Of course, when a dignified governor returns to Beijing to report on his duties, he can't just leave. There must be arrangements for government and military affairs. Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty has always had a traditional system of pilgrimage every three years. When the corresponding officials return to Beijing to report on their duties, their affairs are usually handled by the second official.
Temporarily.
However, the governor is an exception, because the governor himself is not an "economic official" set up by Zhu Yuanzhang. In theory, he is just a dispatching officer, so the governor does not actually have the setting up of an assistant official.
But a living person cannot suffocate to death. Although the governor does not have assistants, he at least has important colleagues and subordinates. Therefore, generally speaking, before the governor reports his duties and returns to Beijing, he will allocate all kinds of powers to the guarding eunuch.
Commander-in-Chief and others.
Generally speaking, the daily general affairs of the Fuyuan location are left to the garrison eunuchs, while the general soldiers are responsible for military affairs. But at the same time, the most important subordinate under the governor, Bing Bei Dao, still retains considerable power. They
They are solely responsible for all major powers within their jurisdiction, just like the governor is for the province, and even for military affairs, they have the right to refuse the request of the commander-in-chief at the appropriate time.
As mentioned before, the establishment of the military preparation road itself is the result of the civil servants checking and supervising the general army. Therefore, it does not mean that the general army can run rampant with military power without the governor.
Similarly, the administrative power of the guarding eunuch is only a greatly weakened version of the governor. His actual administrative area is only the area without military equipment - simply put, the Liaoyang area (plus Kuandian Liubao area), even Guangning.
I can't control it.
Because although Guangning is the headquarters of the Liaodong General Army, there are also civil servants in Guangning. There is a person who "is responsible for patrolling the Liaohai Road and taking charge of the military and military preparations in Guangning and other places to participate in politics." Therefore, the government affairs of Guangning are under his control.
As for the power of supervision, it is still divided between the army and the road. The guard eunuch can only temporarily supervise the Liaoyang area on behalf of the governor. Moreover, the Ming Dynasty attaches great importance to the power of supervision. When the guard eunuch acts as an agent, when it comes to issues related to supervisory power, he usually
You can't make a decisive decision, you can only record it for the governor, and you have to wait until the governor comes back to investigate and deal with it in detail.
In addition, there is a special situation in Liaodong, that is, the general soldier and the deputy general soldier guard two large areas in western Liaoning and eastern Liaoning. Therefore, when the governor is away, in terms of defense issues, the general soldier is generally responsible for western Liaoning and southern Liaoning, and the deputy general soldier
He is responsible for other areas east of the Liao River.
Since there is a system, he should follow it and write a few official and private letters in a pragmatic manner. He will divide and delegate his powers after returning to the capital to relevant officials, and then take Huang Zhiting with him and set off for the capital.
Gao pragmatism still chose to take the water route first, taking a boat from Liaoyang directly to the Taizi River and then to the Liaohe River, with the goal of going straight to Niuzhuang Mayi, which belongs to Dongchang Fort. As for why he did not go to Yingkou and took the fastest sea route - Zhu Yijun said last time
However, he was not allowed to take the sea route to avoid accidents, so after arriving at Dongchang Fort, he had to go back to the land route.
When the group arrived at Dongchang Fort, Zhang Wanbang considered himself a direct descendant of the highly pragmatic people, so he naturally entertained them hard and enjoyed killing pigs and sheep.
Gao Pragmatic is a drinker but not addicted to alcohol. He doesn't usually drink, but he is relatively tolerant of the generals' toasts during the banquet. He almost refuses to toast anyone - of course, given the status gap, it must be a toast.
The mouthful was boring, so the old man took a small sip to express his feelings.
What made Zhang Wanbang feel most amazing and uncomfortable during this dinner was that there was a woman sitting on the second seat next to Futai.
In Zhang Wanbang's view, according to the Ming Dynasty's custom, it is rare for men and women to sit at the same table. Especially for a person of Gao Cheng's background, even if he dines in his own house, he should be the only woman who can sit with him.
His mother and his wife.
This "Deputy Ambassador Huang" seemed to be an exception, and Zhang Wanbang felt a little regretful: If he had known that her status in front of Futai was so high, he should have been more considerate when she passed by Dongchang Fort not long ago.
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Zhang Wanbang's fighting skills are not bad, especially after he learned the style of fighting developed by Gao Pragmatic and Qi Jiguang, he has achieved two consecutive big victories, "Heaven listens". However, there are not many people who can fight against the generals of the Ming Dynasty.
Young master, even famous generals like Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang had to find backers in the court, let alone someone Zhang? Therefore, the direct line belongs to the direct line, and when it is time to fawn over, you must not be soft-hearted.
It was getting late today, and Gao Qingshi wanted to stay overnight at Dongchang Fort. After Zhang Wanbang had almost finished drinking, he sneaked out quietly on the pretext of helping Gao Futai arrange a place to stay.
