It was already past noon when Gao pragmatic sent Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin away. Naturally, they had lunch together at the Procuratorate. The three of them had an exchange of views on some situations in Guangxi. Of course, it was mainly what Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin said. Gao pragmatically listened.
For the Lord, occasionally ask carefully.
In addition to telling Gao Pangshi to exercise restraint with chieftains surnamed Cen and Huang when he patrols the western Guangxi region in the future, Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin also said two more important things.
The first thing was that after Ling Yunyi left, Liu Yaojie, who took over as governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, was quite unfriendly to Gao Dang. He was especially disgusted with Gao Dang's opposition to lectures. When he was governor of Jiangxi, he founded Lianxi Academy and also
He personally wrote notes for the academy and often gave lectures, teaching the philosophy of "nothing outside the mind".
The Practical School has never recognized that "there is nothing outside the mind", but takes "knowing the classics, cultivating virtues, current affairs, and applying" as its essence. The formation of its connotation has a historical evolution process.
Practical learning is actually a school with quite roots. It opposed Buddhism and Taoism in the Song and Ming dynasties. It regarded Buddhism and Taoism as "virtual learning"; in the Ming Dynasty, it opposed Neo-Confucianism and the empty talk about the nature of mind, and regarded the late Neo-Confucianism and Psychology as "virtual learning".
Virtual learning".
Moreover, Practical Studies has its own ontology, epistemology, methodology, and its own theoretical and conceptual system of values, ethics, and social outlook. Therefore, Practical Studies officials and Mental Studies officials cannot fundamentally piss into the same pot.
If I have to put it simply and crudely, it is that everyone thinks that they are Confucian orthodoxy.
Gao Pragmatic actually did not object to the establishment of academies, but he objected to the nonsense after the establishment of these academies. The "academy" in his mind was a school similar to the "Jinghua Craftsman Academy" he founded in Jianxinzhai.
Transfer professional knowledge and techniques.
So it's not surprising that Liu Yaojie couldn't stand him. He also couldn't stand officials like Liu Yaojie.
But having said that, after all, Liu Yaojie has been working abroad all year round. Unlike Xu Jie who has always been in the center, Liu Yaojie still has to do something. For example, the Bazhai Rebellion in Guangxi was put down by him with 100,000 troops.
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Speaking of the pacification of the Bazhai Rebellion, it happened to be the second thing Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin talked about.
In fact, the Bazhai Rebellion has a long history. If you want to break it down, this area has not been very stable since the Hongwu period. It has been in chaos from time to time, and it has become an intermittent disease.
It is worth mentioning that in the early years of Jiajing, Wang Shouren once led a large army to attack the Bazhai. However, after his army arrived in Nanning, he thought that it was not cost-effective to attack directly (Wu Feng's note: Wang Yangming's memorial can be found), so he continued to visit the imperial court.
He requested that the genocide be transformed into a pacification and that the barbarians should be used to control the barbarians. After much struggle, the court agreed to his request.
However, when Wang Yangming was in Guangxi, Bazhai was quite honest. Once he left, the root of the problem continued to sprout and bloom. In August of the 33rd year of Jiajing, the Bazhai rebels entered Nanning City, climbed the ladder into the treasury, and killed the governor.
In December of the following year, the rebels entered Nanning again. In the 39th year of Jiajing, the Bazhai rebels, under the leadership of Wu Zongxian, attacked Rong County, Lianzhou. In August of the 40th year of Jiajing, the Bazhai rebels crossed the city and entered Xuanhua County Treasury.
In the fourth year of Longqing's reign, Yin Zhengmao led ten families in Binzhou, Wuyuan and other places around Bazhai, and established one Jia in each village and one Donglao in each village for control and tax collection. He continued the policy of using barbarians to control barbarians, and recruited more than 200 stable soldiers.
The soldiers were commanded by Huang Chang and garrisoned at Longhasai. More than 200 soldiers from Zhengxinglong were commanded by Wei Fu and garrisoned at Bukesai. Military supplies were borne by the two villages themselves.
In the second year of Wanli, the children of Longha Village continued to rebel under the leadership of Fan Shang. Guangxi Governor Guo applied for the recruitment of chieftains and horses to besiege the rebels, and the rebels had to move to other places.
In the seventh year of Wanli, the rebel forces in the Eight Villages grew stronger, with more than 10,000 elite troops and a threat of 70,000 to 80,000 followers.
