In fact, with Gao Pragmatic's current reputation and status and the importance of his current position, it is not difficult for him to forcefully protect Song Liangzuo. He didn't even need to cry, make trouble, or hang himself. He simply wrote a memorial to the emperor based on his qualification as "the best literary commander in the world", saying that as soon as Song Liangzuo took office, it was difficult for everyone to coordinate on many local affairs. Please If the emperor gives him some time, he will definitely be able to pacify Bozhou - this is almost enough.
To be on the safe side, it can also be said that Song Liangzuo wrote to himself before taking office, mentioning the method of pacifying Bozhou. He strongly agreed with it, and then showed the emperor the strategy he arranged for Song Liangzuo. If you are still willing to help again, you can even say that Song Liangzuo's defeat was originally planned, and it was a tactic of arrogant soldiers. The reason why it was not mentioned before was because it was not enough for outsiders to understand.
However, Gao pragmatically knew Zhu Yijun's character and style very well, and he knew even more about his intelligence. Although Song Liangzuo hastily launched a failed attack as soon as he took office, the emperor knew that Song Liangzuo belonged to the practical school, and the practical school always had his pragmatism to take the lead in military affairs, so a failure was not terrible, so he replaced Song Liangzuo. The problems that may be caused by dropping it may obviously be larger.
The Real School would be worried that Song Liangzuo would be replaced, and the new Sichuan governor might not be able to effectively cooperate with the implementation of the Real School's military plan, but the emperor would only be more worried about this, so the emperor would not easily sway this candidate. Moreover, Gao Pragmatic is still leading a 600,000-strong army on the more important Yuan-Destroying Front. What does it mean to replace the head coach on the other front of the Practical School at this time?
Therefore, the emperor himself should protect Song Liangzuo. At this moment, the realist school only needs to find a reasonable reason to allow the emperor to climb up the pole.
As a loyal minister of Zhu Yijun, Gao Pangshi would of course give this advice, so he immediately wrote a memorial and a reply letter to Zhou Yong. The former was sent back to the capital through official channels, and the latter sent a letter to Zhou Yong via flying pigeons. Da Sima.
The memorial must go much slower than the letter delivered by flying pigeons. After receiving the letter, Zhou Yong had enough time to arrange various related affairs and think about how to deal with it in the court.
In addition, Gao Pragmatic had to write another letter to Liu Xin regarding the Bozhou matter, asking her, the secretary-general, to inform Jinghua’s forces in the southwestern provinces in her own name to prepare for relevant cooperation. These matters were too cumbersome, so just No need to expand one by one.
After finishing these things, Gao Pragmatic turned his mind back to the current war situation, but before he settled down to think about it, he suddenly thought of the relevance of these things.
It seems that... the matter of sending troops to conquer the Yuan Dynasty has now become a lure to lure the snake out of its hole, and in one fell swoop, a huge Bozhou Xuanwei Yang Yinglong was fished out. So, will there be other conspirators hiding in the dark who will take this opportunity to jump out and cause trouble? Or maybe he doesn’t jump out directly, but secretly stirs up troubles even more unscrupulously?
After thinking about it, Gao Pragmatic felt that this possibility was not only possible, but also very large. At least the Xin School's current lack of movement was very unreasonable. According to the normal party struggle habits of the past dynasties, the Xin School should feel the threat approaching at this time, and then deliberately plan to cause destruction.
Perhaps Gao Pragmatic is essentially the kind of person who says, "I have never been afraid of judging people with their worst intentions." He put himself in Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue's shoes and thought about it, and he really felt that the Xin School was actually in danger in the current situation. If he doesn't move any longer, something big may happen - as long as Gao Pragmatic wins this battle, the Heart School will have to face the huge danger of being completely suppressed by the Real School.
This truth is actually not difficult to understand. The Pragmatic School, especially the Gao Dang and other factions of the Practical School, controls the three most powerful ministries among the six ministries: the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the Ministry of War. As a result, Gao Pragmatic’s administrative strength in the court is basically limited. It surpasses the Xin School, so in this case, what will happen if Gao Pragmatic wins another victory that the Ming Dynasty has been looking forward to for two hundred years?
It is very likely that Gao Pragmatic will join the cabinet at a young age, and at the same time completely suppress the Xu Guo-Shen Li alliance within the Practical School, and unify the entire Real School under his command.
what does that mean? At least, first of all, it means that the Metropolitan Procuratorate controlled by Shen Li is brought under the actual control of Gao Jingjing, which greatly strengthens Gao Jingjing's voice in the official system.
By then, he will not only actually control the staff, but also the way of speech, and the power of employing people in the imperial court will be almost entirely in his hands - unless the emperor objects to his opinion, he can use whomever he wants and depose whomever he wants. Who should be deposed? Is this enough?
