Gao Jingshi was always fast and accurate in making inferences, but the political acumen of the others present was inferior to him. Although everyone thought of the "management" of regicide, they didn't have time to deduce it. its steps.
Gao Wuzheng, who has made considerable progress in recent times, let out a surprised "Ah" and said hurriedly: "Do these turtle descendants really dare to kill the king? We must not let them succeed!"
Gao Wuruo also knew that although his brother's power in the court was strong, at least half of it came from the Holy Scroll. If the emperor had something wrong, it would be really bad, so he hurriedly said: "In this way, I’m afraid my brother will have to remind the emperor immediately to prepare for any eventuality.”
"Sixth Master, Seventh Master, don't be anxious." Gao Mo, the old servant who suggested the possibility of a "three-pronged approach", was much calmer and advised: "After all, this matter is just an inference, not to mention that those people may not have already If you do it, even if there is an arrangement, it may not be able to be found out now.
If the master warns the emperor now, firstly, if there is no evidence, it may alarm the snake; secondly, if there is real evidence, he may have to face the emperor's suspicion..."
Gao Qi also immediately said: "Uncle Eleven, Uncle Twelve, and nephew also think that it is not too busy to warn the emperor at this time. We should at least find out the situation first, so that we can determine what to do next." response."
The names of Gao Mo and Gao Qi here may be a bit confusing and need to be explained.
Gao Mo is an old servant of the sixth house of the Gao family, so when he calls Gao Wuzheng and Gao Wuruo, he follows the order of the sixth house. The sixth room is the most prosperous one in the Gao family. Not counting the highly pragmatic sisters, the order among their brothers is as follows:
There are seven in total: Gao Wuzheng, Gao Wuguan, Gao Wuqin, Gao Wujian, Gao Wuzhong, Gao Wuzheng and Gao Wuruo. Among them, Gao Wuguan should not be included in the ranking, because he has been adopted to Gao Gong, so he should be counted as the third-bedroom step-heir.
However, after all, Liufang is now the de facto "core group" of the Gao family. The honor and disgrace of the entire Gao family depends on Gao Jingshi. Therefore, although the Liufang brothers regard Gao Wuguan as the third uncle's heir in terms of etiquette and law, But he still called him "Second Brother" and "Second Brother" on weekdays, so the servants naturally changed their names accordingly.
However, the Gao family not only has one sixth house, but the first five houses are also direct descendants of the "Xinzheng Gao family", so they cannot be counted out. So if you include cousins, there is a bit of confusion in terms of titles, which need to be judged according to the occasion and context.
For example, the sorting just mentioned only refers to the six rooms, and adding the other rooms will become another sorting:
Gao Wuzi, Gao Mengnan, Gao Shunan (died young, but entered the family tree), Gao Guoyan, Gao Wuben, Gao Wuben, Gao Wuguan, Gao Wuqin, Gao Wujian, Gao Wuzhong, Gao Wuzheng, Gao Wuruo.
According to this order, their juniors, such as Gao Qi just now, should call Gao Jingshi the sixth uncle, and Gao Jingshi's younger brothers should also be ranked further back. In this way, Gao Wuzheng is the "eleventh uncle" and Gao Wuruo is the "twelfth uncle".
It can also be seen that the clans of this era are no joke. After all, this is the generation that is considered highly pragmatic. If we sort them further to the younger generations, it will be even more complicated.
Needless to say about others, Gao Jingshi had six sons and three daughters: Gao Yuan, the eldest son, was the daughter of Huang Zhiting; Gao Yan, the eldest daughter, was the daughter of Huang Zhiting; Gao Yan, the second son, was the daughter of Narita Kaifi The third son, Gao Mu, is the daughter of Meng Gu Zhezhe; the second daughter, Gao Yi, is the daughter of Narita Kaifi; the fourth son, Gao Ji, is the daughter of Huang Zhiting; the fifth son, Gao Chun, is the daughter of Liu Xin; the third daughter, Gao Zhen, is the daughter of Liu Xin.
There is also a sixth son, Gao Luo, who cannot be listed in the Gao family tree. He is the son of the eldest princess of Yongning, Zhu Yaolao.
In other words, even if the order of Gao family brothers and the order of daughters are unrelated to each other, the next generation of the Gao family now has six sons in Gao Jingshi alone.
In fact, his second brother Gao Wuguan was also very prolific - he gave birth to seven sons, the youngest of whom died young, and now there are also six, namely: Zeyi, Zeqian, Zeming, Zeyuan, Zechao, Then show. [Note: When the seventh child calls, he will go up and die young].
