Gao Pragmatic's last stop before leaving Beijing was to visit his uncle Zhang Siwei and teacher Guo Pu, and the two had a sincere conversation with Gao Pragmatic.

Early the next morning, Gao Shishi left Beijing and went south and began to go to Guangxi to take office.

This time, he went south to Guangxi, and with the permission of the emperor, he could bring armed family members, so he specially called 300 long-trained family members to accompany him.

This time he brought a family Ding is different from the past few times, because this time he is going to Guangxi, where the mountains and forests are dense, so he did not bring a horseman, and the three hundred people are all foot soldiers, but they are still equipped with horses, which are somewhat similar to the horse infantry trained by Qi Jiguang after he arrived in Jizhen.

The other biggest difference was that all the 300 men carried muskets in the open, and the accompanying baggage procession also carried enough gunpowder and projectiles, as well as some cash.

Gao Pragmatic has no power in the south, and the tentacles that go deepest into the south are the former Guangzhou Guangang that was bought or replaced by the Ministry of Households, and if Gao Pragmatic wants to call for money, grain or other materials after arriving in Guangxi, the nearest channel is to transfer from Guangzhou.

However, at this time, the provincial capital of Guangxi was not in Nanning, but in Guilin, which was relatively far away. Moreover, since Guangxi is not quiet, it is naturally dangerous to mobilize materials, so before he went south, he sent Gao Mengnan to Guangzhou to sit in the town.

Gao Mengnan is the adopted son of Uncle Gao Jie, who has been operating the port and building the fleet with Shuai Jiamo in Tianjin Port.

Of course, the northern fleet is dominated by sand ships, which is somewhat different from the mainstream sea ships in the south, but Gao Shishi's transfer to Guangxi was originally a sudden incident, and he had no better way. In fact, he originally thought that Shuai Jiamo was a southerner, and it might be better to be transferred to Guangzhou Port, but after all, Gao Mengnan had the surname Gao, and it was easier to open up the situation in Guangzhou, of course, there were Gao party officials in Guangdong, and they might sell Gao Mengnan a little face, but it would be difficult to say if Shuai Jiamo was replaced.

Fortunately, Gao Mengnan's main purpose for going to Guangzhou this time was to cooperate with Gao Shishi, who was in Guangxi, so what he really needed was not a sharp-bottomed sea boat, but an inland river boat, which was much simpler and easy to do with money. Therefore, when Gao Pragmatic sent him to Guangzhou, he also conveyed an order within Jinghua that from the day he received the order, all the proceeds of Guangzhou Port would be temporarily suspended from being deported to Beijing, and all of them would be kept in Guangzhou for a new order, and Gao Mengnan would be able to use the funds.

Gao Mengnan took the sea route south to Guangzhou, and theoretically arrived in Guangxi faster than Gao Pragmatic, so he also got some instructions from Gao Pragmatic in advance, and there were many things that he had to handle immediately after arriving in Guangzhou.

Gao Pragmatic will walk 6 ways south with a team of 200 people from Liu Xin and Liu's family, a total of more than 500 people, and settle in Xinzheng 12 days later.

Gao's mother, Zhang, had already learned of her son's recent situation in advance, and as soon as Gao Shishi arrived in Xinzheng, he was taken back to Longwen Yayuan by the people she sent.

The gate of Longwen Yayuan was originally built according to the castle level, which should be expensive, but this time Gao Pragmatic came back and now this gate seems to have been rebuilt again.

He looked at it, and saw at a glance that there was a rather majestic and exquisitely carved stone archway outside the gate, with four gilded characters on the book "Six Champions", and two main pillars in the middle were a pair of couplets, the upper couplet said "Six Yuan and the first, two hundred years of Zhenkui", and the lower couplet said "Ten years of serving the king, I am the Wenqu Luoshudan".

The font of the payment is smaller, and the high pragmatism is far away, and it is not very clear to see, and it seems that there are words such as "Giving the Champion Fang" by order. In front of the gate of Longwen Yayuan, there is also a high flagpole, the flag is flying, and the words "six yuan and first" are also written on it.

Liu Xin and Gao pragmatic walked side by side, seeing this situation, he said with envy, "Gao Zhizhi, your champion, even if it is difficult to say that it is the last, it must be unprecedented." ”

Straight finger is the name of the Ming Dynasty to patrol the imperial history, and its origin is the Han Dynasty's "embroidered clothes straight finger". "Embroidered clothes are pointed out" is also known as "straight finger messenger" and "embroidered clothes royal history". In the second year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Fan Kun, a doctor of Guanglu, and Zhang De, who had been Jiuqing, were embroidered in clothes, holding festivals and tiger charms, and used the law of military rejuvenation to suppress the peasant uprising. This unofficial official name, the embroidered dress itself represents the favor of the monarch. And directly pointed, with the Hanshu hundred officials and ministers to express the face of the ancient note of the master to convince piety and say, "Pointing to things and doing things, there is no selfishness." ”

Therefore, the embroidered clothes are directly pointed at the name of the imperial history, which is not only an affirmation of the emperor's trust and favor by the imperial history, but also an implicit expression of the right to patrol the imperial history of the "supervising army".

