Of course, it is not too troublesome to be pragmatic, because it is completely necessary to bear this trouble.

Using the Di Bao to convey the gossip news is a good way he thought of when he was in Sanshen Garden, because the resources available are obvious - Gao Gong suffered a big loss from Kedao when he fought with Xu Jiefa last time, and since he was in charge of the auxiliary ministers this time, he naturally had to mix sand into Kedao, so there were protégés who fought to enter Kedao, among which because Zhao Zhenji mastered the Duchayuan, it was difficult to mix sand in the Duchayuan, so many protégés entered the six departments.

The Imperial Court Mansion must go through six sections, so some insiders who collect information will inevitably try their best to go through the door of the Political Department and the Six Departments, the General Administration Department is currently out of reach, but the Six Departments are no problem - which subject has a high-arched protégé in it, and it is simply unreasonable not to use it.

Besides, it's not that they want to reverse right and wrong, it's just that they are just letting them spread a more legendary story in private, and although this story is not completely true, but in fact, if you really want to talk about it, the difference is not very big, at least in terms of results, it is basically like that, so that there is no worry about being traced afterwards - we are officials, we just heard the news, and we didn't report it! Why, I can't speak anymore? Where did you put Emperor Taizu?

And Gao Gong's protégé disciples are far more reliable than Zhang Juzheng's protégé disciples, in history, Gao Gong fell, and the worst performance of Gao's protégés is just pretending that they don't have too much contact with Gao Gong, and the good performance is basically under the blow of Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao "Die without repentance", rather be degraded and punished, or even lose his official position and go to the old forest, and no one stands up to beat Grace Xiang, which is more interesting.

Zhang Juzheng's protégés are different, they are good at creating various historical records of the Ming Dynasty, the most famous is the incident in the early years of Wanli, when several protégés continuously and openly impeached their teachers and ministers and became the first assistant of the dynasty.

Its first promoter was Liu Tai, who was then the governor of Liaodong Imperial History, who issued a chapter in the first month of the fourth year of Wanli to impeach Zhang Juzheng for "being good at Weifu and contemptuous of the ancestral law". "Shushang, Juzheng is very angry", the court argued: "For more than 200 years, I have never heard of a protégé arranging elders as a teacher, and the only way to thank him!" The little emperor of Wanli then ordered, "Capture Taiwan to Beijing, issue an edict to prison, and order the court to be 100 rods and far away." ”

Zhang Juzheng's performance was also very direct: "Juzheng's ** rescue, but he was removed from the people", but just seizing the official position could not let him relieve his hatred, so he "falsely accused Taiwan of private ransom", "Then he went to Taiwan and Guangxi, Taiwan's father Zhenlong and his younger brother were both guilty; Taiwan to Xunzhou, not a few, drank in the main place, and returned to the violent pawn". Yes, losing office is not enough to relieve hatred, you have to lose your life! Even your whole family will be punished for this, so that the hatred in your heart can be relieved.

However, it is a pity that Zhang Juzheng's brutal persecution of Liu Tai not only failed to deter opponents, but also attracted a larger scale of impeachment, including protégés Wu Zhongxing and Zhao Yongxian.

In the fifth year of Wanli, "Juzheng was mourned by his father, and he took love for things". Wu Zhongxing is the first to object, saying, "Juzheng father and son are separated in different places, and those who do not receive the sound and appearance are nine out of ten years, once they are abandoned thousands of miles away, Your Majesty will not make the prostrate stars run, and mourn with the coffin, and will want them to go against their hearts and suppress their feelings, and mourn Ru pain on the temple, and they will be responsible for admonishing Mo Yuanyou and adjusting Yuan Xizai, how can it be lovely!" He also pointed out that this matter "is a matter of eternal antiquity and Quartet...... The way of sales change, there is no one who steps on this"!

In response to Wu Zhongxing, the next day, "Zhao Yongxian sparsely entered; Tomorrow, Aimu and Shen Sixiao will slip in." Well, they are all Zhang's protégés, and they are simply anti-nest.

