Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2006 Inside and Outside the Palace ([-]) Light and Darkness

Gao Wushi's deduction is always fast and accurate, but the political acumen of other people present is not as good as his. Although everyone thought of the "control" of regicide, they didn't have time to deduce it. its steps.

Gao Wuzheng, who had improved a lot recently, let out an "ah" in surprise, and hurriedly said, "Is it possible that this group of turtle grandsons really dare to kill the king? This must not let them get into trouble!"

Gao Wuruo also knew that although his elder brother's power in the court was strong, at least half of it came from the holy family. If the emperor had any troubles, it would be a serious problem, so he hurriedly said: "In this way, Brother, I'm afraid I will remind the emperor immediately, in case of accident."

"Sixth Master, Seventh Master, don't worry." Gao Mo, the old servant who proposed the possibility of "three-pronged approach", calmed down a lot, and persuaded: "After all, this is only an inference, not to mention that those people may not have Hands-on, even if there are arrangements, it may not be possible to find out now.

If the master warns the emperor now, firstly, if there is no real evidence, he may startle the snake, and secondly, if the truth is verified, he may have to face the emperor's suspicion..."

Gao Qi also immediately said: "Uncle Eleven, Uncle Twelve, my nephew also thinks that it is not too busy to warn the emperor at this time, at least we should find out the situation first, so that we can determine what to do next. response."

The names of Gao Mo and Gao Qi here may be a bit confusing, so I need to explain.

Gao Mo is the old servant of the sixth room of the Gao family, so when he addresses Gao Wuzheng and Gao Wuruo, he follows the order of the sixth room.The sixth room is the most prosperous one in the Gao family. They are not considered high-level and pragmatic sisters. The order of their brothers is as follows:
There are seven in total: high pragmatism, high outlook, high diligence, high frugality, high loyalty, high integrity, and high integrity.Among them, Gao Wuguan should not participate in the sorting, because he has been adopted by Gao Gong, so he should be regarded as the step-heir of the third family.

However, after all, Liufang is now the de facto "core group" of the Gao family. The rise and fall of the entire Gao family depends on Gao Yushi alone. But on weekdays he still called him Second Brother, Second Brother, so the servants naturally changed their words accordingly.

However, the Gao family not only has a sixth house, but the first five houses are also descendants of the "Xinzheng Gao family", so it cannot be counted.So if you count the cousins, the appellation is a bit confusing, and you need to judge according to the occasion and context at the time.

For example, the sort mentioned just now refers only to the six rooms, and adding the rest of the rooms will become another sort:
Gao Wuzi, Gao Mengnan, Gao Shunan (died early, but entered the genealogy), Gao Guoyan, Gao Wuben, Gao Wushi, Gao Wuguan, Gao Wuqin, Gao Wujian, Gao Wuzhong, Gao Wuzheng, Gao Wuruo.

According to this order, their younger generations—such as Gao Qi just now, should call Gao Yushi the sixth uncle, and Gao Yushi's younger brothers should also be in the back row in turn.In this way, Gao Wuzheng is the "Eleventh Uncle" and Gao Wuruo is the "Twelfth Uncle".

It can also be seen from this that the clans of this era are not joking. After all, this is their generation of high pragmatism. If they are sorted by the younger generations, it will be more complicated.

Others needless to say, Gao Yushi alone has six sons and three daughters: the eldest son Gao Yuan, born of Huang Zhiting; the eldest daughter Gao Li, born of Huang Zhiting; the second son Gao Yan, born of Narita Kai; Mu, born of Meng Gu Zhezhe; second daughter Gao Yi, born of Narita Jiafei; fourth son Gao Ji, born of Huang Zhiting; fifth son Gao Chun, born of Liu Xin; third daughter Gao Zhen, born of Liu Xin.

In addition, there is another sixth son, Gao Luo, who cannot be listed in the Gao family tree, and is born of Zhu Yao, the eldest princess of Yongning.

In other words, even if the ranking of the brothers of the Gao family and the ranking of the daughters are not related to each other, the next generation of the Gao family already has six sons in the discipline of Gao Pragmatic.

In fact, his second brother, Gao Wuguan, was also very fertile—seven sons were born, of which the youngest died young, and now there are also six, namely: Zeyi, Zeqian, Zeming, Zeyuan, Zechao, Then show. [Note: The old seven will go up if he calls, and die young].

The two brothers already have twelve sons, not to mention the sons of other brothers, at least twenty or so, so there is no need to go into details one by one.

