Li Wenjin's words were obviously not without purpose. After he learned that Gao Pingshi was going to persuade King Lu to give up King Jing's inheritance today, he had been thinking about the reason on the way to Prince Lu's Mansion.
If Gao Pragmatic was just like ordinary courtiers, using false names such as "Wise King" to persuade, Li Wenjin must have rolled his eyes and was too lazy to say more, and just persuaded King Lu not to pay attention to such nonsense.
But Gao Pragmatic was obviously completely different from ordinary courtiers. Although he also mentioned "good king" and so on, when the topic changed, he immediately expressed his true sincerity.
If this sincerity is true to what he said, it will definitely be more tempting than King Jing's legacy. After all, almost no one dares to question Gao Pragmatic's business vision. Even Li Wenjin has made a lot of money following Gao Pragmatic. Of course I am even more confident about this.
It can be said that in Li Wenjin's eyes, as long as Gao Pragmatic sincerely believes that the small broken island will be a cornucopia in the future, then it will definitely be a cornucopia in the future.
As for why this is the case?
Well...that's not important. There are so many things in the world that I can't understand. It's normal for people to seek the top prize in the sixth song. It's normal for them to be a little smarter than themselves.
Anyway, Li Wenjin believed that Gao Pragmatic would not be willing to destroy his own golden brand, so the prospects of that small broken island - oh, it was Qian Jing - could definitely be optimistic.
But Gao Qiuzhen always has his own purpose in doing things, and it is best to clarify this purpose first.
Although Li Wenjin was greedy for money and turned himself into a eunuch, he was actually better at thinking than his sister, the Queen Mother. Through his observations over the years, he discovered that the purpose of seeking truth is sometimes very far-reaching, perhaps even so far-reaching as to pave the way for things that will happen more than ten years later.
Li Wenjin sometimes laments that this may be the so-called "Those who do not plan for the future are not enough to plan for the moment."
Gao Pragmatic must be someone who wants to "seek for the world". After all, he is a civil servant, and "scheming for the world" can be regarded as a tradition of civil servants.
However, in Li Wenjin's view, the pragmatic "scheme for the future" is different from that of ordinary civil servants. Although he also values reputation, he does not care about the so-called "iron-clad" reputation that ordinary civil servants value. He seems to be more Likes to seek the reputation of being a capable minister.
What is a capable minister? He is a person who is highly talented and capable, and can perform the duties of a minister to the best of his ability.
In other words, someone who can handle all kinds of things well and is very loyal is called a capable minister.
Before the incident, Liu Shou also wanted to bribe Li Wenjin, hoping that he could give Gao Pangshi some eye drops in front of the Queen Mother, but Li Wenjin did not behave like a money-grubbing person that time, and was indifferent to the bribe of tens of thousands taels. Reluctant to participate.
It's not that Li Wenjin really changed his gender all of a sudden, but that he had two basic judgments.
First, Gao Pragmatic had no problem with his loyalty to the emperor. He would never have any disloyal intentions like Liu Shouyou's alarmist talk in front of him.
Annan's affairs were originally handled by Gao Pragmatic. The emperor had made an agreement with him beforehand. Outsiders didn't know this. How could he, Li Wenjin, know?
Moreover, what can be said about the fact that Gao Pingxi is the one with the most power in Annan? After the Xuan Temple, Ming Dynasty never took care of Annan's "household affairs". Whoever is in charge of Annan is not in charge. If the leader is really pragmatic, then it is better than Mo Maoqia, right?
Secondly, Gao Jingshi cannot be brought down by Liu Shouyou. To get involved in this matter is not a disaster for Li Wenjin, but it will definitely seriously affect his interests in Beijing - Gao Jingshi has never done anything before. It is to give some dry stock dividends on a certain transaction in Jinghua.
Things like stocks have never been reliable. If he is willing to give it to you today, he will give it to you; if he doesn't want to give it to you tomorrow, he will not give it to you. Therefore, Li Wenjin didn't have to count his fingers to figure out clearly that Jinghua's smooth flow of money was obviously more reliable than Liu Shou's bribery.
What's more, Jinghua's dry stock dividends are not "fine water". Last year, he received nearly 12,000 taels from dry stocks alone. What's better than such a large and stable income?
As for why it was impossible for Liu Shou to overthrow Gao Jingshi, Li Wenjin did not mainly consider Gao Jingshi's reputation and status. He was just very aware of the trust his emperor's nephew had in Gao Jingshi. By analogy, wanting to overthrow Gao Pragmatic in today's Wanli Dynasty is probably similar to wanting to overthrow Gao Gong in the Longqing Dynasty.
