In February of this year, there were a series of major events, first in the middle of the month, the city of Xining was lost, and not long after, the imperial court not only did not give any instructions to the trilateral governors involved in Xining, but only reprimanded him for procrastinating, and asked him to mobilize troops, food and other materials earlier to recover the lost territory, and then very suddenly set up the Seven Towns Economic Strategy, which was concurrently served by Gao Shishi as the original official, and re-added the title of Metropolitan Inspectorate.

The full title of Gao Shishi's current position is "Zuo Shilang of the Auxiliary Jingying Rong Political and Military Department, the Right Capital of the Imperial History of the Metropolitan Inspection Yuan, the Four Towns of Jiliao and the Three Towns of Xuanda and other border affairs and management of food and salary". In addition, Zhu Yijun also promoted his official rank from Jiayi Doctor to General Discussion Doctor by the way, on the grounds that he was rewarded for the smooth restructuring of the Beijing camp. Yu Guan is the same - Yu Guan is a fictitious title like Gong Bao.

If this will can be successfully passed, it has already caused a lot of discussion in the outside world, and some people even openly discussed it, suspecting that the cabinet and the six departments have gone crazy.

Why do you say that, it is related to the evolution of the positions of governors, governors, and managers of the Ming generation.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was always a lack of the official position of senior military officials, and the civil officials of the imperial court were dispatched to the local government, most of them with the special status of the Ministry of War, the Metropolitan Procuratorate, etc., and they were above the three divisions.

The origin and difference between the two positions of governor and governor have been mentioned in this book, so I will not repeat them here, but mainly only talk about this "scripture".

"History of the Ming Dynasty" said: "In the first year of the Apocalypse, Liaodong was strategized. The name of Jingluo originated in the twentieth year of Wanli Song Yingchang and Yang Hao. In the first year of the Apocalypse, Sun Chengzong of the cabinet passed through the Shanhaiguan and was called the pivotal assistant. In the fourth year of Chongzhen, he was incorporated into the governor. In the eleventh year, the governor was added to Baoding. ”

However, the "History of the Ming Dynasty" is obviously wrong here, because judging from the information in the "Ming Shilu", the earliest scripture did not appear in the Apocalypse period. Of course, "Jinglu" can be understood here as a verb, and it can be understood as "the strategy of managing military affairs" or something like that.

For example, in June Bingchen of the eighteenth year of Hongzhi: Li Qi, the left waiter of the Ministry of Industry of the Shanhai Customs, returned to Beijing, and the deeds of the Jingluo. From the temple pass to the Miyun Cemetery Tianguguan, there are 50 acres of wasteland and 20 temples on display, more than 24,790 zhang of side walls, more than 3,300 zhang of chaff ditch, more than 170 piers, enemy platforms, city towers, camp forts, etc., and more than 380 barracks. (Records of Wu Zong)

In the first month of the thirteenth year of Zhengde: the five red gold thieves led the crowd to Muhetao, and they will enter Kou Yansui and guard the vassals. The military department ordered: "Zhu Luan, deputy chief soldier of Yansui, general Hang Xiong, guerrilla Zhou Zheng, Liu Yujun Anbian camp and other places, Ji Shiying and Feng Dajing are stationed in the east of the convenient castle; The general soldier Liu Yong guarded the town and sent troops, the Ningxia general soldier An Guo guarded the town, the deputy general soldier Lu Ying, the guerrilla Li Yongding army Qingshui Battalion, Huamachi, Dingbian Camp and other places, and the East Road staff generals patrolled and responded, and the Shaanxi General Soldier Zhao Wen and Du Yushi Zheng Yang were stationed in Guyuan Jingluo. Please listen to your own defense, and you don't have to be remote. "From it. (Records of Wu Zong)

On the afternoon of July in the sixteenth year of Zhengde: "Juyong, Bauhinia, and Fallen Horse Three Passes build forts, city towers, and wall moats. The capital of the imperial history Li Zan is also slight. (Records of King Sejong)

Jiashen in November of the 30th year of Wanli: from the right capital of the Imperial Palace, the governor of Ji, Liao, Baoding and other military affairs, and also manage food and salary, and pass through the imperial war; The right capital of the imperial history of the household should be the governor of Zhejiang and other places, and the military affairs were supervised. (Records of the Divine Sect)

The "History of the Ming Dynasty" also has later records, such as the 26th year of Wanli in June Bingzi: the governor of Tianjin, the capital of Tianjin, the imperial history of Wanshide, through North Korea.

