Chapter 115 Talking about Cen Ling (4 updates exceeded 10,000)
Letting Huang Zhiting temporarily take charge of the state affairs was not a whim of Gao Zhiting. In fact, he had already had such an idea long before he sent out troops. The biggest advantage of Huang Zhiting temporarily taking charge of the state affairs of Simingzhou is naturally that she has the closest personal relationship with him.
, but the more fundamental reason is her correct understanding of the relationship between the chieftain and the court.
An overly ambitious chieftain is definitely not a pragmatic choice. He just needs to use the chieftain's power to drive away tigers and wolves, and then achieve the same effect as Mu Yingshi's town in Yunnan in Annan. He does not intend to push the chieftain to go out and form his own country.
Therefore, chieftains like Huang Zhiting who insisted on avoiding serious confrontation with the imperial court were in line with his expectations.
What's more, judging from Huang Zhiting's attitude today, Gao Pragmatic felt that she had a good impression of him, and she probably really regarded him as a friend - I hope she wasn't being sentimental.
However, recalling Huang Zhiting's exaggerated acting skills before, Gao Pragmatic felt that her performance today was really unlikely to be fake. Although there is a saying in later generations that "women are all born actors", being born does not mean genius, and he does not
I believe that Huang Zhiting's acting skills have improved so rapidly.
It is not difficult to convince Huang Zhiting. After all, this is a good thing that will be of great benefit to the Huang family. Just make her believe that nothing will happen to her.
After persuading Huang Zhiting, Gao Pragmatic ordered someone to call Cen Ling and talk to him about Sicheng Prefecture.
Cen Ling expected that Gao Jingshi would meet him after the war to discuss getting rid of Huang Ma, but he did not expect Gao Jingshi to be so impatient. He had just settled Siming Prefecture and began to consider Sicheng.
He had some doubts as to whether Gao Pragmatic planned to take advantage of this opportunity to lead troops directly to Sicheng, deal with Huang Ma's problem first, and then return to Guilin with the troops.
However, after listening to his doubts, Gao Wushi made it clear that this was not the case, because he had already planned to let the army take over. After hearing this, Cen Ling felt relieved.
In fact, Gao Pragmatic really considered leading the army to fight directly, but there were two problems that could not be solved. First, if he did this, his promise to keep Cen Ling secret would not be fulfilled; second, Guangxi's finances were too poor, and this 10,000
The large army spent nearly 10,000 taels of silver just on Gao Pragmatic's order to reward them. If they went to Sicheng again, Guangxi's finances might go bankrupt when Sicheng was settled.
In fact, this is not true. Guangxi's finance has actually gone bankrupt a long time ago. Not only does it now have a total of more than 70,000 taels of salary arrears on its butt, it also needs subsidies from Guangdong every month to maintain it.
If Liu Yao hadn't allocated a batch of sea salt produced in Lianzhou from Guangdong to Guangxi itself to sell during the Ping Bazhai Rebellion last year, Guangxi's treasury would have been starved to death by now.
Gao Pragmatic does have money, and he doesn't even mind spending some money to make the current situation look better, but this kind of thing cannot be done because it is taboo.
"Eating the emperor's food" is a matter of course, but if there is no emperor's food to eat, but we eat the food of your high patrol, then who are we working for?
Relieving the refugees is a charitable act, but relieving the army is an evil intention.
Therefore, if the army's expedition is now complete, it can end as soon as possible. If it hangs out for some more time, it will not be rewarded when it returns, and it will have to mutiny.
"I originally planned to accompany you to Sicheng Prefecture with only my family members and honor guards." Gao Pingshi smiled slightly and said: "In your opinion, since Huang Ma dares to put your brother under house arrest, will he also have the guts to put me, the patrolman, under house arrest?"
Is it buttoned?"
Cen Ling was a little in disbelief, and cautiously advised: "By the way, I think this matter needs to be reconsidered. Huang Ma's behavior is quite unconventional, especially since he has been used to arrogant and domineering in Lingyun City in the past few years.
, I’m afraid I don’t have much sense left, if what happens…”
Gao Pingshi asked: "If I want to go to Lingyun City for inspection, does he dare to stop me?"
