It was obviously difficult for Yang Tianguan to find out whether Gu Xiancheng's position was arranged by Gao Xiancheng. However, after he recalled Gu Xiancheng's career trajectory, it was hard to believe that Gao Xiancheng did not play some role in it - such as the hidden weapon.
Behind the scenes, although you can't see it, you can definitely feel its power.
In the official department, the largest one is the minister, followed by the left and right ministers. These three are called Tang Shangguan. The following are the four ministers, who are equivalent to the directors in later generations. These four Qing officials are called the Wenxuan Division.
Although the four Qing officials are parallel units, the status of these four departments is very different. The most powerful among them are the Wenxuan Department and the Examination Department.
Why is it so great? The Literary and Selection Department is responsible for personnel appointments and removals, and the merit examination department is responsible for the evaluation of officials.
Although there are very few formal officials in these two departments, no one has ever dared to mess with them, because as long as you are an official, whether you are promoted or dismissed, prosperous or bankrupt, basically depends on their whims.
Let alone the "feudal dynasty" like the Ming Dynasty, even if you were in later generations, wouldn't you be very happy if the Organization Minister talked to you? But if Secretary S of the Discipline Inspection Commission talks to you, even if you have no evil intentions, you will still be frightened.
, are you afraid that you may have made some mistake accidentally?
Because of this, in the Ming Dynasty, except for the "airborne" contestants appointed by Emperor Chen Duan, most of the ministers and ministers of the Ministry of Personnel were taken over by the ministers of the Wenxuan Department and the Examination Department.
And Yang Wei remembered very clearly that Gu Xiancheng’s official career history was as follows:
In the eighth year of Wanli, he won the gold medal in high school, ranked second in the imperial examination, and was selected as a Shujishi. After leaving the academy, he stayed in Beijing because of his excellent performance and was awarded the title of head of the household department (sixth grade).
In the tenth year of Wanli, he was appointed as the head of the Examination Department of the Ministry of Personnel (the sixth rank), but soon after that he asked for leave and went to Ding You, and he stayed there for three years.
In the thirteenth year of Wanli, Gu Xiancheng returned to the court after canceling his leave and became the head of the Department of Examination and Examination of Officials. Logically speaking, his real power was greatly reduced when he was replaced by the Department of Examination and Examination. However, as a supplementary official, being able to stay in Beijing was enough.
I'm so lucky, I can't ask for anything else.
However, a miraculous situation occurred. Within three months, Gu Xiancheng was promoted to Yuanwailang of the Examination Department - this is the deputy position of the Examination Department, second only to the doctor, and it is the position that Gu Xiancheng still holds.
Judging from Yang Wei's decades of experience in officialdom, there are only three possibilities for Gu Xiancheng to encounter this situation.
The first is called Jane in the Emperor's Heart: The emperor was so impressed with him that he was immediately promoted to an official position just three months after returning to the capital without even getting hot. And it was not just a simple promotion, but also a promotion from a cold bench to a hot job.
bench.
The second type is that there is someone in the court: there is a big shot taking care of you, and this big shot is able to keep his word in a sensitive government office like the Ministry of Civil Affairs. It is one of the most popular positions in the world, and he can give it to you at his request.
The third type is called stepping on shit: Well, this is a matter of luck, so don’t mention it. Besides, judging from today’s situation, Yang Tianguan definitely doesn’t believe that Gu Xiancheng just got shit luck.
Is Gu Xiancheng Jane in the Emperor's heart? It doesn't look like it. The standard of "Jane in the Emperor's heart" is very high now - look at people who are very pragmatic, that one is called Jane in the Emperor's heart. It is also on the gold list in Wanli eight years.
Gao Wuzhen has now reached the first rank of officialdom, and is the dignified prince, grand master, and minister of household affairs!
Look at Wang Xijue, he is already an old man. His title is no more than that of Crown Prince and Taifu, and he is still a little less pragmatic.
The order with the smallest number is Master, Fu, Bao).
Therefore, although Gu Xiancheng was always able to get into positions of real power and importance with his highly pragmatic talents in front of him, his promotion speed was really unflattering, and he did not reach the level of "Jane in the Emperor's Heart".
