At the last moment before the palace was closed, Gao Pragmatic came out of the palace.
During today's audience, he and Zhu Yijun talked about many things. In the end, the emperor stayed in the palace to have dinner. He didn't even waste any time for the meal and kept talking.
After leaving the palace, I discovered that not only the previous team of Fu Biao had been waiting, but also Gao Mo.
After all, Gao Pingshi had traveled all the way back to the capital. As soon as he arrived in the capital, he was invited into the palace. He was already a little tired by now, but Gao Mo was not someone who couldn't distinguish priorities. He came in person, so he must have something to do.
Sure enough, Gao Mo came with a large pile of greeting cards and invitations. Gao Pingshi cheered up and flipped through them. He couldn't help but joked: "I really don't know how powerful I am until I go back to Beijing. This Isn't there sixty or seventy invitations in total? If I were to entertain and visit them door to door, at least two months would have passed."
Unexpectedly, Gao Mo said: "I don't know what I know. This is already a batch after a small screening. The ones screened out are those that I will definitely not have time to see. The remaining ones you see now are either four or four." Those who are Beijing officials above the third rank, foreign officials above the third rank, or nobles of the world. In addition, there are two categories, namely, Kedao Yanguan and Gengchen Kejinban in the same year."
Gao Pingshi smiled bitterly and said, "If I look around casually, I'll find that almost all of them are acquaintances."
Gao Mo didn't say anything, he just looked like he was waiting for orders. Gao pragmatically knew that he was waiting for him to give time arrangements and which ones to choose for banquets and visits.
Sighing, Gao pragmatically said: "The emperor has arranged an errand for me. In three days, I will temporarily serve as the co-examiner of the Jinke Examination and the paper reader of the Imperial Examination. According to the system, I will have to live in the Ministry of Etiquette for a period of time before the results are announced. They can’t get out.”
This situation was obviously beyond Gao Mo's expectation. He was stunned for a moment before saying: "Then these..."
Gao pragmatically waved his hand decisively: "Just pick two or three that you have to meet. Others... just use the examiner's rules to politely decline."
He was really tired, so after saying that, he got into his green sedan chair. In fact, Gao Pinggong rarely rode in a sedan chair in the capital in the past. Unless it was raining or similar, he would always ride a horse.
But the situation is different now. He is now a third-rank official and a governor, and he happens to hold the title of Minister of War. If he continues to "run rampant" in the capital, he will be worried about being accused of being domineering and domineering, so he will not be allowed to do so. Don’t change your habits.
Riding in a sedan also has the advantage of riding in a sedan, that is, you can close your eyes and relax in the sedan, while Gao Mo outside is still riding a horse and reporting the situation to Gao pragmatically while walking.
According to what Gao Jingshi said just now, Gao Mo picked out a few more important greetings and invitations and asked Gao Jingshi to make the final decision.
Gao Jingshi closed his eyes after listening, and after a moment of pondering, he said: "Since Yuan Fu has sent out the invitation, there is no doubt that he must go. This is the first one."
Gao Mo responded without any surprise.
"The provincial governor is my official office. I have to go to the Grand Sima. This is the second one."
The provincial governor is the Ministry of War, and Gao Pragmatic holds the title of Right Assistant Minister of the Ministry of War. Since Wu Dui has come with an invitation, he has to give him this face. Gao Mo responded again.
"As for the third house..."
Just as Gao Pangshi said this, he suddenly heard someone from the back of the team shouting: "High School Prime Minister, wait a minute, the Chief of Ceremonies has sent me some instructions!"
Gao Mo outside said quickly: "Sir, he is from the inner court. He just came down from the palace gate. Do you want to see him?"
"Bring him here." Gao Pingshi was a little surprised. The Chief of Ceremonies sent a note? Even if you have something to tell me, there is no need to be in such a hurry. What were you doing when I was in the palace just now?
But then I thought about it, the current Chief of Ceremony is Huang Mengyu. Although he usually talks a little carelessly, in fact, he is by no means a reckless person. He must be in such a hurry to send me a letter, so he must have something important.
Not long after, a eunuch from the inner court was brought to the big green sedan chair. Gao Pragmatic was more considerate to Huang Mengyu and got off the sedan chair himself.