Arrangements for accommodation and other matters had actually been taken care of a long time ago. He came out because he had other important matters - to find the pragmatic servants to find out about Deputy Ambassador Huang's origins.
Of course Zhang Wanbang knew the title of Annan's deputy tribute envoy, but knowing this was meaningless. He wanted to find out more inside stories.
The servants of the Gao family are supervised by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Beijing. In terms of discipline, they may be the strictest in the entire Ming Dynasty. However, Zhang Wanbang is usually generous and rough, which is the most popular among these low-level people. Secondly, Gao Pragmatic and Huang Zhiting
The relationship itself is not a secret. At least within Jinghua, they have not been ordered to keep it secret, so it doesn't hurt to talk to Zhang Wanbang.
Under Zhang Wanbang's deliberate wining over and flattering, several servants slowly started chatting, telling each other some stories about Gao Pragmatic and Huang Zhiting in Guangxi and Annan.
There was even a talker who winked and said: "Major General Zhang, think about it, how can any girl meet a person like our master and not miss him? Needless to say, Huang Zhen's ambassador is already famous in Guangxi.
Famous beauties, these two traveled thousands of miles together, a man and a woman alone... Tsk tsk!"
Zhang Wanbang was also dumbfounded when he heard this, and another talker No. 2 appeared next to him, and quickly continued: "Yes, yes, we often talk about this in private. Think about it, when Sheriff Huang first attacked Annan
, especially the Battle of Lang Son, that was really heroic - do you think an ordinary chieftain could work so hard?
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Not to mention later, she is the most supportive of our master’s plan to move the chieftain to the town. If she hadn’t taken the lead, would Cen Qi Gong’s side have been able to do it?
It's hard for me to agree to move the town. Judging from the situation, we're afraid that sooner or later we'll have to change our name to Madam."
Zhang Wanbang didn't care whether Gao Pangshi and Huang Zhiting were beyond ordinary friendship during their journey together. He just thought that he missed a great opportunity to show his loyalty last time, and he couldn't help but regret it, and he quickly thought about how to redeem it.
Another servant said: "I guess Huang Zhenzheng is actually quite anxious. After all, our master may not be in a hurry to get married, but she is a girl. She can't just wait around, right? Otherwise, she will go to Beijing to pay tribute this time.
After that, why did you come to Liaodong specifically? It was said to discuss matters related to maritime trade, but in fact, you didn’t miss our master..."
"Hey! Erhuzi, please stop talking nonsense." A team leader quickly interrupted: "If the guardian of Huangzhen really becomes a wife in the future, and I know you today
These words, let me see where you go to cry."
The servant, who was called Erhuzi, shrank his neck, smiled dryly and stopped talking.
Zhang Wanbang laughed and smoothed things over by saying, "Hey, we are just chatting casually. Who would talk about this kind of thing outside? We are risking our lives?"
Having said that, there was no way to continue the conversation at this point, so Zhang Wanbang made some excuses and left.
On the other side, after the dinner, Gao Pragmatic and Huang Zhiting came to the yard arranged by Zhang Wanbang, and suddenly laughed and said: "This kid Zhang Sanxi is a little restless."
Huang Zhiting turned to look at him in surprise: "What?"
Gao Pragmatic pointed to the courtyard and said with a half-smile: "A courtyard, let's live together?"
Huang Zhiting was startled at first, then understood what Zhang Wanbang meant, and said with a red face: "No, go and tell him that he wants a yard."
Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "Forget it, Dongchang Fort is a border defense fort, and the total area is only so big. You can see for yourself where there are other courtyards? In fact, I have been to this place, and this courtyard is where Beiyu lives.
’s... He probably got the news that I was coming and moved out early. If you have to build another yard, then we have to walk more than 20 miles south to Niuzhuang. The official post there is quite big.
, after the inn reform, you can spend money to stay.”
Huang Zhiting stopped talking when she heard that she still had to walk more than twenty miles. But after a while, she found that Gao Jingshi didn't speak either, so she turned around and saw Gao Jingshi still looking at her with a half-smile, and she couldn't help but said in annoyance.
: "A courtyard is just a courtyard, not just one room."
As she said this, she walked towards the west room with some anger.
Gao Puzhi smiled from behind and said, "How about you stay in the north room?"
Huang Zhiting said without looking back: "Forget it, this is Liaodong. You are the landlord and I am the guest. I don't dare to break the rules and be criticized again."
Gao Wushi chuckled, not too politely, and gave instructions to the people behind him, and the four servants went in for inspection first - this was the security rule set by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, even though Gao Wushi was now considered "in the military",
There are no exceptions.
He himself stopped Huang Zhiting, walked to her, and said: "It's just dark, it's too early to rest now, let's talk first."
