The people sent by the Gaizhou Bingxian Yamen were not of high rank. In theory, they were not even people from the Bingxian Yamen. They were people from Yuanma Temple in Liaodong - one of the four temple chiefs of Yuanma Temple and a sixth-rank official.
As mentioned before, the Bingxian yamen is actually empty, with no clear subordinate officers. The Bingxian yamen elsewhere have the guards as their direct subordinates, and the yamen themselves rely on Bingxian's own masters or servants to employ people to handle affairs.
However, the Minister of Yuanmasi in Liaodong is a little bit special. He has people from the Yuanmasi organization at his disposal, and the functions of Yuanmasi have been greatly degraded, and he is relatively idle at ordinary times. He can be used as a subordinate of the military constitution, which is convenient for both worlds.
, each gets his own benefit.
This temple minister's name is Fang Zhan. He has a good family background, and it is not easy to climb to the sixth rank. He is usually very cautious, but this time he came to Li Chengliang to recruit people from Li Chengliang's army with his high and pragmatic power, and he was actually very excited.
Although he was a civil servant with an astonishing pragmatic background, Li Chengliang's status in Liaodong was too special, and the Li family in Tieling was not so domineering for a day or two, so he was a little nervous about taking on the job this time, for fear that Li Chengliang's Qiu Ba would lose his temper.
Seven-twenty-one, give him a slap in the face first, then things will go badly wrong.
Looking at the problem from his perspective, it is obviously different from Gao Pragmatic. Once Li Chengliang cannot control his anger, he will be the unlucky one on the spot.
So he is easy to talk to.
Li Chengliang's army was silent for a long time before finally word came out that Ning Yuanbo knew Gao Bingxian's intention of sending His Excellency and would not embarrass you. However, Ning Yuanbo was furious at this time and was punishing Li Rugui, so...
Please wait a moment, Si Cheng.
A big stone fell in the heart of Fang Zhan, the Prime Minister of Fang Temple. He quickly expressed knowingly that he could understand, and asked Uncle Ning Yuan not to mind. After he finished handling it, he would take care of him.
He even added at the end: "I'm so offended, please forgive me, Uncle Ning Yuan."
Unfortunately, after the news reached the camp again, Ning Yuanbo did not respond.
In fact, Li Chengliang has no time to respond to a Qingshui idle official like him now. He and Li Chengcai are urgently discussing the significance of this incident.
Li Chengcai had recovered from the shock at this time, and his usual shrewdness returned to him. He thought for a moment and said to Li Chengliang: "Brother, I think there are two possibilities for Gao Qiuzhen's move."
"Stop being pretentious and tell me straight, what are the two possibilities?" Li Chengliang was in a bad mood and waved his hands casually.
It was about his son's life. Of course, Li Chengcai had no interest in showing off, and immediately said: "The first possibility is that Gao Qiuzhen's move has no special purpose. It is just self-reliance. A warrior like Gui cannot be allowed to dare to ignore him.
authority, so without too much consideration, he directly ordered the arrest."
"Oh?" Li Chengliang frowned and said in disbelief: "Isn't it true? This big boss of Xiaoge does things so impulsively and recklessly, regardless of the consequences?"
Unexpectedly, Li Chengcai shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Brother, it's not that the younger brother has the ambition of others and destroys his own prestige. If someone else does this, it will obviously be 'impulsive and reckless, regardless of the consequences', but... I'm seeking truth."
If you do it, I’m afraid it won’t count.”
Li Chengliang was stunned for a moment and did not react for a moment.
And Li Chengcai didn't hold back anything, and explained directly: "Brother, you might as well think about it, if he does this now, what will be the consequences? What can brother do to him?"
"This..." Li Chengliang's mouth twitched, and he secretly resented: Damn it, it seems like you really can't do anything to him?
Well, first of all, Gao Gao was pragmatic and reasonable. He dealt a card to Fuzhou and asked Li Rugui to go to the meeting. But Li Rugui not only did not go, but also led people to "conquer" without the consent of his direct superior.
Li Rugui committed three major taboos here: first, he ignored the order from the summit; second, he left his post without authorization; third, he skipped the military preparation road and directly obeyed the dispatch of the commander-in-chief.
Theoretically speaking, the first two crimes are more culpable. According to the Ming Dynasty's rules, they are at least enough to be "careless". If there is a punishment, it is usually "to stay idle".
But in fact, the guilt of the third taboo is more serious, because the establishment of the military preparation road itself was established under the "supervisor-military preparation" system to limit and decentralize the general troops. It serves as the commander of the guard post.
, acting directly on the orders of the commander-in-chief without the consent of the military commander, this is something the court will never tolerate!
Because this means the loss of civilian power to control the military, and it means that the military commander is showing signs of losing control!
Therefore, this matter is completely pragmatic and reasonable, and Li Chengliang, let alone counterattack, even has to quickly find a way to distance himself from the relationship and extricate himself from it.
The only thing he felt lucky about was that he was confident enough that he didn't let Li Rugui lead the troops in the expedition, but asked him to only take the servants.
This article gave him a chance to defend himself, and also gave Li Rugui a chance to reduce his punishment - you see, although I went by myself, I didn't lead any troops. I only did this on the orders of my uncle, not on the orders of the commander-in-chief.
Life.
Maybe it's a bit far-fetched, but it's still a statement.
It is said that there is no way to counteract high pragmatism. The above is true, and there is also momentum.
The reason why Gao Pingshi's arrival was more taboo to Li Chengliang than Liang Menglong, the governor of Jiliao, and Zhou Yong, the governor of Liaodong, was obviously not because of his official position, but because of his background.
Liang Menglong has always been a rootless person after the fall of Zhang Juzheng. He was appointed governor simply because of the favor of Gao Gong and Guo Pu. In fact, he was not a Gao party member, so in Li Chengliang's view, his officialdom foundation was not stable.
, once something happens, the court or, to be more precise, the cabinet may not have much support for him.
Moreover, Zhang Siwei is now the chief assistant. No one knows what his attitude is towards Liang Menglong. What if he has different views from Gao Gong and Guo Pu and does not plan to use Liang Menglong?
Therefore, although Li Chengliang would not take the initiative to confront Liang Menglong, he was not afraid of Liang Menglong. In his opinion, as long as he fought the battle well and the court believed that he was indispensable in Liaodong, then Liang Menglong would not embarrass him for no reason.
As for Zhou Yong, not to mention, in Li Chengliang's view, this person's ability can only be said to be good or not bad, but he is senior enough and has no bad deeds or failures, so he took advantage of Gao Dang's gain and gained the position.
Being the governor of Liaodong is actually not a big deal.
Besides, Zhou Yong is not young and his physical condition is not very good. He may resign one day!
Li Chengliang even had a way to deal with them, especially Zhou Yong.
As long as he loses one or two battles in Liaodong, deliberately loses one or two cities, and reports to the court in advance that Zhou Yong's support for him is insufficient - whether it is materials or anything else, anyway, he relies on him first - it will become
After losing the city, the imperial court could not use Li Chengliang because of this, so it could only blame Zhou Yong.
So Li Chengliang is not afraid of Zhou Yong.
But being pragmatic... this is difficult to handle.
As the successor of Gao Gong and the future Prime Minister trained by the Real School, the support he can get in the court cannot be bought and changed by Li Chengliang with money - not to mention that it is useless with money. How can Li Chengliang and He De
Go and be pragmatic than rich?
And the method of defeating the battle and setting up a trap is not easy to use, because Gao Pangshi's jurisdiction is in southern Liaoning, and no one, be it Tumen or Jurchen, is interested in traveling that far now.