Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1970 Inside and Outside the Palace ([-]) Your Majesty's Interlude
Gao Wushi took a deep breath, and thought to himself: That's right, Liu Ping sees this issue very clearly. Since Li Wenjin was eunuched into the palace, the defense of men and women in the palace has no restrictions on him, and he is a benevolent saint. The younger brother of the Empress Dowager, the uncle of His Majesty the Emperor, entering or leaving any palace will be regarded as following the order of the Empress Dowager, so naturally no one dares to stop him.

This principle is basically similar to a rule of being an official in later generations: treat the people around the leader as leaders.The reason why Li Wenjin's identity is unique is that he is both an eunuch and the younger brother of the Empress Dowager Cisheng, and he is an unshakable "leader's side".

Having said that, isn't it because of his special nature that Gao Yushi gave him so many benefits?Even Gao Wushi didn't want to conflict with him, and even needed his cooperation in many things, let alone other people in the palace.

Gao Yushi even had a point of view all the time. If he was not worried that "foreign relatives intervening in politics" was an absolute taboo in Ming Dynasty, I am afraid that Li Wenjin would never stop at the imperial eunuch in charge of the imperial horse supervisor.

The Chief Bingbi and the Admiral of the East Factory couldn't he do it?Could it be that he couldn't do the seal of the supervisor of ceremonies?Now for him personally, he can do both of these duties.

However, after all, the Li family of foreign relatives does not only have Empress Dowager Li and his siblings. Empress Dowager Li also has two younger brothers, and the elder brother inherited the title of Wu Qinghou. The left governor of the military governor's mansion, both of them are "in charge of the soldiers" in name.

Both of your brothers are already "in command of the army", and the third brother is also going to be the admiral of the East Factory or the "chief assistant of the inner court". Don't you, the Li family, want to shake the sky?Therefore, the outer court would never tolerate this kind of situation, and the Empress Dowager Li and the emperor knew this very well, so they didn't even mention it for many years.

Gao Yushi has always been lenient in anticipating the enemy. Anyway, now that Li Wenjin has become a key figure, no matter whether some people have thought of "negotiating a big deal" with him or not, he cannot ignore this major threat.

With the birth of the imperial concubine, Gao Wushi knew that his most important task right now had shifted from foreign affairs to internal affairs.

The arrangement of follow-up matters attached to North Korea is indeed very important, because a Korean peninsula that is firmly in the hands of China means that China has since then possessed a maritime barrier on the outer edge of Gyeonggi and a strategic stabilizer in Northeast Asia that can be attacked from two directions even if there are police in Liaodong. .

It is also very important to truly surrender Japan. As long as this island country is taken down, China will not have to worry about the threat of offshore balance strategies like the British messing up shit like the European continent. It can always maintain a stable internal environment at the strategic level, and the better Deal with the wave of European colonialists.

Southern Xinjiang, Nanyang, Taiwan, Ryukyu, Japanese archipelago, and Korean Peninsula, as long as these places are controlled by their own people, it will be as difficult for sea robbers to encroach on China.

Island chain?At that time, the island chain was in our own hands!
Gao Wushi pondered and said: "As for the safety of the empress and the emperor's son, I will add one more thing here: You must ensure that there are people around the mother and son for twelve hours without interruption, and there will never be less than eight people to take care of them.

In particular, it should be noted that the "someone" I mentioned here does not mean that the queen and the emperor's son are in the room, while the internal officials and maids are outside the door.I mean the 'someone' who must keep the queen and the emperor's son in sight at all times, understand? "

In Liu Ping's impression, this seems to be the first time that even the specific details are so clear, which shows how serious the situation is.Liu Ping hurriedly bowed solemnly, and said: "Here, this servant knows how powerful it is, please rest assured, Lord Hou."

Don't worry too much, unless the Ministry of Internal Affairs can be responsible for the security of the queen mother and child. Unfortunately, this is completely impossible, so I can only hope that the eunuchs in the palace can stand up. The key task of the moment is off the chain.

The two walked and talked, and the topic became more and more in-depth and detailed.After a long while, I finally entered the Kunning Palace through the side passage of Jiaotai Hall.

Normally, Kunning Palace did not have any security arrangement as Liu Ping said before, but it was different at this time. The Jing army in the palace had already selected a group of guys who were at least good-looking to be on duty.Not to mention three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry, at least there are always guards inside and out.

Having said that, Gao Wushi could only shake his head after looking at them.Those who actually lead the troops can see that these pure soldiers are purely showy. Although the armor is bright and the weapons are shiny, neither the armor nor the soldiers are worn out, and the soldiers' eyes are not sharp, let alone any evil spirit.

