It was obviously difficult for Yang Tianguan to find out whether Gu Xiancheng's position was arranged by Gao Xiancheng. However, after he recalled Gu Xiancheng's official career trajectory, it was hard to believe that Gao Xiancheng did not play some role in it - such as the hidden weapon. Behind the scenes, although you can't see it, you can definitely feel its power.
Among the officials, the largest one is the minister, followed by the left and right ministers. These three are called the ministers. Below are the doctors of the four divisions, who are equivalent to the division chiefs in later generations. These four Qing official departments are the Wenxuan Department, the Conferment Verification Department, the Honor Examination Department, and the Gong Kao Department.
Although the four Qing officials are parallel units, the status of these four departments is very different. The most powerful among them are the Literature Selection Department and the Examination Department.
Why is it great? The Literary Selection Department is responsible for personnel appointments and removals, and the Merit Examination Department is responsible for the evaluation of officials.
Although there are very few formal officials in these two departments, no one has ever dared to mess with them, because as long as you are an official, whether you are promoted or dismissed, prosperous or bankrupt basically depends on their whims.
Let alone the Ming Dynasty, a "feudal dynasty" like the Ming Dynasty, even if you were in later generations and the organization minister came to talk to you, wouldn't you be happy? But if it were Secretary S of the Discipline Inspection Commission who came to talk to you, even if you were innocent, you would still be frightened, for fear that you might have accidentally made some mistake, right?
Because of this, in the Ming Dynasty, except for the "airborne" contestants appointed by Emperor Chen Duan, most of the ministers and ministers of the Ministry of Personnel were taken over by the ministers of the Wenxuan Department and the Examination Department.
And Yang Wei remembered very clearly that Gu Xiancheng’s career history was as follows:
In the eighth year of Wanli, he won the gold medal in high school, ranked second in the second class of the imperial examination, and was selected as a Shujishi by the imperial examination. After disbanding, he stayed in Beijing because of his excellent performance and was appointed as the head of the household department.
In the tenth year of Wanli, he was appointed as the head of the Examination Department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but soon afterwards he asked for leave and went to Ding You for three years.
In the thirteenth year of Wanli, Gu Xiancheng canceled his leave and returned to the court, where he became the head of the seal verification department of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. It stands to reason that if you switch from the Merit Examination Department to the Conferment Examination Department, your real power will be greatly reduced. But as a supplementary official, you are lucky to be able to stay in Beijing. How can you force anything else.
However, a miraculous situation occurred. Within three months, Gu Xiancheng was promoted to Yuan Wailang of the Examination Department - this is the deputy position of the Examination Department, second only to the doctor, and it is the position that Gu Xiancheng still holds.
Judging from Yang Wei's decades of experience in officialdom, there are only three possibilities for Gu Xiancheng to encounter this situation.
The first type is called Jane in the Emperor's Heart: The emperor was so impressed with him that he was immediately promoted to an official position just three months after returning to Beijing without even getting hot on his butt. And it's not just a simple promotion, but also a change from a cold bench to a hot bench.
The second type is that there is someone in the court: there is a big shot taking care of him, and this big shot can be a man of his word in a sensitive government office like the Ministry of Civil Affairs. It is one of the most popular positions in the world, and he can give it to him at his request.
The third type is called stepping on dog poop: Well, this is a matter of luck, so don’t mention it. Besides, judging from today's situation, Yang Tianguan definitely doesn't believe that Gu Xiancheng just got lucky.
Is Gu Xiancheng in the emperor's heart? It doesn't look like much. The standard of "Jane is in the Emperor's heart" is very high now - look at people who are very pragmatic, that one is called Jane in the Emperor's heart. Also on the gold list in the eighth year of Wanli, Gao Wuchen has now reached the first rank of officialdom, and is the dignified prince, grand master, and minister of the Ministry of household affairs!
Look at Wang Xijue. He is already an elder, and his title is no more than that of a prince or a tutor, and he is still a little short of being a pragmatic person.
