(Yang Shiqi)
Comrade Yang Shiqi had a very miserable childhood.
lost his father at one year old, and his mother remarried.
It will rain, and my mother will marry.
There are a lot of things in this world that are helpless, so Yang Shiqi, who was in a baby at the time, behaved very calmly.
He didn't cry when he came, and he didn't make trouble, so he remarried with his mother to a family named Luo in the same township.
remarried with his mother, so the name will naturally be changed, so the family baby became his family's baby, and Yang Shiqi became Luo Shiqi.
But since Yang Shiqi grew up, he always pays homage to the ancestors of the Yang family in the ancestral hall according to the etiquette of the Yang family.
After his mother learned of her son's behavior, she was very worried. Our wife eats other people's households, uses other households, lives in other households, and you can't turn your elbows outside.
But Yang Shiqi's stepfather Luo Xing didn't care, and he even praised his stepson as a man of integrity.
This is Yang Shiqi's luck and his misfortune.
His luck is that his stepfather Luo Xing was a member of the Hongwu Nian, and he was also a local co-knowledge. He was also considered a court official and was well-cultured, so he sympathized with the young man's thinking about his family.
(Luo Xing)
His misfortune is that, in a sense, Yang Shiqi's original family is fragmented, he does not have a complete home, and naturally he cannot feel the warmth from family love.
As a stepson, his status in the family cannot be considered low, but it is never considered high, so after all, everything depends on himself. If you want to get rid of the fate of being sent to others, you can only find a way out.
What is the way out?
As a scholar, farmer, industry, and commerce, if you have nothing to do, Shishi is undoubtedly the best choice.
Doing business requires start-up capital, and farming requires the court to plan land. If you want to be a craftsman, if you don’t have a master who is willing to teach skills in the industry, then it’s no use.
In ancient times, social status was the most distinct.
The poet of the Northern Song Dynasty Wang Zhu There are poems as proof:
is inferior in all things, only high in reading.
means that a person is alive and has all walks of life, but in terms of its own value and development prospects, it is the most promising to read.
The reading quality is high, but the cost of reading is the lowest compared to other industries.
There are books to learn, but there are no books for self-study.
But unlike those civil servants who shined on the political stage in the early Ming Dynasty ,His approach to officialdom was not like Jie Jin , Yang Rong and others, he joined the mighty scientific expedition army, he has his own wild way.
Scientific research, in ancient times, was a very time-consuming thing.
(the imperial examination system)
The ancients said that "there is no one in the cold window of ten years", but it took more than ten years for most scholars to study hard to become officials.
Someone has five scientific expeditions and has failed the rankings, and some have been studying hard for twenty years, but they are just a rural student.
In this way, the famous comrade Fan Jin in our history, but he only got a man, he was almost crazy, which is quite understandable.
It’s a very long journey from the poor family to the court officials.
But for Yang Shiqi, others have walked for ten years, and he only walked for an hour.
Yang Shiqi has never participated in a scientific expedition, but he is talented and intelligent. He can learn a thousand characters at the age of five. He recites Tang poems at the age of eight. He reads four books and five classics at the age of twelve. .
Although Yang Shiqi himself does not know the use of backside-down.
Confucianism is complicated, and some books are very difficult to understand when they are read. What is the point of memorizing them upside down?
but anyway,Young and more talented, Yang Shiqi became famous in Shili and Baxiang.
建文 One day during the reign of Emperor Hui of the Ming Dynasty, Comrade Zhu Yunxuan had a whim and thought that he should give his grandfather grandfather high emperor the founder of a history book after all. , A lifelong legend, start a bowl, flexibly group the king, write a book to record it, and pass it on to future generations. By the way, it is always good to earn a wave of copyright fees.
(Ming Hui Emperor Zhu Yunshou)
So Zhu Yunspan handed over the work to a group of civil servants around him.
There are three most powerful civil servants around Emperor Jianwen, namely, Hanlin bachelor Fang Xiaoru , War Department Shangshu Qitai , Taichangsiqing Huang Zicheng .
The three ministers are all current Confucian scholars. They are educated, ideal, and ambitious. They are examples of scholars in the world.
For them, not to mention writing a biography to Taizu Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, just let them re-edit the " Yuanshi ", the problem is not too big.
But the point is that the three ministers have another job and they are really lacking in skills.
First, they wanted to help the emperor actively cut the domain and clean up the emperor’s uncles one by one, and secondly, they also wanted to guard against the king of in Peking City. Zhu Di rebelled.So they really don't have time to write books.
But the emperor confessed the task, the ministers can't say sorry, can't do it, I don't have time. No matter how busy the ministers were, they had to bite the bullet and move on to the task.
