Although the senior officials in Southern Xinjiang showed great respect for the young master Gao Yuan, and Gao Yuan also respected them, at the reception banquet after the welcoming ceremony, everyone quickly felt that this young master was more than just a simple respecter. everyone.
In other words, he has his own ideas, and there are differences between closeness and distance.
In later generations, there was an Internet buzzword called "two-way rush". It was originally used to describe two people in love admiring each other and working hard to get closer to each other. Later, it was generalized to mean that two people work together for the development of one thing.
In fact, two-way rushes often occur in power arenas. For example, between the prince and his ministers, the prince often hopes that the ministers will become supporters of his succession, and the ministers also hope that by supporting the prince in exchange for the prince's important use after he succeeds to the throne.
However, in the field of power, the two-way movement between the prince and his ministers usually faces a problem, that is, there must be a third party between them - the reigning monarch.
The reigning monarch will obviously not be happy to see the crown prince and his ministers rushing to each other in both directions. After all, if you two succeed in running, how should I deal with it? Therefore, in the past dynasties, there was often a prohibition on the prince not to associate with important officials, or at least it was an unspoken rule.
At the reception banquet, according to the seating arrangement that everyone agreed upon at the beginning, naturally Gao Yuan sat at the top, facing south. The King of Siam sat on his left hand, which is the east, which means the landowner. Gao Mengnan sat on his right hand, which was the west, which means the highest status. Accompany the table.
After the two of them, there is no need to be too particular about one-to-one confrontation - that is, there is no need for anyone else to come to the Kingdom of Siam. Therefore, it stands to reason that beside the King of Siam should be Gao Jue, the deputy minister of the military command department, and next to Gao Mengnan should be Gao Ruichu, the inspector of dragon teeth.
Except for the King of Siam, who mainly relies on the name of a nominal landowner to stand beside Gao Yuan, the other three have their own representatives: Gao Mengnan represents the civil service system of Southern Xinjiang, and Gao Jue represents the military general system of Southern Xinjiang. This naturally There is no need to say more. So, what about Gao Ruiqin?
In fact, although the status of Gao Ruichu, the Longya patrol envoy, is not low, in terms of southern Xinjiang, he is just like a certain governor of the Ming Dynasty. In terms of his position, he should not be ranked so high.
However, it is obvious that he is able to sit here not because of his official position, but because of his status as the eldest grandson of the Gao family in Xinzheng - Gao Ruichuan here represents the Gao family clan, and Gao Yuan wants to call him the eldest brother.
Let’s make an unlucky assumption: if Gao Pragmatic dies and has no heirs, then theoretically all his inheritance should be inherited by Gao Ruichu. This is the privilege of the eldest son - note that inheritance in this era does not have anything to do with Huang Zhiting and others. It is just that according to general practice, Gao Pragmatic's widow should be left with a property that can sustain her life.
Making this assumption mainly illustrates one thing: Gao Ruichuan's identity at this time is very special.
However, here's the problem. When Gao Yuan walked to his seat, the others were still filing in, and no one took their seats. At this time, Gao Yuan suddenly pointed to a sturdy man, and then pointed to the seat that should have belonged to Gao Ruiqiao. He smiled and said, "Commander Huang, sit here."
Although the word "commander" has existed since ancient times, at this time in the Ming Dynasty, only the chief general of the Imperial Guard was pragmatically set as "commander", while the military in southern Xinjiang widely used it.
In the southern Xinjiang garrison system, the official name of the six major garrison commanders is "commander", and privately they are sometimes called "commander", "general soldier", "general army" and so on; needless to say about the fleet, the north and south The chief admirals of the two ocean fleets are all called "commanders", and are sometimes called "admirals" in private.
However, although there are many "commanders" in southern Xinjiang, there is only one commander named Huang, and he does not belong to the garrison or the two-ocean fleet system, but the "Commander of the Dingnan Garrison Command" - Huang Hu.
Huang Hu was actually an old acquaintance. He was Huang Zhiting's most important general and a distant relative of hers.