Therefore, although Gu Xiancheng could always get into important positions with high pragmatism, his promotion speed was really unflattering, and he did not reach the level of "Jane in the Emperor's Heart".
In this case, the only possibility is the second one, Gu Xiancheng "has someone in the court."
However, although Gu Xiancheng has some literary reputation, Donglin Academy has not yet appeared. Who can take care of him in the court? Nowadays, there are fewer and fewer neutral factions in the court. The big bosses are either from the practical school or the heart school. Even if there are occasional bosses from the neutral school, when they see Gu Xiancheng, they always catch "Essences of Wang Xue". "With a sarcastic and scolding attitude, he probably wouldn't dare to have anything to do with him.
Yang Tianguan believes that the only more reliable inference is that Gao pragmatically made a secret plan.
In fact, although Yang Wei's guess is not entirely correct, it cannot be wrong. Gao Pragmatic did interfere, but the main point of interference was not Gu Xiancheng's position.
In Gu Xiancheng's original history, his promotion trajectory was not much different from that of this world, and Gao Pragmatic did not make any special arrangements for him. The reason why he often criticized the Xin School but was still able to hang around in the Ministry of Personnel, and most of the time he even took the exam, was that in the original history, successive ministers of the Ministry of Personnel did not like Xin Xue very much, and were more inclined to manage the world. Practical learning.
Gao Pragmatic's role this time was to secretly tell "senior brother" Song Zhihan, who was the right minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs at the time, not to let Gu Xiancheng be impeached for no reason. In other words, don't worry about it if nothing happens, but you'll be protected if something goes wrong.
The Ministry of Personnel has been the home of the Real School for many years. As a disciple of Gao Gong, Song Zhihan stayed in the Ministry of Personnel. Yang Wei would not easily oppose his opinions, so Gu Xiancheng had everything smooth sailing.
The real foreshadowing of Gao pragmatic this time was that he had just been ordered to return to Beijing to serve as the Minister of Household Affairs. Before he returned to the capital, he notified Wang Yuexi, a doctor in the Department of Civil Affairs and Examination, that he "suddenly contracted a sudden illness" and immediately went home to recuperate.
Wang Yuexi, nicknamed Xiaotang, was a Jinshi in Guiwei and a member of the Imperial Guard. Guiweike is the subject in the eleventh year of Wanli. Gao Pragmatic's three disciples, Li Tingji, Ye Xianggao, and Fang Congzhe, are all from this subject.
However, Wang Yuexi was not Gao Pragmatic's disciple. His teacher was someone else, Han Ji - yes, Gao Pragmatic's senior brother. He was a bachelor at the Hanlin Academy at the time and is now the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of Justice.
From this we can also see one thing, whether he is a direct descendant of the Real School, the influence is still very great. Gu Xiancheng and Gao Pragmatic were in the same class, but now they are just Yuanwailang. Wang Yuexi was one class behind him, but because he was a direct descendant of the Shi School, he was now a doctor.
As for Li Tingji and the other three, this cannot be compared. Although the three of them are just "officers in the Imperial Academy", they are noble officials. As long as they have passed the qualifications, once they are recommended by a heavyweight boss, they can be promoted at any time. It is possible to send a servant outside. Not only does it take a long time for a doctor to become a minister, but the chance of success is much lower than that of the Hanlin.
"Gods in the sky" and "immortals halfway through" are at least people who are cultivating immortals, and they are not comparable to ordinary people.
Before Gao pragmatic returned to Beijing, he guessed that he would definitely get into trouble for "making trouble" after becoming the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. At that time, suddenly resorting to the killer move of Jingcha would be very effective.
However, Jingcha's move is a bit like the "Seven Injury Fist". It is of course very powerful to hit others, but it is also very likely to injure and disable himself. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic asked Wang Yuexi to "suddenly contract an acute illness" in advance, and then forget about it. To resort to the ultimate move of Jing Cha, you can also decide temporarily whether Wang Yuexi should take action personally - now it seems that he probably won't.
This move was not only to protect Wang Yuexi, but also to put his side in an offensive and defensive position. After all, it is an "emergency illness". It may linger for a long time, or it may be cured in the next day, and a cow with a head can be beaten to death with one punch.
