The winter snow has begun to fall, but the cold wind is still there. Jin Hai Jin Luo was sitting pragmatically in the study room of the government office, and the best charcoal was burning in a gilt four-clawed copper furnace with dragon patterns. The four-clawed dragon pattern is not common in North Korea. Due to etiquette, this copper furnace is obviously for the royal family and can only be used by King Li Huo of North Korea.
That's right, many things in Gao Jingshi's study were brought from Hanyang by Li Huo's personal royal order for Gao Jingshi's enjoyment alone. Gao Jingshi did not refuse, but only asked his accompanying secretary to write a formal document on his behalf to thank North Korea. king.
"From this point of view, compared to Tokugawa Ieyasu, Ishida Mitsunari is indeed too short-sighted." Gao Pingshi lay half on a fox crop recliner and closed his eyes and said: "However, Tokugawa Ieyasu's actions are not It’s not beyond my expectation. It’s just that he thinks Japan still has a chance, but this is a bit wishful thinking.”
At this time, Kaibihime definitely did not look like a female general sitting on one side, but a Yamato Nadeshiko wearing Mei-style clothes. She leaned over Gao Yingshi's side and beat his calf obediently. The strength of her hands was so good that Gao Wongshi didn't even want to open his eyes when he spoke.
"I have no plans left. Although Zuofu is shrewd, he cannot be my opponent." Ji Feiji replied.
The pragmatic man didn't move, but just raised his hand and shook it from side to side, saying: "This is not a matter of scheming, but the bargaining chip in Ieyasu's hand is far inferior to mine. No matter how hard he tries, he can't defeat me in the end." It’s a casual arrangement, and it’s even possible that I don’t even care what his plans are, and I just need to break through the ten chapters with one force.”
"Ah..." Kafei Ji was stunned for a moment, but she seemed to quickly understand the reason, and nodded: "I see, the master is absolutely right. This current situation reminds me of the time when Taige was still Guanbai. The Odawara Conquest was launched.
When Guan Bai's army approached, the Hojo family actually thought of many ways to deal with it, but in the end they found that it was of no use at all. As long as Guan Bai does not withdraw his troops, no matter how indestructible Odawara Castle is, the defeat of the Hojo family will only be a matter of time, sooner or later. "
"You have such knowledge, which shows that you have made great progress in the past few years. This is what I said before: use strategies to control situations, and don't limit yourself to things." Gao pragmatically said: "What does "Sun Tzu's Art of War: Situation Chapter" say? Do you remember?"
"Yes, I remember." Jia Fei Ji quickly replied: "Those who are good at fighting seek power and are not responsible for others, so they can choose people and use their power. Those who use power will fight against people like turning wood and stone. Wood and stone The nature of peace is to be quiet, to be dangerous is to move, to be square is to stop, and to be round is to move. Therefore, those who are good at combating people's momentum are like those who turn round stones on a thousand-foot mountain, their momentum is also..."
"Do you understand the meaning?" Gao pragmatically asked again.
Kafiji replied: "It means that a wise general always pursues victory by creating his own momentum, and does not require his subordinates to win through hard fighting. Therefore, he can appropriately select talents and skillfully use the momentum."
A person who is good at using "power" can direct the army in battle just like turning wood or stone. The nature of wood and stone is that they will stand still when placed on flat ground, and slide when placed on high and steep ground; squares will stay still, and circles will roll. The situation created by a general who is good at commanding operations is like a boulder rolling down a mountain thousands of feet high. This is the 'potential' in the art of war. "
Although Gao Pingshi still had his eyes closed, a smile appeared on his face and he said in an approving tone: "Not bad, you read the book well."
"Thank you, Master." Ji Feiji secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Ever since she entered the Gao Mansion, she has always had a special respect for Gao Pragmatic. This kind of awe is not just due to status or power, and of course it is not personal. Force, but more out of reverence for wisdom.
After getting to know each other over the years, Ji Feiji certainly knows that Gao Pragmatic is actually quite caring and caring for the people around him, but this does not affect her evaluation of Gao Pragmatic at all.
He is a person who is almost entirely composed of rationality. For him, sensibility is just a daily adjustment. Once serious matters are involved, he will become impersonal and every decision will be made extremely calmly without any emotion. .
Because of this, he often makes decisions from a very high point of view, just like the gods in the sky looking at the world, with a kind of indifference like "the supreme being forgets his feelings".
