It was late at night, and Gao Pingshi was about to fall asleep, when Gao Mo suddenly asked for a meeting downstairs. Gao Pingshi cheered up and asked him to go upstairs. As soon as Gao Mo saw the master, he said: "Gong Chengguo sent someone to send a message, saying that the Holy Father has not expressed his opinion."
Gao Pangshi couldn't help but be surprised after hearing this, and secretly thought: Could it be that the emperor is determined to knight me this time? This is not necessarily a good thing. It may be good for me personally, but the impact on the overall situation is too bad. Not only would Shen Shixing definitely not be able to accept it, I'm afraid Xu Guo would also be unhappy.
The current situation is still maintainable, because a strange balance has been achieved: the pragmatic school has a slight advantage in the upper echelons of the imperial court, but there are vaguely two mountains standing side by side. Among them, Xu Guo has the advantage of official position, while Gao Pragmatism has the advantage of strength. .
The Heart School does not generally have a dominant position at the top, but because only Shen Shixing is the only core member in the cabinet, the rest of the group cannot shake his position and can only unite under his wings, but they appear to be more united.
Moreover, the current situation within the Practical School is not due to any dispute of temper between Xu Guo and Gao Pragmatic, but due to the formation of different governance ideas between the two schools.
Although Xu Guohe and the officials who supported him were also reformists, they should be regarded as conservatives or moderates among the reformists. They believe that the existing reform intensity is already very strong and there is no need to deepen it to avoid leading to an all-out war between the Hexin School and the Hexin School. At this time, the existing intensity should be maintained and only some previous reforms, especially the pilot reforms, should be gradually expanded in scope. , just try to promote it to all parts of the country.
The faction headed by Gao Pragmatic can be called the radical faction or the young faction. Its typical characteristic is that it believes that the current reforms are not deep enough and not only cannot be stopped, but also need to be vigorously strengthened.
Officials of this group believe that although the current reforms have achieved initial results, both in terms of imperial finances and armament updates, they have been significantly enhanced, but most of the reforms themselves are still at the level of "treating the head and feet," and rarely touch the core, Touching the soul, many chronic diseases of the Ming Dynasty have not been cured.
Under such circumstances, reform is like sailing against the current. If we do not advance, we will retreat. How can we stop? It is time to continue our efforts and take further steps.
Gao Mo once had a simple statistics on Heiding. According to this statistics, it can be found that the supporters of the pragmatic school of Gao are mostly "those who are expected to further their career", while most of Xu Guo's supporters have already It is difficult to continue to "progress", mainly those who are approaching the age of officialdom.
If the situation is just that simple, then Xu Guo's strength should actually be stronger - after all, the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty depends on seniority. Since most of his supporters are old people, of course, the official position is usually higher and the weight is usually more important. .
actually not. One of Gao Pragmatic's greatest reliance is the "legacy of the three generations of chief assistants." How many disciples did Gao Gong, Guo Pu, and Zhang Siwei leave behind? You know, the vast majority of these people have to support Gao Pragmatism.
Why is it called "have to"? As mentioned before, the relationship between teachers and students was an iron rule in the Ming Dynasty officialdom. Those who dared to disobey the teacher were very rare. In the original history, almost only Zhang Juzheng's disciples had such a thing happen - because of Zhang Juzheng's affair, many of his disciples were separated. Impeaching his own teachers, Zhang Juzheng was not polite and directly suppressed them to death, thus setting a record of teacher-student rebellion in the Ming Dynasty, and even seemed to be the only record.
China has had a tradition of respecting teachers since ancient times, and the host is even more respected. The imperial examination itself is very contingency. Once the candidate is named on the gold list, the future of the candidate's life will be determined. Therefore, there was once a champion in the Ming Dynasty who said: "Drinking water makes you think of the source, leaning on a tree makes you think of the shade; a crown and a group are not given by the teacher!"
