Of course Gao Wuchen couldn't answer the question of what kind of Yao Gu was in Futai, but he didn't intend to hide it, so he said directly: "This matter is still in the verification stage, but there is already a solid evidence
I believe it won’t take long for the results to be obtained.”
Gao pragmatically answered this, and Master Cen Qi knew something in his heart. He thought to himself: It seems that Gao pragmatically is indeed investigating this matter, but it is too late for him to come to Guangxi after all. I am afraid that this matter has just begun, but the current problem
The problem is that Zhang Ren's time to hold on is running out.
Although Master Cen Qi is not very clear about the factions in the court, at least one thing is clear now: Zhang Ren advocates converting the Bazhai area to native land, and although Gao Pangshi has not made a clear stance at the moment, Liuzhou has released
Rumors indicate that he probably supports reforming his country and returning home, and now there is another piece of evidence, that is, he is investigating the "cause" of Zhang Ren, that is, the poisonous poison incident.
From this, we can infer that Gao's pragmatic attitude should be consistent with Zhang Ren. In other words, he and Zhang Ren are comrades on the same front.
The ownership of the Bazhai area is of course important, and the outside world believes that neither the Cen family nor the Huang family will tolerate the Bazhai area being sent as exiled officials. But Master Cen himself knows that he can completely give up the Bazhai area.
Because conditions do not allow him to persist!
That day at the meeting of the four chieftains by Longshou Lake, the reason why he was able to restrain his emotions and let the Zhao family supported by Huang Zhiting obtain his approval was because the conditions did not allow it.
The Cen family in Sicheng is in danger of collapse, so how can they care about the land of eight villages?
After all, the Bazhai area was originally controlled by the Danwei south of the imperial court in name, but in fact it was almost the Yao people who were self-governing. Is there any issue with the Liangjiang chieftains here?
The most critical issue why the chieftains of Liangjiang were not happy with the direct administration of the Bazhai by the imperial court was that they did not want to see the imperial power further expand in Guangxi. However, the situation was different now. The Cen family in Sicheng was in a mess, so how could they control the big ones?
The land of Bazhai a hundred miles away?
Taking a step back, the Bazhai territory is just a state. If the imperial court has one more state and one less state, does it really have such a big impact? Isn't this too alarmist? As long as the court still believes in direct rule
The left and right river area is not cost-effective. Chieftains are needed to suppress the area without causing more trouble to the court. The imperial court will not forcibly promote this kind of direct transfer of officials to the left and right river area.
In the final analysis, the court's thinking was actually understood by both parties: cannibalize, not swallow.
Although swallowing a whale sounds majestic, it can actually choke someone to death!
In Guangxi, the combined taxes paid by the entire province are not as high as those of Suzhou alone. But what does it cost the imperial court to rule Suzhou? How much money has the imperial court spent on Guangxi every year in recent years?
The official tax paid by Suzhou Prefecture is almost 300,000 taels a year, but what about Guangxi? It now costs 300,000 taels a year!
This was still under the circumstances when the imperial court only had direct jurisdiction over half of Guangxi. If the chieftains were forcibly annexed and all of them were repatriated, not to mention 300,000 taels, even 600,000 taels would be unstoppable, and even one million taels a year would be spent.
It’s not impossible to use it as military pay to suppress the Guangxi rebellion!
It is no joke that Guangxi produces good soldiers. Not only Cen Ling and other Guangxi chieftains know this, but Gao Pragmatic actually knows it better than them!
Gao Pangshi had attended a party school before. He knew that during the War of Liberation, a general with great military exploits and "specialized in fighting magical wars" had given such instructions to his subordinates: "It is necessary to distinguish which of the GUO Kuomintang troops are elite units. First, look at the equipment. Those with American equipment must be elite troops. Second, look at the accent. Troops with Guangxi accent must also be elite troops. If they have both American equipment and Guangxi accent, they will definitely be the most elite among the GUO Kuomintang troops. "
If this is not enough to explain the problem, then the famous Dabie Mountain army has a clear combat idea to prove it: attack the miscellaneous army first, then attack the Central Army, and avoid the Gui Army.
The most interesting thing is that 16 of the 18 warriors who were forced to cross the Dadu River by the Red Army were from Guangxi, and 17 of the 22 warriors who flew to capture the Luding Bridge were from Guangxi.
So from the perspective of governance, the general direction is to maintain stability in Guangxi, because when trouble breaks out... forgetting other things, the Ministry of Household Affairs will be the first to bleed!
