Chapter 277 Aiding Korea and Fighting the Japanese (20) Re-Consideration
In the original history, when Gaohuai rebelled against Liao Dynasty, there was a long list of various impeachments recorded in the "Records of Shenzong". It took such a long time to finally force the emperor to recall this guy - note, it was just a recall, so it was necessary to deal with it.
How difficult it is for him.
However, Gao Jingshi said at this time that "removing one Gaohuai is like slaughtering a dog." Isn't this a bit exaggerated? It's really not an exaggeration. If Gao Pragmatic wants to eliminate one Gaohuai, it is really "like slaughtering a dog."
This is about the changes in the power of all parties under the political system of the Ming Dynasty. However, this issue has been explained before, so there is no need to repeat it here. I will only talk about the current power structure and the legal basis behind it.
Generally speaking, the history of the Ming Dynasty for nearly three hundred years can almost be seen as a history of the struggle between imperial power and prime ministerial power. The emperor and his civil servants were constantly fighting for the country's true power to rule, looking for a balance. From the beginning
From Zhu Yuanzhang's strong imperial power to Zhang Juzheng's peak power of "I am not the Prime Minister, but the Prime Minister", they all truly reflected the changes in this struggle.
So, what about eunuchs? The role played by eunuchs in this process was a very important part. The changes in the power of eunuchs witnessed the changes in strength between the imperial power and the prime minister's power.
Because of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty was influenced by the strong imperial power in the early days of the founding of the country. The country's politics were clear and its military was strong. However, during the period of Zhu Di, the emperor, due to the disparity in the emperor's own strength, he began to seek assistance from civil servants. In order to avoid the civil servants representing
The improvement of the prime minister's power affected the imperial power, so the noble class and eunuch forces were used to assist the imperial power at the same time.
Originally, from the perspective of power checks and balances, there was no big problem in doing so. However, after the Tumubao Incident, the collective decline of the nobles resulted in the dominance of the civil servant family, which in turn formed a political pattern in the Ming Dynasty that valued civility over military affairs.
There are problems with local control and finances are increasingly in embarrassment.
In order to fight against the power of the prime minister, successive Ming emperors began to continuously increase the power of eunuchs to check and balance civil servants. However, they may not have thought at the time that by the time of Emperor Chongzhen, this method was out of control by the holy emperor Chongzhen.
This holy king acted decisively and uprooted the eunuchs who maintained the imperial power. It was equivalent to cutting himself into a useless person first, and then went to ask the civil officials, "Now you are loyal to me, right?" - After the disintegration of the red fur bear
I am an expert in shock therapy. I was really shocked.
However, even though the bear is in shock, he still has thousands of nuclear bombs. It’s okay for others to steal it quietly, but it’s still scary to go directly and grab it openly. If the bear doesn’t do anything and both die together, the scene will be ugly. However,
Your Ming Dynasty doesn’t have nuclear bombs. Once the shock is over, people will naturally come and touch the corpses.
Looking at it this way, the situation is actually like this: eunuchs were useless in the early days, and Zhu Yuanzhang did not need to use them at all; later, Zhu Di was worse than Zhu Yuanzhang, but as long as he relied on Xungui, eunuchs were still not needed; after Zhu Di, due to civil engineering changes,
The honorable person existed in name only, so he had no choice but to find the eunuch and take his place.
Therefore, although the struggle between imperial power and prime minister power was the root cause, its manifestation was the struggle between eunuchs and civil servants. Honors and nobles were very important at the beginning, but later due to their own decline, they gradually took a back seat.
So, are nobles really useless? That’s not necessarily true. As I said before, there is a hidden relationship between nobles, civil servants, and eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty: nobles are afraid of civil servants, civil servants are afraid of eunuchs, and eunuchs
Afraid of honor.
This is not absolute restraint like playing chess, but it has been shown in most periods of time. For example, when Wei Zhongxian was said to be nine thousand years old, he was completely powerful in the world, but there was nothing he could do about Duke Dingguo not giving him any face.
This means there must be a reason.
Why do these top nobles dare to ignore them even when they are nine thousand years old? At first glance, it seems that it is because the nobles are hereditary and are an extension of the monarchy itself. They must also rely on and support the monarchy. Therefore, the emperor and them are essentially the same.
Alliance relationship. Although the power of the eunuchs is also an extension of the monarch's power, they cannot be regarded as allies with the emperor. They are just servants of the emperor. This is a master-servant relationship.
Servants can be changed whenever they want. Anyway, there are more people willing to be servants, and the emperor has a lot of room for selection. However, nobles cannot be changed whenever they want. No matter how much the emperor wants to change, there are too few qualified people in his family.
The options are too narrow.
This is where the real difference in status lies - the difference in fungibility.
But there is another question here, that is why the nobles could not suppress the civil servants because of a civil war, but the eunuchs could suppress the civil servants? There must be a power difference in this.
