Early in the morning, Ansu County was already facing a formidable enemy. The government officials came out in all directions, and the local warriors entered the city, even alarming the Baoding vanguard stationed not far from the eastern suburbs of Ansu County. At the request of Liang County Zun, the Baoding vanguard commander personally dispatched troops. About 300 soldiers came to Ansu County to temporarily wait for dispatch and assist in the search.
Not only that, two hours later, before noon, Baoding Cheying guerrilla general Zheng Dezong led his troops of about 800 people to Ansu after a long journey.
Such a mobilization of troops and crowds was not due to horse bandits attacking the city or civil unrest, but simply because of an attempted assassination.
Gao Yingshi, a bachelor who was accompanying the prince to study on vacation, was on his way back to his hometown to prepare for the exam, so he was assassinated in the Zheng family courtyard day and night!
There were about nine to ten assassins in the group. Seven of them were killed on the spot by the Gao family's servants, one of them was seriously injured and captured, and one or two others took advantage of the chaos to escape. Based on analysis and inference, Ansu County believes that the assassin has a high probability of having accomplices.
The assassination of a low-ranking and low-ranking official, whether it is completed or attempted, logically speaking, will never reach the level of dispatching the army. Even now, not only the soldiers of the guards, but also the guerrilla generals of the serious field troops have come. .
This may be related to the word "prince" that begins with the high-pragmatic official position, but in the final analysis, it is of course because of Gao Gong.
Gao Gong was the second assistant of the emperor's division and was in charge of the general affairs. He was the leader of the Holy Family and had all the power in the world. However, Zhang Juzheng, the elder in charge of the Ministry of War, had always been shown to the outside world as Gao Gong's close friend, let alone Baoding. The avant-garde commander and the Baoding Cheying guerrilla general, even if the Baoding general soldier came in person, it would not be unusual.
The commander-in-chief of Baoding didn't come, and it wasn't because he was trying to show off his identity, but he just couldn't help it - he was in the capital at the moment, reporting on matters related to this year's autumn exercise at the Ministry of War, and he didn't even know about Gao Pragmatic's unexpected incident.
If it weren't for the fact that the Baoding garrison eunuch was actually not stationed in Baoding but in Zhending, this middle-ranking nobleman might have been included among the people coming at this moment.
Of course, although the governor of Baoding is also stationed in Zhending, he would not come in person even if he knew about it. After all, the face of civil servants is much more important than military generals and eunuchs.
Gao pragmatically was actually quite dissatisfied when he learned that the matter had become a big deal. Originally, Gao Gong had resigned from the Ministry of Civil Service three times because he had too much power. Now that something happened to him, the local government immediately felt like it was facing a formidable enemy. This was probably not what Gao Gong wanted to see.
What's more, Gao Pragmatic himself doesn't want this.
He is someone who wants to raise his reputation, not his prestige. If the emperor feels that "people in the world only know that there is Gao Gong, but not His Majesty", then I am afraid that even Long Qing will have to reconsider his trust in Gao Gong. It’s not that it’s gone too far.
Too much is not enough, a proud dragon has regrets.
Therefore, even though Gao Pragmatic was a little frightened after the assassination, he still met with Liang Wu, Zheng Dezong and others in person. After cordially and enthusiastically thanking them for their attention, he strongly requested not to escalate the situation and said: It's just that someone was dissatisfied with Shuai Jiamo who insisted on promoting the case of Huizhou native Ding Silk, and wanted to kill someone to silence him, which affected him. It's not worth all the fanfare and effort.
Liang Wu, Zheng Dezong and others who were also frightened certainly welcomed Gao's pragmatic attitude, but they were also worried that Gao Ge would suspect that they did not respect him enough when he found out, so they were hesitant.
Gao pragmatic tried to persuade them again and again, saying that he would give a clear explanation to his third uncle and write a letter from home as proof on the spot. Only then did they give up the idea of "handling special matters" and downplay the matter.
But in fact, Gao Jingshi already knew that this assassination was not aimed at Shuai Jiamo, but at him - the other party was planning to sneak into the north house where he lived at the beginning. After being discovered by the secret sentry arranged by Gao Jue, They even launched a strong attack on Beifang.
Fortunately, although it was impossible for the Gao family's cavalry to engage in cavalry fighting in the Zheng family's courtyard, their shooting skills were top-notch. As soon as the assassins entered the courtyard, three of them were shot to death on the spot.
In the fierce battle that followed, Gao Jue, who had always been vigilant and slept in his clothes, took the lead and killed two people on the spot and seriously injured one, while the rest of the family reaped the rest of the victory.
In Gao Jingshi's north room, only two assassins rushed in. As soon as one of them entered, he was stabbed in the chest by Gao Jue, who had already heard the noise and went to guard Gao Jingshi's bed. The other one was also killed by Gao Jue later. He resisted, and then was hacked to death by several servants who swarmed in.
The whole assassination from start to finish probably took less than a stick of incense, and Gao Pragmatic didn't get out of bed from beginning to end - not because he was calm, but because he was scared, plus he knew that there was no use running, so he might as well Trust Gao Jue with all his heart.
After the assassination, someone escaped, but Gao Jue did not allow his servants to pursue him. He only sent two servants to the county government to inform Liang Wu, and the others were left behind to guard.
Because in his view, protecting Gao's safety is the top priority, and investigating the case afterwards is not within the scope of his tasks.
Gao Jingshi was very nervous for a while, because he had realized that the target of the assassination was him and not Shuai Jiamo, but he could not guarantee whether the assassin would trick the tiger away from the mountain, so he acquiesced in Gao Jue's approach. After all, this was This is the most prudent way to deal with it.
But it didn't take long for him to regret it, because they only got one alive, and that man was not only hit by two arrows, but also chopped several times. He was already unconscious. Whether he could get a confession depends entirely on luck.
There may be many people in the world who want Gao Gong to die. After all, although he has many disciples, he is afraid that there are even more political enemies. But Gao Pragmatic did not believe that Gao Gong's political opponents planned the assassination.
Although the political struggles in the Ming Dynasty were fierce, there were very few civil-official political struggles that escalated to the point of physical destruction, and even fewer were those who resorted to physical destruction to assassination.
Gao Pragmatic has basically ruled out the suspicion of a civil official. After all, it is not in line with common sense and practice. Second, if it is a political enemy, what is the use of killing Gao Pragmatic?
Gao pragmatic believes that the most suspect plotter is only Feng Bao.
But there was one thing he couldn't understand. Feng Baogui was the admiral of Dongchang. Although he had a high status and great power, his subordinates were all Dongchang officials and followers, and there were no so-called charlatans. And this group of assassins According to what Gao Jue said, he really doesn't look like a member of the public family.
Although Feng Bao was sinister and domineering in history, his methods were far from clever. You know, after Gao Gong was forced to step down, Feng Bao also staged a farce of the "Minister Wang Case" in an attempt to kill Gao Gong. But even though the case of Minister Wang was so childish that it made people laugh and cry, it was still considered a "rule". "inside" approach.
At that time, Gao Gong had already resigned. If Feng Bao really had useful "people in the world", wouldn't it be easier to directly assassinate Gao Gong? Why bother with such a stupid case?
Why is this?
If it weren't for Feng Bao, Gao Pragmatic couldn't think of anyone else who would insist on killing him quickly.