Liu Yaojie, the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, recruited the capable wolf soldiers of the chieftains of Guangxi and hook swordsmen of Huguang. He also equipped the governor's commander Biao Niao with the "Longqing II" muskets produced by the Jinghua Musket Factory, and concentrated the troops. It was known as an army of one hundred thousand, consisting of four The road advanced towards Bazhai. Although the rebels were extremely brave, they were outnumbered. Half a year later, more than 30,000 soldiers and civilians from Bazhai sacrificed their lives and more than 5,000 were captured. The chaos was finally settled.
The rebellion in Bazhai was put down this time. Liu Yao thought that he had made great achievements and asked for rewards for his subordinates. But there was a problem, that is, the new patrol commander had arrived, and the verification of military merit was delayed. In addition, the rebels in Bazhai were After the suppression, the three big bosses, the Governor, the Governor and the Inspector, need to discuss and decide on how this area of two to three hundred miles in radius will be governed in the future before reporting it to the cabinet.
For these reasons, both Hu Wei and Zhao Yumin felt that Gao Pragmatic should rush to Liuzhou Prefecture as early as possible to inspect the military achievements nearby and decide on the future disposition of Bazhai.
The location of Bazhai is located in the southwest of Liuzhou, roughly within the triangle area of Xincheng County, Laibin County, and Pennsylvania in later generations, almost in the center of Guangxi.
Of course, this center refers to the geographical center. In fact, this area is very complicated. The reason is that with this area as the central axis, almost all the chieftains to the west are ruled by the chieftains. Only Nanning Prefecture is directly controlled by the imperial court. Even though there are two other areas in the remaining areas, Si'en Prefecture and Taiping Prefecture, they are nominally managed by prefects sent by the imperial court. In fact, all the people working under them are local officials and local officials.
In addition to these two prefectures, this area, which is nearly half the size of Guangxi, is entirely controlled by chieftains. From the local prefecture to the local prefecture, to the various local chief lawsuits, and the local inspection department, all are hereditary chieftains. The world.
To the east of this central axis is the Guidong area where the imperial court has relatively strong control. The prefects and county magistrates of each prefecture and county are all officials sent by the imperial court. Only one magistrate of Wu Jing Prefecture is a native official, and then there are those who return. There are a few sporadic soil inspection departments, but basically nothing big happens.
Therefore, this negotiation on the future arrangements of the Bazhai is actually a confrontation between the two schools of thought: "using barbarians to control barbarians" and "reforming the native lands and returning them to the locals."
Although the Bazhai Rebellion was over, the people there were not extinct, and the rule must be re-established.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! If it is to "use barbarians to control barbarians", and continue to follow Wang Shouren's idea, then it must be to re-establish chieftains at all levels. The specific settings will only be known after discussion.
If it were to "reform the native land and return it to the local people", it would be a hard-line approach and forcefully push the area under the direct control of the exiled officials sent by the imperial court from the "central axis" to the west.
The former method has been used for almost fifty years, and the actual results have proven to be ineffective. However, Wang Shouren has a huge influence, and his use of foreigners to control foreigners is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Gao Pragmatic can even guess how officials from the Xin School will evaluate this "poor effect"—— Obviously the results were very good when Uncle Xin Xin was in Guangxi, but it can be seen that the "poor results" were all due to the incompetence of the later governors!
The latter method is of course a one-and-done solution in theory, but if you do this, you will have to face possible revenge from the chieftains in western Guangxi, and this revenge is very likely to be a group revenge - for example, if there is a "rebellion in western Guangxi", what consequences will it have?
It is not something that ordinary people can afford, and officials who insist on "reforming their native lands and returning their jobs" are not sure what the outcome will be.
Liu Yaojie, the governor, was a disciple of Xinxue, and it was basically certain that he would insist on "using barbarians to control barbarians", while Gao Pragmatic felt that only "reforming the native land and returning to the locals" was the general trend.
Thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic couldn't help feeling a little emotional. It seems that "party strife" is no longer limited to high-level officials or the central government. Even at the local level, party strife is everywhere.
Practical learning and mental learning now correspond to the famous saying: "Either the west wind overwhelms the east wind, or the east wind overwhelms the west wind."
I just don’t know who will have the upper hand this time?
Gao pragmatic stood up and walked into the back hall and said to the clerk: "Go and get the official documents that have been backlogged recently, especially the official documents related to the rebellion in Bazhai and the movements of the chieftains in the left and right rivers in western Guangxi. Don't miss any of them.
Already."
Several scribes responded one after another and went to look for official documents without mentioning them.