During the Longqing period, the generals were indeed worthless, but there were not a few exceptions here. For example, the two families of Chengguo Gong and the British Gong, and even Dingguo Gong, etc., still have some momentum that cannot be overwhelmed. Compared with those civil officials who held great power, although they were not opponents in court competition, they had a certain innate advantage: their families were in the same place as the country, while civil officials could only ensure the glory of their reign.

The system of electing officials through the imperial examination has made the civil official group powerful, especially in some matters related to the interests of the entire civil official group, they can consciously unite, force the Son of Heaven and the military ministers, and take the interests of the civil official group as the interests of the world; But at the same time, the imperial examination system also makes the power of civil officials have obvious timeliness, when they are in power, the stars hold the moon and respond to every call, and once they are gone, they are no different from the villagers, and their power cannot be inherited by simple blood relations.

The parents are important ministers, and if the children are admitted to the gold list, this situation is easier to say, because many of the network resources of the fathers can be used, which can be regarded as paving the way for the career of the children; The fathers are the ministers of the Zaifu, but the children can't get into the Jinshi, so this family is basically going into decline, if no one can pass the exam again for several generations, the probability of decline is basically 100%. This kind of family will be very worried that their ancestors offended some vengeful nobles when they were big officials, because their own family is just an ordinary family, and they are the nobles and nobles who are retired with the country, and it is like playing with yourself - after all, you no longer have the possession of fame.

Therefore, although the civil officials tried their best to suppress the generals and even the nobles, they still gave some face to these top nobles. Of course, Gao Pragmatism is not exempt from vulgarity, and he doesn't want to offend the top nobles in Beijing because of the prince's companionship, not to mention that many of his future reforms still rely on the support of the Xungui group, or at least he will not unite to desperately oppose and pull back all kinds of hindrances.

Unlike many of the time-travelers he sees in his novels, Gao pragmatic does not advocate the kind of reform that relies on power or strength to force reform, and although it seems cool, he thinks it is a bit too taken for granted.

There is a good saying that where there is oppression, there is resistance. Many time-travelers feel that they are standing on the height of history to carry out reforms, so you can just listen to me, and if you don't listen, then you will die. However, Gao Pragmatic feels that although there will inevitably be times when it is necessary to "use the strong" in reform, more often it must be achieved by relying on interest guidance and political compromise.

It's still that principle, it's not that a gentleman can't do it, but if he can solve it with his mouth, he will resolutely not do it, and if he can settle it with money, he will resolutely not use a knife to settle it. Although these nobles seem to be useless, they actually exist, not to mention anything else, just their political symbolism, that is also a great effect.

According to the teachings of ***: politics is to make more and more of our people, and the number of enemies is less and less. Therefore, if Xungui can be united, then Gao Pragmatic will definitely be united, and only the kind of diehards who really can't unite will be blacklisted by him for separate treatment.

Therefore, there is this time that he invited the sons of the nobles in Beijing to go on a spring outing.

Of course, the invitees were all those who were summoned by the emperor to the palace to play with the prince for more than ten days last time in the prince's companion reading incident. This is also the reason why Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong received an invitation, but Li Zongcheng did not receive an invitation - Li Zongcheng accompanied his father Li Yangong to come to Beijing temporarily, and it was only a few days after he actually arrived in Beijing.

Hearing Menzi's report that Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong sent someone to ask if they could bring Li Zongcheng with him, Gao Pragmatic laughed.

He is not a person like Zhu Yingzhen and Zhang Yuangong who only pays attention to the big part of Jingshi, so the reason why Li Zongcheng came up so blindly, he guessed it almost immediately.

Li Zongcheng and his family can't have any thoughts about the Beijing camp - none of the military households in the Beijing camp are under his family's name, and all the military households in his family are in the south, so how can they come to Beijing to be the prime minister of Rongzheng? Not to mention anything else, you don't have a single military household, what do you use to control the field?

Therefore, the foundation of their family is in the south, and their eyes can only be roughly placed in Nanjing.

What are the sudden changes in Nanjing that make them rush to Beijing? The case of the prince of Wei.

Xu Pengju's matter this time, if the court has to turn a blind eye, it is actually not a big deal, but since the cabinet has set the tone, and Zhao Zhenji, the general constitution, does not want to affect his major matter for this little thing, and is willing to cooperate with Gao Gong to investigate, then Xu Pengju has to be unlucky, and he can't hold it.

The question now is just to what extent the imperial court will deal with Xu Pengju, although this matter will not allow the Xu family to lose the inheritance of Wei Guogong, but Xu Pengju himself will definitely be punished, up to the loss of the title, down to the punishment of one year, in fact, it is possible.

It stands to reason that the cabinet generally does not express a clear opinion on the punishment of such a top nobleman as the grandfather of the country, and usually makes the emperor "sacred-hearted", but in fact, the emperor will still privately ask the cabinet for his opinion, and the cabinet elders will privately express their opinions to the emperor in person, but they will not vote.

So in this way, the attitude of the high arch is very important - as we all know, most of the time the attitude of the high arch and the attitude of the emperor are more or less the same thing. Especially the Duke of Wei involved in this, he belongs to the nobles of the founding line, in the eyes of the emperor of the Chengzu line, it is probably the role of staying as a decoration, and if he makes a mistake, he doesn't have much face to talk about.

After Yongle, the status and even real power of the nobles of the Jingnan Department have always been overwhelming the nobles of the founding department.

Li Yangong must have come here for this matter. And his attitude can't be to help Xu Pengju intercede, he can only be a dead Taoist friend who doesn't die in the poor Dao, and by the way, see if the dead Taoist friend will drop his equipment to him.

So, what does Li Yangong want Xu Peng to give to him - to the Linhuai Marquis Mansion?

Commander of the Nanjing garrison.

Historically, Xu Pengju lost the Nanjing garrison ministers who had been on the head of Wei Guogong for more than 100 years because of this incident, and temporarily took it on the head of the Marquis of Linhuai for a few years. This time, Li Yangong must have also seen this hope, so he came to Beijing to fight for it.

There are many ways to fight, the stupidest is to go to the emperor, although the emperor is the decider, but if you go directly to him, it will be too ugly. So the smartest way is to go to the person who has the most power to suggest.

That must be a high arch.

But Li Yangong's identity is there, at this time he came to find Gao Gong, if it is really the Marquis of Linhuai who gets the post of Nanjing Garrison in the future, it will be difficult to explain, and it is not a good thing for the Marquis of Linhuai's Mansion or Gao Gong.

Then, take a detour and change it to Li Zongcheng to find Gao Pragmatic, which is not easy to attract attention, especially when Gao Pragmatic has invited so many noble children, Li Zongcheng, the eldest grandson of Linhuai Marquis, can be regarded as the oldest, who will pay attention to him!