Chapter 115: Pragmatic Return to Beijing (I)
That night, Commander Xue had even arranged the next reception for Gao Shishi, and planned to invite Gao Shi to visit Yuqing Temple early tomorrow morning.
This Yuqing Temple is actually a famous city in Kaiping, and it is the holy land of Quanzhen Religion and the first Taoist temple in Jingdong. It is rumored that in the late Yin Shang period, Bo Yi and Shu Qi, the son of the ancient Guzhu monarch, left the country and passed through the stone city (i.e., Kaiping), it was the height of summer, the two were hungry and thirsty, and suddenly saw a clear spring bubbling and flowing, it was a handful of springs, a drink was exhausted, suddenly felt clear and refreshing, hunger and thirst were completely eliminated, this spring water was the "Yuqing Ancient Well" in the Yuqing Temple of Tangshan later. The two brothers wandered around the spring and were extremely satisfied, so they decided to settle down here and seek immortals. A few years later, the two left and went to Shouyang Mountain, not knowing what to do.
When he arrived in the Tang Dynasty, Taizong went on an eastward expedition, passing through Shicheng, there was a sergeant with the army who was in Wangqi, and saw that the purple gas here was ethereal like Feiluan, and the immortal qi was condensed like Danding, so he left the army and lived in seclusion here to cultivate. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, a disciple of Changchun Zhenren Hill settled here, which was called "Clarification View". Later, during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, the sloppy Taoist Zhang Sanfeng took several disciples to travel here, left for a few days, leaving a disciple to live and practice, and changed its name to "Yuqing Temple". During the Jiajing period, Yuqing Temple carried out large-scale renovation and expansion, and gradually became the largest magnificent Taoist temple in ancient Kaiping Town, looking forward to Jingdong.
Historically, literati, there are those who worship Buddhism, there are also those who worship the Tao, and more of them respect both religions, in short, they would rather pretend to be convinced, and they will not be offended openly, what if the gods are really there? Therefore, Commander Xue felt that he could make a cameo appearance as a tour guide tomorrow to further win the favor of Gao Shiyu - although he knew that Gao Shishi was not simple, he still felt that children were better than adults.
It's just that early in the morning of the second day, Gao Pragmatic just woke up, and Gao Mo recently told him that Gao Guoyan, the second young master of the second room, and other people who Gao Pragmatic wrote to invite last time had already arrived in Beijing together, and were now waiting for Gao Pragmatic to go back to the university mansion to make arrangements.
This matter is of course much more important to Gao Pragmatic than playing, but Commander Xue was inevitably a little disappointed after getting the news, Gao Pragmatic comforted him and said that he still had business to operate here in the future, and he would definitely come again, so he finally reluctantly agreed.
Commander Xue was not discouraged, and he was busy arranging people to send Gao Shishi out of the city, until the border of the jurisdiction - he didn't dare to send it far away, after all, the guards couldn't leave the country at will if they didn't obey the order, not to mention that this was near Gyeonggi, and it would be a loss of head if they transferred troops at will.
Qi Jiguang only came here to meet with Gao Pragmatic, since Gao Pragmatic also wanted to return to Beijing in advance, he happened to go along. There was nothing to say all the way, so I set off early in the morning and arrived in Jizhou in the evening to rest.
One more thing to say here is that although Jizhou has a general army yamen, the general soldiers of Jizhou actually do not stay in Jizhou more often, but in Zunhua County in the northeast of Jizhou - that direction is the area most often invaded by the Mongols.
However, Qi Jiguang is not only the chief soldier of Jizhou, but also the prime minister of military training, and Zunhua can't put up an army like Xu, so he can be regarded as a general soldier of Jizhou who has stayed in Jizhou City for a long time.
But there is also a disadvantage, that is, he, the chief soldier, is not the big guy who counts in Jizhou.
Who has the final say in Jizhou? Shuntian Governor Liu Yingjie.
What the? You ask where is the Governor of Jiliao? Well...... At present, the governor of Jiliao is stationed in Miyun County, directly on the first line of defense in the rear of Gubeikou, the north gate of the Beijing Division-Daming is so magical, and it is a bit of a high pragmatism familiar with the meaning of "the current catastrophe and catastrophe, the party members and cadres go first", but unlike some dynasties, the front-line troops have been exhausted, and the commander is still in the Beijing Division.
Of course, the governors, governors, and commanders of the Ming Dynasty were theoretically not permanent officials in legal theory, and their locations often changed, and the current situation was not normal. For example, as mentioned above, Jizhou has a Yamen of Jizhou General Army, but in recent years, Jizhou General Army has mainly stayed in Zunhua County, and in fact, the spring station of the Shuntian Governor should be Zunhua (the autumn station is Changping) and so on...... There are too many changes, and even no trace can be found, which can basically be understood that a certain bigwig of the imperial court felt that it should be changed, and the emperor said that he could, so these border ministers should be ordered to change their station.
The reason why this "instability" is far more obvious than that of the Qing Dynasty is to a large extent that the Ming court has always insisted on treating the governor, the governor and the general army as temporary dispatch officials in order to show that it has not forgotten its roots in the system.
Anyway, the number one boss in Jizhou is currently Shuntian Governor Liu Yingjie has not run, and Gao Pragmatic is still on the road thinking about visiting Liu Junmen - the governor of the Ming Dynasty is often called Junmen, because he not only has administrative power, but also military power in hand, for example, the full name of the position of the governor of Shuntian is "Governor Shuntian and other places and the rectification of Jizhou and other places".
However, when he asked Qi Jiguang about how to deal with Liu Yingjie, Qi Jiguang told him that Liu Junmen was not in Jizhou at the moment. Gao Shishi hurriedly asked why, and Qi Jiguang replied that he proposed that the hollow enemy platform built with the full support of Tan Lun and Liu Yingjie had been basically completed, and Governor Tan was currently inspecting the use of the hollow enemy platform in the Changping area, and Liu Yingjie went to investigate the site on the Zunhua side of Jizhou, so he may now be on the side of Zhongyi Zhongwei east of Zunhua.
Gao pragmatic listened, and was a little disappointed at first, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was okay. After all, he is still too young now, and he has no fame, although he relies on the identity of the prince's companion and the "fake bachelor", his waist is quite hard in front of the nobles and military ministers, but in front of Liu Yingjie, who is called a "military civilian official" by later generations, it is not worth mentioning at all.
You must know that he is the same year as Zhang Juzheng, and he is also one of the few bigwigs in the Zhang Party, even in the face of Gao Gong, he can't nod his head and bow down, but it is not Qi Jiguang, a poor military minister who can only call himself "the little lackey Qi" who writes to Zhang Juzheng.
Yes, if you can't see it, you can't see it, anyway, the third uncle and they are courting Liu Yingjie, and they may not make Zhang Juzheng alert when they meet Qi Jiguang inexplicably at this time, but if they still go to visit Liu Yingjie, maybe Zhang Juzheng will have to make a move, which will be very unbeautiful.
So Gao Shishi, who rested at will all night in Jizhou, just called the family who left himself at Qi Jiguang to participate in the training on the second day to show his concern, and each of them was given an additional reward of five taels of silver, and continued to embark on the road back to Beijing surrounded by a group of family guards.