Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1273 Noble?

As soon as Gao Wushi returned to Beijing, he found that the situation was not right. The first thing that was wrong was the wrong atmosphere.This time, such a chaos was pacified, and the enemy was forced to surrender and annihilated more than [-] enemy troops (Ilduqi and Boshuoketu were counted), but the emperor did not choose to welcome them in the suburbs.This time, on behalf of the emperor Jiao, the cabinet and several princes and princes of the five army commanders' office were greeted.

You must know that civil strife is also divided into grades. The rebellion in the northwest is not the kind of Japanese pirate harassment that did not endanger the rule of decades ago, nor is it a mud-legged rebellion that the court generally despised.The rebellion this time was the imperial army, and it was considered the most dangerous level of rebellion in this category.

What's more, Zhaibai is not just a simple rebellion, he also has internal and external enemies.To quell such an important rebellion, the credit is no less than the expansion of territory.In the original history, it was only to quell the chaos of worship, and the subsequent discussion of merits was very grand and grand, not to mention this time it was the "power-enhanced version" of the entire northwest chaos.

According to Zhu Yijun's usual attitude, this situation is obviously very unusual.If the number one hero who has made such a contribution is just a military general, then it doesn't matter that the standard for welcoming the triumph is lower, but when the triumphant return is a handsome and pragmatic, this is too unusual. .

The high and pragmatic saints are well-known throughout the dynasty. How could they not be welcomed by the Son of Heaven?
Many people had to start to wonder what went wrong. Could it be that the controversy between the government and the opposition a few days ago affected the emperor, and the emperor planned to deal with this matter coldly?

However, this is not right.

Even if Zhuang Langwei's contribution in this battle is not credited to Gao pragmatism, he captured Boshuoketu alive and ensured the obedience of the Ordos Department to Daming and King Shunyi. This is always a real credit, right?Recovering Ningxia almost "without a single soldier", is this a real credit?

Not only did others doubt it, but even Gao Shishi himself was a little surprised. Looking at the cabinet and the five princes, Gong Gong, although his expression was as usual, he couldn't help but wonder in his heart: Could it be that someone made some slander in front of the emperor, or even made some slander? Speak to the emperor?

When the emperor was away, everything followed the procedure. Gao pragmatically dismounted to accept the congratulations from the officials. The first assistant, Shen Shixing, gave a "welcome speech" on behalf of the officials. These are all clichés, and there is no need to mention them.

After the cliché, Shen Shixing spoke again, which further deepened Gao Shixing's concerns, because Shen Shixing did not represent the emperor in his words, he only congratulated Gao Shixing on his triumphant victory on behalf of "this pavilion and colleagues".

Gao Wushi's acting skills for many years finally played a role, and he did not show any disappointment. He thanked everyone very calmly and politely.

Just when he was already thinking about how to contact Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju to understand the situation in the palace, Zhu Yingzhen, who was standing by the side, suddenly smiled and said, "The Shutai has worked so hard this time. The Empress Dowager Qiao Ci has occasionally been feeling cold in the past few days, and her phoenix body is not healthy... The emperor is very filial by nature, so he personally served the soup and medicine in the Ci Ning Palace, so he couldn't come, so he had to order the official of the country to pay tribute."

It turned out that this was the case, Gao pragmatic was a little relieved, and said quickly: "Hundreds of good and filial piety are the first, the emperor's actions set the world, and the minister is very admired, but I don't know if the phoenix body of the Empress Dowager Cisheng has improved?"

Zhu Yingzhen didn't know this question either, so he could only laugh and say: "Ah? Much better, much better." Then, as if remembering something, he quickly added: "Oh, yes, the emperor also said that because the queen mother was ill, The matter of your view will have to wait for a while, and the Shutai can turn over the customs and other items first, and wait for the decree."

so serious?

Gao Wushi was a little stunned. In the original history, Empress Dowager Li should be in good health, but now it is far from the time of her death. Why does the emperor even take time to meet me and wait for me to pay the guard monk Fang Jian?
"The minister obeys the order. There is Lord Lao."

At this time, even if Gao Wushi had surrendered his military power and resumed his original identity, he said again: "Since all the governors of the five palaces are here, presumably Commander Qi is also there?"

Qi Jiguang, as the commander of the imperial guards, may now be regarded as the No. 1 military general, but even so, he still can't stand in front of a group of cabinets, ministries and dignitaries. Gao Wushi can only ask by name.

Zhu Yingzhen hurriedly turned around, shook his hand towards the crowd behind the center, and called, "Is Commander Qi here?"

Qi Jiguang, who was wearing a red python suit, turned out from behind and bowed his hands: "Jiguang has seen Shutai."

