Chapter 218: Returning to Dongchang Castle
When the dignified governor returned to Beijing to report on his work, of course, he did not say that he could leave, and there must be an arrangement for government and military affairs. Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty has always had a traditional system of pilgrimage every three years, and during the period when the corresponding officials return to Beijing to report on their work, the affairs they are in charge of are usually temporarily replaced by the second official.
However, the governor is an exception, because the governor himself is not a "economic official" set up by Zhu Yuanzhang, and is theoretically just a dispatch officer, so the governor actually does not have a second officer.
However, the living cannot be suffocated to death, although the governor does not have a second official, at least there are important colleagues and subordinates, so generally speaking, before the governor returns to Beijing, he will assign all kinds of powers to the eunuchs, chief soldiers and others.
Generally speaking, the day-to-day affairs of the Fuyuan location were entrusted to the town guards and eunuchs, and the general soldiers were responsible for military affairs. At the same time, however, the most important subordinate of the governor, the Bing Bei Dao, retained considerable power, and they were solely responsible for the great powers of the territory, as the governor was to the province, and even in military affairs, they had the right to refuse the demands of the general army at the appropriate time.
As I said before, the setting of the military preparation road itself is the result of the civil ministers' checks and balances and supervision of the general army, so it does not mean that the governor is not there, and the general army can rely on the military power to run rampant.
Similarly, the administrative power of the eunuch was only a greatly weakened version of the governor, and his actual administrative area was only in the areas where there was no military garrison - simply put, the Liaoyang area (plus the Kuandian Liubao area), which even Quang Ninh could not control.
Because although Guangning is the garrison of the Liaodong General Army, Guangning also has Wenchen, and there is a "sub-patrol of Liaohai Road and management of Guangning and other places Tuntian military participation in politics", so Guangning's government affairs are under his control.
As for the power of supervision, it is still in the hands of the soldiers, and the town guard eunuch is only temporarily supervising the Liaoyang area on behalf of the governor, and the Ming Dynasty attaches great importance to the supervision power, when the town guard eunuch is acting, in the matter of the supervision power, the matter usually cannot be decided, and can only help the governor to record it, and must wait for the governor to come back and then investigate and deal with it in detail.
In addition, there is a special situation in Liaodong, that is, the general army and the deputy general army are divided into two large areas, western Liaoning and eastern Liaodong, so when the governor is absent, the general army is generally responsible for western and southern Liaoning, and the deputy general army is responsible for other areas east of the Liaohe River.
Since there is a system, then follow the implementation, write a few private letters and private letters from Gao Pragmatic, delegate the division of power after returning to Beijing to the relevant officials, and then take Huang Zhiting together and set off to Beijing.
Gao pragmatic still chose to take the waterway first, and took a boat directly from Liaoyang to take the Taizi River to the Liao River, and the goal was to go straight to the Niuzhuang Horse Station to which Dongchangbao belonged. As for why he didn't go to Yingkou and took the fastest sea route - Zhu Yijun said last time that he was not allowed to take the sea route to avoid accidents, so he had to go back to the land route after arriving at Dongchangbao.
When the group arrived at Dongchang Fort, Zhang Wanbang thought that he was a highly pragmatic descendant, so he naturally worked hard to entertain and was happy to kill pigs and sheep.
Gao Pragmatic is a person who has a lot of alcohol and no alcohol addiction, he usually doesn't drink, but he is relatively tolerant of the toasts between the generals, and he almost does not refuse to toast - of course, the status gap is here, it must be a toast, and he takes a sip of the old man.
The most amazing thing about this banquet was that Zhang Wanbang was a little uncomfortable, that is, there was a woman sitting on the second seat next to Futai.
In Zhang Wanbang's view, according to the habits of the Ming Dynasty, it is rare for men and women to sit together, especially for a high school man with a background, even if he eats in his own house, the only women who can sit with him should be his mother and the wife of the main room.
This "Deputy Envoy Huang" seems to be an exception, and Zhang Wanbang regrets it a little in his heart: he knew that her status in front of Futai was so good, and when she passed through Dongchang Fort not long ago, she should have behaved more thoughtfully.
Zhang Wanbang's ability to fight is not bad, especially after learning the style of play that Gao Pragmatic and Qi Jiguang has made, he has won two big victories in a row, and he has "reached the heavens". However, there are a lot of people who can fight the generals of the Ming Dynasty, and even famous marshals like Qi Jiguang and Li Chengliang can't help but find backers in the court, not to mention that he is a certain person? Therefore, the lineage belongs to the lineage, and the face must not be tender when it is time to stammer.
It was getting late today, Gao Pragmatic was going to stay in Dongchangbao for a while, and after Zhang Wanbang was almost drunk, he quietly slipped out first under the pretext of helping Gao Futai arrange a place to live.
