Gao pragmatic returned to Gao University's residence with a solemn expression. He originally wanted to discuss matters with Gao Gong, but Gao Gong has been busier than anyone else these days and is still in the staff department and has not returned.
Even Gao Pragmatic couldn't do anything about it. He couldn't send someone to invite Gao Gong back, could he? Before long, he thought of taking advantage of this opportunity to carefully summarize and analyze the recent situation to see if there was anything missing in his response.
At this time, it doesn't matter if you work in vain, but it will be fatal if you make mistakes.
Unfortunately, before he could calm down and think, Gao Mo hurried into his study and said with a serious face: "Young Master, the Young Master sent someone to send urgent information. There is something strange happening in Feng Bao's house!"
Gao Pingshi's originally calm eyes suddenly flashed with a sharp light, and he asked in a deep voice: "What's the strange movement?"
"There are two points." The situation was urgent. Gao Mo answered directly without any nonsense: "The first point is that Feng Bao left the palace and returned directly to the house. Then Xu Jue led his people on horseback and rode out of the city not long after. The young master's No one could follow him, but they said that Xu Jue left the city from Xizhimen, and judging from the direction, the destination should be Changping or Tianshou Mountain."
"Haha, I finally know that I can't settle the matter, so I'm going to ask Mr. Zhang Ge for advice?" Gao Pingshi showed a sarcastic smile and asked: "What about the other point?"
"The Jin Yiwei Qianhu named Chu also followed Xu Jue out of Feng Mansion, but he did not follow him out of the city. Instead, he quietly went to Fahua Temple in Nancheng."
"Fahua Temple?" Gao Pingshi frowned slightly and asked, "What's so special about that place?"
Gao Mo shook his head and said: "Nancheng is a new city built by the Sejong Dynasty. Most of the residents are ordinary people, a mixture of good and bad. Although Fahua Temple is a temple, it is surrounded by private houses, and the young master's people are also somewhat conspicuous there. We don’t dare to follow too closely, and we haven’t found out anything yet, so the young master can only ask them to continue to monitor them, and has no other orders.”
"What are your guesses?" Gao pragmatically asked.
Gao Mo pondered for a moment and replied: "This man named Chu planned the assassination of the eldest young master last time in Ansu. I am worried that this guy is unwilling to die, or that Feng Baogou jumps over the wall and wants to do it again in Ansu." , Young Master must be careful."
Gao pragmatic frowned and thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "I don't think so. Ansu is Ansu, and the capital is the capital. I don't think Feng Baoneng is so brave as to play with me in the capital." This hand."
Gao Mo said anxiously: "But young master, be prepared..."
"Listen to me." Gao Pragmatic stretched out his hand and interrupted: "Feng Bao may not have received the latest news at this moment. Before I left the palace just now, I persuaded Meng Chong to resign from the post of Chief of Ceremonies and go to Tianshou Mountain to give Emperor Daxing supervised the construction of Xuan Palace, and Meng Chong has already agreed. Feng Bao wants to do the palm seal, so I will let him have a taste of it first. I guess there will be an order on this matter early tomorrow morning."
Gao Mo was extremely surprised and said in astonishment: "Let Feng Bao do the palm seal? Then wouldn't it mean that we have made many preparations..."
"Don't worry, these preparations will be useful." Gao Pragmatic narrowed his eyes slightly: "Whether Ansu's assassination was caused by Feng Bao's personal instruction or his subordinates acted recklessly, it was his people after all. He did it. I have to settle this account with him carefully. If I don’t let him climb to the top, how can I make him fall more painfully?”
Gao Mo then laughed and said: "What the young master said is absolutely true. Feng Bao really has a right to die, and his ghost is still lingering, so we have to let him fall harder."
Gao pragmatic also smiled, but said nothing.
He thought to himself: Feng Baocai in history really had a right to death. Now it is much worse than in the original history... But even if it was like that in history, Wanli really didn't kill him directly.
