Li Chengliang sent his younger brother Li Chengcai to personally accompany Li Rugui to Gaizhou, and when they just left Liaoyang, someone had already sent news to Gao Shishi, so Gao Shishi was not surprised at all by Li Chengcai's visit.

What surprised Gao Pragmatic was that Li Chengliang's decisive confession this time seemed to be a little different from the rumored image of him flying and domineering in Liaodong, and second, Fang Zhan, a well-born Yuanma Temple Sicheng, seemed to easily choose to help Li Chengliang speak, I am afraid there are some reasons here.

Fang Zhan's matter is a trivial matter, whether he is afraid of Li Chengliang's deep-rooted power in Liaodong, or he accepted Li Chengliang's bribes, or both, it doesn't matter in Gao Pragmatic's eyes.

The important thing is why Li Chengliang decisively admitted it, if this matter is not clarified, it will be inconvenient to carry out the follow-up plan.

Li Chengliang is a veteran who is well aware of officialdom, there is no doubt about this, after all, he is still a "living being" at the age of 40, and he is crawling and rolling at the local grassroots, not only has to face all kinds of injustices from time to time, but even has to greet these injustices with a smile.

So even if Li Chengliang later soared and became prosperous, and people became arrogant, his city government will not disappear, and when the environment changes, the object changes, and he needs to take out the city again, he can still easily take it out and use it.

Confession, generally speaking, there are only two types, one is that you really know that you are bound to be defeated, rather than trying hard, but you can only lose completely and cleanly, it is better to admit that you lose half, and it is not too bad to leave half.

Another situation is to avoid its edge in order to plan for the future.

Gao Pragmatic originally felt that it stands to reason that Li Chengliang should not dare to play this "for the future" with him Gao, after all, judging from the current situation, even a fool can see the emperor's ardent expectations for him:

In the sixth champion, the emperor gave him a single independent tablet and a royal pen book, praising him as "the true leader in the past two hundred years";

Patrolling Guangxi, the emperor allowed him to lead the Tusi to send troops to Annam in his personal name, and the disposition of Annan after defeating Annan was almost entirely in accordance with his wishes;

Not long after returning to the center, he coordinated almost the entire nine-sided military town to launch the Monan War as a plenipotentiary envoy, and in fact, to do such a thing, it should usually be titled "Jingluo", such as "Pingmeng Jingluo" and the like, the reason why he can only give a plenipotentiary envoy may not be able to see the reason in advance, but it must be seen afterwards: it is purely because the highly pragmatic identity and qualifications are obviously not enough at the level of "Jingluo";

Not long after returning from the victory of the Great War of Monan, the emperor personally went out of the capital and went to the high-pragmatist Beijing suburb courtyard to see Xinzhai to celebrate his birthday, not to mention, it was the first saint of Tianzi No. 1

When he arrived in Liaodong, he was temporarily gracious again before leaving the city, not only to serve the python in the year of the weak crown, but also to give Chenhan "Annan Dingbei" - those who were usually given Chenhan by the emperor were usually cabinet ministers, at least a Jiuqing, and Gao pragmatic? Speaking of which, it's just a military road.

With such a holy body, who would dare to compare with him in the future? This is already a clear future for the elders!

Now when officials from the government and the opposition talk about this in their spare time, they are just betting with each other, speculating on when Gao Pragmatic will be able to enter the cabinet, but no one really thinks that he will not be able to enter this cabinet!

Scientific research, saints, and deeds, he has no shortage of them! Even because of works such as "The Shadow of the Dragon Whip" and events such as waving 300,000 to help the displaced people in the past, his reputation among the people is also very good.

What he lacks now is probably only qualifications.

Once Gao Shishi enters the cabinet, according to the current situation in which the ministers are comprehensively overpowering the military ministers, Li Chengliang will not have the opportunity to "seek the future" at all.

In three years, Li Chengliang will be sixty years old, and how many years does he have to fight? After him, it was not easy for the Tieling Li clan to maintain today's situation - this is still based on Li Rusong, the second-generation eldest brother of the Li family, who also won a great merit in killing the enemy chieftains in the Battle of Monan.

