In fact, with Gao Pragmatic's current reputation and status and the importance of his current position, it is not difficult for him to forcefully protect Song Liangzuo. He doesn't even need to cry, make trouble, or hang himself. He is simply regarded as "the best literary and handsome man in the world"
He was qualified to write a memorial to the emperor, saying that as soon as Song Liangzuo took office, it was difficult for everyone to work together on many local affairs. He asked the emperor to give him some time, and he would be able to pacify Bozhou. This was almost enough.
To be on the safe side, it can also be said that Song Liangzuo wrote to himself before taking office, mentioning the method of pacifying Bozhou. He agreed very much, and then showed the emperor the strategy he arranged for Song Liangzuo. If he is still willing to help,
, it can even be said that Song Liangzuo's defeat was originally planned, and it was a tactic of arrogant soldiers. The reason why it was not mentioned before was because it was not enough to educate outsiders.
However, Gao pragmatically knew Zhu Yijun's character and style very well, and he knew even more about his intelligence. Although Song Liangzuo hurriedly launched a failed attack as soon as he arrived, the emperor knew that Song Liangzuo was from the Shi school, and the Shi school was not as good at military matters.
In the end, he will always be pragmatic to take care of the situation, so a failure is not terrible. Replacing Song Liangzuo may cause obviously bigger problems.
The Practical School would be worried that Song Liangzuo would be replaced and the new Sichuan governor might not be able to effectively cooperate with the implementation of the Practical School's military plan, but the emperor would only be more worried about this, so the emperor would not easily shake this candidate. Moreover, being pragmatic is even more important now.
He is leading an army of 600,000 to fight on the Yuan-Destroying Front. What does it mean to replace the leader of the other front of the Practical School at this time?
Therefore, the emperor himself should protect Song Liangzuo. At this moment, the realist school only needs to find a reasonable reason to allow the emperor to climb up the pole.
As a loyal minister of Zhu Yijun, Gao Pangshi would of course give this advice, so he immediately wrote a memorial and a reply letter to Zhou Yong. The former was sent back to the capital through official channels, and the latter sent a letter to Zhou Yong by flying pigeon.
Da Sima.
The memorial must go much slower than the letter delivered by flying pigeons. After receiving the letter, Zhou Yong had enough time to arrange various related affairs and think about how to deal with it in the court.
In addition, regarding the Bozhou matter, Gao Pragmatic had to write another letter to Liu Xin, asking her, the secretary-general, to inform Jinghua’s forces in the southwestern provinces in her own name to prepare for relevant cooperation. These things were too cumbersome, so just
No need to expand one by one.
After finishing these things, Gao Pragmatic turned his mind back to the current war situation, but before he settled down to think about it, he suddenly thought of the relevance of these things.
It seems that... the matter of sending troops to conquer the Yuan Dynasty has now become a lure to lure the snake out of the hole, and suddenly a huge Bozhou Xuanwei Yang Yinglong was fished out. Then, will there be other conspirators who were originally hiding in the dark to take advantage of this opportunity to jump out?
Come out to cause trouble? Or do you not jump out directly, but secretly stir up trouble more unscrupulously?
After thinking about it, Gao Pragmatic felt that this possibility was not only possible, but also very large. At least the current lack of movement of the Xin School was very unreasonable. According to the normal party struggle habits of the past dynasties, the Xin School should feel deeply threatened at this time, and then
It's only right to deliberately cause destruction.
Perhaps Gao Pragmatic is essentially the kind of person who says, "I have never been afraid of judging people with their worst intentions." He put himself in the shoes of Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue, and after thinking about it, he really felt that the Xin School was actually in danger in the current situation. If he doesn't move any longer, something big may happen - as long as his high pragmatism wins this battle, the Xin School will have to face the huge danger of being completely suppressed by the Real School.
This truth is actually not difficult to understand. The Practical School, especially the Gao Dang and other factions of the Practical School, controls the three ministries with the greatest real power among the six ministries: the Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Household Affairs, and the Ministry of War. As a result, Gao Pragmatic’s administrative strength in the court is basically limited. It surpasses the Xin School, so in this case, what will happen if Gao Pragmatic wins another victory that the Ming Dynasty has been looking forward to for two hundred years?
It is very likely that Gao Pragmatic will join the cabinet at a young age, and at the same time completely suppress the Xu Guo-Shen Li alliance within the Practical School, and unify the entire Real School under his command.
What does this mean? At least, first of all, it means that the Metropolitan Procuratorate controlled by Shen Li has been brought under the actual control of Gao Jingjing, which greatly strengthens the voice of Gao Jingjing's official system.
By then, he will not only actually control the staff, but also the way of speech, and the power of employing people in the court will be almost entirely in his hands - unless the emperor objects to his opinion, he can use whomever he wants and depose whomever he wants. Who should be deposed? Is this enough?
