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 was "allowing you to be distinguished in front of others", so he also gave him a red silk flying fish suit. The last time Gao Pragmatic was awarded the red silk bullfighting suit, but he immediately went back to his hometown to take the exam, and did not have time to "distinguish himself in front of others" in the capital. This time it was better, he directly upgraded 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 bull hoof dragon (by the way, there are two types of Qilin costumes. The Duke of the Ming Dynasty 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"). A dragon with four claws and no other transformations is called a "python".
The robes embroidered with these four patterns are called python suits, flying fish suits, bullfighting suits and unicorn suits. They are not within the official uniform system of rank officials, but are gifted uniforms with extremely high levels. Generally, they can only be worn after being rewarded or approved by the emperor.
The clothes are usually made of high-end clothing materials such as cloud satin, flash satin, cloud silk, gauze, and Luo. They usually use bright red as the background color, but there are also colors such as green, blue, purple, and agarwood to distinguish high from low - red is vermilion, which is In the Ming Dynasty, Dahong had the highest grade. These robes are made of intricate techniques such as gold weaving and floral decoration. They have a dragon head and claws on the chest, the dragon body wraps around the shoulders, and the dragon tail swings behind the back. Generally speaking, the python suit is the highest level gift suit, 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 ordinary flying fish suit of 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 Jin Yiwei, the third rank is the commander. In terms of commanders, as a rule, there are also governors and governors and governors. However, in most cases, the titles of governor and governor are empty titles. Only governors like Lu Bing in the Jiajing Dynasty and Zhu Xixiao today are the emperor's confidants. , can we truly master the Jinyiwei. Otherwise, the actual leader of the Jinyiwei is actually the Jinyiwei commander.
If I had to make an analogy, it would be like having a school under a certain education group in later generations. This school can be compared to Jinyiwei. The chairman of the group is likely to concurrently serve as the principal of the school, which can be compared to the Commander-in-Chief of Jinyiwei, but he will not directly manage the school. The person who actually manages the school is the executive vice-principal of the school, who is also the commander of Jinyiwei.
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, among Zhu Yijun's two rewards, promotion is more practical in terms of name, 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 the fifth rank of Zhan Shifu. ), which is a clear upgrade. But the problem is that although Hanlin academic officials or Donggong officials are both noble and noble officials, the meaning of the word "fake" is not so great with the word "fake" in front of them, which means they sound better. They were promoted from Gao Shidu to Gao Yude.
But this dress is different. If there was no gift of clothes, Gao Pingshi would have gone to the palace to accompany him, wearing only cyan clothes and white phoenix tonic (that is, he would be considered to be of fifth rank). This is the emperor's special permission. Otherwise, since he does not actually have a rank, not to mention the green robe, the green robe cannot be mixed, and he can only wear casual clothes, which would be too embarrassing.
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. .
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 and went directly to the palace to cancel his vacation without even returning home. There is no need to worry about Guo Pu. He has already complained to Guo Pu in advance. Not only does Guo Pu not blame him, but he is very satisfied with his attitude.
Of course Gao Gong knew that Guo Pu was coming with Gao pragmatism and had already arranged for someone to greet him. Since Gao Pragmatic is not going home yet, he will take Guo Pu to his house for a chat first, which is the same thing.
I 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 upon 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. As a prince, he asked the emperor for pragmatic rewards.
Then the emperor cheerfully said that "it is indeed worthy of a reward", but he was a little embarrassed to say that the cabinet believed that Xiao Gao Aiqing was still young after all and had never been on the gold list, so it was not appropriate to reward him more. What could be done?
When Gao Pragmatic heard this, he immediately took a step 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 fall in love wrongly and think that the minister's merits are somewhat minor, the minister still feels that the reward is not enough and asks the emperor and the prince to take back his life.
As soon as he said this, Zhu Yijun quit. He listed eight of Gao Pragmatic's various contributions since he became the 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 saying 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." .”
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.
