The defeat of the Huoluochi brothers can almost be described as a "devastating blow" to them, and the military report obtained by Gao Pragmatic is that Li Rusong, Toto, and Ilduqi are three troops who "beheaded 7,000, captured nearly 20,000 alive, got 16,000 horses, and pulled about half of the horses, and the cattle and sheep bows and arrows were not counted."

"No calculation" is just a habitual saying, which means that there are so many that it cannot be counted at one time, in order to report the good news, first report the general results and then say, and then there will be a patrol according to the imperial history or the imperial history of the supervising army (usually by the patrol concurrently, occasionally appointed separately) and others to do a detailed inventory of these data.

The most difficult thing in the inventory is the first level, and it is necessary to carefully distinguish whether it is a good person or a forgery. Of course, the heads of the Mongols are relatively easy to recognize, because they are different from the hairstyles of the Ming people, and the heads of those who kill good and merit can be examined from various aspects such as the direction of the hair, the color of the scalp, etc., in short, there is a set of more effective inspection methods.

Because of this, when the imperial court quelled civil strife, there were usually more cases of killing good people and taking meritorious deeds, and when fighting against the Mongols, this situation was much rarer. In the original history, when Li Chengliang began to kill good and take credit, the reason why he was discovered all of a sudden is also one of the reasons.

The results of this battle of Zhuang Langwei can be described as gratifying, but the most shining one is Li Rusong's slashing of the rabbit. In the original history, the Li Rabbit also led troops to aid the anti-Ming Dynasty, attacked Zhenbei Fort, Li Gang Fort and other places, and was defeated by Li Rusong, Ma Gui, etc., through Helan Mountain, and withdrew from the outside of the Saiwai.

This time, the rabbit was not so lucky, and even gave his head to Li Rusong.

Such a happy event means that the overall situation in the northwest has been decided, and even if Huoluochi, who has suffered heavy losses, can subdue the remnants of Litu, it will no longer be able to control Songshan, Xining and other places, and the defensive pressure of the Hexi Corridor will soon be lightened, and as long as the imperial court continues to send troops to "armed parade", there is a high probability that these places can be recovered.

Gao Shipra, who was halfway through the return army, also breathed a sigh of relief, and the whole person relaxed. Now that the war is basically over, Wei Xuezeng only needs to tidy up the interior to ensure that the same thing will not happen again, which is of course much simpler.

Speaking of which, Gao Pragmatic is also not so optimistic about Wei Xuezeng's military command ability. In fact, from the perspective of command, although it is not brilliant, there is no big loophole, but he is a little indecisive, hesitant to fight or force surrender, and finally dragged on for several months without results, and as a result, Zhu Yijun, who repeatedly gave him power, was provoked, and was arrested and returned to Beijing for questioning.

A month after Wei Xuezeng's arrest, the battle of Ningxia was put to an end - using his previous idea. It stands to reason that this can prove that it is not his strategy that is not good, but the heat is indeed a little worse, but Zhu Yijun's anger has not subsided, and he is characterized in the edict: "The culprit is also the culprit", which shows the weight of hatred.

Zhu Yijun's character has been analyzed before, his characteristic of employing people is to select a person, try his best to delegate power, and ensure that everything you want is satisfied, ask for money for money, ask for people to give people, and ask for power to give power, so when Wei Xuezeng did not perform well at the beginning, Zhu Yijun also directly removed a few officials who did not deal with him, and gave Shang Fangjian to ensure authority.

But another characteristic of Zhu Yijun is that if you can't show something at this level, then his attitude will take a 180-degree turn, thinking that you are a waste, the culprit, and you have to be ruined - Wei Xue was like this, and Zhang Juzheng was not like this earlier? This is actually related to Zhu Yijun's character.

However, in fact, Wei Xue's strategy to work hard and later succeed in recruiting Guancheng was also his suggestion. When it was time to win the game, Zhu Yijun summoned Zhao Zhigao and Zhang Wei, who were then university scholars, and both of them tried their best to defend Wei Xuezeng, and many courtiers such as Shi Xing, the secretary of the military department, also claimed that Wei Xuezeng was not guilty.

Even the superintendent Mei Guozhen, who had previously impeached Wei Xuezeng, also said: "Wei Xuezeng was a little slow to respond, and the ministers asked to reproach the generals to boost morale, and the order to arrest Wei Xuezeng came from the ministers, and the ministers felt deep remorse." Wei Xuezeng did not receive Zhaoxue, and the ministers will be ridiculed by eternity. ”

This is the case for civil officials, but what about military generals? Li Rusong, an upright Liaodong man, said bluntly: "When Wei Xuezeng was arrested, the soldiers of the three armies burst into tears. ”

Even Ye Mengxiong, who succeeded Wei Xuezeng as the governor of the three sides, also gave credit to Wei Xuezeng. Zhu Yijun refused to listen at first, and it was not until later that Wei Xuezeng's official position was restored.

