Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1558 Borrowing Strength (Part [-])
Zheng Guotai's surprise was completely expected by Gao Yushi, because Gao Yushi was very aware of the performance of the Zheng family siblings in the original history. Regarding their political level, Gao Yushi can only give two words of evaluation: ha ha.

Concubine Zheng Huang's greatest ability is to keep her honor and favor in front of the emperor for decades.This is certainly a very powerful ability, but it is a pity that all her abilities stop at this, and she has not even scratched the surface of another equally important ability, that is: how to use such an honor with the greatest effectiveness. Pet.

For thousands of years in China, there have been countless concubines in the harem who have been favored in history, but there are not many people who can really take advantage of this advantage.Being favored and arrogant is the stupidest kind, but many concubines who are favored in the harem only know this.

Throughout the Chinese dynasties, the harem has always been an arena where power and profit are fought for.In this arena, apart from the theoretically transcendent emperor, there are generally only three types of people:
The first type is a capable person with ambition and brains, such as Wu Zetian; the second type is an ordinary person who has no ambition, no brains, and keeps his own place. This type of person generally does not leave a name in history books, and even if they do, it is only brought about by their status. records; the third is the ambitious but mindless fool.In Gao Yushi's eyes, Imperial Concubine Zheng basically falls into this category.

In the Wanli Dynasty in the original history, there were many major events that attracted the attention of later generations. One of the most famous political events was the dispute between the country and the country.Most ministers of the civil service group support Zhu Changluo, the eldest son of humble origin, as the crown prince, while Wanli dotes on the son of imperial concubine Zheng, the third son of the emperor, Zhu Changxun.The two sides spent at least 15 years on this matter, and finally ended with Zhu Changluo being established as the prince and the victory of the civil official group.

What is the concept of 15 years?In this era, 15 years is equivalent to a generation of adults!

For such a long time, Concubine Zheng's mother and son have been deeply loved by Zhu Yijun, and her determination to abolish the elder and establish the young has been so firm, that Concubine Zheng failed to seize the opportunity to help her son become the crown prince. How do you think All people have serious doubts about her ability.

Groups of ministers at that time rushed to fight for Zhu Changluo at the risk of being reprimanded, dismissed from office, or even imprisoned for questioning, but miraculously, no one spoke for Zheng Guifei's mother and son.

Of course, compared with other dynasties, the integrity of Ming officials is indeed more admirable at certain times. Many officials dared to confront the emperor for principled issues such as morality and etiquette.

However, politics is politics, and what it pays attention to fundamentally is not morality and righteousness, but interests, and only interests.

In the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, there are certainly gentlemen with high morality and righteousness, but there are always more villains who are mercenary, unscrupulous, and opportunistic.In fact, the ministers of the imperial court are far from a single iron bucket. Although it is different from the current disputes between practical learning and spiritual learning, the three parties of Qi, Chu, and Zhejiang were fighting against differences at that time, and the intensity may not be inferior to the current one.

From a highly pragmatic point of view, there is one of the simplest solutions, that is, the imperial concubine Zheng only needs to take advantage of the advantages of mother and child being favored, and use the contradictions between the three parties to win over one of the parties and divide and eliminate the other two parties. , Gradually cultivate and strengthen one's own power in the court, why worry about big things failing?
Taking a step back, even if the forces chosen by Concubine Zheng Gui are not strong in themselves, under the unique system of Ming Dynasty, as long as they still exist in the court, they can still achieve great things.

For example, when Sejong Zhu Houcong was first welcomed as the emperor from the son of King Xingxian, he was completely alone, but he used Zhang Cong and Gui E, two middle- and lower-level officials, to charge into the court and completely defeated Yang Tinghe, The huge civil official group led by Yang Shen and his son won the final victory in the "Great Rites" incident.

What does this mean?It shows that for the imperial power, as long as there are people in the court to help, it is not difficult to get things done, even if the helpers are small and weak, it doesn't matter, because the official hat is in the end the emperor has the final say, if he wants to give you a big one, you can do it Can take a big one.

Unfortunately, I don't know if Concubine Zheng Huanggui doesn't understand this, or if she understands but can't do it, anyway, those parties who fight to the death for personal interests or the interests of small groups on weekdays are on the issue of establishing a crown prince. On the contrary, he worked together against Concubine Zheng Gui, and did not hesitate to bet on the black yarn on top of the top, and even his precious life, which he had only obtained after studying hard for more than ten or twenty years.

It would be a lie to say that the ministers at that time were all sincerely adhering to the principle of "establishing the elders but not the young" and sacrificed everything in order to maintain this principle.The purpose of political struggle is either to safeguard personal interests or to safeguard the interests of the group—unless everyone is a traveler, as if they are highly pragmatic and stand on a historical height to naturalize their actions.Even if he is highly pragmatic, he also considers his own interests at the same time.

Therefore, there is one and only one reason for this situation: the ministers simply cannot see the benefits to themselves of Zhu Changxun's succession to the Great Reunification.In other words, the mother and son of Imperial Concubine Zheng are not worthy of the efforts of ministers.

