Gao Pragmatic didn't explain much to Zhuang Langwei. The key thing was to treat them as half of his own people.
What does it mean to be half one of our own? Those who should be commanded should be commanded, those who should be supplied should be supplied, and those who should be rewarded should be rewarded.
It's just that you have to be a little more polite when giving orders, and in terms of supplies and rewards, you have to adhere to the principle of neither not giving nor giving too much.
In addition, it is to restrain military discipline, but this has been negotiated in advance because of Gao Pragmatic, so it must not be a big problem. Tuotuo is a person who knows the importance of things, and Ilduzi should also be able to do it after being beaten by Gao Pragmatic. Be more conscious.
Although Wei Xuezeng was a veteran, he was really open-minded in asking for advice on the matter of fighting. Every time Gao Pingshi said something, he nodded vigorously and silently remembered it.
In fact, if you think about it, this is not surprising. After all, although Gao Pragmatic is young, he can already say without any humility that he is the most famous literary commander in the Ming Dynasty - no one.
After some discussion, Gao pragmatically left. Wei Xuezeng personally sent him to the gate of the Governor's Court, and only waved goodbye to him after Gao Pingshi repeatedly said "Stay here".
Looking at Gao Pingshi's leaving figure, Wei Xuezeng smiled happily. In the past, he was an assistant that Gao Gong worked hard to cultivate. Unfortunately, bad luck has prevented him from joining the cabinet so far. However, Wei Xuezeng was also quite happy to see the little prodigy turn into the mainstay of the country.
There is a successor to the Gao family in Xinzheng!
Wei Xuezeng secretly thought: Annan and Dingbei are things in the past. Now it seems that this child will be called "Pingxi" again. Thanks to the Ming Dynasty, he has no rivals in the east. Otherwise, he will be afraid for the rest of his life. Can't we make up a plan to kill in all directions?
When Wei Zhitai thought of this, he naturally thought of the word "kill all directions" and couldn't help but laugh.
Farewell to Wei Xuezeng now does not mean that Gao pragmatism will leave soon. The rules of officialdom cannot be ignored, so there will be a practice wine tonight, which Wei Xuezeng led officials and generals from Shaanxi Province in Guyuan to bid farewell to Gao pragmatism.
In addition, there will also be a farewell tomorrow. It is estimated that everyone in this group will participate - at least Gao Pragmatic has prevented Shaanxi and Yansui from being affected by the rebellion, and put down the rebellion as quickly as possible. Bureau, no one in the northwest does not appreciate his kindness.
To Gao Pragmatic, these are just superficial things. He can deal with them calmly and doesn't have to worry about it. At the moment, he was more worried about the financial problems in Northwest China that he had mentioned to Wei Xuezeng during the meeting. He wondered whether Wei Xuezeng would follow his advice and find a solution from King Qing's group.
There were many unlucky people in the Ningxia Incident this time, but in terms of "level", the biggest unlucky one was definitely Prince Qing (the crown prince, who had not yet taken the title). Not only was a large amount of frivolous wealth robbed, but Gao Pragmatic was eventually promoted from Bo Shuo to It was obtained in the hands of Ketu, and the loss of real estate was also huge.
Although Ningxia is one of the Nine Borders, large-scale military settlements were carried out in the early years, and there are actually not many fields. However, due to well-known reasons, these fields have gradually been controlled by private individuals. Among these "private persons", Prince Qing's Mansion gained the most.
The origin of these fields in Prince Qing's Mansion was not very clean originally. After being obtained through various means, the evidence was mainly a piece of land deed. Of course, these land deeds were placed in Prince Qing's Mansion. However, this time, the Kuaibai rebels acted poorly and packaged the land deeds as floating wealth and gave them to Boshu Ketu, which of course ended up in Gao Pragmatic's hands.
Before Ningxia was recovered, these things were worthless, just like they were worthless to Boshu Ketu, because the land was in the hands of Kebai and the credentials were meaningless.
But when Gao Pangshi regained Ningxia without much destruction, the value of these land deeds suddenly became substantial - owning them meant owning these lands.
However, there are problems. The biggest problem is that Prince Qing's Mansion will definitely demand the resumption of these lands, and will also naturally demand the return of the land deeds. Judging from the court's connivance with the vassal king in the early years, these fields together with the land deeds must be returned to Prince Qing's Mansion 100% of the time. However, Gao Pragmatic was unwilling to do so in view of the actual situation in the northwest.
His suggestion to Wei Xuezeng was to return the land to Prince Qing's Palace based on the fiefdom given to Prince Qing's Palace at the beginning of the Kingdom, plus the gifts from subsequent emperors, and the remaining part should be returned to the public. The reason is that the title deeds of these fields have been "destroyed by War".
