Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1103

In the afternoon of that day, Gao Yushi's self-defense statement was passed through the Ministry of War to the Secretary of the General Administration, and then the Secretary of the General Administration entered the cabinet.The cabinet usually does not make any proposals for this kind of self-defense, so it was forwarded again and sent to the Supervisor of Rituals.

The authority of the Supervisor of Ceremonies is actually to approve the redemption on behalf of the emperor, and such matters must be reported directly to the emperor. Usually, the memorial sent in the afternoon may not be approved the next morning.

However, Gao Yushi's self-defense statement returned to the cabinet from the supervisor of ceremonies in less than an hour after the cabinet was transferred to the supervisor of ceremonies, because the emperor had approved the use of treasures.

"After investigation, the eldest princess Yongning summoned you to inquire about the matter. She first asked the queen for permission, and then asked for approval in the Chengxi Palace. Although it took a long time, the gate of the palace was wide open, and all the servants were there, and the maids accompanied her. There are also oversteps.

Huang Zhaolong was good at polluting important officials, and he had other strict orders to ask questions.You should serve with peace of mind, don't be disturbed, and don't let me down.Please do not allow. "

When this reply was sent to the palace, all the officials in the outer court were a little confused.

Could it be that the reason why the emperor didn't give an immediate reply was because he went to investigate, but after the investigation, it was found that Gao Yushi was wronged, so as soon as this self-defense was raised, the emperor immediately persuaded him to stay?
This is the mainstream doubt, but some people think that this may not be the truth. This part of the officials think that things are not that simple.

Because for the foreign court, the focus of attention on this matter was high pragmatism, but from the perspective of the emperor, it might not be the case. What the emperor was more worried about was that Princess Yongning's reputation would be damaged.

So according to this point, even if what Huang Zhaolong said is true, the emperor may refuse to admit it, but insists that all the princess's actions are legal and reasonable.In this way, since the princess was to be protected, Gao Wushi had to be protected as well.

There is another supporting evidence for the conjecture of this group of people: the emperor said in the Zhu Zhu that there was "another strict order to ask" about Huang Zhaolong's "pollution of important ministers", but what is the strict purpose?Why didn't it be released together?
Whether this kind of doubt or controversy, in fact, it is like that after the central government announces a certain news in later generations, the following people, from experts, media to individuals, will have various interpretations.It's just that education is popularized in later generations, and every citizen is the master of the country, so the whole people often participate in this kind of interpretation. In the Ming Dynasty, basically only officials or scholars would care about this topic.

In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's every move was constantly interpreted by the officials, and they tried to ascertain the emperor's true intentions, lest they make mistakes and ruin their bright future.

Since the palace did not issue the so-called "strict order" to Huang Zhaolong, this kind of argument of "keeping high and being pragmatic is for protecting the princess" immediately became the new mainstream view, replacing "high and being pragmatic is to protect the princess". Injustice” took only a few hours.

To be exact, it was when the palace gates were locked, but not a single word of the "strict decree" was sent to the outer court.

Now it's lively, and everyone can't judge the emperor's intentions normally.

According to the general situation, since the high-level pragmatism and gentle decree are used to persuade Huang Zhaolong to stay, it is a matter of course to "strictly order" Huang Zhaolong. .

Of course, these officials have not read Li Ao's "You Can't Just Do Half", and they don't know that "one cannot defend God and appease the devil at the same time. It is not enough to praise God, you must fight the devil at the same time; it is not enough to be positive, you must expose it." Counterfeiting"—just as the emperor affirmed that it was not enough for the high pragmatism to have no guilt, he should also stand up and fight against Huang Zhaolong who slandered the high pragmatism, so that the matter can be considered complete.

However, they at least knew that it was abnormal for the emperor to "only do half of it", and there was a reason for it.

So now the core of the question becomes "What is the emperor's mystery?"

For most neutrals who don't hold a position and even go with the trend, this mystery is interesting, but it is only "somewhat interesting". They don't want to take this mystery apart to understand it.

However, for those who stand in the same trench as Gao Yushi, or those who stand in the opposite trench, this issue must be clarified, otherwise the next step will become at a loss.

In the mansion, Gao Wu continued to receive many servants and cronies sent by big bosses and important ministers, each of whom came to inquire about the situation.

Some of the people who came to visit him asked him obliquely if he really had some extraordinary behavior and relationship with Princess Yongning, and some asked him if he had contacted the inner court to find out what the emperor wanted.There are also some that are more simple and rude, without asking the reason or the situation at all, and directly asking him what is the next arrangement and what kind of cooperation is needed.

Even Zhu Yingzhen, Zhang Yuangong and other dignitaries sent people to inquire.

