Chapter 282: Inside and Outside the Palace (2) Interlude of Meeting with Your Majesty
Gao Pragmatic took a deep breath and said to himself: Yes, Liu Ping saw this issue very clearly. Since Li Wenjin entered the palace by castration, there was no restriction on the protection of men and women in the palace, and he was a compassionate saint.
The Empress Dowager's biological brother and His Majesty the Emperor's biological uncle would be regarded as obeying the orders of the empress dowager when entering or leaving any palace, so naturally no one would dare to stop him.
This principle is basically similar to one of the principles of being an official in later generations: treat those around you as leaders. The reason why Li Wenjin’s identity is unique is that he is both an eunuch and the biological brother of the Empress Dowager Cisheng. He is untouchable.
Lead those around you."
Having said that, wasn't it because Gao Jingshi gave him so many benefits back then because of his specialness? Even Gao Jingshi didn't want to conflict with him, and even needed his cooperation in many things, let alone other people in the palace.
People.
Gao Pragmatic has always had a point of view. If it were not for the worry that "foreign relatives intervening in politics" was an absolute taboo in the Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that Li Wenjin would never have stopped at being the eunuch in charge of the imperial horse eunuch.
Couldn't he be the Chief Bingbi and the Supervisor of the East Factory? Couldn't he be the Chief Supervisor of Ceremonies and the Palm Printer? Now for him personally, he could do both of these positions.
However, the Li family, after all, is not the only one with Empress Dowager Li and his brother and sister. Empress Dowager Li also has two younger brothers, and the eldest brother inherited the title of Marquis Wu Qing. Although the second brother did not have a title to inherit, he still succeeded.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Military Command and the Commander-in-Chief Zuo were both nominally in charge of the army.
You two brothers have already "taken charge of the army", and the third brother is still going to be the admiral of the East Factory or the "chief assistant of the inner court". Do you, the Li family, want to overthrow the world? Therefore, the outer court will never tolerate this situation, and the Queen Mother Li and
The emperor also knew this very well, so he didn't even mention it for many years.
Gao Pragmatic always expects leniency from his enemies. In any case, now that Li Wenjin has become a key figure, no matter whether some people have thought of "negotiating a big deal" with him, he cannot ignore this major threat.
With the birth of the emperor's legitimate son, Gao Jingshi knew that his most important task at the moment had been transferred from foreign affairs to internal affairs.
Arrangements for the follow-up matters attached to North Korea are indeed very important, because a Korean Peninsula firmly in the hands of China means that China will now have a maritime barrier on the outer edge of Gyeonggi and a strategic stabilizer in Northeast Asia that can attack from two directions even if there is police in Liaodong.
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It is also very important to truly surrender Japan. As long as it captures this island country, China will not have to worry about the threat of the offshore balance strategy that the European continent always faces like the British. It can always maintain a stable internal environment at the strategic level and better
To deal with the wave of European colonialists.
Southern Xinjiang, Nanyang, Taiwan and Ryukyu, the Japanese Archipelago, and the Korean Peninsula, as long as these places are controlled by our own people, it will be extremely difficult for sea robbers to invade China.
Island chain? At that time, the island chain was in our own hands!
Gao pragmatic pondered: "As for the safety of the queen and the emperor's son, I would like to add one more thing: you must ensure that there are people around the mother and son for twelve hours, and they can never have less than eight people to take care of them.
It is particularly important to note that when I say "someone" here, I do not mean that the queen and the emperor's son are in the room while the officials and maids are outside the door. I mean that the queen and the emperor's son must always be within visual range.
There is 'someone' inside, do you understand?"
Even the specific details were given so clearly. In Liu Ping's mind, this seemed to be the first time he was highly pragmatic. This shows how serious the situation was. Liu Ping quickly bowed solemnly and said: "Well, I know how powerful this is. Please don't worry, Lord Marquis."
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Rest assured is not to say reassuring, unless the Ministry of Internal Affairs can be used to provide security for the Queen and her son. Unfortunately, this is completely impossible. Therefore, we can only hope that the eunuchs in the palace can stand up and not be involved in such a critical situation.
The key tasks of the moment are dropped.
The two of them walked around and talked, and the conversation became more and more in-depth and detailed. After a while, they finally passed through the side passage of Jiaotai Hall and entered the Kunning Palace area.
On weekdays, Kunning Palace indeed has almost no security arrangements as Liu Ping said before, but it is different at this time. The palace's army has already selected a group of guys who at least look good to stand guard. Not to mention the three steps.
One post, five steps and one sentry, at least there are always guards standing inside and outside.
Having said that, Gao Pragmatic could only shake his head inwardly after sizing them up. Those who actually led the troops could see that these pure troops were just show-offs. Although their clothes and armor were bright and their weapons were bright, their armor and soldiers were not even half as good.
It was worn and worn, and there was no sharpness in the soldiers' eyes, let alone any evil spirit.
