high official

Chapter 76
When I returned to the county seat, I would naturally wish New Year greetings to my boss, colleagues, and neighbors.Although the father is now a nine-rank court official, he still has to pay New Year's greetings to the county officials and gentry, and Wang Xian first went to the Yamen to pay New Year's greetings to Wei Zhixian.

Compared with the strong atmosphere of the New Year on the street, the yamen is much deserted. Not only the servants and servants are on vacation, but even the chief followers and servants of the back yamen have gone home to celebrate the New Year.In the huge back office, there are only two bachelors, Wei Zhixian and Sima Qiu, who spend the New Year with Sima Dan's family.

However, Wei Zhi County likes to be quiet, after a year of hard work, it is rare to have time to tune the plain qin and read the golden scriptures.In order to avoid socializing with his colleagues and squires, he imitated the custom of "posting at the gate of Wangmen" in the capital, and only asked Sima Qiu to write a congratulatory post, and sent someone to send it to the door of his colleagues and squires, which was regarded as New Year's greetings.

As for those who came to pay him New Year's greetings, Wei Zhixian placed a register book in the living room. Visitors only needed to leave their names and write a few auspicious words at most, and it was considered as New Year's greetings to him.Compared with the red tape, this form is naturally easier and quicker. Unfortunately, only Wei Zhixian with two lists of Jinshi and one-county parents can use it. If others follow suit, they will be sprayed to death.

However, Wei Zhixian still looked at Wang Xian differently and met him in the study.

After greeting the teacher, Wang Xian took the red envelope from the magistrate of Wei, sat aside and said, "Teacher, this year has been a bit miserable. It would be great if I brought my wife and sister here earlier."

"Last year's situation, being a teacher is still precarious, and you may lose your official position and return home at any time, or even be imprisoned. How can you bring your family?" Wei Zhixian smiled bitterly: "Besides, such a quiet day is rare, and being a teacher is fun. .”

"Teacher's feelings of refinement." Wang Xian said with a smile.

"It's a pity that I have to go to Hangzhou to celebrate the New Year tomorrow." Wei Zhixian said distressedly: "It's too close to the provincial capital, which is really distressing." There are many yamen in Hangzhou, and they are all superiors. If you don't go to New Year's greetings, don't mess around in officialdom.

"This is also a good opportunity to get closer to the boss." Wang Xian hurriedly comforted: "The teacher is quite political now, and we must avoid being jealous of the villain."

"Well, as a teacher, you won't lose the big because of small things." Wei Zhixian nodded and said, "But as a teacher, I don't want to go to Hangzhou, and there is another reason..." He was a little embarrassed, but he wanted Wang Xian to help explain the details After all, he still said: "It's because a big man from the same village, Ding You, is staying in the provincial capital. If he goes to Hangzhou, it is inevitable that he will go to visit with all the fellow villagers."

"The teacher is talking about the youngest Hu Ge, a scholar of Zuochunfang University?" Wang Xian also read the mansion newspaper, so he naturally had some impressions of the big man's movements.

"Yes." Wei Zhixian nodded, sighed, "Actually, I don't want to see him as a teacher." Being able to say such things to Wang Xian shows that Wei Zhixian's trust in Wang Xian is no less than Sima Qiu.

"Huh?" Wang Xian was a little puzzled, "Hu Ge is always a close minister of the emperor, and it's too late for others to flatter. Why..."

"Oh, the way is different..." Wei Zhixian frowned slightly, and said very sincerely: "Of course I dare not not go."

Wang Xian didn't understand. Hu Guang, a scholar of Hu, was the number one scholar in the second year of Jianwen, and the magistrate of Wei County just became an official this year. How can the two overlap?

Ignoring Wang Xian's suspicious gaze, Wei Zhixian said slowly: "A teacher is not a hypocritical person. If it's just to meet, it's fine, but what I'm worried about is that he will..." After a pause, Fang said: "Order me Letter to the imperial court, requesting the release of Bachelor Xie..."

Wang Xian understands a little now. Bachelor Xie is the famous Xie Jin, who is known as the number one talented scholar of the Ming Dynasty, and the first minister of the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty. He is also from Jiangxi.It is said that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the province of Jiangxi has almost monopolized the list of Jinshi dragons and tigers, and most of the high officials in the central government are from Jiangxi.The reason for this situation is that Jiangxi is a large province of culture and education, but it should also be credited to Bachelor Xie.It was he who opened the era when Jiangxi people controlled the imperial examinations and promoted the backward, so that the ruling and opposition parties stole the name "Gan Party" and made Xie Jinmu the party leader.

This well-known academician with many party members was in the fifth year of Yongle, and after completing the "Yongle Canon", he was promoted to a Hanlin academician and a Zuochunfang academician.But because of the establishment of the prince, he was hated by the king of Han, and he wanted to deal with it quickly.

However, Xie Jin, a self-proclaimed high-talented man who didn't stick to trifles, naturally had a lot of excuses. He was soon found out by Jin Yiwei for "leaking the forbidden Chinese language" and "unfair court examination papers" and other crimes, and he was relegated to Guangxi Chief Envoy.Immediately afterwards, he was framed by Li Zhigang, and he was demoted to Jiaozhi chief envoy...

After being demoted from Guangxi to Vietnam, Xie Jin fell from the sky to hell. After suffering for three years, Zhu Di finally remembered him and ordered him to go to Beijing to face the saint.After receiving the order, Xie Jin was tearful and rushed to the capital, but Jiaozhi was too far away from the capital, and when he ran to the capital, the emperor had already gone to the north.

