Chapter 281: The Return of Japan (35) The High Pragmatism in the Eyes of Princess Kafei
The winter snow has begun to fall, but the cold wind is still there. Jinhai Jingluo is located in the study room of the government office in a pragmatic manner. The best charcoal is burning in the gilt copper furnace with the four-clawed dragon pattern. The four-clawed dragon pattern is not common in Korea.
It is common that due to etiquette, this copper furnace is obviously for the royal family and can only be used by the King of Joseon, Li Huan.
That's right, many things in Gao Jingshi's study were brought from Hanyang by Li Huo's personal royal order for Gao Jingshi's enjoyment alone. Gao Jingshi did not refuse, but just asked his accompanying secretary to write a formal document on his behalf to thank North Korea.
king.
"From this point of view, compared to Tokugawa Ieyasu, Ishida Mitsunari is indeed too short-sighted." Gao Qingshi lay half on a fox-crop recliner and closed his eyes and said: "However, Tokugawa Ieyasu's actions are not
It’s not beyond my expectation. It’s just that he thinks Japan still has a chance, but this is a bit wishful thinking.”
At this moment, Kaihime definitely didn't look like a female general sitting on one side, but a Yamato Nadeshiko wearing Ming-made clothes. She leaned over Gao Panggong's side, and beat her calf for him obediently, with a very precise hand.
It's so good that Gao Pragmatic doesn't even want to open his eyes when he talks.
"I have no plans left, and even though Zuofu is shrewd, he cannot be my opponent after all." Kaiji replied.
The pragmatic Gao didn't move, he just raised his hand and shook it from side to side, saying: "This is not a matter of scheming, but the bargaining chip in Ieyasu's hand is far inferior to mine. No matter how hard he tries, he can't defeat me in the end."
The arrangement is haphazard, and I might even not care what his plans are, and I just need to break through the ten chapters at once."
"Ah..." Ji Feiji was stunned for a moment, but she seemed to quickly understand the reason, and nodded: "I see, what I said is absolutely true. The current situation reminds me of the time when Taige was still Guanbai
The Odawara Conquest was launched.
When Guan Bai's army approached, the Go-Hojo family actually thought of many ways to deal with it, but in the end they found that it was of no use at all. As long as Guan Bai did not withdraw his troops, no matter how indestructible Odawara Castle was, the Go-Hojo family's defeat would only be
It’s just a matter of time, sooner or later.”
"You have such knowledge, which shows that you have made great progress in the past few years. This is what I said before: use strategies to control situations, and don't limit yourself to things." Gao pragmatically said: "What does "Sun Tzu's Art of War: Situation Chapter" say?
Do you remember?"
"Yes, I remember." Jia Feiji quickly replied: "Those who are good at fighting seek power and are not responsible for others, so they can choose people and use their power. Those who use power will fight against people like turning wood and stone. Wood and stone
Its nature is to be calm when it is at peace, to move when it is dangerous, when it is square it is still, and when it is round it is moving. Therefore, those who are good at fighting people's power are like those who turn round stones on a mountain of thousands of feet, and their power is also..."
"Do you understand what it means?" Gao pragmatically asked again.
Kafiji replied: "It means that a wise general always pursues victory by creating his own 'momentum', and does not require his subordinates to win through hard fighting. Therefore, he can appropriately select talents and skillfully use the 'momentum'.
A person who is good at using "situation" will direct his army in battle just like turning wood and stone. The nature of wood and stone is that when placed on flat ground, it will remain still, and when placed on high and steep ground, it will slide; if it is square, it will be still, and if it is round, it will roll. Good at commanding
The situation created by the generals in battle is like a boulder rolling down a thousand-foot-high mountain. This is the 'situation' in the art of war."
Although Gao Pingshi still had his eyes closed, a smile appeared on his face and he said in an approving tone: "Not bad, you read the book well."
"Thank you, Master." Ji Feiji secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Ever since she entered the Gao Mansion, she has always had a special kind of awe for Gao Pragmatic. This kind of awe is not just due to status or power, and of course it is not due to personal reasons.
Force, but more out of reverence for wisdom.
After getting to know each other over the years, Ji Feiji certainly knows that Gao Pragmatic is actually quite caring and caring for the people around him, but this does not affect her evaluation of Gao Pragmatic at all.
He is a person who is almost entirely composed of rationality. For him, sensibility is just a daily adjustment. Once serious matters are involved, he will become impersonal and make every decision extremely calmly without any emotion.
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Because of this, he often makes decisions from a very high point of view, just like the gods in the sky who only look at the world, with a kind of indifference like "the supreme being forgets his feelings".