Gao pragmatic walked up to a person and ordered him to stretch out his palm and take a look, and he was even more certain about this judgment - the palm of this Jingjun soldier was white and clean, no different from him, the elder of the pavilion.
If the same number of people were fighting, whether it was one thousand against one thousand or ten thousand against ten thousand, the Guards would only need one charge to defeat them, and no tactics would be needed.
Of course, although the Imperial Guard is nominally a Gyeonggi garrison, it is actually built according to the standards of the most elite field army of the Ming Dynasty. This is completely different from the nature of the Pure Army, and the usual training bias is also different. It’s just... how to put it?
Well, this Jingjun looks like it has not been trained at all.
Forget it.
Faced with this situation, Gao Pragmatic could only comfort himself: The Jing army would just assume the posture of guarding Kunning Palace here. After all, even if the careerists want to take action, it will definitely not be to mobilize troops to attack.
Kunning Palace is just trying to find ways to exploit loopholes and act through some shady means.
The Jingjun's role here is probably just to increase the psychological pressure on the executors of the conspiracy. Other than that, I dare not expect anything from them.
Gao Jingshi came to meet His Majesty according to the order, and Liu Ping was a popular person in front of the Emperor these days. The two of them entered Kunning Palace effortlessly.
The Kunning Palace of the Ming Dynasty was as unlucky as other palaces and has been burned down twice so far.
The first time was in the ninth year of Zhengde, and was rebuilt later; the second time was very close, in the twenty-fourth year of Wanli, and that time something serious happened, causing the queen who was pregnant at that time to be frightened, and ended up pregnant.
The princess was born prematurely for about ten days...it was a loss of ten days, so the impact was not particularly great, and the princess did not die in infancy.
However, since it was burned down, it always had to be rebuilt. However, there was a war in Korea at that time. Although the court had money, it was the money of the Ministry of Revenue and had to be used for war and other state affairs.
Fortunately, the emperor is not poor now, so he plans to pay for it himself. However, according to the past construction methods, rebuilding the Kunning Palace is not cheap - as mentioned before, the size of the Kunning Palace is basically the same as the Qianqing Palace, far larger. In the remaining twelve courtyards of the harem.
Gao pragmatically undertook the reconstruction of the three main halls before, and they were built according to his "new method" of building the Rixin Building. So far, whether it is the Rixin Building or the new three main halls, because the fabrics are either made of stone or covered with glazed tiles, It all looks like it was newly renovated.
Of course, the most critical thing is that a lot of wooden structures are used instead of "metal stone" - to put it bluntly, it is reinforced concrete, so it is extremely strong and relatively fireproof. From this, Zhu Yijun found Gao Pragmatic again, and finally decided on the emperor. Paying for it, Gao Pragmatic asked Jinghua Infrastructure to undertake it, and only charged a cost price.
This time, the entire Kunning Palace project only cost 347,000 taels of silver, which even included most of the "hardware". The level of fairness amazed everyone inside and outside the palace. [Note: digression, the original After the fire in history, Kunning Palace was not rebuilt until the 33rd year of Wanli, probably because of lack of money.]
However, the mention of this matter here is not to talk about the cost, but for another reason: since the project was undertaken by Jinghua Infrastructure, it is clear that the internal engineering structure of Kunning Palace is highly pragmatic at this time.
But this seems to be of no use to Gao Pragmatic? Otherwise. Because the Queen was frightened when the Kunning Palace was burned down in the fire in the 24th year of Wanli, so during the reconstruction this time, a special structure was specially added to the Queen's dormitory. Two safe passages - that is, escape routes.
Except for the construction personnel, only the emperor and the empress knew how to open the escape tunnel. This is actually not a fantasy, it is just a combination lock. Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, even professional locksmiths with a long history could actually do it. Now, And with Jinghua’s fine steel and fine workmanship, it’s even easier to do.
There are two locks, and the emperor and empress control them at the same time. The construction workers are divided into two groups, so in fact only the emperor and empress can open it. The reason why this is done is because Gao Pragmatic does not agree to allow the construction workers to be buried - - It’s not a joke. In the Ming Dynasty, when such projects were built, sacrifices and burials were real and common. If this system is retrogressed, the blame falls on Zhu Yuanzhang.
In short, if there is a safe passage, if the conspirators rely on assassination instead of poisoning to execute the conspiracy, as long as there is still some reaction time, the empress and empress should be able to escape with the emperor's legitimate son, which can be regarded as a little increase in security. .
As soon as he entered the front hall of Kunning Palace, Gao Pingshi saw Chen Ju hurriedly coming. Although they hadn't seen him for a long time, there should have been a lot of greetings, but Chen Ju seemed to be in a hurry. He raised his hand and saluted from afar, even though he had seen him before. , and then said: "The Marquis came just in time, the Emperor is losing his temper in the side hall, please hurry over and try to persuade him."
