I studied in modern times

Chapter 866: The Kong Family Jumps

Bingchen (seventh day of the lunar month) in July of the second year of Yuanyou.

Han Jiang, the former prime minister and Duke of Kangguo, was appointed as the governor of Zhenjiang and Zhenhai, and was also appointed as the governor of Jixiguan and the minister of works.

Wang Anli, a scholar of the Zizheng Palace and the prefect of Jiangning Prefecture, was transferred to be the prefect of Yangzhou and promoted to the Grand Scholar of the Zizheng Palace.

Xu Jiang, the academician of Duanming Palace and the governor of Chengdu, was promoted to the academician of Zizheng Palace.

Xie Jingwen, a direct scholar of Baowen Pavilion and the governor of Tanzhou, is the new governor of Guizhou.

Miao Shizhong, the Guangxi Transport Commissioner and Governor of Guizhou, was later transferred to be the Governor of Jiangning Prefecture.

Feng Ji, the Minister of Counsel, was the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Works.

Shen Jichang, the Tongzhilang, was temporarily sent to be the Shaofu Shaoqing.

As the capital announced these personnel appointments and dismissals, soon noises began to emerge in the Censorate.

Many censors of the old party were very dissatisfied with the city hall's plan to appoint Shen Jichang as the Shaofu Shaoqing!
In other words, they are now busy using the clerks in the government to gain fame.

They write letters every day to impeach this and criticize that.

I'm not free at the moment, so I'll shift my main focus here.

But there are still people who are extremely dissatisfied with this.

For example, Kong Wenzhong, the Left Counselor, used his privileges as a censor to oppose Zhao Xu.

"Your Majesty... Ji Chang has no knowledge or skills, he just flatters the prime minister and promotes heretical theories in order to gain favor and advancement. His ignorance and ignorance are known to all the world! Now the officials in the capital are going to summon him from the outside to serve as the deputy supervisor of the second government. I am afraid that people in the world will follow Ji Chang's example in employing people..."

"If this is the case, I am afraid that if I advance one season today, I will advance a hundred seasons tomorrow!"

It has to be said that Kong Wenzhong is worthy of being a descendant of Confucius.

He spoke such profound truths without hesitation. If it were someone else, they would probably be scared by his alarmist words.

However, Zhao Xu was not a young emperor who was born in the deep palace and raised by women.

He studied abroad in modern times!
In his previous life, he had ruled the world, held great power, whipped the Western Xia, and resisted the threats from the Liao people without backing down.

How could one be frightened by Kong Wenzhong's verbal attacks?
He smiled softly: "Why do you say that, Mr. Kong?"

"If we use Shen Jichang, will the world be morally corrupt?"

“Is this person so powerful?”

Kong Wenzhong certainly knew that it would be difficult to convince Zhao Xu with just a few words.

So, he immediately changed his playing style.

"Your Majesty..." Kong Wenzhong bowed and said, "When Ji Chang was in the Imperial College, he was imprisoned by the late emperor for advocating heresy and disturbing the hearts of scholars and officials. He was also stripped of all his official positions and returned to his farm!"

"Now, the officials in the capital have gone against the will of the late emperor and promoted Ji Chang..."

Zhao Xu listened, hesitating to speak, and after thinking for a while, he said, "I understand what you said!"

"Wait for me to learn more about Mr. Shen's resume, then ask the officials in the capital hall, and then give you an answer!"

Kong Wenzhong wanted to say something else, but Zhao Xu had already stood up: "I'm tired!"

"My dear, please go back first!"

"Yes!" Kong Wenzhong bowed again reluctantly and said goodbye.

Zhao Xu looked at his back and couldn't help rubbing his temples.

Headache!

"Shen Jichang..."

He chewed on the name with interest, found the appointment and dismissal slip sent by Dutang, took a look, and narrowed his eyes: "It looks like this was the work of Pu Zongmeng or Zeng Bu!"

Because there were only the monograms of Pu Zongmeng and Zeng Bu on the note.

The signatures of Lu Gongzhu, Li Chang and Su Song were not seen.

However, although they did not sign their approval, they did not object either.

Otherwise, they could simply veto this personnel appointment.

so……

The ministers of the old party in the East Palace tacitly agreed to the personnel proposals of the new party.

"Interesting!" Zhao Xu said with narrowed eyes.

"Perhaps Kong Wenzhong came to me to give me advice just because he knew this!"

"Um……"

"Anyone in this world can reconcile with Shen Jichang, except Kong Wenzhong!"

Because he is the descendant of Confucius!

Shen Jichang, Wang Anshi's brother-in-law, was in court from Xining to the second year of Yuanfeng. He served as a lecturer at the Imperial College, a secretary of the Dali Temple, a storyteller in the Chongzheng Hall, the acting judge of the Ministry of Rites, the director of the Imperial College, and a co-editor of the daily records.

At the peak of his career, Shen Jichang was appointed as the Director of the Imperial College as the Assistant Director of Baowen Pavilion.

This person was a major participant in the Xining Education Movement.

He was also the main official who implemented the "Three-Shelters System" of the Imperial College when Wang Anshi was in power.

Why did Kong Wenzhong come to oppose the appointment of Shen Jichang?