What's more, with the emperor's current trust in him, if he adds such a great achievement, expecting the emperor to oppose his opinions is almost a dream in itself. I'm afraid that by that time, the only thing Gao Pragmatic might consider a "weakness" is a "powerful master".
However, that would require the emperor to truly believe that his "gong" was high enough to "shock the master", and at least judging from the current situation, the emperor did not seem to be worried about this at all.
This is actually not surprising. The power structure of the Ming Dynasty was originally different from that of previous dynasties. The Ming Dynasty did not even have a prime minister, and even the chief minister of the cabinet did not have the power to "open the government." All administrative, military, and judicial powers of the imperial court were ultimately in the hands of the emperor. Under this kind of power system, what can Gao Pragmatic do to "shock the master"?
In the Ming Dynasty, if reputation alone could shock the emperor, how could Yu Qian die back then? You know, even if Gao Pragmatic has accomplished the task of destroying the Yuan Dynasty, no matter how great his contribution is, it is just the icing on the cake. Yu Shaobao was able to turn the tide back then, and it can be regarded as recreating the Ming Dynasty!
But what will happen to Yu Qian? After Yingzong was restored to power, a charge of treason was slapped on him. Yu Shaobao was immediately taken down and eventually sentenced to death. Yu Qian himself did not make any move to resist, not even to argue - he was a sensible person and knew what had happened. At this point, it's meaningless to say anything, so it's better not to say anything.
What's funny is that it was Yu Qian who advocated the idea of welcoming back Yingzong. Originally, Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu did not want to welcome his brother Yingzong back, but it was Yu Qian's strong suggestion that Zhu Qiyu reluctantly agreed to welcome Yingzong back. Therefore, Zhang Tingyu also specifically recorded in the "History of Ming Dynasty: Biography of Yu Qian": "When a soldier returns to serve the emperor, he is humble."
Because of this, Emperor Zhu Qiyu was seriously ill in the eighth year of Jingtai. On Renwu in the first month of the year, Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang, and Xu Youzhen welcomed the emperor Zhu Qizhen and restored him to the throne. Prison, but a little story happened later.
Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang, Xu Youzhen and others first framed Yu Qian and others for making unethical remarks, and then planned with eunuchs Wang Cheng, Shu Liang, Zhang Yong, Wang Qin and others to welcome King Celi Xiang. Shi Heng and others decided on this statement and instigated the Taoist officials to report it.
Xiao Weizhen, the censor of the capital, tried and convicted him of treason and sentenced him to death. Wang Wen couldn't stand this kind of false accusation and was eager to argue. Yu Qian smiled and said, this is just Shi Heng's intention. What's the use of arguing.
After the memorial was submitted, Yingzong remembered that he was able to come back thanks to Yu Qian's support in welcoming him, so he hesitated a little and said, "Yu Qian has merit (humility has merit)." Xu Youzhen quickly added that if Yu Qian is not killed, the matter of restoration will be over. He became a master without a name.
It was about imperial power, and Yingzong couldn't care less about the condemnation of his conscience. On the 23rd of the first lunar month, Yu Qian was escorted outside Chongwen Gate. In front of the city he had defended with all his life, he received his final outcome - beheading.
In fact, the fact that Yu Qian was arrested is very interesting, because at that time Yu Qian still actually controlled most of the military power in the capital. If he really wanted to resist, it was hard to say whether the coup would succeed.
But in any case, Yu Qian's death left a certain kind of "political legacy" political thinking to the Ming Dynasty, that is, no matter how much power the Ming officials seemed to have, they would not resist, or had no ability to resist, in front of the emperor. The reason why later emperors became more and more bold in delegating power to civil servants may also be due to this reason.
So, since no one in the Ming Dynasty thought that Gao Pragmatism could have the possibility of "shaking the master" with great achievements, wouldn't Gao Pragmatism be regarded as invulnerable after accomplishing the great feat of destroying the Yuan Dynasty? By that time, Gao Pragmatic himself will be invulnerable. Then once he attacks dissidents, how can the Xin School rely on him to resist?
This is like a duel between two people. One of them is indestructible. No matter whether he is a master of magic or a random fight, only his opponent will die in the end. What's the point of fighting? It's better to accept your fate and be defeated as soon as possible.
It's hard to say whether Shen Shixing is willing to accept his fate and be defeated. After all, he is very similar to Xu Jie, and he may be able to bear the humiliation and wait for the opportunity. But judging from Wang Xijue's character, he will definitely not accept his fate and will definitely choose to fight to the end.
