"Gently I leave, just as I came gently, I wave gently and bid farewell to the clouds in the western sky."
On July 5, the sixth year of Wanli, Gao pragmatic escorted Gao Gong's coffin back to his hometown for burial. Zhu Yijun overcame everyone's objections and personally escorted the spirit out of the city. Unexpectedly, he received secret praise from many people, but it was not because his ancestors secretly praised him, but because he was grateful that the emperor respected his ministers.
Gao Gong's lack of reform efforts actually offended many people, but the emperor still insisted on giving 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 has resigned from the posts of Guanzheng, bachelor of the fake Hanlin Academy, Zuo Chunfang and Zuo Yude of the fake Zhanshifu.
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 accompany 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 an edict. politics.
However, Gao Pragmatism, who is already as powerful as the internal minister, has already had a higher influence on the "Tianjia Trio" through his "continued struggle" in the past few years. He performed an emotional performance in front of the two palaces and the emperor, saying that Gao Gong had no other relatives of his nephews or nephews in Beijing. As Gao Gong's son, 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 part in the tribute examination before San Bo became an official, he did not take the exam again after obtaining the status of a student member. Now that seven years have passed and the third uncle has passed away, it is time for him to prepare well and take the exam. As long as I pass the exam, wouldn't I be able to come back and continue to serve the emperor?
This statement was both reasonable and reasonable. After discussion, the two palaces considered it worthy of consideration. Zhu Yijun had no choice but to summon Gao pragmatism alone. The two discussed secretly in the Xinuang Pavilion of Qianqing Palace for a long time, and they didn't know what they said. Anyway, Zhu Yijun finally agreed to Gao pragmatism's resignation.
Before leaving the capital, Gao pragmatically visited his teacher Guo Pu at the former Zhang University Scholarship and now the Guo University Scholarship.
Let me add that this house is very interesting. At first, after the emperor seized 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", and the reason for granting Guo Pu permission to live was that Guo Pu did not have a house in Beijing. Living in the pragmatic Jianxinzhai Courtyard was easy to be criticized by officials, and the distance was also far away. For an elderly man, It is really not very convenient for Gu Mingfu.
Guo Pu was a poorer official than Gao Gong, and the Gao family was still a family of officials. However, he was born in a poor family, and he was the kind of official who refused to accept donations, so he naturally had no money. He had been an official all his life, and he had saved a few small sums of money thanks to the little Bingjing and Tanjing of his students. He bought more than two hundred acres of land in his hometown, which he used as a pension for his retirement. Renting a house, this may also 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. Nowadays, only the plaque at the door of Scholar Guo's mansion belongs to him. Even the servants in the mansion were all hired by Zhu Yijun out of his own pocket and asked the imperial eunuch to help him hire them.
Gao Pingshi came to discuss with Guo Pu, mainly on two aspects. One aspect of course is government affairs. Even though Gao Pragmatic is only sixteen years old this year, as his mentor, how could Guo Pu not know the influence of Gao Pragmatic, a former government official? He, this evil student, had been 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 highly pragmatic private matters. The most important private matter, logically speaking, is Gao Gong's funeral, but in fact it is best to have fixed etiquette standards. Others only need to spend money, and Gao Pragmatic is really not short of money.
So what really matters is the next exam.
In the sixth year of Wanli, there were no exams that needed to be taken with high pragmatism. Originally, he was just a student. As a rule, he had to take the Taoist exam held every year in Henan Xuezheng. However, because of Mu Zong’s death, he had to accompany the emperor, so this routine exam The two palaces made an exception and were exempted.
So the first exam he has to face is actually the Henan Provincial Examination next year, which is the seventh year of Wanli. Only those who have passed the Henan Provincial Examination and obtained Juren status can participate in the Wanli Eighth Examination.
In fact, Gao Jingjing is quite confident about the exam itself. Although he often seems to be "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 only gives a Just strategic planning. Most of those "plans" were written by him many years ago. It was only because the actual situation of some things was slightly different from the plan that he needed to take them out and modify them slightly, and then handed them over to others to do. .
In short, it won't delay much.
And he usually works very hard. Not only does he work hard, he also has advantages that ordinary students cannot possibly achieve. He is a Hanlin official! Although he was in name only, the officials in the Hanlin Academy were all his colleagues in name!
Not to mention that he also has a lot of senior brothers who are Jinshi. If you communicate casually with these two types of people, you can also learn a lot about exam experience!
Of course, when it comes to things like exams, ability is one thing, confidence is another, and luck is another.
However, being highly pragmatic can reduce the proportion of "luck" as much as possible, especially in the rural examination stage. Because he could find various information on the academic affairs of the Henan Admiral, including what style of articles he liked.
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, some people like to blow gracefully, some people like to blow domineeringly, and some people like to blow loudly. How do most of the talented people know about this province? What kind of "blowing" does the Grand Master like to watch?
But you can know it if you are highly pragmatic!
