Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1753 Revisiting the Aid Korea to Fight the Japanese (Twenty)
In the history of the Gaohuai chaos in the Liao Dynasty, there were a lot of impeachments recorded in the "Records of Shenzong" alone. As a result, it took so long to finally force the emperor to recall this guy-note that it was only a recall, so it can be seen that it needs to be dealt with. How hard he is.

However, Gao Yushi said at this time, "Excluding Gaohuai, it is like slaughtering a dog", isn't this a bit inflated?It's really not inflation. If Gao Huai wants to get rid of Gao Huai, it's really "like killing a dog".

This is about the changes in the power of all parties under the political system of the Ming Dynasty. However, this issue has been explained before, and there is no need to repeat it here. I only talk about the current power structure and the legal basis behind it.

In general, the nearly 300-year history of the Ming Dynasty can almost be seen as a history of struggle between imperial power and ministerial power. The emperor and civil servants are constantly seeing and looking for a balance for the real ruling power of the country.From Zhu Yuanzhang's strong imperial power at the beginning to Zhang Juzheng's peak power of "I am not a prime minister, but a photographer", all truly reflect the transformation of this struggle.

So what about eunuchs?The role played by eunuchs in this process is a very important part of it. The power changes of eunuchs have witnessed the changes in the strength between imperial power and prime minister power.

Because of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Dynasty was influenced by the powerful imperial power in the early days of the founding of the country, and the country's politics was clear and its military was strong.But in the period of Chengzu Zhu Di, constrained by the disparity in the emperor's own strength, he began to seek the assistance of civil servants. In order to prevent the promotion of power represented by civil servants from affecting the imperial power, the noble class and eunuchs were used to assist the imperial power at the same time.

Originally, from the perspective of power checks and balances, there is no big problem in doing so.However, after the Tumu Fortress Change, the collective fall of the nobles led to the dominance of the family of civil servants, which in turn formed a political structure in which the Ming Dynasty emphasized civil affairs over military affairs.

In order to fight against the power of the prime minister, generations of Ming emperors began to increase the power of eunuchs to check and balance civil servants, but they may not have thought at the time that when Emperor Chongzhen came, this method was played off by the sage Chongzhen.

This sage made a decisive move and uprooted the eunuchs who defended the imperial power. It was equivalent to cutting himself into a useless person, and then ran to ask the civil servants, "Should you be loyal to me now?" ——After the disintegration of the red bear Shock Therapy's expert called this out, it was really shocking.

But even though Mao Xiong is in shock, he has thousands of nuclear bombs, so it’s okay for others to quietly pick up cheap ones, but it’s still scary to go directly to snatch them openly.However, since you, Daming, don't have a nuclear bomb, after the shock has passed, someone will come over to touch the corpse.

Looking at it this way, the situation is actually like this: the eunuchs were useless earlier, and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't need them at all; later, Zhu Di was worse than Zhu Yuanzhang, but as long as he borrowed from the nobles, he still didn't need eunuchs; Xungui survived in name only, so he had to find out the eunuch to take the top.

Therefore, although the dispute between imperial power and ministerial power is the root cause, its manifestation is the dispute between eunuchs and civil officials.Xungui was very important at the beginning, but later due to his own decline, he gradually retreated to the second line.

So, is Xungui really useless?That is not necessarily the case.As I said before, there is a hidden relationship between the nobles, civil officials, and eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty: the nobles are afraid of the civil officials, the civil officials are afraid of the eunuchs, and the eunuchs are afraid of the nobles.

This is not absolute restraint like playing chess, but it has been shown in most periods. For example, when Wei Zhongxian claimed to be nine thousand years old, he was completely in power, but there was nothing he could do about Ding Guogong not giving him face at all. This shows that there must be a reason for it.

Why do these top nobles dare not even look down on nine thousand years old?At first glance, it seems that the emperor and them are essentially allies because the hereditary succession of nobles is the extension of the monarchy itself, and it must be attached to and supported by the monarchy.Although the power of the eunuchs is also an extension of the monarchy, they cannot be considered allies with the emperor. They are just the emperor's servants, which is a master-servant relationship.

Servants can be changed whenever they want, anyway, there are many people who are willing to be this servant, and the emperor has a lot of room to choose. The options are too limited.

This is where the real gap in status lies—the difference in fungibility.

But there is still a problem here, that is why Xungui could not suppress civil officials because of a civil engineering change, but eunuchs could suppress civil officials?There must be a power difference among them.

Earlier, Xungui was able to suppress civil servants by mastering force. The civil changes caused Xungui's force to be almost wiped out, and the prestige established by military exploits no longer existed, so he naturally became weak.