Therefore, scholars are naturally grateful to their masters. Once they are in high school and after the results of the imperial examinations are released, the first thing the disciples have to do is to throw "disciple thorns" at the masters, and "pay homage" and "zhijian" (hold gifts to ask for an audience). , to confirm the relationship between the host and the disciple.
Although Gao Pragmatic's teacher is Shen Shixing, Gao Pragmatic will obviously not pay homage to him. Therefore, they can only be called teachers and students in name, but they will not be treated as teachers and students by ordinary people. This is the reason.
This is just the beginning. Students will often come to class and meet their teachers. In addition to these personal relationships, we also need to organize books for teachers, consciously move closer to each other, and only follow the teacher's lead in official circles. When the teacher was alive, students had to work hard to serve him, and after his death, they also had to mourn him, write commemorative poems, and take care of his family members.
As a teacher, the teacher will reciprocate the favor to his students and do his best to take care of them, such as giving priority to promoting students and actively expanding their political influence. Even if students make mistakes, they will try their best to help them absolve themselves of their guilt.
The reason why the teacher-student etiquette became a recognized intimate relationship in the Ming Dynasty is that the masters were not only teachers, but also the career guides for the newcomers to the imperial examination. Usually those who serve as examiners for the imperial examinations are important ministers in the cabinet. Being able to establish a relationship with such an important minister is what many scholars dream of.
The relationship between the master and his disciples is one of giving and repaying kindness, and at the same time they constitute a community of interests. For students, if someone in the court is good at becoming an official, the teacher's advice and care are extremely important human resources for them. For the leader, caring for and promoting his disciples means cultivating his own political power. Therefore, in addition to the emotional teacher-student relationship, the students have a sense of being a community of interests towards the host.
For this reason, as the heir to the mantle of the third generation of chief ministers, of course, the teacher-student relationship of the three chief ministers was also established. He had a close relationship with their disciples and disciples, breaking bones and connecting tendons. This is a derivative change in the teacher-student relationship.
But there are exceptions to everything, and there are also cases where the master and his disciples have a bad fight, or even turn against each other. The most famous example is Zhang Juzheng in original history.
In the original history, Mr. Zhang became the chief minister of the cabinet from the early years of Wanli. He also gained the trust of Empress Dowager Li and Emperor Wanli. He was in charge of the Ming Dynasty for ten years. He was the most powerful chief minister in the history of the Ming Dynasty. However, he probably did not Thinking of it, an unprecedented scandal involving students impeaching teachers happened to him.
The first person to impeach him was his disciple Liu Tai, who was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Longqing's reign, and Zhang Juzheng was the examiner that year. The two had a real teacher-student relationship. Zhang Juzheng was benevolent to Liu Tai. Not only was he his boss, but after Liu Taizhong became a Jinshi and only served as the head of the Ministry of Punishment for two years, he promoted him to be the Supervisory Censor, patrolling Liaodong.
Such an encounter is a rare opportunity that many people have in their lifetime. Liu Tai was naturally grateful to Zhang Juzheng, but something happened during his tenure as the supervisory censor, which changed everything: Li Chengliang, the then commander-in-chief of Liaodong, achieved a great victory in the battle against Mongolia.
Li Chengliang was also a trusted border official of Zhang Juzheng, but Liu Tai did not know whether he was too happy or eager to take credit, so he reported the matter to the court first. However, according to the system, the memorial should have been submitted jointly by the commander-in-chief and the governor. As the patrol governor, Liu Tai did not care about the memorial. What he should care about was whether some of the specific credits in the memorial were true or false.
Of course, taking credit for a victory is not a big deal, but it is still considered "reckless" as a rule. This imprudence can be either minor or serious. Ordinarily, with Zhang Juzheng's power at the time, he could certainly take care of his disciple and suppress the matter easily, but he probably wanted to give the disciple a slap and asked for an order to reprimand him.
