Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 2123 Total Baikui (Eighteen) Seats
Although the senior officials in Nanjiang showed a lot of respect to Gao Yuan, the young master, and Gao Yuan also respected them, but at the welcome banquet after the welcoming ceremony, everyone quickly felt that the young master was not simply respectful. everyone.

In other words, he has his own ideas, and there are also differences between closeness and closeness.

There is an Internet buzzword in later generations called "two-way running". At first, it described two people in love who admire each other and work hard to get closer to each other. Later, it was generalized to refer to two people working together for the development of one thing.

In fact, two-way running often occurs in the power field.For example, between the prince and the officials, the prince often hopes that all the officials can become supporters of his succession, and the officials also hope that by supporting the prince in exchange for the reuse of the prince after he succeeds.

However, the two-way running between the crown prince and the ministers in the power field usually faces a problem, that is, there must be a third party between them-the reigning monarch.

Obviously, the reigning monarch would not be happy to see the two-way rush of the crown prince and the ministers. After all, if you two succeed in rushing, how should I deal with myself?Therefore, in the past dynasties, there was often a prohibition that princes should not make friends with important officials, or at least it was an unspoken rule.

At the welcome banquet, according to the default seating position at the beginning, Gao Yuan sat north and south and took the top position. The king of Siam sat on his left hand, which means the east, which means he is the landlord of the place; Gao Mengnan sat on his right hand, which means the west, which means the highest status. accompany seat.

After the two of them, there is no need to pay too much attention to one-to-one relatives—that is, there is no need for other people from the Siam Kingdom.Therefore, it stands to reason that the King of Siam should be the Deputy Minister of the Military Command Gao Jue, and Gao Mengnan should be the Longya patrol envoy Gao Ruichu.

Except for the four Siamese kings who mainly rely on the name of the nominal landlord to stand beside Gao Yuan, the other three have their own representatives: Gao Mengnan represents the civil service system in southern Xinjiang, and Gao Yu represents the military general system in southern Xinjiang. Needless to say.So, what about Gao Ruichu?

In fact, Gao Ruichu, the Dragon Tooth Patrol Envoy, although his status is not low, is no more than a certain governor similar to Daming in southern Xinjiang, and he really shouldn't be ranked so high in terms of his position.

However, it is obvious that he can sit here not because of his official position, but because of his status as the eldest grandson of the Xinzheng Gao family—Gao Ruichu here represents the clan of the Gao family, and Gao Yuan wants to call him the eldest brother.

Let's make an unlucky assumption: if Gao Yushi dies without heirs and has no heirs, then in theory all his inheritance should be inherited by Gao Ruichu.This is the privilege of the long house—note that inheritance in this era has nothing to do with Huang Zhiting and others. It is just that according to general practice, a high-practice widow should leave a sum of property for living.

Making this assumption is mainly to explain one thing: Gao Ruichu's identity at this time is very special.

However, here lies the problem.When Gao Yuan walked to his seat, the rest of the people were still filing in, and no one was seated. At this time, Gao Yuan suddenly pointed to a burly man, and pointed to the seat that should have belonged to Gao Ruichu. He smiled and said, "Commander Huang, sit here."

Although the word "commander" has existed since ancient times, at this time in the Ming Dynasty, only the chief general of the imperial guards was set as "commander" by Gao Yushi, while the military in southern Xinjiang widely used it.

In the southern Xinjiang garrison system, the official name of the chief generals of the six major garrison armies is "commander", and they are sometimes called "commander", "general soldier", and "general army" in private; The chief admirals of the two ocean fleets are called "commanders", and they are sometimes called "admirals" in private.

However, although there are many "commanders" in southern Xinjiang, there is only one surnamed Huang among the commanders, and he does not belong to the garrison or the two-ocean fleet system, but the "commander of the Dingnan Garrison Command"-Huang Hu.

Huang Hu, this is actually an old acquaintance, the most important general under Huang Zhiting's subordinates, and also her distant relatives.

