Chapter 249 The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea, Each Showing Their Magical Powers (Part 2)
Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue saw their wish come true the next day with their highly pragmatic handling methods.
First, Gao Wuben, the governor of Jinyiweinan Town, went to court early in the morning, saying that he had heard that his father Gaocai was old and frail and had difficulty walking. Since there were only a few servants in the family, it was difficult to take care of him properly. As the only son, he was an official away from home.
This is unfilial. Therefore, I would like to resign from my current job and return to my hometown to take care of my old father.
Not only that, Gao Wuben handed over the seal of the Zhenfu Division to the deputy envoy Luo Sigong and left without waiting for the approval of the court.
At the same time, Wang Zhizhen, the governor of Beizhen, asked for punishment because before the Northwest Rebellion, although the Jinyi Guards had discovered signs of misconduct in Bobai, they did not insist on a thorough investigation. At the same time, he also said that he always thought about how far the disaster in the Northwest would spread.
Guang, the consequences were serious, and he has been blaming himself. Now he is exhausted mentally and physically, and he is seriously ill, so he has asked himself to resign.
These two matters are certainly major events. After all, one of them directly took the title of the Northern and Southern Town Fusi, and the other resigned from the Shangshu. The main leaders of the two actual execution agencies of the entire Jinyiwei left their posts at the same time. The impact was of course on the level of shaking the capital.
However, these two pieces of news are nothing compared to the resignation of Yang Wei, the Minister of Civil Affairs.
The Crown Prince and Tutor, Yang Wei, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, once again begged for his body due to his failing health - I say "again" because he would resign for this reason almost every six months after taking office. The reason was Yang Wei's age.
He is indeed old. He is already seventy-five years old this year (virtual age) and has long passed the theoretical retirement age.
However, since he will resign once every six months, it stands to reason that there is no need to worry about resigning now. Anyway, according to custom, the emperor must be "gentle and comforting".
But this time the situation was different. He went to court early in the morning to ask for his resignation, and the Chief of Ceremonies of the Inner Court reacted very quickly. He issued an edict in the morning - yes, it was gentle words of condolences, but he refused to resign.
However, in less than an hour, Yang Wei's second resignation letter came up again, insisting that he was blind, deaf, confused, and could no longer serve the court, so he insisted on resigning.
Around noon, the Supervisor of Ceremonies conveyed the edict for the second time. This time it became a sincere condolence, but he was still not allowed to say anything.
In the afternoon, Yang Wei's third resignation letter was sent to the Supervisor of Ceremonies, saying that he had reached the point where "rice and noodles are hard to get in, and porridge is covered with beards." If he continued to occupy his position, he would be in trouble.
(He was a Jinshi in the Jiajing Dynasty), he was promoted to the Mu Temple, and now he is expected to be honored and favored for his important position.
At the same time, he also mentioned that Duke Guo Anyang had insisted on returning to his hometown at the age of seventy, which was his role model. If it had not been repeatedly recommended by the former chief minister Zhang Puzhou and Ding You, saying that there was no good candidate for the official in the court at that time, he would not have done it.
He will be reinstated at an advanced age. Now that the country is safe and peaceful, His Majesty is everywhere, and the court is prosperous, how can there be no choice for a heavenly official? Therefore, I have lived up to the trust entrusted by Fengpan Gong, and it is time to retreat bravely.
Resigning three times in one day can generally be regarded as a decision to leave. Under normal circumstances, the emperor should have agreed at this time.
However, the emperor did not have such "rules", and instead sent out the newly released "powerful person in charge of the ceremonial supervisor's seal" - that is, Chen Ju, the acting eunuch of the ceremonial supervisor, and the equally freshly released Dongchang Supervisor Zhang Cheng.
Three imperial doctors went to visit Yang Wei's house.
As a result, Yang Wei only said that he was suffering from a "debilitating disease", and his so-called symptoms of "difficulty eating rice and noodles, and porridge covering the beard" were not pathological symptoms, but just old-age - you can pretend to be old, let alone a seven-year-old
Although this old age of a teenager is not entirely true, as long as it is slightly exaggerated, it is impossible for the imperial doctor to force you to say that you are so strong that you can kill a cow with one punch.
