Through the few conversations he had just had with Zhao Zhigao, Gao Pragmatic had already roughly understood why the Hanlin Academy was so deserted today, and he thought to himself, now I can be regarded as a famous figure in the capital, right?
Look, the nobles in the Imperial Academy are extremely dissatisfied with me, a Huangkou kid with no fame at all, working in the same yamen as them, but because I tinkered with the book "Long Wen Whip Shadow" at this age, they even thought that I was originally
They wanted to "teach me a lesson", but they couldn't do it - it's not that they thought they were not good enough, but that a small child had such knowledge, and as seniors, generally speaking, they could only praise and support them.
, if you come forward to suppress them instead, your reputation will be ruined.
The nobles of the Imperial Academy have no real power in their hands. If this crucial reputation still stinks on the streets, wouldn't they have nothing to rely on? So they are obviously extremely dissatisfied, so they can only use this soft method of avoiding others.
To express your position, you can't really jump out and personally compete with yourself - if you win, it will be unworthy of victory, and if you lose, you will be infamy for eternity. Isn't it just someone who is stupid?
That is to say, an honest and kind person like Zhao Zhigao would pinch his nose and still come to work. But if he hadn't had a correct attitude and a very low posture just now, wouldn't Zhao Zhigao look ugly to him?
However, after seeing Zhao Zhigao but not the other future elders of Wuchen Branch, Gao Pingshi still felt a little regretful, but after thinking about it, he felt relieved: It doesn't matter if you can't see it today, anyway, it doesn't matter whether you accept it or not.
, my "working relationship" is still affiliated with your Hanlin Academy, and there will be times when I can get in touch with you in the future.
Besides, there may be another very important reason why Wuchenke was so awesome in history... Gao Gong fell.
At first glance, Gao Gong's downfall and the brilliance of the Wuchenke Jinshi are completely unrelated. They seem to have no connection, but in fact they are not. There is a great relationship between these two things.
Let’s take a look at the timetable first: In April of the 44th year of the Jiajing reign, Li Chunfang was promoted to the Minister of Rites and a bachelor of Wuyingdian; in March of the 45th year of the Jiajing, Guo Pu and Gao Gong were promoted to the minister of the Ministry of Personnel and a bachelor of Wuyingdian respectively.
, the Minister of Rites and the Bachelor of Wenyuange entered the cabinet at the same time; in February of the first year of Longqing, Chen Yiqin was promoted to the Minister of Rites and the Bachelor of Wenyuange, and Zhang Juzheng was promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of Personnel and the bachelor of Dongge.
After losing the battle with Xu Jie, he resigned from the cabinet after being approved in May of this year. Guo Pu, as a die-hard ally of Gao Gong, carried on alone until September, when he also resigned in anger.
Readers may have noticed that before the second year of Longqing, Gao Gong had already resigned and returned to his hometown in Xinzheng.
What does this mean? It means that there is no high arch in the autumn palace of the second year of Longqing.
Coincidentally, in July of the second year of Longqing, Xu Jie was approved to become an official by Emperor Longqing, who was increasingly dissatisfied with him, and returned to his hometown in Songjiang. So Li Chunfang, who was ranked behind him, stepped in and became the chief minister of the cabinet as if taking advantage.
At that time, there were only three ministers in the cabinet, and they were Li Chunfang, Chen Yiqin, and Zhang Juzheng according to their rankings. So in the autumn of that year, Li Chunfang was the examiner, and Chen Yiqin and Zhang Juzheng were the two highest-ranking fellow examiners. As for the other fellow examiners,
, there is a difference in status, but even the highest status among them obviously cannot be compared with the two elders Chen and Zhang.
In the early and middle Wanli period, in the officialdom where seniority was a serious issue, the Jinshi in the late Jiajing and Longqing years were in their "prime years". However, due to the collapse of Gao Gong, the Yichou Ke Jinshi in the 44th year of Jiajing, who should have made great achievements, was unable to Teachers were high-ranking, and many of them were implicated. Their careers either suffered major setbacks or were completely ruined. Only a few people were spared.
These people are either not closely related to Gao Gong, or Zhang Juzheng believes that talents are really rare, or they simply surrender and become dog lickers - of course, most of them just pretend to be dog lickers, but in fact they are secretly waiting for them. The opportunity is always ready to counterattack and calculate - for example, Zhang Siwei obviously did this.
But in any case, many of the most powerful figures during Gao Gong's reign were "buried" with him because of Gao Gong's downfall. Song Zhihan, Tu Menggui, Cheng Wen, and Han Ji, who attended the gathering of Gao Gong's disciples last time, Luo Zun, Zhang Mengnan and others, who were not like this? In other words, Shen Li and Xu Guo were spared the catastrophe because they were still working in the Hanlin Academy until Gao Gong stepped down.
Gao Gong has been "teaching" for so many years. It is definitely not bragging to say that his disciples and former officials are all over the world. In addition to the above, there are many people. It is impossible to count how many people were implicated in the end. Maybe Zhang Juzheng himself Can't even figure it out.
Since the prowess of the Jinshi in Wuchenke is more or less related to the downfall of Gao Gong and the loss of Jinshi in Yichou, then once I help Gao Gong stabilize his position at the turn of Long and Wan, he can continue Dominate the world, and finally serve with glory. Then the competitive pressure of Wuchenke will be much greater in the future. It is hard to say whether it will still have the glorious performance in history.
But even so, several talented people in this department are still relatively optimistic about their career prospects, especially Zhao Zhigao's attitude is now showing signs of softening. Gao Pragmatic feels... this is an opportunity.
This opportunity is of course not meant to win over Zhao Zhigao. Historically, Zhang Juzheng was so powerful that he failed to win over this person. Gao Pragmatic, a mere brat, even under the guise of Gao Gong, may not be able to win over him. Zhao Yiyang, why bother asking for trouble? ?
The "opportunity" he was thinking of was to first change Zhao Zhigao's attitude towards him. When the other officials in the Hanlin Academy knew that he had communicated with him today, they would probably come to inquire about him. According to the temper Zhao Zhigao had just shown, , he is unlikely to say bad things about people behind their backs.
And if you have a "very happy conversation" with yourself, it is almost certain that he will sing praises for yourself - as mentioned before, the elders in the literary world are usually willing to encourage and praise juniors who have both ability and political integrity. .The truth behind this is actually very simple: if you really make a difference in the future, will you remember my support? If you don’t make a difference in the future... who will remember you? They won’t even remember you as a person, naturally. You won’t even remember how I praised you.
Therefore, praising the juniors is a good virtue and necessary accomplishment for a senior. On the contrary, suppressing the juniors will only create a bad reputation - if this junior is more awesome than you in the future, will you slap him in the face?
This is why it is said that you should bully the old rather than the young.
Therefore, Gao pragmatically immediately used the methods he used to serve leaders in the past, flattering Zhao Zhigao and the Hanlin Academy in a roundabout way, and made Zhao Zhigao, a poor Hanlin scholar who had not received such treatment, very happy.
He was still quite young, and Editor Zhao was just about to cut off the chicken head, burn the yellow paper, and become an acquaintance for eight years with this old acquaintance.