Chapter 134: Changes in the Situation (Part II)
Since the new Rong Zheng Shilang has not yet been appointed, Gao Pragmatic is not in a hurry to let out of the duty room in the military department, at least he will definitely be fine if he talks to Qi Jiguang and Ma Chengxuan for a while today.
When the two of them said goodbye and left, Gao Pragmatic also went to say goodbye to Liang Menglong and his colleagues and subordinates in the military department.
Gao Pragmatic is now a big farmer, and he is the object of all ministries, and he naturally received a warm response when he came to say goodbye, and they all half-jokingly told him that they hope that in the future, the household department can take more care of the military department and take care of them.
Gao Pragmatic was different this time, and promised very happily. Everyone was a little surprised, because generally speaking, Dasi Nong would be very reserved on this issue, and would not easily agree to give special care to a certain yamen, but they didn't know if Gao Shishi's words today were casual or really meant so.
However, he didn't explain, and everyone didn't dare to ask more, only Liang Menglong smiled, knowing that Gao Shishi's words were definitely not fake. Gao pragmatic has always attached importance to military affairs, and in the past, he didn't care about the household department, so it was not easy to directly intervene, but now that he has become a big farmer, many things will naturally have to be spread according to his own will.
Today's cabinet and the situation of the seven secretaries of the court have undergone new changes, Gao pragmatic, as one of the seven secretaries, can be regarded as officially entering the decision-making level of the court - he used to often participate in decision-making, but that is obviously different from today's situation.
Today's cabinet, there are a total of six ministers, in order of order, they are Shen Shixing, the first assistant of the Zhongji Temple, Xu Guo, the second assistant of the Jianji Temple, Zhang Xueyan, the scholar of Wenhuadian University, Wu Dui, the scholar of Wuyingdian University, Wang Jiaping, the scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion, and Wang Xijue, the scholar of Dongge University.
Although Sir Wang Xilin's status is high, Shilin's status can't be brought into the cabinet after all, and he still has to honestly follow the order when he enters the cabinet, and he can only replace the tail of the Wangjiaping crane in the past.
In most cases, the order of the cabinet is in this order, and only in rare cases there is a difference, such as when the cabinet minister is not the first to the first to the reincarnation, or the emperor has clearly designated the rank in the edict - the high arch has been designated.
Specifying the order is not the same thing as entering the cabinet, the latter will be despised by Shilin, while the former will not. Guy because before the emperor appointed the order, the cabinet also passed the court meeting, and it did not make people question his qualifications.
The relationship between Wang Xijue and Zhu Yijun is obviously not that better, and it is not enough for Zhu Yijun to deliberately designate a position for him, so he has to be the last of the group.
The changes in the seven secretaries of the imperial court are not small, and now they are Yang Wei, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Gao Shipra, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Xu Xuemo, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, Liang Menglong, the secretary of the Criminal Department, Shuhua, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, Shi Xing, and Shen Li, the imperial history of Zuodu.
However, although the "Seven Secretaries of the Imperial Court" is customary to put the imperial history of Zuodu last, please don't get me wrong, this is not to say that the real status of the imperial history of Zuodu is ranked after the six books.
Zuodu Yushi is the management of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, known as the General Constitution, the Great Metropolitan Constitution, and the Asian Phase, and its status is very special, but it is difficult to clearly sort it. Because the duty of the Zuodu Imperial History is to supervise the hundred officials and discipline the world, its authority has a great relationship with the personality and style of the incumbent.
In general, if Zuodu Yushi is a person who can't rub sand in his eyes, then most of this Lord Zongxian is afraid of everyone and worried, and it is difficult to think about his status; On the contrary, if Zuodu Yushi is a good gentleman, although this Lord Zongxian must be praised everywhere, his actual status is very worrying, and he even has no sense of existence at all.
What kind of Zuodu imperial history Shen Lihui plans to make, no one can know now, including Gao Pragmatic.
In addition, Shi Xing's transfer to the Ministry of Industry Shangshu was also quite influential. Shi Xing was born in Dongming County, the Daimyo Prefecture, and from the perspective of geography alone, it seems that he should naturally be close to the Gao Party or the current Shixue School.
In fact, Shi Xing's early teachers were not Gao Gong and Guo Pu's faction, and he left the political arena very early, so that when he was young, he was open-mouthed, and he had the arrogance of some new jinshi, and he did something stupid, and was suppressed by Gao Gong.
Here's the thing: In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, Shi Xing, who was only twenty-two years old, was admitted to the Jinshi (as mentioned above, most of the Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty were around 30 years old), and his grades were still relatively high, so he entered the cabinet to watch the government, and was later awarded the pedestrian department.
In October of the first year of Longqing, Shi Xing was promoted to the rank of official. After Emperor Mu Zonglongqing ascended the throne, Shi Xing didn't know which string was wrong, and inexplicably gave advice and put forward six rules, namely, raising holy merits, lecturing holy learning, diligent observation of the court, speed Yu Yun, widely listening, and investigating slander.