But even so, Gao Yuan suddenly asked him to sit where Gao Ruichu was supposed to sit, and everyone in Southern Xinjiang was still unavoidably surprised.Everyone's first reaction was naturally "the young master is young after all, maybe he doesn't know the meaning of the seat".

However, although Gao Yuan seems childish, but considering that the master was at his age... he was able to play with many important officials in the court between applause, could it be that the young master has not inherited such wisdom at all? Supernatural?

Many people looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing whether to persuade them or pretend to be stupid, only Gao Mengnan reacted the fastest - his heart skipped a beat, and his face immediately became serious.At the same time, he subconsciously looked at Gao Ruichu.

Obviously, Gao Ruichu didn't expect such an accident, so when Gao Mengnan looked at him, his eyeballs were subconsciously rolling, obviously thinking about how to deal with it at this moment.

But at this moment, Huang Hu was also stunned for a moment, and then said humbly: "Young Master doesn't know something, this should be the seat of Young Master Rui Chu."

"Oh, is that so?" Gao Yuan's tone sounded a little surprised, but when he looked at Gao Ruichu, everyone could clearly see that his eyes were very indifferent, as if he had heard some unexpected words .

Gao Ruichu found that Gao Yuan's gaze was just staring at him indifferently, and judging from his performance, there was no intention of taking back the previous sentence at all.

He insisted that I give up my seat.

Gao Ruichu immediately came to such a judgment, but the next moment he was a little puzzled: Yes, he insisted on giving up my seat, but why?

In fact, when it comes to the reason, it's not that Gao Ruichu can't guess - the biggest possibility is undoubtedly deliberate prestige.As for why Gao Yuan thought of himself when he wanted to stand up, Gao Ruichu was not surprised.

He is the grandson of the eldest son, Gao Yuan's nominal elder brother.As long as I, the eldest brother of my peers, obediently obeys him, then the other brothers will naturally have no reason to disobey him in the future.After all, he is no better than him than noble, and it has been proven useless to be older, isn't it?
In addition, Gao Ruichu also has a guess that her father, Gao Wuzi, had conflicts with his fourth uncle, Gao Wushi. He refused to ask his fourth brother Gao Wushi to find him something to do.And Gao Wushi never took the initiative to "add more burdens" to Gao Wuzi, the eldest brother. Instead, he hinted several times: "The eldest brother guards the ancestral temple. He is practical and filial, and I am not as good as him."

Although the words were nice, they blocked Gao Wuzi's advance and retreat, so he could only guard the ancestral hall in Xinzheng for the rest of his life.Because of this relationship, the relationship between Da Fang and Liu Fang is somewhat delicate.

On the one hand, unless the sixth house is separated from the rest of the houses, Da Fang’s status under the patriarchal system will be irreplaceable; on the other hand, although Gao Wuzi broke up with Gao Yushi, his brother , Gao Mengnan, who is the adopted son of a big house, is so trustworthy that Gao Mengnan is the de facto civil servant No. 1 in southern Xinjiang.

In addition, there may be one more point... or a little bit, that is, Gao Ruichu himself is still considered as the fourth uncle Gao is pragmatic and trustworthy, so he has the opportunity to work with Salim to pacify the Longya Peninsula, and then take advantage of the opportunity to become the patrol envoy of the entire Longya Peninsula ( equivalent to a governor).

Tour envoys in southern Xinjiang are not particularly rare, there are a total of ten or twenty, but Longya patrol envoys are among the top three "top class".The reason for this is simple. The Longya Patrol Envoy is also in charge of the Longya Strait—the Strait of Malacca, which is an important sea throat.

Jinghua is a maritime power (of course theoretically Jinghua is a combined sea and land power), mastering the Longya Strait is undoubtedly an extremely important personnel arrangement, so although Gao Ruichu is only one of the patrol envoys, his status in the Jinghua system is by no means ordinary .

