Liu Xin was surprised but also a little excited. Some of the long-lasting longings in her heart were once again stimulated by Gao Pragmatic's words. But when she was about to ask for details, Huang Zhiting's voice sounded at the door at the right time: "We don't want to talk.

Have there been any changes in the funds of Jiangnan wealthy families in Beijing? Why are you discussing the imperial examination?"

Gao Jingshi and Liu Xin turned around and saw that Huang Zhiting was the first to arrive. Gao Jingshi sat motionless, but Liu Xin stood up to greet them and said, "It's a coincidence that Madam is here. The topic just got too far away.

Now it’s time to get back to business.”

Huang Zhiting nodded, and seeing that the others hadn't arrived yet, he asked, "Master, you went back a little early today. What, is the matter urgent?"

Gao pragmatically said: "The situation is a bit complicated. Let's talk about it together when everyone is here. What is Yuan'er doing today?"

"Memorize information." Huang Zhiting said: "I asked him to memorize all the personnel files of the main generals of the garrison military headquarters and the main generals of the garrison towns - to the standard level."

"Marked to the first level?" Gao Pragmatic was a little surprised and asked, "Isn't it too strict? It's okay for generals and colonels of this level to become familiar with them gradually during the war."

Gao Pragmatic's words naturally make sense. From top to bottom, the establishment of the garrison is army, town, association, standard, battalion, company, platoon, and shed. There are eight levels in total. To roughly correspond, the army is naturally still the army.

, the town is equivalent to the division, the association is equivalent to the brigade, then the standard is the regiment.

Under the normal establishment, the garrison has two regiments in each town, with 4,038 officers and men in each regiment; there are two regiments in each regiment, and 1,756 officers and soldiers in each regiment. (Mabiao has slightly fewer officers and soldiers,

One thousand one hundred and seventeen people); each bid is divided into three battalions, each battalion has four companies, each company has three rows, and each row has three sheds...

In other words, a town under normal organization has four horse marks, but in fact this is not necessarily the case, because different towns will sometimes be equipped with additional reinforced troops. For example, a town may strengthen one or two horse marks, or

It varies from one to two cannon marks.

In southern Xinjiang, there are not many reinforcements of horse marks, but it is very common to strengthen artillery marks. If there is no need for too precise statistics, a town's garrison can be calculated roughly according to five marks.

Not counting the Dingnan Palace garrison and the Nanyang Islands troops that are still being adjusted to this day, the six major garrison forces that have already formed a fixed establishment have a total of 22 towns, which means there are 110 targets.

However, this is not over yet. The "major generals at the first level" are not just Biao Tong. In principle, there are five people at this level, namely Biao Tong, Xuan Zheng, Deputy Biao Tong, Chief of Staff, and Quartermaster.

In the garrison system of Beijing, there are four levels of military, town, association and Biao. They all have five chief officers, and the functions of each level are similar. Taking Biao as an example, Biao Tong is naturally the chief military officer, and the chief officer of Xuanzong platoon.

The second is responsible for political work, the deputy commander assists in propaganda and is in charge of military discipline, the chief of staff is responsible for intelligence collection and assists the commander in formulating combat plans, and the quartermaster is responsible for logistics-related work and controls engineers.

This calculation is scary, because not only are there five chief officers at the first level, but there are also five military, town, and association ranks. If the layers are added up, Gao Yuan will have to memorize the information of hundreds of people.

To be honest, Gao Pragmatic himself can't even master it to this level. He can only master it up to the town level, and the following levels are very scattered.

After all, his network of contacts in the officialdom itself is already astonishingly large, and there are many generals in the imperial army that he has commanded that he needs to know, plus important figures in Mongolia, Jurchen, Korea, Japan, and chieftains of the southwestern provinces.

Wait, no matter how good his memory is as the top pick in the Sixth Score, he doesn't have a cloud disk in his head. How can he keep stuffing character information into it?

However, Huang Zhiting did not agree with her husband's words. She shook her head and said: "Since Yuan'er may be the Minister of Military Command in the future, if you can't even remember the first-level officer, how can you do it? This is the minimum standard.

, can’t drop any more.”

Gao Pragmatic had no choice but to smile bitterly. He glanced at Liu Xin, but Liu Xin directly looked away and said clearly, "This is your son's business. If you can't stop it, why do you still need me to help you stop it?"

But despite this, Gao Pingshi also understands Huang Zhiting's thoughts. As the saying goes, if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Since Gao Yuan is the undisputed Nanning Marquis, these people certainly need to be controlled by him.

Gao Pragmatic does have prestige and can be confident that he does not need to master the standard level, but Gao Yuan does need to go deeper - unless he also establishes enough prestige through various achievements including war in the future.

The three chatted for a while, and the participants finally arrived. Gao Pragmatic officially announced the meeting. He first described today's situation, and at the same time raised his own questions and asked for opinions from everyone present.