The two brothers already have twelve sons, not to mention the sons of other brothers, there are at least twenty, so there is no need to go into details one by one.
After Gao Qi said this, Huang Zhiting said: "Two uncles, although this matter is important, it shouldn't be urgent at the moment, because even if they have such a plan, they haven't reached that stage yet. Looking at it now , the first thing they have to do is to create chaos, first muddy the water in the capital, that is, assassinate the emperor's legitimate son.
When the water in the capital becomes muddy, I will definitely be the only strength that the emperor can rely on. At this time, if I... cause trouble in Xinzheng, I will force Ding You. If this happens, the emperor will be without help and will be unable to survive alone. Then it will be their opportunity to cause trouble. "
Gao Wuzheng and Gao Wuruo felt relieved now, but their sister-in-law's words "something happened in Xinzheng" made them frightened. The two of them are highly pragmatic concubines, but because of this, they must be even more filial to their "mother" Zhang, so they said in unison: "Then Xinzheng must be vigilant immediately!"
The two of them looked at each other, and both raised their hands to Gao Pragmatic and said: "Brother, I am willing to go to Xinzheng in person to strengthen defense."
It's interesting to say that the two people's movements and words are almost synchronized, as if they have gone through countless rehearsals. However, Gao Pragmatic was very satisfied with their performance. Regardless of whether or how much of it was performance, it was good to have this attitude, which already showed that filial piety education was very successful in the Gao family.
"This matter is of great importance. We really need someone reliable to come back to Xinzheng to take charge of the matter." Gao Pragmatic nodded and said to Gao Wuruo: "As the old man comes to care for the young, Wuruo, you are the youngest, so you will go back and take care of it this time. We brothers, let us fulfill our filial piety at the knees of our elders."
Gao Wuruo's face was very serious and he bowed and said: "Yes, brother, I will definitely try my best." After a pause, he asked again: "Brother, when will I set off? Will I leave later?"
By later, I naturally mean after the meeting. However, Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "It's getting dark, and we can't walk fast. It's better to have a good night's rest tonight and set off again early tomorrow... It just so happens that Baiyulou will dispatch a team of cavalry to accompany us."
Gao Wuruo agreed, but Gao Pragmatic didn't finish speaking, and added: "After you return to Xinzheng, you will temporarily control the Henan security column. If necessary, you can also ask the factory protection teams from all over Henan to cooperate."
This power is actually very great, especially for Gao Wuruo, who has been a trainee secretary for many years but has never been assigned abroad. This is the first time he has gained such real power. Although he was excited, Gao Wuruo still tried his best to restrain his excitement, resisting the urge to jump up and cheer and said: "Yes, I understand, thank you for your trust, brother."
As mentioned before, in addition to the southern Xinjiang system and the two ocean fleets, Jinghua's armed servants are mainly divided into three parts. The first part is the "Jinghua Security Team" system mainly responsible for the Jinghua Trading Company. This system is divided into two parts according to the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the vassal state and the Jisi area.
The former is mainly composed of infantry, and its main business in normal times is to escort large-scale domestic merchants and undertake the commission of eradicating bandits from both the government and private powerful people. In short, he is mainly responsible for the domestic business of Ming Dynasty. Corresponding to this is the cavalry security team responsible for business in the vassal and Jisi areas.
As the home province of the Gao family, Henan's security team is of course dominated by infantry. Of course, there are still some cavalrymen more or less, but they are not on a large scale.
The "security team" system is divided into three main levels: the provincial-level security column, the prefectural-level security brigade, and the county-level security squadron. Of course, the establishment of the security force is not as strict as that of the garrison. Regardless of column, brigade or squadron, the number of establishments has a certain flexible range. Generally speaking, the infantry security team has a larger establishment and a larger number of people, while the cavalry security team has a smaller establishment and fewer people.
As mentioned before, the security force system is not a fixed establishment such as the "three-three system". Within the jurisdiction of a northern region column, there are as many security brigades as there are prefectures, and as many security squadrons as there are counties. . The southern part is much weaker and cannot cover the whole area at all. In some provinces, there may be only two or three brigades and a dozen squadrons.
As a highly pragmatic province, Henan certainly has ample provision for the establishment of security teams. During the Ming Dynasty, Henan had eight prefectures and one prefecture (i.e. one Zhili Prefecture), namely Kaifeng, Henan, Runing, Nanyang, Huaiqing, Weihui, Zhangde, Guide and Ruzhou (Zhili Prefecture) .
