Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1186 Understanding
Li Wenjin's remarks were obviously not aimless. After he learned that Gao Yushi went to persuade King Lu to give up King Jing's inheritance today, he had been thinking about the reason on the way to King Lu's mansion.

If Gao Yushi was just like the ordinary courtiers, using the false name of "virtuous king" to persuade him, Li Wenjin must have rolled his eyes and was too lazy to talk, and just persuaded King Lu not to pay attention to such nonsense.

But Gao Yushi was obviously completely different from ordinary courtiers. Although he also mentioned the word "virtuous king", he immediately expressed his sincerity as soon as the topic changed.

If this sincerity is according to what he said, it must be more attractive than King Jing's legacy. After all, almost no one dares to question the high-practical business vision. Even Li Wenjin has made a lot of money following the high pragmatism. Be more confident about it.

It can be said that in Li Wenjin's eyes, as long as Gao Yushi sincerely believes that the small broken island will be a cornucopia in the future, then it will definitely be a cornucopia in the future.

As for why this is so?

Well...that's not important.There are many reasons that the world can't figure out. It's normal for Gao Qiuzhen to be the number one scholar in the six poems, and he is a little smarter than himself.

Anyway, Li Wenjin believed that Gao Yushi would not be willing to smash his own golden signboard, so the prospect of that small broken island—oh, it was Qian Jing—could be assured.

But Gao Qiuzhen always has his purpose in doing things, and it is best to find out this purpose first.

Although Li Wenjin was greedy for money and made himself an eunuch, he was actually better at thinking than his queen mother sister.Through these years of observation, he found that Gao Qiuzhen's purpose is sometimes set very, very far away, and may even be so far away as to pave the way for things to happen more than ten years later.

Li Wenjin sometimes sighs with emotion. This may be the so-called "those who do not seek eternal life are not enough to seek temporary success".

Gao Yushi must be someone who wants to "seek forever", after all, he is a civil servant, and "seeking forever" can be regarded as the tradition of civil servants.

It’s just that in Li Wenjin’s view, the highly pragmatic “seeking forever” is not the same as ordinary civil servants. Although he also values ​​reputation, he doesn’t care about the so-called “clean and strong” names that ordinary civil servants value. Like to seek the reputation of being a capable minister.

What is a capable minister?Highly talented and capable, those who can do their best as ministers are also.

In other words, those who can do all kinds of things well and are loyal are called capable ministers.

Before Liu Shouyou's incident happened, he also wanted to bribe Li Wenjin, hoping that he could give Gao Wushi eye drops in front of the Queen Mother, but Li Wenjin didn't act like a money-grubbing person that time, and he was indifferent to bribes of tens of thousands of taels. refused to participate.

It's not that Li Wenjin really changed his sex all of a sudden, but that he has two basic judgments.

First, Gao Yushi has no problem with his loyalty to the emperor, and he will never have any disobedience like Liu Shouyou's alarmist words in front of him.

The affairs on Annan's side were originally arranged by Gao Yushi. The emperor had made an agreement with him beforehand. Outsiders didn't know this. How could Li Wenjin not know?

And Gao Wu has nothing to say about the fact that Annan is in power?After Xuanmiao, Daming never took care of Annan's "housework". Whoever is in charge of Annan's house is not in charge. If it is really Gao Pragmatic who is in charge of the house, then it is better than Mo Maoqia, right?
Second, Gao Yushi is by no means something that Liu Shouyou can bring down. Although it is not a disaster for Li Wenjin to get involved in this matter, it will definitely seriously affect his interests in Jinghua. It is to give dividends to some dry stocks in a certain transaction of Jinghua.

Such things as dry stocks have always been unreliable. If he wants to give it to you today, he will give it to you; if he doesn't want to give it to you tomorrow, he won't give it to you.So Li Wenjin didn't need to break his fingers to figure it out. Jinghua's side is obviously more reliable than Liu Shouyou's bribe.

What's more, Jinghua's dry stock dividends are not "fine water". Last year, he distributed nearly 1 taels of dry stock alone. What is this kind of large and stable income better than?
As for why it was impossible for Liu Shou to overthrow Gao Yushi, Li Wenjin didn't mainly consider Gao Yushi's reputation and status. He just knew how much trust his emperor's nephew had in Gao Yushi.By analogy, wanting to overthrow Gao Yushi in today's Wanli Dynasty is probably similar to wanting to overthrow Gao Gong in the Longqing Dynasty.