But even so, when Gao Yuan suddenly asked him to sit where Gao Ruiqiao was supposed to sit, everyone in Southern Xinjiang was still unavoidably surprised. Everyone's first reaction was naturally, "The eldest young master is young after all, so maybe he doesn't know the meaning of seats."
However, although Gao Yuan looks childish, but considering that when the master was at his age... he was able to toy with many important officials in the court, could it be that the eldest young master has not inherited such wisdom at all? Shenwu?
Many people looked at each other, not knowing whether to admonish or pretend to be stupid. Only Gao Mengnan reacted the fastest - his heart suddenly thumped, and his expression instantly became serious. At the same time, he also subconsciously looked at Gao Ruiqiao.
Obviously, Gao Ruiqiu did not expect such an accident, so when Gao Mengnan looked at him, his eyes were subconsciously turning, obviously thinking about how to deal with it at this moment.
But at this moment, Huang Hu was stunned for a moment, and then said humbly: "Young Master, I don't know, this should be Young Master Rui Chu's seat."
"Oh, really?" Gao Yuan's tone sounded a little surprised, but when he looked at Gao Ruiqiao, everyone could clearly see that his eyes were very indifferent, and it didn't look like he heard anything unexpected at all. .
Gao Ruichun found that Gao Yuan's eyes were looking at her lightly, and judging from his performance, he had no intention of taking back his previous words.
He insisted that I give up my seat.
Gao Ruiqiao immediately made this judgment, but the next moment he was a little confused: Yes, he insisted that I give up my seat, but why is this?
In fact, when it comes to the reason, it's not like Gao Ruichun wouldn't guess - the most likely possibility is to deliberately establish authority. As for why Gao Yuan thought of himself when he wanted to establish his authority, Gao Ruichu was not surprised.
He is the eldest grandson of the eldest son, Gao Yuan's nominal eldest brother. As long as he, the eldest brother among his peers, obeys his orders, other brothers will naturally have no reason to disobey him in the future. After all, being more noble is no match for him, and being older has been proven useless, right?
In addition, Gao Ruichu also has a guess, that is, his father Gao Wuzi had a conflict with his fourth uncle Gao pragmatic back then. Although the matter was controlled before it got serious, it still caused his father to prefer to be unemployed in Xinzheng. He refused to ask his fourth brother Gao pragmatically to find something for him to do. And Gao Pingshi never took the initiative to express "adding more burdens" to Gao Wuzi, the eldest brother. Instead, he hinted several times: "The eldest brother personally guards the ancestral temple, and his piety and filial piety are beyond my level."
Although the words sounded nice, they blocked Gao Wuzi's progress and retreat, leaving him with no choice but to guard his ancestral temple in Xinzheng for the rest of his life. Because of this relationship, the relationship between the first house and the sixth house is a bit subtle.
On the one hand, unless the sixth house wants to separate the family separately and break up with the other houses, the status of the big house in the patriarchal system will be irreplaceable; on the other hand, although Gao Wuzi broke up with Gao Pragmatic, his brother As the adopted son of the eldest son, Gao Mengnan gained so much trust that he became the de facto top civil servant in southern Xinjiang.
In addition, there may be another point... or even half of it, that is, Gao Ruiqiu himself is quite pragmatic and trustworthy to his fourth uncle, giving him the opportunity to work with Salim to pacify the Dragon Ya Peninsula, and then take advantage of the situation to become the patrol envoy of the entire Dragon Ya Peninsula ( Equivalent to governor).
The patrol envoys in southern Xinjiang are not particularly rare. There are always more than ten or twenty in total, but the Long Ya patrol envoys are among the top three "top". The reason for this is simple. The Aralia patrol envoy also oversees the Aralia Strait, the Strait of Malacca, which is a chokepoint on the sea.
As a maritime power, Jinghua (of course, in theory, Jinghua is a combined sea and land power), controlling the Ryuga Strait is undoubtedly an extremely important personnel arrangement. Therefore, although Gao Ruichu is only one of the patrol envoys, his status within the Jinghua system is by no means ordinary. .