It is not Li Shizhen who has the final say on when this "disease" will be cured, but Gao Pragmatic's decision.
All the officials in the capital were very busy that day, but unfortunately most of them were not doing business, and most of them hurried to visit the dock. If there is a teacher in a high-ranking position, the disciples must visit them; if there is no teacher in Beijing, they will have to go to the teacher's seniors even if they are not able to do so; if not, they will have to visit the superior of their own yamen, hoping that the leader will give them a good review.
After Yang Tianguan confirmed that the doctor of the examination department could not take charge of the detailed affairs of the Beijing inspection, he politely called Gu Xiancheng, the foreign minister of the examination department, and appointed him on the spot to act as the doctor and be fully responsible for the Beijing inspection.
Gu Xiancheng was able to pull up Donglin Academy in the original history, so he was naturally not a person who was afraid of trouble. He agreed on the spot, with no fear on his face, a solemn look on his face, and a straight back.
Yang Tianguan comforted him with gentle words. The meaning behind his words was that the rise and fall of the world depended on you alone.
His sincere encouragement from an old official made Gu Xiancheng, who was not yet forty years old, so proud that he declared on the spot that the key to this Beijing inspection was to inspect the officials to "understand the four essentials" and hoped that Tianguan The boss supports it.
Yang Wei was already in his seventies, so he didn't question his theory in detail. After hearing it for a while, he directly agreed with it according to the highly pragmatic idea of borrowing a knife to kill someone. In fact, this is because Gao Pragmatism was not there. If Gao Pragmatism was here, he would be surprised: Gu Xiancheng has summarized the main idea so early?
In fact, Gu Xiancheng not only mentioned the "Four Essentials" in his poem, his original words were "order the Four Essentials", "break the two confusions", "advocate the nine benefits" and "prevent the nine losses". However, most of the following items explain "why lectures are needed", which are tailor-made for Donglin Academy and have nothing to do with Jingcha at this time.
What he calls "Ming the Four Essentials" here means clearly and clearly. As for the four essentials, the first is to "know the origin"; the second is to "be determined"; the third is to "respect the scriptures"; the fourth is to "examine the truth."
The most fundamental of these "four essentials" is "knowledge."
In fact, the core of what was later developed by Donglin Academy was the word "knowledge". What is "knowledge"? That is to rectify the origins, restore Confucian Neo-Confucianism to its orthodox status, and abandon the false and exaggerated academic style of the Lu Wang Xinxue.
Although Yang Tianguan didn't listen carefully, he understood as soon as Gu Xiancheng said "Zhiben" that Gu Xiancheng's guns during the Beijing inspection this time must be aimed at the Heart School.
The reason is very simple. The Xin School has always been at odds with Neo-Confucianism and does not recognize the study of things to achieve knowledge. They emphasize that "there is nothing outside the mind" - this itself has deviated from the main meaning that Wang Yangming wanted to express, because what Wang Yangming valued most was actually "to achieve conscience" . The descendants of Lu Wang's Xinxue completely went astray and went directly to the first level of Xuanxuan and Zen, and became completely idealistic.
The Jingshi Shixue is different. They consider themselves to be in the lineage of "Neo-Confucianism". Especially after Gao Pragmatic took over the banner, they very much recognized the "investigating things to achieve knowledge", but the "investigating things to achieve knowledge" he proposed was different from the original "investigating things to achieve knowledge". The difference is that he believes that everything has its own reason, and "Neo-Confucianism" should find out the "reason" among them.
Gao Pragmatic even once raised some questions, such as: "The endless falling trees are falling, why do they have to fall?"
Someone said: "The sky is clear and the earth is turbid. The clear ones rise and the turbid ones fall."
Gao Pragmatic asked: "Why do the pure things have to rise, and why do the turbid things have to fall? What's the reason for this?" No one could answer, but Gao Pragmatic said with a smile: "This is where we should have a certain 'character' That’s it.”