Unexpectedly, Liu Tai quit his job now. He was so angry that he wrote a memorial in the fourth year of Wanli and did something groundbreaking. He directly broke his face and openly impeached his teacher Zhang Juzheng.
In this memorial, Liu Tai listed seven major crimes against his teacher: First, he expelled Gao Gong for demonstrations and left a book of morals, which made the court rude to the old ministers; second, he violated the ancestral system and presented Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Chengguo, with the title of king; The third is to appoint close associates such as Zhang Siwei and Zhang Han; the fourth is to use his power for his own purposes and has no court, and the courtiers fear the upright ones more than they fear His Majesty; the fifth is to use the examination method to hijack the six ministries; the sixth is to destroy the officials and hate the upright ones. The seventh is to use power for personal gain, seize the palace of the Liao prince, seek provincial examinations for his children, build a mansion in Jiangling, and accept bribes from military officials.
There is a saying in later generations that a fortress is easiest to conquer from the inside, so these seven crimes really hit Zhang Juzheng's sore spots one by one. And because of Liu Tai's special status, it adds to the credibility of this impeachment charge.
Liu Tai even pointed out in the memorial that Zhang Juzheng "not long after assisting the government, he became rich and wealthy all over Chu. How could he have done this? How could he have done this? The palace had horses, concubines, and the emperor was the same as the king. How could he have done this?" This implicit reference to Zhang Juzheng. There are heart-breaking words with disloyal heart, which shows that Zhang Juzheng will be put to death and then quickly. Qiankun Tingshu.com
Logically speaking, I just hit you a little bit, which is almost a "verbal criticism", and I didn't hurt you much. Do you deserve to look like you have a sworn hatred? (Note: To be honest, I don’t quite understand this matter. I don’t know if there is anything I can dig deeper into, but I haven’t found any more evidence to prove that Liu Tai had other grudges with his teacher Zhang Juzheng before this.)
After the incident, Zhang Juzheng was of course furious. What made him most angry was that "in the past two hundred years, no disciple has impeached his teacher (Zhang Juzheng's original words)". In the two hundred years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the matter of students impeaching their teachers had never happened. onto one's own head. So he submitted his resignation to Emperor Wanli in court, "Ji Weiyi went to thank him."
Zhang Shoufu was so emotional that he fell to the ground and burst into tears. Emperor Wanli personally came down from the throne to support him and comforted him repeatedly. Zhang Juzheng reluctantly agreed, but he still stayed at home and ignored the government affairs.
When Zhu Yijun saw that the matter was unresolved, he immediately sent Sun Long, the eunuch in charge of ceremonies, to escort Liu Tai back to Beijing with his own handwriting. He was sent to prison, given a hundred imperial staffs, and exiled by the army.
At this time, Zhang Juzheng seemed to have done enough, and Shangshu asked Liu Tai for help, and begged the emperor to depose him as a commoner. But secretly, she hated him deeply. Someone saw Zhang Shoufu's true thoughts, secretly made up some accusations, falsely accused Liu Tai, and finally exiled him to Guangxi. Even his father and younger brother were not spared.
However, the matter was not over yet. Instead of deterring the opponents, Zhang Juzheng's move caused an uproar among his disciples. In the second year after Liu Tai impeached him, Zhang Juzheng, because his father died of illness, was required to observe mourning for three years as a rule. However, he refused to leave, so he sent a petition to the emperor to retain him in the name of seizing love.
Many opponents used this matter to impeach Zhang Juzheng. The first people to attack happened to be his disciples-Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian. Like Liu Tai, they were both Jinshi in the fifth year of Longqing's reign. One day apart, they impeached their teachers one after another.
Zhang Juzheng got into a rage when his backyard caught fire one after another. He used his imperial staff on two students. Wu Zhongxing was almost beaten to death on the spot and was dragged out of Chang'an Gate with a cloth. Zhao Yongxian was beaten until the flesh of his legs ulcerated, "the flesh fell like the palm of his hand." ".