The old matter between Dafang and Liufang, it stands to reason that with Gao Wuzi being restricted to death in Xinzheng and not leaving the mountain, it should be considered a turning point, but... who knows if Gao Yuan will focus on this matter again Do some articles?
Gao Ruichu took a deep breath, calmed down, bowed and said: "The young master is Nanning Hou, so it is up to the young master to decide how we should sit. Commander Huang, please take a seat."

Huang Hu was still a little hesitant, but Gao Yuan took the conversation, waved to everyone with a smile, and said with a smile: "Okay, big brother Kuanhe is really as I expected, then everyone sit down."

As soon as this remark came out, Gao Ruichu's words were confirmed, and Huang Hu couldn't refuse any more, so he had to move forward a few seats and sit beside Gao Mengnan.

Gao Mengnan glanced at the bewildered Huang Hu, and suddenly realized in his heart: I am afraid that the eldest young master not only wants to suppress the elder brother Gao Ruichu to give him a prestige, but also because he wants to get close to Huang Hu clearly—— Although Huang Hu, a straight man, obviously doesn't know the reason.

Gao Mengnan kept his expression on the face, but he couldn't help trembling in his heart: Our eldest young master is extraordinary... I don't know if he has his own opinion, or his mother gave him an opportunity before he went south?
Gao Mengnan knew that Gao Yuan took the initiative to win over Huang Hu as the "Nanning Hou Yingxi", which would inevitably make people worry about "foreign relatives meddling in politics"-after all, the Huang family is the "foreign relatives" of the Gao family.However, it's not that simple.

As I said before, the interference of foreign relatives in politics was often an important reason for the social chaos and demise of ancient dynasties. If this is the case, why did every emperor always trust his mother's relatives (such as uncle or grandfather) after he came to power, instead of trusting them? What about relatives in the father's family (such as uncles)?
It is not alarmist to say that foreign relatives were an important reason for the chaos of the dynasty.In the pre-Qin and ancient times, foreign relatives had already played an important role in politics.In the Western Zhou Dynasty, Shen Hou, who was a grandfather (or uncle), fought for King Ping of Zhou, who was a grandson (or nephew), which caused turmoil in the country. Later, King Ping of Zhou had to move the capital.

During the Han Dynasty, whether it was Wang Mang, who caused the demise of the Western Han Dynasty, or Liang Ji, who caused the turmoil in the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were all relatives.In the Tang and Song dynasties, many foreign relatives also played an important role. For example, the eldest grandson Wuji, who was the uncle of Li Zhi, greatly influenced the political arena in the early Tang Dynasty.

So that in the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent foreign relatives from playing a role in politics, Zhu Yuanzhang simply stipulated that the emperor's queen must be selected from the people in the future.Zhu Yuanzhang did this because the women of the people had no background, and he wanted to plug the loophole that might cause foreign relatives to interfere in politics.

Then the question comes back again, obviously the uncle (or grandfather) often caused problems for the dynasty, why did the emperor always choose to trust his uncle (or grandfather) instead of his uncle?

This starts with the whole process of a person from prince to emperor.When a prince has not become a prince or emperor, his uncle (or grandfather) is actually his only absolute supporter besides his biological mother.

Although everyone is often the eldest son system, only the eldest son can be the prince and inherit the throne.However, since the emperor has many sons and the power is very complicated, things are far from that simple.Before the Ming Dynasty, even the eldest son was not necessarily established as the prince.Even if he is established as the prince, he may fall at any time.

The reason for this is that the position of the prince often suffers great blows.Some of them came from the impact of other princes. For example, Li Shimin posed a threat to Li Jiancheng's position as prince; Yinfeng was also dissatisfied with prince Yinreng, posing a threat to his throne.

Even, some threats came from the emperor himself.For example, Liu Bangli's eldest son, Liu Ying, became the prince, but he was always dissatisfied with Liu Ying, and always wanted to abolish him and make his youngest son, Liu Ruyi, the prince.In the original history, Zhu Changluo was the eldest son of the concubine, but his father Zhu Yijun just didn't want to make him the prince, but always wanted to make Zhu Changxun the prince.

