Although neither husband nor wife said it explicitly, both parties knew that although they had the same goals regarding Gao Yuan's training and expectations, their envisioned processes were not consistent.
Huang Zhiting always hopes that Gao Yuan will have a smooth journey until one day he can inherit everything from his father in a perfect manner. It is best not to have any failures or setbacks in this process.
This is because in Huang Zhiting's view, the most important thing for a leader is to make his subordinates believe that as long as he takes action, all goals can be successfully achieved - as Gao Pragmatic has shown over the years.
However, for some reason, her husband seemed not to want to see this. In Huang Zhiting's view, although the master is willing to create various favorable conditions for Yuan'er, he is not willing to mention any problems that may arise in Yuan'er's work. On the contrary, he has a sense of "waiting for you to make mistakes." .
This puzzled Huang Zhiting.
Yu Gong, Gao Yuan is now carrying out the command work of external operations. If there is a mistake, not to mention whether he is in danger, at least the possibility of losing troops and generals is definitely there.
The problem is that Gao's pragmatic and consistent attitude is to cherish the life of every soldier. For this reason, he would rather spend more money to improve the level of armament. Therefore, sitting back and watching Gao Yuan's mistakes essentially goes against Gao Pragmatic's own consistent attitude, doesn't it?
Privately speaking, Gao Yuan, as the "Nanning Marquis", legally speaking, even if he did nothing, his future succession would be smooth and there was no need to take risks to command the army in battle.
Now Gao Pragmatic let him go without any hesitation, but he refused to give him any advice, which inevitably gave people the feeling that "it's the fault of the father if he doesn't teach him".
The question is, what benefits does this have for high pragmatism? Since you want to train this child, then train him well and don't let anything happen to him! Do you really have to let him make some mistakes and damage your reputation and prestige to ensure that your authority will never decline? But this is not necessary. Who can threaten Master Yuan Fu who has never been defeated in both the government and the military for 20 to 30 years?
At this time, Huang Zhiting thought about it, and still felt that Gao Pragmatic's last words were untrue. How could it be possible that he just "simply wanted to see what step he could take"? It is impossible for my husband to not understand that he is very pragmatic and always has a clear purpose in doing things, and it is absolutely impossible to just "take a look".
Huang Zhiting said thoughtfully: "The master just mentioned setbacks. Thinking about it as a concubine, maybe the master feels that Yuan'er has been too smooth these years, so it is necessary to let him know that nothing in the world is easy, and then he should be respected?"
Gao Pragmatic still refused to say more, and just said: "The edge of a sword comes from sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold."
Huang Zhiting finally couldn't help it anymore and said with a little resistance: "I was born in a family of eunuchs. When I was a child, I was studying with the prince. When I was young, I passed the sixth grade. After serving as an official for twenty years, I have achieved great success in both civil and military affairs. In this world! I don’t know who is the stone that sharpens my sword and draws the coldness of my fragrance?"
"The Master said: Shooting does not control the skin, and the power is of different disciplines, which is the ancient way." Gao Pingshi was not angry after hearing this, he just said calmly.
Although Huang Zhiting has made great progress over the years, she is not known for her knowledge after all. Therefore, she was at a loss for words and lost her momentum. However, she refused to be confused and asked for a deeper explanation, so she had to ask: "Why do you need to embarrass me? What do you mean by this?" "
Gao pragmatic smiled slightly and said: "The literal meaning of this sentence is that the archery competition is not about penetrating the target, because everyone's strength is different, and this has been the case since ancient times."
Huang Zhiting felt a little unhappy after hearing this, and thought to herself: Yuan'er is your son, how could you think that he is inferior to you from the beginning? Besides, if his "strength" is not as strong as yours now, then you should seriously teach him how to increase his strength. Why do you insist on speaking as if his strength is determined by God?
In fact, Huang Zhiting didn't know that the original intention of Confucius's words was not to discuss strength. In fact, he was lamenting the decline of Zhou rites and hoped that people could resume the shooting ceremony and use it to cultivate virtue.
"Zhu Zi's Annotations" mentions, "Shooting does not control the skin, but the local shooting etiquette". In other words, the phrase "shooting does not control the skin" is said in the "Ritual Shooting Rites" in the "Rituals" in the Thirteen Classics. Zhu Zi also said, "For power, there are different subjects, and this is what Confucius meant when he explained the rituals. Leather is leather, and the people who clothe the marquis with leather in it are called swans. Section, etc."
"Shoo" means archery, and Confucius is talking about archery rituals here. The Zhou Dynasty had the so-called six arts education, namely etiquette, music, archery, charioteering, calligraphy, and mathematics. Archery is one of the six arts, and art is a skill. Zhou people cultivated their moral character by practicing these skills, so the Six Arts are all designed to help gentlemen cultivate their moral character.
But there are two types of archery. One is military archery, which focuses on lethality. The other type is ritual archery, which requires that it be performed according to etiquette.
When Confucius talks about shooting here, he refers to the ritual of shooting. What does he mean by "shooting without mastering the skin"? "Zhu Zi's Annotations" explains, "The ancients used shooting to observe virtue, but it focused on the middle and not on the internal structure. This is because people's strength is strong and weak, and they are not equal."
This means that in ancient times - the ancient times Confucius mentioned were talking about the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties - it generally refers to people who know how to shoot. They practiced archery and practiced archery, which was actually used to cultivate virtue. "Viewing morality" means observing morality, observing one's own morality and the morality of others.
