Prime Minister

Chapter 887
After Wang Zhongzheng left Beijing, Deng Wan and Zhang Dun also joined the Academy.

Deng Wan was the censor Zhongcheng, and Zhang Dun was sentenced to be a military supervisor. Both of them had part-time jobs, and the original Hanlin scholar Zhong Yuanjiang was sentenced to the third division, only Zeng Bu, Wang Lian, and Zhang Yue were not part-time jobs now.

In order to balance Deng Wan and Zhang Dun's influence in the Academy, Han Jiang also promoted Yang Hui and Chen Yi as Hanlin Bachelors.

After Yang Hui and Chen Yide became Hanlin scholars, they caused a sensation.

Both Yang Hui and Chen Yi are ministers with straight names and clean skills, and they have a very good reputation and popularity among officials. It can be seen that Han Jiang's way of employing people is to select people of integrity among officials, not For example, a certain former gentleman and a certain current one will be promoted by the party-affiliated generation.

Just like when Han Qi and Fu Bi were prime ministers, the officials congratulated each other, thinking they had won someone.

Promoting officials based on public opinion and word-of-mouth is completely a second-class employment style, and Han Jiang has been the prime minister for less than a few months, bringing a new atmosphere to the court, and all officials praised him for his fairness.

But with the addition of Yang Hui and Chen Yi, there are actually eight "Hanlin Bachelors" in the academy, which is really overcrowded.

According to the rules, Hanlin scholars who are concurrently judged by Yushi Zhongcheng and the three envoys are not allowed to serve in Kaifeng Mansion, so Deng Wan and Yuan Jiang are not in the academy.

But as long as the official name bears the number of the edict, even if the court is judged, it still has the post of edict.

After Yang Hui was admitted to the hospital, he was dismissed by the emperor as a Hanlin Bachelor of Chengzhi, because Yang Hui Xining was appointed as a Hanlin Bachelor and Quan Yushi Zhongcheng in three years. Because of his disagreement with Wang Anshi, he went out and was dismissed as Bozhou Zhizhou, and now he has returned to Hanlin According to the order of admission to the Bachelor's College, he was awarded the Imperial Academy of Chengzhi.

This made Wang Lian, who had been fighting with Zhang Yueming to become a Chengzhi Bachelor, as if he had lost his fist.He tried every means to compete with Zhang Yue for the position of inheriting the imperial edict, and then sat on the sidelines of the prime minister, but Yang Hui arrived at this time and everything came to naught.

In this way, the ranking of Hanlin Academy is Yang Hui, Zhang Yue, Wang Lian, Deng Wan and Zhang Dun at the bottom.

On the contrary, it was Yang Hui who felt the most emotion at the banquet.

At the banquet, Yang Hui said to Zhang Yue: "When the Guozijian was taking the exam, Caiyuan (Li Dalin) and I were still your examiners, and now we go in and out of Yutang together."

All the imperial officials heard that Yang Hui was still the examiner of Zhang Yuejie, and they all thought it was a grand event, and officials who liked to take notes as family letters could write it down.

Zhang Yue said a few words modestly, thinking of the township examination back then, he had a deeper impression of Li Dalin, another examiner. When it came to the Sansheren matter, he and Su Song were demoted for opposing Li Ding as the censor.

Seeing that everyone was interested, Yang Hui said to the left and right: "At that time, Du Zhi was the third in the solution test, and Wang Junmin was the first. This person's articles are flashy, and everyone knows what will happen to this son. This son is greedy for wealth and honor. In the end His reputation has been ruined, and although Du Zhi’s articles are not as good as his, his words are clear and reasoned, and his words are loud, and he can be seen from the perspective of literature.”

Yuan Jiang on the side smiled and said: "What Han Chang said is very true."

Zhang Yue said modestly: "I dare not be that."

Yang Hui said that there seems to be a deep meaning here: "I have been an official for a long time, and I know that virtue is the first. Some people take shortcuts, play with a little cleverness, and even betray their relatives. If it goes smoothly, the reputation will be ruined."

After Yang Hui finished speaking, some people were already looking at Zhang Dun, who was at the bottom of the ranking. Everyone present had heard about the fact that he and the Zhang Yue brothers had turned against each other.

Zhang Dun's behavior is unprovoked, which is widely discussed among the ruling and opposition parties.