Originally, this kind of recital could be written very "formatted", and the emperor basically didn't take it seriously after reading it, but Shi Xing was not, and his position in the recital was a bit problematic, as if he was treating Emperor Longqing as a villain first, and the words were very rushed.
This is a bad dish, Emperor Longqing originally had a good temper, but after seeing it, he was furious, and gave Shi Xingchen a "guilty crime", sentenced him to sixty rods, and denounced him as a citizen.
Although Gao Gong, who was the emperor's master, was not the first assistant at that time, but according to the general situation, he could and usually should come forward to defend Shi Xing, who expected that Shi Xing's song also had some implicit accusations, as if to say that Emperor Longqing was so unbearable, and Gao Gong, the emperor, should be fully responsible.
Gao Gong originally thought that this was just Shi Xing couldn't figure out the situation and wanted to endure it, but who expected that the disciples under the sect checked it and found that it was not the case at all.
What is the actual situation? It was Xu Jie's control of the speech and the high arch fighting method at that time, although Shi Xing was not Xu Jie's descendant, but as a young official, he really thought that Gao Gong was the one who did not know what to do and would take revenge in Xu Jie's mouth, so he was angry and scolded, scolding the emperor clearly, but actually scolding Gao Gong. This immediately provoked the high arch.
Gao Gong's temper was not good, and he was at a critical juncture in fighting with Xu Jie, Shi Xing, a hairy boy, jumped out to be cannon fodder by himself, could Gao Gong simply fulfill him? So Gao Gong no longer cared about Shi Xing's "backward progress in the north list", let alone a hand, and directly signed on the emperor's decree of condemnation.
So Shi Xing received sixty court rods, dismissed the official on the spot, and was degraded as a citizen.
Think about what the concept of a scholar is when he is beaten with sixty canes under normal circumstances - a serious beating of twenty canes is enough to kill people, and Shi Xing was beaten with sixty canes, but he was just unconscious.
In fact, this was when Gao Gong greeted Meng Chong, the great eunuch who was the master of ceremonies at the time, and asked him to arrange it, teach him a lesson, and don't kill anyone. Meng Chong was recommended by Gao Gong, so he naturally didn't dare to disobey Gao Gong's meaning, and he did a beautiful job.
Speaking of Shi Xing himself, under the support of his fellow villager friend Mu Wenxi, he finally woke up after a day and night of care.
At this time, Shi Xing thought that he should be a talented person in Xu Jie's eyes, but who knew that Xu Jie's side didn't react at all, so he didn't think there was such a thing at all.
When Shi Xing heard the news, he was half cold on the spot, and he almost died of anger. However, he was indeed very temperamental at that time, and although he was seriously injured, he refused to stay in Beijing, and returned to his hometown with Mu Wenxi. Gao Gong was later stunned by Xu Jie, and returned to his hometown for more than a year before returning to Beijing, and after returning to Beijing, he was very busy with his cabinet ministers and heavenly officials, so he forgot about Shi Xing, and didn't think of rehabilitating Shi Xing after Xu Jie's downfall.
In June of the sixth year of Longqing, Longqing died, and Wanli ascended the throne. According to the custom, the Ministry proposed to use the officials who were convicted for their words during the Longqing period, and Shi Xing was among them, and Gao Gong only remembered him when he saw it, but he did not stop it, so Shi Xing was reinstated. Second Chinese Network
In August of the same year, Shi Xing arrived in Beijing, and at this time, Gao Gong had already lost his anger, but he also "compensated" Shi Xing and let him be promoted from the original official to Shang Baosi Shaoqing.
In August of the second year of Wanli, Shi Xing had smoothed out the edges and corners at this time, and knew that the inside story of Xu Jie's dispute with Gao Gong was not what he imagined, and his attitude towards Gao Dang began to change, so he was reappointed by Shang Baosi Shaoqing to the right temple of Dali Temple, and soon he was promoted to the left temple of Dali Temple.
Of course, this is the embodiment of Gao Gong's will, because Shang Baosi is a Qingshui Yamen, but the level is okay, Gao Gong puts Shi Xing in Shang Bao Division, one is to compensate for the grade, and the other is to observe Shi Xing's attitude. If Shi Xing is still stubborn and unrepentant, of course, Gao Gong also has a way to rectify it.
However, since Shi Xing had "known his mistake", Gao Gong of course still adhered to the principle of promoting his juniors and used him again.
However, the previous suppression may not be completely relieved for Shi Xing, and although he has been biased towards the Real School as a whole since then, he has not completely sided with the Real School at some times, especially after Gao Gong's death.
For example, when he was in the military department, he impeached Gao Shishi, who was the governor of Liaodong at the time: at that time, Gao Shishi planned to kill Ye He Erbeile, and Shi Xing impeached him for provoking on the side. Shi Xing thinks that Ye He's matter has not reached the point where he needs to kill people in this way, and Gao Shishi's killing has the meaning of "punishment without teaching".
