Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1064 Old Party Controversy, New Suspicions

Gao Yushi came out of the palace at the last moment before the palace locked its doors.

During today's meeting, he talked with Zhu Yijun about many things, and in the end the emperor stayed in the palace for a meal. He didn't even waste any time for the meal, and they kept talking about things.

After leaving the palace, I realized that not only the previous team of Fubiao had been waiting, but also Gao Mo had come.

After all, Gao Yushi rushed all the way back to the capital, and was invited into the palace as soon as he arrived in the capital. He is already a little tired, but Gao Mo is not a person who can't distinguish between priorities. He must have something to do when he came in person.

Sure enough, Gao Mo came with a large stack of greeting cards and invitations. Gao Wushi looked through them energetically, and couldn't help but joked: "I really don't know how good I am if I don't return to Beijing. I’m afraid there are sixty or seventy copies of invitations? If I go door-to-door for banquets and visits, it will take at least two months.”

Unexpectedly, Gao Mo said: "Master doesn't know, this is already a batch after the small ones have been screened, and the ones that have been screened out are those that the master will definitely not have time to see. The rest of what you are seeing now is either four or four. Beijing officials above rank and above, and foreign officials above rank three, are either nobles. In addition, there are two other categories, that is, the official of the Ke Dao and the same year as the master Geng Chen Ke Jinbang."

Gao Wushi smiled wryly and said, "I said how to search casually, and found that almost all of them are acquaintances."

Gao Mo didn't say a word, just put his head down and waited for orders. Gao Wushi knew that he was waiting for his schedule and which ones he would choose for banquets and visits.

Sighing, Gao Wushi said: "The emperor arranged an errand for me. In three days, I will temporarily serve as the co-examiner of the current subject examination and the examiner of the palace examination. According to the system, I will have to live in the Ministry of Rites for a period of time. They can't get out."

This situation was obviously beyond Gao Mo's expectation, he was taken aback for a moment before he said: "Then these..."

Gao Pragmatism waved his hand decisively: "Just pick two or three people who are absolutely necessary to see, and the others... use the examiner's rules to decline."

He was really tired, so he got into his big green sedan chair after speaking.In fact, Gao Wu rarely used sedan chairs in the capital before. Unless it was raining or something, he always rode a horse.

But the situation is different now. He is now a third-rank official and a governor, and he happens to be the Minister of the Ministry of War. If he "runs wildly" in the capital, he has to worry about being cited in several books, saying that he is domineering, so he can't Don't change the habit.

Taking a sedan chair also has the advantage of taking a sedan chair, that is, you can close your eyes and relax in the sedan chair, while Gao Mo outside is still riding a horse, and reports the situation to Gao Yushi while walking.

According to Gao Yushi's statement just now, Gao Mo picked out a few more important greetings and invitations, and asked Gao Yushi to make the final decision.

After Gao Wushi listened with his eyes closed, he pondered for a while and said, "Since Yuanfu has sent the invitation, he will definitely go, this is the first one."

Gao Mo agreed without any surprise.

"Shu Province is my yamen, and Da Sima has to go there. This is the second one."

The Shu Province is the Ministry of War, and Gao Yushi holds the rank of the right servant of the Ministry of War. Since Wu Dui has come to invite him, he has to give this face.Gao Mo agreed again.

"As for the third..."

Just as Gao Wushi said this, he suddenly heard someone shouting from the back of the team: "Senior Senior High School Wait a minute, the Supervisor of Rites has a message to send!"

Gao Mo outside said quickly: "Master, you are from the inner court. You just got off the basket from the gate of the palace. Do you want to see me?"

"Bring him here." Gao Wushi was a little surprised, and the supervisor sent a note?Even if there is a report for me, there is no need to be in such a hurry, why did you go when I was in the palace just now?
But after thinking about it, Huang Mengyu is now the supervisor of ceremonies. Although he usually speaks carelessly, he is by no means a reckless person. It must be something important to send me the letter in such a hurry.

Not long after, an eunuch from the inner court was brought to the green nun's sedan chair. Gao Yushi was more respectful to Huang Mengyu, and got off the sedan chair himself.

