Although Gao Pingshi said that he would "sweep the couch to welcome him", Shen Shixing obviously would not spend the night in his Baiyu Tower, otherwise both the Xinxue and Practical Schools would be murmuring, which would be really unsightly. Now that the business had been discussed, Shen Shixing stood up and left after the dinner.
Gao Pragmatic was not as aggressive as he was in the negotiation just now, and was polite - it could even be said that he sent his "teacher and prime minister" out of the house respectfully. When Shen Shixing's green nun sedan was almost out of sight, he turned around and went back, acting as a humble disciple.
On the way back to the city, Shen Shixing had already heard his subordinates report Gao Pangshi's actions just now, which made him even more confused.
In Shen Shixing's view, Gao Pragmatic is too difficult to deal with. Although ordinary young people are full of energy, their weaknesses are also obvious. They usually get carried away in good times and become decadent and self-defeating in adversity. However, neither of these situations has ever happened to Gao Pragmatic.
Ever since Gao Pragmatic's past "Xiao Ge Lao" period, Shen Shixing has been his teacher and has observed Gao Pragmatic many times. At that time, Gao Pragmatic was known as a child prodigy and became the prince's companion. He was also the nephew of the first minister of the dynasty. He also made a lot of money because of the popularity of Jinghua Soap.
The smoothness of the situation could not be more perfect. But Shen Shixing noticed that even at that time, Gao Pragmatic never showed a complacency, and could even be said to be too cautious - Shen Shixing sometimes felt that even if it were him, he probably couldn't be more cautious than him. Be careful.
At that time, Shen Shixing thought that this should be due to Gao Gong's repeated confessions. However, after Gao Gong's death, he wavered in this idea because Gao Pragmatic was still cautious at that time.
This means being complacent in good times, and not giving up in adversity.
Gao pragmatism has also experienced adversity. When he entered the Hanlin Academy with six first prizes, and with the blessing of "the true leader in the past two hundred years, I wrote the poems and wrote the elixir", he was simply brilliant.
Everyone in the world, including officials from the Xin School including Shen Shixing, believed that his future was bright, and even felt that no one could stop his progress.
However, just at this time, he was inexplicably demoted or even sent to a foreign post, and was also sent to Guangxi, which was regarded as useless by the officials in the capital. This situation is no better than that of Yang Sheng'an back then.
But you must know that Yang Sheng'an was demoted back then, but later spent most of his life in Yunnan! Will Gao pragmatism also end up like this? There are different opinions in the government and the public.
But Gao Pragmatic, who was demoted to Guangxi, was not discouraged at all and continued to do things according to his own style. Not only did he quickly resolve the disputes within Guangxi for many years one by one, he even recovered Annan to everyone's surprise.
Such a person who is not arrogant in victory or discouraged in defeat is already extremely difficult to deal with, but he also takes advantage of both politics and business. It is already difficult to attack any one of him. The two combined are simply invulnerable.
However, the problem lies here. Since the high pragmatism of politics and business is almost impeccable, why does he take the initiative to ask that "the court's affairs should be solved by the court, and the shopping mall's affairs should be solved by the shopping mall"?
According to Shen Shixing's idea, the Zhejiang and Yingtian chaebols have united to fight against Jinghua. Judging from the book data, as long as this "war" is fought in the southeast, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang chaebols should still have a greater chance of winning.
Under such circumstances, it is really unreasonable to be highly pragmatic but willing to "do things in the mall".
However, Shen Shixing himself didn't know much about shopping malls. He thought about it and couldn't figure out how Gao Pragmatic viewed this matter and how he planned it. In the end, he could only give up and planned to send someone to inform the chaebols in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. That's it for them.
Shen Yuanfu himself had better deal with "the court's affairs" first.
Although the general direction of "the court's affairs are handled by the court" with the "gentleman's agreement" reached between him and Gao Pragmatic tonight, the general direction has been very clear, but the specific operation still needs to be careful.
At this time, Shen Shixing began to regret the advice he gave Pan Sheng. It would be a bad thing if Pan Sheng really listened to her words and suddenly jumped out to muddy the water. And I don’t know what Gao Pragmatic will think if such a situation really happens.
But Shen Shixing still underestimated Gao Pragmatic's quick movements and overestimated Pan Sheng's courage.
In the end, Mr. Pan Ge didn't dare to make some outrageous maneuvers between the two factions. He still stayed at home and suspended himself to reflect.
After getting Shen Shixing's acquiescence, the practical school suddenly launched a fierce offensive.
In just one morning the next day, the memorial to impeach Pan Sheng flew into the General Affairs Department like snowflakes, and was submitted from the General Affairs Department to the cabinet, and then to the Secretary of Ceremonies.
