The more officials who fail the exam, the greater the resistance to passing the exam.
Now you can see from the outside how great the resistance is to passing the law.
It’s no wonder that as soon as Zhang Juzheng died, he immediately launched a counterattack.
Because there were so many unqualified candidates, Zhu Yijun had to carefully select two typical ones.
Tu Xiying, a fourth-grade official and one of the Xiaojiuqing, was the first assistant in history and the successor of the Xinxue Hanlin editor Zhao Zhigao.
Neither above nor below, the fault is not big, and at the same time, it is very representative.
But in addition to typical examples, there are many people who even the emperor cannot directly reprimand.
For the sake of stability, we can only express it tactfully.
For example, while rewarding Wang Xijue, the minister of the Ministry of Punishment of South Zhili, he also deliberately compared it with the Minister of Punishment of North Zhili, which was to punish Wang Zhigao, the minister of the Ministry of Punishment, who was not good at reprimanding him face to face.
Another example is that the King of the Ministry of Finance used the reason for receiving the reward to reveal the foundation of the Ministry of Industry and Finance. Naturally, he was reminding Liu Guangji, the right minister of the Ministry of Industry and Finance, who was in charge of the Ministry of Industry and Finance, that he did not have to wait until the end of this year before taking up an official position.
, you can leave early.
In your Ming Dynasty, there are too many people who hold high positions but are still in the position of vegetarians.
Otherwise, why would Wu Zhongxing and others not even follow the first assistant teacher, but instead want to rely on criticism to test the law and win the favor of the courtiers?
Because the opposition was once very loud, Zhu Yijun inspected the official department after handling the Fu Que incident.
It’s just to prepare for this round of examinations.
Likewise, simply reprimanding the opposition is not enough.
If a government decree does not have strong supporters, it will not last long.
Therefore, after Zhu Yijun put on a show in the official department, he began to show his face in various official offices and spread the clouds.
Distribute reward money.
Promotion to an official rank.
Give words of praise.
Especially for officials with poor backgrounds, such as Wang Yongji, Zhu Yijun kept trying to make the examination method open and transparent, and to have a basis for promotion.
Given the combination of official position, benefits, reputation, and future, not only myself but also my colleagues would be jealous.
Zhu Yijun and his party slowly walked out of the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry.
Just as he was thinking about his next choice.
Zhang Juzheng's voice suddenly sounded next to his ears.
"Your Majesty, I have something to report."
Zhu Yijun turned back curiously.
Zhang Juzheng looked serious and saluted him with his hands raised.
Seeing how serious he was, Zhu Yijun couldn't help but calm down: "Sir, please speak."
The ministers beside him stood far away.
Only two assistant ministers were left, one on the left and one on the right, surrounded by the emperor, walking slowly in the Thousand-Step Corridor.
It is already dusk now.
The setting sun stretched to the west, stretching the silhouettes of the three people extremely long, reflecting on the clean Qianbu Corridor, facing Chengtian Gate and with their backs to Daming Gate.
Li Deyou, who was following the emperor, suddenly approached Wu Zhongxing.
He whispered: "Zidao, I happen to be good at painting. I was inspired by this scene and am about to go back and splash ink to paint. Zidao's handwriting is beautiful. Can you write a preface for me?"
Wu Zhongxing was in a daze and was startled when he heard this.
Immediately he realized that Li Deyou was pulling him together to please His Majesty - just now, only he and Zhao Yongxian, as disciples of Zhang Juzheng, had been rewarded by Zhongshu Sheren, and outsiders had no way of trying to please His Majesty.
He had no reason to refuse.
Wu Zhongxing glanced at the first emperor and two assistants who were walking hand in hand, and immediately turned back with a smile: "Thanks to Youji's appreciation, you and I might as well paint it overnight. I will go to the Wanshou Palace on duty tomorrow so that I can present a gift to His Majesty."
Hearing this, Li Deyou emotionally held Wu Zhongxing's hand: "If you and I completed the painting earlier, we could still be able to sleep with enough rest."
In fact, Mr. Li was not so clever at first.
It's Fukue who invites me, and I paint to flatter him.
There is no way, since that crazy student from the Taizhou School came to Beijing last year, he often spread rumors in the city about how unfair women have been.
This made his poor wife in Chengdu speak and behave strangely, giving him looks all day long, saying that she owed her a cabinet wife, Meng Yunyun.
As a last resort, Li Deyou had to break into camp.
After Wu Zhongxing heard what Li Deyou said, he couldn't help but look at each other and smile.
All in silence.
At the same time, Zhang Juzheng, who was walking in front, was still talking to the emperor about business: "...sages use the classics to teach, and the country uses the classics to educate people. If you can understand the classics, you will explain your knowledge. Why bother to follow other standards?
