Because the prince's study has not yet begun, so Gao Shishi has not officially "gone to work", and after receiving the "prince's curriculum" in the Hanlin Academy, he will go back, and this afternoon he will finally finalize with Wei Ximin to buy and rent a shop in the capital, and at the same time set up a transshipment warehouse by the Yongding River outside the city. He didn't know why it was so easy for others to cross over to do business, and he was obviously very lucky, and things went smoothly, but the complexity could not be reduced a little.

Gao Pragmatic feels that he has a lot of things at hand, but in fact, compared to Gao Gong, it is really pediatrics.

Since the beginning of the year, Gao Gong has devoted himself to his ideals with great enthusiasm for work. For example, we should rectify the administration of officials, rectify finances, promote the new tax law, reform the law on the examination of officials, pay attention to the opening of the sea in the moon and port, and rectify military affairs...... All sides are in all aspects, how can the degree of complexity be compared with the high pragmatism and the little things at hand?

Today, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng do not hold a pen, but as allies, the two of them still often move around each other, such as today they are discussing two important matters in the cabinet. One is that the cabinet read the newspaper today, Guizhou Shuixi is in some trouble, if it is not handled properly, it may cause a military disaster, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng have just directed and acted in the matter of moving Liu Xian to Guizhou, but Liu Xian has not had time to take office, if a military incident breaks out in Guizhou at this time, I am afraid the problem is not small.

The second is that Gao Gong wants to discuss with Zhang Juzheng how to further improve the situation on the northern border - in other words, to discuss the focus of military affairs in northern Xinjiang.

Shuixi, Guizhou has always been a place where accidents often occur, and this year is no exception.

At the beginning of the year, there was a vendetta of local officials in Shuixi: Guizhou Xuanzhi An Guoheng vendetta killed An Xin, the son of the late Xuanhui envoy An Wanquan, which caused Anxin's brother An Zhi to retaliate and falsely accuse Guizhou governor Wang Zhen of rebellion.

Wang Zhen believed that it was true, so he took An Dachao as his commander and entered to suppress An Guoheng. As a result, the official army was defeated, An Dachao was dismissed, Wang Zhen returned to his hometown to listen to the tune, and An Guoheng also supported troops to defend himself, causing a confrontation situation.

At this time, Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng sat idly with tea, and Gao Gong said: "In the land of Guizhou, there are few soldiers and the people are poor. Now that Wang Zheng is so messed up, the court is quite embarrassed, I know that today's news comes out, there must be people in the court who want to shout to send troops to quell the rebellion, but this matter is ...... I think there's something strange about it. ”

Zhang Juzheng nodded, and said more bluntly: "What Zhong Xuangong said is extremely true, I think that the matter of Shuixi has nothing to do with the imperial court at all, but Tusi is in civil strife, and they kill each other, this kind of thing is almost common to the southwest, and the court's good arbiter is not appropriate, and he jumped off the field early to catch the knife in person, isn't it a stupid goose's practice?" ”

He said hatefully: "Wang Zheng, this idiot, obviously only needs to show the attitude that the court will deal with it according to law, while sending someone to investigate in detail, and at the same time asking for a decision, but he is inexplicably gullible and makes such a big trouble, it is really damned." ”

Gao Gong groaned: "Wang Zheng is now under house arrest, according to Zhu Dudu, an investigation is underway, and judging from the information he has now, he may have accepted bribes." ”

"Then you should be killed." Zhang Juzheng said angrily: "I am preparing for the north now, and we are about to concentrate all our efforts, and his matter is related to the peace of the southwest and the stability of the rear, how can we serve the people if we don't kill them?" ”

Gao Gong nodded, didn't dwell on this issue too much, and only said: "The new governor, I mean, let Ruan Wenzhong go." ”

Zhang Juzheng was not interested in the arrangement of the governor of Guizhou, nodded in approval, but added: "Before Liu Xian takes office, he must tell Ruan Wenzhong not to start a war without authorization." ”

Gao Gong smiled: "That's nature. Moreover, even if Liu Xian arrives, it is impossible to start a war for a while, I mean the southwest matter, the imperial court must be fair and upright, and if it can not fight, it must never fight, that is the next policy. ”

Zhang Juzheng nodded and changed the topic: "The matter of the war is still concentrated in the north...... If Xuanda and Jiliao are regarded as the left and right wings of the Beijing Division, in the current situation, one wing must be exerted to deter the northern captives. ”

Gao Gong's heart moved, and he said secretly: Sure enough, Zhang Taiyue still cares about this matter. It's just that this matter is not as simple as it seems.

