Li Wenjin's words were obviously not without purpose. After he learned that Gao Jingshi had gone to persuade King Lu to give up King Jing's inheritance today, he had been thinking about the reason on the way to Prince Lu's Mansion.
If Gao Pragmatic was just like ordinary courtiers, using false names such as "Wise King" to persuade, Li Wenjin must have rolled his eyes and was too lazy to say more, and just persuaded King Lu not to pay attention to such nonsense.
But Gao Pragmatic is obviously completely different from ordinary courtiers. Although he also mentioned "a good king", he changed the subject and immediately expressed his true sincerity.
If this sincerity is true to what he said, it will definitely be more tempting than King Jing's legacy. After all, almost no one dares to question Gao Pragmatic's business vision. Even Li Wenjin has made a lot of money following Gao Pragmatic. Of course
I am even more confident about this.
It can be said that in Li Wenjin's eyes, as long as Gao Pragmatic sincerely believes that the small broken island will be a cornucopia in the future, then it will definitely be a cornucopia in the future.
As for why this happens?
Hmm... that's not important. There are so many things in the world that I can't understand. People who seek to be the top pick in the Sixth Prize are just normal. They are a little smarter than me.
Anyway, Li Wenjin believed that Gao Pragmatic would not be willing to destroy his own golden brand, so the prospects of that small broken island - oh, it was Qian Jing - could definitely be optimistic.
But Gao Qiuzhen always has his own purpose in doing things, and it is best to clarify this purpose first.
Although Li Wenjin was greedy for money and turned himself into a eunuch, he was actually better at thinking than his sister, the Queen Mother. Through his observations over the years, he found that the goal of seeking truth was sometimes very, very far-reaching, even as far away as
To pave the way for what will happen more than ten years later.
Li Wenjin sometimes laments that this may be the so-called "If you don't plan for the future, you can't plan for the moment."
Gao Pragmatic must be someone who wants to "seek for the world". After all, he is a civil servant, and "scheming for the world" can be regarded as a tradition among civil servants.
It's just that in Li Wenjin's view, the high pragmatism of "scheming for the future" is different from that of ordinary civil servants. Although he also values reputation, he doesn't care about the so-called "iron-clad" reputation that ordinary civil servants value. He seems to be more
He likes to seek the reputation of being a capable minister.
What does it mean to be a capable minister? A person who is highly talented and capable, and can perform the duties of a minister to the best of his ability.
In other words, someone who can handle all kinds of things well and is very loyal is called a capable minister.
Before the incident, Liu Shou also wanted to bribe Li Wenjin, hoping that he could give Gao Pangshi some eye drops in front of the Queen Mother, but Li Wenjin hardly behaved like a money-grubbing person that time, and was indifferent to the bribe of tens of thousands taels.
Reluctant to participate.
It’s not that Li Wenjin really suddenly changed his gender, but that he had two basic judgments.
First, Gao Pragmatic had no problem with his loyalty to the emperor, and he would never have any disloyal intentions like Liu Shouyou's alarmist talk in front of him.
Annan's affairs were originally handled by Gao Pragmatic. The emperor had made an agreement with him beforehand. Outsiders didn't know this. How could he, Li Wenjin, know?
Moreover, what can be said about the fact that Gao Jingshi is the leader in Annan? After the Xuan Temple, the Ming Dynasty never took care of Annan's "household affairs". Whoever is in charge of Annan is not in charge. If Gao Jingshi is the leader, it is better than Mo Mao
Negotiation okay?
Secondly, Gao Jingshi cannot be brought down by Liu Shouyou. To get involved in this matter is not a disaster for Li Wenjin, but it will definitely seriously affect his interests in Beijing - Gao Jingshi has never done anything before.
It is to give some dry stock dividends on a certain transaction of Jinghua.
Things like dry stock have never been reliable. If he is willing to give it to you today, he will give it to you; if he doesn’t want to give it to you tomorrow, he will not give it to you. So Li Wenjin can figure it out clearly without counting on his fingers. Jinghua’s side is obviously better than Liu Shou’s
The bribe is reliable.
What's more, Jinghua's dry stock dividends are not "fine water". Last year, he received nearly 12,000 taels from dry stocks alone. What's better than such a large and stable income?
As for why it was impossible for Liu Shou to overthrow Gao Pragmatic, Li Wenjin did not consider it mainly because of Gao Pragmatic's reputation and status. He was just very aware of the trust his emperor's nephew had in Gao Pragmatic. By analogy, in today's Wan
The attempts by previous dynasties to overthrow Gao pragmatism were probably similar to the desire to overthrow Gao Gong during the Longqing dynasty.
