When Gao Pangshi came out of Xinuang Pavilion, it was already when the palace gate was about to close, but even though it was so late, he still met an acquaintance at Donghua Gate: Wu Dui and Liang Menglong were both waiting at Donghua Gate with serious faces. .
As the elders of the pavilion, of course the two of them would not stand idle. Instead, the guard on duty prepared two chairs for them to sit down and rest, and even prepared simple tea.
As soon as Gao Pangshi arrived, he was about to greet the two elders. Unexpectedly, the two of them were a step faster. Lao Yuan stood up and raised his hands to signal. Then Wu Dui spoke first and said: "Rixin, the Chief of Ceremonies this afternoon." Returned the Emperor’s approval of Duke Yingyang’s Ci Shu… The Emperor approved it.”
Gao Pragmatic was slightly startled and hesitated to speak. Wu Dui turned around, glanced at the palace guards around him, and said to Gao Pingshi, "Let's walk out of the palace for a while, and let's talk while walking."
The three of them then left Donghua Gate, with their respective servants responsible for clearing the way and guarding the three ministers from a distance.
Gao Jingshi pondered: "Today the emperor publicly said that he wanted the nine ministers to discuss my appointment to the cabinet, so I expected that there would be adjustments in the cabinet. But to be honest, I didn't originally think that Duke Yingyang would definitely be that person."
Liang Menglong said: "Rixin, do you think that the emperor should thoroughly investigate the matter of Li Song closing the border last time, and then this matter will naturally involve Shen and Wang, and in the end it is possible that one of them will Someone has to resign to thank the world?"
These two people are completely their own people. Gao Pingshi didn't mince words about them, nodding and saying: "I did think so."
"The Emperor may not have doubts about this matter, but I'm afraid it is inconvenient to do so today." Wu Dui said: "In the past, the two factions in the DPRK tended to be more balanced. Now that Xin Xin has returned triumphantly, he will definitely join the cabinet to assist the government. , if the gap to be filled comes from the Xinxue school, even if it is not to remove Shen Changzhou, even if it is to remove Wang Taicang's position, it will cause a serious imbalance in the cabinet... There are things going on at home and abroad, and the emperor obviously does not want to see this scene. "
Liang Menglong also said: "Yes, although the emperor is now powerful at home, the situation facing the court is not very good. There are troubles in the east, south and west. Especially Jiangnan is the foundation of Xinxue, so there cannot be any big changes.
But the position of Wang Shanyin (Wang Jiaping, a native of Shanyin County, Datong Prefecture, not Shanyin in the south) is even more difficult to change, otherwise the cabinet will really be either "heart" or "substantial". In this way, only the three of us in Shixue can make adjustments. In this way, the two of us are actually taking advantage of you, Rixin, and that's why we stayed. "
Wu Dui also laughed and said: "It can be regarded as the last support for us brothers. Good wind will send you to the blue clouds with our strength."
Hearing this, Gao Jingshi stood solemnly, raised his head and raised his hands in a standard salute: "The two of you have a deep friendship, and Gao Jingshi's gratitude cannot be expressed in words."
Wu Dui and Liang Menglong each supported one of his arms. Wu Dui said with a smile: "That's a big mistake." Liang Menglong also laughed and said: "More than ten years ago, Menglong thought he would resign and return to his hometown to work in farming. It was Wen Zhenggong who did not care about the prejudice of his family background, and moved Menglong to the prefecture and county, and this is the case today. Now it is Menglong's wish to be able to help Rixin. This matter is to help the reform of the world in public, but privately it is Menglong's Retribution and Wen Zhenggong."
The three of them exchanged polite words, and Liang Menglong turned the topic back to business, saying: "After Yingyang Gong returns to his hometown, if nothing unexpected happens, Huanzhou Gong will be able to take over as his second assistant, and the two kings (Wang Jiaping, Wang Xijue) and I will Step by step. In total, the basic structure of my practical school in the cabinet will not change much, of course..."
"Of course, in fact, the changes are not small." Wu Dui said: "Xu Yingyang has not dealt with us very much in the past few years. He said that he is a comrade of practical learning, but in fact he has been waiting for me for a long time. After Rixin joined the cabinet, the practical learning school can be regarded as a true comrade. By forming a joint force, we can have a good discussion with the Xinxue disciples about who belongs to the Confucian tradition."
Gao Pingshi said at this time: "The great road is eternal, and its methods are ever-changing. They say they are fighting for the orthodoxy, but in fact they are fighting for the route."
Wu Dui and Liang Menglong were both stunned for a moment, but after thinking about it carefully, they both nodded in agreement.
Liang Menglong smiled and said: "Yes, this unification is still Confucianism. In fact, what has changed is how to achieve it. The philosophy of mind believes that the foundation of everything is to be a gentleman first, while the philosophy of practice believes that doing everything well will make you a gentleman... Ha, that's quite a bit. mean."