It can be seen here that the squire of the Ministry of Works can also take up the post of "Jingluo", so the actual minimum "standard" of the "Jingluo" is the squire, in other words, the ministers of the six ministries and above can serve as the "Jinglu" when the imperial court deems it necessary.

The Yang Ho mentioned in the history of the Ming Dynasty was in the 46th year of Wanli in the leap April Gengshen: Yang Hao was promoted to the left of the military department and the right of the imperial history, passing through Liaodong. (Records of the Divine Sect)

Taken literally, Yang Hao's actual position is the left squire of the military department and the right of the imperial history, responsible for "Jingluo Liaodong", and "Jingluo" is more appropriate to understand here as a verb.

Of course, there are times when the governor and the jinglu are often used together as verbs, such as the "History of the Ming Dynasty", the first month of the spring of the 225th year of Wanli: the Korean envoy came to ask for help. In February, Bingyin, reconsidered the levy of the Japanese. Bingzi, the former governor of Tongzhi Magui, was the chief military officer of the preparation of the Japanese, and commanded the armies of the north and south. In March, Yang Hao, who participated in the politics of Shandong, was the imperial history of the capital and passed through the military affairs of North Korea. Ji Wei, the military department squire Xing Jue is still the book, the governor of thistle, Liao, Baoding military affairs, through the imperial widow.

Xing Jue here is even more interesting, he served as both the governor and the commander as a squire in the military department.

To sum up, in terms of his highly pragmatic status and past achievements, there is no problem for him to be a "scripture", and even if he is in charge of the strongest seven towns of the Ming Dynasty, it is actually not a big problem.

What's the big problem? It was out of Gao Shishi's surprise before himself: he did not step down as Rong Zheng's servant, but actually served as the Seven Towns Governor with Rong Zheng's waiter.

This nature is very different.

As we all know, although Rong Zheng Shilang is nominally only the "second-in-command" of the Beijing camp, because the Ming Dynasty has been cheap for a long time, the "Governor Jingying Rongzheng" and the "Associate Jingying Rongzheng" have actually long been in a state of high and low dislocation and even upside down - you let Zhangwubo Yang Bing really regard himself as the "governor" when Gao Pragmatic presided over the Beijing Camp Conference, and try to be arrogant to Gao Pragmatic? He was afraid to scare the pee.

Therefore, the assistant Jingying Rongzheng has long been the actual "number one" of the Beijing camp. And that was before, after Gao Pragmatic's operation last year, the Beijing Battalion was divided into the Praetorian Guard Army and the Production and Construction Corps, both of which were directly under the orders of the "Assistant Jingying Rong Zheng" - that is, Gao Pragmatic himself.

Among them, the production and construction corps is not responsible for operations, but only for logistics, equipment, and other affairs. As a result, the Praetorian Guard in charge of the battle became the only one and only immediate boss, that is, Rong Zheng Shilang.

In other words, even if the emperor wants to mobilize the Praetorian Guard, theoretically speaking, he must go through Gao Pragmatic, the servant of the government.

Originally, this system was established because Gao Shishi wanted to ensure that the Praetorian Guards would not be treated as the Beijing camp in the past, and they would be called by various departments of the imperial court to do things such as sweeping the streets and dredging sewers and delaying the training of the troops, but later a situation was formed, that is, Rong Zhenglang had control of the Praetorian Guard.