Gao pragmatic listened to Liu Xin's words, smiled, and said, "My recent encounter is quite unprecedented." ”

Liu Xin didn't know the real reason why Gao Pragmatic was demoted to the third level, so in her opinion, Gao Pragmatic was completely unjustified, and comforted, "As far as the slave family can see, this matter is just a pretense by the Empress Dowager Cisheng, and its original intention should just be to warn the emperor not to forget the ancestral system, and it is just to be angered." Moreover, Yuanfu and the general constitution are clearly distinguished, although they are demoted and demoted, but they are directly pointed out by Taishi, which can also be said to be lost in the east corner and reaped the mulberry elm. ”

Taishi is a generic name for the officials of the Hanlin Academy and the Zhan Shifu.

Gao pragmatically smiled and didn't speak again. In fact, although Liu Xin didn't know about the two princesses, her analysis was to the point, and the biggest reason why Empress Dowager Li made it suddenly this time was actually to warn Zhu Yijun.

As Zhu Yijun gets older, doesn't Empress Dowager Li know that sooner or later he will be independent and pro-government, but she has always been strict in discipline, for fear that her son will behave like some emperors who ascended the throne before the Ming Dynasty, so she will find an opportunity to beat it.

In fact, don't look at her saying that she wants to abolish the emperor and set up another king of Lu, in fact, it is just a threat, just like when parents discipline their children, they say "are you going to spank".

At that time, when she persuaded the queen to return to Kunning Palace, she had already hinted to the queen that she should go back to Kunning Palace to "stay in peace" If the king is abolished, can the queen still stay in Kunning Palace

It's just that Zhu Yijun's mind was too confused at that time to hear it, and as for whether the queen heard the meaning, outsiders don't know.

As for Gao Pragmatic being unlucky, it is not so much that he is taking the blame for the emperor, but that the incident of carrying the princess's love poem to the two princesses must not be spread, and the root of this matter is that Zhu Yijun took them to Gao Pragmatic's mansion in violation of the system, so Zhu Yijun was responsible for the main responsibility and issued an edict to blame himself.

As for the severity of the edict, it is not as high as many people think. Open all kinds of historical materials of the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that the emperor himself will be forced to issue an edict to blame himself if he does something wrong, and even such as "a comet in a certain place appears, and the upper is the edict of the guilty self", "the lightning strikes the emperor's pole palace, and the upper is the edict of the guilty self", "a certain place has not rained for two years, and this year's flood, the upper is the edict of the guilty self"

Not to mention that Emperor Chongzhen, who later worked conscientiously and chaotically in the world, once issued six edicts in a row.

But so what, the monarch's father is not the monarch's father, and the monarch's father's order is not a holy decree

The edict is nothing more than the strength of the civil official group as a whole, forcing the emperor not to make such a gesture, that does not mean that the emperor's authority has been affected much, although I can't deal with the whole world, but it is still okay to deal with a few of them

You must know that even Emperor Jiajing, who is extremely violent and moody, has to be punished when he should be punished, for example, in the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing, the three major halls were burned in the palace, and Jiajing was not the Roman Emperor Nero, and he burned and played by himself, so he did not give the same edict

"The manifestation of benevolence is the blame of bowing. I hereby write a letter against myself, and show it to the people of my subjects. ”

An iron-fisted emperor like Grandpa Jiajing can't bear it, and the little emperor of Wanli was punished by his mother for making mistakes, what's so unusual

Empress Dowager Li asked Zhu Yijun to issue an edict to punish herself, not to tell him that "you can't disobey the queen mother", this doesn't need her to tell. She was actually telling Zhu Yijun not to oppose the ancestral system recognized by the entire civilian clique

Of course, the Wanli Emperor in history did not believe in evil, so there was a later "national capital dispute", and there was no court for the next twenty years, but did he win

No, he lost, and the crown prince is still Zhu Changluo.

It can be seen that for the entire civilian-bureaucratic group, the struggle must have a more subtle skill, and it is not possible to force it, unless he has the ability to overthrow and rebuild the Ming Dynasty.

But how could it be that the emperor would consider tearing down and rebuilding, only Li Zicheng would consider it.

If it is not pushed to reconstruction, it can only be replaced slowly one by one, one by one, one by one, in accordance with the highly pragmatic idea, not only to ensure that the house will not fall, but also to ensure that the materials are gradually replaced.

This is the reason why Gao pragmatic always feels that it cannot be done without decades.

For people who have been ill for a long time, they can't undergo major surgery to disembowel, so they have to strengthen their foundation first. He previously persuaded Zhu Yijun to "take apart the three major problems and deal with them" outside the Nansha River Huangzhuang, which was adhering to this line of thinking.

In the final analysis, Gao Pragmatic has never felt that he is here to demolish the house, he has always regarded himself as a repairer and rebuilder, which is definitely bigger than Li Hongzhang's movements, and definitely smaller than Sun Cannon's movements.

Liu Xin didn't know the inside story, but she was able to analyze the matter so that Gao Pragmatic couldn't help but glance at her again, and even felt for a while that if this woman was a man, she was afraid that she would be even more powerful than Liu Ling, and she would definitely be vigorously enveloped.

It's a shame.

Gao Shishi smiled slightly, "Miss Liu is right, but this mulberry elm may not be ripe yet, and it may be poisonous, so it's hard to say whether you can eat it happily." ”

Liu Xin suddenly smiled and said, "Zhang Taiyue has not made any assistants, is there anything else that can stump Gao Zhizhi?"

As soon as these words came out, Gao Shishi's face suddenly changed, and he said in a deep voice, "Who are you?"

Liu Xin blinked, "Who are you?"