The emperor left with the two princesses. Gao pragmatically walked to the door before returning to the small building. As soon as he entered the door, he saw Gao Mo already waiting there.
Gao Jingshi was not surprised at all and said directly, "You have heard what the emperor and I just said. Arrange for someone to go to Yanghe. Just tell me what I said. Please make the final arrangements at Xuanda University quickly and prepare to return to Beijing to take up the post." Da Sima."
Gao Mo didn't ask any more questions or question it. Although Zhu Yijun didn't clearly say who the Minister of War would choose just now, his eldest son had been a classmate of the emperor for ten years, so he must have a better understanding of the emperor's language habits. Since he was so sure, he couldn't believe it. It would be wrong, so I bowed to the answer.
Gao Mo is also almost fifty years old. As the saying goes, old people don’t rely on their muscles and bones for strength. This is not the world of martial arts. Of course, his main job has gradually changed from a bodyguard to a "civilian", and he has officially established the position of servant N. He gave it to Gao Jue and became the director of Gao Pangshi's newly established "Internal Affairs Department".
However, this internal affairs office is not a highly pragmatic nanny office. If its main responsibilities can be described with a simple analogy, it is equivalent to a highly pragmatic factory guard. Within the Jinghua system, Dongchang added Jinyiwei, and now the internal affairs department is packed and done.
The Internal Affairs Department of Jinghua is currently in the initial stage. There are only three departments in total, namely the Security Department, the Special Service Department and the Auditing Department. The operating funds of the Internal Affairs Department are recorded in separate accounts and special expenditures in a highly pragmatic manner, and do not follow any account within the Jinghua system. .
The Security Section is responsible for a relatively simple task, which is the security of Gao Pragmatic himself and his two residences in Beijing. Others include the Jianxinzhai Courtyard. Since servants are stationed there, the Security Section is not involved. There are not many people in this department, currently less than 200 people, but they are all selected from the best of the various armed systems under the name of Jinghua, and the characteristic is that having a family does not necessarily mean that you have a wife and children, but you must The whole family is under the control of Jinghua.
Compared with the simplicity of the Security Section, the tasks that the Special Service Section is responsible for are more complex. They include not only internal surveillance of the system, but also external intelligence gathering, including Gao Pragmatic who has been obsessed with expanding intelligence to the south. They even take on some tasks similar to Go to Fujian, Guangdong and other places to find some strange and eccentric tasks such as "seeds of agricultural products spread from overseas" and "various nautical maps of East Asia, Nanyang and other places", so this special service unit has already booked in advance the "most capable" of the Internal Affairs Office. The title is "Huaqianke".
In fact, to a certain extent, the Audit Section exists in conjunction with the Special Service Section, because the Special Service Section is only responsible for collecting intelligence, but is not responsible for summarizing and proposing handling opinions, so this work is the responsibility of the Audit Section. By the way, the Audit Section will also evaluate the results achieved by the Special Service Section after spending money. If the results are too poor, Jinghua also has an internal "teaching method".
Of course, sending a message to Wu Dui was now left to the Special Service Section. After Gao Pragmatic handed over this small task, he couldn't help but feel a little proud.
Am I a bit like a prime minister now?
However, this thought only passed by for a moment. After all, he knew in his heart that the commoner prime minister was, to put it bluntly, a fake and powerful person without a formal identity. Although under certain circumstances, he might be less restrained than the real prime minister, he could still borrow power. It is always the power of others. Once the Holy Family is slightly unstable, this castle in the air can only collapse instantly.
It would be interesting to be a real prime minister
I just don’t know if Zhu Yijun, who was not taught to be psychologically distorted by Zhang Juzheng, will go to the point where he will no longer see foreign ministers. If he still wants to be an otaku emperor in the future, if only I, Gao Pragmatic, and a foreign minister can see him, He is almost a real prime minister. Although he still does not have the power to open a government, but "isolating China and foreign countries" is also very big. It is equivalent to the responsibility of the foreign minister and the internal minister.
But these are still far away. At least for now, it seems that Zhu Yijun is still very normal.
Hey, wait, there seems to be something a little abnormal. At least today when he mentioned finding a consort for the third princess, he felt quite helpless about the "ancestral system". This helplessness may not be caused by dissatisfaction and inability to change. .
