The reason why Gao Pragmatic is willing to consider taking action against a respected grandfather for Liu Xian's affairs is that in addition to knowing Liu Ling's role in the future, he has to consider it for Daming, there are two main reasons.

The first reason is that Xu Pengju himself died shortly, and in history he was going to die in February of the fifth year of Longqing [Wufeng Note: Baidu Encyclopedia wrote that it was February of the fourth year of Longqing, but according to the 105 volume of "History of the Ming Dynasty" "Heroes of the World Table I", it can be seen that this record is wrong. This time has only been about a year, and Emperor Longqing's health has not been seriously ill in this year...... With Longqing's trust in Gao Gong, as long as Gao Gong is willing, Xu Pengju will be even a descendant of Xu Da, a dignified Duke of Wei, the governor of the Central Army of the Nanjing Governor's Mansion, and a commander of the Nanjing garrison, he will still be criticized and punished.

Think about it, Liu Xian was the chief soldier of Wolf Mountain, wasn't he also told by the Tongzhou Mansion?

In these years, the status of the military minister is really so low in front of the Wenchen, and even Gao Gong doesn't have to speak in person, and now his protégés in the capital such as Song Zhihan, Han Ji, Tu Menggui, and Cheng Wen are all science and Taoist officials, and a random person stands up to "hear about the incident", and he Xu Peng cited a charge of "being a Nanjing garrison lord but making the Nanjing Guard rotten", even if Xu Pengju is because of a good ancestor, there will be no major events, but he will definitely not be able to run away from being criticized and punished.

The second reason is that Xu Pengju still has a big mistake that has not yet been exposed, but Gao Shishi knows that the time must be fast.

This incident is like this in the original history: Xu Pengju's wife surnamed Zhang, did not give birth to a son, and died early. So Xu Pengju has no sons-in-law, but there are still a few sons, and the eldest of them is named Xu Bangrui. According to the principle of the Ming Dynasty's "there is a descendant, and there is no heir, there is a long", Xu Bangrui should be the heir of the Duke of Wei.

But here's the problem, Xu Pengju likes another youngest son, Xu Bangning, and the child's biological mother is the concubine Zheng. Zheng won Xu Pengju's favor, and in order to improve Zheng's status, Xu Pengju even did not hesitate to fake and win the title of Mrs. Destiny for her.

According to the system of the Ming Dynasty, the children of the military generals of the lords and generals must inherit the titles of their ancestors and receive education first. Xu Pengju worked hard to train Xu Bangning and wanted to send him to Nanjing Guozijian to study. When Liu Cai, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, learned the news, he reminded him, saying that if you continue to do this nonsense, I am afraid that there will be chaos.

As mentioned above, Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department is actually the number one person among Nanjing officials, so Xu Pengju did not dare to make a mistake after being warned by him, so he had to send the boss Xu Bangrui to school instead.

But this time, of course, Xu Bangning would not be reconciled, so he prepared a generous gift, inviting Liu Bowen's descendant and sincere uncle Liu Shiyan to visit the Eagle Peak Temple together, and quietly offered a gift and asked him to help him. Liu Shiyan is after Liu Bowen, and he is naturally the best among the ministers, and he has a lot of energy in Nanjing's "founding system", so he found Jiang Bao, the priest of Nanjing Guozi, and asked him to help Xu Bangning this "little favor". Zheng Rujin, an assistant teacher of Nanjing Guozijian, estimated that it had something to do with it, so she also spoke for Xu Bangning in front of Jiang Bao.

Jiang Bao may not have thought about how much this matter would be implicated, and after listening to Liu Shiyan's words, he decisively refused Xu Bangrui's admission and prepared to transfer Xu Bangning. However, the civil officials of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to the ancestral system, so this incident caused dissatisfaction with the Nanjing Ministry of Rites, and the matter became a big trouble.

Liu Shiyan saw that the situation was not good, and knew that it would be difficult to handle everything once he was involved in the civil official, so he hurriedly came forward to defend himself, Leng did not admit that he helped Xu Bangning, and said that he had fallen out with Xu Pengju in his early years, and it was impossible to take care of the Xu family's family affairs - this statement is somewhat confusing, because Liu Shiyan did have a very unpleasant quarrel with Xu Pengju because of some things in his early years, and the two can almost be said to be incompatible, and this situation is unknown to everyone in Nanjing officialdom.

At this point, the first result was not very serious: Zheng Rujin was dismissed, Xu Pengju was fined Lu Mi for a month, and the title of Zheng's Lady was regained, and Xu Bangning and others were also somewhat punished. It's just that Liu Shiyan's attitude has always been very tough, and the officials in Nanjing have considered that this matter is not a good thing after all, and in fact, the civil officials have no benefit here, so they don't bother to provoke him, and they plan to stop there.

However, it is not enough for them to stop there, because Zheng Rujin, who was dismissed, was very angry about this punishment, probably thinking that he Zheng was not the "first offender" at all but was dismissed, and the real "first offender" was at large. I think that he Zheng is also a Jinshi who has passed the Eight Classics Examination, and he is still the pride of the sky, where can he endure this breath of birdishness? So he complained everywhere, and finally made trouble in Beijing, and even Emperor Longqing knew about it. There is no detailed description of how the imperial court discussed the history books, anyway, in the end, Longqing ordered that Sun Zhi, the secretary of the Nanjing Criminal Department, Jiang Bao, the priest of the Nanjing Guozi, and Liu Shiyan, the sincerity uncle, all returned to their hometowns to listen to the investigation.

After this turmoil, Xu Pengju, who had not lived long for a long time, did not dare to make any more trouble, and in the end, the title of Duke of Wei was passed to Xu Bangrui in the order of eldest and youngest.

People say that it is easy to put icing on the cake, but it is difficult to send charcoal in the snow. Gao Pragmatic is not much better than ordinary people in this regard, if he is asked to fight for the good deeds of sending charcoal in the snow if he is injured or offends people who should not be offended for no reason, he asks himself if he has that consciousness.

However, if it is a matter that he knows is just icing on the cake, but the other party will think that it is a matter of charcoal in the snow, Gao Pragmatic is very interested in participating.

What's more, there are two obvious benefits here: first, helping Liu Xian can not only get Liu Xian's gratitude in the next ten years, but also sell a lot of favors to Liu Ling. Although the status of military generals is low now, even if the high-level and pragmatic plan of "saving Ming" in the future is smooth sailing, it is still necessary to have capable generals to carry out some of his military plans and programs in the future.

Secondly, if it starts with the attack on the lord, then it doesn't matter if you hit Xu Pengju at all. First, Xu Pengju was at fault first, and he was powerless to resist at all; Second, he was about to die of illness, and he didn't have the ability to make any trouble, Liu Xian's matter can be regarded as an add-on, and put it into this case to give Xu Peng a "combined punishment for several crimes".

There is even another advantage of this, that is, if Gao Gong also makes a statement in this matter, or even plays a role, it will almost be the effect of Dingding, and the future Duke of Wei, Xu Bangrui, will also have a better attitude towards the Gao family.

Like the Xu family, the leader-level family of the "founding system" lords, no matter how hard they hit them, it is great to change the Duke of Wei and the eldest to the second, and it is impossible to destroy the inheritance of this Duke of Wei. In the future, some of Gao Pragmatic's plans want to be implemented, if the Xu family can be pulled over to speak, it doesn't have much effect, but it must be much better than the Xu family jumping out and singing the opposite tune.

Gao pragmatic attitude is very clear: without too much impact on their own interests, everything must serve the overall situation in the future.

So for Liu Xian's matter, Gao Pragmatic decided to help him after thinking about these truths.