The day after Zhu Pihua announced the emperor's imperial decree as an imperial edict, the news was reported on the front page of "Beijing Times" and "Shixue Dynasty". Among them, "Shixue Dynasty" also published an editorial at the same time, discussing in detail the high pragmatism The following is the legality of Shang Fangjian's exercise of the power to depose the governor of Ji Liao, and the rationality of why he did so under the circumstances.
The status of the two newspapers in the capital newspaper industry is unquestionable, and they also have a large number of fans among the people. Many people who are illiterate but gather in teahouses and restaurants to listen to the newspapers every day will obviously be affected, and then spread the news wider and wider, and finally form public opinion.
There is another very important factor here, that is, Gao Pragmatic's popularity has always been very high. Judging from past experience, almost as long as it involves him, the vast majority of the people in the capital will not hesitate to stand by him. On one side.
The formation of popular popularity is neither simple nor complicated. In a feudal society like the Ming Dynasty, when a person has a highly pragmatic background, has accomplished many achievements, and has also provided relief to the victims and resettled the refugees from time to time, and after being praised by several major newspapers, he will be among the people. The image will naturally be nearly perfect.
Chinese people have always had a traditional mentality of infinitely elevating personal morality. To put it simply, when they believe that you are a good person, then everything you do must be selfless and out of good intentions, and it must be correct in the end. of.
On the other hand, when he determines that you are a bad person, then everything you do must be selfish and out of malice, and it must ultimately be wrong.
In the eyes of the people in the capital, Li Song was not really a good or bad person, because everyone didn't know him well. But this is not important. What is important is that since Gao Dashan thinks that what he did is wrong and needs to be severely punished, then it is obvious that Li Song is wrong - yes, it is that simple.
There will be almost no illiteracy in China in the future, and some things among the people will still inevitably be dictated by people with ulterior motives. But what will be the literacy rate in the future? Therefore, the attitude of ordinary people is so simple. What is Gao Pragmatic's fundamental starting point for doing these things is not important to ordinary people at all.
In their eyes, right and wrong, good and evil, are clear-cut. People who are highly pragmatic are good people, and those who stand on the opposite side of high pragmatism can undoubtedly only be bad people, or idiots who cannot bear the heavy responsibility. Regardless of whether Li Song is bad or stupid, it proves that Gao Jinglue's handling is obviously correct.
Once such a civil consensus is reached, it will naturally slowly affect the entire public opinion. So another day later, "Beijing Times" and "Practice News" once again broke the big news: a group of officials in the DPRK impeached Gao Pragmatic, compared him to the traitor Cai Jing of the former Song Dynasty, and even committed some of the top ten evils. , but was severely ordered by the wise and mighty Emperor.
Originally, this incident and yesterday's incident happened at the same time, but the two newspapers deliberately created a slight sequence, and the effects after the exposure were very different.
Since the two newspapers even obtained the original words of His Majesty the Emperor Lunyin who refuted the so-called "Ten Evils" sentence by sentence, this gave the people more confidence to criticize. Suddenly, the impeachment of a highly pragmatic official turned into a street rat, and everyone really wanted to beat him up.
The common people do not care about the "Ten Evils". The official is a public speaker, and he has the power to report things based on rumors. The angry people even deliberately "passed by" the official's mansion and threw rotten vegetable leaves, rotten eggs and other objects into his yard. Fortunately, it was summer, so these things were not difficult to do.
This Ministry of Industry official had already been demoted by the emperor and sent away. Now facing this scene, his heart dropped even more, and he packed his bags overnight. Early the next morning, he quietly slipped out of the city with a few servants. The family members in the house could only wait for the storm to subside before setting off, which was desolate.
This is generally the case among the people, but the impact on the court is much smaller after all, so the situation is also different.
After all, the emperor's Holy Judgment the day before yesterday took into account that the Cao Army uprising in the south of the Yangtze River still requires the efforts of Jiangnan officials - even if they don't contribute, at least they can't hold back. Therefore, in the Holy Judgment, in addition to clarifying that everything Gao Pragmatic did was reasonable and legal, it also gave the Xin School a sweet date and asked them to nominate the successor to Governor Ji Liao.
However, the problem is that the Xin School currently has no suitable candidates for border officials. This lack of access is somewhat similar to the situation of the Real School in the past few years, but it is not exactly the same.
The lack of success in the past few years of the Real School was mainly due to the gap in seniority between the old and new generations within the school, while the Heart School was mainly due to the lack of reserve officials in frontier officials, and this was formed to some extent by the suppression of the Real School. of.
