Xu Jie's situation is not something that can be described in a bad sentence now. He's in complete trouble right now.

Zhang Ju's face was gloomy as water, and he carefully sorted out the political situation in the past two months in his mind. Then he found that Gao Gong really seemed to have the intention of reversing the old policy of Xu Jie.

What's even more terrifying is that Zhang Juzheng knows very well that Gao Gong really wants to oppose Xu Jie's old politics from the bottom of his heart.

This matter must start from the specific situation of that year: on December 14, the 45th year of Jiajing, Emperor Jiajing died. That night, Xu Jie summoned his protégé Zhang Juzheng and urgently produced a copy of Jiajing's self-described "Edict". The next morning, it was presented to King Yu, who was the new emperor, and he promulgated the world. However, this matter was not discussed with other colleagues in the cabinet, and only Xu Jie's instructions and Zhang Juzheng's knife were caught, completely excluding other auxiliary ministers, so it caused the cabinet contradictions to intensify again.

Cabinet colleagues, who have been completely transparent, must not be calm!

Although Li Chunfang, who was only Xu Jie's leader, did not dare to express any opinions, Gao Gong and Guo Pu, the two elders, were angry. Guo Pu said excitedly on the spot: "Duke Xu is a fake edict to slander the first emperor, and his heart can be punished!" ”

Gao Gong immediately agreed, and said: "The first emperor is the British lord, is everything that the imperial kingdom has done in the past forty-five years is wrong?" Now he is the son and son of the first emperor, ascended the throne at the age of thirty, and is not a young master, so he forces the current general to reveal the sins of the first emperor to the world, where will the dignity of the emperor be? Moreover, the first emperor had wanted to stop dipping, who suggested that he rebuild the Purple Emperor Palace? Those civil engineering projects, one foot and one foot, were all planned by their Xu family father and son, can they all be blamed on the first emperor now? Before the death of the first emperor, he blindly flattered, and when the first emperor was in charge, he wantonly slandered and insulted, which is really despicable. As he spoke, he looked at Guo Pu and burst into tears.

In fact, Gao Gong's remarks, if you want to say that they are all from the heart, I am afraid it may not be. He doesn't have such deep feelings for Emperor Jiajing, and he won't really feel sad about the reputation of his posthumous reputation. In fact, he was mainly worried that King Yu, the new emperor, might be held hostage by Xu Jie and be wronged, after all, his relationship with Emperor Longqing was far from being comparable to others.

However, from a fundamental point of view, these words are actually mainly aimed at Xu Jie. Because Xu Jie actually took advantage of the opportunity of the change of generations to skillfully blame all the malpractices of the previous dynasty on the dead, so as to clean up his own previous disgraceful behavior, not only that, but also greatly bought people's hearts. And when he was doing this, he deliberately excluded his cabinet colleagues, including Gao Gong himself, and this undisguised contempt and suppression was what really made Gao Gong resentful.

Because Gao Gong positioned himself as the first loyal minister of Emperor Longqing, he thought that Xu Jie's doing this was not only selfish, but also deliberately suppressing and despising the majesty of the new monarch - my father and emperor have done all the wrong things in his life, where can I, the new monarch, have face?

Of course, the contradiction between Xu and Gao is not only like this, just give two more examples: at the military appreciation ceremony after the new emperor ascended the throne, Gao Gong once again had political differences with Xu Jie. Originally, when the new emperor ascended the throne, rewarding the military was not an ancestral system, but a practice from the first year of orthodoxy. When Emperor Jiajing ascended the throne, because of the solid treasury, he doubled the original reward.

When Longqing ascended the throne, Xu Jie planned to do it according to the standards of Jiajing's accession to the throne, but Gao Gong immediately objected, saying: "The current treasury is empty, and I can't afford this consumption. It is better to act according to the standards of the orthodox time, then you can save half of the money, and it will be enough to spend only two million. ”

And Xu Jie directly rejected Gao Gong's suggestion. Because Xu Jie knows that for the people below, the reward is always more and the better, and no matter what reason the reward is reduced, it will offend people. With Xu Jie's shrewdness, of course he would not do such a stupid thing that was harmful to himself, after all, the money spent on the reward did not need him Xu Ge to get old. In the end, the reward was issued according to the standard of Jiajing's accession to the throne, and the household department was struggling for it.

For example, in a court meeting, the officials were at odds over whether they should go to a minister, and the two sides quarreled so much that they almost staged an all-out military exercise. Xu Jie saw that the situation was not easy to control, and he was unwilling to open any party for the offense, so he planned to push the problem to the emperor and let the emperor decide whether the minister would stay or not.