A portal, an empty party gathering?"
"I believe that the continuous prohibition of lectures is the result of the continuous flow of doors and the frequent appearance of those who interfere with right and wrong!"
"Therefore, we should destroy that academy and cut off its roots!"
The words just fell.
Gao Yi, who was next to Zhu Yijun, immediately changed his expression and said in a voiceless voice: "Your Majesty, no!"
He almost thought Zhang Ju was talking nonsense!
Destroy the academy!
If you do this, your spine will be broken!
During the Longqing period, when Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gongjin were lecturing, the two of them "hated lectures the most and had quarrels with each other", and they also wanted to "turn the academy into a public institution".
Fortunately, the late emperor was sober at that time, but they banned lectures and did not listen to their words, destroying the academies and rebuilding schools.
Now that old matters are being brought up again, Gao Yi is afraid that the emperor will be bewitched.
Zhu Yijun couldn't help but his eyelids twitched.
Yuansuke, you are too radical!
Why is Zhang Juzheng's reputation so bad?
There is no shortage of reasons why this guy has done this in history!
At that time, Zhang Juzheng issued an edict to destroy the non-official academies all over the world and turn all 64 academies under the Yingtian Prefecture into public institutions on the grounds that "there were many disciples and followers who acted in different ways, shaken the court, and confused the reputation and reality."
This approach once made Zhang Juzheng as famous as Wei Zhongxian.
Now Zhang Juzheng probably saw that he was also disgusted with these officials who were giving lectures, so he struck while the iron was hot and wanted to get it done in one step.
But Zhu Yijun is not willing to do it.
After Gao Yi stopped him, Zhu Yijun also quickly advised: "Sir, he once warned me with the illustrated book of Emperor Shuo that political affairs should be planned slowly and not be impatient and impatient."
"Is this gentleman interested in taking an exam at my school?"
"In the 17th year of Jiajing's reign, when the academy was destroyed, 'even though Emperor Shizong tried to ban it, it could not be stopped'. At one point, 'the more officials banned it, the more people took action.'"
"Is it possible to destroy the academy to teach?"
Although he also looked down upon officials like Tu Xiying and Zhao Zhigao who lectured all day long.
But it's not to the point of destroying the academy.
This is a huge political incorrectness. If we go ahead and do it, I don’t know how many people will become alienated from morality.
Zhang Juzheng looked disappointed when he saw that the emperor and Gao Yi unanimously opposed it.
But he still tried his best to persuade: "Your Majesty, now all the chief secretaries have state schools, and there are Imperial Colleges in the two capitals."
“Since there is official education, how can we allow private education to spread and flourish?”
"They gather people who are idle and idle, practice hypocrisy and heresy, and criticize each other. The academy can't stop giving lectures every day."
"How can you be too embarrassed to do anything because of difficulties?"
From Zhang Juzheng's point of view, neither Cheng Zhu nor Wang Xue had any problems.
The problem is that there are so many disciples and disciples of chanting sutras that a good teaching can create more than a dozen schools.
As soon as there are more schools, messy remarks will come out.
If they are still criticizing each other, don't they have to go around and lecture to confuse the public?
If we don’t deal with the root cause, how can Zhao Zhigao and Tu Xiying be eliminated?
Now there have been two consecutive No. 1 Scholars who have lectured and socialized like this. Isn’t that enough to explain the problem?
Gao Yi on the side smiled reluctantly and said comfortingly: "Yuan Fu's words are wrong. The academy is easy to be destroyed, but it is difficult for people to keep silent."
"I'm afraid it will backfire."
Zhang Juzheng was displeased and was about to refute.
At this time, Zhu Yijun suddenly said seriously: "Sir, the people have no worries about food and clothing, so they have no time to listen to all kinds of fallacies of other people. If not, they would listen to the White Lotus teachings and learn the five buckets of rice magic."
"That's a good thing."
"As for Cheng and Zhu, Wang's learning was different at different times, and heresy gradually emerged..."
"This is inevitable. Confucianism and Confucianism have its own characteristics. How can we go against the trend?"
"Forbidding officials from lecturing means banning party members and subordinates who are not doing their jobs properly. What is the crime of lecturing among the people?"
"If words are involved in crimes, there are laws to punish them. If they are not guilty, how can they go on to destroy someone just because they disagree?"
"Yuanfu, I can't respond to your decision to destroy the world's academies."
Zhu Yijun understood Zhang Juzheng.
These days, too many people rely on lectures to engage in politics.
Xu Jie and Li Chunfang at the time, Wang Shizhen and Zhao Zhigao today, and even the Donglin Party in the future, all looked like this.
If it is not curbed a little, it will lead to gathering people to form associations, making alliances in the opposition, and meddling in political affairs.
When it developed to its peak, it was like the restoration of society in the late Ming Dynasty.