Therefore, it is easy to destroy him, but it still requires some means to make him die. After all, ever since the incident in which Emperor Shizong Jiajing was almost strangled to death by a palace maid, the nobles in the palace have subconsciously restrained their punishment of eunuchs and palace ladies, and rarely beat and kill them as often as in the past.
But this is not absolute. After all, the two palaces and the young emperor are not Long Qing. They cannot be expected to be at the same level as Long Qing. These three ladies are not people with rich political experience. As long as they are stimulated severely, they will definitely make a move. Neither light nor heavy.
"Looking at the dishes and choosing what to eat" is not a good saying, but it must be a golden rule in official circles.
Therefore, when facing Long Qing, Gao Jingjing only dared to use fair and aboveboard means, and Weiwei relied on influencing Gao Gong to achieve his goal. The reason is that nine times out of ten, underhanded tricks will be discovered by Emperor Longqing, who has been pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger. On the contrary, it will ruin things.
This is like how Gao Pragmatic tried every means to make himself the prince's companion. Emperor Longqing seemed to have fallen into the trap without knowing it, but judging from his actions before his death, this seemingly mediocre and even ridiculous emperor actually fell into the trap without knowing it. In turn, the uncle of the Gao family and his beloved son Zhu Yijun were tied together.
Who can guarantee that Emperor Longqing didn't see it through? Anyway, Gao Pragmatic couldn't guarantee it. He thought that Emperor Long Qing might have taken advantage of the situation at that time, and then observed him for a period of time and felt that he would indeed be able to assist Zhu Yijun in the future, so he did this trick before he died.
If Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng can really maintain close cooperation under Long Qing's reconciliation, then Long Qing's arrangement is almost equivalent to paving the way for Zhu Yijun for decades - ten years for Gao Gong and ten years for Zhang Juzheng. Pragmatism has also reached its thirtieth year. With Zhu Yijun's care and approval, he has every chance to join the cabinet to assist the government.
Of course, Long Qing certainly didn't expect that Zhang Juzheng only lived to the tenth year of Wanli in history, but he couldn't be blamed for this. After all, he was not a god. Who knew that Zhang Juzheng didn't live to be sixty?
Therefore, Gao Jingshi did not dare to make mistakes for a master like Long Qing, who was obviously a master but did not show off at all. Even when Long Qing was alive, Gao Jingshi would rather swallow the fine steel products of the three major factories in Kaiping, which had no market. The bitter consequence was that the military-industrial private sector was not raised in front of him.
But facing the two palaces and the little emperor, Gao Pragmatic dared to play some more vicious tricks. Of course, this conspiracy was only aimed at political opponents such as Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng, not against the young emperor or the two palaces. He did not want to plant a mine now that would blow him up in the future.
Well, Feng Bao and Zhang Juzheng in history are examples of people who planted mines to blow themselves up, because the little emperor will grow up sooner or later. You can bully him for a while, but you can't bully him for the rest of his life.
Therefore, the current so-called dirty trick, even if the two palaces are ignored, must at least be recognized by the little emperor in his heart, not only now, but also in the future in retrospect.
No matter which dynasty or generation, murder is definitely a serious crime, and "plotting to assassinate the prince's companion" is certainly an added crime. However, Gao Pragmatic believes that this is not enough - this crime may be enough to kill Feng Bao, but just killing someone It's not enough, you also need to punish your heart.
Even if Feng Bao can be killed for this crime alone, it may make Concubine Li dissatisfied, because if she kills Feng Bao for this crime, Concubine Li will definitely consider it from the perspective of appeasing Gao Gong, and it is not that she really wants to kill him.
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic must blame Feng Bao for being "disloyal to his master".
Eunuchs are also domestic slaves. As far as the royal family is concerned, if the domestic slaves do something wrong or bad, it doesn't matter. They just have to teach them a lesson. Only if it involves betrayal of the Lord, that is a crime that must be punished!
In short, what Gao Pragmatic wanted was not to use the situation to force Concubine Li to kill Feng Bao, but to make Concubine Li take the initiative to kill Feng Bao.