Of course, eunuchs can suppress civilian officials not by force, but by the supervisory power that is not restricted by civil officials-factory guards.The supervisory power of the factory guards was relatively complete until Chongzhen died.

Even if a large number of civil servants' children entered the Jinyiwei, the eunuch did not lose this power, because Dongchang can supervise the Jinyiwei, and the civil servants' children will not be enshrined in the Dongchang and become the leader-nonsense, the admiral of the Dongchang can only It's a minister, Enyin, you go to be a eunuch, can you agree to this?

But in any case, even if the nobles lost their force—even because of this, they became more pure in the emperor's mind, at least they would definitely not rebel.Under such a premise, they also have a political status (ancestral system) that cannot be changed in name, and the emperor will naturally show them the greatest tolerance.

Therefore, they are invincible in the eyes of eunuchs: they have their own loyalty BUFF, and the most powerful supervisory power in the hands of eunuchs is directly declared invalid; If people are really angry, so what if they just take a whip and beat you as a "castrate"?

It's really not that good, if you smoke it, you smoke it.So Jiu Qiansui didn't go to meet the Duke at all, lest he wouldn't be able to come to Taiwan.

Speaking of reality, what is Gao Wuzhen's identity now?Marquis of Nanning who maintained his status as a civil servant.

Civil officials are not scary, powerful eunuchs can control civil servants; nobles are not terrible, powerful civil servants can control nobles.However, civil servants and nobles, this is terrible.What does this identity mean under Ming's political system?It means that he is a BUG, ​​he has no natural enemies except the emperor himself!

If you want to move him as a civil servant, he is the leader of the most powerful political group at present. He has so much credit and strength that you cannot touch him; You are honored to rest with the country, and you are much more important than you in front of the emperor; if you are honorable, you want to touch him... huh?He is your leader, are you crazy? Want to touch him? Don't you want any money?
Therefore, Gao Yushi didn't have the troubles of those people in history who couldn't handle Gao Huai at all. For him, it was very simple to move Gao Huai—not to mention that the current Gao Huai was far from the kind that the emperor had in mind when he arrived in Zhenliao. The importance.

"Then what do you plan to do?" Liu Xin asked curiously, "He shouldn't be an important person right now, so it stands to reason that he probably won't have any serious mistakes."

Gao Wushi said: "Although I studied law before, it is reasonable to say that fishing law enforcement is definitely wrong, and I should not presuppose a position, but the situation is different now. I know that Gao Huai will definitely do bad things, so..."

"So you want to fish for law enforcement?" Liu Xin couldn't help laughing and said, "How about fishing? Did he take bribes from you?"

"Am I that stupid?" Gao Wushi rolled his eyes and said, "Just let him supervise the mausoleum workers. There are not many supervising mausoleum workers who don't make a fortune from it. Wait for him to supervise the work for a while, and then send It’s enough for someone to check it, and I dare say that once you check it, you will be sure.”

"Good guy, you really understand this method." Liu Xin raised her thumbs up: "I think this method works, it is just aboveboard and impeccable."

"That's right, although this kind of routine is old, it's absolutely easy to use." Gao Wushi snorted lightly, paused, and said again: "But this suggestion can't be made by me, I have to find someone who has nothing to do with me to arrange it. .”

"So you're looking for Chen Ju?" Liu Xin asked.

"Of course not. If Chen Ju mentions this, then I'm harming him. It doesn't matter if I find someone who gets killed." Gao Wushi chuckled and said, "For example, Li Wenjin, or Concubine Zheng, it's fine."

Liu Xin said with emotion: "I remember watching a TV series before, but I forgot what the name was, but there was a very good saying in it, saying that loyal ministers are more treacherous than treacherous ministers—now it seems so reasonable."

Gao Wushi gave her a blank look: "Are you praising me or hurting me?"

"Oh, of course I'm complimenting you, my lord." Liu Xin replied with a smile, then suddenly withdrew her smile, and said seriously: "By the way, when you were away, I discussed with Jia Feiji, and some It's up to you to decide."

Since Kai Ji was involved, it must be a Japanese affair. Gao Wushi asked, "Is there anything unclear about the Japanese arrangement?"

"Of course." Liu Xin said: "There are two main aspects: First, although you judge that Tokugawa Ieyasu is not willing to meet us in battle, I think this situation cannot be ruled out. Especially when Toyotomi Hideyoshi may have lost his mind. Under the unclear premise, who knows if he will force Tokugawa Ieyasu to fight us, or even send troops to fight if Tokugawa Ieyasu is not active enough?"

