After the Taoist examination, due to the imperial system, he could not meet with the master, and the inspector himself had to rush to Weihui Mansion to preside over the second batch of Taoist examinations, and there was no time to meet with the candidates for the high school students. Therefore, Gao Pragmatic was happy to be at ease.
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To say that it is comfortable is actually an exaggeration. In fact, Gao Pinggong was not idle in Kaifeng Mansion. He first attended and paid for a gathering of a group of Xinzheng students who were newly admitted to high school students, and then went to visit Su Yonglu, the then governor of Henan.
Su Yonglu was a native of Changzhi County, Lu'an Prefecture, Shanxi Province. He was a Jinshi in the 23rd year of Jiajing reign. He served successively as the magistrate of Shouzhou, the Tongzhi of Suzhou Prefecture, the chief minister of Shaanxi Province, the deputy envoy, the Chief Secretary of Zhejiang Province, and became the governor of Henan Province in the 4th year of Longqing Period.
In the past four years of Longqing's reign, Gao Gong was actually in power, and Henan was Gao Gong's own province. Since Su Yonglu was able to change the governorship of Henan in the fourth year of Longqing, it was obvious that at least he was not Gao Gong's political enemy.
In fact, given his Shanxi origin, it is easy to determine his political leanings - the Jin Party, with Yang Bo, Zhang Siwei, and Wang Chonggu as its troika, has been Gao Gong's main ally in recent years.
How could Su Yonglu be promoted from Chief Secretary of Zhejiang to become governor of Henan without Gao Gong's nod?
Gao Pragmatic had no impression of Su Zhongcheng. He probably did not do any earth-shattering things in his previous life. However, according to Gao Gong's previous introduction, Su Yonglu had made a success in investigating Yan Song's case and confiscated Yan Song's family property.
When you reach a certain level as an official, anyone can do things like confiscating family property, but the problem is that not everyone has the opportunity to do it. The fact that Su Yonglu was able to get this job does not show his ability, but that he belonged to the category in his early years.
The opposition party of Yan Song.
Gao Gong was also an opponent of Yan Song, and he was an openly opposed opponent. He was different from people like Xu Jie, who had long been regarded as a vassal of the Yan Party, but turned against Yan Song when things came to pass.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, so Su Yonglu can basically be considered one of our own.
Originally, Gao Pragmatic's visit actually had no special purpose. If there was one, it was to connect with Su Zhongcheng, who was a local member of the Gao Party or the Pan-Gao Party, and that was all.
However, when he met Su Yonglu, he discovered something interesting.
Su Yonglu has been a little busy recently, busy quelling civil unrest, and is quite exhausted.
It’s a long story, and there’s really no need to start from the beginning. To make it short, it’s this: water transportation has been blocked in recent years, especially from central and southern Shandong to Xuzhou in northern Jiangsu. Large-scale embankments have collapsed almost every year.
Counties are frequently "flooded" and people "displaced".
If it were during the Red Dynasty, there would have been large-scale flood relief efforts before this happened, and the soldiers would have gone to wherever the danger was and would have piled human walls to block breaches. But in the Ming Dynasty, such a thing was out of the question.
Not to mention that there is no hope of directing the flood control at the national level. Even the local disaster relief depends on whether the local officials and gentry have the will... and the strength. Anyway, as far as Gao Pangshi knows, the imperial finances are still in the Jiajing Dynasty.
I have constant debts, so I don’t have the financial resources to take care of them.
As a result, there are millions of refugees in the Yellow River Flood Area of nearly 100,000 square kilometers. Among them, there are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of "disaster victims" over whom the local government has completely lost control.
Although the vast majority of Chinese people are honest and kind, when people are in a desperate situation and see that they can no longer survive, they dare to have any evil thoughts. Therefore, it didn’t take long for more than a dozen villages of various sizes to pop up in this large area.
Most of the changes were caused by bandits and bandits who took advantage of the refugees.
