Early in the morning, Ansu County looked like it was facing a formidable enemy. Government officials came out in all directions, and rural warriors entered the city, even alarming the Baoding vanguard stationed not far from the eastern suburbs of Ansu County. At the request of Liang County Zun, the Baoding vanguard was commanded by the guards.
The envoy personally went out and about 300 soldiers came to Ansu County to wait temporarily to assist in the search.
Not only that, two hours later, before noon, Baoding Cheying guerrilla general Zheng Dezong led his troops of about 800 people to Ansu after a long journey.
Such a mobilization of troops and crowds was not due to horse bandits attacking the city or civil unrest, but simply due to an attempted assassination.
Gao Yingshi, a bachelor who was studying with the crown prince on vacation, was on his way back to his hometown to prepare for the exam, so he was assassinated in the Zheng family courtyard day and night!
There were about nine to ten assassins in the group. Seven of them were killed on the spot by members of the Gao family, and one was seriously injured and captured. One or two others took advantage of the chaos and fled. Based on analysis and inference, Ansu County believes that there is a high probability that the assassins have accomplices.
The assassination of a low-ranking and low-ranking official, whether it is completed or attempted, logically speaking, will never reach the level of dispatching the army. Even now, not only the soldiers of the guard station, but also the guerrilla generals of the serious field troops have come.
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This may have something to do with the word "prince" that begins with the high-pragmatic official position, but in the final analysis, it is of course because of Gao Gong.
Gao Gong was the second assistant of the emperor's division, and he was also in charge of civil affairs. He was the leader of the Holy Family, and originally had all the power in the world. However, Zhang Juzheng, the elder in charge of the Ministry of War, had always been shown to the outside world as Gao Gong's close friend, let alone Baoding.
The avant-garde commander and the Baoding Cheying guerrilla general, even if the Baoding general came in person, it probably wouldn't be unusual.
The Baoding Commander-in-Chief didn't come, and it wasn't because he was trying to show off his identity, but because he really had no choice - he was in the capital at the moment, reporting on matters related to this year's autumn exercise at the Ministry of War, and he didn't even know about Gao Pragmatic's unexpected incident.
If it weren't for the fact that the Baoding garrison eunuch was not actually stationed in Baoding but in Zhending, this middle-ranking nobleman might have been included among the people coming at this moment.
Of course, although the governor of Baoding is also stationed in Zhending, he would not come in person even if he knew about it. After all, the face of civil servants is much more important than military generals and eunuchs.
After Gao pragmatic learned that the matter was getting serious, he was actually very dissatisfied. Originally, Gao Gong resigned from the Ministry of Civil Service three times because of his excessive power. Now that something happened to him, he immediately made the local government feel like it was facing a formidable enemy. This is probably
Not what Gao Gong wanted to see.
What's more, Gao Pragmatic himself doesn't want this to be the case.
He wanted to raise his reputation, not his prestige. If the emperor felt that "people in the world only know that there is Gao Gong, but they don't know that there is His Majesty", then I am afraid that even Longqing will have to reconsider his trust in Gao Gong.
It's not that it's too much.
Too much is not enough, a proud dragon has regrets.
Therefore, even though Gao Pragmatic was a little frightened after being assassinated, he still met with Liang Wu, Zheng Dezong and others in person. After cordially and enthusiastically thanking them for their attention, he strongly requested not to escalate the situation, and said: It's just someone who was concerned about a certain situation.
Shuai Jiamo, who insisted on promoting the case of Huizhou native Ding Sijuan, was dissatisfied. He wanted to kill people and silence him, which affected him. It was not worth the publicity and effort.
Liang Wu, Zheng Dezong and others who were also frightened certainly welcomed Gao's pragmatic attitude, but they were also worried that Gao Ge would suspect that they did not respect him enough when he found out, so they were hesitant.
Gao pragmatic tried to persuade them again and again, saying that he would give a clear explanation to his third uncle and write a letter home on the spot as proof. This made them give up the idea of "handling special matters" and downplay the matter.
But in fact, Gao Jingshi already knew that this assassination was not aimed at Shuai Jiamo, but at him - the other party was planning to sneak into the north house where he lived at the beginning. After being discovered by the secret sentry arranged by Gao Jue,
They even launched a strong attack on Beifang.
Fortunately, although it was impossible for the Gao family's cavalry to engage in cavalry fighting in the Zheng family's courtyard, their shooting skills were top-notch. As soon as the assassins entered the courtyard, three of them were shot to death on the spot.
In the fierce battle that followed, Gao Jue, who was always vigilant and sleeping in his clothes, took the lead and killed two people on the spot, seriously injuring one, while the rest of the family reaped the rest of the victory.
In Gao Jingshi's north room, only two assassins rushed in. As soon as one of them entered, he was stabbed in the chest by Gao Jue who had already heard the noise and went to guard Gao Jingshi's bed. The other one was also killed by Gao Jue later.
He resisted and was hacked to death by several servants who swarmed in.
The entire assassination from beginning to end probably took less than a stick of incense, and Gao Pragmatic didn't get out of bed from beginning to end - not because he was calm, but because he was scared, plus he knew it was useless to run, so he might as well
Trust Gao Jue with all your heart.
After the assassination, someone escaped, but Gao Jue did not allow his servants to pursue him. He only sent two servants to the county government to inform Liang Wu, and the others were left behind to guard.
Because in his view, protecting high-level security is the top priority, and investigating the case afterwards is not within the scope of his tasks.
Gao Jingshi was very nervous for a while, because he had realized that the target of the assassination was him and not Shuai Jiamo, but he could not guarantee whether the assassin would try to lure the tiger away from the mountain, so he acquiesced in Gao Jue's approach. After all, this was
This is the most prudent way to deal with it.
But it didn't take long for him to regret it, because they only got one alive, and that man was not only hit by two arrows, but also stabbed several times. He had already passed out. Whether he could get a confession depends entirely on luck.
There may be many people in the world who want Gao Gong to die. After all, although he has many disciples, he is afraid that there will be even more political opponents. But Gao Pragmatic does not think that Gao Gong's political opponents planned this assassination.
Although the political struggles in the Ming Dynasty were fierce, there were very few civil-official political struggles that escalated to the point of physical destruction, and it was even rarer that those who resorted to physical means of destruction to assassination.
Gao Pragmatic has basically ruled out the suspicion of a civil official. After all, it is not in line with common sense and practice. Second, if it is a political enemy, what is the use of killing Gao Pragmatic?
Gao Pragmatic believes that the most suspect plotter is only Feng Bao.
But there was one thing he couldn't understand. Feng Baogui was the admiral of Dongchang. Although his status was high and his power was great, his subordinates were all Dongchang officials and gangsters, and there were no so-called gangsters. And this group of assassins
According to what Gao Jue said, he really doesn't look like a member of the public family.
Although Feng Bao was insidious and domineering in history, his methods were far from clever. You must know that after Gao Gong was deceived and stepped down, Feng Bao also staged a farce of the "Minister Wang Case" in an attempt to kill Gao Gong.
, but even though this case of Minister Wang is so childish that it makes people laugh or cry, it can still be regarded as "within the rules".
At that time, Gao Gong had already resigned. If Feng Bao really had useful "people in the world", wouldn't it be easier to directly assassinate Gao Gong? Why bother with such a stupid case?
Why is this?
If it weren't for Feng Bao, Gao Pragmatic couldn't think of anyone else who would insist on killing him quickly.