Gao Pragmatic had no knowledge of the content of the discussion between Zhang Cheng and Shen Shixing. Until Shen Shixing and his party returned to Beijing, neither party took any practical measures. To be precise, they did not even communicate.
Shen Shixing has always been an extremely calm person. As Gao Jingshi's nominal "master", he has watched Gao Jingshi quietly eliminate his opponents over the years, so he naturally knows how powerful Gao Jingshi is. It is not easy to attack such a person.
At first, Yu Youding secretly interfered with Zhang Jing and Liu Shou's plan against Gao Pragmatic, and as a dignified elder, he almost got himself involved. This incident gave Shen Shixing enough vigilance, so until everything was ready, he He will definitely not take action.
Besides, for such a plan, I don’t know how much preliminary work needs to be carried out secretly. It is still far from the time being mature. What is there to be anxious about? It is only right to follow the plan and lay ambushes everywhere.
Moreover, although it is easy to defeat the planned battle, there are still several difficulties here, and all must be resolved before action can be taken.
For example, this battle must be personally commanded by Gao Pragmatic, or at least he must be personally in charge. Otherwise, even if it is really defeated in the end, the main responsibility will not belong to him! This requires a method to be determined in advance, and it must be ensured that Gao Pragmatic will personally lead the troops.
Another example is how to "maximize the benefits" of this defeat - it has been analyzed before that even if Gao Pragmatic suffered a big defeat, he might not be able to recover from the fall. The greater possibility is that the emperor will be nostalgic, and then he will be given a moderate punishment, and most likely he will be "encouraged to serve."
This kind of treatment by the emperor is a common outcome for great nobles and favored ministers. Gao Pragmatic is qualified enough to enjoy this treatment. Therefore, this wave of expected defeats only broke the myth of Gao Pragmatic's invincibility and shaken his irreplaceable status in the eyes of the emperor. However, it certainly did not lead to death, and it was not even a matter of making a comeback. It was just a matter of reflection. It's all done in one go.
So how to benefit the Xinxue group in this situation? This requires him, Shen Shixing, the chief assistant, to plan carefully. When the Shi School is in chaos due to the defeat of Gao Pragmatism, he will suddenly take action to obtain the greatest benefits for the Heart School.
This is obviously not a simple thing. Each one is a plan within a plan, and a plan within a plan forms a chain of plans. As the chief designer, he naturally had to be more careful. Not only could he not act blindly, he even had to complete the layout without leaking the news.
Shen Shixing didn't respond at all, and he didn't even ask the cabinet about the "platform call" a few days ago. Gao Pragmatic gradually felt relieved. He secretly estimated that it might be because his uncle's resignation was rather sudden, and Shen Shixing took over in a hurry, and might not be ready for a full-scale conflict. And given Shen Shixing's temperament, since the outcome is unpredictable, he must procrastinate and slowly accumulate the chance of winning.
Gao Pragmatic's idea is not unreasonable, because Shen Shixing does not fight unprepared battles. This can be seen from the fact that he did not personally intervene in Zhang Jing and Liu Shouyou's plans before, but let Yu Youding secretly manipulate them. come out.
Of course, this is also in line with Shen Shixing's performance in the original history. In all kinds of history books - regardless of official history or unofficial history - almost all agree that Shen Shi's behavior was at both ends and was exquisite in all directions. Even Wang Shizhen, who had a good relationship with him, used a more euphemistic term in "The Biography of Shou Fu", saying that he was "rich in savings, not close to cliffs, and not unique."
Not close to the cliff, this statement is very subtle.
There is a saying that "a gentleman should not stand under dangerous walls", so in traditional Confucianism, "not near a cliff" seems to be a very complimentary term. However, Wang Shizhen was, after all, the first of the seven descendants and a figure who had dominated the literary world for twenty years. His choice of words obviously had a profound meaning.
What’s the deep meaning?
Although a gentleman does not stand behind dangerous walls, that is just his way of survival. In fact, a gentleman should also have the courage to move forward even if there are thousands of people.
The key here lies in when a gentleman should "stay away from the cliff" and when he should "go there even though there are thousands of people."
When? Where righteousness lies.
If it is just an ordinary time, then of course you should "stay away from the cliff", but if it is where righteousness lies, a gentleman should "even if there are thousands of people, I will go there."
However, Wang Shizhen never mentioned that Shen Shixing had ever been so "brainy". So in other words, Wang Shizhen actually secretly pointed out Shen Shixing's huge shortcoming that he did not have extraordinary courage.
The reason why I had to point it out secretly was simply because the relationship between the two parties was not bad and it was hard to say it openly.
