In the afternoon of the same day, Gao pragmatic self-defense was passed through the Ministry of War to the General Administration Department, and then from the General Administration Department to the Cabinet. The cabinet generally does not make any votes on this kind of self-defense, so it is forwarded again and sent to the celebrant superintendent.

In fact, the authority of the celebrant himself is only to approve the red on behalf of the emperor, and such things obviously must be reported directly to the emperor.

However, after the cabinet was transferred to the celebrant supervisor, he returned to the cabinet from the celebrant in less than an hour, because the emperor had already approved the treasure.

"After investigation, the eldest princess of Yongning summoned Qing to inquire about the matter, and first asked the queen for permission, and then asked the right in the Chengxi Palace. Although it took a long time, the door of the palace was wide open, the attendants were all there, and the palace maids were served, and there was no exceedance.

Huang Zhaolong was good at polluting the ministers, and there was another strict question. It is advisable to work with peace of mind, not to be disturbed, and not to live up to expectations. Please do not allow it. ”

When this reply was sent out of the palace, all the officials in the outer court were a little puzzled.

Could it be that the emperor didn't immediately approve it just because he went to verify, and after the verification, it was found that Gao Pragmatic was really wronged, so as soon as this self-defense was slackened, the emperor immediately retained it?

This is the mainstream doubt, but some people feel that this may not be the truth, and this part of the officials feels that things are not so simple.

Because for the outside court in this matter, the focus is on high pragmatism, but if you look at it from the emperor's point of view, it may not be the case, and the emperor is more worried about Princess Yongning's reputation being damaged because of this.

So according to this point, even if what Huang Zhaolong said is true, the emperor may refuse to admit it, but insist that all the princess's actions are legal and reasonable. In this way, since you want to protect the princess, you have to protect Gao Shishi together.

There is another corroboration for the speculation of this group of people: the emperor said in Zhu Criticism that there was "another strict question" about Huang Zhaolong's "unauthorized defilement of important ministers", but what is the purpose of this strict purpose? Why didn't you place it with it?

Whether this kind of doubt or controversy is, in fact, it is like after the central government announced a certain piece of news in the future, the following people, from experts, media to individuals, will have various interpretations. It's just that in later generations, education was popularized, and the people were the masters of the country per capita, and the whole people participated in this interpretation in many cases, while in the Ming Dynasty, basically only officials or scholars would care about this kind of topic.

In the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's every move was constantly interpreted by officials, and tried to find out the emperor's true intentions, so as not to make a mistake and bury a good future.

Since the palace did not issue the so-called "other decree and strict punishment" to Huang Zhaolong, as soon as this argument of "protecting high pragmatism is to protect the princess" came out, it immediately became a new mainstream view, and it only took a few hours to replace the view that "high pragmatism was wronged".

To be precise, it was when the palace gate was locked, and the "other decree was strict" still did not reach the outer court.

Now it was lively, and everyone couldn't judge the emperor's intentions normally.

According to the general situation, since Gao Shizhi is retained, then Huang Zhaolong's "other decree is strict" is a matter of course, but the emperor forgets to do the other half of the thing while retaining Wen Zhi, which is very weird.

Of course, these officials have not read Li Ao's "You Can't Do Only Half of It", and do not know that "a person cannot defend God and appease the devil at the same time, it is not enough to sing the praises of God, you must fight the devil at the same time; It's not enough to affirm the genuine card, you have to debunk the counterfeit" - just as it is not enough for the emperor to affirm that Gao Pragmatic is not guilty, he should also stand up and crack down on Huang Zhaolong, who slandered Gao Pragmatic, so that he can complete the matter.

However, they at least knew that it was abnormal for the emperor to "only do half of it" and that there was a mystery.

So now the core of the question becomes, "What is the emperor's mystery?" ”

For most of the neutral factions who do not take a position and even follow the trend, this mystery has some meaning, but it is only "some meaning", and they do not seek to take it apart and understand it.

However, for those who stand in the same trench as Gao Shishi, or those who stand in the trench of opposites, this question must be understood, otherwise the next step will become confusing.

Gao Pragmatic received a number of family cronies sent by bigwigs and important ministers in the mansion, and each of them came to inquire about the situation.

Some of these people who came to visit him asked him if he really had some extraordinary actions and relationships with Princess Yongning, and some asked him if he had contacted the inner court to find out the emperor's intentions. There are also some who are even more simple and rude, not asking the reason and situation at all, and directly asking him what arrangements he has next and what kind of cooperation he needs.

Even Zhu Yingzhen, Zhang Yuangong and other nobles sent people over to inquire.

Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong only sent henchmen to come, but unexpectedly the Dingguo Mansion, which was not particularly close to Gao Pragmatic in the past, was particularly "enthusiastic" this time, and Dingguo Duke Xu Wenbi even sent his eldest grandson Xu Xizhen to visit in person, and expressed the Dingguo Mansion's resolute support for Gao Pragmatic on the spot.

In addition to the friendship of "partners" for more than ten years, the fundamental reason is that they are aiming at the follow-up interests of this "Yunnan War".

Gao Pragmatic said when issuing the "Dian War Treasure Banknote" that the value of the Dian War Treasure Bank is ensured by the income obtained after the victory over Burma, and the income after the Dian War is actually not only the imperial court's share - although the French reparations after the Franco-Prussian War are large, the money will not be directly distributed to the Prussian capitalists, but that does not affect the capitalists' happiness.

Why? Because the bigwigs of the victorious countries have many ways to make money, and Gao Pragmatic gave some examples when he peddled the first batch of Yunnan War treasure banknotes to them.

For example, in the past, it was very troublesome to buy jade from Myanmar, and the price was also expensive, but if Burma was defeated and had to lose a lot of money to the imperial court, it would naturally not be able to take care of a lot.

The reason why they have to take Jinghua's car is, of course, because their hands are not so long, and they must rely on Jinghua's Southwest Trade Road to get things done. In these years, there is really only one giant with the ability to do business in the country, and there is really only one Jinghua family, and any other family and wealthy family has its sphere of influence, with a few counties and several provinces as large, but no one can spread it across the country like Jinghua.

The Dingguo Mansion has been in decline for a period of time, and now although it has recovered its status, its family background is a little worse than that of the Chengguo Mansion and the British Mansion, so it naturally attaches great importance to Gao Shipra, the God of Wealth. It doesn't matter if I can help with this stubble or not, anyway, the attitude is laid out first.

Gao Pragmatic was like a mirror in his heart, not only knowing Xu Wenbi's intentions, but also knowing that he and the nobles were so resolute in supporting themselves as a prerequisite: Anyway, if we don't rebel, we won't die, and we just came out to help someone Gao say a few good words, which is completely beneficial and not expensive, and good goods are not expensive.

In fact, Gao Pragmatic has entered a state of closed-door thanksgiving since he defended himself, but the rules are this rule, and it does not mean that everyone will really abide by them, in fact, the main role of this rule is to make a show, so Gao Pragmatic has to work hard to deal with these seniors, colleagues and friends and partners who show concern.

At the same time, in an ordinary official's courtyard in the Clarification Workshop, there was also a person who was almost as busy as Gao Shishi.

This person is none other than Liu Shouyou, the governor of Jinyi Guard.

At present, the courtyard where he is located does not nominally belong to him, but it is actually a seized mansion temporarily placed in the name of Jin Yiwei, which itself is stolen goods and is in a sealed state. He's only here today to avoid some eyes and ears.

Liu Shouyou's background has been said before, his family is after Xinxue, although he can't study and can only mess around in Jinyiwei, but he has always classified himself as a Confucian minister, and he is very close to his fellow sects of Xinxue. Coupled with the complex historical reasons mentioned earlier, I have always held a grudge against the Gao family's uncle and nephew, and the investigation of the Gao family's uncle and nephew has been going on for several years.

It's just that after checking and checking, he found that Gao Gong really can't be checked, except for being anxious and scolding people directly when he is not doing things well, this Shoufu can't find any black spots on his body that can be used by him.

So Liu Shouyou put his goal on Gao Pragmatic. In Liu Shouyou's view, Gao Pragmatic has created such a huge industry in Jinghua from scratch in just over ten years, and there must be ulterior secrets behind this, and these secrets must be exploitable.

Moreover, after Gao Pragmatic made Jinghua bigger, he often used the name of sharing a house to win over important ministers and nobles, so once he found out the evidence of Jinghua's crimes, he could not only overturn Gao Pragmatic, but also control many people if he operated well.

After obtaining the acquiescence of the psychology boss Yu Youding, Liu Shouyou was even more courageous. Yu Youding and Shen Shixing are the two giants who are currently in the same vein of psychology and learning in the official face, and the two of them have been through the same hardships, and they have always been considered as close as brothers, and obtaining Yu Youding's support is equivalent to having Shen Shixing's endorsement in Liu Shouyou's view.

Shen Shi is the second assistant of the hall, and he was originally a political enemy of the Gao Party of the Shixue School, but now he is almost openly on his side, so what is there to be afraid of?

The shame of the in-laws Songjiang Xu in the past should also be reported again.

Thanks to the rise of Zhang Whale, Liu Shouyou also had effective support in the palace, and he could even know that Gao Shishi entered the palace and talked secretly with Princess Yongning for a few hours.