All in all, the first target that Gu Xiancheng wants to oppose at present must be the "false and exaggerated" mind school, but he can still tolerate the practical school of economics, which also considers itself "in the lineage of Neo-Confucianism" like him.
As for when he will become intolerant of practical knowledge of the world, it will probably have to wait until he completes the great cause of "repairing the origins" and completely overthrows the heretics of the Xin School.
Yang Wei is not very interested in these academic disputes, but he "focuses on Ming Ming De when discussing studies, the Six Classics on governance, and the extension of the university when discussing current affairs." Therefore, his position has always been to listen to whoever is useful.
From Yang Wei's point of view, no one in the Manchu Dynasty could be more pragmatic when it came to "administrative effectiveness." Now that Gao Pragmatic wants to borrow Gu Xiancheng's knife, he just needs to let the knife do whatever he wants. It doesn't matter what the knife is thinking about.
The night of this day was naturally very busy. Gao Jingshi also received several groups of guests at his Shangshu Mansion in Jinggongfang, and he was so busy that he could not go to bed until nearly midnight.
Early the next morning, the elders of the cabinet, Yang Wei, the Minister of Civil Affairs, and Shen Li, the censor of Zuodu, jointly asked to see the emperor again. Zhu Yijun was still summoning him in the Wenhua Hall.
Shortly after the meeting, the Holy Will was sent to all ministries. The northern inspection of Dinghai's capital inspection will start tomorrow, and the southern inspection will start half a month later. The chief officer of the Northern Inspectorate was Yang Wei, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the chief official of the Southern Inspectorate was Shi Hairui, the censor of the right capital of the Nanjing Metropolitan Inspectorate.
This was another big event - not that there was anything strange about Yang Wei presiding over the Northern Investigation, but that the Southern Investigation was actually left to Hai Rui. This... this shit might scare a few people to death.
Hai Rui needs no introduction, but there are some differences between Hai Rui's career in this book and the original history, so I have to explain it a little here.
Needless to say what happened earlier in the original history, when Zhang Juzheng took charge of the state affairs in the first year of Wanli, because he was Xu Jie's disciple, Hai Rui followed Gao Gong's intention to clear the land in Yingtian, which made Xu Jie disgraced. Tu Mian, and even Zhang Juzheng didn't like Hai Rui, so Zhang Juzheng ordered the censor to inspect Hai Rui.
As a result, the censor went there in person, and Hai Rui killed chickens and cooked dishes to entertain the censor. The house was extremely deserted and shabby, and the censor ate the meal in a boring way and left with a sigh. However, Zhang Juzheng himself was not very clean and had always been afraid of Hai Rui's strictness and uprightness. Therefore, even though Chinese and foreign officials recommended him many times, he was not appointed in the end.
Hai Rui in this life was different. He was originally transferred by Gao Gong to Governor Cangchang. He worked there for several years and caught many corrupt officials. However, Gao Gong promoted him to the third rank of prose officer, with two additional ranks, but he refused to be promoted. This was obviously also for political influence. Gao Gong believed that Hai Rui was too destructive, and he was engaged in reforms at the time. , still need to be cautious and stable.
When Guo Pu came to power, he did not make any major changes to Hai Rui. He was only given a new position to inspect the South Zhili Port - this was highly pragmatic, because Gao Pragmatic did not evade taxes and he was not afraid of investigation.
As a result, Hai Rui investigated and blew up other private ports, which indirectly led to Liu Shouyou's incident of targeting Gao pragmatism. Targeting Hai Rui would definitely be useless, so Liu Shouyou and the others decided to directly target Gao pragmatism. Who knows, but they didn't succeed. He even got himself involved.
After this incident, Hai Rui was "inexplicably" promoted and became the top leader of the Nanjing Metropolitan Procuratorate - Nanyuan Youdu Yushi.
Now that the emperor had sacrificed Hai Rui, the great killer, he obviously understood Gao's pragmatic advice that day.
Wang Xijue, Mr. Wang, you Nanbang officials insist on making this "national issue" with me, right?
Okay, okay, let’s wait until you pass the level of Hai Qingtian first!
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