This impeachment didn't have any effect, Zhu Yijun didn't agree, but he didn't deal with Shi Xing directly, he just left the bullet in the middle.
Gao Pragmatic was aware of this, but he knew what Zhu Yijun meant at the time: Shi Xing did a good job on the whole, but after he was suppressed at the beginning, although he occasionally had some bookish spirit, he seemed to have turned a little "dovish" in his views on major politics, and he was notoriously disliked to see "unnecessary wars".
At that time, the military department was full of main battle factions, and Zhu Yijun thought that keeping a main and faction could be a little vigilant, so he didn't deal with this stubble, but just talked about things privately with Gao Pragmatic, lest Gao Pragmatic not know the holy will.
Later, Gao Pragmatic himself entered the military department, and once found an opportunity to talk to Shi Xing about this matter, Shi Xing said that he was not blindly peaceful, but he was afraid that this battle would lead to the Liaodong War, and the Jurchen tribes would completely rebel. The premise here is well known - the court ran out of money that year, and there would be big problems if there was another big war.
Generally speaking, Gao Pragmatic felt that Shi Xing was basically a neutral official who was slightly inclined to the Shi School, but deep down he might still have some nostalgia for the Gao family. It's not a big deal, and it's not okay.
Now that Shi Xing has become the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, whether it will have any impact on the court situation still needs to be discussed within the Shi School. Whether it is high pragmatism or Liang Menglong, they are not very accurate about this.
The only good news is probably that the emperor's Shou Palace (Wanli Dingling) is now being repaired to a critical juncture, and Shi Xing, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, will definitely add the "Governor's Mausoleum Work" soon, and before the Shou Palace is completed and accepted, he probably has little time to interfere in other things.
The problems of Shen Li and Shi Xing will be stopped for the time being, and then there are two "old Qiqing" who also have to pay attention to it.
As I said before, Yang Wei, the official of the Ministry of Officials, is a neutral faction, and because he has a very good relationship with Zhang Siwei, he has always behaved like a real school official.
However, the age of this Tianguan is a problem—he still has two years to reach the age where he should be a regular scholar, but it seems that there is no suitable candidate for the official department within the Shixue School at the moment.
Originally, there would not have been such an embarrassing thing, because the earlier plan within the Shixue School was to let Shen Li work well in the position of the head of the household, and when Yang Wei became the official, he would just be able to fill this vacancy. Who knew that although Shen Li was an upright person, he was really not good at managing money, and when he needed a large amount of money at the same time for the opening of the feudal ban and the Northwest Rebellion, he couldn't give any constructive advice, so he was disgusted by the emperor.
If it weren't for taking care of the face of the real school, whether Shen Li could "flatten" the imperial history of Zuodu this time was a bit hanging, and if he wanted to take over as a heavenly official in two years, it probably wouldn't be very safe at present.
And the last object that needs to be paid attention to is the Shangshu Shuhua of the Criminal Department. Shuhua's problem is relatively simple, the main thing is that his physical condition is really worrying, and he is already in a state where a minor illness can become a major illness, and he almost went to a cold after a cold, and the emperor is worried that he will say that he will be gone, and he is currently quietly observing who can replace him - this is what Chen Ju quietly told Gao Pragmatic before, but Chen Ju does not know the results of the emperor's observation, and he does not know who the emperor has taken a fancy to.
The Criminal Department was not originally the main position of the Shixue School, and they didn't have to get this position, but this kind of thing...... It's okay if I can't get it, but don't get it either.
This is always an idea, so Gao Pragmatism has to consider one or two.
Coming out of the military department, it was already late, and there was no point in going to the household department, anyway, today was just to hand over the power and responsibility of the military department, not the day when he, the big Si Nong, took office, so Gao Pragmatic went back to Zhao Hui Jinggongfang directly.
Gao Pragmatic has changed its name many times in the past few years in this mansion in Zhaohui Jinggongfang, and after today's holy decree came down, Jinghua with its efficient operation, actually changed the plaque before Gao Pragmatic came back.
Now the plaque at the gate has been replaced with the four big characters of "Shangshu Gaofu".
The words are written in pavilion style, square and round, Gao pragmatic looked at the door with some doubts, and took a closer look, only to find that it was his own handwriting, and couldn't help but be stunned.
The elusive Gao Mo suddenly came out, and saw the old man staring at the door plaque in a daze, and hurriedly explained: "This is the real master's handiwork, but it was copied from the master's ink treasure by the calligrapher, no wonder the old man was suspicious." ”
Oh, I see. Gao pragmatic nodded and asked, "Are there any guests in the house?" ”
Gao Mo smiled bitterly: "Yes, the boss and a group of grandfathers, marquis, and uncles, the old slave almost couldn't greet him." ”
Gao Pragmatic put his hand on his forehead and sighed: "These people...... Well, I know what they're afraid of, so I'm going to appease them. ”
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