At the last moment before the palace was locked and closed, Gao Pragmatic came out of the palace.
During today's audience, he and Zhu Yijun talked about many things. In the end, the emperor stayed in the palace to have dinner. He didn't even waste any time for dinner and kept talking.
After leaving the palace, I discovered that not only the previous team of Fu Biao had been waiting, but also Gao Mo.
After all, Gao Jingshi had to rush all the way back to the capital. As soon as he arrived at the capital, he was invited into the palace. He was already a little tired. But Gao Mo was not someone who couldn't distinguish priorities. He came in person, so he must have something to do.
Sure enough, Gao Mo came with a large pile of greeting cards and invitations. Gao Pingshi cheered up and flipped through them. He couldn't help but joked: "I really don't know how powerful I am until I go back to Beijing. This
I'm afraid there are sixty or seventy invitations in total? If I had to go door to door to entertain and visit, at least two months would have passed."
Unexpectedly, Gao Mo said: "I don't know what I know. This is already a batch after a small screening. The ones screened out are those that I will definitely not have time to see. The remaining ones you see now are either four or four."
Those who are Beijing officials with a rank of above 3, foreign officials with a rank above 3, or nobles of the world. In addition, there are two categories, namely, Kedao Yanguan and Gengchen Kejinban in the same year."
Gao Pingshi smiled bitterly and said: "If I look around casually, I will find that almost all of them are acquaintances."
Gao Mo didn't speak, he just looked down and waited for orders. Gao pragmatically knew that he was waiting for him to give time arrangements and which ones to choose for banquets and visits.
Gao sighed and said pragmatically: "The emperor has arranged an errand for me. In three days, I will temporarily serve as the co-examiner of the Jinke Examination and the paper reader of the Imperial Examination. According to the rules, I will have to live in the Ministry of Etiquette for a period of time before the results are released.
They can’t get out.”
This situation was obviously beyond Gao Mo's expectation. He was stunned for a moment before saying: "Then these..."
Gao pragmatically waved his hand decisively: "Just pick two or three that you have to meet. Others... just use the examiner's rules to politely decline."
He was really tired, so after saying that, he got into his green sedan chair. In fact, Gao Pingshi rarely rode in sedan chairs in the capital in the past. Unless it was raining, he would always ride on horseback.
But the situation is different now. He is now a third-rank official, a governor, and he happens to hold the title of Minister of War. If he continues to "run rampant" in the capital, he will be worried about being accused of being domineering and domineering, so he will not be allowed to do so.
Don't change your habits.
Riding in a sedan also has the advantage of riding in a sedan, that is, you can close your eyes and relax in the sedan, while Gao Mo outside is still riding a horse and reporting the situation to Gao pragmatically while walking.
According to what Gao Yingshi said just now, Gao Mo selected a few more important greetings and invitations and asked Gao Yingshi to make the final decision.
Gao Jingshi closed his eyes after listening, and after pondering for a moment he said: "Since Yuan Fu has sent out the invitation, there is no doubt that he must go. This is the first one."
Gao Mo agreed without any surprise.
"The provincial governor is my main government office. I have to go to Da Sima. This is the second one."
The provincial governor is the Ministry of War, and Gao Pingshi holds the title of Right Minister of the Ministry of War. Since Wu Dui has come to invite him, he has to give him the honor. Gao Mo agreed again.
"As for the third house..."
Just as Gao Pangshi said this, he suddenly heard someone from the back of the team shouting: "High School Prime Minister, wait a moment, the Chief of Ceremonies has sent me some instructions!"
Gao Mo outside said quickly: "Master, I am from the inner court. I just came down from the palace gate to put the hanging basket on. Do you want to see me?"
"Bring him here." Gao Pingshi was a little surprised. The Chief of Ceremonies sent a note? Even if there is a note for me, there is no need to be so anxious. Why were you there when I was in the palace just now?
But then I thought about it, the current Chief of Ceremony is Huang Mengyu. Although he usually talks a little carelessly, in fact, he is not a reckless person. He must be so anxious to send me a letter. He must have something important.
Not long after, a eunuch from the inner court was brought to the big green sedan chair. Gao Pragmatic was more considerate of Huang Mengyu and got off the sedan chair himself.
