Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1807
"No discussion" is politically difficult. It's not that if you say you can't discuss it, everyone really doesn't discuss it. After all, you are highly pragmatic and you are not His Majesty the Emperor.The premise that cannot be discussed can only be that you have an absolute advantage, and the other party has no choice but to shut up.

Therefore, while insisting that Guo Pu's posthumous title must be "Wenzhen", Gao Wushi strongly opposed the peace talks with Japan previously decided by the cabinet. Respite.

Don't think that these two things have nothing to do with each other. In fact, politics is an art of compromise. When you don't have enough bargaining chips, you have to find some other bargaining chips.

Guo Pu, as a chief assistant who connects the past and the future, is probably related to Gao Gong as the "Cao" of Xiao Gui and Cao Suizhong.Since Gao Gong won the supreme and rare "Wenzheng", if Guo Pu could not get the "Wenzhen" second only to Wenzheng, to a large extent it means that the Real School did not do well enough, and it was the result of denying the Real School's work during that time. mean.

And if Gao Gong's successor, the chief assistant Guo Pu Bingzheng, did not do well enough during the period of Gao Gong's successor, then it is naturally unlikely that the subsequent Zhang Siwei era will receive a high evaluation. The era of Shen Shixing will be defined as an excellent ruling period in the future, and the credit of the practical school will be given to Shen Shihang or the mind school by Zhang Guanli.

This is not surprising. After all, Gao Yushi’s later great achievements were also nominally made during the period when Shen Shixing was in power. In the next year, the credit of the practical school may really become the credit of the heart school.

There have been many examples of this situation in world history. For example, many people in later generations believed that [-]% of the anti-government efforts were made in the United States, while the red giant bear became a soy sauce existence, let alone China.This is actually caused by the gap in publicity after the war. At present, Gao Pragmatism wants to fight for Guo Pu's posthumous title. In the final analysis, it can also be regarded as a fight for the right to speak and the right to define.

Although at first glance, Wenzhen is good, Wenzhong is not bad, and even Wenjian is not bad, but since Gao Yushi insists on getting the best posthumous title among several beautiful posthumous titles, he has to make a difference. exchange.In order to exchange, you need a bargaining chip. Gao Wushi objected to the peace negotiation at this time, in fact, he used the negotiation issue as a bargaining chip.

Due to Gao Yu’s great influence on military issues, no matter how much Shen Shixing emphasized that the resolution has been formed and the imperial decree has been issued for a while, the Ming Dynasty must have begun to implement this plan in North Korea, so it is meaningless to oppose it at this time. However, in the end the emperor decided to hold another imperial meeting to discuss this issue again.

At the meeting in Wenhua, Wang Xijue fired first, saying that the Ministry of War first agreed to the peace talks, that is, the Ministry of War also believed that the war situation on the front line was worrying, and it was not the cabinet's unreasonable request for peace talks.

He believed that the views of the Ministry of War were well-founded. First of all, the food problem plagued both the Ming army and North Korea, making both sides feel tight and embarrassed.

As far as North Korea is concerned, they need to supply the army while worrying about civilian famine, and even support the Ming army in theory (actually the degree of completion is very poor), so the pressure on food can be described as huge, and it needs at least one or two years as a buffer period.

As far as the Ming army is concerned, the conflicts between the northern and southern armies due to the issue of merit and reward have not been reconciled until now. The northern and southern armies are currently under the control of Song Yingchang, maintaining harmony in name, but in fact everyone knows That's because both sides are looking at high and pragmatic face.

Not only the ministers of the cabinet, but actually including the emperor himself, all know that Song Yingchang can't suppress the evil fire in the hearts of both parties. As long as something happens in the future, it is not surprising that the conflict will intensify at any time. It can be said that he is sitting on the powder keg light fireworks.

What's more, Li Rusong's direct lineage suffered serious losses, which made his follow-up use of troops obviously more cautious-this is actually a deliberate compliment, the real situation is nothing more than a marked decline in aggressiveness, and he is easily unwilling to rush again hit.

Li Rusong's attitude cannot be entirely blamed on his selfishness. The military system of the Ming Dynasty is here. The greater the loss of his direct lineage, the higher the probability of command failure on the battlefield. There is actually no way to be cautious.Whether the emperor or his ministers knew the actual situation, they could only give Li Rusong time to recover.

