Gao Pragmatic had no knowledge of the content of the discussion between Zhang Cheng and Shen Shixing. Until Shen Shixing and his party returned to Beijing, neither party took any practical measures. To be precise, they did not even communicate.
Shen Shixing has always been an extremely calm person. As Gao Jingshi's nominal "master", he has watched Gao Jingshi quietly eliminate his opponents over the years, so he naturally knows how powerful Gao Jingshi is.
It is by no means an easy thing to deal with such a person.
At first, Yu Youding secretly interfered with Zhang Jing and Liu Shou's plan against Gao Pragmatic, and even the dignified elders almost got him involved. This incident gave Shen Shixing enough vigilance, so until everything was ready, he
He will definitely not take action.
Besides, for such a plan, I don’t know how much preliminary work needs to be carried out secretly. The time is still far away from being mature. Why is there any rush? It is reasonable to follow the plan step by step and lay ambushes everywhere.
Moreover, although it is easy to defeat the planned battle, there are still several difficulties here, and all must be resolved before action can be taken.
For example, this battle must be personally commanded by Gao Pragmatic, or at least he must be personally in command. Otherwise, even if it is defeated in the end, the main responsibility will not belong to him! This means that a method must be determined in advance.
It must be ensured that Gao Pragmatic will personally lead the troops.
Another example is how to "maximize the benefits" of this defeat - it has been analyzed before that even if Gao Pragmatic suffered a big defeat, he might not be able to recover. The greater possibility is that the emperor will be nostalgic and give him a
The punishment, which is neither light nor severe, will pass, and most likely he will be "encouraged to serve".
This kind of treatment by the emperor is a common outcome for great nobles and favored ministers. Gao pragmatism is qualified enough to enjoy this treatment. Therefore, this wave of expected failures only broke Gao pragmatism's invincibility.
His irreplaceable status in the emperor's mind was shaken, but his crime was definitely not worthy of death, and he could not even talk about a comeback. He just needed to reflect on it and that would be it.
So how to make profits for the Xinxue school in this situation? This requires him, Shen Shixing, as the chief assistant, to plan carefully. When the practical school is in chaos due to the defeat of Gao Pragmatism, he will suddenly take action to help the Xinxue school.
The school of thought obtains the greatest benefit.
This is obviously not a simple matter. Each one is a plan within a plan, and a plan within a plan forms a chain of plans. As the chief designer, he naturally has to be more careful. Not only can he not act blindly, but he must also do it without leaking the news.
Complete the layout under the premise.
Shen Shixing didn't respond at all, and didn't even ask the cabinet about the "platform call" a few days ago. Gao Pragmatic gradually felt relieved. He secretly estimated that it might be because his uncle's resignation was relatively sudden, and Shen Shixing
He took over in a hurry, and may not have been prepared for a full-scale conflict. And given Shen Shixing's temperament, since the outcome is unpredictable, he must procrastinate and slowly accumulate the chance of victory.
Gao Pragmatic's idea is not unreasonable, because Shen Shixing does not fight unprepared battles. This can be seen from the fact that he did not personally intervene in Zhang Jing and Liu Shou's plans before, but let Yu Youding secretly manipulate them.
come out.
Of course, this is also in line with Shen Shixing's performance in the original history. In various history books - regardless of official history and unofficial history - almost all agree that Shen Shixing had both ends of the head and two ends, and was exquisite in all directions. Even Wang Shizhen, who had a good relationship with him, in "The First Assistant"
A more euphemistic term is also used in "Biography", saying that he is "rich in savings, not near cliffs, and not unique."
Not close to the cliff, this statement is very subtle.
There is a saying that "a gentleman should not stand under dangerous walls", so in traditional Confucianism, "not near a cliff" seems to be a very complimentary term. However, Wang Shizhen was the first of the last seven sons, and he dominated the literary world for twenty years.
A great man, his words obviously have profound meaning.
What’s the deep meaning?
Although a gentleman does not stand behind a dangerous wall, that is just his usual way of survival. In fact, a gentleman should also have the courage to move forward even if there are thousands of people.
The key to this is when should a gentleman "stay away from the cliff" and when should he "go there even though there are thousands of people".
When? Where is the meaning of justice?
If it is just an ordinary time, then of course you should "stay away from the cliff", but if it is where righteousness lies, a gentleman should "even if there are thousands of people, I will go there."
However, Wang Shizhen never mentioned that Shen Shixing had ever been so "brainy". So in other words, Wang Shizhen secretly pointed out Shen Shixing's huge shortcoming of having no extraordinary courage.
The reason why I had to point it out secretly was because the relationship between the two parties was not bad and it was difficult to express it openly.