After Gao Qi said this, Huang Zhiting interjected: "Uncles, although this matter is important, it should not be urgent at the moment, because even if they have such a plan, they haven't reached that point yet. Looking at it now, they The first thing to do is to create chaos, first to muddy the water in the capital, that is, to assassinate the emperor's son.

When the water in the capital is muddy, the master must be the only force the emperor can rely on. At this time... make trouble in Xinzheng and force the master Ding You.In this way, the emperor will lose his arm, and he will be alone, and then they will have an opportunity to stir up trouble. "

Gao Wuzheng and Gao Wuruo felt relieved, but the sister-in-law's words "make trouble in Xinzheng" made them tremble with fear.The two of them are high-practical concubine brothers, but because of this, they must show extra filial piety to their "dimother" Zhang, so they said in unison: "Then Xinzheng must be vigilant immediately!"

The two looked at each other, and Qi Qi bowed his hands to Gao Wushi and said: "Brother, my younger brother is willing to go to Xinzheng to strengthen our defenses."

It is also interesting to say that the movements and language of the two are almost in sync, as if they have gone through countless rehearsals.However, Gao Yushi is very satisfied with their performance. Regardless of whether or not there is a performance element in it, or how much it is, it is very good to have this attitude, which already shows that filial piety education in Gao's family is very successful.

"The matter is very important, and we really need a reliable person to return to Xinzheng to take charge." Gao Wushi nodded, and said to Gao Wuruo: "The so-called old age and youth, if you are the youngest, this time you will go back and represent Let us brothers be filial to the elders."

Gao Wuruo looked very serious, bowed and said: "Yes, brother, I will do my best." After a pause, he asked again: "Brother, when will I start? Will you leave later?"

The so-called later, naturally means after the meeting.However, Gao Wushi shook his head and said, "It's getting dark, and I can't walk fast. I'd better have a good rest tonight, and set off tomorrow morning... It just so happens that Bai Yulou dispatched a team of cavalry to go with me."

Gao Wuruo agreed, but Gao Wushi didn't finish his sentence, and said again: "After you return to Xinzheng, the Henan security column will be temporarily under the command of you. If necessary, you can ask them to cooperate with the factory guard teams in various places in Henan."

This power is actually given a lot, especially for Gao Wuruo who has been a trainee secretary for many years but has never been assigned outside. It is the first time that he has been given such real power.Despite the excitement, Gao Wuruo tried his best to restrain his excitement, resisting the urge to jump up and cheer, and replied: "Yes, I understand, brother, thank you for your faith."

As I said before, in addition to the southern Xinjiang system and the Liangyang Fleet, Jinghua's armed forces are mainly divided into three parts.The first part is the "Jinghua Security Team" system, which is mainly in charge of Jinghua Trading Co.

The former is mainly composed of Buding, and its main business in normal times is to escort large-scale domestic merchants, and undertake the entrustment of suppressing bandits, whether government or private.In short, it is mainly responsible for the domestic business of Daming.Corresponding to it is the cavalry security team in charge of business in the vassal state and Jiji area.

As the home province of the Gao family, Henan's security team is of course mainly Buding forces.Of course, there are more or less riders, but the scale is not large.

The "security team" system is divided into three main levels: provincial-level security columns, provincial-level security brigades, and county-level security squadrons.Of course, the establishment of the security force is not as strict as that of the garrison. Regardless of whether it is a column, brigade or squadron, the number of establishments has a certain range of flexibility.Generally speaking, the Buding security team has a larger establishment and more people, while the Cavalry security team has a smaller establishment and fewer people.

As I said before, the security team system is not a fixed establishment such as the "three-three system". Within the jurisdiction of a column in the northern region, there will be as many security brigades as there are prefectures, and as many security squadrons as there are counties. .The southern part is much weaker, and it cannot cover the whole area at all. In some provinces, there may be only two or three brigades, or a dozen squadrons.

As a highly pragmatic province, Henan is of course well-equipped with a security team.In the Ming Dynasty, Henan had eight prefectures and one prefecture (that is, one Zhili prefecture), namely Kaifeng, Henan, Runing, Nanyang, Huaiqing, Weihui, Zhangde, Guide eight prefectures and Ruzhou (Zhili prefecture). .

However, the Jinghua Security Brigade did not have the level of Zhili Prefecture, so it was not counted as Zhili Prefecture when it was established, so it was only organized into eight security brigades, and Ruzhou was under the responsibility of the Henan Prefecture Security Brigade.