Gao Wushi walked up to one person and ordered him to stretch out his palm to take a look, and he was sure of his judgment - the palm of this soldier of the Jing Army was white and clean, no different from him, the elder of the pavilion.

If it was a battle with the same number of people, whether it was one thousand against one thousand or ten thousand against ten thousand, the imperial guards only needed one charge to take them down, and no tactics were needed.

Of course, although the imperial guards are the Gyeonggi garrison in name, they are actually built according to the standards of the most elite field army of the Ming Dynasty.It's just... how should I put it, this clean army doesn't seem to have been trained at all.

Forget it.

Faced with this situation, Gao Yushi can only comfort himself: the Jing army is here to put on the posture of guarding the Kunning Palace. After all, even if the careerists want to take action, they will definitely not deploy troops to attack Kunning Palace is nothing more than trying to find a way to exploit loopholes and act through some shady means.

The role of the Jing Army here is probably mainly to increase the psychological pressure on the executors of the conspiracy, and I dare not expect anything else from them.

Gao Pragmatic is following the orders of His Majesty, and Liu Ping is the most popular person in front of the Emperor recently, and the two of them entered the Kunning Palace effortlessly.

Like the other palaces, the Kunning Palace of the Ming Dynasty had the same bad luck and has been burned twice so far.

The first time was in the ninth year of Zhengde, and it was rebuilt later; the second time was very close, in the 24th year of Wanli, and there was almost a big accident that time, which caused the queen who was pregnant at that time to be frightened, and the princess in her belly later died She was born about ten days prematurely... the loss of ten days is not too big of an impact, and the princess did not die.

However, since it was burned, it must be rebuilt. However, North Korea was at war at that time. Although the imperial court had money, it was the money of the Ministry of Households, which had to be used for war and other state affairs.

Fortunately, the emperor is not too poor now, so he plans to pay for it himself.However, according to the past construction methods, it is not cheap to rebuild the Kunning Palace. As I said before, the volume of the Kunning Palace is basically the same as that of the Qianqing Palace, and it is much larger than the other twelve courtyards in the harem.

Gao Yushi had previously undertaken the reconstruction of the three halls, which were built in accordance with his "new method" of building new buildings in Japan.So far, whether it is the Rixin Building or the New Three Great Halls, because the materials are either made of stone or pasted with glazed tiles, they all look like newly built.

Of course, the most important thing is to use "gold and stone" instead of using a lot of wooden structures—to put it bluntly, it is reinforced concrete, so it is extremely strong and relatively fireproof.As a result, Zhu Yijun approached Gao Yushi again, and finally decided that the emperor would pay for it, and Gao Yushi asked Jinghua Infrastructure to undertake it, and only charged a cost price.

This time for the reconstruction, the entire Kunning Palace project only cost 34 taels of silver, including most of the "hardware", which amazed everyone inside and outside the palace at its fairness. [Note: As an aside, after the fire in the original history, the Kunning Palace was not rebuilt until the 7000rd year of Wanli, probably because of lack of money. ]
However, the mention of this matter here is not to talk about the cost, but for another reason: since the project was undertaken by Jinghua Infrastructure, the internal engineering structure of Kunning Palace is highly pragmatic and clear at this time.

But this seems to be of no use to high pragmatism?otherwise.Because the empress was frightened when the Kunning Palace was burned down in the 24th year of Wanli, two safety passages were specially added to the queen's bedroom during the reconstruction - that is, escape passages.

Except for the engineering and construction personnel, only the emperor and empress knew that the escape route was open.This is not fantasy, it’s just a combination lock, not to mention the Ming Dynasty, professional locksmiths who have been “old” for a long time can actually do it, and now with the blessing of Jinghua’s fine steel and precision work, it is even easier to do it.

There are two locks, the emperor and empress control them at the same time, and the construction personnel are divided into two groups, so in fact only the emperor and empress can open them.The reason for doing this is because Gao Wushi did not agree to allow the construction personnel to be buried—not a joke. In the Ming Dynasty, this kind of project was built, and sacrifices were real and common. On Zhu Yuanzhang's head.

In short, there is a safe passage as a foundation. If the conspirators do not rely on poisoning but assassination to carry out their plots, as long as there is still a little reaction time, the empress should be able to escape with the emperor's son, which can be regarded as an increase in safety. .

As soon as he entered the front hall of Kunning Palace, Gao Wushi saw Chen Ju coming in a hurry.Although I haven't seen each other for a long time, it stands to reason that there should be a lot of pleasantries, but Chen Ju seemed very anxious. He raised his hand from afar and said that he had seen each other, and then said: "Master Hou came just in time. The Emperor is losing his temper in the hall, please hurry up Go over and persuade."