With an order, tens of thousands of scholars gathered together.
Secretly controlling the imperial examination, who is the first and who is the leader, who is first and who is last, all depends on the appointment of Fushe.
Even the chief minister and his assistants all obeyed and handed over a piece of paper, indicating who should be promoted or demoted, exactly.
The ally advocated Pu, and he was even known as the civil emperor!
But even so, Zhu Yijun still refused.
Nor can he easily use his visible hand to physically suppress and eliminate various schools of thought in order to curb illegal civil organizations.
Although it is said that today's universities are very poor, there is nothing to say.
But this kind of environment where a hundred flowers bloom is rare.
You must know that under today's endogenous system, it is not easy to carry out philosophical self-renewal.
There's always something good coming out.
For example, it is almost a breakthrough point of view to transfer the political legitimacy of the emperor to the rights and responsibilities of pastoralists and common people - "The emperor has been entrusted with a great position by heaven, how can he only be favored by noble wealth? He paid hundreds of millions.
The order of all living things and the people is to make him a pastor. Therefore, he is called the Son of Heaven, which means 'on behalf of the Son of Heaven and all the people'."
At this point, the superiority of the divine right of kings has been replaced by the equalization of kings, rights and people's authorization and responsibilities.
Who says that democracy cannot be born in an endogenous environment?
If it weren't for the bad deeds of wild pig skins, the outcome of the world would be even more uncertain.
Precisely because this rare and rare seedling is now growing naturally and taking shape, Zhu Yijun never thought of using rough methods on it.
Even if he wanted to reform the study of Confucian classics, he would call Wang Shizhen and prepare for a serious debate on the classics and a serious spiritual collision.
Now how can we fail in our efforts and directly destroy the academy?
Therefore, Zhu Yijun was very serious this time and rejected Zhang Juzheng's proposal.
Zhang Juzheng looked at the emperor seriously.
The emperor once did not interfere in the affairs of the cabinet. As the chief minister, he was deeply trusted and almost had sole power.
But at this moment, I suddenly realized what it was like to have a disagreement with the emperor.
It feels very strange.
There was both the displeasure of being refuted, the relief that the emperor was taking charge of his own affairs, and the uneasiness of not being able to control some things.
Zhang Juzheng did not answer for a while.
He looked back at Li Baiyang who was following behind him, and then looked at the emperor's figure.
Suddenly I felt something in my heart - Emperor, you have grown taller.
Zhang Juzheng was full of reasons. When they came to his mouth, he swallowed them all.
It just turned into a sigh: "What your Majesty said is reasonable, but I'm afraid that others will use it to connect with each other and slander the government."
"When the test is completed and the method is spread out, and even the fields are spread, I'm afraid there will be big trouble."
As soon as the pilot test of the examination method is completed, it will be spread until half of the Ming Dynasty.
The matter of consolidating the fields will have to wait for another three or four years at most.
I don't know how much trouble it will cause.
If we don't kill the opponents now before they collude with each other, then collusion with each other will become the norm, and it will be difficult to handle.
Zhu Yijun shook his head and said confidently: "Sir, as long as we don't mess up, nothing big will happen."
After he said this, he paused and repeated again: "If you let people talk, the sky will not fall."
Zhang Juzheng obviously didn't agree, but he just shook his head and said nothing.
…
"His Majesty."
"His Majesty."
The Yamen of the Hanlin Academy is not that big. After all, it was rebuilt on the former site of the Yamen of Honglu Temple.
In addition to the three halls of Wenhan, Wenshi, and Hongwen, there is only one Hanlin main courtyard in the middle.
Zhu Yijun stood in the courtyard, summoning all the concubines and Hanlin officials to get up, and looking around at the Hanlin Academy.
Wang Xilie, who was in charge of Hanlin affairs, accompanied him and introduced him with a salute: "Your Majesty, I live in the Wenhan Hall to serve as a student, lecturer, and bookkeeper. Doctors of the Five Classics and classics are waiting for imperial edicts."
"The Museum of Literature and History uses residence to compile, edit, and review..."
Zhu Yijun didn't even listen to the introduction by Wang Xilie, the director of the Hanlin Academy.
Just let your eyes fall on Wang Jiaping.
He stretched out his hand and waved: "Wang Qing, come near me."
Wang Xilie was introducing, and after hearing the words, he walked to the emperor's side.
Looking up, he saw the emperor waving to Wang Jiaping. He paused awkwardly, sometimes touching his face and sometimes pointing around.
With an expressionless expression on his face, Wang Jiaping walked past his colleagues, walked up to the emperor, and made a formal salute.
"Chen Hanlin compiled Wang Jiaping and paid homage to His Majesty."
Zhu Yijun took a step forward and reached out to help the person up.