Gao Wushi pondered, but didn't express his opinion immediately.In fact, Liu Xin's words have already moved him, because Toyotomi Hideyoshi's performance is indeed very problematic now, or his performance during this period of original history is also very problematic.For a person whose mental state is difficult to judge, it is impossible to predict what abnormal behavior he will have, so it is indeed right to prepare for the worst first.

Liu Xin didn't intend to wait for the high-level pragmatism to ponder over it slowly, but directly talked about the second point: "Secondly, we only talked about the Kanto issue before, and we haven't talked about Sakaimachi yet."

She stretched out her hand and waved it in front of Gao Wushi, letting him listen to herself first: "There used to be many big Japanese businessmen in that place, but later because Toyotomi Hideyoshi enriched them all and went to Osaka, it was empty. The Battle of Odawara At that time, Toyotomi Hideaga went to Misaki Castle to negotiate with Luo Yuan, and the final condition of the negotiation was that the Maritime Trade Alliance went to Sakaicho to build a new crystal building that was not inferior to that of Shimizu Castle, do you remember that?"

"Of course I remember." Gao Wushi stretched out his hand to remove her dangling hand in front of him, and said, "The building should have been repaired, right? I later led the troops to fight in the north, and I didn't pay attention to the follow-up development—what is going on in Sakaimachi now?" How is it?"

"Of course the Crystal Building has been repaired, and the Maritime Trade Alliance does use it as our headquarters in Kinki and the central region of Japan, but the right to garrison Luo Yuan won at that time has not had time to exercise."

This matter was discussed by Toyotomi Hidecho and Luo Yuan at the time. At the beginning, Toyotomi Hideyoshi asked the Maritime Trade Alliance to establish a Japanese headquarters in Osaka, so that the Kyushu Crystal Building and the Kanto (Misaki Castle) Crystal Building can be combined. press down.Due to the highly pragmatic authorization, Luo Yuan agreed to this condition, but he said that the Sea Trade Alliance has its own rules, and the Sea Trade Alliance must be responsible for the defense of the location of the crystal building, so it is required to garrison troops.

Since it is necessary to garrison troops, it is obvious that the Japanese headquarters of the Maritime Trade Alliance cannot be located in Osaka Castle, so Toyotomi Hidecho proposed to set it in Sakai Town, which is very close to Osaka Castle.Although the merchants in Sakai Town have moved, the population loss is not too great. With the strength of the Maritime Trade Alliance, once they settle in Sakai Town, the local prosperity is still within reach. Therefore, Luo Yuan also agreed.

However, the two sides wrangled for a while on the issue of the garrison.At the beginning, Luo Yuan said that he would control the garrison to "less than 3000", but Toyotomi Hideo immediately refused after being surprised. He thought [-] was too much. Toyotomi Hideyoshi can accept, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi believes that the maximum number of people should not exceed [-].

At the time, Luo Yuan said that it was difficult to arrange 3000 people based on the land division of the Maritime Trade Alliance.The land division of the Maritime Trade Alliance generally takes the town as the basic unit, and a town has 12512 people.He said that it was actually very embarrassing to promise to control the number of people within [-], because only two infantry associations could be stationed there, and the town's horse marks and gun marks could not be carried.

So the two sides wrangled, and finally reached an agreement based on Toyotomi Hidecho's compromise proposal, that is, the Maritime Trade Alliance's garrison in Sakaimachi will not exceed [-] troops, and only one infantry association will be sent.

He also said "very intimately" that 38 of the 1000 people are planned to be a standard infantry association of the Maritime Trade Alliance, and the remaining about [-] people can be the family members and servants of the officers of the association.

Although the conditions have been fulfilled, it has not been actually deployed until now.Firstly, the Maritime Trade Alliance itself does not have so many Lu divisions (Jinghua’s domestic Lu divisions mainly belong to Jinghua Trading Company and major factories and mines, and are not directly under the jurisdiction of the Maritime Trade Union), and secondly, since Gao Pragmatism has been busy with the war affairs against Mongolia, No decision has been made on where to deploy manpower.

So until now, although the Maritime Trade Alliance has built the so-called Japanese headquarters in Sakaimachi, the defense force is not a regular land division, but some musketeers gathered by Jinghua and various families in the fleet.The number of these people is not fixed. Sometimes there are thousands of people, and sometimes there are only six or seven hundred.

"Do you think we can defend Sakaimachi if we really go to war with Toyotomi Hideyoshi?" Gao Wushi shook his head and said, "I didn't send troops to garrison Sakaimachi at the beginning. live there."
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