What's more, with the emperor's current trust in him, if he adds such a great achievement, expecting the emperor to oppose his opinions is almost a dream. I'm afraid that by that time, the only thing Gao Pragmatic may be considered a "weakness" is There is only one "master with great achievements" left.
However, that would require the emperor to truly believe that his "gong" was high enough to "shake the Lord", and at least judging from the current situation, the emperor did not seem to be worried about this at all.
This is actually not surprising. The power structure of the Ming Dynasty was originally different from that of previous dynasties. The Ming Dynasty did not even have a prime minister, and even the chief minister of the cabinet did not have the power to "open the government." All administrative, military, and judicial powers of the imperial court were ultimately In the hands of the emperor alone. Under this kind of power system, what can Gao Pragmatic do to "shock the master"?
In the Ming Dynasty, if prestige alone could shake the emperor, how could Yu Qian die back then? You know, even if Gao Pragmatic has accomplished the task of destroying the Yuan Dynasty, no matter how great his contribution is, it is just icing on the cake. Shaobao was able to turn the tide back then, and he could almost be regarded as recreating the Ming Dynasty!
But what happened to Yu Qian? After Yingzong was restored to power, a charge of treason was slapped on him. Yu Shaobao was immediately taken down and eventually sentenced to death. Yu Qian himself did not make any move to resist, not even to argue - he was An understanding person knows that the matter has reached this point and it is meaningless to say anything, so it is better not to say anything.
What's funny is that Yu Qian was the one who advocated bringing back Yingzong. Originally, Jingtai Emperor Zhu Qiyu didn't want to welcome his brother Yingzong back. It was Yu Qian's strong suggestion that Zhu Qiyu reluctantly agreed to welcome Yingzong back. Therefore, Zhang Tingyu In the "History of the Ming Dynasty: Biography of Yu Qian", it is also specifically recorded: "When a soldier returns to serve the emperor, he is humble."
Because of this, Emperor Zhu Qiyu was seriously ill in the eighth year of Jingtai. On Renwu in the first month, Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang, and Xu Youzhen welcomed Emperor Zhu Qizhen and restored him to the throne.
Prison, but a little story happened later.
Shi Heng, Cao Jixiang, Xu Youzhen and others first framed Yu Qian and others for making unethical remarks, and then planned with eunuchs Wang Cheng, Shu Liang, Zhang Yong, Wang Qin and others to welcome King Celi Xiang. Shi Heng and others decided on this theory and instigated Ke Dao
Official performance.
Xiao Weizhen, the censor of the capital, tried and convicted him for treason and sentenced him to death. Wang Wen couldn't stand this kind of frame-up and was eager to argue. Yu Qian smiled and said, this is just Shi Heng's intention. What's the use of arguing.
After the memorial was submitted, Yingzong remembered that he was able to come back thanks to Yu Qian's support in welcoming him, so he hesitated a little and said: "Yu Qian has merit (humility has merit)." Xu Youzhen quickly added that if Yu Qian was not killed, the restoration would be over.
He became a master without a name.
It was a matter of imperial power, and Yingzong could not care less about the condemnation of his conscience. On the 23rd of the first lunar month, Yu Qian was escorted outside Chongwen Gate. In front of the city he had defended with all his life, he received his final outcome - execution.
In fact, the fact that Yu Qian was arrested is very interesting in itself, because at that time Yu Qian still actually controlled most of the military power in the capital. If he really wanted to resist, it is difficult to say whether the coup could succeed.
But in any case, Yu Qian's death left a certain "political legacy" political thinking to the Ming Dynasty, that is, no matter how much power the Ming officials seemed to have, they would not resist, or had no ability to resist, in front of the emperor. Later.
The reason why the emperors became more and more bold in delegating power to civilian officials may also be due to this reason.
So, since no one in the Ming Dynasty thinks that Gao Pragmatism can have the possibility of "shaking the master" with great achievements, wouldn't Gao Pragmatism after he has accomplished the great feat of destroying the Yuan Dynasty be regarded as invulnerable? By that time, Gao Pragmatism will be considered invulnerable.
If he himself is invulnerable, then once he attacks dissenters, how can the Xin School rely on him to resist?
This is like a duel between two people. One of them is indestructible. No matter whether he is a master of magic or a random fight, his opponent will be the only one who dies in the end. What kind of fight is this? It is better to accept his fate and defeat him early.
It may be hard to say whether Shen Shixing is willing to accept his fate and be defeated. After all, he is very similar to Xu Jie, and he may be able to bear the humiliation and wait for the opportunity. But judging from Wang Xijue's character, he will definitely not accept his fate and will definitely choose to fight to the end.
In the current situation, it seems that Gao Pragmatic is only one victory away from becoming "indestructible". Will Wang Xijue really wait until he wins before resisting? Absolutely not. Wang Xijue will definitely choose to take action at Gao Xijue.