But what was unexpected was that the eunuch in the uniform of the young prison did not hand over the report, but took out a memorial, handed it to Gao Wushi, and said: "Don't blame Zhongcheng, I just shouted like that because I had to, this memorial The emperor saw it just now, and the emperor asked the servant to send it to Zhongcheng for a review...but the servant will have to take it back later."

Gao Wushi was quite surprised, but he just nodded calmly, took the memorial and read it.

It turns out that this memorial was reported by Liu Shizeng, the governor of Yunnan, as the "cause of the incident". The memorial is written like this:

Liu Shi, governor of Yunnan Province, once said to investigate the situation of barbarians: Mang Yinglong recruited Tengyue state guard officials to visit him in the eighth year of Wanli. The military preparations were afraid of Mubang Hanba's fraudulent schemes, so they recruited five people including Xiaokeng. , carrying coins and silk pommel horses, went into Burma as a detective.Unexpectedly, it was held by Han Ba, and Ba Suiyi gave it to the ancients with people and texts.

The thief was sent back from within, with a brocade cloth attached to it, and several kinds of crazy words were written in the bamboo leaf book. There was no intention of paying tribute, and he asked for the tribute's writing to come, and it was easy to set up Xuanfu, and spy on Teng Yong's writing to follow. Two things at one time, contradictory.Along with the general affairs of the committee, a notice is given, and gold and silk are given priority to, and rare ones are rewarded, so as to serve as a final tribute.Shimang chieftain died, and his son should be heir, but he did not see him.If he is not rewarded by the Han, and he is angry, he will pull him out, imprison him, and attack his land.This is so cruel and paradoxical.Today, however, it is necessary to devise strategies and plans in many ways, and it is not necessary to take the other's tribute or not.

Gao Wushi frowned slightly, then looked down and found that Liu Shizeng's essay had been written, and the following is Zhu Yijun's Zhu Zhu:
In the early years, the reckless chieftains were rebellious and robbed the chieftains. The local officials were careless and stole peace and created chaos. As a result, the fences were completely withdrawn and the borders were troubled. Ke even said that.

Shuwen and Zhupi are very simple, and in fact the matter is not serious.

To put it simply, Mang Yinglong was very inflated before, and he ordered the guard commanders and other officials from Tengchong and other prefectures in Yunnan to visit him. Hanba made a plan to divide, so he selected a few people who could understand Burmese to sneak into Myanmar and Mubang to investigate the situation.

As a result, these people were captured by Hanba as soon as they arrived in Mubang.Hanba was obviously not a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. After arresting these people, he confiscated their belongings and sent them to Myanmar.

The Burmese side wrote a "tribute book" that was not a "tribute book" at all, and the language was crazy, and even openly asked the court to change the candidates for the comfort envoy according to his wishes, and also peeped at Tengyue, Yongchang and other places.

According to the principle of courtesy first and soldiers later, the Yunnan side first persuaded them with good words and sent officials to Burma and Mupang to announce the decree. Hanba of Mupang accepted the gold and silk reward, saying that he was still loyal to Ming Dynasty and insisted on paying tribute.But something happened in Burma, and it happened that Mang Yinglong died of illness, and his son Mang Yingli succeeded him, so he refused to meet the envoy at all.

Not only that, Mang Yingli also believed that Hanba's acceptance of the "Han Reward" was a betrayal of him, so he sent troops to attack Hanba, and then arrested Hanba.

According to Liu Shizeng's statement, this year's war in Yunnan should be regarded as a grumpy man in Mangyingli. After beating Mubang first, he found that he was really strong and strong, so he swelled up so much that he did not stop doing anything, even fighting in Yunnan.

However, Zhu Yijun's Zhu criticism is very interesting. He didn't express any opinion on this matter itself at all. Officials have been accommodating rape all the time, and after the incident, they tried to whitewash the peace and shirk their responsibilities, so "the department will even check it out"-equivalent to asking the relevant officials of the department to "investigate and prosecute" immediately.

