Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1937 Returning to Japan (Thirty-five) High Pragmatism in the Eyes of Jiafei Ji

The winter snow is coming, and the cold wind is still there.In the study room of the government office where Jinhai Jinglueyuan high-pragmatic place is located, high-quality charcoal is burning in a gilded copper furnace with four-clawed dragon patterns.The four-clawed dragon pattern is not common in North Korea. Because of the etiquette, this copper furnace is obviously used by the queen, and only the king of Joseon, Li Yan, can use it.

That's right, many things in Gao Yushi's study were ordered by Li Yan himself, and they were transported from Hanyang for Gao Yushi to enjoy alone. Gao Yushi did not refuse, but asked the accompanying secretary to write an official document on his behalf to thank North Korea. king.

"From this point of view, compared to Tokugawa Ieyasu, Ishida Mitsunari is indeed too short-sighted." Gao Yushi half-lyed on a foxcup recliner, closed his eyes and said, "However, Tokugawa Ieyasu's actions are also very short-sighted." It was not beyond my expectations. It’s just that he thinks Japan still has a chance, but this is wishful thinking.”

At this time, Kai Ji did not look like a female general sitting on the side, but a Yamato Nadeshiko wearing Ming costumes.She leaned over Gao Yushi's side, obediently beating his calf, and the strength of her hands was so good that Gao Yushi didn't want to open her eyes when she was talking.

"Master is exhaustive. Although the Zuo Mansion can be called shrewd, it is impossible to be the opponent of Master." Jia Feiji replied.

The high-practice man didn't move, just raised his hand and shook it left and right, saying: "It's not a matter of skill, it's that Ieyasu's bargaining chip is far inferior to mine, no matter how hard he tries, he can't match me in the end." Arrange it casually, maybe I don't even care about his plans, as long as I break through the ten meetings with one effort."

"Ah..." Jia Feiji was stunned for a moment, but she seemed to understand the reason quickly, nodded and said: "So that's the case, what the master said is very true. The current situation reminds me of the time when Taige was still Guan Bai The Odawara Expedition launched.

When the Guanbai army approached, the Hojo family actually thought of many ways to deal with it, but in the end they found that it was useless at all.As long as Guan Bai does not withdraw his troops, no matter how indestructible Odawara Castle is, the defeat of the Hojo family is only a matter of time, sooner or later. "

"You have such insights, which shows that you have made great progress in the past few years. This is what I said before: use tactics for the situation, not limited to the situation." Gao Wushi said: "What does "Sun Tzu's Art of War·Position" say, Remember?"

"Yes, I remember." Jia Feiji quickly replied: "A good fighter seeks for power and does not take responsibility for others, so he can choose people and take power. Those who take power, their fighters are like turning wood and stone. Wood and stone The nature of peace is tranquility, danger is movement, squareness is stasis, and roundness is movement. Therefore, the momentum that is good at fighting people is like turning a round stone around a thousand-foot mountain, and the momentum is also..."

"Do you understand what it means?" Gao Wushi asked again.

Jia Feiji replied: "It means that a good general always seeks victory from his own 'power', and does not demand that his subordinates win through hard work. Therefore, he can properly select talents and skillfully use 'power'.

A person who is good at appointing 'potential', he commands the army to fight like turning wood or stone.The nature of wood and stone, when placed on flat ground, is still, and when placed on high and steep ground, it slides; the square is still, and the circle is rolling.The situation created by a general who is good at commanding battles is like rolling a boulder from a mountain as high as a thousand feet.This is the 'potential' in the art of war. "

Although Gao Yushi still had his eyes closed, a smile appeared on his face, and he said in an approving tone: "Not bad, the book is good."

"Master, thank you." Jia Feiji secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Ever since she entered Gaofu, she has always had a special respect for Gao Yushi. This kind of reverence is not only due to her status or power, and of course it is not personal. Force, but more out of awe of wisdom.

After years of getting to know each other, Jia Feiji certainly knows that Gao Yushi is actually quite caring and caring for those around her, but this does not affect her evaluation of Gao Yushi in the slightest.

He is a person who is almost entirely composed of rationality, and sensibility is just an ordinary adjustment for him. Once it comes to business, he will become impersonal, and every decision is extremely calm, without any emotion .

Because of this, his decisions are often made from a very high point of view, like a god in the sky looking down on the world, with a kind of indifference like "being too forgetful".

