The four towns of Jiliao Xuanda were the first two batches of border troops to be equipped with some "Jinghua" firearms, even earlier than the Beijing army. Because of the relationship between the Xuanda and the tribute, there has not been a war worth mentioning for a long time, so the current achievements of the "Jinghua" firearms are all from the second town of Jiliao.

In fact, the weapons they replaced were not advanced, and the musket was still a front-loading smoothbore arquebus, similar to the Saigong gun, and was named "Jinghua Longqing II Style" - the reason why it was "Longqing" II was because this gun was finalized in the sixth year of Longqing, and was handed over to the Ministry of War and Beijing for verification, and later provided to Qi Jiguang's department in small batches, which was well received, and later got orders after the military industry was private. In fact, there is a Longqing style, but it is an experimental model, which belongs to internal trial production and has not been mass-produced.

However, compared with the Saigong gun, the Longqing II musket still has advantages: one is that the Longqing II has elongated the body of the gun; The second is that the quality is more stable.

Needless to say, if the quality of the firearms produced by Jinghua can't even compare with the products of the Ordnance Bureau and the Military War Bureau, then Gao Pragmatic will simply withdraw from this industry.

The elongated body of the spear is worth mentioning. There are many things that the length of the gun body affects, such as the muzzle velocity of the projectile, the power in the effective range, the shooting distance, the shooting accuracy, etc., but generally speaking, the most important impact is that the longer the gun body, the more accurate the shooting, but at the same time the range will decrease.

However, on the premise of improving accuracy, the Longqing II style achieved the same range as the two major bureaus of the government and the camp. In fact, the reason is not complicated: Gao pragmatic provided ammunition as a package, and the ammunition he provided not only had already made a paper shell fixed ammunition, but also the gunpowder was better - although it was still black powder, it was slightly improved, and it was made into granular gunpowder, and the composition ratio was more accurate. [Wufeng note: Explaining granularity is a bit complicated, and it may be "water word count", so I'll omit it.] ]

All in all, the Longqing II musket can only be regarded as slightly surpassing the original best infantry musket (including the bird gun) of the Ming Dynasty in terms of technical level, but the reliability has been greatly improved, and after being equipped and strongly recommended in Jizhen, Liaodong also quickly began to reload.

Of course, it takes money to change clothes, so some of the money Gao Gong earned on tariffs was invested in armaments. But it's a virtuous circle, so it counts as a political achievement.

Another major achievement is the great improvement of administrative efficiency. This achievement mainly comes from the examination method after adding the idea of "quantitative performance" with high pragmatism.

Zhang Juzheng's examination method has received a lot of criticism in later generations, and the problem is not that the effect is not good, but that he does not ask about the means. For example, if one of the items in the performance of a county's county order is how much tax it collects, then Zhang Juzheng only asks whether the specific amount of this tax has been reached, and he does not ask what means the county order uses.

The same problem, as early as the fourth year of Longqing, Gao Gong and Gao Pragmatic had talked about [Wufeng Note: see Chapter 009 of Volume I], when Gao Pragmatic initially put forward a view very similar to Zhang Juzheng, but Gao Gong immediately objected, believing that the local gentry and even the magistrates would definitely pass on the pressure of paying taxes to the ordinary people, which could easily lead to more exploitation of the small people, causing turmoil and even civil unrest. Gao then put forward another request, that is, to include local stability in the performance evaluation of county officials at the same time.

The examination method implemented by Gao Gong in recent years is adhering to this line of thinking, but more detailed rules have been added. In short, there are many specific data that can be referred to whether a county order is doing well or not, such as the speed of replying to official documents, the rate of tax fullness, the rate of tax increase, the rate of fame (above Xiucai), the speed of case processing, the degree of completion of cases, the rate and danger of banditry, and the rate and danger of civil unrest...... Wait a minute.