However, the court staff is very interesting. Officials of the Ming Dynasty especially liked to be beaten with the court staff. After this incident, the two of them became models of integrity, "shout out to the world" and gained a very high reputation. Zhang Juzheng hated them so much that until the ninth year of Wanli, he even ordered "special care" for his two students: they would never be used again.
In the tenth year of Wanli, Zhang Juzheng died of illness. What is even more dramatic is that Liu Tai died in the exile on the same day as him. After Zhang Juzheng's death, he was soon impeached, and Emperor Wanli issued an order to raid the Zhang family. The officials he appointed were dismissed or killed, but Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian were rehabilitated one after another, bringing an end to this tortuous master-disciple relationship.
These things did not happen in the current highly pragmatic world. To some extent, they were less exciting, but they preserved more face for Zhang Juzheng. Because Gao Gong died suddenly after hearing the news of his death, Zhu Yijun later Unable to resist Gao Pragmatic's repeated persuasion, Zhang Juzheng was restored to his official position and offered sacrifices.
This is also the reason why Zhang Juzheng's sons are grateful to Gao Jingshi. Last night, Zhang Cheng said that not only did they not dare to seek revenge from Gao Jingshi, but they instead looked up to Gao Jingshi and became officials. This is also the origin of this.
So, since Gao Pragmatic has such an advantage, why is he still unwilling to overturn the table and simply have a complete falling out with Xu Guo, or even "unify" the Practical School? The reason why Zhang Juzheng's teachers and students turned against each other just now is this: although the disciples left behind by Gao Gong and the other three chief ministers had to stand on the same front as Gao Pragmatic under normal circumstances, if serious differences arise, they may be like Liu Tai. The impeachment of Zhang Juzheng was a general break with Gao pragmatism.
People are not NPCs, and they do not have a fixed goal to follow to the end. Once they think that Gao Pragmatic's actions may lead to "civil strife" in the Practical School, who can guarantee that their stance will not change?
This is precisely why officials like to seek stability and will never take risks unless absolutely necessary.
But now that the emperor's thoughts are unclear, Gao Pragmatic has to be vigilant: What if most people oppose his knighthood, but the emperor insists on knighting himself, what will happen?
It will turn me into a "lonely minister" due to my high pragmatism.
Guchen, it sounds good, it is simply outstanding, everyone is drunk and I am sober. Unfortunately, this is very bad for Gao Pragmatic.
How can you become a lonely minister if you want to carry out reforms! Grandpa Mao once taught: Politics is to gain more and more of our people and less and less of the enemy’s people.
I have become a lonely minister, won’t the Heart School win without a fight? Then I will reform the shit!
Who will listen to me and help me do things specifically?
Gao Pragmatic suddenly broke out in a sweat because of the emperor's special favor.
But the biggest trouble now is that he is resting at home and it is impossible to ask for an audience with the emperor - he has not been rewarded for his great work. What do you want to ask for an audience with the emperor? Rumors from the outside world can drown out Gao Pragmatism.
Not to mention going to see the emperor in person, even if he contacted Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju, he had to be careful. After all, if there were rumors that he was colluding with Zhongguan at this time, it would be unbearable.
After thinking about it, Gao Jingshi suddenly had an idea and said to Gao Mo: "Last time, I asked Princess Yongning to persuade the queen to accept Mr. Binhu's treatment. I don't know how this went. Did the princess send someone to tell her? News? Also... is it possible for Her Royal Highness the Princess to come out of the palace to meet with me? "
Gao Mo quickly lowered his head and said: "Her Royal Highness the eldest princess did send someone to contact us before, but she wanted to tell the master face to face. If the master wants to see her eldest princess, your highness will not refuse. So I will send someone quietly tomorrow morning Please contact Changchun Palace and see if it’s feasible?”
Gao pragmatic nodded immediately: "Okay, let's do it!"
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