However, what was unexpected was that the eunuch in the uniform of a young eunuch did not hand over the memorandum. Instead, he took out a memorandum and handed it to Gao Jingshi. Your Majesty just saw it, and your Majesty asked your servant to bring it to Zhongcheng for review immediately...but your servant will have to take it back later."
Gao pragmatic was quite surprised, but he just nodded calmly, took the memorial and read it.
It turns out that this memorial was reported by Liu Shizeng, the governor of Yunnan, on the "reasons of the incident." The memorial reads as follows:
Liu Shi, the governor of Yunnan, once said that he was investigating the situation of the barbarians: In the eighth year of Wanli, Mang Yinglong appealed to Teng Yue Prefecture's military officials to visit him. He was afraid that Mu State's Hanba would be tricked, so he secretly sent an official to recruit Xiaokeng and other five people. , carrying coins, silk, pommel and horse, he went into Myanmar to conduct detective work. Unexpectedly, he was held by Hanba, who then sent people and documents to show off the ancients. When the small pit arrived, he used all his belongings to feed the thieves.
The thieves were sent back with brocade cloth and several kinds of crazy expressions in bamboo leaf books. There was no tribute, and the text asking for tribute had just arrived, and it was easy to place Xuan Fu, and watched Teng Yong's text follow. Two things at one time, contradictory. The accompanying general secretary issued an announcement, offering gold and silk as well as prizes to the rare and talented people for the final tribute. When Chief Shimang died, his son, the heir, disappeared. The envoy was not rewarded by the Han, and he was so angry that he pulled them out, imprisoned them, and attacked their land. This is so outrageous and contradictory. Nowadays, when many parties are planning to make plans, it is not necessary to just judge whether the other party pays tribute or not.
Gao pragmatic frowned slightly, and then looked down and found that Liu Shizeng's essay had been finished, and below was Zhu Yijun's comment:
In previous years, the Mang chieftain was unruly and invaded the chieftains. The local officials were careless and secretly maintained the chaos. As a result, all the barriers were withdrawn and the border was troubled. However, they pretended that the chief offered gifts for the sake of peace. This was a false pretense. This official had written this before. Let's just check the ginseng.
Shu Wen and Zhu Pi are very simple, and in fact the matter is not serious.
To put it simply, Mang Yinglong was so arrogant that he ordered the guards commanders and other officials from Tengchong and other prefectures in Yunnan to see him. The local soldiers in Yunnan felt that there might be fraud, maybe it was the head of Mu Bang's Xuanwei Division. Hanba sent a few people who knew Burmese to sneak into Burma and Mu State to investigate the situation.
As a result, these people were captured by Hanba as soon as they arrived in Mubang. Hanba was obviously not a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. After arresting these people, he confiscated the property they carried and transferred it to Myanmar.
The Burmese side wrote a "tribute letter" that was not a "tribute letter" at all. The language was arrogant, and he even openly asked the court to change the candidate for the comfort envoy according to his wishes, and even peeked at Tengyue, Yongchang and other places.
The Yunnan side followed the principle of courtesy first and then war. They first offered good words and persuasion, and sent generals to Burma and Mu State to preach. However, Hanba of Mu State accepted the reward of gold and silk, saying that he was still loyal to the Ming Dynasty and insisted on paying tribute. However, something happened in Myanmar. It happened that Mang Yinglong died of illness and his son Mang Yingli succeeded to the throne. He refused to see the official envoy at all.
Not only that, Mang Yingli also believed that Hanba had betrayed him by accepting the "Han reward", so he sent troops to attack Hanba, and then captured Hanba. Unable to resolve his hatred, he continued to attack other areas of Mubang.
According to Liu Shizeng's statement, this year's war in Yunnan should be attributed to Mang Yingli's bad temper. He first attacked Mubang and then found that his troops were really strong, so he became so swollen that he simply stopped fighting and even fought in Yunnan.
However, Zhu Yijun's Zhu Pi is worth pondering. He did not express any views on the matter itself. He just came to "settle old scores" and said that the thieves (two generations of father and son) continued to invade various Xuanwei divisions under the jurisdiction of Yunnan, and the local The officials have always tolerated the adulterer, and after the incident happened, they tried to whitewash the situation and shirk responsibility. Therefore, "the department even asked the investigators to investigate and prosecute" - which is equivalent to asking the relevant department officials to immediately "investigate and prosecute."