His summary was very straightforward, but very insightful. Gao Pragmatic praised the words and said: "Mingquan didn't talk much about the truth when he was fair, but he understood its righteousness deeply and worshiped him pragmatically. As Mingquan said, the heart If you want to be a gentleman, you must first become a gentleman; if you want to be a gentleman, you must first be a gentleman."
Wu Dui laughed and said: "These words sound familiar to me, and they seem to be similar to the differences between Mahayana and Hinayana in Buddhism."
Gao Pragmatic also smiled, nodded and said: "In fact, although Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism have their own aspirations, they all have something in common. What they seek is nothing more than perfection."
Liang Menglong brought the topic back again and said: "This time the cabinet adjustment is coming, the court meeting is about to happen, there shouldn't be any surprises, right?"
It was not convenient for Gao Pragmatic to express his position, but Wu Dui had no such concerns and nodded: "It should not happen. In today's situation, the cabinet is actually a whirlpool. If you don't have the ability of Aolong, you will die if you enter. Who can think of this situation? Who dares to interfere? I think that until the crisis in the east, west and south ends is over and the cabinet has to decide the winner first, no one else will dare to enter."
Liang Menglong said: "It is indeed dangerous to enter the market, but I am afraid that someone will deliberately muddy the waters."
Wu Dui thought for a while, but still shook his head: "There is no point in muddying the waters now. If practical learning and mental learning do not lead to a winner, it will be useless for others to stir things up. And with the emperor's operation today, Rixin has entered the cabinet. The matter has been settled, who dares to jump out and sing the opposite at this time, are you really afraid that the emperor will not dare to kill the chicken to scare the monkey?"
When Liang Menglong thought so, he no longer worried about the court discussion, but asked Gao Pragmatically: "Rixin, the emperor left you in Xinuang Pavilion to discuss the current three-party war?"
Gao Pragmatic nodded and said: "Yes."
"What do you say?" Liang Menglong asked again.
"First Jiangnan, then Bozhou, and finally North Korea." Gao pragmatically replied: "However, the Jiangnan matter does not necessarily require a big fight, as long as the court measures are appropriate, or it can be communicated; the Bozhou matter has been planned before, just wait for the front line Liu Wei can defeat the enemy; only North Korea is more complicated."
Speaking of North Korea, Wu Dui pondered for a moment and asked: "Rixin, I don't believe you didn't have the slightest warning about the Japanese invasion of North Korea. Now that the chaos has occurred, what are your plans? Do you want to come to terms with us?" "
Gao pragmatically said sincerely: "The Japanese country intends to use troops abroad, which I expected, but the timing of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's dispatch of troops this time is so coincidental, which is slightly beyond my expectation.
I originally thought that as long as the Battle of Fayuan was fought quickly enough, it would take some time for the news to reach the Japanese state. In addition, he needed to mobilize soldiers and supplies, and also reformed the original naval force. This would take at least a day. years or even longer. In this case, he should not be able to send troops until the spring of next year.
But I underestimated him, or in other words, I underestimated the newly unified Japanese country. At this time, the mobilization ability of the Japanese country was indeed beyond my expectations, and the combat effectiveness of its army also surprised me a little. Of course, it may be that the North Korean combat power was weaker than I expected... In short, it turned out to be It became like this. "
"Based on what Nissin sees, how many troops are needed to quell the Japanese Japanese army in Korea, and how much does it cost?" Liang Menglong, the elder in charge of military affairs, couldn't help but ask.
"This matter is a bit complicated, because there are some variables, and these variables are not small." Gao Pragmatic explained: "If we only talk about the approximately 200,000 Japanese troops who have entered the DPRK, with the power of a town in Liaodong, they can almost Victory. However, there are two problems here: first, whether the Japanese army will increase its troops; second, whether the Liaodong Army can suppress it with its entire army."
Gao Pragmatic looked solemnly and said: "Our dynasty has always regarded Japan as a small country, but in fact, with the strength of Japan, it can definitely not only send 200,000 troops. Duke Huanzhou and Duke Mingquan, Japan has been in power for decades. Known as the Warring States Period, major battles and minor battles continued one after another, so that when it was unified under Toyotomi Hideyoshi a few years ago, the country had about half a million soldiers, and most of them could be considered armies with actual combat experience, so they should not be underestimated.
At the same time, the land in the Japanese country is limited, and it is difficult to fully reward meritorious people. If Toyotomi Hideyoshi is promised land in Korea, or even land in our country, there will be many people in Japan who are willing to work hard for it. In this way, they may be able to recruit more troops to fight against me in North Korea..."
"It's easy to recruit soldiers, but it's hard to pay them." Liang Menglong frowned and said, "My Ming Dynasty claims to have millions of armored men, but it's only in the past few years that we have hundreds of thousands of armored men. How can we raise them in such a small country as Japan?" Do you have to survive so many soldiers?