In this case, the only possibility is the second one, Gu Xiancheng "has someone in the court."
However, although Gu Xiancheng has some literary reputation, Donglin Academy has not yet appeared. Who can take care of him in the court? There are fewer and fewer neutral factions in the court. The big bosses are either from the real school or from the real school.
He is from the Heart School, and even if there are occasional bosses from the Neutral School, seeing how Gu Xiancheng is constantly taunting and scolding the "Essentials of Wang Xue", he probably wouldn't dare to have anything to do with him.
Yang Tianguan believes that the only more reliable inference is that Gao pragmatism secretly planned it.
In fact, although Yang Wei's guess is not entirely correct, it cannot be wrong. Gao Pragmatic did interfere, but the main point of interference was not Gu Xiancheng's position.
In Gu Xiancheng's original history, his promotion trajectory was not much different from that of this world. Gao Pragmatic did not make special arrangements for him. The reason why he often criticized the Xin School but was still able to hang out in the official department, and most of the time he even took the merit examination, was
In Yuyuan history, successive ministers of the Ministry of Personnel were not very fond of the study of mind, but were more inclined to the practical study of the world.
Gao Pragmatic's role this time was to secretly tell "Senior Brother" Song Zhihan, who was the right minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs at the time, not to let Gu Xiancheng be impeached for no reason. In other words, if nothing happened, he would be protected.
One guarantee.
The Ministry of Personnel has been the home of the Real School for many years. As a disciple of Gao Gong, Song Zhihan stayed in the Ministry of Personnel. Yang Wei would not easily oppose his opinions, so Gu Xiancheng's career was smooth sailing.
The real foreshadowing of Gao pragmatic this time was that he had just returned to the capital to serve as the Minister of Household Affairs. Before he returned to the capital, he notified Wang Yuexi, the doctor of the Ministry of Official Affairs' Examination Department, that he "suddenly contracted a sudden illness" and immediately went home to recuperate.
Wang Yuexi, named Xiaotang, was a Jinshi in Guiwei and a member of Jinyi Weiren (referring to household registration). Guiwei Ke was the subject in the 11th year of Wanli. Three of Gao Pragmatic's disciples, Li Tingji, Ye Xianggao and Fang Congzhe, were all in this category.
Science.
However, Wang Yuexi was not Gao Pragmatic's disciple. His teacher was someone else, Han Ji - yes, Gao Pragmatic's senior brother. He was a bachelor at the Hanlin Academy at the time and is now the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Justice.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! From this we can also see one thing, whether it is a direct descendant of the Pragmatic School or not, the influence is still great. Gu Xiancheng and Gao Pragmatic are in the same subject, but now they are just
Yuanwailang. Wang Yuexi was one class behind him, but because he is a direct descendant of the Shi School, he is now a doctor.
As for Li Tingji and the other three, the comparison cannot be made like this. Although the three of them are just "officers in the Imperial Academy", they are noble officials. As long as they have passed the qualifications, once they are recommended by a heavyweight boss, they can be promoted at any time.
It is possible to be appointed as a minister. But for a doctor to become a minister, not only does it take a long time, but the chance of success is much lower than that of the Hanlin.
"Gods in the sky" and "immortals halfway through" are at least people who are cultivating immortals, but they are not comparable to ordinary people.
Before Gao pragmatic returned to Beijing, he guessed that he would definitely get into trouble for "making trouble" after becoming the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. At that time, suddenly resorting to the killer move of Jingcha would be very effective.
However, Jingcha's move is a bit like the "Seven Injury Boxing". It is of course very powerful to hit others, but it is also very likely to injure and disable himself. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic asked Wang Yuexi to "suddenly contract an acute illness" in advance, and then forget about it.
You can use the Jingcha killing move, or you can decide on the spur of the moment whether Wang Yuexi should take action himself - now it seems that he probably won't.
This move is not only to protect Wang Yuexi, but also to put oneself in an offensive and defensive position. After all, it is an "emergency illness". It may linger for a long time, or it may be cured in the next day.
Beat to death.
When this "disease" will be cured, it is not Li Shizhen who has the final say, but Gao Pragmatism.
