Chapter 288 Economy and Party Struggle (Twenty-Six) Vigilance and Embarrassment
Of course Gao Pingshi knew what the emperor meant by business, but he smiled and said: "It's a coincidence that the emperor has come here. I also have a business matter to report to the emperor."
I don't know if Gao Pragmatic's prestige was too high. As soon as he said these words, the expressions of several personal attendants who accompanied the emperor changed slightly. Even Chen Ju felt a sudden thump in his heart and subconsciously glanced around.
At this glance, Chen Ju was even more shocked.
Why do you think? I saw that the horse farm is surrounded by servants of the Gao family, with a post every five steps and a sentry post at ten steps. There are also lookout posts in the distance, straddling the four corners of the horse farm. These servants all wear brown dragnets and have embroidered embroidery on their left chests.
There is the "Book and Sword" coat of arms of Beijing. All of them are tall and powerful, and they all wear wild goose feather waist swords. They hold it with their left hand, and everyone's eyes show a cold light.
Seeing such a posture in Xinzhai, the emperor only brought dozens of followers, half of whom had never seen a soldier before, and were just eunuchs in the deep palace. Even the few big officials in Dongchang have no one under their command now.
People were available. As for the officers and soldiers of the Jinyi Guards, they had just left some outside the gate of Jianxinzhai, and only six people came in.
In other words, if someone in Jian Xinzhai wants to harm the emperor, the emperor's escort force may not exceed ten people.
Ten people? Look at the security arrangements in the heart. Not to mention other places, there are at least two hundred elite servants here in the racecourse alone - elites for sure. Judging from the calligraphy and sword emblems embroidered on their chests, they must be the guards of the inner palace.
Already.
It is said that the selection of internal guards of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Beijing is extremely difficult, and the first, second, and third-class guards have their own standards. Even the third-class guards, who have the lowest status, need to have achieved at least three military exploits, and must have a record of killing enemies with their own hands.
The bottom line of selection. As for how the final selection will be made, Chen Ju is not clear about this matter. After all, outsiders know very little about the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Jinghua. What he knows is only public information.
All in all, according to Chen Ju's judgment, if the two hundred inner palace guards around here want to stick to the racecourse now, then even if a thousand guards in brocade clothes are mobilized outside the racecourse, it will be difficult to break through, and they may even be counterattacked - after all
Nowadays, there are still a few Jinyi Guards who can fight. It would be almost the same if they were replaced by the Imperial Guards.
However, although Chen Ju and the others thought too much, it seemed that the emperor was not thinking blindly. Although Zhu Yijun had a strange look on his face, he just asked in confusion: "Really, what is it?"
Of course the emperor is confused. You, Gao Pragmatic, have been thanking guests behind closed doors for more than ten days. Even if there are any major events in the court, logically speaking, you should not know about it. Of course, logically speaking, which important minister would really thank guests behind closed doors?
Are you blinding yourself?
But, even if you knew there was something big going on outside, you shouldn't expose it in front of me, right? This is the reason why Zhu Yijun's face showed a strange expression.
Facing the emperor's doubts, Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "Your Majesty, Rong Chen wants to show you something." After saying that, he turned around and walked to the black horse he just had, and took out a holster from the right side of the horse's hip.
A short musket.
The guards around Zhu Yijun were shocked, and they quickly took two steps forward and blocked the emperor together. At this time, Gao Pingshi was walking over with a short blunderbuss. Seeing this situation, he couldn't help laughing and said: "Don't be so cowardly, you don't know."
Thirty years ago, I held a murderous weapon in front of His Majesty, and His Majesty not only did not commit any crime, but also discussed it with me in detail."
However, after saying this, Gao Pragmatic still stopped in his tracks, changed his gun to holding it with both hands, and looked at Zhu Yijun.
Zhu Yijun looked calm, stretched out his hand to push away the two guards in front of him, and scolded: "Although Yuan Fu and I are known as monarchs and ministers, we are actually close friends. What's more, the late emperor entrusted me to Gao's uncle and nephew before his death. Although Yuan Fu was young in the past, how could he be different from us?"
Take care of your life! Get out of the way quickly and don't make the world laugh."
The guards had no choice but to get out of the way. However, they saw Gao Pingshi slightly raising his hands as if offering a gift, but his feet did not move forward. The emperor took the initiative to step forward, not caring about the "murderous weapon", and took the weapon with one hand.
Holding a short gun, he looked left and right, and asked: "You want me to see this short gun?"
"Exactly." Seeing that Zhu Yijun had already taken over the short blunderbuss, Gao Pragmatic became more relaxed, but he immediately reminded: "Your Majesty, this short blunderbuss was leftover from the competition just now. The ammunition is already in the chamber. All you have to do is pull the trigger."
It can be fired, so please be careful."
Even Zhu Yijun was taken aback at this time. He subconsciously paused in his hands and glared: "Well, Gao Rixin, if I accidentally misfire, let's see how you end up."
Gao pragmatically said: "It's not like the emperor has never touched a blunderbuss. At least he can't point the gun at you. In this case, the problem is not big."
"Really?" Zhu Yijun suddenly pointed his gun at Gao Pragmatic and said, "What if I hit you?"
Gao Pragmatic looked extremely calm and said calmly: "If you want me to die, I have to die."