All in all, Wei Xuezeng's level is still there, but the response is not so fast, and there is some hesitation in making decisions, which may be a bit like Chen Gong during the Three Kingdoms period, the so-called "Chen Palace has wisdom and delay" is also.

The reason why Gao Pragmatic is a little worried is also because of the word "late", he is afraid that Wei Xuezeng will not be able to make up his mind, although he will help him to complete the most difficult main battlefield in Ningxia, but he is afraid that there will only be one Zhuang Langwei left, and he will want to attack and surrender all of a sudden, which will be a bad dish. Because the key to the imperial court now is not whether it can't win, but that it has no money and can't afford it.

Now it's okay, Li Rusong, a newborn calf, is not afraid of tigers, and he went up to play a mess and beat the master to death, which can be regarded as breaking ten times with one force. In this way, not to mention the matter of Zhuang Langwei directly, even the problems of Songshan and Xining have been solved, which is perfect.

However, what Gao Pragmatic didn't expect was that what he thought was a perfect battle would cause a big storm after it reached the imperial court.

Winning a battle can still cause a storm? What turmoil?

This turmoil is a matter of merit.

Li Rusong's own credit is not to be run, and no one has any objection to this. The Heart School must have pushed him to be the first martial artist in this battle, but the Real School didn't have any opinion on this - how could he give an opinion? It's hard to put the first credit on Tokhtar and Ilduqi, right?

Even if they were sent out by Gao Pragmatic, they would probably only listen to Gao Pragmatic's command, but these two were Mongols after all, and they were not naturalized (referring to those who joined the Ming Dynasty) Mongols. Therefore, if the first merit is counted on the two of them, where will the face of the Great Tomorrow Dynasty go?

The first merit of a military general can be easily broken, but the first merit of a civilian official has a big problem.

Some people believe that whether it is Li Rusong, Toto, or Yile Duqi, they were all assigned by Gao Pragmatic before he unloaded the "Northwest Military Affairs", and the orders they received at that time were all issued by Gao Pragmatic, so of course the credit for winning this battle should be attributed to Gao Pragmatic, and such a large amount of credit should not be wiped out just because he had already announced his resignation a few days after the war broke out.

Other people believe that the court has its own laws, and if you win a battle when you are in office, the credit will of course belong to you, but stepping down is stepping down, and you can't give you the credit because of what assignment you made before you left office and the assignment was successful. Why? For your successor may have also approved of the assignment, otherwise why didn't he revoke the order? And at this time, Wei Xuezeng is the real commander, how can your predecessor Gao Pragmatic be greedy for his merits?

Although both sides are reasoning, in fact they certainly have their own positions. Needless to say, the officials who stand on Gao Xuezeng's side are definitely his supporters, but the officials who stand on Wei Xuezeng's side are not necessarily Wei Xuezeng's supporters, and there are many people here who actually support Xu Guo.

Is there anything to do with supporting Xu Guo and supporting Wei Xuezeng? It doesn't seem to be, but there is a turn - Xu Guo and Gao Pragmatism are actually the two banners of the Shixue School now, Xu Guo is the second assistant of the imperial court, the first person in the nominal Shixue School, that is, the so-called party leader.

However, his position as the leader of the party is very unreliable, because of Gao Pragmatic's special identity, in fact, only Gao Pragmatic can be regarded as the political legacy of three generations of first assistants within the Shi School. Coupled with his relationship with Zhu Yijun and his own contributions, more people still regard him as the real leader of the Shixue School in private-even if he is too young in terms of age.

For these reasons, there is now some screwing within the Shixue School. Some people think that Gao pragmatic and unarmed are the best candidates for "party leaders"; Although some people do not object to this, they think that Gao Zhengshi does not need to be "in such a hurry", and can wait for Xu Guo to make up for it after he leaves office, anyway, he is still very young, and there is no shortage of this time.

You're only in your twenties, so do you have to rush into the cabinet? Wouldn't it be good to lay a solid foundation and be a steady successor? At least there's less gossip from the outside world, right?

After all, it is the High Party that belongs to the Real School, not the Real School that belongs to the High Party, and you can't put the cart before the horse.

There are many internal disputes in the school of practice, and the external disputes are even more varied.