It stands to reason that although what Liu Shizeng said was "history" that he investigated, the problems he pointed out were current. It is only right that Zhu Yijun should instruct him on what to do next. Wuyou Love Book Network
However, Zhu Yijun did not give any instructions. Instead, he turned over old scores and demanded that the responsibilities of the previous batch of relevant officials - the predecessors who lost the barriers - be investigated and impeached.
There are only three possibilities for this. One is that Zhu Yijun did not notice that the current situation should be remedied or dealt with quickly; the other is that he was blinded by anger, and regardless of it, he had to punish the person responsible in the first place; the third is that in his heart We have already had a solution to the Yunnan issue, but we don’t plan to explain it to Liu Shizeng now.
After thinking about it pragmatically, Gao still prefers the third possibility.
Because the Yunnan issue had just been negotiated between him and Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yijun had already gotten rid of the disputes in the court, accepted Gao Pragmatic's suggestion of "fighting hard", and even decided how to fight. He even linked his highly pragmatic marriage to the war in Yunnan.
In this case, it is really unscientific to say that Zhu Yijun has forgotten the point of the matter...
But the problem is that since this is not an urgent matter, what is the point of Zhu Yijun hurriedly sending someone to chase him to inform him?
Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but ponder. And the young prisoner didn't push him, he just waited for Gao to speak pragmatically.
After a while, Gao Pragmatic finally figured it out. It turned out that the reason why Zhu Yijun "didn't mention serious matters" in the Zhu batch was actually because he found out that the matter involved the issue of party struggle.
Liu Shizeng's memorial actually accused his predecessor of overindulging Burma, which led to today's Mang Yinglong and Mang Yingli father and son being arrogant and even daring to commit large-scale border violations.
But pursuing one's predecessor cannot be pursued casually, because Yunnan's indulgent attitude does not last for a year or two, at least dating back to the mid-Jiajing period.
At that time, Mu Chaobi, the commander-in-chief of the Yunnan Army and Duke of Guizhou, once reported to the court, pointing out that the danger of Mang Yinglong's forces to the Ming Dynasty was already very high, and hoped that the court would send troops to intervene - the implication was that he wanted to fight a war later. Churchill's "preventive war".
However, the imperial court sternly refused at that time, and in the name of the Ministry of War, it admonished the local Fuzhen officials in Yunnan, saying: "Except for the deserted areas, there is no way to cure them... They have fled far away in fear of the power, and have issued orders to the barbarians not to allow communication or cooperation."
Since this matter has been like this as far back as the "Emperor Grandpa" period, Zhu Yijun's current so-called settling old scores will definitely not go far. At most, the former governor will be held accountable, otherwise the implications will be too wide and the impact will be too bad. .
The problem lies in the former governor. Who was the former governor? Rao Renkan.
Rao Renkan talks about pacifying Yunnan. Is there any big problem in this matter? In fact, not really. After all, his predecessors, predecessors and even predecessors further away all did this.
But Rao Renkan has another "historical problem", that is, when Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng advocated that I pay tribute, Rao Renkan, Ye Mengxiong and others, who were censors, were the most fiercely opposed.
Needless to say, during the period when Gao Gong was in power, apart from the nobles, civil and military officials, anyone who opposed the tribute tribute from Anda had nothing to gain. Of course, Rao Renkan, the main force against the tribute tribute, was no exception. , so he was demoted to be an official in Raozhou Prefecture.
But he should be grateful that Gao Gong's attitude towards hiring people is different from Zhang Juzheng's.
Zhang Juzheng's style is, if I think you haven't done well, I will demote you to the point where you will never come back in this life. If you still hate me, you won't even be able to save your life (for example, Liu Tai, etc.), I will only be happy if I kill you.
Gao Gong, on the other hand, seems much more "careless". You have offended Gao Gong for this matter, so he demoted you and demoted you to a foreigner. But if you did well when you were working abroad and got good evaluations, there is no need to worry, because you can still be promoted back, and Gao Gong will not interfere because he has a grudge against you.
People with Gao Gong's personality are actually very common. They are the kind of people who lose their temper immediately. You are afraid that they will take revenge afterward, but in fact, they may have forgotten you a long time ago.
