I thought the conversation would end here, but Gao Pragmatic never expected that now Zhu Yijun was getting deeper and deeper into the city, so he suddenly asked: "Hey, by the way, Gao Yuan has been in southern Xinjiang for some time. Bar?"
Gao Pingshi's heart suddenly stopped. He didn't know why the emperor suddenly mentioned this matter. He could only answer cautiously: "Yes, it should have been more than two months since Quan Zi arrived in southern Xinjiang."
"It's been more than two months..." Zhu Yijun nodded repeatedly, and then asked: "Are your cronies who stayed in southern Xinjiang still obedient to him?"
Gao Pingshi was moved in his heart and replied: "According to what I see, as long as I am by your Majesty's side, no one in the clan will question my decision, and no one will be rude and disobedient to Quanzi."
As expected, Zhu Yijun burst out laughing and said, "So, the head of your Gao family is judged by his official position, and you are now the head of the Gao family in Xinzheng?"
Gao Pragmatic raised his hands and said: "The emperor is wise, and my family has been deeply favored by the emperor for several generations. It is natural that the monarch should rule the family."
Here is a brief explanation. During the clan society of China for thousands of years, there are generally three ways to produce the "patriarch" of a certain family: one is natural generation; the other is selection; the third is that the person with the highest official position automatically becomes the clan leader. , that is what Gao Pragmatic said at this time: rule by king and rule by orthodoxy.
The so-called natural generation, for example, your grandfather gave birth to five sons, and each son had five sons. In this family of more than 20 people, your grandfather is the natural patriarch. There is no doubt about this and there can be no dispute.
There is also a derivation system to naturally generate a patriarch. Take the Gao family in Xinzheng as an example. If the current patriarch of the Gao family is Gao Wuzi, the eldest son of the eldest son, then this is also a natural generation - that is, based on the theory of blood, the theory of concubine, and the theory of primogeniture. To determine the clan leader.
In other words, natural generation depends on who God has "arranged" to be the eldest son of the main branch (or clan) of the family. If the eldest son's ancestor or father has passed away, then he must be the patriarch.
The second type is generated by recommendation. This is easy to understand, that is, the family holds an internal meeting and selects one of the people who are qualified to become the clan leader to become the clan leader. Generally speaking, this situation occurs when the status, wealth, fame and other "attributes" of the candidates who are qualified to become the patriarch are almost the same. Since they have similar qualifications and want to avoid family divisions, they have to use the recommendation method. Method.
The third situation is based on official position. This method is very simple. If you are the highest official under the emperor, then you will be the clan leader when you return to the clan. There is a special term for this situation, which is called "the rule of the emperor is the orthodoxy."
As early as the Han Dynasty at the latest, this method of producing clan leaders was very common. For example, the famous Yuan family in the fourth and third generations of the late Han Dynasty decided their clan leader in this way: Yuan Shao's predecessor had three brothers, and they were Yuan Cheng, Yuan Feng, and Yuan Wei from oldest to youngest.
The eldest son, Yuan Cheng, died young and passed away as General Zuo Zhonglang, leaving brothers Yuan Feng and Yuan Wei. Yuan Feng was the senior official at that time and was Sikong, so he was the head of the Yuan family. Yuan Shao was Yuan Feng's concubine, and his mother was just Yuan Feng's maid, so Yuan Feng simply adopted him to his deceased eldest brother Yuan Cheng. After Yuan Feng died, Yuan Wei became the head of the Yuan family until he was killed.
After Yuan Wei was killed, due to the quarrel between Yuan Shao and his half-brother Yuan Shu, both parties disliked each other. Therefore, the Yuan family theoretically had no patriarch during this period. However, later on, Cao Cao "received the emperor's orders but refused to submit." Considering Yuan Shao's strength, he took the initiative to give up the post of general "who is the third prince" to Yuan Shao. After he took office as Sikong, the Yuan family at this time should regard Yuan Shao as the leader. The clan leader.
Speaking of this, there seems to be a guess: Yuan Shu arrogantly proclaimed himself emperor because he was not resentful that his official position was lower than that of the son of a slave in his eyes. But his strength was there at that time, and his relationship with Cao Cao was not good enough. It was no longer possible to overpower Yuan Shao in the official position. Therefore, "jealousy changed me beyond recognition" and he did the stupid thing of arrogating the throne - of course he He brought his own fate to his own fault. This book does not intend to overturn Yuan Shu's verdict, but only explores his possible mentality at the time.
Coming back to the topic, the Gao family in Xinzheng has no "ancestral system" in terms of producing a clan leader. Among the previous generation, Gao Gong undoubtedly had the highest official position, but in fact it was not until the death of his eldest brother Gao Jie that Gao Gong became the clan leader.
