Daming Yuanfu

It’s not unusual for Gao Pragmatic to mention southern Xinjiang and Japan. What surprised Gao Pragmatic was that the first crime Li Bingbei accused him of for communicating with foreign countries was actually Tongtumut.

I have specifically mentioned before that from a legal point of view, the current Tumut should be called the "Golden Kingdom of the Ming Dynasty", which is equivalent to one of the vassal states of the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, people have marked the word "Da Ming" on the "country name", so in theory, the nature of this subordinate country is very intimate and should not be regarded as a "foreign country".

However, Li Bingbei obviously ignored this and always emphasized its "foreign" attributes. Of course it makes sense to do so, because only in this way can he be able to imprison Gao Pragmatic for the crime of treason.

Li Bingbei believed that although Tumut was nominally surrendered to the Ming Dynasty, his "king" King Shunyi needed to be canonized by the Ming Dynasty, and his main generals also needed to obtain official positions from the Ming Dynasty, but in fact this was just a cover-up, because the Ming Dynasty did not exercise any control over him Effective jurisdiction - except for the nominal power to appoint officials, no actual financial power or military power is in the hands.

As for how to explain that Tumut has always been very cooperative with the imperial court's request for them to accompany the expedition in recent years, Li Bingbei naturally has something to say. He believes that this is a manifestation of high pragmatism in "connecting with foreign countries".

Li Bingbei made an accusation that cannot be falsified: any time Tumut went to war as required by the imperial court, it was a highly pragmatic order - even if the order was given to Tumut in the name of an imperial edict, it was essentially a Gao Jingshi's decision in court, the imperial edict only endorsed his wishes.

So Li Bingbei made a conclusion to Gao Jingshi: I answered that the tribute was Gao Jingshi's conspiracy to connect with foreign countries and support the invaders from the beginning. It was Gao Pragmatic who used his special relationship with Tumut to strengthen Tumut by persuading the court to allow trade, and at the same time gained Tumut's trust and gratitude, prompting Tumut to be willing to obey his orders.

Li Bingbei believed that once such an interest alliance was formed, once something happened on the grassland, the court would have to rely on Gao Pragmatism, and whenever someone in the court opposed Gao Pragmatism, Gao Pragmatism would in turn allow Tumote to cause trouble in the grassland, forcing him to The court was unable to severely punish him... This cycle continued, and this alliance became a knot in the court's throat.

I have to say that if this is really the case, it will be really difficult for the Ming Dynasty court: if you move the soil, there will be opposition from important ministers like Gao Jingshi in the court, and Gao Jingshi is not alone. Behind him are a large number of officials from the entire Shi school. , a cough can make the capital tremble three times.

You act in a pragmatic and pragmatic manner, but Tumote gathered a hundred thousand cavalry at the border to hold the customs to complain, should your court reconsider it? Of course, there is another point here that Li Bingbei has not said: the imperial army on the border of Ming Dynasty is mainly based on the third town of Xuanda, and the third town of Xuanda... Everyone knows that the generals of Xuanda are one family, and they are all in In front of Gao Pingshi, he calls himself "the lackey so-and-so".

So in other words, the worst situation is probably this: Something happens to Gao Jingshi in the court, and the court intends to take action against him, so Tumote immediately mobilizes 100,000 cavalry to hold the customs for "Mrs. Gao" "Teacher" complained of injustice.

At this time, General Xuanda was cooperating with the performance, and he would find any reason to suffer defeat and make way out of the battle, or even be too lazy to perform, saying that the Tatar cavalry took advantage of my unpreparedness, sneaked through the pass, and was now rushing towards the capital. Went... What did the court think and how did it respond?

Oh, yes, the imperial court also has the Imperial Guards, the invincible Imperial Guards. As long as the Imperial Guards are there, the capital can be secure.

However, if you look at the leaders of the Imperial Guard, you will find that there is a big problem: the commander of the Imperial Guard is Ma Gui, the deputy commander of the Imperial Guard is Li Rumei, and the chief of staff of the Imperial Guard is Cao Yu...

Ah, this...if Gao Yuanfu is about to be attacked by the imperial court, it's hard to say how much loyalty these people have left!

Seeing this, Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but feel a little funny. You said the matter was so urgent, so why did you send this memorial to the cabinet so boldly, were you afraid that I wouldn't see it? If I am really as you describe me, should I not stop working on it and just take action after seeing this memorial of yours, so as to avoid long nights and dreams?

It’s not like you don’t have the means to secretly write some secrets to the emperor. It’s been a long time since I, Gao, have withdrawn from the Jinyiwei. At least I can’t get involved with the local Jinyiwei. If you really want to have secrets to the emperor, shouldn’t you go directly to the Jinyiwei? Just fine?

Okay, even if you are worried that Wang Zhizhen, the current leader of Jinyiwei, is a distant relative of mine, and you think it is still unreliable to find Jinyiwei, that doesn't matter - the local eunuchs guarding Zhejiang are waiting for you. You, Zhejiang Shaoning Bingbeidao, can always contact this person. Human, right?

However, Li Bingbei didn't find anyone, and directly went to Shu to impeach the leader of the dynasty, and he said it so seriously. It can be seen that the problem is not that the matter is really serious, but that the matter needs to be said so seriously.

As the chief minister of the dynasty, and it is extremely rare for a civil servant to be a chief minister, if the matter is too small, it will definitely be useless. The emperor would only issue strict orders to those who spread rumors and slander, and even punish them severely. He would not do anything to Gao Yuanfu at all, and he might even have to comfort him with gentle words.

