The atmosphere in the study was getting colder, and Gao Gong was sulking without saying a word.

Gao Pragmatic knew that this matter involved a huge amount, even if he was as upright as Gao Gong, he couldn't help but be confined to the overall situation and didn't dare to move lightly, but because he couldn't move lightly, for Gao Gong, an auxiliary minister who had the ambition to refresh the world's governance, it was even more boring and worried.

But the steward of the inner government knocked lightly at the door, and said in a low voice: "Master, Song Du gave things, Han gave things, Tu gave things, Cheng gave things, Director Yu, Gu Langzhong, Shen review, Xu review and Zhang Yuanwai were all ordered, and they have been waiting in the flower hall for half an hour, you see......"

Gao Shishi was slightly surprised, what is going on, the protégé of the third uncle has a meeting today? Hey...... Commanded? It sounds like Gao Gong summoned them, and it seems that there is something important to discuss.

Gao Gong exhaled a turbid breath, calmed down, and replied, "You go and tell them, and you will say that the cabinet will be there immediately." ”

"Yes, sir." The steward of the inner government replied and cautiously retreated.

After the steward went, Gao Gong looked at Gao Pragmatic with complicated eyes, and said slowly: "You are not inferior to Yang Sheng'an, I hope he will not be my Gao's Sheng'an in the future." ”

Gao was stunned at first, then nodded, but after thinking about it, he shook his head again.

Yang Sheng'an, Yang Shenye. It is the son of Yang Tinghe, a major minister of the Four Dynasties and a former scholar of Dongge University, who is known for his erudition and talent, and later generations will be listed with Xie Jin and Xu Wei, known as the three talented sons of the Ming Dynasty, and headed by Yang Shen. He has been known as a prodigy since he was a child, and later won the title and the first in the sixth year of Zhengde, and was revised by the Hanlin Academy and participated in the compilation of the "Records of Wuzong". After Sejong succeeded to the throne, Yang Shenfu was the editor of Hanlin and served as the lecturer of the scriptures. In the third year of Jiajing, he received the court rod because of the "Great Rites Discussion" and was killed in Yongchangwei, Yunnan. In the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing, Yang Shen died in the garrison at the age of seventy-two. After Longqing succeeded to the throne, he posthumously presented Yang Shen as the Shaoqing of Guanglu Temple. This posthumous gift is not a rehabilitation, but it can barely be regarded as a representative of the imperial court forgiving him for his so-called mistakes back then.

Gao Gong said this, naturally reminding Gao Pragmatic not to learn from Yang Shen and arrogant, obviously a promising person, but finally ended up with an old death on the border, it is difficult to show what he has learned, and he can only place his affection on Wenmo, which is very regrettable.

Gao Gong asked, "Nodding again, shaking head again, but why?" ”

Gao pragmatic replied honestly: "My nephew guesses that the third uncle is afraid that I will speak out in the future like Yang Gong did in the past and anger the king, and it will be difficult for my lifelong talent to be used to govern the country, so I have to spend decades in the barbarian territory, and use poetry and writing to educate myself, which is to nod my nephew, which means that my nephew will definitely take this as a warning." The third uncle, although the nephew has the ambition to innovate and cheer up, but he also knows the principle of rigidity and fragility. ”

"So good, so ...... What does it mean to shake your head? ”

Gao Shishi smiled bitterly: "Mr. Sheng'an's literary brilliance, my nephew can't beat the horse, so he shakes his head." ”

Gao Gong listened happily: "How old are you, and you are naturally not as far away as Yang Sheng'an at the moment, but judging from what you said to me tonight, who can predict what you will achieve in the future?" Besides, my Gao family is still practically learned, and the poems and essays are just small paths, so I don't need to work hard - do you see that I have those acts of singing spring and sorrow? ”

Hey, that's right, Gao Gong doesn't seem to like to write poems and lyrics, at least he has never seen any poems written by the third uncle, basically except for the sparse play, there are only academic writings, and in addition, he writes more, and there is only a sacrificial text left - this is a helpless move of officialdom, after all, the teacher, the same year, the disciple and even the Xiangzi are too well-connected, and an important person has died in the family, and everyone wants to have a person with such a respected status as Gao Gong to write a sacrificial text. And speaking of which, Gao Gong is an upright official, but he can afford to buy a small mansion in Beijing, isn't it just to make money from the pen fee for writing sacrificial texts? This money was completely legitimate income in the Ming Dynasty, and there was nothing to criticize - besides, the elder was also a human being, and he had to support his family.

