Chapter 124: Observing government according to orders (2)
If the prince is granted the power to supervise the country by the emperor, his orders will of course be legally binding. As long as they do not conflict with the emperor's own will, all officials in the world must obey him. For example, during the Northern Expedition, Zhu Di ordered the prince Zhu Gaochi to supervise the country several times, and
The orders issued by the Prince of the Supervisory State are theoretically the Prince's Orders. Officially speaking, orders like Zhu Yijun's can only be called the Prince's Orders. However, the Prince is the crown prince after all, so everyone will still refer to the orders issued by the Prince as the Prince's Orders.
, just like when people in later generations meet, the other person is a deputy director named Zhang, but when people call him, they must call him director Zhang instead of deputy director Zhang.
Therefore, the real meaning of the prince's edict in Gao pragmatic's hand is not that it has actual legal effect when holding it, but a symbolic meaning: the prince is very concerned about this matter, and everything Gao Shi read has seen and heard.
They must all go to Heaven to hear it - after all, the emperor is a maniac who loves his son. If the prince knows, doesn't it mean that the emperor knows?
In other words, the real power of holding this edict is to show everyone the fact that not giving face to the high minister is equivalent to not giving face to the prince, and not giving face to the prince is equivalent to not giving face to the emperor.
Yan Guan dares not to give the emperor face, because unless the emperor himself loses face, there is no way he can do anything to Yan Guan. But it is impossible for ordinary officials to casually refuse to give the emperor face. You don't respect the emperor, king, minister, father, son, son. Shudu
Did it go into the dog’s belly?
Those who have understood the true meaning of this prince's edict have understood that although the nominal envoy on this tour to promote the University is Cheng Wen, who is an engineering major, I am afraid that the real concern of His Majesty and his son is actually this person who is regarded by the outside world as
Gao Shidu, who travels at public expense.
But at this moment, Gao Pragmatic couldn't care less about paying attention to these things. He was on his way to Datong.
This is the first time he has enjoyed the treatment of an imperial envoy traveling. Although he is only a deputy envoy in name, and is strictly stipulated by the imperial decree to be a silent deputy envoy, Cheng Wen, as the chief envoy, is his "senior brother".
He is one of the core members of the Gao Party. He is well aware of the causes and consequences of this imperial mission to inspect the university, so he is very concerned about Gao Pragmatic, his junior brother. It may be too much to say "ask for instructions in the morning and report later", but he always consults with him on everything.
It's always the same.
In fact, the imperial envoys' guard of honor is not worth mentioning. Gao Jingzhi has seen the emperor's honor guard countless times in the palace (not the full guard of honor), and even saw the full crown prince's guard of honor when he went out to study. The so-called imperial guard of honor that he currently enjoys is completely insufficient.
look.
But this time the imperial envoy's ceremony was different from usual, because Gao Pragmatic brought two hundred servants with him.
Imperial envoys can bring their family members with them when traveling, especially if they go to areas that are in war or are about to be in war. The country does not have many restrictions on this - in fact, there were some regulations in the early years, but those regulations have long been a matter of old sesame seeds and rotten millet. In the military
After the servant system became popular, almost no one mentioned it again. Anyway, the court will not pay for your accompanying servants. If you can afford it, you can bring it. Even in a few decades, the court will pay for the accompanying military servants.
Allocate funds as appropriate.
The number of people under Gao Pragmatic's command who can be called "military servants", if calculated from all aspects, is approaching the two thousand mark. However, he will not be stupid enough to gather these two thousand people together. That would be an act of seeking death.
He first gave these military servants different names. Although they were collectively called the Guards Guards internally, they did not call them that way externally. They had many names externally, such as Jinghua Caravan Guards, Sanshen Garden
The servants who protect the hospital, the servants who protect the village in Bailixia, the servants who protect the mine in Kaiping Jinghua, etc., there are all kinds of strange things.
At the same time, he carefully dispersed these people: three hundred were placed in Sanshenyuan, three hundred were placed in Bailixia, three hundred were placed in Kaiping, and two hundred were placed in the capital... As for Datong and Xuanfu, because they were required
The safety of those leading to trade outside the mouth is the least guaranteed, so there are four hundred each.
