The discussion between master and disciple Shen Yiguan took a long time. At first, they stood and chatted in the courtyard. Later, it was getting late and the temperature dropped quickly, so they went back to the house. After discussing for more than an hour, Qian Menggao even stayed at the Shen University Scholar's Mansion for dinner.
It's no wonder, after all, Shen Yiguan has decided to leave Beijing as soon as possible and go south. Although doing so will allow him to avoid the sharp edge of Beijing's highly pragmatic first minister, he will also lose the respect of officials in his small circle. To take care of the situation, some response plans must be prepared in advance.
Although Qian Menggao's rank is very low, he is only a seventh-grade official. Firstly, because of his status as section chief, he has a low and powerful position in the Ming Dynasty. Secondly, because he is indeed the most astute assistant under Shen Yiguan, so many things can be done. Leave it to him to deal with.
Of course, that's not to say that Shen Yiguan himself intends to keep this kind of thing completely hidden behind the scenes. In fact, a big boss like him at the level of a cabinet minister often only needs to endorse the people who do the specific work.
This is just like Gao Wuchen now rarely has direct contact with mid-level officials in Beijing, and usually issues orders through their direct superiors. Even if there are some other inside stories, it is nothing more than sending a servant to spread the news or send a private letter.
A country must always have clear hierarchies, and a political power structure cannot jump over levels randomly, otherwise many things will go wrong. Even if the jumping-off command has good intentions, it will often end up doing bad things with good intentions.
It was getting late, and Gao Pingshi returned to his Nanning Hou Mansion from the Princess's Mansion. The eldest princess has been brooding over the fact that he cannot stay at the eldest princess's house for the night but has been helpless for many years. Who makes her identity so embarrassing?
Sometimes she really wished that she was just an ordinary woman, because then she might have a chance to enter the Gao family openly... Even if she was a concubine, it would be much better than being secretive like now.
However, she didn't have much time to sigh now, because Gao Pragmatic asked her for an important thing. In the near future, she won't even be able to stay in the eldest princess's palace for a long time. Instead, she needs to excuse herself from missing her mother and live back in the palace on the pretext of going away to fulfill her filial piety.
In the past, if the eldest princess wanted to return to the palace to stay temporarily, she would have to ask the emperor's brother for permission to take her son with her, but this time she had no such worries. It's not that there is no need to ask for the emperor's approval this time, but because Gao Luo has become enlightened now, even if his mother wants to return to the palace temporarily, he has to stay in the princess mansion to study.
Regarding Gao Luo's academic problems, Her Royal Highness the Princess does not need to worry too much, because Gao Pragmatic has already arranged a teacher for Gao Luo. This teacher was also a celebrity in the late Ming Dynasty in original history. He was Han Xu, who had served as the chief minister of the cabinet twice. However, Han Xu also had another identity, that is, he was the son of Han Ji, a disciple of Gao Gong.
There is a very interesting situation here: Gao Gong is one of the masters of the Shixue sect. Since Han Ji is Gao Gong's favorite disciple, it stands to reason that Han Xu should also be a member of the Shixue sect. However, Han Xu was not known in later generations. He is famous in history because he was the only serious cabinet minister of the Donglin Party besides Ye Xianggao in the late Ming Dynasty.
Yes, Han Xu in original history often belonged to the Donglin Party in later discussions.
However, this matter is completely inexplicable. How could Han Xu become a member of the Donglin Party? Not only Han Xu, but also Ye Xianggao, who somehow became the so-called "elder" and so-called "leader" of the Donglin Party.
Ye Xianggao himself had nothing to do with the Donglin Party. It was only because Donglin recommended Li Sancai to join the cabinet at that time that Gu Xiancheng wrote a letter to him. As the chief minister of the cabinet during the "all-powerful dynasty" period, Ye Xianggao He was more tolerant and protective of the Donglin people, so he was later beaten by Wei Zhongxian to become the so-called leader of Donglin.
The essence of this matter is actually very simple. Wei Zhongxian wants to establish the group of people who oppose him as the "party" - the word party was derogatory in ancient times, and it became a neutral term only after the emergence of modern political parties - and Ye Xianggao's The attitude is obviously inconsistent with Wei Zhongxian. Because Ye Xiang is highly respected, he is regarded as the leader and elder of the Donglin Party.
Han Xu's situation is similar to that of Ye Xianggao. Even his original ranking in Wei Zhongxian's "Donglin Point General Record" was not very high. It was just because he was later in the Chongzhen Dynasty when he was cleaning up Wei Zhongxian's "eunuch party". As a leader, he was inexplicably regarded as the leader of Donglin in later generations. If Han Xuquan knew about it, he might even be shocked.
If we must say that Han Xu has a "party", then he is simply a "civilian party". In other words, the reason why he seems to be on Donglin's side is just because he also opposes Wei Zhongxian. If we want to trace it from the roots of learning, then he really should be counted as a school of practical learning because of his family origins.