In the past, Xungui was able to suppress civil servants by relying on the use of force. However, due to the civil war, the force controlled by Xungui was almost wiped out, and the prestige established by military exploits no longer existed, so he naturally became weaker.
Of course, eunuchs were able to suppress civilian officials not by force, but by their supervisory power that was not restricted by civilian officials - factory guards. The supervisory power of factory guards was relatively intact until Chongzhen committed suicide.
Even if a large number of civil servants' children entered the Jinyi Guard, the eunuchs did not lose this power, because Dongchang could supervise the Jinyiwei, but the civil servants' children would not be enyin to enter the Dongchang and become the leader - nonsense, the Dongchang admiral could only
I am a minister, Enyin, you will be a eunuch, can you agree to this?
But in any case, even if the nobles lose their military power - or even because of this, they will become simpler in the eyes of the emperor, at least they will definitely not rebel. Under such a premise, they have nominal rights that cannot be changed.
With their political status (ancestral system), the emperor would naturally show them the greatest tolerance.
Therefore, they were invincible in the eyes of the eunuchs: they had their own loyalty BUFF, and the most powerful supervisory power in the hands of the eunuchs was directly invalidated; their status was respected, hereditary, and they lived with the country, while the eunuchs were just slaves of the emperor.
If someone really gets angry, what if they just hit you with a whip?
It's really not that bad. If he smokes, he will smoke. So Jiu Qiansui doesn't even go to meet the Duke, lest he can't get off the stage.
Speaking of reality, what is Gao Wuchen's current status? He maintains his civilian status as the Marquis of Nanning.
Civil servants are not to be feared. A good eunuch can control the civil servants. Nobles are not to be feared. A good civil servant can control the nobles. However, it is terrible to have both civil servants and noble officials. This identity plays an important role in the politics of the Ming Dynasty.
What does it mean to be under the system? It means that he is a BUG. He has no natural enemies except the emperor himself!
If you want to touch him as a civil servant, he is the leader of the most powerful political group at present, the Practical School. He has so many achievements and is so powerful that you cannot touch him. If you want to touch him as a eunuch, he is a distinguished person whose status is hereditary and irreplaceable.
Your honorable brother, your countryman, is much more important than you in front of the emperor. Your honorable man wants to touch him... huh? He is the leader of your alliance. Are you crazy and want to touch him, even if you don't want the money?
Therefore, Gao Jingshi did not have the troubles that those people in history had when they could not deal with Gao Huai. For him, it was very easy to move Gao Huai - not to mention that the current Gao Huai was far from the emperor's mind when he suppressed Liao.
What's the importance?
"Then how do you plan to deal with it?" Liu Xin said curiously: "He shouldn't be an important person now, so it stands to reason that he probably won't have any serious faults."
Gao pragmatically said: "Although I studied law before, it stands to reason that fishing for law enforcement is definitely wrong and one should not preset a position. However, the situation is different now. I know that Gao Huai will do bad things, so..."
"So you want to fish for law enforcement?" Liu Xin couldn't help but laugh: "How to fish for it? Do you think he took a bribe from you?"
"Am I that stupid?" Gao pragmatic rolled his eyes and said, "Just let him supervise the mausoleum workers. There are not many eunuchs who will not make a profit from the mausoleum workers. Wait for him to supervise the work for a period of time, and then send him
Just ask someone to check it, I dare say it will be accurate."
"Good guy, you really understand this trick." Liu Xin raised her thumbs: "I think this method will work. It's just above board and impeccable."
"That's right, although this routine is old, it is definitely effective." Gao Pingshi snorted, paused, and then said: "But this suggestion cannot be made by me, I have to find someone who has nothing to do with me to arrange it.
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"So you want to find Chen Ju?" Liu Xin asked.
"Of course not. If Chen Ju mentions this, then I am harming him. I want to find someone who will not be affected even if he is killed." Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "For example, Li Wenjin or Zheng Guifei, they are all fine."
Liu Xin said with emotion: "I remember watching a TV series before. I forgot what the name was, but there was a saying in it that said a loyal minister is more treacherous than a traitorous minister - it seems so reasonable now."
Gao pragmatic rolled his eyes at her: "Are you praising me or hurting me?"
"Oh, of course I am complimenting you, my Lord Marquis." Liu Xin replied with a smile, then suddenly her smile faded, and she said seriously: "By the way, while you were away, I discussed with Ji Fei Ji, and some
It's up to you to make a decision."
Since Kaiji is involved, it must be a Japanese affair. Gao pragmatically asked: "Is there anything unclear about Japan's arrangements?"
"Of course." Liu Xin said: "There are two main aspects: First, although you judge that Tokugawa Ieyasu is not willing to fight with us, I think this situation cannot be ruled out. Especially since Toyotomi Hideyoshi may have lost his mind now.