Arranging accommodation or something, in fact, it has been done a long time ago, and he came out for another important matter - to ask the pragmatic family members about the origin of this deputy envoy Huang.
Of course, Zhang Wanbang knew the title of Deputy Envoy of the Annam Tribute, but it was pointless to know this, he wanted to find out more insiders.
The head of the Gao family is supervised by the Jinghua Ministry of Internal Affairs, which may be the strictest in the Ming Dynasty in terms of discipline, but firstly, Zhang Wanbang is usually generous and rude, and he is most liked by these low-level people, and secondly, the relationship between Gao Pragmatic and Huang Zhiting is not a secret, at least within Jinghua, they have not received an order to keep this secret, so it doesn't hurt to talk to Zhang Wanbang.
Under Zhang Wanbang's deliberate wooing and touting, several family members slowly opened the chatterbox, and you and I told some stories about Gao Shishi and Huang Zhiting in Guangxi and Annan.
There was even a sassy man who squeezed his eyebrows and said: "General Zhang, think about it, how can there be a girl like our lord who doesn't think about it when she sees it?" Needless to say, Huang Zhen's envoy is a well-known beauty in Guangxi, and the two of them travel thousands of miles, this lonely man and widow...... Gee! ā
Zhang Wanbang was also dumbfounded when he heard this, and a chatter No. 2 appeared next to him, and hurriedly continued: "Yes, yes, we often say this in private, do you think, when Huang Zhenshou fought Annan, especially in the battle of Langshan, it was really open-minded - you said that if it was an ordinary toast, he could work so hard?"
Not to mention later, she is the most supportive of our master's plan to move the town, if she hadn't taken the lead, I don't think it's easy to say whether Cen Qigongzi's side can agree to move the town. Judging from this situation, we are only afraid that sooner or later we will have to change our name to Madame. ā
Zhang Wanbang didn't care about whether Gao Pragmatic and Huang Zhiting had gone beyond ordinary friendship in the process of traveling thousands of miles, he just thought that he missed a great opportunity to show loyalty last time, and he couldn't help but regret it, and quickly pondered how to redeem it.
And another family member said: "I guess Huang Zhenshou is actually quite anxious, after all, our master may not be in a hurry to start a family, but she is a girl's family, she can't keep waiting stupidly, right?" Otherwise, after entering Beijing to pay tribute this time, why did you come to Liaodong on purpose? said that he was discussing those things in the sea trade, but in fact, he didn't think about our master......"
"Eh! Erhuzi, you put a door on your mouth, don't shout about everything. A squad leader hurriedly interrupted: "If Huang Zhenshou really becomes a lady in the future, and knows what you said today, I will see where you will cry." ā
The family called Erhuzi shrank his neck, smiled dryly and stopped talking.
Zhang Wanbang snorted and said, "Eh, let's just talk casually, who would talk about this kind of thing outside?" Don't you want to die? ā
That being said, there was no way to continue chatting about this, so Zhang Wanbang casually talked a few words and left under the pretext.
On the other side, after the dinner was over, Gao Shishi and Huang Zhiting came to the courtyard arranged by Zhang Wanbang, and suddenly smiled: "Zhang Sanxi, this kid is a little restless in his mind. ā
Huang Zhiting turned her head to look at him in surprise: "What?" ā
Gao pragmatic pointed to the courtyard and said with a smile: "A courtyard, let's live together?" āvp
Huang Zhiting was stunned at first, then understood what Zhang Wanbang meant, and said with a red face: "No, you go and talk to him, and you want a courtyard." ā
Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "Forget it, Dongchang Fort is a border guard fort, and the Communist Party is such a big place, see for yourself where there are other courtyards?" Actually, I've been to this place, and this courtyard is for the royal house...... He should have gotten the news that I was coming and moved out early on his own. If you have to get another yard, then we have to walk more than 20 miles south to Niuzhuang, the official post over there is quite large, and you can spend money to stay after the post station reform. ā
As soon as she heard that she would have to walk more than 20 miles, Huang Zhiting stopped talking, but after a while, she found that Gao Pragmatic didn't speak, so she turned her head to look, but saw that Gao Pragmatic was still looking at herself with a smile, and couldn't help but be annoyed: "A courtyard is just a courtyard, and there is not only one room." ā
As she spoke, she walked to the west room with some anger.
Gao Pragmatic smiled behind him: "Why don't you live in the north room?" ā
Huang Zhiting didn't look back and said: "Excuse me, this is Liaodong, you are the landlord and I am a guest, I don't dare to mess with the rules, and then I will be pointed at again." ā
Gao Pragmatic smiled, but he was not polite, and ordered the people behind him, and the four family members went in to check - this is the security rule set by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, even if Gao Pragmatic is now counted as "in the army", there is no exception.