But thinking about this, Gao Pragmatic thought that there must be a black hand behind Li Bingbei. He couldn't be the mastermind - a mere Bingbei said, what did the bear-hearted leopard dare to directly impeach the chief minister of the dynasty? What's more, he is still a soldier from Zhejiang. Eh? Zhejiang's military preparation road?

Jiangnan chaebol? Shen Yiguan?

The base camp of the Jiangnan Chaebol is Zhejiang, and its extended sphere of influence is in Yingtian, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places. And Shen Yiguan is also from Yin County, Zhejiang... Could this be the instigation of the Jiangnan Chaebol or Shen Yiguan? Or maybe they all came together, that is, the entire Jiangnan chaebol group declared war on me?

But why? Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but think.

The Jiangnan Chaebol has always been very dissatisfied with the "Practical School + Jingnan Xungui Interest Group" headed by Gao Pragmatic. Of course Gao Pragmatic has known this for a long time. However, dissatisfaction does not mean that we should directly declare war on the table. This is unreasonable, because the success rate is not high, but it can easily lead to bad things.

Looking back now, when Shen Shixing was the first assistant and Wang Xijue was assisting, it was a better time for the Jiangnan Chaebol Group to declare war on Gao Pragmatism. After all, the strength gap between the Reality School and the Heart School was not very big at that time. The biggest gap was only in the highly pragmatic Holy Family.

However, the Xinxue School at that time actually had its own advantages. For example, scholars from the South Ranking had a psychological advantage over those from the North Ranking (it is well known that the Southern Ranking is more difficult to pass than the Northern Ranking), and in reality they tended to be more united, and it was easy to form a unified voice and create At that time, the momentum of "the whole court was reversed".

In addition, the base of scholars in the Jiangnan area is much larger than that in the north, and the degree of concentration is very high. In Zhejiang, Jiangxi and other places, not only are there many Jinshi masters, but also candidates and scholars are everywhere like dogs. As long as these people are mobilized and written in the Book of the People or something like that - they are all "people" with titles and honors - then even the emperor will definitely feel the pressure.

However, Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue did not choose to break up with Gao Pragmatic directly. In the end, they were implicated because of the desperation of some extreme factions within, and both ended up serving in office. Looking back now, it seems that they wasted their last chance to suppress Gao Pragmatism.

But is this really the case? Not necessarily.

There is a famous saying in later generations: Where there is oppression, there is resistance. In fact, the stronger the "oppression", the stronger the resistance. The rise and growth of Gao pragmatism is obviously an increasingly powerful "oppression" for the Jiangnan chaebol, so their resistance is getting stronger and stronger. There is a development process here, and it was not as intense as it is now.

In other words, Shen Shixing and Wang Xijue did not choose to break up with Gao Pragmatism. In essence, the Jiangnan Chaebol had not yet formed a unified decision to break up with Gao Pragmatism.

On the other hand, the fact that Ning Shao and Li Shuyuan are now impeaching Gao pragmatism may mean that the Jiangnan chaebol have made a unified decision, or at least it should be said that most of the Jiangnan chaebol have decided to fight Gao pragmatism. Field.

This is the point of Gao Pragmatic's doubts: Why did the Jiangnan Chaebol suddenly decide to break up with me? I don’t seem to have taken any violent measures to suppress them recently, right?

Obviously, the person at the helm of a family that can survive as a "chaebol" for several generations cannot be a fool. Even if one or several of the families may accidentally have a young family head who acts impulsively and regardless of the consequences, since it can form a unified decision-making of the Jiangnan chaebol, it will definitely not be led by a few middle-aged boys.

Therefore, Gao Pragmatic judged that behind this there must be a huge conflict in the fundamental interests of the two major interest groups of the North and the South. The conflict is irreconcilable and cannot even be delayed! Otherwise, the Jiangnan Chaebol is obviously at a disadvantage at the official level, so it would be a crazy idea to attack Gao Yuanshu at this time - the winning rate is really not high!

But just as Gao Pingshi was wondering, he asked himself that he had not been busy at all suppressing the Jiangnan Chaebol since he took over as chief minister, so why did the Jiangnan Chaebol suddenly seem to have been touched?

Gao Pragmatic thought hard, is it because Jinghua Infrastructure promotes sewer projects? It doesn't make sense. The Jiangnan Chaebol didn't do this work. It couldn't be because Jinghua Infrastructure needed to spend money from the local government to carry out this project, so the local government went to find a way to defeat the Jiangnan Chaebol, right?

This is simply impossible. This is not to say that local yamen will not seek help from plutocrats. It is not uncommon to do so. However, China's official circles in the past dynasties have long formed a tacit understanding on this matter - landlords and wealthy businessmen will usually give some, but local yamen will not. Slaughtered like a pig.

More often than not, the situation at that time was like a line that was ridiculed by many people in later generations and should be inscribed on the World Heritage List: "The gentry donates first, and the common people donate later. After the event is completed, the gentry's money is returned in full, and the common people's money is divided into 30 and 70." .”

Therefore, even if the matter of Jinghua Infrastructure really caused trouble that Gao was pragmatic and unclear about, he could at least be sure that the Jiangnan Chaebol would not suffer serious damage to its interests as a result - as long as the system was not in place, the unlucky president They are ordinary people.

Since this is not the case, what else would make the Jiangnan Chaebol so decisive and reckless?
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PS: I think this time it should be quite difficult to guess...