Concubine Zheng Huang has been favored in the palace for so many years, but under the scrutiny of the outer court, she is so bad, she is considered a talent.

As for Zheng Guotai, this old man's performance in the original history is... honest and honest.

What is honesty?Even if the emperor asked him to cooperate in acting, he would honestly cooperate with the emperor in acting; the ministers invited him to go to the court together to ask the emperor to establish a prince early, and he followed the ministers to go to the court obediently.

Ah... which side are you on?

Of course, his attitude may not necessarily be "honest", maybe it's just a simple person who is stupid and easy to fool.

At this moment, Zheng Guotai was also perfectly displaying his characteristic of being easy to fool. Being cheated by Gao Wushi, he immediately turned pale with fright and fidgeted.

He asked Gao Wushi "how do you say that?" Instead of answering, Gao Wushi shook his head slightly, smiled, and drank the last bit of coffee in one gulp, pursing his lips as if savoring it.

Zheng Guotai seemed to have some demeanor when he came in earlier, but it was actually just a superior mentality born of thinking that Gao Yushi was in trouble, but now it immediately showed its true shape.Seeing that Gao Wushi didn't answer, he hurriedly begged and asked: "Da Situ, for...for the sake of the emperor..."

Gao Wushi suddenly interrupted him and said, "Uncle Guo, what did you intend to say to the main hall here?"

"Uh... Originally, I originally planned to talk to Da Situ, saying... that alliance, join forces."

"Hahahaha, teaming up?" Gao Wushi asked knowingly: "What kind of business is Uncle Guo interested in? It's easy to talk about, and it doesn't necessarily need to talk to the main hall, Jinghua already has a secretariat..."

"No, no, Da Situ, you misunderstood." Zheng Guotai hurriedly said: "It's not a joint business... Frightened, can it be called a joint business? If you are willing to pull the Zheng family, I will do any business with the Zheng family." Willing to buy shares! However, Cathay Pacific came to bother you today, and the original intention is that the court has recently... As you know, my sister can still speak a few words in front of the emperor..."

Only then did Gao Wushi "look stunned" and said: "Oh, you mean the hanging crowns of Jinyiwei Nanbei Town Fushi, the resignation of the resignation, and the vacancy of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials? To tell you the truth, these things have nothing to do with The Headquarters has nothing to do with it, and now the Headquarters is all focused on the central finance, so there is no time to ask about those."

Zheng Guotai obviously didn't believe it, but he couldn't question it directly, so he said, "But, didn't you also recommend Li Wenquan as the commander of Jinyiwei?"

"Uncle Guo, where did you hear the gossip? It was Wang Zhizhen who recommended Li Wenquan. Although he and the Benbutang are also considered relatives, he is the governor of Jinyiwei Beizhen, and what he said is also Jinyiwei's business, and the headquarter As one of the six hall officials, how could he exceed his authority and interfere with the security affairs?" Gao Wushi was surprised when he said this, if it wasn't for the fact that it was so unbelievable, Zheng Guotai would have believed it just by looking at him.

Believe it or not, right now Gao Pragmatic pushes [-] and refuses to admit it at all, Zheng Guotai will not be able to take over.He thought for a while, and then said: "Well, although Da Situ has no intention of interfering, the outer court has already talked about it after all. According to Guotai's understanding, it is also because of this matter that you are staying behind closed doors. It can be seen that you have been affected a bit. of."

"That's right." Gao Wushi admitted it frankly this time, but he immediately went on to say: "But with the emperor's wisdom, he must be able to easily understand the inside story and not be instigated by traitors to make his ministers wronged. Of course, the imperial concubine and the state My uncle's kindness is appreciated by this department."

When Gao Wushi answered in this way, Zheng Guotai was completely embarrassed.

Before he came to meet Gao Wushi, Imperial Concubine Zheng sent her cronies to contact him and analyzed the current situation for him.To put it simply, Imperial Concubine Zheng believes that this period of time is an extremely rare political trough for Gao Yushi. If Gao Yushi clings to various powers and influences and does not let go, no one knows what the emperor will do next.But the highly pragmatic holy family will be greatly affected, if not completely finished.At that time, Imperial Concubine Zheng did not move, and it was precisely because in that situation, only Gao Pragmatic's own approach was the key. Whether other people wanted to help or add trouble, it didn't make much sense.

After Gao Yushi really responded by delegating power and pushing out Li Wenquan, Imperial Concubine Zheng judged that Gao Yushi would be fine this time.However, she thinks that Gao Yushi himself may not be so sure—after all, Wang Zhizhen’s resignation has not yet been approved by the emperor, and Gao Yushi’s impeachment against him has not eased after closing the door. Just issued an imperial decree to comfort him, urging him to come out and see the matter.

If the emperor's reaction was to ordinary ministers, then there would be nothing wrong with it.Because in most cases, the emperor will wait until the foreign court has almost won the battle, and he has learned the truth from these disputes before making a decision: either order the impeacher to slander the important minister, or accept the impeachment, and allow the impeached minister to invite resignation.

