"Gently I go, just as I come softly, I gently beckon, as the clouds of the western sky."

In the sixth year of Wanli, on July 5, Gao Pragmatic escorted the high arch coffin back to his hometown for burial. Zhu Yijun tried his best to override the public opinion and personally escorted the spirit out of the city, but unexpectedly received the secret praise of many people, just because this was not the secret praise of the ancestral system, but for the emperor's respect for the life of the ministers.

Gao Gong's reform efforts did not actually offend many people, but the emperor still insisted on giving such courtesy, which naturally comforted and inspired the ministers who were inclined to reform.

Of course, there are always two sides to the world, some people are happy, and some people are angry, but that is no longer what Gao Pragmatism needs to consider now.

Because he has resigned from the posts of Guan Zheng and Fake Hanlin Academy, Zuo Chunfang, Zuo Yude, etc.

Regarding Gao Pragmatic's resignation, Zhu Yijun originally disagreed at first, because he is not yet pro-government, and according to Emperor Mu Zonglongqing's will, Gao Pragmatic should accompany him until he is pro-government.

Although Gao Gong died, the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces, especially the Empress Dowager Li, thought that Zhu Yijun was still not enough to take charge of the state affairs in person, so she and the Empress Dowager Chen jointly issued an edict, and Guo Pu was promoted to the rank of Scholar of the Middle Pole Temple to take over as an assistant, and continued to serve as an assistant to the government.

However, the high pragmatism of the prime minister, through the "continuous struggle" in the past few years, the influence on the "Heavenly Trio" has already reached a higher level. He performed in front of the two palaces and the emperor with great emotion, saying that Gao Gong now has no relatives of other sons and nephews in Beijing, and as Gao Gong's servant, escorting his coffin back to his hometown is not only a family feeling, but also a requirement of filial piety.

At the same time, because he had previously said that Sanbo Zhishi would not participate in the tribute examination before, he did not take the exam again after obtaining the status of a student. And now that seven years have passed, and the third uncle has passed away, it is time for me to prepare well and take the exam. As long as you pass the exam, won't you be able to come back and continue to work for the emperor?

This statement is both reasonable and reasonable, and after deliberation between the two houses, it is considered worthwhile. Zhu Yijun couldn't, so he had to summon Gao Pragmatic alone, and the two of them had a secret discussion for a long time in the Xinuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace, and they didn't know what they said, anyway, Zhu Yijun finally agreed to Gao Pragmatic's resignation.

Before leaving Jingshi, Gao Pragmatic went to the former Zhang University Scholar's Mansion and the current Guo University Scholar's Mansion to meet his teacher Guo Pu.

To add an explanation, this house is very interesting, at first the emperor was going to give it to Gao Gong after it was sealed, but Gao Gong didn't want it, so he wanted to give it to Guo Pu, but Guo Pu refused to accept it. The emperor had no choice but to retain the "property rights", and granted Guo Pu to live on the grounds that Guo Pu did not have a house in Beijing, and he was easy to be criticized by officials and officials when he lived in the pragmatic Jianxinzhai Courtyard, and the distance was also far away, which was really inconvenient for an elderly minister.

Guo Pu is an official who is poorer than Gao Gong, the Gao family is still an official family, and he is from a poor background, and he is the kind of official who refuses to even accept contributions, so naturally he can't get rich. He has been an official all his life, and he saved a few small amounts of money by relying on the students' Bing Jing and Tan Jing, and bought more than 200 acres of land in his hometown, which is regarded as a pension for the elderly.

So Guo Pu can't afford to buy Jingshi's house now, and when he saw that the emperor said so, he agreed. Now the things in the Guo University Scholar's Mansion may only be the plaque at the door that is his, and even the subordinates in the mansion are all people who Zhu Yijun paid out of his own pocket for the imperial supervisor to help hire them.

Gao pragmatically came to discuss with Guo Pu, mainly in two aspects. One of the aspects is, of course, the government, don't look at Gao Pragmatic, who is only 16 years old this year, but Guo Pu, as his mentor, how can he not know the influence of Gao Pragmatic, a former view of politics? He, a demonic student, was privately called "Little Pavilion Elder" a few years ago!

In terms of government and politics, there are two main principles discussed by the two of them, one is to continue to promote the unfinished reform cause of Gao Gong, and the other is to always pay attention to whether anyone is taking advantage of Gao Gong's death to do things.

Gao Pragmatic also took special care of Guo Pu, asking him to keep in touch with Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju in the inner court, and told him the contact information, as for Chen Hong, the master of ceremonies, as long as he was passable, but he should not be hostile at will. Guo Pu knew that he had a lot of arrangements in the inner court, so he agreed to them one by one.

In addition to government affairs, it is a highly pragmatic private matter. The most important thing in private matters, of course, is the funeral of the high arch, but in fact, the best etiquette specifications are fixed, and the others only need to spend money, and Gao Pragmatic is really not short of money.

So what really matters is actually the next exam that is highly pragmatic.

In the sixth year of Wanli, there was no high pragmatism to take the exam, originally he was just a student, and he was routinely going to participate in the Taoist examination held by Henan Xuezheng every year, but because of Mu Zong's will, he wanted to accompany the emperor, so this routine exam was exempted by the edict of the two palaces.

So the exam he has to face first is actually the Henan Township Test next year, that is, the seventh year of Wanli. Only after passing the Henan Township Examination and obtaining the status of a lifter can you participate in the examination of the eighth year of Wanli.

In fact, for the exam itself, Gao Pragmatic is still more confident, although he is often "sideways" in the eyes of others, but in fact, he is only in charge of those things in business, and he rarely interferes in specific affairs, and the boss is nothing more than a strategic plan. Most of those "plans" were written by him many years ago, but because there were some things that were somewhat different from the plans when they were being handled, he needed to take them out and revise them slightly, and then he handed them over to someone to do.

Anyway, it didn't delay much.

And he usually works very hard. Not only does he work hard, but he also has advantages that ordinary students can't reach, he is a Hanlin official! Although he is a nominal person, the officials in the Hanlin Academy are all his colleagues in name!

Not to mention that he also has a large number of senior brothers who were born as Jinshi, and he can learn a lot of experience with exams by casually communicating with these two types of people!

Of course, in exams, ability is one thing, confidence is one thing, and luck is also another.

However, high pragmatism can reduce the proportion of "luck" as much as possible, especially in the township test stage. Because he can find all kinds of information about the Henan Admiral Xuezheng, including what style of articles he likes.

Although the Ming Dynasty wrote articles for the imperial examination, it can be summed up in one word in general, that is, "blow". But blowing is also a variety of different styles, some people like to blow the atmosphere, some people like to blow delicately, some people like to blow domineering, some people like to blow spirit, most of the show talents, where do you know what kind of "blowing" the great master of the province likes to see?

But high pragmatism can know!