It stands to reason that although what Liu Shizeng said was the "history" he investigated, the problems he pointed out are current. Zhu Yijun should instruct him what to do next.

But Zhu Yijun didn't give any instructions. Instead, he turned over the old accounts and demanded that the responsibilities of the previous batch of relevant officials—that is, the batch of predecessors who lost their barriers—be found out and impeached.

There are only three possibilities for this. One is that Zhu Yijun did not notice that he should quickly remedy or deal with the current situation; There has long been a solution to the Yunnan problem, but I don't plan to explain it to Liu Shizeng now.

After thinking about it pragmatically, Gao is more inclined to the third possibility.

Because the Yunnan issue was just negotiated between him and Zhu Yijun, Zhu Yijun had already got rid of the disputes between the court and the court, accepted the high-practical suggestion of "struggling hard", and even decided how to fight.He even linked Gao Pragmatic's marriage with the Yunnan War.

In this case, it is too unscientific to say that Zhu Yijun has forgotten the main point of the matter...

But the problem is, since this thing is not urgent, then what's the point of Zhu Yijun hastily sending someone to chase after him to inform him?
Gao Wushi couldn't help pondering.And the young prisoner didn't urge him, he just waited for Gao to speak pragmatically.

It took a while for Gao Wushi to sort out the clues. It turned out that the reason why Zhu Yijun "didn't mention serious matters" in Zhu's criticism might be that he discovered that this matter involved party disputes.

Liu Shizeng's memorandum is actually accusing his predecessor of overindulging in Burma, which led to the arrogance of Mang Yinglong and Mang Yingli's father and son today, and even dared to commit crimes against the border.

However, it is not easy to pursue the matter of pursuing the predecessor, because the indulgent attitude of the Yunnan side is not a year or two, at least it can be traced back to the middle of Jiajing.

At that time, Mu Chaobi, the commander-in-chief of Yunnan Province, Qian Guogong, once reported to the imperial court, pointing out that the danger of Mang Yinglong's forces to Ming Dynasty was already very high, and hoped that the imperial court would intervene with troops. Churchill's "preventive war".

However, the imperial court sternly refused at that time, and in the name of the Ministry of War, admonished the local Fuzhen officials in Yunnan, saying: "Besides desolate clothing, there is no cure...Already fearing the power and fleeing far away, I told the barbarians not to allow traffic."

Since this matter has already been like this as far back as the "Grandpa Emperor", Zhu Yijun's so-called overturning the old account will definitely not go far. At most, the former governor should be held accountable, otherwise the involvement will be too wide and the impact will be too bad .

And the problem lies in the former governor, who was the former governor?Rao Renkan.

Rao Renkan Fudian, is there any major problem in this matter?In fact, not at all, after all, his predecessors, predecessors, and even further predecessors all did this.

But Rao Renkan has another "historical problem", that is, when Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng advocated the tribute of Ida, Rao Renkan, Ye Mengxiong and others, who were censors, were the ones who opposed it most fiercely.

Needless to say, during the period when Gao Gong was in power, except for honorable officials, civil and military officials who opposed Alda's tribute had no good fruit to eat. Of course, Rao Renkan, the main force against the tribute, could not be an exception. , So he was demoted to be an official in Raozhou government.

But he should be grateful that Gao Gong's attitude of employing people is different from that of Zhang Juzheng.

Zhang Juzheng's style is, I think you have done a bad job, so I will demote you until you can't come back in this life, if you still hate me, then you don't even want to save your life (such as Liu Tai, etc.), I'm only happy if I kill you.

Gao Gong, on the other hand, appeared to be more "careless". If you hate Gao Gong, he will demote your official position and demote you from a foreign position.But if you did well in the foreign office and got a good evaluation, then you don’t have to worry, because you can still be promoted back, and Gao Gong will not intervene because he hates you.

People with the character of Gao Gong are actually very common, that is, the kind of person who loses his temper right away, and you are afraid that he will take revenge afterwards, but in fact he may have forgotten your straight-heartedness long ago.

