Although Gao Pragmatic knew that Gao Gong had indeed compromised once in this period and transferred Hai Rui, he was not sure whether Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng would still be the same as the old history after the discussion.

Even if Hai Jui is still transferred, it doesn't mean that he really gives up, in the original history, a few months later, the Gao Party reversed its previous strategy and attacked the Xu Party again, and the struggle between the DPRK and China became more obvious.

What Gao pragmatic never could figure out was what happened in the months between the first and second wars that caused Gao Dang, who had given up fighting the Xu Party, to finally choose to go to war.

If you really can't figure it out, you can only let it go first, always pay attention to it, and respond immediately when the situation changes.

In addition to discussing two major things this night, each protégé also said a few "little things", some specific affairs in the government Gao Shishi does not plan to meddle at present, after all, Gao Gong has done a good job in history, and he is a child if he is very familiar with the specific affairs of the ministry, it is too abnormal, there needs a process here, so he is basically just listening, and did not express any opinions.

But there is a small episode that has attracted the attention of Gao Pragmatic, that is, Tu Menggui mentioned that since the resumption of the teacher, Zhao Zhenji first avoided it, and then had several private meetings with Li Chunfang, and the teacher was in charge of the ministry with the respect of a college student.

Zhao Zhenji also had the responsibility of leading the Metropolitan Procuratorate, but that kind of leadership was different from the "Metropolitan Procuratorate", the former situation was similar to that of a certain deputy mayor in later generations who was in charge of certain work, for example, the deputy mayor was in charge of public security, but the "Metropolitan Procuratorate" was equivalent to the deputy mayor concurrently serving as the director of the public security bureau, and the difference was actually very large.

Tu Menggui thought that there might be some conspiracy here, and Li Chunfang might actually have sided with Zhao Zhenji.

Gao pragmatic agrees with this inference in his heart, otherwise he can't explain why Li Chunfang was panicked after Zhao Zhenji went to the throne in history, and finally resigned in succession and finally returned to his hometown.

In fact, later historians put forward this idea after studying the cabinet of the late Longqing period, but Gao pragmatic is not clear, he deduced from another aspect: Li Chunfang's original political position was close to Xu Jie, and Zhao Zhenji was also a Ming chess of Xu Jie's faction in the imperial court, so it was reasonable for Li Chunfang and Zhao Zhenji to be close or even united.

There are now a total of five cabinet ministers in the cabinet, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng have always had similar political views, and they can be counted as one faction, Li Chunfang and Zhao Zhenji can be counted as another faction once they get close, and Chen Yiqin can be regarded as a neutral faction if they do not help each other.

Is it possible for Li Chunfang to be close to Zhao Zhenji? Of course.

Although Li Chunfang behaves like a good gentleman, no matter how good his temper is, he does not have the power position of the first assistant in front of the cabinet, and he will definitely not be happy in his heart. And Zhao Zhenji was suppressed too hard a few years ago, and this time he suddenly stepped into the cabinet, and the foundation is naturally insufficient, so he not only needs the political resources left by Xu Jiejie to lay a solid foundation, but also needs Li Chunfang, the first assistant, to set up a banner and cover for him.

Li and Zhao have a completely basis for unity, and there is also a need for alliance.

Thinking of this, Gao Pragmatic suddenly had some realization: If Gao Gong hits Xu Jie's party, isn't he actually hitting Zhao Zhenji's political foundation? Then Li Chunfang will definitely refuse, so it makes sense for Li Chunfang to go up to protect Xu Jie-not because he just wants to be a good gentleman, but because once Xu Jie's falls, then Zhao Zhenji will probably fall, once Zhao Zhenji falls, he Li Chunfang is really just a nominal first assistant, as for his intercession for Xu Jie, but Hai Rui directly scolded back, that is Hai Gangfeng is too good, there is no way. In addition, Li Chunfang also knew that Chen Yiqin would not jump out to fight against Gao Gong in this matter, because Chen Yiqin was also dissatisfied with Xu Jie's original approach.