From the time when the towns of Jiubian were declared to be under Gao Gong's sect, they have been being included one by one by the Real School in an orderly manner. With the evolution of the era of Guo Pu and Zhang Siwei, and the rapid rise of Gao pragmatism through war, first Shuntian, and then the three sides, all gathered under the leadership of the pragmatic school.
The only one that is not progressing so smoothly is Liaodong - in fact, Ji Liao's "Ji" has already joined the trenches of the Practical School. The problem in Liaodong mainly lies with the Li Jiajun, and the Li Jiajun's failure to successfully control it is related to the fact that Zhu Yijun believed that Li Chengliang had some potential to lose, and he demanded high pragmatism to beat Li Chengliang.
Gao Jingshi had no choice but to do as he was told, so without any hesitation, he pushed Li Chengliang, who was originally on both ends of the spectrum, directly to the Heart School. Until now, the Li Jiajun has not become a force in the Shi School. It has to be said that Gao Jingshi is still concerned about this situation. A bit dissatisfied.
The reason why Li Song was dismissed, in addition to the obvious reasons, which Gao Jingshi directly cited to prove that he "didn't use his life", was also very important. Gao Jingshi knew that once he fell, the Xin School would soon I can't find a suitable candidate to replace him.
As for why Li Song suddenly jumped out and did those stupid things, although Gao Pragmatic was not entirely sure, his guess was basically correct - he was actually "abandoned to protect the commander-in-chief" by Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue.
Since he was voluntarily given up, and he had no one to support him, the Real School would certainly not let him go easily. In this way, quarrels in the court were inevitable: the emperor delegated the power to recommend Shen Shixing, and Shen Shixing had to forcefully recommend a few even if there was no one involved. What if it happened? People always have to have some ideals!
However, the officials of the Practical School did not buy it, and they found a bunch of reasonable reasons to object every minute. In the end, the emperor felt that it was inappropriate and ordered Shen Shixing to postpone it. But no matter how much we push, there is still no suitable candidate. Will this matter continue to be deadlocked?
At this time, the Shi School spoke up, saying that the candidate for governor of Jiliao was actually very easy to handle. Since you, Shen Yuanfu, can't recommend it, for the sake of everyone being ministers in the same palace, we reluctantly help you recommend one or two.
So the Practical School decisively proposed two candidates: Gu Yangqian and Jian Da.
Gu Yangqian is the current governor of Liao, and he is very qualified. He is Gao Gong's disciple. He had been engaged in military preparation for many years before taking up the post of governor of Liao Dynasty. He could definitely be a civilian official who could manage the army, and he met all the conditions.
However, Gu Yangqian's problem also lies in Gao Gong's discipleship. It's not that this identity is not good, but that this identity should be suppressed as much as possible for the Xin School. It belongs to the kind of people who can choose him or not. .
The situation of Jianda was quite different. He was named Rushang, also called Ruxun, and his name was Li'an. He was a native of Ba County, Sichuan, and the sixth grandson of Jian Yi, a famous minister in the early Ming Dynasty.
His sixth generation ancestor, Jian Yi, was not a simple person. This official name was suitable for him. His first name was Rong, which was given by Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, who gave his name "Yi". He was a Jinshi in the eighteenth year of Hongwu, and Zhu Yuanzhang valued him very much. Unfortunately, like many capable people, he was not reused in the later Jianwen Dynasty and was severely marginalized.
In the Yongle Dynasty, Jian Yi's fortunes turned around. Because he had the merit of taking the initiative to surrender, and he was originally a person whom Taizu valued, Chengzu also valued him. There are so many deeds that it is difficult to detail them one by one. Here is just one thing: in the second year of Yongle, Zhu Gaochi was canonized as the prince, and Jian Yi was appointed to concurrently serve as the prince Zhanshi.
You must know that the prince's masters at that time were all honorary ministers, and the tutoring responsibility was held by the civil servant Zhan Shi. Therefore, Jian Yi's status in front of Zhu Gaochi at that time was similar to Gao Gong's status in front of Long Qing.
Later, Jian Yiguan served as Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, Shaobao, Shaofu, and Shaoshi. After his death, he was awarded the special title of Guanglu Doctor and Taishi. He was given the posthumous title of "Zhongding" - note that although his posthumous title did not reach the top after his death, , but it is not easy to get the Grand Master.
Because of this relationship, although Jianda is already his sixth grandson, his status in the famous family is still there. Because he came from a family of high-ranking officials, although Jianda was born in Chongqing (Ba County belongs to Chongqing), he was not a member of the Chen Party. It was just possible that he had a good relationship with the Chen Party because of his friendship with the same hometown.
Since he is not a member of Chen Dang, it is difficult to say that he is a member of the Real School. Even though he has a good relationship with Chen Dang, who has fallen into the arms of the Real School, in politics, you have to be a little confused when you should be confused.