This kind of experience first came from what she saw at the Marquis Mansion in Nanning. At that time, my wife happened to return to Beijing from Dingnan to meet the master. Just a few days after arriving, a piece of news was sent from southern Xinjiang.
, saying that it is impossible to decide, please sir and madam to make a decision.
This matter is not very complicated to say, but it happened in a place called Kampot in the jurisdiction of the Second Town of the Phnom Penh Guard Army. At that time, an unknown plague was suspected to have occurred in a local village, and even the graduates of Beijing Artisan
The military doctors in the Xuetang Medical Department didn't know the reason and couldn't cure it.
The local government and garrison are deeply troubled because a new port city is being built on a peninsula promontory dozens of miles west of Kampot. If the plague spreads in this village of Kampot, the consequences will be disastrous.
However, there is controversy as to whether it is a plague or not. Since this disease has never been recorded and doctors dare not say for sure, some people advocate reporting it immediately and asking someone from the Department of Medicine to come to a joint consultation before making a decision; others believe that
The matter is so important that we must first put an end to the plague before discussing the rest.
Just when the two sides were arguing, the local garrison commander, the Phnom Penh Guard Army's Second Town, Second Association and Third Command, Gao Leshan, directly led troops to surround the village. Gao Leshan used musketeers to pull a net to block the village, and then fired rockets to surround the village.
The village was burned to the ground. In this incident, not one of the 273 people in the village, old and young, was spared, and they were all burned to charcoal.
After the incident, great differences arose between the civil and military sides. Because they had to face the governance issue head-on, the civilian side was under great pressure from the local area. They were extremely indignant at the garrison's devastation and insisted that Gaoleshan be responsible for the massacre.
The generals displayed the usual cold arrogance of the garrison. The commander of the Phnom Penh garrison and the commander of the second town did not explain the questions raised by the advisory group (Jinghua indirectly controlled the local area through the advisory group).
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Both of them insisted that the garrison only accepts the order of the master, or the wife acts as the master's authority. Therefore, if you want the garrison to punish Gao Leshan, please show the master or the wife
Warrant, otherwise there will be no more noise.
When Kaiji heard the news, as a female general who had been in charge of the military affairs of a city, she also put herself into it and thought about it, and felt that this matter was indeed very difficult.
In fact, since the establishment of the samurai system in Japan (i.e., the shogunate system), local lords have been managed by both the military and the government, so Kaiji is no stranger to this.
From the perspective of local governance, the anger of the advisory group is completely understandable. After all, it is not clear whether this disease is a plague. How can you justify killing nearly 300 people in the village without saying a word? Our advisory group does not want it.
Should we explain to the local people? We have done so much work, and now if you do this, it may all be in vain. Shouldn't we be angry and ask the military for an explanation?
But the problem is that it is difficult to say whether the military's approach is wrong. Although it is difficult to say whether it is a plague, after all, more than two-thirds of the people in the village have symptoms, which shows that the disease is very contagious. Even if it is not a plague, once it spreads
I'm afraid something bad will happen soon.
In addition, the seaport city not far to the west is under construction. According to Jinghua's plan, it will be the largest port in the Kingdom of Cambodia in the future. It is an absolutely key project and has concentrated a lot of manpower and material resources. It must not be allowed to happen.
There was a mistake. The military dealt with it decisively, which at least maintained the safety of the project construction.
Compared with the more than 270 people in that small village, the manpower concentrated in this project is at least 100,000. The two sides are completely different.
Just when Ji Feiji thought that this was a very difficult situation, Mrs. Huang Zhiting also frowned and looked at Gao Pragmatically, as if she felt that the matter was not easy to handle, and it would be safer to let the master make the decision himself.
Who knew that Gao Pingshi's decision was extremely decisive - Ji Feiji even suspected that he had not thought for more than three breaths. Then he heard Gao Pingshi said: "The disease was not fully identified and nearly 300 people in the village were killed. Gao Leshan was sentenced to be dismissed on the spot.
, he will no longer hold the post of the third standard officer of the second association of the second town of the Phnom Penh Guard Force, and will be fined twenty times with a cane and allowed to be executed in public. This order."
Not only Jia Feiji, but also Huang Zhiting frowned, and Secretary-General Liu, who was always known for his outspokenness and courage in admonishing, immediately stood up, obviously preparing to object.
Unexpectedly, Gao Pangshi didn't even look at it, and continued: "My servant Gao Leshan is calm in the face of danger, decisive in dealing with things, sophisticated in his methods, and dares to take responsibility. He is now promoted to the deputy chief of staff for operations of the Dingnan Garrison Army Headquarters. This is the order."
Kafei Ji was stunned on the spot.
