Until he walked out of the palace, Gao Jingshi couldn't fully understand what Princess Yongning meant by handing over the fiefdom to him, but he was too lazy to think about it. Anyway, it was always a good thing to set up a disaster relief fund. He planned to participate in it himself, and in this way
If so, it would be better to do it in the name of a princess - no matter who has ulterior motives, at least the princess of the Ming Dynasty cannot be trying to win over people's hearts and become a rebel, right? She is not a prince or anything, and even a three-year-old child wouldn't believe it if she told her.
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Overall, this incident was just an interlude for Gao Pragmatic, and he would have important things to do soon.
Early the next morning, the Superintendent of Ceremonies passed an imperial edict to the cabinet, specifically instructing the concubine Zuo Chunfang of Zhan Shifu and Gao Pangshi, the Imperial Academy's minister, to serve as imperial envoys and envoys with full authority for the canonization of King Shunyi, and to go north to the fortress to preside over matters related to the canonization;
Ordered Governor Xuan Zheng Luo to deploy troops to protect the imperial envoy and cooperate with the canonization;
Ordered Gao Wenjian, the governor of the three borders of Shaanxi Province, to guard the border and cooperate with the canonization matters;
Wandusi (centered on Xuanfu), Shanxixingdusi (centered on Datong), Shanxidusi (the rest of Shanxi) and other towns were ordered to mobilize troops and horses to respond at any time;
The governor of Jiliao, Liang Menglong, the commander-in-chief of Jizhen, Qi Jiguang, and the commander-in-chief of Liaodong were ordered to be on alert at all times, monitor the movements of Mongolia's Chahar, Duoyan, Taining and other departments, and report them at any time.
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Zhang Siwei didn't say anything after reading it, and let them all go. However, when re-drafting the edict, he added an additional sentence after Gao Pragmatic's line of "going north to the fortress to preside over matters related to the canonization": "to make a decision on the spur of the moment."
Then I thought about it and wrote four private letters myself and sent them to Zheng Luo, Xiao Daheng, Jia Yingyuan and Xin Yingqian respectively.
Of these four people, Zheng Luo was the governor of Xuanda, Xiao Daheng was the governor of Xuanfu, Jia Yingyuan was the governor of Datong, and Xin Yingqian was the governor of Shanxi.
Zheng Luo was from Hebei, but he had been working in Shanxi for a long time. Politically, he belonged to the faction of Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei. The situation of the other three people was similar. Although they were not from Shanxi (the Ming Dynasty system did not allow natives to serve as officials, there were occasional exceptions), they were all
Having served as an official in Shanxi for many years, he was already a typical member of the Jin Party - at this time, it would be difficult for someone who was not a member of the Jin Party to work in Shanxi for a long time.
The only difference between these four feudal officials is that Zheng Luo was a Jinshi in the 35th year of Jiajing, while the other three were all Jinshi in the 41st year of Jiajing.
Zheng Luo introduced it before, so I won’t mention it. The other three students of this subject in the same year were Yuan Wei as the examiner.
Yuan Wei is a famous Qingci prime minister, adhering to the fine tradition of the Ming Dynasty where there are so many prodigies. He was also a child prodigy when he was a child.
When Yuan Wei was ten years old, he followed his father to Qingdao in his hometown to watch the county magistrate's trial. Because he was young, he stood at the front. Seeing his concentration and extraordinary aura, the county magistrate asked, "Whose kid is this?"
His father replied: "This is a student dog." The county magistrate heard that he called himself a student and knew that he was a scholar, so he asked again: "Have you ever studied correctly?" Yuan's father replied: "Fang has not been studying for a long time."
At this time, the county magistrate saw two white cranes flying in the sky above the Taoist temple, and a pair came out: "Two cranes are flying above the Sanqing Hall." Yuan Wei responded: "Six dragons are flying in the five-color clouds."
The county magistrate couldn't help but loudly said to Xuezheng on the side: "Good answer! Good answer!"