This situation is equivalent to the relationship between the Rong Zheng Shilang and the commander of the Praetorian Guard, similar to that between the governor and the general soldier, that is, the civilian officials control the military generals, and the civilian officials are actually "civil marshals". In other words, if there are new establishments under the current Beijing camp system, such as the Imperial Forest Army and the Yulin Army, which are parallel to the Praetorian Guard, then they should also be under the jurisdiction of Rong Zheng Shilang.

Such trouble came, and Gao Pragmatic took Rong Zheng Shilang as the seven towns of Jiliao and Xuanda, which was equivalent to mastering almost all the combat forces of the Ming Jingshi and the surrounding areas.

There are good things officials who counted on their fingers: Liaodong has 180,000 soldiers, Jizhou has 180,000 soldiers, Changping has 60,000 soldiers, Xuanfu has 130,000 soldiers, Datong has 120,000 soldiers, Shanxi has 70,000 soldiers, and Baoding has 40,000 soldiers...... The total strength of the seven towns is as high as more than 780,000.

If you add the 60,000 of the Praetorian Guard, that's nearly 850,000 troops!

It is not that Gao Pragmatic is a civil official, and he is from the background of "loyal and good people of all generations", otherwise what awaits him now may not be "questioning" or "discussing", but straightforward verbal and written criticism, or even "everyone gets it and criticizes it".

In fact, the officials who question this appointment now are not suspicious or worried that Gao Shishi will rebel, because that is actually impossible - the power of civilian officials to command the army comes directly from the emperor's temporary appointment, and it does not mean that he has any management of these troops.

In other words, the troops under his command were only under his temporary command because they were "under the orders of the emperor" and were not under his control in peacetime, which obviously did not meet the necessary conditions for rebellion.

What the rebellion needed was to hold an army for a long time, and raise this army to the extent that it only recognized the commander, and did not recognize the emperor at all—so the imperial court always suppressed the general army, not some civil official such as governor, governor, or strategy.

After all, the general army in these years basically relied on the family to fight, and the family did not recognize the emperor's holy decree, they only listened to the orders of the family master. Li Chengliang and the others will not talk about it, even if Qi Jiguang claims not to support his family, but in fact, the entire Qi family army is equivalent to his family, the difference is only that he did not take the deed of sale of the soldiers of the Qi family army, and there is not much difference in terms of prestige.

This is also the reason why Qi Jiguang only brought so many people with him when he entered Beijing to serve as the commander of the Praetorian Guard last year, and he honestly stopped outside the Beijing division to ask for instructions early and report late, asking when he could enter Beijing.

Because the military power of civilian officials comes from the emperor, and they do not have "descendant troops", they do not have to guard against his rebellion, and military generals all have descendant troops, which has to be guarded against.

The Ming court actually had a deep understanding of this problem.

Now the questioning of Gao Pragmatism, although it is due to the fact that the army under his direct jurisdiction is too large and elite, but the focus of the contradiction is not whether he will rebel, but that his responsibility is too heavy now - the military strength under his command has reached more than seventy percent of the Ming Dynasty, and all of them are "nine-sided elites", plus the "Janissaries of Gongwei Shenjing", these are all capable of fighting, far from being comparable to those who fled from the guards in Nanjing.

At the age of more than 20, with such a lot of power, every move is related to the safety of the world, in case something happens, can he afford to take this responsibility?

What is particularly strange about the officials who question this is that although Gao Shishi's status is very special, the officials of the Shixue School certainly do not mind him holding such power, but ...... What about the School of Mind?

Why did the Cabinet also agree, and the Six Sections also agreed?

Obviously, Shoufu Shen Shixing is a member of the Heart School, and there are not a few officials of the Heart School among the six disciplines?

Why?

Because Shen Shixing believes that the situation is not out of control.

After he and Zhang Cheng talked before, Shen Shixing thought about it for a long time and had already decided on a pragmatic response.

