Of course, Cen Ling had also considered this issue of Gao Pragmatic, but after much deliberation, he could only think of one possibility, that is, Mo Chao hoped that Guangxi would be in chaos for a while, and if anything happened, they would first wait for them to find a replacement for Mo Jingdian.
Let’s talk about the selection of the commander-in-chief.
Cen Ling told Gao Pragmatic his judgment or should be said to be his guess. After hearing this, Gao Pragmatic was still a little skeptical. However, he did not know enough about Vietnam's history, so it was difficult to judge for a while.
Gao Pragmatic's current understanding of Annan mainly comes from what Zhang Ren and Huang Zhiting told him.
According to Zhang Ren and Huang Zhiting, when Mo Dengyong surrendered to the Ming Dynasty and asked for a title, the Ming Dynasty issued an edict to surrender the Annan Kingdom as the Annan Governor-General. After Mo Dengyong was granted the title of Annan Governor-General, Annan legally became the Ming Dynasty.
Territory, the Mo Dynasty became the only legal regime recognized by the Ming Dynasty - this is no joke. At this time, countries such as North Korea and Annan were recognized by the Ming Dynasty. Whether they were recognized by the Ming Dynasty or not was the difference between legal and illegal.
However, the recognition of the Mo Dynasty by the Ming Dynasty directly led to the intensification of the anti-Mo movement in the resurgent Li Dynasty, and anti-Mo incidents were raging in various places. The revived Hou Li Zhuangzong sent Ruan Gan, Zheng Jian, Zheng Gongneng, Lai Shirong and others to capture the western capital Thanh Hoa.
, occupied a large area of land in the south, and rebuilt the Later Li Dynasty in the Western Capital (however, the Ming Dynasty did not recognize it). The remaining ministers of the Later Li Dynasty went to defect to the Later Li Dynasty one after another, and the local officials of the Mo Dynasty who supported the Later Li Dynasty also defected to the Later Li Dynasty.
At this time, internal strife broke out in the Mo Dynasty, so after Mo Dengyong died of illness (1541), Mo Fuhai took power alone. Soon after, Mo Fuhai also died of illness, and his son Mo Fuyuan succeeded to the throne.
However, Siyang Hou Fan Ziyi did not recognize Mo Fuyuan's status, and made Mo Dengyong's son Hong Wang Mo Zhengzhong the emperor in Huayang, Yutianfu. This caused the Mo clan to fight for power and internal strife, and lost the opportunity to take advantage of Zhong to rejuvenate the Li Dynasty.
opportunity to launch an attack.
The civil strife in the Mo Dynasty caused the country's power to decline and it was impossible to eliminate the Later Li Dynasty. Annan thus entered the era of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
On the Le Chao side, Nguyen Gan, the representative of the anti-Mo Chao forces, was poisoned by his subordinates (1543). The real power was in the hands of Zheng Jian. Zheng Jian fought against the Mo Chao and took the initiative to attack many times. He also took advantage of the civil strife in the Mo Chao to incite the Mo Chao.
Generals Li Boli and Wu Wenmi defected to attack the Mo Dynasty, and their strength greatly increased.
After that, Zheng Jian's army attacked Tokyo (i.e. Thang Long), the capital of the Mo Dynasty. Emperor Mo Fuyuan fled to Jincheng, leaving Mo Jingdian to lead his troops to defend Tseng Long in Tokyo and repelled the Zheng army. After that, the Mo Dynasty fought against the Hou Li Dynasty many times.
There is a battle, and there is a winner and a loser for each other.
However, in general, the reason why Mo Dynasty was able to maintain such a situation did not rely on the support of the people or the power of the country, but on Mo Jingdian's personal leadership ability.
But now, Mo Jingdian died of illness.
So based on what Gao Pragmatic knew, Mo Chao should certainly be very nervous.
But... was Mo Chao so nervous that he poisoned the governor of Guangxi just to cause chaos in Guangxi because he was worried about Ming's interference?
No matter how Gao Pragmatic thought about it, he felt that this reason was really insufficient!
Although Zhang Ren is the governor of Guangxi, he is a wandering official. Even if he is really poisoned, the court just needs to issue an order and send a new governor of Guangxi to take over. Is it possible that Guangxi will still care about Zhang Ren?
Wouldn't his death lead to chaos?
To put it bluntly, when Wang Yangming took office in Guangdong and Guangxi, he was not so important, let alone Zhang Ren!
Therefore, this matter is somewhat unbelievable to Gao Pragmatic. In the words of later generations, the motive for committing the crime is unclear.