All in all, Wang Xijue's attitude is very clear: it's not that the cabinet doesn't want to fight, it's that the situation on the front line is worrisome, and it will take a while to accumulate strength to be safe, and then it will depend on the situation - if Japan is honest, peace can be done; if Japan Being dishonest, you are sure to fight again.

When he said this, Wu Dui and Liang Menglong felt a little embarrassed. After all, Gao Wushi left Beijing to supervise the disaster relief in Henan after he had settled the feud between Song Yingchang and Li Rusong, but the front line turned out like this.Although all of these can be said to have a reason, but after all, the scene is ugly, and it is still a bit difficult to explain.

As Minister of the Ministry of War, Zhou Yong was even more nervous. The rules of the Ming Dynasty were actually quite simple. If the battle was fought well, the Grand Sima would always deserve credit. But if the battle was not fought well, the Grand Sima would rarely be immune responsibility.Now that a small country on the front line has turned into a stalemate, and even the internal chaos, how can he, the big Sima, say that he is not responsible?
Shen Shixing agreed to negotiate peace, apparently to ease the conflict between the School of Mind and the School of Reality, and to give Wu Dui, Liang Menglong, and Zhou Yong face, as if everyone was discussing the facts: due to the current stalemate in the war situation, our army is also There are some troubles that need to be resolved urgently, so we will temporarily negotiate and stabilize the situation in order to follow up.As for the pursuit of responsibility, let's not talk about it, our first priority is to solve the problem...

However, the reality is not so simple!From the perspective of Shen Shihang, your practical school has always been responsible for this battle, and now that the battle has become a raw meal, the responsibility will not go to my heart school instead, right?

Not only do I, the Chief Assistant, not only have no responsibility, but I also take the initiative to take care of the aftermath for you, using mere canonization in exchange for time to reconcile internal conflicts and accumulate strength to fight again. I am not a prime minister.
Of course, once this matter is done, the Mind School will not only demonstrate Yuan Fu’s generosity, generosity, and courage to do things, but it will also show that the Real School is not only ineffective this time, but also entrusts others and has nothing to do. No responsibility.

In fact, to a certain extent, this is due to the fact that Gao Yushi, as the core figure of the current Real School, is not in the capital at a critical moment. The rest, whether Wu Dui, Liang Menglong or Zhou Yong, dare not make decisions in battles and problems. Thus, he fell into the trap of Shenshihang.But now that Gao Pragmatism is back, things must get back on the right track.

"I already understand the difficulties Yuanfu mentioned." Gao Wushi replied calmly: "But these difficulties are not insurmountable. I even prepared a plan before the war."

As soon as he said this, the audience was stunned, only Zhu Yijun was overjoyed, and hurriedly said: "What's the plan, come quickly!"

Gao Wushi cupped his hands at the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, what Yuanfu just said about the food crisis is actually divided into two levels. One is that it was winter before, and some ports on the west road were frozen or blocked by ice floes, while North Korea The construction of the port is lagging behind, so it is difficult for our sea transportation to achieve the expected efficiency.

The second is the east road. Due to the heavy snow in Liaodong and the land of Jurchen, the road is difficult and the transportation capacity is insufficient.In short, it is not enough to support the entire army. As for the supply of food and grass to North Korea, it is also a temporary situation that was not expected before, which makes our army's food and grass somewhat difficult.

However, as the weather gets warmer, most of these problems have actually been solved. It is only because North Korea has stretched the front line after regaining the two capitals. In addition, the food in the former occupied area was confiscated by the Japanese army, causing a large number of refugees, and the spring and autumn harvests were seriously affected. On the contrary, the army needs to provide more assistance to North Korea, which shows that our army's food and grass are still not enough to support the next stage of operations. "

He paused and continued: "But the problem of food shortage in North Korea should not be solved by the Ming court. The old minister has already proposed a cooperation with King Lee Chan of North Korea through the Jinghua Trading Company to contract the mining of several mines and coal fields in North Korea." And conditions such as opening an iron factory and producing agricultural tools, in exchange for Jinghua Trading Co., Ltd. to provide North Korea with southern Xinjiang rice to deal with the food crisis of the North Korean court... Lai Emperor Hongfu, the North Korean side has agreed to this transaction."

This news made everyone dumbfounded again, thinking that there is still such a way to play?But after thinking about it, I felt that there was indeed nothing wrong with it. In essence, this was the same nature as Daming's opening up the Chinese law, but the identities of the two parties were different.

