Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 965
Li Chengliang sent his younger brother Li Chengcai to personally escort Li Rugui to Gaizhou. When they left Liaoyang, someone had already rushed to send news to Gao Yushi, so Gao Yushi was not surprised at Li Chengcai's visit.

Gao Wushi was a little surprised. First, Li Chengliang's resolute confession this time seems to be quite different from the rumored image of him being domineering in Liaodong. Second, Fang Zhan, the prime minister of Yuanma Temple, who was born in Juren, seemed to choose easily. Speaking for Li Chengliang, there may be some reasons for this.

Fang Zhan's matter is trivial. Whether he is afraid of Li Chengliang's deep-rooted influence in Liaodong, or accepts Li Chengliang's bribes, or both, it doesn't matter to Gao Yushi. People who are idle officials, even if they are their current subordinates, will not cause Gao Yushi a headache.

The important thing is why Li Chengliang decisively admits that he is cowardly. If this matter is not clarified, it will be inconvenient to carry out the follow-up plan.

Li Chengliang is a veteran who knows the officialdom well. There is no doubt about it. After all, at the age of 40, he is still a "student". He struggled at the local grassroots level. Not only did he have to face various injustices from time to time, he even had to smile at them , This is certainly a misfortune that many people throughout the ages cannot avoid, but on the other hand, it can also cultivate a person's city.

So even if Li Chengliang later became prosperous and became domineering, his city will not disappear. When the environment changes and the objects change, and he needs to take out the city, he can still use it easily.

Generally speaking, there are only two types of confession. One is that you really know that you are bound to lose. Instead of going all out, but you can only lose completely and cleanly, it is better to admit half of the loss and keep half too bad.

Another situation is to avoid its edge in order to plan for the future.

Gao Yushi originally thought that Li Chengliang should not dare to play this "planning for the future" with someone Gao. After all, judging from the current situation, even a fool can see the emperor's ardent expectations for him:
The number one scholar in the six poems, the emperor gave him a separate monument and imperial pen calligraphy, and praised him as "the real leader for 200 years";
During his patrol in Guangxi, the emperor allowed him to lead the chieftains to send troops to Annan in his own name, and after taking down Annan, he dealt with Annan almost completely according to his wishes;
Not long after returning to the center, as a full-fledged envoy, he coordinated almost the entire Nine Frontiers Town to launch the Monan War. In fact, if such a thing is usually done, it should usually be titled "Jinglue", such as "Pingmeng Jinglue" " and so on, the reason why only a full-fledged imperial envoy may not be seen beforehand, but it must be seen afterwards: it is simply because the high-level practical status and qualifications are obviously not enough for the level of "economic strategy";
Not long after returning from the victory in the Monan War, the emperor left the capital in person, and went to see Xinzhai in the high-level suburb of Beijing to celebrate his birthday.

When he was in Liaodong, he was granted temporary grace again before leaving the city. Not only was he able to obey the python in a weak crown year, but he was also given the imperial gift of "Annan and Dingbei"—usually those who are given imperial gifts are usually cabinet ministers, at least they are also ministers. A Jiuqing, but what about Gao Pragmatism?Speaking of it, it's just a soldier's way.

Such a holy family is full of body, compared to the future, who dares to compare with him?This is already a clear future for Ge Lao!

Now when officials from the ruling and opposition parties talk about this in their spare time, they are just betting on each other, guessing when Gao Yushi will be admitted to the cabinet, but no one really thinks that he cannot enter the cabinet!
Scientific research, sacred family, and meritorious service, he has all of them!Even because of works such as "Longwen Whip Shadow" and events such as waving 30 people to help refugees in the past, his reputation among the people is extremely good. With such a four-in-one, almost perfect performance, is it a certainty to join the cabinet?

What he lacks now, I'm afraid the only thing left is qualifications.

Once Gao Yushi enters the cabinet, Li Chengliang will never have the opportunity to "plan for the future" according to the current situation where the civil servants are overwhelming the military officials.

