Emperor Longqing burst out laughing on the spot after listening to Meng Chong's narration, and finally left a comment: "The prince's observation of politics this year seems to be very meaningful."
It is indeed very meaningful, because Zhu Yijun's reward to Gao Pragmatic completely followed Long Qing's previous style:
The first is to only promote students to academic officers or east palace officers, and always add the word "false" at the beginning, which is similar to the meaning of "temporary", so as to avoid disputes.
In addition, he did not forget that the other meaning of the reward is "allowing you to be distinguished in front of others", so he also gave him a red silk flying fish suit. Last time, Gao Pragmatic was rewarded with a big red silk bullfighting suit, but he immediately returned to his place of origin.
I went to take the exam and didn't have time to show off in front of others in the capital. It was a good thing this time. I upgraded directly from bullfighting to the flying fish suit.
The so-called "flying fish" is actually a four-clawed dragon with a tail like a fish's tail, "Bullfighting" is a four-clawed dragon with right angles, and "Qilin" is an animal in the shape of a taurosaurus (by the way, there are two types of Qilin costumes.
The red uniforms worn by the earl and the consort have unicorn patches on the chest and back, but the unicorn in them is an ordinary animal image, which is different from the dragon-shaped "unicorn uniform"). It has four claws and no other deformations.
The dragon is called "python".
Robes embroidered with these four patterns are called python robes, flying fish robes, bullfighting robes and unicorn robes. They are not within the official uniform system of pinguan, but are granted robes with extremely high levels. Generally, they are only rewarded or memorialized by the emperor.
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The clothes are usually made of cloud satin, flash satin, cloud silk, gauze, Luo and other high-end clothing materials. They usually use bright red as the background color, but there are also colors such as cyan, blue, purple, agarwood, etc. to distinguish high and low - red is vermilion, which is
In the Ming Dynasty, the grade of Dahong was the highest. These garments were made with complex techniques such as gold weaving and flowers. The chest was decorated with a dragon head and claws, the dragon body was wrapped around the shoulders, and the dragon tail was thrown behind the back. Generally speaking, the python garment was the highest grade.
The highest gifted suit is followed by the flying fish suit, bullfighting suit and unicorn suit.
It should be noted that the bright red silk flying fish suit is different from the flying fish suit of ordinary Jinyiwei, at least the color is different - the bright red flying fish suit, even in Jinyiwei, can only be worn by officials of the third rank or above.
However, the problem is that among the official ranks of Jinyiwei, the third rank is the commander. Above the commander, there are also the governor and the governor's co-president as a rule, but in most cases, the governor and the governor's co-president are empty titles, and there are only titles like
Only the governors like Lu Bing of the Jiajing Dynasty and Zhu Xixiao who are now the emperor's confidants can truly control the Jinyiwei. Otherwise, the actual leader of the Jinyiwei is actually the commander of the Jinyiwei.
If I have to make an analogy, it is like having a school under an education group in later generations. This school can be compared to Jinyiwei. The chairman of the group may also serve as the principal of the school, which can be likened to the governor of Jinyiwei, but he will not directly manage it.
The person who actually manages this school is the executive vice-principal of the school, who is also the Commander of the Imperial Guard.
During the Jiajing and Longqing years, although there were more and more awards, only the ministers of the six ministries and the generals who came out as inspectors were rewarded with red silk flying fish uniforms. In addition, even the Japanese officials who were highly praised by the emperor (
Academic officer), the most they can give is a bright red silk bullfighting uniform.
Therefore, Zhu Yijun's two rewards, in terms of name, promotion is more practical, because he was originally a bachelor's degree student from the Hanlin Academy of the fifth rank (fake), and now he is Zuo Yude (fake) of Zhan Shifu, a fifth-rank official.
), this is a clear promotion. But the problem is that although Hanlin Academician or Donggong Official are both upright and noble officials, the meaning of "fake" is not so great if the word "fake" is added in front of it, which means that it sounds better, from high to high.
Shidu was promoted to Gao Yude.
But this dress is different. If Gao Pingshi had not entered the palace to accompany the imperial concubine, he would have worn only cyan uniforms with white patches (that is, he was considered to be of the fifth grade). This was the emperor's special permission, otherwise he would have
Since it doesn't actually count as a rank, let alone Qingpao, you can't even get a green robe, so you can only wear casual clothes, which would be a shame.
But it’s different now. I just jumped into wearing a big red silk flying fish suit, even in the palace where flying fish suits are common (because most eunuchs are given flying fish patterns), and because of the word "big red", it looks noble enough.
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The reason why Long Qing was happy was because Zhu Yijun’s reward was smart enough:
Officials can be promoted slowly, because Gao Xiang is still young. Even if he is a "fake" official, he must take his time and pay attention to the impact.
The gift of service must show the royal love, and both the uncle and nephew Gao Pragmatic should feel the trust of the emperor and his son in them. Moreover, the service belongs to the emperor's unshakable authority. Even if the civil servants are dissatisfied, they have nothing to say.
Because this is a simple "favor", and "favor comes from above" and no subordinates can comment on it.
The next day, Gao pragmatically arrived in Beijing.
Although it was already noon, he still followed his usual style, not even returning home, but going directly to the palace to cancel his vacation. Guo Pu did not have to worry, he had already complained to Guo Pu in advance, and Guo Pu not only did not blame him, but actually
I am very satisfied with his attitude.
Of course Gao Gong knew that Guo Pu was coming with Gao Jingshi, and had already arranged for someone to greet him. Since Gao Jingshi was not going home yet, he would have taken Guo Pu to his house for a chat first, which was the same thing.
It was heard that Gao Jingshi didn't even return home and came to the palace to sell off his leave. The "little bee" Emperor Longqing also took a rare break from the busy work in the harem and personally drove to Zhongcui Palace to meet Gao Jingshi together with the prince.
In fact, this was what Long Qing and Zhu Yijun had agreed on yesterday. Of course, it was actually Long Qing's decision, and Zhu Yijun only expressed his agreement. During the interview, Zhu Yijun brought up Gao Pragmatic's contribution to my answer to the tribute.
And as the prince, he asked the emperor for a pragmatic reward.
Then the emperor cheerfully said that "it is indeed worthy of a reward", but he was a little embarrassed to say that the cabinet thought that Xiao Gao Aiqing was still young after all and had never been on the gold list, so it was not good to give more rewards. What should be done?
When Gao Pragmatic heard this, he immediately stepped forward and began to talk nonsense seriously, saying that he had only done a little bit of his duty as a minister, and he really couldn't say that he had any merit. Even if the emperor and the prince fell in love with each other, he thought that being a minister had some minor merit.
, the minister also felt that the reward was not enough, so he asked the emperor and the prince to withdraw his order.
As soon as he said this, Zhu Yijun gave up. He listed eight of Gao Pragmatic's various contributions since he became the crown prince's companion, and he stubbornly insisted on being rewarded by the emperor.
Long Qing "couldn't defeat the prince", pondered for a moment, and asked the prince what he thought about this.
Naturally, the prince immediately proposed the reward that the father and son had agreed upon yesterday. Long Qing thought "extremely tangled" for a long time before he said with a wry smile: "I really can't bear to spoil the prince's good intentions of caring for his subjects, so this matter... is settled."
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Gao Pragmatic couldn't refuse repeatedly, so he had to shout three times to thank him for his gratitude, and three times to thank him for his gratitude. His well-behaved appearance made the emperor and his son smile.
Gao Jingshi was also quite happy in his heart. The only person who was unhappy was probably Feng Bao, who was the crown prince's first companion. But even he was smiling all over his face at the moment, and there was no hint of dissatisfaction at all.