Huang Zhiting came to Liaodong, apparently to discuss cooperation, cooperation between Annan and Liaodong.
Although Annan and Liaodong are thousands of miles apart in the south and north, they are connected by sea. Today, more than ten years after the "Longqing Kaihai", cooperation and other things can indeed be carried out.
However, even if this cooperation cannot be said to be just a cover, at least it is not the main reason, at most it is a secondary reason.
Because the key reason why Huang Zhiting came to Liaodong, or even to the north, was to be highly pragmatic.
Huang Zhiting's real purpose was to visit Gao Jingshi, and if she went deeper, she wanted to know whether Gao Jingshi could convince his parents to agree to Gao Jingshi's marriage to her.
Getting married is a major event in life, especially in the Ming Dynasty. The higher the social status, the more cautious people are about getting married. Not only can they not be careless, but in terms of importance, it is almost regarded as a first-class event.
Different from various movies and TV dramas, free love was basically a fantasy in the Ming Dynasty and could not be taken seriously at all. Among men and women who can "love freely", I am afraid that only if the man hangs out and falls in love with a certain famous prostitute, and the prostitute is also interested in finding a long-term meal ticket, this can barely be considered.
In addition, marriages are concluded according to the eight-character old saying: the parents’ orders and the matchmaker’s words.
The matchmaker's words are easy to deal with. Whether it is the Gao family or the Huang family, it is extremely easy to find a matchmaker to do things. But there is a lot of trouble in the fate of parents.
Since free love does not exist, the main thing about marriage is not compatibility, but family status and financial resources.
The usual situation is like this: the upper class looks at family status, while ordinary people look at financial resources.
Of course, this situation has also changed to a certain extent with the development of society. After the mid-Ming Dynasty, the importance of family status began to decline, while the importance of financial resources gradually increased.
However, the decline does not mean that it has completely disappeared. "Well-matched" is still a very important indicator. Unless one party's financial resources are exceptionally outstanding, they can overcome the advantage of family status and achieve marriage.
It stands to reason that the Huang family's family status is not low. They are a truly rich family - chieftain, the leader of a party for hundreds of years, so of course they have a certain status.
But the key is that the actual status of the Gao family is higher. Starting from Gao Kui, the Gao family was a family of literati and officials. By the time of Gao Shangxian, the Gao family was already at the "national level" and could be ranked high in the entire Ming Dynasty. No.
And because of Gao Gong, the former chief minister, the Gao family has the word "Wenzheng" on its head, and it has reached the top of the civil service family. Therefore, if we want to talk about family status, the Gao family is indeed too high. The height is too high, even to the point where one has very little choice. The difference between the "mere toast" homes is indeed huge.
Normally speaking, if the Huang family is willing to spend a lot of money to marry a daughter at this time, it is actually okay. According to the normal operation at this time, the man will pay a betrothal gift and the woman will pay a dowry. If the financial resources of the two parties are quite different, and the man has a high family status but limited financial resources, the woman can greatly increase the amount of the dowry to offset the man's family advantage. .
Moreover, according to the customs at this time, dowry generally does not include real estate such as fields. Therefore, if the woman's dowry can bring a large amount of fertile land, this kind of "wrong family" marriage is not impossible to form.
Gao Pragmatic has never discussed with Huang Zhiting what kind of "dowry" the Huang family can give, but Huang Zhiting once mentioned it occasionally when she was in Annan. Because her current governor of Haidong is a hereditary official, and this Haidong is actually The original Anbang Mansion in Annan - in other words, the entire Anbang Mansion was privately sealed by Huang Zhiting.
Since the Huang family was granted more than one mansion, and the Anbang mansion was specifically granted to Huang Zhiting personally, it meant that once she got married, it was equivalent to the entire Haidong being used as a dowry.
Although the Gao family has a high family status, the woman directly has a dowry of the entire family. Logically speaking, this should be enough.
However, Annan's situation is special and must be considered.
The special thing about Annan is that this place itself was built with high pragmatism, and Jinghua Group is now the national policy agency of Annan, directly eclipsing the Annan Metropolitan Administration. So to a certain extent, high pragmatism is the real strength of Annan. of the largest landowners.
Moreover, Gao Jingshi not only controls the real power of Annan through Jinghua Group, he also has territory in Annan: in the southwest of Haidong, not only Haiyang Mansion (the center of the Red River Delta) with the best soil is directly controlled by Gao Jingshi, but also the south from To the south of Ha Hua House (Ha Tinh), everything is under the direct control of Gao Pragmatic (Jinghua escrow).