On this day, all the officials in the capital were very busy. Unfortunately, most of them were not on business, and they basically went to pay homage to the dock. If there was a teacher in a high-ranking official position, the disciples would definitely visit; if there was no teacher in the capital, they would have to go to the same year as the teacher.
Elders, if it doesn't work, you have no choice but to go see your yamen's superior, hoping that the leader will give you a good review.
After Yang Tianguan confirmed that the doctor of the imperial examination department could not take charge of the detailed affairs of the Beijing inspection, he politely called in Gu Xiancheng, the foreign minister of the imperial examination department, and appointed him on the spot to act as the doctor's authority and be fully responsible for the Beijing inspection.
Gu Xiancheng was able to pull up Donglin Academy in the original history. Naturally, he was not a person who was afraid of trouble. He agreed on the spot, with no fear on his face, a solemn look on his face, and a straight back.
Yang Tianguan comforted him with gentle words, but the meaning behind his words was that the rise and fall of the world depends on you alone.
His heartfelt encouragement from an old man in the officialdom made Gu Xiancheng, who was not yet forty years old, so proud that he declared on the spot that the key to this Beijing inspection was to inspect the officials to "understand the four essentials" and hoped that Tianguan
Mr. Lao supports it. (Yang Wei was a Jinshi in the 26th year of Jiajing. Not only is he senior, he is also his old leader, so he can be respectfully called Mr. Lao.)
Yang Wei was already seventy-two years old, so he didn’t question his theory in detail. After hearing it for a while, he directly agreed with Gao Pragmatism’s idea of borrowing a knife to kill someone. In fact, this is because Gao Pragmatism was not there. If Gao Pragmatism were there, he would definitely be shocked: "
Gu Xiancheng, you have summarized the main theme of "Donglin Rendezvous" so early?
In fact, Gu Xiancheng not only mentioned the "Four Essentials" in "Donglin Rendezvous", his original words were "order the Four Essentials", "break the two confusions", "advocate the nine benefits", and "screen the nine losses". But the following few
Most of the items explain "why lectures are needed", which are tailor-made for Donglin Academy and have nothing to do with Beijing Cha at this time.
What he calls "the four essentials" here means "clearly and clearly". As for the four essentials, the first is to "know the origin"; the second is to "be determined"; the third is to "respect the scriptures"; the fourth is to "examine the truth"
(Tongji)".
The most fundamental of these "four essentials" is "knowing the basics".
In fact, the core of "Donglin Meeting" later produced by Donglin Academy is the word "knowledge of the original". What is "knowledge of the original"? It means to rectify the original and clear the source, to return Confucianism to its orthodox status, and to abandon the false and exaggerated academic style of Lu Wang's Xinxue.
Although Yang Tianguan didn't listen carefully, as soon as Gu Xiancheng said "know the origin", he understood that Gu Xiancheng's guns during the Beijing inspection this time must be aimed at the Heart School.
The reason is very simple. The Xin School has always been at odds with Neo-Confucianism and does not recognize the study of things to achieve knowledge. They emphasize that "there is nothing outside the mind" - this itself has deviated from the main meaning that Wang Yangming wanted to express, because what Wang Yangming valued most was actually "to achieve conscience"
.The descendants of King Lu's Xinxue completely went astray and went directly to Xuanxuan, Zen first-class, and completely idealism.
However, Jingshi Shixue is different. They consider themselves in the lineage of "Neo-Confucianism". Especially after Gao Pragmatic took over the banner, they very much recognized "investigating things to achieve knowledge", but the "investigating things to achieve knowledge" he proposed was different from the original "investigating things to achieve knowledge".
The difference is that he believes that everything has its own reason, and "Neo-Confucianism" should find out the "reason" among them.
Gao Pragmatic even once raised some questions, such as: "The endless falling trees are falling, why do they have to fall?"
Some people say: "The sky is clear and the earth is turbid. The clear ones rise and the turbid ones fall."
Gao Pragmatic asked: "Why do the pure things have to rise, and why do the turbid things have to fall? What's the reason for this?" No one could answer, but Gao Pragmatics said with a smile: "This is where we should have a 'character'
That’s it.”
All in all, the first target that Gu Xiancheng wants to oppose at the moment is definitely the "false and exaggerated" Xin School, but he can still tolerate the Practical School of Economics, which like him considers itself "in the lineage of Neo-Confucianism".