This kind of experience first came from an experience she had at the Marquis Mansion in Nanning. That time, it happened that my wife returned to Beijing from Dingnan to meet the master. Just a few days after arriving, a piece of news was sent from southern Xinjiang, saying that it was impossible to decide and asked the master and his wife to make a decision.
This matter is not very complicated to say, but it happened in a place called Kampot in the jurisdiction of the Second Town of the Phnom Penh Guard Army. At that time, an unknown plague was suspected to have occurred in a local village. Even the military doctors who graduated from the Department of Medicine of Jinghua Craftsman School did not know the reason and could not treat it.
The local government and garrison were deeply troubled because a new port city was being built on a peninsula promontory dozens of miles west of Kampot. If the plague spread in this village of Kampot, the consequences would be disastrous.
However, there has been controversy as there has never been any record of this disease and doctors dare not say whether it was a plague or not. Some people advocated reporting it immediately and asking people from the medical department to come for a joint consultation before making a decision; others believed that the matter was so important that the plague must be extinguished first before discussing the rest.
Just when the two sides were arguing, the local garrison commander and the Phnom Penh Guard Army Second Town Second Association Third Commander Gao Leshan directly led troops to surround the village. Gaoleshan was blocked by musketeers and then fired rockets to burn the entire village. In this incident, no one of the 273 people in the village, old and young, was spared, and they were all burned to charcoal.
After the incident, great differences arose between the civil and military parties. Because they had to face governance issues head-on, the civilian officials were under great pressure from the local area. They were extremely indignant that the garrison had caused so much harm to the lives of the people, and insisted that Gaoleshan be responsible for the massacre.
The generals showed the usual cold arrogance of the garrison. The commander of the Phnom Penh garrison and the commander of the second town did not explain the questions raised by the advisory group (Jinghua indirectly controlled the local area through the advisory group).
Both of them insisted that the garrison only accepts orders from the master, or instructions issued by the wife acting on the master's authority. Therefore, if the garrison is to punish Gao Leshan, please show the warrant from the master or his wife, otherwise there is no need to complain.
When Kaiji heard the news, as a female general who had been in charge of the military affairs of a city, she also put herself into it and thought about it, and felt that this matter was indeed very difficult.
In fact, since the establishment of the samurai system in Japan (i.e., the shogunate system), local lords have been managed by both the military and the government, so Kaiji is no stranger to this.
From a local governance perspective, the advisory group's anger is completely understandable. After all, we haven’t yet figured out whether this disease is a plague. How can you justify killing nearly 300 people in the village without saying a word? Shouldn’t our advisory group explain to the local people? We have done so much work, but now that you are doing this, it may all be in vain. Shouldn't we be angry and ask the military for an explanation?
But the problem is that what the military did is hard to say is wrong. Although it is difficult to say whether it is a plague, after all, more than two-thirds of the people in the village have symptoms, which shows that the disease is very contagious. Even if it is not a plague, it may be a disaster once it spreads.
In addition, the seaport city not far to the west is under construction. According to Jinghua's plan, it will be the largest port in the Kingdom of Cambodia in the future. It is an absolute key project and has concentrated a large amount of manpower and material resources. It must not be tolerated. There is a loss. The military's decisive action at least maintained the safety of the project construction.
Compared with the more than 270 people in that small village, the manpower concentrated in this project is at least 100,000. The two sides are completely different.
Just when Jia Feiji thought it was very difficult at this time, Mrs. Huang Zhiting also frowned and looked at Gao Pragmatic, seeming to think that the matter was not easy to handle, and it would be safer to let the master make the decision himself.
Who knew that Gao was extremely decisive in his pragmatic decision-Kafiji even suspected that he had not thought for more than three breaths. Then I heard Gao Pingshi say: "The disease was not completely identified and nearly 300 people in the village were killed. Gao Leshan was sentenced to be dismissed from his post on the spot and no longer held the position of third standard officer of the second association of the second town of the Phnom Penh Guard Army. He was also fined Twenty punishments with a rod, and public execution is allowed. This is the order."
Not only Jia Feiji, but also Huang Zhiting frowned, and Secretary-General Liu, who was always known for his outspokenness and daring to remonstrate, immediately stood up, obviously preparing to object.
Unexpectedly, Gao Pangshi didn't even look at it, and continued: "My servant Gao Leshan is calm in the face of danger, decisive in dealing with things, sophisticated in his methods, and dares to take responsibility. He is now promoted to the deputy chief of staff for operations of the Dingnan Garrison Army Headquarters. This is the order."
Kafei Ji was stunned on the spot.