This matter is easier said than done. It would actually be easier if Gao Pingshi handled it by himself. After all, he had just won consecutive victories in the northwest, and his prestige was unmatched. But now that he himself needs to return to Beijing soon, and the matter is handed over to Wei Xuezeng, it will be much more difficult.
The imperial court has been favoring the feudal lord financially for a long time. It has already accumulated considerable inertia, and now it happens to be a critical moment for the vassal ban. What will the other lords think of such a sudden move?
Don't say "destroyed by the flames of war". This reason is nonsense at first glance. It is obviously for the world to see. It is no different from the lice on the monk's head. No vassal king will really believe it - you are just such a coincidence. It was given to you normally. The title deeds for all the fields are complete, but the title deeds for the fields acquired through other means have all been lost? I'm afraid this flame of war has become a spirit!
The reason why Gao Pragmatic planned to do this by himself from the beginning was because he knew that he had a special status and was the helmsman of the powerful reform sect of the Practical School. At the same time, whether it is in terms of family foundation, power in the court, or even the Holy Family, he is as solid as Mount Tai. In this way, coupled with his invincible reputation, if he wants to do this, most of the vassal princes will not dare to say anything - if he offends this young master, if he simply encourages the emperor to shoot the first bird, What should I do if I catch a prince who dances very well and wants to cut down his vassal?
Do you think he doesn't dare, or do you think he can't defeat it?
Anna and the North are things of the past, let's not talk about it for now. Just because he can easily pacify the Northwest, who else besides the emperor would dare to mess with this person? Don’t you see that as soon as he takes action, the Mongols will send troops to follow his banner?
Mao Bowen's military exploits back then were far inferior to those of Gao Wuzhen now. Emperor Sejong even wrote a poem for him, "On the day of peace and waiting for the imperial edict to return, I will take off my shirt with my husband." This shows the high status of the Ming Dynasty's military commander. Now that Gao Jingshi has achieved these few military exploits, normally speaking, as long as he does not seek rebellion, there is no need to doubt the respect that most people in the world have for him.
Every era needs heroes, and matching the innate strength of the Ming Dynasty is the dynasty's special respect for heroes.
What's more, he is a hero with both civil and military skills. Needless to say, the vassal kings would never dare to ask for trouble.
Unfortunately, the situation has changed now. Gao Pragmatic has to temporarily relinquish power in the northwest and return to Beijing. The burden falls on Wei Xuezeng. Although Wei Xuezeng was senior, his prestige was limited to the Real School. All right
Moreover, he is not a capital official now, he is just a feudal official. Based on his experience as an official, he cannot be said to be a close minister today. He does not have the huge influence on the emperor like Gao Pragmatic. The vassal king They may not be afraid of him.
Wei Xuezeng must have known this himself, so he didn't explicitly agree to Gao Pragmatic just now. He just said that he would consider it as appropriate and handle it appropriately.
Having said this is like saying nothing. Gao Pragmatic is very aware of the current situation in Shaanxi Province. The reason why the Kuaibai Rebellion was possible was to reduce wages. If the financial problem cannot be solved, this "bottom fire" will always exist. What if there is another Kuaibai Rebellion? ? Among the generals of Jiubian, Kuaibai is not the only Mongolian, and others may not be ambitious and want to take advantage of the situation.
But it is an objective reality that the court has no money. If you expect the Ministry of Household Affairs to use money to fill the holes, you probably can't do it even if you kill Shen Li. There may be three melons and two dates in the internal funds, but it is impossible to use them all to fill this huge hole, and most likely it will not be enough. Therefore, to eliminate this "bottom fire", we can only let Northwest find a way on its own.
This method cannot start from the people at the bottom. Let’s not talk about how much money they have on hand. The key is that the money is by no means “surplus money”, it is all money to survive. If you take this money, you may have to create the King of Chuang, and that is no joke.
If the bottom level doesn't work, and the middle level can't find a reason for it, then of course they have to look to the upper level. If you leave a large amount of money that you have already obtained and don’t think of anything to do with it, isn’t this just like “If you don’t take what God gives you, you will suffer the consequences”?
It's a pity that the power has been handed over. How to make the final decision? This power has already been in the hands of Wei Xuezeng. Gao Pragmatic can only persuade, not force.
That night, after practicing the banquet, Gao pragmatic met with the inspectors of Shaanxi, Yansui and the new Ningxia inspectors to hand over the counting of military achievements - this power is usually in the form of inspectors, just like him It was like that in Guangxi back then.
However, with Gao Pragmatic's great contribution here, the three patrolmen did not find trouble and settled the matter happily.