It can be said that more than one-third of the land in Annan was directly allocated to Gao Pragmatic by the "Beijing Sixteen Articles"!
Looking at it this way, the Gao family or the sixth family of the Gao family - or even to be more precise, Gao Pragmatic himself - are the real big landowners in Annan.
As for Gao Pragmatic's other financial resources, it goes without saying that he is truly the richest in the world.
So the embarrassment now is that although the dowry Huang Zhiting can provide is indeed expensive, Gao Pragmatic himself is too rich, to the point where even the dowry of a wealthy family cannot show anything.
It's not that Gao Pragmatic didn't know the trouble, so he had mentioned this to Zhu Yijun before. According to his hope at the time, he hoped that Zhu Yijun could come forward to make an imperial decision - if the emperor proposed the marriage, then no one could say .
But there seemed to be a problem with this matter. When Gao Jingshi met Huang Zhiting just now, Gao Jingshi asked the emperor if he mentioned this matter when he summoned her, but Huang Zhiting said no.
This was very strange, and Gao Jingshi was even a little puzzled, because in order to convince Zhu Yijun at that time, Gao Jingshi even went out of his way to exaggerate the importance of the marriage, hinting to Zhu Yijun that the Huang family and the Cen family were the two levers for Ming Dynasty to stay in Annan. Sword, and the situation of the Huang family is quite special. Although Huang Chengzu is the head of the Huang family, Huang Zhiting is actually in charge of the Huang family. Therefore, once Huang Zhiting marries Gao Pragmatic, it will be equivalent to the entire Huang family to a large extent. The family has always been tied to the Ming Dynasty.
Just imagine, Huang Zhiting, the person who talked about the Huang family, became the daughter-in-law of the Gao family. The possible centrifugal force of the Huang family will naturally disappear. From then on, they must rely on the Ming Dynasty to suppress the independent tendencies within the Annan Dutong Division. This is important for stabilizing Annan. The situation has great benefits.
As the emperor, it was impossible for Zhu Yijun not to consider this, so he did not express any objection before, but why did he not mention this matter after Huang Zhiting came to Beijing this time? What's going on here?
Has he been shaken, or has he simply forgotten? Or maybe he felt the timing was not right yet?
Gao Jingshi didn't want to tell Huang Zhiting about this matter, because he was worried that Huang Zhiting would have crazy thoughts after knowing about it, and felt that Zhu Yijun was going to interfere in this matter.
However, Gao Pragmatic told Huang Zhiting about the exchange he had with his mother Zhang when he passed by Xinzheng when he returned to Beijing from Guangxi [Note: See Chapter 002 of this volume who persuaded whom].
Speaking of which, Ms. Zhang had no objections to Huang Zhiting marrying into the Gao family. Although she was worried that Huang Zhiting, the "big chieftain", might have a bad temper and might not be so docile, she had great confidence in her son and believed that with her son's With his status and ability, there is no reason why he cannot control the situation.
Her real worry comes from her own experience that the woman's family background is not enough, which may lead to discrimination and ridicule from her husband's relatives after she gets married.
It was thanks to her eldest brother Zhang Siwei's high school scholarship that she changed her Zhang family's family status as a "merchant family", and she was able to gradually avoid being despised. However, this possibility obviously did not exist in the Huang family, and it was simply impossible in the Huang Zhiting family. Get a Jinshi and raise the lintel.
In this case, even if Gao Pragmatic returns to his hometown to marry a wife, Huang Zhiting may be looked down upon by others - chieftains and military commanders (Haidong garrison envoy). This is not a plus in the Gao family, a well-known and practical sect in Zhongzhou.
Ms. Zhang is worried that as Huang Zhiting, she will do something unqualified after being looked down upon. That would be even worse, and may lead to unexpected big troubles - for example, if Huang Zhiting is ridiculed by a relative of the Gao family and then goes violent and violent, Then the development of the matter is completely uncontrollable.
Gao Pragmatic naturally felt that this situation was unlikely, but he couldn't be sure, because although Huang Zhiting was a woman, she was indeed the one who led the troops, and judging from the bloody battle in Lang Son, when she led the troops, she was with her There are definitely two completely different people in front of me.
Moreover, when Gao Pinggong was in Guangxi, he also saw the respect that the local people showed to Huang Zhiting as if they were worshiping him. Thinking about it, if the attitude of the Gao family is really as Zhang expected, the gap in Huang Zhiting's heart will indeed be It's very big. If you can't control your emotions, the result is really difficult to predict.