The release of these standards has improved the administrative efficiency of almost all parts of the country. Of course, due to regional differences, differences in development levels, and other reasons, basically the more economically developed regions will have better results, and the more economically backward regions will have worse results. Not long ago, Gao Gong was still discussing with Gao Pragmatic how to upgrade the backward areas, but he couldn't imagine that he would say goodbye to heaven and man now.

In addition, Gao Gong is not only accurate in employing people, but also very prime minister.

To give two examples: in terms of civil officials, Liang Menglong, the former governor of Shandong, was Zhang Juzheng's protégé, and after Zhang Juzheng's downfall, Liang Menglong himself felt that the governor of Shandong could not sit steadily, but he was afraid that he would have to eat a large number of impeachments from Gao's protégés, so he even wrote a sparse essay for resignation. As a result, he waited for a paper to come and returned to Beijing to serve as the right attendant of the household department, and cooperated with the household department Shangshu Wang Guangqingzhang across the country.

After the completion of Qingzhang Tianmu, Liang Menglong changed the military department again, went to Liaodong to reward the soldiers, Wanli five years back, from the military department left Shilang was promoted to the right capital of the imperial history, the governor Ji Liao, Li Chengliang's "mountain splitting victory" was played with his full support.

In terms of military generals, after the fall of Zhang Juzheng, Qi Jiguang was very anxious for a while, and sent his nephew Qi Jin back to Beijing to contact Gao Shishi. Gao Pragmatic just told Qi Jin, "Ling Shuguo's dry city, Yuan Fu knows it well." Jizhen is a big matter, how can it be easy. ”

As a result, Qi Jiguang was not affected at all, but was rewarded by the court for his two big victories over the Duoyan Dong fox in the first year of Wanli and the second year of Wanli.

As for the other achievements, it is difficult to write them down for a while, but they can be mentioned later.

In short, in the past six years, Gao Gong has injected enough vitality into the continued promotion of the Ming Dynasty's "Jialong Wanda Reform", and the achievements are immeasurable.

But if it is only like this, in view of the special significance and extreme scarcity of "Wenzheng", it is still possible for Zhu Yijun not to give it, and maybe he can give a "Wenzhong" to send it away.

But Gao Gong also has another aspect that makes Zhu Yijun satisfied in his heart, that is, Gao Gong has a lot of experience in education, he did not teach Wanli like Zhang Juzheng in history, he was extremely strict in everything, and the emperor was not allowed to appear at all, but often comforted him when Wanli made mistakes, and helped the emperor speak when the emperor was occasionally criticized by some "selling his name and selling his name".

Just like he did with Longqing back then.

Gao Gong's educational thinking is very different from Zhang Juzheng's. If you have to compare, it can be said that the high arch insists on being strict with oneself and being lenient with others; And Zhang Juzheng is lenient with himself and strict with others.

When Zhang Juzheng was deposed, the reason why the emperor ordered to raid his university scholar's mansion in Beijing was to give it to Gao Gong, but Gao Gong later refused. He even explained to the emperor in person: "The courtiers and nephews are pragmatic and have abundant wealth and innocent backgrounds, if the ministers want to change the house, when can't they be changed?" Therefore, those who do not change do not forget the original intention of honesty and self-discipline. ”

He served as the first assistant in the Wanli Dynasty for six years, the house did not increase a single acre, the slaves did not add a single person, and he did not even accept some elegant things for entertainment given to him by Gao Shipra, but only accepted some ordinary things such as tea and soap. [No wind note: In history, high arches and honesty have been praised by Hai Rui. ]

And Zhang Juzheng's performance in history is much worse. Later scholars concluded that he was "shouting anti-corruption and advocating honesty while accepting bribes on a large scale; while shouting thrift, but on the other hand, he is extravagant; While shouting festivals, he forgot to be in the skirts of beautiful women".

The two styles determine the different perceptions of the little emperor of Wanli.

Gao Gong continued his teaching method of Longqing: as a teacher, what should be taught should be taught; and like a father, he who should be protected is protected.

Therefore, "Wenzheng" comes from this.