Shen Shixing actually recognized Gao Pragmatic's ability in his heart, he didn't doubt that Gao Pragmatic would not be able to do this Seven Towns strategy, nor was he worried about what big basket he would poke out - even he had already guessed that the emperor had already decided that the emperor had already decided that the candidate for the commander of the "Chahar Decisive Battle" that had not yet happened would have been Gao Pragmatic.

In that case, it doesn't matter if he has the title of Jinglu in advance now.

In addition, the emperor's will can be issued, and he has also discussed it with the cabinet, and even Zhu Yijun personally invited Shen Shixing to the Xinuan Pavilion of the Qianqing Palace for a secret discussion, telling him that Gao Shixing's so-called "strategy" this time is just to deter the Tumen and Bo Shuoketu and others, and he is not really planning to move troops now.

At that time, Shen Shixing's performance was "greatly relieved".

But what Zhu Yijun didn't know was that in fact, Shen Shixing's expression was just for him to see, in fact, Shen Yuanfu was not worried that Gao Pragmatic would really send troops this time, nor was he worried that Gao Pragmatic would lose the battle. Even to put it in his heart, Shen Yuanfu still wished that he would lose the battle sooner, or even lose badly.

After a sincere conversation with Zhang Cheng, Shen Shixing has realized that one of the biggest advantages of Gao Pragmatism is that he "can always help the emperor solve troubles", and other aspects, such as what kind of background, small relationship with the emperor's classmates, etc., are just icing on the cake.

Gao pragmatic can solve financial troubles, this point Shen Shixing knows his own family affairs, so he can only stare at it, after all, no one dares to say unconvinced about Gao's ability in this matter.

But his other ability is not "King Kong is not bad", this ability is the so-called "handsome talent".

According to Zhang Cheng's analysis, it is "not very good" to fight a war with high pragmatism, and it can be said that he rarely personally commands the battle, and he relies on the generals under his command to be "too capable of fighting", so he won.

For example, when he conquered Annan, he relied on the courage of Huang Zhiting and Cen Ling's wolf soldiers; Zhan Monan, relying on the invincibility of the first Mongolian general Chataiji; Dingliaonan relied on Ma Fang's secret guidance.

All in all, Zhang Cheng thinks that the so-called handsome talent who is highly pragmatic is actually not worthy of the name, and there are such subordinates who can command, and whoever goes will do it.

Although Shen Shixing's views are not as absolute as Zhang Cheng's, he generally agrees with Zhang Cheng's analysis, and he also found that there is a very obvious "weakness" in fighting a war with high pragmatism, that is, it costs too much money.

The current situation is that the imperial court has no money at all, so once Gao Pragmatic really sends troops, whether it is with the Tumen or with Bo Shuoketu, it may be difficult for Gao Pragmatic to win smoothly.

Shen Shixing did not fail to consider the consequences of defeat, after all, he was the first assistant of the dynasty, and it was impossible not to consider this point completely, but he didn't think that the problem would be too big.

Whether he wants to admit it or not, the situation has really improved a lot since the Ming Dynasty returned to the dynasty from the high arch, and now more than ten years have passed. The strength of the Nine Sides was exaggerated so much that it was almost half of its quota at the most dangerous time, but now it has been replenished to seven, seven, eighty, and eight, and if we only say that the seven towns that Gao Pragmatic has experienced this time, the overall full-strength rate may be as high as eighty or ninety, and the installation and replacement of excellent firearms are also progressing smoothly because of the military industry and private sector.

The true strength of these seven towns, according to Shen Shixing's estimates in his heart, is at least twice as much as it was more than ten years ago. Even if Gao Shishi sent troops to suffer a defeat, or even a big defeat, even if he lost 100,000 troops at a time, Da Ming would be able to bear it, at least he would not be beaten into the pass by the Tartars and make the second Gengshu Change.

In that case, what did he have to worry about? Let Gao Pragmatic do it, and he only needs to see if he wants to implement "that plan" in advance.

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