No matter how sad or unwilling he was, Zhang Siwei's convoy eventually disappeared on the post road to the south of Yantai Horse Station. His convoy is expected to arrive at the Gujie Horse Post in the southwest of Beijing tonight, catch up with Gao Yang and his wife, who had set off a little earlier, and then go back to Puzhou together to bury his father's weeping spirit.

At least more than half of the officials in Beijing appeared around the farewell pavilion and presented the Shousuke - or the former Shousuke from Beijing to his hometown with a solemn face.

Gao pragmatic of course stands in the most conspicuous position, and even constantly accepts the "consolation" of others. Obviously, this is not because the official position of a soldier is the highest among the princes of the army, but because the deceased himself is also his grandfather, and he cannot leave his post.

In the eyes of people at this time, it is also very pitiful to be unable to fulfill filial piety due to duty, and as for whether Gao Pragmatic is really sad, no one really cares.

If they really pay attention to Gao Pragmatism, it is also about whether he will "turn grief into strength" and really turn Jingying, which has long been eroded to the roots, into a whole flower.

Today's situation is different from the past, Gao pragmatic relied on himself to be regarded as "Dai Xiao's body", did not greet everyone too much, and left in silence after sending off his uncle.

No one would blame him for being rude, at least not today.

But the bad things of the Ming Dynasty in July this year are obviously not over, because after going to the first assistant during the day, another cabinet minister died that night - Yu Youding died of illness.

Originally, this day was a great day, but Yu Youding died of illness, and the emperor had to temporarily issue an edict to express his condolences and quit the day as usual.

The next day, the Great Dynasty, Emperor Chen Ju announced the latest edict, re-"sorting" the cabinet ministers, the original seven cabinet elders at the same time in the cabinet situation changed again, continue to restore to the state of five cabinet elders.

The composition of the cabinet is now as follows: the first assistant, Shen Shixing, a scholar of Zhongji Temple, Xu Guo, a scholar of Jianji Temple, and three group assistants: Pan Sheng, a scholar of Wenhuadian University, Zhang Xueyan, a scholar of Wenyuange University, and Wu Dui, a scholar of Dongge University.

As for the scholars of Wuyingdian who were originally ranked behind Wenhua Hall and before Wenyuan Pavilion, of course, they were temporarily vacant - anyway, it was a common thing for cabinet ministers to be vacant, so it was not surprising.

At this time, Qiqing's position has also been changed. The so-called Seven Qing is the six Shangshu plus the Imperial History of the Left Capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate.

If we talk about Jiuqing, the Ming Dynasty was divided into "Big Jiuqing" and "Little Jiuqing". Among them, the "Great Nine Qings" are the above seven Qings, plus the Dali Temple Secretary and the General Political Envoy; "Xiao Jiuqing" is Taichang Siqing, Taifu Siqing, Guanglu Siqing, Zhan Shi, Hanlin Bachelor, Honglu Siqing, Guozi Priest Wine, Yuanma Siqing and Shangbao Siqing.

Now the seven secretaries who have completed all the changes are as follows: Yang Wei, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Shen Li, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, Pan Sheng (concurrently), Liang Menglong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, Shuhua of the Criminal Department, Yang Zhao, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and Zhao Jin, the imperial history of Zuodu.

Among them, Yang Wei, the secretary of the ministry, was originally a "non-party person", neither the heart school nor the real school, but he had served in Xuanda, Shanxi and Shaanxi for a long time, and had a close friendship with Zhang Siwei. But now that Zhang Siwei is going to work, Yang Wei's attitude and position will not change, and Gao Pragmatic is not very sure.

Shen Li, the head of the household, does not need to be introduced, he is a protégé of Gao Gong. Because Xu Guo was the first to enter the cabinet because he was older, his opportunity to enter the cabinet has not appeared until now. However, the position of the head of the household is becoming more and more important after the reform of the real school, and he is now the head of the household department, which is theoretically closer and closer to the position of the elder.

There is no need to introduce Pan Sheng, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, this old man was born in the twelfth year of Zhengde (1517), only six years younger than Guo Pu, and he is sixty-seven years old this year. But this is not a big deal, and according to the current situation, he may be able to continue to work for another three years, and then retire with honor.

His real problem is also similar to Yang Wei, there is no party and no faction, when the real school is strong, he basically listens to the words of the first assistant of the real school, and now the first assistant of the real school is unexpectedly gone, whether his attitude and position will change has become the place that Gao pragmatic and others are most concerned about.

Liang Menglong, the secretary of the military department, doesn't need to be introduced, just skip it.

Shangshu Shuhua of the Criminal Department, a native of Jiangxi, grew up in Zhejiang and other places with his father when he was a child, and was a scholar in Jiajing for 38 years. In the case of Long Qingnian, he was in charge of the criminal department, and there was no doubt that he stood on Xu Jie's position in the "Edict of the First Emperor" and opposed Gao Gong's release of Wang Jin and others.