When Xu Jie caused the "Manchu Dynasty's Reversal of Gong" turmoil, Gao Gong indeed resigned and returned to his hometown, but what happened in the end? In the end, it was Xu Jie who really left, while Gao Gong returned to the court in glory after resting at home for more than a year, starting his glorious road to "Wen Zheng".
Today's Gao pragmatism is even better than Gao Gong back then. Gao Gong cannot be brought down, and Gao pragmatism is of course even less likely to be brought down.
What's the key to success? It's nothing more than either becoming the winner yourself or being on the side of the winner.
Li Wenjin felt that there was nothing he could not win, so he chose to stand on the pragmatic side who would inevitably become the winner.
This mentality also affects Li Wenjin's judgment at the moment: Gao Pragmatic must have his own purpose, but he must have his bottom line, that is, he will not frame King Lu.
Why? Because if King Lu is framed, for example, if King Lu really gives up King Jing's inheritance in the future, but makes himself impoverished, this will inevitably arouse the emperor's dissatisfaction. Not to mention whether the emperor really felt sorry for his younger brother, at least he would definitely think that being pragmatic had ruined his "view".
Gao Jingshi would never make fun of his holy family. Li Wenjin was confident in this, so he believed that there was no big problem with Gao Jingshi's guarantee to King Lu. The only problem was what King Lu had to pay for it.
But this issue almost involves the major affairs of the imperial court. Although Li Wenjin is smart, he is not very good at it, so he can't figure it out after much thought.
When they entered the Cining Palace on Li Wenjin's behalf, the Empress Dowager Cisheng heard that King Lu was coming. She was surprised and thought something big had happened, and soon came out of the Buddhist hall to meet them - she worshiped the Buddha very deeply. At this time Still chanting sutras in the Buddhist hall.
King Lu chatted a few nonsense words about missing his mother, and then repeated what Gao Pangshi said when he went to see him today.
The Empress Dowager Cisheng was indeed not as keen as Li Wenjin on this matter. Her first reaction was the same as that of her son King Lu. She felt that how could an almost uninhabited island be comparable to 40,000 hectares of fields? She sank at that time His face changed.
Fortunately, Li Wenjin knew enough about his sister, the Queen Mother, that he immediately stood up and said what he said to his nephew in a more tactful way to the Empress Dowager Cisheng.
Now Queen Mother Li hesitated. She already trusted this brother, not to mention that what he said did sound reasonable.
"Then... Wen Jin, what do you think Gao Pragmatic means by this move?" Queen Mother Li finally asked.
Li Wenjin couldn't help but ponder, but didn't answer for a long time. King Lu might have been in front of his doting mother, but now he couldn't hold his breath anymore. He suddenly said: "Why don't the queen just ask the emperor to come over and ask? Gao Pragmatic has been his companion for ten years. He He must know Gao Pragmatic far better than others, and my son feels that he must understand Gao Pragmatic’s intention of doing this.”
In fact, there is nothing wrong with this statement, but King Lu didn't know that Queen Mother Li was actually worried about whether Zhu Yijun would deliberately "cover" Gao Pragmatic. After all, he had a criminal record for doing such a thing.
Then the Empress Dowager Cisheng began to ponder, looking a little hesitant.
But what King Lu just said reminded Li Wenjin. Li Wenjin slapped his forehead and said: "Ah, I remembered it. Queen Mother, do you think there is such a possibility: Gao Pragmatic's intention of doing this is actually not that complicated. Maybe he was just thinking about the emperor."
"For the sake of the emperor?" Empress Dowager Li asked in surprise: "Where do you start talking about this, and what does it have to do with the emperor?"
Li Wenjin thought he had seen through the truth of the matter, and looked confident, and said with a smile: "Queen Mother, the matter of King Lu pursuing King Jing's inheritance has caused an uproar in the court, especially the Ministry of Household Affairs. The complaints are huge. Although the Emperor is the Supreme Being, he will certainly be under pressure due to the overwhelming opposition from the courtiers."
Empress Dowager Li didn't like to hear this. She said with a serious face: "The Ai family doesn't understand what the Hubu is doing! After King Lu canonizes him, he will always be rewarded. King Jing's legacy was originally promised to be transferred. To King Lu, this matter had even been discussed as early as the late emperor's time. Why didn't they see any objection at that time?
Oh, it's good now. The country that King Lu wanted to conquer has become a vassal. They jumped out at this time and said that King Jing's legacy has been returned to the people and King Lu can't take it! What's the matter, even though the late emperor didn't have a clear intention at the beginning, it's not like the Ai family was just talking about this matter. A lot of senior officials knew about it, but now he wants to go back on his word?