In the past, officials with such unprovoked conduct could not be promoted to bachelors, but now everything has changed.

Yang Hui continued to say with some traces: "So we are the first in terms of official morality. Pursuing virtue is great wisdom. Pursuing profit is not small wisdom, but it is harming yourself. Even if you suddenly ascend to a high position, you will have to go down. It is climbing high and falling heavy."

"I disagree with Mr. Han's opinion."

Zhang Dun, who was ranked last, drank a glass of wine and said: "I think that the first place in an official is talent. The emperor entrusts us with state affairs. The most important thing is to run state affairs well. Otherwise, how good is the moral article? Can it share the country's worries? Can it relieve the country's worries? Can it provide life for the people?"

"But if everything is not done well, it is just empty talk. The mere establishment of morality makes people laugh. In my opinion, Cao Mengde is the only hero in the past, and only he knows that he is the only one."

Everyone thought that this was Zhang Zihou's style, if he fought back face to face, he would never give anyone a chance to be weird.

Just now I heard Yang Hui pointing at Sang and scolding Huai, but Zhang Dun didn't know that the other party praised Zhang Yue with one hand and belittled himself with the other.

Yang Hui smiled, not intending to quarrel with Zhang Dun.

Zhang Yue said: "I can't agree with Zihou's opinion. I think that a gentleman hides his brilliance and becomes more and more obvious, and a villain shows his excitement and disappears day by day."

"A gentleman is full and peaceful, and waits for the water to come to fruition, while a villain does not cultivate internally and externally. He does everything with a strong desire. He takes risks and seeks success by luck. If he fails for a while, he will go mad."

"So a gentleman is a mediocre person who can sail a thousand-year boat, and a villain will capsize sooner or later even if he is outstanding (Note 1)."

After listening to Zhang Yue, the two brothers Zhang Dun and Zhang Dun found it interesting to bicker.

Zhang Yue acts like planting a tree, waiting for the day when it will grow tall and prosperous, but Zhang Dun is eager to see success, and will urge it before the fruit is ripe.

Faced with Zhang Yue's provocation, Zhang Dun didn't fight back, but sat down and drank another glass of wine, as if he didn't want to bully the small.

When Zeng Bu saw that Zhang Dun had just been admitted to the hospital, the two brothers began to fight and thought about it.

This time, the emperor ordered Zhang Dun to investigate the case of Shiyisi, and Zhang Dun made a decision in favor of Lu Huiqing, which discredited Zeng Bu.

Even based on the principle that the enemy of an enemy is a friend, Zeng Bu firmly stood by Zhang Yue.What's more, Zhang Yue saved his official career.

Zeng preached: "Han Chang, using long-term profit and short-term profit, and clearly using urgency and slowness, are refreshing compared to gentlemen and villains. Sometimes villains are not bad, but anxious. You can't wait to see success immediately. That’s why there are good intentions to do bad things.”

Zhang Dun squinted his eyes at Zeng Bu.

Seeing that a dispute was about to start, Yuan Jiang smiled and smoothed things over and said: "When I was young, in a dream, a man of God once told me: 'In the future, I will be a scholar of the Imperial Academy, and several brothers must be in the Imperial Academy together.'

Yuan Mou thought to himself that he had no brothers, and suspected that this dream was not the case.Later, in addition to being a bachelor, I entered the academy one after another. Han Chiguo (Han Wei) had a family name in his name, Chen Shuhe (Chen Yi) also had a family name, and Deng Wenyue (Deng Wan) also had a family name. Xizi, Hanchang Element (Yang Hui), together with Jiang, a total of five people, just realized the theory of brothers in the dream. "

Everyone laughed when they heard what Yuan Jiang said. It is really rare that all five names of Hanlin have a family name.

Yuan Jiang said: "Everyone enters the Academy of Han. If you are not a brother, you should be a brother. Who will be the governor in the future? If you don't forget your brothers, you should also attract each other. I don't know what you think?"

Everyone is laughing without saying a word, everyone is full of conflicts, how can we talk about attracting each other.

Yang Hui smiled and said: "What I'm talking about is, how many of the eight of you present will be able to be in power in the future, and how many of them will be prime ministers?"

PS1: This phrase comes from the Internet, and the source is unknown.


(End of this chapter)