Although the number of staff in the security brigade is very flexible, as I said just now, Henan, as a highly pragmatic province, has ample staffing and can basically fill it up, so each security brigade has about 3000 people.As a result, there are 4000 people in the eight security brigades in the province.

But this is not over yet, because Xinzheng is the home county of the Gao family and the location of the Gao family ancestral hall, so there is an additional "Longwen Yayuan Security Squadron" directly under it [Note: I still remember this other courtyard in Gao Wu's hometown ? ].

This squadron is said to be a squadron, and it should be the same size as the Xinzheng County Security Squadron, but in fact it is not.As the special guard force of the other courtyard in Gao Yu's hometown, it is not like the general county-level security squadron with only two to 300 people, but a special scale of 1000 people.

In fact, in terms of strength, Gao Wushi does not need to give Gao Wuruo such great power at all, because even if the people of the Xin School want to attack Gao Choi and his wife, it will only be done secretly. How could it require 5000 people The family Ding Jun to deal with?Wouldn't the Xin School be able to pull out an army in Henan to attack Xinzheng County, or attack Longwen Yayuan?

Of course Gao Wushi knew this, but he still gave Gao Wuruo so much real power. There are actually three levels of meaning here.

First, Gao Wuruo was his brother, and he always gave his brother "rights" when he assigned several missions abroad.

For example, when Gao Wuqin went to Annan, he was in Jingang. In addition to presiding over the construction of Jingang, he was also responsible for expanding the power to the south. Basically, he can be regarded as the "Governor of South Annan"; when Gao Wujian went to Taiwan, although the island of Taiwan was still very primitive , but in any case, Gao Wujian is the leader of the colonization group, and he is fully responsible for the colonization and development of Taiwan Island, and he is also in charge of it alone.

Not even mentioning the older generation of brothers, when Gao Wushi used his nephew Gao Ruichu, he was directly in charge of the government affairs in southern Siam, in preparation for the seizure of Malacca, which can also be regarded as a certain degree of independence.

Due to the formation of such a practice, Gao Wuruo naturally couldn't just be responsible for a mere Xinzheng County when he returned to Xinzheng this time, otherwise it would appear that Gao Wushi was too mean to this concubine brother.

Second, Gao Wuruo also needs to exercise Gao Wuruo's ability. Letting him take charge of a provincial security team helps to observe what he has learned by his side these years, so as to gain some understanding for future use.

Third, by granting greater power, it is more convenient for Gao Yushi to understand Gao Wuruo's personality.Although Gao Wuruo was his younger brother, he had stayed by his side all these years, but these days his direct brother and his concubine brother are different no matter which family they are in.

This difference is not only due to the difference in social status, but in fact, it is also because of the relationship between the different social status that the person's mind is also different.Generally speaking, there is no doubt about the loyalty of a younger brother to an older brother, but it depends on character for a younger brother. After all, a younger brother will almost certainly gain trust and reuse from his older brother, but it is hard to say for a younger brother.

The relationship between people is always mutual, and blood kinship is a decisive force in this era, so it will also lead to different degrees of trust between the two parties.

Gao Wushi just wanted to strengthen his loyalty to himself by giving Gao Wuruo the same power as his own brother. This seems to be very utilitarian, but the reality is not a fairy tale, the reality is so utilitarian.

The arrangement of Xinzheng basically stopped here, and everyone turned the topic back to the safety of the emperor's son.

Gao Mo said: "Judging from the current situation, if they really want to assassinate the emperor's son, Li Wenjin should be the key link, but for some reason, this old slave always feels that this matter is still suspicious."

Gao Qi interjected, "Sixth Uncle, my nephew also has some doubts about this. It stands to reason that as soon as the emperor's son was born, the security of the Kunning Palace immediately increased a lot, and now it is probably even tighter than that of the Qianqing Palace.

Under such circumstances, those people are still obsessed with buying Li Wen in to investigate, isn't it abnormal?This is like marching and fighting. The enemy army knows that the main force of our army is concentrated in a certain place, and now the place is solid, and although they have an elite army in their hands, their strength is very limited... At this time, they still choose to attack the place by force. Is this reasonable? "

Gao Wushi's heart was moved, and he pondered: "You mean, the move of buying Li Wenjin seems to be a dark move, but in fact it is a clear move, and the real dark move is not him?"
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