Of course, in the original history, practical learning did not form any political group. When Gao Gong was in power, there was barely a small group. After Gao Gong left power, this group of people was dispersed by Zhang Juzheng. Han Xu's father, Han Ji, was forced to resign and return home because of this.
Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gongyuan were like-minded friends. From the perspective of political philosophy and knowledge, he actually believed in practical learning and always looked down on those who only talk about the spiritual world. However, he did not create any political group, so after his death and Zhu Yijun's rebellious liquidation, the so-called Real School also disappeared.
In the previous life, Han Ji devoted himself to teaching his sons after returning home. Both of his sons were very successful, especially the second son Han Xu. He passed the exam and ranked eleventh in the second class of Renchen Section in the 20th year of Wanli. Later, he became the first. Assistant - and served as the first assistant twice.
In this life, because Han Ji was an important figure in the Real School and had a rather open career, Han Xu did not stay in his hometown in Puzhou, but continued to study with his father. He may indeed have a talent for reading, but he still took part in the Wanli 20th year examination, and his results were even slightly better than in his previous life, ranking seventh in the second class.
At that time, Han Ji was the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Since he was not an auxiliary minister, he did not affect Han Xu Chunwei. Last year, Han Ji was already seventy, so before resigning, he wrote a letter to Gao Jingshi, the "eldest brother", and entrusted Han Xu to Gao Jingshi.
Of course Gao Pragmatic will not refuse, nor can he refuse, because this is one of the responsibilities he must bear as the leader of the faction.
Gao Jingshi wanted to call Han Ji "senior brother", so although Han Xu was only four years younger than him, he had to call him "Uncle Shi". Of course, Gao Jingshi already knew Han Xu, who was on the Jinshi Gold List in Wanli's 20th year, but Han Ji himself was still in office before, so Gao Jingshi didn't need to pay too much attention to him.
At this time, Han Xu had served in the Hanlin Academy for six or seven years, and his official position had been promoted from Hanlin Editor to Hanlin Attendant. He was considered an old Hanlin. Therefore, when the eldest princess Yongning wanted to enlighten her son and hoped that Gao Jingshi, her biological father, would help find a teacher for her, Gao Jingshi directly named Han Xu to work part-time.
In principle, this matter is slightly illegal, but it is not serious in nature. Especially considering that even if the incident happened, as long as the emperor said that he knew about it, it would not matter at all, so no one would make irresponsible remarks about this trivial matter.
Letting Han Xu serve as Gao Luo's teacher made Princess Yongning very happy and felt that she had found a treasure. It's not that Her Royal Highness the Princess knew anything about Han Xu's knowledge, she didn't know anything about it. The reason why she was happy was because her son's teacher, who was a member of the Imperial Academy, was a "high match" according to the Ming Dynasty's system.
As mentioned earlier, after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, ordinary princes who went out to study could only arrange for two Jinshi scholars to teach them. Then, after waiting, since the princess's son was not considered a royal family at all, he would not even be able to arrange Jinshi teachers.
According to the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty, the identity of the princess's son follows his father rather than his mother. From this point of view, it is really water thrown away by the married daughter. As for the education of the princess's son, it all depends on his father's ability and arrangements. Considering that the Jinshi masters in this era were all the proud sons of heaven, and the state took care of their distribution, it was unlikely that they would become teachers in the Princess Mansion. Generally speaking, the only teacher the Princess Mansion can recruit is a great master.
However, Princess Yongning's mansion is obviously not an ordinary princess' mansion, and the son of Princess Yongning is definitely not ordinary either. He is nominally one of the twins born to Huang Zhiting, the royal wife of Gao Zhiting, and is the adopted son of Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess. However, Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess is not willing to let him change his surname, which has led to many doubts from the outside world.
Fortunately, Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess's tragic marriage has long been known to outsiders. Everyone inside and outside Beijing knows that Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess was the innocent victim of that marriage. Therefore, it is reasonable for Her Royal Highness not to adopt a son to inherit the Liang family, so although the turmoil is a little There was some, but it died down after a while.
Princess Yongning's wish to return to the palace to serve her mother was quickly sent to the palace. When the Empress Dowager Cisheng heard the news, she didn't think much about it. Instead, she simply became happy and immediately sent someone to inform the emperor that she had agreed. .
Zhu Yijun is now the undoubted king of the Ming Dynasty and the resurgence of the Ming Dynasty. It is a period when face is most important in all aspects, so it is naturally impossible to disobey his mother's wishes in this matter, lest he be criticized as unfilial. Oh, of course, not allowing your biological sister to visit and take care of your mother is not only unfilial, but even unfriended—the kind of friend who is a brother, a brother, and a brother.
Therefore, the emperor immediately sent Xiaohuangmen, the Supervisor of Ceremonies, to convey an oral instruction to the eldest princess's palace, allowing Her Royal Highness to enter the palace to serve the two palaces - he said that he must say the two palaces, after all, the Queen Mother Rensheng was still there, and she was the legitimate mother. Don't forget it.
