Until he walked out of the palace, Gao Pragmatic couldn't fully understand what Princess Yongning meant by handing over the fiefdom to him, but he was too lazy to think about it. Anyway, it was always a good thing to set up a disaster relief fund. He planned to participate in it himself, and in this way If so, it would be better to do it in the name of a princess - no matter who has ulterior motives, at least the princess of the Ming Dynasty cannot win people's hearts and become a rebel, right? She's not a prince or anything, even a three-year-old wouldn't believe her if she told her.
Overall, this matter was just an interlude for Gao Pragmatic, and he would have important things to do soon.
Early the next morning, the Supervisor of Ceremonies passed an imperial edict to the cabinet, specifically instructing the concubine Zuo Chunfang of Zhan Shifu and Gao Pangshi, the Imperial Academy's minister, to serve as imperial envoys and envoys with full authority for the canonization of King Shunyi, and to go north to the fortress to preside over matters related to the canonization;
Ordered Governor Xuan Zheng Luo to deploy troops to protect the imperial envoy and cooperate with the canonization;
Ordered Gao Wenjian, the governor of the three borders of Shaanxi Province, to guard the border and cooperate with the canonization matters;
Wandusi, Shanxixingdusi, Shanxidusi and other towns were ordered to mobilize troops and horses to respond at any time;
He ordered the governor of Jiliao, Liang Menglong, the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, Qi Jiguang, and the commander-in-chief of Liaodong to be on alert at all times, monitor the movements of Mongolia's Chahar, Duoyan, Taining and other ministries, and report them at any time.
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Zhang Siwei didn't say much after reading it, and let everything go. However, when re-drafting the edict, he added an additional sentence after Gao Pragmatic's line of "going north to the fortress to preside over matters related to canonization": "to make a decision on the spur of the moment."
Then after thinking about it, he wrote four private letters in person and sent them to Zheng Luo, Xiao Daheng, Jia Yingyuan and Xin Yingqian respectively.
Of these four people, Zheng Luo was the governor of Xuanda, Xiao Daheng was the governor of Xuanfu, Jia Yingyuan was the governor of Datong, and Xin Yingqian was the governor of Shanxi.
Zheng Luo is from Hebei, but he has served in Shanxi for a long time. Politically, he belongs to the faction of Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei. The situation of the other three is similar. Although they are not from Shanxi, they have all been officials in Shanxi for many years and have long been typical Jin party members. ——It is said that during this period, it would be difficult for the Jin Party to work in Shanxi for a long time.
The only difference between these four feudal officials is that Zheng Luo was a Jinshi in the 35th year of Jiajing, while the other three were all Jinshi in the 41st year of Jiajing.
Zheng Luo introduced it before, so I won’t mention it. Yuan Wei was the examiner for the other three subjects in the same year.
Yuan Wei is a famous Qingci Prime Minister, adhering to the fine tradition of numerous prodigies in the Ming Dynasty. He was also a child prodigy when he was a child.
When Yuan Wei was ten years old, he followed his father to his hometown of Qingdao to watch the county magistrate's trial. Because he is small, he stands at the front. When the county magistrate saw his focused expression and extraordinary aura, he asked, "Whose child is this?"
His father replied: "This is a student dog." The county magistrate heard that he called himself a student and knew that he was a scholar, so he asked again: "Has your son learned it correctly?" Yuan's father replied: "Fang has not been studying for a long time."
At this time, the county magistrate saw two white cranes flying in the sky above the Taoist temple, and a pair came out: "Two cranes are flying above the Sanqing Hall." Yuan Wei responded: "Six dragons are flying in the five-color clouds."
The county magistrate couldn't help but loudly said to Xuezheng on the side: "Good answer! Good answer!"
Xue Zheng is more strict and said: "I can only say that he used it well. This is a flexible use of 'five-color clouds and six dragons' in Lin Honggong's poem. He just changed one word. I think he just read this poem. .” The county magistrate smiled and said, “This is not easy either.”