Of course, the 800 troops from Datong and Xuanfu were all dispatched together because Gao Mo and Gao Jue cooperated with Cao Gan to trade Fengzhouchuan last time. Now they all stay with Bai Hu who invited Han Naji to surrender.
fort.
The top commander of Baihu Fort is just a garrison, with only five to six hundred troops under his command, and the actual strength is only more than 300. Therefore, the regular troops of the imperial court at Baihu Fort are not as large as those of the highly pragmatic servants.
Knowing that the chief and deputy imperial envoys and his entourage were going directly to Datong first, the Governor-General of Xuanda, Wang Chonggu, also rushed to Datong from Tianchengwei, the governor's residence, in order to show his concern.
Tianchengwei was the seat of Shanxi Xingdusi during the Ming Dynasty, which later became Shanxi Tianzhen County. It was roughly located in the middle of Datong and Xuanfu. The Governor of Xuanda was stationed here for the purpose of coordinating the two towns of Xuanda.
Because of this, from the moment Wang Chonggu heard the news of the imperial envoy's departure, to the time he rushed to Datong, he even rushed in front of the imperial envoy and his party.
When the two parties met, Wang Chonggu did not need to salute Cheng Wen, because although Cheng Wen was an imperial envoy, Wang Chonggu was actually an imperial envoy. In the Ming Dynasty, whether it was governor-general or governor, even now, these positions have long been permanent officials.
, but in theory, they are still imperial envoys. For example, Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda, as the censor of Youdu of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, is the imperial envoy and governor of Xuanda, Shanxi and other departments, and is responsible for military affairs and food and salary.
Since they are both imperial envoys, when it comes to their duties, it is Cheng Wen and Gao Pragmatic who want to salute Wang Chonggu first.
However, Wang Chonggu is the second-ranked boss within the Jin Party after all. He knows that the two in front of him are almost the same as Gao Gong, the current main ally of the Jin Party. Of course, he will not put on any airs in front of them and go through a simple ritual.
During the process, he and Datong Governor Fang Fengshi welcomed the two of them in.
As for the imperial envoy to guard the local eunuchs in Datong, Cheng Wen didn't care, and neither did Gao Pragmatic. On the contrary, it was Ma Fang, the chief military officer of Datong. Since Cheng Wen knew that he was the "most capable of fighting" general under Gao Gong's name, he treated him quite politely.
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And Gao Jingshi became even closer to Ma Fang - they had become as close as a family under Cao Gan's mediation. Gao Jingshi sold horses to him to replenish his armament, he helped Gao Jingshi train his cavalry, and even gave Gao Jingshi "the right to withdraw troops".
"In this incident, Ma Fang also cooperated accordingly, and the two parties have been close friends for a long time.
Moreover, Gao Pragmatic came this time with the mission of "watching the government" to inspect Xuanda's armaments. In fact, Gao Pragmatic had sent him a private message in advance, slightly revealing something such as "I may consider strengthening firearms and equipment for your department."
Therefore, Ma Fang was very happy to see Gao Pragmatic - in fact, he was not ignorant of the benefits of firearms, but the firearms he had received before were of really poor quality, so his cavalry still mainly used sabers and three-eyed blunderbuss, while Gao
Pragmatic attached the letter to Qi Jiguang's newly improved Saigong gun, and told Ma Fang that if firearms were supplied to other departments in the future, the quality and level of the firearms would not be lower than this gun.
After Ma Fang found someone to try it, he found that this gun was much stronger than the three-eyed blunderbuss. Due to the use of a paper shell fixed charging method, the filling speed of the ammunition was significantly improved compared to the previous bird blunderbuss. At the same time,
The quality is also very reliable.
Ma Fang believes that if his subordinates can be equipped with Saigon guns of this quality in batches in the future, then the earlier three-eyed guns can obviously be given up. Of course, the border army is extremely poor, so giving up does not mean abandoning it.
It is completely necessary to provide the second and third line garrison troops to make full use of the remaining heat.