Therefore, when the palace was about to close, the emperor finally issued an edict. After a series of praises in the form of review of meritorious service, he decided: the quasi-prince and Taifu, Yang Wei, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, resigned from his post to be recuperated, and the imperial edict was granted to pass the biography and be given to the Lin Liru story.
, and was given a scarlet silk python robe, a batch of various precious medicinal materials, and was given to Yizi to study in the Imperial Academy.
This precise word is obviously of high standard, because it is generally allowed to resign. "The imperial edict will be passed on, and the story will be given to the local officials." It means that the state will dispatch official vehicles to take you home and ensure that your treatment remains unchanged.
——There is no difference between retirement salary and working salary.
However, the emperor here gave Yang Wei a python suit even though he had no obvious special skills. You must know that it is easy to wear a red silk flying fish suit after reaching the civil service level, but it is not easy to wear a python suit, because according to general customs
Generally speaking, this python robe is mostly given to civil and military officials with great military merit.
The Ming Dynasty valued military merit, so in most cases, more military officials wore python robes than civil servants. For civil servants, wearing python robes was not only a great reward, but also almost equivalent to having military merit medals on their bodies.
For example, Gao Pragmatic was awarded the python robe for his several military exploits, and even now wears the sitting python robe - the highest grade among the python robes in the ministerial system.
Yang Wei did have some military exploits in his early years, because he had served as the military commander of the Xuanfu (divided into the deputy military commander of Shoukou North Road) a long time ago. Later, he served as the governor of the Xuanfu, the governor of Shaanxi, and the governor of Shanxi——
It was at this time that he got in touch with Zhang Siwei, and he also made contributions in the tribute payment, ensuring the stability of the border.
However, these achievements are all for protecting the soil, and there are not many heads that are most recognized by the Ming Dynasty as support. Moreover, that was all many years ago. Those who deserve the reward have already been rewarded, so now the reward for this python garment is relatively small.
unexpected.
As for the precious medicinal materials and Yin Yizi studying in the Imperial Academy, they were not worth mentioning in front of Mang Yi.
So the next day, Yang Wei went to Shu again to resign Mangyi and Enyin - but the medicinal materials were accepted, because the emperor's gifts were actually more for face than for face. It was said that they were talking about a batch, but for example, ginseng, it might not be the same.
One stick, the others are about the same, and the total is not much money.
But this time, the emperor was very resolute and refused to resign. Yang Wei resigned again, but the emperor continued to refuse, so Yang Wei had no choice but to pay his respects. Then he didn't wait for a whole day, and just packed his bags that afternoon and sat down "on official business"
I went back to Shandong by car.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Why did Gao Wuben, Wang Zhizhen and Yang Wei's resignations happen so quickly? Let's not rush into it now, because Gao Wuben has done more than that.
The next day, Wang Zhizhen, who had already submitted his resignation but had not yet received approval, submitted his resignation again. While continuing to resign, he also wrote: The commander of the Jinyiwei has been absent for some time. During the previous Northwest War, the Jinyiwei clearly
Some clues were discovered, but in the end they failed to insist on a thorough investigation. This was also due to the vacancy of the commander of the Jin Yiwei.
Therefore, he asked the emperor to consider the candidates for the commander of the Jinyiwei as soon as possible, and recommended Wu Qingbo and Li Wenquan, the commander-in-chief of the Chinese Army, to be the commander of the Jinyiwei. He also suggested that the emperor should promote Wuqingbo and Li Wenquan to the title of Marquis of Wuqing on the grounds that "I know that your majesty is filial to the Holy Mother".
"Like a story".
This memorial was quite powerful at first glance, and many officials were shocked when they heard about it. They submitted their memorials one after another, impeaching and scolding Wang Zhizhen for ignoring the ancestral system and asking for favors.
Why did Wang Zhizhen get scolded and impeached this time? In fact, the main problem was not that he recommended Wu Qingbo and Li Wenquan to be the commander of the Jinyi Guards.