At least for now, the child chieftains generally obey the orders! The wolf soldiers recruited them when they were told, and they also brought their own dry food for the expedition without even paying them. Why should they force such easy-to-use subordinates to rebel?
Therefore, Cen Ling was very confident that even if he did not fight for the Bazhai territory, the imperial court would not underestimate the role of the chieftain and abandon the chieftain all at once to completely change the situation.
Besides, he had already given in to Huang Zhiting. Even if the imperial court had direct jurisdiction over Bazhai, Huang Zhiting should not be the first to be unhappy. Why was he anxious?
Of course, he didn't know about the agreement reached between Huang Zhiting and the Zhao family. In fact, Huang Zhiting didn't really care about Bazhai Land, Longzhou, which she wanted.
Cen Qi Gongzi looked sad and said: "Futai, Futai's condition cannot be delayed any longer... I think it is necessary to find out the truth as early as possible."
Gao Pragmatic just wanted to tell Cen Ling, don't think that I can't find the problem without you. But Cen Ling's answer was that it would be more efficient with me.
Now that the bottom line is clear, we can have a good talk. Gao Pingshi smiled and said, "Well, Master Cen Qi is right. In that case, Master Qi might as well tell you who is causing trouble... As for Master Qi before Of course, this book will also help with what I'm talking about."
After all, Gao Pragmatic was also the number one scholar in the Sixth Rank. He was a close minister of the emperor. Cen Ling still believed in his credibility for the time being. Now that he said so, Cen Ling had no choice but to believe it, so he said: "Fu Taizhong Gu was the envoy of Mo Chao that time. Someone among the ministers used their hands and feet."
Gao Pingshi's pupils shrank slightly and asked: "How did the Seventh Young Master know?"
Cen Qi Gongzi did not hide anything, and said: "The chieftain of the Mo family in Xincheng has always been close to my Cen family, and they and the Mo Dynasty...well, they were the same clan in the past. They have some contact and know some inside information."
Gao Pinggong said sincerely: You, Mr. Cen Qi, are a bit ruthless when it comes to betraying your teammates. This piece of news alone is enough for the court to serve Mo's toast in one pot.
However, he may have misunderstood Cen Ling, because Cen Ling immediately said: "Mo family was greatly shocked after knowing the news, and did not dare to risk betraying his fellow clan members to report to Futai, so he had to report the news to Futai.
Tell your subordinates, who will convey it to them..."
Mo's Chieftain only had Xincheng County, Gao Pragmatic didn't take it seriously, but he might as well give Cen Ling some face, and waved his hands indifferently: "Since they didn't report the knowledge, this matter could have been temporarily ignored.
No investigation."
"But." Gao Pragmatic suddenly came to a turning point: "What I can't understand is that even if the Mo family and Mo Chao are from the same clan, after all, they have been separated for many years, how can Mo Chao do such a treasonous thing and let the Mo family do it?
Does the chieftain know?"
Cen Qi Gongzi explained: "The lower officials were about to report this matter. The reason why Chieftain Mo was so anxious was because they were deceived by Mo Chao in this matter, and they inadvertently did a bad thing."
Gao Pragmatic frowned: "What do you mean by this? What did they do?"
Cen Qi Gongzi sighed and said: "In the previous rebellion in the Eight Villages, although my court's heavenly soldiers achieved brilliant results and defeated the rebel bandits in the Eight Villages in one fell swoop, there were still many powerful figures among the Yao people in the Eight Villages who fled, among them
Someone concealed his identity, pretended to be a Yao from other areas, and fled to the nearby Xincheng County. There were several people here who could use the Yao Gu, and they were taken in by the Mo family... Later, Mo Chao got the news for some reason,
I tried to find a way to find a way to get some from the Mo family, but Mo family gave them up for the sake of fellow clan members."
Gao Jingshi no longer needs him to make up the rest - this is obviously Mo Chao spending money to buy a few masters of poison from Mo's toast to harm Zhang Ren. Mo's toast is either pretending not to know, or
They simply didn't report the information and allowed Mo Chao to do whatever he wanted. Of course, it's also possible that they didn't expect Mo Chao to do such a big deal.
It's just that there is a very critical issue here that cannot be explained clearly.
Gao pragmatic interrupted Mr. Cen Qi and asked: "We don't need to talk about Chieftain Mo's fault for the time being. What I can't figure out right now is the Mo Dynasty. Did they take the wrong medicine? The so-called 'King Qian' who is in charge of his own army."
Mo Jingdian just died of illness, and instead of guarding Li Chao from taking advantage of the situation, they came to tease my Ming Dynasty tiger beard. Is it because they were worried that their death would not be miserable enough?"