The main reason why Gao Shipra, who came to Hanlin Academy for the first time, was deeply impressed by Zhao Zhigao, in addition to the image of this prince in the historical records, there was another one: he was one of the stars of the Wuchenke Gold List in the second year of Longqing.

The word "stars" used here naturally does not mean "stars" in later generations, but refers to the talents of this discipline and the stars are shining.

In the second year of Longqing, the Wuchen Branch Gold List is a subject with a high gold content among the many gold lists of the Jialong Wansan Dynasty. There are really a lot of powerful people in this department, and there are four cabinet assistants who can be thought of immediately by Gao Pragmatism, namely Wang Jiaping, Zhao Zhigao, Shen Zhengyi, and Zhu Geng, and the gold list rankings are Wang Jiaping's second place, Zhao Zhigao's third place (Tanhua), Shen Zheng's third place, and Zhu Geng's seventh fifth place.

The most amazing thing in this is Shen Zhengyi. According to the example, the Ming Jinshi Gold List ranks 36th in the top three, and there are few precedents for entering the cabinet, but Shen has always been ranked 56th in the top three, and he can still enter the cabinet, which shows the cleverness of the means.

In addition to the four future first assistants, there are also three elders, namely Zhang Wei, Chen Yuma, and Yu Shenxing. As for Luo Wanhua, the undergraduate champion, who has been a high-ranking official at the level of Shangshu, there are even more.

Among them, Zhang Wei and Chen Yuma have become the banquet speakers of the prince's study in the pavilion, and to a certain extent, the two of them can be regarded as prime ministers from now on.

But the strange thing is that Zhao Zhigao and Wang Jiaping ranked higher on the gold list than Chen Yuma and Zhang Wei, but they did not become speakers.

Of course, there are sometimes many reasons for this, but Gao pragmatically guessed that in addition to valuing the personal ability of the speaker, there must be the shadow of the important ministers of the DPRK and the central government behind the selection of the prince's banquet speaker, so Zhao Zhigao, who is a tanhua, and Wang Jiaping, who is the second place in the second class, have lost this great opportunity.

Zhang Wei can stand out, it must rely on Li Chunfang's kindness; Chen Yuqin's situation is a little more complicated, thinking that Chen Yiqin is a person, it is unlikely to come forward to recommend his son, most of them are Gao Gong and several other auxiliary ministers who feel that Chen Yuqin's qualifications are up to standard in all aspects, and his father Chen Yiqin is a neutral in the cabinet, so they all have the intention of fighting, so they are happy to send a favor, Chen Yiqin is good to appreciate it, or not to appreciate it, anyway, he can't offend him.

And Zhao Zhigao and Wang Jiaping's situation is not as good as the two of them, and it stands to reason that their teacher is also Li Chunfang - they are the chief examiners. But the two of them may not have ordered the scrolls in person by Li Chunfang, so there are other people in the Fang Shi, and most of them are Qing noble officials in the Hanlin Academy or Guozijian, and the real power is not enough to see, and they are unable to compete with the cabinet bosses for this right to recommend.

Therefore, there are people in the DPRK who are good officials!

As for Yu Shenxing, this person is also very interesting, he is a student that Zhang Juzheng values very much, and Zhang Juzheng has taken great care of him in history, but when the Liu Tai case broke out and the love case entered the G tide, Yu Shenxing strongly advised Zhang Juzheng not to go his own way. What's even more ruthless is that after Liu Tai was arrested, no one in the Manchu Dynasty dared to visit, but Yu Shenxing decisively went to visit, and as a result, Zhang Juzheng was not lightly offended, and he also jointly asked Emperor Wanli to take back his love and become a life, so that Zhang Juzheng called Yu Shenxing to him and asked: "I am not thin on you, why do you repay me like this?" ”

As a result, Yu Shenxing replied: "It is precisely because you are not thin to me that students have to be like this, it is against the ancestral system and unruly, you are the head of a hundred officials, and you should be a model in the world." But Zhang Juzheng, who had obviously tasted power, couldn't listen.