Gao Mo and Gao Guoyan each knew a lot about related matters. They looked at each other and Gao Mo chose not to speak yet, so Gao Guoyan said: "Brother Yu is responsible for the capital flow problem. After reporting the situation to Rixin, the bank

We have verified it again internally. Now we can say with certainty that the families involved this time are indeed the Shilin family, and almost none of the wealthy Jiangnan businessmen whose families are not deeply involved in politics have participated."

In fact, he did not express his position, but once again emphasized the identity of the participants.

Intelligence Secretary Gao Qi was more proactive this time and said: "Can we confirm one thing first, that is, this incident is a purely political incident and has nothing to do with the commercial competition between Jinghua and local wealthy businessmen in the Jiangnan area?

"

Gao Wuzhengdao: "If this matter is just because some people want to assassinate the emperor's legitimate son and continue to protect the eldest son from ascending to the throne, then this assumption is indeed true. But I don't understand the risks and benefits of this matter

Is it really equal?"

"Why not be equal?" Gao Wuruo said: "If they can turn the tide under such extremely unfavorable circumstances and continue to push the eldest son to take the throne, this is not the icing on the cake, but a help in the snow. Then they will be counted among them in the future.

When I am old and dead, as long as I wait until the eldest son of the emperor succeeds to the throne, can I still forget about their children and grandchildren? But don't forget that they are all from a family of officials, and their kindness to their children and grandchildren is also part of their strength."

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! But Gao Wuzheng objected: "Wu Ruo, I am talking about whether risks and returns are equal, and what you said only focused on returns, but did not mention risks. Besides,

Even if we talk about benefits, they are future benefits - but what about the current risks?

Needless to say, the crime of assassinating the emperor's legitimate son is so serious. As long as the matter is exposed, not to mention those who were directly involved will not be able to escape. Even their families may not be able to afford it. One by one, no one will be spared.

This kind of crime is tantamount to treason. Once their evil deeds are exposed to the world, their status as civil servants cannot protect them. Not to mention the execution of the entire family, it is probably not unusual even if the nine tribes are implicated. Don't they know such a huge risk? Since they know, why

Do you still want to do it? Just for the care that the eldest son of the emperor may give you after who knows how many years?"

Gao Qi also echoed Gao Wuzheng's point of view, saying: "That's right. This benefit cannot be obtained immediately, and it's hard to say whether it can even be guaranteed to be obtained.

Not to mention whether the eldest son of the emperor is a person who repays his kindness, even if he is, then when the eldest son of the emperor becomes the prince, when will he inherit the throne? What if it takes another twenty or thirty years? In such a long time

Can they be sure of what will happen?"

After hearing this, Gao Wuruo felt that it was reasonable, so he did not insist on his previous statement, but murmured: "In other words, there should be a more urgent reason for them to do this...but what could be the reason?

Woolen cloth?"

Liu Xin put forward an idea and said: "Everyone, if we want to talk about urgency, what is the most urgent threat to them at the moment?"

Huang Zhiting was suddenly startled and glanced at Gao Pragmatic: "These Jiangnan official families are almost all disciples of Xinxue. For them, the biggest threat is probably that your husband is about to succeed as the first assistant!"

Gao Guoyan said "Ah" and widened his eyes and said: "Yes, if this is a political incident, then for these official families in the Jiangnan area, it is indeed more important for Rixin to succeed the chief minister than for the emperor's legitimate son to become the prince.

Much more urgent!”

The more he thought about it, the more it made sense, and he immediately continued to add: "You see, even if the emperor's legitimate son is appointed as the prince, he is still in his infancy after all, not to mention still far away from adulthood, and he is even in the stage of being ready at any time.

At an age when you might die young!

Under such circumstances, if those people really had the courage to plot against the emperor's legitimate son, then what would be the impact of carrying out these plots a few years later?

However, it was different when Rixin succeeded him as the first assistant. Shen Changzhou had been the first assistant for so many years, but he could not suppress Rixin. After Shen Changzhou, the first assistant was changed to Wang Shanyin (Wang Jiaping, a native of Shanyin County, Datong, Shanxi).

During this period, Zhao and Shen, not to mention suppressing Rixin, even the little strength of the Xin School was at risk.

From their point of view, the situation has reached this point and is irreversibly bad. If Wang Shanyin resigns at this time and directly makes Rixin the first assistant, what will Zhao and Shen think?

?In my opinion, they will just think that instead of just waiting for death, it is better to give it a try!"

Gao Mo, who had been silent for a long time, finally spoke, saying: "But there is still a question here: If they feel that the most urgent threat is that I will succeed as chief minister, then they should first find a way to prevent Wang Yuanfu from resigning. Isn't this right?

The most trouble-free and effortless way? What are you going to do to assassinate the emperor's legitimate son?

