Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 69
The reason why Gao Wushi was willing to take action against a respected prince for Liu Xian's affairs was because he knew Liu Ting's future role, so he thought about it for the great Ming, and there were two main reasons.

The first reason is that Xu Pengju’s own life is not long. According to history, he will die in February of the fifth year of Longqing. It can be seen that this record is wrong. ], this time has only been about a year, and during this year, Emperor Longqing was in good health... With Longqing's trust in Gao Gong, as long as Gao Gong is willing, Xu Pengju, even Xu Da's descendants, dignified Wei Guogong, The governor of the Chinese army in the Nanjing Dudu Mansion and the honorable minister of Nanjing's defense, should be criticized as they should be, and should be punished as they should be.

Think about it, wasn't Liu Xian, the dignified general of Langshan at the beginning, also told by a mere magistrate of Tongzhou Prefecture?

These days, the status of military officials is really so low in front of civil servants, even Gao Gong doesn't have to speak in person. Right now, his disciples in Beijing, Song Zhihan, Han Ji, Tu Menggui, Cheng Wen, etc. When he came out to "hear and tell the story", he accused Xu Pengju of "as a minister of Nanjing's garrison, but made the Nanjing Guards corrupt". Definitely can't run.

The second reason is that Xu Pengju still has a big mistake that has not been exposed yet, but Gao Pragmatically calculates the time and knows that it must be coming soon.

In the original history, this incident was like this: Xu Pengju's wife, surnamed Zhang, had no son and died early.So Xu Pengju had no legitimate sons, but he still had several sons from concubines, the eldest of which was named Xu Bangrui.According to the principle of the Ming Dynasty that "if there is a son, there will be a son, and if there is no son, the elder will be established", Xu Bangrui should be the heir of Wei Guogong.

But here comes the problem. What Xu Pengju likes is another young son, Xu Bangning, whose biological mother is his concubine Zheng.Mrs. Zheng was deeply favored by Xu Pengju. In order to improve Mrs. Zheng's status, Xu Pengju even cheated and won her the title of Madam Zhengming.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, the children of honored ministers and generals must first receive education if they want to inherit the title of their ancestors.Xu Pengju tried his best to train Xu Bangning, and wanted to send him to Nanjing Guozijian to study.When Liu Cai, Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of War, heard the news, he reminded him that if you continue to mess around like this, you may cause trouble.

As mentioned earlier, the Minister of the Ministry of War in Nanjing is actually the number one official in Nanjing, so after being warned by him, Xu Pengju did not dare to make mistakes, so he had to send his boss Xu Bangrui to school instead.

But of course, Xu Bangning would not be reconciled to this, so he prepared a generous gift, inviting Liu Shiyan, a descendant of Liu Bowen, the Boss of Sincerity, to visit Jiufeng Temple together, and quietly offered a gift, asking him to help him.After Liu Bowen, Liu Shiyan is naturally the best among the honored ministers. He has great energy in Nanjing's "Founding Department", so he went to Nanjing Guozijian to offer sacrifices to Jiang Bao, and asked him to help Xu Bangning with this "small favor".Zheng Rujin, a teaching assistant at Nanjing Guozijian, presumably had something to do with this matter, so she also spoke for Xu Bangning in front of Jiang Bao.

Jiang Bao probably didn't think about how involved this matter would be. After hearing Liu Shiyan's words, he resolutely refused Xu Bangrui's admission and planned to transfer Xu Bangning.However, civil officials of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the ancestral system, so this incident aroused the dissatisfaction of the Ministry of Rites in Nanjing, and the matter became serious.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Liu Shiyan knew that everything would be difficult if civil servants were involved, so he quickly defended himself, denying that he helped Xu Bangning, and also said that he had fallen out with Xu Pengju in his early years, and it was impossible to control Xu Bangning. Family affairs—this statement is somewhat confusing, because Liu Shiyan did have a very unpleasant quarrel with Xu Pengju because of some things in his early years. The two can almost be said to be at odds.

At this point in the matter, the result of the first treatment was not too serious: Zheng Rujin was dismissed, Xu Pengju was fined a month's worth of Lumi, and the title of Mrs. Zheng was regained, and Xu Bangning and others were somewhat punished .It's just that Liu Shiyan's usual attitude has always been very tough. The officials in Nanjing also considered that this matter is not a good thing after all, and in fact the civil servants can't get any benefits from it, so they didn't bother to provoke him, and planned to let it go.

However, it was not enough for them to just give up, because Zheng Rujin, who was dismissed, was very angry about this punishment, probably thinking that Zheng, who was not considered the "first offender" at all, was dismissed, and the real "first offender" got away with it.Thinking about him, Mr. Zheng is also a Jinshi who passed the examination of the Eight Classics, and he is still the pride of heaven, how can he bear this bird's breath?So he complained everywhere, and finally made trouble in Beijing, where even Emperor Longqing knew about it.There is no detailed record of how the imperial court discussed it in the history books. Anyway, in the end, Longqing ordered that Sun Zhi, Shangshu of the Nanjing Ministry of Criminal Justice, Jiang Bao, Jijiu Jiang Bao of the Nanjing Guozijian, and Liu Shiyan, the Boss of Chengyi, all return to their hometowns to listen to the investigation.

After this turmoil, Xu Pengju, who had already lived a short life, didn't dare to make any more troubles. In the end, the title of Wei Guogong was passed on to Xu Bangrui in order of seniority.

People say that it is easy to add flowers to the cake, but difficult to send charcoal in the snow.Gao Wu is not much better than ordinary people in this respect. If he is allowed to risk his own damage or offend people who shouldn't be offended for no reason to do the good thing of sending charcoal in the snow, he thinks he hasn't realized that yet.

However, if it is something that you know is just icing on the cake, but the other party thinks it is a timely help, Gao Yushi is very interested in participating.

What's more, there are two obvious benefits here: First, helping Liu Xian will not only get Liu Xian's gratitude in the next ten years, but also sell a lot of favors to Liu Ting.Although the military commander's status is low now, even if the highly pragmatic plan of "saving the Ming" goes smoothly in the future, he still needs a capable general to carry out some of his future military plans and plans. Selling Liu Ting now is a good way to pave the way for the future.

Secondly, if we start from the case of attacking the noble, then it doesn't matter at all to attack Xu Pengju.Firstly, Xu Pengju was at fault first, so he was powerless to resist; secondly, he was about to die of illness, and he was unable to make any troubles. Liu Xian's matter could be regarded as an addition, and it was put into the case to give Xu Pengju a " Combined punishment for several crimes".

There is even another advantage to doing this, that is, if Gao Gong also expresses his position in this matter, or even plays a role, it will almost have the effect of setting the tripod, and the future Wei Guogong Xu Bangrui will also have a better opinion of the Gao family. manner.

No matter how hard you attack a leader-level family of the "founding family" like the Xu family, it is nothing more than to change the Duke of Wei to the second, and it is impossible to wipe out the inheritance of Duke Wei. , the effect of attracting and guiding is probably better than striking.Some highly pragmatic plans in the future want to be implemented. If the Xu family can be brought over to speak, it is not expected to have much effect, but it will definitely be much better than the Xu family jumping out and singing a different tune.

Gao's pragmatic attitude is very clear: everything must serve the overall situation in the future without excessively affecting his own interests.

So for Liu Xian's matter, after Gao Wu really wanted to understand these reasons, he decided to help him.

(End of this chapter)