Several flowers bloom, one on each side.
At the High-Pragmatic Strategy Headquarters stationed at Lightning Lake, nearly 30,000 cavalrymen set up camp at noon. They suddenly changed their behavior from the previous few days. Not only did they not finish lunch at an extremely fast speed and immediately rush off again, they even had some horses to release to Nanshan. It means - they really started to let go.
The grassland around Lightning Lake is good, and the water source is not a problem. The current situation is not the same as when he was in Guangxi. Gao Pragmatic does not have to worry about the water source being poisoned.
Of course, judging from the size of Lightning Lake, unless the Mongolians in Chahar tribe have the laundry detergent in the hands of the God of War, poisoning is meaningless.
Gao Pragmatic himself acted more relaxed and comfortable, and even went to the lake to fish, playing the fisherman with the fishing rod he got from the Mongolian herders. The earthworms were dug by his two concubine brothers, Gao Wuzheng and Gao Wuruo, and the wine and rice bait were mixed on site.
There was a little hiccup here. When the army went on an expedition, there was plenty of rice, but wine was a bit difficult to handle. Because Gao was pragmatic and could drink but was not good at drinking, the prohibition on alcohol in his army had always been very strict. In the end, it was Tianjin Coast Guard guerrilla Chen Can who stepped forward and said that he had seized a few kilograms from a certain commander under his command during an internal inspection, which could be put to use now.
This incident happened with Chen Can, and Gao Qingshi thought it was reasonable. He was a guerrilla in Tianjin's coastal defense. Tianjin Wei was originally not ranked high in the importance of Gyeonggi's defense, but later with Jinghua's Tianjin Private Port, Tianjin's development was astonishing.
Back then, Gao Qingshi was just a young boy. Now, almost twenty years later, Tianjin Port has developed into a huge trading port, and even the city of Tianjin is overcrowded. Nowadays, there have been calls from the imperial court to establish a governor of Tianjin, and many officials have suggested expanding the city of Tianjin.
In fact, in the original history, the governor of Tianjin in the Ming Dynasty was established in the 25th year of Wanli. Today's Tianjin is obviously much better developed than in the original history, and it is indeed time to set up a governor. The emperor also sent Chen Ju to ask Gao Pragmatic privately about his attitude towards the matter, but Gao Pragmatic's attitude at the time was rather ambiguous and he did not express his support clearly.
In fact, Gao Pangshi did not advocate the establishment of another governor in Tianjin. He even hoped to remove all the governors of Shuntian, or let the governor of Shuntian directly take charge of Beizhili. Not only in Beizhili, he advocated formulating the governor system in all parts of the country, breaking up some staggered governors and governor-general areas, and then unified planning and implementation of a new system with clear powers and responsibilities.
He advocated changing the "ancestral system" at the imperial court level. The governor was the chief official of a province, and he could also handle military affairs. This was equivalent to the administrative leader serving as the political commissar of the provincial military region, and the general military commander being the commander of the provincial military region. As for the governor, he can be compared to the commander of a war zone or a large military region. As for whether he needs to take charge of the government affairs of the province where he is stationed, it can be adjusted according to local conditions.
For example, the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi not only oversees the military affairs of Guangdong and Guangxi, but also serves as the governor of Guangdong. Whether this habit needs to be continued is not beyond discussion. But at the same time, Gao Pragmatic believed that there was no need for Governor Ji Liao to also be in charge of government affairs, and the same was true for Governor Xuanda and the Governor of Shaanxi Trilateral—these were governors specially set up for military affairs, so it was not appropriate to also be in charge of government affairs.
Closer to home, since Tianjin has developed to this stage, the army stationed in Tianjin will naturally benefit from such prosperity - it is a defensive system, no need to explain it. But everything has advantages and disadvantages. If the treatment is good, military discipline will be difficult to maintain. Chen Can led the fewest troops among the eight major guerrillas in this trip, but he had the most examples of those in the army who were caught by the high-pragmatism rectification movement. Unexpectedly, this time it was a blessing in disguise.
The eight guerrillas did not accompany Gao pragmatic fishing, but were stationed in their respective headquarters. Despite the current appearance of the Economic and Strategy Headquarters, it is actually loose on the outside and tight on the inside. Gao Pragmatic's command is to deliberately make such a gesture to confuse the opponent, but to be ready for a big fight at any time.
Accompanying Gao Pingshi were his shogunate, the secretaries from Jinghua he brought with him. After all, he has not resigned from the post of Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Even in the military, some government affairs of the Ministry of Household Affairs still have to be sent to him for approval. However, this matter is now handed over to the secretaries, and Gao Pragmatic will also handle some of them. Take it out to them for discussion and come up with an idea for their reference.
It's not that these things will really delay Gao Pragmatic's thinking time, but he intends to use this to train the people around him. Although most of them will not be officials in the court in the future, they will be responsible for certain aspects of affairs in southern Xinjiang. A high probability event. If you have experience in thinking about the politics of the Ming Dynasty, you will naturally have some foundation in southern Xinjiang in the future.