Gao Gong questioned Xu Jie's irresponsible behavior on the spot and objected: "You can't set a precedent for 'respectfully requesting the Holy Judge'. In the first dynasty, if you are indecided, please ask for a referee, because the first emperor has been in power for a long time and has access to the national system; Now that he has only been on the throne for a few days, how can he know who is virtuous and who is not? Let the emperor decide for himself, but how should the emperor judge? I'm afraid I can only ask the people around me. In the long run, the world's major events may be hijacked by Xiaoxiao. ”

Xu Jie's face immediately darkened, thinking that Gao Gong was purely unreasonable, and he had to do everything against himself to be happy. With the support of the officials, Xu Jie won again, and finally invited the "referee". And the contradiction between Gao Gong and Xu Jie is also more open, and no one in the court knows about it. Because of Xu Jie's prestige and influence, coupled with the fact that he did not offend anyone, and Gao Gong was bent on defending his emperor's students, public opinion tended to accuse Gao Gong of abusing power and destroying the order of the cabinet.

In the nearly one year since Gao Gong first entered the cabinet, such contradictions have been staged almost uninterruptedly between Xu and Gao. It is only because of the initial instability of the new dynasty that the atmosphere affected by these events has become more and more delicate. Huang Jingfang, a contemporary of the time, commented: "Gao Gong is resentful, Xu Jie's dedication is gracious, and the tilting of the two starts from this." That's a fair assessment.

The sleekness of the Xu steps and the straightforwardness of the high arch form a sharp contrast, and they are both irreconcilable contradictions. The degree of dedication of the two to state affairs is not at the same level at all. Xu Jie takes into account the interests of all parties, is especially cautious, and the primary purpose is to protect himself wisely, and always make himself invincible first on the basis of handling events smoothly; Gao Gong, on the other hand, tends to be distracted and doesn't even care about grudges with anyone.

In the final analysis, what Xu Jie cares about is official position, fame and fortune, and Gao Gong cares about the great cause of the world.

Later, because of Jingcha, the Hu Yingjia case broke out, and after a dragon fight, "the full dynasty was inverted", and the high arch was embarrassed to go into the wilderness, and Xu Jie finally lost his sacred heart and returned to his hometown.

And Gao Gong's resurgence first overthrew the "Ministers of the Former Dynasty". In the "Jiajing Testament" drafted by Xu Jie, he rehabilitated Zhaoxue for the ministers who were dismissed, confiscated into the army, imprisoned and sentenced to death during Jiajing's 45-year reign for daring to speak out.

But as soon as Gao Gong returned to Beijing, he immediately overthrew this. The reason for Gao Gong is that the "sins" of these courtiers were all condemned by the first emperor Jiajing. Can the case of the first emperor be overturned? No, because if these people are all rehabilitated, isn't it clear that the first emperor was wrong? It's worth it!

In a word, your Xu Jie's practice is "detrimental to sainthood", and at the same time commented that Xu Jie's "not to be loyal and filial to the king, but to practice private affairs" and "return to the emperor". Of course, this move is very fierce, and in Zhang Juzheng's view, it is to kill Xu Jie. Fortunately, Longqing was quite assertive this time, and only agreed that the convicted ministers should not be "screened without screening, and they should be compassionate to them", but did not directly move Xu Jie.

However, despite this, the will actually overturned the "Edict", and the matter of rehabilitating the ministers who were convicted for their advice ended without a problem, and hundreds of families who were expected to see the light of day again fell into the sea of misery. There is also a person implicated here, this person is the father of the great writer Wang Shizhen. The result...... In history, Wang Shizhen wrote "The First Auxiliary Biography since Jiajing", which wantonly slandered and scandalized the high arch, but where the high arch has merit, either a brush, or "black foot road", and as long as there were rumors that were unfavorable to the high arch, they were clearly recorded and greatly elaborated.

Because of Wang Shizhen's historical position in the literary world, this "Shoufu Biography" has become an important material for future generations to study this period of history! The reason why Gao Gong's reputation has been bad for so many years in later generations is that it was slowly overturned by some scholars until almost after the reform and opening up.

Feng Bao saw that Zhang Ju's front was sinking like water, and his eyes even unconsciously revealed a trace of murderous intent, and he was secretly proud in his heart, and mended the knife again: "Taiyue Xianggong, a few days ago, the tall beard let out the wind, saying that it was just a small private festival with Huating Gong back then, you are the party concerned, you will not believe it, right?" Moreover, according to the inquiries of my subordinates, a few days ago, he also had a night meeting with the students in Beijing at his home, including four science and Taoist officials...... Guess what he wants to do with his tall beard? ”