However, Jianda is not without weaknesses. His primary weakness is his test scores that year. Although this man is also a person named on the gold list, he is not a first-class or second-class scholar, but a third-class scholar. Youming has said many times that his performance as an official depends on his performance, so this can be considered one of Jianda's weaknesses.
Fortunately, he also has the qualifications to make amends. In fact, he was not very bright when he was young, and he started to stand out after he was ten years old. In the 40th year of Jiajing's reign, he passed the imperial examination and passed the third-level Jinshi examination in the 41st year of Jiajing. He was awarded the magistrate of Yingshang County. He successively served as the prefect of Henan Xiangfu, the head of the Ministry of Rites, the member of the Ministry of Rites, the official of the Shandong Anqing Division, the prefect of Anqing, and the prefect of Pingyang. , Shandong raised academic affairs, and Huguang served as an envoy.
To put it simply, he is senior, one subject older than the current mainstay of the Real School, the "Jiajing 44th Yichou Gold List". In the ninth month of the thirteenth year of Wanli, he was appointed as the censor of Youdu and governor of Shuntian. In July of the 16th year of Wanli, he was promoted to Minister of Dali Temple. In October of the following year, he was promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of household affairs. Two months before Gao pragmatic was transferred to the Ministry of household affairs, he was promoted to the left minister of the Ministry of war.
In terms of this last reassignment, he had been in the Ministry of War with Gao Pragmatic for two months, and was ranked before Gao Pragmatic.
Although rankings don't mean anything, let alone rankings, many ministers, even if they are older than Gao Pragmatic, may only obey orders in front of Gao - of course Gao Pragmatic will not give orders, he will only talk about discussion. , suggestions, but does not change its nature.
In any case, from the perspective of the Heart School, the latter of the two candidates is obviously more suitable. However, there was a huge problem with this appointment, that is, Jianda was not in Beijing at this time, or even in office - he had not been serving as the left minister of the Ministry of War for half a year, and he returned to his hometown to guard the system because of Ding You.
Ding You's rule is usually said to be three years. In fact, this is not accurate. It is actually twenty-seven months.
Dingyou was initiated by Confucius and became an institution from the Han Dynasty. The reason why the period of filial piety in Confucian culture is twenty-seven months is because it takes mothers twenty-seven months to nurse their children with breast milk, which is nearly three years but less than three years.
In the Ming Dynasty, the Dingyou system was also improved. In addition to the fact that parents must resign and go home to observe the system, and then recuperate after the funeral, Dingyou does not need to be relieved of office for other funerals. This means that Gao Pragmatic does not have to resign when his grandfather or grandmother dies. Zhang Siwei had to resign because his parents died.
Calculating the time, Jianda's Ding You still has about a month or two to finish, and his Ding You's place is quite far away, far away in Chongqing Prefecture in the southwest - that place is one of the main places to put down Yang Yinglong, and it's not clear yet Will it affect his trip back to Beijing?
Therefore, if Jian Da is to be elected as the governor of Jiliao, even if everything goes well, it is estimated that it will take three months for him to officially take office.
Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed. If you don't recommend Jian Da, then depending on the situation, Gu Yangqian can only take over. Gu Yangqian has a huge word "high" on his head, so he is naturally someone who can and will not use it; recommend Jian Da, there is no chance of a battle against Yuan in three months. After the fight was over, if Li Song needed help from Li Song in the process, Jianda would definitely not be able to count on him.
However, after some discussion, Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue reached a consensus. They believed that although Jianda was not from the Practical School, the possibility of them being able to use him as a leader was not high. The key to using him was that he might not be comprehensive in the future. By cooperating with the Practical School, the Heart School still has a chance to win over him.
To put it simply, the greatest significance of using Jianda is to ensure that Jiliao, the last important town on the Nine Sides, will not completely fall into the hands of the Real School. As long as this can be ensured, other problems can be temporarily suppressed.
In this case, the Xin School can only hold its nose and accept this recommendation. As a result, Shen Shixing quickly convened a meeting with his cabinet ministers, and finally jointly recommended Jianda, who was about to recover, as governor of Jiliao. At the same time, considering that Jian Daben had already served as the left minister of the Ministry of War, he was ordered to concurrently serve as the governor of Jiliao with the title of Minister of the Ministry of War.
The emperor received this recommendation and readily approved it. He even sent an order to Ba County, Chongqing in advance to avoid Jianda taking office later. At the same time, the emperor immediately asked Shen Shixing and others about the work of suppressing the Cajun riot, and the cabinet reported them one by one.
At the same time, the High-Pragmatic Management Headquarters stationed in Lightning Lake was finally about to face a real battle.
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