On October 19th, the fourth year of Longqing's reign, the quarrel in the capital came to an end when Rao Renkan, Wu Shangxian and others, the backbone of the main war faction, were suddenly demoted to foreign posts.
Although the victory of the peace faction was mainly due to the persistence of the cabinet and the emperor's acceptance, there was another important reason. Yesterday, the imperial envoy inspected Xuanda's defense and watched the government on behalf of the prince.
This time, Gao Pragmatic not only reiterated the benefits of accepting tribute, but more importantly, brought good news: through negotiations between him and the Datong garrison eunuch Huang Mengyu and An Da, An Da has decided that as long as Daming accepted his request for tribute, and he would return all the remnants of Bailian headed by Zhao Quan to Daming, leaving them at their disposal.
Moreover, in order to show sincerity, these people have been captured by Anda from Dabansheng City, and are now all escorted outside the Anda Central Army and Desheng Fort. Desheng Fort has sent people to the Anda Army Lieutenant General to arrest these rebels. Once the thief is found out, he only needs a word from the court and I will hand him over.
The importance that the Ming Dynasty attaches to the remnants of White Lotus has been detailed in the previous article, and there is no need to elaborate here. Therefore, after the news of Gao Pingshi reached the capital, the main combatants from top to bottom knew that it was impossible to prevent this tribute. , irreversible.
Sure enough, early the next morning, Longqing's Zhu Biao came down. Not only did he sternly reprimand the main battle opinions, but he also demoted and transferred all the people who made the most noise from the main battle faction to other posts. At the same time, Longqing ordered the cabinet to immediately discuss the details of the tribute.
In addition, in view of the outstanding performance of the deputy imperial envoy, the Crown Prince, in accompanying Gao Jingshi, Long Qing issued a separate decree, ordering Gao Jingshi to return to Beijing immediately to report the details of my request for a title and tribute.
This move was slightly unexpected by Gao Pragmatism. He originally thought that Long Qing could wait until he finished the work of paying tribute to An Da before returning to the capital to report on his duties. But now that the imperial edict was issued, he could only return to the capital according to the imperial edict.
Since the first imperial edict and the crown prince's decree that he had previously accepted required him to report to the palace immediately after returning to Beijing, Gao pragmatically did not even return to the palace after returning to Beijing, but went directly to the palace to make a statement.
The emperor and the prince appeared together and listened to Gao Pragmatic's report in the Wenhua Hall.
However, neither the emperor nor the prince expressed whether they accepted it on the spot. They only said that they would forward the contents of the report to the cabinet for detailed discussion. But Gao Pragmatic's trip was not in vain. He was rewarded - not just twenty or thirty taels of silver like Qi Jiguang, but a bright red silk bullfighting uniform.
The bullfighting suit, the python suit, and the flying fish suit are all similar to the Longgun suit worn by the emperor because of their patterns. They are not part of the official uniform system, but are special rewards for eunuchs or important ministers in the Ming Dynasty. The gift of submission. Among them, the bullfighting suit is a kind of ceremonious costume after the python suit and the flying fish suit. According to common sense, of course, a high and pragmatic grade should never be given a bullfighting suit - even if he is a "fake bachelor" with the word "fake" in it. It shouldn't even be removed. Generally speaking, the top-ranking Hanlin bachelors in the Hanlin Academy are barely qualified.
However, due to the indiscriminate granting of python suits and flying fish suits by the Zhengde and Jiajing dynasties, these systems are now somewhat collapsed. Gao Pragmatic played a big role in the court's determination to pay tribute to Anda this time, so this bullfighting It was given after serving, and the outside world did not react much to this reward - Gao Pragmatic was considered a civil servant anyway, and civil servants must be rewarded for their merits, but Gao Pragmatic himself was a special case within the imperial official system, and it was impossible to give it to him If someone is promoted to a higher rank, then given a bullfighting uniform, everyone will think it's okay.
"I worked so hard on a business trip, and I only had some clothes on me!" Gao pragmatically muttered, rolling his eyes.
However, when he got the bullfighting suit that was awarded to him, his mood improved again, because he found that the embroidery on the bullfighting suit was actually not a cow, but a dragon.
To be precise, this is a big red dragon robe - except that the dragon has a pair of big curved horns.
The ancients divided dragons into four types: those with scales are called Jiaolong; those with wings are called Yinglong; those with horns are called Qiulong; and those without horns are called Chilong.
Bullfighting is like a horned dragon.
As for the python suit, it is also a dragon. The only difference from the emperor's dragon is its claws, which are four claws instead of the emperor's five. The flying fish is a dragon with wings and a fish tail.
Generally speaking, Gao Pragmatic is a quite contented person. He feels that he has a "dragon robe" after all, and it will be easier to meet people when he goes out in the future - before this, he was the only one in Qingpao who came in and out of the palace all day long. A minor official is worse than some eunuchs in the palace, because many eunuchs wear flying fish clothes. He, who is wearing a green robe, is really a bit shabby among them every day.
Now that he has been given a bullfight uniform, he will feel completely different in front of these people in the future. Although in theory, the flying fish suit is a bit more advanced than the bullfighting suit, in fact, the rewards for the flying fish suit are the most abundant. Not to mention the various flying fish suits in the Jinyiwei Yamen, the flying fish suits in the inner court are also indiscriminately excessive. Therefore, it is actually difficult to reflect the so-called dignity. After all, in this period, "unicorns are as numerous as dogs, and flying fish are everywhere in the streets" - of course, if these unicorns and flying fish are worn by civil servants, they are still worth mentioning.
On the contrary, bullfighting uniforms are relatively rare. In Gao Panggang's view, besides the python robe, it is more respectable to wear a bullfighting uniform...
When he got home, Gao Jingshi quickly changed out of his white robe and put on the big red silk bullfight uniform to show off. The two little girls who were watching the moon and listening to the piano also joked that he looked more and more handsome in this outfit. Handsome, the tall lady is so beautiful that she smiles all over her face.
Unfortunately, Shoumei didn't have enough time. It didn't take long for Gao Gong to return to his house, and he immediately sent someone to call Gao pragmatism. As a result, when Gao Pragmatic took one look at Gao Gong's red python robe, he immediately withered.
Gao Gong didn't notice Gao's pragmatic expression, but said with a serious face: "This time you interfered with my answer, it's a bit too much. Some people in Beijing may have some ideas..."
Gao Pangshi was stunned for a moment, then frowned and said, "Third Uncle, I just happened to meet at the right time this time. At that time, my title of imperial envoy was needed to lure the enemy to Fort Desheng."
Gao Gong glanced at him sideways and snorted: "Then you have to go? Are you an envoy?"
"Well, Senior Brother Huazhang went with Duke Jianchuan at that time." Gao Pragmatic explained with a guilty conscience.
Gao Gong glared at him: "You volunteered to go to Desheng Fort. How could I not know?" Then he waved his hand again: "Now is not the time to talk about this. No matter why you went, you are involved in this matter." If it’s too much, there will always be someone who won’t be happy… I mean, you’ll have to go back to Xinzheng in February next year for reference, and it’s almost November anyway, so you might as well go back to your hometown in advance to prepare.”
Gao Pragmatic was slightly startled and said subconsciously: "Isn't it a little early to go back now?"
Gao Gong shook his head and said, "It's not too early, because you have to go to Anyang on the way."
"Anyang?" Gao Pingshi thought for a moment and said suddenly, "Oh, what San Bo means..."