Originally, Gao Pragmatic was very hesitant to say this to Huang Zhiting directly, but after thinking about it, he always felt that many troubles in the world came from refusing to tell the truth, so in the end he decided to talk to Huang Zhiting sincerely. talk.
Huang Zhiting smiled unexpectedly after hearing what Gao Pingshi said.
Gao pragmatic frowned and said: "Zhiting, I'm not kidding."
"I know." Huang Zhiting said softly: "Actually, I would have guessed it even if you didn't tell me - just look at how those Annan officials treated you, and I would know it. Just like Ruan Bingqian, a great Annan scholar, he may not actually be afraid of you. At that time, you were the governor of Guangxi, but you were born in the Gao family and had the highest respect for you as the number one scholar in the sixth rank. I know that the Gao family has a very high family status, and the Huang family is not worthy of it. If it weren't for... Gao Lang, no matter when the time comes, I don't care what other people in the Gao family think of me, I... I only care about you."
Gao Jingshi felt Huang Zhiting's gaze, and knew that at this time, even if Huang Zhiting spoke firmly, as long as she hesitated for a moment, she would be particularly disappointed, so he looked directly into her eyes and said, "Can you do this?" I thought, what else am I worried about? As my mother said, people have their mouths, so I can’t control them no matter what they say. But judging from the current situation, I think they are at least unlikely to take it seriously. I will embarrass you in front of me... I just want to go back and get married, and we will leave as soon as the matter is over."
Although Huang Zhiting has the generosity of a young woman, she still has the shyness of a girl when it comes to this kind of thing. Especially the word "get married" seems to have a kind of magic power, which makes her face turn red and she lowers her head slightly. He whispered: "Also, there is one more thing that I want you to decide on."
Gao pragmatic nodded and said: "You say."
"Sure, after we get married." Huang Zhiting finally said this word, even her ears turned red: "What should we do with Haidong? What should we do with Annan?"
Well, this is a real problem. It seems that shyness has not made this woman who was born as a chieftain and once supported the Huang family alone lose her mind.
Gao pragmatic also knew the meaning of her words.
In fact, just talking about Haidong, even if Huang Zhiting is not here, it won't be a big problem. Because at this time, Jinghua already had more than a year and nearly two years of operating experience in Annan, and could even control the entire situation in Annan. It would not be a big deal to "host" one more Haidong.
What's more, Huang Zhiting is not in charge of Haidong alone. She has a large group of former Tumu and Tujiang generals under her. Unless there is a huge change in Annan, they can also play a big role in daily affairs. As for military power, at present, Huang Hu should be trustworthy.
Of course, Gao Pragmatic does not believe in absolute loyalty, but Huang Hu is not stupid in addition to being a bit loyal. He should know that rebellion in Annan is not feasible. After all, Jinghua has an absolute military advantage in Annan - Sheng The Dragon Guard Army has 50,000 troops, the Jingang Guard Army has 30,000 troops, and the Army Division alone already has 80,000 troops. Theoretically, it is enough to wipe out Quan Annan again.
Unless the worst happens, for example, not only Huang Hu, but also Cen Ling, Ruan Huang, Mo Yulin and others all rebel, then something big will happen.
But Gao Pragmatic felt that this possibility was too low. Not to mention anything else, if they rebelled together, who would take the lead?
Besides, Cen Ling has already become the living king of hell in the hearts of the Annan people. He is basically responsible for wiping out various rebellions in Annan. He should have no way out for a long time.
In fact, Cen Ling took the initiative to take over the task of wiping out the rebellious parties. Gao Jingshi can also estimate the reason: Jinghua is Gao Jingshi's own force, so there can be no loyalty issues, and Huang Zhiting's relationship with Gao Jingshi All parties involved in Annan are very clear, and there is basically no problem. Among the Ming Dynasty forces stationed in Annan, Cen Ling is the "most unstable". Therefore, he took the initiative to take over these matters and relied on strong force to suppress Annan's resistance. power to prove their loyalty.
If you kill too many people, there will naturally be no way out. There will be no way out, and naturally there will be no need to question your loyalty. Although Cen Ling is handsome, he is as ruthless as anyone.
He is as ruthless to his enemies as he is to himself. No matter whether he is an enemy or a friend, he leaves no escape route.
So looking at it this way, Gao Pragmatic felt that even if Huang Zhiting was not in Annan, it wouldn't be a big problem.
Perhaps the only thing that needs to be paid attention to is to ensure that Jinghua's military strength in Annan is always at an advantage.
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