The news that the emperor personally went to Baiyulou to attend Gao Pragmatic's birthday banquet and invited him to dine with him spread throughout the capital on May 26th.
As soon as this news came out, there were secret rumors in the capital a few days ago that the emperor was extremely dissatisfied with Gao Pingshi's failure to capture him under such a good situation. Therefore, in the battle of Monan, everyone who participated in the battle of Monan was rewarded, and he was the only servant with full power.
As soon as the imperial envoys put it in a high cabinet, he immediately failed to attack.
After all, if the emperor was really dissatisfied, how could he attend the minister's birthday banquet with a smile on his face, and even invite him to the banquet? As for the gifts the emperor gave when he went to celebrate his birthday, such as "a pair of white jade stones" and "two pairs of inkstones"
It's just a bunch of jewelry and artifacts, but that's not important, so I might as well not mention it.
It is certainly difficult for Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang and other military ministers to be given these things by the emperor, but after so many years, Gao Pragmatic has already received many such rewards. He usually carries Hetian jade waist pendants and other items, and even the emperor directly received them.
There is no second honor in the world for taking off the favor bestowed upon him.
It seems that the relationship between the emperor and Gao Pragmatic has no problems at all as rumored, and is still very good.
However, in this way, the issue of the highly pragmatic reward that had been difficult to achieve in the past few days seemed very abrupt. The rumors in the capital took a new change in due course, and evolved into how the emperor wanted to reward him?
After what happened today, no official in Beijing still thinks that the emperor does not want to reward him. Everyone can see that the problem now is probably that the emperor wants to reward him heavily, but he has some scruples.
What kind of reward would actually make the emperor scruple?
This issue even once overwhelmed the main topic of discussion in Beijing in recent times: Princess Yongning's wedding.
Regarding the wedding of Princess Yongning, Gao Pangshi had already learned the news before he returned to Beijing. He was still in Changping at that time.
For Princess Yongning, Gao Pragmatic's feelings are somewhat complex and subtle.
First of all, it is certain that he has never considered Princess Shang. This is caused by the Ming Dynasty's system. He is not a person who would consider changing the country's system for personal emotional issues, so Princess Yongning's origin has already determined their relationship.
It's unfavorable.
But having said that, when it comes to Princess Yongning specifically, Gao Pragmatic still has a good impression of her. This kind of good impression is not about love, but is generally the kind of positive attitude toward a girl, so he is not free to marry Princess Yongning.
The inevitable ending is somewhat regrettable.
Especially when the other person has made it clear that he has a crush on him.
After Zhu Yijun left, the excitement in Baiyu Tower did not dissipate immediately. It was not until late in the evening that everyone left Jianxinzhai before the city gate closed.
Originally, they didn't have to worry about the city gate closing. After all, with such a large group of high-ranking officials, how could the city gate guards dare to stop them? But as luck would have it, the emperor came today, and everyone felt that they still had to give the emperor some face.
Otherwise, if so many high-ranking officials and nobles came to the city at night, wouldn't they be making fun of the imperial system in front of the emperor? Everyone would be embarrassed by that time.
Gao pragmatic does not go back to the city to spend the night because he has more free time now.
At present, his status in Zhan Shifu is very high, but he is not the one in charge of the affairs. He is a bit like a "free person". His status in the Hanlin Academy is not bad, but his main responsibilities in the Hanlin Academy are
But it is a part-time job - to give an official lecture on the feast day, so it is not like in the past, he must go to the Hanlin Academy early in the morning to order Mao (his main job is the Zuo Shuzi of Zhan Shifu, and the Hanlin Academy is a part-time official)
, in this way, as long as he does not need to give lectures the next day, he will have plenty of time.
Of course, to say the least, given his current situation, it would be difficult for someone to blame him for arriving late and leaving early - how stupid would he have to be to sue a favored minister like Gao Xiangpang over such a trivial matter?
So Gao Pragmatic did not go back to the city tonight, but went to Jian Xinzhai to deal with various personal matters that had been backlogged for two months.
The Jinghua Group is really getting bigger now. Although Gao Pragmatic is a qualified hands-off shopkeeper who is very good at grasping the big ones and letting go of the small ones, there are so many branches under Jinghua, even though each department has only submitted three items that need to be handled by him personally in the past two months.