There is actually something worth mentioning about this: although Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju are the "first assistants" and "second assistants" of the inner court, although each of the palaces in the palace must have installed their own people, the problem is that none of them can only have their own people in a certain palace.

In other words, the bigwigs of the inner court have their own people in each palace, Huang Mengyu and Chen Ju have them, and Zhang Whale also has them.

The emergence of this situation has been around for a long time, not to mention that the "Eight Tigers" led by Liu Jin in the past had a group of forces in the palace, so the Forbidden City was actually already a sieve. As long as a big guy leaks the news, Ouchi has no secrets at all.

Emperor Longqing was often scolded by the imperial history of the outer court because of the problem of female sex for a period of time before the return of the high arch, but he favored the concubine one night, and the imperial historians of the outer court can actually know it clearly, which is one of the proofs of "the big inner is like a sieve".

After Liu Shouyou learned about Gao Shishi's meeting with Princess Yongning, it didn't take much time to decide to use this matter to make a splendid article.

His thinking is not particularly complicated: at the earliest, he wanted to use Jinghua as a breakthrough to crack down on Gao Shishi and Gao Zheng through economic cases, but he tried several times without success. Because the rise of Jinghua is not the same as he imagined before, it is not developed by means such as power-for-money transactions, but high pragmatism can always find business opportunities in places that others can't think of, layout in advance, and then form a monopoly or at least a first-mover advantage.

It is not impossible to say that power and money transactions are not impossible, but the characters involved are too scary, and Liu Shouyou will not dare to pierce this layer of window paper even if he finds it - not only there are a large number of hereditary nobles, but also the Empress Dowager Rensheng and the Empress Dowager Cisheng.

The Tongzhou Chen family, who was born in the Empress Dowager Rensheng, has cadre shares under the name of Gao Pragmatic Jinghua, and the father and younger brother of the Empress Dowager Cisheng also have cadre shares under the name of Jinghua, and even Li Wenjin has directly taken a huge amount of no less than 200,000 taels in Gao Pragmatic's hands.

If this TM is poked out, Gao Shishi doesn't know if he dies or not, he Liu Shouyou will definitely die first.

So it is obvious that the trouble of finding Jinghua in the economic case will not work, and Liu Shouyou does not want to commit suicide.

So next, he aimed at the problem of power, or the problem of "disobedience". At this point, Liu Shouyou started from the "Jinghua Sixteen Articles" and reported the situation that Jinghua actually controlled the political situation in Annan to Zhu Yijun.

Originally, according to Liu Shouyou's thoughts, the emperor must be extremely sensitive to his courtiers doing this kind of thing. In particular, Annan is a special subject country that has been outside the imperial court system for a long time, and Gao pragmatic relies on Jinghua to control the power of Annan. It shouldn't be strange to kill Gao Pragmatic directly.

However, an accident happened, and Zhu Yijun was like no one after learning the news. He didn't believe that Gao Pragmatic would give up the opportunity to be a minister at the top of the Ming court, but he went to Annan to be a soil king.

Liu Shouyou was lost for a long time, and it wasn't until not long ago that he figured out a truth: although Gao Pragmatic held the power of almost "Taishang Dutong" in Annan, his foundation has always been in the Ming Dynasty - he relied on Jinghua to control Annan, and Jinghua's roots are in the Ming Dynasty, so of course, the emperor feels that Gao Pragmatic will not "run away"!

Jinghua's industries in Daming add up, I'm afraid it's not tens of millions? Who is willing to have such a big property and go to Annam to be a land king?

So Liu Shouyou's second round of blows failed again, which made the emperor feel that he was stunned.

This time, Liu Shouyou finally figured out that the reason why Gao Shixing and Yu Youding were extremely jealous of cabinet scholars like Shen Shixing and Yu Youding was not because he had an uncle who pursued Wen Zhenggong, nor because he was rich in the world, but because he had the emperor's almost unlimited trust. Therefore, in order to combat high pragmatism, the real focus should be on cracking down on this kind of trust.

So there was this "demon book case".

It's just that the development of this "demon book case" still seems to be a little wrong now, Liu Shouyou really couldn't imagine that the emperor could tolerate such a scandal, and he still kept it after being pragmatic and self-justifying.

What the hell is this! Could it be that in the emperor's mind, the importance of Gao Shishi's house is higher than that of his own sister?

Liu Shouyou suddenly became nervous, and immediately quietly opened this sealed courtyard, first, to avoid the eyes and ears of Dongchang and Gao Shishi, and secondly, to meet secretly with people and urgently discuss follow-up matters.

At this time, a carriage with an unattractive appearance stopped outside the gate of the courtyard, and a pair of master servants with cloaks stepped forward to call the door.

Liu Shouyou personally walked out of the main hall and quickly stepped forward to greet him.

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