Li Chengliang will be 60 years old in three years, how many years of fighting career are left?After him, it is not easy for the Tieling Li family to maintain the current situation - this is due to the fact that Li Rusong, the second-generation eldest brother of the Li family, also gained a great contribution to beating the enemy chiefs in the battle of Monan. Said.

So what future does he compare with Gao Wushi?Even Li Rusong can't compare, isn't Li Rusong a military official?

What's the matter, under the current national conditions, is there any military official who can surpass the old assistant minister?Don't be kidding, the lord only dares to call himself Xiao Wang in front of his ministers. Your family is a lord, even if he becomes a world lord in the end, he is just an uncle. You must be respectful in front of your ministers!

But the reason is the same, but Gao Yushi always feels that Li Chengliang will not really admit cowardly so easily.

Before Gao Yushi left Beijing this time, he had already received news from Zhang Siwei and Wu Dui. The rewards for the military exploits in the Monan War, after the rewards for the soldiers, the rewards for the generals will come down soon. This reward It will be very "magnanimous", which will inevitably cause some changes in the strength of the generals.

The news that Gao Yushi received is already very difficult. For example, Ma Gui, who is by Gao Yushi's side, will definitely be directly promoted to the commander-in-chief this time; Promoted to deputy commander; Li Chengliang and his son, who each achieved the great feat of beheading the enemy chieftain, are likely to be Li Chengliang who was changed from Liujue Ningyuanbo to Shijue Ningyuanbo, and Li Rusong was directly promoted from Shenji Battalion deputy general...

In addition, there is Qi Jiguang, it is reported that he may also be conferred a knighthood, but it is not clear whether the Liujue is the Spyker or not. Gao Pragmatically estimates that the emperor may have to wait to see if Daning City can be stabilized before making a decision.

The rest, such as Zhang Bingzhong, Zhang Wanbang and his son, also have their own rewards, and most of them are promoted by one rank, and Zhang Wanbang even seems to be promoted by two ranks.

In short, the imperial court "fully affirmed" the significance of the Monan War, so the rewards were generous.

Here, let’s not talk about other things, but one thing must be said, after this award, two generals with two living generals appeared in the Ming Dynasty——Dong Li and Xima are both second generals .

However, Dong Li is still overwhelming Xi Ma. Apart from the two chief soldiers, his family is very likely to get the Spyker.

Rest with the country?Thinking of this, Gao Wushi couldn't help narrowing his eyes slightly.

Could it be that Li Chengliang was playing with this idea?
Although the elder and assistant minister of the pavilion has a high position and authority, after all, civil servants cannot be hereditary. Civil servants are all obtained through imperial examinations. No matter how high-minded he is, he can only guarantee his own generation. Or die of illness, and the tea will be cold.

What's more, the battle between the School of Reality and the School of Mind is still going on, although it doesn't seem to be intense, but it never stops. Who knows when the west wind will overwhelm the east wind, and when the east wind will overwhelm the west wind?Maybe one day the situation will change drastically, and Gao Yushi will be dismissed from office and go home before he dies?At least Li Chengliang might think so.

Well, this is also the reason why he has been reluctant to choose a side for so long, right?
However, at that time, the Li family in Tieling was already an honorable man of the state and had retired with the state. In addition, there was Li Rusong who was able to fight in the younger generation. When the Gao family lost power or failed to take over, wouldn't the Li family also turn around and take revenge?

At least for now, it seems that no one in Gao's generation seems to be able to win another Jinshi except high pragmatism.

Hehe... Li Chengliang, this guy, has a really long-term plan.

However, you don't hesitate to bear it for so long, but you still want to stabilize me temporarily, don't you see that it's a bit weird?

If the bottom of your butt is really clean enough, why are you afraid of me?
Forget it, if you know how to act, so can I, so I'll just play with you.

Gao Wushi, who was sitting in the main seat of the flower hall, was smiling slightly when a servant came in and cupped his fists at him and said, "Master, we're here."

Gao Wushi came back to his senses and said calmly: "Please."

(End of this chapter)