When Xu Jie caused the "Man Dynasty Reversal of Gong" turmoil, Gao Gong indeed resigned and returned to his hometown, but in the end? It was Xu Jie who really left in the end, and Gao Gong returned to glory after resting at home for more than a year.
North Korea opened his glorious path to "Wen Zheng".
Today's Gao Pragmatism is even better than Gao Gong back then. Gao Gong cannot be brought down, and Gao Pragmatism is of course even less likely to be brought down.
What is the key to success? It is simply either to become a winner yourself or to be on the side of the winner.
Li Wenjin felt that there was nothing he could not win, so he chose to stand on the pragmatic side who would inevitably become the winner.
This mentality also affects Li Wenjin's judgment at this moment: Gao Pragmatic must have his own purpose, but he must have his bottom line, that is, he will not frame King Lu.
Why? Because if you frame King Lu, for example, if King Lu really gives up King Jing's inheritance in the future, but makes himself impoverished, this will inevitably arouse the emperor's dissatisfaction. Not to mention whether the emperor really feels sorry for his brother
, at least he will definitely think that being pragmatic has ruined his "vision".
Gao Jingshi would never make fun of his holy family. Li Wenjin was confident in this, so he believed that there was no big problem with Gao Jingshi's guarantee to King Lu. The only problem was what King Lu had to pay for it.
But this issue almost involves the major affairs of the imperial court. Although Li Wenjin is smart, he is not very good at it, so he can't figure it out after much thought.
When they entered the Cining Palace on Li Wenjin's behalf, the Empress Dowager Cisheng heard that King Lu was coming. She was surprised and thought something big had happened, and soon came out of the Buddhist hall to meet them - she worshiped the Buddha very deeply. At this time
Still chanting sutras in the Buddhist hall.
King Lu chatted a few nonsense words about missing his mother, and then repeated what Gao Pangshi said when he went to see him today.
The Empress Dowager Cisheng was indeed not as sharp as Li Wenjin in this matter. Her first reaction was the same as that of her son, King Lu. She felt that how could an almost uninhabited island be comparable to 40,000 hectares of fields? She sank at that time.
His face changed.
Fortunately, Li Wenjin knew enough about his sister, the Queen Mother, that he immediately stood up and changed what he said to his nephew into a more tactful way and said it to the Empress Dowager Cisheng.
Now Queen Mother Li was hesitant. She already trusted this younger brother, not to mention that what he said sounded very reasonable.
"Then... Wen Jin, what do you think Gao Pragmatic means by this move?" Queen Mother Li finally asked.
Li Wenjin couldn't help but ponder, but didn't answer for a long time. King Lu might have been in front of his doting mother, but now he couldn't hold his breath. He suddenly said: "Why don't the queen just ask the emperor to come over and ask? Gao is pragmatic."
After being his companion for ten years, his understanding of Gao Pragmatic must be far better than others, and my son feels that he must understand Gao Pragmatic's intention of doing this."
There is nothing wrong with this statement, but King Lu didn't know that Empress Dowager Li was actually worried about whether Zhu Yijun would deliberately "cover" Gao Pragmatic. After all, he had a criminal record for doing such a thing.
Then the Empress Dowager Cisheng began to ponder, looking a little hesitant.
But what King Lu just said reminded Li Wenjin. Li Wenjin slapped his forehead and said: "Ah, I remembered it. Queen Mother, do you think there is such a possibility: Gao Pragmatic's intention of doing this is actually not that complicated.
Maybe he was just thinking about the emperor."
"For the sake of the emperor?" Empress Dowager Li asked in surprise: "Where do you start talking about this, and what does it have to do with the emperor?"
Li Wenjin thought he had seen through the truth of the matter, and looked confident, and said with a smile: "Queen Mother, the matter of King Lu pursuing King Jing's inheritance has caused an uproar in the court, especially the Ministry of Household Affairs.
The complaints are huge. Although the Emperor is the Supreme Being, he will certainly be under pressure due to the overwhelming opposition from the courtiers."
Empress Dowager Li didn't like to hear this. She said with a serious face: "The Ai family doesn't understand what the Hubu is doing! After King Lu canonizes him, he will always be rewarded. King Jing's legacy was originally promised to be transferred.
To King Lu, this matter had even been discussed as early as the late emperor's time. Why didn't they see any objection at that time?
Oh, it's good now. The country that King Lu wanted to conquer has become a vassal. They jumped out at this time and said that King Jing's legacy has been returned to the people and King Lu can't take it! What's the matter, although the late emperor had no explicit decree at the beginning, this matter
It's not like the Ai family is talking to themselves here. A lot of senior officials know about it, but now they want to regret it?