He held Wang Jiaping's hand and looked around at the crowd of common people. Hanlin said: "The Hanlin Academy is the place where talents are stored for the country and the dynasty. With the gathering of elites, everything never falls behind others."
"Since I became a master of law, there have been many excellent people, but none of them are as outstanding as Wang Qing."
"In the past year since he took the Dharma Examination, Wang Qing has been compiling the records of the two dynasties. His progress is far ahead of his time. He is also able to carve out his words and be upright without flattery."
"Last year, I drafted the "Posthumous Inscriptions of Empress Xiaoyi", "Inscriptions on the Honorary Title of the Holy Mother in the Middle Palace", "Inscriptions on the Honorary Title of the Holy Mother", "Inscriptions on the Honorary Title of the Empress Dowager Rensheng", and "Inscriptions on the Honorary Title of the Empress Dowager Cisheng".
", every word is precious, every sentence is sincere."
"Then he taught in the inner hall and worked conscientiously, and all the students praised him and worshiped him as his teacher."
"At the beginning of the year, when it came to enthroning the vassal king in Shu, all the ministers were speechless, but Wang Qing stepped forward."
"After the autumn lectures, Wang Qing was a supplementary lecturer. He spent all his time preparing lessons for me, and he was meticulous and thoughtful..."
Zhu Yijun was full of praise, and his expression was even more admiring, praising Wang Jiaping to the sky.
This scene made countless people jealous.
The emperor specially went to the yamen and praised him personally. All the common people and officials were very envious and wished to replace him!
After this incident, Wang Jiaping's future may be unlimited!
Hanlin, who found it difficult to accept the existence of others and the existence of others, also had a lot of jealousy in his eyes.
Zhu Yijun took in all these expressions in his eyes.
Of course he knew that his behavior was somewhat exaggerated.
After all, there are many people who have excelled in the examination, and there may not be anyone who has done better than Wang Jiaping.
But, politics.
It is to set an example.
With just one entry that non-Hanlin officials are not allowed to be elected to the cabinet, Wang Jiaping has won the following and suffered too much.
In addition, his background is not high, he is a man who works hard and studies hard, so he is most suitable to serve as a model for the entrance examination platform - you see, if you work hard at your job, you will have a better future than if you go around giving lectures and building connections.
Of course, these are all inseparable from Wang Jiaping's loyalty and talent, which earned him this opportunity.
After Zhu Yijun finished speaking, he let go of Wang Jiaping's hand.
Let him express his gratitude and salute.
When Wang Jiaping saw that the emperor finally let go of his hand, he immediately bowed down and said respectfully: "What your majesty said are all matters within the scope of your duties. You do not deserve your majesty's high praise."
"Besides, I sleep well every day, eat frequently, and do not forget to eat or sleep."
After Wang Jiaping finished speaking, everyone on the scene looked strange.
Zhu Yijun's smiling face also felt a little embarrassed for a moment.
very good.
As expected of you, no wonder you are called Duanren, and you are still holding it at this time.
Zhu Yijun couldn't help but curse in his heart.
Forget it, it's my fault that I didn't expect that this guy wouldn't cooperate with the performance, so I overacted.
He also knew that Wang Jiaping was not very virtuous in history.
When Gao Gong was the first assistant, he refuted Gao Gong, when teacher Zhang Juzheng was the first assistant, he offended Zhang Juzheng, and when his student Wanli came to power, he tried to overpower Wanli.
Extremely good resources, but in the end he became frustrated and became an official.
But he is also a straight person who does not pretend to be hypocritical.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yijun laughed and waved his hand: "I exaggerated my words."
"Anyway, I have to reward you."
He looked at Zhang Juzheng behind him and asked, "Yuanfu, is there a suitable position in Zuo Chunfang to fill the gap?"
There was a public discussion before coming, so naturally there was nothing to say.
Zhang Juzheng pretended to ponder for a moment and replied: "Reporting to Your Majesty, there is still a vacancy in Zuo Yude of Zuo Chunfang."
Zuo Chunfang Zuo Yude was from the fifth rank, which has always been a fast track for promotion in the Imperial Academy.
Zhu Yijun nodded, smiled at Wang Jiaping and said, "Wang Qing will go to Zuochunfang to report tomorrow."
After that, he didn't wait for Wang Jiaping to speak.
Looking around at the crowd of common people again, Hanlin said seriously: "When the country employs people, all the ministers will take Wang Qing as an example. I will treat you kindly!"
After that, he personally rewarded the silver and wrote the four words "One virtue brings harmony" to Wang Jiaping.
After a set of procedures is completed.
Only then did Zhu Yijun leave the Hanlin Academy surrounded by everyone.
A group of commoners and Hanlin bowed to see him off with complicated expressions.
Chapter completed!