It was already past noon when Gao pragmatic sent Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin away, so lunch was naturally shared in the procuratorate. The three of them exchanged some information about some situations in Guangxi. Of course, the main thing was what Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin said. Gao pragmatically listened to For the Lord, occasionally ask carefully.
Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin not only told Gao Pangshi to try to exercise restraint with the chieftains surnamed Cen and Huang when he patrols the western Guangxi region in the future, but they also said two more important things.
The first thing was that after Ling Yunyi left, Liu Yaojie, who took over as governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was quite unfriendly to Gao Dang. He was especially disgusted with Gao Dang's opposition to lecturing. When he was governor of Jiangxi, he founded Lianxi Academy and wrote notes for the academy himself. He also often gave lectures and taught the philosophy of "nothing outside the mind" of Xinxue.
The Practical School has never recognized that "there is nothing outside the mind", but takes "knowing the classics, cultivating virtues, current affairs, and applying" as its essence. The formation of its connotation has a historical evolution process.
Practical learning is actually a school of thought with quite deep roots. It opposed Buddhism and Taoism during the Song and Ming dynasties. Taking Buddhism and Taoism as "virtual learning", in the Ming Dynasty, they opposed the empty talk about the nature of mind in Neo-Confucianism and Psychology, and regarded the late Neo-Confucianism and Psychology as "virtual learning".
Moreover, practical science has its own ontology, epistemology, methodology, and its own theoretical and conceptual system of values, ethics, and social outlook. Therefore, officials with practical knowledge and officials with spiritual knowledge cannot fundamentally piss into the same pot.
If I have to put it simply and crudely, it is that everyone thinks that they are Confucian orthodoxy.
Gao Pangshi actually did not object to the establishment of academies, but he opposed the nonsense after these academies were established. The "academy" in his mind was a school similar to the "Jinghua Craftsman School" he founded in Jianxinzhai. Transfer professional knowledge and techniques.
So it's not surprising that Liu Yaojie couldn't stand him, and he couldn't stand officials like Liu Yaojie either.
But having said that, after all, Liu Yaojie has been working abroad all year round. Unlike Xu Jie who has always been in the center, Liu Yaojie still has to do something. For example, the Bazhai Rebellion in Guangxi was put down by him with 100,000 troops. .
Speaking of the pacification of the Bazhai Rebellion, it happened to be the second thing Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin talked about.
The Bazhai Rebellion has actually been around for a long time. If you want to break it down, this area has not been very stable since the Hongwu period. It has been in chaos from time to time, and it has become an intermittent disease.
It is worth mentioning that in the early years of Jiajing, Wang Shouren also led a large army to attack the Eight Villages. However, after his army arrived in Nanning, he believed that it was not cost-effective to attack directly. He continued to go to the court, demanding that the annihilation should be changed to pacify, and the barbarians should be used to control the barbarians. The court was repeatedly entangled. Then agreed to his request.
However, when Wang Yangming was in Guangxi, Bazhai was relatively honest. Once Wang Yangming left, the root of the problem continued to bloom. In August of the 33rd year of Jiajing's reign, rebel soldiers from the Bazhai Province entered Nanning City, climbed the stairs into the treasury, and beheaded Shou Shi.
In December of the following year, rebels entered Nanning again. In the 39th year of Jiajing's reign, the Bazhai rebels, under the leadership of Wu Zongxian, attacked Rong County, Lianzhou. In August of the 40th year of Jiajing's reign, the Bazhai rebels crossed the city and entered the Xuanhua County Treasury.
In the fourth year of Longqing's reign, Yin Zhengmao led ten families in Binzhou, Wuyuan and other places around Bazhai, and established one Jia in each village and one Donglao in the village for the purpose of control and tax collection. He continued the policy of using barbarians to control barbarians, and recruited more than 2 people to stabilize the soldiers. , commanded by Huang Chang and garrisoned at Longhasai. There were more than 2 soldiers from Zhengxinglong, commanded by Wei Fu, who were on guard in Bu Ke Sai. Military supplies are borne by the two villages themselves.
In the second year of Wanli, the children of Longha Village continued to rebel under the leadership of Fan Shang. Guangxi Governor Guo applied for the recruitment of chieftains and horses to besiege the rebels, and the rebels had to move to other places.
In the seventh year of Wanli, the rebel forces in the eight villages grew stronger, with more than 10,000 elite troops and a threat of 70,000 to 80,000 followers.
