Chapter 248: Wenchen and military generals have their own positions

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Li Dongyang's previous dynasties, Xianzong, Xiaozong and now Zhu Houzhao, a total of four dynasties. In Daming, he has presided over the literary world for decades as a cabinet assistant after Yang Shiqi.

Li Dongyang's poetry and calligraphy are things that everyone in the world wants to ask for, so Li Dongyang is not short of silver.

After coming out of the Chaling Society, Jiang Xia, Zhu Houzhao and others accompanied Li Dongyang back to the Li Mansion.

His mansion is quite luxurious, elegant and introverted, and he likes Jiang Xia's character at a glance.

Li Dongyang took Jiang Xia and them to the main hall, and after arranging for the housekeeper at home to prepare the meal, Li Dongyang pointed to Zhu Houzhao and asked Jiang Xia: "Why did you take him out of Jingshi? There are only so few people to accompany him." ”

On the way, Jiang Xia had already told Li Dongyang that he had to hide his true identity from Zhu Houzhao in front of Li Feng, so Li Dongyang called Zhu Houzhao with the word "he".

Jiang Xia smiled a little embarrassedly and said, "It's not Zhu Shou yet, he said that he has never been out of the capital division, so he has to pull me out for a walk." ”

After speaking, Jiang Xia laughed "hehe" and said, "But this time I didn't come out in vain, I didn't deceive a daughter-in-law." ”

"What does it mean to 'cheat' a daughter-in-law? Li Dongyang reprimanded, but Li Feng, who had always been quite bold, lowered his head at the moment.

On the way, Zhu Houzhao had already told her that Li Dongyang was his and Jiang Xia's master, and he would be a teacher and a father for life on this day. Zhu Houzhao didn't have a father, so he brought Li Feng to see Li Dongyang, and Li Feng felt that there was no difference between meeting Zhu Houzhao's father.

Li Dongyang clapped his hands, and an old servant walked over. Li Dongyang whispered a few words to the old servant, and then the old servant stepped back.

Then it didn't take long for the old servant to come over with a brocade box, and Li Dongyang took the brocade box and handed it to Li Feng.

"The first time I saw it, the old man didn't have anything to give, this pair of jade bracelets was given to his deceased wife by the old man's friend, and now the old man will transfer it to you, hoping that you can marry Zhu Shou Baitou to Lao Yong. ”

Although Li Dongyang and Zhu Houzhao are different from monarchs and ministers, he is indeed Zhu Houzhao's master, so it is also appropriate to meet Li Feng and give a meeting gift.

However, the things given by Li Dongyang were so commemorative, Li Feng was a little afraid to accept them.

Zhu Houzhao stretched out his hand to take Li Feng's next step, and said in a low voice: "Master is not an outsider, if he gives it to you, you can continue, don't thank Master soon." ”

"Thank you, Master. Li Feng said.

Li Dongyang smiled and nodded, and then sat in the main hall and chatted with everyone. Most of them were Jiang Xia talking, Li Dongyang was asking, and then Zhu Houzhao added.

Li Feng is here, so he can't talk about the political affairs of the imperial court, so he writes about the anecdotes of the Beijing division and the experiences along the way.

Facing Li Dongyang, Jiang Xia didn't dare to say that he and Zhu Houzhao encountered robbery and murder on the road, but just said some interesting and interesting things.

It didn't take long for the housekeeper to inform him that the meal had been ready, and Li Dongyang ordered the dish to be served, and then all kinds of delicacies, Hunan authentic food, were sent to the table.

Everyone sat down on the big table and began to eat, and after eating, everyone rested again, and then Li Dongyang asked Jiang Xia to go to the study with him to talk.

When he arrived at Li Dongyang's study, Jiang Xia first saluted Li Dongyang and said, "The apprentice meets the master, and asks the master to forgive the apprentice for being unfilial and coming to see you so late." ”

"Get up. The teacher knows that you are busy now, so how can he blame you. ”

"Tell me about the teacher, what have you changed recently?"

"Yes. ”

Jiang Xia got up and sat down on the chair in the study, and then began to do something that had happened recently. From going to Yunnan to investigate the salt tax corruption case, Yili framed Prince Li by the third prince of Mongolia, and then went to Annan to assist Princess Annan to ascend to the throne.

Then because of the establishment of the royal family Dragon Detective, his relationship with Liu Jin became worse and worse. and then recently went to rectify the two Huai salt politics, and Yang Tinghe is about to enter the cabinet.

Jiang Xia told Li Dongyang one by one, and since Jiang Xia omitted the specific details, he quickly finished speaking.

Hearing that Yang Tinghe was about to serve as a cabinet assistant, Li Dongyang nodded.

He said: "When the emperor first ascended the throne, Jiao Fang in the cabinet had already colluded with Liu Jin, and the division was subject to checks and balances everywhere.

Although Wang Wei of the cabinet remained upright, he could not compete with Liu Jin, so he invoked Yang Tinghe to deal with political affairs together, and it was all dependent on the two of us to reluctantly cooperate and rely on this to stand on our own.

It's just that in the end, Wang Ao resigned, and Yang Tinghe was also framed by Liu Jin and sent to stay in the capital. Now that he can re-enter the cabinet, it can be regarded as a blessing for the imperial court. ”

Jiang Xia frowned slightly after hearing this, he thought for a while and then said to Li Dongyang: "Master, Lord Yang once asked his apprentice two questions, one is how to treat 'emphasizing literature over martial arts', and the other is how to treat 'eunuchs interfering in politics'. ”

Li Dongyang's eyes changed slightly after hearing this, and then asked Jiang Xia. "How do you answer these two questions?"