Because when Shen Jichang was in power, he had been pushing for the agenda of replacing the imperial examination with the Sanshe system. At the same time, Shen Jichang was also the first person to advocate the promotion of Mencius to be worshipped alongside Confucius.

It would be strange for Kong Wenzhong, a descendant of Confucius, to have a good impression of such a person!
Not to mention the things that Shen Jichang did when he was in power and presided over the Imperial College.

Including but not limited to encouraging teachers and students of the Imperial College to talk more about the use of money and grain, and read more books on economics.

So at that time, what books would talk more about money and grain? What books were used for economic development?
Wang Anshi's book!
Not only that, the lecturers at the Imperial Academy at that time were extremely negligent in treating the teachings of the sages, especially the scriptures of Confucius.

At that time, the Imperial Academy took seven years to teach four volumes of the book "The Book of Zhou Rites".

However, the Analects of Confucius and the Book of History, which are the place of morality and the practices of sages, have been ignored for many years!

Now, Shen Jichang, who was in charge of the Imperial College back then, is going to be reinstated to the court.

How could Kong Wenzhong not be furious?
Zhao Xu put himself in Kong Wenzhong's shoes and felt that if he were Kong Wenzhong, he would be furious.

"Look at the geese following the sun, each of them has its own plans for making rice and millet!" Zhao Xu snorted twice.

"This reminds me!"

"That's Elder Shen Ji, otherwise, he could be of great use!"

This is a qualified catfish.

Just put it in the pond and it will surely inspire others to roll up.

But it doesn’t matter, even though Shen Jichang is old.

But his son, Wang Anshi's nephew Shen Zhu, is now in his prime.

It just so happened that Zhao Xu was very familiar with Shen Zhu - in his previous life, during the Shaosheng period, Shen Zhu was one of the most important advisers around Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu would consult him on many policies and trusted him quite a lot.

"Where is Shen Zhu now?"

Zhao Xu thought about it, and then he knew: "Oh, be a stay-at-home boy!"

In the second year of Yuanfeng, the Wutai Incident broke out.

A large number of Wang Anshi's confidants and cronies, including Yuan Jiang, the then Vice-Chancellor, were dismissed, demoted, removed from office, and even placed under house arrest.

Shen Jichang and his son were the worst off among them.

Both of them were demoted to the lowest position, and Shen Jichang got a chance to be reinstated in the sixth year of Yuanfeng.

But Shen Zhu is miserable and has been staying at home till now.

"That's not right!" Zhao Xu suddenly remembered something else: "He is most likely in Jiangning, following Wang Anshi..."

This year Wang Anshi opened the Jiangning Academy in Jiangning. As Wang Anshi's nephew and loyal fan, Shen Zhu would definitely go to help.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu picked up the pen and said, "It just so happens that I have just obtained the power to personally dismiss the officials of Kaifeng Prefecture!"

So he took out a piece of hemp paper and wrote the appointment words on it: I, Zhu, the former lecturer of the Imperial College and the chief clerk of the Court of Examiners, may be reinstated as Xuan De Lang and the magistrate of Chenliu County.

Then he summoned an eunuch and ordered him to send the imperial edict to the Academy of Scholars and have the Secretary of the Central Secretariat Peng Ruli draft the imperial edict.

Because the emperor personally appointed the officials of Kaifeng Prefecture, the imperial edict did not need to be reviewed by the Menxia Province Jieshi Zhong and could take effect directly after the draft was completed.

After finishing this task, Zhao Xu leaned back in his chair and said, "What Shen Jichang said..."

"We have to take the Kong family into consideration..."

Although Zhao Xu is in modern times, he has seen countless wonderful performances of the Kong family in the future.

All these behaviors are disgusting.

It would be fine if Shixiu surrendered!

But even when the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded, the Kong family worshipped the portraits of the German Emperor and the British Queen... which was really too despicable.

Therefore, when the Japanese invaded later, Chiang Kai-shek was afraid that the fine traditions of the Kong family would continue to be carried forward, so he quickly took the Kong family away.

But in the legend, even so, it did not stop the Kong family from showing off their skills - on the modern Internet, there are photos of Kong family members and Japanese invaders taking photos in front of the Confucius Temple circulating...

Unfortunately, at this moment, the Kong family cannot lose its reputation.

Because Zhao Xu needed him to confuse and paralyze others.

Therefore, the Kong family still has to support it.

Especially the three brothers Kong Wenzhong, who enjoyed a great reputation in the literary world of the Song Dynasty, had to be coaxed a little more.

However, this did not prevent Zhao Xu from openly practicing despicable means and secretly getting Shen Zhu to his side.

In Zhao Xu's previous life, when it came to punishing the Kong family, no one knew more than Shen Zhu.

Just like, when it came to repairing the old party, there was no one more capable than Deng Xunwu at that time!

Well, Deng Xunwu is Deng Wan’s son.

Still very young now!

The only problem is that in this life, Deng Wan did not die from political persecution by the old party.

This may affect Deng Xunwu's performance.

Just as he was thinking about these things, the Tongjiansi came to report that the criminal Xue Zhanshe had submitted a petition to beg for forgiveness.

(End of this chapter)