The mission was in the hands of the civil servants. Everyone decided that they didn't have time, so they could find some foreign aid from the people.
Isn’t the gunman looking for a lot?
Although it is said that there is a specialization in the surgical industry, there are also strange people who are not uniform in the private protection.
This is the first electric shock of Yang Shiqi and the Ming Dynasty. Because of his outstanding learning ability, he was elected as one of the many editors of " Ming Taizu Record". As a result, he was able to enter the Hanlin. Served as editor officer.
(Hanlin Academy)
Friends, editors, the official name is Hanlin Editing.
Popular science, in the imperial examination, only if you get the second (second place) or third place (Thanhua) in the country can you be awarded the position of Hanlin editor by the court.
Remember, this is only possible.
Comrade Yang Shiqi did not take part in the township examination, the general examination, and the palace examination, but he did it overnight, and became an official of the seventh grade.
This incident is only recorded in historical materials in a very unknown corner of history books.It seemed irrelevant, and it seemed to be a trivial matter, but for the scholars in the world at that time, it was undoubtedly a miracle.
After experiencing this change in life, it stands to reason that Yang should always feel a little inner fluctuation in his heart, but Yang Shiqi, as always, behaves very calmly.
Yes, calm.
This is the most commonly used vocabulary when I describe Yang Shiqi.
Because I searched through history books, it was difficult to see the description of Yang Shiqi's emotional changes.
He is neither happy nor sad, neither ecstasy nor disappointed.
entered the imperial court, he was still so pampered, he shut himself in the room every day, and honestly compiled the "Records of Ming Taizu".
(Records of Ming Taizu)
Yes, although it can be selected by the court among tens of thousands of scholars, editing history books is not an easy task.
To blame, the life of Comrade Zhu Yuanzhang is too legendary.
She used cowherds in childhood, monks in youth, rebellions in youth, and emperor in middle age.
The ups and downs of the scenes, the legendary years, have caused Yang Shiqi to write in the dark.
but Yang Shiqi didn’t wait to finish the "Records of the Ming Taizu", Ming Dynasty has changed.
Zhu Di, the lord of Peking City, launched the " Battle of Jing Nan " to pull off his nephew.
This is really reasonable.
I have always said that although Zhu Di wanted to be emperor, he didn't really want to rebel.
Being an emperor is a dream, and not wanting to rebel is a reality.
However, his good nephew Zhu Yun was too tight. King Zhou, Dai Wang, Qi Wang, and Xiang Wang were either scrapped or killed. Seeing that the butcher knife hangs, he will fall on his head. , It’s the opposite.
There is still life in the desperate situation, and a deadly battle may break the enemy.
With the support of this belief, Zhu Di has been advancing all the way and engaged in the rebellion for four years, but Zhu Yunqiang was actually beaten away.
After Zhu Di became emperor, the first thing he did was to establish a cabinet.
This is really what the emperor needs. As a restless emperor who likes to fight everywhere, Zhu Di urgently needs a group of professionals to help him share the complicated national affairs.
(cabinet)
So the emperor carefully selected seven people in the Imperial Academy.
The seven lucky winners are: Jie Jin, Hu Guang , Jin Youzi , Hu Yan, Huang Huai,Yang Rong, and the protagonist of this article, Yang Shiqi.
Xie Jin is known as the number one talented man of the Ming Dynasty. He is talented and arrogant, arrogant and unknowing. Although the emperor is willing to reuse him, he does not trust him.
Hu Guang, Hu Yan, and Huang Huai have mediocre qualifications, and they belong to the cabinet of soy sauce.
Although Jin Youzi is very capable, but he himself is more focused on the study of the sub-collection of classics and history rather than politics, so it is difficult to have any praiseworthy achievements.
Only Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi can play a role in the cabinet.
Yang Rong and Yang Shiqi did not know that in the future, there will also be a minister named and Yang Pu to join, and the three of them will form one called the "Three Yangs" by later generations. The Tiantuan of the Cabinet of the People's Republic of China shined brightly on the political stage in the early years of Ming Dynasty.
Of course, this is something later.
(Zhu Di of Ming Chengzu)
As the emperor, Zhu Di often talked to these ministers in the cabinet to understand the work of the ministers. Secondly, the emperor also had troubles and was unable to be independent. I want to talk to the courtiers about the problems I have solved.
The emperor asked Xie Jin, and Xie Jin was very rude. He was either criticizing or giving pointers, and he had no constructive comments.
The emperor came to Huanghuai. Huanghuai was an honest man. No matter what the emperor said or asked, he always followed a principle, that is, kowtow more and talk less.