At any rate, Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong only sent their confidantes here. Surprisingly, Dingguo's mansion, which had not been very close to Gao Yushi in the past, was particularly "enthusiastic" this time. He came to visit and expressed Dingguo government's firm support for Gao Yushi on the spot.

Of course, the nobles didn’t have too much time to eat. Apart from the friendship of “partners” for more than ten years, the fundamental reason is that they aimed at the follow-up interests of the “War in Yunnan”.

Gao Wu said when he issued the "Battle of Yunnan Banknotes" that the value of the banknotes of the Yunnan War is guaranteed by the income obtained after the victory over Burma, and the income after the Yunnan War is not just that of the court— —Although France paid a lot of indemnities after the Franco-Prussian War, the money would not be sent directly to the capitalists in Prussia, but that did not affect the happiness of the capitalists.

Why?Because the bosses of the victorious country have many ways to make money, and Gao Wuzhi gave some examples when he sold them the first batch of Yunnan war treasure banknotes.

For example, it was very troublesome and expensive to buy Burmese jade in the past, but if Burma lost the war and had to pay a large sum of money to the court, they would naturally not care about it. As long as Shi Xungui get a free ride from Jinghua, are they afraid that they won't get a share of it?

The reason why they had to take Jinghua's car was of course because their hands were not so long, and they had to rely on Jinghua's Southwest commercial road to get things done.These days, the only Big Mac that has the ability to do business across the country is really only the Jinghua family. Any other aristocratic family or wealthy family has its sphere of influence, ranging from a few counties to a few provinces, but no one can be like Jinghua Generally spread across the country.

The Dingguo Mansion had been in decline for a while, and although it has recovered its status now, its family background is not as good as that of the Chengguo Mansion and the British Mansion, so naturally it pays special attention to Gao Yushi, the God of Wealth.It doesn't matter whether I can help with this matter, anyway, I have put my attitude first.

Gao Yushi was like a mirror in his heart. Not only did he know Xu Wenbi's intentions, but he also knew a prerequisite for him and the nobles to support him so resolutely: Anyway, if we don't rebel, we won't die. It's just to come out and say a few good words for someone Gao , It is completely beneficial but not expensive, and good products are not expensive.

In fact, Gao Yushi has already entered the state of thanking guests behind closed doors since he defended himself, but the rules are the rules, which does not mean that everyone will really abide by them. Get together to deal with these predecessors, colleagues, friends and partners who show concern.

At the same time, there was a person who was as busy as Gao Yushi in an ordinary official courtyard in Qingqingfang.

This person is Liu Shouyou, the governor of Jinyiwei.

The other courtyard he is currently in does not belong to him in name, but it is actually a sealed-up house temporarily placed under the name of Jin Yiwei. It is stolen property and is in a sealed state.He came here today just because he wanted to avoid some eyes and ears.

Liu Shouyou's background has been mentioned before, his family is from Xinxue, although he can't study well and can only mess around in Jinyiwei, but he has always classified himself as a Confucian official, and he is very close to his fellow Xinxue.Coupled with the complicated historical reasons mentioned before, I have always held a grudge against the uncle and nephew of the Gao family, and the investigation of the uncle and nephew of the Gao family has been going on for several years.

It's just that after checking and checking, he found that there was nothing to check for Gao Gong. Apart from his haste and his ability to scold people directly when his subordinates were not able to do things well, there was no black hole in this chief assistant that he could use. point.

So Liu Shouyou set his sights on Gao Yushi.In Liu Shouyou's view, there must be hidden secrets behind Gao Wu's ability to create such a huge property in Jinghua from scratch in just over ten years, and these secrets must be exploitable.

Moreover, after Gao Wushi made Jinghua bigger, he often used the name of co-tenancy to attract important ministers and honorable officials. Once he found out the evidence of Jinghua's crimes, he could not only overthrow Gao Wushi, but also control many people if he handled it well.

After obtaining the acquiescence of Yu Youding, a master of psychology, Liu Shouyou became more courageous.Yu Youding and Shen Shixing are the two giants in the official line of Xinxue at present, and the two of them have gone through adversity together, and they have always been considered as close as brothers. With Yu Youding's support, Liu Shouyou It seems that it also has the endorsement of Shishihang.

Shen Shixing's dignified secondary assistant, Gao Dang, who was originally a political enemy of the Harmonious School, has almost openly sided with him now, so what do I have to be afraid of?
It's time for the in-law Xu's family of Songjiang to pay back the humiliation they suffered in the past.

Thanks to the rise of Zhang Jing, Liu Shouyou also had effective support in the palace, and even knew that Gao Wushi entered the palace and had a secret talk with Princess Yongning for several hours.

