It is better to use your remaining courage to chase the poor bandits, not to use your reputation as an academic overlord.
To overthrow Ling Yunyi with a thunderous force can only be regarded as a means to intimidate political opponents, but intimidation alone is not enough. The reason why the new policy of the state can only be barely maintained after Gao Gong's death can never be found before. The feeling of gradual progress is ultimately due to the fact that Gao Dang's real strength has declined significantly since Gao Gong, the core figure, was missing.
In an era when imperial power was supreme, the "real strength" of ministers came from two aspects. One was the allies and disciples gathered around them based on their own prestige or other factors, which were the so-called connections; the other was more direct and came from To the emperor's trust and support.
The current situation is that Gao Dang's connections are generally still there. Even if they are scattered and become a bit like a dual system, they are still in a state of "meat rotting in the pot" after all, and there is no such thing as switching to others. What Gao Dang really lacks is the emperor's trust and support.
At least, the emperor's trust and support for Gao Dang now are definitely less than when Gao Gong was alive.
The biggest role of Gao pragmatism is to make up for this shortcoming!
Guo Pu and Zhang Siwei were both teachers of Gao Jingshi, but this time they responded to Gao Jingshi's strong and almost childish behavior. Do they really just dote on Gao Jingshi? What a joke!
The real reason why they decided not to object was because they had some understanding of Gao Jingzhi's influence in the palace, but they were not completely sure about it, so they remained silent. At the same time, they also wanted to see how much influence Gao Pragmatic, the successor of Gao Wenzhenggong, had on Gao's party officials.
It turned out that Gao Pragmatic could not only instigate Zhao Yumin and Lin Yicai, Guo Pu's disciples in the fifth year of Longqing, but also persuade Gao Gong's direct disciples such as Song Zhihan, Hu Wei and others to come forward to support, but even more so What surprised the elders was the last one - Gao Pingshi could actually ask Wang Guoguang, the censor of Zongxian Zuodu, to do the final blow!
This surprised them so much!
Who is Wang Guangguang? He was on the gold list in the 23rd year of Jiajing, one subject earlier than Zhang Juzheng back then!
When Gao Gong implemented the New Deal during the Wanli period, Wang Guoguang was the Minister of Household Affairs selected by him. He actually presided over the clearing of land, the opening of sea taxation, and the promotion and implementation of the One Whip Law in Jiangnan and other places. By the way, he also "took the time" to compile the "Wanli Accounting Records" is an extremely important financial classic!
Simply put, he was Gao Gong's most effective assistant in fiscal reform. It was not until close to the fifth year of Wanli that because Ge Shouli, the former backbone of the Gao Party and the censor of the Left Capital, was old and retired, Gao Gong had no more suitable candidates for a while, so he had to let Wang Guoguang succeed the General Constitution to prevent public opinion in the government and the opposition from getting out of control.
But how could such a senior minister be easily moved by a young boy like Gao Pangshi?
The reason is simple: finances.
When talking about finance here, of course it does not mean that Gao Jingshi spent money to bribe Wang Zongxian, but that Wang Guoguang and Gao Jingshi had had many exchanges in the past few years. The two sides had a lot in common on the issue of Ming Dynasty's financial reform, and even There is also some cooperation.
When Wang Guoguang took charge of the household department, because new policies such as the post station reform, the opening of the port to tax, and the clearing of land and land required a large number of accounting talents, he selected some mathematical skills from the "Jinghua Craftsman School" founded by Gao Jingjing in Jianxinzhai on the outskirts of Beijing. The best people went to assist the officials and clerks sent by the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the results were very good.
Here I would like to add a narration: Jinghua Craftsman School is a "professional school" that Gao Pragmatic began to consider establishing long before the death of the late Emperor Longqing [Wufeng's note: See Chapter 060 of this volume to get something for nothing], and it was founded in the first year of Wanli.
The school initially opened only five major categories: mathematics, mining, iron smelting, carpentry, and medicine. Gao Pragmatic originally wanted to open a navigation-related subject, but because his strength could not extend to the south at that time and he could not find suitable teachers, he had to give up first.
However, as a subject of carpentry, you need to learn shipbuilding. When it was newly opened, since we could only recruit talents in the North, we usually taught how to make sand ships, and later gradually involved other ship types. However, the teaching staff was still very weak, and we were very pragmatic and couldn't rush it, so we could only treat it as a pre-production plan. The foundation is established.
The students of this Jinghua Craftsman School were all the children of refugees recruited by Gao Jingshi from Wei Hui at first. The basic requirements for enrolling in the school were simple: to become Gao Jingshi's servants. Other than that, standards such as age are trivial matters.
For those children of refugees, becoming a highly pragmatic servant is a great thing that they can only dream of - a servant means a close confidant and a guaranteed job! Considering how wealthy their boss was, becoming his servant would mean that they would not have to worry about starving to death, and would even be able to stand out if they succeeded in their studies. Among other things, Gao Xiaozhuang, a servant, owns the three largest factories in Kaiping, Jinghua! In terms of income alone, you can’t change it even if you give it to a prefect! {Of course, this cannot be considered as a corrupt official...}
Because of these relationships, Wang Guoguang and Gao Pragmatic actually have a very close relationship, and as a senior official who joined Gao Dang relatively late, Wang Guoguang has a clear view of Gao Dang's current situation: As long as Guo Pu has not taken office, Gao Dang will It cannot be a single-core political group. Even if Guo Pu becomes official, Zhang Siwei may still have to rely on Gao Pragmatic, his nephew, to ensure his leadership of the Gao Party.
Sometimes Wang Guoguang even secretly wondered whether Gao Gong had already anticipated this step when he sent Gao Jingshi to the palace to study with the prince. That move was simply to give Gao Jingshi the leadership position to take charge of the practical school Gao Party a few years later. The foreshadowing!
Therefore, when Gao Jingshi returned to Beijing and a conflict broke out with Ling Yunyi, Wang Guoguang guessed that Gao Jingshi might want to take action. Sure enough, the day after Gao Pingshi returned to Beijing (the same day he visited Zhang Siwei), he quietly sent him a letter asking for his help in impeaching Ling Yunyi in three days.
Three days later? Wang Guoguang is not a novice in officialdom, so he naturally knows that this is a "Dragon Gate Triple Wave", each wave is stronger than the last, and his mission, Wang Zongxian, is to shoot this most critical wave.
Facts have proved that Wang Guoguang's guess was absolutely correct. Gao Pragmatic's nearly ten years of companionship was indeed not in vain. His Majesty the Emperor's cruelty in this matter exceeded everyone's expectations!
Gao pragmatically won the first battle back in Beijing! The dignified Minister of the Ministry of War was completely defeated by Gao Pragmatic, who was only a new imperial examination candidate in name.
Wang Guoguang even suddenly remembered the nervous look of everyone in the Xu party who was in danger when Gao Gongqi returned to Beijing at the end of the third year of Longqing.
Gao Pragmatic... This "little pavilion elder" returned to Beijing just like Gao Gong did back then, giving people an unstoppable feeling!
If there is any difference, it is simply that Gao Gong is the imperial master and Gao Pragmatic is the companion.
There is no need to doubt the one thing they have in common now, that is, the unparalleled Holy Family!