Gao Wushi pointed at the troops of the Imperial Guard that he brought back, and said with a smile: "I have done this, and the troops and horses of the troops will be returned to you. You can go back and check to see if the remainder is different from the victory."

Although Gao Wushi is Qi Jiguang's direct leader, Qi Jiguang is still serious: "The last general leads the order."

After handing over the troops and horses, they have to turn in the Guanfang monk Fangjian and other things. There are still many troubles here, so it is inconvenient for Gao Pragmatism to stay, and Shen Shixing is not interested in talking too much with Gao Pragmatist in front of so many people. , and soon everyone entered the city and left.

Since Zhu Yingzhen had just brought the emperor's oral order and asked him to wait for the decree at home, in principle, he is now on vacation, so he went to the Ministry of War to hand over the customs to Liang Menglong, and handed the Shang Fangjian to the eunuch sent by the Sili Jian to collect it and then returned. To Zhaohui Jinggongfang.

Surprisingly, when he came back, there were actually guests in the house.

Zhu Yingzhen smiled and crossed Erlang's legs in the pavilion in the front garden, holding a gold-painted folding fan made in Japan in his hand, and there was even a tea set on the table next to him, as if he had been waiting for him for a long time.

Gao Wushi stepped forward with a smile and said, "Empress Cheng has nothing to do without going to the Three Treasures Hall. I don't know what's the important thing here?"

"I was really fine, but the emperor asked me to come, so I had to come." Zhu Yingzhen said with a smile: "However, you, Gao Long, are well-known in the world, so why don't you guess why I came?"

Gao Wushi raised his eyebrows slightly: "It seems that the emperor also knows about some discussions between the government and the opposition?"

"I'll just say that Jinghua's Ministry of Internal Affairs is very powerful. You can't hide this from you." Zhu Yingzhen sighed: "Don't look at the hundreds of officials who are welcome in the suburbs today. But it's been noisy for days."

Gao pragmatically said indifferently, "Who should be credited for the battle of Zhuang Langwei?"

"Of course, why not?" Zhu Yingzhen spread his hands: "The civil service's great merits are different from Li Rusong. He Li Rusong is already the chief soldier in Taiyuan, and he can only be a chief soldier after getting this credit. Fake titles such as Prince Shaobao should be appropriate, or a robe should be given. But the credit should be given to you or Wei Que'an, and the difference will be big."

Gao pragmatically said calmly, "How can you be big?"

"Of course it's big." Zhu Yingzhen raised his eyebrows: "If it's for Wei Que'an, everyone has already figured it out. This time, as long as he takes Songshan and regains Xining, the imperial court will not only give him a set of robes, but also Getting a position as a junior teacher - this was originally something that the patriarch had to do well for a few years before he had the chance to get it."

Gao Wushi smiled and said nothing. He took a sip of the tea brought by the maid, obviously still waiting for Zhu Yingzhen's next sentence.

When Zhu Yingzhen saw it, he continued: "But if it is given to you, it will be even more amazing. Although the head you got this time by dispatching troops is not as amazing as the previous Monan War, the cabinet and various ministries and institutes think that the credit is very great. It should be rewarded. If the reward is added to the battle of Zhuang Langwei, it will be even more amazing. Forget it, everyone, your credit is no less than Wang Yangming, and you can even be awarded a title."

He shook his head and said, "How is this calculated? Zhu Chenhao was King Ning when he rebelled, and he was different from other rebels. Wang Wencheng justly decided his rebellion, and he was also different from the rest. Otherwise, the world would be different. There is a lot of chaos, but who else has been knighted as a civil official because of this?"

High pragmatism means that the court also depends on the object of quelling the rebellion. The rebellion of the vassal is the most political threat, so the reward for quelling the rebellion of the vassal is particularly high, which is completely different from pacifying other rebellions.

Of course, this was because the Battle of Jingnan had too much influence on Daming. In fact, although King Ning raised [-] troops in the rebellion at that time, the battle was not difficult, and to some extent it was even funny, because Wang Yangming's level was compared with that of Ning Wang, it was really a judgment of cloud and mud, and the gap between the two sides was simply too great.

Zhu Chenhao dared to rebel because he established a private armed force with tens of thousands of troops, known as a [-]-strong army.In order to seek wealth and wealth, many of his cronies volunteered to join, and some were coerced into submission. Zhu Chenhao wanted to seal officials, appointed prime ministers, ministers, and so on.At the same time, it was circulated all over the country, inciting those who were interested to rebel together, but no response was received.Zhu Chenhao was probably quite surprised, but the matter has come to this point, the arrow has to be sent on the string, you don't do it, Lao Tzu, do it alone.

At the beginning of July, Zhu Chenhao led his army to occupy Jiujiang and other places, went out of Jiangxi, and went down the river in an attempt to capture Nanjing.