So, after Brother Rao Renkan worked as a small promotion officer for a term, because of his excellent evaluation, he was transferred back to Beijing again to be the head of the Ministry of Punishment when Gao Gong was still serving as Minister of the Ministry of Officials.Next, his official career was also smooth sailing. He successively served as the inspector of Shanxi, the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, and finally the governor of Yunnan as the censor of Youqian capital.

Until February in the ninth year of Wanli, when Qin Yao and Yushi Qian Dai were given to investigate and pick up a large number of officials to discuss the impeachment of officials, Rao Renkan was impeached as "incompetent", so he was first "demoted to a higher level and transferred to a foreign post." ", and after a thorough investigation, he was punished with "idle residence with a crown belt" and was forced to resign.

During the period from Rao Renkan's impeachment to his complete resignation, Gao Yushi was not in Beijing at all, so he didn't know much about it, so he didn't think about it just now, and he didn't discover the problem until after careful thinking.

Rao Renkan's "accident" happened in February of the ninth year of Wanli. Obviously, it had nothing to do with Gao Gong, who had passed away in the sixth year of Wanli.

So, what faction does Rao Renkan belong to?

He was a Jinshi of the Renxu Division in the 41st year of Jiajing, and three of them were very famous in the same year: the number one scholar Shen Shixing, the second place Wang Xijue, and Tanhua Yuyouding.

Except for Wang Xijue who is acting as a filial son and returning to his hometown to take care of his father (his father has passed away now, and Wang Xijue is guarding the system), Shen Shixing and Yu Youding are both in the cabinet, and they are the left and right pillars of the same line of thought and learning.

Now, the truth is out.

At the end of the ninth year of Wanli, Guo Pu repeatedly asked to retire, and even after Zhu Yijun repeatedly persuaded him to stay, he couldn't insist on it, so that he personally asked to see the two palaces, insisted on asking for retreat, and finally retired with a perfect curtain call.

And Rao Renkan happened to have an accident at the beginning of the ninth year of Wanli, and in the second half of the year, he was sentenced to "idle residence with a crown and belt"-that is, he was ordered to retire while retaining the administrative level.

Gao Wushi firmly refused to believe that there was no shadow of Guo Pu in this matter.It's just that what he has to figure out now is that Guo Pu himself is not a strong chief assistant like Gao Gong, and his style of administration is recognized as "Gao Gui Guo Sui".

Then why didn't Gao Gong feel that there was a big problem with Rao Renkan, but Guo Pu wanted to get Rao Renkan out before he retired?

It seems that uncle's invitation came at a very timely time, and I had to go to "remedial class" immediately, otherwise I didn't even understand Zhu Yijun's attitude on this matter.

"If there is an envoy to report back to the emperor, he will say that the Ministry has already seen it, and we will report the details tomorrow."

Of course the young prisoner knew Gao Wushi's special status in the palace, so he didn't dare to say more when he heard the words. .

As soon as the eunuch left, Gao Wushi put away his smile, frowned and told Gao Mo, "Send someone to Yuanfu's mansion immediately, and say that my nephew will have an overnight visit today, and he will be there immediately."

Gao Mo hadn't read the memorandum brought by the eunuch just now, and even if he had read it, he couldn't understand the problem, but Gao Wushi looked so serious, he naturally knew the seriousness, so he quickly sent someone to inform Zhang Dashi's mansion, and then waited As soon as Gao Wushi got into the sedan chair and sat down, he shouted to Fubiao and the porters: "When you get up in the sedan chair, you are in Yongfang, go to Zhang Dashi's mansion!"
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PS: March is about to enter, I hope the epidemic will be effectively controlled as soon as possible, and I hope all readers are safe and healthy.By the way, I would like to ask one thing: How do you want the war in Burma to be written?What I mean is to choose one of the two: one is that the "camera" is only for Gao Yushi, whether it is Yunnan and Annan's counterattack or surprise attack, the narration in a few words will take care of the matter.The second is to add a few chapters to Yunnan and Annan to make the plot and supporting characters a little fuller. (This chapter is 4800 words, 5 words are not added, and the above will not affect the fee.)
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