Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 945 Visiting the Governor of Jiliao
According to Gao Yushi's original itinerary plan, he planned to go to Tianjin Port to take a boat to Yingkou to land, and then go straight to Gaizhou to take up his post.However, Zhu Yijun strongly objected after hearing about it, thinking that taking a boat was not safe enough. "This spring, there are two disasters in Jiangnan and Liaodong. If a hurricane suddenly occurs on the sea during this trip, wouldn't it be a loss of my arm?"

Zhu Yijun's attitude is very firm. He is not afraid of Gao Yushi going to war because Gao Yushi has already proved his ability. However, as the number one nerd in Ming Dynasty, his unpredictability of the sea is only obtained from words.

In his eyes, when water transportation was changed to sea transportation in the past, there were countless records such as "dozens of ships were destroyed in a hurricane". Naturally, his memory was still fresh, and he did not dare to let Gao Yushi take such a dangerous road.

Since the emperor insisted, Gao Yushi had no choice but to obey the order, so he changed to travel by land.

However, some visits cannot be avoided by land. For example, the governor of Jiliao Liang Menglong could not go by sea, but he had to go by land.

The governor of Jiliao was stationed very close to the capital, in Miyun, and Gao Yushi's trip only took about a day, so he took five hundred riders and went to Miyun first.

Although Miyun is the residence of the majestic Governor of Jiliao, it is only a county seat. The city is not big, but it is solid as far as the naked eye can see. Cement can still be seen inside, which is obviously the result of reinforcement after Jinghua Cement became famous in recent years.

As the governor of Jiliao, Liang Menglong has three governors in his jurisdiction: Governor of Shuntian, Governor of Baoding, and Governor of Liaodong. In terms of status, he is several levels higher and more pragmatic, but as Zhang Juzheng's disciple, he can be retained and promoted by Gao Gong. The important ministers of the Shangshi school even need to call Gao Gong "Enxiang". Of course, Gao Gong's visit cannot be taken lightly.

The south gate of the county seat of Miyun County was opened wide, and Governor Liang Menglong of Jiliao personally led people to welcome Gao Yushi and his party at the gate.

Said to welcome, after all, he is both a senior in the examination room and a superior official, so he sat on the horse and waited for the high-level pragmatist to get off the horse and come to see him first.

"Gao Yushi, Yuanma Siqing of Liaodong, sees Zhijun." Gao Yushi did not mention "Shandong inspector" in his self-reported family, because this position is theoretically not under the jurisdiction of Liang Menglong. The Ming Dynasty often had such overlapping settings to prevent local The power is too concentrated, and the tail is too big to lose.

In fact, Gao Pragmatism does not like such a setting, because it may also lead to unclear powers and responsibilities. Once the government is corrupt, many things are prone to wrangling—and the facts have also proved that the government of officials in the late Wanli period in the original history is no longer good.

Liang Menglong and Gao Yushi clapped their hands together after saying this sentence, immediately laughed, turned off the horse, stepped forward to help Gao Yushi's arm, and said with a loud smile: "Meng Longpan and Gao Longwen have met for a long time, today As soon as I saw it, I was about to speak well, so why the need for such vain courtesy? Gao Longwen called me good luck, how old is Menglong Chi, and asked Gao Longwen to ask the truth, okay?"

Ganji is Liang Menglong's character, and they are called each other's characters, which means peers discuss friendship.

Gao Yushi hesitated a little, and said: "Mr. Mingquan is a senior in the imperial examination and a pragmatic official, so I am afraid that the world will say that he is pragmatic and arrogant."

"Hey, that's not what I said, and that's not what my predecessors said." Liang Menglong put his arms forward with a smile, and said to Gao Wushi: "In the past, Duke Zhang of Jiangling was my mentor, and Duke Gao of Xinzheng was my benefactor. This is an old friend who shares the same goals. Based on this calculation, Qiuzhen is not only of the same generation as me, but also almost of the same family... It is the most righteous principle for you and me to talk about friendship, how can you say that you are arrogant?"

Gao Wushi's heart moved, and he slightly guessed Liang Menglong's intentions, so he nodded with a smile, and bowed slightly: "Little brother has seen senior brother."

Liang Menglong laughed: "That's right...the weather is hot, come on, Brother Shi, and talk to Brother Yu."

Good guy, now you say "Senior brother" and I say "Senior brother", the two of them are considered brothers of the same school.

The Governor's Court is not the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but the Governor's Yamen.

In the Ming Dynasty, the word "yuan" was used to refer to certain yamen. For example, when Gao Wu was in Guangxi, the censor's yamen was called the procuratorate; and the governor's yamen in Jiliao at this time was called the governor's office; similarly, If it is the governor's office, it is called Fuyuan.

Probably due to the fact that Miyun is only a county seat and the city is relatively cramped, Governor Jiliao’s Governor’s Court is not very grand, and it is not even comparable to Guilin’s Procuratorate when Gao Yu was in Guangxi (the Procuratorate is the only one in the province. Each prefecture is set up to facilitate inspections. Guilin is the capital of the province and is the main resident). However, compared with Guilin Procuratorate, the guard of this Governor's Court is much stricter, with dense sentries and uniform military appearance. It can be seen that Liang Menglong Although he is a civil servant, he has a way of running the army.

