Emperor Longqing suddenly announced this today, even though Gao Pangshi heard Gao Gong mention to him last night that he would work with Cheng Guogong Zhu Xizhong to "know the scriptures banquet affairs", that is, the two of them were also responsible for the prince's scripture banquet affairs.
supervisor, but Gao Gong didn’t mention the arrangements for other candidates last night, so Gao Pragmatic just learned about it.
To be honest, the lineup configuration of the Prince's Lecturer shocked him a bit. If you add Shen Shixing, who is actually responsible for the specific affairs of the Prince's Sutra Banquet, it can only be said that the luxury of this configuration is almost heavenly.
Let's take a look at these people.
I won’t introduce Gao Gong, but first let’s talk about Zhu Xizhong, the most famous military official who is named alongside Gao Gong.
Zhu Xizhong, courtesy name Zhenqing, was the great-great-grandson of Zhu Neng, Duke Cheng of the Yongle Dynasty. In the 15th year of the Jiajing reign, he was crowned Duke of Cheng, and his name was above all other nobles. He was in charge of the Governor's Palace of the Five Armies, the two palaces on the right, and the Chief Shenji Camp.
, Admiral of the 12th Regiment Camp and the 5th Army Camp, with an annual salary of 700 dan. During the Jiajing and Longqing dynasties, he has gone out of the city to worship heaven and earth on behalf of the emperor more than 60 times, and the rewards he has received are incomparable.
As a noble military official, how much favor does he have? Anyway, even though he himself has been promoted to this level, his younger brother Zhu Xixiao is still the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial Guard.
What is more worth mentioning is that from the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the present, there are a total of six people who have been awarded the title of Grand Master as military ministers and nobles, namely: Zhang Fu, Zhang Mao, Zhu Yong, Xu Guangzuo, Guo Xun, and Zhu Xizhong.
The first five have all been buried long ago, so Zhu Xizhong is currently the only military official in the Ming Dynasty who is alive to be added to the highest position of Taishi, the three princes.
The Grand Master is not scary, but the living Grand Master is scary, because this is equivalent to no reward in the official rank. Not to mention that his younger brother Zhu Xixiao is also a Taibao, isn't that scary?
Of course, if history cannot be rewritten by Gao Pragmatic, Zhang Juzheng will still be alive as a grand master in the future, and will be the only two civil servants and living grand masters in the Ming Dynasty, alongside Li Shanchang during the founding period. Previously powerful ministers such as Yan Song and Xu who took over as chief assistant
Li Chunfang, Gao Gong, Chen Yiqin and Zhang Juzheng in the cabinet are just young masters. Among them, Li Chunfang and Gao Gong were added in the first year of Longqing, Chen Yiqin was added in the second year of Longqing, and Zhang Juzheng was added in the third year of Longqing.
Plus... As for Zhao Zhenji, he has not reached the level of the Three Gongs and Three Solitaries.
Next is Shen Shixing. Shen Shixing is qualified from all aspects to be the "Tongzhi Jingyanshi": he was the number one scholar in the 41st year of Jiajing. In the Ming Dynasty, the number one scholar was awarded the Hanlin Academy's compilation and mastership
Of course, Shen Shixing was no exception when it came to compiling the history of the country. A few years after he entered the Hanlin Academy, he entered the palace as Zuo Shuzi. Zuo Shuzi was the chief of Zuo Chunfang in the East Palace of the Crown Prince, and his position was like the emperor's attendant. However, Shen Shixing's specific duties were
Instead of serving in the East Palace, he was in charge of the Hanlin Academy as Zuo Shuzi. After that, he was moved to the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, becoming one of the three giants in the Ministry of Rites.
To paraphrase a highly pragmatic person from his previous life, Shen Shixing is in this position because he has superb professional abilities, rich political experience, has been fully trained in multiple positions, and has the right job description.
Perfect.
The only thing that made Gao Pingshi a little confused was that Shen Shixing was a gold medalist in the 41st year of Jiajing, and Zhang Ju was his mentor. Why did Gao Gong agree to let Shen Shixing be responsible for the specific affairs of the Prince's Sutra Banquet?
Gao pragmatically thought: I have to ask my third uncle about this when I go back later.
Next are the six teachers who actually teach the prince.
Chen Jingbang ranked second and seventh on the Yichou Kejin Ranking in the 44th year of Jiajing. His ranking was very high and his knowledge was no problem. The examiner that year was Gao Gong, so there was no problem. Historically, this person later became the Minister of Rites. It is easy to get into the cabinet position, but he may have some bad luck. In the thirteenth year of Wanli, when he was the Minister of Rites, he had a conflict with the cabinet boss and resigned and returned home. For many years after that, Wanli sent people to visit him from time to time. , but the chances have been bad and he has not been able to make a comeback. But in any case, since he is on the gold list of Yi Chou Ke, he is considered a Gao Gong faction, or at least a pro-Gao Gong faction, so the problem is not that big.
