Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 814
Until he walked out of the palace, Gao Wushi didn't fully understand what Princess Yongning meant by handing over the fief conversion to him, but he didn't bother to think too much, anyway, it's always a good thing to set up a disaster relief fund, and he planned to participate in it himself, and in this way If so, it would be even better in the name of a princess—whoever you say has ulterior motives, at least the Princess of Daming couldn’t possibly be trying to buy people’s hearts and become a rebel, right?She is not a prince or prince or anything, even a three-year-old would not believe her.

Generally speaking, this incident is just an episode for Gao Yushi, and he will have important things to do soon.

In the early morning of the next day, the Supervisor of Rites issued an imperial decree to the cabinet, specially appointing Zuo Shuzi of Zhan Shifu Zuochunfang and Gao Yushi, a servant of the Imperial Academy, to be imperial envoys to confer the full powers of King Shunyi, and to go north to preside over the canonization-related matters;
Order Xuanda Governor Zheng Luo to deploy troops to protect the imperial envoy and cooperate with the canonization;
Order Gao Wenjian, governor of the three borders of Shaanxi, to guard the border and cooperate with canonization matters;

Order Wanquandusi (with Xuanfu as the center), Shanxi Xingdusi (with Datong as the center), Shanxi Dusi (the rest of Shanxi) and other towns to mobilize troops and horses to respond at any time;
He ordered Liang Menglong, the governor of Jiliao, Qi Jiguang, the general of Jizhen, and the general of Liaodong to be on alert at all times, to monitor the movements of Chahar, Duoyan, Taining and other ministries of Mongolia, and to report at any time.

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Zhang Siwei didn't say much after reading it, and let them all go. However, when re-drafting the imperial edict, he added an extra sentence after Gao Pragmatic's article "going north to the fortress to preside over the canonization-related matters": "decision-making on the spot".

Then after thinking about it, he wrote four more private letters and sent them to Zheng Luo, Xiao Daheng, Jia Yingyuan, and Xin Yingqian respectively.

Of these four, Zheng Luo is the governor of Xuanda, Xiao Daheng is the governor of Xuanfu, Jia Yingyuan is the governor of Datong, and Xin Yinggan is the governor of Shanxi.

Zheng Luo is from Hebei, but he has worked in Shanxi for a long time. Politically, he belongs to the faction of Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei. I have been an official in Shanxi for many years, and I have long been a typical Jin Party—it is said that in this period, it is difficult for the Jin Party to work long in Shanxi.

The only difference between these four officials in Xinjiang is that Zheng Luo was a Jinshi in the 35th year of Jiajing, while the other three were all Jinshi in the 41st year of Jiajing.

I won't mention Zheng Luo's introduction before. The other three students who took this subject in the same year were the chief examiners of Yuan Wei.

Yuan Wei is a well-known Prime Minister of Qing Ci, adhering to the fine tradition of Ming Dynasty's prodigy, and he was also a child prodigy when he was a child.

In the past, when Yuan Wei was ten years old, he followed his father to Qingdao, his hometown, to watch the trial of the county magistrate.Because he is small, he stands at the front.The county magistrate saw that he was focused and imposing, and asked, "Whose child is this?"

His father replied: "This is a student dog." The county magistrate heard that he claimed to be a student and knew that he was a scholar, so he asked again: "Has your son studied right?" Yuan's father replied: "Fang has not studied for a long time."

At this time, the county magistrate saw two white cranes flying in the sky above the Taoist temple, and a pair came out: "Two cranes are flying above the Sanqing Palace." Yuan Wei responded, "Driving six dragons in the five-color clouds."

The county magistrate couldn't help saying loudly to Xuezheng beside him, "Good answer! Good answer!"

Learning Zheng is relatively strict, so he said: "It can only be said that he used it well. This is a flexible use of the "five-color cloud chariot driving six dragons" in Lin Honggong's poems. It is just a word change. I think he has just read this poem. .” The county magistrate smiled and said, “It’s not easy.”

Then the county magistrate issued another couplet to Yuan Wei: "The four sides of the cast are six sides wide."

Yuan Wei immediately spoke to her again: "My husband is a man of virtue and talent."

Now, even Xuezheng couldn't help admiring Xiao Yuanwei's eloquent answers, and praised him: "This child prodigy!"

The story of hurting Zhongyong did not happen to Yuan Wei. This old man was a god all the way. In the 16th year of Jiajing, he participated in the provincial examination and won No.2.In the following year, won the No.1 membership in the examination.

When it came to the palace examination, the cabinet initially proposed that Lu Shidao be the number one scholar, Jiajing Yubi was approved as No.5 in the second class, and Yuan Wei was changed to the first place.It's a pity that when Wenhuadian read the papers later, because Yuan Wei's remarks were too straightforward, he changed it to the third place and promoted Mao Zan to the first place.

But in any case, Yuan Wei's article is in place.There is a very famous couplet, which is used as the protagonist in many novels. It is actually Yuan Wei's wonderful couplet. The couplet is written like this:

The Luoshui mysterious turtle first offered auspiciousness, the number of yin is nine, the number of yang is nine, the number of nine is 81, the number is connected with the Tao, the Tao is in harmony with the Yuanshi Tianzun, I sincerely feel it;
Two red and phoenixes in Qishan present auspiciousness, the male sings six, the female sings six, and there are 36 six-six sounds, which are heard in the sky.Born as the Jiajing Emperor, he will live forever.

However, the two biggest characteristics of this person are not that he is good at writing green poems, but that he is good at selecting talents and jealous of talents.