Although Liang Menglong walked half a step ahead of Gao Yushi, he kept watching Gao Yushi's every move from the corner of his eyes. Seeing him carefully sizing up the guards of the governor's courtyard, he couldn't help laughing: "Although these soldiers are soldiers from the local guard , but after three years of Qi Yuanjing's training, he finally looks a bit better, but Brother Shi is used to seeing elites, and 'Annan Dingbei' is invincible, so it must not be too much to look at, Brother Yu is very ashamed."

Chen Han, who is highly pragmatic and "Annan Dingbei", was just awarded this morning. Unexpectedly, Liang Menglong has already learned the news. Think about it. Qi Jiguang also arranged "intelligence agents" in the capital. I'm afraid there are "Beijing offices" everywhere.

However, regarding Liang Menglong's words, high-level pragmatism does not dare to be serious. Although he does have the merit of "Annan Dingbei", he usually does not train troops by himself. He basically stays at the level of a master on paper when he observes these soldiers. At most, just look at military discipline and spirit, and expect him to know how strong this person is, what weapons he is good at, and even what style he fights at a glance like Liu Ting. That is purely a dream.

Besides, Qi Jiguang's military training ability can be called the number one in Ming Dynasty, and there is no semicolon. How can he have confidence to question the soldiers he has trained?All his servants were trained by Qi Jiguang—although Ma Fang taught cavalry, he was not in charge of military appearance and discipline.After the two actual battles of "Annan Dingbei", Gao Yushi felt that the effect was quite good.

Gao Wushi hastened to be polite, and what he said was nothing more than self-effacing, and he praised Qi Jiguang by the way.

Liang Menglong had studied Gao Yushi carefully, and he knew that Gao Yushi would definitely say that, so there was no surprise, so he pulled him into the study with a smile to talk about the matter.

He was not in the main hall of the yamen, nor in the reception flower hall, but went directly to the study room, which showed that Liang Menglong was deliberately trying to get closer, Gao Pragmatic's expression remained unchanged, but he understood Liang Menglong's intentions in his heart.

It seems that Liang Zhijun intends to tie Gaodang completely.

Sure enough, after the two sat down in the study room, Liang Menglong didn't make any foolish temptations at all, and went straight to the topic, with a solemn expression, and asked seriously: "Brother, is it because the imperial court has made a big move in Liaodong this time? ? I don’t know how to cooperate with Brother Yu?”

Uh……

For a while, Gao Yushi was really not used to the straightforwardness of a civil servant like Liang Menglong, so he froze for a while, coughed dryly, and subconsciously looked around.

Liang Menglong waved his hands and said with a smile: "I've been sent away a long time ago. Brother Yu is the only one here. As long as the world brother can trust Brother Yu, it doesn't matter if you have something to say."

Gao Wushi Hao Ran smiled and said: "My little brother is too cautious... Brother, the imperial court is in the north. For more than ten years, it has been paying attention to the 'Western Huaiding and Eastern System'. Now that the Western Huai industry has been achieved, the rest is naturally the Eastern system. .”

Liang Menglong nodded thoughtfully, but then hesitantly said, "Your foolish brother naturally understands the truth of taking advantage of his illness to kill him, but can the current treasury of the imperial court really support successive wars? It should be noted that this year Jiangnan, Liaodong was severely affected by the disaster, and the emperor waived almost 70 taels of tribute. Liaodong had just fought a war before. I'm afraid it won't be easy to start again."

What he said are all facts, and Gao Yushi also knows it well, but what Gao Yushi knows better is that apart from the lack of food in Liaodong due to the disaster this year, the military supplies are basically sufficient.

What really made it difficult for Liaodong to send troops is actually what Liang Menglong said just now-the rewards have not yet been distributed.

Whose reward?Li Chengliang's department.

There is a well-known fact that the combat power of Li Chengliang's troops is directly linked to the reward, and this year's Battle of Monan, Li Chengliang also contributed a lot. It is not a joke to kill a leader of a large Mongolian tribe, so the reward The problem becomes more serious.

In fact, including Qi Jiguang's troops, Ming's army is looking forward to rewards, after all, the usual military pay is really shabby, but Li Chengliang's troops have magnified this to the extreme.

It can be said that the characteristic of Li Chengliang's department is that as long as the money is in place, he dares to go to the Nine Heavens to kill the Jade Emperor, and he can go to the Underworld to kill Yama.

However, the trouble now is that the money...is a bit difficult to get in place.

When the cabinet was discussing matters before, because Gao Wushi spent too much money on this battle, something almost went wrong. Now if Gao Wushi arrives in Liaodong, and inexplicably set off a big war, not only the cabinet will have another war of words, but even This war of words is very likely to affect the entire ruling and opposition parties.

At Liang Menglong's level, of course he has some idea of ​​how much money the court has.

The imperial treasury did have a surplus in the past few years, but firstly, in order to highlight the benevolent government, Zhu Yijun continued to reduce taxes (agricultural tax), secondly, the cost of various frontier defense construction and refitting was also increasing, and thirdly, this time The Battle of Monan is expected to cost millions of taels, far exceeding the pre-war estimate--before the war they only knew that there were not many domestic troops to be mobilized by Gao Pragmatic, and the war may not last long, so according to the usual Calculated on the level of expenses, it is only about 20 taels, which is a sky-high 30 taels.

All of a sudden, there was a large hole of 70 taels, and it was very unlikely that the court could support another fight with Tumen.

Moreover, it is unrealistic to expect the emperor to pay from the internal funds. King Lu will get married next year. This is the only brother of the emperor. go?

If you can make up for the rewards that Li Chengliang should have received, you are already Amitabha.
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