During the conversation, the two of them had arrived at Qianqing Palace. At this time, Chen Ju was already waiting outside the palace. While welcoming the two pavilion elders up the steps to the outside of Xinuan Pavilion, he whispered: "Your Majesty, the Dragon Body is Kangtai, and I received it from North Korea today." After all preparations were made for the establishment of the province, the emperor Xuan Gongshun came to listen to the song, and after that, it was agreed upon that the king would be granted the title of King Gongshun in Yuzhou."
Wang Jiaping slowed down and asked, "Is there any reluctance in obeying the king?"
Chen Ju smiled and said: "How can you force it? King Gongshun burst into tears of gratitude, as if he had been reborn."
As soon as this statement came out, not only Wang Jiaping couldn't believe it, but even Gao Pragmatic was quite surprised. The two elders looked at each other, and Wang Jiaping, the chief assistant, still asked: "This is not due to human nature, there must be a reason. , please also make it clear with your palm print."
Chen Ju couldn't help but admire the unpredictable reaction of the two pavilion elders, so he explained: "The emperor summoned King Gongshun to listen to the 33rd chapter of "Wuyue Spring and Autumn Annals" about "die loyal", and then asked King Gongshun if he was willing to grant the title. King Gongshun of the Yue Kingdom was greatly alarmed and insisted on granting a title to the emperor in the near vicinity of Shenjing in order to honor his sage. The emperor felt his sincerity and agreed to grant it, and proposed granting the title to Yuzhou."
Of course both Wang Jiaping and Gao Pragmatic knew the story told in "Wu Yue Chun Qiu", but Wang Jiaping had really listened to the complete set of "Wu Yue Chun Qiu", that is, "Huan Sha Ji" - after all, Kun Opera was originally a favorite of literati. , he is naturally no exception.
However, Gao Pingshi is obviously a fake scholar. He has no interest in opera, so he has no idea what the specific story of "The Thirty-Third Episode of "Wuyue Spring and Autumn"" is.
After Chen Ju said this, seeing that Wang Jiaping and Gao Pingshi didn't say anything else, he bowed slightly and went in to report.
At this time, compared with Gao Pragmatic's confusion, Wang Jiaping immediately darkened his face and sighed: "The emperor may have compared King Gongshun to Gou Jian, so that he did not dare to worry about whether the fiefdom was rich or not, but this old prime minister Wu Zixu ...If we don’t know how to advance or retreat, it may be the time to die.
I think it has been thirty and one years since I took the mid-term exam in the second year of Longqing and entered the capital. I have only fulfilled my responsibilities as a minister, but have lost my filial piety. Lin ridiculed him, thinking he was in love with power."
Now it was Gao Pragmatic's turn to be shocked. He was at a disadvantage because he didn't know what the play was about, but after hearing what Wang Jiaping said, he probably guessed that it might be the history of Wu Zixu's murder.
However, the murder of Wu Zixu seemed to be an excessive remonstrance, which made Fu Chai furious and unable to control his temper. However, this statement is simply untenable and is purely a child's thinking. In fact, the main reasons for Wu Zixu's death can only be two points. : Firstly, Wu Zixu's achievements were so great that he could not be granted a title; secondly, Wu Zixu had too much power and it would not be enough to win over the king without killing him.
On the surface, this thing looks like this: After Wu King Fu Chai successfully defeated the Yue Kingdom in revenge, the Yue King Gou Jian became the servant who fed Fu Chai's horses. At this time, the Wu Kingdom not only defeated the Chu Kingdom, but also nearly wiped out the Yue Kingdom. The country was at its peak, so King Wu's husband was a bit inflated.
At this time, Wu Zixu kept persuading Fu Chai to kill Gou Jian, but Fu Chai did not agree. After many attempts to persuade Wu Zixu to no avail, Wu Zixu believed that the power of Wu State had reached its end, so he entrusted his son to Bao Mu of Qi State. At this time, Bo Pei He took the opportunity to falsely accuse Wu Zixu of treason, so Fu Chai gave Wu Zixu a sword and asked him to kill himself.
After Wu Zixu's death, Sun Wu, his friend, felt disheartened and left the state of Wu. However, King Gou Jian of Yue defeated the state of Wu and washed away his humiliation.
But in fact, how could an important minister like Wu Zixu be killed simply because his repeated persuasion failed? Is Fu Chai so stupid that he doesn't care about his own image at all, and doesn't care about more ministers losing trust in him?
Obviously impossible, otherwise he would not have achieved the victory he did at that time.
There are two reasons why Wu Zixu was sentenced to death. The first point is that Wu Zixu made too much contribution. When Wu Zixu was fighting for the former king, Fu Chai had no power. It was Wu Zixu who defeated several countries and made Wu the overlord of the world.
Such unparalleled achievements were not a problem during the reign of the late king. After all, Wu Zixu was promoted by the late king because of his keen eyesight. However, when Fu Chai came to the throne, he became a great threat to Fu Chai, so Fu Chai must find a way to suppress him.