Later, Zhang Juzheng was liquidated after his death, and Wanli ordered the house to be raided. Yu Shenxing was in this situation, but he did not avoid resentment, and wrote to Qiu Xian, who presided over the matter, asking him to take care of Zhang Juzheng's eighty-year-old mother and adult young son. Qiu thought about it for a while, but finally listened to this persuasion and reserved a house and enough land for Zhang's mother to support her old age. Yu Shenxing was praised by the DPRK and China for this.

When Gao Pragmatic thought about the dispute between Xu Jie and Gao Gong before, many of the historical materials he accepted came from Yu Shenxing's "Gushan Bichen", for no other reason: Gao Pragmatic believed that Yu Shenxing's character and ethics were far better than Wang Shizhen.

Of course, the reason why Yu Shenxing's ethics has won the trust of Gao Pragmatic is not only because of these two things, after all, these two things may be deliberate, the purpose is to gain a reputation - Gao Pragmatic's own hope is actually very similar to these things.

What he really appreciates and even admires is the performance of Yu Shenxing in the battle for the country: at this time, Wanli's eldest son Zhu Changluo was already nine years old and was born from a concubine - but this concubine was originally just a palace maid, and Wanli was only a temporary rise at that time. In fact, Wanli didn't like this concubine and her son, and what he wanted was the second son of the emperor born to Concubine Zheng.

But in the Ming Dynasty, reputation is extremely important, "there is a grandson, no grandson is long" has long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, Wanli himself is also a beneficiary of this kind of thinking. If the queen has no children, she has no heirs, but the second son born to Zheng Guifei is not the turn of the chief, and Wanli is not good at making this idea clear, so he delays the establishment of the prince.

The Manchu Dynasty saw that the eldest son of the emperor was growing up and could not go to school, so of course he was very anxious. Therefore, since the seventeenth year of Wanli, some people have continuously raised the issue of establishing a reserve, asking Wanli to build the East Palace as soon as possible.

Yu Shenxing, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, is of course obliged to do so. He even sparsely admonished, his words were quite intense, Wanli was very angry, and repeatedly issued a strict decree, and you were prepared to be cautious and "use the East Palace to blackmail the emperor." ”

Yu Shenxing replied: "The matter of canonization is the responsibility of the ministers, and if I don't say it, it will be a dereliction of duty." Please ask the emperor to make a quick decision, I would rather abandon the official and return to the country. "The attitude is extremely tough, and he is not willing to compromise at all, because in the eyes of Shen Xing, principles are principles, and issues of principle are not negotiable.

Of course, Wanli was even more unhappy, scolding Yu Shenxing for being "suspicious" and "confusing the country", and stopped all the officials of the Ministry of Rites from Dai Lu. Coincidentally, at this time, there was a leak incident in Shandong Township, Yu Shenxing, as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, although he was the main leader of the scientific examination, but he only had a certain amount of leadership responsibility, but Yu Shenxing still did not hesitate to take the blame and resign.

In September of the 19th year of Wanli, Yu Shenxing's resignation was approved by Wanli, and Yu Shenxing returned to his hometown. He has been at home for more than ten years, and the government and the opposition have recommended him to go out of the mountain many times, but Wanli disagrees. Until the 35th year of Wanli, the East Palace has been established, the country has been decided, and when the court recommended the cabinet ministers, Yu Shenxing was the first of the seven candidates. Wanli saw that the situation was inviolable, so he ordered him to enter the cabinet as the original official plus the prince Shaobao and the scholar of the East Pavilion University. But at this time, Yu Shenxing was already seriously ill and could only reluctantly go to Beijing to see him. Within a few days, he died at the Jinghua Mansion at the age of sixty-three. After Yu Shenxing's death, he gave the prince Taibao and Wending.