If the crown prince is granted the power of supervising the state by the emperor, his fatwa will of course have the force of law, as long as it does not conflict with the emperor's own will, all officials in the world must obey it. For example, Zhu Di ordered the crown prince Zhu Gaochi to supervise the country several times, and the order issued by the prince of the prison country was theoretically the prince's decree, like Zhu Yijun's order, officially speaking, it can only be called the prince's order. However, after all, the prince is the prince, and everyone will still refer to the orders issued by the prince as the prince's fatwa on weekdays, just like people in later generations who meet each other, the other party is a deputy director surnamed Zhang, but when people call him, they must call him Director Zhang instead of Deputy Director Zhang.

Therefore, the real meaning of this prince's decree in Gao Shishi's hand is not that it has actual legal effect when he holds it, but a symbolic meaning: the prince is very concerned about this matter, and everything Gao Shi reads will inevitably reach heaven - after all, the emperor is a favorite maniac, does the prince know it means that the emperor knows?

In other words, the real power of holding this fatwa lies in showing everyone the fact that not giving face to the high attendants is equivalent to not giving face to the prince, and not giving face to the prince is equivalent to not giving face to the emperor.

The speaker dared not to give face to the emperor, because unless the emperor himself did not want to lose face, he could not do anything about the speech official. But it is impossible for ordinary officials to casually not give face to the emperor, you don't respect the monarch and the minister, the father and the son, have you read the book into the dog's belly?

Those who understand the true meaning of this prince's decree have already understood that although the nominal envoy of this tour of Xuanda is the middle of the engineering department, I am afraid that what really attracts the attention of His Majesty's father and son is this high-ranking attendant who is regarded by the outside world as a publicly-funded tourist.

But at this moment, Gao Pragmatic no longer cares about these things, and he is on his way to Datong.

This is the first time he has enjoyed the treatment of the Qin mission, although nominally he is only a deputy envoy, and is strictly stipulated by the holy decree that he can only be a deputy envoy who does not speak, but as the chief envoy Cheng Wen is his "senior brother", is one of the core members of the Gao Party, he knows the causes and consequences of the Qin mission to visit the Xuanda, so he is very concerned about Gao Shishi, the little junior brother, saying that "early to ask for instructions and late report" may be a bit too much, but everything is always the same.

Gao Pragmatic has seen the emperor's honor guard (not a full guard of honor) in the palace, and even seen the full prince's guard of honor when he went out of the pavilion to study, and the so-called guard of honor that he enjoys now is completely insufficient.

But this time, the guard of honor was different from usual, because Gao Pragmatic brought two hundred families.

Qin can take his family to follow, especially if he goes to the area of war or imminent war, the dynasty does not have too many restrictions on this - in fact, there are some regulations in the early years, but those regulations have long been a matter of Chen sesame rotten grain, after the military family system prevailed, almost no one mentioned it again, anyway, the court will not give money to your entourage, you can afford it yourself. Even, if it is a few decades later, the accompanying military strategists will be appropriated by the imperial court.

Gao Shishi's manpower, which can be called a "military strategist", is already approaching the 2,000 mark if all aspects are added together, but he is not stupid enough to gather these 2,000 people, which is an act of looking for death.

First of all, he gave these military families different names, although internally they are collectively called the Jiading Guard Group, but externally they do not say so, externally they have many names, such as the Jinghua Caravan Guard, the Sanshenyuan Guardian, the Bailixia Guardian Village, the Kaiping Jinghua Guardian Mine Guard, etc., all kinds of strange and varied.

At the same time, he carefully scattered these people: Sanshenyuan put 300, Bailixia put 300, Kaiping put 300, and Jingshi put 200...... As for Datong and Xuanfu, because they have to lead to outsiders, the security is the most insecure, so there are 400 each.

Of course, the 800 men and horses of Datong and Xuanfu were unified together because Gao Mo and Gao Jue cooperated with Cao Gan to travel Fengzhou Sichuan last time, and now they are all left in the Defeated Hu Fort, where Hannaji surrendered.

The supreme commander of Fort Hu is only a garrison, and the number of troops under his command is only five or six hundred, and the actual strength is even more than three hundred, so the regular strength of the imperial court in Fort Hu is not as much as that of the pragmatic family.

Because he learned that the principal and deputy Qincha and his entourage first went directly to Datong, Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda, also rushed to Datong from Tianchengwei, where the governor was stationed, in order to show his attention.

Tianchengwei is the seat of Shanxi Xingdu Division during the Ming Dynasty, that is, Shanxi Tianzhen County in later generations, roughly in the middle of Datong and Xuanfu, and the governor of Xuanda is stationed here, which is also for the consideration of coordinating the second town of Xuanda.

Because of this, Wang Chonggu rushed to the front of Qincha and his party from the time he heard the news of Qincha's departure to Datong.

When the two sides met, Wang Chonggu did not need to salute Cheng Wen, because Cheng Wen was certainly a Qincha, but Wang Chonggu was actually a Qincha - in the Ming Dynasty, whether it was a governor or a governor, even now, these positions have long been permanent officials, but theoretically they are still in the nature of Qincha. For example, Wang Chonggu, the governor of Xuanda, is the governor of Xuanda, and the governor of Xuanda, Shanxi and other places in the capacity of the imperial history of the right capital of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the military affairs and food and salary.

Since they are all Qincha, then when it comes to their own duties, it is Cheng Wen and Gao Pragmatic who want to pay tribute to Wang Chonggu first.

However, after all, Wang Chonggu is the second-ranked boss in the Jin Party, and he knows that the two in front of him are almost equal to Gao Gong, the main ally of the Jin Party, and of course he will not put up any shelf in front of them, and after going through a simple ritual process, he and the governor of Datong Fang Feng Feng will welcome the two of them in.

As for the local eunuchs guarding Datong in Qincha, Cheng Wen didn't care, and Gao Pragmatic didn't care either. On the contrary, it was Ma Fang, the chief military officer of Datong, because Cheng Wen knew that he was the "most capable of fighting" general under Gao Gong's name, so he was quite polite.

And Gao Pragmatic is even closer to Ma Fang - under the mediation of Cao Gan, they have long been like a family, Gao Pragmatic sold horses to him to replenish armaments, he helped Gao Pragmatic train the cavalry, and even in Gao Pragmatic's "right to collect troops", Ma Fang also made corresponding cooperation, and the two sides have been friends for a long time.

Moreover, this time Gao Pragmatic came, there was a "government" task to inspect Xuanda's armaments, in fact, Gao Pragmatic had already sent him a private message in advance, slightly revealing some things such as "may consider strengthening firearms equipment for your department", so Ma Fang was also very happy to see Gao Pragmatic - in fact, he did not know the benefits of firearms, but the quality of the firearms he received before was too bad, so the cavalry under his command was still mainly equipped with sabers and three-eyed guns, and Gao Pragmatic attached a newly improved Saigong gun from Qi Jiguang, and said to Ma FangAfter that, if he is replenished with firearms, the quality and level of firearms will not be lower than this gun.

After Ma Fang found someone to try it, he found that this gun was much stronger than the three-eyed gun, and because of the change to the paper shell fixed charging method, the speed of filling ammunition was significantly improved compared with the previous bird gun, and the quality was also very reliable.

Ma Fang believes that if his subordinates can be equipped with this level of quality in batches in the future, then the earlier three-eyed guns can obviously be abandoned - of course, the border army is so poor that it will definitely not be abandoned, and it is still completely necessary to hand it over to the second- and third-line garrisons, and it can give full play to the residual heat.