In other words, at the beginning, the head of the Gao family was "naturally born". After Gao Jie's death, it was changed to "the rule of the king and the orthodox tradition". The "natural generation" was not continued - otherwise he should be the second brother Gao Duo. He succeeded the clan leader because Gao Gongxingsan.
But what is interesting is that after Gao Gong's death, the patriarch of the Gao family did not directly transfer to Gao Jingshi - perhaps because Gao Jingshi did not have an official at that time.
In short, at that time, the position of patriarch was temporarily held by Gao Gong's fourth brother Gao Cai (the second brother Gao Du had also passed away). It was not until Gao Cai's death that Gao pragmatic had become the assistant minister of the Rongzheng and War Ministry, and then he became the At this time, the patriarch of the Gao family in Xinzheng, Gao Jingshi, surpassed his father Gao Cai, and the Gao family's patriarchal generation mode once again shifted back to "the king rules the orthodox line."
At this time, Zhu Yijun was quite happy after hearing Gao Pragmatic's words, and said with a smile: "This is reasonable. But it reminds me of one thing... Gao Yuan is fourteen this year, right? I heard that all his previous teachers He is an academic officer of the Imperial Academy, should we consider letting him go back to Xinzheng and get a student status, or go to the Imperial College to get a supervisor status?"
Zhu Yijun suddenly became concerned about Gao Yuan's reputation, which surprised Gao Pragmatic. From a practical point of view, for a family like the Gao family in Xinzheng, the status of the descendants of the family is almost certain - no matter how bad they are in reading, which county gentleman will not be able to become an official in Xinzheng? Save some face for the children of the Gao family? So, it doesn’t matter at all when you get it.
For a family like the Gao family in Xinzheng, the children of the family want to pursue fame and are also pursuing the qualifications of being a scholar, because at the provincial examination level, it is not easy to get qualified by just showing your face, because the qualifications of being a scholar correspond to the qualifications of being an official, not a scholar.
Of course, if Gao Pragmatic is willing to personally intervene and promote someone in the clan to a high position, then let alone promoting people, even Jinshi may not be able to do it - Zhang Juzheng did it in the original history, or did he directly do it to become the number one scholar? !
Although he is pragmatic and dare not say "I am not the Prime Minister, but the Prime Minister", given his current status in the court and in the eyes of the Emperor, if he really does this, no big deal will happen. What's more, although there are a lot of institutional constraints on how to write test questions, given his connections in the government, how difficult is it to get the questions in advance? As long as he has the topic in hand, he can help write a top-level essay. It's just that Gao pragmatism won't do this.
As for Gao Yuan's fame, Gao Pragmatic didn't care too much. He frowned and replied hesitantly: "When the emperor mentioned this matter, I was really hesitant..."
Zhu Yijun said in surprise: "It's just a student test. Are you still afraid that he will fail the test? Why are you hesitating?"
"It's not that I'm hesitant about this." Gao Pingshi smiled bitterly and said, "I now have a title, and Gao Yuan is the eldest son. It is said that he is the Marquis of Nanning, so I don't know whether he should take the exam for merit."
"Oh, that's it." Zhu Yijun nodded, frowned, and mused: "It's reasonable for you to have such hesitation. My dynasty has many military merits, so those who have nobility are military ministers, and military ministers don't have to Imperial examination. But you are different. According to my previous edict, you are a civil servant and have the same title as the former Duke of Korea. This is difficult to handle. "
Gao pragmatically avoided saying anything, and Zhu Yijun asked again: "Li Shanchang's eldest son married Princess Lin'an. He must have never passed the imperial examination, right?"
"Yes." Gao pragmatically replied.
"Did our dynasty have any courses to recruit scholars at that time?" Zhu Yijun asked again.
Gao Pragmatic replied: "One year before the founding of the People's Republic of China, Emperor Taizu issued an order to 'set up two civil and military subjects to recruit scholars', which counts as opening a subject to recruit scholars. If this order is not counted, there will be another edict in the third year of Hongwu, and later in In the fourth year of Hongwu's reign, the official admission of scholars was officially opened. As for Princess Li Qishang Lin'an, the crown prince of South Korea, it was in the ninth year of Hongwu's reign."
"That means Li Qi did not take part in the imperial examination." Zhu Yijun nodded and said, "That's right. If you inherit a title, you have the qualifications to be an official. Why bother to take the exam?"
He seemed to have convinced himself, waving his hands and saying: "That's it. Your Gao Yuan doesn't have to take the imperial examination. When he...well, he will naturally have an official position in the future."
What's next? Of course, it will be after Gao Pingshi is gone in the future and Gao Yuan inherits the title. However, when the emperor was mid-sentence, he realized that it was too unlucky, so he quickly cut it off and swallowed it.
However, Gao Pragmatic said: "The Emperor's grace is so great that I should thank you, but... I thought it would be better to take the exam."