Early the next morning, Gao Pingshi led the main reinforcements back east, leaving only Li Rusong among the Xuanda reinforcements still in the northwest.
Because Li Rusong had been transferred to Zhuanglangwei to assist in the battle, not only was he unable to come back for a while, but Wei Xuezeng also considered that the Tuotuo and Yilduzi Mongolian troops at Zhuanglangwei were as high as 50,000, and the imperial court had more troops. Well, at least speak a little harder, you can avoid a lot of trouble. Therefore, Wei Xuezeng talked to Gao Jingshi and asked Li Rusong to stay, and Gao Jingshi agreed.
Li Rusong and his father Li Chengliang had different perceptions in Gao Jingshi's heart. Gao Jingshi was still willing to give Li Rusong some opportunities to make contributions. This is an upright Liaodong man. In the original history, his execution of Zhu Yijun's imperial edict was astonishing. Not only did he fight wherever he wanted, but he was definitely not like Li Chengliang, who always conserved his strength and even supported the invaders' self-respect. He was a "simple" warrior.
Don't let honest people suffer, this is Gao Pragmatic's mentality towards Li Rusong, and he will not vent his anger on Li Rusong just because Li Chengliang has joined the Xin School. Li Chengliang is Li Chengliang, and Li Rusong is Li Rusong. Even if they are father and son, they cannot be generalized.
I don’t know if Gao’s pragmatic ideas unexpectedly coincided with God’s. As soon as his eastward army arrived in Yulin, good news came: Huo Luochi and Zhuli Tu were defeated and fled, and Zhuang Langwei confessed to the siege. , the Ming and Mongolian coalition forces refused to give up and followed their troops towards Xining. They may have reached Nianbo now.
In this Zhuanglangwei rescue operation, the first to arrive were Tuotuo and Yileduqi.
The situation that occurred at that time was very subtle. Although Liu Chengsi, the commander-in-chief of Gansu Province in the city, knew that Tuotuo and Yilduzi were sent by Gao pragmatically to assist in the battle, he was not convinced that Zhuang Langwei was the last person on the Ming Dynasty's main road connecting Gansu. He refused to "leave the city to fight" no matter what. He stayed in the city and refused to take the lead. He made up his mind to be an iron turtle.
The troops of Tuotuo and Yilduqi and the troops of brothers Huo Luochi and Zhonglitu happened to have 50,000 cavalry. Theoretically, the combat power of the two sides should be similar.
Of course, Tuotuo was more famous, but he and Yilduzi came here in a hurry. Although they had eaten well along the way, they were tired and needed some time to recover their energy and strength.
Brothers Huo Luochi and Zhulitu were waiting for work, but due to Tuotuo's reputation, they did not dare to launch an offensive at will, so the two sides established a tacit understanding to distance themselves - not only did they distance themselves, but also It is deliberately far away from Zhuanglangwei City.
Originally, according to this situation, as long as one or two days passed, when Tuotuo and Yilduqi's troops had rested, they would definitely launch an attack. But at this moment, the arrival of a person broke this tacit understanding. .
There is no doubt that this person is Li Rusong.
Li Rusong has a small number of troops, including only 5,000 cavalry. It stands to reason that in such a scene where 100,000 cavalry are facing each other in pairs, they are inconspicuous. There is a high probability that they will only serve as henchmen, or even become spectators.
However, Li Rusong is Li Rusong after all. He may be a newborn calf who is not afraid of tigers, or he may be brave because of his skill. In short, as soon as he arrived at Zhuang Langwei and found that one hundred thousand cavalry from both sides were facing each other, he launched an attack without saying a word.
This move completely exceeded everyone's expectations. Not to mention that Brother Huo Luochi was completely stunned, even Tuotuo and Yilduzi didn't react at first.
At that time, less than 5,000 people on Huo Luochi's side were truly preparing for war. The others were mostly still eating, feeding horses, etc. because Tuotuo and the others were quite relaxed. Li Rusong suddenly came over with his 5,000 Liaodong cavalry, and immediately dispersed the part that was preparing for war. They said they were preparing for war, but they didn't expect that this Ming army cavalry was so courageous.
And another point is that Huo Luochi and the others know the most about the Ming cavalry from the Ma cavalry, which was the cavalry brought out by Ma Fang. However, they are not very familiar with the Liaodong cavalry - they are on the right wing, and they are not familiar with the cavalry on the left wing. It's normal for the side's opponents not to understand.
Although the Huo Luochi brothers immediately blew their trumpets to fight back, the forward was already frustrated by this time, and Tuotuo and Yilduzi also reacted. Both sides also immediately mobilized their troops to help the battle, and a melee ensued.
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