Xie Jin had no choice but to wait for the decree in Nanjing. All the officials thought he was going to recover, so they rushed to visit and extend the invitation. Xie Jin quickly regained the feeling of being a leader in the literary world and a teacher of all officials, and once again he was proud of himself.As a result, he got carried away as soon as he was proud, and he even had a private audience with the prince.Unexpectedly, the king of Han had been staring at him for a long time, and immediately informed the emperor in Mobei that there must be a hidden conspiracy in Xie Jin's private visit to the East Palace.

This is the most taboo thing for the emperor to go abroad. Hearing this, he was very angry and ordered Jin Yiwei to imprison him for the crime of 'no courteous minister'. It has been a whole year now.Xie Jin's popularity is not good, but officials in the DPRK and China still tried their best to rescue him. In addition to being the leader of the Jiangxi Party, he was also the number one contributor to the establishment of the crown prince.

The current Emperor Yongle has three sons, all born to Empress Xu.Among the three sons, Zhu Gaochi, the eldest son, was a fat man with a lame foot, and needed the support of two palace servants to walk, which displeased the strong and vigorous Zhu Di very much.Zhu Di has always favored the second son, Gaoxu, the king of Han. The king of Han has a personality similar to Zhu Di, brave and handsome, he has made great contributions in the disaster, and saved Zhu Di's life. Moreover, Zhu Di himself made a wish to seize the world in the future and make him the prince.

However, Zhu Gaochi was the Yan Shizi chosen by the Taizu for Zhu Di, and he had a benevolent and elegant personality, and he received the full support of the civil servants.Xie Jin, as the head of civil servants at the time, said too many good things for the prince.At several critical moments, Xie Jin played the decisive role, and finally the eldest son of the emperor was established as the prince.

All the officials cried out for Xie Jin, but they were actually protecting the prince.With a strong, suspicious, cruel and heartless father like Tanshang Jinshang, and a brother who is like a wolf and a tiger watching covetously, the prince is precarious and precarious, and the officials dare not speak for him openly, so they call for grievances for Xie Jin , indirectly expressing support for Prince Zhu Gaochi, the other side of the "unmanned minister ceremony".

Hu Guang, the No. [-] figure in the Jiangxi Party, and Xie Jin are close buddies who are "born in the same place, grew up in the same class, and worked in the same official". Naturally, they spared no effort to rescue them.He also asked his fellow countrymen, disciples, and subordinates to go to the court to create a general trend that people's hearts cannot be violated, and asked him to release Xie Jin today.

Although Wei Zhixian's qualifications are still young, but Jane's courtiers in the emperor's heart, at least in the eyes of others, his words must have a certain influence on the emperor. If he goes to see Hu Guang, he will probably be asked to go to school.

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The matter involved the secrets of the palace, and Wei Zhixian actually didn't know much about it, but his disgust towards Xie Jin and Hu Guang made him not want to get involved in this matter.As a teacher of Taoism, Wei Zhixian attaches great importance to the word "integrity", but Xie Jin and Hu Guang, his two former idols, both fall into these two words.

Needless to say, today's emperor rebelled against his nephew and became emperor.When the city of Jinling was broken, 460 officials from the capital fled and abandoned their posts.In the early Ming Dynasty, there were not many redundant officials, and almost all court officials ran away.

Of course, there are also those who surrendered to Zhu Di, oh yes, this is not called surrender, it is called 'welcome', how many people are there? 24, including Xie Jin and Hu Guang.Why is there such a situation?Because everyone is a disciple of a sage, and the sage Confucius said that loyalty and filial piety are not two masters, so everyone ran away and did not serve as an official for Zhu Di. Only a few shameless official fans went out of the city openly when the emperor was still alive Welcome the usurpers!
What's even more shameful is that the night before the Jinling City was broken, the four leaders of the Jiangxi Party, Xie Jin, Hu Guang, Wu Pu, and Wang Gen, got together to discuss countermeasures.At that time, Xie Jinzheng made a solemn statement about righteousness, and Hu Guang was not far behind. He was impassioned, saying that if Zhu Di came in, he would die for the country and be absolutely loyal to Yunyun. As a result, the two went out and surrendered together the next day.

At that time, Wang Gen, who was silent and crying in the second year of Jianwen, committed suicide by taking poison.

In the second year of Jianwen's reign, Wu Pu, who passed on Wu Pu, also surrendered under Hu Guang's persuasion in order to save his life.But his son Wu Yubi was deeply ashamed and vowed not to take the imperial examination for the rest of his life.After resolutely returning to their hometown, Wu Yubi made friends with Wei Yuan who was studying at home, and often expressed his disdain and disgust for Xie Jin and Hu Guang.

Affected by it, the magistrate of Wei naturally didn't like these two, and he didn't want to get involved in their activities.

"As a teacher, he is no more than a small magistrate, so it is wrong to make false claims about such important matters of the court." Wei Zhixian carefully said: "Thunder, rain and dew are all the favor of the emperor, and it is not the way of a courtier to try to blackmail the emperor with public opinion."

"Teacher, you want to stay away from right and wrong and be alone?" Wang Xian asked softly.

"Yeah." Wei Zhixian nodded, and said honestly: "The gods fight, and the little devil suffers. I'd better stay away."

"It's not difficult." Wang Xian said with a smile: "Teacher, you only need to tell Mr. Hu Ge that Han Wang and Ji Gang are actually cooperating to punish him when Xie Shi is put into prison. It's useless to just cry for injustice. Let the emperor know the true colors of these two people. He would never dare to let you write a letter..." After a pause, he said, "Of course, the law is not spread to everyone, and such words must not be leaked."

"Oh..." Wei Zhixian thought for a moment, then smiled and said, "You have so many tricks!"

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