At the beginning when Xu Jie caused a storm of "overturning the court", Gao Gong did resign and return to his hometown, but what happened in the end?In the end, it was Xu Jie who really left, and Gao Gong returned to the dynasty after resting at home for more than a year, starting his glorious road to "Wenzheng".

Compared with the high arch of the past, the current high pragmatism is even worse. The high arch cannot be overthrown, and the high pragmatism is of course even less likely to fall.

What is the key to success?It is nothing more than either becoming a winner yourself, or standing on the side of the winner.

Li Wenjin felt that he had nothing to win or not to win, so he chose to stand on the side of high pragmatism who would inevitably become the winner.

This mentality also affected Li Wenjin's judgment at the moment: Gao Yushi must have his own purpose, but he must have his bottom line, which is not to frame King Lu.

Why?Because of framing King Lu, for example, if King Lu really gave up the inheritance of King Jing in the future, but made himself impoverished, this would inevitably cause the emperor's dissatisfaction.Not to mention whether the emperor really loves his younger brother, at least he will definitely think that high pragmatism has ruined his "observation".

Gao Wushi would never make fun of his family members. Li Wenjin was confident in this, so he thought that Gao Wushi's guarantee to Lu Wang was not a big problem. The problem was only what Lu Wang had to pay for it.

But this problem almost involves the great affairs of the imperial court. Although Li Wenjin is shrewd, he is not very good at these things, so he can't sort it out after much deliberation.

When they entered the Cining Palace relying on Li Wenjin's face, when the Empress Dowager Cisheng heard that King Lu was coming, she was surprised and thought that something serious had happened, and soon came out of the Buddhist hall to meet her - she was very respectful to the Buddha, at this time Still chant scriptures in the Buddhist hall.

Lu Wang said a few nonsense words about missing his mother, and then repeated what Gao Wushi said when he went to see him today.

The Empress Dowager Cisheng's acumen in such matters was indeed inferior to that of Li Wenjin, and her first reaction was the same as that of her son, King Lu. turned pale.

Fortunately, Li Wenjin knew enough about his sister, the queen mother, to immediately stand up and tell the Empress Dowager Cisheng what he said to his nephew in a more tactful way.

Empress Dowager Li hesitated now, she already trusted this younger brother, not to mention the words he said sounded very reasonable.

"Then...Wen Jin, what do you think Gao Wushi's move is?" Queen Mother Li finally asked.

Li Wenjin couldn't help pondering, but didn't answer for a long time.Maybe it was because he was in front of his mother who doted on him, but now he was a little bit impatient, and suddenly said: "Why don't the mother just ask the emperor to come over and ask, Gao Wushi has been his companion for ten years, he The understanding of Gao Yushi must be far beyond others, and my son thinks that he must understand Gao Yushi's intentions."

In fact, there is nothing wrong with this statement, but Lu Wang didn't know that Empress Dowager Li was actually worried about whether Zhu Yijun would deliberately "cover up" Gao Pragmatism, after all, he had a criminal record for doing such a thing.

So the Empress Dowager Cisheng pondered, looking a little hesitant.

But what Lu Wang said just now reminded Li Wenjin, Li Wenjin patted his forehead and said, "Ah, I remembered, Queen Mother, do you think there is such a possibility: Gao Yushi's intentions for doing this are actually not that complicated. He might just be thinking purely for the emperor."

"For the sake of the emperor?" Empress Dowager Li asked in surprise, "Where did you start talking about it, and what does it matter to the emperor?"

Li Wenjin thought he had seen through the truth of the matter, and he looked confident, and said with a smile: "Queen Mother, the matter of King Lu's pursuit of King Jing's inheritance has already caused a lot of trouble in the court, especially the Ministry of Household Affairs. Complaints are great, although the emperor is the Ninth Five-Year Supreme, but the courtiers are overwhelmingly opposed, of course he will also be under pressure."

Empress Dowager Li didn't like to hear these words, she said with a dark face: "Aijia doesn't understand what the Ministry of household affairs is going on! Lu Wang always has to reward after canonization, and King Jing's estate was originally promised to be transferred. For King Lu, this matter was even discussed as early as the late emperors, why didn't they object at that time?
Oh, it's a good thing now, the kingdom that King Lu wants to become a vassal, they jumped out at this time, saying that King Jing's inheritance has been returned to the people, and King Lu can't take it!What's the matter, although the first emperor didn't have a clear decree at the beginning, it's not that the Ai family is talking about it here, a lot of old officials know about it, but now they want to go back on their word?