Because of these records and analyzes in the original history, Gao Pragmatic did not pay too much attention to Shen Shixing's "indifference", and just thought that Shen Shixing did not want to intensify the conflict so quickly.
Gao Pragmatic felt that although Shen Shixing was not the best, it was pretty good. As long as he does not choose to change course, cancel the reforms promoted by the Real School before, and reverse history, then he can still tolerate the existence of Shen Yuanfu.
Anyway, his attitude has always been clear: as long as you don't mess with me and don't stop me from reforming, then basically I can tolerate other things.
What a joke, he can tolerate those nobles, and can even think of ways to lead them to a righteous path suitable for them to "change evil and return to righteousness", so what can't he tolerate other people. The only two premises are: don't mess with me, don't block my way.
Therefore, if Shen Shixing could not move, he was too lazy to take care of it. He has been busy with the formation of the Imperial Guard recently. Although Qi Jiguang has not arrived yet, he has been exchanging letters with him. The two sides exchanged some ideas and precautions in the training of the Imperial Guard in letters, and basically reached an agreement. Now they are waiting for Qi Jiguang and Yang Siwei to complete the proper handover and come to take up their posts.
Oh, of course, Qi Jiguang had to recruit troops in person, and he couldn't go to Yiwu this time, so he had to recruit troops in the north. Although the Imperial Guard was nominally allowed to recruit troops nationwide, in terms of ease of settlement and convenient command, It is better to stay near Gyeonggi Province, or at most no further than Beizhili.
After another ten days, Qi Jiguang finally arrived.
It was really not easy for Qi Jiguang to come here. The Qi family's army of four thousand first directly gave three thousand to Qi Jin, and asked him to take him to Liaodong to take up his new post. Then he only brought one thousand people to Beijing, and he took the initiative to stop when he was far away and reported to the Ministry of War to "ask for instructions on where to go." .
This is very interesting.
Although Gao Jingshi had "efforts to control" his armed servants in the capital, the number had always been as high as three thousand, and the imperial court was completely indifferent to this. Even after so many years, the officials who like to take care of the nonsense have never expressed their opposition to this, let alone impeachment.
But when Qi Jiguang arrived, he only brought a thousand troops and horses. The team stopped decisively when they were far away from Shunyi, and seriously asked the Ministry of War for instructions on where to go - that is, "Excuse me, the Ministry of War, can I come to Beijing now?"
The differential treatment of civil servants and military generals was clearly revealed in this incident.
Gao Jingshi had three thousand armed servants in the capital alone, and other servants, servants, employees, etc., totaling at least tens of thousands of young men. If the scope is expanded, for example, if Kaiping, the most important "heavy industrial base" in Beijing, is included, then with just one order from someone high, he might be able to pull out an army of 50,000 people tomorrow.
However, the court completely turned a blind eye to his power.
But once he arrived at Qi Jiguang, even though he only brought a thousand Qi family troops with no backup or foundation, he still didn't dare to stop and ask for instructions. Otherwise, he would probably be beaten to death without even taking a step forward.
Except for the nobles of the Jingnan Department who were originally responsible for guarding Yanjing, any other generals received the same treatment when they arrived in the capital. No one dared to bring more than 500 servants to the capital. When Liu Xian brought Liu Wei to the capital for "activities", the reason why he only had so few people on hand was not because he really had so few servants, but because even if he had some, he would not dare to bring him to the capital.
Are you here for "activities" or do you want to come for military remonstrance?
Although Qi Jiguang was a border general whom the imperial court relied heavily on, he also received close attention on this issue. He knew this, so he acted like this.
Not to mention, a large group of people in the court were very sensitive to this, and they all said that it didn't matter if Qi Jiguang himself came to take office, but he should not bring troops because "the ancestral system is like this." What makes Gao Pragmatic even more speechless is that most of these people are neutral officials.
On the contrary, the Xin School headed by Shen Shixing showed relatively restraint at this time. Many of them went to the press to express that Qi Jiguang could bring "five hundred people" to Beijing.
As for the Pragmatic School, I won't talk about it. Under the influence of Gao Pragmatic, they now only hope that Qi Jiguang will take office as soon as possible and put up the airs of the Imperial Guard as soon as possible. All other things are trivial. A thousand Qi's troops are just a thousand Qi's troops. No matter how powerful your Qi's army is, can these one thousand men still threaten the capital? What's more, Qi Jiguang is not crazy. Could he use these thousand people to rebel?
The emperor seemed to have never considered this situation before. Faced with the various opinions of the ministers, he was a little undecided for a while.