This is because of Li Wenquan's identity. Who is Li Wenquan? He is the eldest son of the former Wuqing Marquis Li Wei, and Li Wei is the father of the emperor's biological mother, the empress dowager Li. In other words, Li Wenquan is the emperor's uncle.
The commander of the Imperial Guard is no different from other official positions in the imperial court. His position has only one characteristic and requirement: the emperor's trust.
Although the Ming Dynasty has always had the habit of suppressing foreign relatives, special institutions such as Jinyiwei should not be run by foreign relatives. However, as mentioned before, Jinyiwei now has a lot of civil servants Enyin entering the guard, and the tendency of civil servants is very high
The strong government has become less and less like a violent institution that can intimidate civil servants. From the emperor's heart, this situation is not normal and should not be the case.
However, the reality is that more and more civil servants are awarded military honors, but as long as they are not enough to be knighted, according to the usual practice, they have to continue to put their children into the Imperial Guard, so this trend cannot be changed.
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As a result, the emperor had no choice but to continue to appoint his cronies to control the top ranks of the Imperial Guard, while leaving the children of the civil servants in the Guard on idle jobs, or simply "bringing salaries" - only taking money and not working.
Under such a general trend, it is not surprising that relatives enter Jinyiwei as a means of balancing. In most cases, civil servants will have a tacit understanding of this and will not strongly object - after all, they are Jinyiwei.
The specialness is there.
Since Li Wenquan had a special status, it was not an excessive arrangement to be the commander of the Imperial Guards. Why was Wang Zhizhen still criticized? The reason was that he suggested that the emperor promote Li Wenquan to the rank of Marquis of Wu Qing.
Li Wei was the Marquis of Wu Qing back then, and Li Wenquan, as the eldest son, was demoted to a lower level when he ascended the throne. This was in accordance with the rules of a relative ascending the throne, but there was an episode at that time. Li Wei died of illness five years ago. Originally, Li Wei died of illness five years ago.
Li Wei's widow Wang asked the emperor to let Li Wenquan directly seize the title of marquis. Of course the Queen Mother was very happy, but the foreign court did not agree.
At that time, the emperor insisted on doing special things. In order to express his filial piety to the Empress Dowager Cisheng, he insisted on letting Li Wenquan attack the marquis. As a result, there were many groups in the outer court. At the critical moment, Gao Pragmatism also became more cautious, thinking that although the emperor's filial piety was commendable,
, but the imperial court has its own regulations and cannot "make it a law and open a lucky door" just because Li Wenquan is a close relative.
However, Gao Jingshi and the Hou family of Wu Qing had a secret dividend agreement for a long time, and they had always been linked by interests. Therefore, Gao Jingshi did not say anything about Li Wenquan's title, but added a paragraph at the end to the effect that Li Wenquan
It's not impossible to be promoted, but you have to make contributions.
No one knows what the emperor thought after reading this. Anyway, soon after Gao Pragmatic Shuwen came up, he accepted the proposal and went to the Empress Dowager Cisheng in person to "please apologize".
Nearly five years have passed since this incident, but Li Wenquan has not made any meritorious deeds - of course, apart from being a marquis, his official position is "Commander of the Chinese Army with Salary".
Note that if the full title of this position is expressed in the later generations, it should be "Zhongjun Dudufu Zuodudu" and then put in brackets, write two words in the brackets: with salary.
What does that mean? It means that you are nominally the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army, Commander Zuo, but not only do you not do anything, you don’t even go to work at Dianmao in the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army - you are holding on to this extremely noble status as Commander-in-Chief Zuo of the Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Army.
The high salary you deserve is that the specific affairs you are responsible for have nothing to do with you.
In this case, even if Li Wenquan is really capable, he has nowhere to show it, right?
But Gao Pangshi's suggestion at that time was in itself a trick: He left a loophole and said that Li Wenquan could be promoted if he had made meritorious service. Therefore, although the Empress Dowager Cisheng would not be completely satisfied, she would at least feel that "the future is promising". At the moment, it is just
The quarrel in the outer court is too fierce, so let's come up with a temporary solution first.
