Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 913 Rumors and Three Things
The news that the emperor went to Baiyulou to attend Gao Yushi's birthday banquet and invited him to eat with him spread throughout Beijing on May 26.

As soon as this news came out, it was secretly rumored in the middle of Beijing a few days ago that the so-called emperor was extremely dissatisfied with Gao Yushi's excellent situation and "failed to capture and kill Tutu". An imperial envoy and put it on the shelf" As soon as he said it, he was defeated immediately.

After all, if the emperor was really dissatisfied, how could he go to his courtier's birthday banquet with a smile on his face, and even invite him to sit with him?As for the jewels and cultural toys given by the emperor when he passed away to celebrate his birthday, such as "a pair of white biscuits" and "two sides of Duan inkstones", those are irrelevant, so let's not mention them.

It is difficult for Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang and other military officials to be bestowed with these things by the emperor, but after so many years, Gao Yushi has not known how many such rewards he has received. Taking off what was bestowed on him, this kind of honor, there is no second one in the world.

It seems that the relationship between the emperor and Gao Yushi did not have the rumored problems at all, and was still very good.

It's just that in this way, the problem that the highly pragmatic rewards had been difficult to deliver a few days ago seemed very abrupt, and the rumors in Beijing had a new change in time, and evolved into how the emperor wanted to award the rewards?

After what happened today, none of the officials in Beijing thought that the emperor didn't want to grant a reward. Everyone could see that the problem now was probably that the emperor wanted to reward him heavily, but he had some scruples.

What kind of reward would actually make the emperor even scrupulous?
This question even overwhelmed the main topic of discussion in Beijing and China recently: the wedding of Princess Yongning.

Gao Yushi had already heard about Princess Yongning's wedding before he returned to Beijing, when he was still in Changping.

For Princess Yongning, Gao's pragmatic feelings are somewhat complicated and subtle.

First of all, what is certain is that he has never considered Princess Shang, which was caused by Daming's system, and he is not a person who would consider changing the country's system for personal relationship issues, so Princess Yongning's birth has already determined their relationship. is unfavorable.

But having said that, when it comes to Princess Yongning, Gao Wushi still has a good impression of her.This kind of good feeling is not called love, it is probably the kind of positive recognition towards a girl, so he feels a little regretful about the inevitable ending of Princess Yongning's unfree marriage.

Especially when the other party has clearly stated that he has a good impression of him.

After Zhu Yijun left, the hustle and bustle of Baiyulou didn't dissipate immediately. It wasn't until late in the evening that everyone bid farewell and left Jianxinzhai before the city gate closed.

Originally, they didn't have to worry about the city gate being closed. After all, there were such a large group of high-ranking officials and nobles, how could the city gate guards dare to stop them?But it was a coincidence that the emperor came here today, and everyone felt that it was necessary to give the emperor a face, otherwise, if so many high-ranking officials and nobles entered the city at night, wouldn't they treat the state system as a joke in front of the emperor?Then everyone will be embarrassed.

Gao Yushi doesn't go back to the city to stay overnight, because he has more free time now.

Right now, he has a high status in Zhan Shifu, but he is not the one who is "in charge of the government affairs", which means that he is a "free man in the audience".His status in the Hanlin Academy is not bad, but his main duty in the Imperial Academy is to serve as a part-time dispatcher—to lecture on officials on feast days, so it’s not like in the past, he must go to the Hanlin Academy early in the morning to make appointments (his master His position is the left concubine of Zhan Shifu, and the Imperial Academy attendant is a part-time official), in this way, as long as he does not need to go to lectures the next day, he will have plenty of time.

Of course, taking a step back, given his current situation, it would be very difficult for someone to drag him by his braids and say that he was late and left early.
So Gao Wushi didn't go back to the city tonight, but went to Jianxinzhai to deal with various private matters that had been backlogged for two months.

Jinghua Group is really getting bigger and bigger now. Although Gao Wushi is a qualified shopkeeper who is very good at grasping the large and letting go of the small, there are so many branches under Jinghua, even if each department only submits three items that need to be handled by him in two months. Yes, it will take him a lot of time.