There are a lot of things about jealousy, so let's not talk about it for now, let's talk about talent selection.

Just now, the three big officials in the frontier region were said to have earned face for Jiajing's 41-year gold list, which is enough to prove Yuan Ge's talent selection skills. down.

Because the other three are Shen Shixing, Wang Xijue, and Yu Youding.

Wang Xijue is still keeping his filial piety in his hometown, so let's not mention it, Shen Shixing and Yu Youding are the two elders of today's pavilion.

What does this mean?Of course, first of all, it represents Yuan Ge's reliable ability to select talents in the past, but second, it represents the three officials of the Jin Party, who are actually the same year as Shen Shixing and Yu Youding.

If it was an ordinary Jin Party—referring to those officials from Shanxi—then Zhang Siwei might not have to write a letter to "greeting" at all, because they are also Gao Dang and Practical Learning Party. They will definitely cooperate vigorously.

But the three of Daheng Xiao are the same year as Shen Shixing and Yu Youding, so we have to pay attention to this. Although generally speaking, they should at least not hinder Gao Yushi, but in case of an emergency, Shen Shixing or Yu Youding Did Ding pull himself to write a letter to ask them for help?

Zhang Siwei had to guard against this move, especially on the border of Shanxi, he would never tolerate any omissions.

He was making arrangements here secretly, and Gao Yushi was not idle, and also started to make arrangements in the open and in the dark.

Cao Gan was still on his way back, but that didn't mean he would not order the other subordinates of the Jinghua Trading Company to move. He first sent someone from the Jinghua Trading Company to report to Han Naji, saying that he was about to come as a full-fledged imperial envoy. Tumed presided over the canonization and asked him to secretly mobilize troops to control his territory, especially the crucial Daban Shengcheng.

Then crossed Cao Gan, mobilized cavalry from Xuan, Da, and Shanxi, plus some cavalry trained in Jizhen, put them together for selection, and selected 3000 people as guards for his trip.

These [-] riders each had two horses and were equipped with the "Wanli Type I Bayonet Type" muskets that had not yet been installed by the imperial court. However, because they were mobilized near Gyeonggi, Gao Yushi hesitated for a while, and finally did not dare to mobilize the artillery.

The artillery will definitely be needed in the end, but it is estimated that it will be "borrowed"-after arriving in Datong, please ask Xuanda Sanzhen to allocate a batch of artillery made by Jinghua for him to use. Anyway, they are all their own products. It can be compensated.

Now that Han Naji was contacted, of course Zhong Jin Hatun had to send someone to contact him, and Gao Wushi relied on his own face to ask for a letter from his senior brother Wu Dui - this big Sima is Zhong Jin Hatun's "foster father", his face is high and pragmatic, so it's not for nothing.

After these things are done, Gao Pragmatic only needs to wait.One is to wait for Cao Gan’s return, but to wait for the Jingying to select elites—he is an imperial envoy, and for such a big event as the canonization, no matter how useless the Jingying is, they have to transfer something to him as an imperial envoy, right?

However, Gao Yushi has a lot of face in the end. When Zhu Yingzhen, Zhang Yuangong and others heard that he was going to Tumot as an envoy, they didn't wait for Gao Yushi to find them. Five hundred "elite cavalry" were drawn each.

It's hard to say whether they are elite or not, but the appearance of these thousand cavalry is really good, even more powerful than Gao Yushi's own cavalry - Gao's cavalry only wears one piece of armor, and these "elite cavalry" are full of armor. armed.

Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong came here to ask for credit after finishing this matter. They praised the thousand cavalry as rare in the sky and unique in the underground. Let alone a thousand cavalry, give them two hundred cavalry, whether they like it or not, and they are still randomly selected, how can they be selected like this?

Gao Wushi found that although the two of them came together this time, the "errand" of showing courtesy mainly fell on Zhang Yuangong's head. Gao Wushi understood what was going on as soon as he turned his eyes——Zhang Rong had just died, and Zhang Yuangong hadn't become a prince yet. .

In the Ming Dynasty, the succession to the nobleman was not immediately inherited by my son after my death. It took a period of investigation. During this period of time, if something illegal happened, the nobleman might not be able to succeed. .

As for how long the inspection period is, that's uncertain. Some people finish their work in a year or a half, while some people have been inspecting for ten years, or even longer.

Of course Zhang Yuangong didn't want to be inspected for ten years, so it was perfectly normal to show courteousness in front of the number one emperor's close minister like Gao Yushi.

But for this kind of thing, it is impossible for Gao Wushi to give him any assurance, and he only said something like "Thank you very much, thank you very much", which made Zhang Yuangong's heart flutter.

When he finally left, he almost couldn't help reminding him, but fortunately Zhu Yingzhen saw the opportunity quickly and interrupted him.

After leaving the Gaofu, Zhang Yuangong asked Zhu Yingzhen why he didn't let him speak, Zhu Yingzhen shook his head and said: "I beg you, who is it? He knows what you are going to fart when you raise your butt. Why do you bother? It should be yours. After all, it will be yours, and you can’t run away. Instead of worrying about what you mean that he doesn’t understand, you might as well think about how to make him happier.”

Zhang Yuangong sighed: "You're right, I'm too impatient... But the cavalry we can draw out—I mean they're barely passable, that's all, how can I make him happy? ?”

Zhu Yingzhen thought for a while, and said: "Seeing that there are Gao family cavaliers gathered at Xinzhai, I heard that they don't have guns."

"You mean..." Zhang Yuangong's eyes lit up: "Let's bring more cannons and give them to him then?"

"clever!"

(End of this chapter)