It is precisely because every prince will inevitably suffer a great impact before becoming emperor, or he must fight for it, so he must rely on himself, must accumulate strength, and fight with other princes.

So, what is the most reliable power for the ancient princes?Use the method of exclusion here.

For one, uncles are out of the question.

Why did the prince's uncles say it was impossible?Because the uncles are also members of the royal family, they themselves have descendants, and they may also participate in the competition for the reserve.Of course, this one is usually not the main reason.

The real key reason is that if a certain prince has a close relationship with his uncles, it will inevitably arouse the emperor's great suspicion, because those uncles are originally a great threat to the emperor, and the emperor has always been wary of them.If a certain prince is too closely connected with his uncles, it is equivalent to a group of threats, so the prince and his uncles are likely to be hit by the emperor.

For example, Song Taizong's son Zhao Yuanzuo had a close relationship with his uncle Zhao Tingmei, so in the end Zhao Yuanzuo lost the crown prince, and Zhao Tingmei was demoted to Fangzhou and died of depression.

Yongzheng's son Hongshi had contact with his uncle Yinhu, and Yongzheng was so angry that he drove Hongshi out of the house.Hongshi might have been able to get a reserve position, but now he can't get it either.

So no matter what, you can't contact your uncles at will, especially if you are too close.

In the second step of the exclusion method, ministers are unreliable.

In addition to not being able to have close contact with their uncles, the princes should not have too much contact with the ministers.The princes contacted the ministers. This was always called the "Minister of Communications" in ancient times, or the "Minister of the Head and Tail", and they would also be severely punished.

For example, Li Heng is the prince, and General Wang Zhongsi is the adopted son of Tang Xuanzong, which is equivalent to Li Heng's elder brother.When the two brothers got together, it should have been nothing.But just because they got together, Wang Zhongsi was relegated by Tang Xuanzong, and Li Heng was severely punished, and the crown prince was almost lost.This is the serious consequence of the "Secretary of Transport".

During the Qing Dynasty, Kang Mazi asked the ministers to recommend a successor after he abolished the prince Yinreng, so the ministers collectively recommended the "Eight Sage Kings" Yinhu.Unexpectedly, this approach made Kang Mazi firmly believe that Yinhu was "communicating" with the ministers, and he never liked Yinhu again, and he did everything he could to insult and attack him.

Another example is Zhao Kuangyin's son, Zhao Dezhao, who interceded with the ministers and asked Song Taizong to honor the meritorious ministers.Originally, this was a very common thing, but who knew that Song Taizong said coldly, wait until you become the emperor before cashing in on them.With just such a sentence, Zhao Dezhao was so frightened that he committed suicide after returning home.

Since the princes can neither contact the princes nor the ministers of transportation, the only thing they can rely on is the relatives on the mother's side.And when they relied on their mother's relatives to ascend to the throne and eventually became emperors, their relatives naturally stepped onto the political stage and played their "should" role.

Moreover, since the uncle or grandfather is a relative, the possibility of seizing the throne is far less than that of uncles.Because their seizing the throne means changing the dynasty, most people can't accept it and think it's unorthodox.Therefore, after the prince becomes the emperor, he will often trust his uncle or grandfather as always, and let them continue to play a role.

The current status of Southern Xinjiang is rather ambiguous, but there is no doubt that Gao Yushi is the lord of Southern Xinjiang, regardless of his name or not, and Gao Yuan, the "Honor of Nanning", is equivalent to the "Prince".

That being the case, if Gao Yuan was smart, he would naturally not try to win over uncles and brothers like Gao Mengnan and Gao Ruichu, and would even have a little conflict with them as if there was nothing to do.

At the same time, he can win over the members of the Huang family, because although the Huang family are "foreign relatives", they cannot have the legitimacy and legitimacy of "usurping the throne" because they are from the chieftain. Suppressed.

Gao Mengnan quietly took a deep breath, all doubts in his heart disappeared, and the smile on his face gradually faded away, instead he deliberately put on a serious attitude.He sat in the first seat on the west side of his face without expression, as if he was very dissatisfied with what happened just now.
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