What?You should be overjoyed at the birth of your son-in-law, so why lose your temper so well?
Gao Wushi was greatly surprised, and while following Chen Ju to the side hall, he asked, "It's a great joy today, how could the emperor lose his temper, who caused it?"

As Chen Ju hurried forward with Gao Yushi, he couldn't help but smiled bitterly and said, "Of course it won't be inside or outside the palace, inside or outside the court. Our courtiers' vision is always worth it..." He coughed lightly One sound, lowering the voice slightly: "Something happened in Gansu."

Gansu?That is, the Northwest has changed.

Gao Wushi immediately became serious, and asked as he walked, "What's wrong with Gansu, is it border troubles or civil strife?"

"Border trouble." Chen Ju didn't have time to go into too much detail, so he simply said: "The former land of Hamiwei was acquired by Buyan Khan before, and this time Chahar's old troops sent troops from Hamiwei to invade Gansu territory. I will know myself, in short... a guerrilla has been killed in battle now."

"Buyan Khan?" Gao Wushi frowned slightly: "Has Buyan Taiji called Khan? Tumen died?"

"Yes." Chen Ju replied: "We have been focusing on North Korea for the past few years, and the news in the northwest is too closed. This time we know that Tumen has been dead for several years, and Buyan Taiji will succeed him later. It is called Buyan Chechen Khan."

"Then what is Brihatu's status now?" Gao Wushi asked immediately.

To be honest, Buyan Taiji—oh, it should be called Buyan Khan now, this guy is just that in Gao Yushi's mind.Among the outstanding Mongolians identified by Gao Pragmatism, Buri Hatu is still counted.

"It's the Mongolian Grand Master, and he's in charge of the Nine-White Banner." Chen Ju shook his head and sighed, and said solemnly: "This time, it is said that the front-line scouts have seen the Nine-White Banner before—Brihatu probably came in person. And this may also be an important reason for the emperor's anger."

That was really troublesome.Gao Wushi's heart sank when he heard that.

Although he and Burhatu had fought many times before, and each time he won the final victory from the results, he believes that Burhatu did not lose because of "skills" in many cases. ", and it may not even necessarily be lost in the "law", but in the "Tao".

The so-called loss in the "Tao" is actually a loss in the general trend.When the world is gradually entering the era of hot weapons, it is the general trend that the nomads who can't climb the technology tree will be beaten in turn.

When hot weapons are immature, nomads are characterized by being able to conscript and fight well. When hot weapons mature, nomads are characterized only by being good at singing and dancing.

However, it is a coincidence that this era coincides with the replacement period of hot and cold weapons.Of course, it has a process to go, but the general trend is still visible, not to mention that this trend has been kicked in the back by Gao Wu.

But this does not mean that Brihatu is not terrible, especially for the Gansu region.The main forces of the Ming Dynasty were deployed on the Nine Sides, and among the towns on the Nine Sides, the defense line in the north of Gyeonggi has always been the most important. The core elite troops are all on the line of Xuanda, Jiliao, and serve as three barriers in the northwest, true north, and northeast of the capital.

When it comes to the three sides of Shaanxi, the number of troops is much smaller, and when it comes to Gansu, it is naturally even less.In addition to military strength, technical weapons are also provided according to this layout, which means that Gansu not only has a small number of troops, but also has a relatively low degree of weaponization.

In the governor's jurisdiction of Gansu, the number of troops often does not exceed [-], and less than half of them are good at using muskets.Although highly pragmatically understands that the Ministry of Household Affairs has allocated a considerable amount of money for the weaponization of the Gansu army in recent years, it is not very clear how much has actually been implemented.

One thing he knows is that most of them, from the generals to the soldiers, think that the ratio of firearms does not need to be too high. Even though firearms are much easier to use now than 20 years ago, the land of Gansu and Shanxi is still more suitable for cavalry.

Their point of view is that the situation in Gansu is different from that in the interior. There are no continuous rural areas, and there are no counties, prefectures, and prefectures that are tens of miles apart. The whole is a "chain" of cities drawn along the Silk Road. The earth, the vast Gobi.

In this kind of terrain, if a war really broke out, and you have a large army to rescue another, if you rely on musketeers to walk slowly, by the time your army arrives, the city that was beaten will probably be surrounded and destroyed long ago—— It may not have been broken, it may have been broken due to lack of water or food.

Therefore, this has led to the slowest progress in the highly pragmatic firearms-based military reform in the three sides of Shaanxi—especially the Gansu governor's jurisdiction.

During the conversation and thinking, Gao Wushi walked to the door of the side hall.Chen Ju stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, I will see you in Nanning."

"Is Rixin here? Hurry up and come in! Such a beautiful day, I almost didn't die of anger!"
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