The investigation to find suitable scholars from Guo Daxing County, attached to the capital, as candidates for the "preparatory prince-in-law" was very important in the eyes of the emperor, but not particularly important in Gao Pragmatic's view. In short, he sent people out to make contacts, and slowly That’s it for selection and observation.
After all, according to the information Zhu Yijun gave him, it was enough to choose one person in the eighth year of Wanli. Because the wedding date of the third princess was set by Empress Dowager Li in the ninth year of Wanli, there was plenty of time.
Gao Jingshi's current main task is to act as a lubricant between Guo Pu and Zhang Siwei. The purpose is to contribute to the overall stability of the court - well, this is nonsense. The real purpose is to stabilize the overall situation of the Gao Party. , and don’t overly stimulate the Xinxue lineage.
These two purposes are generally in conflict.
If we want to stabilize the overall situation of the Party, it is not enough for Gao Pragmatic to come forward and do some internal lubrication. Internal lubrication can only temporarily cover up the contradictions, but cannot eliminate them at a deep level. To eliminate contradictions, or at least temporarily eliminate them, the key is to have new cakes to distribute.
The so-called "Gao Party" is certainly a political group with practical learning as its guiding ideology, but practical learning only emphasizes practical application and enriching the country and strengthening the army. It does not emphasize being a public servant of the people. Therefore, if the Gao Party wants to have cohesiveness, , we also need to make them feel that they have "a bright future", which is nothing more than a future, and a future is nothing more than promotion.
However, the official position system of the imperial court is always in the form of a pyramid. The higher you go up, the higher the position, and the fewer the positions. They are all carrots and holes. If you want to make up for it, you will have to occupy someone else's hole. How can it be that easy? ?
If "others" retire and get out of the way, that's not bad. But if someone is begging for nothing and refuses to retire or die, what can you do? It's not just a blank stare.
What's more, even if someone retires and becomes an official, or simply dies in office, and this pit is cleared, it doesn't necessarily have to be someone from your high-ranking party who takes over. Isn't there a big boss in the line of human psychology?
Besides, although the big bosses of the Xinxue lineage currently in power are not as favored as the Gao Dang of the Shixue lineage, the Xinxue lineage has far more disciples than Shixue - when did the Xinxue lineage rise?
But what about practical learning? From Qiu Jun to Wang Tingxiang, these are just the theoretical school of practical learning laying the foundation for practical learning. It was Gao Gong and Gao Xinzheng who really promoted practical learning to the whole country. It was his administration in the past ten years that made practical learning as if it were There is a tendency to catch up. Even in the eyes of some people, as Gao Gong's New Deal continued to advance, and the effects of the New Deal were gradually praised by many scholars, practical learning might even replace mental learning and might become a new trend in scholarship.
However, Gao Pragmatic feels that this view is still too optimistic. Gao Gong's new policy may not have a great impact on the interests of scholars from some families in the north where tax evasion is not too serious, but it will not have a great impact on some areas in the south. Taxi scholars, the impact is too great. I am afraid it will be difficult for them to lean towards the New Deal just because of the benefits of "prospering the country and strengthening the people", regardless of the huge losses to their own families, or the huge losses of those sponsors who paid for his studies. loss.
But at the same time, some industrial and commercial owners who became rich because of the Gao Gong New Deal - such as maritime merchants, silk merchants, cotton merchants, porcelain merchants and even tea merchants, etc., the scholars produced by their families and the people they supported Scholars are definitely supporters of Gao Dang. Once they become officials, they will basically become Gao Dang.
The Gao Party, to put it bluntly, is the Party of Practical Learning and the Party of Reform.
However, these industrial and commercial proponents of the Gao Party have just started and have just enjoyed the dividends of the New Deal. They are not yet able to influence the top leaders, and the support they provide to the top leaders is still negligible.
Gao pragmatically knew that it would take at least ten years for them to be able to help. Without this ten-year gestation period, they would not be able to provide much fresh blood to Gao Dang.
Therefore, the Gao Party must stabilize itself in the next ten years. If it is stabilized, the Practical Learning Party will have a firm foothold in the Ming Dynasty's political arena; if it is not stabilized, it may be like in history, and the people will die and the government will cease.
In other words, the current Gao Party actually has a very weak foundation and relies entirely on the power of the imperial power. But the Xinxue lineage is different. Since the current Xinxue has gone astray a long time ago, they are now only talking about conscience, but in fact they are pursuing personal gain. Therefore, especially in the south, various ideas of supremacy of private rights have begun to appear. .
For example, Li Zhi, the self-proclaimed heretic thinker, puts personal interests as supreme. Although his thoughts also include propositions such as the sanctity of private property, national interests are completely ignored. This is high pragmatism in any case. I cannot agree more.
From a highly pragmatic perspective, private property is of course sacred and inviolable, but how can national interests be ignored? If national interests cannot be protected, how can you protect your private property? If the country cannot raise troops or provide disaster relief, how can private property be secure?
Ask the people near the Jiubian towns, do they think it is a good thing that the country cannot support soldiers? Ask the people in the prefectures and counties in the north who have been plundered by refugees, do they think it is a good thing that the country cannot provide disaster relief? In other words, the South is neither suffering from foreign invasion nor suffering from the Little Glacier disaster, so it has no personal experience of these pains. It spends all day thinking about its own small profits, even the low taxes. They all resisted.
So to put it bluntly, the court is nothing more than a dispute between practical learning and spiritual learning. Being pragmatic is actually to pull some of the positions occupied by the spiritual learning line to the plate of the practical learning line, and not to force it too hard. The court fell into serious internal fighting between parties.
This is the most testing method. It is necessary to show the strength of Gao Dang, but also leave a leeway, and slowly change the balance of strength between the two parties in the way of boiling a frog in warm water.
Therefore, after careful discussion with Guo Pu and Zhang Siwei, the first assistant Guo Pu came forward to write the memorial, and the memorial to Wu Dui, then the governor of Xuanda, as the minister of the Ministry of War, was the first to be submitted to the emperor's desk.
In fact, in the eyes of the government and the public, Wu Dui's other qualifications are sufficient, but he has a disadvantage, that is, his time as governor is too short. Compared with some previous ministers of the Ministry of War, Wu Dui has only been appointed governor of Xuanda for only two years. , it’s really a bit too short.
However, the emperor still chose to support the cabinet and the chief minister as always. Just one day later, Zhu Pi came down: "According to the vote, Wu Dui will be promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War."
Next, Wu Dui's resignation came one after another. He simply claimed that he was too inexperienced to take on the heavy responsibility of the army, and asked the emperor to take back his order.
It is impossible to take back his life, not to mention that Wu Dui's resignation is nothing more than some doubts about the government and the opposition, and he has to go up. It's not like Zhu Yijun doesn't know it.
Therefore, the emperor's imperial decree was issued immediately. First, he greatly praised Wu Dui's previous achievements, especially his role in promoting the tribute issue, and his contact with the Mongolian right wing after the tribute was completed. In the emperor's opinion, It is "effective", so "I will not resign, but should take up my post immediately."
Wu Dui had already received a pragmatic notice from Gao, so there was no problem in taking up his post immediately. After a little tidying up, he left the border of Xuanda, where he had stayed for nearly ten years, and Shi Shiran came to Beijing to take up his new post.
With Wu Dui's appointment as Minister of War being implemented, Gao Dang's second step was about to begin, which was to ask the emperor to add cabinet ministers to the throne, with Guo Pu still coming forward and Zhang Siwei seconding the proposal.
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