Emperor Longqing suddenly announced this matter today, even though Gao Pragmatic heard Gao Gong mention to him last night that he would "know the scriptures and feasts" with Zhu Xizhong, the Duke of Chengguo, that is, the two of them are also in charge of the prince's banquet affairs, but Gao Gong did not mention the arrangements for other candidates last night, so Gao Pragmatic also just learned.

To be honest, the configuration of the prince's lineup shocked him a little, if you add Shen Shixing, who is really in charge of the specific affairs of the prince's feast, it can only be said that the luxury of this configuration is basically heavenly.

Let's take a look at these people.

Gao Gong will not be introduced, first talk about Zhu Xizhong, the head of the military nobles who are listed alongside Gao Gong.

Zhu Xizhong, the word Zhenqing, the great-great-grandson of Zhu Neng, the Duke of Chengguo in the Yongle Dynasty, was the Duke of Chengguo in the fifteenth year of Jiajing, and his name was above all the nobles. After taking charge of the five armies and the governor's mansion, the right two mansions, the chief god machine battalion, the 12th regimental battalion and the five military battalions, 700 stones. In 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 invincible.

As a military noble, how much favor does he have? Anyway, when he himself has been promoted to this point, his younger brother Zhu Xixiao is still the governor of Jinyi Wei.

What's more worth mentioning is that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, a total of six people have been crowned Taishi alive as military ministers and nobles, namely: Zhang Fu, Zhang Mao, Zhu Yong, Xu Guangzuo, Guo Xun, and Zhu Xizhong.

The first five have already been buried in the ground, so Zhu Xizhong is the only martial minister and noble in the Ming Dynasty who is alive to add to the highest position of the three dukes.

The Taishi is not terrible, but the living Taishi is terrible, because this is equivalent to having no reward in the official rank. Not to mention that Zhu Xixiao, the younger brother of the family, is also in the Taibao, is it terrifying?

Of course, if history cannot be rewritten by Gao Pragmatism, Zhang Juzheng will also be alive in the future, and he will be ranked with Li Shanchang during the founding of the country, becoming the only two Wenchen living masters in the Ming Dynasty. And the previous ministers such as Yan Song, and Xu Jie, who took over as the first assistant, were just young masters. Now Li Chunfang, Gao Gong, Chen Yiqin and Zhang Juzheng in the cabinet are only young masters, among which Li Chunfang and Gao Gong are the young masters added in the first year of Longqing, Chen Yiqin is added in the second year of Longqing, and Zhang Ju is added in the third year of Longqing...... As for Zhao Zhenji, he didn't mix into the level of three princes and three orphans.

Next up is Shen Shixing. Shen Shixing's appointment as the "Tongzhijing Banquet" is qualified in any respect: he is the champion of Jiajing's 41st year. In the Ming Dynasty, the champion was awarded the Hanlin Academy to revise and revise the history of the country, and Shen Shixing was of course no exception. A few years after he entered the Hanlin Academy, he entered the palace as the left concubine. Zuo Shuzi is the prefect of Zuo Chunfang in the Crown Prince's East Palace, and his position is like the emperor's servant. However, Shen Shixing's specific position is not to serve in the East Palace, but to take charge of the Hanlin Academy as a concubine. After that, he moved to the right attendant of the Ministry of Rites and became one of the three giants of the Ministry of Rites.

To paraphrase the saying of a high pragmatic previous life, Shen Shixing's position is called superb professional ability, rich political experience, fully trained in multiple positions, and the position is just right.

Perfect.

The only thing that made Gao Shixing a little puzzled was that Shen Shixing was the gold list of Jiajing's forty-first year, and Zhang Ju was his teacher, why did Gao Gong agree to let Shen Shixing be in charge of the specific affairs of the prince's feast?

Gao pragmatically pondered: I will have to ask the third uncle when I go back to this matter.

Then there are the six teachers who actually teach the prince.

Chen Jingbang is the seventh in the second class of Jiajing's 44-year gold list, ranking very high, and his knowledge is no problem; The examiner that year was Gao Gong, and no problem. In history, this person later did the Ministry of Rites Shangshu, this position is easy to enter the cabinet, but he may be a little unlucky, in the thirteenth year of Wanli, the Ministry of Rites Shangshu and the cabinet boss had a conflict, resigned and went home. For many years after that, Wanli also sent people to visit him from time to time, but the opportunity was not good and he could not recover. But anyway, since he is on the gold list of the Yi Chou Branch, he is considered a high-arch faction, or at least a pro-high-arch faction, and the problem is not very big.

