"Gently I leave, just as I came gently; I wave gently and say goodbye to the clouds in the western sky."
In the sixth year of Wanli, on July 5th, Gao pragmatic escorted the high-arched coffin back to his hometown for burial. Zhu Yijun resisted the public opinion and personally escorted the coffin out of the city. Unexpectedly, he received secret praise from many people - the public disagreed, just because
This is not an ancestral system; secret praise is a sign of gratitude for the emperor's respect for his ministers.
Gao Gong's reform efforts were not small, and he actually offended many people. However, the emperor still insisted on giving him such courtesy, which naturally comforted and inspired the ministers who tended to the reform faction.
Of course, there are always two sides to everything in the world. Some people are happy and others are angry, but that is no longer what Gao Wuchen needs to consider now.
Because he had already resigned from the posts of Guan Zheng, Bachelor of the Imperial Academy, Zuo Chunfang and Zuo Yude of the Zhan Shifu.
Zhu Yijun initially disagreed with Gao Jingshi's resignation because he had not yet taken charge. According to Emperor Mu Zonglongqing's will, Gao Jingshi should have stayed with him until he took charge.
Although Gao Gong passed away, the empress dowagers of the two palaces, especially Empress Dowager Li, believed that Zhu Yijun was still not enough to take charge of state affairs, so she and Empress Dowager Chen jointly issued a decree.
He was appointed as assistant to the government.
But Gao Pragmatic, who was already as powerful as the internal minister, through his "continued struggle" in the past few years, his influence on the "Tianjia Trio" has already reached a higher level. He expressed his emotions in front of the two palaces and the emperor.
He gave a performance and said that Gao Gong had no other relatives of his nephews or nephews in Beijing. As Gao Gong's nephew (nephew), escorting his coffin back home was not only a feeling of family affection, but also a requirement of filial piety.
At the same time, because he had previously stated that he would not take the tribute exam before his third uncle became an official, he did not take the exam again after he obtained the status of a student. Now that seven years have passed and his third uncle has passed away, he should prepare well and take the exam.
The exam is over. As long as you pass the exam, won't you be able to come back and continue to serve the emperor?
This expression was both reasonable and reasonable. After discussion, the two palaces thought it was worthy of consideration. Zhu Yijun had no choice but to summon Gao Pangshi alone. The two discussed secretly in the West Nuan Pavilion of Qianqing Palace for a long time, but they didn't know what they said. Anyway,
Zhu Yijun finally agreed to Gao Pragmatic's resignation.
Before leaving the capital, Gao pragmatically went to the former Zhang University Scholarship, now the Guo University Scholarship, to visit his teacher Guo Pu.
I would like to add that this house is very interesting. At first, after the emperor sealed it, he planned to give it to Gao Gong, but Gao Gong didn't want it, so he wanted to give it to Guo Pu, but Guo Pu also refused to accept it. The emperor had no choice but to retain the "property rights".
Guo Pu was granted permission to live there - the reason was that Guo Pu did not have a house in Beijing, and living in the pragmatic Jianxinzhai Courtyard would be easily criticized by officials, and the distance was also far away. For an elderly Gu Mingfu minister
, it’s really not very convenient.
Guo Pu was a poorer official than Gao Gong. The Gao family was still a family of officials. However, he was born in a poor family and was the kind of official who refused to accept donations. Naturally, he could not make a fortune. He had been an official all his life.
With the help of the students, Tan Jing was able to save a few small sums of money and buy more than two hundred acres of land in his hometown, which he could use as a pension. Before his death, he was renting a house as a senior citizen, so this might be okay.
Explain why he only got along with Gao Gong in the cabinet and had the same temperament.
Therefore, Guo Pu could not afford to buy a house in the capital now. Seeing that the emperor had said so, he agreed. Now, of the things in the Guo University Scholar's Mansion, perhaps only the plaque at the door is considered his, and even the things in the mansion are his.
The servants were all hired by Zhu Yijun with the help of the imperial eunuch out of his own pocket.
Gao pragmatically came to discuss with Guo Pu, mainly on two aspects. One of the aspects is of course government affairs. Even though Gao pragmatically is only sixteen years old, as his mentor, how could Guo Pu not know about Gao pragmatically, a former
Guan Zheng’s influence? He, this evil student, was privately called “Xiao Ge Lao” a few years ago!
In terms of government affairs, there are two main principles that the teachers and students discussed. One is to continue to promote Gao Gong's unfinished reform cause, and the other is to always pay attention to whether anyone is taking advantage of Gao Gong's death to cause trouble.
Gao pragmatically also paid special attention to Guo Pu, asking him to keep in touch with Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju in the inner court and tell him their contact information. As for Chen Hong, the chief minister of rituals, he should be decent in appearance, but he should not be hostile at will.
Guo Pu knew that he had many arrangements in the inner court, so he agreed to them one by one.
In addition to government affairs, there are Gao Pragmatic's private affairs. The most important private matter, logically speaking, is Gao Gong's funeral, but in fact this is the best thing to do - the etiquette specifications are fixed, and other things only need to be spent, and Gao Pragmatic
...There is really no shortage of money.
So what really matters is the next exam that is highly pragmatic.
In the sixth year of Wanli, there were no highly pragmatic exams that needed to be taken. Originally, he was just a student. As a rule, he had to take part in the Taoist exam held every year in Henan Xuezheng. However, because of Mu Zong's death, he had to accompany the emperor to study, so this routine
The exam was exempted by the decree of the two palaces as an exception.
So the first exam he has to face is actually next year - that is, the Henan Provincial Examination in the seventh year of Wanli. Only by passing the Henan Provincial Examination and obtaining Juren status can he participate in the examination in the eighth year of Wanli.
In fact, Gao Jingjing is quite confident about the exam itself. Although he is often "thinking about things" in the eyes of others, in fact, he is just the general manager of business matters. He rarely intervenes in specific affairs, and the general manager... is nothing more than...
Just give me a strategic plan. Most of those "plans" were written by him many years ago. It was just because the situation when handling some things was somewhat different from the plan, so he needed to take it out and make slight modifications.
Tell it to others and let them do it.
In short, it won't delay much.
And he usually studies very hard. Not only does he study hard, he also has an advantage that ordinary students cannot achieve - he is a Hanlin official! Although he is a nominal official, all the officials in the Hanlin Academy are nominally him.
colleagues!
Not to mention that he also has a lot of seniors who are Jinshi-born. If you casually communicate with these two types of people, you can also learn a lot of experience in studying and taking exams!
Of course, when it comes to things like exams, ability is one thing, confidence is another, and luck is another.
However, Gao Pragmatic can reduce the proportion of "luck" as much as possible, especially during the provincial examination stage. This is because he can find various information on the academic affairs of the Henan Admiral, including what style of articles he likes.
Although writing articles for the imperial examinations in the Ming Dynasty can generally be summed up in one word, that is "blowing". But there are also different styles of blowing: some people like to blow loudly, and some people like to blow gracefully.
, some people like to blow domineeringly, and some people like to blow arrogantly... How do most scholars know what kind of "blowing" the great masters of their province like to watch?