Hum, King Lu is the vassal watchers. Now they are urging King Lu's country to become a vassal, but they don't want to pay for it. Is this the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty that they laugh at? Whatever is useful to them, they will do it.
Things cannot be separated from the ancestral system; if it is of no use to them, just say that the matter is over now. It is not that they are unwilling to cooperate, but they just have no way. What a joke, if something happens to the court, they have no way, so what use does the emperor want them to do!"
These words were filled with anger. It seemed that the Empress Dowager Cisheng was so resentful towards the courtiers who always wanted to "deprive" her son of the rewards he deserved, that she even asked "What does the emperor want from them?"
But Li Wenjin wasn't afraid, and it wasn't about him. Not only was he not panicked, he was even secretly happy, because since the Queen Mother had such a mentality, the reason he just thought of would be more convincing.
"Your Majesty, the right or wrong of this matter is naturally not what the Queen Mother said, but you also know the behavior of those in the outer court. They don't see the slightest benefit to the Tian family, so there is no need to get angry for these people."
After hearing this, Queen Mother Li snorted again, but after all, it was Li Wenjin who persuaded her, so she finally did not refute.
Li Wenjin added: "But it is precisely because of this that it is more difficult for the emperor. After all, although this matter is the fault of the courtiers, it seems that most of King Jing's legacy has been returned to his country. Now he wants to come back.
It is bound to cause some noise. But it is precisely because of this that Gao Pragmatic does this.
You think, now the emperor is in a dilemma and insists on returning King Jing's legacy. The courtiers must think that the emperor is selfish in the world and only has King Lu in his heart. But if he doesn't return King Jing's legacy, the emperor will be said to have ignored his brothers and relatives.
Moreover, it was unfilial to offend the Queen Mother - whatever the emperor did was wrong.
In this situation, he stood up pragmatically and persuaded Lu to give up King Jing's legacy. Once this was successful, how could the emperor not think of him well? How could the courtiers not think of him well? What's more, if he was really like him
As he said, the island will really become a cornucopia in the future, so even King Lu and even the Queen Mother will remember him! Of course Gao Pragmatic is willing to do such a thing that achieves multiple things with one stone."
Hey, that makes sense.
The Empress Dowager Cisheng thought for a while and nodded slightly: "What you said makes sense... In this case, does it mean that Gao Pragmatism has no bad intentions?"
Li Wenjin nodded and said: "Yes, I think that's the case."
Empress Dowager Li looked at Zhu Yili again and asked, "What do you think of Zhu Yili? Can you agree?"
Zhu Yirui thought for a while and said: "As long as the island can really turn into a cornucopia, my son thinks it's okay, but it doesn't have to be King Jing's fields."
Empress Dowager Li nodded, closed the coffin and concluded: "Well, since you have no objection, the Ai family won't say anything else here. I just hope that Wen Jin's speculation is correct, and Gao Pragmatic will really take the island
It’s about running it well.”
Li Wenjin breathed a sigh of relief and said: "This matter must ultimately be decided by the emperor. Now that it seems that there is no conspiracy involved, shouldn't we inform the emperor earlier?"
Empress Dowager Li looked at the hourglass, nodded and said: "The emperor should not have gone to bed at this hour. The Ai family feels that it is not necessary to delay, so they should inform him in advance. Someone, go and talk to the emperor..."
What Empress Dowager Li didn't know was that Zhu Yijun already knew that Gao Pragmatic and Zhu Yili had just met, and that he had pointed out a way for Zhu Yili to make a fortune. However, his judgment of Gao Pragmatic's motives was deeper than that of Li Wenjin.
In addition to not putting himself in a dilemma, he felt that Gao Pragmatic might have another purpose in doing this, which was to use King Lu's special status as "the vassal watcher" to once again subtly hope to change the financial management concepts of the clan princes.
This is not the first time that Gao Pragmatic has done this kind of thing, but in the past, his target for doing these things was not King Lu, but the nobles of the capital - look at how much land the nobles of the capital have sold in recent years.
People now wish they could sell all their ancestral land and collect more capital to make a fortune with Jinghua.
The nobles have been working on this matter for many years, but the princes of the Ming Dynasty have rarely participated in it. According to Zhu Yijun's understanding of Gao pragmatism, he may want the clan members to be like the nobles and not be persistent.
Instead of competing with the people for land, it is better to sell all the land and then follow him to do maritime trade - including collecting rent at the port.
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