Chapter 35 Adding flowers and adding fuel to the fire (Part 2)
The reason why Gao Jingshi was willing to take action against a respected Duke of the Kingdom for Liu Xian's affairs was not only because he knew Liu Wei's future role, so he considered it for the sake of the Ming Dynasty, but there were also two main reasons.
The first reason is that Xu Pengju's life was short-lived. Historically, he was about to die in February of the fifth year of Longqing.
1" It can be seen that this record is wrong.], this time has only been about a year, and Emperor Longqing has not been seriously ill in this year... Based on Longqing's trust in Gao Gong, as long as Gao Gong is willing, Xu Pengju can even
A descendant of Xu Da, the dignified Duke of Wei, the Commander-in-Chief of the Central Army of the Nanjing Governor's Office, and the distinguished garrison officer of Nanjing, were criticized as they deserved and punished as they deserved.
Think about it, Liu Xian, who was once the mighty commander-in-chief of Langshan, was told exactly what he was doing by a mere Tongzhou government official?
These days, the status of military ministers is really so low in front of civil servants. Even Gao Gong does not have to speak in person. At present, his disciples such as Song Zhihan, Han Ji, Tu Menggui, Cheng Wen, etc. in the capital are all Ke Dao officials. Any one of them can stand
He came out to "hear things" and accused Xu Pengju of "being a distinguished minister of the Nanjing garrison but corrupting the Nanjing Guards." Even though Xu Pengju would not have a big incident because of his good ancestors, he would still be criticized and punished.
Definitely can't run away.
The second reason is that Xu Pengju has another big mistake that has not yet been exposed, but Gao Pragmatically calculated the time and knew that it would be soon.
The original history of this incident is like this: Xu Pengju's first wife, whose surname was Zhang, had no sons and died early. So Xu Pengju had no legitimate son, but he still had several sons from concubines, among whom the eldest was named Xu Bangrui.
.According to the principle of the Ming Dynasty that "there are direct descendants, but no direct descendants", Xu Bangrui should be the heir of Wei Guogong.
But here comes the problem. Xu Pengju himself likes another younger son, Xu Bangning. The biological mother of this child is his concubine Zheng. Zheng was deeply favored by Xu Pengju. In order to improve Zheng's status, Xu Pengju even lied and won for her.
The title of Mrs. Gaoming.
According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, the children of honorable ministers and generals must first receive an education if they want to inherit the titles of their ancestors. Xu Pengju worked hard to train Xu Bangning and wanted to send him to the Nanjing Imperial College. Liu Cai, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing, learned the news and reminded him,
He said that if you continue to act like this, you might cause trouble.
As mentioned earlier, the Minister of War in Nanjing was actually the number one official in Nanjing, so after being warned by him, Xu Pengju did not dare to make a mistake, so he had to send his eldest son Xu Bangrui to school instead.
But of course Xu Bangning would not give in, so he prepared a generous gift and invited Liu Shiyan, a descendant of Liu Bowen, to visit Jiufeng Temple with him. He quietly offered a gift and asked him to help him. Liu Shiyan was the successor of Liu Bowen, so he was naturally an honorary scholar.
He was a leader among the ministers and had great power in Nanjing's "Founding Clan", so he approached Jiang Bao, the Nanjing Imperial College's wine-sacrifice, and asked him to do a "little favor" for Xu Bangning. Zheng Rujin, an assistant teacher at the Nanjing Imperial College, guessed that he was also like this
The matter was somewhat related, so I also spoke for Xu Bangning in front of Jiang Bao.
Jiang Bao may not have thought carefully about how involved this matter would be. After listening to Liu Shiyan's words, he decisively refused Xu Bangrui's admission and prepared to transfer Xu Bangning to him. However, the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty valued the ancestral system very much, so this incident caused a stir
The Nanjing Ministry of Rites was dissatisfied and the matter escalated.
Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Shiyan knew that everything would be difficult once civil servants were involved, so he quickly defended himself. He refused to admit that he helped Xu Bangning, and said that he had fallen out with Xu Pengju in the early years, and it was impossible to take care of Xu.
Family affairs - This statement is somewhat confusing, because Liu Shiyan did have a very unhappy relationship with Xu Pengju due to some things in his early years. The two could almost be said to be incompatible. This situation was unknown to everyone in Nanjing official circles.
When things got to this point, the first result was not very serious: Zheng Rujin was dismissed, Xu Pengju was fined a month's salary, regained the title of Zheng's royal wife, and Xu Bangning and others also received some punishment.
.It’s just that Liu Shiyan’s attitude has always been very tough. Nanjing officials also considered that this matter was not a good thing after all, and in fact, the civil servants could not get much benefit from it, so they didn’t bother to mess with him and planned to let it go.
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However, it is not enough for them to just give up, because Zheng Rujin, who was dismissed, was very angry about this punishment. He probably thought that he, Zheng, was not considered the "first offender" but was dismissed, and the real "first offender" went unpunished. I miss him Zheng.
He is also a Jinshi who has passed the examination of the Eight Classics, and he is still a proud man of heaven. How can he tolerate such birdiness? So he complained everywhere, and finally made it to Beijing. Even Emperor Longqing knew about it. How the imperial court discussed it was not recorded in detail in the history books.
Anyway, Long Qing finally ordered that Sun Zhi, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment of Nanjing, Jiujiu Bao of the Imperial Academy of Nanjing, and Liu Shiyan, the sincerity uncle, all returned to their hometowns to listen to the investigation.
After this turmoil, Xu Pengju, who was already young, did not dare to make any more trouble. In the end, the title of Wei Guogong was passed to Xu Bangrui in the order of eldest and youngest.
People say that it is easy to add icing on the cake, but it is difficult to provide help in times of need. In fact, Gao Pragmatic is not much better than ordinary people in this regard. If he is asked to do a good deed to provide help in times of need, at the risk of harming his own family or offending people who should not be offended for no reason, he will ask himself whether he has the consciousness yet.
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However, if it is something that you know is just the icing on the cake, but the other person thinks it is a timely help, Gao Pragmatic will be very interested in getting involved.
What's more, there are two obvious benefits here: First, helping Liu Xian will not only gain Liu Xian's gratitude in the next ten years, but also sell a big favor to Liu Wei. Although the status of the military commander is low now
, but even if the highly pragmatic plan to "save the Ming Dynasty" goes smoothly in the future, he still needs capable generals to implement some of his future military plans and plans. Selling Liu Wei now is a good way to pave the way for the future.
Secondly, if we start with the case of assaulting a noble, then it doesn't matter at all to attack Xu Pengju. Firstly, Xu Pengju made the mistake first and was unable to resist; secondly, he was about to die of illness and was unable to cause any trouble. Liu Xian's matter was completely
It can be used as a tack-on to add to the case and give Xu Peng a "several crimes and concurrent punishment."
Even doing this has another advantage, that is, if Gao Gong also takes a stand in this matter, or even plays a role, it will almost have the effect of setting the tripod, and the future Wei Guogong Xu Bangrui will have a better view of the Gao family.
manner.
Like the Xu family, the leader-level family of the "founding lineage" of the great ministers, no matter how hard we hit them, it's just a matter of replacing Wei Guogong, and the eldest brother is replaced by the second child. It is impossible to destroy the inheritance of Wei Guogong. In this case
, winning over and guiding is probably more effective than attacking. If you want to implement some highly pragmatic plans in the future, if you can bring the Xu family over to talk, it doesn’t matter how effective it will be, but it will definitely be better than the Xu family jumping out to sing the opposite.
Much more.
Gao's pragmatic attitude towards doing things is very clear: everything must serve the overall future without overly affecting one's own interests.
So when it came to Liu Xian's matter, Gao Qingzhi decided to help him after he understood the truth.