However, what was unexpected was that the eunuch wearing the uniform of a young eunuch did not hand over the memorandum. Instead, he took out a memorandum and handed it to Gao Pingshi while saying: "Don't blame me, Prime Minister. I just had to shout like that. This memorandum
Your Majesty just saw it, and your Majesty asked your servant to bring it to Zhongcheng for review immediately...but I will have to take it back later."
Gao pragmatic was quite surprised, but he just nodded calmly, took the memorial and read it.
It turns out that this memorial was reported by Liu Shizeng, the governor of Yunnan, on the "reasons of the incident." The memorial reads as follows:
Liu Shi, the governor of Yunnan, once said that he was investigating the affairs of the barbarians: In the eighth year of Wanli, Mang Yinglong appealed to Teng Yue Prefecture's military officials to visit him. The soldiers were prepared to prepare for Han's deception in Mu State, so he secretly sent an official to recruit Xiaokeng and other five people.
, carrying coins, silk, pommel and horse, he went into Burma to conduct detective work. Unexpectedly, he was held by Hanba, so he took advantage of the people and sent them as gifts.
The thieves were sent back with a brocade cloth and several crazy language instruments in a bamboo leaf book. There was no tribute, and the text asking for tribute had just arrived, and it was easy to place Xuan Fu, and watched Teng Yong's text follow it.
Two things happened at the same time, which were self-contradictory. The envoys were sent with the generals to report, and they were rewarded with gold and silk as well as rare gifts for the final tribute. When Chief Mang died, his son should be the heir, but he was not seen. He was not rewarded by the Han Dynasty.
Moreover, he was angry and imprisoned him, and then attacked his territory. This is clearly a sign of his fierce rebellion. Now we should devise strategies from all sides, and there is no need to judge whether the other party pays tribute or not.
Gao pragmatic frowned slightly, and then looked down and found that Liu Shizeng's essay had been finished, and below was Zhu Yijun's comment:
In previous years, the Mang chieftain was unruly and invaded the chieftains. The local officials were careless and secretly maintained the chaos. As a result, all the barriers were withdrawn and the border was troubled. However, he pretended that the chief offered gifts to seek good relations. This was a false pretense. This official wrote this before.
Let’s just look at the ginseng.
Shu Wen and Zhu Pi are very simple, and in fact the matter is not serious.
To put it simply, Mang Yinglong was so arrogant that he ordered the guards commanders and other officials from Tengchong and other prefectures in Yunnan to see him. The local soldiers in Yunnan felt that there might be fraud, maybe it was the head of Mu Bang's Xuanwei Division.
Hanba sent a few people who knew Burmese to sneak into Myanmar to investigate the situation.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! As a result, these people were captured by Hanba as soon as they arrived in Mubang. Hanba was obviously not a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. After arresting these people, he confiscated them
The belongings he brought were transferred to Myanmar.
The Burmese side wrote a "tribute letter" that was not a "tribute letter" at all. The language was arrogant, and he even openly asked the court to change the candidate for the comfort envoy according to his wishes, and even peeked at Tengyue, Yongchang and other places.
In accordance with the principle of courtesy first and then fighting, the Yunnan side first offered good words to persuade and sent generals to Burma to issue an edict to Mu State. Hanba of Mu State accepted the gold and silk reward, saying that he was still loyal to the Ming Dynasty and insisted on paying tribute. But something happened in Burma.
, it happened that Mang Yinglong died of illness, and his son Mang Yingli succeeded to the throne, but he refused to see the envoy at all.
Not only that, Mang Yingli also believed that Hanba had betrayed him by accepting the "Han reward", so he sent troops to attack Hanba, and then captured Hanba. Unable to resolve his hatred, he continued to attack other areas of Mubang.
According to Liu Shizeng's statement, this year's war in Yunnan should be attributed to Mang Yingli's bad temper. He first attacked Mubang and then found that his troops and horses were really strong, so he became so swollen that he simply stopped fighting and even fought in Yunnan.
However, Zhu Yijun's Zhu Pi is worth pondering. He did not express any views on the matter itself. He just came to "settle old scores" and said that the thieves (two generations of father and son) continued to invade various Xuanwei divisions under the jurisdiction of Yunnan, and the local
The officials have always tolerated the adulterer, and after the incident happened, they tried to whitewash the situation and shirk responsibility, so "the department even investigated the matter" - which is equivalent to asking the relevant department officials to "investigate and prosecute" immediately.