The Guanzheng Jinshi around Shen Shixing counted and found that Mr. Pan Ge might have accidentally set a record: in one morning, he was impeached forty-three times. The people who impeached him ranged from the Imperial Academy to the Imperial Academy; from the seventh grade to the first grade, there was no one left behind!
This situation became even more out of control in the afternoon, and even Gao Pragmatic himself was a little confused.
Because he discovered that in the afternoon, not only the officials of the Practical School were continuing to stir up huge waves under his instructions, but there were even others who joined the battle group - such as his fellow student Gu Xiancheng.
Gu Xiancheng was very famous in later generations because he was "Mr. Donglin" - it was he who established Donglin Academy, the predecessor of the Donglin Party.
The point that Gao pragmatism struggled with was that he personally disdained the Donglin Party in the later period, and even felt disgusted when he heard the word Donglin. However, at this time, Mr. Donglin Gu Xiancheng was a young official who was obviously inclined to practice. Gao pragmatism's actions The actual leader of the Practical School, it seems that he has no position to reject this person.
The situation is the same this time. Although Gu Xiancheng, like Gao Pragmatic, was only a member of the Wanli Eighth Years' Golden List, with little official qualifications and low status, and was just the head of the household department, his tone was very fierce when he discussed the impeachment of Pan Sheng. . The essay directly criticized Pan Sheng for "he was in charge of the Ministry of Rites, but his integrity was not seen; he was called the old pavilion, but his virtue was not seen. I don't know how such an old man can occupy his position with such arrogance!"
The fierceness of his words and the harshness of his impeachments were even worse than those of direct officials of the Real School.
Gao pragmatic had to think carefully about the use of Gu Xiancheng.
He suddenly thought of a big question: Are Donglin in the late Ming Dynasty and Donglin in the early Ming Dynasty really the same thing? I'm afraid otherwise.
At the very least, Gu Xiancheng's enthusiasm for criticizing Xinxue is probably no worse than his pragmatism.
Gao pragmatic thought about it carefully and found that the thoughts of the early Donglin Party members in history, especially Gu Xiancheng and Gao Panlong, were the most representative. Gu and Gao have always made it clear that they are dissatisfied with Wang Shouren's theory of perfection, accusing Wang Shouren of "no good and no evil", which is an emptiness of Zen Buddhism and corrupts the Confucian practical style. Among them, Gu Xiancheng's criticism was the most intense.
However, it is not that Gu Xiancheng disagrees with the supreme goodness of Taoism, but rather that he disagrees with the supreme good as neither good nor evil. In this regard, he proposed the concepts of reality and emptiness of Taoism, and then formed the concept of true teaching. This also demonstrates his view of practical learning.
However, there is a big problem here, that is, Gu Xiancheng's "practical learning" is different from the practical learning of world management of Gao Gong and Gao pragmatism. Gu Xiancheng talks about "moral practical learning." (This point was mentioned earlier, in the chapter before the Double Ninth Festival.)
As mentioned before, mind science was originally a category under the general concept of "practical learning". It was also the main representative of the school of "moral practical learning" earlier, but it branched out along the way.
Now that Gu Xiancheng, the "New Moral Reality School", has emerged, he is obsessed with fighting with the "Old Moral Reality School", Xinxue, to the death. Does it have anything to do with the high pragmatism of the "Jingshi Shishi School"?
In fact, it is not that Gao Pragmatic did not understand that the confrontation with Buddhism and Laoism turned Confucianism in Song and Ming Dynasties into "practical learning" in a broad sense, and the criticism of Wang Yangming by Donglin Party members in history was partly due to misunderstanding. In the sense of practical learning, they are still a family and belong to the school of "moral practical learning".
When they debated with Buddhists, they all returned to the dispute between Mencius and Confucius, because they saw that the two debates were essentially the same, and both meant the dispute between "nature is good" and "nature is neither good nor evil", that is, The debate between reality and deficiency.
However, at the time of Mencius, the Buddhist concept of void or emptiness did not appear, so Mencius did not put forward a targeted concept of reality. Only in the Song and Ming dynasties, when Buddhist thought was rampant, did the concept of reality exist.
In this way, conceptually speaking, practical learning only emerged during the Song and Ming dynasties; and essentially speaking, Confucius and Mencius' Confucianism itself is practical learning.
In other words, under the general characteristics of Confucian practical learning of nature and goodness, various different levels of practical learning are manifested. According to the principle of unity of body and function, the essence of Tao or nature will be dispersed into all things. In this way, both the essence of sex and ordinary daily use are all practical learning.