Then the county magistrate gave Yuan Wei another couplet: "Throw the child in all directions and open six sides."
Yuan Wei immediately replied: "My husband is a man of virtue and talent."
Now, even Xuezheng had to admire Xiao Yuan Wei's fluent answers and praised him: "What a prodigy!"
The story of hurting Zhongyong did not happen to Yuan Wei. This man worked hard all the way to the end. In the 16th year of Jiajing, he took part in the provincial examination and won second place. The following year, he won the first place in the examination.
When it came to the palace examination, the cabinet initially selected Lu Shidao as the number one scholar, Jiajing Yubi rated him as the fifth among the top two, and changed it to Yuan Wei as the first. Unfortunately, when the Wenhua Palace read the paper later, because Yuan Wei was too frank about personal matters, he changed it to third place and promoted Mao Zan to first place.
But no matter what, Yuan Wei's writing is spot on. There is a very famous couplet, which has been used as the protagonist in many poems. It is actually a wonderful couplet by Yuan Wei. The couplet is written like this:
When the black turtle in Luoshui first presented auspiciousness, the yin number was nine, the yang number was nine, and the number nine-nine was eighty-one. The number is connected to the Tao, and the Tao is in line with the Yuanshi Tianzun. I sincerely feel it;
The two red phoenixes in Qishan are auspicious. The male calls six times and the female calls six times. Sixty-six and thirty-six sounds can be heard in the sky. He was born Emperor Jiajing and has a long life.
However, the two biggest characteristics of this person are not that he is good at writing Qing Ci, but that he is both good at selecting talents and jealous of talented people.
There are a lot of jealousy things, so I won’t talk about them for now and talk about talent selection.
The three feudal officials just now are said to have earned a lot of respect for Jiajing's 41st year gold list, which is enough to prove Yuan Ge's ability in selecting talents. But if we talk about the other three he selected, then Xiao Daheng and the other three are Being compared.
Because the other three are Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, and Yu Youding.
Wang Xijue is still observing filial piety in his hometown, let alone mentioning that Shen Shixing and Yu Youding are the two current cabinet elders.
What does this mean? Of course, first of all, it represents Yuan Ge Lao's ability to select talents in the past, but secondly, it represents the three feudal officials of the Jin Party. In fact, they are all the same year as Shen Shixing and Yu Youding.
If they were ordinary Jin Party officials - referring to those officials from Shanxi - then Zhang Siwei might not have to write a letter to "say hello" at all, because they are also high-ranking Party members and practical-study Party members. Since Gao Pragmatic went there with the title of Plenipotentiary Envoy, They will definitely cooperate vigorously.
But the three Xiao Dahengs are the same age as Shen Shixing and Yu Youding, so we have to pay attention to it. Although generally speaking, they should at least not hold back Gao Pragmatic, but in the unlikely event, Shen Shixing or Yu Youding Why did Ding La have the nerve to write a letter in person asking them for help?
Zhang Siwei had to guard against this move, especially on the border of Shanxi. He would never tolerate any mistakes.
He was secretly arranging things here, and Gao Pragmatic was not idle either. He also started arranging things overtly and covertly.
Cao Gan was still on his way back, but that didn't mean that he had stopped ordering other subordinates from Jinghua Trading Company. He first sent people from Jinghua Trading Company to report to Hannaji quickly, saying that he was about to come as a plenipotentiary envoy. Tumut presided over the canonization matters and asked him to secretly mobilize his troops to control his territory, especially the crucial Daban Shengcheng.
Then he crossed Cao Gan, mobilized the cavalry from Xuan, Da, and Shanxi, plus some of the cavalry trained in Jizhen, and put them together for selection, and selected 3,000 people as his personal guards for this trip.