As long as Wang Yuanfu does not take the initiative to resign, considering his age, he can still serve as Yuanfu for at least seven or eight years. Moreover, no matter how you say, the Korean War was won under Wang Yuanfu's rule, and he also has a share of credit. In this

Given his share of credit, if he doesn’t resign, who can force him to leave office?”

Gao Mo only talked about Wang Jiaping and not Liang Menglong. Firstly, it was because Liang Menglong was old, and secondly, because Liang Menglong was from the pragmatic school. If Gao Pangshi himself had planned to be the first assistant, Liang Menglong was willing to "self-sacrifice" for

It is not surprising that high pragmatism makes room.

Gao Qi pondered: "Is it because these people think they are not sure of persuading Wang Yuanfu?"

"Maybe there is such a consideration." Although Gao Mo seemed to agree, he shook his head and said: "But we can't forget that persuading Wang Yuanfu not to resign is only one of the ways. There is also a more direct way - making the master unable to

Succession.”

Everyone disagreed with this statement. Gao Guoyan shook his head: "What are you talking about? Can they succeed if they want Rixin to give up? Why should Rixin listen to them?"

However, Huang Zhiting frowned and said, "Could Uncle Mo be trying to say that instead of assassinating the emperor's legitimate son, it would be more effective to assassinate the master directly?"

Gao Mo shook his head and said: "How strict the Ministry of Internal Affairs has done to protect the master. Even if those people don't know the details, they have at least heard about it. I don't think they are so conceited that they think they can assassinate the master."

"That……"

"This matter does not necessarily require assassinating the master." Gao Mo suddenly appeared a little uneasy, and his tone became a little nervous, saying: "For example, the security around the master and the wife is far inferior to that here.

.”

As soon as this statement came out, everyone was shocked and opened their eyes wide - yes, it goes without saying that the security around Gao Pragmatic was very tight, maybe even the emperor was not as good as him.

However, the security around Gao Cai and his wife is far inferior to that of Gao Jingshi, and no matter which one of them gets into trouble, Gao Jingshi will probably have no choice but to resign immediately and return to his hometown in Xinzheng, where they will marry and observe filial piety. How dare he

Regardless of filial piety, he stayed in the capital as the chief assistant!

Thinking of this, everyone almost unanimously expressed that they must immediately improve the security level for the two elders. But after Liu Xin waited for them to finish speaking, she reminded: "Uncle Mo's words are reasonable, but they still haven't explained one thing clearly, that is, they are currently targeting

What is the reason for the assassination of the emperor's legitimate son?"

Yes, it seems that Li Wenjin was bribed by them to inquire about the security of Kunning Palace. It seems that they still haven't found a reasonable explanation after talking for so long. If what they are most worried about is actually Gao Pragmatic's succession as chief minister, then assassinating the emperor's legitimate son will not

To influence highly pragmatic succession, what is the point of those people doing this useless work?

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Gao Qi thought for a while and said: "Could it be an attack from the east to the west? What my nephew means is that they may have expected that we can understand their actions, so

They may be trying to deliberately direct our energy towards something that is destined to be fruitless, and make us focus all our energy on protecting the emperor's legitimate son or protecting our uncle.

After achieving this goal, they then used dead men in the family or bribed criminal thieves to find ways to assassinate their uncle and great-uncle, in order to force their uncle to resign, Ding You?"

Although everyone felt that this statement seemed to make some sense, they also felt that the reason did not seem to be sufficient. However, for a while, no one could think of what was wrong with it.

Gao Pragmatic shook his head at this time and said: "Let me give you a little reminder: Li Wenjin has two major characteristics: first, he is extremely bold. Relying on his special status and his contribution to the Queen Mother, the Emperor and his mother, he is a man who dares to do anything no matter what big disaster.

A person who breaks in forcefully; secondly, he is extremely greedy for money, he can be said to be licking honey with a knife, and he is extremely greedy for profit, but at the same time, he has a huge appetite, and petty profits cannot buy him off."

"The master is saying that those people must have spent a lot of money to bribe Li Wenjin..." Liu Xin said thoughtfully: "And since they spent a lot of money, how could it be just a false shot?"

This principle is very simple and everyone can understand it at once, but in this case things will be in a dead end again.

"This is too bold and arrogant." Huang Zhiting frowned: "Do they really plan to assassinate the emperor's legitimate son and the second elder at the same time, push the emperor's eldest son to the throne, and force the master Ding You to reverse the unfavorable situation of the Central School in one fell swoop?

But if this is the case, wouldn’t the Emperor feel that the matter is too strange? Now that I am the Master of Zhongxing Ming Dynasty, he is not so easy to deceive. If the Emperor’s suspicion is aroused, aren’t they afraid that the incident will be revealed and they will be defeated overnight? "
To be continued...