After Gao Gong finished speaking, he didn't wait for Gao Pragmatic to reply anything, and directly ordered: "You go with me." ”

These words made Gao Pragmatic stunned, Gao Gong's protégés had also come to pay homage to the prime minister, and when some of them came, Gao Gong would also order Gao Pragmatic to come forward together, which was not only to promote Gao Pragmatic, but also to show intimacy to the protégé, which is not unusual. But today's situation is obviously different, after all, in the past, protégés took the initiative to come to the door, and sometimes they would have a meal together when they met a nearby meal - in the magical land of China, the meaning of eating is often not only to eat, but more importantly, to socialize. Today is different, it is the night after dinner, and it is Gao Gong who took the initiative to find them, and it is this group of people who are looking for them.

You must know that although these people don't seem to have high official positions, the official system of the Ming Dynasty has always had the habit of "controlling the big with the small", and the officials of Kedaoyan have always been humble and weighty, and even the cabinet - theoretically speaking, the scholars are only five grades, but the scholars actually exercise the rights of the prime minister (no wind note: of course, the scholars have other officials and titles).

But now that Gao Gong has already left, Gao Pragmatic can only suppress any doubts in his heart first, and follow Sanbo to the flower hall step by step.

As the inner house steward standing at the entrance of the flower hall said: "Pavilion elder-" The conversation in the flower hall immediately stopped. When Gao Cheng walked in with Gao Gong, he saw that a group of people had already stood with their hands down, but when they saw Gao Gong coming in, they bowed their hands and saluted together, saying: "The student has seen the teacher." ”

Gao pragmatic noticed that Gao Gong's nephew Zhang Mengnan was also called like this. He recalled it for a while before he remembered that Zhang Mengnan was also a jinshi in Jiajing's forty-four years, and this shouting was reasonable.

In the practice of the Ming Dynasty, almost all the Jinshi on the list can be called the protégés of Gao Gong, because that year Gao Gong was the main exam.

Of course, it is impossible for Gao Gong to be the only one to review the papers, and there will be more than ten fellow examiners. Normally, only the jinshi who has been selected by the examiner will be regarded as a protégé by the examiner, and vice versa. But no matter what, if a jinshi in a certain subject is thick-skinned, even if he was not selected by the examiner at that time, there is no problem in calling the examiner a teacher.

If the examiner later became a cabinet assistant, it would be terrible, and almost all of the gold list of the subject he took the examination at the beginning would be regarded as a "teacher", which is not only a manifestation of the need for "teachers" for new science and technology scholars, but also a manifestation of the need for new science and technology scholars to consolidate their talent bags, and typical each has its own needs.

Today, there are only nine people who have been summoned by Gao Gong, not that there are only a few disciples under Gao Gong, but many students have been sent out to serve as officials, and a large number of them were transferred from Beijing by Xu Jie before Gao Gong's recovery. For example, the previous Gao Gong was expelled, and Wu Dui, the only protégé who went to see him off, is now in the position of the deputy envoy of the Jizhou military garrison. In addition, there are a large number of people such as Song Yingchang, Lu Shude, Liu Liangbi, Du Huazhong, Zhou Shixuan, Kuang Duo, Song Liangzuo, Guangmao, Yang Jiaxiang, Li Chunpu, Chen Yide, Zhong Jiying, Wu Wenjia, Yang Xiang, etc., who are not in Beijing at the moment.

Of course, the nine people who came today are already very scary - even if they were knocked down by Zhang Juzheng and Feng Bao because of Gao Gong in the original history, there are still two cabinet elders among these nine people, one is the head of the Imperial History (the head of the Metropolitan Procuratorate), a military secretary and the governor of Jiliao, and a Nanjing household secretary! There was also a person who was dismissed from office, but his son later became an old man......