It is advisable to chase the poor bravely, and not to sell the name of the overlord.

Bringing down Ling Yunyi with a thunderous momentum can only be regarded as a means of deterring political enemies, but deterrence alone is not enough, the reason why the new policy of the dynasty can only be barely maintained after the death of Gao Gong, and can no longer find the feeling of gradual advancement before, in the final analysis, it is still after the Gao Party has lost the core figure of Gao Gong, the real strength has declined significantly.

In the era of the supremacy of imperial power, the "real strength" of the ministers came from two aspects, one was the allies and protégés gathered around them by their own prestige or other factors, which is the so-called connections; On the other hand, it is more direct, that is, from the emperor's trust and support.

The current situation is that the connections of the Gao Party are actually mostly still there, even if they are scattered and a bit like a dualistic system, but after all, they are still in a state of "rotten meat in the pot", and there is nothing bad about switching to others. What the Gao Party really lacked was the emperor's trust and support.

At least, the emperor's trust and support for Gao Dang now must be less than when Gao Gong was alive.

And the biggest role of high pragmatism is to make up for this shortcoming!

Guo Pu and Zhang Siwei, both of whom are highly pragmatic teachers, but this time in the face of Gao Pragmatic's strong performance, they insisted on responding, are they really just spoiling Gao Pragmatic? Are you kidding!

The reason why they really decided not to oppose it was precisely because they knew about Gao Shishi's influence in the palace, but they were not completely sure, so they remained silent. At the same time, they also wanted to see how influential Gao Shishi, the successor of Gao Wenzhenggong's mantle, had on Gao Party officials.

The result is obvious, Gao Pragmatic can not only instruct Guo Pu's protégés Zhao Yumin and Lin Yicai to be under the door in the fifth year of Longqing, but also say that Gao Gong's protégés such as Song Zhihan, Hu Shu and others came forward to support, but what surprised the two pavilion elders even more was the last one - Gao Pragmatic was able to invite the Imperial History Wang Guoguang to do this final blow!

This is so surprising to them!

Who is the kingdom? He is the gold list of Jiajing for 23 years, one subject earlier than Zhang Juzheng back then!

When Gao Gong implemented the new policy in the Wanli years, Wang Guoguang was the household secretary he selected, and actually presided over the promotion and implementation of the Qingzhang Tianmu, the opening of the sea and the taxation of the sea, and a whip law in Jiangnan and other places, and by the way, he also "took the time" to compile the "Wanli Accounting Record", an extremely important financial classic!

To put it simply, he was Gao Gong's most effective assistant in fiscal reform. It was not until the fifth year of the Wanli Dynasty that due to the old age of Ge Shouli, the former backbone of the Gao Party and the imperial history of the left capital, Gao Gong had no more suitable candidate for a while, so he had to let Wang Guoguang succeed him as the general constitution, so as not to let the public opinion of the government and the opposition get out of control.

But how could such a veteran-level important minister be easily invited by Gao Pragmatic, a little boy?

The reason is simple: fiscal.

The meaning of finance here is of course not to say that Gao Pragmatic spent money to buy Wang Zongxian, but Wang Guoguang and Gao Pragmatic have had a lot of exchanges in the past few years, and the two sides have a lot of common language on the issue of financial reform in the Ming Dynasty, and there is even some cooperation.

When Wang Guoguang was in charge of the household department, because the new policies such as the reform of the post station, the opening of the port and the levy of taxes, and the clearing of acres of fields required a large number of accounting talents, he selected some people with good mathematical skills from the "Jinghua Craftsman School" opened by Gao Shishi in the suburbs of Beijing to assist the officials and officials sent by the household department, and the effect was very good.

Here is a sentence: Jinghua Craftsman School is a "professional school" that Gao Pragmatic began to consider setting up before the death of the first emperor Longqing [Wufeng Note: See Chapter 060 of this volume for nothing], which was founded in the first year of the Wan calendar.

At the beginning, the school only opened five major categories: mathematics, mining, iron smelting, woodworking, and medicine. Originally, Gao Pragmatic also wanted to open a nautical discipline, but because his strength could not extend to the south at that time, he really couldn't find a suitable instructor, so he had to give up first.

However, carpentry is a subject to learn shipbuilding. At that time, when it was newly opened, because it could only recruit talents in the north, it was generally taught to make sand boats, and later it slowly involved other ship types, but the teachers were still very weak, and Gao Pragmatic was not in a hurry, so it could only be regarded as laying a foundation in advance.

The students of this Jinghua Craftsman School were all from the children of displaced people recruited by Gao Pragmatic in Weihui at the beginning, and the basic requirements for signing up for the school were very simple: to become a highly pragmatic family. In addition, those standards such as age are trivial.

For the children of the homeless, becoming a highly pragmatic family member is a good thing that cannot be sought for - family means cronies, and it means that the job is secure! In terms of their owner's wealth, becoming his family member at least does not have to worry about starvation, and even if he succeeds in his studies, he can get ahead. Not to mention anything else, Gao Xiaozhuang, a family member, holds the three major factories of Jinghua Kaiping! In terms of income alone, you can't change it for a prefect! {Of course, this cannot be considered as a corrupt official......}

Because of these relationships, Wang Guoguang and Gao Shishi actually have a very close relationship, and as a senior official who joined the Gao Party relatively late, Wang Guoguang has a very clear view of the current situation of the Gao Party: as long as Guo Pu has not yet become a leader, the Gao Party cannot be a single-core political group, and even if Guo Pu Zhishi, Zhang Siwei may still have to rely on Gao Shishi's nephew to ensure the leadership of the Gao Party.

Sometimes Wang Guoguang even secretly wondered if Gao Gong had expected this step when he sent Gao Pragmatic to the palace to study with the prince, and that move was simply a foreshadowing for Gao Pragmatic to take charge of the Shixue Gao Party after a few years!

Therefore, as soon as Gao Shishi returned to Beijing and a conflict broke out with Ling Yunyi, Wang Guoguang guessed that Gao Shishi might have to make a move. Sure enough, the day after Gao Shishi returned to Beijing (the same day he visited Zhang Siwei), he quietly sent him a letter, asking him to help impeach Ling Yunyi three days later.

Three days later? Wang Guoguang is not a novice in officialdom, so he naturally knows that this is a "three-fold wave of Longmen", one wave is stronger than the other, and his task Wang Zongxian is to shoot this most critical wave.

Facts have proved that Wang Guoguang's guess is completely correct, Gao Pragmatic's companionship for nearly ten years is really not in vain, and His Majesty the Emperor's ruthlessness in this matter has exceeded everyone's expectations!

Gao pragmatic returned to Beijing and won a big victory in the first battle! The dignified military department Shangshu was completely defeated by a Gao pragmatic person who was only nominally a new imperial examination.

Wang Guoguang even suddenly remembered the nervous appearance of those people in the Xu Party when Gao Gongqi returned to Beijing at the end of the third year of Longqing.

High pragmatism...... The return of this "little pavilion elder" to Beijing is also like the high arch back then, giving people an unstoppable feeling!

If you have to say that there is any difference, it is nothing more than Gao Gong is the emperor, and Gao Pragmatism is the companion.

And there is no need to doubt the same thing between them, that is, the Holy Grace!