Even if Toyotomi Hideyoshi promised them land in Korea and even our country, if this land is not yet in his hands, or if it is in his hands but cannot be cultivated and harvested for the time being, what will their hundreds of thousands of troops eat? "
Gao pragmatically said: "The Japanese soldiers are used to hardship, and they really eat less than our Ming soldiers... Of course, this is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that the Japanese people are like monkeys, and their bestiality is often hard to change. Now they are North Korea is already 'two out of three of the world', so the 200,000-strong army must be knocking bones and sucking out the marrow, digging three feet into the ground, and I'm afraid they don't consider how many North Koreans will die."
Liang Menglong understood the meaning of these words. It simply meant that the Japanese pirates would definitely feed themselves with war in Korea. The Japanese pirates would not be without food until the last Korean starved to death.
Liang Menglong and Wu Dui were not surprised by this. After all, Gao Pragmatic's words were in line with their understanding of barbarians.
Liang Menglong said: "In this case, our soldiers on the nine sides have been very busy recently. Mobei has been initially settled, and although the disciples have returned, the old areas in eastern Mongolia need to be garrisoned in particular. Tumen fled to the west, and although they obey the king, they can control it, but in the northwest We should still be vigilant at the border. There are also Jurchen tribes who, although nominally surrendering, can change their direction at any time, so the troops from Liaodong must not be sent out in full force to avoid being attacked from both sides..."
Wu Dui said: "Of course. In this way, although there are many soldiers on the nine sides, it is difficult to say that they are sufficient. I am afraid that as Rixin said, in order to fight against the outside world, we must first settle the inside. But I don't know that Rixin's so-called "Jiangnan spread the message" How exactly do we need to handle the things that have been decided?”
After hearing what he said, Liang Menglong also turned his attention to Gao Pragmatic, wanting to hear his opinions.
Gao pragmatically said: "The turmoil in the Jiangnan Cao Army was actually not an accident. In fact, someone was behind it..." He told Wu and Liang the news he had received so far, and then said: "In this case, when we need it, We must find a way to allow the factory guards’ investigation in Jiangnan to proceed smoothly, and secondly, we must also make some guarantees for the Cao Army.”
"There is no need to hold the Cao Army accountable for being instigated this time. The damage to the ships and supplies is not exempt..." Liang Menglong suddenly paused at this point and added: "Of course, the Ministry of Finance must make a decision on the supplies. .”
Gao Pragmatic waved his hand and said: "The wrongdoers have their owners and the debtors have their owners. Since the Cao Army is not to blame for the loss of the ships and supplies, the Ministry of Revenue does not need to pursue the case. However, although this matter requires compromise, it cannot be done in vain. Thinking that the imperial court can be insulted—talk is necessary, but when it comes to talking, the imperial court’s attitude must be based on fighting, and using fighting to promote talks.”
The ancient Chinese feudal dynasties often made a mistake, that is, once they found that recruiting people was easy to use, they often regarded recruiting people as the only means, and their only focus was on recruiting people. As everyone knows, if there is not enough force to deter, the more things like recruiting people are done, the more the majesty of the imperial court will be lost.
In the end, even if it is a group of bandits and bandits that are roaring together, the local government will only think of recruiting them to appease the problem. As time goes by, more and more bandits and bandits are recruited, and even many of them will rebel again, and rebel again and recruit again, endlessly. .
After all, Gao Pragmatic grew up reading the Anthology of Hong Taizu, and he would never ignore the importance of seeking unity through struggle. Therefore, although his goal was to negotiate and compromise with the Cao Army, he insisted on pretending to fight hard and to death. The attitude of "defeat" has emerged, and they must wait until the last moment before reluctantly accepting the Cao Army's "reform".
But in this case, there is a trouble ahead. Wu Dui frowned and said: "If you want to do this, the imperial court will definitely have to put on a big scene, but the Southern Army has mobilized more than 200,000 troops around Bozhou. If such a thing happens again near Nanjing... Well, it will I’m afraid it won’t be easy.”
Liang Menglong was thoughtful, pondered for a moment, and said hesitantly: "Rixin, don't you want to take command personally to scare the rioting Cajun army?"
Wu Dui was shocked when he heard his guess. He opened his eyes wide and said, "Isn't that true? Rixin, this is not just about being in command. You are about to join the cabinet. If you use the cabinet ministers to take command to quell the rebellion, This formation cannot be reduced no matter what..."
Gao Pragmatic waved his hand quickly and said: "I won't personally take charge. Besides, there are wars on three sides right now. If I take command and go on an expedition, it's hard to say that the Ministry of Revenue can handle everything comprehensively."
"What do you mean?" Wu Dui and Liang Menglong asked in unison.
Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "It doesn't matter if I don't go. Now a commander is free - Commander Qi can come for a trip! With his reputation in the south, I am afraid that the Cao Army will have to surrender as soon as he is still on the way. Woolen cloth."
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