For the imperial court, most of these people are the emperor's subjects, and as long as the disaster relief is effective, they can be saved. But for local officials, it is not so easy to talk about - civil unrest will affect the evaluation!
Therefore, unless they can be recruited and secured as soon as possible, they must focus on extermination.
It stands to reason that the civil unrest in Yanzhou under the jurisdiction of Shandong and Xuzhou under the jurisdiction of Nanzhili due to Huang Fan has nothing to do with Su Yonglu, the governor of Henan, but in fact, as long as you open the map and look at it, you will know that the return of Henan
Defu happens to be just to the west of Yanzhou and Xuzhou, but it has not been hit by disaster yet... It goes without saying that the rebels in the civil uprising are not immortals. After the rebellion, they don't need to eat? Of course, they go to Guidefu nearby.
Looking for something to eat.
Therefore, Yanzhou and Xuzhou were hit by disasters, and Guide Prefecture was unlucky. A large group of hungry and howling refugee soldiers rushed towards Guide Prefecture in unison.
Although these refugee armies were divided into many groups, individually they were not very powerful. They could range from tens of thousands to tens of thousands or even hundreds of people. However, they were too numerous to handle. Even if Su Yonglu wanted to pacify them, he would not be able to pacify them.
They have to be dispersed one by one.
Moreover, he represents the government and the orthodoxy of the imperial court, so it is not enough to disperse them. We must find ways to place these people in place, otherwise we will never be truly stable.
Henan is located in the middle of the world, and its agriculture has always been pretty good. At this time, the "yellow floods" are generally in Shandong, downstream, so relatively speaking, there are relatively few civil unrests in Henan, which also affects Henan's military and political affairs.
Officials are not very good at handling these matters. Not to mention that the Henan garrison has not fought any battles in the past two hundred years, so it is hard to say whether its combat effectiveness is even five.
However, based on his experience in Zhejiang, Su Zhongcheng felt that although the local guards of the imperial court were unreliable in fighting Japanese pirates, they seemed to be quite effective in quelling civil unrest. Therefore, Su Zhongcheng arranged for the first wave of quelling the rebellion to be divided into seven groups. He planned to first
Take down these larger groups of bandits in one wave, and then the smaller bandits will be easier to deal with.
The ideal is indeed very full, but the reality is always skinny. When these seven armies launched their first attack, only one of them won, and it was a miserable victory. The other six armies suffered a shameful failure without exception!
As a result, these armies retreated to Zhangde Mansion one after another and merged into one army. The battle reports to Su Zhongcheng stated that "Guide Mansion is as stable as Mount Tai!"
Su Yonglu was so angry that his face turned green. This military sect asked you to suppress the bandits. It's better for you. You have returned to your hometown to suppress the bandits. How dare you tell me that your hometown is as stable as Mount Tai? I have been in the officialdom for decades and have seen many shameless people.
I've been there, but I've never seen anyone like you, who can forcefully turn your butt into a face!
When Su Yonglu and Gao Pragmatic talked about this matter, they were so angry that they beat the table and said that they would remove all these losers from their posts and investigate.
After hearing this, Gao Pragmatic also had a lot of dark thoughts. He knew that the mainland guards were all scum, but he didn't know that they could be so scumbag. It simply set a new limit for the combat effectiveness of the regular army.
But the matter has come to this point. Swearing people cannot solve the problem. Removing them from their posts and investigating them is an obvious statement of anger and has no feasibility. There is no point in worrying about how incompetent this group of people are now. The most important thing at the moment is to find a way to stabilize the situation.
situation.
Otherwise, if Su Yonglu's side is unable to control even a small amount of civil unrest and messes up Henan's hometown, even Gao Gong will be tempted to take advantage of Su Yonglu's trap. If this is the case, no matter what Su Yonglu's ability is,
Anyway, he was always the governor of a province, and when he fell like this, Gao Dang always cut off one of his arms - or at least one of his fingers.
Gao pragmatic thought for a while, and had no choice but to tentatively offer some suggestions to see if Su Yonglu was willing to listen.