Ordinary daily necessities include all areas of people's lives, including moral articles and secular achievements; both the study of things and principles, and the art of managing the world and governing the country.
In this way, everything done by Confucian scholars in the Song and Ming dynasties under the banner of Confucianism can be called practical learning.
During this period, there were various practical concepts. Some advocated the practicality of Confucianism, such as Xu Guangqi; some advocated the characteristics of Confucianism, such as Li Zhizao; some advocated the characteristics of Confucianism, such as Yang Tingyun; some advocated the good nature of Confucianism. Monism, such as Huang Zongxi. No matter which aspect they focus on, they seem to be contradictory to each other, but they are all part of the general tendency of Confucianism to be practical.
Among the above people, Gao Pragmatic certainly recognized Xu Guangqi more, because theoretically Xu Guangqi was one of his successors to Gao's theory of world affairs, which emphasized the need to see practical results in knowledge.
But at this time, Gao Pragmatism had to think about another question: Is there any hope of unification among these various "practical learnings"? And is it necessary to unify?
According to Gao's pragmatic view, academics should be "let a hundred flowers bloom". Even if he does not agree with the current low-end Xinxue, it is hard to say that there is no good thing in the low-end Xinxue.
Similarly, does the Donglin Party only have "an itchy scalp" and "the water is too cold"? Among the early Donglin Party members, there were quite a few who had a strong sense of integrity!
How should I distinguish it and how should I treat it?
It was rare for Gao Qingshi to sit in his room and start to stay in a daze, and this "dumb" lasted for more than an hour.
It wasn't until someone came to tell him that Mr. Pan Ge had submitted three memorials in one day, each of which was a firm resignation, that Gao Pragmatic slowly came back to his senses.
In one day, Sanshu asked to retreat?
It seems that Pan Sheng has completely admitted defeat, but this is not surprising. If Shen Shixing doesn't save him, what courage and strength will he have to fight against the "anti-Pan" trend of the Real School?
San Shu's resignation was the last bit of face he could save for himself. Otherwise, if the emperor ordered him to take over his post, he would be treated the same as Yan Song.
Gao Pragmatic was right. Less than half an hour later, the Supervisor of Ceremonies rushed out today's Zhu batch, which included Zhu Yijun's reply to Pan Sheng Sanshu's request to withdraw.
Pan Sheng's first request for resignation was based on the reason of "requesting retirement due to illness", and Zhu Yijun's reply was "Mr. Pan is old and disobeys the rules, so the hospital will send personnel for detailed diagnosis and treatment. The request is not allowed."
Pan Sheng asked to retire for the second time. In addition to "due to illness", he also said that he had been low in energy recently, which was probably a sign that the oil was running out, so it was better to return early, so he begged for his bones.
This time Zhu Yijun’s reply was, “I have been admitted to the Tai Hospital for treatment. The request is not allowed.”
When it came to the third retreat in the afternoon, it was after officials from the non-practical school including Gu Xiancheng also started to participate in the war. This time Pan Sheng added another reason in addition to the first two arguments. The general meaning was that since the veteran He had lost the trust of his fellow courtiers and had to retreat for the sake of self-improvement.
This time Zhu Yijun's reply was somewhat interesting. He first praised Pan Sheng a few words, both moderately and moderately. Of course, it was nothing more than a few clichés. Then he said, "I am fully aware of Mr. Pan's request to retreat. Although I am nostalgic in my heart, I have to sympathize with Mr. Pan's feelings. Mr. Pan is allowed to resign and I will be sent back home by Chuanyi."
No need to read too many polite words, in short, I agree. However, Zhu Yijun still followed the tradition and saved face for the cabinet ministers. Not only did he use the term "approval to resign", but he also specially gave a carriage and horse. To give Pan Sheng home at the post station along the way was to ask for public expense to send Pan Sheng home.
At this point, Gao Pragmatic's "defeat Pan" operation came to a perfect end. Pan Sheng resigned from office early before Wang Xijue's rule ended, and returned to his hometown to retire.
However, this incident has not yet completely ended, because according to the "gentleman's agreement" between him and Shen Shixing yesterday, the position of cabinet minister left by Pan Sheng after taking office has not yet been settled.
"The affairs of the imperial court are handled by the imperial court" and will continue to be handled - at least until the position of this cabinet minister is determined.
So early the next morning, Shen Shixing went to court as the chief minister, saying that since Pan Sheng had become an official, the ministers in the cabinet should not stay idle for too long, and asked the emperor to agree to recommend the cabinet ministers.
Zhu Yijun quickly made a reply, agreed to this request, and ordered preparations for the trial.
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