In the political struggle, few can be said to do, and most of the time it is necessary to prepare in advance, strictly control, prudently evaluate, and plan in detail, and finally make a decisive move, so Gao Pragmatic cannot delay all his energy on Liu Shouyou and Zhang Jing.

Gao Pragmatic is no longer "watching politics", and he can't go to the palace every day as in the past, so Zhang Whale is currently mainly staring at Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju.

According to the normal situation, since Zhang Whale will soon be appointed as the palm seal of the Imperial Horse Supervisor, then at least before he officially takes office, everything should be done with stability first, so as not to make any moths at this time.

And Liu Shouyou's side is the key, this person is not only the liaison between some forces in Jiangnan and Zhang Whale, but also has such a tricky identity as the governor of Jinyi Weidu, whether it is his surveillance or investigation, he must be guarded against countermeasures, so as not to backfire.

Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju have successively served or are serving as the commanders of the East Factory, naturally through the power of the East Factory to control Liu Shouyou, and Gao Pragmatic has also suggested that Wang Zhizhen and Gao Wuben should be involved.

At the same time, Gao Shishi's own side also strengthened the investigation of Liu Shouyou, and under his instructions, the Jinghua Ministry of Internal Affairs set up a special operation group under the command of Gao Mo himself, which was responsible for monitoring and controlling Liu Shouyou, investigating and collecting evidence. Within two days, more than 20 people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs had traveled from Beijing to Macheng, Songjiang, Ningbo, and other places.

In addition to discussing with Gao Guoyan and determining the agency issuance of the first Yunnan War Treasure Banknote, he only needs to wait for his protégé to come to pay respects in the house.

Of course, the house master is the object that the new science and technology scholars must visit, but whether the new science and technology master will regard his house master as a backer in the officialdom in the future is not necessarily.

For the new science and technology jinshi, in addition to the house master, there is also a seat teacher, if you can directly vote under the seat master, in most cases it is actually better than to cast under the house master.

The reason is very simple, the teacher is the main examiner, and that is a scholar of the dynasty! Wouldn't it be better to be able to worship under the old door of the pavilion? You must know that most of the house masters are selected from the Hanlin Academy, and sometimes they are just just editors, even if they have the hope of promotion in the future, how can they be compared to the old man who is already a great minister?

Therefore, it is actually very common for the protégé selected by the house master to be "cut off" by the teacher. It's just that no matter how "cut off the beard", the teacher-student relationship between the protégé and the master is always established, and no one dares not admit it.

Gao Pragmatic is not afraid that the three people he picked will be cut off, because the main examiner of this subject is Xu Guo. Xu Ge Lao has a respected status, and he is a senior brother of Gao Pragmatic, so it is naturally impossible to pull down his face to grab a protégé with the junior brother, not to mention that Gao Pragmatic, the master of the house, has only ordered three people in total, who is embarrassed to start again?

"Master, the old man of Bangyan and the two Jinshi masters came to pay their respects, this is their worship post, please take a look."

When Gao Shishi heard this, he was basking in the sun under the small pavilion facing Shichahai in the mansion.

This year is the eleventh year of Wanli, and because of the leap of February, the sun of March at this time is already quite warm and warm, and it is slanted on him.

There is a spring breeze blowing willows on the shore, and the water seems to be surging with golden scales, and it is rare for Gao Pragmatic to "steal half a day of leisure", so he chose to meet three new protégés here.

It's all beautiful, it seems that only the company of beautiful women, and ...... A bottle of wine too.

The company of beautiful women is just around the corner, and the battle of Myanmar should be realized after the battle.

Wine is not out of reach, after all, the scale of Jinghua's maritime trade is not small, and in terms of "private enterprises" alone, it must rank first in the Ming Dynasty.

But Gao Pragmatic is not very willing to drink wine in front of outsiders, with his current status and Shilin fame, if he often drinks wine in public, maybe it will bring a trend, indirectly raise the status of "foreign wine", and may even narrow the foreign trade surplus of the Ming Dynasty to a certain extent, which is not what Gao Pragmatic wants.

As the global gold-absorbing black hole, this situation is best to continue for a little longer, so that more precious metals are concentrated in the Ming Dynasty to alleviate the so-called "money shortage" in history.

As for whether Daming will also alleviate the "price revolution" in Europe to a certain extent if the gold absorption is too strong, he can't scruple about this for the time being. Historically, the European price revolution was caused by the Spanish Empire loading too much gold and silver from the Americas back to Europe, but now that the gold and silver will change hands more than in history, it seems that it can indeed be alleviated......