Xue Zheng is more strict, and he said: "I can only say that he used it well. This is a flexible use of 'five-color clouds and six dragons' in Lin Honggong's poem. He just changed one word. I think he just read this poem.
." The county magistrate smiled and said, "This is not easy either."
Then the county magistrate gave Yuan Wei another couplet: "If you throw a child in all directions, it will reveal six sides."
Yuan Wei immediately replied: "My husband is a man of virtue and talent."
Now, even Xuezheng had to admire Xiao Yuan Wei's fluent answers and praised him: "What a prodigy!"
The story of hurting Zhongyong did not happen to Yuan Wei. This man worked hard all the way to the end. In the 16th year of Jiajing, he took part in the provincial examination and won the second place. The following year, he won the first place in the joint examination.
When it came to the palace examination, the cabinet initially proposed Lu Shidao as the number one scholar, and the Jiajing imperial review gave him the fifth place in the top two, changing Yuan Wei to the first place. Unfortunately, when the Wenhua Palace read the papers, Yuan Wei was too frank in his remarks, so he changed it to the third place.
, promoted Mao Zan to the first place.
But no matter what, Yuan Wei's writing is spot on. There is a very famous couplet, which has been used as the protagonist in many novels. It is actually Yuan Wei's wonderful couplet. The couplet is written like this:
Luoshui Xuangui first presented auspiciousness, the yin number is nine, the yang number is nine, the number is nine-nine-eighty-one, the number is connected to the Tao, the Tao is in line with the Yuanshi Tianzun, Yicheng feels it;
The two red phoenixes of Qishan Mountain are auspicious. The male calls six times and the female calls six times. Six or six thirty-six sounds can be heard in the sky. He was born as Emperor Jiajing and has a long life.
However, the two biggest characteristics of this person are not that he is good at writing Qingci, but that he is both good at selecting talents and jealous of talented people.
There are a lot of jealousy things, so I won’t talk about them for now and let’s talk about talent selection.
The three feudal officials just now are said to have earned a lot of respect for the Jiajing 41st Golden List, which is enough to prove Yuan Ge's ability in selecting talents. But if we talk about the other three he selected, then Xiao Daheng and the other three are
Being compared.
Because the other three are Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, and Yu Youding.
Wang Xijue is still observing filial piety in his hometown, let alone mentioning that Shen Shixing and Yu Youding are the two current cabinet elders.
What does this mean? Of course, first of all, it means that Yuan Ge Lao's ability in selecting talents in the past is reliable, but secondly, it means that these three feudal officials of the Jin Party are actually the same year as Shen Shixing and Yu Youding.
If they are ordinary Jin Party officials - referring to those officials from Shanxi - then Zhang Siwei may not need to write a letter to "say hello" at all, because they are also high-ranking Party members and have learned from the Party. Since Gao Pragmatic went there with the title of Plenipotentiary Envoy,
They will definitely cooperate vigorously.
But the three Xiao Dahengs are the same age as Shen Shixing and Yu Youding, so we have to pay attention to it. Although generally speaking, they should at least not hold back Gao Pragmatic, but in the unlikely event, Shen Shixing or Yu Youding
Why did Ding La have the nerve to write a letter in person asking them for help?
Zhang Siwei had to guard against this move, especially on the Shanxi border. He would never tolerate any mistakes.
He was secretly arranging things here, and Gao Pragmatic was not idle either. He also started arranging things overtly and covertly.
Cao Gan was still on his way back, but that didn't mean he stopped ordering other subordinates of Jinghua Trading Company. He first sent people from Jinghua Trading Company to report to Han Naji, saying that he was about to come as a plenipotentiary envoy.
Tumut presided over the canonization matters and asked him to secretly mobilize his troops to control his territory, especially the crucial Daban Shengcheng.
Then he crossed Cao Gan, mobilized the cavalry from Xuan, Da, and Shanxi, plus some of the cavalry trained in Jizhen, and put them together for selection, and selected 3,000 people as his personal guards for this trip.