The most important thing reported today is the renewal or succession of Governor Ji Liao.
Ever since Gao pragmatically used Shang Fangjian to replace Li Song, the governor of Jiliao who was "unlucky" in the rear a few days ago, there has been an uproar in the court, and all parties immediately started to quarrel.
The response from the Practical School School was very fast. As soon as the news came, a large number of Practical School officials came to scold Li Song for not succeeding enough but for failing. They even bluntly said that Li Song was deliberately plotting to drag down Jing Lu without giving him any face. He is a hindrance and puts party strife before the interests of the court. He should not only be deposed, but even killed.
If the Practical School is like this, how can the Xin School not counterattack? As a result, officials from the Xinxue School also complained one after another, accusing Gao Pangshi of doing this for personal gain and attacking dissidents, saying that he deliberately found excuses to abuse Shang Fangjian's privileges in order to dominate the power and transcend the constraints of the court.
Judging from the implication of this statement, it probably implies that Gao Jingshi currently has the most elite 600,000 field troops in the imperial court. It is already time for the Chenqiao mutiny and the yellow robes to join the army. If the imperial court is still indifferent, once Gao someone leads the army to kill It would be too late to return to the capital.
It's a pity that even the traditional Neo-Confucian school, which has always been neutral, couldn't stand these words. The strong-willed Mr. Wang Ge of Wangjiaping personally stood up and reprimanded: "The national war is fierce outside and the internal fighting is particularly fierce. This is not a blessing for the court! You guys make this fallacy. Do you dare to ask yourself?"
However, some Xinxue officials said in a strange way: "In the two hundred years of our imperial court, we have never heard of a precedent in which the army was exempted from the duties of ministers during war. As soon as Gao Pragmatic took power in his hands, he carried out the order, and the Governor of Ji Liao said solemnly No matter what excuse he used to do this, we only have one question: Has he considered the prestige of the court and the integrity of the civil servants?"
Wang Jiaping was not easy to answer this, so he could only defend the "prestige of the imperial court" and said: "This time the Meng Yuan Jinglue was awarded Shangfangjian, its power was clearly stipulated: 'If the governor does not want to kill him, He immediately removed his military command and replaced him with a supervisor. In this case, Gao Jinglue used the imperial system and exercised the power granted by the emperor. Why did he go too far and was falsely accused of exercising power?"
However, Wang Jiaping can't say much about "civilian decency." After all, what he just said was from the perspective of the court's laws, that is, the highly pragmatic approach was completely in compliance with the law and there was nothing that did not consider the prestige of the court. As for the integrity of civil servants, it is difficult to say.
Why is it difficult to tell? As the pinnacle of civil servants and border ministers in the general sense, the governor-general is the highest-level so-called "frontier official" in addition to the non-permanent manager. Historically, only heavyweight civil servants have been qualified to hold the position.
Moreover, the governor-general generally oversees the military affairs of two or more provinces and has a huge influence. In many cases, he can even influence the whole body. Even if he needs to be removed, only an imperial decree can do it. Now that Gao Pragmatic obtained this power for the first time, he used it without hesitation. Even if he does not talk about exercising power, it seems that he cannot escape the suspicion of careless exercise of power.
What is the civil servant system? The decency of civil servants is the face of civil servants. In the past, when civil servants reached the level of governor, or even collectively referred to as "governor", they themselves exercised power on behalf of the emperor, so only the imperial power could be higher than him.
Even the rest of the supervisory troops who were also sent on behalf of the emperor, such as the eunuchs who guarded important places, they only had the power of supervision. They could only report to the emperor when something happened, and the emperor had to make the final decision on whether or not to deal with it, and how to deal with it. The only means is to issue an edict.
The edict still has to go through other civil servants, such as the cabinet, and you must not bypass it. Otherwise, theoretically speaking, even the edict itself is invalid: "If it doesn't go through Fengge Luantai, what is the name of the edict?"
But Gao Pragmatic broke this convention. When he deposed Li Song, it seemed that one of his civil servants "dealt with" another civil servant. It seemed to be the same nature as usual when a civil servant impeached another civil servant and caused the latter to step down. In fact, it was not the case.
The biggest difference here is that for impeachment to take effect, the emperor, after receiving the impeachment, determined that the reasons for the impeachment were established, and then made a ruling by imperial edict. Therefore, in terms of nature, the resignation of the civil servant was directly removed by the emperor, rather than the civil servant who impeached him removing him "single-handedly".
The difference between Gao Pragmatic's approach this time is that because the emperor authorized it first, there was no room for any other force to intervene in the development of the matter. In this way, in fact, Gao Pragmatic said that he wanted to be dismissed, and the dignified Governor Ji Liao was dismissed.