It's embarrassing.

So Zhang Juzheng was furious, "Then the staff Zhongxing and the other four people." Not long, Jinshi Zou Yuanbiao sparsely argued, and Yiting staff; Those who are five will shake the world with a straight voice". To "the ninth year of Wanli, the Beijing officials of the Great Plan, the list of five people to check the nationality, and the recounting".

Liu Tai, Wu Zhongxing, and Zhao Yongxian, as protégés, why did they dare to impeach Zhang Juzheng, who was both the lord and the most powerful first assistant in the history of the Ming Dynasty?

Some scholars in later generations believe that there are three reasons for this:

The first is to inherit the tradition of civil officials daring to speak out since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, since there is no shortage of people who dare to advise the emperor in the past dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty civil ministers have always been particularly active in this matter, so the impeachment of the ministers is naturally not a problem.

Second, Zhang Juzheng does have something to impeach, and what Liu Tai, Wu Zhongxing, Zhao Yongxian and others have discussed has a certain degree of truth, especially the impeachment of Zhang's "good fortune" and "seizing affection", which has more institutional and ethical basis; This is also the reason why Liu Tai claimed that "the friendship of monarchs and ministers is important, and personal favors cannot be taken care of".

The third is the impeacher's consideration of personal reputation, that is, Liu Tai's "death and immortality". The fact that none of the ministers in power after Jiajing had a good death made Liu Tai and others convinced that the unprecedentedly powerful Zhang family would also not have a good death, so they opposed Zhang as a protégé, although it was uncommon and would suffer disaster, but it could win the effect of "shaking the world with a straight voice". When the Zhang family loses power, he will be able to re-post and even be promoted. Or if he doesn't exist, he can also rely on the shadow as an official. And the fact that after the death of Zhang in the tenth year of Wanli, Liu, Wu, Zhao and others were rehabilitated also shows that this judgment is correct.

But in fact, these scholars seem to ignore one thing: in addition to Zhang Juzheng, other "teachers" or even "grace ministers" and "teachers" in the Ming Dynasty have a lot of people, why have no people been impeached by students like this, but he Zhang Juzheng has such a shocking incident? If you want to talk about power, when Emperor Longqing was in power, the power of Gao Gong was no worse than Zhang Juzheng in the early years of Wanli. Zhang Juzheng also has to rely on the "internal knot Feng Bao" to consolidate his authority, and Gao Gong was able to directly recommend the palm seal of the celebrant back then!

Is there really no problem with you Zhang Juzheng?

There is no problem that he will be impeached by his protégé one on the left and one on the right?

It's far away, let's get down to business. Since Gao Pragmatic knows that Gao Gong's protégés are relatively reliable, especially these protégés who are now placed in the science road, and almost all of them later repaid Gao Gong with the end of their political lives without regrets, so it is naturally okay to ask them for a little favor.

As for Liu Wei, who can't figure out why Gao Pragmatic did this, it's actually very simple. Gao Pragmatic needs to use this matter to achieve three purposes: first, to make the hundred officials in Beijing feel that Liu Xian is indeed a famous general, even if he only brings a few hundred borrowed ordinary family members, he can force a large group of loud horse thieves who have been rampant in the north for many years to surrender; Second, help Liu Xian increase his popularity a little, so that some people know in advance that Liu Xian has a son who is brave and champion of the three armies, and if he has meritorious service in the future, it will not be easy to be forgotten; Three, this is a little selfishness, Liu Xian's father and son can succeed, in the final analysis, it doesn't all fall to his high son's willingness to borrow his family to "send troops" to them?

You see, although the son of Gao is young, he is not bad at being a man and doing things! This is a person from his own family, contributing to others, and eliminating harm for the court! Righteousness is thin and cloudy, my generation is a model!

Well, it's a little thicker, but it's very pragmatic.