Hum, King Lu is the vassals watching, and now they are urging King Lu's country to become a vassal, but they don't want to pay for it. Is this the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty being made fun of by them? What is useful to them is to stick to the ancestral system in everything; what is not useful to them is to say that the matter is over now. It's not that they are unwilling to cooperate, but they just have no way? What a joke, if something happens to the court, they can't do anything about it, so what use does the emperor have for them! "
These words were spoken angrily. It seemed that the Empress Dowager Cisheng was so resentful that the courtiers always wanted to "deprive" her son of the rewards he deserved, so much so that she even asked "What does the emperor want from them?"
But Li Wenjin wasn't afraid, and it wasn't about him. Not only was he not panicked, he was even secretly happy, because since the Queen Mother had such a mentality, the reason he had just thought of would be more convincing.
"Queen Mother, the right or wrong of this matter is naturally not what the Queen Mother said, but you also know the behavior of those in the outer court. They don't see the slightest benefit to the Tian family, so there is no need to get angry for these people."
After hearing this, Queen Mother Li snorted again, but after all, it was Li Wenjin who persuaded her, so she finally did not refute.
Li Wenjin added: "But it is precisely because of this that it is more difficult for the emperor. After all, although this matter is the fault of the courtiers, it seems that most of King Jing's legacy has been returned to his country. Now he wants to come back. It is bound to cause some noise. But it is precisely because of this that Gao Pragmatic does this.
You think, now the emperor is in a dilemma and insists on returning King Jing's legacy. The courtiers must think that the emperor is selfish in the world and only has King Lu in his heart. But if he doesn't return King Jing's legacy, the emperor will be said to have ignored his brothers and relatives. Moreover, it was unfilial to offend the Queen Mother - whatever the Emperor did was wrong.
Under such circumstances, he stood up pragmatically and persuaded Lu to give up King Jing's legacy. Once this was successful, how could the emperor not think of him? How could the courtiers not think of him well? What's more, if it is true as he said, the island will really become a cornucopia in the future, then even King Lu and even the Queen Mother will remember him! Of course Gao Pragmatic is happy to do such a thing that achieves multiple things with one stone. "
Hey, that makes sense.
The Empress Dowager Cisheng thought for a while and nodded slightly: "What you said makes sense...If that's the case, does that mean Gao Pragmatism doesn't have any bad intentions?"
Li Wenjin nodded and said, "Yes, I think that's the case."
Empress Dowager Li looked at Zhu Yili again and asked, "What do you think of Zhu Yili? Can you agree?"
Zhu Yirui thought for a while and said: "As long as the island can really turn into a cornucopia, my son thinks it's okay, but it doesn't have to be King Jing's fields."
Empress Dowager Li nodded, closed the coffin and concluded: "Well, since you have no objection, the Ai family won't say anything else. I just hope that Wen Jin's speculation is correct, and Gao Pragmatic will really take the island It’s about running it well.”
Li Wenjin breathed a sigh of relief and said: "This matter will ultimately have to be decided by the emperor. Now that there seems to be no conspiracy involved, shouldn't we inform the emperor earlier?"
Queen Mother Li looked at the hourglass, nodded and said: "The emperor should not have gone to bed at this hour. The Ai family feels that it is not necessary to delay, so they should inform him in advance. Someone, go and talk to the emperor..."
What Empress Dowager Li didn't know was that Zhu Yijun already knew that Gao Pragmatic and Zhu Yili had just met, and he also pointed out a way for Zhu Yili to make a fortune. However, his judgment of high pragmatic motives is deeper than that of Li Wenjin.
In addition to not putting himself in a dilemma, he felt that Gao Pragmatic might have another purpose in doing this, which was to use King Lu's special status as "the vassal watcher" to once again subtly hope to change the financial management concepts of the clan princes.
This is not the first time that Gao Pragmatic has done this kind of thing, but in the past, his target for doing these things was not King Lu, but the nobles of the capital - look at how much land the nobles of the capital have sold in recent years. These people now wish they could sell all their ancestral land and collect more capital to make a fortune with Jinghua.
Xungui has been working on this matter for many years, but the princes of the Ming Dynasty have rarely participated in it. According to Zhu Yijun's understanding of Gao Pragmatic, he may have wanted the clan members to be like the nobles and not to insist on competing with the people for land. Instead, it would be better to sell all the land and follow him to do sea trade. sales - including port rent collection.
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