It stands to reason that although what Liu Shizeng said was "history" he had investigated, the problems he pointed out were current, and it was only right that Zhu Yijun should instruct him on what to do next.
However, Zhu Yijun did not give any instructions. Instead, he turned over old scores and demanded that the previous batch of relevant officials - the predecessors who lost the barriers - be found out about their responsibilities and impeached.
There are only three possibilities for this. One is that Zhu Yijun did not notice that the current situation should be remedied or dealt with quickly; the other is that he was blinded by anger, regardless of whether he wanted to punish the person responsible in the first place; the third is that in his heart
We have already had a solution to the Yunnan issue, but we do not intend to explain it to Liu Shizeng now.
After thinking about it pragmatically, Gao still prefers the third possibility.
Because the Yunnan issue was just settled between him and Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yijun had already gotten rid of the disputes in the court, accepted Gao Pragmatic's suggestion of "fighting hard", and even decided how to fight. He even decided on Gao Pragmatic's suggestion of "fighting hard".
The marriage was all linked to the war in Yunnan.
Under such circumstances, it is too unscientific to say that Zhu Yijun has forgotten the point of the matter...
But the problem is, since this is not an urgent matter, then what is the point of Zhu Yijun hurriedly sending someone to chase him to inform him?
Gao Jingshi couldn't help but ponder. The young prisoner didn't rush him and just waited for Gao Jingshi to speak.
After a while, Gao Pragmatic finally figured it out. It turned out that the reason why Zhu Yijun "didn't mention serious matters" in the Zhu batch was actually because he found out that the matter involved the issue of party struggle.
Liu Shizeng's memorial actually accused his predecessor of overindulging Burma, which led to today's Mang Yinglong, Mang Yingli and his son being arrogant and even daring to commit large-scale border violations.
But pursuing your predecessor cannot be pursued casually, because Yunnan's indulgent attitude does not last for a year or two, at least dating back to the mid-Jiajing period.
At that time, Mu Chaobi, the commander-in-chief of the Yunnan Army and Duke of Guizhou, once reported to the imperial court, pointing out that the danger of Mang Yinglong's forces to the Ming Dynasty was already very high, and hoped that the imperial court would send troops to intervene. The implication was that he wanted to fight a war later.
"Preventive War" proposed by Churchill.
However, the imperial court sternly refused at that time, and in the name of the Ministry of War, it admonished the local Fuzhen officials in Yunnan, saying: "Except for the deserted areas, there is no way to cure them... They are afraid of the power and have fled far away, and they have issued orders to the barbarians not to communicate or make friends with each other."
Since this matter has already been like this as far back as the "Emperor Grandfather" period, Zhu Yijun's current so-called settling old scores will definitely not go far. At most, he can hold the former governor accountable, otherwise the implications will be too wide and the impact will be too bad.
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The problem lies in the former governor. Who was the former governor? Rao Renkan.
Rao Renkan talked about pacifying Yunnan. Did he have any big problems in this matter? In fact, not really. After all, his predecessors, his predecessors and even his predecessors further away all did this.
But Rao Renkan has another "historical problem", that is, when Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng advocated that I pay tribute, Rao Renkan, Ye Mengxiong and others, who were censors, were the most fiercely opposed.
Needless to say, during the period when Gao Gong was in power, except for the nobles, civil and military officials, anyone who opposed the tribute of Anda had nothing to gain. Of course, Rao Renkan, the main force in opposing the tribute, was no exception.
, so he was demoted to serve as a promotion official in Raozhou Prefecture.
But he should be grateful that Gao Gong's attitude towards employing people is different from Zhang Juzheng's.
Zhang Juzheng's style is, if I think you haven't done well, I will demote you so much that you will never come back in this life. If you still hate me, you won't even be able to save your life (for example, Liu Tai, etc.),
I will only be happy if I kill you.
And Gao Gong seems to be more "careless". If you hate Gao Gong, he will demote your official position and demote you to a foreign position. But if you did well when you were a foreign minister and got good evaluations, there is no need to worry.
, because you can still be promoted back, and Gao Gong will not intervene because he hates you.