This kind of experience was originally because of what she saw and heard in Nanning Marquis Mansion.That time, it happened that Madam came back from Dingnan to Beijing to meet Master, and just a few days after arriving, Nanjiang sent a case, saying that it was impossible to decide, so Master and Madam asked for a ruling.

The matter is not very complicated to say, but it happened in a place called Kampot in the jurisdiction of the second town of the Phnom Penh Garrison.At that time, some kind of unknown plague was suspected to have occurred in a certain local village. Even the military doctors who graduated from the medical department of Jinghua Craftsman School did not know the cause and could not cure it.

The local yamen and the garrison are deeply troubled, because a new port city is being built on a peninsula cape dozens of miles west of Kampot. If the plague spreads in the village of Kampot, the consequences will be disastrous.

However, whether it was a plague or not, since the disease has never been recorded, and doctors dare not say for sure, there has been controversy.Some people advocated reporting it immediately, and please send someone from the medical department to the joint consultation before making a decision;

Just when the two sides were in dispute, Gao Leshan, the commander of the local garrison and the third commander of the Second Town of the Phnom Penh Garrison, led troops directly to surround the village.Gao Leshan blocked the village with musketeers, and then fired rockets to burn the whole village.In this incident, none of the 270 people in the village, old and young, were spared, and all of them were burned to coke.

After the incident, the civil and military sides had great differences.The civil servants were under great pressure from the local area because they had to face governance issues directly. They were extremely indignant at the garrison for such a miserable life, and insisted that Gao Leshan be responsible for the massacre.

The military generals showed the usual arrogance of the garrison. The commander of the Phnom Penh garrison and the commander of the second town did not explain the questioning of the advisory group (Jinghua relies on the advisory group to indirectly control the local area).

Both of them insisted that the garrison only accepts the orders of the lord, or the wife acts on behalf of the lord's instructions, so if the garrison wants to punish Gao Leshan, please show the warrant of the lord or the lady, otherwise don't make noise.

When Jia Feiji heard the news, as a female general who used to be in charge of a city's military affairs, she also put herself into it and thought about it, and felt that this matter was indeed very difficult.

In fact, since the establishment of the samurai system in Japan (that is, the shogunate system), local daimyos have been managed by the military and government together, so Kai Ji is no stranger to this.

From the perspective of local governance, the anger of the advisory group is completely understandable.After all, whether this disease is a plague or not has not been figured out at all. How can you kill the whole village of [-] people without saying anything?Shouldn't our advisory group explain to the local people?We have done so much work, and now that you mess it up like this, it may all be in vain. Shouldn't we be indignant? Shouldn't we ask the military for an explanation?
But the problem is that it is hard to say that the military's approach is wrong.Whether it is the plague is hard to say, but after all, more than two-thirds of the village has symptoms, which shows that the disease is very contagious. Even if it is not a plague, once it spreads, it may be a big deal.

In addition, the seaport city not far to the west is under construction. According to Jinghua's plan, it will be the largest port in the Kingdom of Cambodia in the future. It is an absolute key project and has concentrated a lot of manpower and material resources. Lost.The military's resolute disposal has at least maintained the safety of the project.

Compared with the more than 270 people in that small village, the manpower concentrated in this project is at least [-], and the two sides are completely different.

Just when Jia Feiji thought it was very difficult at this time, his wife Huang Zhiting also frowned and looked at Gao Yushi, as if she felt that this matter was not easy to handle, and it would be more at ease for the master to make the decision himself.

Who knew that Gao's pragmatic decision was extremely decisive - Jia Feiji even suspected that his thinking did not take more than three breaths.Then I heard Gao Yushi say: "The disease was not thoroughly investigated and killed nearly [-] people in the village. Gao Leshan was sentenced to be dismissed on the spot and no longer served as the third commander of the Second Township of the Phnom Penh Garrison. Twenty rods, and public execution is allowed. This order."

Not only Jia Feiji, but even Huang Zhiting frowned, and Secretary-General Liu, who has always been known for his outspokenness and courage, immediately stood up, obviously ready to object.

Unexpectedly, Gao Wushi didn't even look at it, and continued: "The family member Gao Leshan is not chaotic in the face of danger, he is decisive in handling things, sophisticated in means, and dares to take responsibility. He is now promoted to the deputy chief of staff of the Dingnan Garrison Command. This order."

Jia Feiji was stunned on the spot.

She didn't expect Gao Pragmatic's decision to divide one matter into two to deal with. First, Gao Leshan was smashed to the end, and out of consideration of "civilians' anger", he was publicly punished for [-] years.

