Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 587
The high-practical sharpening of knives and chopping firewood is not just for fun. Three days later, he started to write.

If he doesn't write, he can't hold back his hand once he starts to write. He writes at his desk for half a month, and still regards the courtyard as his home. He even takes a bath in the Imperial Academy, which can be called a waste of sleep and food.

Half a month later, he had completed all the tasks he had assigned to himself, and spent another two days proofreading the draft.

From then on, Gao Wushi began to fully exercise the authority of the editorial director-general, urging the editors to speed up the progress, and at the same time acted as a reviewer to help them correct errors.

Of course, one piece at a time, the way of civil and military affairs, high pragmatism did not patronize to squeeze them, and ordered his family to send some late-night snacks every night, good ginseng tea and other things to take away, all of which were paid by him personally.Although the Hanlins slandered him for being highly pragmatic and demanding, they had to admit that this man was indeed generous. Rumors that he had a fortune of millions seemed to be true.

In less than a month and a half, all revisions of the "Da Ming Hui Dian" were completed, breaking the record for the fastest revision of the previous revisions.On the sixth day of July, Gao Yushi formally handed over the manuscript to Chen Siyu, the head of the Hanlin Academy for review.

Chen Siyu was so surprised that he even asked twice, "Are you sure you've finished the draft?"

Gao Yushi replied affirmatively, "The manuscript has indeed been completed, and it will be handed over to the Supreme Court for review."

Although Chen Siyu couldn't believe it, but the matter had come to this point, he could only accept the manuscript and review it by himself.

It doesn't matter. Since Gao Wushi became the chief editor, in less than three months, he has made a lot of revisions, additions and deletions to the previous draft of "Da Ming Hui Dian". If the framework is still there, Chen Siyu will almost Think of these as two completely different drafts.

In terms of details, this version of "Da Ming Hui Dian" is much more rigorous. At least Chen Siyu found a dozen places that are prone to errors, and there are no mistakes in this draft. Evolution even succinctly pointed out the reasons for these changes and evolutions, which can be described as extremely skillful!

Although Chen Siyu has always held prejudices against Gao Yushi, a direct descendant of the practical school, he has to admit that this son is rigorous in his studies and efficient in his work, which is really the only one he has seen in Chen Siyu's 20 years of official career.

That being the case, let’s submit the manuscript to the cabinet. The cabinet has urged me several times for this matter. Although it should be a routine reminder, it cannot be ignored. It is better to submit it sooner than later.

"It is worthy of the number one scholar of the six poems, and it is indeed the talent of the prime minister."

This is the unanimous evaluation given by Shen Shixing, Yu Youding and Xu Guo, the three vice presidents of Huidian compilation after reviewing this draft.

On July [-]th, the "Da Ming Hui Dian" was presented to the imperial court.

The next day, the emperor had Zhu Zhu's approval: it can be promulgated and sent to Nanjing for archival purposes.Two catties of fresh persimmons were given to Yuanfu Mr. Guo and his assistant ministers, who will be able to compose and compile official books.

On the next day, the Ministry of Rites presented the notes to the "Da Ming Hui Dian". On the first day, the watch case was set up in the east of Danbi in the Huangji Hall, the book case in Danchi, the Baoyu Fragrant Pavilion, and the Zhonghe in the Jiaofangsi in front of the History Museum. Shao Yue and Da Le are as usual.

It was early in the morning, Jin Yiwei set up a halogen book drive, compiled official tools and court clothes, held books and placed them in Baoyu.

The emperor is dressed in a leather uniform, and is in the Imperial Palace.The official guide of Honglu Temple welcomes Baoyu, covers it with a drum music umbrella, compiles and repairs the official, follows the second bridge of Yao, walks to the left gate of Huangji Hall, enters Danchi, and puts the book on the case in Yu.After the music stops, the Baoyu Fragrant Pavilion retreats, and the deacon officials of Honghe Temple salute.Guiding music before the driver.

In the Emperor's Yuhuangji Palace, all civil and military officials have court service teams.Stop the music, whip the whip.The editors join the class and enjoy writing.

The official of Honglu Temple praised: "Bow four times!" Xing, flat body, happy stop.

Praise: "Enter the book!" Le Zuo, the preface class raised the book case and said in the middle.When promoted, the chief official, Yao Zuo, is promoted.