The old story between Dafang and Sixth Fang should have ended with Gao Wuzi being restricted to die in Xinzheng and not allowed to leave the mountain, but... who knows if Gao Yuan will be involved in this matter again? How about writing something?
Gao Ruichuan took a deep breath, calmed down, bowed and said: "The eldest young master is the Nanning Marquis, so it is naturally the eldest young master who has the final say on how we sit down. Commander Huang, please take a seat."
Huang Hu was still a little hesitant, but Gao Yuan took over the conversation, waved to everyone with a smile, and said with a smile: "Okay, brother Kuanhe is as I expected, let's all sit down."
As soon as these words came out, Gao Ruichun's words were confirmed. Huang Hu couldn't refuse anymore, so he had to walk a few steps forward and sit next to Gao Mengnan.
Gao Mengnan glanced at Huang Hu, who was confused, and suddenly realized in his heart: I am afraid that the eldest young master is not only trying to suppress Gao Ruiqiu, the eldest brother, to establish his own authority, but I am afraid that he also wants to get close to Huang Hu openly—— Although Huang Hu, a straight person, obviously doesn't know the reason.
Gao Mengnan remained calm on his face, but he couldn't help but tremble in his heart: Our eldest young master is unusual... I don't know if he has this idea on his own, or if his mother gave him advice before he went south?
Gao Mengnan knew that Gao Yuan, as the "Nanning Marquis", took the initiative to win over Huang Hu, which would inevitably make people worry about "relatives interfering in politics" - after all, the Huang family was the "relatives" of the Gao family. However, this matter is not that simple.
As mentioned before, the interference of relatives in politics was often an important reason for the social chaos and demise of ancient dynasties. So, if this is the case, why does every emperor always trust his mother's relatives (such as uncles or grandfathers) instead of trusting them after he comes to power? What about relatives in the father’s family (such as uncles)?
It is certainly not alarmist to say that relatives are an important reason for the chaos in the dynasty. In pre-Qin and ancient times, relatives have played an important role in politics. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, Shen Hou, as a grandfather (or uncle), fought for King Zhou Ping as his grandson (or nephew), which caused turmoil in the country. Later, King Zhou Ping had to move the capital.
During the Han Dynasty, both Wang Mang, who caused the fall of the Western Han Dynasty, and Liang Ji, who caused the great turmoil of the Eastern Han Dynasty, were relatives. In the Tang and Song dynasties, many relatives played important roles. For example, Changsun Wuji, Li Zhi's uncle, greatly influenced the political arena in the early Tang Dynasty.
So much so that in the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent his relatives from playing a political role, Zhu Yuanzhang simply stipulated that from now on the emperor's queens must be selected from among the people. Zhu Yuanzhang did this because civilian women had no background, and he wanted to plug this loophole that might allow relatives to interfere in politics.
Then the question turns back again. It is clear that the uncle (or grandfather) often causes problems in the dynasty. Why does the emperor always choose to believe his uncle (or grandfather) instead of his uncle?
This starts with the entire journey from prince to emperor. When a prince has not yet become a prince or an emperor, his uncle (or grandfather) is actually his only absolute supporter besides his biological mother.
Although everyone usually has the eldest son system, only the eldest son can be the prince and inherit the throne. However, since the emperor had many sons and the power was very complicated, things were far from that simple. Before the Ming Dynasty, even the eldest son was not necessarily established as the prince. Even if he is established as a prince, he may fall at any time.
The reason for this is that the position of the prince often suffers great impacts. Some of them came from the impact of other princes. For example, Li Shimin posed a threat to Li Jiancheng's position as prince; Yin Yin was also dissatisfied with the prince Yin Reng and posed a threat to his throne.
Some threats even came from the emperor himself. For example, Liu Bang made his eldest son Liu Ying the crown prince, but he was always dissatisfied with Liu Ying and always wanted to depose him and make his youngest son Liu Ruyi the crown prince. In the original history, Zhu Changluo was the eldest son of a concubine, but his father Zhu Yijun did not want to make him the prince, but always wanted to make Zhu Changxun the prince.