Because of these records and analyzes in the original history, Gao Pragmatic did not pay too much attention to Shen Shixing's "indifference" and just thought that Shen Shixing did not want to intensify the conflict so quickly.
Gao pragmatic felt that although Shen Shixing was not the best, it was still pretty good. As long as he did not choose to change course, cancel the reforms promoted by the previous practical school, and reverse the course of history, then he could still tolerate the existence of Shen Yuanfu.
of.
Anyway, his attitude has always been clear: as long as you don't mess with me and don't stop me from reforming, then basically I can tolerate other things.
What a joke, he can tolerate those noble people, and can even find ways to lead them to a righteous path suitable for them to "return to evil", so what can't he tolerate other people? The only two conditions are: don't mess with me,
Don't block my way.
Therefore, since Shen Shixing could not move, he was too lazy to take care of it. He had recently been busy with the formation of the Imperial Guard. Although Qi Jiguang had not arrived yet, he had been exchanging letters with him. The two sides organized and trained some of the Imperial Guard.
The ideas and precautions were all exchanged in letters, and an agreement was basically reached. Now it is time for Qi Jiguang and Yang Siwei to complete the proper handover and come to take up their posts.
Oh, of course, Qi Jiguang had to recruit troops himself, and he couldn't go to Yiwu this time, so he had to recruit troops in the north. Although the Imperial Guard was nominally allowed to recruit troops nationwide, in terms of ease of settling down and convenient command, etc.
It is better to stay near Gyeonggi Province, or at most no further than Beizhili.
After another ten days, Qi Jiguang finally arrived.
It was not easy for Qi Jiguang to come here. The Qi family's four thousand troops first gave three thousand to Qi Jin and asked him to take him to Liaodong to take up his new post. Then he only brought one thousand people to Beijing, and he took the initiative to stop even though they were far away.
He came down and reported it to the Ministry of War to "ask for instructions on where to go."
This is very interesting.
Although Gao Jingshi's armed servants in the capital have been "controlled hard" by him, the number has always been as high as 3,000, and the court's attitude towards this is completely indifferent. Even after so many years, he even likes to interfere with the nonsense.
None of the officials expressed opposition to this, let alone impeachment.
But when he arrived at Qi Jiguang, he only brought a thousand troops and horses. The team stopped decisively when they were far away from Shunyi, and seriously asked the Ministry of War for "instructions on how to proceed" - that is, "Excuse me, the Ministry of War, can I come to Beijing now?"
The differential treatment of civil servants and military generals was clearly revealed in this incident.
Gao Jingshi has three thousand armed servants in the capital alone, as well as various other servants, servants, employees, etc., adding up to at least tens of thousands of young men. If the scope is expanded, for example, the most important "heavy industrial base" in Beijing
Taking Kaiping into account, with just one order from someone higher than him, he might be able to pull out an army of 50,000 men tomorrow.
However, the imperial court completely turned a blind eye to his power, as if he had not heard of it.
But once he arrived at Qi Jiguang, even though he only brought a thousand Qi family troops with no backup or foundation, he still didn't dare to stop and ask for instructions. Otherwise, he would probably be beaten to death without even taking a step forward.
Except for the nobles of the Jingnan Department who were originally responsible for guarding Yanjing, all other generals were treated the same when they arrived in the capital. No one dared to bring more than 500 servants to the capital. Back then, Liu Xian brought Liu Wei to the capital for "activities"
At that time, the reason why he only had so few people on hand was not because he really had so few servants, but because even if he had some, he would not dare to bring him to the capital.
Are you here for "activities" or do you want to come for military remonstrance?
Although Qi Jiguang was a border general whom the imperial court relied heavily on, he also received close attention on this issue. He himself knew this, so he took such a move.
Not to mention, a large group of people in the imperial court were very sensitive to this, and they all said that it didn't matter if Qi Jiguang himself came to take office, but he should not bring troops because "the ancestral system is like this." What made Gao pragmatic even more speechless was that,
Most of these people are neutral officials.
On the contrary, the Xin School, headed by Shen Shixing, showed relatively restraint at this time. Many of them went to court and said that Qi Jiguang could bring "five hundred people" to Beijing.
As for the pragmatic school, let’s not talk about it. Under the influence of Gao Pragmatism, they now only hope that Qi Jiguang will take office quickly and quickly set up the airs of the Imperial Guard. Everything else is trivial. One thousand Qi Jiajun is one thousand Qi Jiajun, you
No matter how hard Qi's army fights, can these thousand men still threaten the capital? What's more, Qi Jiguang is not crazy, will he use these thousand men to rebel?
