Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 274
If the crown prince is granted the power to oversee the country by the emperor, his decrees are of course legally binding. As long as they do not conflict with the emperor's own will, all officials in the world must obey them.For example, Zhu Di ordered the prince Zhu Gaochi to supervise the country several times during the Northern Expedition, and the order issued by the prince Jian Guo is theoretically the prince's decree, and Zhu Yijun's order can only be called the prince's decree formally.But the crown prince is the crown prince after all, and everyone usually refers to the orders issued by the crown prince as the prince's decree, just like when people from later generations meet, the other party is a deputy director named Zhang, but when they call him, they must call him Zhang The director is not the deputy director Zhang for a reason.

Therefore, the real meaning of the prince's decree in Gao Yushi's hand is not that holding it has actual legal effect, but a symbolic meaning: the prince is very concerned about this matter, and everything Gao Shi reads They must all be listened to by Datian—after all, the emperor is a darling and madman, so if the prince knows it, does it mean that the emperor knows it?

In other words, the real power of holding this decree lies in showing everyone the fact that not giving face to the high servant means not giving face to the crown prince, and not giving face to the prince is equal to not giving face to the emperor.

The Yanguan dare not give the emperor face, because unless the emperor himself loses face, he can't do anything to the Yanguan.But it is impossible for ordinary officials not to give face to the emperor casually. You don't respect the emperor, the minister, the minister, the father and the son. Have you read the book in the stomach of a dog?
Those who understand the true meaning of the prince's decree have already understood that this time, although the nominal official is engineering, it is probably the one who is really paid attention to by His Majesty and his son. Gao Shidu, who travels at public expense.

But at this moment, Gao Wushi couldn't care less about these things, he was on his way to Datong.

This is the first time he has enjoyed the treatment of an imperial envoy. Although he is only a deputy envoy in name, and is strictly stipulated by the imperial decree that he can only be a silent deputy envoy, Cheng Wen, as the official envoy, is his "senior brother". He is one of the core members of the Gao Party. He is well aware of the causes and consequences of this imperial envoy's tour, so he takes great care of Gao Yushi, a young junior. It may be too much to say "report early and report later", but we will ask for everything. Always close.

The guard of honor of the imperial envoy is actually nothing to look at. Gao Wu has seen countless times the guard of honor of the emperor (not the full guard of honor) in the palace, and even the full prince's guard of honor when the prince left the cabinet to study. The so-called imperial guard of honor that he enjoys right now is not enough. Look.

But this time the imperial guard of honor was different from usual, because Gao Wushi brought two hundred servants with him.

Imperial envoys can take family members with them when they travel, especially if they go to war-torn areas or areas that are about to be war-torn. After the servant system became popular, almost no one mentioned it anymore. Anyway, the imperial court will not pay your accompanying servants. If you can afford it yourself, you can bring it.Even in a few decades, the imperial court will allocate funds as appropriate for the accompanying military servants.

Gao Yushi's manpower, which can be called "military servants", is close to the 2000 mark if all aspects are added together, but he will not be stupid enough to gather these [-] people, it is an act of courting death.

First of all, he gave these military servants different names. Although internally they were collectively called the household guards, but he did not say that to the outside world. When they were outside, they had many names, such as Jinghua Caravan Guard, Sanshenyuan Nursing courtyard guards, Bailixia guarding village guards, Kaiping Jinghua guarding mine team, etc., are all strange and strange.

At the same time, he carefully distributed these people: three hundred in Sanshen Garden, three hundred in Bailixia, three hundred in Kaiping, and two hundred in the capital... As for Datong and Xuanfu, because of There is no guarantee of safety when leading to foreign merchants, so each has four hundred.

Of course, the 800 troops from Datong and Xuanfu were dispatched together because Gao Mo and Gao Yu cooperated with Cao Gan in Fengzhouchuan last time, and now they all stay in Baihubao, where Hannaji was surrendered.

The supreme commander of Fort Baihu is only a garrison, and his military strength is only 600 people, and the actual strength is even only more than 300 points. Therefore, the regular army of Fort Baihu is not as many as the high-level servants.

Knowing that the chief and deputy imperial envoys first went directly to Datong, the governor of Xuanda Wang Chonggu also rushed to Datong from Tianchengwei, the governor's residence, in order to show his importance.

Tianchengwei was the administrative seat of Shanxi Xingdusi during the Ming Dynasty, that is, Tianzhen County of Shanxi in later generations, roughly in the middle of Datong and Xuanfu, and the governor of Xuanda resided here, also out of consideration for coordinating the second town of Xuanda.

Because of this, from when Wang Chonggu heard the news of the departure of the imperial envoy to rushing to Datong, he even rushed to the front of the imperial envoy.

When the two sides met, Wang Chonggu did not need to salute Cheng Wen, because Cheng Wen was an imperial envoy, but Wang Chonggu was actually an imperial envoy. , but theoretically they are still in the nature of imperial envoys.For example, Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda, is the censor of the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the imperial envoy governor of Xuanda Shanxi and other departments handles military affairs and pays.

Since they were all imperial envoys, then in terms of their duties, it was Cheng Wen and Gao Wushi who wanted to salute Wang Chonggu first.

However, after all, Wang Chonggu is the second-ranked leader in the Jin Party. He knows that the two in front of him are almost equal to Gao Gong, the main ally of the Jin Party. The process was to welcome the two of them in together with the Governor of Datong, Fang Fengshi.

As for the imperial envoy guarding the local eunuchs in Datong, Cheng Wen didn't care, neither did Gao Yushi.On the contrary, it was Ma Fang, the commander-in-chief of Datong, because Cheng Wen knew that he was the "best fighter" general under Gao Gong's name, so he was treated with courtesy.

And Gao Yushi became even closer to Ma Fang—under the mediation of Cao Gan, they were already like a family. "In this incident, Ma Fang also cooperated accordingly, and the two sides have been friends for a long time.

Moreover, this time when Gao Yushi came, he had the task of "observing politics" to investigate and announce the large-scale armaments. In fact, Gao Yushi had already sent him a private message in advance, revealing some things such as "may consider strengthening firearms and equipment for your department", etc. Therefore, Ma Fang was also very happy to see Gao Yushi—in fact, he did not know the benefits of firearms, but the quality of the firearms he had received before was really bad, so his cavalry still mainly used sabers and three-eyed guns, while Gao Pragmatically attached a newly improved Saigon gun by Qi Jiguang with the letter, and told Ma Fang that if all firearms were added to him in the future, the quality and level of the firearms would not be lower than this gun.

After Ma Fang asked someone to try it, he found that this gun was much stronger than the three-eyed blunderbuss. Since the charging method was changed to a paper shell, the speed of filling ammunition was significantly improved compared with the previous bird blunderbuss. The quality is also very reliable.

Ma Fang believes that if her subordinates can be equipped with Saigong guns of this quality in batches in the future, then the earlier three-eyed guns can obviously be abandoned. It is absolutely necessary to give the second and third line garrison troops, and they can give full play to the remaining heat.

(End of this chapter)