As a result, after Rao Renkan served as a minor promotion officer for one term, due to his excellent evaluation, he was promoted back to Beijing to serve as the head of the Criminal Department while Gao Gong was still serving as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. Next, his official career was smooth sailing, and he successively served as the inspector of Shanxi Province, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and finally the governor of Yunnan as the censor of Youqiandu.
It was not until February of the ninth year of Wanli that Qin Yao, Yushi Qian Dai and others inspected and impeached a large number of officials during the incident. Rao Renkan was impeached for "disrespect of duty", so he was first "demoted one level and transferred to a foreign post." ”. Later, after a thorough investigation, he was punished with “living in idle life”, and then he was forced to become an official.
During the period from Rao Renkan's impeachment to his complete retirement, Gao Pingshi was not in Beijing at all and did not know much about it. Therefore, he had not thought about it just now. It was not until he thought about it carefully that he discovered the problem.
The "accident" of Rao Renkancai in February of the ninth year of Wanli obviously had nothing to do with Gao Gong, who had passed away in the sixth year of Wanli. However, since a dignified governor was dismissed during a mere inspection and relic collection, it is unlikely that there was no party struggle.
So, what faction did Rao Renkan belong to?
He was a Jinshi in Renxu Branch in the 41st year of Jiajing reign. Three of them were very famous in the same year: Shen Shixing, the number one scholar, Wang Xijue, the second best scholar, and Yu Youding, the third best scholar.
In addition to Wang Xijue who is playing the role of a filial son and returns to his hometown to take care of his old father (his father has passed away now, Wang Xijue is guarding the system in Ding You), Shen Shixing and Yu Youding are both in the cabinet and are the pillars of the Xinxue lineage.
Now, the truth is revealed.
At the end of the ninth year of Wanli, Guo Pu even asked to retire. Even after Zhu Yijun repeatedly tried to persuade him to stay, Guo Pu refused to give in. He even asked to see the two palaces in person and insisted on retreating. Finally, he retired successfully and made a perfect curtain call.
Rao Renkan happened to be involved in an accident at the beginning of the ninth year of Wanli, and in the second half of the year he was sentenced to "leave idle" - that is, he was ordered to retire while retaining his administrative level.
Gao pragmatically refused to believe that there was no trace of Guo Pu in this matter. But one thing he must understand now is that Guo Pu himself is not a strong chief minister like Gao Gong. His style during his reign was recognized as "high standard Guo Sui".
Then why did Gao Gong not feel that Rao Renkan had a big problem, but Guo Pu wanted to get rid of Rao Renkan before he retired?
It seems that the uncle's invitation came at the right time, and he must go to "make up the lessons" immediately, otherwise he will not even understand Zhu Yijun's attitude on this matter.
"When the envoy returns to the Emperor, he will say that the headquarters has already seen it and the details will be reported tomorrow."
Of course, the young eunuch knew Gao Jingshi's special status in the palace. He didn't dare to say anything after hearing this. He nodded in agreement, and then after Gao Jingshi looked at him and motioned Gao Mo to give him a red envelope, he thanked him profusely and left respectfully. .
As soon as the eunuch left, Gao Jingshi put away his smile, frowned and told Gao Mo: "Immediately send someone to Yuan Fu's house. Tell him that my nephew will pay a visit overnight today and he will be there immediately."
Gao Mo had not read the memorandum brought by his eunuch just now, and even if he had read it, he could not understand the problems in it. However, Gao Pragmatic looked so serious, so he naturally knew the seriousness, and quickly sent someone to notify the Zhang University Scholar's Office, and then waited As soon as Gao Pragmatic got into the sedan and sat down, he shouted to Fubiao and the bearers: "Get off the sedan and go to Yongfang and go to Zhang University's scholar's residence!"
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PS: March is about to enter. I hope the epidemic can be effectively controlled as soon as possible. I hope all readers are safe and healthy. By the way, let me ask you something: How do you want the war in Myanmar to be written? What I mean is to choose one of two: First, the "camera" is only given to Gao Pragmatic, whether it is Yunnan or Annan's counterattack or surprise attack, a few words of narration will take care of it. The second is to add a few chapters to Yunnan and Annan to make the plot and supporting characters a little fuller. (This chapter has 4,800 words. If you don’t make up 5,000 words, the fee will not be affected.)
