Chapter 77077 He insisted on forcing himself to get married.
Xianyu actually doesn't like working in the study at all.
If being a study companion to the Fifth Princess was a job with little work, happiness and good benefits, then being a maid serving tea to Master Kang in the upper study was not a job for a human being.
Of course, the title of "tea-serving palace maid" is just a title. Xianyu does not need to really serve tea or water. She just needs to stand by and hold a vase or something.
The job of serving tea and water to Master Kang and other officials attending the meeting was done by other low-ranking palace maids and eunuchs, so Xianyu really didn't have to do any specific physical work.
However, there are still many things that require her to work hard.
For example, now, it is obvious that it is Master Kang who has invited Gao Shiqi and several other Hanlin Academy scholars, various university scholars and high-ranking officials to discuss national affairs, which has nothing to do with her, a little unknown person, but these people just started arguing while talking.
Then, the angry Master Kang turned his attention to Xianyu, the spectator.
Yes, Xianyu was originally standing there happily eating melon.
The main thing is that as a time traveler, she traveled through a wonderful world that was a mixture of classic novels and the background of the Qing Dynasty, so there was too much information that needed to be supplemented.
Fortunately, she has a system.
Although System 003 is a food system that mainly provides food recipes, it is still an intelligent system after all - it has been bragging about being the most powerful intelligent interactive system in the universe every day, and it has finally succeeded in brainwashing Xianyu a little.
Well, a name that is too long sounds fake, but since you insist so much, San'er, then it must be a food system plus a little genius dictionary or something like that?
System 003 made another sharp explosion sound, and it felt like the whole system was not well...
In response to this, Xianyu said that nowadays even the system has become so emotional, it really is the progress of technology - but at least there is no problem in looking up information or something, so what's the need for a bicycle?
Since we are here now, we might as well get some more explosive news and gossip.
The first thing that attracted Xianyu's attention was Gao Shiqi's melon.
Among these people, Gao Shiqi did not hold the highest official position. He was only the Junior Secretary of the Chancellery and a Lecturer in the Hanlin Academy. Not to mention being compared with the Grand Secretary Zhang Yushu, he was not even as good as the Left Censor-in-Chief Chen Tingjing.
Because he was just a subordinate of Zhang Ying, the Chancellor of the Chancellery and the Minister of Rites, his official position was the lowest, but his fame was the highest.
This is mainly because Master Kang really likes him so much.
Well, Master Kang had a special feeling of mutual admiration for this Mr. Gao Shiqi - if I must describe it, it was the kind of close friend who would be suspected of being gay...
This is a really close relationship.
Anyway, according to the information that System 003 found in the official history, this Mr. Gao's official career seemed to be a cheat from the very beginning.
He was born in Yuyao, naturalized in Hangzhou, and enrolled as a student in Hangzhou Prefecture. Then, at the age of nineteen, he followed his father to study in the north. Unfortunately, his father passed away, and he could only make a living by selling his writings.
After selling Spring Festival couplets for five years, Gao Shiqi's luck finally changed. By chance, he was admitted to the Imperial College, and that's when he met Master Kang for the first time.
At this time, it was already the eighth year of Kangxi's reign.
Gao Shiqi was exactly nine years older than Master Kang, so when the two met, Master Kang was fifteen years old and he was twenty-four years old.
Both of them were very young at that time, especially Master Kang. It was the time when teenagers were most likely to admire older and more talented brothers of the same sex.
Anyway, when Master Kang saw Gao Shiqi's Neo-Confucian articles, he liked them very much. He liked them so much that he became his disciple on the spot and even personally granted him the qualification to take the imperial examination - no, is this possible?
How would those other scholars who had fought their way up from being a tongsheng, a xiucai, and a juren feel about this?
Just because you entered the Imperial Academy and wrote an article that was appreciated by the Emperor, you can do this?
There is no need to take the provincial examination, just go straight to the metropolitan examination?
That’s not all. Because Gao Shiqi took the first place in two imperial examinations, he was named a member of the Hanlin Academy and started his career as an official.
Let’s not talk about other people, but those scholars who took the imperial examinations honestly would definitely feel that they were wronged after seeing Mr. Gao’s path to promotion.
From then on, Mr. Gao began the long years of accompanying Master Kang in his studies.
Because he accompanied me so well, Master Kang was very satisfied with him. Two years later, he allowed him to enter the Imperial College. Six years later, he was appointed as the recorder of the Zhanshi Palace. Two years later, he was appointed as the Secretary of the Central Secretariat - this sounds a bit like the path of the Xue family's ancestors...
But of course, this Mr. Gao was still a little inferior to the ancestor of the Xue family, because this wealth and favor was not passed on to the next generation, but was exhausted in Mr. Gao's generation.
The main reason was that Mr. Gao had a temper that was a little too willful. He would always give "direct criticism" to Master Kang for no reason, and was somewhat arrogant because of his favor.
Everyone has a temper. Master Kang is the head of a country, so of course his temper is not very good. So quarrels are the most normal thing.
Therefore, Gao Shiqi did not receive any further promotion for a long time after becoming a member of the Hanlin Academy. Although he was later promoted to Vice Minister of the Ministry of Rites, he remained at that position for the rest of his life.
This is like a ceiling among officials who are not from the two lists of Jinshi.
But Master Kang also made it clear that this was the end of it, meaning that future generations should not think about it anymore. Even in the 28th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign, the censor Guo Xiu impeached Gao Shiqi for several crimes, including "deceiving the emperor and destroying the law" and "forming a clique for personal gain", forcing Master Kang to issue an order to dismiss Gao Shiqi.
