After the Taoist examination, due to the imperial system, he could not meet with the Grand Master, and the inspector himself had to rush to Weihui Mansion to preside over the second batch of Taoist examinations, and there was no time to meet with the candidates for the high school students, so Gao Pragmatic was happy to be at ease. .
To say that it is comfortable is actually an exaggeration. In fact, Gao Pinggong was not idle in Kaifeng Mansion. He first attended and paid for a gathering of a group of Xinzheng students who were newly admitted to high school students, and then went to visit Su Yonglu, the then governor of Henan.
Su Yonglu was a native of Changzhi County, Lu'an Prefecture, Shanxi Province. He was a Jinshi in the 23rd year of Jiajing. He successively served as the magistrate of Shouzhou, Tongzhi of Suzhou Prefecture, Qianshi and deputy envoy of the Shaanxi Procuratorate, Chief Secretary of Zhejiang and participated in politics. In the fourth year of Longqing, he was promoted to governor of Henan.
In the past four years of Longqing's reign, Gao Gong was actually in power, and Henan was Gao Gong's own province. Since Su Yonglu was able to change the governorship of Henan in the fourth year of Longqing, it was obvious that at least he was not Gao Gong's political enemy.
In fact, given his Shanxi origin, it is easy to judge his political leanings - the Jin Party, with Yang Bo, Zhang Siwei, and Wang Chonggu as its troika, has been Gao Gong's main ally in recent years. How could Su Yonglu be promoted from Chief Secretary of Zhejiang to become governor of Henan without Gao Gong's nod?
Gao Pangshi had no impression of Su Zhongcheng. He probably didn't do any earth-shattering things in his previous life. However, according to Gao Gong's previous introduction, Su Yonglu had made a success in investigating Yan Song's case and confiscated Yan Song's family property.
When an official reaches a certain level, anyone can do things like confiscate property, but the problem is that not everyone has the opportunity to do it. Su Yonglu's ability to get this job does not show his ability, but that he belonged to the opposition party of Yan Song in his early years.
Gao Gong was also an opponent of Yan Song, and he was an openly opposed opponent. He was different from people like Xu Jie, who had long been regarded as a vassal of the Yan Party, but turned against Yan Song when things came to pass.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so Su Yonglu can basically be regarded as "one of our own".
Originally, Gao Pragmatic's visit had no special purpose. If there was one, it would be to connect with Su Zhongcheng, a local member of the Gao Party or the Pan-Gao Party, and nothing more.
However, when he met Su Yonglu, he discovered something interesting.
Su Yonglu has been a little busy recently, busy quelling civil unrest, and is quite exhausted.
It’s a long story, so there’s really no need to start from the beginning. To make it short, it’s this: water transportation has been blocked in recent years, especially from central and southern Shandong to Xuzhou in northern Jiangsu. Large-scale embankments have collapsed almost every year. Counties are frequently flooded and people are displaced.
If it were in the Red Dynasty, there would have been large-scale flood fighting and rescue operations before this happened, and the soldiers would have gone to wherever the danger was, and would have blocked the breaches at the human wall, but in the Ming Dynasty, don't even think about such a thing.
Not to mention that there is no hope of directing the flood control at the national level. Even local disaster relief depends on whether the local officials and gentry have the will...and the ability. Anyway, as far as Gao Pangshi knows, the imperial finances are still in the Jiajing Dynasty. He is always in debt, so how can he have the financial resources to take care of this?
As a result, there are millions of refugees in the Yellow River Flood Area of nearly 100,000 square kilometers. Among them, there are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of "disaster victims" over whom the local government has completely lost control.
Although the vast majority of Chinese people are honest and kind, when people reach a desperate situation and see that they can no longer survive, they dare to have any evil thoughts. Therefore, it didn’t take long for more than a dozen villages of various sizes to pop up in this large area. Most of the changes were caused by bandits and bandits who took advantage of the refugees.
