The name Wang Zhizhen is familiar to Gao Shishi, but for Wang Zhizhen, he only met a few times when Wang Chonggu was still in Beijing, and his impression was not particularly deep.

Wang Chonggu is actually Gao Pragmatic's maternal uncle, who is called his uncle and grandfather in Puzhou, where the Wang family is located, but when Gao Pragmatic met him in Datong that year (Gao Pragmatic inspected Xuanda Defense on behalf of the prince before I answered the tribute), because he received the order and decree, he was only known as the common name of officialdom in person, and after Wang Chonggu entered Beijing, he only had a few private visits and was able to get to know Wang Zhizhen.

But Gao Pragmatic is very familiar with Wang Zhizhen's father, Wang Qian, because Wang Qian's private arsenal was opened by Wang Qian, and he took the initiative to come to Gao Pragmatic to discuss cooperation - the main direction of cooperation is that Jinghua provides him with fine iron and steel.

Wang Qian's identity is Gao Pragmatic's cousin, but he was admitted to the Jinshi only one session earlier than Gao Pragmatic, which was the gold list of the fifth year of Wanli, when he was already thirty and seven, but the ranking was acceptable, and it was very coincidental, the thirty-seventh in the second class (historical facts).

However, Wang Qian's official fortune is more general, at the beginning of the Hanlin Academy after the dissolution of the museum as the director of the Ministry of Industry, not long after the death of Gao Gong, the Gao Party did not care about taking care of him for a while, let him develop freely, and was sent to Hangzhou to pay taxes.

When I arrived in Hangzhou, I showed a hand, and I happened to encounter the mutiny in Luomuying, Hangzhou, and the mutinous army kidnapped the governor Wu Shanyan - this old man's name may not be very accurate, and he did not get the mutiny because of "Shanyan", but Wang Qian rushed over to appease him, so he settled the matter and rescued Wu Futai.

However, Wu Futai did not have time to repay Wang Qian, and Zhu Yijun, who learned the news, was considered incompetent, and sent Zhang Jiayin, a squire of the military department, to replace Wu Shanyan and suppress the Zhejiang army that continued to cause chaos, so Wang Qian had no choice but to continue to stay in Zhejiang, responsible for tax reform, and has not returned to Hangzhou.

Wang Qian has two sons, the eldest son is Wang Zhizhen, he is not very good at reading, so he used Wang Chonggu's merits to protect thousands of households; After him, Wang Qian's second son, Yin Guozi's supervisor; There is also a young son, Zhicai, who is still young, only thirteen or fourteen years old, staying in his hometown in Shanxi to study - in fact, the Wang family still has a quota for Yin Guan Jinyiwei, but Zhiqian and Zhicai seem to be able to study at present, so they didn't go, and only asked Zhiqian for the title of Yin Guozi Supervisor, and he was exempted from an exam.

Zhiqian and Zhicai won't talk about it first, just talk about Wang Zhizhen, he is two years older than Gao Shiji, he is twenty-two this year, and he has been on an errand in Jinyiwei for several years, but he is still a thousand households - he is a thousand households, which is equivalent to standing still for a few years, and he is roughly playing soy sauce.

This seems a little strange, Zhang Siwei was a second assistant a few years ago, it stands to reason that it is easy to take care of his nephew, why Wang Zhizhen playing soy sauce?

In fact, Zhang Siwei also has his difficulties.

As we all know, there are only three people in his younger generation who are already in the officialdom, one is his nephew Gao Pragmatic, one is his son Zhang Taizheng, and the other is his nephew Wang Zhizhen.

Gao Pragmatic has nothing to say, his future is optimistic about the whole Ming Dynasty, and there is no need for Zhang Siwei to deliberately take care of anything;

His son Zhang Taizheng was born as a serious Jinshi, and in the same year as Gao Shishi for the eighth year of Wanli, and ranked fourth in the second class, and the Jishi of the Hanlin Academy ranked in the forefront. Although he is just a six-grade idle man with no oil and water, the Zhang family is not short of money anyway, he just needs to take his time step by step, and he doesn't need Zhang Siwei to promote him for the time being.

So the world is staring at Zhang Siwei's relatives of the Wang family, the last time Wang Qian, a cousin who was sent to Hangzhou to pay taxes as the head of the Ministry of Industry, had the imperial history impeached Zhang Siwei, saying that he was looking for a beautiful mess for his cousin, how could he have the heart to give Wang Zhizhen ideas?