The biggest problem for the civil servants is not that the emperor has no chance to intervene - they actually don't care about this. In fact, if the emperor could not intervene in many things, they might be happier.
The real problem is that because the emperor had no chance to intervene, the cabinet could only stare. It should be said that there was no chance to even stare. By the time they got the news, Li Song was already being sent to the hospital. On the way to the capital for "disposal", Li Ruhua, the Shuntian patrol censor, had already gone to Miyun in accordance with Gao's pragmatic military orders and officially took over the post of governor of Jiliao.
This seems too damn outrageous to them!
I gave you this title earlier because this battle is indeed more important, so I gave you face so that the people under your command would take it seriously, but I didn’t really ask you to do such a thing!
It's like your leader telling you, "If you have any opinions, feel free to raise them." But you still take it seriously and just point at the leader and scold him? If someone like you appears in a TV series, you're guaranteed to survive only three episodes.
But the problem is that Gao Wuchen has done it now. Not only did he do it, he didn't even explain much. He simply talked about the matter and said that he had escorted Li Song back to Beijing and was waiting for the court's decision.
What? If you say you're angry, then you're going to be angry. I, the princes of the imperial court, don't want to lose face?
What's more, there is a bit of mystery here: Li Ruhua, the censor of Shuntian, is related to Gao Pragmatic! This Li Ruhua is from Suizhou, Henan (later Sui County, Henan). Suizhou belongs to Kaifeng Prefecture, and Xinzheng also belongs to Kaifeng Prefecture, so it is a highly pragmatic province and prefecture. And not only that, he was also on the gold list for the eighth year of Wanli, the same year as Gao Pragmatic.
Being from the same hometown and the same year, everyone knows that he must be from the Practical School, and must be a high-ranking party member!
However, since the company's conditions are so good, why are they still just patrolling the sky after more than ten years? Of course there is a reason for this, and the reason is not complicated: this guy is ranked 16th from the bottom of the top three in that subject.
In the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, where ranking is extremely important, this achievement... Generally speaking, it is almost impossible to get into the central government, and the speed of progress as an official is generally quite difficult. In fact, of course it is.
Li Ruhua, courtesy name Maofu, was born in Suizhou. He was a Jinshi in the eighth year of Wanli Dynasty. He was initially appointed as an official in Yanzhou.
However, after all, he was from the same hometown as Gao Pragmatic. After passing the exam for six years, he was transferred to the Engineering Department and was responsible for impeaching many high-ranking officials of the Psychological School. Of course, others speak lightly, and impeachment and other matters are basically carried out according to someone's explicit and implicit instructions, so there is no need to go into detail.
Later, he transferred the Ministry of Civil Affairs to Shizhong, and soon he was transferred to Jiangxi Province. A year after returning to Beijing, he was transferred to Shuntian Province to this day.
In the eyes of the Heart School, his background and resume are very simple. He is the kind of person with a big word "高" on his forehead. Moreover, in their view, Li Ruhua and Gao Pragmatic are completely different. Gao Pragmatic has been able to reach this height because of many factors, but no matter how you say it, his own achievements are indeed eye-catching. Li Ruhua is not the case. He has no achievements at all. He is still working as a patrol officer after being named on the gold list for more than ten years. He is not a "powerful person" at all.
Isn't it too much for you, Gao Jinglue, to drag such a person into "temporary control of the army" without saying a word? Isn't this style of cultivating the rural party too obvious, without even mentioning the appearance?
As a result, the impeachment surrounding Gao's pragmatic exercise of power to plant the party became rampant for a while. The Xinxue school officials who failed to recall Gao Pangshi to the capital because of the Cajun uprising last time immediately became excited and geared up, hoping to seize this opportunity to unseat Gao pragmatism in one fell swoop.
After listening to his younger brother Gao Wuruo read the reports sent from the capital, Gao Jingshi said with some concern: "Brother, the situation doesn't seem to be good."
"What's wrong?" Gao Pingshi looked at the fish float with a calm expression and said calmly: "Hundreds of thousands of troops are outside, and the emperor is not a three-year-old child, how can he follow them and commit stupidity."
Of course this is the truth, and Gao Wuruo certainly understands it, but he obviously still feels that the hidden dangers are great, and admonishes him: "Of course there won't be any problems now, but this battle will eventually be fought..."
This meaning is obvious. Naturally, it means that after the war is over, it will be time to settle the scores.
However, Gao Pragmatic chuckled, shook his head and said: "If this battle is not fought well and I don't follow the officials' example and add fuel to the flames, I will naturally be in big trouble. However, if this battle is won, no matter how they talk and turn things upside down, Black and white, the emperor will not blame me for deposing Li Song."
"But what if this matter becomes a thorn in the emperor's heart?" Gao Wuruo was still a little worried.
Gao pragmatic took a deep look at him and suddenly smiled: "A minister cannot be perfect."
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