Of course, the outer court also knew that this "salary" was irrelevant, so Gao Pragmatic's claim that Li Wenquan could be promoted to a higher rank for his meritorious service in the future was purely a trick to deceive the Queen Mother, and the Dukes of the outer court did not take it seriously at all.
Sure enough, later Li Wenquan could not get any credit at all, so the Queen Mother hinted to the emperor, didn't Li Wenquan often replace the emperor to worship the previous emperors? This is also credit.
The emperor seemed very honest and immediately complied with the request - and then was pushed back by the outer court: There were so many people offering sacrifices on behalf of others, and there was no one among the large group of nobles who had offered sacrifices on their behalf, so why did Li Wenquan just offer a flower as a sacrifice on his behalf?
Worthy of promotion?
The emperor was still very honest and did his best to report back to the Queen Mother, so the Queen Mother was dumbfounded, and the matter has been dragged on until now.
But now Wang Zhizhen has brought up this issue. He even didn't mention meritorious service at all, and just used "filial piety" as the reason. Isn't this just stirring up a hornet's nest?
However, only the blind and deaf do not know about the relationship between Wang Zhizhen and Gao Pragmatic. His sudden behavior must have been under Gao Pragmatic's instructions, so many impeachments also pointed the finger at Gao Pragmatic.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The reasons are of course varied, but obviously none of them are good. Gao Pragmatic took action immediately, decisively locked himself in confinement, and immediately closed the door and thanked guests.
, and at the same time Shangshu defended himself and said a bunch of nutritious nonsense.
When things got to this point, Gao's pragmatic behavior aroused some suspicions. Recommending a foreign relative - even if he instructs a gunman to come forward to recommend a foreign relative, it would never sound good. Considering his usual way of protecting feathers, this move was obviously too abnormal.
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However, those who impeached Gao Pragmatic at Shangshu did not know that when Wang Xijue visited Shen University again that night, he was so angry that he cursed Gao Pragmatic for being shameless. This not only made Zhang Cheng, the cannon fodder who was supposed to be the leader of the battle, "draw his sword and look around at a loss",
Moreover, it also puts the Xin School in an extremely embarrassing position.
Zhang Cheng originally wanted to take down the entire factory guard, but Gao Pragmatic handed over and packaged the Jin Yiwei directly to Li Wenquan, the emperor's uncle. With Li Wenquan's special status, it was obvious that he would not take Zhang Cheng seriously, so Zhang Cheng could only be dumbfounded -
-At least before Queen Mother Li passed away, there was no way he could do anything to Li Wenquan.
However, as Li Wei's heir, Li Wenquan had a very strong private interest bond with Gao Pragmatic. Although his loyalty to the emperor should be reliable, Gao Pragmatic would not let him rebel against the emperor. What reason did he have to give up a lot of money?
Can Yinzi go and Gao pragmatically get along?
In this way, Jin Yiwei was actually still under the influence of Gao Pragmatism, but the emperor could completely relax.
Why should the Xin School be embarrassed? Because when Gao Pragmatic was defeated, it was a good opportunity for the Xin School to invite favors and seize power. They also planned to do so. But Gao Pragmatic suddenly pushed Li Wenquan. Do the Xin School want to compete with those of the neutral school?
Like officials, is it pragmatic to impeach someone from the standpoint of "righteousness"?
Impeachment at this time was highly pragmatic, which meant opposing Li Wenquan's elevation to the title; opposing Li Wenquan's elevation would mean not giving the emperor face.
If you don't give the emperor face, then why invite him to be favored? So seizing power by taking advantage of the situation becomes a dream.
But if you don’t criticize, the Xinxue school is a school of “moral practical learning”. Their foundation is morality, which is not the “merit” of the practical school. At this time, if you don’t stand up and “uphold morality”, you still have the nerve to say
Do you represent morality?
This is where Wang Xijue got angry. He knew that Gao Pragmatic was rebelling against General Yijun: Although I want face, in the final analysis I value reality more; although you want to take power, I know you still want face in the final analysis. So... please choose
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