"Invite them over." Gao pragmatic said, while sitting up a little straighter, but muttered in a low voice: "Maybe in the future, Europeans should award me a big medal." ”

A short time later, a middle-aged man walked over with two young men.

The three of them were all wearing newly-collared Jinshi uniforms, and they followed the Gao family members briskly without squinting.

The one who started looked like he was in his forties, his face was clear, his face was solemn, and he looked extremely serious and serious, especially this person's pair of knife eyebrows were not only thick and black like ink, but also the corners of the eyebrows were extremely upturned, even when he was calm, he looked a little murderous.

The man on the left-hand side behind him looked to be twenty-four or five years old, with a national character face, and looked dignified, although he was not yet an official, he seemed to be born to be an official. However, although this person has a square face, Gao Pragmatic can see from his overly smart eyes under his great concealment that this person's mind is very complicated, and he is by no means a straight intestine.

The last one seemed to be a little younger, perhaps in his early twenties, and the most handsome. This person doesn't seem to be like the first two, one is really rigid, the other is fake quiet, although he is the youngest, he looks the most free, come to see the teacher, and there is actually Yaxing to look around, enjoy the scenery.

"Student pontoon Li Tingji, meet Lord Entang."

"Student Fuqing Ye Xianggao, meet Lord Entang."

"Student Deqing Fang Congzhe, meet Lord Entang."

These three people are all great gifts, Gao pragmatic smiled and got up, stepped forward to help them up one by one, and said: "Okay, good, they are all a talent, and I am very pleased to be a teacher." ”

Today, unlike usual, I have to call myself "Entang-sama" on the one hand, and "teacher" on the other, because this is the first time that the teacher-student relationship has been established.

Entang is actually a high-level title, Gao Shishi, as the governor of a town, usually calls himself "the main department", normally speaking, it is more reasonable to call "Enyuan".

At this moment, the reason why the three protégés can call him "Entang" is because Gao Pragmatic has already hung the title of the right squire of the Ministry of War, and the squire is already at the level of "Tang Shangguan" of the Sixth Department - as for the fact that he is not a real Tang Shangguan of the Ministry of War, everyone naturally seems to ignore.

"Adult" is used here to determine the honorific title of seniority, and with the self-proclaimed "teacher" of high pragmatism, the seniority and name between them will be determined in the future.

In terms of age, Gao Pragmatic is a little younger than Fang Congzhe, the youngest of the three of them, and a full twenty years younger than Li Tingji, the oldest and in his early forties, but officialdom is the ability first, and the academic is the teacher, and age is really meaningless.

A teacher is a teacher, and Entang is Entang.

Each of them presented a codex, each of which contained an article that he had written. The meaning of this move is probably "please ask the gentleman for advice", and there is no limit to whether the article can be an old work or a new one.

Gao Pragmatic also accepted it with a smile, and said that he would take a good look at it.

The next step was for the three students to give thanks, but this was not a "teacher ceremony", but a thank you to Gao Shishi for choosing their papers as a teacher.

Gifts are usually invaluable, among which Li Tingji's gift is the lightest, just a knife of rice paper; Ye Xianggao sent half a catty of Wuyi Mountain new tea, and Gao pragmatically estimated that it should be a big red robe; Fang Congzhe gave a lake pen, which is a specialty of his hometown Huzhou.

It's also a coincidence, Gao Pragmatic drew lots before the marking this time, and won the South List volume, and the three Jinshi selected had two Fujianese and one Zhejiang, including Ye Xianggao, who was regarded as a "Donglin senior" in history, which was really speechless.

However, Gao Xiangcheng didn't particularly care about this, after all, whether Ye Xianggao was considered Donglin in the original history was actually a little controversial. In fact, judging from his actions, he probably hopes that he can be "outside neutral", otherwise Zhishi would not have recommended Fang Congzhe, a member of the Zhejiang Party, to succeed him.

It's just that he couldn't stand up to the fact that he was a Shu Jishi in the original history, and later there were southern friends such as Guo Zhengyu who favored Donglin's position to recommend him one after another, so that Ye Xianggao's personal debt could not be repaid, and the matter of "shielding Donglin" had to be done.

But the current situation is completely different, he worshipped himself as a teacher, and he can't wash off the foundation of this "Gao protégé" in this life, and in the future, it is obvious that he can only rely on the strength of the Gao Party to move forward in the sea of eunuchs, so if he wants to become a "Donglin senior" in the future, there will naturally be no drama.