As for when he will become intolerant of practical knowledge of the world, it probably will have to wait until he completes the great cause of "repairing the origins" and completely overthrows the heretics of the Xin School.
Yang Wei is not very interested in these academic controversies, but he "focuses on Ming Ming De when discussing studies, the Six Classics on governance, and the extension of the university when discussing current affairs." Therefore, his position has always been to listen to whoever is useful. (Note: Also:
Do you remember that not long after the beginning of this book, there was a plot where Gao Pragmatic was reading "The Supplement to the Explanations of the University"? This is a book that mainly studies legal thoughts and legal systems, and more straightforwardly, it is a book that seeks practical results.)
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Once Gu Xiancheng uses this knife, he just needs to let it do whatever he wants. It doesn't matter what the knife is thinking.
The night of this day was naturally very busy. Gao Jingshi also received several groups of guests at the Shangshu Mansion in Jinggongfang, and he was so busy that he was able to go to bed until nearly midnight.
Early the next morning, the elders of the cabinet, Yang Wei, the official minister, and Shen Li, the imperial censor of the left capital, once again joined hands to seek an audience with the emperor. Zhu Yijun was still summoning him in the Wenhua Hall.
Soon after the meeting, the Holy Will was issued to all ministries. The northern inspection of Dinghai's capital inspection will start tomorrow, and the southern inspection will start half a month later. The chief officer of the northern inspection is Yang Wei, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and the chief officer of the southern inspection is the Youdu Yu of the Nanjing Metropolitan Inspectorate.
Shi Hairui. (Note: 1. The Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate does not have the censor of the left capital, and the censor of the right capital is respected; 2. Hai Rui is not dead yet and is still in office.)
This is another big event - not that there is anything strange about Yang Wei presiding over the Northern Investigation, but that the Southern Investigation was actually left to Hai Rui. This... this shit might scare a few people to death.
Hai Rui does not need an introduction, but there are some differences between Hai Rui's career in this book and the original history, so I have to give a little explanation here.
Needless to say what happened earlier in the original history, when Zhang Juzheng took charge of state affairs in the first year of Wanli, because he was Xu Jie's protégé, Hai Rui followed Gao Gong's intention to clear the land in Yingtian, which made Xu Jie disgraced.
Tu Mian, and even Zhang Juzheng didn't like Hai Rui, so Zhang Juzheng ordered the censor to inspect Hai Rui.
As a result, the censor went there in person. Hai Rui killed chickens and cooked dishes to entertain the censor. The house was extremely deserted and shabby. The censor ate the meal in a boring way and left with a sigh. But Zhang Juzheng himself was not very clean and was always afraid.
Hai Rui was strict and upright, so even though Chinese and foreign officials recommended him many times, he was not appointed in the end.
In this life, Hai Rui was different. He was originally transferred by Gao Gong to Governor Cangchang, where he worked for several years and caught many corrupt officials. However, Gao Gong promoted him to the third level of civil official and two levels of additional titles, but that was
Reluctance to be promoted - This was obviously due to political influence. Gao Gong believed that Hai Rui was too destructive, and at that time, he still had to be cautious and stable when carrying out reforms.
When Guo Pu came to power, he did not make any major changes to Hai Rui. He only gave him a new position and asked him to inspect the South Zhili Port - this was highly pragmatic, because Gao Pu did not evade taxes and he was not afraid of investigation.
As a result, Hai Rui investigated and blew up other private ports, which indirectly led to Liu Shouyou's incident of targeting Gao Pragmatic. Targeting Hai Rui would definitely be useless, so Liu Shouyou and the others decided to directly target Gao Pragmatic. Who knows, but they didn't succeed.
He even got himself involved.
After this incident, Hai Rui was "inexplicably" promoted and became the top leader of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate - Nanyuan Youdu Yushi.
Now that the emperor had sacrificed Hai Rui, the great killer, he obviously understood Gao's pragmatic advice that day.
Wang Xijue, Mr. Wang, you Nampang officials insist on making this "national issue" with me, don't you?
Okay, okay, let’s wait until you pass the level of Hai Qingtian first!
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