If the tree is big, it will definitely attract the wind, unless the tree grows in a particularly good position, growing on the leeward side of the mountain - for example, Gao Shipra, the mountain behind his tree is the emperor, and the general wind will not look for him.

Of course, it may be more important that Gao Pragmatic himself is a special tree, and he is a cash cow.

But Zhang Siwei didn't have a chance to help Wang Zhizhen, but Gao Pragmatic now has a chance, and he is not afraid to take advantage of the opportunity.

Why? Because in the original history, in the twenty-third year of Wanli, Wang Zhizhen himself could be mixed into the Jinyi Wei Zuo Dudu!

What does this mean? It shows that although Wang Zhizhen is not good at reading, he is still capable of being a man and an official, and his level of work will not be too bad, so there is a basis for promotion!

Besides, Gao Pragmatic is not promoting Wang Zhizhen, and he doesn't have the power, he just creates a little opportunity for Wang Zhizhen to show his face, so that his name can appear in front of Zhu Yijun - of course, Gao Pragmatic can also mention Wang Zhizhen directly in front of Zhu Yijun, but it will inevitably be inferior and not enough.

As for Gao Wuben, his cousin is more honest and responsible, if it is in some Qingshui Yamen, he may be able to be a chief official, but in a land like a tiger and wolf like Jinyiwei, Gao Pragmatic will not consider pushing him to the position of a hall official at all, and he can be a deputy in the sky, and even a little lower.

But in any case, Gao Pragmatic dared to find a way to push them, and he was not worried about the emperor's suspicion - not because he had a close relationship with the emperor.

This is a question of "system" and "trend".

The system is the unique shadow official system of the Ming Dynasty (the shadow officials have been in all dynasties, but the Ming Dynasty is more distinctive); The trend is the special trend of "civil officials and military posts".

The shadow official system of the Ming Dynasty, there was a brief discussion in the previous article of this book, so I will not repeat it here, but only talk about the magical trend of this "civil official shadow military position".

According to the research "Ming Shilu", it can be found that the "Wenchen Yinwu" of the Ming generation did not exist at the beginning, and it originated in the Jingtai period.

In August of the first year of Jingtai (1450), when the military department of Guizhou supervised the soldiers, Hou Xuan, "died in Puding with labor", and Emperor Jing "gave sacrifices and burials, and shaded his son Jinyiwei hereditary thousand households", so far after the second year of Jingtai, the fifth year of Jingtai, etc., the record of this "Wenchen Yinwu" began to appear continuously.

However, a careful analysis of the records of "Wenchen Yinwu" during the Jingtai period can find that the situation of those civil officials and military positions at that time should be regarded as individual awards for the meritorious service of the Wenchen army, and its institutionalized operation is very low (I will not give examples one by one).

Since then, the three dynasties of Tianshun, Chenghua and Hongzhi have continued their previous politics, taking military contributions as the main criterion to describe the military positions of the children of civil officials. At that time, it coincided with the promotion of the Ming Dynasty's civil ministers and governors and the Fu Commander military system, and the number of border ministers who got shade increased.

Judging from more than a dozen relevant cases from the Jingtai Dynasty onwards, the ministers who received preferential treatment from the civil ministers and the military were still an absolute minority in the civil official group, and they still belonged to the category of "different classics". However, the accumulation of Wenchen Yinwu cases has also constituted an institutional norm similar to the "case law".

As a "case law", the typical story of the martial arts of the former courtiers is often cited by later generations as the basis for reopening the grace of the shadow. For example, Yu Mian, the son of Yu Qian, was originally appointed as the deputy avant-garde deputy Qianhu of the government army, but in the Chenghua Dynasty, Yu Mian "did not want to take a military position since Chen, and changed to a member of the military department" and then "moved to Yingtianfu Yin". But this one is still a special case.

However, from the beginning of the Zhengde Dynasty, there was a sharp increase in the number of cases of Wenchen taking the pretext of military exploits to overshadow hereditary military positions, which was obviously influenced by the martial arts of Wuzong and the bad influence of the eunuch Yu Xing's martial arts.