People with a personality like Gao Gong are actually very common. They are the kind of people who lose their temper immediately and you are afraid that they will take revenge afterward, but in fact, they may have forgotten you a long time ago.
So, after Brother Rao Renkan served as a minor promotion officer for a term, due to his excellent evaluation, he was promoted back to Beijing and became the head of the Criminal Department while Gao Gong was still serving as the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel. From then on, his official career was smooth sailing.
, he successively served as Shanxi's patrol commissioner, Dali Temple's Shaoqing, and finally, as the censor of Youqiandu, he patrolled Yunnan.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! It was not until February of the ninth year of Wanli that when Qin Yao, Yushi Qian Dai and others inspected and impeached a large number of officials, Rao Renkan was impeached for "disrespect of duty".
”, so he was first “demoted one level and transferred to another job”. Later, after a thorough investigation, he was punished with “a title and a belt of idle living”, and then he was forced to take up an official position.
During the period from Rao Renkan's impeachment to his complete retirement, Gao Pingshi was not in Beijing at all and did not know much about it. Therefore, he had not thought about it just now. It was not until he thought about it carefully that he discovered the problem.
The "accident" of Rao Renkancai in February of the ninth year of Wanli obviously had nothing to do with Gao Gong, who had passed away in the sixth year of Wanli. However, a dignified governor was dismissed during a mere inspection and relic collection, so it is unlikely that there was no party struggle.
So, what faction does Rao Renkan belong to?
He was a Jinshi in Renxu Branch in the 41st year of Jiajing reign. Three of them were very famous in the same year: Shen Shixing, the number one scholar, Wang Xijue, the second best scholar, and Yu Youding, the third best scholar.
In addition to Wang Xijue, who is playing the role of a filial son and returns to his hometown to take care of his old father (his father has passed away now, Wang Xijue is guarding the system in Ding You), Shen Shixing, Yu You and Ding are both in the cabinet, and they are the pillars of the Xinxue lineage.
Now, the truth is revealed.
At the end of the ninth year of Wanli, Guo Pu even asked to retire. Even after Zhu Yijun repeatedly tried to persuade him to stay, he refused to give in. He even asked to see the two palaces in person and insisted on his resignation. Finally, he retired successfully and made a perfect curtain call.
Rao Renkan happened to be involved in an accident at the beginning of the ninth year of Wanli, and in the second half of the year he was sentenced to "leave idle" - that is, he was ordered to retire while retaining his administrative level.
Gao Pragmatic refused to believe that there was no trace of Guo Pu in this matter. But one thing he had to make clear now was that Guo Pu himself was not a powerful chief minister like Gao Gong. His style during his reign was recognized as "high
"Gui Guo Sui".
Then why did Gao Gong not feel that Rao Renkan had a big problem, but Guo Pu wanted to get rid of Rao Renkan before he retired?
It seems that the uncle's invitation came at the right time, and I must go to "make up the lessons" immediately, otherwise I will not even understand Zhu Yijun's attitude on this matter.
"If you have any trouble, the envoy will report back to the emperor and say that the headquarters has already seen it. The details will be reported tomorrow."
Of course, the young eunuch knew Gao Jingshi's special status in the palace. He didn't dare to say anything more after hearing this. He nodded in agreement, and then after Gao Jingshi looked at him and motioned Gao Mo to give him a red envelope, he thanked him profusely and left respectfully.
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As soon as the eunuch left, Gao Jingshi put away his smile, frowned and told Gao Mo: "Immediately send someone to Yuan Fu's house. Tell him that my nephew will pay a visit overnight today and he will be there immediately."
Gao Mo had not read the memorandum brought by his eunuch just now, and even if he had read it, he could not understand the problems in it. However, Gao Pragmatic looked so serious, so he naturally knew the importance, and quickly sent someone to notify the Zhang University Scholar's Office, and then waited
As soon as Gao pragmatic got into the sedan and sat down, he shouted to Fubiao and the bearers: "Get off the sedan and go to Yongfang and go to Zhang University's scholar's residence!"
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, Yunnan, Annan’s counterattack, or surprise attack, a few words of narration can take care of it. Second, a few chapters are given to narrate the Yunnan and Annan aspects, making the plot and supporting characters a little fuller. (This chapter is 4800 words, no.
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