[Note: According to the original history, Empress Dowager Rensheng had passed away for three years at this time. In this book, due to the secret care of Gao pragmatism, Empress Dowager Rensheng was in a much better state of mind than in the original history, so it was set to extend her life by some years. ]
As soon as the eldest princess arrived at Cining Palace to see her mother, Queen Mother Li first looked at her with a smile, and then asked in surprise: "Where is my grandson?" As she spoke, she kept looking behind Zhu Yao, and the Queen Mother thought she was The child was naughty and did not enter the house immediately.
Zhu Yaoyu was relatively relaxed with his mother, and was not too polite. He just smiled and said: "My mother doesn't know something. Now that the little Pihou has been disciplined, he will stay at the house to study, but he won't be able to come."
Empress Dowager Li was greatly disappointed when she heard this. The smile on her face dropped by three points, and she said regretfully: "Look at you, even if he wants to study, come over today and let the Ai family have a look. Why not send him back tomorrow morning? I think? The gentleman in your house doesn’t know how to be a little accommodating.”
When it came to this matter, Zhu Yaoyu couldn't help but want to show off. He raised his eyebrows slightly and said, "This is really difficult to handle. Mother, this gentleman in my daughter's house, I'm afraid even if he wants to be accommodating, he may not be able to be accommodating."
Empress Dowager Li was surprised and said: "What do you mean by this? Is it possible that someone is still restraining him?" After a pause, she suddenly became serious and glared at Zhu Yao and said: "Could it be that you are using your status to oppress others? This kind of thing is terrible. Don’t mess around.”
"Mother, why did you wrongly accuse your daughter? Don't say that your daughter won't be like this. Even if your daughter is really so ignorant, this gentleman is not something that your daughter can hold down with his status." Zhu Yaoyu said pretending to be aggrieved.
"Is there such a thing?" Queen Mother Li was really puzzled: "Where did you find such a grand teacher? What is his identity, that he doesn't care about you, the eldest princess?"
"This gentleman, his surname is Han, his given name is Xu, his courtesy name is Yuchen, and his nickname is Xiangyun. He is from Puzhou, Shanxi Province. He was born in the second and seventh place on the Renchen Kejin List in the 20th year of Wanli. He was an attendant of the Hanlin Academy at that time. Zhu Yaoyu blinked deliberately and said: "Oh, this is the emperor's servant, and my daughter really can't control him."
Empress Dowager Li was surprised: "Since you are a member of the Imperial Academy, how could you... Oh, the Ai family understands."
She hummed softly, rolled her daughter's face with a hint of fondness, and said, "You can't control Mr. Han, but Gao Rixin can, right? Not only can he control him, he can even control him however he wants. How to use it, hum..."
Zhu Yaoyu smiled proudly and said: "Mother, your grandson has got a good husband, aren't you happy?"
"The Ai family is naturally happy to be happy, but you should be careful when doing this, so as not to stir up rumors among the outside world. Even if it is not a good thing, it is still very annoying."
"The outside world knows that Gao Ge is Luo'er's biological father. Since he is his biological father, is it any wonder that Gao Ge found a good mentor for him?" Zhu Yaonao pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Look, my daughter refused at the beginning. If Luoer changes his surname, wouldn't this be useful?"
Empress Dowager Li rolled her eyes at her again and scolded her with a smile: "Girl, I'm afraid you're not missing me, an old woman, today, but you're here to show off to the old woman that she knows about it, right?"
"Okay, okay, the Aijia now knows how powerful Mr. Gao is..." Queen Mother Li said, stretched out her hand and gestured, and said: "Well, when the Aijia first met him, he was just a little tall kid. Where’s the leather monkey?”
I don’t know if these words made Zhu Yaoyu think of something. The eldest princess blushed slightly and said: "Daughter, I heard that Gaoge always urinates when he is young. How could he be some little monkey..."
Queen Mother Li actually said it casually just now. Being told by her daughter in this way couldn't help but bring back memories. She thought about it and said: "Oh, if you want to say that, it makes some sense. At that time, Gao Wu... Gao Rixin's age Although he is young, he is only the same age as your imperial brother, but he is indeed a young and mature person, and he looks like a king's assistant."
Wang Zuozhi's image must not be taken seriously. In the early years, Queen Mother Li did not have such a good impression of Gao Pragmatic. As for now, I am afraid that on the one hand, it is because Gao Jingshi has indeed done a lot for the court in these years, and on the other hand, it is also because Gao Jingshi has established a firm foothold at all levels. It is not justified for her not to recognize Gao Jingshi as the "Wang Zuo", so why not Why don't you just say that you discovered that he has "the image of Wang Zuo" a long time ago.
Zhu Yaoyu didn't care whether the queen mother's words were sincere or not. Anyway, she was very happy when the queen mother praised Gao Pragmatic. She was happily about to speak, but unexpectedly, a young eunuch suddenly shouted at the door: "The Queen has arrived——"
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