As a traverser, Gao Pragmatic has a deep understanding of the actual situation of the current Ming Dynasty. Since Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of Taizu Hongwu established the capital in Nanjing in 1368 and is known as the emperor, the Ming Dynasty's Guozuo has reached 200 years, and its entire rule is tending to decay.

In terms of the governance of officials, the government is still tolerant, there are many things, large and small ministers, tolerant and indulgent, and bribery of public banks, so that the law is gradually relaxed, and the discipline is sluggish; The army, which is an important ruling machine of the country, does not train its soldiers often, and will not be able to win people, although there are constantly moves to clear the army and hook up the army, but in fact it is still a common practice to flee, or to occupy it for the sake of the powerful, and many of the people in the camp are old, weak, sick and disabled, and the laws and regulations are not strict, the rewards and punishments are not clear, and the combat effectiveness has been extremely low, and even the army mutinies have occurred from time to time; Corresponding to the unprecedented madness of the plundering of land wealth by the gentry and the powerful in the civil engineering and prayer battles of the imperial court, the Chinese and foreign governments were exhausted, the people had no food to eat, the soldiers lacked money, horses, and grass, a large number of yeoman farmers went bankrupt, the number of slaves and tenants continued to increase, and the peasants' struggles against rent, taxes, grain grabbing, and Sochi occurred from time to time.

On the other hand, due to the continuous progress of the social productive forces and the development of the commodity economy over a long period of time, the germ of capitalist production relations has appeared in some industries and regions; With the development of the city's economy, the civic movement is also quietly rising, with secular taste, folk style as the characteristics of the civic culture, with the literary and artistic trend of Yanzhi literature and romanticism as the main body, and the social fashion oriented by Mushang's novelty and the pursuit of flamboyance, constitute a new melody in social development, and the struggle of the general public against plunder and persecution is surging one after another; With the increasing decay of Yangming's Xinxue thought, especially the continuous exposure of the nihilistic thought of Wangmenhou and the harm of the Qing Tan style of study, the heretical thinkers represented by Yan Jun, He Xinyin, Li Zhen, etc., advocated the recognition of selfish desires and the independence of personality, and the humanist trend of thought surged in the ideological circles, while the trend of practical thought marked by anti-hypocrisy and pragmatism, saving the world and saving the people, focusing on production, encouraging industry and commerce, and reviving natural science was rapidly expanding, all of which were impacting the fence of the old feudal rule.

At the same time, the world is undergoing drastic changes. In 1566, the forty-fifth year of the reign of Emperor Shizong of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Yijun was four years old, a bourgeois revolution broke out in the Netherlands, led by the destruction of icons. In 1588, that is, the sixteenth year after Zhu Yijun ascended the throne in the original history, Spain will send the "Invincible Armada" to England, the two fleets met in the English Channel, after about two weeks of naval battles, the Spanish fleet was almost completely annihilated, and Britain gradually became stronger, and then established maritime supremacy. In France, the rule of the Bourbon dynasty will be established from 1589, and there will be the "Claucan" uprising and the promulgation of the "Edict of Nantes". In Russia, in 1595 the Tsar would issue a "special edict" to the Russian subjects of Kazakhstan, and in 1598 the Bil Khanate would be annexed......

Although Yangming Xinxue has countless supporters in later generations, and Gao Shishi also "yearns for it" for Wang Yangming himself, if he stands on the current position of saving the world, he thinks that the descendants of Wang Xue at this time have completely gone astray. These people are just blindly retreating, and they have the same scene as when metaphysics was prosperous, and it is no longer beneficial to the country and the people. These people pay attention to "usually talking about their hearts and minds, and repaying the king's kindness when they die" - it's a joke!

Not to mention how many people in this generation really repaid the king's kindness when they died later, should this practice be advocated? Your senior officials have to do it, and they can enjoy it, but they don't do it, they just know how to talk about their hearts - no matter how good your heart is, what is the benefit to the world and the people? According to Gao Pragmatic View, this kind of person is really not as good as "one death", and early death is wonderful!

From the perspective of high pragmatism, if you want to save the late Ming Dynasty, you must only learn from practice!

The Gao family, where Gao Pragmatism was born, is one of the major sects of practical learning in the country, and Gao Gong himself is even more practical about practical learning, and tries his best to promote it to the whole country. Later generations of historians generally believe that Zhang Juzheng is the representative of the "Wang Ba and Gang School" of practical learning in the Ming Dynasty, although it is not wrong, but they intentionally or unintentionally ignore one point: Gao Gong is the first to really implement practical learning! The so-called reform of Zhang Juzheng in history is nothing more than the continuation and development of the "established policy" of Gao Gong.

Success and defeat, as for Si.

If history can be assumed, the high arch may not be as good as Zhang Juzheng; If history can be assumed, Gao Gong may be more just than Zhang Juzheng!

This is not that Gao Pragmatic was born in a high family and spoke from the position of Gao Gong, but it is indeed evidenced by history.

In later generations, because of the popularity of a certain book, the historiography continued to set off a boom in Ming history. In this upsurge, some scholars tried their best to demean and even scandalize and slander Gao Gong in order to create Zhang Juzheng's heroic image of "Gao Daquan", and repeatedly emphasized that "what Gao Gong left behind is a mess of internal and external troubles." This so-called "mess" theory not only obliterates Gao Gong's achievements in governing the border, but also runs counter to historical facts. Therefore, some serious scholars immediately refuted it.

As a matter of fact, at the very beginning of Gao Gong's administration, he was faced with a situation of wanton intrusion by the southern and northern captives since Jiajing, and the situation in the frontier was precarious. In order to reverse this situation, on the one hand, he vigorously promoted military reforms, such as the establishment of a reserve and special relocation system for military officials, a system of leave and internal relocation of border generals, and a system of punishment for military personnel who failed to perform their duties and did their duties, so as to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Ming army. On the other hand, it has also applied the strategy of "suppressing the south and appeasing the north" to carry out the rectification of border affairs in a bold way, thus creating a new situation in the northeast, southwest, northwest, and south.

As for the flexible and pragmatic means it has adopted, Gao Pragmatism knows that it will be displayed one by one in the next two or three years.

However, at this time, Zhu Yijun is only an eight-year-old prince after all, and Emperor Longqing is very concerned about whether Zhu Yijun's childhood is happy because of his childhood tragedy.

So Gao pragmatically smiled and said: "If the prince goes to talk to the saint like this, I'm afraid the saint will still be a little hesitant - as Governor Feng said, I am afraid that the ministers of the outer court will oppose it, so this matter must be echoed by a heavy minister in the outer court in order to make the saint make up his mind." ”

Zhu Yijun was a little stunned at first, thought about it, and suddenly became a little discouraged: "However, I don't know the courtiers of the foreign court, let alone the important ministers." ”

Feng Bao was taken aback and hesitated: "What does Mr. Xiao Gao mean...... Gao Ge Lao? This, I'm afraid it's ......" he didn't say the words later, but it must be nothing more than "I'm afraid it's unlikely, right?" ”

Gao pragmatic smiled and said to Feng Bao: "In the past two years, the boy has been in Xinzheng's hometown, and I was fortunate to be personally instructed by the third uncle to read.......