At this moment, he even doubted whether Cen Ling was deliberately inducing his thoughts, because from a motive point of view, the people most likely to poison Zhang Ren were not the Annan Mo Dynasty, but the chieftains of Guangxi.
During the previous night meeting with Zhang Ren, Gao Pingshi learned from Zhang Ren that he had only met with unfamiliar people three times.
The first is a group of Confucian teachers. This is directly excluded without even explaining.
The second one is the Annan mission, which was also eliminated by Gao Pragmatic at that time because the other party had no motive. Unexpectedly, today, Cen Ling pointed out that it was them who did it.
The third one was the one that Gao Pragmatic was most suspicious of at that time, which was the time when Liu Yaojie summoned a group of chieftains or chieftain representatives to meet with Zhang Ren.
The only trouble in the investigation of this meeting was that there were too many people present. Almost all the chieftains, big and small, came, including ten or twenty people named Cen and Huang. It made things very pragmatic for a while.
I don't know where to start looking.
Although Huang Zhiting has been in charge of the government affairs of the Siming Mansion for several years, according to Gao Pragmatic's recent observations, she is obviously afraid of the Ming Dynasty. It seems unreasonable to say that she sent someone to poison Zhang Ren.
So, what about Cen Ling? Is it possible that he is shouting to catch the thief?
Gao pragmatism feels that this possibility cannot be ruled out, at least until the internal chaos in Sicheng Prefecture is confirmed to be true.
Even from the perspective of Gao Pragmatic, a person who likes to play conspiracies, even if the civil unrest in Sicheng Prefecture is true, there is no guarantee that Cen Ling did not poison Zhang Ren - considering the worst case scenario, who knows whether Cen Ling played a trick
A serial plan, first poisoning Zhang Ren to kill the governor who advocated the restoration of the Bazhai area, and then using the real civil strife in Sicheng Prefecture to disturb his own vision, and then eliminate the suspicion of him poisoning Zhang Ren
?
Although Gao Pragmatic also doubted whether Cen Ling had such madness and skill, at least there was such a possibility, so he could not easily believe Cen Ling's words.
Guo Pu's evaluation of Gao's pragmatism back then may have come true now. Gao is really "over-calculated."
However, with his highly pragmatic acting skills, Cen Ling would naturally not realize that he was under suspicion, so he thought for a moment, still looked troubled, frowned deeply, and asked: "Mo Chao's current commander-in-chief—"
-Forget it, let’s talk about Lord Annan. What’s his name? Do you know anything about this person? What I mean is, do you think it’s possible for him to do such a mindless thing?”
Cen Ling originally proposed Mo Chao's poisoning theory. Of course he would not slap himself in the face. Gao Pingshi asked, obviously giving a ladder to Cen Ling. Cen Ling naturally climbed up the ladder decisively: "Xia Guan
I think it is possible for Mo Maoqia to do this."
"Oh? What's the reason?" Gao Pragmatic asked noncommittally.
Cen Ling immediately said: "This Mo Maoqia is the son of Mo Fuyuan, born in February of the 42nd year of Jiajing. On the seventh day of February of the following year, Mo Fuyuan died of eczema, and Mo Maoqia succeeded to the throne.
He was only two years old. Since Mo Maoqia was still young when he came to the throne, King Qian Mo Jingdian was in charge of military affairs, and King Ying Mo Dunrang was in charge of internal affairs. Other important Annan ministers such as Prince Consort Mo Yunan, Duke Shijun Ruan Jing, etc.
They were all promoted to the position of auxiliary ministers, taking charge of military power and trying their best to assist...
To put it simply, this person has never personally handled any government affairs since he succeeded to the throne. But now that Mo Jingdian, the pillar of the Mo Dynasty, has fallen, and Mo Maoqia, a young king, no matter what irrational things he does,
This action, I don’t think it’s surprising at all.”
This... seems to make some sense.
Gao Pragmatic was also a little shaken. If Mo Maoqia, the "Emperor" of the Mo Dynasty, was a young emperor with no experience in governing, then it is true that the possibility of his brain convulsions could not be completely ruled out. After all, although Mo Jingdian was the leader of the Mo Dynasty,
Tian Yuzhu, but maybe in Mo Maoqia's view, this is also a big mountain weighing on his head.
In his mind, Mo Jingdian might be able to compete with Huo Guang. In this case, it is possible that when Mo Jingdian dies, he will be excited and hope to do something to establish his authority.
Gao Pragmatic was a little annoyed. The matter of Zhang Renzhong's poison seemed to be getting more and more confusing.