This incident has been briefly described in this book, so I will not repeat it here. In short, the result was that he was transferred from Beijing by Gao Gong, but he was not demoted and used, but was appointed to Shaanxi to participate in politics - he was promoted (historical fact). Later, when Guo Pu was in power, because of Shu Hua's excellent performance outside, he was transferred back to Jingshi and served as a squire in the Criminal Department. Because Shu Hua is very strict in law enforcement, he has made it all the way to the criminal department, which can be regarded as a major manifestation of Guo Pu's meritocracy in power, as long as there is no conflict in major matters, he will not deliberately suppress it.

Of course, the high pragmatism of "over-calculating" does not have Guo Pu's kindness, he always remembers that Shu Hua is a person who has a heart and a line, but he is just more upright, and he is more strict in law enforcement. Whether there will be a conflict between the two sides in the future, Gao Pragmatic is not sure, so psychologically, he is always prepared.

Yang Zhao, a native of Shaanxi, was a scholar in Jiajing for 35 years. This duke once served as the governor of Jiliao and the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department. Originally, he was not from the Shixue faction, but more similar to a person without party affiliation, but later he became friendly with Zhang Siwei, and his Nanjing Military Department Shangshu was won by Zhang Siwei for him during Guo Pu's reign. The Ministry of Industry Shangshu in the future was also called by Zhang Siwei, so ...... At least half of the school of reality.

As for Zhao Jin, the imperial history of Zuodu, this duke is a native of Yuyao, Zhejiang, and he is a famous Wang Xuemen. However, he, a Wang Xuemen, is not purely a Qing Tan faction, and he has done some things.

For example, he had impeached Yan Song in his early years, and he was so violently criticized in the text that Jiajing was furious, saying that he "deceived the heavens and slandered the king", was tortured by the edict and prison, and finally reprimanded forty times and denounced the people.

Zhao Jin lived at home for fifteen years, and when Mu Zong ascended the throne, he was made a deceased official by Xu Jie. Promoted too often Shaoqing, not on the line, into the light of Luqing. In the first year of Longqing, he patrolled Guizhou with the right deputy capital Yushi, and captured the rebel Miao Longde, etc. After finishing the matter, he entered Beijing as Dali Qing, and served as the left and right attendants of the Ministry of Labor. In the second year of Wanli, he moved to the right capital of Nanjing, and after a period of time, he changed the book of the Criminal Department.

After that, he served in the circle of the Sixth Department of Nanjing, until the period of the transfer of power between Guo Pu and Zhang Siwei, under the mediation of Shen Shixing, he was transferred back to Beijing to serve as the imperial history of the left capital.

So to put it simply, he should be Shen Shixing's right-hand man now.

In this way, it can be seen that the household department and the military department are mastered by the real school, and the Ministry of Industry can also be basically mastered; In the past, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Rites were slightly biased towards the School of Practice, but it is doubtful how they will be in the future; The Criminal Department and the Metropolitan Procuratorate can be regarded as the base camp of the Heart School, which is equivalent to the nature of the household department and the military department in the hands of the Real School.

Gao Pragmatic sat in the duty room of his military headquarters and pondered carefully, and suddenly found this situation quite interesting: the practical school likes to grasp the power of "doing things", while the heart school is more willing to grasp the power of supervision and judgment.

Also, how dangerous it is to do things, if you don't do it well, you may make mistakes in decision-making, mishandle it, and end up burning yourself and taking political risks.

The superintendent is much cooler, I will scold you if you don't like it, and not only do you have a reason to scold, but the key is that I can also "create" a reason to scold if there is no reason. I can still investigate after scolding, and I will be responsible for judging after the investigation - this is simply cool.

Thanks to the fact that Shoufu has always been a member of the Shixue school over the years, the emperor also leans towards the Shixue side, otherwise it will be a big trouble.

Gao Shishi is very clear about the current troubles: although this time Uncle Ding Wei has temporarily taken some remedial measures before taking the lead, so that the number of ministers of the practical school in the cabinet is superior, but in fact, this is only a symptomatic but not a cure, because the fundamental disadvantage cannot be alleviated because of this.

That's Shousuke.

Shoufu is no longer a member of the Shixue School, but has been replaced by Shen Shixing.

Don't look at the fact that everyone is a cabinet minister, in fact, the difference in the importance of the first assistant, the second assistant and the group assistant is quite different. To give an inappropriate example: Gao Shicheng may remember who the prime minister of a foreign country is in later life, but he will probably not remember any of the prime minister's cabinet colleagues.

Why? Because there will always be someone who is "responsible"! In Chinese history, this is the so-called "general government", that is, the name of the prime minister. And Shousuke, who is the prime minister who does not have the name of the prime minister, is the only person below the Son of Heaven who is "responsible".