Liu Yaojie, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, recruited elite wolf soldiers from Guangxi chieftains and hook swordsmen from Huguang. He also equipped the governor's Biao Niao Commander with "Longqing II" muskets produced by the Jinghua Musket Factory, and marched together. It was known as an army of 100,000, consisting of four The road advanced towards Bazhai. Although the rebels were extremely brave, they were outnumbered. Half a year later, more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians from Bazhai sacrificed their lives and more than 5,000 were captured. The chaos was finally settled.
The rebellion in the Eight Villages was put down this time. Liu Yao thought he had made great achievements and went to Shu to ask for rewards for his subordinates. But there is a problem, that is, the new inspection commander has arrived, and the verification of military merit has been delayed. In addition, after the Bazhai rebels were suppressed, the three big bosses, the Governor, the Governor and the Inspector, would also need to discuss and decide on how this area of two to three hundred miles in radius would be governed in the future before reporting it to the cabinet.
For these reasons, both Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin felt that Gao Pragmatic should rush to Liuzhou Mansion earlier to inspect the military achievements and decide on the future disposition of Bazhai.
The location of Bazhai is located in the southwest of Liuzhou, roughly within the triangle area of Xincheng County, Laibin County, and Pennsylvania in later generations, almost in the center of Guangxi.
Of course, this center refers to the geographical center. In fact, this area is very complicated. The reason is that with this area as the central axis, almost all the chieftains to the west are ruled by the chieftains. Only Nanning Prefecture is directly controlled by the imperial court. Even though there are two remaining areas, Si'en Mansion and Taiping Mansion, they are nominally managed by prefects sent by the imperial court. In fact, all the people working under them are local officials and local officials.
In addition to these two prefectures, this area, which is nearly half the size of Guangxi, is entirely controlled by chieftains. From the local prefecture to the local prefecture, to the various local chief lawsuits and the local inspection department, all are hereditary chieftains. The world.
To the east of this central axis is the Guidong area where the imperial court has relatively strong control. The prefects and county magistrates of each prefecture and county are all officials sent by the imperial court. Only one magistrate of Wujing Prefecture is a native official, and then there are those who return. There are a few sporadic soil inspection departments, but basically nothing big happens.
Therefore, this negotiation on the future arrangements of the Bazhai is actually a confrontation between the two schools of thought: "using barbarians to control barbarians" and "reforming the native lands and returning them to the locals."
Although the rebellion in Bazhai was over, the people there were not exterminated, and the rule must be re-established.
If it is to "use barbarians to control barbarians" and continue to follow Wang Shouren's thinking, then it must be to re-establish chieftains at all levels. The specific setup will only be known after discussion.
If it were to "reform the native land and return it to the local people", it would be a hard-line approach and forcefully push the area under the direct control of the exiled officials sent by the imperial court from the "central axis" to the west.
The former method has been used for almost fifty years, and the actual results have proved to be ineffective. However, Wang Shouren has a huge influence, and using the barbarian to control the barbarian is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. He is highly pragmatic and can even guess how officials from the Xin School will evaluate this "poor effect". Ming Xinjian The effect was very good when Bo was in Guangxi. It can be seen that the "poor effect" was all due to the incompetence of the later governor.
The latter method is of course a one-time solution in theory. However, if you do this, you will face possible revenge from the chieftains in western Guangxi, and this kind of revenge is very likely to be a group revenge. For example, if there is a "rebellion in western Guangxi", the consequences will not be Ordinary people can afford it, and officials who insist on "reforming their native lands and returning them to their hometowns" are not sure what the outcome will be when the time comes.
Liu Yaojie, the governor, was a disciple of Xinxue. It was basically certain that he would insist on "using barbarians to control barbarians", while Gao Pragmatic felt that only "reforming the original and returning to the locals" was the general trend.
Thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but feel a little emotional. It seems that "party strife" is no longer limited to high-level officials or the central government. Even at the local level, party strife is everywhere.
Practical learning and spiritual learning are now in line with the famous saying, "Either the west wind overpowers the east wind, or the east wind overwhelms the west wind."
I just don’t know who will have the upper hand this time
Gao pragmatic stood up and walked into the back hall, and said to the clerk, "Go and get the official documents that have been backlogged recently, especially the official documents related to the rebellion in Bazhai and the movements of the chieftains in the left and right rivers of western Guangxi. Don't miss any of them." .”
Several scribes responded one after another and went to look for official documents without mentioning them.