The preface class placed the book table in the hall, and the music stopped.The head of the class, Yaodian, entered the east gate of the case and praised: "Kneel!"

The editors and editors all knelt, enjoyed writing, and praised: "Fall down!" Xing, flat body, happy to stop.

The head of the class was reset and praised: "Enter the table!" Le Zuo.

The preface class placed the case in the hall, and the music stopped.

Praise: "Declaration!" Another praise: "Kneel!"

Honglu Temple exhibition table, announced, finished.

Praise: "Fall down!", Xing, Le Zuo.

Praise: "Four bows!" Xing, flat body, happy to stop.

The list case and book case of the preface class are placed a little east of the hall, and the officials who enter the book retreat to the east class to stand.Civil and military officials enter the class and salute as usual.

As soon as the ceremony was completed, the "Da Ming Hui Dian" was officially issued to the world.

When Gao Yushi and other editors returned to the Imperial Academy, everyone discussed and thought that the rapid and smooth editing was due to the talent of Gao Yushi, the chief editor.

Previously, everyone felt that the origin of the top six poems of Gao Yushi was a bit inaccurate, and it was probably produced by the emperor out of the psychology of caring for and accompanying the readers. But after this nearly three-month revision, the nobles of the Imperial Academy have nothing to say. , So they all thanked Gao Wushi.

I have to thank you. After several years of compiling the canon, which has not been compiled, it was successfully completed in less than three months after I arrived at the High Pragmatism Director-General. This is the credit for Qi Qi's promotion. It's worth it.

Gao Wushi knew the inside story of this matter, so he didn't take credit for it. Instead, he kept thanking his colleagues for their great help. According to him, colleagues, including other colleagues who participated in the compilation before, accounted for [-]% of the work. Jiu's credit is that someone Gao took advantage of everyone.

Originally, those old editors who were transferred were a little annoyed and resentful when they saw that the canon was compiled and promulgated in three months. To be honest, I was somewhat relieved.

Gao Wushi also said that he could not repay the work of his predecessors and colleagues, so he had to invite everyone to Wanglonglou for a light meal to express his gratitude.

Now everyone is even happier. Although the Hanlin officials are noble, they really don't have enough oil and water.Of course, everyone is not a person who lives on regular salaries. The daily expenses mainly depend on firewood, soap, silver, and allowances such as straight hall silver.

For example, Gao Wushi is now a sixth-rank official of the Ming Dynasty, and his monthly regular salary is eight stones. However, the eight stone regular salary has never been given to him since Hongwu. Li, that is, one stone of rice per month, more than two taels of silver, and a few pieces of rags and silk.Gao Pragmatism is very good, and he hasn't received his regular salary until now.

But for this amount of money, the household department, which has been short of money for some years before, often withholds, defaults, or even refuses to pay.Later in the history of the Ming Dynasty, it was said that "since ancient times, the official salary has been as thin as this."

In fact, this is not entirely true, because in addition to the regular salary, the officials of the Ming Dynasty also have many other allowances and subsidies.As far as firewood, soap and silver are concerned, Gao Yushi, as a sixth-rank official, can send four civilian servants free of charge. Later, the court converted the hired servants into money.

This is equivalent to the imperial court giving you four taels of silver every month. It stands to reason that you can use it to hire servants, but in fact it is up to you whether to hire servants or not.This money is distributed by the Ministry of War every month. People like Gao Yushi have a lot of family servants. What kind of servants do they want to hire?And the officials who save money don't hire servants at all, so the money is saved?
In addition to firewood soap silver, there is straight silver.The so-called Zhitang Yin means that each yamen, the imperial court stipulates how many officials and servants there should be in the Zhitang, and then allocates funds according to this number.

The way here is very simple. Afterwards, each yamen deliberately hired fewer officials, and distributed the saved money to officials, which was called Zhitang silver.Zhitang silver is one tael or a few taels a month, or even more than a dozen taels. In short, it depends on the income-generating ability of each yamen.This money is equivalent to the unit bonus of later generations, and it is distributed to officials by various yamen.

Since these two sums of money do not go to the household department, they are easily ignored by people, thinking that the salary of officials in the Ming Dynasty is only one item.In fact, as far as Gao Yushi knew, the officials of their Hanlin Academy, at worst, could earn hundreds of taels a year.