He himself stopped Huang Zhiting, walked up to her, and said, "It's just dark, it's too early to rest, let's talk first." ā
Huang Zhiting now has a deeper understanding of Gao Shixue, and when she heard this, she asked: "Are you still wondering why the emperor is in a hurry to summon you back to Beijing?" ā
"It must have something to do with the current situation, needless to say." Gao pragmatic frowned: "What I don't understand is that even if the emperor thinks that I am more familiar with the situation in southern Xinjiang, Guangxi and Yunnan are not the same place after all, and it stands to reason that being familiar with Guangxi may not be familiar with Yunnan. ā
In fact, he still has some reservations about this, because according to the original historical situation, the Ming court did not attach much importance to the battle between Ming and Burma that took place in Yunnan, and Zhu Yijun recalled one of his newly appointed governors to ask for advice just because of this incident, which is really a little unreasonable.
Huang Zhiting said: "Who knows, maybe it's not this thing?" Well...... It could also be asking you to borrow money. ā
Gao was stunned when he heard this: "Borrow money? Not enough military pay? ā
Could it be that Zhu Yijun wants to fight in Yunnan? It shouldn't be, the imperial treasury has been emptied, and the Ming Dynasty is not a European country, how can it be used to borrowing money to fight? Besides, Zhu Yijun refused his offer to lend him money once last time.
"It's not a military pay." Huang Zhiting said: "When I left Beijing, the whole of Beijing was in the affairs of the country of King Lu, and it is said that the emperor attaches great importance to the country of King Lu, and it cost 70,000 taels or 100,000 taels just to buy jewelry...... But I'm also hearsay, and there are a lot of rumors out there.
In addition, the cost of Lu Wang's land and the construction of the palace is also in an uproar, I heard that it has been involved with the household several times, and the great Si Nong (the household department Shangshu) has resigned four times, but the emperor may not. ā
Gao Pragmatic frowned slightly.
He and Zhu Yijun talked about this series of things in the Kingdom of King Lu last time, but they didn't talk about it deeply.
Judging from Zhu Yijun's statement, his great promotion of the reward to King Lu was mainly based on political considerations rather than economics. Although the Empress Dowager Cisheng returned to power, after all, it was not long, although Zhu Yijun relied on Gao Pragmatism to win a big victory in Monan and improved his prestige, but in the final analysis, the time in power was still too short.
This kind of thing is relatively stable in the Ming Dynasty, there is nothing to doubt about it, the emperor is the emperor, and if he is pro-government, he is pro-government, and generally speaking, there will be no accidents.
But it's hard to say that prestige is something that can't be seen or touched, Emperor Jiajing's power is enough, and a group of auxiliary ministers and pavilion elders are simply called like dogs, but in the end, it hasn't been hard topped by Hai Rui "Covering the world is not straight Your Majesty for a long time"? What's even more amazing is that he really didn't dare to kill Hai Rui.
So in the final analysis, "name" is a very magical attribute in Daming, and the higher the status, the more you pursue this thing.
Zhu Yijun may have hoped to take advantage of the incident in the Kingdom of King Lu to establish himself as a perfect eldest brother of "brothers, friends and brothers", and also completely stifled the hope of the Empress Dowager Cisheng to finally intervene in court politics.
But the problem is that the imperial court really has no money, and this scene is already in danger of not being able to continue.
The Battle of Monan, the Battle of Southern Liaoning, and the recent Liaodong "City Circle Scheme", after three rewards, the household department is really empty, but Zhu Yijun's internal money is not very rich - there is still a part to blame Gao Pragmatic for this matter, it was he who persuaded Zhu Yijun to withdraw the Huangzhuang.
The image of the perfect eldest brother is difficult to achieve success just by saying a few beautiful words, which must be achieved by spending money, and the more money is spent, the more it can show that the eldest brother cares for his younger brother - although this is very superficial, the world eats this set, because this is the most direct performance.
And the reason why this is related to the last opportunity for the Empress Dowager Li to intervene in politics is because now Zhu Yijun is already in power after all, only the matter of King Lu's country can be related to the Empress Dowager Li, once Zhu Yijun is sent away from Beijing by King Lu, and the Empress Dowager Li can't find anything wrong, then there will be nothing else to do with her in the future - since it has nothing to do, naturally there is no opportunity to speak, and over time, the prestige of ten years of "regent" will slowly disappear.
Huang Zhiting saw Gao pragmatic and pondered for a long time, and couldn't help but say: "I'll just say it casually, don't take it too seriously...... Do you think so deeply about everything? ā
Gao Pragmatic was about to answer, but Zhang Wanbang hurriedly came and said, "Futai, Ning Yuanbo is here!" ā
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