The neutrals also have two opinions: one thinks that the credit for this time should be given to Gao Pragmatic, but the reason in their hearts is that Daming Tai needs an all-round top civil official to push the status of civil officials to the highest peak. Now it seems that the most promising person to achieve this is Gao Pragmatic, who not only has a strong family background and excellent credit, but also has a strong relationship with the emperor.

Why is this last point so important? Because only by satisfying this can we ensure that there will definitely not be another Wang Zhen and Liu Jin - these two people are just a eunuch, and they can actually suppress the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, don't they all rely on the emperor's favor?

And once the top civil officials also have such holy favors, it is obvious that the eunuchs have no hope, and can only be pressed like mustard by the civil officials - this is in line with the trend of civil politics, that is, in the interests of the civilian group.

As for the other faction, of course, they think that the credit should be given to Wei Xuezeng. Their reasoning is the opposite, that there should not be a top civil official who is too strong, even if this civil official can forcefully suppress the power of eunuchs.

This is very strange, after all, as I said earlier, strong top civil servants can ensure that the interests of the civilian clique reach the peak, and they themselves are civil officials, why would they not agree?

The reason is simple: these officials tend to be conservative in their political stance, and Gao is obviously not a conservative reformist at all, and even in their opinion, Gao is a radical outright.

What military industry is private, what post station reform, what heavy industry and business, which one is not "turning its back on the ancestral system"?

Yes, when you do this, you say it very well, and you are all bullstrapped that you have not betrayed the ancestral system, or even inherited the "spirit" of the ancestral system, but everyone is the best among the scholars, what is behind your crooked reasoning and heresy, can't we see it?

It's not that I can't see it, it's just that I can't oppose it! After all, the cabinet at that time was controlled by your practical school, and the emperor only listened to your pragmatic words!

The eyes of these officials are filtered, and they will not see the gradual consolidation of the armaments of the Ming Dynasty and the changing weather after the military industry is privateized; They will not see a great increase in the efficiency of the imperial court after the reform of the post station, and the cost will be greatly reduced; They will not see that after heavy industry and heavy commerce, the people of the Ming Dynasty will become richer and the circulation of materials will be more rapid......

In their eyes, the privatization of the military industry has led to "the important weapon of the country being held by private individuals", and the opportunity for the yamen in various localities to "sell garbage for money" has disappeared, which is equivalent to the shrinkage of small coffers in various localities.

In their eyes, the reform of the post station has caused them to travel inconveniently, not only can they not enjoy the post station hospitality as in the past, and even give them money, but if they exceed the standard slightly, they will be refused to be reimbursed by the local yamen who took office, and even impeached and served by the patrol according to the imperial history (Note: As mentioned above, because the patrol press has to check the accounts, if it is not checked or omitted, it will be reported to the household department by the "accounting group" assigned by the household department to the patrol account, resulting in the patrol press himself being held accountable).

In their eyes, heavy industry and heavy commerce led to the improvement of the social status of factory owners and businessmen again, and correspondingly, even if it lowered the social status of literati, they were very unhappy when they were born in literati. Of course, at the same time, they are also jealous of the wealth of these people - why do I have to study so hard for so many years, and go through so many trials and tribulations, but I am not as rich as you as a nouveau riche who started a business?

For all these reasons, they are of course opposed to attributing credit to high pragmatism.

In addition to the practical school and the neutral school, of course, there is also the heart school. The reaction of the Xin School was very consistent: they insisted that this credit should of course be counted on Wei Xuezeng's head, and it definitely had nothing to do with Gao Pragmatism.

The public reason given by the Xin School is the same as the "Pro-Wei School" within the Shi School, of course, this is just official words, in fact, their reason is very simple: Your high and pragmatic credit can't be greater!

Now that Gao Pragmatic has not yet entered the cabinet, he can in turn suppress Xu Guo, who is the second assistant, within the real school, and then let you continue to make meritorious contributions and raise hope, once you enter the cabinet in the future, even if it is just a group assistant at the end of the crane, you may have to press the first assistant in turn, so you still have to?

This situation is not without signs, when Gao Gong returned to the dynasty, he was obviously a second assistant, but Li Chunfang's first assistant was overshadowed, so that when people in the world heard the word "cabinet", the first or even the only person who thought of it was Gao Gong, how could there be anything about him Li Shilu?

This situation categorically can't happen again - nonsense, the current Shousuke is a member of their heart school, how can this kind of thing be endured?

Gao Shipra, who returned triumphantly, returned to Beijing in this kind of turmoil.

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