"This..." Cen Ling frowned slightly and thought for a while, then said: "Generally speaking, none of the previous Guangxi patrol inspectors, at least within the years known to Xianguan, went to Lingyun City for inspection. However,
Of course, Yintai has the power to patrol. Although Huang Ma is bold, he should not be so arrogant as to prevent the patrol from entering the city - especially since Yintai has just won a bloodless victory in Siming Prefecture, Huang Ma should also be worried
Set yourself on fire."
You can simply say that Huang Ma is worried that I have become arrogant and will not take him seriously. If he is blocked, he will send troops to attack Sicheng Prefecture in anger.
Obviously it sounded like this guy named Huang Ma had inflated himself...
However, Gao Pragmatic didn't bother to point it out. He just smiled and said, "As long as he doesn't dare to stop me from entering the city."
Cen Ling rolled his eyes and thought: "The servants under Yintai's command are indeed elite, but after all, the number is too small. There are only about three hundred people. Even if they enter Lingyun City... Huang Ma has been operating in Lingyun City for many years. Although in terms of military strength,
There are only two to three thousand people, but this is already ten times the number of troops. I am worried that if something goes wrong, there will be no room for relaxation."
Gao pragmatic raised his eyebrows slightly and asked: "Are everyone else in Lingyun City like Huang Ma? I mean, they all have a life-long relationship with Huang Ma, and they are willing to do everything for Huang Ma at any time.
Insert a knife?"
"That's definitely not the case." Cen Ling shook his head and said: "Huang Ma was originally just one of the earth eyes in Lingyun City. He was just slightly better because of his strength. At that time, he was the leader of the earth eyes that defended the city. Later, he was put under house arrest because of his audacity.
My brother, the others were either against him or were coerced and induced by him, and finally they were tied to him, but to say that they are all of the same mind as Huang Ma, I will never believe it."
"That's it." Gao Pragmatic smiled: "As long as they are not completely of the same mind, there are ways to think about things. Besides, I don't think Huang Ma dares to do anything extraordinary to me, because I and Brother Ling
completely different."
Cen Ling didn't know where Gao Pragmatic had such confidence, but he still cooperated and said: "Please give me some advice."
Gao pragmatically said: "Brother Ling is the chieftain of Sicheng Prefecture. To a certain extent, as long as the court does not interfere, he is the king of Sicheng - that means that as long as Huang Ma controls your brother, your subordinates will
Including you, everyone will be careful and no one dares to act rashly.
At least, before Huang Ma clearly wants to usurp power, there will be no rash actions, because no matter what, Huang Ma always acts under the name of your brother. The chieftains in the entire western and southern Guangxi have also been treating Huang
Madang is treated as your brother's confidant, this is proof."
Gao pragmatic paused for a moment, then showed a confident smile and said: "This is different. There are more than 100 censors in the imperial court. Any one of them can replace me at any time. Even if I fall in Lingyun City, I will not be the same."
What's the big deal for the court?
If Huang Ma really dares to be disrespectful to me, and the only effect is to anger the court, then he will definitely receive a thunderous blow from the court... Do you think he has such courage?"
"Of course this is the truth." Cen Ling frowned, still a little uneasy: "I'm afraid something will happen after I enter the city. After all, Huang Ma has a guilty conscience.
His misunderstanding may lead to him taking risks, and the lower officials still feel that doing so is a bit dangerous. Between the lower officials, they might as well rush to Qingyuan Prefecture, and then summon the chief chieftains of various chieftains in western Guangxi to come to see him. In this way, as long as Huang Ma dares
Go, kill him on the platform like killing a dog, why take such a risk to go to Lingyun City?"
Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "As far as I know, whenever there is something like what you just said in the past few years, the representative of Sicheng is you, Mr. Cen Qi. If I do the same thing, Huang Ma will definitely do it in the name of your brother."
If we ask you to go to Qingyuan Mansion, won't our busy work be in vain? Besides...forget it, let's just settle this matter."
Gao Pragmatic didn't finish his "Let's talk". In fact, the reason was very simple. He was very pressed for time. Now that the Huang family's matter was basically settled, he had to quickly solve the Cen family's problem so that the two families could concentrate their efforts.
Contribute to his grand plan.
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