There is actually something worth mentioning about this point: Although Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju are the "first assistant" and "second assistant" of the inner court, although every eunuch in the palace must have placed his own people, But the problem is that none of them can be the only one in a certain palace.

In other words, the inner court bosses have their own people in each palace, Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju have them, and Zhang Jing also has them.

This kind of situation has happened for a long time, let alone the "Eight Tigers" headed by Liu Jin in the past, everyone has a group of forces in the palace, so the Forbidden City has long been a sieve .As long as there is a big boss who leaks the news, there will be no secrets at all.

Before Gao Gong returned to the court, Emperor Longqing was often scolded bloody by the censors of the outer court because of his sexuality, but he favored that concubine one night, and the censors of the outer court knew it It is clear that this is one of the proofs of "big inside is like a sieve".

After Liu Shouyou learned of Gao Wushi's meeting with Princess Yongning, he decided not to spend much time to make a beautiful article about it.

His thinking is not particularly complicated: in the earliest days, he wanted to use Jinghua as a breakthrough to attack Gao Pragmatism and Gao Party through economic cases, but he tried several times without success.Because the rise of Jinghua is not the same as his previous imagination. It did not develop by means of power-for-money transactions. It's a first-mover advantage.

If we really want to say that power and money transactions are not without, but the people involved are too scary, even if Liu Shouyou finds out, he would not dare to pierce the window paper - not only a lot of hereditary nobles, but even involved To Empress Dowager Rensheng and Empress Dowager Cisheng.

The Chen family of Tongzhou, who was born in the Empress Dowager Rensheng, has dry shares under the name of Gao Yushi Jinghua, and the father and younger brother of the Empress Dowager Cisheng also have dry shares under the name of Jinghua, and even Li Wenjin took it directly from Gao Yushi. A huge sum of no less than 20 taels.

If this shit gets out, Gao Wushi doesn't know if he will die or not, but Liu Shouyou himself will die first.

Therefore, it is obviously not feasible to trouble Jinghua with economic cases, and Liu Shouyou does not want to commit suicide.

So next, he aimed at the issue of power, or the issue of "disobedience".On this point, Liu Shouyou started from the "Jinghua Sixteen Points" and reported to Zhu Yijun that Jinghua actually controlled the political situation in Annan.

Originally, according to Liu Shouyou's thinking, the emperor must be extremely sensitive to his courtiers doing such things.In particular, Annan is a special vassal state that has been outside the imperial court system for a long time. Gao Yushi relies on Jinghua to control Annan's power.It shouldn't be a surprise to kill Gao Wushi directly.

However, an accident happened, and Zhu Yijun acted like a normal person after hearing the news.He didn't believe at all that Gao Wushi would give up the chance of being the top minister in the Ming court, but ran to Annan to be the local king.

Liu Shouyou has been lost for a long time because of this, and it was not until recently that he figured out a truth: Although Gao Yushi has the power in Annan that is close to that of "the Supreme Commander", his foundation has always been in Daming—he relied on Jinghua Mastering Annan, and Jinghua's roots are in Daming, so of course, the emperor felt that Gao Yushi would not "run away"!

Jinghua's industries in Daming add up to tens of millions?Who would give up such a large property and go to Annan to be a local king?

So Liu Shouyou's second round of blows failed again, and instead made the emperor feel that he was dazed.

It was only this time that Liu Shouyou finally figured it out. The reason why Gao Yushi made cabinet scholars like Shen Shixing and Yu Youding extremely afraid was not because he had an uncle who pursued the posthumous posthumous name Wen Zhenggong, nor was it because of his wealth. He is the king of the world, but he has the emperor's almost unlimited trust.Therefore, to combat high pragmatism, the real focus should be on combating this kind of trust.

So there was this "demon book case".

It's just that the development of this "demon book case" still seems a bit wrong now. Liu Shouyou really didn't expect that the emperor could tolerate such a scandal, and he still spoke softly after defending himself on a high level of pragmatism.

This is really hell!Could it be that in the eyes of the emperor, the high pragmatism is more important than his own sister?
Liu Shouyou suddenly became nervous, and immediately quietly activated this other courtyard that was being sealed away, firstly to avoid the eyes and ears of Dongchang and Gao Pragmatic, and secondly to hold secret meetings with people to discuss urgent follow-up matters.

At this time, an unremarkable carriage stopped outside the gate of the other courtyard, and a pair of master and servants wearing cloaks stepped forward to call the door. After a little questioning, the servant of the Liu family quickly invited them in.

Liu Shouyou went out of the main hall in person, and quickly stepped forward to greet him.
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