to continue to deepen it, so as not to lead to an all-out war of the Hexin School, and that it is necessary to maintain the current intensity at this time, as long as the scope of some of the previous reforms, especially the pilot reforms, is gradually expanded, and efforts are made to spread throughout the country.

The faction headed by Gao Pragmatism can be called a radical faction or a young Zhuang faction, and its typical characteristic is that it believes that the current reform is not deep enough, and not only cannot be stopped, but needs to be vigorously strengthened.

Officials of this faction believe that although the current reform has achieved initial results, whether it is the imperial court's finances or the renewal of armaments, but most of the reform itself is still at the level of "headache and headache", rarely touching the core and soul, and many chronic diseases of the Ming Dynasty have not been treated.

Under such circumstances, reform is like sailing against the current, and if we do not advance, we will retreat. We have to make persistent efforts to make further progress.

Gao Mo's black top once had a simple statistic, according to which it can be found that Gao Shishi's supporters in the school of practice, especially those who are "expected to go further in their careers", and most of Xu Guo's supporters have been difficult to continue to "progress", mainly those who are approaching the age of Zhishi.

If the situation is just so simple, then in fact, Xu Guo's strength should be stronger - after all, the Ming officialdom is very senior, and since his supporters are mostly old people, of course, the official position is usually higher and the weight is usually heavier.

Not really. One of Gao Pragmatism's biggest reliance is the "legacy of the three generations of first assistants", how many protégés are left by Gao Gong, Guo Pu, and Zhang Siwei? You know, the vast majority of these people have to support high pragmatism.

Why is it called "had to"? As I said before, the relationship between teachers and students is almost an iron law in the Ming officialdom, and there are very few people who dare to disobey the teacher, and almost only Zhang Juzheng has had this kind of thing in the original history - because of Zhang Juzheng's seizure of love, many disciples under the door have been impeached by their teachers, and Zhang Juzheng was also unceremonious, directly suppressed them to death, so it set a record of the Ming Dynasty's teachers and students against the purpose, and even seems to be the only record.

Since ancient times, China has had a tradition of respecting teachers and respecting the way, and for the lord, it is even more respectful. The imperial examination itself has a great deal of chance, and once the title of the gold list is inscribed, it determines the future of the candidate's life. Therefore, there was a champion in the Ming Dynasty: "Drinking water is thinking of the source, and Yimu is thinking of shade; One crown, one group, An Suofei teacher also gives! ”

Therefore, the scholars are naturally grateful to the master, once high school, after the imperial examination is released, the first thing the protégés should do is to cast the "protégé thorn" to the master, and "pay respects" and "see the witness" (holding gifts to see) the master, in order to confirm the relationship between the master and the protégé.

Although Gao Pragmatic's teacher is Shen Shixing, because Gao Pragmatic obviously does not pay homage to him, they can only be called teachers and students in name, but they will not be regarded as teachers and students by ordinary people, which is the reason.

This is just the beginning, and the protégés will often come to the classroom and meet with the teacher. In addition to these personal contacts, he also has to gather and publish books for the teacher, consciously get closer, and only the teacher is the first to look forward to the officialdom. During the teacher's lifetime, the students were expected to work for him, and after his death, he was also required to mourn him, write memorial poems, and take care of his family.

As a teacher, the owner will also repay the favor of his protégés and do his best to take care of them, such as giving priority to promoting protégés and actively expanding their political influence. Even if the protégé makes a mistake, he will try his best to help him exonerate himself.

The reason why the gift of teacher and student became a recognized intimate relationship in the Ming Dynasty is that the lord is not only a teacher, but also a guide for the career of the newcomers of the imperial examination. Usually the chief examiner of the imperial examination is an important cabinet minister, and being able to establish a relationship with such an important minister is something that many scholars cannot want.

The host and the protégé are not only the relationship between giving grace and repaying gratitude, but also constitute a community of interests. For protégés, there are people in the court who are good officials, and the teacher's mention and care are extremely important network resources for them. For the lord, caring for and promoting his protégé is also cultivating his own political power. Therefore, in addition to the emotional teacher-student relationship with the host, the protégés are more conscious of being a community of interests.

For this reason, as the successor of the mantle of the three generations of Shousuke, of course, it also has the teacher-student relationship of the three Shousuke, and has a close relationship with their disciples and protégés, breaking bones and connecting tendons. This can be regarded as a kind of extension of the teacher-student relationship.

But there are exceptions to everything, and there are also masters and protégés who have a lot of trouble and even turn against each other. The most famous example is Zhang Juzheng in the original history.