However, suppression is sometimes a matter of great patience. It is often necessary to expand Wu Zixu's series of mistakes to prove the rationality of the suppression before acting. But firstly, Wu Zixu may not have made any mistakes, and secondly, Fucha may not have made any mistakes either.
To set up such a big situation, Wu State happened to defeat Yue State at this time, and Fu Chai's prestige had greatly increased, so he simply took the opportunity to kill Wu Zixu, and everything was over.
The second reason is that Wu Zixu had too much power. At that time, Wu Zixu could be said to have a position below one person and above ten thousand people. When Fu Chai succeeded to the throne, he even said that he would give half of the Kingdom of Wu to Wu Zixu.
This kind of statement was obviously just a political statement and should not be taken seriously, so it was rejected by Wu Zixu. However, it also shows Wu Zixu's reputation and status in Wu State.
A minister, or an old minister of the late emperor, to some extent has the meaning of "taking care of life". Wu Zixu's too much power will certainly be a great threat to Wu Wang Fu Chai. Therefore, the situation is similar to the previous one. Wu Wang Fu Chai will either
Gradually reduce power, or kill Wu Zixu.
Since the story is like this, if Zhu Yijun listened to the play today and really insinuated that someone in the court was Wu Zixu, then Gao Pragmatism can be sure that Zhu Yijun was definitely not targeting Wang Jiaping, but could only be targeting someone Gao.
Although Wang Jiaping is obviously more in line with the character image of "Old Prime Minister" in comparison, if you think about it carefully, apart from his age, in what way is he more like Wu Zixu than Gao Pragmatic?
He made great achievements in the hands of the late emperor. Wang Jiaping obviously did not meet this point, because he was a Jinshi in the second year of Longqing. By the time of the death of Mu Temple, Wang Jiaping had only done two major things: one was to participate in the compilation of "Records of Emperor Shizong"
, the second is to be ordered to go to Shu and be ennobled as a vassal.
There were so many people participating in the compilation of "Records of King Sejong". At that time, most of the people in the Hanlin Academy participated in this work. With Wang Jiaping, there were not many people, but without Wang Jiaping, there were not many. How can it be regarded as a great achievement?
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Not to mention being ordered to go to Shu and confer vassal status, any Hanlin academic officer can do this job, and even if it goes too far, it is not a big deal to send a eunuch who is a supervisor of rituals.
Problem, I can’t really say that I deserve credit, at most it can be regarded as hard work.
Of course, Gao Jingshi didn't have any great achievements at that time. Even if he did, for example, he did put forward many suggestions on reform, but because of his age, they were basically recorded in Gao Gong's head. Gao Jingshi never made any achievements.
I want to take the credit from the deceased San Bo's name and enjoy it myself.
So, don’t look at the period of the late Emperor, but only look at the Wanli Dynasty? Let’s not compare it at all - all the princes and princes in the Manchu Dynasty, if we want to talk about their achievements, the total sum of them may not be enough for a highly pragmatic person.
Especially in the twenty years after the eighth year of Wanli, almost all the great victories of the imperial court were achieved by Gao Pragmatism, and almost all the reforms of the imperial court were promoted by Gao Pragmatism. What else can this compare to? If you really want to compare like this, it seems satisfying.
All the princes in the court were just plain people, and he seemed to be the most pragmatic person working alone.
It’s not that the others didn’t work, it’s that he was very pragmatic and did too much!
What are the consequences of doing a lot of good work? Of course, as the official becomes bigger and bigger, the more prestige he accumulates, and the more power he gets. At the same time, more and more people follow him to gain credit, and watch his face and actions.
more.
Who was more like Wu Zixu at that time? Of course he was pragmatic! Wang Jiaping thought that the emperor had insinuated that he was Wu Zixu. It was actually because he happened to be the chief minister and had been admonishing the emperor for some time before, so he violated dogma.
doctrine error.
Now that he understood the truth, Gao Pragmatic wanted to clarify the situation and comfort Wang Jiaping, but he changed his mind before he could say anything.
Now this political struggle has become intense, and has actually become a decisive battle between the Practical School and the Heart School. Wang Jiaping, as a neutral faction on the side of traditional Neo-Confucianism, has almost no political power because the traditional Neo-Confucian school is too loose, so he is caught in this
It is easy to become cannon fodder in a conflict.
To be honest, for Gao Pragmatic, even if Wang Jiaping really became cannon fodder, he would not feel much guilt. After all, although there is no smoke of gunpowder in political struggles, they are often more cruel than the battlefield. However, Wang Jiaping has obviously shown a tendency recently.
There are signs of being on the side of the Practical School, and his actions will definitely affect more traditional Neo-Confucian neutral schools.