She didn't expect that Gao Pragmatic's decision was to split one thing into two. First, he beat Gao Leshan to the end, and then publicly punished him twenty times out of "civilian anger".
Then he affirmed Gao Leshan's ability and sense of responsibility as a master, and without saying a word, he was promoted on the spot. He was directly promoted from an ordinary "servant" to the deputy chief of staff of the Dingnan Garrison Headquarters - this was a promotion.
Now, since the matter has been handled separately, the advisory group cannot say that the master is partial to the armed servants - he has been removed from his position, beaten, or executed in public. The people's anger will naturally be vented, and their demands will naturally be obtained. satisfy.
However, Gao Leshan was not at a loss either. He had just been dismissed from his post and immediately took off on the back. He was promoted directly from the district standard commander of the Phnom Penh garrison's overseas garrison force to the Dingnan garrison headquarters at the core of southern Xinjiang. He did it all at once. The Deputy Chief of Staff simply thinks of hell and heaven.
However, what frightened Kaiji the most about the handling of this matter was the speed of Gao Pragmatic's decision and the meaning contained in the decision. Quick decision-making means that highly pragmatic thinking is extremely clear, so that problems that may seem very complicated to others are not difficult to deal with at all; as for the hidden meaning...
Is it fair to sacrifice some people for the sake of others? Is it fair to sacrifice the few for the many?
This is an extremely difficult decision for anyone who holds the concept of "benevolence and righteousness", but for a man who supposedly has the deepest understanding of "benevolence and righteousness", Gao's pragmatic decision shows that he is completely able to accept the majority. people at the expense of a few.
Is this heartless? Kaiji didn't know, but subconsciously, she thought it was.
At least, in Gao Pragmatic's eyes, some people are expendable. So by extension, the Japanese who sent troops to attack the Ming Dynasty must be expendable, right? Not only the Japanese troops who set foot in Korea, but also the ordinary people on the home front must be considered family members of prisoners in his eyes...
"Do you think I should let the Korean Japanese troops go back?" Just when Kafei was confused, Gao Pragmatic suddenly asked.
"Ah, I have never thought about such a big thing..."
"It doesn't matter, think about it now." Gao pragmatically blocked the words.
At this moment, Kafiji had no choice but to say "yes" first, and then muttered: "In my humble opinion, whether you want to return the Japanese troops in Korea to the mainland depends first on what kind of Japan you plan to have. "
"It's interesting, please tell me about it."
"Yes, I'm trying to explain. If I'm wrong, please correct me." Kafei Ji said: "First of all, I won't let them go back. The Japanese army in Korea mainly comes from the Western Kingdom, plus many direct descendants of Taige. If all these people are killed If the annihilation is carried out in Korea, the strength of the great names in the Western Kingdom will be greatly reduced, and the Toyotomi family will inevitably suffer a heavy blow.
In this way, the Daimyos of the Eastern Kingdom, especially the Tokugawa family, have become relatively stronger. If I can ensure complete control over the Tokugawa family, I can rely on the Tokugawa family to easily establish the shogunate and replace Toyotomi. Gongyi, but the great names of the Western Kingdom had no power to resist.
As for the Toyotomi family, first of all, their strength was severely damaged, and secondly, after the death of Taikaku...the young master could not govern, so the authority was widely dispersed. Who has the final say among the Northern Government Office, Mrs. Yodo, and Ishida Harubu? Hard to say. Therefore, I think it may be difficult for me to respond effectively.
In this case, if Tokugawa Zuofu is obedient and finally adopts Yan'er as his adopted son and makes him the family governor, a hundred years later, the position of general will naturally fall to Yan'er. In this case, maybe I can take over all the sixty-six countries of Japan without spending a single soldier. "
"Pfft, sixty-six countries..." Gao pragmatic suddenly couldn't help laughing.
Japan only has a total area of more than 300,000 square kilometers, but it can be divided into sixty-six countries. It's really funny. When I really "take all of Japan" in the future, I have to turn all these "countries" into counties.
Kafei also knew how big the Ming Dynasty was by now (in fact, at that time, the Japanese really thought that the Ming Dynasty was not much bigger than Japan, and the maps drawn by Western missionaries were seriously out of shape), so she couldn't help but blush for a moment, thinking Thinking about your past self, wasn’t it also a typical “arrogant and arrogant” person?
Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic waved his hand and did not dwell on this issue, but said: "I won't make any comments first. You can continue to talk about what will happen if you let them go back."
Ji Feiji said: "Yes."
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