No matter how much you love someone, you can't ignore the gossip of people all over the world. You still have to hold back where you need to - otherwise, what will those officials who have passed the imperial examinations think?
As a result, people in later generations criticized the wonderful master-disciple relationship between Gao Shiqi and Master Kang. However, these were things that happened after Gao Shiqi's death. When he was alive, Master Kang was very good to him, and because of this, Gao Shiqi was very successful.
In the 17th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi, Master Kang established the Southern Study. The first person ordered to serve in the Southern Study was Gao Shiqi, and the person who served with him was Zhang Ying. This shows how much Master Kang trusted and loved Gao Shiqi.
In order to allow Mr. Gao to pass the imperial examination and serve in the Southern Study with greater legitimacy, Master Kang even set up a Boxue Hongci examination specifically for him in the 18th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign a year later.
The Boxue Hongci Examination, abbreviated as Ci Examination, was first established in the Tang Dynasty. Its main purpose was to select writers with good writing skills to write materials for the emperor.
Simply put, the goal is to find practical talents who can write materials, so the content of the exam is mainly poetry, essays, history, etc., rather than the classics and policy essays in the usual imperial examinations.
Even better, this exam does not restrict candidates to be scholars or juren, and no matter whether they are officials or not, as long as they are recommended by the governor, they can come to the capital to take the exam. After passing the exam, they can become officials, which can be regarded as a shortcut to officialdom.
It is amazing that Master Kang is so knowledgeable and racked his brains to tailor a subject for Gao Shiqi, so he is sure to win.
Sure enough, Gao Shiqi passed the exam for Boxue Hongci this time, and after that he began to accompany the emperor on various tours to the south and the east, accompanying Master Kang all over the beautiful mountains and rivers of the motherland.
Accompanying them on trips, playing games, and composing poems and songs with them is simply the ultimate in companionship.
When he was most favored, Master Kang even personally wrote the name "Zhu Chuang" for him. He was truly the most popular person at that time.
Of course, if things are too good, there will be resentment. When the censor Guo Xiu impeached Gao Shiqi, Gao Shiqi took the initiative to resign and return to his hometown to rest. However, he was still exiled to his hometown by Master Kang and was unemployed for a while.
However, love is love and it cannot be concealed at all. Not long after Gao Shiqi returned to his hometown and was unemployed, Master Kang called him back.
This happened just this year.
The reason he used was also very good. That is, the old man said that he wanted to compile the "History of Ming Dynasty", which required a large number of talents, and they had to be talented and proficient in literature and history.
Okay, you might as well just say Gao Shiqi's name.
We often see this pair of monarchs and ministers interacting with each other. This is all basic. Balls, you guys, hurry up and get together (not)...
So Gao Shiqi returned to the capital from his hometown, was reinstated, and entered the Nanshufang to serve.
However, after he came back, the first major issue he participated in discussing was not something like national survival, war, or a tour.
Rather, the question was whether or not to promote the Imperial Concubine Niuhulu, who was already ill and about to die, to a higher position to cheer her up...
No, Your Majesty, what do you mean?
Let us, a group of capable ministers of the country, discuss whether your concubine should be promoted?
this……
Although, after the promotion of a noble concubine, the space above is actually very small, there are only imperial concubines and empresses.
Moreover, no matter whether it is the Imperial Noble Consort or the Queen, they are both heavyweight positions and are indeed national affairs. But no matter what, isn't it still your family's family affair, Your Majesty?
In his opinion, it doesn't matter whether he gets promoted or not. If a person is going to die, there is no point in getting promoted.
For example, the previous Empress Xiao Zhaoren, Niuhulu, was exactly the elder sister of the current Imperial Concubine Niuhulu. Didn't she die after being the Empress for only a few months? She was only 20 years old when she died. It was a sin.
And the later Empress Xiaoyiren Tong Jia, your cousin, was even more miserable. She was promoted to the position of Empress in order to bring good luck to her when she was still the Imperial Noble Consort. But this poor Imperial Noble Consort died the day after she was promoted to Empress...
No, Your Majesty, how many times has this happened?
Whenever you want to promote your wives to a high position, they will die immediately. I have to say, the rumor that you are a wife-killer is not groundless.
Things have come to this, do you still dare to use the method of getting married?
You are really not afraid. If you get promoted, you will kill Concubine Nianhulu.
Therefore, Gao Shiqi was firmly opposed to this matter, but it was obvious that Master Kang made this proposal in order to promote the Nianhulu family.
Gao Shiqi was going against him again, and Master Kang was so angry that his heart was about to explode - he just wanted to promote the poor imperial concubine to a higher rank to make her happy, so why couldn't he do that?
She entered the palace when she was a teenager, much younger than him, and had been a noble concubine for thirteen years. After several queens died one after another, she managed the harem very well for him. It was so pitiful that she became seriously ill at such a young age.
He didn't believe it. He wanted to force his wife to marry...
In short, Master Kang, who was overwhelmed by all the rumors about his wife-killing and the suspected real cases, was determined to promote Concubine Nianhulu, but Gao Shiqi was the first to jump out to oppose it. What could he do?
Everyone knew that Mr. Gao was his mentor and friend, and he was the most popular person around him. Who dared to say that they agreed with Master Kang's point of view? Mainly, they also felt that what Mr. Gao said made sense. His Majesty was really a bit evil when it came to his wife...
Amid the chaos, Master Kang turned to Xianyu and asked for her opinion.
I didn't expect that as soon as I asked the question, I could "hear" Xianyu's voice.
[Oh my god! Is Master Kang crazy? He still dares to get married after all this? Although this Mr. Gao is not an easy person to deal with, I will stand by him this time... Stop it, Old Kang, you only have a few wives in high positions, you really can't afford to die...]
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