"Why is this?" Zhu Yijun was stunned for a moment, and then seeing Gao Pragmatic's serious face, he suddenly realized and slapped his thigh: "Oh, I understand, you are worried that Gao Yuan will lose his status as a civil servant in the future, right? On this point, you Don’t worry, you are a civil servant and you are a civil servant, and your son will naturally be appointed as a civil servant in the future... Well, I will find an opportunity to issue an edict to make this matter clear."
"Thank you, Your Majesty." Gao Pragmatic thanked him politely, and then said: "However, I am afraid that this matter will cause criticism, so I still think it would be better for him to take part in the imperial examination in person."
"What's the criticism?" Zhu Yijun frowned and said, "Are you worried that this civil servant's status is too noble? All civil servants in the world have passed the imperial examination, but your family does not have to take the imperial examination, so it will cause gossip?"
"The first is that. The second is that this policy is not supported by the ancestral system. If I make an exception for my family, I may destroy the ancestral laws."
"Oh, you broke the laws of your ancestors again? Our ancestors didn't expect that there would be people who won literary honors in later generations, so what?" Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said: "You don't have to worry about this matter. The famous weapons of the imperial court are in your hands. He was awarded based on his merits.
If there is someone in the future who can carry out great government for our Ming Dynasty, clean up the two hundred years of abuses in the imperial court, replenish the treasury that has been weak for a long time, and strengthen the weak military equipment, then he can also be a civil servant and a knight, just like you are today. General. Humph, I'm afraid that talents are rare, but why should I worry about the emperor being stingy? "
After hearing these words, Gao Pragmatic found it hard to find words to refuse, so he could only say with a grimace: "Your Majesty, this is to roast your ministers on the fire."
"Hey, don't talk nonsense." Zhu Yijun blinked and said, "This is what Cao Aha said. Why, you also want to be Wei Wu?"
Gao Pingshi was startled and quickly bowed down: "I made a mistake, how dare I."
"I don't know if you dare or not, but I don't think you know how." Zhu Yijun said, suddenly sighed, stretched out his hand to help Gao Pragmatic up, and said: "You grew up with me, and I know who you are. I won’t doubt that you have such thoughts. But... I heard about Gao Yuan’s behavior in southern Xinjiang a few days ago, and I would be lying to you if I said I wasn’t worried."
Gao Pingshi was shocked in his heart. He didn't know what the emperor heard in return. It was not surprising that there was a report. Back then, the Jin Yiwei had found out some things about him in Annan. Now his strength in southern Xinjiang has become much stronger than before. Unless all the Jin Yiwei are dead. , otherwise it would be impossible not to inquire about it.
"I have been busy with disaster relief work recently, but I don't know what disobedient things Quanzi did in southern Xinjiang that made the emperor worried?"
"Rebellion is out of the question. It should even be said that some of the things he did were quite good." Zhu Yijun raised his eyebrows slightly and shook his head: "Just judging from the personality he showed... the name you gave him, It’s more or less the opposite.”
The name and personality are totally different? Gao Pingshi couldn't help but be startled, and thought to himself: Yuan originally meant swirling water, but now it mostly refers to deep pools. I named it "Yuan". The original intention was just to commemorate the past with Zhiting, but the emperor didn't know that.
So, the emperor should have understood it literally at this time, and he might have thought that the word "Yuan" just meant that I wanted Yuan'er to be quiet and thoughtful, and to concentrate on learning. And he specifically refers to personality, that means... that Yuan'er is not "quiet" in his work?
Yes, that must be the case. Not being calm means being reckless and strong, and with such a character, if he inherits the powerful power I left him in the future, it will indeed be a threat from the emperor's point of view. But, what did Yuan'er do recently to make the emperor think so?
Even Gao Yuanpang couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat at this time, but he really hadn't cared much about things other than disaster relief recently. He really didn't know what Gao Yuan was doing in southern Xinjiang, so he didn't know how to answer for the moment.
Zhu Yijun had been observing Gao Pragmatic's expression, and when he saw that he was a little stunned and at a loss, he realized that the young man of his had indeed not known anything about it, so he slowed down his tone and comforted him: "You don't have to worry, I just said , he still did a good job at what he was doing...
Well, there must be a detailed report in your house, but you haven't had time to read it recently. Well, let's go back today and see for yourself. I won't say much more here. Then he paused, suddenly laughed again, and joked: "My son is counting on you to teach him well in the future, and I'm not worried about your own son being unable to teach him well." "
Hearing these words, Gao Pingpang broke into a cold sweat and said cautiously: "Your Majesty is so complimentary. I will leave now and go back to my house to see what good deeds this traitor has done."
"I told you that you did a good job, why did you scold him?" Zhu Yijun approached him, stretched out his hands and patted Gao Pingshi on the shoulders, and said: "You will naturally know what is going on after you have seen it. Go Bar."
"I obey the order. I retire."
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