Huang Zhiting now knew Gao Pangshi better. After hearing this, she asked: "Are you still wondering why the emperor is so anxious to summon you back to Beijing?"
"It must be related to the current situation. Needless to say." Gao Pragmatic frowned: "What I don't understand is that even if the emperor thinks that I am more familiar with the situation in southern Xinjiang, Guangxi and Yunnan are not the same place after all.
It stands to reason that someone who is familiar with Guangxi may not necessarily be familiar with Yunnan. Is he really just calling me back to Beijing to ask about the war in southern Xinjiang?"
In fact, he still had reservations about what he said, because according to the original historical situation, the Ming Dynasty did not pay much attention to the Ming-Myanmar War that took place in Yunnan. Zhu Yijun recalled a newly appointed governor just because of this incident.
Asking for advice is really unreasonable.
Huang Zhiting said: "Who knows, maybe it's not this? Well... maybe I'm borrowing money from you."
Gao Pragmatic was stunned when he heard this: "Borrow money? Not enough military pay?"
Could it be that Zhu Yijun wanted to fight a big war in Yunnan? It shouldn't be, the imperial treasury has been emptied, and the Ming Dynasty is not a European country, so how can it have the habit of borrowing money to fight wars? Besides, Zhu Yijun refused the offer to lend money to him last time
his proposal.
"It's not military pay." Huang Zhiting said: "When I left the capital, everyone in the capital was busy discussing the matter of King Luo's Kingdom. It is said that the emperor attached great importance to the matter of King Lu's Kingdom. He spent 70,000 taels just to buy jewelry.
It's more than a hundred thousand taels... But I only heard about it, there are a lot of rumors outside.
In addition, the issue of the land grant from King Lu and the cost of building the royal palace are also causing a lot of trouble. I heard that there have been many disputes with the Ministry of Revenue, and Da Sinong (the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue) has resigned four times, but the emperor may not be sure."
Gao Pragmatic frowned slightly.
He and Zhu Yijun had talked about this series of things in King Lu's Kingdom last time, but they didn't talk about it in depth.
Judging from Zhu Yijun's statement, he greatly increased the reward to King Lu mainly for political considerations rather than economic considerations. Although the Empress Dowager Cisheng returned to power, it was not for a long time after all. Although Zhu Yijun relied on his high pragmatism to fight for a better future,
Chang Monan's victory increased his prestige, but in the final analysis, his time in power was still too short.
Things like title and status are relatively stable in the Ming Dynasty. There is no doubt about this. The emperor is the emperor, and if he is in charge, he is in charge. Generally speaking, there will be no surprises.
But it is difficult to say that prestige is something that is invisible and intangible. The Jiajing Emperor was very powerful, and a group of ministers and ministers were treated like dogs. But in the end, Hai Rui was the one who said, "Your Majesty, the world has not been upright for a long time."
"? What's even more amazing is that he really didn't dare to kill Hai Rui.
So in the final analysis, "name" is a very magical attribute in the Ming Dynasty. The higher the status, the more this thing is pursued.
Zhu Yijun may have hoped to use the Lu King Kingdom incident to establish himself as a perfect eldest brother as a "brother, friend and brother respectful", and also to completely kill the Empress Dowager Cisheng's hope of finally intervening in the government affairs.
But the problem is that the court really has no money, and there is a danger that this drama will not go on.
The Battle of Monan, the Battle of Southern Liaoning, and the recent "market circle plan" in Liaodong. After three rewards, the Ministry of Household Affairs may have really been empty, but Zhu Yijun's internal funds are not very rich either -
- Gao Pragmatic is partly to blame for this matter. He was the one who persuaded Zhu Yijun to withdraw from the Imperial Manor.
It is difficult to achieve the image of a perfect eldest brother by just saying a few nice words. This must rely on spending money. The more you spend, the more it will show that he, the eldest brother, cares for his younger brothers. Although this is superficial, it is
The world just accepts this, because it is the most direct manifestation.
And the reason why this is related to Empress Dowager Li's last opportunity to intervene in politics is because now that Zhu Yijun has taken charge of the government, only the matter of King Lu's Kingdom can be related to Empress Dowager Li. Once Zhu Yijun sends Prince Lu away beautifully,
Beijing, and Empress Dowager Li can't find anything wrong with her, then there won't be anything else related to her in the future - since it has nothing to do with her, there will naturally be no chance to speak. Over time, the prestige of the "regent" in ten years will also be lost.
It slowly disappeared.
Huang Zhiting saw Gao Pragmatic and pondered for a long time, and couldn't help but said: "I just said it casually, don't take it too seriously... Do you think about everything so deeply?"
Gao Pingshi was about to answer when Zhang Wanbang hurried over and said, "Futai, Uncle Ning Yuan is here!"
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