Then, as a master, he affirmed Gao Leshan's ability and sense of responsibility. Apart from anything else, he was promoted on the spot. He was directly promoted from an ordinary "family member" to the deputy chief of staff of the Dingnan Garrison Headquarters—this is also a promotion.

In this way, since the matter is handled separately, the advisory group can't say that the master is partial to the armed servants—his post has also been removed, the board has been beaten, and the execution is still in public. Naturally, the public's anger will be vented, and their demands will naturally be obtained. Satisfy.

However, Gao Leshan did not suffer any losses. He had just been dismissed from his post and took off directly on the back foot. He was promoted from the mere district standard of the Phnom Penh Garrison stationed abroad to the Dingnan Garrison Command, which is the core of southern Xinjiang, and he did it all at once. The deputy chief of staff is simply one thought of hell and one thought of heaven.

However, what frightened Jia Feiji the most was the speed of Gao Pragmatic's decision and the implication contained in the decision.Fast decision-making means that high-level practical thinking is extremely clear, so that issues that are very complicated in the eyes of others are not difficult to deal with at all; as for the hidden meaning...

Is it fair to sacrifice some people for the sake of others?Is it fair to sacrifice the few for the sake of the many?
This is extremely difficult for anyone who holds the concept of "benevolence and righteousness" to make a decision, but for a top scholar in the six poems of the Ming Dynasty who understands "benevolence and righteousness" the most, his highly pragmatic decision shows that he can accept it for the majority. at the expense of the few.

Is this ruthless?Jiafeiji didn't know, but subconsciously, she thought it was.

At least, in the eyes of high pragmatism, some people can be sacrificed.So by extension, the Japanese who sent troops to attack the Ming Dynasty must be sacrificed, right?Not only did the Japanese army set foot on North Korea, but even the ordinary people in the rear must be the family members of the prisoners in his eyes...

"Do you think I should let the North Korean and Japanese soldiers go back?" Gao Wushi suddenly asked when Jia Feiji was in a daze.

"Ah, I have never thought about such a big event..."

"It's okay, think about it now." Gao Wushi blocked the words.

Now Jia Fei Ji had no choice but to answer "Yes" first, then pondered: "From my humble opinion, whether you want to send the Japanese army back to the mainland depends first on what kind of Japan the master intends to have. "

"Interesting, let's talk about it."

"Yes, I'm trying to talk about it. If it's wrong, please correct me." Jia Feiji said: "Let's not let them go back first. The Japanese army in the dynasty is mainly from the Western Kingdom, and there are many direct descendants of the Taige. If these people are all killed If they were wiped out in North Korea, the strength of the famous names in the Western Kingdom would be greatly reduced, and the Toyotomi family would also be hit hard.

In this way, the daimyos of the Eastern Kingdom, especially the Tokugawa family, seem to have increased their strength relatively. If the master can ensure complete control over the Tokugawa family, he can easily establish a shogunate by relying on the Tokugawa family to replace Toyotomi Gongyi, but the big names in the Western Kingdom have no resistance.

As for the Toyotomi family, firstly, their strength was seriously damaged, and secondly, after Taikoli... died, the young master could not be in power, so the power was very scattered, and whoever had the final say between Beizhengsuo, Mrs. Yodo, and Ishida Jibu Hard to say.Therefore, I thought it would be difficult for me to respond effectively.

That being the case, if Tokugawa Zuo Fu is obedient and finally adopts Yan'er as an adopted son and makes him the governor of the family, after a hundred years of him, the post of general will naturally fall to Yan'er.In this case, maybe the master can take all 66 countries of Japan without a single soldier. "

"Pfft, 66 countries..." Gao Wushi suddenly couldn't help laughing.

Japan is only more than 30 square kilometers in total, and it is so ridiculous that it can be divided into 66 countries.When I really "take all Japan" in the future, I have to change all these "countries" into counties.

Jia Feiji also knew how big Ming was now (in fact, the Japanese really thought that Ming was not much bigger than Japan at that time, and the maps drawn by Western missionaries were seriously out of shape), so she couldn't help turning red for a while, thinking Thinking about my former self, isn't he also a typical "Yelang arrogant"?

Fortunately, Gao Wushi waved his hand and didn't dwell on this issue, but said, "I won't comment for now, you can continue to talk about what will happen if you let them go back."

Jia Fei Ji said: "Yes."
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