Act pragmatically before winning this victory - he used "zhengguoben" to take the lead as soon as he returned to Beijing, which shows that he likes to take the initiative.
It was so in the beginning, and it must be so now.
However, if he wanted to take action, where would he choose to start? Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but fall into thinking.
Holding back in this war? This seems difficult. After all, in order to ensure victory in this battle, Gao Pragmatic has hoarded enough supplies, and the logistics supply line has also been handed over to his own people. It should be difficult for Wang Xijue to get his hands on him here.
As for the military command level, Gao Pragmatic held the Shangfang Sword, the most powerful sword in the Ming Dynasty so far, as a Mongolian and Yuan Dynasty administrator. The Ministry of War was the territory of the Shi School, and there seemed to be no possibility of anyone interfering with it.
The command system will not be in chaos, and the logistics supplies are guaranteed. Wang Xijue does not have the ability to interfere in these two most important aspects, so there is no need to say that he will be a hindrance.
Wait, Li Rusong is still a member of the Xin School after all. Could it be that... No, Li Rusong is not Li Chengliang. He considers political issues much more easily than Li Chengliang. If he is asked to give up the opportunity to make such great achievements to make trouble with himself, he will definitely not do it. And he will definitely not do it.
With Li Rusong's temper, if Wang Xijue really wanted to force him, he might directly turn to the Heart School. With Wang Xijue's wisdom, he would not be unable to see this.
There are no flaws internally, could it be externally? Gao Pragmatic suddenly thought, he was shocked, but he thought it was impossible - Wang Xijue was still a minister of the imperial court, and at the same time, he had never worked in the border town, so he shouldn't
It is also impossible to contact the above figures and carry out a shocking collaboration with the enemy.
Gao pragmatic thought hard, but still couldn't figure it out, and thought to himself: This is weird, it's impossible in every aspect, what else can Wang Xijue think of? It's impossible to stick a little paper man in it and plan to curse me to death at home, right?
Of course Wang Xijue would not do such a meaningless thing. Although he seemed to believe that his daughter had "achieved enlightenment and became an immortal" when he was in Suzhou, that was actually just a deliberate attempt to cover up his daughter's mental disorder. I miss him, Mr. Wang Ge.
A great Confucian of the Mind School, does he still need someone else to teach him the principle of "The Son does not speak, but the strange power confuses the Gods"?
In fact, although Wang Xijue is unsurprisingly trying to find ways to prevent Gao Pragmatic from winning this war, the resistance he faces at this time is so great that there is really not much he can do.
There is also a relatively unusual situation here: Although Shen Shixing also believes that once Gao Pragmatic wins this battle, it will bring an extremely huge challenge to the Central School, but he does not agree with Wang Xijue's idea of defeating Gao Pragmatic. He only agrees
Let Gao pragmatism "hard to win".
There is, of course, a difference between defeat and "hard-to-win victory." Mobilizing an army of 600,000 but being defeated usually means that the army suffered huge losses. Although Shen Shixing is the current party leader of the Xin School, after all, he has also done
Having been the chief minister for many years, his conscience would not allow him to make such a traitorous act.
However, the "hard-to-win" situation is different. For example, if Gao Pragmatic's side has not yet won, they have to withdraw their troops and return due to some accidents. This is also a kind of "hard-to-win". Therefore, Shen Shixing's current requirements are very clear.
: Find a way to prevent Gao Jingshi from successfully completing this battle, but do not allow the Xin School to deliberately let Gao Jingshi defeat in any way - regardless of whether this approach can be achieved, in short, Shen Shixing does not agree to such manipulation.
This undoubtedly placed great restrictions on Wang Xijue's actions, forcing him to turn his attention to the highly pragmatic "rear area", that is, the country of Ming Dynasty. He must find ways to cause internal troubles in Ming Dynasty. This trouble must not only be urgent, but also occur once
Ignoring it will be very harmful. Once this goal is achieved, Gao Pragmatic can be forced to withdraw his troops and return to the country, and use his energy to stabilize the interior, which indirectly makes the Northern Expedition end without a problem.
Wang Xijue originally planned to find a solution from the vassal kings from various places, such as instigating a certain vassal king to raise an army. Once such a thing happened, the court would inevitably have another "appeasement difficulty", and it would most likely be taken seriously.
If the vassal king really makes a big noise after he raises the army, in order to avoid becoming another Jianwen Emperor, the emperor will probably need to mobilize elites to suppress the rebellion. Whether these rebel forces are really powerful or just in vain, it is difficult to adjust Gao Pragmatic
You will know once you come back and give it a try. Once the court does this, Gao Pragmatic's various plans will be completely bankrupt.
However, if this is really the case, then one would be underestimating Wang Xijue.
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