When Gao Jingshi of Guangxi resigned from office and returned to the north, the important officials in the Yanjing court were also troubled by Gao Jingshi's reward.
The emperor's intention was clear to everyone, and it was clear that he wanted Gao Pragmatic to "return to the capital for re-employment." However, the problem was that generally speaking, officials who had been "transferred to foreign posts" had their promotion route changed.
Generally speaking, the promotion route of Hanlin nobles is to sit on the bench in Hanlin Academy and Zhanshifu and slowly "upgrade" their qualifications. They usually serve as daily lecturers for a long time, and incidentally are released as examiners in the year of the competition. , over time, eventually the Ministry of Personnel or the Ministry of Etiquette was transferred to the position of Minister of the Ministry of Etiquette - this is the preparation before entering the cabinet, either directly as a minister of the cabinet, or promoted to the Minister of Etiquette to enter the cabinet.
But foreign officials are different. Usually, as long as they are appointed abroad, they are likely to stay abroad. They will slowly climb up step by step. Finally, they will be promoted to the rank of Minister and return to Beijing due to merit. If they are lucky, for example, they will not be young when they are appointed as Minister. Even those who are considered very old, those in their fifties, still have a chance to join the cabinet. If you are in your fifties or even sixties before you become a minister, then you will usually be promoted to minister at most, and it is very difficult to join the cabinet.
Gao Wuzhen is now the censor of the inspection. His rank is not high and he has great power. He definitely cannot be treated as a seventh-grade county magistrate at the same level. Normally speaking, his promotion, if he is sent to a certain province, will at least be promoted from the deputy inspector of the fourth grade. As an envoy, it is very likely that he can also prepare troops for the road;
It is also possible to go higher in rank and serve as a deputy to the left and right of a certain province. Political participation is an aide-de-camp to the left and right envoys under the Chief Secretary, with a rank of third grade, but the actual power is not as good as that of the army.
If you are lucky enough, it is not unheard of to directly serve as the chief envoy to the left or right, but Gao Pragmatic is too young. The chief envoy is theoretically the top administrative leader in a province, so it is unlikely that he will be given to someone of his age.
If it is more powerful, for example, if the person has a high personal reputation, is highly recommended by senior ministers in the court, and the emperor also values it, it is not impossible to directly promote the governor from the censor.
After all, the "governor" itself has no level, it is just a dispatch. In terms of its own level, the lowest level can be a fourth-rank official from the Metropolitan Procuratorate and a censor from the capital to concurrently serve as governor.
The characteristic of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is that there are no fifth-rank officials in this department. From the seventh-rank to above, there is only one with the experience of the sixth-rank Metropolitan Procuratorate - this is similar to the director of the archives office. Further up, it jumps directly to the fourth rank, where the left and right officials are censors.
It is very common for a province to be governed by the censor of Youqiandu. For example, Zhang Ren, the governor of Guangxi, was concurrently appointed as the censor of Youqiandu of the Duchayuan.
This is the characteristic of feudal rule and a society ruled by men. Of course there must be rules, but the rules are set by the emperor after all. If the emperor insists on making an exception and the ministers in the cabinet do not reject it, then anything can be done.
For the big guys of the Xin School, if Gao Pragmatic follows the promotion convention of foreign officials, the worst result is to be directly promoted to the right to become the censor of a certain province - this is the worst for them.
But the problem now is that the emperor clearly does not want to treat Gao Jingshi as a foreign official. He insists on continuing to use Gao Jingshi as an imperial nobleman. Therefore, Shen Shixing tentatively proposed a long time ago that Gao Jingshi should be appointed as Guangdong Youbu The political envoy was rejected by the emperor without saying a word.
It should be mentioned in addition that Shen Shixing's decision to ask Gao Pragmatic to be the "Standing Senior Official of Guangdong" was not for Gao Pragmatic's sake, because Gao Pragmatic's transfer of Lianzhou Prefecture back to Guangxi and other matters made Guangdong officials quite unhappy with him. Liu Yaojie, the governor of Guangdong and Guangdong and the governor of Guangdong, was a leader of the Xin School. He and Gao Jingshi were at odds with each other over the placement of Bazhai. If Gao Jingshi really wanted to be the right-wing political envoy of Guangdong, he would definitely be restricted in every way.
The emperor rejected it, but Mr. Shen Ge was not discouraged and recommended him again. This time Gao Pragmatically mentioned the changes in Myanmar and asked Yunnan to pay attention to it, and recommended him as the governor of Yunnan. The reason is very good: he is familiar with the situation in the Southwest, is experienced in handling matters, and is decisive in handling matters.
Who said Mr. Shen Ge has no courage?
Look at his generosity, he dares to recommend it to a governor who is barely twenty years old!
But looking at it from another angle, the situation is different: Shen Ge is always so unwilling to let Gao Pragmatic return to Beijing to take up a post!
You must know that if Gao Pingshi returns to Beijing to serve, he will most likely go to the Hanlin Academy or Zhanshifu to sit on the bench. It seems that he will not have any real power. However, Mr. Shen Ge feels that even if he returns to Beijing and sits on the bench, he will not The harm of the Xinxue group is greater than being the governor of Yunnan!
This is like a malignant sore. Even if it grows on a foot, even if it becomes diseased, at most that foot will be affected. But if it grows in the brain... Oh well, it's over.
Mr. Shen Ge saw very clearly that while others in the Hanlin Academy and Zhan Shifu were sitting on the bench and waiting for qualifications, he was not pragmatic. As long as he was allowed to return to Beijing, he would definitely be able to influence the emperor's every move at any time!