Fang Congzhe belongs to the Zhejiang Party in history, and he is also the leader of the Zhejiang Party, but he is mainly due to offending the eunuch of the inner court very early, and then he was forced to learn from the former Wang Anshi to return to his hometown for many years.

Fang Congzhe in history has received a lot of criticism since he became the first assistant, probably because he thought that he did not take the responsibility of the first assistant and was too weak, but he was so pragmatic that he felt that this statement was really a bit biased.

When Fang Congzhe was the first assistant, it was not the early years of Wanli, and Emperor Wanli at that time had already discovered a magical way to deal with civil officials - whatever you say, as long as I am not happy, I will not respond.

This method seems to be child's play, but in fact it is very powerful: you civil officials can indeed speak well, the black can be said to be white, and the dead can be said to be alive, but I am not afraid now - you say yours, I don't say anything against it, I just ignore you, what can you do with me? Bite me?

In fact, why bother with a Fang Congzhe, who was the first assistant in that period was actually about the same. Under the political system of the Ming Dynasty, as long as the emperor does not cooperate, you can't even make up for the lack of staff in the center, the officials have no hope of promotion, and no one even wants to retire without approval.

Ye Xianggao and Fang Congzhe are both people who have been "alone" later, but the reason why Wanli can let them be alone is not because they trust them to dominate the world with their own strength.

On the contrary, the emperor just felt that their ability was just on the level of "stabilizing the situation", but they could not reach the level of "dominating the world".

The Wanli Emperor in history has seen Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng who dominate the world, especially Zhang Juzheng's "I am not an auxiliary, but a photographer" The impact on him in that era was too profound, and it was impossible for him to appoint any more "Zai Tianxia" chief assistant.

At this moment, a sleek and shrewd Ye Xianggao and a gentle and introverted Fang Congzhe are naturally the best choice for Emperor Wanli.

As for Li Tingji......

Gao pragmatic glanced at him, and secretly shook his head in his heart: Unless you have the opportunity of a monarch like my third uncle, I am afraid that this career will not go well.

Gao pragmatic is not a casual judgment, it can be seen from the thank you gifts given by the three protégés today that Li Tingji is not a very good person.

Ye Xianggao sends tea, which is a relaxed and casual style, and at the same time, there is no lack of practicality; Fang Congzhe sent a pen, which was both elegant and exquisite, and also showed the pattern of his birth in the heyday of Huzhou's literary style.

In contrast, Li Tingji, as a role model, only gave a knife of rice paper, and simply acted according to ordinary rules, and he couldn't feel his intentions at all, which seriously lost points.

Gao Pragmatic doesn't think he has any opinions on his own Entang, he is just too rigid, and he only talks about rules in every word and deed.

This is inflexible, and it stands to reason that this kind of person will definitely suffer if there is no extremely strong figure in the officialdom to support him, and it is nothing more than a matter of time or time.

However, Li Tingji in history was not badly lucky, he caught up with the so-called "Wanli slackness", and no one was interested in targeting him as a "non-party person", and even let him be the first assistant.

But Li Tingji found that he couldn't do anything as the first assistant, so he insisted on resigning, but he couldn't resign, so angry that he donated his house to the poor, let the whole family roll and cover first, and he ran to the temple alone to make do with it, and concentrated on one thing: resignation.

Poor Li Tingji probably didn't know at the time that this idea had hurt him, and he lived in the ruined temple for five years, and wrote 123 resignation letters before and after, but the result was that the emperor's approval was not obtained, but he got an embarrassing nickname of "Temple Zhu Pavilion Elder".

In the end, Li Tingji completely collapsed, and simply dismissed himself, on the charge of resisting the decree, and risking the risk of killing his head, and fired himself - if you don't allow me to resign, forget it, I will go back to my hometown in Fujian by myself.

Fortunately, the dignified Shoufu ran home, and Wanli didn't bother to investigate it at this time, so he just let him go. Four years later, the impoverished Li Tingji died of illness, and Wanli was rare at this time, and immediately issued an order to give him a small guarantee, called "Wenjie" - this shows two problems:

First, although Wanli did not approve all kinds of things, it was not that he did not pay attention to the government and politics, he actually paid attention to it all the time; Second, he thinks that Li Tingji has a "knot".

Gao Pragmatic looked at the three different people in front of him, and a ridiculous thought suddenly popped up in his heart: How did I hit such three people with completely different personalities, and I happened to hit the three "future first assistants" at one time?

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