These three thousand cavalrymen and two horses were equipped with "Wanli Type 1 Bayonet Style" muskets that had not yet been installed by the imperial court. However, since they were mobilized near Gyeonggi, Gao Pragmatic hesitated and finally did not dare to mobilize the artillery.
He will definitely need the artillery in the end, but he will probably have to "borrow" it - after arriving in Datong, ask Xuandasan Town to allocate a batch of artillery made by Jinghua for him to use. Anyway, they are all their own products. If there is any loss, he will definitely be Something that can be compensated.
Now that Han Naji has been contacted, Zhongjin Hatun will of course have to send someone to contact him. Moreover, Gao Pragmatic relied on his reputation and asked his senior brother Wu Dui for a handwritten letter - this Grand Sima was from Zhongjin. Hatun's "adopted father", his reputation and pragmatism are all in vain.
After these things are done, Gao pragmatism only needs to wait. One is to wait for Cao Gan to return, but to wait for the elite troops to be recruited from the Beijing camp - he is an imperial envoy, and he is doing such a big thing as canonization. No matter how useless the Beijing camp is, they still have to prepare some good things for him to serve as a guard of honor for the imperial envoy, right?
However, Gao pragmatically had a great reputation. When Zhu Yingzhen, Zhang Yuangong and others heard that he was the envoy to Tumote, they did not wait for Gao pragmatically to go to them. They took the initiative to go to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion to apply for military status and give him their military status seriously. Five hundred "elite cavalry" were deployed each.
It's hard to say whether they are elite or not, but the appearance of these thousand cavalry is really good, and they are more powerful than Gao Pragmatic's own cavalry - the Gao family's cavalry only wears a piece of armor, while these "elite cavalry" are fully armored. Armed.
Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong only came to claim credit after they had done this. They praised these thousand cavalry as rare in the sky and unparalleled in the earth. In short, they expressed one meaning: This is all because of your face, Gao Longwen. It would have been someone else. , let alone a thousand cavalry, give them two hundred cavalry, do they want it or not, and they are randomly selected, how can they select the best like this?
Gao pragmatically discovered that although the two of them came together this time, the "errand" of being courteous mainly fell on Zhang Yuangong. As soon as Gao pragmatically rolled his eyes, he understood what was going on - Zhang Rong had just died, and Zhang Yuangong had not yet ascended the throne. .
The succession to the title of Youming Dynasty was not inherited by my son as soon as I died. It had to go through a period of investigation. During this period, if anything illegal or unruly happened, the title might not be successful. .
As for how long the inspection period will be, that's not certain. Some people finish the inspection in a year and a half, while some people conduct inspections for ten years or even longer.
Of course Zhang Yuangong didn't want to be investigated for ten years, so it was perfectly normal to show courtesy in front of the number one emperor's closest ministers like Gao Jingshi.
But it was impossible for Gao Pragmatic to give him any confidence in this kind of matter. He only said some words such as "I appreciate my kindness, thank you very much", which made Zhang Yuangong feel very anxious.
When he finally left, he almost couldn't help but remind him. Fortunately, Zhu Yingzhen saw the opportunity quickly and interrupted.
After leaving Gao Mansion, Zhang Yuangong asked Zhu Yingzhen why he didn't let him speak. Zhu Yingzhen shook his head and said: "Who do you think you are? He will know what you are going to fart as soon as you raise your butt, so why do you bother? It's yours, It will be yours after all, and you can't run away. Instead of worrying that he doesn't understand what you mean, you might as well think about how to make him happier."
Zhang Yuangong sighed: "You're right, I'm too impatient... But the cavalry we can mobilize - I mean it's barely bearable, that's all, how can I make him happy? ?”
Zhu Yingzhen thought for a moment and said, "I saw the Gao family cavalry gathered at Xinzhai. I heard they have no cannons."
"You mean..." Zhang Yuangong's eyes lit up: "Let's bring more cannons and give them to him when the time comes?"
"clever!"