The next three: Shen Li, Xu Guo, and Gu Yangqian are considered to be highly pragmatic acquaintances - there were their brothers at the last gathering of the protégés of the Gao Gong family, all of whom were on the gold list of Jiajing's forty-four years of Yichouke, so there is no need to introduce too much. To put it simply, Shen Li and Xu Guo both served as cabinet ministers later, Gu Yangqian was slightly worse than the two of them, but he also served as the governor of Jiliao and the Korean economic strategy (at that time, he was in the aid of the DPRK to chase the Japanese), and the final official was Yu Jingying Rongzheng and the military department Zuo Shilang.

Then there's the Zhang bit. Zhang Wei is a jinshi in the second year of Longqing, and the chief examiner of this year is Li Chunfang, who got him into the list, there is no need to ask.

However, here is a situation that may not be known to many people: after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Zhu Lixue was indeed established as the official ideology. However, during the Hongwu and Jianwen periods, although the seven scriptures and texts in the first session of the imperial examination were strictly limited to the scope of the Four Books and the Five Classics, it did not stipulate that Cheng Zhu Lixue must be used as the sect, and Cheng Zhu's commentary was only one of the references.

In addition, at that time, the eight-strand text had not yet been finalized, and the form of the article was not very strict. Therefore, there is still some leeway for scholars to play when answering questions. During the Yongle period, the Ming court began to organize the compilation of the "Four Books", "Five Classics" and "Sex and Reason", and issued them to the whole country, stipulating that the annotations of Cheng Zhu Lixue should be used as the criterion when answering questions, and they must be "based on the tone of the ancients". This is when the minds of the readers really begin to be suppressed.

In the Zhengde and Jiajing years, with the rise of Yangming Xinxue, Cheng Zhu's supremacy began to be challenged. Wang Yangming absorbed Lao Zhuang and Buddhism's ideas on the theory of mind, and put forward the theory of "to conscience" and "the unity of knowledge and action". He recruited a wide range of disciples and advocated lectures, which not only cultivated a large number of believers, but also made the Yangming Mind study spread rapidly. Yangming Xinxue was not only widely spread among ordinary scholars, but also had many followers among the bureaucrats in the north and south of Beijing. Xu Jie, Li Chunfang and other high-ranking officials all believed in Yangming Xinxue, and they vigorously advocated lectures in Beijing, which not only further expanded the influence of Yangming Xinxue, but also gradually made it accepted by official schools and imperial examinations, and became one of the mainstream ideologies.

Especially during the period from the middle and late Jiajing period to the Longqing period, in fact, the influence of Yangming Xinxue in the imperial examination has surpassed the process of Zhu Lixue. For example, in the examination of the second year of Longqing just mentioned, because Li Chunfang served as the chief examiner, his Cheng Wen used Wang Xue to interpret the scriptures and incorporated the words of "Zhuangzi" into the text. In fact, from the middle of Jialong, the Tang and Song dynasties had an important influence on the imperial examinations. Most of its members not only advocate and believe in Yangming Xinxue, but also integrate the ideas of Xinxue into the Bagu Wen and Strategy.

Although Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng did not advocate lecturing, they had actually been influenced by the study of the mind, so Gao Gong had only mentioned to Gao Pragmatic that he did not object to Wang Yangming's "true heart learning" at that time, but what he opposed was the "false heart study" that was becoming more and more pragmatic at present. Zhang Juzheng is more direct, he thinks that the current psychology is purely just thinking and not doing things, without caring about the actual situation at all, and the unity of knowledge and action has become completely empty talk.

Far away, to get back to the point, since Zhang Wei is a jinshi selected by Li Chunfang, most of them are not quite the same as Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng's thinking, but Li Chunfang is the first assistant after all, and the prince's feast is such a big thing, so he has to stuff someone in.

Finally, there is Chen Yuma. This candidate is very interesting, because he is Chen Yiqin's own son! But his qualifications are relatively shallow, he is a jinshi of Wuchen in the second year of Longqing, which is a subject later than these forty-four years of Jiajing Jinshi under the high arch, but it is the same as Zhang Wei.

It stands to reason that since Li Chunfang, Gao Gong and even Zhang Juzheng all stuffed people into the prince's banquet, it is not surprising that Chen Yiqin stuffed people. But Gao Pragmatic feels that things are probably not so simple, after all, in his impression, Chen Yiqin's problem is only a little conservative, but he is still a relatively decent person, and he can't talk about taking power, so he shouldn't do this.

Besides, even if Chen Yiqin is really a fortress person, he can't be so obvious that he can't stuff his own son, right? Does he Chen Ge Lao have no protégés and cronies?

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic believes that there is also a problem here. It's just that there is no information at hand at the moment, and there is no point in guessing, so I have to go back to the third uncle to ask.

But anyway, this time the prince has a feast, from the side of the Japanese speaker, not only the speaker himself is already luxurious, but I am afraid that the configuration behind them is even more luxurious!