It is true that Zhu Houzhao, the emperor of Zhengde, is a wonderful person, but in such a large court, there are still capable people.Zhu Chenhao's luck was also extremely poor. The first opponent he met was Wang Yangming, a famous Confucian and military strategist.Wang Yangming was the governor of southern Jiangxi at that time, and his jurisdiction was in Fujian and Jiangxi.

Wang Yangming raised his troops to serve the king, and adopted the strategy of suspicious soldiers. He first pretended to spread it to various places, claiming that he would lead 16 troops to attack Ning Wang's lair.King Ning was afraid of Wang Shouren's many troops, and the army began to hesitate when they got halfway, not daring to act rashly.After waiting for more than ten days, he found that Wang Yangming hadn't moved much, so he boldly attacked Nanjing with confidence.

However, Wang Shouren took this time to form [-] soldiers and horses.He took this opportunity to approach King Ning's nest and recapture Nanchang.Nanchang fell to Zhu Chenhao in early July and was recovered within ten days.Zhu Chenhao was shocked and hurried back to the army to rescue Nanchang - this is a stupid idea in itself, and it is even better to knock down Nanjing first.

At Huangjiadu in the northeast of Nanchang, Zhu Chenhao and Wang Yangming's troops fought and were defeated.Zhu Chenhao retreated, Wang Yangming pursued and defeated the rebels again.Zhu Chenhao was captured together with his son and trusted subordinates.The time is July 26.It took Zhu Chenhao only more than 20 days from the start of the army to the capture.

This time, Gao Wushi quelled the rebellion in the northwest. It took only a month from dispatching troops to conquering Ningxia, but it was two days later than Wang Yangming's.

Of course, the opponent he faced was different from King Ning Zhu Chenhao. Although King Ning claimed to be an army of [-] people, he was actually not able to fight very much, and his actual combat experience was not reliable.

This time, Gao Wushi was different. What opponent did he fight?The elites of the Ordos department's Khan account and the elites of Ningxia, one of the nine sides of the Ming Dynasty, are all opponents with rich war experience, and the total strength is actually a little more than that of King Ning.So in terms of difficulty, it is definitely more difficult this time because of high pragmatism.

Of course, this also has to look back at his own soldiers and horses - although the army led by Gao pragmatism was not many at the beginning, in terms of quality, it was more reliable than the rabble that Wang Yangming convened temporarily at that time. After all, at this time, the level of Daming's southern army is very poor. Everyone knows in their hearts. Although it can be said that there are good and bad, it is definitely not as good as Jiubian.

This impression probably only began to reverse in the era of Yu Long and Qi Hu, but once the elites of Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayu, Liu Xian and others are excluded, then the Southern Army as a whole will definitely be much worse than the Northern Army— - It's like two dwarfs are taller than one, and one dwarf is slightly taller.

In this life, because of the high level of pragmatism, the Northern Army is actually more elite than the Southern Army, because all reforms involving military affairs will ultimately benefit the towns in the nine borders, so the gap is even greater.

Of course, I am afraid that only Gao Yushi can compare this matter, and other people basically don't think about it this way.In the eyes of others, Wang Yangming put down the 10-strong King Ning Rebellion. Gao Yushi's record this time is not worse than him. Apart from King Ning's political bonus, the credit of the two is equal to that of brothers.

This is very troublesome, because Wang Shouren was awarded the title of Xinjian Bo because of this, and when he arrived in the Longqing Dynasty, he was awarded the new title (Wang Yangming had already passed away).If the credit of Gao pragmatism is considered similar to that of Wang Yangming at that time, does that mean that Gao pragmatism will also be awarded an earl?
The military generals of the Ming Dynasty are more hopeful to be knighted, but it is not easy to be knighted by civil officials. So far in the Ming Dynasty for 200 years, only the "three kings" have been knighted by civil officials: Wang Ji, Wang Yue, and Wang Shouren.

Are we going to add a fourth now?

Gao Wushi suddenly realized something, no wonder Shen Shixing didn't have the heart to talk to himself today, it seemed that this matter also put a lot of pressure on him.

Now Gao Wushi knows why there is so much controversy in the DPRK: If Zhuang Langwei's war exploits in the first battle are not counted on his head, then those who oppose him in the DPRK can use King Ning's special status, far from being a worshipper. The reason is to oppose the title of Gao Shishi, but if Zhuang Langwei's battle is added, this reason seems a little untenable.

In this battle, Zhuang Langwei not only won a lot of heads, but also captured a lot, and he can immediately regain Songshan and Xining, and maintain the channel with Gansu. What is the significance?
Zhu Yingzhen saw that Gao pragmatic's face changed, and he couldn't help but smile: "How? Be honest, I see, we will be closer in the future!"
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