Combined with the original history, Gao Shicheng is very clear that Chen Yiqin has really and consistently adhered to the principle of "a gentleman is not a party", but the problem lies here: he has a very difficult point in his insistence, he and Gao Gong are colleagues in Yufu, but they are fellow villagers with Zhao Zhenji, no matter which side he is biased towards, the world will feel that his party is the same and different.

Unless Chen Yiqin changes his basic principles as an official, he can only be neutral.

Then the cabinet becomes two-on-two, and it looks like a stalemate.

But Gao Shishi knows in his heart that there are two unstable factors in this so-called impasse.

The first unstable factor lies in Zhang Juzheng, who seems to have always stood on the side of the high arch, and even this time the high arch was restored, and he played a big role in it. However, the reason why he made great efforts to revive Gao Gong was that he wanted to use Gao Gong to deal with Zhao Zhenji. In fact, Zhang Juzheng is Xu Jie's protégé, and the political resources left by Xu Jie's have always been regarded by him as part of his own power by default, but Zhao Zhenji's entry into the cabinet has divided this force, which makes Zhang Juzheng very dissatisfied. Perhaps Xu Jie's original intention at that time was to let Zhao Zhenji cooperate with Zhang Juzheng in the cabinet, who expected Zhao Zhenji to rely on the old and sell the old, regarded Zhang Juzheng as a junior, and commanded him, and even called Zhang Juzheng 'Zhang Zi' in public (no wind note: it is roughly equivalent to calling someone "Xiao Zhang" in modern times), Zhang Juzheng has always been ashamed of others, of course unacceptable.

Therefore, Zhang Juzheng stood on Gao Gong's side and instigated Gao Gong to become the vanguard of the anti-Zhao Dynasty, the root cause was not that he sincerely respected Gao Gong as the leader, but used Gao Gong's character and Gao Gong's holy family to defeat the opponents within the faction for himself. Once Gao Gong successfully completed this mission, Zhang Juzheng would definitely turn the spearhead against Gao Gong in minutes, which is what he has done in history.

The second destabilizing factor is the high arch of the saints. The current cabinet is two-on-two, in fact, Gao Gong actually has an advantage, and this advantage is the Holy Family: the emperor obeys Gao Gong's words. However, only Gao Pragmatic knew in the whole world that Emperor Longqing only had two years to live...... He was only thirty-five years old when he died.

If Emperor Longqing is there, whether Gao Gong is in the position of the first assistant or not, he is the actual first assistant. If Emperor Longqing dies, this kind of holy family will disappear suddenly: whether it is the little emperor of Wanli or the harem Empress Dowager Chen and Empress Dowager Li, they do not have that kind of trust in Gao Gong that is almost like family affection, and all the ministers are actually on the same starting line at that time, and the real trust of the harem is the eunuch - the harem does not understand the ministers, so they have to trust the eunuchs. However, trusting the eunuch does not mean trusting Meng Chong, the eunuch with palm prints at this time, - he was recommended by Gao Gong, and he was not a person close to the empress dowager of the two palaces. Empress Dowager Chen had no intention of interfering in politics and did not say it, because the emperor's son was not yet an adult, she couldn't do it if she wanted to, and she had to master the celebrant to do politics, so it was almost inevitable to replace Meng Chong with Feng Bao beside her.

However, the biggest reason why Gao Gong refused to let Feng Bao be the master of ceremonies in history was because Feng Bao was a close confidant of Concubine Li and the "big companion" of the prince.

Of course, Gao Gong's "prediction" is not unreasonable, because Wei Zhongxian also took this road later. As the first assistant of the leader of Wenchen, suppressing eunuchs is his normal choice, especially a powerful eunuch like Wang Zhen, which is absolutely unacceptable in Wenchen's opinion. But what Gao Gong didn't expect was that Feng Bao was a close confidant of the Empress Dowager Li, and the Empress Dowager Li was too strict with Wanli, so Feng Bao could only act as a strict supervisor, and did not establish too close ties with Wanli.