There are the most things in the industry, but there are not many troubles. The main thing is to report various progress. High-level practicality is mostly just a look, and a few words of approval is considered very important. Most of the approvals are just "yes", "" Got it", "Proceed as usual", etc.

However, there are two or three things among them, which were approved by Gao Yushi after careful consideration for a while.

The first thing is the progress of the "Taiwan Strategy" under Gao Qi's charge.According to Gao Qi, there are still some pirates on the island of Taiwan, but most of them are not successful and have complicated origins. Some are remnants of the Fujian Sea Pirate Alliance who were beaten and disabled before, and some are unable to get along in Japan or Ming Dynasty. The Japanese pirates who are too open, and some even more weird ones, are actually pirates from Nanyang.

The first two have been introduced a long time ago, and there are probably not many changes, so I won’t go into details, but those Nanyang pirates are more interesting.

According to Gao Qi's investigation, the number of this group of people is not large, but their origins are very complicated. There are pirates from several indigenous countries in Southeast Asia, and the reason why they came to the vicinity of Daming is that they were given by the Portuguese. There was nowhere to go.

Gao Wushi didn't pay much attention to these Nanyang pirates at first, until he read the news sent by Annan, he changed his mind and asked Gao Qi to find a way to subdue these Nanyang pirates—at least temporarily, how to deal with the future Besides.

As for the reason for doing so, it started from a small trouble.

Annan sent a report saying that when Gao Jing was investigating in the sea outside Champa in the south of Annan, he encountered a Frang aircraft fleet flying the flag of the Toungoo Dynasty in Myanmar. Forcibly drove Gao Jing's fleet away from the sea area where the incident occurred.

Gao Yushi learned from the British guys who were more than a hundred years later in the original history, and taught his own fleet to "dare to fight against the enemy", so Gao Jing was not willing to retreat, so he directly raised the battle flag, and a naval battle broke out between the two sides.

In this naval battle, Gao Jing did not take advantage of it. One armed transport ship was sunk, one was severely damaged and abandoned, and many others were damaged.However, the opponent did not get a good deal. Four warships suffered heavy losses, and one surrendered after being besieged.

Judging from the results of the battle, Gao Pragmatism tends to think that his own fleet is slightly inferior to the Portuguese, but because the fleet led by Gao Jing has a relatively obvious numerical advantage-he had more than 20 ships of different sizes at the time, while the opponent only had seven large ships But there were no boats - so in the end it was the Portuguese who were the first to evacuate the sea where the incident occurred.

Theoretically speaking, Gao Jing's fleet won this naval battle, and Gao Jing himself said in his report that he had won the "Naval Battle off Bandulang".

Off the coast of Bandurang?Gao Wushi wanted to check the map, and suddenly found that this place was actually near Cam Ranh Bay in later generations—the area including Cam Ranh Bay is currently called Bangtulang.

He vaguely guessed what Gao Jing was doing there, and the purpose of the Portuguese might be similar.

However, the fact that the Portuguese were flying the banner of the Taungoo Dynasty in Myanmar made Gao Yushi a little wary. He remembered that the Toungoo Dynasty seemed to have hired a small number of Portuguese mercenaries in history. Could it be that it has already started?

This...wouldn't have a bad effect on the Indochina Peninsula strategy that was being prepared, right?Although Liu Ting is a very good fighter, he has never fought against Western mercenaries. I don't know if there will be problems?

No, next time I see Zhu Yijun, I have to mention it to him. I want to change part of the Wanli style for Yunnan, at least change Liu Ting's troops. If this can't be done, then at least his " "Suppress Woyi Ding" has been changed, otherwise I feel a little uneasy.

These two things are related to the fleet. Although Gao Pragmatism attaches great importance to it, he is not nervous. After all, his shipbuilding plan is progressing steadily. It is nothing more than spending money and time. Portugal will soon be annexed by Spain. The forces in Asia will definitely be in chaos for a while, and I still have time.

The third thing really surprised him.
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