As far as the imperial court is concerned, most of these people belong to the emperor's subjects and can be saved as long as disaster relief is effective. But for local officials, it's not that easy to talk about - civil unrest will affect the evaluation!
Therefore, unless they can be recruited as soon as possible, the main task will be to destroy them.
It stands to reason that the civil unrest in Yanzhou under the jurisdiction of Shandong and Xuzhou under the jurisdiction of Nanzhili due to Huang Fan has nothing to do with Su Yonglu, the governor of Henan, but in fact, as long as you open the map and look at it, you will know that the return of Henan Defu happens to be just to the west of Yanzhou and Xuzhou, but it has not been hit by disaster yet... Then there is no need to say that the rebels in the civil uprising are not gods. They don't need to eat after the rebellion? Of course, I ran to Guide Mansion nearby to find food.
Therefore, Yanzhou and Xuzhou suffered disasters, but Guide Prefecture was unlucky. A large group of hungry and howling refugee soldiers rushed towards Guide Prefecture in unison.
Although these refugee armies are divided into many groups, they are not very powerful individually. They can range from tens of thousands to tens of thousands, or even a few hundred people. However, they are too numerous to handle. Even if Su Yonglu wanted to pacify them, he would not be able to pacify them. They have to be dispersed one by one.
Moreover, he represents the government and the orthodoxy of the imperial court, so it is not enough to disperse them. They must find ways to place these people in place, otherwise they will never be truly stable.
Henan is located in the middle of the world, and its agriculture has always been pretty good. At this time, the "yellow floods" are generally in Shandong, downstream, so relatively speaking, there are relatively few civil unrests in Henan, which also affects Henan's military and political affairs. Officials are not very good at handling these matters. Not to mention that the Henan garrison has not fought any battles in the past two hundred years, so it is hard to say whether its combat effectiveness is even five.
However, based on his experience in Zhejiang, Su Zhongcheng felt that although the local guards of the imperial court were unreliable in fighting Japanese pirates, they seemed to be quite effective in quelling civil unrest. Therefore, Su Zhongcheng arranged for the first wave of quelling the rebellion to be divided into seven groups. He planned to first Take down these larger groups of bandits in one wave, and then the smaller bandits will be easier to deal with.
The ideal is indeed full, but the reality is always skinny. When these seven armies attacked for the first time, only one of them won, and it was a miserable victory. The other six armies suffered a shameful defeat without exception!
As a result, these armies all retreated to Zhangde Mansion and merged into one army. The battle reports to Su Zhongcheng stated that "Guide Mansion is as stable as Mount Tai!"
Su Yonglu was so angry that his face turned green. This military sect asked you to suppress the bandits. It would be better for you to suppress the bandits back to your own lair. How dare you tell me that your lair is as secure as Mount Tai? I have been in the officialdom for decades and have seen a lot of shameless people, but I have never seen anyone like you who can forcefully talk about your butt as your face!
When Su Yonglu and Gao Pragmatic talked about this matter, they were so angry that they beat the table and said that they would remove all these losers from their posts and investigate.
After hearing this, Gao Pragmatic also had a lot of dark thoughts in his head. He knew that the Mainland Guards were all scum, but he didn't know that they could be so scumbag. It simply set a new limit for the combat effectiveness of the regular army.
But the matter has come to this point. Cursing people cannot solve the problem. Removing them from their posts and investigating them is an obvious statement of anger and has no feasibility. There is no point in worrying about how incompetent this group of people are now. The most important thing at the moment is to find a way to stabilize the situation. situation.
Otherwise, if Su Yonglu's side is unable to control even a small amount of petty rebellion and the land of Henan Province is disrupted, even Gao Gong will be tempted to take advantage of Su Yonglu's trap. If this is the case, no matter how capable Su Yonglu is, he will always be the governor of a province. If he falls like this, Gao Dang will always cut off one of his arms - at least one of his fingers.
Gao pragmatic thought for a while, and had no choice but to tentatively offer some advice to see if Su Yonglu was willing to listen.