But the annual income of hundreds of taels is not enough to go to Wanglonglou for consumption. That place is one of the most expensive restaurants in the capital for banquets. The location is good, especially the Yage Pavilion on the top floor. It is said that you can see the flying eaves of Huangji Hall , That's why it's called "Wanglong Tower".

Eating in this place like a gold-selling cave, if two people have a drink, it will be four or fifty taels. If three or five friends have a meal and drink twice at will, one or two hundred taels of silver is considered to wave goodbye to you, so it is highly pragmatic After such a move, everyone is willing to accept his favor no matter what they say.

Two days later, Zhu Yijun approved the cabinet's memorial to the imperial court.

First of all, in terms of the cabinet, Guo Pu added the Taifu, Zhang Siwei added the Shaoshi, Shen Shixing added the Prince and Taishi, Yu Youding and Xu Guo added the Prince and Taifu, but the rest of the officials remained unchanged.

As for the Hanlin Academy, it is the big head. First of all, Chen Siyu, the young Zhan Shifu of the Zhan Shifu and the master of the Hanlin Academy, was promoted to the right servant of the Ministry of Rites. Now, when he meets Chen Siyu, he can't be called a bachelor of the academy, but Shao Zongbo up.

Accompanying this appointment is another appointment, which is to promote Zuo Yude, Zuo Yude, and Chen Jingbang to serve as an attendant, a bachelor, in charge of the academy, and still serve as a lecturer on the feast day.

Chen Jingbang is an old acquaintance of Gao Pragmatic. He has been Zhu Yijun's daily lecturer since the Longqing period, and he is also a highly pragmatic teacher.But at that time, he was only an editor of the Imperial Academy. He has been promoted all the way over the years, and finally reached the step of serving as a bachelor in charge of the academy. Generally speaking, the next step is to be a servant of a certain department. The future is relatively clear. Congratulations! .

Next it was the turn of Gao Yushi and Gao Xiuzhuan, and his appointment was "to be promoted to the Hanlin Academy to compile Gao Yushi Zuo Chunfang Zuo Yude and also the former official to serve as a lecturer on the feast day."

This place should actually be a sentence, because it has three meanings: to be promoted to Zuo Chunfang Zuo Yude, to continue to serve as the editor of the Imperial Academy, and to serve as a lecturer on feast days.

This is amazing, and it's not even just about upgrading two levels in a row.

Zuo Chunfang Zuo Yude was promoted from the fifth rank, and Gao Yude was promoted to Zuo Yude from the sixth rank of the Hanlin Academy. It is true that he was promoted to two ranks in a row. This is no problem.It is relatively rare to continue to serve as the editor of the Imperial Academy, but it is not a big problem. The big problem is that he is a lecturer on the feast day!

It is extremely rare for a Jinshi to directly serve as a lecturer.For example, Chen Jingbang, the new head of the Imperial Academy, was valued by Gao Gong, the teacher of the 44th Jiajing Gold List at the time, and was able to serve as the lecturer for the Prince's Sutra Banquet, but that was also a subject in the second year of Longqing.

And what about high pragmatism?This Jinshi has only worked in the Imperial Academy for three months, and he is actually a lecturer for a full day!
You must know that being a full-time lecturer is not only to be valued by the emperor, but it also has a prerequisite, which is the nomination of the cabinet.There are two types of cabinet nominations.

One is the direct nomination of the chief minister. There is nothing to say about it. Even the chief minister has the power to recommend a minister to join the cabinet, let alone nominate a minister for a day?
The second is that several ministers raised their hands to vote. Now there are five members in the cabinet, and three or more votes are counted as cabinet recommendations.

The problem is that Gao Pragmatically estimated that Mr. Guo would not have voluntarily nominated himself as the lecturer of Jingyan Ri so early, so his recommendation by the cabinet should be a decision made by a cabinet minister and then voted by the cabinet.

And the cabinet minister who moved this motion should not be his uncle Zhang Siwei, he will definitely consider avoiding suspicion... Who could it be?

Could it be Xu Guo?It should be very possible that he is not only Sanbo's student, but also his teacher when he was a companion.

It seems to have to find out.

(End of this chapter)