Jiang Xia told Li Dongyang his answer.

Li Dongyang nodded after hearing this, and was silent for a while before sighing.

In fact, Jiefu (Yang Tinghe's cousin) asked so much and he had something to consider.

At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the pattern was a balance between civil and military.

When Emperor Taizu killed the proud ministers, there was no distinction between civil and military, and the three major Hongwu cases were mostly civilian officials, and the blow to civilian officials in the empty seal Guo Heng case was even more unprecedented.

When he arrived at Emperor Chengzu, his thinking was also a balance between civil and military. The power of the heroes of Chengzu Jingnan and the noble generals left by the Taizu Dynasty was balanced with the power of civil officials, and even overshadowed them. If this continues, the Ming Dynasty is likely to be a civil-military balance, and both of them will not lose their offensive dynasty.

However, this pattern was changed by an accident.

In the civil and engineering changes, the Ming Dynasty was almost swept away, and Yu Gong organized a great victory in the defense of the Beijing Division, and from that moment on, the Ming Dynasty also became a pattern in which literati held military power.

For the emperor's family, the military generals are powerful and troublesome at most, and the eunuchs are powerful and have more disadvantages in the government at most. However, if a civilian official has great military power, then his name can deceive the people of the world, and his military force can destabilize the foundation of society.

Therefore, the emperor will never let civil officials sit big, which is why the emperor has always supported eunuchs such as Liu Jin, Zhang Yong, and Gu Dayong, as well as promoted young generals such as Jiang Bin.

The civil engineering change was only an opportunity for civilian officials to take power alone, and their position was not yet secure, and if an emperor supported Jiangmen to encourage military exploits, things would still be repeated. That's why I'm asking you those two questions.

For the Ming Dynasty, the balance of natural civil and military affairs is the best. However, for civilian officials, emphasizing civilians over military force is the real way to protect themselves. ”

After hearing Li Dongyang's explanation, Jiang Xia nodded, and began to understand the reason why Yang Tinghe asked him those two questions.

After Li Dongyang's explanation, Jiang Xia secretly said in his heart that he was afraid that Lord Yang was not so satisfied with his answer.

However, there is no way to do this, everyone stands from different angles, so they look at things and come to different conclusions.

Jiang Xia regarded Zhu Houzhao as a friend, so he would consider things from Zhu Houzhao's point of view, while Yang Tinghe would come from the perspective of a civil official.

There is nothing right or wrong in the views of the two, just different positions.

After talking about Liu Jin, Yang Ting and these people, Jiang Xia was hesitating in his heart whether to tell Li Dongyang about Zhu Houzhao's life experience.

However, Jiang Xia hesitated for a while and endured it, after all, he promised Zhu Houzhao that no one would tell the mystery of his life experience.

Then Li Dongyang commented on some of Jiang Xia's daily ways, in general, Jiang Xia is a person with the ability to do things, but he is not a person who is proficient in officialdom.

Officialdom has rules of officialdom, and there are some rules that are not explicitly stipulated but are conventional.

Just like Jiangxia, investigating a case of salt tax corruption in Yunnan has implicated almost all officials from top to bottom in Yunnan. By the way, he also solved several big people in the Beijing Division.

Such a rigid method is equivalent to breaking the rules of officialdom, which will be disliked by many officialdom officials.

However, Li Dongyang also said that Jiang Xia also had an advantage in doing this, that is, he completely sided himself with the emperor.

The more officials dislike it, the more Zhu Houzhao will trust Jiang Xia. Because Zhu Houzhao understands very well the reason why those officials don't like Jiang Xia. Today's Jiang Xia is Zhu Houzhao's friend and favorite minister, and he is the sharpest knife in his hand.

This is also the reason why Zhu Houzhao wanted to set up a royal dragon detective for Jiangxia and named him a scholar of Wenyuan Pavilion.

After listening to Li Dongyang's analysis, Jiang Xia suddenly felt abrupt. Li Dongyang analyzed, some Jiang Xia actually guessed it, and some of it didn't fully understand, but now Jiang Xia has fully understood.

Jiang Xia looked up at Li Dongyang and said, "Master, if you are tired of staying in your hometown, you should go back to Beijing, and the apprentice also hopes to be by your side and wait for you to grow old." ”

Li Dongyang shook his head and said with a smile: "Forget it, Jingshi is a place of right and wrong, and I don't want to fall into it anymore." You listen to your teacher, and you have to be more careful. ”

After finishing speaking, Li Dongyang walked to the desk, wrote down a name, and handed it to Jiang Xia.

Jiang Xia took the note and asked, "Li Xi?"

"My righteous son, who serves in the brocade guard. Li Dongyang said.

"Jinyiwei?" Jiang Xia thought for a while and immediately remembered, and exclaimed, "Could it be that Jinyiwei is the commander of the fourth grade?"

Li Dongyang nodded and said to Jiang Xia: "If there is anything in the Jingshi that you can ask him for help, as long as you explain that I asked you to find him, he will not refuse." ”

Jiang Xia understood that Li Dongyang was transferring his political resources to him, so he nodded and said, "Thank you, Master." ”

Li Dongyang waved his hand and reminded: "But you shouldn't get too close to him, otherwise you may make the emperor suspicious."

In short, you remember one thing, no matter how good your relationship with the emperor is, you are always a minister, and he is the king. There is a difference between a monarch and a minister, you know?"

Jiang Xia was silent for about a second after hearing this, and then nodded.