Precisely because before every prince becomes emperor, he will inevitably receive a huge impact, or he must fight for it, so he must have something to rely on, and he must accumulate strength to fight with other princes.
So, what is the most reliable power for ancient princes? You might as well use the elimination method here.
For one, uncles are out of the question.
Why did the prince's uncles say it was impossible? Because the uncles are also from the royal family, they themselves have descendants, and they may also participate in the competition for the reserve position. Of course, this is usually not the main reason.
The real key reason is that if a certain prince has close contacts with his uncles, it will inevitably arouse the emperor's great suspicion, because those uncles are originally a great threat to the emperor, and the emperor has always been wary of them. If a prince has too close contact with his uncles, it is equivalent to a gathering of threats, so the prince and his uncles are likely to be attacked by the emperor.
For example, Song Taizong's son Zhao Yuanzuo had a close relationship with his uncle Zhao Tingmei, so Zhao Yuanzuo eventually lost his position as prince, and Zhao Tingmei was demoted to Fangzhou and died of depression.
Yongzheng's son Hongshi had contact with his uncle Yinsu, and Yongzheng was so angry that he drove Hongshi out of the house. Hongshi might have been able to get a reserve position, but he couldn't get it now.
Therefore, no matter what, you cannot contact your uncles at will, especially if you are very close to them.
In the second step of the process of elimination, ministers are unreliable.
In addition to not being able to have close contact with their uncles, the princes were not allowed to have too close interactions with the ministers. Princes liaising with ministers, which in ancient times have always been called "communication ministers", or "head and tail ministers", will also be severely punished.
For example, Li Heng was the prince, and general Wang Zhongsi was the adopted son of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, which was equivalent to Li Heng's brother. It should be nothing for the two brothers to get together. But just because they got together, Wang Zhongsi was demoted by Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and Li Heng was severely punished, and his position as prince was almost lost. This is the serious consequence of the "Transport Secretary".
During the Qing Dynasty, Kang Mazi asked the ministers to recommend a successor after deposing the prince Yinhuang, so the ministers collectively recommended the "Eight Wise King" Yinhu. Unexpectedly, this approach made Kang Mazi firmly believe that Yinhu was "communicating" with the ministers. From then on, he no longer liked Yinhu, and he insulted and attacked him in every possible way.
Another example is that Zhao Kuangyin's son Zhao Dezhao interceded with the ministers and asked Song Taizong to honor the ministers who had made meritorious services. Originally this was a very common thing, but Song Taizong said coldly, wait until you become emperor before you can cash it in for them. With just such a sentence, Zhao Dezhao was so frightened that he committed suicide after returning home.
Since the princes cannot contact either the princes or the ministers of transportation, the only people they can rely on are relatives on their mother's side. And when they relied on relatives on their mother's side to ascend to power and eventually became emperors, their relatives naturally stepped onto the political stage and played their "due" role.
Moreover, since the uncle or grandfather is a relative, the possibility of seizing the throne is far less than that of the uncles. Because if they seize the throne, it means a change of dynasty. Most people cannot accept it and think it is unorthodox. Therefore, after a prince becomes emperor, he will often trust his uncle or grandfather as always and let them continue to play their role.
The current status of Southern Xinjiang is relatively ambiguous, but there is no doubt that Gao Pragmatic is the Lord of Southern Xinjiang, whether in name or not, and Gao Yuan, the "Nanning Marquis Yingxi", is equivalent to the "Prince".
In this case, if Gao Yuan was smart, he would naturally not win over uncles and brothers such as Gao Mengnan and Gao Ruiqi, and would even have some minor conflicts with them as if looking for trouble.
At the same time, he can win over people from the Huang family, because although the Huang family are "foreign relatives", they cannot have the legitimacy and legitimacy to "usurp the throne" as chieftains. Gao Yuan does not have to worry about Gao Yuan pragmatically when he wants to win over them. Suppressive.
Gao Mengnan quietly took a deep breath, all doubts in his heart disappeared, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared, instead he deliberately looked serious. He sat expressionlessly on his west front seat without saying a word, as if he was very dissatisfied with the scene that just happened.
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