Not every first assistant is like Li Chunfang, and not every second assistant is like the high arch of the year. The reason why Gao Gong was able to act as a second assistant in the Longqing Dynasty was that he was a saint and a saint, and Li Chunfang's personality was too soft.

However, in the current situation, Shen Shixing's personality is different from Li Chunfang, Shen Shixing is actually soft on the outside and rigid on the inside, and he is a person with means, almost a copy of Xu Jie's old days.

As for the holy family, the situation is even worse, because Xu Guo's holy family is probably not as good as Shen Shixing - when Zhu Yijun was the prince, Gao Gong and Zhu Xizhong were the ministers of civil and military affairs who "knew the prince's scriptures", and in fact, the "Tongzhi Prince's Banquet" who played the role of "class teacher" was Shen Shixing.

From this point of view, there is only one person who can really wrestle with Shen Shixing on the Holy Family, and that is that he is highly pragmatic. Others, even the old Hanlin who had served as the prince's lecturer at that time, had to lean back, including Xu Guo.

This is a bit embarrassing, because although Gao Shixing is not vain in applying for Shi Xing in the Holy Family, he is not a cabinet minister after all, so he can't fight with Shen Shixing on the same battlefield - I discuss cabinet affairs in my cabinet, can you Gao someone come in? Did I invite you to attend, or did I invite you to attend?

Therefore, the gap in identity makes Gao pragmatic actually "out of reach" of the possible competition in the cabinet, he can only go to the emperor before and after the fact, if the emperor is willing to make a "dimensionality reduction strike", then of course everything is easy to say, but what if the emperor feels inconvenient to shoot?

What's more, the Holy Family is a thing that is mostly maintained by feelings, if Gao Shi goes to the emperor to solve it at every turn, will the emperor feel bored sooner or later? This is something that has to be considered.

Again, this is the main reason why Gao Pragmatic has long been obsessed with helping the emperor solve troubles, rather than causing trouble to the emperor.

The Holy Favor must be maintained for a long time, otherwise, no matter how powerful the Holy Grace is, it will eventually decay until it disappears completely.

To maintain the Holy Family, the first thing is to do your own job first. Gao Pragmatic's current job is the left squire of the military department and the assistant director of the Jingying Rongzheng, and this work should be simple and simple, and it will be difficult and difficult.

If you want to be simpler, Gao Pragmatic can find some way to find the nobles and carefully select a team of people to perform well for a while. There is no need to require them to really be able to fight, as long as the formation is neatly trained, they can make a seemingly majestic and majestic parade, and this matter can be flickered over.

When the time comes, please invite Zhu Yijun to participate in the parade in person, anyway, the emperor doesn't know how to lead the troops, and looking at the troops under review as if they are neat and energetic, it is natural that he should be happy.

However, this kind of work effect obviously can't satisfy Gao Pragmatic himself - I want this group of people to be useless? This is nothing more than to expand the scale of the Han generals in the palace, it should be a waste, it is still a waste!

Yes, generally speaking, the Beijing camp does not need to go to war anyway, and foreign wars are basically fought by the border army.

But the current situation is different from the Wanli Dynasty in the original history! Once the Ming side has gathered enough money, food and supplies, it is possible to launch a final blow against the left-wing Mongolia at any time. And the emperor trusts him very much, if the time comes to suddenly say: Since the Beijing camp has been washed and renovated, this battle will be based on the Beijing camp.

At that time, wouldn't he be pragmatic and want to sit on wax, where should he go to cry?

Therefore, the problem of this Jingying Rongzheng can't just be a pastemaker, it is not useful, and it will be exposed if it rains accidentally. I can only be an honest mason, the wall is rotten, and the tiles are gone.

As for the foundation of this house, there is also a problem...... That's not something he can do with a soldier in the army, if he doesn't go to a higher position, just think about this kind of thing in a dream, and there is no need to open his mouth.

Since the Jingying Rongzheng has to be sorted out, it is of course difficult not to mention the basic issue of the military system, but no matter how difficult it is, it must be carried out, and it is necessary to make some appearance. But where do you start?

In the past half a month, although Gao Shishi did not express his position just by looking at the files, he was not without thinking, and after analyzing the existing materials of various military departments, he felt that with his current power, the "most fundamental" problem that could be grasped was people.

A person is a soldier, a registered soldier and a soldier.

At present, how many military households are in the Beijing camp, how many soldiers are registered among them, and how many soldiers can actually be in place, this is the most basic and must be clarified, otherwise any measures will be a flower in the mirror and a moon in the water, which seems to be beautiful, but it cannot become a reality at all.

Gao Shishi called a foreigner and said: "You go and inform the governors of the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armies, and say that the palace is going to visit the Governor's Mansion tomorrow, and please go to the Governor's Mansion tomorrow." ”

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