According to the "Yishan Hall Collection", in the fifth year of Zhengde's "Ningxia Ping", Bian Gong was favored by Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe, Liu Zhong, Liang Chu, etc., and the cabinet ministers were all added to the official shadows. Although this time, although the elders of the cabinet did not shadow the military ministers, Bian Gongen and the cabinet really "started from the beginning of the year".

In the eighth year of Zhengde, "with Shandong, Henan Thief Ping, cabinet scholars Li Dongyang, Yang Tinghe, Liang Chu, Fei Hong each Yin Zi Jinyi hereditary Zhengqian households, resigned".

After the twelfth year of Zhengde, the imperial court "recorded the merits of Datong Datong Fishing Wang Mountain and Zhuangping in the southwest of the town", and supervised the eunuch Zhang Zhong "Jialu rice twenty-four stones, and one nephew of the younger brother was a thousand households of Jinyi Weizheng", and "the chief soldier left the governor Liu Huizi deputy thousand households, and the admiral waiter Ding Fengzi hundred households, all hereditary", and with "the military department has meritorious service" and added Shangshu Wang Qiong "Shaobao and prince Taibao, the shadow is like loyalty".

The battle was originally due to the generals Hang Xiong and other fighting "is this victory", and the eunuch Zhang Zhong returned to the court ahead of schedule, and there was no merit, but because of the request of Wang Qiong, the secretary of the Ministry of War, "so Zhong was rewarded again and Qiong". At that time, Wang Qiong "married with Quan Xing", and took the lead many times, "counting the shadows".

In July of the thirteenth year of Zhengde, Wuzong opened the "Yingzhou Imperial Meritorious Reward", and rewarded the children of the military generals of the Yin Ministers, "Supervising the Waiter Zheng Congren, Hou Guan, and the Imperial Shi Hu Zan and Liu Da of the Imperial Palace". This time, Tui En Jiayin was considered by the compiler of the "Records of Ming Wuzong" to be "the indiscriminate military merit is not worse than this".

However, in the same month, in the name of "Zhu Shou, the mighty general of the governor's military affairs, and the six divisions of the pro-command to eliminate the captives", he rewarded the ministers such as Gu Dayong, the eunuch of the army, Wang Qiong, the secretary of the military department, and other civil ministers, and the governor Zhu Tai and other Wu Ben Yuxing, and his children were Jinyi Wei Qianqian and 100 households, and in the name of "planning and making a decision, working together to succeed", Yang Tinghe, Liang Chu, Jiang Mian, and Mao Ji of the cabinet "each Yin Zi and nephew have one Jinyi Wei hereditary Zhengqianhu".

In short, in the Zhengde Dynasty, some civil servants followed the ministers and the near to abuse military exploits to serve as a shadow of the military, which is honest.

After that, Emperor Jiajing entered the succession, in order to win over the courtiers, in order to support Dai Gong and then open a large-scale abuse of shadows, among which the orders of the cabinet ministers were particularly unreasonable, and the ministers of the shade resigned.

However, this momentum can no longer be stopped, especially since the middle and late Jiajing periods, the Ming Dynasty has been in turmoil, which makes the imperial court more normalized to add the children of Wenchen to military positions.

Cabinet ministers, military officials, local governors, and martyred gentry were honored with various honors, and in the original history, this trend continued for a long time until the fall of the Ming Dynasty. After the middle and late Jiajing period, cabinet ministers such as Xia Yan "tyrannical self-simulated hereditary brocade clothes", Zhai Luan "walked nine sides of the old way" shade brocade clothes, and the rest of Yan Song, Xu Jie, Gao Gong, Zhang Juzheng and a number of cabinet elders and important ministers, all of whom made meritorious contributions to the Tuien army and won the shade brocade clothes.

What's more important is that the emperors do not distrust the descendants of these ministers, and even trust them extraordinarily, such as the current Liu Shouyou, the future Wang Zhizhen, Wu Mengming (Wu Dui's grandson), these Jinyi Wei governors, many of them are after the civil ministers and officials.

Since the system and trend are already like this, what is the concern of Gao Pragmatism?

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ps: After yesterday's chapter, some book friends and book reviews were worried that Gao Shishi's relatives would take power in Jinyiwei and affect the emperor's trust in Gao Shishi, so I will explain a little more here. There is still a little bit of non-institutional human nature left, and the next chapter says, I'll take a shower first.