In the original history, Mr. Zhang became the first assistant of the cabinet from the early years of Wanli, and was trusted by the Empress Dowager Li and the Wanli Emperor, and held the Ming regime for ten years, which can be described as the most powerful first assistant in the history of the Ming Dynasty, but he probably did not expect that an unprecedented scandal of student impeachment of the teacher occurred in him.

The first to impeach him was his protégé Liu Tai, who was a Jinshi in Longqing for five years, and Zhang Ju was the chief examiner that year, and the two had a real teacher-student relationship. Zhang Juzheng was kind to Liu Tai, not to mention that he was his lord, and when Liu Taizhong only served as the head of the Criminal Department for two years after he became a sergeant, he promoted him to supervise the imperial history and patrol Liaodong.

This kind of encounter is a rare opportunity for many people in their lifetime. Liu Tai was naturally grateful to Zhang Juzheng, but something happened during his tenure as the overseer of the imperial history that changed everything: Li Chengliang, the general of Liaodong at that time, won a great victory in the battle against the Mongols.

Li Chengliang is also a border minister trusted by Zhang Juzheng, and Liu Tai doesn't know whether he is too happy or eager to invite merit, so he preemptively took this matter to the court. But according to the system, the Song Jie should have been jointly played by the chief soldier and the governor, and Liu Tai, as the patrol press, did not care about the file of the Song Jie, he should be in charge of whether some of the specific credits in this Song Jie document were true or false.

Of course, although it is not a big deal, it is usually "not careful". This is not careful, it is said that with Zhang Juzheng's power at the time, of course, he can take care of his protégé and easily suppress this matter, but he probably wants to beat this disciple, so he asks for a reprimand.

Unexpectedly, Liu Tai stopped doing it, he was indignant, and in the fourth year of Wanli, he made a concert, did a groundbreaking event, directly tore his face, and openly impeached his teacher Zhang Juzheng.

In this recital, Liu Tai listed the seven major crimes of the teacher: first, the expulsion of the high-arch demonstration, and the suicide of the city, making the court rude to the old ministers; the second is to violate the ancestral system and give Zhu Xizhong, the prince of Chengguo, a prince; the third is to appoint Zhang Siwei, Zhang Han and other cronies; Fourth, Weifu is used for his own use, and there is no court, and the courtiers are more afraid of the righteous than His Majesty; fifth, the use of the examination method to hold six departments hostage; the sixth is to destroy the official and hate the upright; Seventh, he used power for personal gain, seized the land of the Liao Wangfu, tried his hometown for his children, built a mansion in Jiangling, and accepted bribes from military ministers.

In later generations, there was a saying that the fortress was easiest to conquer from the inside, so these seven charges really poked Zhang Juzheng's sore spot one by one. And because of Liu Tai's special status, it has increased the credibility of the impeachment charge this time.

Liu Tai even pointed out in the recital that Zhang Juzheng "has few auxiliary ministers, that is, he is rich and full of Chu, why is it the reason?" The concubines of the palace are the same as the king, so why do they have to do it? This kind of implicit implication that Zhang Juzheng has a heart of disobedience, it can be seen that he will want to put Zhang Juzheng to death and then hurry up. Qiankun Audiobook.com

It stands to reason that if I just beat you a little, it is almost a "verbal criticism", and I don't pay much attention to you, can you be guilty of such a hatred? (Note: To be honest, I don't understand this matter very well, and I don't know if there is anything that can be dug deeper, but I didn't find more evidence that Liu Tai had other grudges with his teacher Zhang Juzheng before this.) )

After the incident, Zhang Juzheng was of course furious, and what made him most angry was that "there have been no protégés to impeach the elder teacher in the past 200 years (Zhang Juzheng's original words)", two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the impeachment of the teacher by the students who have never appeared has actually fallen on his head. Therefore, he submitted his resignation to Emperor Wanli in court, "Ji is the only one to thank him".

Zhang Shoufu was emotional at that time, and he fell to the ground and cried on the spot, so that Emperor Wanli personally went down to the throne to support him and comforted him repeatedly. Zhang Juzheng reluctantly agreed, but he still didn't come out of the door and ignored the government.

As soon as Zhu Yijun saw that the matter could not be resolved, he immediately sent Sun Long, the eunuch of the Si Li, with his own edict to personally escort Liu Tai back to Beijing, and sent him to prison, a hundred court rods, and exiled as an army.

Zhang Juzheng did enough on the surface at this time, and Shangshu begged Liu Tai for help and begged the emperor to depose him as a commoner. But behind the scenes, he hated him deeply. Some people saw Zhang Shoufu's true thoughts, secretly fabricated charges, falsely accused Liu Tai, and finally exiled him to Guangxi, even his father and younger brother were not spared.