However, the Jinghua Security Team does not have the Zhili Prefecture level, so it was not counted as the Zhili Prefecture when it was established. Therefore, it was only organized into eight security brigades, and Ruzhou was under the responsibility of the Henan Prefecture Security Brigade.
Although the number of security brigade posts is very flexible, as mentioned earlier, Henan, as a highly pragmatic province, has sufficient staffing and can basically fill up the number, so each security brigade has almost 3,000 people. This brings the province's eight security brigades to a total of 24,000 people.
But this is not over yet, because Xinzheng is the home county of the Gao family and the location of the Gao family's ancestral temple, so there is another directly affiliated "Longwen Yayuan Security Squadron" [Note: I still remember this villa in Gao Jingshi's hometown ? ].
This squadron is said to be a squadron. Logically speaking, it should be the same size as the Xinzheng County Security Squadron, but in fact it is not the case. As a specialized guard force for the villa in Gao Jingshi's hometown, it is not like the general county-level security squadron with only two or three hundred people, but a special scale of one thousand people.
In fact, in terms of power, Gao Jingshi does not need to give Gao Wuruo such great power at all, because even if people from the Xin School want to do evil things to Gao Zai and his wife, they will only do it secretly. How can this require 25,000 people? Human servant Ding Jun will deal with it? I don't think the school can still pull out an army in Henan to attack Xinzheng County, or attack Longwen Yayuan, right?
Of course Gao Wuruo knew this, but he still gave Gao Wuruo such great power. This actually has three levels of significance.
First, Gao Wuruo is his brother, and he has always given "side authority" to his brothers when assigning them several overseas assignments.
For example, when Gao Wuqin went to Annan, he took charge of Jingang. In addition to presiding over the construction of Jingang, he was also responsible for expanding his power to the south. He can basically be regarded as the "Governor of South Annan"; when Gao Wuqin went to Taiwan, although the island of Taiwan was still very primitive at the time , but in any case, Gao Wujian was the leader of the colonization group. He was fully responsible for the colonization and development of Taiwan Island, and he was also responsible for it.
Not even talking about brothers, when Gao Pragmatic first appointed his nephew Gao Ruichu, he directly asked him to be in charge of Siamese government affairs in preparation for the capture of Malacca, which can also be regarded as being in charge of his own affairs to a certain extent.
Due to such a routine, Gao Wuruo cannot only be responsible for a mere Xinzheng County when he returns to Xinzheng this time, otherwise Gao Wuruo will appear to be too mean to his concubine.
Secondly, Gao Pragmatic also needs to train Gao Wuruo's abilities. Letting him be in charge of a provincial security team will help him observe what he has learned over the years around him, and then gain some understanding for future use.
Third, by giving greater power, it is easier for Gao Pragmatic to understand Gao Wuruo's personality. Although Gao Wuruo is his younger brother and has been staying by his side these years, his biological brother and his concubine are different no matter which family they live in these days.
This difference is not only due to different social status, but also because of different social status, their own thoughts are also different. Generally speaking, there is no doubt that a biological brother is loyal to his biological brother, but for a common brother, it depends on his character. After all, a biological brother can almost certainly gain trust and importance from his biological brother, but for a common brother, it is hard to say.
The relationship between people is always mutual, and blood intimacy is a decisive force in this era, so it will also lead to different levels of trust between the two parties.
Gao Jingshi wanted to consolidate Gao Wuruo's loyalty to him by giving him power similar to that of his biological brother. This seems naturally very utilitarian, but reality is not a fairy tale. Reality is inherently utilitarian.
Xinzheng's arrangements basically stopped here, and everyone turned the conversation back to the safety of the emperor's legitimate son.
Gao Mo said: "Judging from the current situation, if they really want to assassinate the emperor's son, Li Wenjin should be the key link, but for some reason, Lao Nu always feels that there is still doubt in this matter."
Gao Qi interjected: "Sixth Uncle, my nephew also has some doubts about this. It stands to reason that as soon as the emperor's legitimate son was born, the garrison security of Kunning Palace was immediately increased a lot, and now it is probably even tighter than the defense of Qianqing Palace.
Under such circumstances, isn't it abnormal that those people are still determined to bribe Li Wen to come in for investigation? This is like marching and fighting. The enemy knows that the main force of our army is gathered at a certain key point. Now the place is impregnable. Although they have an elite army, their strength is very limited... At this time, they still choose to attack the place. Is this reasonable? "
Gao Pingshi's heart moved, and he pondered: "Are you saying that the move to bribe Li Wenjin seems to be a dark move, but in fact it is an open move, and the real dark move is not his?"
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