The remaining cabinet members, Hu Guang, Hu Yan, and Jin Youzi, chatted with the emperor, opened their mouths on Confucianism and morality, and closed their mouths to quote the scriptures. It was difficult to chat with the emperor about any substantive things.
Comrade Yang Rong is a good brush for governing the country and peace, but Yang Rong is in charge of military affairs and spends most of the time with the army, rarely on duty in the cabinet.
So the only thing Zhu Di can rely on or trust is Yang Shiqi.
Companion with a monarch is like a companion tiger. This sentence can be said to be fully reflected in Zhu Di and Yang Shiqi.
Yang Shiqi chatted with the emperor. The emperor had a good chat. He had a good time for promotion and salary increase, but he didn't pay attention to it. If he touched the emperor, he was in trouble.
The imprisonment of in the Ming Dynasty was a special existence that overrides the national law. The Ministry of Penalty did not dare to manage it, and Dali Temple could not manage it. Anyone who enters the imprisonment is either dead or injured.
Yang Shiqi of course also went to imprisonment for many reasons.
talked to the emperor with disrespect and went to imprisonment for ten days.
's assistant prince ( Zhu Gaochi ) neglected his duty and was sent to imprisonment for five days.
But no matter how many times he went to the prison, he had to be fished out by Zhu Di in the end.
Because Yang Shiqi is on the way of being a minister,It is quite the emperor's favorite.
When he was on duty in the cabinet, he followed a rule, that is, confidentiality.
He knew that the emperor was in a high position and was the noble one, but the emperor was also the loneliest person in the world.
It is very difficult for the emperor to trust others, because no one would regard the emperor himself as a friend.
The royal family members are all banned across the country, and the emperor can't see it or say it.
On the surface, the court ministers were respectful to the emperor and chanted long live the emperor as soon as they met, but do they really want to live ten thousand years?
Not necessarily, because in the feudal monarchy era, courtiers and emperors were mostly interdependent and mutually calculated relationships.
The emperor is ruthless, the ministers are more ruthless, the emperor is bad, and the ministers’ intrigue is even worse.
(Zhu Youjian of Ming Si Zong)
This situation has worsened during the two hundred years of Daming, and even , the emperor of Chongzhen jumped to the foot of the emperor. , Which means that all civil servants can be killed.
But the emperor is also a human, he also has seven emotions and six desires, but also has emotions, anger, sorrow, and joy. I also hope that someone can speak his heart.
But the emperor could not show his timidity, nor could he show his emotions too much in front of his courtiers, so the emperor urgently needed someone who could keep his secrets secret.
Yang Shiqi is such a person.
After long talks with the emperor every night, Yang Shiqi would be silent as long as he left the palace gate. He would not tell what he talked about, what he said, like father and son brothers.
In this way, he is a very trustworthy person, and he is also a person who makes Zhu Di very at ease.
In a sense, he is Zhu Di’s emotional tree hole.
And this is the reason why Yang Shiqi has been standing in the Ming Dynasty for many years.
Xie Jin of the same period is more famous than him, and he is more knowledgeable than him. In terms of merit, the compilation of "Yongle Dadian" is unmatched, but Xie Jin's fate is tragic. (Killed by the emperor)
(解缙)
The reason for the different fate of the two is nothing more than one point. Jie Jin’s talents have already made him ignorant, but Yang Shiqi deeply understands a truth. That is:
To be a minister, you must have the duty of being a minister.
Sometimes, what the emperor needs is not how good you are, how good you are, and how good you are. The emperor only needs you to be loyal enough.
Ming Renzong when Zhu Gaochi was in power,Yang Shiqi was the emperor's young teacher and assisted the emperor to work hard and dare not neglect.
Ming Xuanzong During the reign of Zhu Zhanji, Yang Shiqi entered the cabinet and became the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty. He also became the emperor's right-hand man.
and when the young Yingzong emperor Zhu Qizhen came to the throne, he even joined forces with Yang Rong and Yang Pu to form the strongest "Three Yang" cabinet group of Ming Dynasty, the prime minister’s administration and decision-making. State affairs, became a minister of the Ming Dynasty.
(Three Yangs)
In a sense, Yang Shiqi was undoubtedly the most successful civil servant in that era.
What is success?
Like , Hu Weiyong , a person with power and opposition is not a success, and a short-lived person like Xie Jin is not a success.
The true success is that I am still alive when a thousand sails are exhausted, and I will not die if I succeed.
and Yang Shiqi is such a person.
Orthodox nine years, in 1444 AD, Yang Shiqi died of illness at the age of eighty.
For 80 years, he used his reliability and solidity,Opened up his glorious years.
For 80 years, he has used his unique officialdom experience and wisdom to draw a beautiful end to his life.
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