Hmph, King Lu is the vassals watching, and now they are urging King Lu's country to become a vassal, but they don't want to spend the money. Is this the ancestral system of the Ming Dynasty that they just use as a joke?If it is useful to them, it must be inseparable from the ancestral system in everything; if it is useless to them, it is said that the matter is over now, not that they are unwilling to cooperate, but that there is no way?It's a joke, once something happens to the court, they can't do anything about it, so what's the use of the emperor wanting them! "

These words were said in a fit of anger. It seems that the Empress Dowager Cisheng was very resentful towards the courtiers who always thought about "withholding" her son's due rewards, so much so that "what the emperor wants them for" came out.

But Li Wenjin wasn't afraid, and it wasn't about him.Not only did he not panic, he was even a little secretly happy, because since the queen mother had such a mentality, the reason he just thought of was more convincing.

"Queen Mother, the right and wrong of this matter cannot be said by the Queen Mother, but you also know the behavior style of those people in the outer court. They don't see the slightest benefit of the Tian family, so there is no need to get angry for these people."

After hearing this, Queen Mother Li snorted again, but after all, it was Li Wenjin who persuaded her, so she finally did not refute.

Li Wenjin said again: "However, it is precisely because of this that the emperor's side is even more difficult. After all, although the courtiers are wrong about this matter, it seems that most of King Jing's estate has been returned, and now he wants to come back. It is bound to cause some noise. But it is precisely because of this that Gao Pragmatism will do this.

You think, now the emperor is in a dilemma, insist on returning King Jing’s legacy, the courtiers must think that the emperor is selfish and only has King Lu in his heart; but if he doesn’t want to return King Jing’s legacy, the emperor will be said to be disregarding his brothers and relatives, What's more, it made the queen mother displeased, because it was not filial - whatever the emperor did was wrong.

Under such circumstances, he stood up pragmatically and persuaded Lu to give up King Jing's legacy. Once this matter is successful, how can the emperor not think of him?How could the courtiers miss him?What's more, if it is true as he said, the small island will really become a cornucopia in the future, then even King Lu and even the Queen Mother should miss him!Gao Pragmatic is of course willing to do such a thing that serves multiple purposes. "

Huh, that makes sense.

The Empress Dowager Cisheng thought for a while, then nodded slightly: "What you said is reasonable... If that's the case, then it means that Gao Pragmatism doesn't have any bad intentions?"

Li Wenjin nodded and said, "That's right, I think that's the case."

Empress Dowager Li looked at Zhu Yichun again, and asked, "What do you think, can you agree?"

Zhu Yiliu thought for a while, and said: "As long as the small island can really turn into a cornucopia, my son thinks it's okay, but it's not necessary to have King Jing's land."

Empress Dowager Li then nodded, and concluded with a coffin: "Well, since you have no objection, Aijia will not say anything here. I just hope that Wen Jin's speculation is correct, and Gao Wushi will really put the small island It’s good business.”

Li Wenjin heaved a sigh of relief, and said, "This matter will ultimately be ordered by the emperor. Since it seems that there is no conspiracy involved, shouldn't the emperor be informed earlier?"

Empress Dowager Li looked at the hourglass, nodded and said: "The emperor should have not gone to bed at this time. Aijia thinks it is not too late, so let him know. Come, go and talk to the emperor..."

What the Empress Dowager Li didn't know was that Zhu Yijun already knew that Gao Wushi and Zhu Yiliu had just met, and also pointed out a way for Zhu Yiliu to make a fortune.However, his judgment on high pragmatic motives is deeper than that of Li Wenjin.

In addition to not putting himself in a dilemma, he felt that Gao Yushi might have another purpose in doing so, that is, to use Lu Wang's special status as a "spectator of all vassals" to subtly hope to change the usual financial management philosophy of the clan and princes.

It's not the first time Gao Wushi has done this kind of thing, but in the past, his goal in doing these things was not Lu Wang, but the nobles of the capital—look at how many nobles of the capital have sold land in recent years.These people can't wait to sell all the gifted land from their ancestors, and then gather more capital to make a fortune with Jinghua.

Xungui has been doing this for several years, but the princes of Daming have rarely participated in it.According to Zhu Yijun's understanding of Gao Yushi, he may want the clan to be like the nobles, not obsessed with competing for land with the common people, but it is best to sell all the land and follow him to do sea trade. purchases and sales - including the collection of port rents.
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