Zhu Yijun didn't think there was any threat from Qi Jiguang bringing a thousand people, but the opposition's opinion was fine. This type of ancestral system still had to be maintained, because its starting point was to maintain the stability of the court.
In the end, Qi Jiguang was stuck in Shunyi County for three whole days, unable to advance or retreat. Gao Pragmatic couldn't stand it any longer, so he took the initiative to ask for help - he personally went to Shunyi to "lead" the Qi army over and stationed a group of temporary barracks that had just been built. The Beijing Camp of the room.
The implication is that the Qi family army will not enter the capital and live directly in the Beijing North Camp. This doesn’t violate the ancestral system, right?
When Zhu Yijun saw the pragmatic Shang Shu, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. The nature of what is brought by civil servants and what is brought by generals has changed - regardless of whether it is Qi Jiajun or Qi Jiajun, especially when Qi Jiguang himself is among them, it does not make much difference whether Gao pragmatism goes or not. In fact, here The difference is huge.
The nominal difference will lead to different results.
In the eyes of the officials in the DPRK, there was no problem at all for Gao Pragmatic to bring the Qi family army over as the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War and co-manager of the military affairs of the Beijing camp. Not only was he a "supervisor", but he also had great military achievements. The officials in the capital naively believed that as long as Gao Pragmatic left, the Qi family's army would be stable.
He is so confident that Gao Pragmatic himself is not so inflated. When Qi Jiguang himself was alive, no civil servant could surpass him and command the Qi family's army. The truth is obvious, even if you cross Liu Wei, you will not be able to surrender to the Japanese!
As a servant, is this a joke? If it was that simple, why could Chongzhen only tolerate Wu Sangui, Zuo Liangyu and others unlimitedly?
The servant only recognizes his own master. He doesn't care whether you are the emperor or not. The emperor cares about his food?
The highly pragmatic memorial received Zhu's approval as quickly as possible. Zhu Yijun even said in the Zhu's approval, "Since you are assisting in the military affairs, the military affairs of the capital will naturally be handled easily." Qi Jiguang and Ren Jiading also came for the training of the Imperial Guards, and they were all trained by the Imperial Guards. Military and political supervision."
The argument came to an end, and without much delay, Gao Pragmatic took two hundred servants and rushed to Shunyi County to pick him up.
When he arrived at Qi Jiguang's military camp in Shunyi County, Qi Jiguang, who had received the news, had already ordered the entire army to line up to greet him, and he himself stood at the front of the line.
Gao pragmatic knew that Qi Jiguang would not be angry because he had been left out for a few days, but it was difficult to say whether there would be dissatisfaction within the Qi Jiajun. Therefore, as soon as he saw Qi Jiguang, he joked and said loudly: "Qi Shaobao, are you okay? Our headquarters is here to welcome you Qi Shaobao today."
Qi Jiguang did not expect that Gao Jingshi would use such an opening statement. He was shocked and quickly took a few steps forward and said loudly: "Qi, the lackey of Mu En's sect, pays homage to Young Sima. Please forgive me for not being able to perform a full courtesy because I am wearing armor."
Having said that, he still knelt down, but Gao Yingshi, who jumped off the horse first, stretched out his hand to support him.
"What is Qi Shaobao doing? Don't offend the students. Please excuse yourself." Then he said to the Qi family officers and soldiers behind Qi Jiguang who were kneeling with him: "The same goes for all the officers and soldiers. They are all exempt from courtesy. Please get up. Bar."
Even so, the officers and soldiers of the Qi family still saw Qi Jiguang getting up first, and then followed him.
"Jie Ying" is naturally a pragmatic polite word. He and Qi Jiguang first exchanged the procedures for entering Beijing, and at the same time asked Qi Jiguang to order the Qi family army to prepare to leave.
Within a short while, the Qi army moved, and Qi Jiguang really handed over the command to Gao Jingshi. He led the troops forward, and he followed Gao Jingshi on horseback.
Gao Pragmatic was not idle on the way. While leading the team towards the Beijing Camp, he asked Qi Jiguang: "Nantang Gong, the matter of taking office is now settled, but the matter I asked in the letter before..."
"Young Master, are you asking about where to recruit troops?"
Gao pragmatic nodded and said: "Yes, this should be the most important thing at the moment."
Qi Jiguang replied: "The Imperial Guard is divided into horse, infantry, artillery, engineering and other services. At present, I plan to recruit the horse army in Bazhou, and the infantry and engineers in Cangzhou. However, the artillery army has not yet been determined."
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