It's not that Wang Keshou's official career was good. This was just the promotion process of ordinary officials in the Ming Dynasty, and there was nothing worthy of praise.

What is strange about Zhu Youxiao is not this, but that Wang Kershou built an academy for Feng Congwu.

Feng Congwu is now in the court. He is a proper Donglin Party member. Even if he is not a Donglin Party member, he can still be regarded as half a Donglin Party member.

He also followed Neo-Confucianism. It is interesting that Wang Keshou was able to build an academy for Feng Congwu.

Zhu Youxiao looked at Luo Sigong and asked calmly: "Are you sure that Wang Keshou's lineage can inherit Li Zhi's mantle?"

You must know that Li Zhi's legacy is not easy to inherit, and Wang Keshou is obviously not this kind of person. Although he is Li Zhi's student, judging from his behavior, this person is obviously an official.

He doesn't have Li Zhi's ideas and mentality, and he doesn't have any family tradition in his heart. He is just an official anyway. How can he inherit Li Zhi's mantle?

"Your Majesty, Wang Keshou can't do it." Luo Sigong said directly: "But Wang Keshou's students can. As far as I know, Wang Keshou has a student named Chen Kedao, who is very arrogant and highly respects Li Zhi's teachings.

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Zhu Youxiao looked at Luo Sigong and asked, "How old is this Chen Kedao and what is his status?"

"Your Majesty, Chen Kedao is thirty-six years old and is a rising star of the Taizhou school." Luo Sigong thought for a while and said.

Zhu Youxiao frowned. It was not that he selected people based on their age or qualifications, but that for the things he wanted this person to do, he must have qualifications and be able to suppress others.

This Chen Kedao is obviously not feasible. Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao looked at Luo Sigong and asked: "Is there any suitable candidate?"

"Your Majesty, in this case it can only be Jiao Hong's lineage." Luo Sigong thought for a while and then said.

Jiao Hong? This name sounds very familiar, but Zhu Youxiao can't remember anything special about this person.

"Tell me about it!" Zhu Youxiao looked at Luo Sigong and asked directly.

Now he is beginning to become curious, how much does Luo Sigong know? It seems that Luo Sigong has really studied it in depth, or is he also influenced by the Taizhou School?

However, as far as Zhu Youxiao knows, this does not seem to be the case. The Taizhou School is very powerful among the people and is a prominent school, but this is not the case at the top.

"Your Majesty, Jiao Hong took part in the examination in the 17th year of Wanli's reign and won the first place in the first class. He was selected to compile for the Hanlin Academy and later served as a secretary in Nanjing." Luo Sigong said quickly.

When Zhu Youxiao heard this, he immediately laughed.

This person is a bit interesting. The dignified number one scholar was awarded Hanlin Compilation. According to common sense, it is not guaranteed to be included in the cabinet, but he should be able to get into the six books, right? Even if he can't get into the six ministers, he should be able to get into it.

The last six ministers, right?

In the end, nothing happened, and I directly started a Nanjing company.

Obviously, this is not as simple as offending someone, but rather being rejected by the emperor. The reason should be very simple, that is, this person must have done something that made the emperor very unhappy.

Although there is a reason for this, that is, Jiao Hong won the first prize at the age of fifty, but it is not that miserable.

At this time, Zhu Youxiao also remembered something about Jiao Hong. It was a piece of news he saw in his previous life. It was about what academic circles at home and abroad call "the largest research project on traditional Chinese thought and culture", the "Critical Biography Series of Chinese Thinkers"

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This "Series of Books" aims to explore the profound foundation of traditional Chinese thought and culture and reveal the inherent laws of its development and changes. It selects literature, history, philosophy, economics, agriculture, industry, medicine, and other fields over more than two thousand years from Confucius to Sun Yat-sen.

There are more than a hundred figures who have made outstanding achievements in various fields such as politics, military, education, science and technology and religion.

As an "encyclopedic" figure, Jiao Hong was elected together with Hai Rui, Huang Zongxi and later Gu Yanwu, Pu Songling and others of the same era, which attracted the attention of all walks of life.

Zhu Youxiao also paid attention to it at that time, and even checked information about Jiao Hong.

One thing that is very interesting is that Jiao Hong is the teacher of a person. This person is Xu Guangqi, whom he has always wanted to use, and Jiao Hong is Xu Guangqi's teacher.

Could it be that the Jiao Hong lineage Luo Sigong mentioned was Xu Guangqi?

Now Zhu Youxiao knows why Xu Guangqi was marginalized in the officialdom. Xu Guangqi's ideas are similar to those of his teacher, and with the things he himself admires, it is good that he has not been labeled a heretic.

"Although Jiao Hong is dead, his student is still there, and it is Xu Guangqi." After saying this, Luo Sigong bowed and stopped talking.

Zhu Youxiao finally knew why Luo Sigong mentioned Wang Keshou's lineage first. The reason was very simple, that is, he didn't want to mention Xu Guangqi.

He asked Xu Guangqi to return to Beijing, summoned him in person, and expressed condolences to Xu Guangqi's farewell speech. In Luo Sigong's view, this was a very, very obvious symbol.

He wanted to make another appointment for Xu Guangqi, so Luo Sigong did not mention Xu Guangqi, but instead mentioned Wang Keshou's student. Now that he denied it, he mentioned Xu Guangqi.

Although he said this, Zhu Youxiao also knew that Jiao Hong could only be regarded as Xu Guangqi's teacher. It's really hard to say how much of Jiao Hong's ideas Xu Guangqi inherited.

Of course, the friendship between Jiao Hong and Xu Guangqi goes without saying. Xu Guangqi took the Shuntian Mansion Examination at the age of 36. The examiner was the famous Confucian Jiao Hong. He discovered his talent and knowledge from the examination papers and considered him to be a "famous Confucian scholar", so he was selected as the No. 1 scholar.

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In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli, Jiao Hong was ordered by the emperor to select talents for the country and served as deputy examiner of the general examination. He got the Xu Guangqi paper among the unsuccessful papers. "(Jiao Hong) was surprised after reading it. He slapped the case and sighed: This is

He is undoubtedly a world-famous scholar." He resolutely promoted Xu Guangqi, who had already fallen behind Sun Shan, to the first place.

Jiao Hong and Dong Qichang also introduced Xu Guangqi to Yuan Keli, the governor of Denglai in the same year, which gave Xu Guangqi a place to put his talents in weapons to use.

Although it sounds very beautiful, Zhu Youxiao feels that there are many things hidden in it.

For example, during the Shuntian Prefecture Township Examination, Xu Guangqi failed, and Jiao Hong selected Xu Guangqi from the unsuccessful papers; during the general examination, it was Jiao Hong who selected Xu Guangqi from the unsuccessful papers.

No matter how you look at it, it looks like someone deliberately deposed Xu Guangqi, and Jiao Hong kept him. There is a feeling of party struggle, maybe even a battle between orthodoxy, between psychology and Neo-Confucianism, between the Taizhou School and other schools of thought.

If things are really as he suspected, then the relationship between Xu Guangqi and Jiao Hong is not that simple.

Of course, the facts also proved Jiao Hong's vision.

Xu Guangqi later served as the Minister of Rites and a Bachelor of Dongge and a Bachelor of Wenyuange. He devoted his life to the study of astronomy, calendar, water conservancy, surveying, mathematics, agriculture and other natural sciences and technologies, and became a far-sighted Ming Dynasty scientist who was well versed in Chinese and Western knowledge.
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