Without being clear about it, who knows whether he will force Tokugawa Ieyasu to fight with us, or even send troops to fight in person if Tokugawa Ieyasu is not active enough?"
Gao Pragmatic pondered, but did not express his position immediately. In fact, Liu Xin's words had already touched him, because Toyotomi Hideyoshi's performance is indeed very problematic now, or his performance during this period in the original history was also very problematic. For a person
It is impossible to predict the abnormal behavior of a person whose mental state is difficult to judge, so it is indeed right to prepare for the worst first.
However, Liu Xin did not intend to wait and think about it slowly and pragmatically, but directly talked about the second point: "Secondly, we only talked about the Kanto issue before, and we haven't talked about Sakai Town yet."
She waved her hand in front of Gao Pangshi, asking him to listen to her first: "There used to be many big Japanese businessmen in that place, but later because Toyotomi Hideyoshi moved them all to Osaka, they were vacated. The Battle of Odawara
At that time, Toyotomi Hidenaga went to Misaki Castle to negotiate with Luo Yuan, and the final negotiated condition was that the Maritime Trade Alliance went to Sakai Town to build a new crystal building that is no less than that of Qingshui Castle. Do you remember this?"
"Of course I remember." Gao Pragmatic stretched out his hand to take away her hand that was shaking in front of him, and said, "The building should have been repaired, right? I later led the troops to fight north and didn't pay attention to the subsequent developments - what's going on in Sakai Town now?
How are you doing?"
"Of course the Crystal Building has been repaired, and the Maritime Trade Alliance does regard it as our headquarters in Kinki and the central region of Japan. However, the garrison rights that Luo Yuan fought for at that time have not yet had time to be exercised."
This matter was discussed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Luo Yuan at the time. At first, Toyotomi Hideyoshi requested that the Maritime Trade Alliance must establish a Japanese headquarters in Osaka so that the names of the Kyushu Crystal Tower and the Kanto (Misaki Castle) Crystal Tower can be combined.
Press it down. Due to the high pragmatic authorization, Luo Yuan agreed to this condition, but he said that the Sea Trade Alliance has its own rules. The Sea Trade Alliance must be responsible for the defense of the location of the Crystal Tower, so he requested to garrison troops.
Since troops were to be stationed, it was obvious that the Japanese headquarters of the Sea Trade Alliance could not be located in Osaka Castle, so Toyotomi Hidenaga proposed to locate it in Sakai Town, which is very close to Osaka Castle. Although merchants in Sakai Town have moved, the population loss does not count.
It was very big. With the strength of the Sea Trade Alliance, once they settled in Sakai Town, the local prosperity was just around the corner, so Luo Yuan also agreed to this.
However, the two sides then argued over the garrison issue for a while. At first, Luo Yuan said that the garrison would be controlled to "less than 10,000", but Toyotomi Hidenaga was shocked and immediately refused. He thought that 10,000 was too much. After all, this
The place is so close to Osaka Castle, and an army of nearly 10,000 people is simply not acceptable to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Toyotomi Hideyoshi believed that the number should not exceed 3,000 at most.
At that time, Luo Yuan said that with the establishment of the Sea Trade Alliance land division, it would be difficult to arrange 3,000 people. The Sea Trade Alliance land division generally uses towns as its basic unit, and the number of people in a town is 12,512. He said that he had previously promised to control the number of people to one.
It's actually very difficult if the number is less than 10,000, because only two infantry corps can be stationed, and the town's horse emblems and artillery emblems cannot be carried.
As a result, the two sides bickered, and the agreement finally reached was based on the compromise proposal proposed by Toyotomi Hidenaga, that is, the Maritime Trade Alliance's garrison in Sakai Town would not exceed 5,000, and only one infantry alliance would be stationed.
He also said "very considerately" that 4,038 of the 5,000 people were planned to be a standard infantry corps of the Sea Trade Alliance, and the remaining about 1,000 people could be the family members and servants of the officers of this corps.
wait.
Although the conditions have been met, there has been no actual deployment until now. First of all, the Sea Trade Alliance itself does not have that many land divisions (Jinghua’s domestic land divisions mainly belong to Jinghua Trading Company and major industries and mines, and are not under the direct jurisdiction of the Sea Trade Alliance)
, Secondly, Gao Pragmatic has been busy with the war against Mongolia and has not decided where to allocate manpower.
Therefore, until now, although the Maritime Trade Alliance has built the so-called Japanese headquarters in Sakai Town, the defense force is not a regular land division, but some musketeers put together by Kyoka and various companies in the fleet. The number of these people is not fixed, and there are many
Sometimes there were thousands of people, and sometimes there were only six or seven hundred.
"Do you think we can defend Sakai Town if we really go to war with Toyotomi Hideyoshi?" Gao Pingshi shook his head and said, "I was hesitant to send troops to garrison Sakai Town at first. A big reason was that I was worried that we wouldn't be able to defend Sakai Town after the war started.
Live there.”
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