But for Gao Yushi, this is the first time he enjoys this kind of "ordinary treatment". In the past, when he was impeached, the emperor immediately issued an order to "slander ministers" and even demoted him directly until he was imprisoned for discussion. .

This time, Gao Yushi did not enjoy such extra-standard preferential treatment. According to the understanding of Concubine Zheng, Gao Yushi should be very uneasy.Therefore, Concubine Zheng Huanggui decided to "send charcoal in the snow" and sent her younger brother Zheng Guotai to "join hands" with Gao Yushi.

Concubine Zheng's plan is that she is responsible for blowing the pillow wind in front of the emperor, so that the emperor can deal with those annoying speech officials earlier, and strive to be high-level and pragmatic;
Gao Wushi was in charge of counterattacking and attacking Wang Xijue and others—the reason why in the eyes of Zheng Huanggui the first target was Wang Xijue, it was because Wang Xijue was the mastermind who proposed "early rectification of the country's foundation". Instead, Xing just followed suit.

In addition, Gao Yushi was impeached this time, and Imperial Concubine Zheng also did some homework, and found that most of the people who impeached him had some relationship with Wang Xijue, so she thought that Gao Yushi would be happy to follow her advice.

However, when Zheng Guotai came to Gao Wushi, he found that his sister and his judgment were completely wrong. Not only was Gao Wushi not worried about his situation at all, he even thought that the Zheng family was in danger.

After a few words, Zheng Guotai was completely at a loss: it seemed impossible to continue to "join forces" with Gao Yushi as originally planned, but if there was no such prerequisite, it seemed that Gao Yushi would give advice on why the Zheng family was in great trouble, but it seemed that they would take it again. Nothing in return in exchange.

Fortunately, Gao Yushi is very "understanding". Seeing Zheng Guotai standing stiffly on the spot, he smiled slightly and said, "Uncle Guo, at present, some people in the foreign court are mobilizing the officials to attack the headquarters. In fact, they are diverting attention. Under the guise, to achieve an ulterior conspiracy - Uncle Guo may wish to guess, what is this conspiracy?"

"Cathay is stupid, so please ask Da Situ for advice." Zheng Guotai replied immediately with self-knowledge.

Gao Wushi smiled, and said slowly: "At present, the issue of the country's capital in the court..."

As soon as he heard the word "Guoben", Zheng Guotai immediately sat up straight, and his nervousness was palpable.

Gao Wushi acted as if he hadn't seen it, and continued: "...Actually, there are only two factions. One faction insists on establishing the eldest son, that is, making the eldest son of the emperor the crown prince. The uncle of the country must be very clear about who they are, so there is no need to say more in this department.

The other faction, headed by the Headquarters, believes that the emperor is in the prime of his life, so there is no need to worry too much about the selection of the crown prince. The other is that the empress is still young, so it is not impossible to give birth to a son, and the eldest son of the emperor is weak. If there is an unfortunate event in the future... ...it will be difficult anyway.

The two factions were originally evenly matched, and because of Dinghai Jingcha, this wave of "early rectification of the country" was covered up before.Now the main hall is closed behind closed doors, but there are constant aggression outside because of some trivial matters that have nothing to do with the main hall. With the wisdom of the uncle of the country, can't they see what their intentions are? "

Although the "wisdom of the uncle of the country" is almost negligible, but Gao Pragmatic has spoken to such an extent that Zheng Guotai can tell where the trouble is, even if he is a fool.

He was so startled that he got up suddenly, the hairs all over his body stood on end, and even his voice was distorted: "They want to build plank roads to cross Chencang secretly, first use these trivial matters to force Da Situ not to come forward, and then mention 'early rectification of the country'!"

After Uncle Guo finished speaking, his legs felt weak again, he slumped back on the chair, and muttered: "It's over, it's over, if Da Situ can't come out and see things, who can stop Wang Xi... Old Wang Ge?"

Gao Wushi originally thought that at this level, he would say, "I'll go back and report to Sister, and let Sister immediately persuade the emperor to issue an order to invite Da Situ to take care of the matter." Who knew that he would react like this, it's really muddy Ba couldn't support the wall.

It's a pity that Gao Pragmatic couldn't take the initiative to ask for it, so he had to change the method, saying: "Now the uncle of the country already knows the problem, it's not too late, it's better to report to the imperial concubine earlier... Maybe the imperial concubine can have some clever plans."

"Ah, yes, yes, I should have told my sister earlier." Zheng Guotai got up quickly, but this time he still remembered to bow deeply to Gao Gao and said: "Thank you, Da Situ, for your guidance, Cathay... Sister and Chang Xun thanked Da Situ and said goodbye."

This time, Gao Wushi got up and returned the salute, nodded and said: "Uncle Guo, go slowly...Gao Mo, send one to Uncle Guo for me." After finishing speaking, he sent Zheng Guotai to the door of the room.

Zheng Guotai was flattered, and said repeatedly: "Don't dare to work Da Situ, Da Situ stays behind, Da Situ stays away."
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