What? You should be overjoyed when your legitimate son is born. Why are you so angry?
Gao Jingshi was greatly surprised. As he followed Chen Ju to the side hall, he asked: "It's such a great joy today. How could the emperor lose his temper? Who caused it?"
As Chen Ju hurriedly led Gao Pragmatic forward, he couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Of course it won't be inside the palace or outside the palace, or inside or outside the palace. As ministers, we always have this kind of insight..." He coughed lightly.
He said, lowering his voice slightly: "Something happened in Gansu."
Gansu? That means the northwest has changed.
Gao Pragmatic immediately became serious and asked as he walked: "What's wrong with Gansu? Is it a border invasion or a civil unrest?"
"Border trouble." Chen Ju didn't have time to go into too much detail, so he simply said: "The homeland of Hami Guard has been captured by Buyan Khan before. This time, the old Chahar troops sent troops from Hami Guard to invade Gansu. The specific situation will be discussed by the Marquis.
You will know for yourself, in short... one guerrilla has been killed now."
"Buyan Khan?" Gao Pragmatic frowned slightly: "Buyan Taiji became a Khan? Tumen died?"
"Yes." Chen Ju replied: "We have been focusing on North Korea in the past few years, and the news from the northwest is too limited. Only this time did we know that Tumen's guy had been dead for several years, and Buyantai Ji succeeded to the throne.
Called Buyan Chechen Khan."
"So what is Burihatu's status now?" Gao Pragmatic asked immediately.
To be honest, Buyantai Ji - oh, he should be called Buyan Khan now, this guy is just that in Gao Pragmatic's mind. Among the outstanding Mongolians that Gao Pragmatic considers is Buyan Hatu.
"It's the Mongolian Grand Master, and he is in charge of Jiu Zhi Bai Bao." Chen Ju shook his head and sighed, and said solemnly: "This time, it is said that the frontline inspector has seen Jiu Zhi Bai Bao - Buri Hatu may have come in person.
Yes, and this may also be an important reason for the emperor's anger."
That's really troublesome. Gao Pingshi's heart sank when he heard it.
Although there have been many battles between him and Burihatu before, and each time he won the final victory in terms of the results, he believed that Burihatu was not defeated in "skills" in many cases.
”, it may not even necessarily be the case that one loses in the “Dharma”, but in the “Tao”.
The so-called loss in the "Tao" actually means losing in the general trend. As the world gradually enters the era of hot weapons, it is the general trend that the nomads who cannot climb the technological tree will be beaten in turn.
When thermal weapons were immature, the characteristic of the nomads was that they were good at conquering and fighting. When the thermal weapons matured, the only characteristic of the nomads was that they were good at singing and dancing.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, it is a coincidence that the current era coincides with the replacement of hot and cold weapons. Of course, there is a process to go, but the general trend can still be seen
Not to mention that this trend was kicked in the back by Gao Qinggong.
But this does not mean that Burihatu is not terrible, especially for the Gansu region. The main forces of the Ming Dynasty were deployed on the nine sides, and among the towns on the nine sides, the northern defense line of Gyeonggi Province has always been the most important.
The core elite troops are all on the line of Xuan Daji Liao, which serves as the three barriers to the northwest, north and northeast of the capital.
When it comes to the three sides of Shaanxi, the military strength is much less, and when it comes to Gansu, it is naturally even less. In addition to military strength, technical weapons are also provided according to this light-heavy layout, which means that Gansu not only does not have many troops, but also
The level of firearms is also relatively low.
The number of troops under the jurisdiction of the governor of Gansu often does not exceed 50,000, and less than half of them are good at using muskets. Although with a high pragmatic understanding, the Ministry of Revenue has allocated a lot of money for the firearms of the Gansu army in recent years, but
How much of this has been implemented is not very clear.
One thing he knew was that most people over there, from generals to soldiers, believed that the firearm ratio was not necessary to be too high. Even though today's firearms are much easier to use than twenty years ago, the land of Gansu and Shaanxi is still more suitable for cavalry.
Their point of view is that the situation in Gansu is different from that in the mainland. There are no continuous rural areas, and there are no counties, prefectures and prefectures that are dozens of miles away. The whole thing is a "chain" of cities along the Silk Road. Apart from the cities, there is nothing
The earth, the vast Gobi desert.
If a war really breaks out in this kind of terrain, and you go to rescue another place with a large army, if you rely on musketeers and infantry to move slowly, by the time your army arrives, most of the cities that are being beaten will have been surrounded and broken——
It may not be broken, but it may be broken due to lack of water or food.
Therefore, the highly pragmatic firearm-based military reform has progressed the slowest on the three sides of Shaanxi Province - especially in the governorate areas of Gansu Province.
During the conversation and thinking, Gao Pingshi walked to the door of the side hall. Chen Ju stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, I am waiting for you in Nanning."
"Rixin is here? Come in quickly! It's such a great day, I almost got mad to death!"
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