In the current situation, it seems that Gao Pragmatic is only one victory away from becoming "Indestructible". Will Wang Xijue really wait until he wins before resisting? Definitely not. If Wang Xijue wants to act, he will definitely choose to act before Gao Pragmatic wins this victory - he used "zhengguoben" to seize the initiative as soon as he returned to Beijing, which shows that he likes to take the initiative.
It was so in the beginning, and it will certainly be so now.
However, if he were to take action, where would he choose to start? Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but fell into thinking.
Holding back in this war? This seems difficult. After all, in order to ensure victory in this battle, Gao Pragmatic has hoarded enough supplies, and the logistics supply line has also been handed over to his own people. It should be difficult for Wang Xijue to get his hands on him here.
As for the military command level, Gao Pragmatic held the Shangfang Sword, the most powerful sword in the Ming Dynasty so far, as a Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty commander. The Ministry of War was the territory of the Shi School, and there seemed to be no possibility of anyone interfering with it.
The command system will not be in chaos, and the logistics supplies will be guaranteed. Wang Xijue does not have the ability to interfere in these two most important aspects, so there is no need to say that he will be a hindrance.
Wait a minute, Li Rusong is still a member of the Xin School after all. Could it be... No, Li Rusong is not Li Chengliang. He considers political issues much simpler than Li Chengliang. If he is asked to give up the opportunity to make such great achievements to make trouble with him, he will definitely not do it. And with Li Rusong's temper, if Wang Xijue really wanted to force him, he might directly turn to the Heart School. With Wang Xijue's wisdom, he wouldn't be unable to see this.
There is no flaw inside, could it be the outside? Gao Pingshi's heart suddenly suddenly frightened him, but he thought it was impossible - Wang Xijue was still a minister of the imperial court, and at the same time, he had never worked in the border town, so he should not and could not contact the Tumen. Carry out shocking collusion operations.
Gao pragmatic thought hard, but still couldn't figure it out, and thought to himself: This is strange, it is impossible in every aspect, what else can Wang Xijue think of? There's no way you could make a little paper man and try to curse me to death at home, right?
Of course Wang Xijue would not do such a meaningless thing. Although he seemed to believe that his daughter had "achieved enlightenment and become an immortal" when he was in Suzhou, this was actually just a deliberate attempt to cover up his daughter's mental disorder. Thinking that he, Wangge Lao, is a great scholar of the heart school, does he still need someone else to teach him the principle of "the son does not speak, but the strange power confuses the gods"?
In fact, although Wang Xijue is unsurprisingly trying to find ways to prevent Gao Pragmatic from winning this war, the resistance he faces at this time is so great that there is really not much he can do.
There is also a relatively unusual situation here: Although Shen Shixing also believes that once Gao Pragmatic wins this battle, it will bring an extremely huge challenge to the Central School, but he does not agree with Wang Xijue's idea of defeating Gao Pragmatic. He only agrees Let Gao pragmatism "hard to win."
There is, of course, a difference between defeat and "hard-to-win victory." Mobilizing an army of 600,000 but being defeated usually means that the army suffered huge losses. Although Shen Shixing is the current party leader of the Xin School, he has been the chief assistant for many years after all, and his conscience does not allow him to make such a traitorous act.
However, the "hard-to-win" situation is different. For example, if Gao Pragmatic's side has not yet won, it has to withdraw its troops and return due to some accidents. This is also a kind of "hard-to-win". Therefore, Shen Shixing's current request is very clear: find a way to prevent Gao Pragmatic from successfully completing this battle, but do not allow the Xin School to deliberately let Gao Pragmatic defeat in any way - regardless of whether this approach can be achieved, in short, Shen Shixing does not agree with this operation alley.
This undoubtedly placed great restrictions on Wang Xijue's actions, forcing him to turn his attention to the highly pragmatic "rear area", that is, the Ming Dynasty. He must find ways to cause internal trouble in Ming Dynasty. This trouble must not only be urgent, but also very harmful if ignored. Once such a goal is achieved, Gao Pragmatic can be forced to withdraw his troops and return home, so that he can spend his energy on stabilizing the interior, which indirectly makes the Northern Expedition end without any problem.
Wang Xijue originally planned to find a solution from the vassal kings from various places, such as encouraging a certain vassal king to raise an army. Once something like this happens, the court will inevitably have another "appeasement crisis", and it will most likely take it extremely seriously.
If the vassal king really made a big noise after he raised his army, the emperor would probably need to deploy elite troops to quell the rebellion in order to avoid becoming another Emperor Jianwen. Whether these rebel forces are really powerful or just in name only, you can find out by adjusting Gao Pragmatism back. Once the court does this, Gao Pragmatic's various plans will be completely bankrupt.
However, if that's all it is, then one would be underestimating Wang Xijue.
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