The emperor seemed to have never considered this situation before. Faced with the various opinions of the ministers, he was a little undecided for a while.
Zhu Yijun did not think that Qi Jiguang's bringing of a thousand people was a threat, but there was no problem with the opposition's opinion. This type of ancestral system still had to be maintained, because its starting point was to maintain the stability of the court.
In the end, Qi Jiguang was stuck in Shunyi County for three whole days, unable to advance or retreat. Gao Pragmatic couldn't stand it any longer, so he took the initiative to ask for help - he went to Shunyi personally and "led" the Qi family's army to station in a group of temporary barracks that had just been built.
Fang’s Beijing Camp.
The implication is that the Qi family army did not enter the capital, but lived directly in the Beijing North Camp. This does not violate the ancestral system, right?
When Zhu Yijun saw the pragmatic Shang Shu, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief. The nature of what was brought by civil servants was different from what was brought by military generals - regardless of whether it was Qi Jiajun or Qi Jiajun, especially when Qi Jiguang himself was among them.
It doesn't really make much difference whether Gao Pragmatic goes there or not. In fact, the difference here is huge.
Nominal differences will lead to different results.
In the eyes of the officials in the DPRK, there was no problem at all for Gao Pangshi to lead the Qi family's army as the Zuo Shilang of the Ministry of War and to assist in the military affairs of the capital camp. He was not only a "right official", but also had outstanding military achievements. The officials in the capital were naive
I think that as long as Gao Pragmatic is gone, the Qi family army will be stable.
He was so confident that Gao Pragmatic himself was not so arrogant. When Qi Jiguang himself was alive, no civil servant could surpass him and still be able to command the Qi family army. The truth is obvious, even if you surpass Liu Wei, you will not be able to command the Japanese troops.
ah!
Is it a joke to follow any servant? If it was that simple, why could Chongzhen only tolerate Wu Sangui, Zuo Liangyu and others indefinitely?
The servant only recognizes his own master, he cares whether you are the emperor or not, and the emperor cares about his food?
The highly pragmatic memorial was approved by Zhu as quickly as possible. Zhu Yijun even said in the approval: "Since you are assisting in the military affairs, the military affairs of the capital will naturally be handled easily. Qi Jiguang and Ren Jiading were also trained by the Imperial Guards.
Military and political supervision."
The argument came to an end. Without further delay, Gao Pragmatic took two hundred servants and rushed to Shunyi County to pick him up.
When he arrived at Qi Jiguang's military camp in Shunyi County, Qi Jiguang, who had received the news, had already ordered the entire army to line up to greet him, and he himself stood at the front of the line.
Gao pragmatic knew that Qi Jiguang would not be angry because he had been left out for a few days, but it was hard to say whether there would be dissatisfaction within the Qi family army. So when he saw Qi Jiguang, he joked and said loudly: "Don't come, Qi Shaobao."
Are you okay? The Headquarters is here to greet you, Qi Shaobao, today."
Qi Jiguang did not expect that Gao Jingshi would use such an opening statement. He was shocked and quickly took a few steps forward and said loudly: "Qi, the lackey of Mu En's sect, is paying homage to Young Sima. Please forgive me for not being able to bow properly because I am wearing armor."
Having said that, he still knelt down, but Gao Pingshi, who jumped off the horse first, stretched out his hand to support him.
"What is Qi Shaobao doing? Don't offend the students. Please excuse yourself." Then he said to the Qi family officers and soldiers behind Qi Jiguang who were kneeling with him: "The same goes for all the officers and soldiers. They are all exempted from courtesy. Please get up.
Bar."
Even so, the officers and soldiers of the Qi family still saw Qi Jiguang getting up first and then followed him.
"Jie Ying" is naturally a pragmatic polite word. He and Qi Jiguang first exchanged the procedures for entering Beijing, and at the same time asked Qi Jiguang to order the Qi family army to prepare to leave.
Within a short while, the Qi family's army moved, and Qi Jiguang actually handed over the command to Gao Pangshi, letting him lead the troops forward, while he followed Gao Pangshi on horseback.
Gao Pragmatic was not idle on the way. While leading the team towards the Beijing Camp, he asked Qi Jiguang: "Nantang Gong, the matter of taking office is now settled, but the matter I asked in the letter before..."
"Young Master, are you asking about where to recruit troops?"
Gao pragmatic nodded and said: "Yes, this should be the most important thing at the moment."
Qi Jiguang replied: "The Imperial Guard is divided into horse, infantry, artillery, engineering and other services. At present, I plan to recruit the horse army in Bazhou, and the infantry, engineering troops, etc. in Cangzhou. However, the artillery army has not yet been determined."
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