These three thousand cavalrymen were equipped with one person and two horses, and were equipped with "Wanli Type 1 Bayonet Style" muskets that had not yet been installed by the imperial court. However, since they were mobilized near the capital, Gao pragmatic hesitated and finally did not dare to mobilize the artillery.
He will definitely need the artillery in the end, but he will probably have to "borrow" it - after arriving in Datong, he will ask Xuandasan Town to allocate a batch of artillery made by Jinghua for him to use. Anyway, they are all their own products. If there is any loss, he will definitely be
Something that can be compensated.
Now that he has contacted Han Naji, Zhongjin Hatun will of course have to send someone to contact him. Moreover, Gao Pragmatic relied on his reputation and asked his senior brother Wu Dui for a handwritten letter - this Grand Sima was from Zhongjin.
Hartun's "adopted father", his reputation and pragmatism are all in vain.
After these things were done, Gao Jingshi only had to wait. One was to wait for Cao Gan to return, and the other was to wait for the elite troops to be recruited from the Beijing camp - he was an imperial envoy and had done such a big thing as canonization. No matter how useless the Beijing camp was,
You have to prepare some good stuff for him to serve as a guard of honor for the imperial envoy, right?
However, Gao pragmatically had a great reputation. When Zhu Yingzhen, Zhang Yuangong and others heard that he was the envoy to Tumote, they didn't even wait for Gao pragmatically to go find them. They took the initiative to go to the Fifth Army Governor's Mansion to verify their military status and give them to him seriously.
Five hundred "elite cavalry" were assigned to each.
It's hard to say whether they are elite or not, but the appearance of these thousand cavalry is really good, and they are more powerful than Gao Pragmatic's own cavalry - the Gao family's cavalry only wears a piece of armor, while these "elite cavalry" are fully armored.
Armed.
After Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong finished this thing, they came to claim credit. They praised these thousand cavalry as rare in the sky and unparalleled in the earth. In short, they wanted to express one meaning: This is all because of your face, Gao Longwen. It would have been someone else.
, let alone a thousand cavalry, give them two hundred cavalry, do they want it or not, and they are randomly selected, how can they select the best like this?
Gao pragmatically discovered that although the two of them came together this time, the "errand" of being courteous mainly fell on Zhang Yuangong. As soon as Gao pragmatically rolled his eyes, he understood what was going on - Zhang Rong had just died, and Zhang Yuangong had not yet ascended the throne.
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The title of the Ming Dynasty was not inherited by my son immediately after my death. It had to go through a period of investigation. During this period, if anything illegal or unruly happened, the title might not be successful.
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As for how long the inspection period is, there is no guarantee. Some people finish the inspection in a year and a half, while some people conduct inspections for ten years or even longer.
Of course Zhang Yuangong didn't want to be under investigation for ten years, so it was perfectly normal to show courtesy in front of a close official of the emperor like Gao Pingshi.
But it was impossible for Gao Pragmatic to give him any confidence in this kind of matter. He only said some words such as "Thank you for your kindness, thank you very much", which made Zhang Yuangong feel very anxious.
When he finally left, he almost couldn't help but remind him, but fortunately Zhu Yingzhen saw the opportunity quickly and interrupted.
After leaving the Gao Mansion, Zhang Yuangong asked Zhu Yingzhen why he didn't let him speak. Zhu Yingzhen shook his head and said: "Who do you think you are? He will know what you are going to fart as soon as you raise your butt, so why do you bother? It's yours."
It will be yours after all, and you can't run away. Instead of worrying that he doesn't understand what you mean, you might as well think about how to make him happier."
Zhang Yuangong sighed: "You're right, I'm too impatient... But the cavalry we can mobilize - I mean it's barely bearable, that's all, how can I make him happy?
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Zhu Yingzhen thought for a moment and said, "I saw the Gao family cavalry gathered over at Xinzhai. I heard they have no cannons."
"You mean..." Zhang Yuangong's eyes lit up: "Let's bring more cannons and give them to him when the time comes?"