However, this matter is not over, Zhang Juzheng's move not only did not deter opponents, but caused an uproar among his protégés. In the second year of Liu Tai's impeachment of him, Zhang Juzheng died of his father's illness, and he should be worried about filial piety for three years, but he couldn't go, so he asked people to ask the emperor to keep him in the name of seizing love.

Many opposition parties impeached Zhang Juzheng on this matter, and the first people to attack him happened to be his protégés - Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian. Like Liu Tai, they were both Jinshi in Longqing for five years, and the two were one day apart, and they impeached their teachers one after another.

Zhang Juzheng was furious when there was a fire in the backyard in succession, and he applied a cane to the two students, Wu Zhongxing was almost killed on the spot, and was dragged out of Chang'an Gate with a cloth, while Zhao Yongxian was beaten until his leg meat festered, "the meat festered like a palm".

However, the court staff is very interesting, and the officials of the Ming Dynasty especially liked to be beaten with the court staff - after this incident, the two became models of integrity, "directly shocked the world", and won a very high reputation. Zhang Juzheng hated them to the core, and until the ninth year of Wanli, he also instructed to "take special care" of his two students: never use them.

In the tenth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng died of illness, and more dramatically, Liu Tai died in exile on the same day as him. After Zhang Juzheng's death, he was quickly impeached, and the Wanli Emperor issued an edict to raid Zhang's family. The officials he appointed were either dismissed or killed, but Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian were rehabilitated one after another, drawing an end to this tortuous master-apprentice relationship.

These things have not happened in the current world of high pragmatism, and to some extent they are less exciting, but they have saved more face for Zhang Juzheng - because Gao Gong died suddenly because he heard about his death, Zhu Yijun couldn't withstand Gao Shiji's repeated persuasion, and restored Zhang Juzheng to his official position and gave sacrifices.

This is also the reason why Zhang Juzheng's sons are grateful to Gao Pragmatic, last night Zhang Cheng said that not only did they not dare to seek revenge from Gao Pragmatic, but instead looked up to Gao Pragmatic and became officials, which also originated from this.

So, since Gao Pragmatism has such an advantage, why is he still unwilling to flip the table, and simply fall out with Xu Guoye, or even "unify" the school of realism? This is the reason why I just said that Zhang Juzheng's teachers and students turned against each other: Although the protégés left by Gao Gong and the other three first assistants had to stand on the same front with Gao Pragmatic under normal circumstances, if there were serious differences, they might break with Gao Pragmatic just like Liu Tai impeached Zhang Juzheng.

People are not NPCs, they don't have a fixed goal to die to the end, and once they think that what they do can already lead to "civil strife" in the school of realism, who can guarantee that their position will not change?

It is precisely because of this that officials like to seek stability the most and never take risks unless absolutely necessary.

But now that the emperor's mind is not clear, Gao Pragmatic has to wake up: if most people oppose his knighthood, and the emperor insists on knighting himself, what will happen to him?

It will make me pragmatic and become a "lonely minister".

Lone Chen, it sounds good, it's outstanding, everyone is drunk and I am sober, but unfortunately this is very bad for Gao Pragmatic.

If you want to carry out reforms, how can you become an orphan! Grandpa Mao taught: Politics is to make more and more of our people, and make fewer and fewer enemies.

I've become a lonely minister, won't the Heart School win without a fight? Then I'll reform a fart!

Who will listen to me, who will help me do things?

Gao Pragmatic was scared into sweat because of the emperor's special favor for a while.

But the biggest trouble now is that he is now resting at home, and it is impossible for him to ask to see the emperor - what do you want to do when you ask to see the emperor? Rumors from the outside world can drown out high pragmatism.

Not to mention going to see the emperor in person, even if you contact Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju, you have to be cautious, after all, if it is rumored that he is colluding with the Zhongguan at this time, then he can't eat and walk around.

Thinking about it, Gao Pragmatic suddenly had a flash of inspiration, and said to Gao Mo: "Last time, I asked the eldest princess of Yongning to persuade the queen to accept Mr. Binhu's consultation, I don't know how this matter is going, has the princess sent someone to spread the news?" Other than that...... Is it possible for Her Royal Highness to leave the palace to meet with me? ”

Gao Mo hurriedly lowered his head and said: "Her Royal Highness the eldest princess did send someone to contact us before, but she wanted to tell the lord in person, if the lord wanted to see Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, presumably Her Royal Highness would not refuse." So the old slave will send someone to quietly contact Changchun Palace early tomorrow morning, and the old man will see if it is feasible? ”

Gao pragmatic nodded immediately: "Okay, just do it!" ”

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