In this way, regardless of whether Gao Pragmatic is emotional or rational, he should consider the final outcome of Wang Jiaping. If Wang Jiaping really becomes cannon fodder, Gao Qingpragmatic will be at a disadvantage to him, and Yu Li will let the neutral faction
Lost the enthusiasm to move closer to the real school.
But Gao pragmatically considered that this was not the end. He then thought about it, if Zhu Yijun really meant to imply that he had become Wu Zixu today, then if Wang Jiaping really resigned now, would he be the first to take over as the chief assistant?
Become a leader?
If coupled with Wang Jiaping's influence, the loose traditional Neo-Confucian neutral school began to move closer to the real school, wouldn't Wu Zixu's position become more solid?
Therefore, the key to the problem now becomes how to determine whether Zhu Yijun was insinuating that "Wu Zixu" was in the court when he listened to the opera today. Or to put it more bluntly, whether he was insinuating that he was the old prime minister of Wu State Wu Zixu, who was highly pragmatic.
It's a pity that Chen Ju just went to report to the emperor that the two pavilion elders had arrived. It didn't take long, and there was no time for Gao Pangshi to make a serious conclusion. Chen Ju had already reappeared at this time, bowed and said with a smile: "Emperor.
I have given an oral instruction to invite Yuan Fu and Gao Ge Lao to come in and have an audience."
Wang Jiaping was already ready to resign - of course, not in person now. After all, doing so was against the rules. On the contrary, it would mean forcing the emperor. He planned to go back and write his resignation after the audience.
But now that he had made up his mind, his attitude at the moment seemed unusually calm, his face was solemn but unhurried, his movements were calm and composed, not angry but powerful, and his prime ministerial demeanor was suddenly full.
On the contrary, Gao Jingjing, who had always walked in the palace as if he were strolling leisurely, now walked heavily. He frowned, as if he was facing an extremely difficult matter and was unable to make up his mind.
Entering the Xinuan Pavilion, Zhu Yijun crossed his legs and looked at the two people with a smile.
"See Your Majesty." The two pavilion elders saluted at the same time.
"No gift." Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "There is good news today. Earlier, the Supervisor of Ceremonies received a memorial from North Korea. Everything is ready for the establishment of the province. All we need is the east wind. After that, I called King Gongshun to discuss it. He
We have agreed to seal Yuzhou, so there will be no obstacles to establishing a province."
It stands to reason that at this time, the two cabinet ministers should be smart to flatter each other. At least they should flatter a few people on this topic and say something like "my emperor is wise."
However, when Gao Pangshi was about to say something, Wang Jiaping solemnly raised his hands and said: "Your Majesty, you have the right to be a king, a king, and a minister. Now that the old ministers and senior officials from Gaoge came to see you, they all stood solemnly, but the emperor didn't even sit upright.
, This is really not a royal posture. Please sit upright, Your Majesty, so that I can discuss it with you and the senior officials in the high cabinet."
Zhu Yijun obviously didn't expect this to happen, and couldn't help but be stunned.
Speaking of which, Wang Jiaping's words are certainly true, but in fact, we have been ministers for many years, and no matter what, we will not talk completely according to etiquette every time we meet. What's more, today is to talk about a happy event, and this kind of sitting posture and the like
The emphasis may not be so absolute.
The key point is, isn't it just that you have crossed your legs, and it's not too much. As for going to the "junjunchenchen" line like this?
The main thing in Zhu Yijun's heart now is not how dissatisfied Wang Jiaping was after such a remark. He was more wondering why Wang Jiaping was so angry today?
"Ah... what Yuan Fu said is that I got carried away with my pride." Although he was puzzled, Wang Jiaping's words were at least right, and Yuan Fu still had to give him face, so Zhu Yijun immediately admitted his mistake, folded his legs and sat down. However,
As a result, Zhu Yijun lost interest in talking for a while, and simply sat and watched Wang Jiaping's response.
"The Emperor corrects his faults immediately. There is no way to do good." Wang Jiaping did not show any change in expression. He nodded and went directly to the topic: "The Emperor and King Gongshun discussed the location of the vassal. The veteran thought that the process was not important. In short, since the matter was discussed
OK, then the next step should be to establish North Korea as a province."
Zhu Yijun always felt that Wang Jiaping spoke in a stunned manner today, as if he was choking on fire. Even though he usually has a straight temper, he didn't reach this level, which was really baffling.
However, since Wang Jiaping said this, Zhu Yijun had no choice but to adopt a business-like attitude, nodded blankly and said: "Then, why does Yuan Fu teach me?"
Wang Jiaping shook his head and said: "I have never been to North Korea, so I am not the best person to make suggestions on the establishment of North Korea as a province. Rixin is the first contributor to North Korea's internal affairs, so I think it is better for the emperor to listen to his opinion."
"Well... that's what Yuan Fu said." Zhu Yijun said in his heart: I originally wanted to listen to the pragmatic view, but since you are the chief assistant, I have to call you for consultation. Since you said so yourself, then I
What else is there to be polite about?
"Seeking truth, then you can tell me."
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