So what future does he compare with Gao Pragmatic? Even Li Rusong can't be compared, isn't Li Rusong a military minister?

What's the matter, under the current national conditions, can any military ministers be above the old and auxiliary ministers of the cabinet? Don't be kidding, the prince only dares to call himself Xiao Wang in front of the auxiliary ministers, your family is a lord, even if he becomes a lord in the end, he is just an uncle, and he is not the same in front of the auxiliary ministers, you have to be respectful!

But the truth is this, but Gao Pragmatic always feels that Li Chengliang will not really admit it so easily.

Gao Shishi had already received the news from Zhang Siwei and Wu Dui before leaving Beijing, and the reward for the merits of the Monan War, after the reward of the soldiers, the reward for the generals will soon come down, and this reward will be very "atmospheric", which will inevitably cause some changes in the strength of the generals.

The news that Gao Pragmatic got from Gao Pragmatic alone is not simple, for example, Ma Gui, who followed Gao Pragmatic's side, will inevitably be directly promoted to the chief soldier this time; His nephew Ma Chengxun fought a wonderful battle, and he was also promoted to deputy commander-in-chief; Li Chengliang's father and son, who each achieved the great merit of beheading the enemy chieftain, are likely to be Li Chengliang changed from Liujue Ning Yuanbo to Ningyuanbo, and Li Rusong was promoted from the deputy general of the Shenji Battalion to the general army......

In addition, there is Qi Jiguang, it is reported that he may also be knighted, but Liujue is still a lord, it is not clear now, Gao Pragmatic estimates that the emperor may have to wait, and wait to see if he can stabilize Daning City before making a decision.

The rest, such as Zhang Bingzhong, Zhang Wanbang's father and son, and others, also have their own rewards, and most of them are promoted to one level, and Zhang Wanbang's kid even seems to be promoted to two levels.

In short, the imperial court "fully affirmed" the significance of this Monan War, so the reward was also generous.

Here, let's not talk about other things, but one thing must be said, after this reward, there were two generals in the Ming Dynasty who each had two living generals - Dongli and Xima were both one and two general soldiers.

However, Dong Li still overwhelms Xima, and in addition to the two general soldiers, his family is very likely to get the Shijue, which is a qualitative improvement, and from now on it will be "rest with the country"!

Rest with the country? Thinking of this, Gao pragmatic couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly.

Could it be that Li Chengliang is playing this idea?

Although the old assistant ministers of the cabinet are high and powerful, but after all, civil officials cannot be hereditary, and civil ministers are all passed out of the imperial examination, no matter how powerful he is, he can only ensure that his own generation, no matter how powerful he is in the world, when he becomes a minister or dies of illness, people will go away.

What's more, now the fighting between the two schools of the Shi School and the Heart School is still going on, although it doesn't seem to be intense, but it has never stopped, who knows when the west wind will overwhelm the east wind, and when the east wind will overwhelm the west wind? Could it be that one day the situation will change drastically, and Gao Pragmatic will be dismissed and go home before he dies? At least Li Chengliang might think so.

Well, that's why he's so reluctant to take sides, right?

However, at that time, the Tieling Li family was already a noble of the national dynasty, and he was retired with the country, and there was Li Rusong among the children who could fight, when the Gao family lost power or did not take over, wouldn't the Li family be able to turn back and take revenge?

At least now, it seems that in addition to Gao Pragmatic, no one in the Gao family's generation seems to be able to win another Jinshi.

Hehe...... Li Chengliang, this guy, abacus is really long-term.

However, you don't hesitate to endure for so long, but you also want to stabilize me temporarily, don't you see that this is a little weird yourself?

If you're really clean under your butt, why be afraid of me?

Maybe you can act, and so will I, so will I'll play with you.

Gao Shizheng, who was sitting in the main seat of the flower hall, smiled slightly, and a family member came in, hugged his fist at him and said, "Master, the person has arrived." ”

Gao pragmatic came back to his senses and said calmly: "Please." ”