What's more, since he has made such great contributions, it's probably not justified to just "reinstate him as an official", right? However, even if he was just reinstated as an official - before he was "relegated" to the post of patrol censor, he had already been assigned the job of a Japanese official.
When other people work as daily lecturers, they just give lectures to the emperor every now and then. They can't do anything else and can't influence the emperor in any way. But you let Gao Pragmatic give it a try?
No need to try, no need to try at all!
Old Shen Ge could already imagine the image in his mind: whenever the emperor had any "difficult diseases", he would have to wait until Gao Pragmatic was in "class" to ask him about it!
Hey, when he was a high-pragmatic person, he was jokingly called "Xiaoge Lao" when he was a reading companion and an observer of politics. Now, if he were asked to be a daily lecturer, what would he be like?
The youngest in the hidden pavilion?
Then why do we need a cabinet?
Being an official was a shortcut for nobles in the Imperial Academy to get to the cabinet ministers. Shen Shixing himself came through this way. Naturally, he did not dare to think of ways to ruin this road, and he couldn't do it, so he had to find a way to let Gao Pragmatic leave. Taking this path, even if it takes a governor in exchange, Mr. Shen Ge will remain firm.
When Shen Shixing was recommended this time, the emperor hesitated. As a governor, this was an excellent position with mixed qualifications.
Although for other officials, after serving one term as governor, they may be transferred to another place to continue serving as governor. For those with average official career, they can sometimes serve as governors in several provinces in succession and waste ten or twenty years at the governor level. It’s not surprising for ten years.
However, that is for other officials. Since Gao Pragmatic is his assistant minister that Zhu Yijun has long confirmed, after serving as governor, he will become the minister when he returns to Beijing!
For example, given the position of governor of Yunnan, given Gao's pragmatic style in Guangxi and his tendency to care about the situation in Myanmar, it is almost obvious that he will know how to fight if he is given the position of governor. In Zhu Yijun's view, for such a dangerous place like Annan, pragmatism means that if you take it, you can take it. Isn't it easy to capture Myanmar?
When the time comes, it will be a matter of course to be given the title of Minister of War.
And he himself is famous for his literary reputation, and he has two great achievements in his hands. How many days can this minister be able to do his job? You can't just wait for the Minister of War to be vacant, and then find an opportunity to join the cabinet!
It is estimated that it will only take more than five years for him to join the cabinet within twenty-five years old and create the myth of Ming Dynasty officialdom!
Zhu Yijun is completely happy to create this myth - look at the "true leader for two hundred years" whom I personally appointed, he is so awesome! Isn’t this a good show where the king and his ministers get along well with each other?
So the emperor hesitated.
However, the cabinet is a different story. When Guo Pu learned that Shen Shixing recommended Gao Pragmatic as the governor of Yunnan, he was stunned for a while, then became silent, and finally shook his head and said: "It's not the right time to pull back the seedlings and encourage them to grow."
Zhang Siwei also pondered for a long time before saying: "It is indeed wrong. Seeking the truth is the way of the 'gods in the sky'. It is not appropriate to leave the matter to others. Now that I have finally obtained the merits, I am just in time to come back and re-enter the Imperial Academy. How can I continue to serve as a foreign minister? This is not good for my reputation."
What Zhang Siwei means is that my nephew was born to be a "god in the sky" in the center. What is the principle of letting foreigners go?
The ethos of the Ming Dynasty is here. No matter how powerful the foreign officials are, they are not as good as the reputation of the Hanlin nobles. His Zhang family in Puzhou used to be a businessman's family, but he gradually improved his family status when he came here, so he took this kind of thing very seriously - just like Gao's pragmatic mother Zhang, who is easy to talk to in other aspects, but as long as it involves The issue of family status is very stubborn. This is the same reason.
Xu Guo had different opinions. He pondered for a while and then said: "I think it might be beneficial for Qiu Zhen to become the governor of Yunnan. For example, the achievements that Feng Pangong mentioned just now - Qiu Zhen's This time there has been an actual contribution to the destruction of the country. Unfortunately, this time it cannot be stated clearly. I am afraid that the reward cannot be based on the contribution of the destruction of the country.
But if he fights the Annan War again in Myanmar, it will be difficult to erase the country's destruction... After all, Annan is an internal vassal, while Myanmar is a foreign vassal. By then, maybe he can be as good as Wang Xinjian, and it is also possible to get a Spyker. "
This was something Zhang Siwei had not considered, so when he said this, Zhang Siwei immediately hesitated.
Spyker... Although the military official's Spyker is not very valuable, the civil servant's Spyker is very valuable, and it is extremely valuable!
In fact, it is difficult to obtain the Spylords of the military ministers nowadays. Li Chengliang has achieved great successes every three days, and now he is just a wandering knight. Qi Jiguang and others suppressed countless thieves, fought against the Mongols for ten years, and defeated the Mongols countless times. They didn't even capture a stray prince.
This shows how difficult it is to obtain the title of the Ming Dynasty. It is difficult even for military ministers, let alone civil servants.
Guo Pu, however, took a more open-minded view and said: "Officials big and small, whether they have titles or not, are all trivial matters to the emperor, because as long as the emperor is willing to give, he can always find a reason to give. So I still feel that it is not necessary. Because of the little benefit at hand, the most important thing has been forgotten - that is the emperor's attitude."
It is better for people who are about to retire to look at problems beyond the confines of interests. Zhang Siwei was reminded by Guo Puyi and nodded: "Of course, I just want to be able to return to Beijing. Everything else is easy to discuss. There is no need to rush."
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