The so-called Kaizhong method is that in the third year of Hongwu, because Shanxi and other border areas were in urgent need of military rations, the imperial court recruited merchants to transport grain in exchange for salt imports, and led the salt transportation and sales to designated areas. This method is called Kaizhong.

However, the deal that Gao Wushi came up with now is that the Korean court used the mines and coal fields as salt, and the Jinghua Trading Company played the role in its true colors, responsible for transporting grain to designated areas.

If there is any difference, it is that the salt in the hands of early merchants in China and France was the official salt obtained from the imperial court, and then they sold the salt to buy grain from inland provinces and transport it to the frontier. Today, Jinghua Trading Co., Ltd. transports grain to North Korea. It came from southern Xinjiang—the specifics of how these grains came from Gao Yu did not say, but neither the emperor nor the ministers paid much attention to it, or it is inconvenient to discuss it in detail.

Gao Wu has no need to prove his talent in finance and logistics. Since he said that the food problem is no longer a problem, the monarchs and ministers have nothing to say. Next, it is their turn to talk about the conflict between the North and South armies on the Korean front, and Song Yingchang and his colleagues. The relationship between Li Rusong is delicate.

In fact, the latter is not a big problem. After Gao Yushi replied to the two of them in letters, the relationship between the two was not as good as before, at least they could maintain a superficial unity.Because each other has to look at the high and pragmatic face, this team collocation can actually work effectively.

The real trouble lies in the discord between the North and South armies, which is the most difficult to deal with.At present, no one in the southern army is qualified to compare with Li Rusong in North Korea, and the main force of sending troops is indeed the Liaodong army, so it is only natural that the northern army is strong.

However, although the number of the Southern Army is small, it is the part with a higher degree of weaponization, especially in siege warfare, which can play a more obvious role, so it is not surprising that they have a "temper".But in this way, the contradiction between the two sides will not be easy to resolve.

According to Gao Pragmatic's point of view, if we want to solve the problem at this time, we must send a new commander-in-chief who neither side dares to disobey - then apart from Yu Jia's personal conquest, it is almost only Gao Pragmatic himself, even Qi Jiguang No, because Li Jiajun might not give Qi Shuai face.

However, Gao Wuzhen does not want to go to North Korea yet. His previous plan was that unless Daming launched an offensive against the Japanese mainland, it would not be to the extent that he would personally go to North Korea.

As a result, there was only one other way: Li's army returned to Liaodong, and a new army was sent to replace Li's army, and closely cooperate with the southern army to carry out the next stage of combat.

The advantage of this plan is that there are people in the hands of high-level pragmatists. The disadvantage is that the defense of the Nine Sides and the newly recovered areas of Chahar will be adjusted. The person who is in love will definitely be implicated.

To put it bluntly, it takes courage to do this, and you have to be brave enough to take on possible turmoil. For the cabinet of the Ming Dynasty, stability is probably always the first appeal of everyone, so no one considered it from this perspective before this. .

However, this is not dangerous for Gao Yushi.After the Chahar power vacuum, several forces around this area had once fought under his banner, and he had enough prestige and strength to deter them.Therefore, as long as Gao Yushi himself did not leave the center, but continued to sit in the capital, he would not be afraid that these forces would dare to have any unreasonable ideas.

The question now is who to transfer to replace Li Rusong.With the defection of the Cao army in the south of the Yangtze River and the surrender of the surrender, Qi Jiguang will be able to return to Beijing immediately. With his status, he is certainly enough to replace Li Rusong.

It's just that Qi Jiguang, the commander of the imperial guards, is about to end his term of office, and Gao Yushi's next arrangement for him is to be the principal of the military academy, so that the military system of the Ming Dynasty will gradually become regularized and modernized, so that famous generals will not rely on "" as in previous dynasties. Chosen".

This matter is very important, and in the eyes of Gao Yushi, it is even more important than the current war in North Korea, so Qi Jiguang has other important responsibilities and cannot go to North Korea to delay.

In terms of the principle of proximity, Xiao Ruxun can also go, but Xiao Ruxun is not necessarily good at attacking, and he is not the commander-in-chief. Sending him to replace Li Rusong may make North Korea feel that Ming's support for them has declined, so they are panicked. And it's not beautiful to make any monster moths.

In this way, when the emperor asked who could replace Li Rusong, Gao Yushi almost unexpectedly recommended his old subordinate: Ma Gui.
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