"But the master is in the middle" means that the skill must be refined and hit the target, but it does not need to show strong force, so archery does not advocate shooting through leather. This "penetration of leather" means shooting through the leather. It was too much force to shoot through the leather.
Why do you say that? Because archery rituals are not about comparing one's strength, but about the excellence of one's skills and whether one is truly as righteous as the others, so it is said that "strength is of different disciplines."
The "wei" in "weili is different" is "because". "Ke" is the word "wai". In human terms, if we all have different strengths, then our competition cannot be measured based on strength. This would not be equal. Therefore, the purpose of our competition is to see who can hit the bull's-eye, that's what it means. This is the way to practice shooting in ancient times.
In other words, Gao Pragmatic actually meant that he let Gao Yuan go out to do things to see his way of thinking about problems and his specific acting style, not to see how capable he was and how much contribution he could make.
Gao Pragmatic is indeed testing the heir, but what he wants to test is not his ability, but his thoughts. If you just want Gao Yuan to make great achievements, that would be easier to do - give him an army of 100,000 or even 200,000, let alone the Arakan Kingdom, even the Mughal Empire in its heyday will not be unable to fight hard. However, that is not a highly pragmatic purpose.
Unfortunately, Huang Zhiting could not deeply understand Gao Pragmatic's intentions, so she had those doubts and even dissatisfaction. At the same time, Gao Pragmatic also deliberately did not explain clearly, but only told her the literal meaning of this sentence.
Because Gao Jingshi was very aware of Huang Zhiting's concern for her son, once she made it clear, the mother-in-law would immediately send a letter to remind her son. In this way, the purpose of the test would be lost.
Huang Zhiting couldn't ask anything, and she didn't know what kind of medicine Gao Pingshi was selling in the gourd. She simply didn't bother to think about it anymore. She just made up her mind to go south as soon as the time came to ensure that Yuan'er's battle went smoothly.
That night, Gao Pangshi went to Meng Guzhezhe's place to rest, so as to prevent Huang Zhiting from trying to trick him again - he was not worried about being tricked, he was just too lazy to deal with it.
However, an accident happened, and Meng Guzhezhe happened to have something to say to him - what she wanted to say was about Japan.
In Meng Guzhe's room, Gao Pragmatic crossed his legs and leaned on the Taishi's chair with his eyes closed to relax, while Meng Guzhe stood behind him and personally kneaded his shoulders.
"Sir, I have received news from Sister Kai today. I should have seen it, right?"
Gao Pingshi closed his eyes and replied: "Well, I've seen it, what do you have to say?"
Meng Guzhe said in surprise: "How did the master know that I have something to say?"
"You usually don't ask about these things, but you suddenly asked today. Of course you have something to say." Gao Pragmatic still closed his eyes and asked calmly: "Why, the situation in North Korea is stable. Your two brothers have obtained a large territory but are not managing it well. , but you want to go to Japan to make contributions?"
As mentioned earlier, Ye He's tribe obtained Gyeongsang Province in North Korea under the auspices of Gao Pragmatic, and Gyeongsang Province has a large area and has always been divided into South Gyeongsang Province and North Gyeongsang Province. Gao pragmatically gave Meng Guzhezhe advice to let her brother Nalinbulu choose Gyeongsang South Province, and let Bu Zhai go to Gyeongsang North Province. Menggu Zhezhe accepted the suggestion and promoted the matter to eventually form the Ye Hebu decision.
At that time, Gao Pragmatic also told Meng Gu Zhezhe how to convince Bu Zhai that Busan is the front line against Japanese pirates. Although there is a seaport, it is more dangerous. In addition, he also taught Meng Guzhezhe and Nalin Bulu to speak frankly to Bu Zhai. Nalin Bulu's position in Busan could better leverage his high pragmatism and rely on the Beiyang Fleet to provide security for Ye He's foundation.
As for the reason for this choice, it is naturally because Gyeongsangnam-do has Busan and other places at hand. Relying on this geographical advantage, as long as the Narimbulu branch is rooted here, it will always be able to reap the port dividends of Busan - this place will be the second largest urban agglomeration in Korea in later generations.
However, as soon as Meng Guzhezhe opened his mouth, Gao Pragmatic guessed that the Ye He family was still not satisfied with the current distribution. It's just that Gao Pragmatic doesn't know whether they want to continue to expand their sphere of influence, or whether they want to help Kaiji out of considerations of their own security, and severely damage Japan's national power to ensure that Japan will not be destroyed for a long time in the future. There is a "Japanese pirate invasion" happening.
Meng Guzhe said: "My two brothers believe that Japan's national power has always been stronger than that of North Korea. Now, although North Korea is within it, all industries are in depression, and the Ming Dynasty is too far away, and it is difficult to mobilize troops and transport food. If Japan recovers, As the landowners of Gyeongsang Province facing Japan directly, the Ye He family is bound to bear the brunt... Therefore, the two brothers are willing to send troops to help the war and assist sister Kaibi in pacifying Japan as soon as possible."
"Is that just this?" Senior Executive Shi Ran asked: "Do you want to get a share of the pie in Japan, or at least burn, kill, and loot, so that Japan's vitality will be greatly damaged?"
"My master's discernment is as sharp as a torch, and I dare not deceive me. Although the two brothers did not say it explicitly, but... I am afraid that this is the intention." Concealment cannot be concealed, and Meng Guzhezhe is completely self-aware of this, so he "dare not "Deceive" is what he said from the bottom of his heart.
Gao Pragmatic did not answer immediately this time. The fingers of his right hand tapped rhythmically on the armrest of the Taishi chair, and his mind began to think about how to arrange this matter.
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