After the Ming Dynasty embarked on strategic defense since the change of civil engineering, the scourge of the southern and northern pirates spread endlessly, for which the Ming court and the border people paid a heavy price, and the long-term efforts did not have much effect.

In the Jiajing Dynasty, this situation became more and more intense, and the occurrence of the "Gengwu Change" and even the occurrence of the "Fenshi Disaster" in the first year of Longqing made the imperial court have to make some adjustments and rectifications to the northern border defense.

From the late Jiajing period to the Longqing period, a number of military generals, such as Yang Yiqing, Wang Qiong, Weng Wanda, Qi Jiguang, Wang Chonggu, Ma Fang, Li Chengliang, and Fang Fengshi, were appointed or promoted, and they made useful contributions to strengthening border defense. Tan Lun was transferred to the left squire of the military department and the right to the imperial history, the governor of thistle, Liao, and Baoding, and under his proposal, the Ming court spent two and a half years to build a hollow enemy platform in the spring of the fourth year of Longqing.

In November of the first year of Longqing, Xu Jie, etc., "the court discussed and prevented the captivity", and after discussion, the "thirteen things of the imperial captivity" were formed, including the responsibility and effectiveness, the responsibility, and the Ming war, etc., although these words were all clichés at that time, but after the direct care of Gao Gong and Zhang Juzheng, there was still some new atmosphere in the border administration.

In August of the second year of Longqing, Zhang Juzheng published "Six Things", one of which was "military preparation", and it was also put into practice. In September of the third year of Longqing, Mu Zong "read the soldiers in the Beijing camp teaching field". There were 120,000 elite soldiers who participated in the parade, which was of great significance to changing the long-standing fear of soldiers who "did not dare to go forward in tears, and the generals also looked at each other and changed color."

This big review was promoted by Zhang Juzheng, and Gao Gong was not in the imperial court at that time, but he was very satisfied with it. The Great Parade marked the beginning of a reversal of the situation of military weakness in the imperial court, and gradually gained the initiative in dealing with the northern Tatar issue. In addition, Zhang Juzheng has also been trying his best to carry out reforms such as levying silver to recruit to replenish the number of troops.

In fact, it is precisely because Zhang Juzheng is not as good as Xu Jie, Li Chunfang, and other licorice prime ministers, that he can do things, so Gao Gongming knows that the two have begun to have some discord, but they still maintain the status of allies.

Gao Gong himself of course has his own considerations in these aspects, he made a comeback at the end of the third year of Longqing, and at the beginning of the fourth year of Longqing, he went to the "Cabinet of the Sick and the Border Governor of the Border to Prepare the Ministers to Settle the Great Plan", and successively published the "Push and Supplement the Right Attendant of the Military Department and Distribute the Matters of the Matter of Sparse", "The Minister of the Emergency Discussion of the Situation is Sparse", "The Ministers of the Consultation Office of the Soldiers are Subordinate to the Border Affairs", "The Border of the Discussion Office is Divided to Strengthen the Frontier and the Border Preparations", "The Ministers of the Provinces of the Consultation Department are Sparse", and the Longqing Emperor approved them one by one.

Gao Gong quickly carried out the reform of the military system and the reorganization of armaments, including the adjustment of the personnel of the military department, the reserve system of armament personnel, the system of leave and internal relocation of sympathetic border officers, the system of special relocation of armament officials, and the law of long-term tenure, and so on. These measures greatly improved the armament situation of the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the Ming Dynasty's "internal strength" has achieved some results, and we must find an opportunity to show it to deter me.

But the question is: directly from Xuanda to send troops to answer against me, or from Jiliao to fight the barbarians to deter me?