It would take a lot of time for him to do it.
There are most industrial matters, but there are not many troubles. They mainly report on various progress. Gao Pragmatic usually just looks at it, and if he can give a reply of one or two sentences, it means he attaches great importance to it. Most of the replies are just "yes", "
Got it", "carry on as usual" and so on.
However, there were still two or three things that Gao Pragmatic thought about carefully for a while before he approved them.
The first thing is the progress of the "Taiwan Strategy" that Gao Qi is responsible for. According to Gao Qi, there are still some pirates on the island of Taiwan, but most of them are insignificant and have complicated origins. Some are pirates from the Fujian Sea who were previously broken up and disabled.
Some of the remaining bandits in the alliance were Japanese pirates who couldn't get along in Japan or in the Ming Dynasty, and some of the more bizarre ones were actually pirates from Southeast Asia.
The first two have been introduced a long time ago, and they probably haven't changed much, so I won't go into details here. However, those Nanyang pirates are more interesting.
According to Gao Qi's investigation, the number of this group of people is not large, but their origins are very complicated. There are pirates from several indigenous countries in Southeast Asia, and the reason why they came to the vicinity of the Ming Dynasty was actually because they were killed by the Portuguese.
He was beaten until there was nowhere to go.
Gao Pangshi didn't pay much attention to these Nanyang pirates until he read the news from Annan, and then he changed his mind and asked Gao Qi to find a way to conquer these Nanyang pirates - at least temporarily. How to deal with the future
Say it again.
As for the reason for doing this, it stemmed from a minor trouble.
Annan sent a report saying that while Gao Jing was exploring the sea outside Champa in southern Annan, he encountered the Folangji fleet flying the flag of the Toungoo Dynasty of Myanmar. For some unknown reason, the other party put up a threatening posture and threatened to
Forcibly drive Gao Jing's fleet away from the sea area where the incident occurred.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Gao Pragmatic learned from the British more than a hundred years later in the original history, and taught his own fleet to dare to "fight the enemy when seeing it", so where is Gao Jing?
He was willing to retreat and directly raised the battle flag, and a naval battle broke out between the two sides.
In this naval battle, Gao Jing did not gain much advantage. One armed transport ship was sunk, one was severely damaged and abandoned, and many others were damaged. However, the other side did not gain much either. Four warships suffered heavy losses, and one more ship was damaged.
The ship surrendered after being surrounded.
Judging from the results of the battle, Gao Pragmatic tended to think that his fleet performed slightly worse than the Portuguese. However, because the fleet led by Gao Jing had a relatively obvious numerical advantage - he had more than 20 ships of various sizes at the time, while the opponent only had seven.
Big ships but no small boats - so in the end it was the Portuguese who took the lead in evacuating the sea area where the incident occurred.
Theoretically speaking, Gao Jing's fleet won this naval battle. Gao Jing himself also said in his report that he won the "Battle of Bundulang Offshore".
Off the coast of Bondulang? Gao Pragmatic checked the map and suddenly discovered that this place was actually near Cam Ranh Bay in later generations - the area including Cam Ranh Bay is currently called Bondurang.
He vaguely guessed what Gao Jing was going there for, and the Portuguese's purpose might be similar.
However, the fact that the Portuguese were flying under the banner of the Toungoo Dynasty of Myanmar made Gao Pragmatic a little wary. He remembered that the Toungoo Dynasty seemed to have hired a small number of Portuguese mercenaries in history. Could it be possible that it has started now?
Isn't this... going to have a negative impact on the Indochina strategy that is being prepared? Although Liu Wei is a very good fighter, he has never fought against Western mercenaries, so I don't know if there will be any problems.
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No, I have to mention to Zhu Yijun next time I see him that he needs to re-equip some of the Wanli-style weapons on the Yunnan side, or at least re-equip Liu Wei's troops. If this is not possible, then at least he must re-equip his "
"Jiang Wa Yi Ding" had to change his costume, otherwise I would feel a little unsure.
Both of these matters are related to the fleet. Although Gao Pragmatic takes it seriously, he is not nervous. After all, his shipbuilding plan is proceeding steadily. It is nothing more than spending money and time. Portugal will be annexed by Spain soon. When the time comes, they will
The forces in Asia will definitely be in chaos for a while, but I still have time.
The third thing really surprised him.
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