Gao Pragmatic's point of view to persuade Huang Mengyu is to put it bluntly: if there is a war, you have to worry about the losses of the frontier army all the time. Once the war situation goes bad, you have to take the blame for the frontier army; if there is a peace, you can sit back and relax and be safe and sound.
He will serve as a guard for one side, and when he has enough qualifications, he will naturally return to Beijing and be re-employed.
Huang Zhenshou was obviously not a great man and would not consider serving the country and the people. After hearing Gao Pragmatic's analysis, he immediately made the right choice: peace!
Is there any good choice? Of course, it is the last word to secure one's own position. Why should we men take the blame for the border troops? Those battles were not fought by us men!
Not only that, Huang Dazheng, who is smart and able to draw inferences from one example, also "figured out" the reasons why the cabinet bosses and Wang Chonggu, Fang Fengshi and other border ministers wanted to reconcile: If the war doesn't go well, I, the Datong Guard, can
They can't run away, but they are also responsible! They suffered a defeat. Of course, the local governor had improper command, but the Chaozhongge Lao also ignored the personnel!
Since this is the case, the so-called late emperor's decree should be dismissed as nothing. As for Long Live Grandpa, there is no need for him, Huang Da, to worry about it. The elders can naturally convince him to put Hanna Ji
Please surrender and receive the title as proof.
Since Huang Mengyu had no objection, Desheng Fort had unified their thoughts. Ma Wei and others had no right to speak anyway, so Gao Pragmatic's report was immediately forwarded to Datong. Wang Chonggu, who had already rushed back to Datong to take charge, met with the imperial envoy at the right time.
Zheng sent Cheng Wen together to immediately write memorials and send them to the capital together with Gao Pragmatic's memorial.
At the same time, Ma Fang personally led the army to escort Han Naji to Desheng Fort.
A few days later, Gao Pragmatic's "Request for Tribute to the Northern Captives" arrived in Beijing, in which he said: "After reviewing the proposal to open the market in the 29th year of Jiajing, we found out that the chiefs of the Northern Captives invaded Jizhen.
Ninety-two people including Yang Huai, the minister of the stable, petitioned for the opening of the market, and they were released alive. Then they gathered at the border and threatened them repeatedly. If they were not allowed to move, they would be robbed. The words were very contradictory. When the border officials heard about it.
The late emperor did not allow it at the beginning, so he spent 300,000 yuan to repair war equipment, promoted Qiu Luan, the Marquis of Xianning, to be a general, and declared an attack. Luan went out with a heavy army to attack the nest, but was defeated by the captives. He was afraid that the captives would attack again, so he sent
At that time, my family members were far away from Mobei. They offered me some gold coins to please me, and asked me to open the market... The late emperor had already executed Qiu Luan, and had strictly enforced the prohibition order in order to restore his appearance and open the market.
It's a big mistake to cheat the fool.
For more than 20 years now, the invasions of the captives have been unpredictable, and the border officials are always on guard. How dare we repeat the same mistakes, flatter the captives and invite them to the market, and thus violate the prohibition and re-establish themselves? Therefore, those who can control the captives and submit to the inside also rely on my ability to control them.
In addition, the captives are not as strong as before, and our soldiers are not as timid as before. Although we cannot pursue and destroy the captives, we will go out to destroy them from time to time to show our power. Even if the captives try to lure the crowd and go deep into the country to act wildly, heaven will punish them, and
People and animals die..."
What this paragraph talks about is that the situation back then was different from this time. That is to say, Gao Pragmatic and Huang Mengyu said that the situation during the time of the first emperor was different from today. During the time of the first emperor, the enemy was strong and we were weak. If we agreed to trade with each other, it would weaken the name of the Chinese dynasty; but now the enemy is weak.
I am strong. Agreeing to trade with each other is the great magnanimity of my Heavenly Kingdom...