Zhu Yijun laughed, pointed the muzzle of the gun down, but looked around and said: "You are calm and composed, but look at the guards around you."
Gao pragmatically looked around, and saw that the guards around the racecourse, who were originally holding the knife with their left hands as required, had subconsciously changed their postures. They all grabbed the handle of the knife with their right hand, lowered their heads and held their chests, bowed slightly, and fixed their gazes.
He looked steadily at himself and the emperor.
Gao Pragmatic, who has been commanding troops for many years, naturally knows the meaning of their action - lowering the head, keeping the chest in the chest and arching the body, this is a preparatory action to keep a close eye on the target and can quickly start a sprint at any time; it is easier to grab the handle of the knife with the right hand, no doubt
It is to draw the sword at any time.
This is a little troublesome. The emperor's guard was afraid that Gao Jingshi had hurt the emperor just now, but his vigilant actions would be regarded as disrespectful to Gao Jingshi, an important minister of the Yuan Dynasty, so the emperor personally scolded him. Now his guard Gao Jingshi
He was obviously wary of the emperor. How to explain this?
You must know that there is nothing wrong in itself when the emperor's guards show vigilance to anyone, because the emperor is the most respected person and everyone else is his minister. What is wrong with the guards loyally protecting the emperor? The emperor scolded them and also
It can only be out of the position of maintaining one's complete trust in Gao Pragmatism, and no other reasons can be used.
However, the situation is different when the two sides are swapped. Why are your pragmatic servants so wary of the emperor? The head of your family just said, "If the king wants his minister to die, he will have to die." However, you actually made a move to draw your sword at any time.
Could it be that you dare to rebel on the spot if you want your minister to die?
Gao Jingshi's face turned cold, he looked past the emperor towards Gao Mo, and said in a deep voice: "Gao Mo, tell me how you train the guards in the inner palace."
Gao Mo hurriedly stepped forward and knelt to apologize, saying: "When I saw my sin, it was because of my incompetent teaching... The old slave always said that I conquered the world, and although I conquered all the barbarians, many people hated me deeply because of it. As a result, I
It is the last line of defense for the master. They should be vigilant against any behavior that may harm the master, but...but I really didn’t expect such an accident as today. I did not do my job well, so I ask the master to give me a heavy punishment."
"Since you know you are guilty, then..." Gao Pingshi had a cold face, and was about to order severe punishment, but Zhu Yijun waved his hand and said: "Okay, okay, what you old slave said is true, that's why I
Just kidding, how could he have expected such a situation? As for what he said about training servants like you, I heard that there is nothing wrong with it."
After a pause, without waiting for Gao Pragmatic to speak, Zhu Yijun said again: "Do you still remember that you were assassinated in your early years?"
Gao Pragmatic was stunned: "Which time?"
Now it was Zhu Yijun's turn to be stunned and said in confusion: "Why, how many times have you been assassinated? I'm talking about the Yao man who used poison when you were in Guangxi."
"Oh...that time." Gao Pragmatic nodded and commented: "Fortunately it was a false alarm."
The incident Zhu Yijun mentioned was the old incident when Gao Pragmatic was fed a mouthful of Yin snake poison by the Yao Gu Master. It was also the excuse for him to launch a "war of revenge" against Annan Mochao.
The Yao Gu Master had actually succeeded in the assassination. He first created chaos, and then took advantage of the chaos to pour the Yin Snake Gu into Gao Jingshi's mouth. Although the Yin Snake Gu was a so-called "death poison", it was poisoned (slobber)
Then live, Gao pragmatically wants to spit it out by digging his fingers into his throat, but it is actually meaningless.
However, Miss A Li, the great grandmother who exists like a poison among the Yao people, happened to have given Gao pragmatically a bowl of special insect repelling soup less than a hundred days ago. The soup contained the magical "Phoenix" that trained Miss A Li.
A certain medicine needed for "eye" made this bowl of insect-avoiding soup just able to restrain the Yin snake poison, which allowed Gao Yingshi to save his life. Because of this, Gao Yingshi said "it was a false alarm." [Note
:See Volume 3, Chapter 132-134 of Guangxi]
The reason why Zhu Yijun wanted to talk about this matter was precisely because it was in line with what Gao Mo had just said. Although Gao Pingshi had won "all the barbarians into submission" after defeating him, many people had a deep hatred for him, and it was inevitable that some people would be against him.
He has a heart for assassination. According to this idea, Gao Mo trains the guards around Gao Pragmatic, which will of course make him full of vigilance.
As for why there was no exception for the emperor, as Gao Mo said - who could have expected this?
When training guards, who would specifically tell them, "Hey, please pay attention, if the person who comes to 'assassinate the head of the family' is the emperor, don't react in any way." Isn't this sick?
This is the truth, but this incident obviously affected the atmosphere in the venue. For a while, no one knew how to change the topic.
At this time, Meng Guzhezhe, who had been quiet for a long time when he saw the emperor, suddenly spoke. She was half angry and half curious: "Master, this short blunderbuss is very different from the short blunderbuss that the slave family usually knows.
I have never seen a short gun that can hit accurately at fifty paces before, but this short gun can hit accurately not only at fifty paces, but also at a hundred paces, a hundred and fifty paces, and the master even has to aim at the target.
Pulling it to three hundred steps...how on earth is this done?"
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