The next three: Shen Li, Xu Guo, and Gu Yangqian are considered acquaintances of Gao Pragmatic—their brothers were present at the last gathering of disciples at Gao Gong’s family. They were all gold medalists in the Yichou Division in the 44th year of Jiajing, so they don’t need to be introduced too much. To put it simply, both Shen Li and Xu Guo later served as cabinet ministers. Gu Yangqian was a little less successful than them, but he also served as governor of Jiliao and Korea manager (at that time, he was aiding Korea and expelling the Japanese), and finally became associate minister. Jingying Rongzheng, left minister of the Ministry of War.
Then there is Zhang Wei. Zhang Wei was a Jinshi in the second year of Longqing's reign. The examiner this year was Li Chunfang. Who put him on the list? I don't need to ask more.
However, here is a situation that may not be known to many people: after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism was indeed established as the official ideology. However, during the Hongwu and Jianwen years, although the seven classics and meaning articles in the first imperial examination were It is strictly limited to the scope of the Four Books and Five Classics, but it does not stipulate that Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism must be the sect. Cheng and Zhu Zhuan's annotations are only one of the references.
In addition, the eight-legged essay had not yet been finalized at that time, and the form of the article was not very strict. Therefore, scholars still had some room for expression when answering questions. During the Yongle period, the Ming court began to organize the compilation of the "Four Books", "The Five Classics" and "Xingxing" "The Complete Collection of Neo-Confucianism" was published throughout the country, stipulating that when answering questions, the annotations of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism should be used as the criterion, and "the tone of the ancients must be followed." This really began to clamp down on the minds of scholars.
During the Zhengde and Jiajing years, with the rise of Yangming's theory of mind, the sole status of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism began to be challenged. Wang Yangming absorbed the mind-nature theory of Lao Zhuang and Buddhism, and put forward the concepts of "toward conscience" and "unity of knowledge and action" " Said. He recruited many disciples and advocated lecturing, which not only cultivated a large number of believers, but also made Yangming's theory of mind spread rapidly. Yangming's theory of mind was not only widely spread among ordinary scholars, but also spread among the people in the north and the south. There are also many believers in the bureaucracy. Xu Jie, Li Chunfang and other high-ranking officials all believed in Yangming's philosophy of mind and advocated lecturing in the capital, which not only further expanded the influence of Yangming's philosophy of mind, but also gradually made it accepted by official schools and imperial examinations, making it a mainstream Ideology.
Especially during the period from the middle and late Jiajing period to the Longqing period, the influence of Yangming's philosophy in the imperial examinations actually exceeded that of Zhu Neo-Confucianism. For example, in the examination just mentioned in the second year of Longqing's reign, because Li Chunfang served as the examiner, his work The text used Wang Xue to interpret the scriptures and incorporated the words of "Zhuangzi" into the text. In fact, starting from the middle period of Jialong, the Tang and Song sects had an important influence on the imperial examinations. Most of its members not only respected and believed in Yangming's Xin Xue, but also included Xin Xue Ideas are integrated into eight-legged essays and policy discussions.
Although Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng did not advocate lecturing, they were actually influenced by Xinxue. Therefore, Gao Gong mentioned to Gao Pragmatic before that he was not opposed to Wang Yangming's "genuine Xinxue" at that time, but he was opposed to the "fake Xinxue" that was becoming increasingly pragmatic.
Zhang Juzheng is even more direct. He believes that the current Xinxue is just thinking without doing anything, without any regard for the actual situation, and the unity of knowledge and action is completely empty talk.
We have digressed, but to get back to the topic, since Zhang Wei was selected as a Jinshi by Li Chunfang, he probably had different ideas from Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, but Li Chunfang was the chief minister after all, and someone had to be involved in such a big event as the Prince's Sutra Banquet.
Finally, there is Chen Yubi. This candidate is very interesting, because he is Chen Yiqin’s biological son! But his qualifications are relatively junior. He was a Jinshi in the Wuchen Section in the second year of Longqing, which is higher than the Jinshi in the 44th year of Jiajing under the high arch.
It's one course later, but it's the same course as Zhang Wei.
Logically speaking, since Li Chunfang, Gao Gong and even Zhang Juzheng all tried to trick people into the Prince's Jingyan Banquet, it is not surprising that Chen Yiqin stuffed people into the officials. But Gao Pragmatic felt that the matter might not be that simple. After all, in his impression, Chen Yiqin's problem was just
He is a bit conservative, but he is still a decent person, and he is not trying to seize power, so he probably wouldn't do that.
What’s more, even if Chen Yiqin really wants to fortify people, he can’t do it so obviously as he wants to fortify his own son, right? Doesn’t Mr. Chen Ge have any disciples or confidants?
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic believes that there may be a problem here. It's just that there is no information at hand at the moment, so there is no point in guessing. We have to go back to the third uncle to ask about it.
But no matter what, this time the Crown Prince held a banquet, from the perspective of the Japanese officials, not only were the officials themselves already luxuriously equipped, but the equipment behind them was even more luxurious!
