Gao pragmatic fell silent, lowered his head slightly, and analyzed it carefully in his heart.
When Lu Bing was in charge of the Jinyiwei, due to the special relationship between the Lu governor and the Jiajing Emperor, the power of the Jinyiwei expanded rapidly, almost reversing the situation in the Liu Jin era when Dongchang regarded Jinyiwei as a lackey.
However, with the death of Lu Bing in the 39th year of Jiajing, the Jinyiwei was controlled by Zhu Xixiao, the brother of Zhu Xizhong, Duke of Chengguo. Zhu Xixiao was born in a family of top nobles in the Jingnan family, and his temperament was very similar to that of his brother Zhu Xizhong, who did not seek merit in everything.
However, he does not seek to do anything wrong, and he can be said to exercise power in a disciplined manner. He strives to be stable when encountering problems, never escalates the situation, strictly abides by rules, and handles various affairs with caution.
At the same time, the two brothers Zhu Xizhong and Zhu Xixiao are partners with Gao Pragmatic. According to the current development situation, the private interests of both parties may reach as much as 20,000 to 30,000 taels per year - and the two brothers
There are no actual shares, but only dividends from dry shares. In other words, if Gao Pragmatic collapses, they won't get even half a penny.
Because of the relationship between the above two points, Gao Xixiao would never believe that Zhu Xixiao would quietly send someone to investigate him - unless Gao Xixiao was involved in treason and the evidence of the crime was conclusive.
Check him out pragmatically.
But if Zhu Xixiao, the commander-in-chief of the Imperial Guards, didn't know about it, then where did these Imperial Guards come from?
Gao Pragmatic asked this question to Gao Guoyan, and Gao Guoyan was a little confused after hearing it. However, although he was good at calculations, he was only doing mathematical calculations. On these political issues, his level was actually far inferior to Gao Pragmatic, so Gao Guoyan
It is obvious that the question was asked blindly.
Gao Guoyan thought for a long time, and finally just said: "I think, just for doing nothing, you can get a huge sum of 20,000 to 30,000 taels a year. If it were me, even if you were suspected of treason, I would definitely keep it secret
Let me inform you."
Nonsense, you're stuck in the eyes of money and can't get out.
Gao pragmatically slandered and analyzed to himself: "We might as well assume that Zhu Xixiao does not know about it, then there are only two possibilities for the origin of these Jin Yiwei."
Gao Guoyan was stunned for a moment: "What other possibilities are there?"
Gao pragmatic rolled his eyes, was too lazy to pay attention to him, and continued to analyze on his own: "The first possibility is that Jinyiwei's expatriate personnel accidentally discovered that we were buying up land near Kaiping. They felt that this situation was very abnormal, and privately
I thought there was something wrong here, so in order to gain merit, I decided not to report it for the time being, but to investigate it first. If something is really found, I can get great merit on my own."
"Oh..." Gao Guoyan thought along this line of thought and suddenly asked: "We are just buying land, what could be abnormal?"
Gao pragmatically rolled his eyes at him helplessly, and said feebly: "Yes, we are just buying land, but have you ever seen anyone who buys land instead of buying fertile land, but instead buying rubbish land that is dozens or even hundreds of miles away?"
Land? What's more, not only did you buy bad land, but you were so anxious to buy it that even the commander of the local police station personally came forward to force the local residents to relocate?"
"Well, it's a bit strange to put it this way." Gao Guoyan agreed.
Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said: "Is this just a little strange? I think it is very strange in the eyes of the Jin Yiwei. Even because these Jin Yiwei never look at people with the greatest malice, they may still feel that,
The relocation of Kaipingwei itself is a conspiracy."
"Conspiracy?" Gao Guoyan asked confused, "What kind of conspiracy could this be?"
"It doesn't matter what kind of conspiracy there is, what's important is the word 'have'." Gao Pragmatic looked coldly and narrowed his eyes slightly: "At the very least, it is likely to involve an issue of collusion between government and businessmen, right? And
Or, can Kaipingwei, Yongping Military Preparation Road and even Jizhen General Military Office, all levels of government offices, be able to reap huge benefits from this relocation? Otherwise, why would the good ones suddenly be relocated? And the relocation
The entire central garrison in Kaiping cost more than three hundred thousand taels, which is almost one-tenth of the imperial court's annual income. Such a huge sum of money was actually paid by a private person who came to buy rubbish land..."
"Furthermore, if instead of the yamen at all levels taking advantage, the commander of the guards, the deputy military commander, and even the commander-in-chief of Jizhen himself accepted bribes, wouldn't it be a great contribution to the local Jinyi Guards?"
Gao Guoyan was completely stunned. He looked at Gao Qingshi and said after a long while: "Pragmatic, is there some conspiracy in your head? When you said that, even I felt that something was very abnormal.
!”
Gao Jingshi said helplessly: "If this is really the case, it is still a small problem. After all... no matter how they investigate, if there is no problem, there is no problem. Even if there is such a thing as what Xuecheng caused, the great thing is that Xuecheng can do it by himself.
Damn it, even if the superiors knew about it, they would just give him a warning or at most a slight punishment, and at least he has a Marquis at home, so this matter is not a big deal to him."
"As for reporting this matter to Zhu Xixiao, it will probably fall into disgrace. Zhu Xixiao will either not reply at all, or he will simply warn them clearly not to cause trouble... So if it is the expatriates of Jinyiwei who make their own decisions, then
You basically don’t need to worry about this matter.”
"Oh, that's it." Gao Guoyan nodded, agreeing with this judgment, but he immediately asked: "You said there are two possibilities, what is the other possibility?"
Gao Pingshi's face darkened, he subconsciously picked up the tea cup, turned it around with the cup lid, and said in a deep voice: "There is another possibility that cannot be ignored..."
Gao Guoyan was also made nervous by his expression, and asked hurriedly: "How do you say it?"
Gao pragmatically said coldly: "There is another person who can even use Jin Yiwei's manpower to do things without going through Zhu Xixiao."
"Ah?" Gao Guoyan was so shocked that his voice trembled: "Are you talking about...the emperor?"
"Emperor?" Gao Jingshi rolled his eyes angrily: "Brother Sanhuai, the emperor wants to use the Jin Yiwei, of course through the Jin Yiwei Commander, because the two brothers Zhu Xixiao have received the emperor's favor in this life, and the emperor has deep trust in them.
It’s almost the same as trusting Third Uncle, how can you bypass Zhu Xixiao?”
Gao Guoyan felt relieved, stretched out his hand to wipe the unnecessary sweat from his forehead, and asked: "Oh, that's okay, that's okay... Then who are you talking about?"
"Haha..." Gao Pingshi suddenly showed a smile, gently turned the lid of the teacup, leaned back on the chair, and said with half-squinted eyes: "Admiral of the East Factory, Feng Bao."