This statement was certainly not Gao Pragmatic's innermost thoughts, but he knew he had to say it this way, because he couldn't do it without excusing Jiajing. If he didn't excuse Jiajing, then Longqing would not be able to agree to the tribute, otherwise it would be unfilial.
But just saying this was definitely not enough, so Gao Pragmatic went on to talk about the benefits of mutual trade, such as the fact that Mongolia was short of supplies and could not survive without mutual trade. If it could not survive, it could only go south to plunder, etc.
Is this enough? It's still not enough, so Gao pragmatically looked for precedents next.
He continued in the memorial: "In the early days of the Chade Kingdom, there were cases of tribute payments from the northern captives. In the early years of Zhengtong, they also used the method of reducing the price of horses to call troops, which can be found in the Tianshun Rilu. There are also cases of barbarians
The system of granting kings is like the loyal and obedient king of Hami. Originally, the royal family was granted the title of Yuanzhong. The Holy Ancestor granted Hami as our vassal. Later, it was held by Tulufan. He still took his son and raised him in Suzhou, collected his seal and stored it in the Ganzhou treasury.
The memorial of Wang Qiong, the former minister, regarding the disposal of Tulupan is still there. In the early years of his reign, the young prince Yao from the north of the Yangtze River made three tributes in the second year of Datong.
.The system of examination was not created today. The majestic dynasty allowed the barbarians to come to the king, and showed the prudent virtues of the sage kings, so as to pass on the world to future generations.
, the great achievements of the real emperor..."
This is looking for historical basis: Your Majesty, look, our ancestors were so wise, didn’t they still make the "barbarians" kings? There are rules to follow for what you are doing now... In short, do this
He is simply extremely wise and mighty.
Gao Jingshi has been the prince's companion for more than half a year, and often talks about these things with Gao Gong. Of course, he knows that Long Qing is different from his father Jiajing. This is a very pragmatic emperor, but it is difficult for him to change the ancestral system at will, so Gao Jingshi
Only then did I find these histories to prove that my memorial was not a tampering with the ancestral system. On the contrary, it was following the ancestral system...
Of course, this memorial was not so much about persuading the emperor as it was about persuading those warring factions, creating conditions for the emperor to agree to pay tribute, and seizing the commanding heights of public opinion.
This is Gao Pragmatic's first official post since he became an official. He has never had any official posts before. Of course, he was originally of no rank. Even the blue official robe was only worn by the emperor's special order.
It is normal to be sparse. But this time, because he had the imperial mandate and was an imperial envoy, he also happened to catch up with Anda's army and experienced it personally. Therefore, even if some people in the court were dissatisfied with this sparse,
It's hard to say anything - you can't say that the Holy Emperor's imperial envoys can't even communicate in public, right?
Along with the pragmatic Gao Shang Shu who arrived in Beijing, there were also the Shang Shus of Wang Chonggu and Fang Fengshi. The contents of their Shang Shu were similar, but compared to the Gao Pragmatic Shang Shu, they were different because they were
They were officials, so they spoke more carefully, focusing mainly on "how to pay tribute" - after all, the two of them mentioned it after they first received the essay that Gao pragmatic asked them to forward. Since Gao Jingshi
Pragmatism has clearly stated "why we should pay tribute". As "predecessors", it is natural for them to be hard-pressed to criticize others.
On the contrary, Cheng Wen, the imperial envoy, felt that his trip was mainly to inspect defense rather than deal with such "foreign-related affairs", so he did not go to the emissary alone, but signed it after Gao, Wang and Fang.
Just give me your own name to show your agreement.
On the ninth day of October in the fourth year of Longqing's reign, Ma Fang was defeated by Xin Ai Zou Bao and Gao Ping Shi, Wang Chonggu, and San Shu, who requested permission to pay tribute, arrived in the capital at the same time, and the capital was immediately shaken.
Regardless of the peace faction or the war faction, they had only roughly guessed that after Han Naji's reward was removed, An Da might propose tribute again, but no one guessed that An Da would be so decisive, not only requesting mutual trade again, but even