Being in the business world, Fourth Master Hua has always known a lot about the officialdom. This is due to his grandfather who always pays attention to the changes in the court and then makes corresponding adjustments to try his best to prevent the Hua family from standing on the wrong side or taking the wrong path. It is also due to the fact that he passed the examination for a scholar before he was twenty, and the Inspector of Nanzhili who admitted him at that time was also a famous scholar.
Therefore, he not only knew very well the current future prospects of the cabinet ministers and the sons and nephews of the ministers in the early years of the Yongchen period, but his home also had the gold lists of the imperial examinations in the first year of the Yongchen period and the gold lists of the following spring examinations. He could even remember the resumes of the top ten Jinshi.
When those big guys were the teachers and presided over the imperial examinations, those Jinshi who were able to rank among the top were all world-renowned talents at the time. The Prime Minister at that time, Xu Ge Lao, even praised the number one scorer in the special examination as a talent for governing the country, and said that he would definitely be appointed as a prime minister in the future. But in the end... Haha, when he retired due to illness last year, he was just a fourth-rank governor of a place in Sichuan.
Not to mention entering the cabinet, even becoming a provincial governor or a vice minister is still a long way off!
Now, almost all the chief officials of the cabinet, the six ministries, the Censorate, and the Supreme Court were from the special examinations and the imperial examinations in the early years of Yongchen. Nine out of ten of them considered themselves to be the emperor's disciples and had little or no contact with the master. And the remaining one was not an exception. When people met the sons and nephews of the master, they would probably call them "brothers" politely, but when they asked for help, they would be helpless.
I remember that it was the Prime Minister Xu who took the lead in giving the late emperor the posthumous title of Ruizong. After the emperor took power, he did his best to oppose sending official ships to revisit the old cruise route on the grounds that it would waste money and labor. But over the years, the disciples that Xu really regarded as successors have all died, and his sons and nephews have not become successful. If the old accounts are really brought up again now, it looks a bit miserable!
Mr. Hua Si was sighing over the miserable situation of the disciples of Mr. Xu after his death, but Cao Wu was not as sentimental as this Confucian businessman from Suzhou and did not sigh.
Zhang Shou's words aroused his passion and ambition, and he said loudly: "I am a rough man. I have never liked reading since I was a child. I only like martial arts. Although people I know have given me the title of the best master, in the final analysis, I am just a rough man who fights and kills. If I can really contribute to the stability of our country's sea borders as Dr. Zhang said, it is my duty!"
Mr. Hua Si did not expect Cao Wu to be so obedient. He immediately obeyed Zhang Shou's orders. After a moment of shock, he felt that he could understand. After learning literary and martial arts, they were sold to the emperor's family. Unfortunately, scholars have channels to sell, but most warriors have nowhere to sell. The worst thing is that now there is no war to fight!
He thought about it in his mind, and immediately said with a smile on his face: "Dr. Zhang, your idea is indeed like clearing the clouds to see the moon, but this matter is serious, and I have to go back and discuss it with others. However, I heard that a student of the former Prime Minister Jiang Ge Lao has submitted many proposals on maritime and agricultural commerce in the past month, and it seems that he is interested in the governor of Cangzhou. Dr. Zhang, you should pay more attention to it."
Zhang Shou laughed and raised his hand to signal Mr. Hua Si and Cao Wu to stop talking. He also drank a full cup and said calmly, "Cangzhou belongs to the imperial court. Cangzhou has been upgraded to a prefecture. The emperor and the officials of the imperial court will take care of who will be the prefect of Cangzhou. Why should I bother with that?"