Gao Pangshi was thinking wildly when he suddenly saw Cao Ke running in hurriedly, handing out two books to him and saying, "Young Master, Zhang Butang, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, and Wei Butang, the Minister of the Ministry of Industry, are here to visit. Now we have already arrived." When we get to the gate, these are the names of the two of them."
Gao Pingshi was startled for a moment, then took the card and took a look. Sure enough, it was Zhang Xueyan and Wei Xuezeng who were here.
Although he couldn't figure out the reason, Gao Pragmatic immediately ordered, "Open the middle door. Please sit down in the flower hall of the Ministry Hall for a moment. Tell me that I will be there soon after taking a bath and changing clothes."
Bathing and changing clothes are the etiquette for meeting important guests. Although Gao Pragmatic always feels that this etiquette is a waste of time, there is nothing he can do. He doesn't want these two people to feel slighted.
After Cao Ke went down, Gao pragmatic hurriedly went to take a shower and change clothes.
After changing into a sapphire blue robe and incense, he hurried to the flower hall.
As soon as he entered the door, Gao Pingshi saw two officials wearing "big red dragon robes" arguing about something. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that they were both wearing flying fish suits, which is the local name for the so-called "big red silk flying fish suits". It is rare among civil servants, but it is not particularly rare among high-ranking officials in the capital, including Gao Pragmatic.
However, Gao Qingshi had a sharp eye and discovered that one of them had a slightly different flying fish suit, with it being in the shape of a sitting python, while the other was the same as Gao Qingshi's suit, which was in the shape of a normal walking python.
Gao Pragmatic raised his hands and said to the one wearing the python and flying fish costume, "Wan Sheng has seen Zhang Butang." Then he said to the other one, "I have seen Wei Butang."
The two ministers did not show any airs, and both stood up. One of them, Zhang Xueyan, smiled and said, "Why does Gao Longwen know me?"
Gao pragmatic smiled and said, "I heard that Budang was once awarded the title of Sitting on the python and flying fish for his military exploits in Liaodong, so he knew it."
Zhang Xueyan was suddenly enlightened and immediately praised, "People say that Gao Longwen knows a little bit, but when I saw him today, it turned out to be true."
Wei Xuezeng smiled and said, "Brother Xinzhai, Gao Longwen is not just a small-minded person. His reputation as the little god of wealth that brings Buddhas to thousands of families is the purpose of your visit today, right?"
Zhang Xueyan laughed and said, "Brother Que'an, isn't that why you are here? I think we are still the eldest brother, Mo Xiao, and the second brother. They all came to Gao Longwen for advice, so stop teasing each other and ask Gao Longwen to think of a way to deal with the current situation." This is the right thing to do if things are settled."
Gao Pragmatic could be regarded as knowing the elegant meaning after hearing Xiange, and he knew something was wrong as soon as he heard it. These two came together today, and before they even started talking, they laid down the foreshadowing that they must be here for money.
I just don’t know what’s going on. You can’t borrow money from me. If you are borrowing money individually, that’s easy to do. But it’s unlikely that you, a Minister of the Ministry of Revenue and a Minister of the Ministry of Industry, will come to my place together. It's a private loan. It can’t be that the imperial court is asking me to borrow money. Then this matter will not be easy to handle. This is the Ming Dynasty, not Europa.
Gao pragmatic said quickly, "You two are so polite. I am a late student with little talent. How can I dare to ask you for advice from the ministry? I don't know why you came here today. By the way, you two asked me to ask for truth in the evening. This is the Henan Provincial Examination." After that, the late-born teacher Yu Gong gave me the words."
After all, Zhang Xueyan and Wei Xuezeng are elders, so they won't be polite if they sit down. After sitting down, they looked at each other first, and then Zhang Xueyan said, "I bet you know about Mr. Xuan's father-in-law's marriage."
Gao pragmatically nodded, "I understand."
Zhang Xueyan sighed, "In June of this year, the Ministry of Household Affairs was ordered to verify the Xunqi Tianfu in the two capitals of the north and south, Shandong and Shaanxi, and found out something serious."