She did not expect that Gao Pragmatic's decision was to split one thing into two. First, he beat Gao Leshan to the end, and then publicly punished him twenty times out of consideration for "civilian anger."
Then he affirmed Gao Leshan's ability and sense of responsibility as a master, and without saying a word, he was promoted on the spot, from an ordinary "servant" to the deputy chief of operations of the Dingnan Garrison Army Headquarters - this was a promotion.
Now, since the matter has been handled separately, the advisory group cannot say that the master is partial to the armed servants - he has been removed from his position, beaten, or executed in public. The people's anger will naturally be vented, and their demands will naturally be fulfilled.
satisfy.
However, Gao Leshan did not suffer any loss. He had just been dismissed from his post and immediately took off on the back. He was directly promoted from the district standard commander of the Phnom Penh garrison's overseas garrison force to the Dingnan garrison headquarters at the core of southern Xinjiang. He did it all at once.
The Deputy Chief of Staff simply thinks of hell and heaven.
However, what frightened Kaiji the most about the handling of this matter was the speed of Gao Pragmatic's decision-making and the meaning contained in the decision. Quick decision-making means that Gao Pragmatic's thinking is extremely clear, so that problems that may seem very complicated to others can be solved.
It seemed to him that there was nothing difficult to deal with at all; as for the hidden meaning...
Is it fair to sacrifice some people for the sake of others? Is it fair to sacrifice a few people for the sake of the many?
This is an extremely difficult decision for anyone who holds the concept of "benevolence and righteousness", but for a man who supposedly has the deepest understanding of "benevolence and righteousness", Gao's pragmatic decision shows that he is completely able to accept the majority.
people at the expense of a few.
Is this heartless? Kaiji doesn't know yet, but subconsciously, she thinks it is.
At least, in Gao Pragmatic's eyes, some people are expendable. So by extension, the Japanese who sent troops to attack the Ming Dynasty must be expendable, right? Not only the Japanese troops who set foot in Korea, but also the Japanese troops in the rear
Ordinary people must also be family members of prisoners in his eyes...
"Do you think I should let the Korean Japanese troops go back?" Just when Kafei was confused, Gao Pragmatic suddenly asked.
"Ah, I have never thought about such a big thing..."
"It doesn't matter, think about it now." Gao pragmatically blocked the words.
At this time, Kafiji had no choice but to say "yes" first, and then muttered: "From my humble opinion, whether you want to return the Japanese troops in Korea to the homeland, first depends on what kind of Japan you plan to have.
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"It's interesting, please tell me about it."
"Yes, I'm trying to explain. If I'm wrong, please correct me." Kafei Ji said: "First of all, I won't let them go back. The Japanese army in Korea mainly comes from the Western Kingdom, plus many direct descendants of Taige. If all these people are killed
If the annihilation is carried out in Korea, the strength of the great names in the Western Kingdom will be greatly reduced, and the Toyotomi family will inevitably suffer a heavy blow.
Thus,
The Daimyos of the Eastern Kingdom, especially the Tokugawa family, have become relatively stronger. If I can ensure complete control over the Tokugawa family, I can rely on the Tokugawa family to easily establish the shogunate and replace Toyotomi Kōiki.
The great names of the Western Kingdom had no power to resist.
As for the Toyotomi family, first of all, their strength was severely damaged, and secondly, after the death of Taikaku...the young master was unable to govern, so the authority was very dispersed. Who has the final say among the Northern Government Office, Mrs. Yodo, and Ishida Harubu?
It's hard to say. So I think it might be difficult for me to respond effectively.
In this case, if the Tokugawa Zuofu is obedient and finally adopts Yan'er as his adopted son and makes him the family governor, after a hundred years, the position of general will naturally fall to Yan'er. In this case, maybe the master can do it without any effort.
With one attack, all sixty-six kingdoms of Japan will be captured."
"Pfft, sixty-six countries..." Gao pragmatic suddenly couldn't help laughing.
Japan only has a total of more than 300,000 square kilometers, and it is actually divided into sixty-six countries. It is so funny. When I really want to "take all of Japan" in the future, I will have to change all these "countries" to
County cannot.
Kafei also knew how big the Ming Dynasty was by now (in fact, at that time, the Japanese really thought that the Ming Dynasty was not much bigger than Japan, and the maps drawn by Western missionaries were seriously out of shape), so she couldn't help but blush for a moment, thinking
Thinking about your past self, wasn’t it also a typical “yellow arrogance”?
Fortunately, Gao Pragmatic waved his hand and did not dwell on this issue, but said: "I won't make any comments first. You can continue to talk about what will happen if you let them go back."
Ji Feiji said: "Yes."
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